If you’re using Docker for Windows, you’d know that Google’s Android Emulator doesn’t work. This is because the former uses Hyper-V and the latter uses HAXM, both incompatible virtualization technologies. Microsoft (or rather Xamarin) provides an alternative to Google’s emulator — Visual Studio Emulator for Android. …

Due to this issue, installing network-manager-strongswan doesn’t make StrongSwan available as an option in the GUI when setting up a VPN connection on Ubuntu. Fortunately, it’s easy to build from source. These are the steps: apt install devscripts libsecret-1-dev libnm-gtk-dev libnma-dev apt build-dep network-manager-strongswan wget https://download.strongswan.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager-strongswan-1.4.1.tar.bz2 cd network-manager-strongswan-1.3.1/ uupdate ../NetworkManager-strongswan-1.4.1.tar.bz2 cd ../network-manager-strongswan-1.4.1/

I’ve been working with cocos2d-x, a popular open-source game engine developed primarily for mobile platforms. It’s written in C++ and targets Android via the NDK. cocos2d-x comes with a command-line tool cocos that wraps the Android build tools in order to produce an APK. Recently, Google removed the android command…