[android-beginners] Re: what can I make for Android?

2010-03-06 Thread josh
On Mar 2, 1:29 am, The Alchemist kap4...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone. I'm interested in doing something for Android for part of my Master's work in Computer Science. I've thought about everything from an HTML compression algorithm designed for mobile devices to some JIT work on

[android-beginners] Re: what can I make for Android?

2010-03-06 Thread josh
How about a FTP client program that talks on bluetooth and tcpip? On Mar 4, 12:06 am, BobG bobgard...@aol.com wrote: Sheesh. Just scan thru the market. It takes a while, but after a while, you get the idea... we never saw things like AK47 and Ruger programs/applets on PCs, because I guess they

Re: [android-beginners] Replace Old DB file

2009-11-11 Thread Josh
Use File Explorer to delete that old db file and push new file into might do. -- Liu, Yen-Liang (Josh) Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach nbsp;- Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:04 AM, TJ lt;tjmcdev...@gmail.comgt; wrote: Hi, I am having a hard time in DDMS Push

[android-beginners] Hello World Help

2009-07-30 Thread Josh Melrose
] Waiting for HOME ('android.process.acore') to be launched... If anyone has any ideas, they would be much appreciated. Thanks Josh --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post

[android-beginners] How Do I Install Market Apps on the Emulator, and other questions about Intents

2009-07-17 Thread Josh
I like the promise of Android Intents, where I do not have to re- invent a tool that someone else has already developed. Practically, however, I have not been able to use this feature very much. The first problem I have run into is the lack of a comprehensive list of intent filters available

[android-beginners] adb cannot get devices on Mac

2009-06-24 Thread Josh
of devices attached [24/06 19:19] j...@beaver:~ ! I also tried enabled USB debuging mode on the HTC Magic, but still adb shows no devices attached. anyone can help me with this. Thanks in advanced Josh --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

[android-beginners] Using adb on Mac and HTC Magic

2009-06-24 Thread Josh
:40] j...@beaver:~ ! adb devices List of devices attached Thanks Josh --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com

[android-beginners] Re: Using adb on Mac and HTC Magic

2009-06-24 Thread Josh
Could this be the reason? http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3096 On Jun 24, 10:46 pm, Joshua Lim lim.j...@gmail.com wrote: Repost : apologies but posting from the web page doesn't seem to go through-- Forwarded message -- From: Josh lim.j...@gmail.com

[android-beginners] Re: How can I style a button widget.

2009-06-15 Thread Josh
Is it possible to add a border to a button or do i need to use drawables? On Jun 13, 5:38 pm, Josh joshdo...@gmail.com wrote: I want to create a style to apply to all of my buttons. I want to know how to style a button with a green border and red background. how would i do

[android-beginners] How can I style a button widget.

2009-06-13 Thread Josh
I want to create a style to apply to all of my buttons. I want to know how to style a button with a green border and red background. how would i do this? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

[android-beginners] Re: android

2009-05-26 Thread Josh Dobbs
Check out android.com. There are a lot of good examples there. Also a very good place to start would be The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Developmenhttp://commonsware.com/Android/index.htmlt by Mark Murphy. I held off on purchasing these and boy do I regret it. This book should be the starting

[android-beginners] Re: Flash Embed?

2009-02-23 Thread Josh Dobbs
im guessing due to the fact that they never released a decent player for windows mobile that we wont see one anytime soon for android. If they do make one i hope that it can at least support flex and as3. On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Akap kapooraak...@gmail.com wrote: I could be completely

[android-beginners] Re: Office package

2009-02-06 Thread Josh Dobbs
can you be a little more specific? you should be able to download via http or transfer them via usb. On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Izzy6770 bella.nyambay...@googlemail.comwrote: Can somebody help, how do I download attachments of word, excel, ppt etc from the email on the phone?

[android-beginners] Re: Apps

2009-01-28 Thread Josh Dobbs
Have you downloaded the sdk and checked out the tutorials like Hello Android? That's where I would start. On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:52 AM, jcl15...@gmail.com jcl15...@gmail.comwrote: How do I make an application? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

[android-beginners] Re: Marketplace question

2009-01-22 Thread Josh Dobbs
Handango and mobihand also sell android applications. On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: Ivan Soto wrote: 1) Does the marketplace currently allow developers to charge for their apps? Not yet. Sometime this quarter, reportedly. There are a

[android-beginners] Re: ebook

2009-01-20 Thread Josh Dobbs
I'm quite sure they are not distributing free ebook versions. Thhat site is whack! they are giving away other peoples property and asking for donations!?!? While I don't presume to speak on behalf of the authors of those books, those links appear to point to illegal copies. I am not aware of any

[android-beginners] Re: AndroidSavvy.com

2009-01-13 Thread Josh Dobbs
This is very cool! thanks for sharing! On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Bobbrose bobbr...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for the double post, I didn't see it show up for some time and thought it got lost. On Jan 13, 2:45 pm, Bobbrose bobbr...@gmail.com wrote: Hey folks, I've been working with

[android-beginners] Re: keeping an application in portrait mode

2009-01-12 Thread Josh Dobbs
screenOrientation for each activity. I've tested this and it works. Someone may be able to suggest a cleaner implementation, as in some generic activity tag property that would apply to all activities. On Dec 13 2008, 12:18 am, Josh joshdo...@gmail.com wrote: How can I ensure that my application is always

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

2008-12-30 Thread Josh Dobbs
Check out the Dialog Class. http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/app/Dialog.html On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:31 PM, java.webline java.webl...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I am very new to the android platform. I have created an activity that makes a call on the number entered by

[android-beginners] Re: creating UI elements

2008-12-27 Thread Josh Dobbs
right click on the layout file (xml file) and select open with - Android layout editor . On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 8:13 AM, monmonja almondmend...@gmail.com wrote: eclipse plugin? On Dec 24, 4:51 am, Jamie jamie.hu...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to see the UI layout before compiling and

[android-beginners] ImageView question

2008-12-22 Thread Josh
I have an ImageView that I define in xml. When i try to set the image resource the activity crashes. this is the syntax im using... imgColorSelector.setImageResource(R.drawable.colorselector); any ideas as to what im doing wrong? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[android-beginners] Re: ImageView question

2008-12-22 Thread Josh
I forgot to mention that setting the image in xml be fine for what im doing but I couldnt figure out how to do that either :(. Can someone point me to an example of an imageview with the image set in xml? I looked at the docs but I just dont get it. On Dec 22, 11:44 am, Josh joshdo

[android-beginners] Re: ImageView question

2008-12-22 Thread Josh Dobbs
I figured out how to set the src in xml android:src=*...@drawable*/*colorselector* I still have no idea why i cant set it at runtime though. On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Josh joshdo...@gmail.com wrote: I forgot to mention that setting the image in xml be fine for what im doing but I

[android-beginners] how do I close a dialog box?

2008-12-18 Thread Josh
I have the following code that works fine to display a dialog box using an xml layout file. code dialog = new Dialog(this); dialog.setContentView(R.layout.settings); dialog.show(); /code How do i add event listeners to the button widgets that i placed in the xml layout? Is there a default

[android-beginners] Re: Site is unavailable

2008-12-16 Thread Josh Dobbs
same here. On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Eng, Cary cary@hp.com wrote: I experienced that issue too. However, I got around it by using HTTP instead of HTTPS. -Original Message- From: android-beginners@googlegroups.com [mailto: android-beginn...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf

[android-beginners] Re: access a widget by a variable storing it's name

2008-12-15 Thread Josh Dobbs
Can I use a hash map to save state? For instance if i save some values into a buttons tag property does the hash map know about it ? I guess what im trying to say is does the hash map have a current instance of the button(s) or do i have to programatically make it aware? On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at

[android-beginners] I broke my project

2008-12-13 Thread Josh
Im not sure what i did but now every line of code that specifies a resource in the res folder is underlined in red. I tried to manually add the raw directory under res and ithe compiler could not resolve any of the items in the raw folder. i took one of eclipses suggestions to fix the

[android-beginners] Re: I broke my project

2008-12-13 Thread Josh Dobbs
) findViewById(*R.id.btnGo*); On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Josh joshdo...@gmail.com wrote: Im not sure what i did but now every line of code that specifies a resource in the res folder is underlined in red. I tried to manually add the raw directory under res and ithe compiler could not resolve

[android-beginners] Re: I broke my project

2008-12-13 Thread Josh Dobbs
I got it! I don't know how this got in my activity but once i removed the following import everything went back to normal. import *android*.R; Thanks! On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Josh Dobbs joshdo...@gmail.com wrote: I still cannot resolve this issue. Whenever i try to access something

[android-beginners] Re: keeping an application in portrait mode

2008-12-13 Thread Josh Dobbs
Thanks Mark! Is there a way to run the emulator in landscape mode to test? On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: Josh wrote: How can I ensure that my application is always displayed in portrait orientation? http://androidguys.com/?p=2891 That post

[android-beginners] Re: keeping an application in portrait mode

2008-12-13 Thread Josh Dobbs
nevermind i figured it out. On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Josh Dobbs joshdo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mark! Is there a way to run the emulator in landscape mode to test? On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: Josh wrote: How can I ensure

[android-beginners] Re: keeping an application in portrait mode

2008-12-13 Thread Josh Dobbs
It doesnt seem to work. I am able to launch the emulator in landscape however the app is also displayed in landscape even though the following line is in AndroidManifest.xml android:screenOrientation=portrait On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Josh Dobbs joshdo...@gmail.com wrote: nevermind i

[android-beginners] Re: keeping an application in portrait mode

2008-12-13 Thread Josh Dobbs
that keeping it in portrait only will fix that issue however the app im working on is best suited for portrait only for other reasons as well. On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: Josh Dobbs wrote: When I run the RotationFourDemo in landscape and portrait

[android-beginners] Re: center the tablelayout

2008-12-13 Thread Josh Dobbs
...@commonsware.comwrote: Josh Dobbs wrote: my view is comprised of a tablelayout. How can I set the table in the center of the screen? by default it looks to be left alligned. Have you tried adding android:layout_gravity=centerHorizontal to your TableLayout, to center it in the parent container

[android-beginners] Re: center the tablelayout

2008-12-13 Thread Josh Dobbs
I tried that as well with no luck On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Romain Guy romain...@google.com wrote: center_horizontal not centerHorizontal :) On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Josh Dobbs joshdo...@gmail.com wrote: I did try that and i get the following error at design time

[android-beginners] Re: center the tablelayout

2008-12-13 Thread Josh Dobbs
:) On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Josh Dobbs joshdo...@gmail.com wrote: I did try that and i get the following error at design time... Description Resource Path Location Type ERROR Error: String types not allowed (at 'layout_gravity' with value 'centerHorizontal'). main.xml line 3 aapt

[android-beginners] Re: center the tablelayout

2008-12-13 Thread Josh Dobbs
ok. Thanks! I got it to work ith wrap_content. On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Romain Guy romain...@google.com wrote: It will work only if your TableLayout has a width set to wrap_content, otherwise it will occupy the entire screen. On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Josh Dobbs joshdo

[android-beginners] Re: keeping an application in portrait mode

2008-12-13 Thread Josh Dobbs
If i dont keep it in portrait mode it doesnt scroll automatically when in landscape mode. Do i need to hadle scrolling in code? On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Romain Guy romain...@google.com wrote: Hi Josh, I noticed while testing on it yeasterday prior to implementing portrait only

[android-beginners] Re: center the tablelayout

2008-12-12 Thread Josh Dobbs
Nevermind :) I fixed my problem by using android:stretchColumns On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Josh Dobbs joshdo...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone anyone point me in the right direction? On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Josh joshdo...@gmail.com wrote: my view is comprised of a tablelayout

[android-beginners] keeping an application in portrait mode

2008-12-12 Thread Josh
How can I ensure that my application is always displayed in portrait orientation? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to

[android-beginners] center the tablelayout

2008-12-11 Thread Josh
my view is comprised of a tablelayout. How can I set the table in the center of the screen? by default it looks to be left alligned. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to

[android-beginners] Re: access a widget by a variable storing it's name

2008-12-10 Thread Josh Dobbs
: Josh wrote: can i access a widget if i know it's id. For example if i have the following String myWidget = btn1; FWIW, R.id.btn1 would be an int, not a String. can i do something like this in order to get a reference to the widget and change it's background color? Button btnTmp

[android-beginners] access a widget by a variable storing it's name

2008-12-09 Thread Josh
can i access a widget if i know it's id. For example if i have the following String myWidget = btn1; can i do something like this in order to get a reference to the widget and change it's background color? Button btnTmp = (Button) findViewById(R.id.myWidget)

[android-beginners] looping through controls

2008-12-08 Thread Josh
I have several buttons that i would like to loop through and set their background color. The buttons are all named numerically like so... btn1, btn2, btn3, btn4, etc . How can I evaluate btn + i (where i would be the iteration counter of my loop) as a button so that i can set the

[android-beginners] Re: button names - where are they stored?

2008-12-07 Thread Josh Dobbs
. And no you can name them what ever you would like in the format android:id=@+id/namegoeshere On Dec 5, 9:29 am, Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice in all of the code examples that when a widget has an id it is usually something like android:id=@+id/widget28 Which im assuming is just

[android-beginners] Re: dynamic control creation

2008-12-07 Thread Josh Dobbs
Thanks Mark. That clears up everything. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Mark Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Josh Dobbs wrote: This is what i have that seems to work but i have to create a new listener for each button(currently i only have one as you see below) I couldnt get your

[android-beginners] how to determine the current backgroundResource of an imagebutton

2008-12-07 Thread Josh
I have 5 imagebuttons and one click handler for all of them. How can I tell what the name of the current image being displayed on the button is? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners

[android-beginners] Re: how to determine the current backgroundResource of an imagebutton

2008-12-07 Thread Josh Dobbs
Yes. I understand that but i am not sure which property to check. On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Mark Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Josh wrote: I have 5 imagebuttons and one click handler for all of them. How can I tell what the name of the current image being displayed on the button

[android-beginners] Re: dynamic control creation

2008-12-06 Thread Josh Dobbs
); btn1.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View view) { } }); } } Thanks, Josh On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Mark Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Josh wrote: is there a way to create multiple button controls

[android-beginners] where do control id's get defined.

2008-12-05 Thread Josh
I know that strings should be stored in res/strings.xml but where do i store control names(ID's)? In this example the name of the id variable(im guessing that's what it's called) is list_item_title. Where would i define that value? android:id=@+id/list_item_title Also is this the only way to

[android-beginners] dynamic control creation

2008-12-05 Thread Josh
is there a way to create multiple button controls dynamically and to have the same listener handle all of them? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send

[android-beginners] button names - where are they stored?

2008-12-05 Thread Josh
you can usually do something like id=mywidget thanks, Josh --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com