Many fruitless hours have been spent this week and last week trying to convert my Angles Calculator App from iOS to Android.
What a pain it all is.
It seems that when you go from the Main Activity (i.e. view) to another sub-Activity then the Main activity is destroyed and when you leave the sub-Activity the Main Activity has to be created again.
That is not how it works in iOS. Maybe I am missing something I usually am. In iOS you load a View Controller on top of a View Controller and then when you unload the View Controller it just shows the old one again. You don't recreate it. How inefficient is that.
Oh well, I was crap at iOS for approx 2 years so maybe that is how long it will take to get to grips with Android.
I'm too old for all of this and it is too late in the evening for me to be bothered anymore.
Roll on Blackberry 10. I will be converting my Android Apps to Blackberry since it is supposedly very easy to do. Ha. I will see.
At least the track that is playing on my Stereo is good. Soundgarden - Big Dumb Sex. From 1989 back when I was a fresh faced idealistic purveyor of death dealing software for the Military Industrial complex. How times have changed.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Changing you mobile number to another provider
I spent 30 minutes today trying to get the PAC code from O2 so that I could transfer my mobile number to GiffGaff.
I did eventually succeed but the wait was excruciating. Why I hear you ask? Well, they chose the most awful muzak to play while I was waiting for them to answer the phone.
The best track they played was by Gary Numan/Tubeway Army. Can't remember which one.
The worst I am still trying to erase from my memory. Some utter drivel about a dance floor done by the sugarbabes (I think, sounded a bit like them).
Why do they insist on playing such rubbish. In my case I nearly hung up twice I could not stand what was being played.
Maybe that's what they were hoping would happen. Make a certain number of people hang up in disgust so they can clear their calls.
When I did get through the man tried to persuade me to not change providers. I said that GiffGaff were £10 and unlimited data. He said that he could not do unlimited data for that price. He then told me I wasn't even using 250Mb a month so I should not need unlimited. I then told him to tell me the PAC and I said goodbye and hung up.
Why can't you get the PAC from their website? Is it because they want to talk to you to try and persuade you to stay? I should think so.
I did eventually succeed but the wait was excruciating. Why I hear you ask? Well, they chose the most awful muzak to play while I was waiting for them to answer the phone.
The best track they played was by Gary Numan/Tubeway Army. Can't remember which one.
The worst I am still trying to erase from my memory. Some utter drivel about a dance floor done by the sugarbabes (I think, sounded a bit like them).
Why do they insist on playing such rubbish. In my case I nearly hung up twice I could not stand what was being played.
Maybe that's what they were hoping would happen. Make a certain number of people hang up in disgust so they can clear their calls.
When I did get through the man tried to persuade me to not change providers. I said that GiffGaff were £10 and unlimited data. He said that he could not do unlimited data for that price. He then told me I wasn't even using 250Mb a month so I should not need unlimited. I then told him to tell me the PAC and I said goodbye and hung up.
Why can't you get the PAC from their website? Is it because they want to talk to you to try and persuade you to stay? I should think so.
Completely forgot about this blog
Amazing what you find when you search for information about yourself.
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