[android-beginners] Re: Creating an AVD

why dont you try to create avd from IDE only.? On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Trina wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using Vista. I have been trying to create an AVD, but have had > little success. In my directory I go to android-sdk-windows-1.6_r1/ > tools. I then open the android application which b

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[android-beginners] Re: Eclipse crashes with Android ADT installed

Hmm, this solution worked in ubuntu for about a few days until the latest karmic updates. Now I am getting the same rrror again. Anybody help, please? On Oct 1, 10:36 am, Roman Semko wrote: > hmmm. to anyone who might encoutner this problem: > Adding "-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr

[android-beginners] Help needed: Emulator does not show up

Whenever i hit RUN in eclipse, the emulator does not show up and i am getting the following message in the console window: 2009-10-06 14:31:59 - HelloWorld]Uploading HelloWorld.apk onto device 'emulator-5554' [2009-10-06 14:31:59 - HelloWorld]Installing HelloWorld.apk... [2009-10-06 14:32:01 - He

[android-beginners] Re: Double-Permissions when publishing to Android Market?

Hi. >Any ideas on what's happening, or if it's happened to anybody else, would be >greatly appreciated:) Yes, the same thing happened to our app, all permissions doubled. However it's still runs fine, no problems were detected. I guess google is changing smth in maket's infrastructure and this

[android-beginners] Re: Eclipse crashes with Android ADT installed

Ok finally got it working stable. =) here's the solution for anyone encountering the same problem: The eclipse version from repository relies on alternate libswt (gnome, cairo and gtk) "versions" . For example it requires: libswt3.4-gtk- java instead of the "official" libswt-gtk-3.4-java. The so

[android-beginners] problem in services

Hello frnds. I am presently working on services.I have read many articles related to services.But one thing I dont understand is if we want our application to run in background how can we implement services without using Activities... Urgent help needed Thanks Nemat --~--~-~--~-

[android-beginners] Re: Creating a Lite and Pro version of an application

thanks Justin, I think I will follow this method. Sorry about not searching the forums properly. I was googling for a while but didn't find anything there. On Oct 6, 4:54 am, Justin Anderson wrote: > *> what's missing from the market is dependencies. * > > I wholeheartedly agree... > > *> i

[android-beginners] Re: Problem involving emulators and networking.

Hey thanks for the reply. I understand a bit better what I need to do now but still having a lot of bother on actually finding devices via the ip address and connecting through this. are there any tutorials or sample code on how to do this anywhere? On Oct 5, 2009 9:30 PM, "Roman ( T-Mobile USA)"

[android-beginners] Re: Creating a Lite and Pro version of an application

Jax, No worries... It sounds like you had done some homework before posting. And like I had said, if you had done some homework then you could ignore my little prodding. :) I thought of a couple other advantages to using my method: People will most likely try out the free version before gettin

[android-beginners] Re: Android as a Universal Remote for CE/HA?

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[android-beginners] Re: problem in services

Service is a faceless UI-less application component. You need a "trigger" to start it, either from an Activity which then may go away or in response to a broadcast intent from a BroadcastReceiver that may call the Service's startService method. (Note, you can't bind to the service from a broadcast

[android-beginners] Re: Problem involving emulators and networking.

When you are in a LAN you can use the IP broadcast address to send out some "hey, it me! Who is out there" messages. Other clients would receive the broadcast and respond back with their IP address. -- Roman Baumgaertner Sr. SW Engineer-OSDC ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together The views, opinions and s

[android-beginners] Is there a Java API Spec for Android

Is there a definition of what parts of the Java API (java.* and javax.* packages) are included in Android. Clearly a developer can figure this out by examining the SDK javadoc. But is there documentation about what is in included and what is not? It looks like most (but not all) of Java SE is

[android-beginners] Re: HelloMapView coming up with empty tiles

Too bad you did not get a SecurityException instead of just empty map tiles. And too bad there is no xml schema to validate the manifest (AFIK). On Oct 5, 5:25 pm, Clayton wrote: > I figured it out.  I had the as a child of > rather than a child of the , it's working > now.  Thanks for your h

[android-beginners] Development of an app for the Archos Internet Tablet

Hi, I need to develop an application specifically targeted for the Archos Internet Tablet. When I finally got my hands on the device, I found that the "“USB Debugging” option was missing. Some addition searching found a review with the same discovery, http://www.androidian.de/?p=450. Has anyon

[android-beginners] How to change the default directory of AVD

When I use ADT0.93 + Android SDK 1.6, I met a problem, my AVD does not work. Now I knew the problem is the default directory of AVD has Chinese characters， so I have to change the AVD directory, but I don't how. Somebody who can help me. PS: My OS is vista --~--~-~--~~~--

[android-beginners] No running AVD's listed in eclipse

Hello eveyone. Im having a problem (im using Eclispse) when i start an Android app that when i set it so i can choose what already running AVD instance I want to book into I have nothing listed in the 'Android Device Chooser' even though i have a running device started through eclipse. Can anyone

[android-beginners] DEVELOPMENT CLIENT FOR WEB-SERVICES ON ANDROID

Hi guys, i need an expert about android. I have to develop a framework to create clients for web-services on android. I thought to write a mapping from wsdl to java, but now i think is more usable to develop it through some tools like axis. After have developed my web services, i tried to develop

[android-beginners] decoding bar code from image stored as resource

Hello All, I am writing an application to scan a bar code. As a small module of it I am trying to decode the bar code form the image file stored as resource. (R.raw.bc02) where bc02.jpg is my bar code image file. I am using http://code.google.com/p/zxing/wiki/DeveloperNotes to write a program for

[android-beginners] Launching projects to the AVD in eclipse

Hello everyone. I having a few beginners problems with the AVD when using Eclipse. When I launch a project through eclipse when i have no AVD running, it will boot up and then only actually launch my app (just the helloAndroid one) 50% of the time, with no errors when it fails to launch. I have be

[android-beginners] Doubt

how do i show a blueprint of a parking lot which has got empty as well as occupied places.How do we show whther tht parking spot is occupied or no?And when the driver gets the info abt a vacant parking spot he selects and when he selects the route from the driver to tht location has to get highligh

[android-beginners] Handling soft keyboard events

Hello, does anybody know a way for handling a soft keyboard key pressing event. I have currently a EditText view that intercepts key pressing using a setOnKeyLIstener() but this works only for the real keyboard. If someone could send a small code sample this would be really appreciated and useful

[android-beginners] how to load the related Bitmap according to input

hi, I have met an issue. There are some pics in the res/drawable named as pic_1.png, pic_2.png, pic_3.png, pic_4.png I want to load someone according to the input. For instance, if I input 2, I want to load pic_2.png. If input 3, will load the pic_3.png How to achieve? Need your expert he

[android-beginners] I'd like to be a member of this group

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[android-beginners] Emulator file transfer

Hi, Is there a way to transfer files to the Android emulator? I am creating a media player and I'd like to transfer some files to the emulator file system so that my media player can play it. I am using eclipse with the Android SDK for development. Thanks, --~--~-~--~~~-

[android-beginners] How will users upgrade their firmware?

I'm trying to understand how users will upgrade their firmware without losing their application data. I'm assuming that system.img and userdata.img will be replaced during a firmware upgrade (both files are generated when building the Android source code--among others). My understanding is that s

[android-beginners] GUI Modifier thread

Hello. Getting start with Android, I'm trying to create a "Game of life" software. My application has a TableLayout filled with ImageView for each cell. I'm trying to run/stop the game once a button has been click (same button for both). Anyway, what I'm trying to do is to change my GUI from the

[android-beginners] How to remove/hide the notification bar?

How to remove/hide the notification bar? I am trying to run a GLSurfaceView in full screen but the notification bar is in the way. Thanks, Luis --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" gr

[android-beginners] Multi-User Logins on Android?

Hello, I am just learning about Android development and am wondering if Android has any support for multiple users, each with their own password. Since Android is mainly intended for single user devices, i would be surprised if it did. However, I will be using it on a non- mobile device, so this

[android-beginners] A question about displayzoomcontrols(boolean takeFocus)

May I ask a simple question? I am just a Android Map beginner. :) If I want to use the zoom controller, I could use "setBuiltInZoomControls(true)", and then when I touch the screen, the zoom controller will appear automatically. But what is the effect with displayzoomcontrols(boolean takeFocus)

[android-beginners] how to keep an application awake

Hi I try to develope a fitness application (with music playing and showing the training time), everthing works fine until the phone goes into the sleep mode. How can i keep the application (and of course the phone) awake? Solve this by using a service is probably not useful cause it's a interval

[android-beginners] .apk file deleted

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[android-beginners] A question about displayzoomcontrols(boolean takeFocus)

May I ask a simple question? I am just a Android Map beginner. :) If I want to use the zoom controller, I could use "setBuiltInZoomControls(true)", and then when I touch the screen, the zoom controller will appear automatically. But what is the effect with displayzoomcontrols(boolean takeFocus)

[android-beginners] How to extract ICON from an APK file?

Hi, I'm trying to get the icon from an apk file, but I found not every app use the the icon.png under res/, and androidmanifest.xml is compiled inside apk, where I can get the position information? Thx & BR, KK --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message beca

[android-beginners] open a custom dialog from a asnytask

hi I try to open a custom dialog from a asnyctask. I dont get an exception, but the dialog just don't shows... When i try it from the activity (per example from the onClick-method) the dialog shows without a problem. But when i first try it from the asynctask and then from the onClick-method it d

[android-beginners] EclipseIDE for Java Developers galileo install plug in problem

Hi all, I have problem to install ADT-0.9.3 to galileo. I always get security warning message of com.android.ide.clipse.adt_0.9.3 v200909031112-12945.jar and ddms_0.9.3 v200909031112-12945.jar that contains unsigned content. However, if I continue with the installation, I will get missing fol

[android-beginners] Reading/Decoding bar code stored in resources

Hello All, I am writing an application to scan a bar code. As a small module of it I am trying to decode the bar code form the image file stored as resource. (R.raw.bc02) where bc02.jpg is my bar code image file. I am using http://code.google.com/p/zxing/wiki/DeveloperNotes to write a program fo

[android-beginners] Re: How to remove/hide the notification bar?

A quick google search and I found this: http://tinyurl.com/yay4xhf Thanks, Justin -- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't. --

[android-beginners] Re: open a custom dialog from a asnytask

Hi grz, Please check the docs and examples for AsyncTask. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/AsyncTask.html You probably want to show the dialog in onProgressUpdate or onPostExecute, both of which are invoked on the UI thread. Cheers, James On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:53 AM, martin

[android-beginners] Re: GUI Modifier thread

Hi l, Please read the docs for AsyncTask. You don't want to do UI work within doInBackground. Try onProgressUpdate and onPostExecute instead. Cheers, James On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Ivru wrote: > > Hello. > > Getting start with Android, I'm trying to create a "Game of life" > software. M

[android-beginners] Re: how to keep an application awake

Hi Martin, http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/PowerManager.html Please note this warning: *"Device battery life will be significantly affected by the use of this API. * Do not acquire WakeLocks unless you really n

[android-beginners] Re: How to extract ICON from an APK file?

What exactly are you trying to do with this icon? You can get the icon of an installed application on your phone via PackageManager.getActivityIcon() or PackageManager.getApplicationIcon(). http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html Thanks, Justin

[android-beginners] Multiple tables in one ContentProvider

Hi I want to operate on multiple tables. I searched a lot but everywhere I could find is single table with one content provider. How can I use multiple tables under one content provider? How can I get result from two/three tables ? Can I provide my own SQL select query from multiple tables in C

[android-beginners] About Horizontal Scrolling

I have a banner on the top and i have 36 buttons in all, of which i want to display a set of 12 to display while scrolling horizontally.I want the banner to be stationary while scrolling. Please give me your expert advice after watching this demo here on youtube on iMEvil: http://www.youtube.co

[android-beginners] Re: Multi-User Logins on Android?

Android does not support that, sorry. 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, and do not necessarily represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. On Oct 5, 5:38 pm, ClarkBattle wr

[android-beginners] Re: Emulator file transfer

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html#copying 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, and do not necessarily represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc.

[android-beginners] Re: DEVELOPMENT CLIENT FOR WEB-SERVICES ON ANDROID

Are you required to use a particular type of web service, like SOAP or REST? If it's SOAP as you mentioned, this fellow had useful and mercifully brief writeup: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/9b246db7d612a6b5 Yusuf Saib Android ·T· · ·Mobile· stick toget

[android-beginners] Re: EclipseIDE for Java Developers galileo install plug in problem

The 2 problems are completely unrelated. Yes, the plug-ins are not signed. Just install them anyway. Sometimes, when you create a project, the java builder doesn't see the new gen folder. Either clean your project or do a minor edit in the java source code. It should recompile your project witho

[android-beginners] Re: Multi-User Logins on Android?

Drat. Thanks! On Oct 6, 1:52 pm, "Yusuf Saib (T-Mobile USA)" wrote: > Android does not support that, sorry. > > 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, and do not neces

[android-beginners] glSurfaceView and the "game thread" vs "render thread"

First of all, my framework is set up exactly like example code shown here, right under "How about User Input?" http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/introducing-glsurfaceview.html I think that the author forgot to mention one more thing, which is "How about Game Logic?". So in a nutshel

[android-beginners] Re: Is there a Java API Spec for Android

> It looks like most (but not all) of Java SE is there other than awt. Uh, no. Swing and other packages are missing outright, and various classes are missing from other packages (e.g., most of java.beans). > Are all the included packages complete per Java SE 1.5? No. > What happens if you try

[android-beginners] Re: How to extract ICON from an APK file?

Actually I'm doing a shell extension for windows, showing the icon of apk files in windows, isn't it a good idea? :D so I want to know where the icon located in apk file, and I'm using android API... Thanks for your tip, at least I can go and see the source code of packagemanager.. BR, KK On Oc

[android-beginners] Re: Is there a Java API Spec for Android

mark, as far as the language goes, is android java 1.6 or 1.5? i assume 1.6 but i couldn't find anything that stated that explicitly. the other thing i don't understand is binary compatibility. i had assumed i could not take a class compiled with something other than the android SDK and use it in

[android-beginners] Re: Is there a Java API Spec for Android

> as far as the language goes, is android java 1.6 or 1.5? i assume 1.6 but > i > couldn't find anything that stated that explicitly. The Dalvik cross-compiler (dx) understands 1.5 and 1.6 bytecodes. > the other thing i don't understand is binary compatibility. i had assumed > i > could not take

[android-beginners] Re: How to extract ICON from an APK file?

Sorry, I'm NOT using android API On Oct 7, 11:40 am, KK wrote: > Actually I'm doing a shell extension for windows, showing the icon of > apk files in windows, isn't it a good idea? :D > so I want to know where the icon located in apk file, and I'm using > android API... > > Thanks for your t

[android-beginners] Re: EclipseIDE for Java Developers galileo install plug in problem

Thanks for your prompt reply.. On 10月7日, 上午5时10分, Xavier Ducrohet wrote: > The 2 problems are completely unrelated. > > Yes, the plug-ins are not signed. Just install them anyway. > > Sometimes, when you create a project, the java builder doesn't see the > new gen folder. Either clean your proje

[android-beginners] Re: Battery Usage Indicator API - JDK 1.6

Mark!! Thanks a ton!! I found the souce code, built it and just saw the BatteryStatsService.java in which the comment reads "All information we are collecting about things that can happen that impact * battery life." - exactly what I was looking for. Thanks once again. Now, my actual developme