[android-beginners] obtain the SDK level
how can i programmatically obtain the SDK level? thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
Re: [android-beginners] Passing object references
i don't think putExtra() passes a reference, it uses serialization, which is why the object you pass needs to implement serializable. a subtle difference that may or may not be relevant. On 1/13/10 3:58 AM, Sean Hodges wrote: Use Intent.putExtra(): http://developer.android.com/intl/fr/reference/android/content/Intent.html#putExtra(java.lang.String, android.os.Bundle) An example can be found here: http://www.agilemedicine.com/medBlog/?tag=putextra Something like this should work for you: Intent i = new Intent(ww.main.LOCATOR_SERVICE); i.putExtra(myObject); context.startService(i); Ensure the class for myObject implements Serializable. On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Nick Burton charlesnicholasbur...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a bit confused about passing object references... if we start a service using intents, how can we pass refs between the class where this code sits, and the service? There's no object created by me so I can't pass parameters... -- Intent i = new Intent(ww.main.LOCATOR_SERVICE); context.startService(i); -- Or am I starting the service incorrectly? Cheers, Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -- attachment: qr-gmail.png-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
[android-beginners] alarm manager question
my understanding of the alarm manager service is that it's something similar to cron. the service always runs, and sends intents at the specified time. it doesn't require that any aspect of your app / service is running. so for example, i could start my app which schedules an alarm, and then kill off any related app / service / receiver processes. the alarm should still be delivered. is this correct? -- attachment: qr-gmail.png-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
Re: [android-beginners] Seeing What Phone Numbers Are Around You
that would be a bit of a security problem if you could do that. you could write a simple peer-peer app that would need to be running on all discoverable phones. of the the user needs to explicitly run the app. On 12/14/09 8:54 PM, Taylor Perkins wrote: Hi group, I have an idea, and I was wondering if it was possible to see what phone numbers are around a single phone. For example, if I am a Motorola Droid, and there is a Motorola Droid 2 feet away from me, I want to be able to see what phone number that Droid has. Anyone have any ideas, or links to point me in the right direction? Thanks! -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=enattachment: qr-gmail.png
Re: [android-beginners] Android Map API Key
http://code.google.com/android/add-ons/google-apis/mapkey.html#getdebugfingerprint On 12/14/09 8:19 PM, Linh, Peter wrote: Hi all, I just start android app development few days ago since im quite excited with the google map. But i find problem finding the map api key for using it in my app. As i know, i need to register the MD5 fingerprint from debug.keystore. However, i have no clue of finding this file in my computer. FYI, i use eclipse for my development and all the SDK, JRE are installed. Please help me on this! Thanks. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=enattachment: qr-gmail.png
Re: [android-beginners] adb push ..... system/lib
do you have /system mounted read / write? http://android-tricks.blogspot.com/2009/01/mount-filesystem-read-write.html On 12/10/09 7:30 PM, me,Ramesh Yankati wrote: Hi Have you installed USB driver??. Regards Ramesh On 12/11/09, Zlate87zlatko.stama...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install voice search to my t-mobile pulse. However I run in to a problem, I need to run this command adb push C: \libspeech.so system/lib, but I get error: read-only file system. I read that adb remount will help, but when I run it, I get this error: operation not permitted. I also read that adb root will help, but when I run it, I get this error: adbd cannot run as root in production builds. I have enabled USB debugging in Settings-Applications- Development. Can someone please help me? Thanks in advance :) Regards, Zlatko Stamatov -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=enattachment: qr-gmail.png
Re: [android-beginners] How to just upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6?
talk to your provider. they push out OTA updates, on their schedule. On 12/11/09 7:57 AM, Eduardo Luis wrote: Hi, I just a bought a brand new HTC Magic from Vodafone Portugal. This one brings the 1.5 version. How can I OFFICIALY upgrade to 1.6? Not unlock. Just upgrade. Thanks. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=enattachment: qr-gmail.png
Re: [android-beginners] AlertBuildeer Problem
you can inflate a custom layout and call setView(). set whatever width / height you want there. On 12/3/09 9:05 PM, vinny.s...@gmail.com wrote: HI How can i reduce the size of alertbuilder and show in middle with paerticular width and height -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=enattachment: qr-gmail.png
[android-beginners] emulator sleep?
i am writing a widget and trying to prove that it doesn't run when the phone is in deep sleep as i am setting an alarm with type ELAPSED_REALTIME. when i hit the end call on the emulator the device screen goes blank, but i still see my alarms being delivered. am i missing something? thanks. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=enattachment: qr-gmail.png
[android-beginners] listen for / notify on widget removal?
is there a way to listen for the removal of a widget? i have a widget that updates itself via setting alarms. when the widget is removed, the service behind the widget continues to run. that's not what the user expects i think. any ideas are appreciated. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=enattachment: qr-gmail.png
Re: [android-beginners] Can I update my Motoblur firmware 1.5 to the 2.0?
even if you root your phone, you still need a build of android for your device. the motorblur dist of android comes from motorola so assuming you can find a build of android for your device, you will lose that motoblur garbage. On 11/30/09 11:03 AM, Justin Anderson wrote: Only if you root your phone... otherwise the update needs to come from your cell phone carrier -- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't. -- On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:57 AM, placerex place...@gmail.com mailto:place...@gmail.com wrote: I want to know, i want to be updated. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com mailto:android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:android-beginners%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=enattachment: qr-gmail.png
Re: [android-beginners] Re: Suggestions on tutorials
shawn, you do not have to define your layout in XML. you are free to build it up your android layout view programmatically, if you so wish. as a side note, if you are doing any sort of development, on any platform, you will be hard pressed to avoid XML. that's just a fact so don't kill the messenger. what XML is good at is providing an easily parsable machine communication mechanism. a lot of what you say is true, but only because XML is being misused. the ADT plugin provides GUI wrappers around most (all?) of the XML you need to write, but of course the plugin is lacking so you quickly get to a point where you need to get into the XML. good luck. On 11/9/09 1:36 PM, Indicator Veritatis wrote: If you really want to learn to code using the Android SDK, then you WILL use the XML. Otherwise, you simply are not using Android after all. In that case, you should give up your membership in the Google Beginner's group, since you will get nothing out of it. On Nov 7, 1:20 pm, sfitzjavasfitzj...@gmail.com wrote: Wow thought I said I Please no .. benefits of XML (BECAUSE YOU ARE WRONG. [PERIOD]). So thanks for wasting my time reading your diatribe and you are wrong still. Sadly you would jump over a cliff if some script kiddie told you it was the new thing to do. So to quickly cut through all of your BS. XML in android is processed down to Java at compile time. XML does not make your system any more flexible than writing it in standard java (unless you don't know how to program) XML is error prone XML is not a programming language XML is BLOATED! XML is a data description syntax for communication between heterogeneous system. XML is a data description syntax which supports data versioning. XML can not be debugged XML has to be gen'ed into the R.class XML tag has to match what is typed in the java code, and there is no validation since the R.class is not constantly regen'ed. XML is not validated, nor has any javadocs, nor has any code completion support. XML can not be visualized without building and running the app. Now if Google wants to make a decent tool such as Apple has with XCode InterfaceBuilder (not calling xcode perfect but it does a very nice job) then I don't care what they save their files in, and I will happily jump back and forth if it saves me time, boilerplate coding, code bloat that gets in the way of debugging, and helps with the maintainability of the codebase. To date XML in android does none of these. Also don't talk to me like I have no idea about technology, ESPECIALLY MOBILE!!! It is clear that you use technology and do not understand it. Your use of the statement XML is used everywhere as some type of validation demonstrates that. Millions of people believed for hundreds of years that the world was flat, that the earth was the center of everything, more recently that Quantum physics was a pipe-dream. If XML is the greatest then why was JSON developed? So unless you can answer my question you need not reply. Again to be clear the question is, Any tutorials for android that do not require XML. -Shawn On Nov 3, 12:33 am, confettidamcc...@gmail.com wrote: Shawn, I'm not going to tell you that you should use xml because I'll be the first to admit, it's a hard thing to learn. However, saying there are absolutely no benefits to xml is wrong. There are benefits and costs to every computer related technology. Xml can offer a flexible, easy to change GUI. In android, it lets you define several different layouts for a single activity without ever having to change a piece of code. On the other hand, I also understand the benefits of hardcoding a UI. It requires less jumping between files, and less resource management (although android makes that very easy indeed). I would like to point out that rejecting a widely used technology like xml completely is going to make it very difficult for you to compete in today's tech industry. Xml is a part of everything. If you didn't know, Google Groups, gmail, iGoogle, bing, msn.com, and thousands of other websites use a technology called AJAX, in which xml is an integral part. Without it, we couldn't have the cool behaviors like partial-page refreshes. On the software side, xml is used in thousands of applications across the world as a standard for transferring data between places. Even Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org save all of their documents and files in xml now. To answer your question, the only way to truly learn to program android applications is to do it. Just like with any language and platform, you can't become good at it without practice. I find the easiest way for me to learn is to come up with a tool that I want or need for my own convenience (music file organizer, flash card program, a findreplace function for files on the hard drive instead of text IN a file,
[android-beginners] trust all certs using http client?
i'm trying to use the httpclient.* API in the android SDK to make an HTTPS connection. i would like to accept self-signed certs automatically (trust all certs) i found references to EasySSLProtocolSocketFactory, which is part of standard apache httpclient, but it's not in android. has anyone tackled this? -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=enattachment: qr-gmail.png
Re: [android-beginners] RGB from bitmap
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Color.html
On 10/31/09 4:31 AM, Andareena Vootog wrote:
hi
if you are using bitmap, use an integer array to store the
bitmap. use bitmap.getPixel() to get the corresponding bitmap in
integer array. By using bitwise rotation operation, we will get RGB
values. (Also byte array can be used). See the code below.
int[] pix = new int[picw * pich];
bitmap.getPixels(pix, 0, picw, 0, 0, picw, pich);
int R, G, B,Y;
for (int y = 0; y pich; y++)
for (int x = 0; x picw; x++)
{
int index = y * picw + x;
int R = (pix[index] 16) 0xff; //bitwise shifting
int G = (pix[index] 8) 0xff;
int B = pix[index] 0xff;
//R,G.B - Red, Green, Blue
//to restore the values after RGB modification, use
//next statement
pix[index] = 0xff00 | (R 16) | (G 8) | B;
}
Thanks and Regards,
Andarena Vootog
Vootog Information Systems http://www.vootog.com Pvt Ltd.
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Re: [android-beginners] Re: How to Replace of existing default Application by the Application created by me without user intervention
there are several home replacement apps on the market. you might try contacting the developers and seeing if they can give you some pointers, or if their apps are open source you could take a look at the source. On 10/29/09 11:54 PM, Anne wrote: I want to replace the Androids Default Home screen with my Home Application. How can I remove these Properties form the Androids Default Home screen? One more Query I had Was. Is it possible to write an application with an Activity containing a Button, and on click of the Button the default Home application is replaced with my Home Screen Application( not using the ResolverActivity Dialogue Box)? Any suggestions on how to do is appreciated. Thanking in Anticipation -Anne On Oct 29, 4:55 pm, sbruno74sbrun...@gmail.com wrote: You need to make sure that the activity you want to be the home activity is the only one having category MAIN and category LAUNCHER properties. It seems that you forgot to remove those properties for the previous activity so android doesn't know which one to use a.d ask you to make a.choice. Stéphane On Oct 29, 12:47 am, Annedivya.i...@wipro.com wrote: Hello All, I Was trying toreplacetheexistinghomeapplicationwith my home application. In the Manifest file of myapplicationI have put the category as DEFAULT. now when the home is launched for the 1st time the Dialogue box (ResolverActivity) pops up askinguserto select adefault application. Can any one please tellmeif there is a way to set myapplicationas DefaultApplicationwith outUserIntervention. Some Package manager API that can set myapplicationasdefaultor something like that. Thanking you in Anticipation. Regards, Anne. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=enattachment: qr-gmail.png
Re: [android-beginners] Re: alarm manager confusion
hmmm. i'd suggest not killing any processes. the problem would be if under normal OS usage, the alarm is not activated. i can't say i understand exactly how the OS handles alarms, but perhaps forcefully killing processes interrupts it's workings. On 10/30/09 4:04 AM, marc wrote: jeffrey, how did you solve the problem? i made a own process for the broadcastreceiver (as said in the linked theme), so i have 2 processes now: cycle: 1. user starts application 2. user schedules the alarm in the application current processes: - application 3. scheduled alarm expires, broadcastreceiver will be started 4. broadcastreceiver execute his work and SCHEDULES A NEW ALARM current processes: - application - broadcastreceiver 5. scheduled alarm expires, broadcastreceiver will be started 6. broadcastreceiver execute his work and SCHEDULES A NEW ALARM if i kill the application after step 2, the scheduled alarm survives. if i kill the alarm after step 4. the scheduled alarm is lost, step 5/6 will not be executed. how did you do it?! thank you for a answer. marc On Sep 13, 12:33 am, Jeffrey Blattmanjeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: well, i found this,http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2886 works for me now. On 9/12/09 2:00 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: Jeffrey Blattman wrote: mark, perhaps some sort of service is a little vague. Generally speaking, if your manifest-registered BroadcastReceiver will be doing things that are short (say, under a second), you won't need one -- just do all your work in the BroadcastReceiver. If you are going to do things that may take longer than that, such as uploading something via the Internet, you'll need to delegate that work to a service that can do things in a background thread (e.g., IntentService). A manifest-registered BroadcastReceiver cannot fork a thread, and it is called on the UI thread, which does not support time-consuming operations. the AM schedules an alarm that calls a receiver that does three things, 1. updates some data that is shared with the activity You don't indicate where, but I'm going to assume the data is on the device, not the Internet. 2. sends notifications 3. broadcasts back to another receiver that updates the activity, if it's running (the activity registers / unregisters the receiver in onResume(), onPause(), so it doesn't get called if it's paused or stopped). i *could* have the scheduled BR call a service like in your example, but why can't i just have the scheduled BR do the work? Assuming #1 above is not too time-consuming, you can. why would that make a difference as to whether the BR is being called or not, which is the root of my problem? In my first reply, I wrote: You could encounter that behavior if you registered your BroadcastReceiver via Java, instead of via the manifest. You never stated, in any of your messages, how your code sets up your BroadcastReceiver. And, since the only way to really use AlarmManager effectively is to use a BroadcastReceiver registered via the manifest, I have been trying to steer you in that direction. If I am correct, and presently your alarm-catching BroadcastReceiver is registered via registerReceiver() in some Java code, then that will only respond to alarms so long as whatever contains it (e.g., activity) is running. In this case, change your application logic to have the BroadcastReceiver be its own standalone public class (vs. an inner class of something else), dump the registerReceiver() and unregisterReceiver() calls for it, put it in the manifest via areceiverelement, and see if that improves your results. The example I have been pointing you to demonstrates receivers registered this way. There are a few other examples of this technique in the SystemEvents set of projects. If you *do* have your BroadcastReceiver registered via the manifest, though, and you're not getting the alarms, then something else is afoot. -- -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=enattachment: qr-gmail.png
Re: [android-beginners] Slow emulator
on my mac, i find the emulator runs at about the same speed as my phone. i don't know if that's by design or just a coincidence. how slow is slow? On 11/1/09 1:44 PM, Curran wrote: Hi guys, Pretty new to the whole Android idea, I am buying the HTC hero soon and would quite like to develop for it. I have found on my PC that the emulator runs really slowly- to get to actually being able to use my app when emulating takes around a minute and a half. Can anyone suggest why? I use Eclipse, with Windows 7 and a good-but-not-amazing spec laptop. Please help! Thanks -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=enattachment: qr-gmail.png
Re: [android-beginners] Re: Unlock Motorola Cliq and use with ATT?
well ... what carrier was the phone made for? i know att and t-mo's 3g networks are not compatible. so if it's locked to say t-mo and you want to unlock it and use it on att, you won't get 3g (you'll get edge only). if you are just staying with t-mo (or whoever), then unlocking won't affect it. On 11/1/09 11:20 PM, baddestguy wrote: Hey Jeffery, If i were to unlock my motorola cliq would the 3g coverage, mms and other stuff still work on my t-mobile? Thanks!!! On Oct 17, 6:35 pm, Jeffrey Blattmanjeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: that's how unlocking works for many other smartphones ... pay some shady company $5 to $30 and get a code in the mail in 24 hours or less. it's how i unlocked my g1. On 10/17/09 4:15 PM, Vladimir Kelman wrote: BTW, I found this... may be a scam, what you think? http://cgi.ebay.com/%3D%3DUNLOCK-CODE-FOR-T-MOBILE-MOTOROLA-CLIQ%3D%3... On Oct 17, 5:28 pm, Vladimir Kelmanvkel...@gmail.comwrote: I'd be happy to be able to unlock Motorola Cliq and to use with ATT. Any experience with that? (It was easy enoughhttp://pro-thoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-upgrade-android-devph... to set up Android Dev Phone 1 (HTC) to work in ATT, except that Internet is a bit slow, because ATT uses non-compatible frequency...) -- -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=enattachment: qr-gmail.png
[android-beginners] listen for when my app is installed
i would like to copy some files from assets to the SD card when my app is installed. i see the PACKAGE* intents, but i'm unclear which one (or set) i should be listening for. i am sure this is a common pattern, can someone point me to a page that describe the proper way to do this? thanks. --
[android-beginners] Re: listen for when my app is installed
thanks yes that's a good point about being dependent on the SD card. On 10/28/09 10:19 AM, Sean Hodges wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: i would like to copy some files from assets to the SD card when my app is installed. i see the PACKAGE* intents, but i'm unclear which one (or set) i should be listening for. i am sure this is a common pattern, can someone point me to a page that describe the proper way to do this? Could you not just check for their existence on the SD card before copying them over? Otherwise, when the user changes their SD card, your app will no longer have these files available. Your app will be dependent on the SD card that was plugged in when it was installed... There may also be compatibility issues with backup/restore programs. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: listen for when my app is installed
ehhh ... they are sample files that the user is allowed to edit. i was trying to keep track of things, like when the user edits an asset file, copy it to the sdcard and ignore the asset file from then on ... and doing something like when the user removes the file, mark it removed by adding a *-removed file to the SD card. all of that was getting confusing. it's much simpler if i can just assume one location for file where i know they can be edited without having to worry about this r/o file mirror in another place. as suggested, i just have some code in onCreate() that copies the assets to the SD card, if they don't exist there already. simple and easy. i was over complicating things by trying to listen for app installation. On 10/28/09 4:12 PM, Raphael wrote: Out of curiosity, why do you want to copy your assets on the sdcard anyway? They are already nicely zipped in your APK. R/ On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: i would like to copy some files from assets to the SD card when my app is installed. i see the PACKAGE* intents, but i'm unclear which one (or set) i should be listening for. i am sure this is a common pattern, can someone point me to a page that describe the proper way to do this? thanks. -- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Android 2.0 SDK is here!
new and updated tools. regardless of the SDK version, you can always develop your app to target previous SDK versions. in your manifest, look for the line, uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="3" / 3 is for 1.5, 4 for 1.6 ... On 10/27/09 10:42 AM, Matt Raffel wrote: how does this apply if my phone is currently 1.5 and I wanted my app to work on it? Do I stick to 1.5? Matt Xavier Ducrohet wrote: Hello everyone! We've just announced the Android 2.0 SDK http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/10/announcing-android-20-support-in-sdk.html If you already have the 1.6 SDK, note that you can simply use the SDK Manager to add Android 2.0 to your SDK. Make sure you also get the new SDK Tools (revision 3), as the SDK Manager in revision 2 (the one that shipped with 1.6) doesn't enforce dependencies between platforms and Tools (fixed in rev 3) For more information about using the SDK Manager, see: http://developer.android.com/sdk/adding-components.html Have fun! Xav --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: file chooser?
it seems like the approach most people take is to assume some directory, then just take file names as input. On 10/26/09 2:09 PM, Paul Turchenko wrote: There's nothing like windows' FileOpenDialog if that's what you want... On Oct 26, 7:34am, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: this has to be an easy one. i want to bring up a file chooser to be able to read a file from say the SD card. i'd rather not roll my own. is there some standard way to do this? -- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: ADB and T-Mobile Pulse
under settings applications development is usb debugging enabled? On 10/26/09 6:09 AM, marktyers wrote: Hi I have purchased a T-Mobile pulse for the purpose of testing some applications but it does not show up when I run ./adb devices or when I test my apps using Eclipse. Please can someone help otherwise Iam left with a useless lump of plastic :-( ps. I am an absolute beginner to this so please be gentle... Mark --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Is it possible to append a value to R.string or any resource under R.?
On 10/24/09 5:10 PM, David wrote:
@Farproc
Ah yes, the R.xx.xx are integer constants created automatically in the
R.java file (i.e., h1=0x7f050002, h2=0x7f050003, etc.). Now it makes
sense why constructing a string to reference them does not work.
@Jeffrey
I have a couple of questions. I just finished reading up a bit on
resource bundles but things are still a little cloudy for me. Would I
need to populate the 312 key:value pairs into the rb bundle?
yes.
If so, then what benefits does the bundle approach have over the the
ElseIf approach? It seems that putting 312 strings (even if small)
into a resource bundle would be more memory usage than required when,
in the alternative, the one desired string could be called directly
from an ElseIf approach, albeit with more lines of code.
one line of code vs. 312 ... and being forced to use a 2nd way to store
your resource strings.
Similar to your bundle idea, I thought about creating an XML array
with each string as a member but, again, all of the strings would be
pulled into memory to create the array when all I need is *one* of the
312 strings. Too bad there isn't a way to dynamically construct a
reference to the R. resources . . .
XML is going to be heavier weight than a simple key, val mapping. btw,
if they are localized strings, use resource bundle. if not, just use
java.util.Properties.
Thanks for answering questions from a new Java-Android developer
coming from the PHP side of things.
On Oct 24, 7:17am, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com
wrote:
using standard java res bundles,
textView.setText(rb.getString(desiredString));
and in your res bundle,
desiredString1=value of R.string.h1
desiredString2=value of R.string.h2
...
that is, the RB keys are the possible values of desiredString, and the
values are the proper mapping from a particular value of desired string.
On 10/23/09 6:59 PM, David wrote:
Screen A permits the user to input a value into an EditText field.
Screen B populates a TextView using one of the entries in strings.xml
based upon the TextView value. For example, if the user inputs "2" on
Screen A then Screen B should populate the TextView with
R.strings.h2. I have tried the following:
// get the bundle extras from Screen A's intent
Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
// pull out the value from the UserInput EditText sent from
Screen A
Str desiredString = extras != null ? extras.getString
("UserInput") : "";
// popluate textView with the string R.string.h + whatever the
user put on Screen A
textView.setText(R.string.h + desiredString);
I get a "cannot resolve R.string.h resource" error message because,
evidently, the desiredString value is not appended onto R.string.h.
So, I decided to come at it from another angle:
switch (desiredString) {
case 1:
textView.setText(R.string.h1);
case 2:
textView.setText(R.string.h2);
. . .
case 312:
textView.setText(R.string.h312);
Note that you cannot switch on a string so I tried Integer.parseInt on
the string but I wind up with a blank Screen B with the switch
statement above. It seems that the string is not turned into an int.
So, my question is twofold: (1) is it possible to append a variable
onto a R. entry and (2) if I am obliged to use the larger and uglier
switch approach, how do I turn an EditText string value into an Int
value? Thanks.
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this has to be an easy one. i want to bring up a file chooser to be able to read a file from say the SD card. i'd rather not roll my own. is there some standard way to do this? --
[android-beginners] Re: Is it possible to append a value to R.string or any resource under R.?
using standard java res bundles,
textView.setText(rb.getString(desiredString));
and in your res bundle,
desiredString1=value of R.string.h1
desiredString2=value of R.string.h2
...
that is, the RB keys are the possible values of desiredString, and the
values are the proper mapping from a particular value of desired string.
On 10/23/09 6:59 PM, David wrote:
Screen A permits the user to input a value into an EditText field.
Screen B populates a TextView using one of the entries in strings.xml
based upon the TextView value. For example, if the user inputs "2" on
Screen A then Screen B should populate the TextView with
R.strings.h2. I have tried the following:
// get the bundle extras from Screen A's intent
Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
// pull out the value from the UserInput EditText sent from
Screen A
Str desiredString = extras != null ? extras.getString
("UserInput") : "";
// popluate textView with the string R.string.h + whatever the
user put on Screen A
textView.setText(R.string.h + desiredString);
I get a "cannot resolve R.string.h resource" error message because,
evidently, the desiredString value is not appended onto R.string.h.
So, I decided to come at it from another angle:
switch (desiredString) {
case 1:
textView.setText(R.string.h1);
case 2:
textView.setText(R.string.h2);
. . .
case 312:
textView.setText(R.string.h312);
Note that you cannot switch on a string so I tried Integer.parseInt on
the string but I wind up with a blank Screen B with the switch
statement above. It seems that the string is not turned into an int.
So, my question is twofold: (1) is it possible to append a variable
onto a R. entry and (2) if I am obliged to use the larger and uglier
switch approach, how do I turn an EditText string value into an Int
value? Thanks.
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[android-beginners] Re: listview height
Yes I tried that thanks. I ended up just setting a static height. Everything I read says not to embed a listview in a scrollview (from the experts). Seems kind of short sighted to me. A listview offers a lot more than just the fact that it can scroll. On Oct 24, 2009 9:00 PM, Justin Anderson janderson@gmail.com wrote: Try giving the view a higher layout weight in the xml... android:layout_weight= Thanks, Justin -- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't. -- On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: i have ... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-beginners] user can't see my app in market?
i have an app published to the market, and a user is telling me that they can't see it ... through searching, or even when they scan the QR code i comes up as not found. the user is not in the US, but i published it to "all locations". any ideas? --
[android-beginners] Re: user can't see my app in market?
never mind, version issue. On 10/23/09 8:35 AM, Jeffrey Blattman wrote: i have an app published to the market, and a user is telling me that they can't see it ... through searching, or even when they scan the QR code i comes up as not found. the user is not in the US, but i published it to "all locations". any ideas? -- --
[android-beginners] Re: Regular expressions help
hi,
i think it has to do with the multiline flag. that causes it to eat the
newline (read the javadocs). i don't see any neat way to do it, other
than treating whitespace and newlines separately. for example,
something lime
String s1 = "hello\n hello\n\n hello\n hi\n";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$|\n$",
Pattern.MULTILINE);
Matcher m = p.matcher(s1);
s1 = m.replaceAll("");
On 10/23/09 9:16 AM, jax wrote:
I am trying to strip all whitespace from "each line" in a EditText
View. The _expression_ I am using is this
String result = Pattern.compile("^\\s+|\\s+$",
Pattern.MULTILINE).matcher(input).replaceAll("");
This works for the following input
hello
hello
hello
hi
This will produce:
hello
hello
hello
hi
but
hello
hello
hello
hi
will produce:
hello
hellohello
hi
Notice the new line (\n). This is causing the problem. What I want
is:
hello
hello
hello
hi
Any ideas about how to fix this?
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[android-beginners] Re: Is your Android app on Archos Market ?
On 10/22/09 1:31 AM, arnouf wrote: Hi Jeffrey, On 20 oct, 17:29, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: some comments on the appslib market, 1. no way to unpublish an app? Yes you have. When you created an application, you have a link at the bottom to add release or unpublish release (one ar all) i see a link to "deactive all releases" (it actually says "desactive all releases"), but it doesn't delete the app from the store. it just deactivates it. that means the app is still on your servers i assume. 2. no way to unpublish an app release? see response above see my response above. 3. no way to edit an app release (comments, binary, or anything else) You have an input box to indicate comments really where? after i publish the release, the only thing i can click on is the "publish/unpublish" link. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] listview height
i have a listview that is enclosed in a few other views. the view height of the listview is only about the size of one entry. i can't seem to figure how to make the listview expand to show more entries at a time. i'd like to be able to set the max height of the listview, or something like that. any ideas? --
[android-beginners] Re: Is your Android app on Archos Market ?
and the menu button? On 10/20/09 7:48 AM, Steve wrote: I tried the Archos emulator on your web site, but can't figure out how to simulate the BACK button? Is there a key for it? thanks. On Oct 20, 1:56am, arnouf arnaud.far...@gmail.com wrote: If you have developed or if you are developing applications, and they are on the Android Market - Great! - But these apps are only available for devices that have contracts with Google. Archos, a major PMP manufacturer, launched its first device on 25th of September: the Archos 5 IT. Archos has a real community of fans who are waiting for applications for their devices. This device is the first of a long product line (the first Archos phone should be available soon too!). It's a new opportunity for your applications to find new fans! You can post your apps, for free, on the Archos Market called Appslib (http://www.appslib.com). Today, only free applications are available for distribution on AppsLib, but Archos promises the possibility to distribute your paid apps soon ! Don't wait : more applications, more users, more fans...and more revenue (soon)! Arnaud --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Is your Android app on Archos Market ?
ok well is back the escape key? looks like it. On 10/20/09 8:04 AM, Steve Oliver wrote: the Menu button is done with the PAGE UP key On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: and the menu button? On 10/20/09 7:48 AM, Steve wrote: I tried the Archos emulator on your web site, but can't figure out how to simulate the BACK button? Is there a key for it? thanks. On Oct 20, 1:56am, arnouf arnaud.far...@gmail.com wrote: If you have developed or if you are developing applications, and they are on the Android Market - Great! - But these apps are only available for devices that have contracts with Google. Archos, a major PMP manufacturer, launched its first device on 25th of September: the Archos 5 IT. Archos has a real community of fans who are waiting for applications for their devices. This device is the first of a long product line (the first Archos phone should be available soon too!). It's a new opportunity for your applications to find new fans! You can post your apps, for free, on the Archos Market called Appslib (http://www.appslib.com). Today, only free applications are available for distribution on AppsLib, but Archos promises the possibility to distribute your paid apps soon ! Don't wait : more applications, more users, more fans...and more revenue (soon)! Arnaud -- -- Android mobile application development http://steveoliverc.wordpress.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Is your Android app on Archos Market ?
some comments on the appslib market, 1. no way to unpublish an app? 2. no way to unpublish an app release? 3. no way to edit an app release (comments, binary, or anything else) 4. app description doesn't maintain newlines so yes, make sure you really want your app there, forever, before you publish it. in general, i wish "the" android market would just facilitate this sort of thing ... i know they now allow tagging by cell provider, tagging by device seems a small stretch. this proliferation of markets could really dilute android. developers now have to manage their apps across N markets, and users have to browse N different markets to look for apps :( On 10/20/09 1:56 AM, arnouf wrote: If you have developed or if you are developing applications, and they are on the Android Market - Great! - But these apps are only available for devices that have contracts with Google. Archos, a major PMP manufacturer, launched its first device on 25th of September: the Archos 5 IT. Archos has a real community of fans who are waiting for applications for their devices. This device is the first of a long product line (the first Archos phone should be available soon too!). It's a new opportunity for your applications to find new fans! You can post your apps, for free, on the Archos Market called Appslib (http://www.appslib.com). Today, only free applications are available for distribution on AppsLib, but Archos promises the possibility to distribute your paid apps soon ! Don't wait : more applications, more users, more fans...and more revenue (soon)! Arnaud --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Cannot install packages on new phone
Just a guess but could it be that the new device is 1.5 and u r compiling to 1.6? On Oct 20, 2009 9:28 AM, Neilz neilhorn...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all. I've been developing for a few weeks now, and testing them on a friend's phone (HTC Magic). I never had any problems. Today my new phone arrived (HTC Hero) and now I can't install my packages. I get the error There is a problem parsing the package. I have set it to allow packages from unknown sources, but I don't know what else I can try... help please? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-beginners] Re: Is your Android app on Archos Market ?
please refrain from discussing the android market market until my patent clears. On 10/20/09 8:36 AM, Jason Van Anden wrote: Clearly the solution to this is an Android Market Market. ;) Jason Van Anden http://www.BubbleBeats.com On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: some comments on the appslib market, 1. no way to unpublish an app? 2. no way to unpublish an app release? 3. no way to edit an app release (comments, binary, or anything else) 4. app description doesn't maintain newlines so yes, make sure you really want your app there, forever, before you publish it. in general, i wish "the" android market would just facilitate this sort of thing ... i know they now allow tagging by cell provider, tagging by device seems a small stretch. this proliferation of markets could really dilute android. developers now have to manage their apps across N markets, and users have to browse N different markets to look for apps :( On 10/20/09 1:56 AM, arnouf wrote: If you have developed or if you are developing applications, and they are on the Android Market - Great! - But these apps are only available for devices that have contracts with Google. Archos, a major PMP manufacturer, launched its first device on 25th of September: the Archos 5 IT. Archos has a real community of fans who are waiting for applications for their devices. This device is the first of a long product line (the first Archos phone should be available soon too!). It's a new opportunity for your applications to find new fans! You can post your apps, for free, on the Archos Market called Appslib (http://www.appslib.com). Today, only free applications are available for distribution on AppsLib, but Archos promises the possibility to distribute your paid apps soon ! Don't wait : more applications, more users, more fans...and more revenue (soon)! Arnaud -- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: path to pwd
it might be built into the shell. On 10/19/09 5:30 AM, T wrote: In android, in the terminal i can write ls and pwd. I have found ls in /system/bin. However, I can't find pwd. Where is the link pwd pointing to? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: how to i check if an EditText is empty
toString().length() == 0? On Oct 20, 2009 1:48 PM, JasonMP hyperje...@gmail.com wrote: using if(someEditText.getText().toString == null) doesnt work im passing information from this editText into a database. Ive already limited it to 2 characters and numbers only in the xml file, but i need to run a check to fill its defaults to 0 if nothing is entered. I could set its default to 0, but then my hint text would show up. Could someone give me a hand with this? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-beginners] Re: Install on SD
yes they get installed to phone memory and you can't change that. you can however setup "apps2sd" which in which case you create a linux partition on your SD card and mount it where the OS can install apps. several 3rd party dists come with apps2sd enabled and if you have a linux part in the right place they will just use it. for example, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566130 it was my impression that installing apps2sd from scratch was a little hairy, so IMHO it's better to install a dist that has it enabled. there's a little bit of a learning curve to setting all this up, so be prepared to spend some time educating yourself. bear in mind that the SD card is much slower than the phone's memory, so consequently your phone will be slower overall loading apps. this is why (i assume) android doesn't install apps on the SD in any standard, stock android install. On 10/19/09 6:51 PM, Vinicius Carvalho wrote: Hi, this sounds kinda stupid, but is it possible to install the apps from the market on the SD card? When I download the apps It does not ask me where to store them, and since I have only 40mb left on the device I wonder if they are all getting installed on the phone memory instead of SD. Regards --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Install on SD
i forgot to mention, there is an app (apps?) that allow you to "back up" an app to the SD card, then re-install it at a later date. pretty lame solution, but thought i'd mention it. this is a well-known and well-despised deficiency of current gen phones. hopefully it'll be fixed in g2 that are being released soon. i just looked up the motorola cliq and it reportedly has only 256MB as well ... On 10/19/09 7:03 PM, Vinicius Carvalho wrote: Thanks to the quick response, this is very very frustranting news tough, given that the phone memory is really small (256mb) it seems that android gave a step back in this direction. My old N95 would allow me to install apps on the SD to save phone memory. I wonder what will happen when Apps start to blow in size (what if android becomes a good gaming platform such as iphone) what users will be able to do. Just hope that they fix it soon, just like nintendo did with Wii and now we can save our games on the SD and run them from there Regards On Oct 20, 12:00am, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: yes they get installed to phone memory and you can't change that. you can however setup "apps2sd" which in which case you create a linux partition on your SD card and mount it where the OS can install apps. several 3rd party dists come with apps2sd enabled and if you have a linux part in the right place they will just use it. for example, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566130 it was my impression that installing apps2sd from scratch was a little hairy, so IMHO it's better to install a dist that has it enabled. there's a little bit of a learning curve to setting all this up, so be prepared to spend some time educating yourself. bear in mind that the SD card is much slower than the phone's memory, so consequently your phone will be slower overall loading apps. this is why (i assume) android doesn't install apps on the SD in any standard, stock android install. On 10/19/09 6:51 PM, Vinicius Carvalho wrote: Hi, this sounds kinda stupid, but is it possible to install the apps from the market on the SD card? When I download the apps It does not ask me where to store them, and since I have only 40mb left on the device I wonder if they are all getting installed on the phone memory instead of SD. Regards -- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Android Getting started
sharief android...@gmail.com wrote: i tried to set the path. But it seems wrong shar...@sharief-desktop:~$ export PATH-$PATH:/home/sharief/Desktop/SDK/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.5_r3/tools/emulator bash: export: `PATH-/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/sharief/Desktop/SDK/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.5_r3/tools/emulator': not a valid identifier shar...@sharief-desktop:~$ can anyone help me to set the exact path.. On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Niamathullah sharief android...@gmail.com wrote: No jeffrey. There is no "android app" in "Run as".. On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: if you "run asandroid app" in eclipse, it will start the emulator, deploy your app, and run it. On 10/18/09 8:34 PM, Niamathullah sharief wrote: OK. and another one is, i have installed eclipse on my system. is this another way to start an android?if yes i have created ADT plugin in eclipse. now how to start an emulator in eclipse? On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/howto/basic/path.shtml On 10/18/09 8:26 PM, Niamathullah sharief wrote: sorry jeffey. I am novice. Could you please tell me how to set the path? Could you please explain me in detail? On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: that means the emulator isn't in your path. add $ANDROID_HOME/tools to your path. On 10/18/09 8:22 PM, Niamathullah sharief wrote: Ok...I am using UBUNTU distribution. In that when i try to start an emulator i am getting the following error.. shar...@sharief-desktop:~/Desktop/SDK/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.5_r3/tools$ emulator -avd sharief bash: emulator: command not found can anyone tell me why it happens? On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Niamathullah sharief wrote: Hi i am new to android. I am having some doubt when i tried to do my first project in android. When i select new new project in eclipse. Is ask some details. In that i saw one option called "package name"..I don't know what to give in that field. Can anyone help me. I am not much expert in Java. Thank you I recommend spending a bit of time to get familiar with Java *outside* of Android. Android is just unusual enough that learning Java and Android at the same time may prove frustrating. The package that Eclipse is asking for is the main Java package for your application: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_package For example, I might use a package of: com.commonsware.android.sample or com.commonsware.android.yes.he.really.posts.a.lot or even com.commonsware.andro
[android-beginners] Re: MULTIPLE CONTROLS IN SINGLE LINE:
i assume you mean you want your list view's rows to be complex. in summary, 1. create a custom adapter 2. in the adapter's getView(), inflate your custom view and populate it as you wish On 10/18/09 1:03 AM, Clave Yard wrote: ALL, CAN SOME ONE TELL ME HOW TO MAKE THREE CONTROLS IN A SINGLE LINE USING LAYOUT? I WANT TO SHOW AN IMABE, A BUTTON AND TEXT LABEL IN A SINGLE LINE. I TRIED THAT ON LAYOUT IN ECLIPSE. BUT IT ACCEPTS ONLY ONE CONTROL FOR ONE LINE, IF ADD NEXT CONTROL IT GOES TO NEXT LINE(ROW). I WANT TO MAKE THREE CONTROLS TO BE IN SINGLE LINE. HOW DO I ACHIEVE THIS? APPRECIATE YOUR HELP ON THIS. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: MULTIPLE CONTROLS IN SINGLE LINE:
are you using a listview or no? i'll assume no ... yes, to get three
views positioned horizontally across the page, you would use a
LinearLayout and specify android:orientation="horizontal".
On 10/18/09 2:00 AM, Clave Yard wrote:
Do you mean, using layout we can't achieve this? Is there
any sample provided by Android team to do such thing, creating custom
controls?
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wrote:
From: Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com
Subject: [android-beginners] Re: MULTIPLE CONTROLS IN SINGLE LINE:
To: android-beginners@googlegroups.com
Date: Sunday, October 18, 2009, 8:48 AM
i assume you mean you want your list
view's rows to be complex. in
summary,
1. create a custom adapter
2. in the adapter's getView(), inflate your custom view and populate it
as you wish
On 10/18/09 1:03 AM, Clave Yard wrote:
ALL,
CAN SOME ONE TELL ME HOW TO MAKE THREE CONTROLS IN A SINGLE LINE USING
LAYOUT? I WANT TO SHOW AN IMABE, A BUTTON AND TEXT LABEL IN A SINGLE
LINE. I TRIED THAT ON LAYOUT IN ECLIPSE. BUT IT ACCEPTS ONLY ONE
CONTROL FOR ONE LINE, IF ADD NEXT CONTROL IT GOES TO NEXT LINE(ROW). I
WANT TO MAKE THREE CONTROLS TO BE IN SINGLE LINE. HOW DO I ACHIEVE THIS?
APPRECIATE YOUR HELP ON THIS.
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[android-beginners] Re: R class outside of activity
Context.getResources().getString(int id). so yes, you need to pass around a Context. i think android is deficient here. for example, i like to separate the data model from the UI classes. what if the data model needs a resource string? it can't use android's resource mechanism, it has to fall back to std java resource bundles ... unless you pollute the data model with UI classes. the other deficiency (sorry, OT here) is that android doesn't allow dynamic resource keys. i tend to use this a lot when there are plugin classes that want to look up their resources based on their class, or some other unique ID. On 10/18/09 2:48 AM, jax wrote: I have made a regular class that needs to use string from the R class. I have imported the R class into the activity and am able to access all the variables. My Question is, how do you convert them to string, For example: If I access R.string.myString it will return as an int not a String --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: MULTIPLE CONTROLS IN SINGLE LINE:
well ... i don't want to write the code for you, but what you are
asking for is possible. if you aren't using the eclipse plugin, do
that. it gives an okay GUI editor for layouts ... so you can try things
out quickly and see what looks correct. some things to watch out for
are setting weights, setting gravity, and setting layout widths.
On 10/18/09 2:39 AM, Clave Yard wrote:
Yes. You are right. android:orientation="horizontal" is
helping a lot. But i want to keep three controls(image, button and
text) on Top in a single line. And one slider control in the second
line, below of that three controls. For ex: If you see built-in Volume
control, there will be Volume speaker icon and volume text one line,
and below you can see the volume slider. Same like that i wanted to do.
--- On Sun, 10/18/09, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com
wrote:
From: Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com
Subject: [android-beginners] Re: MULTIPLE CONTROLS IN SINGLE LINE:
To: android-beginners@googlegroups.com
Date: Sunday, October 18, 2009, 9:03 AM
are you using a listview or no? i'll
assume no ... yes, to get three
views positioned horizontally across the page, you would use a
LinearLayout and specify android:orientation="horizontal".
On 10/18/09 2:00 AM, Clave Yard wrote:
Do you mean, using layout we can't achieve this? Is there
any sample provided by Android team to do such thing, creating custom
controls?
--- On Sun, 10/18/09, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com
wrote:
From: Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com
Subject: [android-beginners] Re: MULTIPLE CONTROLS IN SINGLE LINE:
To: android-beginners@googlegroups.com
Date: Sunday, October 18, 2009, 8:48 AM
i assume you mean you want
your list
view's rows to be complex. in
summary,
1. create a custom adapter
2. in the adapter's getView(), inflate your custom view and populate it
as you wish
On 10/18/09 1:03 AM, Clave Yard wrote:
ALL,
CAN SOME ONE TELL ME HOW TO MAKE THREE CONTROLS IN A SINGLE LINE USING
LAYOUT? I WANT TO SHOW AN IMABE, A BUTTON AND TEXT LABEL IN A SINGLE
LINE. I TRIED THAT ON LAYOUT IN ECLIPSE. BUT IT ACCEPTS ONLY ONE
CONTROL FOR ONE LINE, IF ADD NEXT CONTROL IT GOES TO NEXT LINE(ROW). I
WANT TO MAKE THREE CONTROLS TO BE IN SINGLE LINE. HOW DO I ACHIEVE THIS?
APPRECIATE YOUR HELP ON THIS.
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[android-beginners] Re: R class outside of activity
yes of course that's the whole point of resources ... there's better ways to do it. Context is a massive class with UI-centric functionality. even the android Resources class has UI functionality. localization could have been factored out into a smaller non-UI class. in std Java i have Locale and ResourceBundle and those are used no matter what system framework i'm coding to. On 10/18/09 3:06 AM, RichardC wrote: The need to pass the context around is because your strings (and all resources) may be different for localization, layout, screen size etc. So accessing a string (resource) without an application context does not make sence. -- RichardC On Oct 18, 11:04am, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: Try this:http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/index.html -- RichardC On Oct 18, 10:48am, jax jackma...@gmail.com wrote: I have made a regular class that needs to use string from the R class. I have imported the R class into the activity and am able to access all the variables. My Question is, how do you convert them to string, For example: If I access R.string.myString it will return as an int not a String --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Is Android really open platform or not?
android has been around for 3 or so years now. are there any examples where individual, or small not-for-profit projects have ported android to alternative hardware? i don't know of any. the answer to that will probably give you a good idea of the difficulty VY. On 10/18/09 1:36 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: VY wrote: How difficult is it to port Android onto novel hardware? Depends on how big of a team you have and their skill level. Device manufacturers do not seem to be having much trouble. On the other hand, it would be a fair amount of work for an individual, I imagine. --
[android-beginners] Re: Rooting?
you do not need to root your phone to develop applications or to upgrade to 1.6. however, you will need to root your phone to install CM or some other 3rd party dists. On 10/18/09 7:29 PM, Vinicius Carvalho wrote: Hello there, could someone please tell me if I need rooting on Android Dev Phone? Or only locked phones? I wish to upgrade from 1.0 - 1.6 (also considering the legal version o Cyanogenmod). Regards --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Android Getting started
that means the emulator isn't in your path. add $ANDROID_HOME/tools to your path. On 10/18/09 8:22 PM, Niamathullah sharief wrote: Ok...I am using UBUNTU distribution. In that when i try to start an emulator i am getting the following error.. shar...@sharief-desktop:~/Desktop/SDK/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.5_r3/tools$ emulator -avd sharief bash: emulator: command not found can anyone tell me why it happens? On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Niamathullah sharief wrote: Hi i am new to android. I am having some doubt when i tried to do my first project in android. When i select new new project in eclipse. Is ask some details. In that i saw one option called "package name"..I don't know what to give in that field. Can anyone help me. I am not much expert in Java. Thank you I recommend spending a bit of time to get familiar with Java *outside* of Android. Android is just unusual enough that learning Java and Android at the same time may prove frustrating. The package that Eclipse is asking for is the main Java package for your application: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_package For example, I might use a package of: com.commonsware.android.sample or com.commonsware.android.yes.he.really.posts.a.lot or even com.commonsware.android.and.he.sometimes.gets.a.wee.bit.goofy -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android App Developer Training: http://commonsware.com/training.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Android Getting started
http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/howto/basic/path.shtml On 10/18/09 8:26 PM, Niamathullah sharief wrote: sorry jeffey. I am novice. Could you please tell me how to set the path? Could you please explain me in detail? On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: that means the emulator isn't in your path. add $ANDROID_HOME/tools to your path. On 10/18/09 8:22 PM, Niamathullah sharief wrote: Ok...I am using UBUNTU distribution. In that when i try to start an emulator i am getting the following error.. shar...@sharief-desktop:~/Desktop/SDK/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.5_r3/tools$ emulator -avd sharief bash: emulator: command not found can anyone tell me why it happens? On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Niamathullah sharief wrote: Hi i am new to android. I am having some doubt when i tried to do my first project in android. When i select new new project in eclipse. Is ask some details. In that i saw one option called "package name"..I don't know what to give in that field. Can anyone help me. I am not much expert in Java. Thank you I recommend spending a bit of time to get familiar with Java *outside* of Android. Android is just unusual enough that learning Java and Android at the same time may prove frustrating. The package that Eclipse is asking for is the main Java package for your application: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_package For example, I might use a package of: com.commonsware.android.sample or com.commonsware.android.yes.he.really.posts.a.lot or even com.commonsware.android.and.he.sometimes.gets.a.wee.bit.goofy -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android App Developer Training: http://commonsware.com/training.html -- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Android Getting started
if you "run asandroid app" in eclipse, it will start the emulator, deploy your app, and run it. On 10/18/09 8:34 PM, Niamathullah sharief wrote: OK. and another one is, i have installed eclipse on my system. is this another way to start an android?if yes i have created ADT plugin in eclipse. now how to start an emulator in eclipse? On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/howto/basic/path.shtml On 10/18/09 8:26 PM, Niamathullah sharief wrote: sorry jeffey. I am novice. Could you please tell me how to set the path? Could you please explain me in detail? On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: that means the emulator isn't in your path. add $ANDROID_HOME/tools to your path. On 10/18/09 8:22 PM, Niamathullah sharief wrote: Ok...I am using UBUNTU distribution. In that when i try to start an emulator i am getting the following error.. shar...@sharief-desktop:~/Desktop/SDK/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.5_r3/tools$ emulator -avd sharief bash: emulator: command not found can anyone tell me why it happens? On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Niamathullah sharief wrote: Hi i am new to android. I am having some doubt when i tried to do my first project in android. When i select new new project in eclipse. Is ask some details. In that i saw one option called "package name"..I don't know what to give in that field. Can anyone help me. I am not much expert in Java. Thank you I recommend spending a bit of time to get familiar with Java *outside* of Android. Android is just unusual enough that learning Java and Android at the same time may prove frustrating. The package that Eclipse is asking for is the main Java package for your application: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_package For example, I might use a package of: com.commonsware.android.sample or com.commonsware.android.yes.he.really.posts.a.lot or even com.commonsware.android.and.he.sometimes.gets.a.wee.bit.goofy -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android App Developer Training: http://commonsware.com/training.html -- -- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] send SMS, RESULT_ERROR_GENERIC_FAILURE
i am trying to send an SMS. followed the example, but no message was sent. i then added the receivers to try to find out what's going on. every time, the "sent" receiver gets the result code RESULT_ERROR_GENERIC_FAILURE. any ideas how to debug this? thanks. --
[android-beginners] Re: send SMS, RESULT_ERROR_GENERIC_FAILURE
got it. i was trying to be smart and set the "source address" to my phone number. note to self: read docs first next time. On 10/17/09 3:16 PM, Jeffrey Blattman wrote: i am trying to send an SMS. followed the example, but no message was sent. i then added the receivers to try to find out what's going on. every time, the "sent" receiver gets the result code RESULT_ERROR_GENERIC_FAILURE. any ideas how to debug this? thanks. -- --
[android-beginners] Re: send SMS, RESULT_ERROR_GENERIC_FAILURE
hi mark, no, there was nothing at all until i added the receivers ... and then, only the result code. On 10/17/09 3:59 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: Jeffrey Blattman wrote: got it. i was trying to be smart and set the "source address" to my phone number. note to self: read docs first next time. On 10/17/09 3:16 PM, Jeffrey Blattman wrote: i am trying to send an SMS. followed the example, but no message was sent. i then added the receivers to try to find out what's going on. every time, the "sent" receiver gets the result code RESULT_ERROR_GENERIC_FAILURE. any ideas how to debug this? Out of curiosity, did LogCat show any log messages here with more details of your problem? RESULT_ERROR_GENERIC_FAILURE is a fairly, um, generic failure, so I would hope the SMS system would provide more error info at least as log errors or warnings or something. --
[android-beginners] Re: Unlock Motorola Cliq and use with ATT?
that's how unlocking works for many other smartphones ... pay some shady company $5 to $30 and get a code in the mail in 24 hours or less. it's how i unlocked my g1. On 10/17/09 4:15 PM, Vladimir Kelman wrote: BTW, I found this... may be a scam, what you think? http://cgi.ebay.com/%3D%3DUNLOCK-CODE-FOR-T-MOBILE-MOTOROLA-CLIQ%3D%3D_W0QQitemZ320424082577QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090914?IMSfp=TL090914166005r4614 On Oct 17, 5:28pm, Vladimir Kelman vkel...@gmail.com wrote: I'd be happy to be able to unlock Motorola Cliq and to use with ATT. Any experience with that? (It was easy enoughhttp://pro-thoughts.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-upgrade-android-devph... to set up Android Dev Phone 1 (HTC) to work in ATT, except that Internet is a bit slow, because ATT uses non-compatible frequency...) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Which phone to use for developer?
i think it's safe to assume if it has google maps (the app) then it has the google SDK. On 10/16/09 1:34 PM, jotobjects wrote: Do all phones have the Google Maps API add-on library? How to find out which phones have that? On Oct 16, 12:50pm, RichardC richard.crit...@googlemail.com wrote: Best advice I can give is to make sure any phone you want to buy has: a) The Google Market Place Application (and also the other Google Apps) and b) From the font menu button you can get to: [Menu] Settings Applications Development USB Debugging Stay awake Allow mock locations Making sure the above are are all present will give you a phone suitable for development of Android applicatons. -- RichardC On Oct 15, 8:56am, kengheng kengh...@mysql.cc wrote: Hi All, I would like to check which phone to use for the android development ? Thanks. -- Best regards, KengHeng. Chan Mobile : +6-016-717-0273 SQL Technology Sdn Bhdhttp://www.mysql.cc c...@mysql.cc --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] BroadcastReceiver.onReceive(), intent extra data missing?
this has to be a simple answer. i have code that calls a broadcast
receiver, in the receiver, i try to get the extra data from the intent,
but it's null.
so,
Intent i = new Intent("test", null, context,
MyReceiver.class);
i.putExtra("org.jtb.name", "blah");
context.sendBroadcast(i);
and in the BroadcastReceiver.onReceiver(),
String name = i.getStringExtra("org.jtb.name");
but name is null. what am i missing?
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[android-beginners] why use onCreateDialog?
i've been wondering this. why would i implement Activity.onCreateDialog()? why wouldn't i just create a new instance of the dialog i want, and call .show() on it? usually a dialog will close itself, but if i doesn't, i just keep a handle to it in a member field and call .dismiss(). --
[android-beginners] linked text view?
i would like to have a textview that is hyperlinked, but not to web resources. i would like the link click to invoke an "on click". is this possible? it strikes me that i could style the text to look hyperlink (color, underline), and then just add an on click listener, but i was hoping there is some standard way to accomplish this. all i can find in the docs is how to linkify text for URLs. or perhaps this violates the style guidelines ... thanks. --
[android-beginners] Re: linked text view?
continuing on my possible solution ... it appears that android won't let me underline text (hint, hint: maybe i shouldn't be doing this). it looks like i can set the link mask to everything, get the associated URL spans, and set the on click listeners for those. On 10/14/09 10:53 AM, Jeffrey Blattman wrote: i would like to have a textview that is hyperlinked, but not to web resources. i would like the link click to invoke an "on click". is this possible? it strikes me that i could style the text to look hyperlink (color, underline), and then just add an on click listener, but i was hoping there is some standard way to accomplish this. all i can find in the docs is how to linkify text for URLs. or perhaps this violates the style guidelines ... thanks. -- --
[android-beginners] parcelable encountered class not found?
i have an activity and an intent service. i create a pending intent to call the intent service, and put a serializable object as extra data. when i get the alarm manage, and call setRepeating(), i see the trace below. any ideas? everything is in the same process and the same app, so i'm at a loss for how to debug this. 10-14 13:43:56.292: WARN/Intent(571): Failure filling in extras 10-14 13:43:56.292: WARN/Intent(571): java.lang.RuntimeException: Parcelable encounteredClassNotFoundException reading a Serializable object (name = org.jtb.httpmon.model.Monitor) 10-14 13:43:56.292: WARN/Intent(571): at android.os.Parcel.readSerializable(Parcel.java:1890) 10-14 13:43:56.292: WARN/Intent(571): at android.os.Parcel.readValue(Parcel.java:1761) 10-14 13:43:56.292: WARN/Intent(571): at android.os.Parcel.readMapInternal(Parcel.java:1947) 10-14 13:43:56.292: WARN/Intent(571): at android.os.Bundle.unparcel(Bundle.java:169) 10-14 13:43:56.292: WARN/Intent(571): at android.os.Bundle.putAll(Bundle.java:242) 10-14 13:43:56.292: WARN/Intent(571): at android.content.Intent.fillIn(Intent.java:4530) 10-14 13:43:56.292: WARN/Intent(571): at com.android.server.am.PendingIntentRecord.send(PendingIntentRecord.java:185) 10-14 13:43:56.292: WARN/Intent(571): at android.app.PendingIntent.send(PendingIntent.java:400) 10-14 13:43:56.292: WARN/Intent(571): at com.android.server.AlarmManagerService$AlarmThread.run(AlarmManagerService.java:636) --
[android-beginners] Re: Please tell me how to update firmware of HT-03A from Android 1.5 to 1.6.
you should get an OTA update from your provider. or you can install a 3rd party dist such as cyanogenmod. i have an unlocked t-mobile g1 on att (us), so my only option was to install a 3rd party dist, as att wasn't going to be pushing updates to me. i also looked into the idea of installing the HTC ADP1 1.6 image, but for all i could tell, this won't work on a G1. On 10/11/09 4:31 PM, Jack wrote: My HT-03A firm ware is Android 1.5. But my computer's Android SDK is 1.6. So I 'd like to update firmware of HT-03A. But I don't know where is a update package of HT-03A. please tell me for them. Thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Please tell me how to update firmware of HT-03A from Android 1.5 to 1.6.
that's interesting. i never got an update. can you point me to information that describes this? On 10/12/09 11:46 AM, Disconnect wrote: Updates come down regardless of carrier. (The phone periodically polls an update server and downloads the update in a zip.) On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: you should get an OTA update from your provider. or you can install a 3rd party dist such as cyanogenmod. i have an unlocked t-mobile g1 on att (us), so my only option was to install a 3rd party dist, as att wasn't going to be pushing updates to me. i also looked into the idea of installing the HTC ADP1 1.6 image, but for all i could tell, this won't work on a G1. On 10/11/09 4:31 PM, Jack wrote: My HT-03A firm ware is Android 1.5. But my computer's Android SDK is 1.6. So I 'd like to update firmware of HT-03A. But I don't know where is a update package of HT-03A. please tell me for them. Thanks. -- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Updating Google Ion from 1.5 to 1.6
i have an unlocked, rooted t-mobile g1, running on att. i am wondering how i'll get to 1.6 considering google is shutting down the 3rd party distributions. i wish i understood what the real requirement is to install the developer 1.6 build mentioned below. is it just that the phone is rooted? or is there something special about the developer phone? On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Justin Grammens jus...@localtone.comwrote: Hi, I'm hoping this page will help you. http://developer.htc.com/google-io-device.html Let us know if you have problems. I haven't followed these steps, but am going to be trying to upgrade my Google Ion in the next few days. On Oct 7, 9:29 pm, gyy gene.y...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Google Ion (the version of the HTC Magic that was handed out at the Google IO Developers Conference) that was given to me as a gift. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to update the OS on the phone to 1.6. I looked up the HTC support website and I have all the necessary files, but I have no idea how to execute any of the instructions. HTC tech support directed me to this community. Just to highlight my level of ignorance: I don't know how to use a command line, I have no idea what a bootloader is, I don't know how to use the SDK (although I have it on my computer and I installed Eclipse as well), etc. If anybody has time to run through a true Android for Dummies guide to upgrade my phone to 1.6, I would be forever grateful. Thanks! Gene --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-beginners] Re: application in notificaiton bar
You can create an ongoing / persistent notification. This can act as a pointer to your app. Music player and many other apps do this. On Oct 7, 2009 7:14 AM, Saikat saikat0...@gmail.com wrote: Can I put my application in the top notification bar so that it can be accessed from any application? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-beginners] read phone's number?
is there a way to read the phone's (current) phone number? i realize this would require a permission grant at least. thanks. -- --
[android-beginners] Re: plz help with sdcard image file and push command not working!!
http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/views/hello-gallery.html On 10/7/09 5:03 PM, wahib haq wrote: thanks john. how to enter images in the gallery ??? On 10/7/09, jbrohan jbro...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a beginner too. I use ddms. Run the command window in Windows, then type ddms here. If you have the paths set up properly it will work, else you need to go to android sdk folder/tools and enter ddms. This program links with the debugger and provides real time readings of logcat and also devicefile explorer shows the files and offers an easy upload and download. Images as such do not show up in teh gallery, they need to be entered into the gallery which creates a thumbnail for them. best of luck John On Oct 5, 10:40pm, wahib wahib.t...@gmail.com wrote: hi !! I have created a image file in a folder /androidimages and when i try to run emulator from terminal giving path to this image file it gives error: i try = $ emulator -sdcard /home/soms/androidemuimages/androidnew.img -avd androidnew error= SDL init failure, reason is: No available video device as a second alternative i give path to this image file in AVD manager in eclipse but even it doesnt recognises it i guess. coz when i try to use camera it display the toast that sdcard is not enabled. = second problem is that when i try to push a .bmp file to sdcard using $ adb push bar3.bmp /sdcard there is no error but there is no change in logcat and no image added to gallery. or is it somewhere else?:S Plz forgive if i sound childish. Thanks in advance, regards, wahib --
[android-beginners] Re: Is there a Java API Spec for Android
mark, as far as the language goes, is android java 1.6 or 1.5? i assume 1.6 but i couldn't find anything that stated that explicitly. the other thing i don't understand is binary compatibility. i had assumed i could not take a class compiled with something other than the android SDK and use it in android, but it appears that is not that case as i've seen that one can take an arbitrary JAR and use it in an android project ... with the limitation i assume that it can't use parts of the Java SE SDK that aren't part of android. is this correct? thanks. On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: It looks like most (but not all) of Java SE is there other than awt. Uh, no. Swing and other packages are missing outright, and various classes are missing from other packages (e.g., most of java.beans). Are all the included packages complete per Java SE 1.5? No. What happens if you try to use a class in javax.xml.xpath for example? I suspect it may cause a rupture in the space-time continuum. If you could avoid doing that, it'd be appreciated... ;-) Can you only find this kind of mistake by testing? Testing or reading the SDK docs to see if the class in question is part of the public SDK. Who decides what part of Java is included. First tier is the Apache Harmony project, from which Android gets its java.* and javax.* packages. After that, it's the core Android team. I'm just trying to understand how the platform is defined. The same way any class library is defined: by its documentation. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-beginners] Re: Creating a Lite and Pro version of an application
what's missing from the market is dependencies. i often had the idea of publishing an "app" that is just a service for use by other apps ... but the fact that the user needs to manually download the service first sort of rules that out. if we had dependencies, you could have an app core and then have a free and paid app "check" that depend on the core. all the checker activity does it set some bit and then launch the core. yes i know that's a lot of hand waving. On 10/5/09 1:55 PM, Steve Oliver wrote: So a user would need to download both the free app, as well as the paid app (which unlocks features in the free app)? Is there a way where a user could download just the paid app? On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Justin Anderson janderson@gmail.com wrote: The method is to have a main application and an application that acts a key to "unlock" functionality in the main app. You can't upload two products with the same package to the android market. Doing it the way I described in the other thread allows the main application to contain all the functionality to run in both "lite" and "paid" modes. The mode that the application runs in is determined by whether you have the key installed, which of course would have to have a separate package name because you are not allowed to upload two projects with the same package name. The application that acts as a key never even has to run... it just has to exist. Although, in my case, I have my key program set to just launch my main app and quit. Pulling common stuff out into a separate library would "work" (kind of) but it would not be as easy as my method. Thanks, Justin -- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't. -- On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Steve steveoliv...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think the other thread explained how to do this without creating two package names. You would either have to re-name your package each time you published, or you would need two different projects, wouldn't you? Another approach is to try to pull out as much common functionality as you can into a 3rd Java-only project, with each of your projects (paid and free). The tough part is that you can't move anything that references resources into a Java-only project. On Oct 5, 11:58am, Justin Anderson janderson@gmail.com wrote: I have already asked the same question, and later the solution on another thread. Just do a quick search for "code base" and you will find out how to do this. If you have done this already, then you can ignore this, but a lot of duplicate questions can be eliminated simply by searching for an answer before posting a new question... Thanks, Justin -- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't. -- On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 7:48 PM, jax jackma...@gmail.com wrote: I want to crete two seperate android applications. 1. A "Lite" version with limited functionality 2. A upgrade to the lite version (Pro version) with extended functionality (This will cost money) Can someone tell me the best way to approach thisproject setup etc. -- Android mobile application development http://steveoliverc.squarespace.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] zoomToSpan() then setZoom()
i have some code that uses zoomToSpan(...), then calls getZoomLevel() and based on the result may call setZoom(...). this is to ensure a minimum zoom level. what i am seeing is that the call to setZoom(...) is ignored and the level is not set. does zoomToSpan() introduce some sort of pending operation that when executed overwrites the call to setZoom()? perhaps the operation hasn't animated to the value yet? not sure if there's another way to do this ... as i don't think there's any way to go directly from a lat-lng span to a zoom level other than calling zoomToSpan() and getting the result. any ideas? thanks. --
[android-beginners] Re: onCreate() and current tab
thanks mark. my answer is what you'd expect. i thought it would make the app most modular. your approach would have been better. in retrospect, the use case for tabs as activities is probably only to allow someone to quickly stick an existing, stand alone activity in a tab. for some reason inflater is never intuitive to me. to get around this i ended up moving the initialization code out of onCreate(), adding a listener for tab change, and sending a message to initialize the activities separately. another problem with the tabs as activities approach is that in general i have quite a lot of code dedicated to communciation between the tab activity and the tabs' activities. On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Frankly, I have yet to figure out what that sex appeal is of putting activities in tabs. AFAICT, it results in more fragile code. If you need the same things to be in a tab *and* in a separate activity, reuse the inflation and view logic between a standalone activity and just using the View for a tab's contents. All the tabs-as-activities code seems to do is launch the activity, then rip the root view out of that activity and put it in the tab. So, if you really want control over what happens when, I'd skip the tabs-as-activities approach, and just put ordinary views in the tabs. But, that's just me. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-beginners] emulator + 1.6, cannot set location
in 1.5, i could set a location into the emulator by telnet'ing to the emulator's port, and doing geo fix lng lat. since moving to 1.6 (and i'm on a new OS if that matters which i assume it doesn't), the telnet and command work fine but it doesn't appear that the emulator picks it up. when i do my location on google maps, it eventually comes back and says your location is temporaily unavailable. did i forget something? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-beginners] Re: emulator + 1.6, cannot set location
never mind. geo fix ... was working, but i had use network enabled on the emulator. if this is the case, it returns the network provider, which does not give a location (returns null from getLastKnown...). On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: in 1.5, i could set a location into the emulator by telnet'ing to the emulator's port, and doing geo fix lng lat. since moving to 1.6 (and i'm on a new OS if that matters which i assume it doesn't), the telnet and command work fine but it doesn't appear that the emulator picks it up. when i do my location on google maps, it eventually comes back and says your location is temporaily unavailable. did i forget something? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-beginners] onCreate() and current tab
i have a tab host that saves the last selected tab into a preference, and loads it again in onCreate(). i add the tabs to the tab host through an intent, such as, mTabHost.addTab(mTabHost.newTabSpec(closest).setIndicator(Closest, getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.location)).setContent( new Intent(this, ClosestActivity.class))); the problem is that i only want the onCreate() method of the selected tab to be called. however, the onCreate() method of the first tab added through addTab() is always called, regardless of the selected tab. i figure this is happening because i'm calling addTab() before i've called setCurrentTab(). since there's no selected tab set when i call addTab(), it assumes it's the first one added. assuming i'm correct there, is there a way to delay the tab host's initialization of the selected tab, until i can set it manually? or maybe i'm missing some other sublety. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-beginners] Re: onCreate() and current tab
actually, i was mistaken. onCreate() for all the added tabs is called. considering, it seems less likely that there's a solution ... i'd like to only call onCreate() for the selected tab. On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: i have a tab host that saves the last selected tab into a preference, and loads it again in onCreate(). i add the tabs to the tab host through an intent, such as, mTabHost.addTab(mTabHost.newTabSpec(closest).setIndicator(Closest, getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.location)).setContent( new Intent(this, ClosestActivity.class))); the problem is that i only want the onCreate() method of the selected tab to be called. however, the onCreate() method of the first tab added through addTab() is always called, regardless of the selected tab. i figure this is happening because i'm calling addTab() before i've called setCurrentTab(). since there's no selected tab set when i call addTab(), it assumes it's the first one added. assuming i'm correct there, is there a way to delay the tab host's initialization of the selected tab, until i can set it manually? or maybe i'm missing some other sublety. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-beginners] Re: Web Service
apparently you can use netbeans to develop android apps, but any documentation you find is going to reference eclipse ... if you google for netbeans + android you'll find one page, but other than that you are on your own. On 9/30/09 5:33 AM, Eray Ince wrote: I am newbie @Android, but I have experience with J2ME. I would like to start a forecast application using Netbeans which will use webservice. Could anybody provide me a guide, link, etc.? Thanks in Advance Kind Regards -- -- Eray --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] question: adp1 images on a t-mobile g1?
what is special about the adp1 images that makes them only flashable on an adp1? that's what htc claims. is it something for subtle, for example, root access is required? or is there something special about the adp1's hardware that really prevents it from being installed on a g1? i ask because i own an unlocked g1 used with att, and with the removal of modded android dists, i no longer have an upgrade path. thanks. --
[android-beginners] Re: Pass data between activitys
yes, the object needs to be serializable or parcelable. On 9/29/09 2:22 PM, DWischer wrote: On 29 Sep., 20:11, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Use putExtra() on the Intent you use to launch the new Activity. The new Activity can then use getExtra() to retrieve them. Is it possible to pass complete Java objects via putExtra? I just found functions for passing simple data types. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Motorola Krave zn4 run on android?
as far as i can tell it doesn't run linux. regardless, running linux is one thing, having an android dist for that hardware is completely different. On 9/26/09 9:32 PM, candyman wrote: As most of you know the Moto Krave zn4 runs on linux, but is it possible to run android on this device? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: HTC Hero
android apps are write once run anywhere (in theory). On 9/28/09 12:16 PM, Eros Stein wrote: Hi everyone. Does anyone know if there are differences between the G2 and Hero. Software differences. Will the app I wrote for G2 work the same way on a Hero? Thanks. -- Eros Eduardo Stein Tcnico de Informtica / Em breve analista. USE http://www.ekaaty.org http://www.erosstein.info --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: HTC Hero
yes. my understanding is that the motorola cliq is doing something similar ... android, but with an altered front end. it sent a chill down my spine. IMHO, these companies should be putting effort into android to improve its theme mechanism until it can cover their needs. then we should be able to install the hero theme, or the cliq theme on any phone. now, maybe motorola / htc would not license use of the theme on other phones, but it should be possible technically. On 9/28/09 12:40 PM, Jonas Petersson wrote: Jeffrey Blattman wrote: android apps are write once run anywhere (in theory). Technically, yes. However, my experience is that many Hero users expect apps to also LOOK like most of the apps that come with their Hero from the start and since HTC has significantly altered the lookfeel an app that looks "normal" on the G1/G2 may very well be considered "ugly" on the Hero. I've had one Hero user rate one of my apps with a single star just because of this (even though he claimed the app did everything he expected). Sure, I could dismiss this user as ignorant, but don't we all hope that every single noob should own an android? As Hero is the most common android around here, I decided to alter the way my app looks. Ideally there should be a way to skin all apps the same, but alas it is not there yet. Maybe we can hope for 2.0? Best / Jonas On 9/28/09 12:16 PM, Eros Stein wrote: Hi everyone. Does anyone know if there are differences between the G2 and Hero. Software differences. Will the app I wrote for G2 work the same way on a Hero? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Should anyone be allowed to alter Android OS and Applications?
the big deal is that the license does not grant the right to re-distribute. this is pretty standard for a closed source license. while it's true that most (all?) android phones come with the google apps today, there's no requirement of that and it may not be the case in the future. mr. cell phone maker can take AOSP and build their own dist and choose not to include the google apps. google doesn't want mr. happy phone owners to be able to install a 3rd party dist that includes the google apps. why not? because mr. happy vendor didn't license the apps from google, and the apps weren't tested on mr. happy vendor's hardware. On 9/26/09 11:03 PM, Fugita wrote: Understood but they come with the phone already so what is the big deal? It is not like CM is altering the Google Applications. He is altering the OS. On Sep 26, 10:09pm, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: unfortunately, it's not that simple. there are parts of android dists like CM that are not in AOSP. the google apps are a major, glaring example. their license clearly does not allow them to be re-distributed. so you can make a custom android dist, but it can't include google mail, google maps, google contacts, etc. the analogy would be if you created a custom linux dist and bundled a bunch of for-pay, closed-source software with it. no one would question why that is illegal. i think a lot of people just assume that those google android apps are open source. they aren't. On 9/26/09 6:56 PM, Fugita wrote: It is an Open Operating System with the code released for all to use but developers have stopped Modifying the Stock OS because it seems it is illegal! WHAT... I mean really it is OPEN! Meaning we can do what we want with the code as long as we are not selling it for profit, right? I just don't get it. I mean with developers out there like Cyanogen making the OS better, I'd be looking at his work to see what could be done to add changes to the OS and MAKE IT BETTER! Why not listen to the community instead of trying to shut them down! -- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Confused how to get root access to my adp1 phone
you can always get root access regardless of the current state of your phone. here's one guide. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=548924 On 9/26/09 11:40 PM, William Heath wrote: Hi All, I am working with a borrowed phone from google and they said it was a "dev phone". The back just says with Google. When I go to setting-about phone I see: Model Number: Android Dev Phone 1 Firmware version 1.5 Kernel Version: 2.6.27-00399-gc7f8bce Build number: CRC56 adb root gives: adb root adbd cannot run as root in production builds I am confused by this. I was told I would automatically have root access because this was a dev phone. Anyway, what can I try/do to get root access? I also want to build my own custom builds, does this mean I can't? http://recluze.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/flashing-android-dev-phone-1/ Anyway, thanks for the help! -Tim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: remote app commands sent via http
nah. first, he said that the endpoint wants GET params, and you are
opening with POST method below. you don't need to write data to the
stream. the data is passed to the endpoint as GET params.
if you just want to pass the get params, it's enough to just call
openConnection(). depending on how the endpoint returns a response, you
can check the response code with getResponseCode(), or you can read a
data response (XML, JSON, etc) by calling getInputStream(). here's the
simplest case,
URL url = "" URL(urlString);
HttpURLConnection uc = (HttpURLConnection)
url.openConnection();
uc.setReadTimeout(30 * 1000); // 30 seconds
if (uc.getResponseCode() != 200) {
//TODO: handle error and return
}
reader = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(uc.getInputStream(), "ISO-8859-1"), 8192);
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
result.append(line);
result.append('\n');
}
// result data is in "result"
On 9/27/09 11:07 AM, Alok Kulkarni wrote:
This works
URL url = "" URL(serverURL);
// open the conncetion
HttpURLConnection connection =
(HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
// Let the run-time system (RTS) know that we want
input.
connection.setDoInput(true);
// Let the RTS know that we want to do output
connection.setDoOutput(true);
// No caching, we want the real thing
connection.setUseCaches(false);
// set the content type property
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-type",strContenttype);
// set request method
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
// create the post body to send
String content = credDevPair.toString();
Log.i("Request ... ",content);
DataOutputStream printout = new DataOutputStream (
connection.getOutputStream () );
// send the data
printout.writeBytes(content);
printout.flush();
printout.close();
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:25 PM, HTN revil...@gmail.com
wrote:
It's through GET parameters. I can type in the following command in a
browser's URL box and it works:
http://192.168.0.12/output_format=xmlDeviceNum=13action="">
I'm used to sending commands through TCP sockets so I'm sure what's
the best way to send a URL command. I'm guessing the "opening" a URL
part isn't adequate.
On Sep 26, 8:49 pm, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com
wrote:
you are opening a URL, then writing that URL
to the stream you open at
the URL. that's probably not what you wanted. what's the URL, and
what
is the "command" you are trying to pass? how does the endpoint
accept
the command? by reading POST data? through GET parameters?
On 9/25/09 7:31 PM, HTN wrote:
I'm developing a remote app that sends commands via http.
Normally I
type in a link in a browser and the command will work. With
Android, I
would like it to work with a press of a button. I tried the
following
code and it didn’t work:
URL url = "" URL(urlString);
URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
connection.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter
(connection.getOutputStream());
out.write(urlString);
out.close();
"urlstring" is the http command link.
Any ideas? Am I on the wrong track? I'm confused because
technically I
don't need to write anything to the link. I would think it
would work
if I just open the connection.
Thanks.
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[android-beginners] Re: remote app commands sent via http
no, there's a default read timeout. the only thing i noticed wrong was
that you were writing to URL itself to the stream.
On 9/27/09 11:42 AM, HTN wrote:
Seems like I was on the right track as I had url.openconnection. Is
the ReadTimout portion what I was doing wrong?
I'll try the code out when I get back home tomorrow. Thanks for the
help.
On Sep 27, 2:21 pm, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com
wrote:
nah. first, he said that the endpoint wants GET params, and you are
opening with POST method below. you don't need to write data to the
stream. the data is passed to the endpoint as GET params.
if you just want to pass the get params, it's enough to just call
openConnection(). depending on how the endpoint returns a response, you
can check the response code with getResponseCode(), or you can read a
data response (XML, JSON, etc) by calling getInputStream(). here's the
simplest case,
URL url = "" URL(urlString);
HttpURLConnection uc = (HttpURLConnection)
url.openConnection();
uc.setReadTimeout(30 * 1000); // 30 seconds
if (uc.getResponseCode() != 200) {
//TODO: handle error and return
}
reader = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(uc.getInputStream(), "ISO-8859-1"), 8192);
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
result.append(line);
result.append('\n');
}
// result data is in "result"
On 9/27/09 11:07 AM, Alok Kulkarni wrote:
This works
URL url = "" URL(serverURL);
// open the conncetion
HttpURLConnection connection =
(HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
// Let the run-time system (RTS) know that we want input.
connection.setDoInput(true);
// Let the RTS know that we want to do output
connection.setDoOutput(true);
// No caching, we want the real thing
connection.setUseCaches(false);
// set the content type property
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-type",strContenttype);
// set request method
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
// create the post body to send
String content = credDevPair.toString();
Log.i("Request ... ",content);
DataOutputStream printout = new DataOutputStream (
connection.getOutputStream () );
// send the data
printout.writeBytes(content);
printout.flush();
printout.close();
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:25 PM, HTN revil...@gmail.com
mailto:revil...@gmail.com wrote:
It's through GET parameters. I can type in the following command in a
browser's URL box and it works:
http://192.168.0.12/output_format=xmlDeviceNum=13action="">...
http://192.168.0.12/output_format=xmlDeviceNum=13action="">
I'm used to sending commands through TCP sockets so I'm sure what's
the best way to send a URL command. I'm guessing the "opening" a URL
part isn't adequate.
On Sep 26, 8:49 pm, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com
mailto:jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com
wrote:
you are opening a URL, then writing that URL to the stream you
open at
the URL. that's probably not what you wanted. what's the URL,
and what
is the "command" you are trying to pass? how does the endpoint
accept
the command? by reading POST data? through GET parameters?
On 9/25/09 7:31 PM, HTN wrote:
I'm developing a remote app that sends commands via http.
Normally I
type in a link in a browser and the command will work. With
Android, I
would like it to work with a press of a button. I tried the
following
code and it didn’t work:
URL url = "" URL(urlString);
URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
connection.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter
(connection.getOutputStream());
out.write(urlString);
out.close();
"urlstring" is the http command link.
Any ideas? Am I on the wrong track? I'm confused because
technically I
don't need to write
[android-beginners] Re: remote app commands sent via http
you are opening a URL, then writing that URL to the stream you open at the URL. that's probably not what you wanted. what's the URL, and what is the "command" you are trying to pass? how does the endpoint accept the command? by reading POST data? through GET parameters? On 9/25/09 7:31 PM, HTN wrote: I'm developing a remote app that sends commands via http. Normally I type in a link in a browser and the command will work. With Android, I would like it to work with a press of a button. I tried the following code and it didn’t work: URL url = "" URL(urlString); URLConnection connection = url.openConnection(); connection.setDoOutput(true); OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter (connection.getOutputStream()); out.write(urlString); out.close(); "urlstring" is the http command link. Any ideas? Am I on the wrong track? I'm confused because technically I don't need to write anything to the link. I would think it would work if I just open the connection. Thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Is it possible to pass a set of data to an Intent?
Intent#putExtra(key, ...) On 9/26/09 6:15 AM, Jordan B. wrote: Hi! I want to show a picture using the Camera App's image viewer. Thus, I'm using the following : Uri pictureUri = ContentUris.withAppendedId (Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, id); Intent viewPicture = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, pictureUri); this.startActivity(viewPicture); It works well. But once the image is being displayed, then the user can browse through the whole set of images available on the phone. I would like to be able to show a picture, but also limit the scope of pictures that can be viewed (in the slideshow, and by clicking on the next and previous buttons). Is there an EXTRA field that can be set on the Intent so that the ViewImage activity gets the possible set of data to browse? If it is not possible, I thought about making my own ContentProvider, and passing the URI of the image using this ContentProvider. The latter will only contain the set of images that the user may browse. Will it work with my own ContentProvider? Thanks in advance. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] ADP1 available again
just fyi, the ADP1 is again available for purchase. --
[android-beginners] Re: Should anyone be allowed to alter Android OS and Applications?
unfortunately, it's not that simple. there are parts of android dists like CM that are not in AOSP. the google apps are a major, glaring example. their license clearly does not allow them to be re-distributed. so you can make a custom android dist, but it can't include google mail, google maps, google contacts, etc. the analogy would be if you created a custom linux dist and bundled a bunch of for-pay, closed-source software with it. no one would question why that is illegal. i think a lot of people just assume that those google android apps are open source. they aren't. On 9/26/09 6:56 PM, Fugita wrote: It is an Open Operating System with the code released for all to use but developers have stopped Modifying the Stock OS because it seems it is illegal! WHAT... I mean really it is OPEN! Meaning we can do what we want with the code as long as we are not selling it for profit, right? I just don't get it. I mean with developers out there like Cyanogen making the OS better, I'd be looking at his work to see what could be done to add changes to the OS and MAKE IT BETTER! Why not listen to the community instead of trying to shut them down! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: A problem about application die unexpected.
someone can correct me if i am wrong, but i believe this is normal and
expected. android will stop your process when memory becomes low. to
verify this, put some debugging in your onPause(), onStop(),
onDestroy() methods. if those are being called, it the OS stopping your
process.
On 9/23/09 1:21 AM, whitech wrote:
I've met this problem serveral times.
When my application is running, some times it die unexpected. The
logcat print the message below:
(the application name is remove)
09-23 16:00:42.407: INFO/DEBUG(539): *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
*** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
09-23 16:00:42.407: INFO/DEBUG(539): Build fingerprint: 'generic/sdk/
generic/:1.5/CUPCAKE/147336:eng/test-keys'
09-23 16:00:42.407: INFO/DEBUG(539): pid: 1471, tid: 1534
com.xx.xx
09-23 16:00:42.407: INFO/DEBUG(539): signal 11 (SIGSEGV), fault addr
00fe
09-23 16:00:42.407: INFO/DEBUG(539): r0 ff9d9d9d r1 43804000 r2
4232 r3 45ba86a0
09-23 16:00:42.407: INFO/DEBUG(539): r4 ff9d9d9d r5 43804000 r6
becf511c r7 45ba86e8
09-23 16:00:42.407: INFO/DEBUG(539): r8 44da4008 r9 ff80 10
74e7 fp 0200
09-23 16:00:42.407: INFO/DEBUG(539): ip ff81 sp 45ba8698 lr
ac043dfc pc 00fe cpsr 9030
09-23 16:00:42.467: INFO/DEBUG(539): #00 pc 00fe
09-23 16:00:42.548: INFO/DEBUG(539): #01 pc 00043df8 /
system/lib/libsgl.so
09-23 16:00:42.557: INFO/DEBUG(539): #02 pc 0003e018 /
system/lib/libsgl.so
09-23 16:00:42.557: INFO/DEBUG(539): #03 pc 0004ea00 /
system/lib/libsgl.so
09-23 16:00:42.557: INFO/DEBUG(539): #04 pc 00047e4c /
system/lib/libsgl.so
09-23 16:00:42.568: INFO/DEBUG(539): #05 pc 00075d64 /
system/lib/libsgl.so
09-23 16:00:42.568: INFO/DEBUG(539): #06 pc 000767d4 /
system/lib/libsgl.so
09-23 16:00:42.568: INFO/DEBUG(539): #07 pc 0005b3e8 /
system/lib/libsgl.so
09-23 16:00:42.578: INFO/DEBUG(539): #08 pc 00054b80 /
system/lib/libsgl.so
09-23 16:00:42.578: INFO/DEBUG(539): #09 pc 00052204 /
system/lib/libsgl.so
09-23 16:00:42.588: INFO/DEBUG(539): #10 pc 0003d008 /
system/lib/libandroid_runtime.so
09-23 16:00:42.588: INFO/DEBUG(539): #11 pc e3b4 /
system/lib/libdvm.so
09-23 16:00:42.588: INFO/DEBUG(539): stack:
09-23 16:00:42.598: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba8658
09-23 16:00:42.598: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba865c 000b
09-23 16:00:42.611: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba8660 45ba86d4
09-23 16:00:42.611: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba8664 0001
09-23 16:00:42.617: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba8668 0010
09-23 16:00:42.632: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba866c 0010
09-23 16:00:42.632: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba8670 0010
09-23 16:00:42.632: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba8674 0010
09-23 16:00:42.632: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba8678 44da4008
09-23 16:00:42.638: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba867c 0080
09-23 16:00:42.638: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba8680 0020
09-23 16:00:42.638: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba8684 45ba87ec
09-23 16:00:42.648: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba8688 0006
09-23 16:00:42.648: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba868c 0006
09-23 16:00:42.648: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba8690 df002777
09-23 16:00:42.648: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba8694 e3a070ad
09-23 16:00:42.648: INFO/DEBUG(539): #01 45ba8698 0037
09-23 16:00:42.648: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba869c
09-23 16:00:42.648: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba86a0 44da4008
09-23 16:00:42.648: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba86a4 003039f0 [heap]
09-23 16:00:42.648: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba86a8 45ba8b54
09-23 16:00:42.648: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba86ac 0080
09-23 16:00:42.648: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba86b0 ffb7
09-23 16:00:42.648: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba86b4 0037
09-23 16:00:42.648: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba86b8 0100
09-23 16:00:42.648: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba86bc 44da4008
09-23 16:00:42.648: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba86c0 ff80
09-23 16:00:42.648: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba86c4 becf511c [stack]
09-23 16:00:42.648: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba86c8 0200
09-23 16:00:42.648: INFO/DEBUG(539): 45ba86cc ac03e01c /system/
lib/libsgl.so
09-23 16:00:43.577: INFO/ActivityManager(568): Process com.uc.browser
(pid 1471) has died.
09-23 16:00:43.599: INFO/WindowManager(568): WIN DEATH: Window
{43766f50 com.xx.xxr/com.xx.xx.Activityxx paused=false}
09-23 16:00:43.707: WARN/InputManagerService(568): Got RemoteException
sending setActive(false) notification to pid 1471 uid 10018
so, what happended? Is there any possible operation will cause this
problem?
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[android-beginners] Re: Utility class for database query
have you seen android.database.*? what would you provide on top of that? On 9/23/09 4:34 AM, Sudeep Jha wrote: Hi all, Can anybody suggest what functionality to provide in a query utility class/classes? The idea is to provide a database utility package for android developers. I just wanna do it for android community and of course for my learning.:-) Warm Regards, Sudeep --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: Noob array question
in java, arrays are fixed size. if you want a growable list of object,
use ArrayList or explore java.util for other alternatives.
String[] sa = new String[2];
s[0] = "hello";
s[1] = "world";
ListString sl = new ArrayListString();
sl.add("hello");
sl.add("wold");
...
I'm new to Android and Java and am stumped on the simplest things.
How do I create a simple array and push/clear it?
I'm used to something like
myarray = new Array() // creates empty array
myarray.push("something") // array now has one element at index [0]
myarray.push("something_else") // array now has two elements
myarray = new Array() // overwrites and therefore resets array
I can't find the equivalent in android. Can someone please enlighten
me.
You'd be amazed at how much time I've spent searching before posting.
Seriously amazed...
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[android-beginners] Re: Communicate between two threads
mark, could on also use a dedicated broadcast receiver? for example, the activity registers a BR that has a handle to the activity itself. the client then sendBroadcasts() to the BR? On 9/21/09 10:11 AM, Mark Murphy wrote: What is the best way now, to pass information (IP or client socket object) between the two thread? (so that I could update the ListView in thread one when new incoming socket is accepted) Use a Handler, to send either messages or Runnable objects to be executed on the UI thread. --
[android-beginners] Re: Communicate between two threads
i've used the handler approach, and it gets really, really ugly. i have this huge switch statement covering all the possible messages. it's so ugly it made me think i must be doing something wrong. On 9/21/09 10:26 AM, Mark Murphy wrote: could on also use a dedicated broadcast receiver? for example, the activity registers a BR that has a handle to the activity itself. the client then sendBroadcasts() to the BR? Yes, but that would be a lot more overhead and a lot more public. Intents are broadcast to the device as a whole, not just within your application. Ordinarily, I would have suggested AsyncTask, but I believe the threading model the OP needs for the ServerSocket will not work well with the AsyncTask framework. --
[android-beginners] Re: Error : No embedded stylesheet instruction for file
remove all of the *.out.* files in your project. when you run, click on the project (top level) in the package browser (left pane) first, and ensure that you are doing "run as" an android application. eclipse seems to want to "run" whatever you have selected. go knows what it's doing when you try to run something like strings.xml, but it fails and generates a .out file ... which then corrupts your android project because android doesn't understand all the .out files laying all of the place. On 9/20/09 10:04 AM, Raphael wrote: You're not giving enough information to help you: are you using Eclipse? how did you build and run? That doesn't look like you're running an android app on an emulator at all. R/ On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Mabel mabelj.fin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to build a simple application that prints a "hello world" While trying to run I get the following error. Also a new file named "Strings.out.xml" is formed. Kindly let me what would be the problem. 23:47:52,968 INFO [main] Main - javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=null 23:47:52,971 INFO [main] Main - java.endorsed.dirs=C:\Program Files \Java\jre6\lib\endorsed 23:47:52,983 INFO [main] Main - launchFile: C:\Mabel_Drive\Projects \Android_workspace\.metadata\.plugins \org.eclipse.wst.xsl.jaxp.launching\launch\launch.xml 23:47:53,062 FATAL [main] Main - No embedded stylesheet instruction for file: file:/C:/Mabel_Drive/Projects/Android_workspace/Sudoku/res/ values/strings.xml org.eclipse.wst.xsl.jaxp.debug.invoker.TransformationException: No embedded stylesheet instruction for file: file:/C:/Mabel_Drive/ Projects/Android_workspace/Sudoku/res/values/strings.xml at org.eclipse.wst.xsl.jaxp.debug.invoker.internal.JAXPSAXProcessorInvoker.transform (JAXPSAXProcessorInvoker.java:225) at org.eclipse.wst.xsl.jaxp.debug.invoker.internal.JAXPSAXProcessorInvoker.transform (JAXPSAXProcessorInvoker.java:186) at org.eclipse.wst.xsl.jaxp.debug.invoker.internal.Main.main (Main.java:73) Caused by: org.eclipse.wst.xsl.jaxp.debug.invoker.TransformationException: No embedded stylesheet instruction for file: file:/C:/Mabel_Drive/ Projects/Android_workspace/Sudoku/res/values/strings.xml at org.eclipse.wst.xsl.jaxp.debug.invoker.internal.JAXPSAXProcessorInvoker.transform (JAXPSAXProcessorInvoker.java:214) ... 2 more --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] Re: make my own libraries
i understand that you can create a jar in whatever manner you wish, and then import the JAR into your project (in eclipse). another different option is to create an android service, then pre-install the service for use by your other apps. On 9/19/09 5:23 AM, Michael Dorin wrote: Hello, I am making libraries that I would like to use on different projects. So far I am just copying the code in... Is there an easy way to make a 'library' project...and I import? Thanks, Mike --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
[android-beginners] font padding?
i'm noticing, with a text view, there is a lot of padding around a font character. see screen cap below, i'd like to remove the spacing above and below the 6. i've tried changing the line height multiplier, and and height of the text view, but it just start cutting off the bottom and doesn't change the padding at the top. any ideas? thanks. --
[android-beginners] Re: When does one start to develop for 1.6?
that's fine if you want your app to not be available on most devices for some time. the date when 1.6 devices start appearing in one thing, the date when most devices will have been updated is another. that's really what you should be targeting. i'd say target your 1.6 app release for ~1 month after the last provider makes their OTA 1.6 update available. On 9/16/09 3:31 PM, Balwinder Kaur (T-Mobile USA) wrote: Now would be a time as good as any to start developing apps with the SDK 1.6 and new Level 4 APIs. As per the Google official blog, devices with 1.6 will start appearing in October. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/09/android-16-sdk-is-here.html. Balwinder Kaur Open Source Development Center T Mobile stick together The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. On Sep 16, 5:27am, MrChaz mrchazmob...@googlemail.com wrote: It takes them a while to push the update to peoples phone so there is no need to rush anything out. It's a good idea to try your apps out on an 1.6 version of the emulator to make sure everything works smoothly though. On Sep 16, 1:12pm, Michael Dorin bsddo...@gmail.com wrote: I see 1.6 has been released...when is the right time to upgrade to it? -Mike --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- --
