[android-beginners] Re: [android-developers] G1 owners: "A system update is available" - is it safe?

2008-12-17 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Just to avoid some potential confusion: to the best of my knowledge, what I wrote was correct about the TC4-RC30 and TC5-RC8 updates that have been sent respectively by T-Mobile US and T-Mobile UK to the people who bought the G1s that they sell. Like I said, Android in its current state does not

[android-beginners] Re: Broken link in installation instructions

2008-12-17 Thread Ratha Grimes
On Dec 12, 5:07 pm, Croptop wrote: > On Dec 12, 1:06 am, Ratha Grimes wrote: > > > The link to install the ADT plugin for Eclipse seems to be broken. The > > documentation athttp://code.google.com/android/intro/installing.html > > provides the following link:https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/ecl

[android-beginners] ListView BaseAdapter...

2008-12-17 Thread Stephen
I understand that there are many threads about these cases, but when I try to follow them.. it crashes. public class BuddyPage extends ListActivity{ setContentView(r.layout.xview); setlistadapter(new buddyadapter(this)); } public class BuddyAdapter extends BaseAdapter { privat

[android-beginners] Re: Running first application on Eclipse

2008-12-17 Thread Ian
No problemo. In eclipse, you set up a run profile in "Open run Dialog" -- you basically just have to give it a name and specify the project to run -- then run it. Assuming you don't have a device plugged in, the first time, it will start the emulator and run it there. Subsequent times it just r

[android-beginners] Re: Running first application on Eclipse

2008-12-17 Thread Mark Murphy
Enginerd wrote: > Is it possible to load an application on while the emulator is > running? Sure! > I say this because when I write a program, especially for > graphics-related code, I'll typically to very fast iterations. Edit/ > build/test in a minute or so. It would be real annoying to have

[android-beginners] Re: Running first application on Eclipse

2008-12-17 Thread Enginerd
Is it possible to load an application on while the emulator is running? I say this because when I write a program, especially for graphics-related code, I'll typically to very fast iterations. Edit/ build/test in a minute or so. It would be real annoying to have to relaunch the emulator each ti

[android-beginners] Re: Android on HTC Touch Pro

2008-12-17 Thread Mark Murphy
caseyd0 wrote: > Will we ever get to install the Android OS on other phones, like my > HTC Fuze aka HTC Touch Pro? or can you only buy it on premade > phones? I was under the impression that the point of an open phone > operating system was that we could install it on most anything? An open pho

[android-beginners] Re: Installation on HTC Wizard

2008-12-17 Thread TomDaBomb
Cool. Thanks Zac! On Dec 15, 6:58 pm, Zac Medico wrote: > TomDaBomb wrote: > > Hello All, > > > I have an old HTCWizard(Cingular 8125) that I'd like to use as an > > actual Android development unit. The emulator is really cool, but I'd > > like to have an actual, physical piece of hardware to pl

[android-beginners] Re: need clarification on resolving intents.

2008-12-17 Thread mathiastck
The prompt only occurs if there are multiple activites stating themselves as capable of handling the intent. How is the system supposed to know which the user prefers? An good example is if you go to a picture and select to share it from the menu. The user may want to share the picture by MMS,

[android-beginners] Re: need clarification on resolving intents.

2008-12-17 Thread Anil
That is like the oft encountered case on the desktop where you click to open an unknown file type and the system prompts you what application to use. However, how is a user expected to know what activity is to be called? That is an internal design detail. In a traditional system where there is tig

[android-beginners] Re: Android on HTC Touch Pro

2008-12-17 Thread Disconnect
So feel free to port it to other hardware. People have already done so for the freerunner and n810, as well as run-from-ram versions on at least one windows mobile device. On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:15 PM, caseyd0 wrote: > > Will we ever get to install the Android OS on other phones, like my >

[android-beginners] Re: small doubt regarding hello android

2008-12-17 Thread filbert
Ha, I was going to suggest re-installing as well... but looks like that didn't change anything. Ok, I'm not an ecplise expert, so I'm completely guessing here... Do you have auto-build turned on? Perhaps you missed that and it is not compiling? Try hitting ctrl-b to perform a build. In your l

[android-beginners] Adb server problem

2008-12-17 Thread Atish
Hi i am new to android.Sometimes while running the emulator i get this error.I don't know what to do.I restart eclipse 3/4 times.Sometimes it works sometimes it takes even 15/20 times.What is permanent solution for this???i even tried kill adb server by adb kill-server.But it was of no use. Conne

[android-beginners] Re: HttpClient and POST requests

2008-12-17 Thread agal
Hi, I would like to know how to set headers in an Http Post request. This is what I tried: ... HttpPost postMethod=new HttpPost(posturl); postMethod.addHeader("Content-Type", "something"); postMethod.addHeader("Content-Length", "length of content"); String requestBody = "some text"; postMethod.se

[android-beginners] Sliding tabs

2008-12-17 Thread Rukawa
I am creating an application that has 4-5 different screens (views) that the user can toggle between, currently using tabs. I would like to avoid having the big tab headers, and instead make it possible to navigate between the views using a similar action to the one used on the home screen where y

[android-beginners] Android on HTC Touch Pro

2008-12-17 Thread caseyd0
Will we ever get to install the Android OS on other phones, like my HTC Fuze aka HTC Touch Pro? or can you only buy it on premade phones? I was under the impression that the point of an open phone operating system was that we could install it on most anything? --~--~-~--~~--

[android-beginners] [Help] I want to take a look at source of Dialer, Contacts, etc

2008-12-17 Thread Shawn_Chiu
Hi, all I want to take a look at source of Dialer, Contacts, etc. But unfortunately, I found nothing but source code of emulator and SDK. Could anybody tell me where I can get source of Dialer, Contacts? I would be appreciated of it. Thanks. Shawn --~--~-~--~~~---~--~

[android-beginners] Command line parameters to Instrumentation test case

2008-12-17 Thread avi
All, Is there a way to provide command line parameters to Instrumentation test case. I know in regular jUnit test cases, we can specify - D="value". Can I do something similar? Avi --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[android-beginners] Trouble install adb driver on Vista 32-bit

2008-12-17 Thread Tarydon
I am trying to get the USB driver that is used by ADB installed on Vista, 32-bit. (I downloaded this android_usb_windows.zip from the developer site). The driver does not install, and this is the message from Vista: Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while atte

[android-beginners] Re: Service, TimerTask and standby

2008-12-17 Thread Cyril Jaquier
> When the phone goes into standby mode (blank screen) aren't processes > scheduled anymore (I don't think so)? Is it possible to perform network > operations in the background while the phone is in standby mode? > > How to perform operations in the background at regular intervals? > Seems li

[android-beginners] Re: [android-developers] Re: G1 owners: "A system update is available" - is it safe?

2008-12-17 Thread Disconnect
What he's not mentioning (and this is importnat if you are a developer) is that the update will remove root access, so you lose most of the (potential) control over your device. On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Stoyan Damov wrote: > > @ JBQ, I'm sorry for the wrong place to ask. I got this impre

[android-beginners] Re: [android-developers] Re: G1 owners: "A system update is available" - is it safe?

2008-12-17 Thread Stoyan Damov
@ JBQ, I'm sorry for the wrong place to ask. I got this impression that android-discuss was the "android internals" list, I don't know how this occurred to me. Sorry again and *thanks* for your reply! @ Cyril - Thanks mate! On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Jean-Baptiste Queru wrote: > > This'd b

[android-beginners] Re: [android-developers] G1 owners: "A system update is available" - is it safe?

2008-12-17 Thread Cyril Jaquier
> The SIM-locking in the G1 is unrelated to Android itself, it's a much > deeper property of the underlying firmware. You can apply the upgrade > and your device will still be SIM-unlocked. > I can confirm that you won't need to re-activate your phone. Regards, Cyril --~--~-~--~~-

[android-beginners] Re: [android-developers] G1 owners: "A system update is available" - is it safe?

2008-12-17 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
This'd be a question for android-discuss, actually. The SIM-locking in the G1 is unrelated to Android itself, it's a much deeper property of the underlying firmware. You can apply the upgrade and your device will still be SIM-unlocked. JBQ On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Stoyan Damov wrote: >

[android-beginners] G1 owners: "A system update is available" - is it safe?

2008-12-17 Thread Stoyan Damov
Sorry for the cross-post, but it's kind of urgent. I got this message "A system update is available. While your phone is updating, you cannot make emergency calls. Your phone will restart during the update." I own an unlocked G1 (I'm in Bulgaria), so I'm concerned that I'll have to unlock it agai

[android-beginners] Re: How to I get video to play from storage?

2008-12-17 Thread hc huang
Hi Girish I want to a audio.I go to this position /development/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/media/ Edit MediaPlayerDemo_Audio.java path="/home/huang/sdcard/onelove.mp3" then save and re-install,but when I go to apidemos ->media- >mediaplayer -> play audio from local fi

[android-beginners] Re: small doubt regarding hello android

2008-12-17 Thread Kusuma Pabba
filbert wrote: > Did you set up the launch configurations and all of that? > > On Dec 16, 5:56 am, Kusuma Pabba wrote: > >> hi all, >> i am new to android i have installed the eclipse ganymede and into >> that i have added ADT(android development tools) and android editors >> into updates

[android-beginners] Service, TimerTask and standby

2008-12-17 Thread Cyril Jaquier
Hi all, I have a Service that creates a Timer and schedule a TimerTask to run every minute. Everything runs fine except when the phone goes into standby. It seems that the TimerTask isn't schedule anymore. When the phone goes into standby mode (blank screen) aren't processes scheduled anymore