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

2010-05-03 Thread Alan Cassar
I am using Kubuntu 10.04 and my emulator is working fine too. Alan Cassar, Software Engineer | Tel: +356 21334457 | Fax: +356 21 334156 ricston Ltd. Northfields Suite 4, Independence Avenue, Mosta MST9026 - MALTA email: alan.cas...@ricston.com mailto:alan.cas...@ricston.com | web: ricston.com

[android-beginners] Re: Re: Any on-phone help?

2010-04-09 Thread Alan Gauld
=booksqid=1270771641sr=1-2 This is only on Kindle which is not available in the UK - not that I want one anyway! :-) Thanks again, I must remember to try the mother lode next time I can't find books... Alan G. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[android-beginners] Any on-phone help?

2010-04-08 Thread Alan Gauld
/manage resources (battery/memory etc) and switch between apps other than just using the back button - and is there a corresponding forward button? In other words can I toggle between two runnng apps? ) Alan G. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

[android-beginners] Re: Any on-phone help?

2010-04-08 Thread Alan Gauld
BTW, I didn't know about the hold on Home for the app list, that's solved one problem at least! :-) Alan G. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http

[android-beginners] Re: How to connect to a robot.

2010-04-07 Thread Alan Gauld
up the WiFi yet, I'm still reading through the manual! :-) Alan G. On Apr 6, 2:39 am, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote: cellurl gpscru...@gmail.com wrote I want to control something external using Android. Q3: Are there any other interfaces I might be missing? GPIO pins

[android-beginners] Re: Real beginner stuff

2010-04-06 Thread Alan Gauld
Thanks for the help folks. No doubt I'll have plenty more questions as I dig into this thing and start writing code. :-) Alan G. Justin Anderson janderson@gmail.com wrote in message news:i2ld3860c2f100405x167841d8wa88cb0e05ad3a...@mail.gmail.com... The firmware version is the version

[android-beginners] Re: How to connect to a robot.

2010-04-06 Thread Alan Gauld
cellurl gpscru...@gmail.com wrote I want to control something external using Android. Q3: Are there any other interfaces I might be missing? GPIO pins or something? Android robot groups?? Wireless using IP/SSL or Bluetooth? Just a thought. -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web

[android-beginners] Real beginner stuff

2010-04-05 Thread Alan Gauld
? build - ECLAIRXXJCD - no idea what this signifies! Hope you can help, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question

Re: [android-beginners] cannot select target when creating new project

2010-03-25 Thread Alan Cassar
Did you set the sdk path in eclipse? Windows - Preferences - Android - Sdk Location Cheers Alan On 25/03/2010 08:23, kavitha wrote: Hi All I am not able to select build target when i create new project in android eclipse on mac system. I have installed eclipse-java-cocoa 32 bit

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Runtime exception involving getActiveNetworkInfo unable to find source code

2010-02-18 Thread Alan Cassar
The error message should have been displayed in the logs. If you are using Eclipse, switch to the Android Perspective and you should see the logcat. Alan On 17/02/2010 18:05, higonnet wrote: Solved. The problem was that I did not have permission ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE. I found this out

[android-beginners] Re: Android 1.6 SDK is here!

2009-10-23 Thread Alan Cassar
You do not download the android sdk to your phone, you download it to your computer and use it for development. Your phone should have android installed though. Alan Cassar, Software Developer | Tel: +356 21334457 | Fax: +356 21 334156 Alan Cassar,Software Engineer | Tel: +356

[android-beginners] Re: make seekbar (un)clickable depending on RadioButton

2009-10-23 Thread Alan Cassar
Title: Alan Cassar, Software Developer | Tel: +356 21334457 | Fax: +356 21 334156 if the user can change the value of the radio button, which I am assuming he can, then you need to change the clickable value of the seekbar everytime the value of the radio button change. you can easily do

[android-beginners] Re: Web servers

2009-10-23 Thread Alan Cassar
Title: Alan Cassar, Software Developer | Tel: +356 21334457 | Fax: +356 21 334156 You can take a look at iJetty: http://code.google.com/p/i-jetty/ Alan Cassar,Software Engineer | Tel: +356 21334457| Fax:+356 21 334156 ricston Ltd.,Northfields Suite 4, Independence Avenue, Mosta

[android-beginners] Re: Creating sub sampled Bitmap Objects for images on SDcard

2009-10-21 Thread Alan Cassar
I don't know whether this is your main problem, but you are closing the fileDescriptor before you are actually using it Alan Cassar, Software Developer | Tel: +356 21334457 | Fax: +356 21 334156 Alan Cassar,Software Engineer | Tel: +356 21334457| Fax:+356 21 334156 ricston Ltd

[android-beginners] Re: How to add a view to application layout programmatically

2009-10-14 Thread Alan Cassar
Title: Alan Cassar, Software Developer | Tel: +356 21334457 | Fax: +356 21 334156 The mistake is in the following lines of code: LinearLayout main = (LinearLayout) AndroidTest.this.findViewById(R.layout.main); Your layout is not called R.layout.main, that is a reference to the whole

[android-beginners] Re: textview

2009-07-27 Thread Alan Cassar
1. drop the 2 editboxes in the layout xml file 2. give them an id 3. from your activity, grab a reference to you edit boxes by using findViewById() 4. use editBox.getText() and editBox.setText() Alan Anthony West wrote: Hi. I am writing a program that would take an input from a textview

[android-beginners] Re: Loading bar / splash screen for webview app

2009-06-11 Thread Alan Cassar
there is a progress dialog in Android, but I don't know if it is what you are looking for: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html scroll down to Progress Dialog signature Alan Cassar,Software Engineer | Tel: +356 21334457| Fax:+356 21 334156 ricston Ltd.,Northfields Suite

[android-beginners] Re: Best practice for AsyncTask when screen is rotated

2009-06-03 Thread Alan Cassar
signature Alan Cassar,Software Engineer | Tel: +356 21334457| Fax:+356 21 334156 ricston Ltd.,Northfields Suite 4, Independence Avenue, Mosta MST9026 - MALTA email:alan.cas...@ricston.com | web:http://www.ricston.com -- Disclaimer - This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential

[android-beginners] Re: how to check in intenet connction is avaliable

2009-06-01 Thread Alan Cassar
Title: signature Can't connectivity be lost between calls though? I think the best bet is using try and catch Alan Cassar,Software Engineer | Tel: +356 21334457| Fax:+356 21 334156 ricston Ltd.,Northfields Suite 4, Independence Avenue, Mosta MST9026 - MALTA email:alan.cas...@ricston.com

[android-beginners] Re: how to check in intenet connction is avaliable

2009-06-01 Thread Alan Cassar
Title: signature Ahh ok you are right on that one, but he said that his application was crashing... so i though that he was ignoring the try/catch block. Very good explanation though of how the check for connectivity methods can be used. Cheers Alan Cassar,Software Engineer | Tel: +356

[android-beginners] Re: Help!, trouble starting AVD for the first time

2009-05-29 Thread Alan Cassar
click properties on my computer, advanced tab, environmental Variables click new variable name: JAVA_HOME value : path to your jdk find the path variable and suffix if with ;%JAVA_HOME%\bin include the semicolon Cheers Alan Cassar,Software Engineer | Tel: +356 21334457| Fax:+356 21 334156

[android-beginners] Re: Help!, trouble starting AVD for the first time

2009-05-29 Thread Alan Cassar
Title: signature Alan Cassar wrote: It's not an Android specific question but here you go. You did not include your $JAVA_HOME/bin in your classpath. sorry I meant path, not classpath here if you are running linux open your .bashrc file and add: export JAVA_HOME=path you your jdk

[android-beginners] Re: Google Maps on Android

2009-05-29 Thread Alan Cassar
Title: signature I think that you need to obtain a key for your maps. follow this link for more information http://code.google.com/intl/ko/android/add-ons/google-apis/mapkey.html Alan Cassar,Software Engineer | Tel: +356 21334457| Fax:+356 21 334156 ricston Ltd.,Northfields Suite 4

[android-beginners] Re: how to change Widget layout when screen is opend

2009-05-27 Thread Alan Cassar
be considered as a landscape layout. Android will choose the appropriate layout at runtime. Alan Cassar,Software Engineer | Tel: +356 21334457| Fax:+356 21 334156 ricston Ltd.,Northfields Suite 4, Independence Avenue, Mosta MST9026 - MALTA email:alan.cas...@ricston.com | web:http://www.ricston.com

[android-beginners] Re: Plz help me to retrieve contacts

2009-05-21 Thread Alan Cassar
Title: signature Hi, can you paste the output from you logcat. And check whether you added the appropriate permission to you application in the Manifest file, you need android.permission.READ_CONTACTS for sure Alan Cassar,Software Engineer | Tel: +356 21334457| Fax:+356 21 334156 ricston

[android-beginners] Re: question on getSelectedItemId function

2008-05-15 Thread Alan
the id field in database take th rowid in the listview as its id ok so when i delete all what i need is that id so i retrieve it from the listview as i said before the rowid is the id in the database Hope i have answered ur question Yours, --( H o H i )-- --- On Mon, 5/12/08, alan Gold

[android-beginners] question on getSelectedItemId function

2008-05-12 Thread alan Gold
Hello All! I just do the exercise 2 in tutorial document, and I have a question in the onMenuItemSelected function. @Override public boolean onMenuItemSelected(int featureId, Item item) { switch(item.getId()) { case INSERT_ID: createNote(); return