If your running OS X Yosmite your Android SDK should be located in

The devices we use to take pictures embed extra data storing information related to the picture like date captured, GPS location, make and model of device and much more. Here is a quick solution to remove that metadata from your photos on Mac OS X.

If Android Studio complains saying Java not found then you need to help Android Studio locate your JVM by setting the STUDIO_JDK environment variable.

For release 0.4 I worked on issue #2343, a proposed brick idea for speaking and highlighting text word by word.

Lynx is a text based web browser. The project began in 1992 and is still in active development. Lynx remains relevant since it still provides value for many situations. For example, it is great for visually impaired users because everything is text-based making it easy to navigate the web using screen reading technology.

For release 0.3 I worked on fixing an Appmaker bug in the Drawing Canvas component brick. The “Drawing Canvas” brick was not working on the latest Firefox and Chromium browsers. Upon clicking on the “Drawing Canvas” brick we should expect to see a line drawn or dot but what actually happens is nothing gets drawn.

My forked develop branch was a few commits behind. I needed the latest changes to work on release 0.3. Here are some of the steps I took to update my forked AppMaker repo.

Getting notified that my first pull request got merged was exciting. The process was a great learning experience. After the merge I wanted to clean up my branch. Github provides a nice GUI interface for deleting branches. After a pull request is merged a delete button appears in the pull request page along with a message indicating it is now safe to delete. But I also had other test branches that weren’t merged that needed to be deleted too.

For the second release, I got the opportunity to collaborate with the Appmaker community to help fix issue #2235.

I posted an introduction to Polymer a while back, here is the follow up post with more info on how it is licensed, the community and where to go to get involved.