Anggriawan Sugianto

안녕하세요! Hello there.. Thank God, I had few occasions to do business trip in South Korea. My first business trip was in autumn 2010. I enjoyed three months there in a chilly weather. Then, my second one was a short biztrip in February 2011. It was only 10 days because the schedule was so tight.

Lucky me, in the midst of busy work there (in my company, working until midnight or working in weekend is an ordinary thing), I had several times taken time to travel around Korea, especially around Gyeonggi-do province. So in this blog post, I want to share places I have visited during my time in Korea, and I think those are recommended places to visit if someday you visit this country. I will share my short story in every place I ever visited in Korea. Here we go... *warning: this will be a long long blog post ^^*

AMUSEMENT PARK

1. Everland
Everland Resort (에버랜드 리조트) is the largest theme park in South Korea. It is located in Yongin city, about 40km from Suwon. I visited this amusement park at Chuseok (추석) holiday this year. FYI, Chuseok is a three-days holiday for Korean; actually it is a harvest festival. I went there on September with my college friends who are doing post grad study in Korea. Although it was flooded due to the heavy rain that day, surely it was an amazing experience. And who knows you will be trapped in flood in the developed country such as South Korea, haha :)).

At Everland (Halloween season) with KAIST-ers

For you, roller coaster lovers, there are some roller coasters there, including the T Express. One of the most must-do in Korea is riding T-Express, which is the steepest wooden roller coaster in the world!! 77 degrees, w00t!! :) Click here for Youtube video made by American tourist about T-Express.

Background: T-Express wooden roller coaster, Everland

안녕하세요 ^_^

Gratefully, I find myself in Suwon, South Korea at the moment :). It's been quite the journey since my arrival in September 2010, and my stay here extends until the end of November 2010 due to a business assignment. Being in Korea for the first time feels nothing short of amazing.

Yeouido Park, South Korea

좋은 하루 되세요!

Hi there. Long time not see you here :). This time I will talk about Android, a mobile operating system made by Google which is using modified Linux kernel. I knew this thing years ago, but I made Android apps just for fun, which only runnable in the emulator (Android gadget was not available yet at that time). Anyway, lately I get back my curiosity on Android development because of its good prospect (I think) and my brand new Android phone, hoho :). Hopefully in the following month I will publish some free Android apps for all of you :)


Let's get into the main point. If we want to develop Android-based application, at least we need to have:

1. Android SDK and its components
2. Eclipse
3. ADT Plugin for Eclipse

Android Robot

We can download Android SDK at http://developer.android.com/sdk. Google provides Android SDK for 3 platforms: Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. Just download it and extract the .zip or .tgz. After that, we can read the fine manual and start using AVD manager or "SDK Setup.exe" to perform online installation: download and install its components/packages, such as Android Platform, documentation, Google API, etc.

• Android SDK
• OSX: android-sdk_r17-macosx.zip
• Linux: android-sdk_r17-linux.tgz
• Win: installer_r17-windows.exe

Anyway, if we want to perform offline installation, we need to download it components manually. Actually, Google doesn't provide any hard link for those, but we can use folder http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/ and file http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository.xml for reference. So, here it is a list of download link for some Android SDK components (for other version of API, check the xml file above).

android/

|-- add-ons/

    |-- google_apis-8_r02/

        |-- docs/

        |-- images/

        |-- libs/

        |-- samples/

|-- docs/

|-- platforms/

    |-- android-2.2_r02-windows/

        |-- data/

        |-- images/

        |-- skins/

        |-- templates/

        |-- tools/

        |-- android.jar

|-- samples

|-- tools

|-- usb_driver

    |-- amd64

    |-- i386

|-- SDK Setup.exe

Next, download the ADT Plugin for Eclipse manually (for offline installation) from http://dl.google.com/android/ADT-0.9.7.zip (for version 0.9.7) and read the fine manual how to use it in Eclipse. In the end, take a look at HelloWorld application to see if your installation works perfectly. Happy coding! ;)