[android-developers] Odd image issue on API 7 EMulators
During testing of an App for different API's on various emulators I came across an unusual issue. On an HTCLegend emulator, API 7, a particular image would not display, I get no error, simply nothing shown. Works OK on everything else. I had noted that the image, which was a PNG file, was alphabetically the first file in its directory (drawable-mdpi), I added a new dummy image that alphabetically precedes the problem image and the problem has gone away! Clearly a very unsatisfactory solution and I wondered if anyone had any insight into this. The problem and solution is repeatable by the way and also presentst itself on other API 7 emulators. Regards Roy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Odd image issue on API 7 EMulators
Also noticed that I get the same effect on a physical HTC Wildfire device at 2.2.1. Roy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: openOptionsMenu not working on Honeycomb device
Mark, It would appear that ICS on Lareg has reverted to Honeycomb 3.0/3.1 behaviour regarding ActionBar Menu. On Honeycomb 3.2 Large I have a fully functioning ActionBar with menu but on ICS 4.0.3 I get an ActionBar with no menu and no alternate access to menu. I am assuming this is an emulator issue so not worrying overly but thought I would report findings. Regards Roy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: openOptionsMenu not working on Honeycomb device
Mark, I have a Motorola Xoom emulator with Skin, if I specify the full screen theme on this I do not seem to get access to a menu anywhere. Appreciate that this is only an emulator but there is some discussion on the net about this, sufficient to sow the seed of doubt. Again thanks for your time and seasons greetings to you and yours. Roy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: openOptionsMenu not working on Honeycomb device
Dianne, Thank you for chipping in on this one. I take your point about hiding the status bar but i was considering doing this only to maximise the real-estate on smaller devices. A concern I had with the ActionBar was simply that on some devices (emulators) it does not provide a menu icon at the right side as for example an imaginary API 11/12 Large sized device or any Normal sized device. Are you able to confirm that in these circumstances there would definitely be a Menu option somewhere that the user could access? Can you force the menu icon to be presented on these devices, though again if not there this is presumably by design. Regards Roy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] openOptionsMenu not working on Honeycomb device
I have an app in which I select a theme of android:Theme.Holo.NoActionBar.Fullscreen. the app has a minim SDK of 11 and a target of 13. I am avoiding the use of the ActionBar due to issues in the way this works on different sized devices. I am attempting to provide a menu button which simply does a call to openOptionsMenu. On certain device emulations this works as expected e.g. an ICS Large screen sized emulator. However, on other devices the menu button does nothing, the click is registered but no menu appears and no call is made to onCreateOptionsMenu or onPrepareOptionsMenu. There is no application crash, simply no menu. I see some discussion that on Honeycomb there are issues with this and with the presence/absence of a title bar. Is there any known solution to this issue. I would add that there is no soft menu button displayed by the device so in these circumstances the users would be locked out of options. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] openOptionsMenu not working on Honeycomb device
Mark, I cannot finds words to express how disappointed that makes me! I did rather expect this response however but was hopefull that there would be a way around the issue. Regards Roy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: openOptionsMenu not working on Honeycomb device
Mark, Generally I would agree with you and if I were starting again would probably avoid menu/preferences. Unfortunately this would not be a good choice at this stage in my project. The issues I have with the ActionBar are to do with inconsistency and uncertainty. Depending on the size of the device I may or may not get a menu icon on the ActionBar. It is asserted that if there is not a menu icon on the Action bar there will be one somewhere else but this troubles me. On some devices I would wish to get rid of a Status bar but you cannot go Fullscreen and still have an ActionBar it would seem. Again thanks for you feedback, very much appreciated. Regards Roy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Dialog and Android lifecycle on ICS (Galaxy Nexus)
Dianne, I do only ever have one displayed at a time but as mentioned I was only dismissing them rather than removing them so obviously not removing from the map. I am removing them now as mentioned so my problem has gone away. I do notice quite a few questions on google relating to multiple onCreateDialog messages following an Activity recreate, so perhaps a not too uncommon problem for developers. Regards Roy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Reuse of AlphaAnimation object
Mark, Again thanks for the quick reply. Making use of setStartTime does indeed resolve this. I am not sure I fully understand the design decisions in play here but I am well past my sell by date so will live with what we have. Roy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Dialog and Android lifecycle on ICS (Galaxy Nexus)
I have an odd but repeatable issue with Dialogs and Android lifecycle on a Nexus (emulated and actual device). I am using showDialog(ID) throughout and dismissDialog(ID) to remove. In the tests I run I show a dialog with and ID of 10 and dismiss it, I then show a dialog with an Id of 9 and dismiss it. I then show a dialog with an id of 7 and turn off the device (press F7). My Log shows: onCreateDialog ID 7 onPrepareDialog ID 7 onCreateDialog ID 9 onPrepareDialog ID 9 onCreateDialog ID 10 onPrepareDialog ID 10 I.E all three dialogs are recreated but in dialog ID numerical order. If I unlock the device/emulator dialog with ID 7 is showing but obviously the code thinks the last dialpg shown is ID 10 so variables are pointing incorrectly and I get app failure. I understand that dialogs are cached if dismissed rather than removed but the sequence here is difficult to manage. Thoughts appreciated. Roy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Ice Cream Sandwich problem? not restarting App
This is an issue found on a Galaxy Nexus. The situation is as follows. When my app is sitting with a Dialog box in the foreground, I turn off the phone. I then turn on the phone and go into Camera from the unlock screen. If I then exit the Camera app it returns to my app with the correct backdrop but no Dialog showing. The background is darkened as it would be if the Dialog had been drawn but there is not Dialog and as such the app is in no man's land. This can be duplicated 50% of the time on a real device but I cannot duplicate on an emulated device. If from this point I again lock the device and unlock normally the app is showing with the expected dialog and all functioning OK. Is this perhaps an Android bug, is there a workaround. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Dialog and Android lifecycle on ICS (Galaxy Nexus)
Dianne, Thank you for the response. Can I infer from you answer that the behaviour I have seen is as expected? I think I should have gone the DialogFragment route from project inception but probably not a good solution at this stage. I do note that if I consistently use removeDialog instead of dismissDialog the problem is avoided. This takes away any benefit achieved from Dialog caching but is a quick workaround for this situation. Regards Roy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Reuse of AlphaAnimation object
I have been endeavouring to reuse AlphaAnimation objects in a pool so as to limit memory allocation. It would appear that each animation even after reset will only call onAnimationEnd the first time it is used. Looking at the code this would appear to be because the field boolean mEnded is not reset by reset(). Is this by design or a bug? Any way around this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Running Emulators from Eclipse
Firstly apologies if this should have been asked on some Eclipse forum. I find when starting Emulators from within Eclipse that success is very hit and miss. One particular problem i find is that an emulator will appear to start OK but on attempting to run an App the following if output on the Eclispe console: Failed to install com.test.testapp.apk on device 'emulator-5554': EOF java.io.IOException: EOF Launch canceled! If I do nothing but close the emulator and start it again I may or may not get a successful launch. Once the emulator has successfully launched an app it will do so reliable thereafter. Does anyone know of a way to fix this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Action Bar
Mark, Perhaps I could ask for an opinion here. I was intending to publish two version of an App, one pre-honeycomb and one honeycomb and beyond. With respect to the honeycomb devices I will be using Theme android:Theme.Holo. Bearing in mind ICS upcoming devices, do you consider it safe to assume that if a particular device does not show a menu icon in the ActionBar then it will definitely put a menu icon somewhere else? I do not see this in the emulators I have tested but then again the emulators do not show what hardware buttons may be available. I am wary of delivering an App and finding that some users are locked out of the Apps options (also worth noting that on these devices there is no back icon either). I could always put up a menu button of my own but I would like to follow the flow of the platform if possible. Regards Roy On Nov 21, 2:20 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Royston roystonpcar...@gmail.com wrote: Mark, I have set the api version to 14 and also set targetSdk to 14 in the manifest, using Holo theme. On a normal size ICS device I get an Actionbarwithout menu, I do get a navigationbarbut there is no access to menu there. Looks like it must still be expecting a hardware menu on such a device? I've been somewhat confused over the emulator behavior in this area as well. I was just leaving the issue alone until I got access to hardware and could see what really happens. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, One Low Price! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Action Bar
Thanks all for the speedy responses (he says rather cloyingly in the hope that such help continues!) In a similar I have tried the app in a Ice Cream Sandwich Normal emulator. I presume that there will be eventually such a device. The same problem exists here in that with Holo theme there is no access to menu. What is the best practice for support of such devices? Regards Roy On Nov 21, 7:45 am, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: I ran into the same problem, but not until 3.2 as Mark is saying. I believe the first (and only?) Large 3.2 device is the Galaxy Tablet 7 Plus. There have been many other 7 tablets, but they were running Gingerbread or earlier. On Nov 21, 5:28 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Royston roystonpcar...@gmail.com wrote: It appears you are correct. If i run up a large emulator at 3.2 I get the menu option but not at 3.1 or 3.0. I am not quite sure what one should do to manage this situation. If there exists a 3.1 or 3.0 Large device, there would be no access to menus. Any advice on how to deal with this would be much appreciated. There are no 3.0/3.1 -large devices. The ~7 tablet size was not supported until Android 3.2. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.6 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Action Bar
Mark, I have set the api version to 14 and also set targetSdk to 14 in the manifest, using Holo theme. On a normal size ICS device I get an Action bar without menu, I do get a navigation bar but there is no access to menu there. Looks like it must still be expecting a hardware menu on such a device? Regards Roy On Nov 21, 12:58 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Royston roystonpcar...@gmail.com wrote: In a similar I have tried the app in a Ice Cream Sandwich Normal emulator. I presume that there will be eventually such a device. The same problem exists here in that with Holo theme there is no access to menu. What is the best practice for support of such devices? Quoting the documentation: Beginning with Android 4.0, you'll notice that handsets no longer require a Menu hardware button. However, there's no need for you to worry about this if your existing application provides an options menu and expects there to be a Menu button. To ensure that existing apps continue to work as they expect, the system provides an on-screen Menu button for apps that were designed for older versions of Android. For the best user experience, new and updated apps should instead use the ActionBar to provide access to menu items and set targetSdkVersion to 14 to take advantage of the latest framework default behaviors. http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.html I presume that the MENU soft button will be in the navigationbaron handsets that lack off-screen MENU buttons. This will become clearer once I get my grubby little hands on the Galaxy Nexus. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, One Low Price! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Action Bar
Mark, It appears you are correct. If i run up a large emulator at 3.2 I get the menu option but not at 3.1 or 3.0. I am not quite sure what one should do to manage this situation. If there exists a 3.1 or 3.0 Large device, there would be no access to menus. Any advice on how to deal with this would be much appreciated. Regards Roy On Nov 19, 1:03 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Royston roystonpcar...@gmail.com wrote: But on a Large emulator I still get this behavior i.e. no menu overflow icon so no obvious access to menus! Which SDK are you using? IIRC, -large support was not added until 3.1 or 3.2. -xlargewas there from 3.0, and I have several examples demonstrating it working. The only times I have not seen the overflow menu is if either there is no options menu or you do not have targetSdkVersion=11 or higher. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.6 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Action Bar
Mark, It appears you are correct. If i run up a large emulator at 3.2 I get the menu option but not at 3.1 or 3.0. I am not quite sure what one should do to manage this situation. If there exists a 3.1 or 3.0 Large device, there would be no access to menus. Any advice on how to deal with this would be much appreciated. Regards Roy On Nov 19, 1:03 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Royston roystonpcar...@gmail.com wrote: But on a Large emulator I still get this behavior i.e. no menu overflow icon so no obvious access to menus! Which SDK are you using? IIRC, -large support was not added until 3.1 or 3.2. -xlargewas there from 3.0, and I have several examples demonstrating it working. The only times I have not seen the overflow menu is if either there is no options menu or you do not have targetSdkVersion=11 or higher. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.6 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Action Bar
But on a Large emulator I still get this behavior i.e. no menu overflow icon so no obvious access to menus! Regards Roy On Nov 16, 12:17 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Royston roystonpcar...@gmail.com wrote: I am building an application and attempting to follow guidelines and use the ActionBar on Honeycomb versions. In testing I note that unless running in anXLargeemulator, the ActionBar does not show the menu overflow icon. Honeycomb is only for -large and -xlargedevices. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, One Low Price! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Action Bar
I am building an application and attempting to follow guidelines and use the ActionBar on Honeycomb versions. In testing I note that unless running in an XLarge emulator, the ActionBar does not show the menu overflow icon. Is this as intended and if so what is the purpose of the ActionBar on such a device? Would I be better served to make the application device sensitive and not show the ActionBar unless on an XLarge device? Yours in anticipation Roy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] On Android target, can a folder be created under / (root)
Hi All, On Android targets, I observe that / is a read-only file system. We have a requirement where we need to create a folder (like XYZ) under / (root). I tried to create a link too but that too failed. Is this possible using any adb shell command/system utility or this is a limitation? Regards, Royston --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: On Android target, can a folder be created under / (root)
Hi, The reason being we have a test app that this confirgured to carry out some operation under this custom folder created on the target under root. Instead of customising the app we were trying to explore whether this is doable. On Windows Mobile this was doable. We try porting this test framework on various platforms and maintain the same behavior across OSes unless no alternatives are available. Thanks Dianne for your prompt feedback, we would do the needed change in our test app. Regard, Royston On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.comwrote: This is not possible on a regular device. Why would you have a requirement to put a directory there? On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Royston roystonra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, On Android targets, I observe that / is a read-only file system. We have a requirement where we need to create a folder (like XYZ) under / (root). I tried to create a link too but that too failed. Is this possible using any adb shell command/system utility or this is a limitation? Regards, Royston -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Needed reference to source code for adb shell command input that is used to inject keypresses.
Hi All, I was able to find the source of adb shell command input. Location: frameworks/base/cmds/input/src/com/android/commands/input/Input.java Regards, Royston QCOM On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Royston roystonra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, The use case that I have to emulate is to inject random keypresses. I have observed it that it is possible using adb shell command input. Can someone point me to the source code in the android build tree, so that I can accordingly implement the same in our test app. Regards, Royston QCOM --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Needed reference to source code for adb shell command input that is used to inject keypresses.
Hi All, The use case that I have to emulate is to inject random keypresses. I have observed it that it is possible using adb shell command input. Can someone point me to the source code in the android build tree, so that I can accordingly implement the same in our test app. Regards, Royston QCOM --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
