[android-developers] Re: How to implement scrolling for custom layout?

2012-01-15 Thread skink
harvinder wrote: [2] while scrolling onMeasure and onLayout rely on _scroller to get the correct scrolling positions, why do onMeasure and onLayout need to know scroller? pskink -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post

[android-developers] Re: Directory structure for project related files

2012-01-15 Thread nadam
Thanks Mark. I'll use the following structure: misc/ misc/market/ misc/market/screenshots/ Should be enough for most of my projects. On 14 Jan, 18:51, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: I wouldn't call it tmp/, as that would make me think of Linux and OS X /tmp, which are files that

[android-developers] Adding a new custom method to the Auto Generated RPC Service

2012-01-15 Thread quizit
I have been trying to get my head around the IO session listed below. http://bradabrams.com/2011/05/google-io-session-overview-android-app-engine-a-developers-dream-combination/ Everything seems straight forward till I tried to create my own custom method in the auto generated CloudTasksService

[android-developers] Re: MVC Architecture

2012-01-15 Thread sell.bergstr
I dont think its worth speding too many thought on MVC at all. IMO, that term in itself is not well defined at all, its just one more of those terms that are fashionable in the software dev community for a certain time frame. I remember when it was first coined - that was back in the days of

[android-developers] Re: Logcat is broken every time phone is unplugged

2012-01-15 Thread Mark Carter
Eclipse Indigo SR1, Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. When I reconnect, I always have to reclick on the device in the Devices view (of the DDMS perspective). However, in the latest version of ADT, I have a similar problem, where clearing the log output results in subsequent log messages not

[android-developers] Re: How to implement scrolling for custom layout?

2012-01-15 Thread harvinder
@ pskink The CustomView may have hundreds of children and it is not appropriate to create all the views and keep in the memory. So when the scrolling starts, to get the latest position displayed (with correct views) on the screen, I get the latest scroll position in onMeasure and onLayout and

[android-developers] Re: Logcat is broken every time phone is unplugged

2012-01-15 Thread sell.bergstr
same here On 15 Jan., 11:50, Mark Carter mjc1...@googlemail.com wrote: Eclipse Indigo SR1, Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. When I reconnect, I always have to reclick on the device in the Devices view (of the DDMS perspective). However, in the latest version of ADT, I have a similar problem,

[android-developers] Re: Continuously running Service does not run continuously

2012-01-15 Thread Dirk
I appreciate your answers very much. I am currently experimenting with the WakeLock and the AlarmManager, that were great hints ! Just a few words concerning the use case: I am writing an educational app for the barometer (contained in the Nexus Prime). Surely it does not make sense to measure

[android-developers] Re: How to implement scrolling for custom layout?

2012-01-15 Thread skink
harvinder wrote: @ pskink The CustomView may have hundreds of children and it is not appropriate to create all the views and keep in the memory. So when the scrolling starts, to get the latest position displayed (with correct views) on the screen, I get the latest scroll position in

[android-developers] compress frame to QVGA from onPreviewFrame??‏

2012-01-15 Thread muhammad.ume...@hotmail.com
hi, I am getting the frames from onPreviewFrame method, and convert these frames to jpeg and send it on a network. but i want the size of each image to QVGA that is 320x240. Please tell me what is the right way to convert the onPreviewFrame to QVGA, but i am doing like add 320 and 240 as a

Re: [android-developers] Re: MVC Architecture

2012-01-15 Thread Michael Leung
I think MVVM is more suitable for Android. That is widely use in WPF. On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 8:35 PM, sell.bergstr sell.bergst...@googlemail.com wrote: I dont think its worth speding too many thought on MVC at all. IMO, that term in itself is not well defined at all, its just one more of

[android-developers] Re: How to implement scrolling for custom layout?

2012-01-15 Thread harvinder
well there are hundreds of view and I trust keeping *hundreds* of view in memory is not the wise thing to do. I believe the listview implementation in the android may also be reusing the views. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers

Re: [android-developers] AwesomePagerAdapter initial position

2012-01-15 Thread YuviDroid
Since awesomePager is a ViewPager you can call awesomePager.setCurrentItem(position). http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/view/ViewPager.html#setCurrentItem(int) http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/view/ViewPager.html#setCurrentItem(int, boolean) Hope

[android-developers] Re: How to implement scrolling for custom layout?

2012-01-15 Thread skink
harvinder wrote: well there are hundreds of view and I trust keeping *hundreds* of view in memory is not the wise thing to do. I believe the listview implementation in the android may also be reusing the views. yes, listview uses this aproach, so maybe its wise to look at sources of

[android-developers] achartengine time chart graph

2012-01-15 Thread basant mohamed
i'm new in android and i want to use achartengine to implement time chart that represent the daily outgoing call durations from call log does any one know how can i do this and what should i do Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android fragmentation study

2012-01-15 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Dusk Jockeys Android Apps duskjock...@gmail.com wrote: My point was more that although there is no explicit law requiring home screens to support animations, from my reading of the CTD there is also no explicit law requiring views in normal Activities to

[android-developers] Send Email without user input

2012-01-15 Thread ambi
Hi, My requirement is to build an app that will send email to user at regular intervals but without any input from the user. Is there any way to do that? I am aware of the javamail-android available at the following link but would like to know of any other way (perhaps something mentioned in the

Re: [android-developers] Send Email without user input

2012-01-15 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 8:59 AM, ambi ambi1...@gmail.com wrote: My requirement is to build an app that will send email to user at regular intervals but without any input from the user. Is there any way to do that? Use JavaMail or another email API. Or, do the mailing from some Web service that

Re: [android-developers] Send Email without user input

2012-01-15 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
A particular device may have an Email application different from the one in Android sources (e.g. HTCs and the new Samsungs come to mind). The user may install any of the third-party Email clients (K9, ProfiMail, Mail Droid, Enhanced Email, Yahoo Mail, Yandex Mail, ) The user may not have

[android-developers] Re: Send Email without user input

2012-01-15 Thread ambi
Thanks Mark. You mean the source code for the three jar files additionnal.jar, mail.jar, activation.jar is available from the following link. I tried the download tab and it just has the jar files for download (on expanding these jar files I could only see the class file). Perhaps I should try

Re: [android-developers] Re: Send Email without user input

2012-01-15 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:15 AM, ambi ambi1...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mark. You mean the source code for the three jar files additionnal.jar, mail.jar, activation.jar  is available from the following link. I tried  the download tab and it just has the jar files for download (on expanding

[android-developers] Re: Send Email without user input

2012-01-15 Thread ambi
Thanks mark, I got the source code now. Regards, Ambi. On Jan 15, 2:19 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:15 AM, ambi ambi1...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mark. You mean the source code for the three jar files additionnal.jar, mail.jar, activation.jar  is

[android-developers] Read Heap from DDMS

2012-01-15 Thread New Developer
Is there a resource or link that helps you read what is going on with your app I'm plagued by an out of memory error and I have no idea why TypeCount Total Size Smallest LargestMedian free 929

Re: [android-developers] Read Heap from DDMS

2012-01-15 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:06 AM, New Developer secur...@isscp.com wrote: Is there a resource or link that helps you read what is going on with your app I'm plagued by an out of memory error and I have no idea why Type                                Count   Total Size   Smallest   

[android-developers] android and XML

2012-01-15 Thread John Goche
Hello, I have been reading up on how to use XML from within android. Apparently the interfaces are SAX which allows callbacks to be called when each element is processed, DOM which allows in-memory tree representations of XML, JAXP which can be used to validate XML given an XML Schema, and JAXB

Re: [android-developers] Regarding screen orientation changes

2012-01-15 Thread James Black
If you control the other application (Application X), then when you launch it pass in another value in the extra data part, and don't specify the screen orientation, but, if the intent has this other value set correctly then it is forced to landscape mode. So, basically, the default is to not

Re: [android-developers] Re: Package name

2012-01-15 Thread James Black
If the application is free this is a good choice, but if it is something that people paid for, then forcing them to pay again just because you change the package name would be really annoying, so for a paid version supporting both may be better. On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Ricardo Amaral

Re: [android-developers] android and XML

2012-01-15 Thread James Black
You may want to ask this on stackoverflow, but, more importantly, DOM takes up more memory for the XML file, so why use that on a mobile device with less memory? Do you have a business need to prefer DOM over just processing the file? If not, then you may want to rethink what you are asking

[android-developers] send notification from service to activity

2012-01-15 Thread Goutom
Hi In my application when I press a button then it starts downloading in a background service. Its a huge file to download. Though I close my application it continues downloading in service. I want to notify in my activity when download finish. Please note the cases: These cases after starting

Re: [android-developers] android and XML

2012-01-15 Thread John Goche
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:06 PM, James Black planiturth...@gmail.comwrote: You may want to ask this on stackoverflow, but, more importantly, DOM takes up more memory for the XML file, so why use that on a mobile device with less memory? Do you have a business need to prefer DOM over just

Re: [android-developers] android and XML

2012-01-15 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I was wondering about the availability of good tutorials on Java XML DOM though. This shouldn't be your concern, there is a vast amount of literature (in the form of references, tutorials, etc...) on both XML, and DOM, Android also has an XmlPullParser that you might want to look into, I'm

Re: [android-developers] send notification from service to activity

2012-01-15 Thread Mark Murphy
http://commonsware.com/blog/2010/08/11/activity-notification-ordered-broadcast.html And a sample app demonstrating what that blog post discusses can be found here: https://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/Broadcast/Ordered On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Goutom

Re: [android-developers] android and XML

2012-01-15 Thread John Goche
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Kristopher Micinski krismicin...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering about the availability of good tutorials on Java XML DOM though. This shouldn't be your concern, there is a vast amount of literature (in the form of references, tutorials, etc...) on both

[android-developers] Android Service Activity demo code

2012-01-15 Thread ALi
Hi, I'm new in Android, need to work on Service Activity, Any demo code or link for Guidance. Regards -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

Re: [android-developers] android and XML

2012-01-15 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Yes, for instance the fact that with DOM you can not only parse but also build XML models in memory. I would say both are just as easy to learn, but with DOM I can also presumably validate my document once it's in memory. Maybe I can do that with SAX as well, not sure. Did you try googling

[android-developers] Multi Language Tool

2012-01-15 Thread Brad Gies
Hi, I need to add multi-language capabilities to an Android App I'm developing, and I've been thinking about building a tool to parse my strings.xml file, and automatically add the translations for the translations I want (using the Google Translate API). Anyone know if something like this

Re: [android-developers] Multi Language Tool

2012-01-15 Thread Mark Murphy
I think MOTODEV Studio for Android supports this. On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Brad Gies rbg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I need to add multi-language capabilities to an Android App I'm developing, and I've been thinking about building a tool to parse my strings.xml file, and automatically

Re: [android-developers] android and XML

2012-01-15 Thread John Goche
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Kristopher Micinski krismicin...@gmail.com wrote: I would highly doubt that there are significant api differences in xml parsers between java 6 and 7.. kris Thanks. Another API for XML which I have not mentioned is StAX (the streaming API for XML). I

Re: [android-developers] android and XML

2012-01-15 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:32 PM, John Goche johngoch...@googlemail.com wrote: Another API for XML which I have not mentioned is StAX (the streaming API for XML). I guess that would be another alternative, which, presumably, being part of java 6 also works on android? Android does not support

[android-developers] Re: Send Email without user input

2012-01-15 Thread ambi
Hi, I am now using javamail-android but getting the javax.mail.AuthenticationFailedException error. I have rechecked username, password and all seem to be correct. Can someone please give hint to resolve the javax.mail.AuthenticationFailedException exception? ps: I am sorry if this may not be

[android-developers] Hardware accleration slow down every Canvas app. Why?

2012-01-15 Thread sblantipodi
Hi all, I'm forcing hardware acceleration on my galaxy Nexus. Every apps that uses canvas are slowed down when this acceleration is enabled. Why? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Send Email without user input

2012-01-15 Thread Mark Murphy
I suggest you use StackOverflow, with an question tagged 'javamail'. On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:55 PM, ambi ambi1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am now using javamail-android but getting the javax.mail.AuthenticationFailedException error. I have rechecked username, password and all seem to be

Re: [android-developers] Re: Package name

2012-01-15 Thread Yves Liu
Thanks. I think i have to live with what the current name is then. :( On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:01 AM, James Black planiturth...@gmail.com wrote: If the application is free this is a good choice, but if it is something that people paid for, then forcing them to pay again just because you change

[android-developers] How to increase frame per second ??

2012-01-15 Thread muhammad.ume...@hotmail.com
hi, I am getting frames from onPreviewFrame, compress to jpeg image with YUV and send over the network, but the problem is, i want to increase the frame rate. Now it is 4fps but i want 15fps what can i do to increase frame rate, here is my code public void onPreviewFrame(byte[] data, Camera

[android-developers] Android, auto complete with email contacts.

2012-01-15 Thread sblantipodi
Hi, I have an EditText, I would like to activate autocomplete on it. Something that help user to autocomplete with the correct email address. Is there some code snippet I can read on how to do it? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

Re: [android-developers] Hardware accleration slow down every Canvas app. Why?

2012-01-15 Thread Romain Guy
Every apps that uses canvas are slowed down when this acceleration is enabled. That is certainly not true since *every* app uses Canvas :) It depend on what you do with Canvas and how your code works (for instance if you keep creating new bitmaps/paths/paints it's going to be slow.) -- Romain

[android-developers] Re: Hardware accleration slow down every Canvas app. Why?

2012-01-15 Thread sblantipodi
This is what I saied, every apps seems to be slower. Sincerely I am trying many apps and every apps seems slower when hardware acceleration is on. I really don't find any improvements in this hardware acceleration on android platform. On other OS it clearly boost performance, on android it slow

Re: [android-developers] Android, auto complete with email contacts.

2012-01-15 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
What it takes is: - Extending AutoCompleteTextView or MultiAutoCompleteTextView - Providing a suitable adapter Take a look at the built-in Email app:

[android-developers] Test apps with usb to phone - works if phone has bad ESN?

2012-01-15 Thread dev0708
So far I've been testing apps during dev using emulator. I understand I can test directly on an android phone attached by USB. I'd like to try. In order to get a few cheap phones for testing I am looking at used units with bad ESN. Will they work for testing by USB to my development PC? They

Re: [android-developers] Re: Hardware accleration slow down every Canvas app. Why?

2012-01-15 Thread Romain Guy
All the standard apps use hardware acceleration and we've measured large performance improvements. What apps exactly are slower using hardware acceleration? On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:45 PM, sblantipodi perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org wrote: This is what I saied, every apps seems to be slower.

Re: [android-developers] Read Heap from DDMS

2012-01-15 Thread New Developer
Thanks MAT shows the following The class*android.content.res.Resources*, loaded by*system class loader*, occupies*2,805,432 (26.30%)*bytes. The memory is accumulated in one instance of*java.lang.Object[]*loaded by*system class loader*. *Keywords* java.lang.Object[]

[android-developers] Re: Hardware accleration slow down every Canvas app. Why?

2012-01-15 Thread sblantipodi
All apps that heavily use canvas to draw something like drawLine(), drawRect(), and other primitives. I'm not the only one who is experiencing the problem, there are many other developers that are experiencing the problem also on honeycomb with tablets. XDA is full of complaining about this

[android-developers] Re: Android, auto complete with email contacts.

2012-01-15 Thread sblantipodi
I don't understood how to pass contacts from phonebook to AutoCompleteTextView or MultiAutoCompleteTextView On 15 Gen, 22:52, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: What it takes is: - Extending AutoCompleteTextView or MultiAutoCompleteTextView - Providing a suitable adapter Take a

Re: [android-developers] Re: Hardware accleration slow down every Canvas app. Why?

2012-01-15 Thread Romain Guy
Please tell me about specific examples so I can see why it is so. On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 2:25 PM, sblantipodi perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org wrote: All apps that heavily use canvas to draw something like drawLine(), drawRect(), and other primitives. I'm not the only one who is experiencing the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android, auto complete with email contacts.

2012-01-15 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
The auto-complete list is provided by an adapter, which is responsible for: 1) Filtering 2) The drop-down list item views (sort of like with spinner and list view). Here is the adapter from the built-in Email app:

[android-developers] Re: Hardware accleration slow down every Canvas app. Why?

2012-01-15 Thread sblantipodi
One examples: https://market.android.com/details?id=MortgageCalculatorPRO.DPsoftware.orgfeature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsIk1vcnRnYWdlQ2FsY3VsYXRvclBSTy5EUHNvZnR3YXJlLm9yZyJd there a dozens of similar app that is slowed down by hardware acceleration. On 15 Gen, 23:31, Romain Guy

[android-developers] Re: Android, auto complete with email contacts.

2012-01-15 Thread sblantipodi
I finded this examples: http://www.betaful.com/2011/02/multiple-e-mail-autocomplete-in-android/ but I don't find the way to use it. On 15 Gen, 23:37, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: The auto-complete list is provided by an adapter, which is responsible for: 1) Filtering 2) The

[android-developers] Re: Read sensor value without using SensorEventListener

2012-01-15 Thread ambi
Any comments? Thanks. On Jan 14, 9:24 am, ambi ambi1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there a way to read the sensor value without using the SensorEventListener? My understanding is that the SensorEventListener.onSensorChanged() method will tell me the sensor value but only when the value

Re: [android-developers] Re: Read sensor value without using SensorEventListener

2012-01-15 Thread Mark Murphy
No, you must use a SensorEventListener. On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:04 PM, ambi ambi1...@gmail.com wrote: Any comments? Thanks. On Jan 14, 9:24 am, ambi ambi1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there a way to read the sensor value without using the SensorEventListener? My understanding is that the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Hardware accleration slow down every Canvas app. Why?

2012-01-15 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I think Romain Guy was looking for specific examples from the stock Android apps. You said that *all* apps slowed down, if some random market app slows down, that's not really unexpected, if you can substantiate your claim by pointing out an app running on many devices because it comes preloaded,

Re: [android-developers] Re: how to convert morse sound to text???

2012-01-15 Thread Ludy Lu
That app should not remove noise,now i want to konw how to compute a dit duration from the buffer of audiorecord??? 2012/1/13 RLScott fixthatpi...@yahoo.com Have you tested the app to see how much noise it can tolerate? And have you listened to how much noise there is in actual use on the

Re: [android-developers] Android Service Activity demo code

2012-01-15 Thread TreKing
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:13 PM, ALi omaisat...@gmail.com wrote: I'm new in Android, need to work on Service Activity, Any demo code or link for Guidance. Service Actvity is not a thing - they are two separate things. Read the documentation.

Re: [android-developers] Re: how to convert morse sound to text???

2012-01-15 Thread Kristopher Micinski
This question shouldn't be on this list. This is a signal processing question, and not a really simple one.. You'll need a signal and audio processing library, which you can probably find somewhere. The Android part of this question is how you get the audio, but actually processing it and

Re: [android-developers] Android Service Activity demo code

2012-01-15 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Treking, did you see the new Service Activity Content Provider demo included in the SDK? OP: Right, these are two separate things, the first page of the Android develop guide explains but it boils down to this: Activities: a way to do GUI stuff (think: actions associated with a screen)

Re: [android-developers] Send Email without user input

2012-01-15 Thread Dhaval Varia
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2020088/sending-email-in-android-using-javamail-api-without-using-the-default-android-ap On Jan 15, 2012 7:29 PM, ambi ambi1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My requirement is to build an app that will send email to user at regular intervals but without any input

[android-developers] Key Board Localozation

2012-01-15 Thread aru padam
Hi All, Any one could help for the key board localization in android. Thanks and Regards -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[android-developers] Tool for handling of localisation files

2012-01-15 Thread Stephan Wiesner
Hi, I am working on a App that supports several languages and got an offer to have my strings.xml file translated into several languages. However, the persons doing that are not technical and I would really prefer to give them an Excel file or something like that. Anybody using something else

[android-developers] No Video but audio present when using MediaPlayer on the emulator

2012-01-15 Thread rperi...@yahoo.com
Has anyone else had this issue. I'm trying to play video and the video window is not present although I can hear audio. I tried creating the Mediaplayer as an AsyncTask and the same thing happens although UI performance is much better. Any ideas on what could be wrong? -- You received this

[android-developers] WebView ignore Javascript that invokes PUT/DELETE Http method

2012-01-15 Thread Ori Harel
I have a web view that in it's HTML/Javascript makes an Http call with Put/Delete methods. those calls seems to be ignored (I test them on chrome and they work fine). Any idea? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to

Re: [android-developers] Android Service Activity demo code

2012-01-15 Thread TreKing
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Kristopher Micinski krismicin...@gmail.com wrote: Treking, did you see the new Service Activity Content Provider demo included in the SDK? Nope - and can't find it either ... what you talkin' about, Willis?

Re: [android-developers] Key Board Localozation

2012-01-15 Thread TreKing
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:30 PM, aru padam deepesh...@gmail.com wrote: Any one could help for the key board localization in android. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html - TreKing