Category Archives: Android

Stock Android chown in /system/bin/chown doesn’t support the recursive switch which I discovered when I was trying to manually change owners and groups on an app folder. chown -R u0_a160:u0_a160 databases/ resulted in the error message No such user ‘-R’. So you need to use Android Busybox chown: busybox chown -R 10160:10160 databases/ Install Busybox […]

Java has a bit of a reputation for being too verbose which is a common stick for haters to beat it with. But as Bjarne Stroustrup says “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses”. But it’s a valid criticism so you want your IDE to […]