RE: [android-developers] Re: How to install APK programmatically without user prompt

2011-09-26 Thread Ted Neward
Sometimes, though, the answer you want just doesn't exist, and by asking "What are you really after?", the responder is trying to help you achieve your goal by thinking around the problem. Of course, if you'd prefer to just be told, "You can't. The end.", th

RE: [android-developers] Re: Project on Android

2010-12-15 Thread Ted Neward
Isn't that part of what you're supposed to do? Warwick was kind enough to seed you with some ideas-it's churlish to ask him for complete specs to boot. I hate to be rude, but.. Do your own homework. Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking

RE: [android-developers] Re: What Tablet would you get

2010-12-04 Thread Ted Neward
Would love to try the Toshiba, but haven't seen it available yet. Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com > -Original Message- > From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android- > develop...@g

RE: [android-developers] Android application using other language

2010-09-25 Thread Ted Neward
Google on "Monodroid". Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com   > -Original Message- > From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android- > develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of mishra > Sen

RE: [android-developers] GOOGLE, WHAT IS GOING ON with the Active Install %? Bug in install to SDCARD is my guess!

2010-09-04 Thread Ted Neward
y the voluminous cries for response on a number of issues, I'd say they aren't. I want this platform to succeed, but this is not how a company goes about making that happen. :-/ Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.co

RE: [android-developers] Re: Calling Tomcat server API's from Android app

2010-09-04 Thread Ted Neward
What you need (it sounds like) is the Spring Remoting client and whatever other Spring bits it uses to compile & run successfully on the Android platform. It "should" work, in that I don't think there's anything in there that they need that isn't provided on Android, b

RE: [android-developers] Do I need openGL or not?

2010-08-25 Thread Ted Neward
What kind of frame rate are you hoping to get? In general, popular opinion holds that 2D is more easily done without OpenGL, but it's certainly do-able. Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com > -Original Message

RE: [android-developers] Re: Chilling news: Oracle sues Google over Android

2010-08-17 Thread Ted Neward
k at that as an active surrender of that IP to the public domain. Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com > -Original Message- > From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android- > develop...@googlegroups.com] On Beh

RE: [android-developers] Android & Corba

2010-06-20 Thread Ted Neward
d RMI/JRMP, which is probably easier to write. Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com > -Original Message- > From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android- > develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

RE: [android-developers] Thread Problem

2010-06-18 Thread Ted Neward
>From within the thread, "throw new ThreadDeath();" (which is what stop() does). Or anything else that causes it to exit out of the Runnable.run() method. Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com > -Original Mes

RE: [android-developers] Avoid non-static inner classes in an activity?

2010-06-18 Thread Ted Neward
re used to be a great article on "four types of lapsed listeners" back then, that described all of this in more detail. Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com > -Original Message- > From: android-d

RE: [android-developers] Re: List of all instantiated Activities

2010-06-03 Thread Ted Neward
dy mentioned in my first post-I don't want to do it this way. It's error-prone. I was hoping for an API call at the Android level that would return this list for me. Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com Fr

RE: [android-developers] Maven and Android

2010-06-03 Thread Ted Neward
d probably have much better results using Apache Ivy, if you really wanted build-time dependency management, but even then that's only going to be for the non-Google artifacts. Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com

RE: [android-developers] Re: List of all instantiated Activities

2010-06-03 Thread Ted Neward
here's also the diagnostician in me that wants to be able to find all open Activities and finish() them if we get a low-memory signal, but that's really a distant second to the above use case. Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward

RE: [android-developers] how to reduce xml parsing time

2010-06-02 Thread Ted Neward
5, I can't remember which), but there's a reference implementation from BEA floating out on the Web someplace, should be a snap to grab it and include it as a library (worst case). Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com >

[android-developers] List of all instantiated Activities

2010-06-01 Thread Ted Neward
e list. I'd prefer to have a way to see all of them from Android's/Dalvik's point of view. Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing <http://www.tedneward.com> http://www.tedneward.com -- You received this message because you are

RE: [android-developers] Best way to live demo apps

2010-05-30 Thread Ted Neward
Aw, and here I was hoping for a much better story. So prosaic. ;-) Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com > -Original Message- > From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android- > develop...@googlegroup

RE: [android-developers] Best way to live demo apps

2010-05-30 Thread Ted Neward
s it called the ELMO? Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com > -Original Message- > From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android- > develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Murphy > Sent: Saturday

RE: [android-developers] [android-developer] Error running jena on Android using Androjena API

2010-05-28 Thread Ted Neward
Perhaps a class is failing to load inside ModelFactory, which then might be getting caught somewhere and rethrown as a VerifyError. This is all idle speculation-have you tried stepping through it in the debugger? Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking,

RE: [android-developers] Best way to live demo apps

2010-05-28 Thread Ted Neward
one conveying what the phone looks like. The only other thought I have is to have a webcam pointed at the phone and the cam's feed captured on your screen somehow. Or you *could* just buy phones for everybody in the audience ;-) Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Tea

RE: [android-developers] Re: Getting MIDlet version and CLDC version

2010-05-26 Thread Ted Neward
ou're trying to ask, stop it. Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com > -Original Message- > From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android- > develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sudeep >

RE: [android-developers] Problem flushing text to screen.

2010-05-24 Thread Ted Neward
oncurrency in Practice". (Full disclosure: he's a buddy of mine, but it's still a good book, despite his choice in friends. ;-) ) Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com > -Original Message- > From: android-dev

RE: [android-developers] Client server setup in android

2010-05-23 Thread Ted Neward
That's kind of a "REST 101" sort of question and not constrained to Android in any way. Your best bet is to find a simple REST tutorial on the web someplace and build a simple REST client and server. After that, read up on the HTTP protocol itself so you understand the details.

RE: [android-developers] Re: Android 2.1 & SQL Server

2010-05-19 Thread Ted Neward
There are several JDBC drivers for SQL Server. One is to use the Microsoft JDBC driver, available off of Microsoft.com. It's a pure-Java driver, meaning it should work on Android, though I haven't tried it. Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Wr