[android-beginners] generating http request from android phones

2010-07-23 Thread Emmen Farooq
Hi all , I know this is a really stupid question , but I have made a tremendous effort , but in vague , so where do i read for the simplest explanation of http request generation via android emulator Many thanks indeed -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[android-beginners] Re: generating http request from android phones

2010-07-23 Thread RichardC
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/07/multithreading-for-performance.html On Jul 23, 9:28 am, Emmen Farooq farooq.em...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all , I know this is a really stupid question , but I have made a tremendous effort , but in vague , so where do i read for the simplest

[android-beginners] Re: GPS satellite icon

2010-07-23 Thread cellurl
GPS is such a power hog, no way around it. Physics! Not to soapbox, but there are a bunch of car apps that will require putting your Android in a cradle on your car dashboard. Why? Power. Only in a cradle will GPS be left on without draining the battery. Sooo, please Android, make hostmode-USB a

[android-beginners] Bluetooth Debugging on phones

2010-07-23 Thread Megh
Hi, can anyone recommend the best way to debug Bluetooth applications? I'm running it on Nexus Ones because Bluetooth isn't supported on the emulator but this makes it rather difficult to debug. I'm hoping someone knows something about it that I don't! Thanks and much appreciated. -- You

[android-beginners] Showing a screen from a preference selection

2010-07-23 Thread Bret Foreman
I have an About screen defined in layout/about.xml. I have a menu inside my default preferences hierarchy with a title like Show About. Is there a way to specify in xml/preferences.xml that about.xml should be shown when the Show About menu item is selected? Any sample xml code around like that?

Re: [android-beginners] Showing a screen from a preference selection

2010-07-23 Thread Mark Murphy
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Bret Foreman bret.fore...@gmail.com wrote: I have an About screen defined in layout/about.xml. I have a menu inside my default preferences hierarchy with a title like Show About. Is there a way to specify in xml/preferences.xml that about.xml should be shown

[android-beginners] Re: Showing a screen from a preference selection

2010-07-23 Thread Bret Foreman
So let's say the key for that preferences button is AboutPrefKey. How do I reference that key? Here's what I mean: @Override public boolean onMenuItemSelected(int featureId, MenuItem item) { switch( featureId ) { case ??:

[android-beginners] Re: GPS satellite icon

2010-07-23 Thread Bret Foreman
Actually, this is not true with my hack. I did a comparison of battery drain with and without GPS running using 10 second updates and the difference in drain between off and on was less than 10% on my Droid phone. On Jul 23, 8:42 am, cellurl gpscru...@gmail.com wrote: GPS is such a power hog, no

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Showing a screen from a preference selection

2010-07-23 Thread Mark Murphy
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Bret Foreman bret.fore...@gmail.com wrote: So let's say the key for that preferences button is AboutPrefKey. What is a preferences button? Your original question referred to a menu item, which I interpreted as meaning a menu item. :-) If you are looking for a

[android-beginners] Re: Windows 7 issue? gen [in HelloAndroid] does not exist

2010-07-23 Thread Anil
I installed Java 1.6.20 which avoids the Eclipse problem. Did you get it working for 64 bit Windows? I didn't see an update on your thread (http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners/ browse_thread/thread/6cde21db2a09cacd/ 26e26503c3b85a94#26e26503c3b85a94) For now, I am using my laptop with

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Windows 7 issue? gen [in HelloAndroid] does not exist

2010-07-23 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
FWIW - the following combo works for me: - JDK 6 update 20 - 32 bit - Eclipse for Java, Galileo SR2 - win32 - Windows 7 64-bit -- Kostya 23.07.2010 21:07, Anil пишет: I installed Java 1.6.20 which avoids the Eclipse problem. Did you get it working for 64 bit Windows? I didn't see an update on

[android-beginners] [Ask] Android Laptop + need to run Win XP apps

2010-07-23 Thread Umar
Executive Summary: * Unable to cross the chasm between Windows 7 to Windows XP, driven by a business need. (see thread below for details) {what is means for me? Answer: Think Android :-)} * Exploring whether the following innovation exists: * Laptop running Android OS. *

Re: [android-beginners] [Ask] Android Laptop + need to run Win XP apps

2010-07-23 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Try virtualbox.org -- Kostya Vasilyev -- http://kmansoft.wordpress.com 24.07.2010 0:31 пользователь Umar ramu.i...@gmail.com написал: Executive Summary: * Unable to cross the chasm between Windows 7 to Windows XP, driven by a business need. (see thread below for details) {what is means for me?

[android-beginners] Cannot get Level-List Drawable to work in ListAdapter

2010-07-23 Thread Jason Van Anden
I am attempting to use a level-list. When run, my listview is showing either nothing or the zero drawable. I must be doing something wrong - a second set of eyes and a different brain appreciated. Here are the particulars ... level list stored as an star_levels.xml in drawable folder: ?xml

[android-beginners] Re: Cannot get Level-List Drawable to work in ListAdapter

2010-07-23 Thread Jason Van Anden
Hmm... figured it out right after hitting send. Removed super.setViewImage(v, value); j On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Jason Van Anden jason.van.an...@gmail.comwrote: I am attempting to use a level-list. When run, my listview is showing either nothing or the zero drawable. I must be

[android-beginners] TextView @id/android:empty - What am i doing wrong?

2010-07-23 Thread Nick Richardson
Hi all, I'd like to create a ListView that, when empty, displays text indicating that it's empty. I've looked around the web, and found some articles, but nothing seems to be working - Even a direct copy and paste from these examples (one from developer.android.com) does not have the desired

Re: [android-beginners] Bluetooth Debugging on phones

2010-07-23 Thread Nick Richardson
Your question is quite vague. I have never had an issue connecting my N1 to the debugger via Eclipse. What exactly is your problem? On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Megh msi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, can anyone recommend the best way to debug Bluetooth applications? I'm running it on Nexus

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Windows 7 issue? gen [in HelloAndroid] does not exist

2010-07-23 Thread Sam Hobbs
Actually the message was: Message-id: 4c44dec7.1030...@samhobbs.org Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:24:55 -0700 From: Sam Hobbs s...@samhobbs.org Subject: [android-beginners] Crashing/hanging problem with recent JDK/JRE update on Windows It is a link to: Crashing/hanging problem with recent

[android-beginners] Android based application for healthcare

2010-07-23 Thread AAJ
hey all, We are graduate student, currently working on our masters project on an android platform for a healthcare domain. Since there are not many pacemaker reated applications on an android phone, we decided to work on the same. Our project scenario is something like this- Pacemaker patients

[android-beginners] Re: Windows 7 issue? gen [in HelloAndroid] does not exist

2010-07-23 Thread Anil
It says, This bug only applies on Windows and only with JRE 1.6u21 On Jul 23, 9:12 pm, Sam Hobbs s...@samhobbs.org wrote: Actually the message was: Message-id: 4c44dec7.1030...@samhobbs.org Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:24:55 -0700 From: Sam Hobbs s...@samhobbs.org Subject: [android-beginners]

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Windows 7 issue? gen [in HelloAndroid] does not exist

2010-07-23 Thread Sam Hobbs
Okay, if my comment is not relevant then I apologize. Anil wrote: It says, This bug only applies on Windows and only with JRE 1.6u21 On Jul 23, 9:12 pm, Sam Hobbss...@samhobbs.org wrote: Actually the message was: Message-id:4c44dec7.1030...@samhobbs.org Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:24:55

Re: [android-beginners] TextView @id/android:empty - What am i doing wrong?

2010-07-23 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Nick Richardson richardson.n...@gmail.comwrote: Is there something i have to call in code to make this work? What am i doing wrong? I have @id/android:list (no '+') and @+id/android:empty (yes '+') and it works for me. Maybe that's it? Also, does my ListView

Re: [android-beginners] TextView @id/android:empty - What am i doing wrong?

2010-07-23 Thread Nick Richardson
Thanks for the reply Tre. I made the changes to the id's like you suggested - the TextView is still displayed even when the ListView has data in it. This is very frustrating :S Updated layout snippet: ListView android:id=@id/android:list android:layout_width=fill_parent