[android-developers] Re: READ_LOGS permission is not granted to 3rd party applications in Jelly Bean (api 16)

[Peter Sinnott]

On Jul 13, 12:43 am, Mark Murphy  wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Peter Sinnott  wrote:
> > Is that new in JB? All I can manage to do is turn off the screen or
> > reboot.
>
> I was able to get it working in a Galaxy Nexus running ICS, but only
> after several tries.
>

3 devices with ICS ( HTC Desire / HTC One X / Asus Transformer )
and none of them seem to do it. Probably something obvious I'm doing
wrong.


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[android-developers] Re: READ_LOGS permission is not granted to 3rd party applications in Jelly Bean (api 16)

[Peter Sinnott]

On Jul 12, 6:15 pm, Dianne Hackborn  wrote:
> If you want the user to give you debugging information, you can have them
> generate a bug report with power + volume down + volume up which includes
> the logs and lots of other data, and automatically brings up their e-mail
> app to sent it all (plus a screenshot).  We were just discussing that we
> should have an easier way to generate these as well, I am going to look at
> adding something to the settings app.

Is that new in JB? All I can manage to do is turn off the screen or
reboot.

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[android-developers] Re: Publisher language selection

[Peter Sinnott]

On Feb 5, 7:33 pm, radadev  wrote:
> I'm an Android developer and I have a publisher account. My publisher
> page is in Spanish for some reason, and I want to change it back to
> English. It's not a huge problem because I know Spanish as a second
> language, but English was my first language, so I'd much rather have
> it back to that. I can't seem to find the option to do so, though.

The Market teams are weird. They should really use your browser
setting for language.

Try

https://market.android.com/publish/Home?hl=en

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[android-developers] Android Design - List action button

[Peter Sinnott]

Currently I am using long clicks and an alert dialog to allow users to
select actions that can be performed on an item in a list view.
I would like to replace this with an action button as this seems to be
suggested practice going forward.

Does the sdk provide a drawable for this type of button? I don't see
anything that matches the guideline.

http://developer.android.com/design/building-blocks/lists.html

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[android-developers] Re: Nexus S - Six month - and still no update of the zoneinfo?

[Peter Sinnott]

Poor form but hardly unexpected.

On Oct 31, 6:31 am, zl0pi  wrote:
> http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=21377
>
> "In 2011, the Russian government proclaimed that daylight saving time
> would in future be observed all year round, thus effectively
> displacing standard time—an action which the government claimed
> emerged from health concerns attributed to the annual shift back-and-
> forth between standard time and daylight saving time.[1] On 27 March
> 2011, Muscovites set their clocks forward for a final time,
> effectively observing MSD, or UTC+4, permanently."
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Time

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[android-developers] Re: Android SDK is the must buggy SDK in the entire mobile ecosystem.

[Peter Sinnott]

There are a lot of tools for helping with issues like this.

http://www.emptyloop.com/unlocker/

Kinda sad really. It makes it look like no one in the installer team
bothers to test with the most popular platform.

On Oct 28, 1:48 pm, sblantipodi  wrote:
> Obviously I closed everything before posting here, the problem is
> that the SDK Manager isn't able to rename the folder because it is
> using it itself -_-
>
> On Oct 28, 2:43 pm, Kostya Vasilyev  wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Close any processes that may be using this folder: Explorer, any command
> > line windows, Eclipse...
>
> > To be fair, installers are usually able to deal with this (file used by
> > application "xxx", click here to close, or click here to retry, or click
> > here to complete after reboot...)
>
> > -- Kostya
>
> > 28.10.2011 16:35, sblantipodi пишет:
>
> > >http://postimage.org/image/8nqmbfarj/
> > > Clearly no software is using the tools directly except for the SDK
> > > Manager itself.
> > > I really can't belive that google is offering similar products to
> > > developers.
>
> > > I have no time to loose behing this.
>
> > --
> > Kostya Vasilyev

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[android-developers] Re: What is "Desktop backup password" in ICS Dev menu?

[Peter Sinnott]

I asked the same question in android discuss and got no answers.
The fact it is in the dev menu probably means it isn't too
interesting.

On Oct 22, 11:05 pm, Artem Russakovskii  wrote:
> What exactly is that for? Is it for snapshots that the AVD Manager
> creates? Is it for actually backing up your phone to your desktop?
>
> Reference:http://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/llehh/every_android_devel...
>
> Picture:http://i.imgur.com/yN4cc.png
>
> Thank you.

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[android-developers] Re: Settings.Secure.ANDROID_ID not unique on DROID2?

[Peter Sinnott]

Is the ANDROID_ID the id that is used to identify phones/emulators in
ddms?
My phone has the rather unlikely id 0123456789ABCDEF.
I guess my roms maker took the xkcd approach to random numbers.

http://xkcd.com/221/

On Oct 20, 4:48 am, John Coryat  wrote:
> It's not only the DROID2 that has this issue. There are several handsets
> that have this "poisonous" ANDROID_ID. In our files, there are over 140,000
> users with the id 9774d56d682e549c.
>
> It's really not something that can be counted on being unique.
>
> -John Coryat

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[android-developers] Re: Last Market Update : app search fail ?

[Peter Sinnott]

I think it used to be on the known issues page.

https://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/developer/bin/static.py?page=known_issues.cs

I don't see it now. Would be nice if they fixed it before removing it.

You can report it

http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/request.py?contact_type=market_phone_tablet

but I wouldn't bother.

On Oct 14, 12:52 am, Justin Anderson  wrote:
> *> Am i missing something?*
>
> Probably not... welcome to the wonderful world of the Android Market!
>
> Thanks,
> Justin Anderson
> MagouyaWare Developerhttp://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:41 PM, mrqzzz  wrote:
> > Hi.
> > Since the last Market update (about 1 week ago now) i experience what
> > i suppose is wrong:
>
> > Pressing the lens on the top right and typing "funny sounds" returns
> > "8767 results" in the top label, but scrolling down i get only 8 apps
> > in the list (and my app is not showing...).
>
> > Am i missing something?
>
> > Thank you,
> > Marcus.
>
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[android-developers] Re: GL-related Crash on Xoom/Tab 10.1 requiring removal of battery or shell reboot?

[Peter Sinnott]

Does anyone even pay attention to issues logged against the project?
I imagine they are ignored like the public bug tracker.

On Oct 10, 7:54 pm, Robert Green  wrote:
> Isn't this that really awful GL-related bug I've been talking about
> for nearly 2 years?  I can't believe this still exists in honeycomb,
> worse yet that it's nearly unrecoverable to tablet users that can't
> remove their battery and don't have enough technical knowledge to use
> ADB.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7432
>
> IMO this should be upgraded to severe.  It's been plaguing Android
> devices since 2.1
>
> W/SharedBufferStack(  136): waitForCondition(LockCondition) timed out
> (identity=3, status=0). CPU may be pegged. trying again.
> W/SharedBufferStack(   78): waitForCondition(ReallocateCondition)
> timed out
> (identity=9, status=0). CPU may be pegged. trying again.
> W/SharedBufferStack(   78): waitForCondition(LockCondition) timed out
> (identity=5, status=0). CPU may be pegged. trying again.
> W/SharedBufferStack(  381): waitForCondition(LockCondition) timed out
> (identity=7, status=0). CPU may be pegged. trying again.
> W/SharedBufferStack(  136): waitForCondition(LockCondition) timed out
> (identity=3, status=0). CPU may be pegged. trying again.
> ...

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[android-developers] Re: Install % statistic removed, replaced with "users" and "devices"

[Peter Sinnott]

Maybe someone should report it not working to them.

On Sep 27, 1:28 am, TreKing  wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Peter Sinnott  wrote:
> > I tend to think it isn't correct but if Google had actually emailed me an
> > update on the issue like I asked in the known issues page I would have a
> > clue.
>
> Has anyone ever gotten an update to an issue by "signing up" for email
> notices about it?
>
> I sign up for every "known issue" - so, you know, approximately every 3 days
> - yet have never received an update about anything. Even when they're
> "fixed".
>
> -
> TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago
> transit tracking app for Android-powered devices

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[android-developers] Re: Install % statistic removed, replaced with "users" and "devices"

[Peter Sinnott]

I tend to think it isn't correct but if Google had actually emailed me
an update on the issue like I asked in the known issues page I would
have a clue.


On Sep 26, 7:28 pm, TreKing  wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Doug  wrote:
> > Maybe all it's saying now is that some users have the app installed on
> > two devices with the same google account.
>
> > Anyone know if I am reading this correctly?
>
> Sounds plausible, but really, who would know for sure except the people that
> don't talk to us?
>
> -
> TreKing  - Chicago
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[android-developers] Re: Android is worst os mobile is this true

[Peter Sinnott]

On Sep 21, 10:41 pm, TreKing  wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Peter Sinnott  wrote:
> > On Sep 21, 2:47 am, Dianne Hackborn  wrote:
> > > Also, Android kills babies.
>
> Doesn't work for me. I guess it is another US only feature.
>
>
>
> You just have to throw harder.
>

If I wanted to be told how to throw my own phone I would have bought
an iPhone!

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[android-developers] Re: Android is worst os mobile is this true

[Peter Sinnott]

Doesn't work for me. I guess it is another US only feature.

On Sep 21, 2:47 am, Dianne Hackborn  wrote:
> Also, Android kills babies.
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:02 PM, wanyce ashoura wrote:
>
>
>
> > Yes i should say that
> > Why because of more then one reason
> > 1- not support Arabic language at all meaning you need long time to
> > get Arabic support
> > in any kind of android Mobile's
> > 2- alot of futures not founded in android like what
> > * redial .
> > *voice mail .
> > *gps navigator offline .
> > * voice command offline .
> > *proxy .
> > * a lot of security issues .
> > *suck in browsing web site's
> > *crazy market request any program will some times downloaded and may
> > will not or pause download .
> > 3- is android real free software and  open source i do not think so is
> > near to windows mobile
> > just android use linux kernel and java but is not cool at all
> > 4-blue tooth is crazy to used in android
> > 5-not support any thing we dream about it
> > about me i am waiting for the best came from android from long time
> > before
> > and now i have no hope about this os because is just another low level
> > mobile os like symbian or badi or windows
> > low level meaning is not reach what we as user's wanted not is
> > programing
> > 5- release 1.5 and 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 and jump to 3.0 3.1 3.2
> > but what about other version's is them not deserve some of update's
> > and improvement
> > just jump like this ..
> > ==
> > i hope this e-mail reach real developer behind android and them start
> > moving up and
> > give us some hope to we can have mobile's can do what almost we
> > wanted
>
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[android-developers] Re: What is the sorting order on Android Market?

[Peter Sinnott]

That isn't great but what about Inesoft Cash Organizer. No other apps
by the dev , 1-5 installs and it is at position 8.

On Sep 19, 1:39 am, Zsolt Vasvari  wrote:
> There is no sorting order as it appears that companies can "buy" a
> good place in the order.
>
> The current #1 Financial App has debuted in the #1 spot.  That would
> never happen with no reviews and no downloads for any other "no name"
> app from an independent developer.  But since it's an app from a well
> known player in the field, it appeared as #1 and it has stayed there.
> Curious if the playing field is even -- it certainly doesn't appear to
> be.
>
> On Sep 18, 7:17 pm, sblantipodi  wrote:
>
> > I'm always disgusted from the Google policy.
> > My app has more "good" reviews, more downloads, more active downloads
> > and is
> > far above other fart app that no one downloaded.
>
> > On Sep 18, 8:31 am, Pritam  wrote:
>
> > > From what I guess that while publishing the app, you choose a
> > > category, and your app will appear in this category.
> > > Now it may be too down the list, that is something related to SEO part
> > > similar to search engines, and may depend on many factors other than
> > > ratings, like number of downloads, active downloads, total user
> > > reviews, etc. and all that would obviously never will be openly shared
> > > and will keep changing.
> > > Sometimes it may happen things 
> > > like,http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/12/googles-auto-correct-killed-the-laun...,
> > > though now fixed.
>
> > > On Sep 17, 9:46 pm, sblantipodi  wrote:
>
> > > > Hi all...
>
> > > > Is there someone who can help me understanding how android market sort
> > > > the apps?
>
> > > > One of my financial apps has 4.5stars, it has more download than other
> > > > apps but it isn't displayed in the financial section of the market.
>
> > > > Why?
> > > > How the market sort the apps?
>
> > > > Thanks.- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
>

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[android-developers] Re: Android 2.3.5 device cannot find my app

[Peter Sinnott]

I have 2.3.5 on my HTC Desire. In the web market it is marked as
compatible but installing does not work. No error messages so it is
hard to tell if this is related to your app or just the Market being
the Market and randomly not working. In the phone market I can view
the app but there is no install/download button. I can not find the
app in search results but again that could just be the Markets awesome
search facility.

On Sep 7, 4:37 am, albnok  wrote:
> I have received a complaint that a device that was on 2.3.3, now on
> 2.3.5, cannot find my app on the phone Market, and on the web Market,
> it says it is incompatible.
>
> The app is here:https://market.android.com/details?id=com.measat.astro.epg
>
> The app is set to support small-xlarge so that shouldn't be a problem;
> the app minSDK is 3 with no maxSDK set so it's API 3-12+; the app
> requires INTERNET but it appears on WiFi-only devices fine; the app
> asks for a touchscreen but I'll just assume the user isn't trying on a
> Google TV.
>
> The app has Copy Protection set to On - could that be why? This is the
> client's setting.
>
> Also, out of curiosity, is 2.3.5 official? I don't see it anywhere in
> developer.android.com, only in ROMs. Is an unfinalized OS version
> blocked from certain apps?
>
> I could update to a CyanogenMod nightly on 2.3.5 but I'm quite comfy
> with CyanogenMod 7.1.0 RC1 on my HTC Desire - plus I don't want the
> risk that I can't find certain apps.

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[android-developers] Re: Remove me

[Peter Sinnott]

People will do all sorts of crazy stuff attempting to get help with
Android problems.


On Sep 3, 3:19 pm, TreKing  wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Pamela Maddock wrote:
>
> > Please stop sending anymore of this tech stuff its to much for me to take
> > in Thank you
>
> How did you manage to sign up for this "tech stuff" in the first place?
>
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[android-developers] Re: app2sd restrictions - sharing a workaround to allow moving your app to SD card

[Peter Sinnott]

Is your small app on the market?
I uploaded a small app that does what your talking about a couple of
days ago.

https://market.android.com/details?id=sd.boot&feature=search_result


On Sep 2, 10:47 am, mot12  wrote:
> Android recommends that certain apps should not be moved to SD card,
> e.g. alarm clocks, etc.
> Seehttp://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/install-location.html
>
> The reason for that is, among other things, that when the sd card is
> unmounted, registrations with the alarm service are canceled, and the
> app is no longer accessible. When the SD card is mounted again, there
> is no way to launch the app to reregister those services.
>
> So how do you get such apps to work on SD card anyways? I got my app
> (Gentle Alarm) to work on SD card with a little trick that I share
> here.
>
> Notice: Of course the app won't work if the SD card is unmounted. So
> this is NOT a solution for apps that need to remain accessible all the
> time such as live wallpapers.
>
> 1) Create an additional small app that remains in memory. If you have
> a widget for your app, you can use that as widget must stay in
> internal memory anyways. I will call this app B.
>
> 2) If the SD card is unmounted, your app A is no longer accessible.
> App B can notify the user accordingly if desired.
>
> 3) If the SD card is mounted again, there is no way to start app A
> directly. But app B can listen to the event that external apps are now
> available and then send an event to app A which can then reregister
> anything that got broken by unmounting the sd card (e.g. alarm
> service).
>
> 4) If you need to start your app right after a reboot, app A can no
> longer be started after a reboot because the SD card is not mounted
> yet. You can simply get rid of the event receiver because step 3
> already accomplishes what you need. After reboot, the sd card
> eventually is mounted and the external apps will become available. App
> B will listen to this even and trigger app A.
>
> Hope this will help some people to move their apps to the sd card. My
> app has been used with this feature for 3 months by 40+ users and
> I had no complaints.
>
> Martin Hunke
> mobitobi
> Gentle Alarm, Sleep Now

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[android-developers] Re: market problems (ratings and downloads)

[Peter Sinnott]

My one on one support is strikingly similar to yours :)


On Aug 30, 4:02 am, Nikolay Elenkov  wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Peter Sinnott  wrote:
>
> > On Aug 28, 1:23 pm, Nikolay Elenkov  wrote:
> >> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Christiaan Schoenaker
>
> >>  wrote:
> >> > Today my actief installations was down 25. And lost 25ratings too.(of
> >> > which 5comments). Anyone share this bug?
>
> >> Yes. Report it using the Help->Contactin Support link in your developer
> >> console. Someone might take notice, eventually.
>
> > I look forward to the one on one support they promised when they told
> > developers not to post questions to the market forums.
>
> I've been getting some one-to-one support. It's not exactly related to my
> issue (ratings disappearing), but at least it took less than two weeks.
> Ratings are back by the way, although they didn't acknowledge there
> is a problem. YMMV, but here it is:
>
> --
>
> We are constantly launching improvements to Android Market. The changing
> content, as well as updates to our ranking algorithms, can cause comments
> to change position. In addition, some comments may get removed in case
> they don't comply with our Comment Posting Policy posted 
> athttp://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
>
> We can't guarantee that any comment will consistently appear in a
> particular place. We monitor comments closely to make sure we give the
> most relevant results on the top.

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[android-developers] Re: market problems (ratings and downloads)

[Peter Sinnott]

On Aug 28, 8:51 pm, TreKing  wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Peter Sinnott  wrote:
> > I look forward to the one on one support they promised when they
> > told developers not to post questions to the market forums.
>
> LMAO - I damn near keeled over when I read "Heidi's" post (which was
> conveniently closed to responses).
>

Do you mean Heidi is not going to call me to arrange a meeting where
we can discuss
the problem while enjoying a cup of tea and a jaffa cake?

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[android-developers] Re: market problems (ratings and downloads)

[Peter Sinnott]

I see my market stats now say I have some Android 3.1 users where as
previously they claimed there were none. I really wish they could
perform updates to stuff without messing up every time.

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[android-developers] Re: market problems (ratings and downloads)

[Peter Sinnott]

On Aug 28, 1:23 pm, Nikolay Elenkov  wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Christiaan Schoenaker
>
>  wrote:
> > Today my actief installations was down 25. And lost 25ratings too.(of
> > which 5comments). Anyone share this bug?
>
> Yes. Report it using the Help->Contactin Support link in your developer
> console. Someone might take notice, eventually.

I look forward to the one on one support they promised when they told
developers not to post questions to the market forums.

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[android-developers] Re: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: android.os.AsyncTask

[Peter Sinnott]

I have 23 others , 2 nexus ones and 3 droids. There are I think half a
dozen Android phones called droid and that is an awful lot of phones
tagged other. From a practical point of view I wouldn't consider the
device to be reported. The error reporting was nice when it arrived
but after a couple of months you get over it and realise how much
better it could easily be.

On Aug 21, 2:30 am, TreKing  wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Peter Sinnott  wrote:
> > It would nice if the developer console error page had the Android version
> > and device in it.
>
> Technically it does, but the information is presented so horribly it's
> impossible to determine which app version was running on which device when
> the crash is reported.
>
> -
> TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago
> transit tracking app for Android-powered devices

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[android-developers] Re: ListView items

[Peter Sinnott]

Sure it is.

The adaptor has all the items. The view has the visible items.
If you want to do something with the visible items you can use the
view.
If you want to do something with all the items you can use the
adaptor.
If the adaptor doesn't have enough information to know the state of
the checkbox you may have problems but you will when the list scrolls
anyway.


On Aug 20, 12:57 pm, Goutom  wrote:
> Hi Treking
> This is not the answer.
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:45 PM, TreKing  wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Goutom  wrote:
>
> >> Any help?
>
> > Use the adapter that backs the listview.
>
> > -
> > TreKing  - Chicago
> > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices
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[android-developers] Re: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: android.os.AsyncTask

[Peter Sinnott]

On Aug 21, 12:02 am, b0b  wrote:
> I have an app on the Market that works well for most users but for a
> few of them and very rarely, I get crash reports with exception:
>
> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: android.os.AsyncTask
>

AsyncTask was introduced in api level 3. Any chance your apps minimum
sdk level is below that?
Probably not but sometime it is the obvious things that cause the most
trouble.

It would nice if the developer console error page had the Android
version and device in it.

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[android-developers] Re: Asus Eee Pad not supported by my app due to manifest settings when nothing is incompatible

[Peter Sinnott]

It would be helpful if you mentioned the app in question.

I checked all your apps and they are all compatible with my
Transformer.
None of them are compatible with my phone (HTC Desire).

The apps apk tab has info used for filtering (api level,supported
screens,features,opengl) so maybe something is mentioned there.

On Aug 18, 7:31 pm, Appaholics  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an app. I recently asked someone to install the app on their Asus Eee
> Pad. However he told me that his device wasn't supported. I looked at the
> dev console and found out that it is being excluded due to my manifest
> settings. However everything my manifest asks for is available. Another
> market bug or something else?
>
> Thanks
>
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[android-developers] Re: Active install percent metric: now it's just ridiculous!

[Peter Sinnott]

On Aug 16, 8:46 am, Doug  wrote:
>
> The moral of the story is that market numbers are essentially
> useless.  The TRENDS of the numbers over time might be useful, but the
> numbers themselves simply can't be trusted.  I think I started the
> very first thread here about install % over a year ago (back when I
> was easily incensed over these kinds of things) but now it's just
> plain comical!
>

Do trends even matter? My 3.0 installs have declined by 70%. I guess
that could be real but it seems a little strange that I have exactly
zero 3.1 or 3.2 installs. Is Google hiding that data or do other
people have some?

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[android-developers] Re: Broken market update process

[Peter Sinnott]

Whatever happened to the way app updates used to role out in a matter
of seconds.

On Aug 15, 12:00 am, TreKing  wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Ted Hopp  wrote:
> > The new update process, where the apk and product details tabs operate
> > independently, is horrible.
>
> Yup.
>
> The release of .apk updates and marketing material updates need to be
>
> > synchronized. Please fix this!
>
> http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/developer/bin/request.py?...
>
> Good luck.
> 
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[android-developers] Re: Does anyone at Google read bug reports?

[Peter Sinnott]

On Jul 21, 7:28 pm, Mark Murphy  wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Peter Eastman  
> wrote:

> > Does anyone who works on the OS actually read bug reports?
>
> Yes. However, b.android.com is not the issue tracker of record -- an
> internal one is. Hence, I am sure that there are some issues that are
> being addressed but b.android.com has not been updated. And I am sure
> there are plenty of issues that are largely being ignored, for
> whatever reason.

Seems a little silly to have 2 different bug trackers.
Giving the impression that the public tracker is ignored defeats the
point of having one.

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[android-developers] Re: "Can not identify source of the application" WARNING message upon install

[Peter Sinnott]

Do you have unknown sources ticked in applications settings?


On Jul 13, 8:59 pm, "James.sense.C" 
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have tried searching for this warning in some forums and straight-up
> on Google, but haven't found a hit that will resolve my issue yet.
>
> I have successfully exported and signed (with own private key) my
> app / apk, but when I install on my device (Samsung Galaxy series
> equivalent) I get:
>
> _
> WARNING:
>
> Can not identity source of the application.  Your personal information
> might be disclosed.  And network or phone operation might become
> unstable.  If any of these happen, you have to remove the
> application.  Are you sure you want to continue?
> _
>
> I have since tried publishing my app on Android Market to no avail.
>
> Thank you!
> James Chung

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[android-developers] Re: App not visible from Android Market on the device

[Peter Sinnott]

Yesterday some apps had their descriptions in French but only on my
tablet. They were fine in the web and phone markets.
I guess if infinite monkeys with typewriters can write Shakespeare
they can run an online software store.

On Jul 9, 11:14 am, nadam  wrote:
> Android Market has behaved a bit strangely lately. I uploaded an
> update to one of my apps as well as an updated screenshot. The
> screenshot got updated immediately on the market while the app took
> some hours to appear.
>
> On 7 Juli, 20:31, "Manuel R. Ciosici" 
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > All of a sudden the app is visible again, I haven't received any reply
> > from Google though...
>
> > Manuel
>
> > On Jul 7, 3:01 pm, "Manuel R. Ciosici" 
> > wrote:
>
> > > @TreKing
> > > Thank you for the reply. Interesting read, but doesn't apply in my
> > > case.
>
> > > In the meantime also sent an email to Android market support, maybe
> > > they have a explanation.
>
> > > Manuel
>
> > > On Jul 7, 2:45 pm, TreKing  wrote:
>
> > > >http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/developer/bin/static.py?p...
>
> > > > See "Can't Find App" (and "Applications Missing From Android Market" -
> > > > though not exactly your use case). These reeks of another Android Market
> > > > Screw Up™
>
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[android-developers] Re: On CRC32, LVL and tamper-proof app

[Peter Sinnott]

On Jun 12, 9:59 pm, String  wrote:
> Wait...  He's hosting this crap on BLOGGER?!?  And we still can't get Google 
> to shut the site down??
>
> Wow. They care even less about Android piracy than I realized.
>
> String

Better yet they advertise on his site. Google sure do know how to make
money from Android.

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[android-developers] Re: Romain Guy/Diane Help!

[Peter Sinnott]

Market questions don't usually get an official response here but I
guess it is as good a place as any. I would have thought / hoped you
had better support options.

Does anyone know if "Don’t worry, you won’t be creating a duplicate,
the apps are exactly the same and the updated version will simply
replace your existing one." is true? I have always thought preloaded
apps updated via the market used up twice the space since you can
uninstall updates and go back to firmware version.


On Jul 9, 5:41 am, Matthew Powers  wrote:
> We are the ones handling the updates, and I am just looking for some insight
> from people who have delivered preinstalled apps.  If this is not the forum
> to do so then I apologize.
>
> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 12:33 AM, String wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > First, I believe that blog post is wrong, at least for modern versions of
> > Android. I never used the workaround they describe, and I get plenty of
> > updates for preinstalled apps.
>
> > Second, if your app's preinstalled you must have a contact at Toshiba.
> > Can't they help you push updates?
>
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[android-developers] Re: Google removed 10 mallware apps - I'm affected. Please help

[Peter Sinnott]

On Jun 15, 6:40 am, Zsolt Vasvari  wrote
> Is there anything stopping you from creating a new account, paying the
> $25 again and republishing your app?  It's not ideal, but since you
> have a free app, it's not like you have to migrate the users.  If your
> app is good, and I believe it was, your rank would rise fairly quickly.

I guess he could but maybe he was removed for a different reason.
Why put in the effort when there is no way to be sure you are avoiding
the infraction.
Maybe Google have blacklisted him and he will get booted as soon as
they work out it is him.

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[android-developers] Re: Google removed 10 mallware apps - I'm affected. Please help

[Peter Sinnott]

The TOC would work a lot better if people knew how it was being
enforced.
Alternatively Google can randomly pick developers that are violating
the TOC in some way and ban them.
The other devs violating the TOC in the same way will continue on
their way oblivious to the risk of wining the lotto.

On Jun 14, 11:21 pm, Zsolt Vasvari  wrote:
> You have used keyword stuffing by your own admission, which is a TOC
> violation, you didn't get deleted "for nothing."
>

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[android-developers] Re: How much HTML5 does the Honeycomb Android Browser support?

[Peter Sinnott]

I wouldn't wish the honeycomb emulator on my worst enemy.

My transformer gets 228 + 3 bonus points.

On May 31, 4:16 am, Francisco Dalla Rosa soares 
wrote:
> ever thought of accessing that URL through the emulator?
>
> 2011/5/31 Robert Massaioli 
>
> > I was wondering how much of the HTML5 spec a Honeycomb Tablet supports. So
> > could somebody with 3.0 or 3.1 please go to this page and tell me what
> > results you get?http://html5test.com/index.html
>
> > I hereby swear that this is not a spam link. I really want to know what
> > HTML5 features I can use.
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[android-developers] Re: How do you counter repeated bogus reviews from competitors?

[Peter Sinnott]

On Apr 26, 4:49 pm, TreKing  wrote:
>
> It has. Repeatedly. Just search for "respond to comments". Like all other
> support queries and feature requests directed at Google on that forum,
> they're all ignored.
>

I don't think they are ignored. Look at the thread about Google Docs
for Android.
Google employee Robin posted that the Docs  team have plans.
And now,not even two and a half years latter we have a Google Docs app
for Android.
People just need to stop being so impatient.

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[android-developers] Re: Market bug?

[Peter Sinnott]

The same thing is true for me.
I was saving an account update after ticking the email updates
checkbox that I don't recall existing before and now it seems Google
is no longer happy for me to list google.com as my website. Maybe you
need to update your website url to something Google now accept?

On Mar 24, 1:45 am, Brill Pappin  wrote:
> Has anyone noticed that the Market is not using the publisher URL, but is
> instead using the App url of the first listed app as the "Visit website"
> link?
>
> My stuff:https://market.android.com/developer?pub=Sixgreen+Labs+Inc.
>
> is listing the first app's web url instead of the one set in my profile.
> I'm thinking this is a bug, but I wanted to see what others are experiencing
> before I start calling it one.
>
> - Brill Pappin

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[android-developers] Re: new feature - Statistics in publisher console

[Peter Sinnott]

I'd be surprised if it is since the Market isn't even internally
consistent.
The Market summary and app screens are 4-32% different (for me
anyway).

On Mar 15, 4:33 pm, Kostya Vasilyev  wrote:
> Yuvi,
>
> Does the data for your app in Market console match what you're getting
> from Flurry?
>
> -- Kostya
>
> 15.03.2011 19:17, YuviDroid ?:
>
>
>
> > I just noticed it now! It's basically the same info I had using
> > Flurry...but at least now I can remove the internet permission and
> > still have this data!
> > Awesome!
>
> > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Marcin Orlowski
> > mailto:webnet.andr...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> >     Hi,
>
> >     In case you weren't checking your Market published account - new
> >     feature is there called
> >     "Statistics" - can see OS, device, country and language stats for
> >     each app you publish
> >     and Market totals. Looks handy. At least I know I can fully drop
> >     pre 2.0 support now :)
>
> >     Regards,
> >     Marcin Orlowski
>
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[android-developers] Re: Announcing: The Android Developers Union

[Peter Sinnott]

Does http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market count?

On Mar 3, 9:18 am, "JAlexoid (Aleksandr Panzin)" 
wrote:
> Is there a list for Market similar to this one?
>
> On 3 мар, 08:12, Dianne Hackborn  wrote:
>
> > Do I not count as a response from Google?
>
> > Oh you mean a response answering question about Market?  As I said there,
> > nobody from the Market team is on this list, so you shouldn't be surprised
> > by not getting responses to questions that people on this list can't answer.
> >  The people here work on the platform, not on Market.  We can't talk about
> > what Market is doing.
>
> > I believe all of the people who posted here have posted to other lists.
> >  Some of them are more likely to post to the open source lists, etc.
>
> > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:41 PM, TreKing  wrote:
> > > This recent 
> > > thread
> > >  asking
> > > a simple question about the state of in-app billing has received no 
> > > response
> > > from anyone at Google.
>
> > > This thread has received 4, 2 of which I, personally, have never even seen
> > > post before.
>
> > > This make me sad. =(
>
> > > -
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[android-developers] Re: Announcing: The Android Developers Union

[Peter Sinnott]

Granted spamming people not directly involved with the Market isn't
going to do much to
 improve the situation but some people are prone to taking useless
action over doing nothing.
Ideally there would be some way for developers to have meaningful
interaction with Google
about the market instead of continually being forced to wonder what
the Market team are
currently up to in their lunar base on the dark side of the moon. Does
anyone know if content ratings will ever be used for anything???


This thread should probably be moved to Android Discuss if that is
possible since that is a more appropriate group
but nobody from Google will ever make a meaningful response to it
their either.


On Mar 2, 3:31 am, Romain Guy  wrote:
> Rich,
>
> I am very sorry you feel this way. However, setting up an online form that
> may be used by anyone to spam a few individuals working on Android is not
> the appropriate solution (especially since these individuals, including
> myself, do *not* work on Market.)
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Rich  wrote:
> > How is it silly? Many developers have had their apps removed without
> > warning and it's frankly unacceptable. I make my _living_ off of
> > application develop and this kind of instability is intolerable,
> > especially considering that Google has taxed me out of over ten
> > thousand dollars.
>
> > Just because market conditions are better than other places, doesn't
> > mean that they are good, and not worth improving. (And, quite frankly,
> > there are many reasons which Apple's App Store are superior in terms
> > of curation, quality, and customer navigability of new apps.)
>
> > And yes, of course the aesthetic is a tongue in cheek joke, but the
> > demands are very real.
>
> > R
>
> > On Mar 1, 9:27 pm, TreKing  wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Rich  wrote:
> > > > Please! Join the mailing list, sign the petition, and make a stink!
>
> > > While I appreciate your effort and agree with your intent, this is rather
> > > pointless. Your phrasing is childish and the graphic on the site is
> > comical
> > > at best. No one is going to take this seriously - particularly the people
> > > that you're targeting.
>
> > > Here's some fun reading:
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/8...
>
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[android-developers] Re: How to open email in app with address

[Peter Sinnott]

Iirc SENDTO gave me mail and gmail as alternatives but SEND either
didn't give me mail or gave me a multitude of options most of which
were not email specific.


On Feb 28, 11:18 pm, TreKing  wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Peter Sinnott  wrote:
> > A lot of websites say to use ACTION_SEND but I found ACTION_SENDTO works
> > better.
>
> Curious: how does it work "better"?
>
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[android-developers] Re: How to open email in app with address

[Peter Sinnott]

How helpful.


A lot of websites say to use ACTION_SEND but I found ACTION_SENDTO
works better.

Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
emailIntent.setData(Uri.parse("mailto:a...@b.com";));
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "A
Subject" );


On Feb 28, 8:44 pm, Justin Anderson  wrote:
> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=android+email+intent
>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:24 PM, brian purgert wrote:
>
> > I want the person to click on a button and when they click it, it opens up
> > their email and my email address is already there.
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[android-developers] Re: RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED not sent after power off? (works on restart)

[Peter Sinnott]

I think the newer HTC phones (Desire HD/Z) support hibernation of some
sort. I have a vague recollection of it being mentioned at a launch
event in London.

On Feb 4, 11:31 am, Yorgos X  wrote:
> Mysteriously enough (new phone, haven't explored it much), a setting was
> preset to fast boot the device (is called "Fast boot - turn off to use some
> Market apps") and this apparently causes the device to start after a power
> off without sending the BOOT_COMPLETED action. Can any of you test this on
> their devices to confirm it is happenning for a fact? I unchecked this
> setting and my receiver works on both power off/startup and restart.
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Yorgos X  wrote:
> > yeah, i have checked the logs and thre is no indication of the app starting
> > or the action boot_completed received. the sd is not mounted neither when
> > the app is installed or at anytime during the testing process. As I've said
> > before, on other devices that only provide "power off" functionality and not
> > bot power off and restart, when I power off and then start up again, the
> > action is received normally. On my phone it works well on restarting but not
> > when powering off and then starting.
>
> > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Marcin Orlowski 
> > wrote:
>
> >> 2011/2/4 Yorgos X :
> >> > well, i run it from eclipse to install it and then restart and power off
> >> the
> >> > phone to test if it works. Are the apps run straight from eclipse stored
> >> on
> >> > the SD card? i don't know about that to be honest. I haven't done that
> >> > explicitly though
>
> >> No, they are run from internal memory, so that shall be fine.
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[android-developers] Multi select dialog preference has white text on white background in 1.6

[Peter Sinnott]

I am trying to create a multi select dialog preference but I have run
into a problem related to the bug referenced
in http://osdir.com/ml/AndroidBeginners/2009-02/msg00537.html . Does
anyone know an easy non invasive way to change the text to black? The
post says the bug was fixed in 1.5 so this may be a slightly different
bug that wasn't fixed till 2.0.

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[android-developers] Re: Marketplace download failure -- anybody else seen this?

[Peter Sinnott]

Maybe they are running out of  internal memory?
Otherwise it is probably the standard brokenness of the Market. Try
the suggestions at 
http://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=1067233

On Feb 1, 12:03 am, Ken H  wrote:
> I've had a couple users say they can't download two of my apps. The
> apps are 1.2 to 2.3Mb in size and the users seemed to imply that the
> size was an issue since they could download smaller apps ok. One user
> has a Cliq, not sure of the others. I told them to clear the cache and
> data in the Market and Download manager apps, but the one that tried
> that says no joy -- it didn't work.
>
> Should they force close the Market app & Download Manager too? Is
> there something else to try? I've uninstalled, downloaded and
> installed both apps onto my Nexus One...everything's fine. Anybody
> seen this before?
>
> Ken

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[android-developers] Re: Vanishing apps in the Market with 2.2.2

[Peter Sinnott]

Sometimes new firmwares cause copy protected apps to disappear for a
while.
Are your apps copy protected?

On Jan 25, 10:33 pm, jarkman  wrote:
> We've had a number of complaints of our apps vanishing from theMarket
> with OTA updates over the last few days. And, lo and behold, when our
> Nexus One got 2.2.2 a day or so ago, it also lost our paid apps from
> theMarket.
>
> There are one or two other devs complaining of the same thing in 
> theMarketforums, but no comment from Google as yet. Anyone else seen
> it ? Any clues about what might be going on ?
>
> Thanks,
>
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[android-developers] Re: Android 2.2.2 Market app "losing" apps?

[Peter Sinnott]

I saw some reports on the Android Market help forum that indicated
this was another occurrence of protected apps not showing up with new
firmwares.
Is your app using copy protection? I'm sure Google will eventually
talk to Google and let them know about the new firmware...


On Jan 26, 8:15 pm, JP  wrote:
> Am I alone with this? After updating my Nexus One to 2.2.2 this
> morning, I checked Market, and one of my published apps has gone
> missing. No way to get to it. "View more applications" from a
> remaining app, for example, comes up empty. Cross-check against a
> device running 1.6: Everything's fine.

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[android-developers] Re: Is anyone's active install % dropping like a rock lately?

[Peter Sinnott]

Something has changed but I think they fixed the reporting without
restoring all the lost data.

I'm up 5% over the last 7 days but down 16% over the 30 days before
that.



On Sep 30, 8:56 pm, Greg Donald  wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Justin Giles  wrote:
> > I updated one of my apps on Tuesday.  I have noticed that the active install
> > numbers were accumulating at a higher rate than my download numbers.  So, I
> > think as people update the app, it is putting the active installs back to
> > normal.  So far I've only gone up 1%, but it's nice to see it seemingly go
> > back to normal.
> > Justin
>
> Normal?  You mean like all the way back to December when it broke?
> Yeah, that'd be nice.
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[android-developers] Re: Install to sd and alarms

[Peter Sinnott]

"Note that the packages in this list do not receive this broadcast."

Possibly I'm misunderstanding something but I took this to mean my app
will not receive the broadcast.

On Sep 24, 9:28 pm, Dianne Hackborn  wrote:
> See here:http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/install-location.html
>
> Use this to find out when the app is remounted:
>
> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#AC...
>
> However I would generally suggest not doing this.  If your app isn't large,
> there is really not much benefit to it.  Apps on SD is mostly intended for
> large applications that are fairly self-contained (read games and stuff like
> that).
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Peter Sinnott  wrote:
> > I am thinking of adding install to sd support to my app but it seems
> > sd and the alarms manager do not mix well.
> > So far I have tried receiving ACTION_MEDIA_MOUNTED intents so I can
> > reregister my alarms but the intent is never fired. Is there any easy
> > hook I can use to register alarms when my app becomes available after
> > the sd card is remounted?
>
> > My app isn't very large but I think users will appreciate any internal
> > memory I free up since Android phones don't seem to have very much of
> > it.
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[android-developers] Re: Install to sd and alarms

[Peter Sinnott]

On Sep 24, 9:35 pm, Greg Donald  wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Dianne Hackborn  wrote:
> > Apps on SD is mostly intended for
> > large applications that are fairly self-contained (read games and stuff like
> > that).
>
> An app being small doesn't stop users from screaming "Why can't I move
> this to my sd card, 1 star!".
>
> God I hate users.
>

Users suck except when I'm being one.
It will only saves a few hundred kb but if it isn't a massive hassle
it is worth doing.

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[android-developers] Install to sd and alarms

[Peter Sinnott]

I am thinking of adding install to sd support to my app but it seems
sd and the alarms manager do not mix well.
So far I have tried receiving ACTION_MEDIA_MOUNTED intents so I can
reregister my alarms but the intent is never fired. Is there any easy
hook I can use to register alarms when my app becomes available after
the sd card is remounted?

My app isn't very large but I think users will appreciate any internal
memory I free up since Android phones don't seem to have very much of
it.

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[android-developers] Re: Is anyone's active install % dropping like a rock lately?

[Peter Sinnott]

Received this update this morning :

Hello,

We'd like to give you an update on this issue. We've previously stated
that some application updates are incorrectly being counted as pure
uninstalls rather than updates, causing the active installs metric to
drop. We have now identified the root cause, and are working on a fix
that we hope to release next week. However, due to the nature of the
interaction between the Market client and our reporting
infrastructure, it may take up to several weeks for your metrics in
the Developer Console to return to normal. Again, we apologize for any
inconvenience, and will keep you posted on our progress.

Thank you for your continued patience.



On Sep 15, 10:43 am, Pent  wrote:
> > > Thanks for writing in. We are currently investigating this issue. So far,
> > >> this appears to be purely a reporting issue: some update events are being
> > >> inaccurately recorded as uninstalls, rather than updates, creating a 
> > >> lower
> > >> active installs percentage. However, our investigation tells us that
> > >> applications are not actually being uninstalled. We hope to have a
> > >> resolution soon.
>
> This fits, actually.
>
> I had been holding steady at around 50%. Released my first update for
> a month
> yesterday evening and now I'm down to 45%.
>
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[android-developers] Re: Is anyone's active install % dropping like a rock lately?

[Peter Sinnott]

My active install percent has been dropping since the 25th of August.
Bit of a bummer since it had been rising more or less consistently as
new versions were released and I was hoping this was reflecting the
increasing quality of my app. I had a strange and unsettling
experience today that may be relevant.


I was checking for updates in the market and there was one for
AppBrain. I started downloading the update and left the market. I was
notified the download (or maybe the install) failed so I re-entered
the market. The market thought the download was still in progress so I
cancelled it. After cancellation the market no longer thought AppBrain
was installed but it was still on the phone as far as I could tell. I
rebooted but that changed nothing. I installed it again via the
market. During the install the market seemed to know AppBrain was
installed (as if it was installed outside the market e.g via adb).

In short, market place goes nuts and forgets the app is installed.
User has app but never gets updates and possibly is removed from
active installs.
I was on the bus home from work so this (as with all user reports)
recollection may not be 100% accurate but it is a possible
explanation.


Thanks,
Peter

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[android-developers] Re: Dynamically load jar files in android runtime?

[Peter Sinnott]

I think under the hood android does not support java bytecode. Instead
it uses dex files which I presume contain bytecode for the Dalvik
virtual machine. Possibly you can compile your jar to a dex file and
load that dynamically.

On Sep 8, 8:45 am, CaryWang  wrote:
> I have a jar file in my app local data "/data/data/application
> packageName/test.jar". I want to load the class "com.test.abc" which
> resides  in my jar. I am using java.net.URLClassLoader to load the class. On
> an non android environment the code works, on android it gives me this
> exception "can't load this type of class file".
> Do you know why is that ?
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