[android-beginners] Re: Playing Sound

2009-01-06 Thread Jonathan Parker
This is showing a dialog to the user to tell them to enter a path. You should handle if path = "" after they close the dialog as well. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Honest wrote: > > I am learning API related to sound playing. I was understanding code > for it. The code is as below. > > priva

[android-beginners] Re: making connections online

2009-01-05 Thread Jonathan Parker
Web services would be your best choice. Or maybe REST. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Fender wrote: > > I want to try and figure out to connect to the internet and grab > information, without using the androids browser. > > im probably being too vauge, so let me give an example. > > Say i have

[android-beginners] Re: Managing the activity history stack

2009-01-04 Thread Jonathan Parker
If D needs information from A,B or C then it should retrieve it by running those activities.The fact that D is run first doesn't mean the user will see D first because you will be calling A,B or C in the onCreate of D. On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Adam Vartanian wrote: > > I have an applicati

[android-beginners] Re: Hello Android code not compiling

2009-01-01 Thread Jonathan Parker
You need to install the eclipse plugin if you are using eclipse, otherwise you need to reference the android jar file. On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Eddie O'Hagan wrote: > > I cant figure out why my code isn't running. Its giving me errors even > with the import statements > > package com.andro

[android-beginners] Re: How to show alert message.

2008-12-30 Thread Jonathan Parker
Do you really think an alert dialog is the best idea for input validation. Why not just put a red cross next to the field and put focus on it. Maybe a small message bellow saying what the error is. Just my 2c. On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Dmaxi wrote: > > Hi, > > You should use AlertDialog.B

[android-beginners] Re: TextView Widget - OnResume

2008-12-30 Thread Jonathan Parker
I think the problem is that you should be using a service instead of a background thread as you will be able to control it better.The thread will probably become disconnected from the UI when you resume the activity. With a service you should be able to pause/stop it when the user clicks back and

[android-beginners] Re: Starting to get my grips with Java....question

2008-12-30 Thread Jonathan Parker
When using android:id in the xml this will be compiled into the R class and you will have access to it via R.id. So: When compiled will give: R.id.list in java. >From ( http://code.google.com/android/intro/tutorial-ex1.html ): Resources and the R class The folders under res/ in the Ecli

[android-beginners] Re: Can Java dynamically reference an object?

2008-12-30 Thread Jonathan Parker
It can but in this case (R) it is not supported. On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 3:17 AM, myIP wrote: > > As being a programmer from ActionScript, I am trying to use brackets > ( [ ] ) to reference an Object. In ActionScript the following is > syntactically correct: > > > //ActionScript > var currentI

[android-beginners] Re: Launching other applications

2008-12-30 Thread Jonathan Parker
This is just a wild guess but maybe you need to use two intents (first a contacts intent and then a phone intent passing in the contact id). http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/provider/Contacts.Phones.html On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Sarath Kamisetty < sarath.kamise...@gmail.com

[android-beginners] Re: Web App

2008-12-29 Thread Jonathan Parker
Maybe just call the browser with the URL of the site. Have a look at http://code.google.com/android/reference/available-intents.html On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Bear34238 wrote: > > I have project where the end user has a web application. He wants the > server to do most of the work, and j

[android-beginners] Re: my application wont even appear in the emulator

2008-12-29 Thread Jonathan Parker
Probably something in the manifest file that is out of date. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Fender wrote: > > i think i found the problem. > > when i boot up a hello android program, i get this: > > > [2008-12-29 09:02:21 - Copy of HelloAndroid] Installing Copy of > HelloAndroid.apk... > [2008

[android-beginners] Re: Developing an IMS client on Android : Request for Comments.

2008-12-29 Thread Jonathan Parker
Sounds interesting to me but I have no knowledge of IMS. Feel free to let me know of line if you need any help or if the project goes ahead. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:20 AM, aayush bhatnagar < abhatnagar192...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Faber,Mark for the replies. > I will explore those mailing

[android-beginners] Re: Shipping price to Singapore

2008-12-29 Thread Jonathan Parker
Kogan.com.au ( http://www.kogan.com.au/shop/category/mobile-phones/ ) has an android phone for $399 AUD.International delivery is $60 AUD. On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 9:28 AM, InterestedDev wrote: > > That would be in USD am i right? thx > > On Dec 27, 11:14 am, Zi Yong Chua wrote: > > $120. > > >