[android-beginners] Re: Please help in creating simple text file

2009-08-21 Thread nitin
when i tried after changing the code like: catch (IOException ioe) { return ioe.toString(); } Giving error: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /data/data/hello.world/files/test.txt online samples are giving the same code...am i missing some setting/permission? pls help On Aug 21, 6:30 pm, Mark

[android-beginners] Re: how to update a listview

2009-08-21 Thread moazzamk
You have to change the data structure that stores the data for the listView and then call notifyDataSetChange(); Let;s say you are using and ArrayList lst, you would do something like this: public void getRemoteData() { // .. get data and put it in the array list adapter.notifyDataSetCh

[android-beginners] Re: database openOrCreateDatabase

2009-08-21 Thread moazzamk
I don't know what's causing the error in your code but it seems like you are using an older version of Android (maybe older than 1.0). I would recommend upgrading your Android SDK and using the method suggested in this link: http://moazzam-khan.com/blog/?cat=26&paged=2 . - Moazzam http://moazzam-

[android-beginners] Re: Attn Google: How about throwing a beta release of Android 2.0 SDK?

2009-08-21 Thread Romain Guy
And there's no Android 2.0 SDK... The next version is 1.6. On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Justin Anderson wrote: > You can always download the source and build it yourself... > > On Aug 21, 2009 12:31 PM, "androidgoo" wrote: > > > Why isn't Google releasing a beta version of Android 2.0 SDK fo

[android-beginners] Re: 'if' sentences please help

2009-08-21 Thread Jesper Lundgren
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:00 PM, GlennovitS wrote: > > Hey everybody.. > > I'm just startet writing code for android.. And then I need to have > some if-sentences.. (sorry for my english) they look like this > > > > @Override >public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { >super.o

[android-beginners] Re: Attn Google: How about throwing a beta release of Android 2.0 SDK?

2009-08-21 Thread Justin Anderson
You can always download the source and build it yourself... On Aug 21, 2009 12:31 PM, "androidgoo" wrote: Why isn't Google releasing a beta version of Android 2.0 SDK for developers? Don't the folks at The Weather Channel already have it? It would be nice if developers have the option of worki

[android-beginners] Re: Android SDK For Beginners?

2009-08-21 Thread Zack Podany
Hmm, I wanted to add that the book I referenced has errors in it. I'm working on the relative alignment section and it references android:layout_toRight when it should be toRightOf. I tried it in both 1.1 and 1.5 to be sure, and I double checked the example. Oh well, pressing on. I did notice i

[android-beginners] Re: 'if' sentences please help

2009-08-21 Thread Yusuf Saib (T-Mobile USA)
This is a Java mistake that is common. By "common" I mean "one I make all the frickin time." You should use String.equals() instead, like if (!codedate.equals("220809")) { If you just use the != operator then the JVM will compare the string pointer addresses, not their values. Yusuf Saib

[android-beginners] Re: Android SDK For Beginners?

2009-08-21 Thread gandor
Zack, By reading your post I realized its not a perfect world. May be you can bring perfection to Android tutorials to start with On Aug 21, 3:20 pm, Zack Podany wrote: > I have actually found a resource that is working well for me.  It's a book > called The Busy Coder's guide to Android.  This

[android-beginners] Re: database openOrCreateDatabase

2009-08-21 Thread gandor
Emre Now I am using myDB = openOrCreateDatabase("data2", SQLiteDatabase.CREATE_IF_NECESSARY, null); before I was doing myDB = null; myDB.openOrCreateDatabase("data2", null); which was absurd Have to initialize myDB as the prototype of openOrCreateDatabase has the return as static On Aug 20,

[android-beginners] Re: Breaking up Activity classes

2009-08-21 Thread Mark Murphy
Greg Hedin wrote: > Are activity classes generally ugly or is there a common way that pro > developers compartmentalize things in their activity classes? I code in Ruby when I'm not working on Android. All Java code is ugly. ;-) There are many patterns you can use to help organize an activity. H

[android-beginners] Re: Android SDK For Beginners?

2009-08-21 Thread Zack Podany
I have actually found a resource that is working well for me. It's a book called The Busy Coder's guide to Android. This explains a lot more (although not everything) and I find myself starting to learn how things work. I did go through andbook and found it to be either badly typed or mis-transl

[android-beginners] Re: ListView with addHeaderView Example?

2009-08-21 Thread chinchin
Finally figured it all out. Here is the final code extended from ListActivity. http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ android" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" > public class HelloListActivity exten

[android-beginners] Re: Android SDK For Beginners?

2009-08-21 Thread Mark Murphy
Azelis DeLano wrote: > So given my experience with outside tutorials that are only of > peripheral interest to me and the knowledge that Android doesn't use > the everyday flavor Java VM, is there a Java for Android for Beginners > style reference anywhere? Most of the books/tutorials that I hav

[android-beginners] Breaking up Activity classes

2009-08-21 Thread Greg Hedin
As I'm learning about Activities and the components they contain I am wanting to break things up into components. Is there any list of guidelines / commonly used organization of Activity classes? As I add functionality to my apps, things like context menus, options menus, and references to view o

[android-beginners] Re: Android SDK For Beginners?

2009-08-21 Thread tinyang
Hi Azelis and welcome to Android development! :) I'm pretty much new to programming. Android is my first software development experience aside from some relational database stuff I did years ago. I pretty much had to start learning from scratch several months ago. The first recommendation I ha

[android-beginners] Re: How do I implement onClick for a DialogPreference?

2009-08-21 Thread Nick
Looking around the source I think I found what I was looking for. I assume that I need to implement onDialogClosed from DialogPreference.java. But to do this do I need to create a new class say MyDialogPreference or is there a way to just implement that method in the class below? On Aug 20, 3:

[android-beginners] Re: Android 1.5 - getNeighboringCellInfo() always returns 0 neighboring cells

2009-08-21 Thread chrisnew
Try selecting Use only 2G Networks in Settings->Wireless Controls- >Mobile Networks. The getNeighboringCellInfo method only seems to be populated when on 2G for me. On 3G it is empty though the data must be in the radio stack. I'm using an ADP1 and 1.5 firmware. On Jul 7, 2:13 pm, kevink wrote:

[android-beginners] toggle background of an ImageView

2009-08-21 Thread arin
Hi there, I want to determine if a particular background png is being used by an imageview at a particular time and want to execute some action based on the boolean result? How can I determine the current background resource? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

[android-beginners] Re: NullPointerException with autocomplete in layout

2009-08-21 Thread theway200
I get the same thing... any solutions yet? On Aug 4, 9:34 am, phill wrote: > When I open the sample autocomplete_1.xml in eclipse and view in > layout mode the screen is gray with the message NullPointerException: > null > > It does the same if I create a layout and add an AutoCompleteTextView >

[android-beginners] How can I download a file from the internet?

2009-08-21 Thread bennyb
I want my application to download an update file e.g. http://www.mysite.com/updates/data.txt Also, what do I need to add to the manifest? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To

[android-beginners] Re: AlertDialog text input problem

2009-08-21 Thread Jan Bobeth
This works for me for an EditText as well. But when I try the same code for a Spinner I receive a NullPointerException. Both views are in the same Layout and both views have got an id. Actually, it is exactly the same code except the kind of the view. Any idea why I got this exception? Thanks O

[android-beginners] Attn Google: How about throwing a beta release of Android 2.0 SDK?

2009-08-21 Thread androidgoo
Why isn't Google releasing a beta version of Android 2.0 SDK for developers? Don't the folks at The Weather Channel already have it? It would be nice if developers have the option of working on 1.5 or 2.0. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because yo

[android-beginners] Android SDK For Beginners?

2009-08-21 Thread Azelis DeLano
Hello, my name is Zack but I go by Azelis. Introduction's out of the way, let's get down to it. >From my history of programming, I know that languages based on other languages only make sense if you have extensive background. For example when I started learning NQC for the Mindstorms Invention

[android-beginners] Re: Simple Animation Code

2009-08-21 Thread Breese Kay
thx.I will try it. 在 2009/8/21 02:23 時, skink 寫到: > > > > On Aug 20, 11:33 am, Kingcrowley wrote: >> Weirdly if i press the home button, and then switch back to my app it >> reopens and the animation is then shown as running! >> >> Thanks, >> >> David > > hi, start your animation when view is

[android-beginners] How do I implement onClick for a DialogPreference?

2009-08-21 Thread Nick
I have a DialogPreference in my Preference Activity and would like to know which button was pressed. I have implemented the OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener which does not seem to get triggered when the DialogPreference is selected. I have also tried OnPreferenceClickListener but this gets trigg

[android-beginners] Re: INTERNET

2009-08-21 Thread Roman ( T-Mobile USA)
If you use an emulator try to set your DNS when you start the emulator ./emulator -dns-server -- Roman Baumgaertner Sr. SW Engineer-OSDC ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessa

[android-beginners] Key & Value pair in a spinner

2009-08-21 Thread AlexDemers
Hey, I was wondering how to put a string array in a spinner (I can, using the ArrayAdapter) but I also want to set keys for these also. But it seems that there's no constructors for that (I may be mistaken). I have 2 arrays: {"5123", "7434", "7333", "7345" } and {"City 1", "City 2", "City 3", "Ci

[android-beginners] System Privileges on emulator

2009-08-21 Thread Asad Zia
Hi, I'm developing my application in Android emulator. In file AndroidManifest.xml, when I declare uses-permission for INTERNET and BATTERY_STATS it works without problems. However when I try to use INSTALL_PACKAGES or BIND_APPWIDGET it does not work. These permissions don't even appear on packag

[android-beginners] Re: Need to implement Android for my website powered in PHP

2009-08-21 Thread andyandroi...@gmail.com
I'm guessing the op wants to make their site mobile friendly. Just a hunch. Aa01 On Aug 19, 2:04 am, kapil1728 wrote: > Hi, > > I need to make mywebsite developed in PHP(Linux server, MySQL) in > android. How can I do it? > Can anyone tell me the steps for it? > > Thanks > Kapil1728 --~--~

[android-beginners] 'if' sentences please help

2009-08-21 Thread GlennovitS
Hey everybody.. I'm just startet writing code for android.. And then I need to have some if-sentences.. (sorry for my english) they look like this @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main);

[android-beginners] Trouble passing a KML file to the DDMS Location Emulator

2009-08-21 Thread AKA
I'm sure this must be a simple/dumb thing I'm doing wrong, as I'm unable to find anyone else posting about this problem...so, my apologies in advance if this is a stupid question. Basically, I'm trying to send mock location data to the Android Emulator via the DDMS application. I can successfully

[android-beginners] Re: database openOrCreateDatabase

2009-08-21 Thread Emre A. Yavuz
Hi, Am I missing something here or are you setting your database pointer to "null" and yet use it later on to crate/open your database ? Emre > Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:08:35 -0700 > Subject: [android-beginners] database openOrCreateDatabase > From: gand...@gmail.com > To: android-b

[android-beginners] System Privileges on emulator

2009-08-21 Thread Asad Zia
Hi, There seems to be two levels of uses-permission, user level and system level. When I declare to use INTERNET or BATTERY_STATS, in my AndroidManifest.xml file it works without problem. However when I try to use INSTALL_PACKAGES, BIND_APPWIDGET it does not work. According to a [android-beginn

[android-beginners] How do I implement the onClick method for a DialogPreference?

2009-08-21 Thread Nick
I have implemented onSharedPreferenceChanged in my Preference Activity, which works for other preference settings but it won't get triggered when I click on the DialogPreference. I have also tried to add set the OnPreferenceClickListener to the DialogPreference, which also works, but this gets tr

[android-beginners] Intent-Filter for custom protocols

2009-08-21 Thread avi
good morning :) i have a problem with registring a reciever as i wish :/ My Problem: there exist links like "irc://someserver.org/channelXY". When I try to open them with the browser, i always get some kind of "not found, page maybe moved ..."-message. Now im wondering if its possible to fetch t

[android-beginners] Problem in opening the Stream

2009-08-21 Thread M Awais
HI i m facing an urgent issue, as i tried to open the following URL through coding it gives me exception at OpenStream().. "illegal Character at home index 0:" the URL is: http://viralmesh_iphone.s3.amazonaws.com/lowURcholesterol/myplan.json i also tried to encode the URL bt no vail... here

[android-beginners] Re: Invalid apk file

2009-08-21 Thread Ivan
I got this error, too, Could anyone help to give any comment ? Thanks ! On Aug 4, 10:02 pm, green wrote: > Hello, I think I have read all threads related to this problem. So I > have tried the locale stuff, deleted keystore file from .android > directory etc...Please advise on getting rid of thi

[android-beginners] which package the function setSilent lived in ?

2009-08-21 Thread Breese.Kay
hi,all. the url http://developer.android.com/intl/zh-TW/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html at the first example . boolean silent = settings.getBoolean("silentMode", false); setSilent(silent); I can't find the function setSilent in the manual. who can tell me? thanks. --~--~---

[android-beginners] Re: how to update a listview

2009-08-21 Thread Yusuf Saib (T-Mobile USA)
What is the adapter class? For an ArrayAdapter, you don't need to call notifyDataSetChanged() unless you called setNotifyOnChange(false). Yusuf Saib Android ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the author solely in their individual capacity

[android-beginners] Re: Simple Animation Code

2009-08-21 Thread skink
Kingcrowley wrote: > the imgview is not set up in onCreate but later on, > hmm, so you setVisibke(View.VISIBLE) and start() your animation on some external event, right? did you try to start() your animation in post's Runnable? post(new Runnable() {...}) pskink --~--~-~--~~--

[android-beginners] Re: Flash based games on Android

2009-08-21 Thread Jack Ha
The following links should help you get started on game development: Getting Started in Android Game Development http://www.rbgrn.net/content/54-getting-started-android-game-development Writing Real-Time Games for Android http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions/WritingRealTimeGamesAndr

[android-beginners] Re: Flash based games on Android

2009-08-21 Thread Jack Ha
The Android SDK doesn't support Flash yet. -- Jack Ha Open Source Development Center ・T・ ・ ・Mobile・ stick together The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. On Aug 2

[android-beginners] Re: Flash based games on Android

2009-08-21 Thread Maxood
Please also tell me how can i integrate a flash app on android. Can i do that in the first place. I have also come to know that android supports flash 10. On Aug 21, 6:45 pm, Maxood wrote: > I want to develop and application that will be a clone of flash based > online game. I need to know what

[android-beginners] Flash based games on Android

2009-08-21 Thread Maxood
I want to develop and application that will be a clone of flash based online game. I need to know what resources would i require as a beginner. I like to start off with small games. Please let let me know about tutorials, articles, books, etc. Thanks, Maxood --~--~-~--~~~-

[android-beginners] Re: Please help in creating simple text file

2009-08-21 Thread Mark Murphy
nitin wrote: > thanks for quick response, I am new to android and self learner. how > to see the adb logcat or in Eclipse. http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/ddms.html http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware

[android-beginners] Re: Simple Animation Code

2009-08-21 Thread Kingcrowley
Maybe i didn't explain it well enough.. The main.xml file is used already, so frame_animations_layout.xml is the layout for this, see below *** http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ android" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layo

[android-beginners] Re: Please help in creating simple text file

2009-08-21 Thread nitin
hello sir, thanks for quick response, I am new to android and self learner. how to see the adb logcat or in Eclipse. Is there something wrong in above code or some setting is required? please help, sample code will be useful. Thanks On Aug 21, 3:09 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > nitin wrote: > > he

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2009-08-21 Thread opal Donaldson
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[android-beginners] Re: Please help in creating simple text file

2009-08-21 Thread Mark Murphy
nitin wrote: > hello, > > I want to create a simple text file in data/data/com.my.package/files/ > test.txt. My code is as follows: > > private String CreateFile(Context context){ > try{ > FileOutputStream fOut = context.openFileOutput > ("test.txt",MODE_WORLD_WRITEABLE); >

[android-beginners] Please help in creating simple text file

2009-08-21 Thread nitin
hello, I want to create a simple text file in data/data/com.my.package/files/ test.txt. My code is as follows: private String CreateFile(Context context){ try{ FileOutputStream fOut = context.openFileOutput ("test.txt",MODE_WORLD_WRITEABLE); fOut.close();

[android-beginners] Re: Simple Animation Code

2009-08-21 Thread skink
On Aug 20, 11:33 am, Kingcrowley wrote: > Weirdly if i press the home button, and then switch back to my app it > reopens and the animation is then shown as running! > > Thanks, > > David hi, start your animation when view is already visible (not in onCreate) --~--~-~--~~--