date:20100709

Only 20 years? I have you beat there. But more importantly, your
review of key points is still seriously deficient in logic. Your
conclusions still do not follow. Repeating conclusions that do not
follow IS a mark of being uneducated, no matter how much experience
you have.

The G1 is not yet obsolete, nor would the OP be forced to either
leave the OP limited to Android 1.6 and below, or [be left] with an
experience as painful as the experience they had with the emulator on
the Laptop which caused them to look at getting a device in the first
place, by choosing the G1 as his hardware platform.

Furthermore, you are forgetting one of the OP's considerations: cost.
You cannot find a phone originally released with 2.0 or 2.1 for as low
a cost as he can find a G1.

I don't know how you reached the conclusion a T-Mobile Pulse could be
bought for the same price as a G1: I see eBay prices of $273 for the
pulse, but I got my G1 on Craigslist for $80.

On Jul 8, 10:44 pm, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote:
 I've only been developing software for 20 years, but if you want to
 consider me uneducated, then I guess that's your call.

 To me if you can't buy a device for the purpose you want to use it,
 the devices firmware hasn't officially been updated for a few revision
 of the OS it's running, and all the signs indicate it won't be, then
 it's an obsolete device.

 Lets review a couple of key points;

 1) You can't buy the ADP1 (i.e. the shipped as unlocked G1) through
 Google any more. All you can buy is the ADP2. Yes, T-Mobile USA are
 still selling the G1, but carriers will usually sell anything until
 demand is almost non-existant.

 2) There is no *official* support for anything beyond 1.6, and it
 seems unlikely it ever will see an *official* update 
 (seehttp://androinica.com/2010/06/29/will-the-g1-get-froyo-yes-no-maybe/
 for the reasoning).

 3) As you've said, even if you do get a 3rd party Android 2.x ROM it
 is pig slow running it, making developing/testing any 2.x code with it
 an unpleasant experience (and the OP originally said he wanted a
 device because debugging on the emulator was too slow and painful).

 4) eBay prices for a T-Mobile pulse (an Android 2.1 HVGA device) are
 about the same if not cheaper than the eBay price for a G1.

 At no point did I suggest writing apps to block their use on a G1, all
 I've done is point out that the G1 isn't the best fit for the OPs
 situation, and in terms of being a phone for developers it's no longer
 available for purchase as one, and using it for developing will either
 leave the OP limited to Android 1.6 and below, or with an experience
 as painful as the experience they had with the emulator on the Laptop
 which caused them to look at getting a device in the first place.

 Al.

 On Jul 9, 12:20 am, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.com wrote:

  Lack of an official 2.1 update makes it 'obsolete'? Not in my book.
  Nor in the book of any educated software engineer. It takes a LOT more
  than that to make it 'obsolete', especially when Google ENCOURAGES
  third parties to release their own ROMs, and Cyanogen has already
  ported 2.1 to the G1 (http://androidspin.com/2010/04/29/cyanogen-ports-
  android-2-1-rom-in-g1-and-mytouch-3g/).

  Of course, it is pig slow when running Cyanogen's 2.1 (compared to new
  2.1 phones), and it lacks the hardware features for much of 2.1. But
  people are running 2.1 on the G1 already, and more want to do it.

  The G1 is nowhere near the bleeding edge: but it is still a good
  phone for testing new software against, since yet again, if it runs on
  the G1, and accommodates small screens correctly, then it will run
  almsot anywhere. This gets closer than JME ever got to the promise of
  write once, run anywhere.

  So don't write-off the G1 yet. You will risk locking your apps out of
  1/5 the market if you do.

  On Jul 8, 5:03 am, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote:

   It's highly unlikely the G1 will ever see an official update to
   Android 2.x or higher, so it is obsolete.

   In the OPs shoes I personally would put the money towards a better
   computer as it'll most likely make the whole development process more
   pleasant.

   Al.

   On Jul 8, 7:32 am, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.com wrote:

G1 obsolete? Well, almost. But take a look at the famous Platform
Version 'dashboard' 
athttp://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html.
It shows that as many as 21.3% of phones connecting to the market are
still on 1.5. 45% are running 1.6 or 1.5.

So by that standard the G1 is not obsolete, since it is already on
1.6.

Now sure, the hardware is slow and the runtime memory limited compared
to the hot new phones running 2.1 and accounting for 53% of the
market. But it would be a mistake to design your app -- or test your
app -- on only the latest and greatest (unless, of course, your app
relies on features only available on the latest

[android-developers] Re: what hardware platform do you use?

What is your source for this 88% figure? If it is correct, then how do
you explain the fact that the dashboard shows 45% of phones connecting
to the Market are not even running 2.x yet? 45+88100, after all.

On Jul 8, 6:01 pm, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) cor...@gmail.com
wrote:
 I suppose you're still using that 8086 with the fancy 10 meg hard
 drive?

 While the G1 may be a nostalgic look at what Android was (2% of
 devices), the reality of the situation is that most users have a
 Droid, Hero, Evo, Incredible, Moment, Magic or Eris (88% of devices).

 -John Coryat

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[android-developers] Re: How to access shared preference outside of Activity

2010-07-09 Thread Jeruliu

Thanks, actually i need to access the shared preference in a class
that extends from BroadcastReceiver, how can i call the context then?

On Jul 9, 4:21 pm, Mika mika.ristim...@gmail.com wrote:
 getSharedPreferences is defined in Context. Service is a Context also.

 On Jul 9, 9:08 am, Jeruliu jeru@gmail.com wrote:

  Dear all,

  I need to access the shared preference in a background service instead
  of activity on phone boot up.

  But getSharedPreferences function is define in the activity, so how
  can i access the data without creating the activity?

  Thanks.

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[android-developers] Re: Socket connection question

The normal Java socket classes (Socket, DatagramSocket, SocketImpl,
DatagramSocketImpl, ServerSocket) do force you to choose between TCP
(stream) and UDP (datagram). They give you no control over choosing
the layers below IP, so you cannot choose between WiFi and cellular.

On Jul 8, 5:20 pm, piwaf j...@ahg.net wrote:
 But you can defenitly open sockets, use the normal java socket
 classes.  But I don't know if you can choose the network type to use.

 On Jul 8, 11:41 am, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: Alex,

  If you mean 3G vs. Wifi - I think the answer is no.

  I believe Android maintains only one data connection option at a time,
  although it can be either Wifi, or, in its absence, cellular (HSDPA / 3G
  / EDGE / GPRS, depending on the phone and the network).

  -- Kostya

  08.07.2010 19:34, JoksanCPEN пишет:

   I don't think so. I think that the problem here is that carriers
   doesn't want people using direct port connections over their network.

   If you find something let me know,

   Ohh and if you know how to read socket on android let me know also.

   On Jul 5, 1:48 am, Alex Xinxinxi...@gmail.com  wrote:

   Hi,

   Are there any methods which I can use to establish a socket connection 
   that
   only use 3G network?

   Thank you a lot!

   Alex

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[android-developers] Re: Importing existing projects to Android

Another thing to try (when 'clean' fails) is to edit the whitespace in
main.xml, forcing Android to treat it as news. This in turn means
'rebuild R.java'. Usually, this works. I have seen it fail only
rarely. Then I copy all my files to a safe place and create the
project all over from scratch:(

On Jul 8, 12:42 pm, kypriakos demet...@ece.neu.edu wrote:
 It seems that the gen dir is empty and that no generated java classes
 are not being generated (no R.java etc.). I am assuming the Clean
 Project
 removed them (??). How can they be regenerated?

 Thanks again

 On Jul 8, 3:37 pm, kypriakos demet...@ece.neu.edu wrote: Never mind - I 
 needed to manually clean up the build path file as well
  to
  match the fact that the lib didn't have those files anymore. So now I
  can
  compile the project with no errors either visible (with x next to the
  dir or
  any file in the project tree) or in the Error Log that Eclipse
  provides.
  However, still the plug in will complain when I try to run it with the
  same
  error msg 'The project contains errors ' ... makes no sense.

  On Jul 8, 3:18 pm, kypriakos demet...@ece.neu.edu wrote:

   David - thanks very much for the detailed and very informative
   response. I appreciate it.
   I looked into the Error Log of the IDE and I did see that certain
   libraries (external libraries
   that I needed to reference through my code, such as BouncyCastle etc.)
   had also a txt
   file with them that the Android plug in didn't like. By removing them
   I was able to remove
   those errors. However, what's interesting now is that after I also did
   a Clean on the pioject,
   all of the bin classes I had in the bin directory are not being
   regenerated. I checked the IDE's
   configuration and it does has the project to build automatically. I
   can see the workspace
   build progress flash at the bottom bar but no classes (even after
   refreshing the view) generated
   in the bin. This makes no sense unless those txt files are necessary
   for using their corresponding
   libs:
   (1) if that is the case, where could I include those txt licenses in
   the case of Android
   (2) if not then what would cause the classes that about 10 mins were
   generating output binaries
   to do it now as we.

   Thanks aga

   On Jul 7, 7:03 am, Bagatelle: David Lee Evans dle.ev...@gmail.com
   wrote:

On Jul 7, 1:07 am, Demetris demet...@ece.neu.edu wrote:

 Hi all,

 I generated a standard Android under Eclipse (using the plugin) and I
 imported code from an existing project (J2SE-based). I was able to
 iron out all the complaints from the Android SDK 2.1 (compile errors).
 However, the runtime (emulator startup) the IDE displays a message
 saying that the project contains errors, please fix them before 
 running
 it. But all that there is there are warnings - is Android 
 unforgiving
 about Java warnings or is there something else I should be looking 
 into
 in there - no class has any compile errors.

 Thanks

Without seeing the exact Eclipse error output, I am assuming the
following.
When you view your project in the package explorer window, your
project has
    an error X icon next to it, but looking at the project tree
structure there is no offending
    error X icon next to any other directory. So I going to suggest a
shotgun approach
    to fix your problem, probably all you have tried.

    1)The always first move that I always do is clean the project,
sometimes the Eclipse ADT gets a little confuse about the state of the
project.

    2) Since you imported the project from another source project,
check the AndroidManifest.xml file for incompatibility problems
       makes sure is the attribute tag android:minSdkVersion if
defined is appropriate for the project.

    3) Then there is the hidden .project file that ant uses to build
the project, make sure that file exist because if it does not,
       it will give you the exact same symptoms that you have
describe. It should have been create for you by the Eclipse IDE when
       you created an Android project.

     And about Android warnings, my projects have a lot of them ;-)
but this has never caused the emulator to start up, so unless
     you have some special flag set that I have never heard of I don't
think that the warnings would abort an emulator launch.



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[android-developers] How to define some smart layout?

2010-07-09 Thread Jeruliu

I will have a list view on the top and a button on the bottom in the
view.

Regardless the height of the list view i would like to fix the button
position on the bottom all the time.

If the list view is too long then make it scrollable.

How to do this? thanks.

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[android-developers] Re: 2.2 SDK refresh

2010-07-09 Thread Zsolt Vasvari

I couldn't figure out why I couldn't see the search widget after
updating the SDK and restarting the AVD.  Finally I figured out thay I
needed to recreate the AVD or at least blow away the userdata-qemu.img
file.


On Jul 9, 3:39 am, Xavier Ducrohet x...@android.com wrote:
 Developers,

 We've just released an updated version of the 2.2 SDK.

 Besides the updated system image to match FRF91, we've put back the
 search widget that was missing, and we fixed an issue with the backup
 manager that prevented it from working on the emulator.

 More info:http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.2.html

 Xav
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 Android SDK Tech Lead
 Google Inc.

 Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks!

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[android-developers] Making Video files Android ready for playback over HTTP

2010-07-09 Thread Samuh

I am working on an Android application which is supposed to play
videos over HTTP on Android devices. Before we setup a server to host
the video files just wanted a few things clarified:

As per the developer documentation, Android supports .mp4 and .3gp
container formats for video. The audio-video codec used for our media
files is H.263(video) and AAC LC (Audio).

I did a little experiment and passed URL of one of the video files to
the MediaPlayer class and got the following error:
Command PLAYER_INIT completed with an error or info
PVMFErrContentInvalidForProgressivePlayback

From the docs, I came to know that for progressive playback, the
video's index (e.g moov atom) should be at the start of the file.

How do we make our videos Android-ready?
What are the different considerations that we need to make?

Please help.

Thanks.

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[android-developers] AndroidGroup: Nested Actvities

2010-07-09 Thread Anders Widen

Hi!

I'm trying to create an application with an persistent menu at the
bottom for displaying different Activites. Think of it like a custom
tabbed layout. I need the applications to be stand alone so using
views won't work (unless I've missed something).

I've created a main window using a FrameLayout and a Linearlayout to
hold menu items. But whenever I start an Activity inside the
FrameLayout it takes all the focus and no interaction can be done with
the items inside the LinearLayout.

Any suggestions on how to accomplish this type of behavior?

CODE:
http://pastebin.com/nySA8k4A

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[android-developers] Transparent Image button, can be more transparent ?

Hi!

 I have already found how can I do an ImageButton with Transparent
background, but I would like to ask, how can I set the effective of it ? How
can I do it more transparent ? My way as I do it: gradient
android:startColor=#aaff android:endColor=#aaff ...
 What should I write in to the color to be more transparent ?
 Thank you: Karoly

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[android-developers] Re: Water ripple effect

2010-07-09 Thread Mansoor

Thanks robert green . and all who replied to the post.
I acheived the ripple effect by drawing the water background on a 2d
mesh and generated ripples by using sine wave function.Ripples are
quite realistic and good.once again thank u all :)

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[android-developers] Re: Remove a row in a Listview

2010-07-09 Thread Albert

Thanks karteek for your answer but it does not work as my adapter
takes a list of Strings.

mAdapter.remove(String) should actually work, I have override
getCount() as well but still no luck...

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Re: [android-developers] Transparent Image button, can be more transparent ?

2010-07-09 Thread YuviDroid

The first two chars after the '#' symbol are the opacity. So, '00' would be
totally transparent, and 'FF' would be 100% opaque.

2010/7/9 Károly Holczhauser holczhau...@gmail.com

 Hi!

  I have already found how can I do an ImageButton with Transparent
 background, but I would like to ask, how can I set the effective of it ? How
 can I do it more transparent ? My way as I do it: gradient
 android:startColor=#aaff android:endColor=#aaff ...
  What should I write in to the color to be more transparent ?
  Thank you: Karoly

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Re: [android-developers] How to define some smart layout?

2010-07-09 Thread Kostya Vasilyev


You can achieve this by using a RelativeLayout:

http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/f88b83d3b453a981/db595fb356a92467

(substitute height / bottom for width / right in the thread above)

-- Kostya

09.07.2010 13:35, Jeruliu пишет:

I will have a list view on the top and a button on the bottom in the
view.

Regardless the height of the list view i would like to fix the button
position on the bottom all the time.

If the list view is too long then make it scrollable.

How to do this? thanks.

   



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Re: [android-developers] How to define some smart layout?

2010-07-09 Thread YuviDroid

I think RelativeLayout should be helpful in this case. For your button,
simply put in its xml tags:

android:layout_alignParentBottom=true


On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Jeruliu jeru@gmail.com wrote:

 I will have a list view on the top and a button on the bottom in the
 view.

 Regardless the height of the list view i would like to fix the button
 position on the bottom all the time.

 If the list view is too long then make it scrollable.

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[android-developers] Re: options menu problems with SurfaceView and ListView

2010-07-09 Thread javelin21

I found the problem. The Lunar Lander template I was using overrode
onWindowFocusChanged which paused the SurfaceView while the background
threads getting images kept going. This caused everything to get out
of synch. The Lunar Lander is designed to take up the whole screen and
mine is not. I commented out the pause and everything works. Still
some issues with the ListView, but I think I can handle that. The
lesson here is to be sure you understand everything going on in a
template before using it.

Thanks

On Jul 7, 10:27 am, javelin21 dsma...@javelin21.com wrote:
 In my application, I have extended SurfaceView and ListView. I create
 a LinearLayout as below

         mainForm = new LinearLayout(this);
         mainForm.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);
         mainForm.setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(
                 LinearLayout.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,
                 LinearLayout.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT));

 I then add the SurfaceView and ListView to the mainForm and then

 setContentView(mainForm);

 I also override onPrepareOptionsMenu and call menu.clear() and then
 dynamically create menus each time the menu button is pressed by the
 user.

 The application loads fine and the SurfaceView works fine as I
 directly draw images to it in a sleep loop.

 The ListView displays items and is desined to refreshed with new
 items.

 The options menu also displays once as well.

 However, once the SurfaceView is running and the ListView is loaded, a
 second call to onPrepareOptionsMenu by pressing the menu key disrupts
 the SurfaceView drawing, causing it to get stuck on the last image it
 was drawing. But the list view does refresh the adapter to change
 content once. After that, the application is hung and the SurfaceView
 keeps playing the same images in a random order.

 I am using runOnUiThread to update the views in the mainForm
 (LinearLayout) and the Lunar Landing template for the SurfaceView as
 shown below

 In Activity

 public void ViewsUpdate() {
         System.out.println(Before ViewsUpdate method);
         runOnUiThread(new updateDoer());

 }

 public class updateDoer implements Runnable {

         public updateDoer(){

         }

         public void run() {

                 contentDone2();
                 viewForm.invalidate();
 //viewForm is where the ListView and other views are added

         }

 }

 In SurfaceView
 private void drawSurfaceView(){
                 Canvas c = null;
             try {
                 c = mSurfaceHolder.lockCanvas(null);
                 synchronized (mSurfaceHolder) {
                     if (mMode == STATE_RUNNING)
                     doDraw(c);
                 }
             } finally {
                 // do this in a finally so that if an exception is
 thrown
                 // during the above, we don't leave the Surface in an
                 // inconsistent state
                 if (c != null) {
                     mSurfaceHolder.unlockCanvasAndPost(c);
                 }
             }

         }

 I am at a loss as to why everything gets clobbered after the options
 menu is built and displayed the second time.

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Re: [android-developers] Re: Socket connection question

2010-07-09 Thread Alex Xin

Thanks for explanation. Are there possibles if I use NDK to do that?

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.comwrote:

The normal Java socket classes (Socket, DatagramSocket, SocketImpl,
DatagramSocketImpl, ServerSocket) do force you to choose between TCP
(stream) and UDP (datagram). They give you no control over choosing
the layers below IP, so you cannot choose between WiFi and cellular.

On Jul 8, 5:20 pm, piwaf j...@ahg.net wrote:
But you can defenitly open sockets, use the normal java socket
classes. But I don't know if you can choose the network type to use.

On Jul 8, 11:41 am, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: Alex,

If you mean 3G vs. Wifi - I think the answer is no.

I believe Android maintains only one data connection option at a time,
although it can be either Wifi, or, in its absence, cellular (HSDPA /
3G
/ EDGE / GPRS, depending on the phone and the network).

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08.07.2010 19:34, JoksanCPEN пишет:

I don't think so. I think that the problem here is that carriers
doesn't want people using direct port connections over their network.

If you find something let me know,

Ohh and if you know how to read socket on android let me know also.

On Jul 5, 1:48 am, Alex Xinxinxi...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

Are there any methods which I can use to establish a socket
connection that
only use 3G network?

Thank you a lot!

Alex

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[android-developers] Re: get the name of the package that started a service

Sorry i forgot to mention this earlier but
I used to just use .putExtra() on the intent before it was started but
i want this process to resart automatically if killed so my code is in
the onCreate() method rather that the onStart() and i can therefore no
longer access the intent. Please can some one help me out with this.

On Jul 8, 7:51 pm, Boozel boozelcl...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am writing a service that will be compiled into a .jar file for use
 in other apps. is there any way to get the name of the package that
 uses or launches the service?
 thanks for any help

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[android-developers] getting package name in included .jar fil

If i create a service and in it use the method
context.getPackageName() or context.getPackageCodePath(). If i then
compile that service into a .jar file and someone else includes it in
their app will those methods return the original package of the
service or that package that they have been included in?

Any help would be great,
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Re: [android-developers] Making Video files Android ready for playback over HTTP

MP4Box -hint does the trick:

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/mp4box

More info here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AndroidVideoEncoding

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Samuh samuh.va...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am working on an Android application which is supposed to play
 videos over HTTP on Android devices. Before we setup a server to host
 the video files just wanted a few things clarified:

 As per the developer documentation, Android supports .mp4 and .3gp
 container formats for video. The audio-video codec used for our media
 files is H.263(video) and AAC LC (Audio).

 I did a little experiment and passed URL of one of the video files to
 the MediaPlayer class and got the following error:
 Command PLAYER_INIT completed with an error or info
 PVMFErrContentInvalidForProgressivePlayback

 From the docs, I came to know that for progressive playback, the
 video's index (e.g moov atom) should be at the start of the file.

 How do we make our videos Android-ready?
 What are the different considerations that we need to make?

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Re: [android-developers] Re: How to access shared preference outside of Activity

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Jeruliu jeru@gmail.com wrote:
 Thanks, actually i need to access the shared preference in a class
 that extends from BroadcastReceiver, how can i call the context then?

PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(), passing in the
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Re: [android-developers] Re: How does the Marketplace app widget use a ViewFlipper? (or a fading view)

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:12 AM, James W jpbwebs...@gmail.com wrote:
 Are you talking about an actual AppWidget that sits on the users home
 screen? I was not aware there was  a widget for the market.

I think it is new for 2.2. After seeing this thread, I found it on my
N1. It does what looks like an AlphaAnimation to transition between
apps it is promoting. Unless it is actually part of the N1's home
screen, I have no idea how they're pulling off that effect.

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[android-developers] Re: what hardware platform do you use?

2010-07-09 Thread Al Sutton

I'm going to skip the personal insults aimed at me (which will make
this a short reply).

The dictionary.com definition of obsolete says; of a discarded or
outmoded type; out of date, which, as the G1 is no longer on sale as
an unlocked developer 'phone and has no officially supported firmware
which provide any of the last 3 versions of Android, seems to fit
pretty well to me.

As for prices; I didn't realise T-Mo US were hammering the price up
that much. In the UK you can get the new Pulse for around US$150 which
is within 30% of what G1s go for on eBay (and is cheaper than some
eBayers Buy It Now G1 prices).

I guess we're not going to agree, and nothing you've said has swayed
me to recommending the G1 as a 'phone for new developers, so I'll
guess we'll agree to disagree and let the OP choose which of our
personal opinions he finds more useful.

Al.

On Jul 9, 9:49 am, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Only 20 years? I have you beat there. But more importantly, your
 review of key points is still seriously deficient in logic. Your
 conclusions still do not follow. Repeating conclusions that do not
 follow IS a mark of being uneducated, no matter how much experience
 you have.

 The G1 is not yet obsolete, nor would the OP be forced to either
 leave the OP limited to Android 1.6 and below, or [be left] with an
 experience as painful as the experience they had with the emulator on
 the Laptop which caused them to look at getting a device in the first
 place, by choosing the G1 as his hardware platform.

 Furthermore, you are forgetting one of the OP's considerations: cost.
 You cannot find a phone originally released with 2.0 or 2.1 for as low
 a cost as he can find a G1.

 I don't know how you reached the conclusion a T-Mobile Pulse could be
 bought for the same price as a G1: I see eBay prices of $273 for the
 pulse, but I got my G1 on Craigslist for $80.

 On Jul 8, 10:44 pm, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote:



  I've only been developing software for 20 years, but if you want to
  consider me uneducated, then I guess that's your call.

  To me if you can't buy a device for the purpose you want to use it,
  the devices firmware hasn't officially been updated for a few revision
  of the OS it's running, and all the signs indicate it won't be, then
  it's an obsolete device.

  Lets review a couple of key points;

  1) You can't buy the ADP1 (i.e. the shipped as unlocked G1) through
  Google any more. All you can buy is the ADP2. Yes, T-Mobile USA are
  still selling the G1, but carriers will usually sell anything until
  demand is almost non-existant.

  2) There is no *official* support for anything beyond 1.6, and it
  seems unlikely it ever will see an *official* update 
  (seehttp://androinica.com/2010/06/29/will-the-g1-get-froyo-yes-no-maybe/
  for the reasoning).

  3) As you've said, even if you do get a 3rd party Android 2.x ROM it
  is pig slow running it, making developing/testing any 2.x code with it
  an unpleasant experience (and the OP originally said he wanted a
  device because debugging on the emulator was too slow and painful).

  4) eBay prices for a T-Mobile pulse (an Android 2.1 HVGA device) are
  about the same if not cheaper than the eBay price for a G1.

  At no point did I suggest writing apps to block their use on a G1, all
  I've done is point out that the G1 isn't the best fit for the OPs
  situation, and in terms of being a phone for developers it's no longer
  available for purchase as one, and using it for developing will either
  leave the OP limited to Android 1.6 and below, or with an experience
  as painful as the experience they had with the emulator on the Laptop
  which caused them to look at getting a device in the first place.

  Al.

  On Jul 9, 12:20 am, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.com wrote:

   Lack of an official 2.1 update makes it 'obsolete'? Not in my book.
   Nor in the book of any educated software engineer. It takes a LOT more
   than that to make it 'obsolete', especially when Google ENCOURAGES
   third parties to release their own ROMs, and Cyanogen has already
   ported 2.1 to the G1 (http://androidspin.com/2010/04/29/cyanogen-ports-
   android-2-1-rom-in-g1-and-mytouch-3g/).

   Of course, it is pig slow when running Cyanogen's 2.1 (compared to new
   2.1 phones), and it lacks the hardware features for much of 2.1. But
   people are running 2.1 on the G1 already, and more want to do it.

   The G1 is nowhere near the bleeding edge: but it is still a good
   phone for testing new software against, since yet again, if it runs on
   the G1, and accommodates small screens correctly, then it will run
   almsot anywhere. This gets closer than JME ever got to the promise of
   write once, run anywhere.

   So don't write-off the G1 yet. You will risk locking your apps out of
   1/5 the market if you do.

   On Jul 8, 5:03 am, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote:

It's highly unlikely the G1 will ever see an official update to

[android-developers] Re: what hardware platform do you use?

2010-07-09 Thread Al Sutton

John has a very popular app which he keeps stats on. Last I hear he
was about to break the half million download mark and was clocking up
around 5,000 downloads a day.

Some of the devices he lists in his 88% figure run versions of Android
prior to 2.0 in some countries, but updates to Android 2.x are
reported as confirmed in the press (Hero  Magic).

Al.

On Jul 9, 9:53 am, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.com wrote:
 What is your source for this 88% figure? If it is correct, then how do
 you explain the fact that the dashboard shows 45% of phones connecting
 to the Market are not even running 2.x yet? 45+88100, after all.

 On Jul 8, 6:01 pm, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) cor...@gmail.com
 wrote:



  I suppose you're still using that 8086 with the fancy 10 meg hard
  drive?

  While the G1 may be a nostalgic look at what Android was (2% of
  devices), the reality of the situation is that most users have a
  Droid, Hero, Evo, Incredible, Moment, Magic or Eris (88% of devices).

  -John Coryat

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[android-developers] Is there a way to find out if an app is in a folder(on the home screen)?

2010-07-09 Thread Christoffer Davidsson

Hi.

What I'd like to do is find out the name of the folder an app placed
in. A folder on the home screen that is:
http://pocketnow.com/how-to/how-to-speed-up-your-android-organize-your-home-screens-using-folders

Is there a way to find out if an app is in a folder(on the home
screen)? And if so, what the folder name is?
I'm guessing this would not have anything to do with the app's
location in the file system. I'm I right?

Thanks,
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[android-developers] GPS accuracy reliability

2010-07-09 Thread jgostylo

This is a general question about GPS accuracy reporting based on
feedback from my user community.

My app has an issue where many players get bounced all over kingdom
come when using GPS to get a signal.  I had this issue with my G1 on
occasion but not on my Nexus One.  I am talking hundreds of miles from
their real location.  I changed the code to throw out anything that
was not at least 500 meters accurate.  My question is, if the location
placement is hundreds of miles off, how reliable will the accuracy
reporting be?  Does it realize that it could be hundreds of miles off?

I am asking the community because I cannot reproduce the scenario with
what I currently have so I can't test if my fix is meaningful.  Does
GPS know when its readings are that far off?

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[android-developers] Re: GPS accuracy reliability

2010-07-09 Thread Justin Edwards

I have had the same reports from my user community within my GPS
application for Android.

In my support emails I have been telling them that it is most likely a
hardware/OS issue, and a hard reset (battery pull) should fix it.  I
have had a few users reply back and said that has fixed it.

I think this may be a issue with the API that is is providing use the
wrong information when we request it.

In my eyes I see this as a bug with Android if it provides the wrong
information once we request it.

Justin

On Jul 9, 8:48 am, jgostylo jgost...@gmail.com wrote:
 This is a general question about GPS accuracy reporting based on
 feedback from my user community.

 My app has an issue where many players get bounced all over kingdom
 come when using GPS to get a signal.  I had this issue with my G1 on
 occasion but not on my Nexus One.  I am talking hundreds of miles from
 their real location.  I changed the code to throw out anything that
 was not at least 500 meters accurate.  My question is, if the location
 placement is hundreds of miles off, how reliable will the accuracy
 reporting be?  Does it realize that it could be hundreds of miles off?

 I am asking the community because I cannot reproduce the scenario with
 what I currently have so I can't test if my fix is meaningful.  Does
 GPS know when its readings are that far off?

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Re: [android-developers] Re: what hardware platform do you use?

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote:
 John has a very popular app which he keeps stats on. Last I hear he
 was about to break the half million download mark and was clocking up
 around 5,000 downloads a day.

Bear in mind, though, that his app will be much more popular in the US
(AFAIK, Radar Now only shows radar images for the US). If you click
on his usage map, he only shows usage in the US. His stats will not
completely line up with those from the Android Market, simply because
they are polling different sets of users.

That being said, I generally agree with the just say no position
regarding the G1 as a test device.

I do not recommend that you use devices that have not passed the CTS
as your one-and-only test device unless you are specifically writing
for that device. That would include:

-- devices that never had the Market (e.g., ARCHOS 5 Android tablet)

-- devices running modded ROMs that have not demonstrated that the
mods pass the CTS (and I have no idea which modders do this analysis,
let alone the results)

-- rooted devices that were not intended as having user-installable
applications (e.g., nook)

Using such devices as a personal device is fine, and using one as a
device in a larger fleet of test devices is fine. And having such a
device because that is your specific target (e.g., apps compatible
with the nook's dual-screen setup) is fine.

Which device is the best to use will vary by country, based on the
availability of new and pre-owned devices, and so it is difficult to
say conclusively what is best globally (see the US vs. UK pricing
differences cited earlier in this thread). However, even if the G1 is
substantially less expensive than a 2.x-capable model, the G1's
relevance with official ROMs is fading fast, forcing the developer to
then have to buy a *second* device to stay current on CTS-compliant
devices.

If there are 2.x G1 ROMs that are demonstrably CTS-compliant, then my
concerns would tend to fall away. A JIT-enabled 2.2 G1 ROM that was
CTS-compliant might truly be the best answer -- lower price plus
possibly-acceptable speed. But CTS compliance is pretty damn
important, IMHO.

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Re: [android-developers] Is there a way to find out if an app is in a folder(on the home screen)?

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Christoffer Davidsson
christof...@chlirre.com wrote:
 What I'd like to do is find out the name of the folder an app placed
 in.

Bear in mind that there are many, many home screens that ship on
devices (AOSP, Nexus One, HTC Sense, MOTOBLUR, Sony Ericsson, LG,
Samsung, Vodafone, etc.) and others available as third-party apps
(e.g., aHome).

 Is there a way to find out if an app is in a folder(on the home
 screen)?

You would need to ask the developers of each home screen application.
I am not aware of an API to find this out for the open source (AOSP)
home screen application.

 I'm guessing this would not have anything to do with the app's
 location in the file system. I'm I right?

Correct.

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[android-developers] Re: Remove a row in a Listview

2010-07-09 Thread JoksanCPEN

have you tried to delete the element from the array instead of
deleting it from the listview?

On Jul 9, 2:12 am, karteek kartee...@gmail.com wrote:
 use the methode remove with position of the row
 mAdapter.remove(2);

 On Jul 9, 2:32 am, Albert albert8...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all,

  Does someone know how to remove a row from a Listview?

  I have an Adapter that takes care of the List and when I try
  mAdapter.remove(Object) it does not remove the Object I passed but
  instead the last row on the list. I have tried different ways and it
  always ends up deleting the last row.

  Thanks in advance,
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[android-developers] Re: oh no - lost my keystore

2010-07-09 Thread Robert

What we do here is we put the keystore on 3 seperate flashdrives! When
one goes down we send the intern(slave) to the store yo buy one!

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Re: [android-developers] Market reporting wrong app size

2010-07-09 Thread TreKing

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Stephen Lebed srle...@gmail.com wrote:

 It is reported as 3.5mb in the developer console.  But in the market it is
 showing up as 7.02mb.


Do you have copy protection on?

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[android-developers] Re: Remove a row in a Listview

2010-07-09 Thread Albert



On Jul 9, 2:23 pm, JoksanCPEN joksan...@gmail.com wrote:
 have you tried to delete the element from the array instead of
 deleting it from the listview?


Yes and then I call notifyDataSetChanged() and it only deletes the
last one.

A temporary solution I'm using is when a row is deleted, the item gets
deleted from the database and then I just initialise everything again
and get all the info from the DB.

It would obviously nice not to have to do that...

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[android-developers] Re: Making Video files Android ready for playback over HTTP

2010-07-09 Thread Samuh

Mark:

Thank you!

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Re: [android-developers] writing to sd card issue

2010-07-09 Thread TreKing

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:16 PM, guru guru.nav...@gmail.com wrote:

 Whether I have to mention this permission in application manifest or
 i have to mention in other places also. What other factors I have to look
 in to this.


Your question, as phrased, makes no sense.

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[android-developers] Re: OpenGL texture wrapping flickers. Why?

2010-07-09 Thread Matty

I was able to solve this...

I was calling the texture wrapping code on every draw, right before I
bound the texture.  Now, I set the texture parameters when the
textures are generated, and I don't need to specify wrapping every
time I draw a shape... No more flicker, and the code is probably more
efficient.

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[android-developers] Re: Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen not working when other activities use a custom title?

2010-07-09 Thread Matty

I found the solution here:

http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/2de77043f32835aa/f2a1357bf1335461


It's basically: Add the following to your activity:
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_LAYOUT_NO_LIMITS,
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_LAYOUT_NO_LIMITS);

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[android-developers] Re: Onwindowfocuschanged() not ever called

2010-07-09 Thread Michael

anyone?

On Jul 8, 11:50 pm, Michael michael...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,
 I have a map in one of three tabs, with each tab being a separate
 activity. The MapsActivity class extends MapActivity, but my overrided
 Onwindowfocuschanged() is never called (tested using logcat outputs)
 when the map is panned or zoomed. Is this because it's in a tab? is
 there any workaround? Thanks!

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Re: [android-developers] @override

2010-07-09 Thread TreKing

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:49 AM, B Woods bradleydeanwo...@gmail.com wrote:

 What is the purpose of this?


What is the purpose of THIS http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%40override+java?

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[android-developers] Re: screen occasionally goes blank on Milestones

2010-07-09 Thread Alain

This issue is not caused by your app but instead is a Milestone
problem and has been reported by many people.

On Jul 7, 3:58 pm, Brian bkmetz...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have an application I am currently working on for a client which is
 suffering from a particularly hard to debug problem. Every so often,
 the device screen will go blank, not just while running my
 application, but entirely. If I press the home button, for instance,
 it's still blank. This happens fairly rarely ( I myself have only seen
 it once or twice in a couple of months, and unfortunately couldn't
 gather log information immediately when it happened. What log info I
 was able to gather seemed to show that the phone continued to run
 properly - I was still seeing events in the log file - the screen was
 just blank ). So far, this has only been observed while running on
 Motorola Milestones ( this may or may not be coincidence - it's hard
 to tell given the infrequency of occurance ). Has anyone else observed
 anything similar? Any suggestions as to possible causes/ways of
 debugging?

 Thanks,
 Brian

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[android-developers] Re: what hardware platform do you use?

2010-07-09 Thread Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)

Mark is correct, my stats are for US only. I should have clarified
that when I stated device stats. I believe they are more or less
relevant in regard to the G1 vs. all the other devices though, so for
the average developer looking for a representative device, something
other than the original G1 would be the best bet.

Radar Now! is closing on the 600,000 download mark and should hit
that in about two or three days, depending on the weather.

-John Coryat

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Re: [android-developers] Re: screen occasionally goes blank on Milestones

2010-07-09 Thread Kostya Vasilyev


Second that.

What's weird, is that defective light sensors get confused in _bright_ 
light.


http://kmansoft.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/motorola-milestone-light-sensor-problems/

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09.07.2010 18:32, Alain пишет:

This issue is not caused by your app but instead is a Milestone
problem and has been reported by many people.

On Jul 7, 3:58 pm, Brianbkmetz...@gmail.com  wrote:
   

I have an application I am currently working on for a client which is
suffering from a particularly hard to debug problem. Every so often,
the device screen will go blank, not just while running my
application, but entirely. If I press the home button, for instance,
it's still blank. This happens fairly rarely ( I myself have only seen
it once or twice in a couple of months, and unfortunately couldn't
gather log information immediately when it happened. What log info I
was able to gather seemed to show that the phone continued to run
properly - I was still seeing events in the log file - the screen was
just blank ). So far, this has only been observed while running on
Motorola Milestones ( this may or may not be coincidence - it's hard
to tell given the infrequency of occurance ). Has anyone else observed
anything similar? Any suggestions as to possible causes/ways of
debugging?

Thanks,
Brian
 
   



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[android-developers] Re: GPS accuracy reliability

2010-07-09 Thread Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)

Question: How are you getting your location fix? Are you using
ACCURACY_FINE and assuming it will use the GPS? Unless you
specifically test for the provider being GPS, it might default to
network, which would give you a position with limited accuracy. I've
seen this bouncing around effect when the wireless location (network)
provider is trying to figure out where the device is, as it zeros in
on the location, it can hop all over the map.

Bottom line: Don't assume that ACCURACY_FINE will be GPS, unless you
have GPS satellites in view and the user has enabled GPS, you'll be
using the network location service instead.

-John Coryat

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[android-developers] Calling Activity

2010-07-09 Thread ranjan ar

Hello ,
I have a broadcast class that blocks the incoming call. I want to call that
broadcast receiver from the activity . Can any one help me fix this. I
appreciate your help.
1. Class A extends activity will call Class B that extends
BroadcastReceiver, now I want to block calls , only based on certain
requirements, which are checked in Class A, if true then call the Class B
(or block the call in short)

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[android-developers] Re: How to define some smart layout?

2010-07-09 Thread Matty

This simple layout seems to work for me:

?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
LinearLayout
xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android;
android:layout_width=fill_parent
android:layout_height=fill_parent
android:orientation=vertical
android:gravity=center
ListView
android:id=@+id/ListView01
android:layout_width=fill_parent
android:layout_height=fill_parent
android:layout_weight=1 /
Button
android:text=@+id/Button01
android:id=@+id/Button01
android:layout_width=wrap_content
android:layout_height=wrap_content /
/LinearLayout



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 I will have a list view on the top and a button on the bottom in the
 view.

 Regardless the height of the list view i would like to fix the button
 position on the bottom all the time.

 If the list view is too long then make it scrollable.

 How to do this? thanks.

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[android-developers] Re: Transparent Image button, can be more transparent ?

Thank you so much!!!

On júl. 9, 12:49, YuviDroid yuvidr...@gmail.com wrote:
 The first two chars after the '#' symbol are the opacity. So, '00' would be
 totally transparent, and 'FF' would be 100% opaque.

 2010/7/9 Károly Holczhauser holczhau...@gmail.com



  Hi!

   I have already found how can I do an ImageButton with Transparent
  background, but I would like to ask, how can I set the effective of it ? How
  can I do it more transparent ? My way as I do it: gradient
  android:startColor=#aaff android:endColor=#aaff ...
   What should I write in to the color to be more transparent ?
   Thank you: Karoly

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[android-developers] How to attach custom map on MapView? Can MapView be used when phone is offline?

2010-07-09 Thread bobetko

I am trying to place my custom map (overlay) over Google map.
For example, my MapView will be positioned to look at some building. I
want to load custom image(s) that will show building's floor plan.
Want to be able to pan and zoom, and place markers (for example, Room
1, Room 2, etc...), in other words, I would like to be able to use
Google Map API methods. The best would be if Google map images are not
loaded at all, since that will (I believe) slow down user's
experience. Also, the user may be inside the building, and connection
may be slow or non-existing.

Is this possible?

Thanks

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Re: [android-developers] How to attach custom map on MapView? Can MapView be used when phone is offline?

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:51 AM, bobetko bobe...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am trying to place my custom map (overlay) over Google map.
 For example, my MapView will be positioned to look at some building. I
 want to load custom image(s) that will show building's floor plan.
 Want to be able to pan and zoom, and place markers (for example, Room
 1, Room 2, etc...), in other words, I would like to be able to use
 Google Map API methods. The best would be if Google map images are not
 loaded at all, since that will (I believe) slow down user's
 experience. Also, the user may be inside the building, and connection
 may be slow or non-existing.

 Is this possible?

It is certainly possible for a qualified programmer (or team) to
create an application that shows a building's floor plan, with pan and
zoom, place markers, etc.

It just won't use MapView, since that is for showing Google Maps.
Furthermore, MapView is proprietary, and so you cannot repurpose its
code for your own uses.

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[android-developers] Re: How to attach custom map on MapView? Can MapView be used when phone is offline?

2010-07-09 Thread bobetko

I was hoping to use MapView in my application. It seems I will have to
come up with something else. Thanks for quick reply.

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[android-developers] Re: How to attach custom map on MapView? Can MapView be used when phone is offline?

2010-07-09 Thread Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)

One nifty way to do this, with a lot less effort than writing a custom
map view, is to use Google's v3 map API within a webview. I've done
this in the app What Zip Code? (free on the market) with a custom
overlay and it works great. For those that already understand how to
write html, JavaScript and CSS, this is a valid and fairly easy to
accomplish method.

You'll still have to use standard Android code to get your position or
access any of the sensors, but that's fairly trivial compared to
writing a custom mapview, at least in my opinion.

-John Coryat

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Re: [android-developers] getting package name in included .jar fil

2010-07-09 Thread Dianne Hackborn

That returns the name of the .apk the code is in.

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Boozel boozelcl...@gmail.com wrote:

 If i create a service and in it use the method
 context.getPackageName() or context.getPackageCodePath(). If i then
 compile that service into a .jar file and someone else includes it in
 their app will those methods return the original package of the
 service or that package that they have been included in?

 Any help would be great,
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Re: [android-developers] Problems while working with Android 2.2 Froyo - Need help - Thanks very much!

2010-07-09 Thread Alex Xin

Does anybody have the similar issues? Are there any guidelines about how to
solve compatibility problems while trying to let app works on different
Android platforms?

My app use Java NIO as core functions, I cannot imagine if I can't use that
class anymore..

Thanks a lot...

Alex

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Alex Xin xinxi...@gmail.com wrote:

 *Hi,*
 *
 *
 *I have a problem while trying to run my app in new Android 2.2 Froyo
 emulator and real device Nexus One.*
 *The problem is that when I try to call
 java.nio.channels.Selector.wakeup() method, it will throw a runtime
 exception NullPointerException. But this code works very well on all
 previous releases of Android platform.*
 *
 *
 *Does anybody know why in Froyo this method doesn't work as expected?*
 *
 *
 *thanks very much*
 *
 *
 *Alex*


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[android-developers] Camera preview - strange on Samsung Galaxy S (2.1update1)

2010-07-09 Thread Mathias Lin

In my activity I show the camera preview on a surfaceView. It works 
perfectly fine on Nexus One (2.1update1, 2.2) and HTC Desire 
(2.1update1), but on Samsung Galaxy S (2.1update1) I see strange lines, 
weird proportions and everything three times. see the screenshot 
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/7466/device1s.png


The issue seems to be similar to this one: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2053440/camera-preview-on-androd-strange-lines-on-1-5-version-of-sdk 
but none of the comments there helped. I tried to swap height,width for 
the camera parameters, but not much of a difference.


(Side note: my activity is always in landscape mode, fixed. I have that 
fix in my manifest as screenOrientation parameters, in case that matters 
somehow).


Camera preview parameters as below:
== snip ==

private static final int IMAGE_WIDTH = 512;
private static final int IMAGE_HEIGHT = 384;
private static final String ORIENTATION = orientation;
private static final String ROTATION = rotation;
private static final String PORTRAIT = portrait;
private static final String LANDSCAPE = landscape;


camera = Camera.open();

Parameters p = camera.getParameters();
p.setPictureSize(IMAGE_WIDTH, IMAGE_HEIGHT);
p.set(ORIENTATION, PORTRAIT);
p.set(ROTATION, 90);

Camera.Size s = p.getSupportedPreviewSizes().get(0);
p.setPreviewSize( s.width,s.height );

p.setPictureFormat(PixelFormat.JPEG);
p.set(flash-mode, auto);
camera.setParameters(p);

camera.setPreviewDisplay(surfaceHolder);
== snap ==

Full code of my SurfaceHolderCallback (the relevant inner class in my 
activity)

http://pastebin.com/YmcwEVn8

Anybody experiencing such issue on the Samsung Galaxy S as well?


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[android-developers] Re: getting package name in included .jar fil

thanks

On Jul 9, 6:19 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
 That returns the name of the .apk the code is in.





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  If i create a service and in it use the method
  context.getPackageName() or context.getPackageCodePath(). If i then
  compile that service into a .jar file and someone else includes it in
  their app will those methods return the original package of the
  service or that package that they have been included in?

  Any help would be great,
  Thanks

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Re: [android-developers] Re: Making Video files Android ready for playback over HTTP

2010-07-09 Thread Alex Xin

Thank you!! This post is very useful for me!!

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Samuh samuh.va...@gmail.com wrote:

 Mark:

 Thank you!

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[android-developers] Putting a service into a .jar?

I have created a service that works great, it is launched from an
activity at the moment.
I'm looking to package it into a .jar file so that other people can
add the jar to then their projects and then run the service. Can
anyone tell me how i can launch this service from the app that it is
included in?
Any help would be really appreciated.

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Re: [android-developers] Putting a service into a .jar?

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 I have created a service that works great, it is launched from an
 activity at the moment.
 I'm looking to package it into a .jar file so that other people can
 add the jar to then their projects and then run the service. Can
 anyone tell me how i can launch this service from the app that it is
 included in?

The same way they would if the code were in their own app: add an
entry for the service in their manifest and call startService() or
bindService().

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[android-developers] Re: Regarding language support

Hi all!

 I also interested in the chat, how can I write an application witch
is supporting the multi language ? If we are in sweden I have to
display in that language else I need to use the English language. I
think, I should use the string.xml, but how ? How can I define there
two or more language and how can I switch between them ?

 thank you: Karoly

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