[android-beginners] Re: Custom multiselect dialog

2010-05-11 Thread skalluraya
I tried doing custom base adapter but have a small problem. when i check checkbox row scroll down some other check box is checked. The code for that is following: package com.testing; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.ArrayList; import android.content.Context; import

Re: [android-beginners] To make the listed items clickable

2010-05-11 Thread Justin Anderson
First off, I gotta say: DANG!!! That's a lot of stuff to be putting in your onCreate method... I would seriously consider using AsyncTask, escpecially for the call to your web service... Now, onto your question... Without knowing more information about how R.layout.screen2 is set up this is

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Custom multiselect dialog

2010-05-11 Thread Justin Anderson
* I tried doing custom base adapter but have a small problem. when i check checkbox row scroll down some other check box is checked. * That is probably because you are using the convertView parameter that is passed to the getView() method (which is a good thing!)... What is happening is that you

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Custom multiselect dialog

2010-05-11 Thread Justin Anderson
Woops... on further investigation of your code, it looks like you are doing that already with mbCheckedStatus... I will have to look at this closer before I will be able to figure this out. -- There are only 10 types of people

[android-beginners] maven build include-exclude languages(resources) from build

2010-05-11 Thread bcatza
Hi, I am working to create a build script with maven for an android project and I want to use profile in the pom.xml so I can select the languages(resources) that I want when I make the build. The resources are in res folder and in this folder I have a folder for every language ( en, ar, es, fr,

[android-beginners] installing android-sdk with eclipse and adt for windows.

2010-05-11 Thread dhaval shah
Hi, i am working on windows. (1) i have already installed Eclipse 3.5.2 classic version. after that what procedure i have to follow to install SDK for application development. i have already downloaded required ADT and SDK packages. please give me some steps for installation on

[android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-11 Thread tiger
On May 10, 2:55 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:32 AM, tiger unixep...@mailinator.com wrote: Eclipse does not seem to see the emulator has fully booted up. Please elaborate. The last message in the eclipse console is Launching a new emulator with Virtual

[android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-11 Thread tiger
On May 10, 2:55 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:32 AM, tiger unixep...@mailinator.com wrote: Eclipse does not seem to see the emulator has fully booted up. Please elaborate. Last message in Eclipse is: Launching a new emulator with Virtual Device... I can

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Get URL from Android Browser

2010-05-11 Thread Mark Murphy
mrzali wrote: Thanks Murphy for you answer. Anyway, can we read the Bookmark data from the Android browser. It must be stored somewhere in the phone. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Browser.html You are going to need the READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS (and, possibly,

[android-beginners] Force Close when trying to use getApplication()

2010-05-11 Thread Jon Jacob
I am a newbie both to Java and Android and have been reading the book Unlocking Android and trying to learn by adapting their code to my ideas for a project to play with and learn Android. But, I have run into a brick wall that I need help with. The following code gives me a force close when I

Re: [android-beginners] Randomly generate sound from onClick and onShake events?

2010-05-11 Thread TreKing
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Aaron Lee cyphasign...@gmail.com wrote: First off, what technique should I use to achieve this? You have an array, yes? You know the length, right? So generate a random number between 0 and length of array, and choose that time. That's it. ARRAY-RANDOM-

[android-beginners] Re: MMS

2010-05-11 Thread Kawaii Guy NH
Hey I found the URIs in the source code of MMSprovider.java... the URIs supported are below. But first, here is how you use them to get the address/phone numbers... First, look up the ID of the MMS you're interested in, using whatever criteria, such as query(Uri.parse(content://mms), new String[]

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-11 Thread Justin Anderson
Is it displaying the lock screen? If so, you need to unlock the emulator, and Hello World should be sitting right there waiting for you... -- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who

Re: [android-beginners] Force Close when trying to use getApplication()

2010-05-11 Thread Justin Anderson
Where is the getApplication() method defined? My initial thought would be that it is returning null for some reason and you are not checking for that... perhaps with a try catch block or a simple null check... But I can't tell for sure without seeing this method. What does logcat say about the

[android-beginners] Windows Stream

2010-05-11 Thread Guilherme Vieira
There is a file (which its extension is .wmx) that points to a audio stream. Its possible to read, I mean listen, that stream? Thank you! Guilherme -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question

[android-beginners] Re: Force Close when trying to use getApplication()

2010-05-11 Thread Jon Jacob
getApplication(), I believe, comes from the Application class that BoardGameFinderApplication is an extension of. I did put the suspected section in a try - catch block and the error message referenced the android.app.Application as the error not very helpful since I pretty much know that is

[android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-11 Thread tiger
Yeah, I definitely unlocked it. As I said from the console messages in Eclipse, you can see it is stopped at the point where it is waiting for feedback from the emulator, but it is not getting it. On May 11, 3:43 pm, Justin Anderson janderson@gmail.com wrote: Is it displaying the lock

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Force Close when trying to use getApplication()

2010-05-11 Thread Carmen Delessio
I experienced something like this when following the example in the book. The Author's have code and a comment on this here: http://unlocking-android.googlecode.com/svn/chapter3/trunk/RestaurantFinder/src/com/msi/manning/restaurant/RestaurantFinderApplication.java The key to this, I think, is

[android-beginners] How to detect if the soft keypad is up or down

2010-05-11 Thread droid-stricken
Hi All, I would appreciate if anyone has a means to detect if the virtual keyboard or the soft keypad is up or not. I used inputMethodManager's isActive() routine but it's always returning TRUE indicating it's not the right API to use. I have to do certain user-input dependent tasks based on

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-11 Thread TreKing
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:26 AM, tiger unixep...@mailinator.com wrote: Yeah, I definitely unlocked it. As I said from the console messages in Eclipse, you can see it is stopped at the point where it is waiting for feedback from the emulator, but it is not getting it. Instead of launching

Re: [android-beginners] ubuntu 10.04 emulator not launching

2010-05-11 Thread riazrahaman
Yes I did try the verbose option. I find a segmentation fault. It got fixed now after some updates to Ubuntu 10.04. Not sure what fixed it but after some updates the emulator has started to work again now. Regards, Riaz Ur Rahaman On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:13 AM, David Turner di...@android.com

[android-beginners] Re: Changing button image based on user input.

2010-05-11 Thread Tollas
I know I'm heading in the right direction, I just can't seem to make it work! MAIN.JAVA public static final int SPEED_ABILITY = 1; /** Called when the activity is first created. */ @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

[android-beginners] Re: Force Close when trying to use getApplication()

2010-05-11 Thread Jon Jacob
And, that worked like a charm. Not obvious. I like this book. Definitely a good guide, but they DO leave some important details out here and there. On May 11, 8:33 am, Carmen Delessio carmendeles...@gmail.com wrote: I  experienced something like this when following the example in the book.

[android-beginners] Re: Listening to touch events outside application

2010-05-11 Thread Shaylh
LOL, that's a straight-forward answer :) can you explain why? is it about security policy or something of that sort? On 11 מאי, 00:20, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Shaylhwrote: Hello everybody! I'm new to android (and java...) and I have the following question: Is it possible

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Changing button image based on user input.

2010-05-11 Thread TreKing
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Tollas tolla...@gmail.com wrote: I know I'm heading in the right direction, I just can't seem to make it work! How doesn't it work? What is the current behavior? What have you debugged so far? Sorry, but I, personally, am not going to dig through your

[android-beginners] Re: Force Close when trying to use getApplication()

2010-05-11 Thread Indicator Veritatis
Unlocking Android is a good book, but I have learned from my own experience with it that it is not a good idea to type in code from the text and expect it to work. Much better to get the code from the book's website and run that. Download it from the website, compare that to what you already have,

[android-beginners] Re: Randomly generate sound from onClick and onShake events?

2010-05-11 Thread BobG
You shake and get a random sound from 1 to 8. What happens if you shake 3 more times real fast? You have 4 then 3 then 2 then 1 sounds playing? You either need a soundpool that will play a half dozen sounds, ot a half dozen mediaplayers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

[android-beginners] [MultipleActivity] Issue with launching second one.

2010-05-11 Thread Ubuntu Explorer
Hi, I am trying to write a simple multiple activity application - each of which has a xml layout file (containing a button) On the button click, the need to switch between the activities. My onClick() looks like this { Intent myIntent = new Intent(Multi2); Activity act2 = new

Re: [android-beginners] [MultipleActivity] Issue with launching second one.

2010-05-11 Thread Justin Anderson
*What am I doing wrong?* Not meaning to be rude here, but pretty much everything... ;-) You should never create a new instance of an activity. That is handled by the Android OS. You probably want to use the Intent constructor that takes a Context and a Class object... that is what I always do

Re: [android-beginners] [MultipleActivity] Issue with launching second one.

2010-05-11 Thread Justin Anderson
Also, you need to make sure you have your activities declared in your Android Manifest file. -- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't.

[android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-11 Thread tiger
On May 11, 5:19 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: .. Instead of launching your app to trigger the emulator to start, launch the Emulator from the AVD control window. Wait for it to boot. Unlock the screen if necessary. Then try running your app, selecting the emulator instance as your

[android-beginners] Re: [MultipleActivity] Issue with launching second one.

2010-05-11 Thread Ubuntu Explorer
Thanks for your suggestions. I am 50% through. I am able to go from Activity1 to Activity2. However, my replica code in Activity2 doesn't work. Here are my Manifest activity details. activity android:name=.MultipleActivity android:label=@string/app_name

Re: [android-beginners] Re: [MultipleActivity] Issue with launching second one.

2010-05-11 Thread Justin Anderson
Have you even tried using my suggestions? I am quite certain that if you do it the way I outlined your problems will go away. -- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't.

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-11 Thread TreKing
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:05 PM, tiger unixep...@mailinator.com wrote: This confirms what I have been saying - that Eclipse is not seeing or communicating with the running emulator after it starts it. If you run DDMS, does that list the emulator as a target?

[android-beginners] Synchronous Display Calls

2010-05-11 Thread Karthik Ravi Shankar
Hi, I'm new to android development. I'm developing an graphics application and want to see the performance. I have a few questions in this regard - 1) Is invalidate() called on a View after regular intervals by the system itself? I mean does the display get updated on its own? Or are we

[android-beginners] Re: [MultipleActivity] Issue with launching second one.

2010-05-11 Thread Ubuntu Explorer
I did exactly as what you had adviced. However, the issue was Activity1's view is not showing up, when I launch the activity again. Should I move setContentView() call into onStart() ? Regards, UE On May 12, 6:24 am, Justin Anderson janderson@gmail.com wrote: Have you even tried using

Re: [android-beginners] Synchronous Display Calls

2010-05-11 Thread Mark Murphy
Karthik Ravi Shankar wrote: Hi, I'm new to android development. I'm developing an graphics application and want to see the performance. I have a few questions in this regard - 1) Is invalidate() called on a View after regular intervals by the system itself? I mean does the display get

Re: [android-beginners] Re: [MultipleActivity] Issue with launching second one.

2010-05-11 Thread Justin Anderson
* Should I move setContentView() call into onStart() ?* Where is it now? It should be in your onCreate() method. Also, if you get a force close, you can find out more information about the exact problem by looking at the Logcat output...

[android-beginners] Re: [MultipleActivity] Issue with launching second one.

2010-05-11 Thread Ubuntu Explorer
Yes, it is in onCreate(). And adb helped. I had a problem with my onClickListener API. I fixed it and now I can switch between activities. Thanks for your persistent help. Regards, UE. On May 12, 7:31 am, Justin Anderson janderson@gmail.com wrote: * Should I move setContentView() call