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Yes, you could change the template manifest - it's at LiveCode Community 9.0.0.app/Contents/Tools/Runtime/Android/Manifest.xml for example on Mac

In the IDE you can do revIDEExtensions() to get an array with all the metdata. You can cut that down with parameters, eg revIDEExtensions("library") or revIDEExtensions("widget", "installed"). For individual extension properties, use revIDEExtensionProperty(<kind>, <propName>) where propName is vari...

The extensions course contains code for a rotated text widget here (click the downloads icon on the right)

Hmm, that suggests something is being over-released, which means it is likely being marked as retained when it shouldn't be... I'm sure it will be something simple!

Your code and everything looks correct, with the exception of __safe foreign handler JNI_SayHello() returns JString binds to "java:com.example.uhfreader816ubt.HelloAndroid>sayHelloAndroid()Ljava/lang/String;" As the sayHelloAndroid method is static, your binding string should be java:com.example.uhf...

Ah! Sorry I totally missed a bunch of things. ObjRetainedId should be used only in the places where the call will increase the ref count- in this case the alloc call. Also you should use ObjcObject everywhere except in the actual foreign handler declarations. So: private variable mAVMIDIPlayerInstan...

Yes, "objc:NSURL.+URLWithString:" is a good example of one that doesn't require a call to alloc. I did caveat my statement with both 'I think' and 'the majority' (i.e. > 50%) :wink: it's just a sense I get from my use of it and is by no means a statement of fact! I can't remember if I've posted else...

At the moment, LCB extensions can only interface with compiled java classes through foreign handler bindings. So, you will need to compile all the source files into a .jar file (or download a .jar file provided by the vendor) and put it in a folder code/jvm-android next to the lcb file. Then, you wi...

You need to alloc an instance of AVMIDIPlayer and call initWithContentsOfURL on the instance returned from alloc. initWithContentsOfURL is an instance method (- rather than + in objective-c terminology) so it needs to be called on an instance of the class, which should be the first parameter. (I thi...

The field displayed in the answer dialog uses html text (so you can do answer "<b>This is bold!</b>" And get bold text in the answer dialog. Your tags are being interpreted as html. If you want to use the answer dialog, perhaps use the following instead: command log pValue answer escape(pValue) end ...

There's a section in the Extending LiveCode guide now with more detail, in the IDE dictionary guides tab, and also at: https://github.com/livecode/livecode-ide/blob/develop/Documentation/guides/Extending%20LiveCode.md#java Also potentially worth looking at are the java stdlib tests: https://github.c...

Regarding preferredSize, this is not actually hooked up with the test button in the extension builder, which is arguably a bug - although the behavior currently used is to recreate the widget and containing stack with the same rect it had before, which is quite useful. I suppose if a preferredSize i...

It’s fixed in 9 RC 1 also, if you want to stick with 9.

What version are you using? There was a bug in 9 recently with the loading of revPdfPrinter which is possibly what you are seeing: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20814

In this case the main criterion for not fixing in 8 was (lack of) ease of backporting- unfortunately it would have been a different fix due to the graphics library changes in 9. Also in this case proximity to 9 GM was a factor.