Facebook intent rant plus a few other bits

So where am I at at the moment. I guess I have three things on the go.

First I am  about to do a little update to my Days Until  app on android. A while ago I added a sharing feature, the let you post it is a 100 days until christmas on twitter and others.

I have now had a few reports that it does not work on Facebook. I was sure it used to but further investigation revealed it does not work as Facebook has decided to not properly honour an intent to post a message to it. Basically it drops the text you send over and presents a blank dialogue for the user to type in.

Apparently this is a feature not a bug. I get the feeling that Facebook would prefer for me to use their SDK rather than the system built into android. You know the one that is flexible and easy to use. I will have to use their SDK to get the feature working but it does annoy as I get the feeling facebook is pushing this on me rather than letting me decide if I need all the useful features their SDK has rather than using the built in android stuff. I am not really a fan of Facebook so that does not help.

Learning Clojure continues. I have a long way to go that will probably involve churning through a couple of books. I am currently writing some very simple examples just to gain some experience with developing in clojure using emacs. Nothing to show yet but good fun.

In terms of some game dev. I am working on a simple RPG, that is currently call "simple RPG"  :) It is very early days but should push me to learn a little more in terms of libgdx and hopefully my drawing skills. Currently I am in a bug hunt phase with implementation of A*.