The problem I encountered when installing the Android SDK is that the some of the programs won’t run on non-multilib AMD64 installations. This is really annoying since I do not want to have 32bit libraries on my system (it is matter of principals!). But linux to the rescue! A simple multilib chroot allows me to compile and deploy my android apps!

Mounting (with bind) the source directory allows me to code in my normal env while compiling in the chroot. Which is not a big thing for me since I code in VIM but for IDE users this might be an advantage!

So for all native AMD64 users there is hope! But it would be better for the Android devs to fix the binaries!

One of the things I missed on my Nokia N73 was the ability to sync pproperly with my linux enviroment, the tattoo runs android and syncs perfectly with google, wich in turn syncs nicely with other things. Of course the downside is that it syncs with google, but for now that is necessary evil.

So far I am pretty impressed, mobile e-mail, Facebook, flogging etc. All work like a charm. Even Eduroam, the WiFi used at the university works out of the box! That is not even the case on my laptop!

This message was of course written on my tattoo.