[android-developers] Re: Is this a joke??

2011-09-21 Thread Al Sutton
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/monkey.html Monkeys can thrash test your app like nothing else :). Al. -- T: @alsutton W: www.funkyandroid.com The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or

[android-developers] Re: Multipart Messages - Is there an example how to get them work now. (Uploading to a web API)

2011-09-20 Thread Al Sutton
I think there is another way to approach this which cuts out the need for the libraries, but you'll need to get the AOSP source. Once you've checked out the source from frameworks_base you can re-use an implementation available internally in Android from;

[android-developers] Re: Honeycomb Sourcecode

2011-04-07 Thread Al Sutton
From Andy Rubins recent post at http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-think-im-having-gene-amdahl-moment.html ; Finally, we continue to be an open source platform and will continue releasing source code when it is ready. As I write this the Android team is still hard at work to bring

[android-developers] Re: Licensing

2010-07-28 Thread Al Sutton
At AndAppStore we've had the same license server technologies in place for over a year, we just haven't had the LVL wrapper around it (see http://bit.ly/dbniJP for a post from April last year about it). We offered the implementation we developed in early 2009 which uses RSA secured licenses to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Licensing

2010-07-28 Thread Al Sutton
That would mean the 3rd party system would need to run a service on the device which tends to be unpopular with users and isn't reliable unless the application embeds the service code. I know from experience many users buy apps through AndAppStore, install the client, download the app, then

[android-developers] Resource folders and scaling

2010-07-12 Thread Al Sutton
I'd like to know if someone can tell me if this is intended behaviour for a reason, or just a long standing bug thats in 1.6 and above; In a nutshell; I have a layout which has four ImageButtons and three sets of four icons located in the drawables folder (1 icon per button per screen size out

[android-developers] Re: Resource folders and scaling

2010-07-12 Thread Al Sutton
, bitmaps in the folder that doesn't specify a dpi (drawable) are assumed to be mdpi, and will thus be scaled if used in a different density screen.  If you want a bitmap but that does not scale based on density, use drawable-nodpi. On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com

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

2010-07-11 Thread Al Sutton
Can I suggest calling an end to the thread? We're now way off topic from what the OP wants, and most posts to it seem to end up as troll food. Al. On Jul 11, 7:03 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: It is number of unique devices.  It wouldn't be a count of each connection.  That

[android-developers] Re: HELP

2010-07-10 Thread Al Sutton
You can't build the OS in eclipse unless you want to create a new build system, but you can create and build apps to run on Android in it. Al. On Jul 9, 11:28 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Mark vbreneg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I know that part I

[android-developers] Re: Knowing when someone sets device to 2G only

2010-07-10 Thread Al Sutton
Actually getting the setting is pretty difficult because it's not a universal setting (CDMA devices don't have a preferred network type setting), so the setting itself isn't exposed in a universal way. You could try setting up a broadcast receiver for ConnectivityManager.CONNECTIVITY_ACTION and

[android-developers] Re: 4001b180 exception

2010-07-10 Thread Al Sutton
That line alone probably isn't enough to give you a good answer. Can you put the complete output from logcat onto a web server somewhere and add the URL to this thread. Al. On Jul 10, 9:08 am, Abhyudai Shanker abhyudai.shan...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Guys, In my mobile log, m getting the

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

2010-07-09 Thread Al Sutton
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

[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

[android-developers] Re: how do I restart my program?

2010-07-09 Thread Al Sutton
It's rarely a good idea to do this. If you can tell us why you want to do this you may find we can offer you a way of doing what you want without a restart. Al. On Jul 9, 7:10 pm, ArcDroid jacobrjohn...@gmail.com wrote: i would like to restart my app, just like when you change from horizontal

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

2010-07-09 Thread Al Sutton
There's a hack to get Market on an Archos device, but it's not sanctioned by Google, not supported by Google or Archos, and relies on users willing to apply the hack knowing they won't get any support, and so is probably not widespread. Archoses devices tend to fall short of Googles requirements

[android-developers] Re: paypal mobile payment allowed?

2010-07-08 Thread Al Sutton
Market makes use of Google Checkout which is probably the cause of some payment problems. At AndAppStore we use PayPal who have a more mature product than Checkout and extend to more countries. We also pass 100% of payments to the developer in a direct user to developer transaction which side

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

2010-07-08 Thread Al Sutton
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

[android-developers] Re: paypal mobile payment allowed?

2010-07-08 Thread Al Sutton
As a follow on to those wanting to know more about the limitations on Checkout you can find Googles page on it at http://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=134420 Al. On Jul 8, 12:52 pm, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: Market makes use of Google Checkout which

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

2010-07-08 Thread Al Sutton
, 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

[android-developers] Re: paypal mobile payment allowed?

2010-07-07 Thread Al Sutton
It's using an unofficial API and could be cut off at any point. It also doesn't allow you to actually download the apps, only display the app listing information. Al. On Jul 7, 8:00 am, ko5tik kpriblo...@yahoo.com wrote: On Jul 6, 10:19 am, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: Just

[android-developers] Re: How to detect presence of camera on an Android device.

2010-07-07 Thread Al Sutton
Google currently require an in-built camera to pass the compatibility tests, so devices without cameras are unlikely to get much attention from them (see 8.9 in http://source.android.com/compatibility/android-2.1-cdd.pdf) Al. On Jul 7, 1:22 pm, Daman damanji...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for

[android-developers] Re: paypal mobile payment allowed?

2010-07-07 Thread Al Sutton
wrote: Could there be any chance that with the new Android Market, made to support some features in Froyo, Google would also allow more countries to sell apps? Does anyone have any idea of when this new Market would be released? On Jul 7, 10:30 am, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: It's

[android-developers] Re: Back Button doesn't go to previous activity

2010-07-07 Thread Al Sutton
Don't call finish after starting your 2nd activity. Al. On Jul 4, 7:51 pm, Jroid jro...@gmail.com wrote: I have two activities. The first is a list where the user selects one of the items which takes them to a second activity showing the details of the item they selected.  When the user

[android-developers] Re: Do threads cache instance variables?

2010-07-07 Thread Al Sutton
Try using the java keyword volatile in you variable declaration. Al. On Jul 3, 9:49 am, burtoogle burtoo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am starting to develop an Android App and have noticed the following behaviour in my test code (not yet designed the real app): A thread that loops around

[android-developers] Re: paypal mobile payment allowed?

2010-07-06 Thread Al Sutton
It's a chicken and egg scenario. We, at AndAppStore, see a fair amount of traffic and purchases, but nowhere near the volume of Market. Because of this many developers don't list with us because they don't want the hassle of maintaining multiple listings (i.e. one at Market and one at

[android-developers] Re: paypal mobile payment allowed?

2010-07-06 Thread Al Sutton
Just to address your point on collecting information from Googles Market; I've talked to someone at Google about this and it was an absolute no-go. The request wasn't for AndAppStore, but for another project that I was working on part of and some people at Google had shown some interest in. So in

[android-developers] Re: Terminal Server access from an Android Tablet PC

2010-07-03 Thread Al Sutton
You'll probably get a better answer on the android-discuss group. Regards, Al. On Jul 2, 9:26 pm, Peter Ciank pedrociancagl...@gmail.com wrote: Dear People, very soon, I have to implement for my users something smaller than a notebook. I've been searching and researching and I found iPad

[android-developers] Re: Simple Question about Res folders

2010-07-03 Thread Al Sutton
They are *not* for resolutions. They are for screen densities (i.e. the number of pixels per inch on the screen). To illustrate this point, the Nexus One and the Dell Streak both have screens with a resolution of 800x480 pixels, but because the Nexus One has a smaler physical screen it has a

[android-developers] Re: Error in an XML file eclipse

2010-07-03 Thread Al Sutton
Have you guys put this information into b.android.com so it can be logged tracked easily? Al. On Jul 2, 7:26 pm, Ryan Cook co...@uw.edu wrote: I am also having this issue on multiple machines. It was working before, and I think it stopped working (and started giving error) after I upgraded

[android-developers] Re: from FRF50 to FRF91

2010-07-03 Thread Al Sutton
There was a FRF83 to FRF85B link circulating for a while, but it seems to have been pulled now. Your best option may be drop back to a 2.1 stock firmware and wait for OTA updates. Al. On Jul 3, 12:47 am, Ken H hunt1...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know where (or if) I can manually update from FRF50

[android-developers] Re: Problem after implementing SQLiteOpenHelper

2010-07-02 Thread Al Sutton
Short answer; Your database object (db) is in the wrong scope. Longer answer; By declaring db in the method you're saying to the JVM that when the method finishes your database connection (db) is no longer useful. What you should do is declare db at the class level instead of the method level,

[android-developers] Re: Disable the screen lock when the Android OS startup

2010-07-02 Thread Al Sutton
The answer from non-porting standpoint is no. If a user wants a lock screen the user gets the lock screen and your app won't be allowed to take precedence. Marks pointer to the -porting list is because if you implement Android for your platform you may find people on that list who've done the

[android-developers] Re: Android paid apps in Ireland

2010-07-02 Thread Al Sutton
Bryan, There are a few alternatives out there including my companies offering, AndAppStore (http://andappstore.com). I can't speak for Zapp Market, but for AndAppStore the answers to your questions are; - 0% commission (we make our money from ads and customisation deals for our site client,

[android-developers] Re: Why this Exception is coming ?

2010-06-30 Thread Al Sutton
When using a SimpleCursorAdapter one of the columns returned by the query used to create the cursor should be called _id and is used as the id value for the row. SimpleCursorAdapter is a descendant of CursorAdapter which states the requirement for the _id column (see

[android-developers] Re: widget on lockscreen

2010-06-30 Thread Al Sutton
It's a firmware thing, so yes, HTCs Sense can do it, but only because HTC wrote the firmware. Imho it's not a gerat idea anyway. One reason for having a lock screen is that it stops things happening when your device is put somewhere where it may get pressure on the screen which may cause

[android-developers] Resource linking / imports

2010-06-23 Thread Al Sutton
First off; I know the implementation of this should be discussed on the framework list, but I'm putting this idea out on here to see if there is a need for it. I've recently worked on a project where the designer wanted a 2 x 3 grid of icons as the apps home page. This threw up an interesting

[android-developers] Re: Resource linking / imports

2010-06-23 Thread Al Sutton
If the idea gets some support I might do what you've suggested. Thanks for the idea. Al. On Jun 23, 12:21 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Conceptually, the notion seems sound. However, I'm here to encourage you to Just Do It. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Al Sutton

[android-developers] Re: Resource linking / imports

2010-06-23 Thread Al Sutton
This is in no way specific to .9.png's, nor does it require their use. Al. On Jun 23, 8:53 am, Gyan gnanesh@gmail.com wrote: Making the usage of .9png images compulsory! Probably there is a smart way of installing only the required drawables on a particular hardware, so that at least the

[android-developers] Re: I've found a way to stop piracy of my apps

2010-06-18 Thread Al Sutton
Dave, Would you be interested in working with us at AndAppStore to offer an alternative purchase location? From your code I can see that we could create a LicenseManagerImpl which interfaces into our purchase checking system to cover the license management aspect, and we accept payments via

[android-developers] Re: Slow Eclipse on OS X

2010-06-14 Thread Al Sutton
or editing the manifest file the friendly way. Dave. On Jun 13, 8:54 am, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: It's been a problem for a while, I opened a bug athttp:// code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6183so you can put a star on it if you want to vote it up. My

[android-developers] Re: Oracle Android App Store

2010-06-13 Thread Al Sutton
positive article :). Al. On Jun 13, 7:00 am, gosh steve...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: Btw, I saw that you (via AndAppStore) got an honorable mention in the WIRED article re 'Independent App Stores' yesterday. Congrats. Steve On Jun 13, 1:54 am, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: On Jun 12

[android-developers] Re: Slow Eclipse on OS X

2010-06-13 Thread Al Sutton
It's been a problem for a while, I opened a bug at http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6183 so you can put a star on it if you want to vote it up. My experience is that it seems to be down to the layout previewer, the more I use it the faster performance degrades. Al. P.S. Before

[android-developers] Re: Oracle Android App Store

2010-06-12 Thread Al Sutton
On Jun 12, 8:44 am, gosh steve...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: (our revenue is from ads in the client customisation deals in case you're wondering). Then I'm assuming you must require the app publisher to make some small addition to their source code - which is no big deal to the coder. Nope.

[android-developers] Re: Oracle Android App Store

2010-06-11 Thread Al Sutton
Do we need any more app stores? :) We've been running AndAppStore since the G1 launch and the most common reason we hear for developers not listing is that they don't want to maintain multiple market listings, so I doubt that the creation of multiple markets backed by large companies is viable.

[android-developers] Re: Where can I get an installable Froyo image for my Android Market Device Seeding Program Nexus One?

2010-05-27 Thread Al Sutton
From the current information circulating it appears there will be an OTA update when it's ready (and, for you, there will probably be a delay while Vodafone approve it). The circulating update is a test version and does have bugs, so it's not a good idea to consider it a stable development

[android-developers] Re: I've found a way to stop piracy of my apps

2010-05-05 Thread Al Sutton
I'm not sure how many developers will like your licensing terms, especially the bit which prevents them from creating any form of licensing solution of their own if they download your app. It's also worth noting that you're statement preventing reverse-engineer doesn't hold water in many

[android-developers] Re: Selling outside the Android Market-- Use Google Checkout to sell direct from website??? SlideMe.Org??

2010-04-15 Thread Al Sutton
Have you considered AndAppStore? Payments go directly from the user to the developer using PayPal without any cut being taken by us. We offer a purchase checking system so you can verify user purchases from within the app itself. If you'd like more info or have any comments feel free to drop me

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-04-14 Thread Al Sutton
I think people need to look at the bigger picture here; The retail value of what Google is doing here is probably over US$1 million (working on 2,000 phones at US$500 each). If what they get for that investment is a lot of negativity on public forums which brings into question their ability to

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-04-12 Thread Al Sutton
It cost you nothing, so lighten up. So what if the shipping that you didn't pay for takes longer than was in the original email?, Google are the ones paying for this, so it's entirely under their control, and it's up to them when want to do something about it. If you really are desperate for a

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-04-12 Thread Al Sutton
actively watching this thread. David On Apr 12, 8:44 am, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: It cost you nothing, so lighten up. So what if the shipping that you didn't pay for takes longer than was in the original email?, Google are the ones paying for this, so it's entirely under

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-04-12 Thread Al Sutton
Please read UK deliveries as European deliveries, small brain-fart on my part, sorry. On Apr 12, 10:49 am, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: David, Whilst I understand your concern, even if someone posted I got mine and they lived right next door to your old address that doesn't mean

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-04-12 Thread Al Sutton
are far from top-sellers. But again, I'm not remotely ungrateful, just sad that it hasn't turned up in the time that we were promised. On Apr 12, 10:49 am, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: David, Whilst I understand your concern, even if someone posted I got mine and they lived

[android-developers] Re: any lawyer types out there that can get this site down?

2010-04-08 Thread Al Sutton
There is no law which covers reproducing information in the public domain (such as whois records). You should contact the registrar (GoDaddy), inform them the information is wrong and they're publishing your personal information, and ask for the domain to be taken down as it's incorrectly

[android-developers] Re: Being legally harassed, by a large iPhone developer

2010-03-23 Thread Al Sutton
Kevin, Can you tell me if you're a legal advisor, because your understanding of copyright/trademark seems to differ from mine so I'd like to know if I've got things wrong. As far as I'm aware copyright requires using actual material lifted from their app (e.g. graphics, reverse engineered source

[android-developers] Re: Being legally harassed, by a large iPhone developer

2010-03-22 Thread Al Sutton
First off; I'm not a qualified legal advisor, so my views here are from my experience of matters like this and should not be construed as solid legal advice. As long as you've not used their code or other files from the app your first step should be to go back to them and say the app is not

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-11 Thread Al Sutton
Tax issues depend largely on how their shipping partners ship the item, and I don't think there are any of them reading this list :). They might ship it from a EU / UK Warehouse. They may say it has 0 value as it's a free gift. They may pre-pay any taxes. but at the end of the day a Nexus one

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-04 Thread Al Sutton
If you're one of the chosen few can I suggest you show your appreciation by helping out other developers who are having problems specifically with 2.x devices and haven't been so fortunate. It's only a suggestion, but my view is that that Google have just saved the chosen ones $500+, so even if

[android-developers] Re: Security question: can Android source be decompiled and read?

2010-03-03 Thread Al Sutton
Use an secured intermediary. (i.e. Your app - App on your server - End point). It takes up more resources but it ensures that nobody who has your app can get access to the details, and also allows you to update the login details without the need to force an app update on all your users. Al. On

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-03 Thread Al Sutton
The best thing to do is to carry on your development as if you weren't getting the 'phone. Is there anything specific about the N1 you're trying to test? If so you might find some kind sole who can help you out with a quick bit of testing on their device. Al. On Mar 3, 11:15 pm, Genc

[android-developers] Re: Security question: can Android source be decompiled and read?

2010-03-03 Thread Al Sutton
idea to put the login details in the code, given what you've told me. I'll follow Al's suggestion - thanks very much Al :) On Mar 3, 9:43 am, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: Use an secured intermediary. (i.e. Your app - App on your server - End point). It takes up more

[android-developers] Re: Piracy, almost 50% of my new users - Seriously Google?

2010-02-28 Thread Al Sutton
We put Purchase Checking in at AndAppStore for exactly this kind of reason (http://andappstore.com/AndroidApplications/ purchase_checking.jsp). Google, and particularly the Market team, seem to be very slow at taking things on board an delivering what developers want, so I'd suggest using the

[android-developers] Re: Petition: Google, please improve the Android Market.

2010-02-28 Thread Al Sutton
Reply posted on [android-discuss] On Feb 28, 12:34 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Rob Irondad wrote: I just published a final draft. Feedback / comments still welcome. http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9hmc43_0c9zh58gd Please use a proper list for this sort of discussion,

[android-developers] Re: Petition: Google, please improve the Android Market.

2010-02-28 Thread Al Sutton
Bob, If it's your first post to the list you'll have to wait for the moderator to approve it. It will come through, but even moderators get the weekend off :). Al. On Mar 1, 2:41 am, Bob Kerns r...@acm.org wrote: I responded to you, Mark, and Al over there yesterday, but nothing has shown up.

[android-developers] Any interest in accessing our app via intents?

2010-02-25 Thread Al Sutton
Hi All, We've released an app (PortaPayments) and I'm trying to gauge interest in what (if any) functionality should be made available to other apps via intents. To give you an overview of the app; It represents scans payment requests encoded as QR Codes. If you want some more info we've got a

[android-developers] Re: Any interest in accessing our app via intents?

2010-02-25 Thread Al Sutton
they help make the intent framework more powerful. At present I personally have no immediate requirement for an intent API though. Sean On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: Hi All, We've released an app (PortaPayments) and I'm trying to gauge interest

[android-developers] Are processes kept alive when nothing is being done?

2010-02-08 Thread Al Sutton
I have an app which declares a BroadcastReceiver, the receiver gets the broadcast, does what it needs to, then ends ensuring that everything is tidied up as needed. When I examine the system through the DDMS view in Eclipse the process for the application is still running after the receiver has

[android-developers] Re: Are processes kept alive when nothing is being done?

2010-02-08 Thread Al Sutton
Thanks for the clarification Dianne. I'm guessing the confusion comes from people who (like me) are familiar with the traditional Linux process model of when a process has finished it dies and aren't expecting a garbage collecting process management system :). I'd read the process/threads

[android-developers] Re: Securing a paid app

2009-11-15 Thread Al Sutton
We (AndAppStore) already have a system available which you can find details of at http://andappstore.com/AndroidApplications/licensing.jsp It's not tied to our purchasing system, so you can use it to generate licenses from your own site if you wish. We always welcome feedback so if you have any

[android-developers] Re: New Developer Distribution Agreement

2009-11-11 Thread Al Sutton
This is being discussed on -discuss and I believe that the changes can't be enforced until they've complied with section 14.1 (in both new and old agreements) of the agreement which states; 14.1 Google may make changes to this Agreement at any time by sending the Developer notice by email

[android-developers] Re: Is your Android app on Archos Market ?

2009-11-09 Thread Al Sutton
Responded to in android-discuss... please people can we move it off the -developers list as we're so far off topic its' probably just annoying many of the subscribers. Al. On 9 Nov, 09:04, Charbax char...@gmail.com wrote: Slander and disparage doesn't have to use f-words and s-words. alsutton

[android-developers] Re: Is your Android app on Archos Market ?

2009-11-08 Thread Al Sutton
I welcome Charbax making my posts publicly available so that people can make their own minds up, and I just wish Archos would also allow us to do the same with the emails and documents that back our claims. Please remember, some of my posts on his site have quoted text at the start which and on

[android-developers] Re: Is your Android app on Archos Market ?

2009-11-07 Thread Al Sutton
pay for the service you have already performed, assuming they didn't steal your codes. Good luck with your lawsuit, make sure you have plenty of money to pay the lawyers before you get started ;) Cheers Eric On Oct 23, 6:03 am, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: Here is our account

[android-developers] Re: Android App Stores:

2009-11-05 Thread Al Sutton
We, at AndAppStore, do offer PayPal as a payment option to make the download as instant as possible. Transaction and take place directly between the user and developer so you're at the mercy of PayPals fraud screening system, and if their system wants additional verification measures then there

[android-developers] Re: How to get all the log from phone reboot to IDLE

2009-11-03 Thread Al Sutton
Please stop cross posting. Pick the most appropriate group from http://developer.android.com/intl/zh-TW/community/index.html and email to that one only. Al. -- * Looking for Android Apps? - Try http://andappstore.com/ * == Funky Android Limited is registered in England Wales with the

[android-developers] Re: Problem installing Android 2.0 on Mac (Snow Leopard)

2009-10-31 Thread Al Sutton
I had a similar problem. The fix was to start from scratch using the 2.0 base download then use it to download the required API levels. Al. -- * Looking for Android Apps? - Try http://andappstore.com/ * == Funky Android Limited is registered in England Wales with the company number

[android-developers] Re: Android 2.0

2009-10-27 Thread Al Sutton
In the words of the big bad D - Huzzah! Android 2.0 SDK: http://bit.ly/bKGWM; Al. -- * Looking for Android Apps? - Try http://andappstore.com/ * == Funky Android Limited is registered in England Wales with the company number 6741909. The views expressed in this email are those of the

[android-developers] Re: Is your Android app on Archos Market ?

2009-10-22 Thread Al Sutton
Here is our account of what happened between us at AndAppStore and Archos; We worked with Archos for several weeks helping them design and develop AppsLib, this included me personally travelling to Archoses head office in Paris for meetings with Henri Crohas (Founder and CEO of Archos), and

[android-developers] Re: Is your Android app on Archos Market ?

2009-10-22 Thread Al Sutton
, and did that author even submit it comes into question... -Tim On Oct 22, 3:03 pm, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: Here is our account of what happened between us at AndAppStore and Archos; We worked with Archos for several weeks helping them design and develop AppsLib

[android-developers] Re: Advice on Beta Release

2009-10-16 Thread Al Sutton
At AndAppStore You can mark a release as being Alpha, Beta, or Release Candidate quality and it'll get listed in the Pre-release section. That way you can do some ramp up publicity pointing at the download as opposed to risking getting bug reports in your comments if people think its' a full

[android-developers] Re: Piracy protection idea

2009-10-15 Thread Al Sutton
Anyone who reads the spec should be able to work out the backend, and we'd be happy to share this method with other app stores, but when we offered Google our previous licensing solution the response we got was a Thanks but no thanks, so I'm not sure if they'd be interested. The biggest

[android-developers] Re: Getting paid apps for free ??

2009-10-14 Thread Al Sutton
At AndAppStore we've recently introduced a pay-for app system which lets apps confirm at runtime whether or not the user has purchased the app. This means that even if the apk is spread around the internet and installed on many devices your app can still either refuse to run or enter a demo mode

[android-developers] Re: Piracy protection idea

2009-10-14 Thread Al Sutton
That's the scheme we've already implemented at AndAppStore with a slight twist to make it harder to generate spoof responses using a DNS repoint. Al. On Oct 14, 6:38 pm, WoodManEXP woodman...@gmail.com wrote: I am no security expert and have not thought this out all the way, but could a

[android-developers] Re: Android 1.6 SDK is here!

2009-09-16 Thread Al Sutton
Thanks for getting this out the door before donut device release dates start circulating and coming towards us. I've updated the pages at AndAppStore to point developers trying to access the open source repo SDKs we made available at the Google pages so (hopefully) any 1.6 SDK questions from now

[android-developers] Re: Our app force closes on 1.6, Is SDK or image available yet?

2009-09-12 Thread Al Sutton
My guess is that they're running one of Cynogens Donut ROMs that hes' made available. There's a fair amount of talk about performance improvements and he is pointing at devs for some issues (a main one being problems with widgets and rotation). If you want to use the open-source repo donut SDK

[android-developers] Re: Linking Directly To An App In The Market?

2009-09-10 Thread Al Sutton
Another solution is to list on a market alternative that provides a web interface (e.g. AndAppStore ;)). Al. On Sep 10, 5:22 pm, Peter Sankauskas pas...@gmail.com wrote: No it wasn't resolved. You can try the link above, or another style that I have seen is:

[android-developers] Re: Android WVGA support

2009-09-09 Thread Al Sutton
Dianne, In the blog post can you cover how to produce one app which will run on cupcake and donut and support multiple resolutions. As I understand things at the moment developers will need at least two versions of the same app listed in Market to cover both bases; One with minSDK=4 and the

[android-developers] Re: Android WVGA support

2009-09-09 Thread Al Sutton
Thanks. Al. On Sep 9, 5:37 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: You'd do supports-sdk android:minSdkVersion=3 android:targetSdkVersion=4 / and then configure the rest of the manifest as desired. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: Dianne

[android-developers] Re: Android WVGA support

2009-09-08 Thread Al Sutton
I can see 800x480 on 1.5 as a stop gap measure, so I'm holding off for 1.6 devices before buying 800x480 hardware. The reason for this is that I could spend time sorting out a 800x480 layout which works on a 1.5 device only to find that all that work goes out the window when the OEM releases a

[android-developers] Re: Android WVGA support

2009-09-08 Thread Al Sutton
I've put some screenshots up to show the differences. The app used was declared as requiring midSDK 1; 1.5 HVGA : http://download.funkyandroid.net/15hvga.png 1.5 WVGA : http://download.funkyandroid.net/15wvga.png 1.6 WVGA : http://download.funkyandroid.net/16wvga.png For those in doubt; The 1.6

[android-developers] Re: Android WVGA support

2009-09-08 Thread Al Sutton
Sounds like the LogicPD Zoom2 dev kit is donut based. If they update to the latest donut build you'll most likley see you app zoomed as opposed to bordered. The android-x86 guys reported black bordering on the AndAppStore client on an pre-last friday donut build which is what started me down

[android-developers] Re: Android WVGA support

2009-09-08 Thread Al Sutton
My problem is basically this; If my monitors dpi stays static why is the emulated dpi changing between emulator skins? To me it would make more sense if the dpi of the emulators display doesn't change unless the developer explictly states they want to emulate a device with a different DPI. Al.

[android-developers] Re: Android WVGA support

2009-09-08 Thread Al Sutton
Most of the WVGA Android devices I've seen announced are 5 media tablets. This has *everything* to do with my monitor because it's what the emulator is being displayed on. I'm not saying that the dpi of my monitor should be the same as the dpi of the emulator, what I am saying is if I open an

[android-developers] Re: Android WVGA support

2009-09-08 Thread Al Sutton
The SDK docs in the open source repo say; Based on the target device screen density, the Android framework will scale down assets by a factor of 0.75 (low dpi screens)... And the default QVGA skin is a low density one. Just to be clear; are you saying that the device won't show in market

[android-developers] Re: Will there be an Android 1.6 SDK release?

2009-09-07 Thread Al Sutton
Given the changes to Android Manifest and other sections to support different resolution devices I'm pretty sure Google will make a release. If you want to get a feel for what may be in it feel free to pull down the SDKs I compiled from the donut tree in the open source repo from

[android-developers] Android WVGA support

2009-09-07 Thread Al Sutton
We've added support for WVGA devices to the AndAppStore using the features from Donut and I'd recommend everyone interested in running their apps on WVGA devices takes a look at the donut SDK because there is a new manifest tag (supports-screens) which, if not used, can make your app look a

[android-developers] Re: Donut Development Environment

2009-09-06 Thread Al Sutton
I've updated the linux SDK with one built with U6.0.6. Al. On Sep 5, 8:02 pm, skink psk...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 5, 8:57 pm, skink btw looking into requirements page, google supports U Dapper Drake - at least this is their testing box thanks pskink they are even more conservative

[android-developers] Donut Development Environment

2009-09-05 Thread Al Sutton
If you want to play with the Donut SDK ADT eclipse plug-in, I've just built them both from the open source repository and you can get them at; http://andappstore.com/AndroidApplications/sdk/ The latest code from the repo includes the WVGA and QVGA skins and the supports-screens manifest tag

[android-developers] Re: Donut Development Environment

2009-09-05 Thread Al Sutton
if the U 9.04 libc linking issue is causing a number of people problems. Al. On Sep 5, 5:19 pm, skink psk...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 5, 5:04 pm, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: If you want to play with the Donut SDK ADT eclipse plug-in, I've just built them both from the open

[android-developers] Re: Is it possible to build a windows distribution of a donut release?

2009-08-27 Thread Al Sutton
Yes, you can get a precompiled version from http://andappstore.com/AndroidApplications/sdk/ or follow the instructions at

[android-developers] Re: Calling all Sydney/Australia Android Developers

2009-07-30 Thread Al Sutton
Have you looked at the android developer map at http://bit.ly/nJxkc ? The map is primarily there to help you find you local developers, and there are a few devs marked on it who may be interested. (and everyone is welcome to edit the map and add more :) ). Al. On Jul 29, 2:32 am, Nick

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