[android-beginners] What is the use of ACTION_BACKGROUND_DATA_SETTING_CHANGED?

2010-07-05 Thread Samuh
Hi: I was reading the documentation of ConnectivityManager class and came accross this action: ACTION_BACKGROUND_DATA_SETTING_CHANGED. Can anyone please give an example use-case that justifies the use of this constant? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[android-beginners] Re: Difference Between Two Times

2010-07-05 Thread RichardC
Quick and dirty, number of mins difference between 2 Date objects (note this can be negative) ... long minsDifference(Date testDate) { Date dateNow = new Date(); return (testDate.getTime() - dateNow.getTime()) / 1000; } There are lots of issues and corner cases with Dates and timezones so be

[android-beginners] Re: SOAP complex request

2010-07-05 Thread Milo
Thank for some kind of response, even though it was as much use as a banjo. It would also be nice to have some more pertinent information. Like what? I've post the WSDL, my code, and the error Like exactly where the error occurs and the exact error message you are getting. I have I'm

[android-beginners] Re: SOAP complex request

2010-07-05 Thread Milo
Apologies guys, this is driving me mad. I'm new to this, and I'm not getting very far. On Jul 5, 4:12 pm, Milo milesh...@gmail.com wrote: Thank for some kind of response, even though it was as much use as a banjo. It would also be nice to have some more pertinent information. Like what?

[android-beginners] Re: screen orientatios

2010-07-05 Thread Indicator Veritatis
Concerning screen orientation: no, the programmer does not set this. Why would he? The phone sets it, based on what it thinks the orientation is, based on accelerometer and/or keyboard slide. My G1, for example, will usually switch orientation correctly based on how I am holding the phone. But

[android-beginners] Re: screen orientatios

2010-07-05 Thread Ira
For the first question, here are a few articles that can be useful: Faster Screen Orientation Change http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/faster-screen-orientation-change.html Handling Runtime Changes http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/runtime-changes.html Handle

[android-beginners] Application not scrolling

2010-07-05 Thread Tanay M. Kapoor
Ok this is probably a stupid question but, i have an activity in my application, its a form with lots of editTexts and buttons and it is longer than the screen can show in one time... and in my emulator when a click the down button to move to the next editText the screen does now scroll with it...

Re: [android-beginners] Application not scrolling

2010-07-05 Thread Mark Murphy
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Tanay M. Kapoor tmkap...@gmail.com wrote: Ok this is probably a stupid question but, i have an activity in my application, its a form with lots of editTexts and buttons and it is longer than the screen can show in one time... and in my emulator when a click the

[android-beginners] Application not scrolling

2010-07-05 Thread Tanay M. Kapoor
ok this might be a very stupid question... but im using eclipse for my android development i have an activity which contains a form which exceeds the length of the screen... but when i press the down button while running the app on the emulator to move the cursor to the lower editTexts, the

[android-beginners] Designing a UI, need help

2010-07-05 Thread ocdtrekkie
I've tried to post both in the Google Groups in Android Developers and Android Beginners as well as Stack Overflow before on how to create a specific UI element and gotten no response from either, and I've had no luck on my own, so I'm starting to get very frustrated. I'm wondering if there is