[android-developers] Unlocked Android Phones

2011-03-20 Thread Dalvin
Hi All I am looking for an unlocked Android phone in India on which I can install custom Android builds. My questions is: Are android phones sell by manufacturers like Samsung galaxy and HTC unlocked or not. Thanks Dalvin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: [android-developers] Unlocked Android Phones

2011-03-20 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Depends on the phone. For example, if you go to the Motorola website, they will suggest you go with your carrier. However, you can also buy the phone itself (at a higher price?). (Or at least, that's what I got out of going to there earlier this morning.) If you're looking for a developer phone,

[android-developers] Re: Activity lifecycle... still a mystery to me

2011-03-20 Thread Roger Podacter
No because I don't believe onDestroy would necessarily get called backing out of the activity. Only onPause would be guaranteed to be called. That activity's onDestrw would only get called at some random point in the future when the OS wants more memory. OnPause is the primary. At least that is

Re: [android-developers] Bluetooth Chat Sample code combined with SMS receiving

2011-03-20 Thread Kristopher Micinski
What external piece of hardware? There is a Bluetooth Chat example in the API samples. You have to pair them first, right? I've heard of trouble with non phones (i.e., if you picked up a module on sparkfun), but this could be cool and I'd be interested to hear your mileage. The only thing I

[android-developers] Re: Canvas frame rate very choppy in Live Wallpaper

2011-03-20 Thread Peter Webb
I think you are possibly doing this the wrong way. There is a canvas.translate() method which moves the canvas itself. This just sets the hardware to look at a translated location, so should be instantaneous plus or minus 1 nanosecond. The downside is that you will need to draw the image to a

[android-developers] Re: OpenGL texture display properly on my phone. But 'white box' on some device?

2011-03-20 Thread Kakyoin
Hi. Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. It works now. =) The problem here is the alpha. I tried setting the alpha to 1.0 instead of 0.0 and it works. //solution gl.glColor4f(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f); Also thank you for the tips about drawable-nodpi/debugging the actual bitmap after

RE: [android-developers] Re: property settings in Java and native C code

2011-03-20 Thread Sun Ray-B17777
Thanks Frank, I found when setting the property the system will check the calling ID and refused my access. That should be the reason, thanks again. Best Regards, Ray -Original Message- From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-developers@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

[android-developers] Re: Moto Xoom Android 3.0 - GPS NMEA sentences not being received + nested folders not appearing in Windows - ok in DDMS File Explorer

2011-03-20 Thread gjs
Anybody ? On Mar 18, 11:41 am, gjs garyjamessi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I have a client who is reporting that app on Moto Xoom Android 3.0 - that GPS NMEA sentences are not being received, but Location Manager is getting GPS data ok. App in question is targeted at Android 2.1 and

[android-developers] Re: Keeping WebView history through orientation change?

2011-03-20 Thread Joseph S
On Mar 19, 10:21 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Joseph S joseph.santanie...@gmail.com wrote: I have an Activity that has a WebView and my own WebViewClient. To deal with orientation changes, I have configChanges in the manifest and

[android-developers] VPN L2TP connected error

2011-03-20 Thread 大辉
Hi All: I am trying to setup an IPsec/L2TP VPN on Ubuntu 10.04 using Openswan version 2.6.31-1xelerance1 and xL2TP v1.2.5. Using Galaxy Tab P1000(Android2.2) can connected it. But it automatically disconnected after 10s. How to resolve the problem? Attached are my android logs: D/mtpd

[android-developers] Layout help

2011-03-20 Thread Neilz
Hi all. I'm struggling with a layout... would appreciate any suggestions on how to handle this. Basically, I have a list of objects. Each has attributes (like Name) and an image. I want to display the objects in a gallery style, allowing the user to scroll / fling from one item to the next. The

[android-developers] HELP: Take video captures of your screen

2011-03-20 Thread m88m
Hey Guys, I am looking for a source code\framework which will allow me to record the device's springboard, in other words to take video captures of your screen. Something like 'Display Recorder' for the iPhone, Link:

[android-developers] Re: Best way to start a frame animation in an adapter

2011-03-20 Thread slipp3ry
Is this something people don't do? Does everyone use palette animation techniques or some other methodology instead? It has to be a fairly commonly used technique (loading animation for image views in a grid view for example) but all I can find on the web are other un-answered queries? --

[android-developers] Make and Imageview go in Fullscreen mode

2011-03-20 Thread Pedro Teixeira
Hi there, I wonder if you could help me. Is there any piece of code that I can use on an ImageView, so that when the users taps and image it shows a fullscreen preview? What I mean is that, in my application at some point I have small images with limited visibility but I'd like to give the

[android-developers] Make buttons invisible/disable with XML

2011-03-20 Thread Pedro Teixeira
Hi there, I wonder if there's any quick XML way on making a button invisible and disabled for an user. I have my application ready for user testing, but some of the functionalities won't be used on the testing so I'd like them not to be visible or functional while doing the experience. I know I

[android-developers] org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: Map value without name attribute: boolean

2011-03-20 Thread siliconeagle
I am trying to figure out the cause of this error it occurs on startup when i try to get the shared preferences for the app. the code is just: settings = this.getSharedPreferences(Globals.PREFS_NAME, 0) Seems like a corruption, but the bug is in the app as i have installed it on multiple devices

Re: [android-developers] Make buttons invisible/disable with XML

2011-03-20 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Set android:visibility=invisible or gone. The latter might work better, depending on your UI design, as that will make view not take any screen space. 20.03.2011 15:06 пользователь Pedro Teixeira pedroteixeir...@gmail.com написал: Hi there, I wonder if there's any quick XML way on making a

Re: [android-developers] Re: Refresh previous activity on Back Button Press

2011-03-20 Thread Laxmi Verma
Hi, Thanks for your replies!! I am not sure how to use these flags while calling the intent. How does it helpful in refreshing each activity while calling back button. I am still facing this issue. Please help!! On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Nick nkulik...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm not

Re: [android-developers] Make buttons invisible/disable with XML

2011-03-20 Thread Pedro Teixeira
Thank you very much Kostya, Works like a charm. On Mar 20, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: Set android:visibility=invisible or gone. The latter might work better, depending on your UI design, as that will make view not take any screen space. 20.03.2011 15:06 пользователь Pedro

[android-developers] Re: HI

2011-03-20 Thread Lance Nanek
Either the pairing dialog, or the pairing notification, pop up automatically when you try to connect to an unpaired device. It would be nice if I could force the dialog version, though. On Mar 11, 5:28 pm, Michael Elmsly mike.elm...@gmail.com wrote: Technically it is the platforms fault.  OK -

[android-developers] Re: org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: Map value without name attribute: boolean

2011-03-20 Thread Spiral123
im sure someone knows the answer to this off the top of their head, but I don't. My first suggestion would be to install your app on an Emulator instance then copy the created SharedPreferences XML file for the app to your local computer and inspect it manually to see if it looks like you expect.

[android-developers] Re: Is anybody using amazon S3 for uploading files from android?

2011-03-20 Thread Riyad Kalla
Can you ever get the upload to work? If you run it on the emulator? If you run it on a device but use WiFi instead of the cell network? Are there any differing scenarios where that same code will work or not work? Have you tried downloading the file from S3, renaming it to JPG and seeing if it

[android-developers] Re: Canvas frame rate very choppy in Live Wallpaper

2011-03-20 Thread Riyad Kalla
Jeffrey, To what Peter said, mobile devices are very fill-rate-limited (at least these current gen of phones) so depending on how you are repainting that image over and over and over again to the Canvas, that could explain the speed issue. If you tried a tiny little 16x16 icon and it went much

[android-developers] Re: How is your sales model changing with the introduction of Android 3.0 and tablets, or is it?

2011-03-20 Thread Riyad Kalla
Agree on #1; this is how every iPhone/iPad app does it and so far the iOS ecosystem seems to be doing just fine. I've rebought apps on my iPad to get the HD versions of them and expected to repay; it was a bummer, but I didn't lose sleep over it. I think the analogy to DVD/ Blu-ray was pretty much

[android-developers] Menu typeface

2011-03-20 Thread Kamil
Hi, Is there any way to change menu typeface to bold? -- 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 this group, send email to

[android-developers] A WebView inside of a fragment

2011-03-20 Thread Chris Stewart
I'm trying to get a hook to a WebView in my layout and it's coming back null each time. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? WebViewFragment.java public class WebViewFragment extends Fragment { private View mContentView; @Override public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater

Re: [android-developers] Re: How is your sales model changing with the introduction of Android 3.0 and tablets, or is it?

2011-03-20 Thread Chris Stewart
Q: What *does* happen to a standard app run on the Xoom? Does it scale like on the iPad or does it actually run the app normally, just on a much bigger screen so you have a lot more whitespace and UI gaps? Or is the issue the added UIs for the new app management/task-switching and all that?

[android-developers] StartActivity and InstantiationException

2011-03-20 Thread Jay Bloodworth
I have Activity A starting Activity B with an explicit intent. If Activity B has no constructor, I get an InstantiationException. With an empty nullary constructor, it starts up fine. Activity A (started from the debugger) has no constructor but does not give an error. Can someone explain the

Re: [android-developers] A WebView inside of a fragment

2011-03-20 Thread Mark Murphy
Well, you can definitely use WebView in fragments: https://github.com/commonsguy/cw-android/tree/master/Fragments/EU4You_6 My best guess is that the fragment is not yet attached to the view hierarchy by then. Since you get the same Bundle in both places, you may just want to move your loadURL()

Re: [android-developers] StartActivity and InstantiationException

2011-03-20 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Jay Bloodworth johnabloodwor...@gmail.com wrote: I have Activity A starting Activity B with an explicit intent. If Activity B has no constructor, I get an InstantiationException. With an empty nullary constructor, it starts up fine. Activity A (started from

Re: [android-developers] A WebView inside of a fragment

2011-03-20 Thread Chris Stewart
Thanks for linking your example. I'm getting a reference to the WebView now with: WebView webview = (WebView)(getView().findViewById(R.id.webview)); It's not loading my web page just yet, but that's next. :o -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Mark

Re: [android-developers] A WebView inside of a fragment

2011-03-20 Thread Chris Stewart
So, apparently, having the Internet permission is kind of important for what I'm trying to do. :o It's been quite awhile since I've started an Android project from scratch... -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.comwrote:

[android-developers] Re: Make and Imageview go in Fullscreen mode

2011-03-20 Thread Stephan Wiesner
Hi Pedro, I have a gallery with previews and when the user taps one he gets a large image. Depending on portrait/landscape mode of the mobile and the picture, the picture fills all the screen below the gallery (no sense in hiding the gallery). There is a preview here:

[android-developers] advertise free or paid....

2011-03-20 Thread brian purgert
Should I advertise my free or paid version of my application (space bike)... also I put out a stupid update for a second so I got some bad reviews because something did not work. so could you try it and rate it 5 stars and leave a comment lol... also tell me any changes I should make. -- You

Re: [android-developers] Re: Scanner GPRS

2011-03-20 Thread Leonardo Luís dos Santos
2011/3/19 lbendlin l...@bendlin.us It's possible, but it still has nothing to do with GPRS. As you mentioned you will have to keep track of the station IDs, network IDs, and transmit power for each cell you're booked into while moving. Transmit power will vary with time of day, weather,

[android-developers] Re: StartActivity and InstantiationException

2011-03-20 Thread Jay
On Mar 20, 10:58 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: You never implement a constructor on an activity. It turned out that I had overlooked that Activity B had a one argument constructor left over from it's former life as a Fragment. Oops. I guess there is a lesson in here for me

Re: [android-developers] Re: StartActivity and InstantiationException

2011-03-20 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Jay johnabloodwor...@gmail.com wrote: It turned out that I had overlooked that Activity B had a one argument constructor left over from it's former life as a Fragment. Oops. I guess there is a lesson in here for me about horses and zebras. Absolutely. If you

Re: [android-developers] Re: StartActivity and InstantiationException

2011-03-20 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
20.03.2011 19:45, Jay пишет: It turned out that I had overlooked that Activity B had a one argument constructor left over from it's former life as a Fragment. Oops. I guess there is a lesson in here for me about horses and zebras. Yep - having any constructor prevents the Java compiler from

Re: [android-developers] advertise free or paid....

2011-03-20 Thread Harsh J
I suppose a free-version advertisement shouldn't get you as many frowns. But I'd first see if the rules of this list allow show-and-tell/etc.? :-) On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:52 PM, brian purgert brianpurge...@gmail.com wrote: Should I advertise my free or paid version of my application (space

[android-developers] Re: Menu typeface

2011-03-20 Thread emymrin
Try the following ugly technique to customize your options menu: getLayoutInflater().setFactory(new Factory() { public View onCreateView (String name, final Context context, AttributeSet attrs) { if(name.equalsIgnoreCase(com.android.internal.view.menu.IconMenuItemView)) {

[android-developers] Self contained ProgressDialog in ListFragment?

2011-03-20 Thread Chris Stewart
I have a ListFragment which loads data in a background thread and shows a ProgressDialog while it loads. I'm wondering if I can make that dialog contained to just that fragment so the user can keep doing things in the other fragments. Is this doable? Currently, the dialog blocks all interaction

[android-developers] Does emulator destinguishes the voice of two persons?

2011-03-20 Thread Balu Varanasi
Hi all :) I'm trying to implement a Voice recognition application in android 2.2 emulator. I'm getting an error that Recognizer not present. How to implement this. Is my windows 7 operating system requires additional Voice recognition softwares?? How to install Google Voice app into adroid

[android-developers] Re: Mandriva aapt: /lib/libz.so.1 using latest SDK update

2011-03-20 Thread Nanard
I was on Mandriva 2010 Spring 32 bits. Tried to install more packages. No results. I've tried Ubuntu 32 and 63 bits: both don't install on my laptop. I'm now on Mandriva 64 bits + JDK 64 bits + Eclipse 64 bits. The Android emulator starts OK... but I still have this error msg when compiling. Even

Re: [android-developers] Re: Mandriva aapt: /lib/libz.so.1 using latest SDK update

2011-03-20 Thread Phill Wiggin
It'd probably help if you included the actual error you're seeing. --PW On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Nanard bsegon...@free.fr wrote: I was on Mandriva 2010 Spring 32 bits. Tried to install more packages. No results. I've tried Ubuntu 32 and 63 bits: both don't install on my laptop. I'm

[android-developers] What is the correct way to pause AudioTrack?

2011-03-20 Thread femi
I wrote the following code to experiment with the AudioTrack class but whenever I click the pause button it seems to REWIND the track rather than pause it, am I doing something wrong? private class PlayAudio extends AsyncTaskVoid, Void, Void implements

[android-developers] Re: Mandriva aapt: /lib/libz.so.1 using latest SDK update

2011-03-20 Thread Nanard
Hi, Thanks for the answer. The error message in Eclipse/Android : [2011-03-20 21:09:37 - DrawIt] /home/bsegonnes/to_burn/DVD_sauvegarde/ download/Google_Android/android-sdk-linux_x86/platform-tools/aapt: / lib/libz.so.1: no version information available (required by /home/

Re: [android-developers] Self contained ProgressDialog in ListFragment?

2011-03-20 Thread TreKing
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.comwrote: Is this doable? Currently, the dialog blocks all interaction with the UI. I don't know, but it should be easy enough to use another UI element to display progress. Like this guy:

[android-developers] Re: Refresh previous activity on Back Button Press

2011-03-20 Thread Nick
Hi, Here is a simple example of how flags maybe helpful while calling back button (btw by back button i mean a phone back button): public class BodyActivity extends Activity { OnClickListener mNextButtonListener = new OnClickListener() { @Override public

[android-developers] framebusting out of WebViews

2011-03-20 Thread APF
Is there a way for my website to detect that it is being rendered in a WebView that does not belong to the system browser? If yes, is it possible to frame-bust, i.e., force the browser to open the site as a top-level window rather than remain in the application's WebView? -- You received this

Re: [android-developers] JDBC driver support

2011-03-20 Thread Bob Kerns
This isn't a good answer. It's not just a matter of security, but also performance and robustness and flexibility and overly-tight coupling of client and database schema. Such an architecture will lead to a host of problems. For example -- if you make a change, you have to simultaneously

Re: [android-developers] Unlocked Android Phones

2011-03-20 Thread Dalvinder Singh
Thanks a lot... On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Kristopher Micinski krismicin...@gmail.com wrote: Depends on the phone. For example, if you go to the Motorola website, they will suggest you go with your carrier. However, you can also buy the phone itself (at a higher price?). (Or at least,

Re: [android-developers] Unlocked Android Phones

2011-03-20 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
To add two more cents: If you plan on installing your own Android builds on this device, you should also consider two more issues: the boot loader and the drivers. Some phones come with locked boot loaders that only work with official builds digitally signed by the manufacturer. Some of

Re: [android-developers] framebusting out of WebViews

2011-03-20 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:22 PM, APF adriennef...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way for my website to detect that it is being rendered in a WebView that does not belong to the system browser? You can see if there's a different user agent used. Beyond that, probably not. If yes, is it possible

[android-developers] Re: Canvas frame rate very choppy in Live Wallpaper

2011-03-20 Thread Jeffrey
Is there a way around having to call canvas.drawbitmap() every time? And if I call canvas.translate() after drawing the image doesn't move, it instead moves everything that would draw *after* the call to canvas.translate(). Thank you for your help so far, and I'm hoping you have just a little bit

[android-developers] Widgets in SD installed application

2011-03-20 Thread Joan Pujol
Did widgets work in a SD installed application? According Android javadoc it seems that can work: App Widgets Your A file:///C:/java/android/docs/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.htmlpp Widgets will be removed from the home screen. When external storage is remounted, your App Widget will *not* be

[android-developers] Interested in making a killer GTD app?

2011-03-20 Thread David Prieto
Hi guys, I'm an Android user who never learnt to code but has UI design as a hobby. I'm also fond of the GTD productivity method, but never found an Android app that could bring all its potential. So, I designed one myself, together with a friend who would then do the coding. The problem is,

[android-developers] Re: org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: Map value without name attribute: boolean

2011-03-20 Thread siliconeagle
thanks for the tip. the prefs file was ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes' ? map boolean value=false / boolean name=initialised value=true / boolean name=upd.auto value=true / long name=backup.last value=1300662039054 / string name=msg.read0.995.18Beta/string /map turns out i was

Re: [android-developers] Re: org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: Map value without name attribute: boolean

2011-03-20 Thread B Lyon
thanks for the update - that could save me some time sometime if I see that kind of weirdness On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 7:16 PM, siliconeagle rrmu...@gmail.com wrote: thanks for the tip. the prefs file was ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes' ? map boolean value=false /

Re: [android-developers] Re: Mandriva aapt: /lib/libz.so.1 using latest SDK update

2011-03-20 Thread Phill Wiggin
When I see that aapt/libz.so.1 error, it usually means I have a syntax error in my xml files. I've no idea why it gripes about a missing lib file, but that's never been the actual problem for me. If all of your source files are without error, you could try going to the menu bar and selecting

[android-developers] Re: Menu typeface

2011-03-20 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
My eyes are hurting... Please don't do that unless you want problems down the road. On Mar 21, 1:29 am, emymrin emym...@gmail.com wrote: Try the following ugly technique to customize your options menu: getLayoutInflater().setFactory(new Factory() { public View onCreateView (String

[android-developers] Android Application Sold to 100,000 Users

2011-03-20 Thread varinag gold
Hi Guys, I'd like to know if any one of you (Individual Developer) have crossed this limit to sell android application to 100,000 users? If so how long it took to cross this limit . I plan to put my application in the market soon for all countries. Kind regards, varinag -- You received this

Re: [android-developers] using the keytool for getting google-maps-API-key returns unrecognized option error

2011-03-20 Thread Bob Kerns
Sigh. Everybody here is confused, including Mark and the documentation. The -list argument to keytool *does not take the -keypass argument.* * * It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever for it to take it. It does not provide you with any information about the private key, and thus has no need

[android-developers] Re: Android Application Sold to 100,000 Users

2011-03-20 Thread Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)
I've had over 1.5 million sold so far... of course the price is an unbeatable free. -John Coryat Radar Now! -- 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

Re: [android-developers] Android Application Sold to 100,000 Users

2011-03-20 Thread TreKing
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:18 PM, varinag gold varinagg...@gmail.comwrote: I'd like to know if any one of you (Individual Developer) have crossed this limit to sell android application to 100,000 users? If so how long it took to cross this limit . What difference does it make?

Re: [android-developers] using the keytool for getting google-maps-API-key returns unrecognized option error

2011-03-20 Thread Bob Kerns
As a side comment: I am not the slightest bit surprised that everyone is confused. I don't know why cryptography tools and APIs and documentation have to be so incredibly cryptic. Clearly the fact that *everyone *is confused should suggest that the problem does not lie with the confused

[android-developers] Re: AppWidget Stopped !!!

2011-03-20 Thread hardrock
Dear Nguyen, Sorry for my bad english but as i understand you mean onRecieve() not receive broadcast message from system ? Normally, onRecieve() can receive broadcast message from system. It's no problem. But what I'm saying is that system kill my widget when system is special condition (for

[android-developers] Re: Android Application Sold to 100,000 Users

2011-03-20 Thread varinag gold
How long it took you to reach 1.5 million users? I am looking data for applications with some price tag such as 1.00 USD or 0.99 USD. with a market access all over the world (provided selling/purchasing is permitted in those countries). On Mar 21, 11:26 am, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Application Sold to 100,000 Users

2011-03-20 Thread TreKing
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:43 PM, varinag gold varinagg...@gmail.comwrote: I am looking data for applications with some price tag such as 1.00 USD or 0.99 USD. with a market access all over the world (provided selling/purchasing is permitted in those countries). You realize this is going to

[android-developers] Re: Android Application Sold to 100,000 Users

2011-03-20 Thread varinag gold
What difference does it make? Individual Developer may not have that much resources as a company have. not only for marketing but also a work done by individual and a Team might result in a concrete application. I guess...so On Mar 21, 11:37 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar

[android-developers] Re: Android Application Sold to 100,000 Users

2011-03-20 Thread varinag gold
You realize this is going to vary wildly between different apps and will give you absolutely no indication how your own app will perform ... right? I agree with it but I want to see general trend of Android Market and users for priced applications. On Mar 21, 11:48 am, TreKing

[android-developers] json data to array list

2011-03-20 Thread acr
Hi, I have looked everywhere and feel like I am going in circles at this point what I am trying to do seems simple enough.. I a, trying to take json data parsed from my mysql server and send the info to an array list in android. I can return the json strings with no problem, eg.

[android-developers] Help using custom Preference types - for pity or money

2011-03-20 Thread Peter Webb
My new wallpaper is 99.9% finished. One thing I can't get to work, is using a third party color selector widget. This last 0.1% has taken over a week. I need help, and am prepared to pay for it if neccesary. It is that or go crazy. I have modified the standard cube demo to call an additional

[android-developers] Re: AppWidget Stopped !!!

2011-03-20 Thread hardrock
Dear Mark, I appreciate your advice. Anyway, as you mentioned, I fell into the trap of trying to have an endless service though it's bad design. I agree it's better using AlarmManager than receiver w/ ACTION_TIME_TICK. However, another problem is ACTION_TIME_CHANGED or ACTION_TIMEZONE_CHANGED.

[android-developers] Re: Canvas frame rate very choppy in Live Wallpaper

2011-03-20 Thread Peter Webb
Call canvas.translate(-x), draw, then call canvas.translate(x) You are moving the location on the canvas underneath where you draw, after you have drawn whatever you need to move the canvas back. On Mar 21, 8:47 am, Jeffrey jeffisagen...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way around having to call

Re: [android-developers] Unlocked Android Phones

2011-03-20 Thread Dalvinder Singh
Thanks a lot... On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: To add two more cents: If you plan on installing your own Android builds on this device, you should also consider two more issues: the boot loader and the drivers. Some phones come with locked boot