[android-beginners] I joined in a match on mobile app developing and i need an idea on GPS

2010-07-31 Thread Robert Lin
I joined in a match on mobile app developing and i wanna design an app based on GPS. But what exactly kind of app is the best? do u have ideas friends? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your questio

[android-beginners] Big Gmail client Archive/Delete/Older buttons

2010-07-29 Thread Robert Reid
While I like having quick access to the Archive, Delete, and Older buttons I feel that they take up too much real estate when in landscape mode. I'm wondering if there is any way to make the buttons 'shorter' (taking less vertical space) or to hide them. Alternatively, it would be nice if they app

[android-beginners] iPhone , Android and Mobile Web, Making friends and looking for coorperation

2010-07-07 Thread Robert Lin
Hi there, I'm Robert Lin, CEO of Gava (International) Group Co.,Ltd which exports Chinese products and develops applications based on XUL. I'm looking forward to setting up a new company which develops apps for mobiles and making friends with you guys. I have team, technology and good

Re: [android-beginners] JDK and Eclipse installation

2010-07-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
know and i'll correct it. i'll spend some time this weekend and make sure it's up to date. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch,

[android-beginners] my wiki page for building android on ubuntu 10.04

2010-07-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
out of the wiki and under the tutorials tab on my web site soon, but i'll put in a redirection link.) anyway, if you find any typoes, let me know. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo

[android-beginners] 95% of Chinese android developer earns not a penn

2010-07-01 Thread Robert Lin
It takes only 3 month for an android game, and 3 to 4 weeks for an android application, so many projects are done by students in China. Most people think their products are cool but nobody pay for them. Chinese people never pay for software. Americans are willing to pay for an app but Chinese not.

Re: [android-beginners] Re: debugging the (suddenly) crippling slowness of the emulator

2010-05-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
in, "froyo" won't just be a fixed release tag, it will be the branch heading towards the next release? thanks. -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linu

[android-beginners] debugging the (suddenly) crippling slowness of the emulator

2010-05-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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Re: [android-beginners] Re: building the entirety of android 2.2 on ubuntu 10.04

2010-05-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
is that going to be the current development/bug fix/new features branch? rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.

Re: [android-beginners] Re: building the entirety of android 2.2 on ubuntu 10.04

2010-05-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
t out yet? rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://tw

Re: [android-beginners] Re: building the entirety of android 2.2 on ubuntu 10.04

2010-05-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
that page needs to be corrected. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page:

Re: [android-beginners] Re: building the entirety of android 2.2 on ubuntu 10.04

2010-05-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
DRq3. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter

Re: [android-beginners] Re: building the entirety of android 2.2 on ubuntu 10.04

2010-05-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
. since that's not that many, i can post them if you want. and i suspect it would be easy enough to patch the existing code base to remove most of them. -- Robert P. J. Day

[android-beginners] IQ Magazine -- special Android edition

2010-05-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
http://iqmagazineonline.com/current/ rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page

[android-beginners] building the entirety of android 2.2 on ubuntu 10.04

2010-05-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
notice any build errors. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

Re: [android-beginners] can i re-install an app without shutting down the emulator?

2010-05-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
g stuff like that. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: h

Re: [android-beginners] is there a git checkout equivalent to android-sdk_r06-linux_86.tgz?

2010-05-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
as the tools development branch i was primarily interested in. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantr

Re: [android-beginners] can i re-install an app without shutting down the emulator?

2010-05-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ot;Hello-debug.apk," but after i installed it and ran "adb shell", i found it under /data/app as ca.crashcourse.android-1.apk. reminder to self to not make that mistake again. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day

Re: [android-beginners] can i re-install an app without shutting down the emulator?

2010-05-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[android-beginners] is there a git checkout equivalent to android-sdk_r06-linux_86.tgz?

2010-05-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm guessing that it's a recursive checkout, possibly implemented with "repo", but can one use git to keep up with development? thanks. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Water

[android-beginners] can i re-install an app without shutting down the emulator?

2010-05-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
e? or should i just keep doing what i'm doing -- remove .apk file, kill emulator, start it again and install new .apk file? thanks. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANAD

Re: [android-beginners] Re: why can't i build an AVD with a 2G SD card?

2010-05-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
u clearly see the issue. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page:

Re: [android-beginners] Re: why can't i build an AVD with a 2G SD card?

2010-05-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
layed. and you're not allowed to add an "M" suffix thru the UI. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel

Re: [android-beginners] Re: why can't i build an AVD with a 2G SD card?

2010-05-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
*already* "MiB". if you're supposed to add the "M", then it's inconsistent since i created a 1G card fine with "1024". i did this thru android's GUI. rday -- Robert P.

Re: [android-beginners] Re: why can't i build an AVD with a 2G SD card?

2010-05-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
minimum of 9MiB for SD card size, which i obviously did. in any event, xavier ducrohet's reply suggests that this exact bug existed in the previous version. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day W

[android-beginners] changing the icon for an app?

2010-05-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ould be sufficient. -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://

[android-beginners] error putting "LGPL" file in res/ directory?

2010-05-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
all and should have noticed that. thanks. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twi

[android-beginners] minor suggestion for downloadable android "samples"

2010-05-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
s for most folks, but for total beginners, it wouldn't hurt to make sure they understand what has to be done. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting

Re: [android-beginners] why can't i build an AVD with a 2G SD card?

2010-05-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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[android-beginners] why can't i build an AVD with a 2G SD card?

2010-05-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
is weirdly rejected as above. thoughts? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.

[android-beginners] Re: Gradient Image

2010-01-29 Thread Robert Nekic
So does the gradient look any better? On Jan 29, 5:05 pm, skink wrote: > On Jan 29, 9:18 pm, Robert Nekic wrote: > > > In that case, instead of using the image as the RelativeLayout's > > background, have you tried placing it into your RelativeLayout via an > >

[android-beginners] Re: Gradient Image

2010-01-29 Thread Robert Nekic
image without altering its proportions and possibly introducing scaling oddities. On Jan 29, 3:04 pm, skink wrote: > On Jan 29, 7:29 pm, Robert Nekic wrote: > > > The only other thing that comes to mind is perhaps the RelativeLayout > > isn't sizing to 320x480 courtesy of

[android-beginners] Re: Gradient Image

2010-01-29 Thread Robert Nekic
y GUI, so I will be > obbliged to use several resolutions anyways to keep the GUI looking > good... > So in the end my question still stands : is it even possible to get a > Image-based Gradient not to look like a shutter (with horizontal > lines) from the 80's ??? &g

[android-beginners] Re: Gradient Image

2010-01-29 Thread Robert Nekic
) > doesnt show correctly on a "state-of-the-art" device and platform... > so are there any other options ? I've tried the dither:"true" > parameter but that simply doesnt work at all... > > On 27 jan, 19:02, Robert Nekic wrote: > > > > > Check o

[android-beginners] Re: Proportion of userbase by Android version?

2010-01-29 Thread Robert Nekic
Does anyone know how often this data is updated? I expected to see it updated around 1/18, 2 weeks after the 1/4 reporting date it currently showsyet here it is, 1/29 and this data is now a month old. On Jan 29, 9:51 am, "Mark Murphy" wrote: > > Where can one find a pie chart showing how m

[android-beginners] Re: Gradient Image

2010-01-27 Thread Robert Nekic
Check out LinearGradient and RadialGradient. You can define gradient drawables directly instead of using a PNG for that. The result is a much nicer, consistent gradient. Use that for the RelativeLayout's background and layer images on top of it within the RelativeLayout. http://developer.androi

[android-beginners] Re: setContentView fails when creating a new activity

2010-01-21 Thread Robert Nekic
The opening RelativeLayout tag is closed in the middle of your attributes declarations. The exception is probably coming from the lack of the layout_width and layout_height attributes since they fall outside your tag at the moment. http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ android" android:id=

[android-beginners] Re: Android 2.0 SDK is here!

2009-11-29 Thread Robert Hilliard
I had same error. Thanks for the fix! On Nov 12, 6:39 pm, Xu Bill wrote: > just change source tohttp://dl.google... > > On Nov 11, 2009 11:12 PM, "Jun" wrote: > > Hi, > I got a errro in my Android SDK and AVD manager when I install the SDK > -- > Failed to fetch > URLhttps://dl-ss

[android-beginners] installing android 2.0 sdk on 64-bit fedora 11?

2009-10-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
h version of eclipse can i use with this new sdk? i think those are my immediate concerns. thanks. rday -- ==== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training

[android-beginners] Does anyone have working "Hello, MapView" code to share? I'm beginning to wonder if it's accurate

2009-10-20 Thread Robert Speer
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[android-beginners] How do I delete unwanted downloads and download history

2009-08-30 Thread Robert
I would like to delete not only the unwanted downloads but the downloaded history. Who do I do that? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to andr

[android-beginners] Re: Why Michael Jackson death?

2009-06-26 Thread Micheal Robert
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[android-beginners] Beginner Help needed

2009-06-09 Thread Robert Meza
applictaions, please please help, every time I do, "android creat avd..." it says command not found, please please help! -- Robert Meza robertm...@gmail.com 916.205.1726 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

[android-beginners] Re: putExtra

2009-05-09 Thread Robert Slama
Hi, if you have static final String DRINK_TYPE you can use follow construct if(className.DRINK_TYPE.equals("beer")){ } or make new class just with constats class IConstants ... public static final String DRINK_TYPE = "type"; public static final String BEER = "beer"; public static final String

[android-beginners] Vibration class - ClassCastException

2009-04-27 Thread Robert Slama
Hi there, in my code I use (class Activity) follow contruct Vibrator vibrator = (Vibrator) getSystemService(context.VIBRATOR_SERVICE); but after start application is crashed with classcastexception. Can anybody help how I can create instance of Vibration class ? many thx r^ --~--~-~

[android-beginners] downloading SDK problems

2009-03-27 Thread Robert S
I tried to download the SDKs from different machines ... all downloads are truncate at around 60Mb r.S. below is curl output. $ curl -O http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk-mac_x86-1.1_r1.zip % Total% Received % Xferd Average Speed TimeTime Time Current

[android-beginners] Re: Difference between Emulator and Real phone

2008-11-15 Thread Robert Barlow
Do you need this info on from the Android site: http://code.google.com/android/reference/emulator.html#limitations ? - Original Message - From: parani kumar To: android-beginners@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 9:10 AM Subject: [android-beginners] Differen

[android-beginners] Re: how to install a android system

2008-10-08 Thread Robert
EwanG Great thinking, we all know that GOOG uses there own personalized version of Linux, So why not team up with a Manufacturing Company like Foxconn, and create cheap, easy to use, Linux based laptops or netbooks? Increase usage a ton On Oct 8, 1:53 pm, EwanG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw

[android-beginners] Re: - Does Android have a bluetooth ?

2008-10-08 Thread Robert
Yes, but not A2DP Yet, apparently with an update is what I read in a press release last week On Oct 8, 9:28 pm, "Fahad Al-Faisal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Android users, > I have a question : Does Android have a bluetooth ? > > Android is very wonderful device. I hope it does. > > My Rega

[android-beginners] Synaptic Adds Multitouch Gestures to Track pads

2008-09-30 Thread Robert
I just checked my RSS feeds, and came across this little goody. It says that this works with any existing track pads with a simple OEM update, and while it doesn't mention Touch Screens, it does specifically mention the G1 in the article, so I think that multitouch for G1s is a bit closer then we

[android-beginners] Re: Does Android have built-in support for Multi-touch?

2008-09-29 Thread Robert
I do believe that multi-touch would be a patent issue and not a hardware issue, but correct me if i'm wrong On Sep 28, 1:00 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Let's say Sony Ericsson releases a new Android Phone which has a > touchscreen which support multi-touch, does A

[android-beginners] GTalk Calling Functionality

2008-09-27 Thread Robert Hattan
Why not allow users to be able to make GTalk calls through either a cellular data network or WiFi network? Wouldn't this be a great ability on the T-Mobile G1 or Blackberry Mobile Phones? This is already available with Skype (iSkoot on Blackberry). Come on Google! -R

[android-beginners] Re: : Help Needed

2008-09-25 Thread Robert
I think maybe he means between two Android phones On Sep 19, 2:14 am, Imran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >  Hi All...!!! > >         Hey i want to write a application in which i  can know the > location of  my friend when he is calling me >          and the distance between us > >        To

[android-beginners] Re: Doubt in Andriods!

2008-09-25 Thread Robert
Well, I think you have this idea wrong, Android is both a alliance of hardware manufacturers, carriers, and google, along with some other software companies I believe, as well as an OS into itself. So in a way, no. On Sep 25, 2:01 am, Jayakumar Natarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, >  

[android-beginners] Re: SMS App

2008-09-24 Thread Robert
I think this would be great too, once i get the sdk up and going i'd love to help out. A lot of people could use this for any provider, Tmo right now only has 2 options 25 - Unlimited Data - 400 Messages 35 - Unlimited Data & Messages So this could help a load of people that only use messaging ra

[android-beginners] Re: Regular Emulator Runs... but not my Program (got past the scrolling red bar)

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Lee
-06-28 23:33:55 - Android_Hello] New emulator found: emulator- >> tcp- >> [2008-06-28 23:34:00 - Android_Hello] emulator-tcp- disconnected! >> Cancelling 'Hello.Hello' launch! >> >> Thanks, >> Robert >> > > > > --~--

[android-beginners] Re: Regular Emulator Runs... but not my Program (got past the scrolling red bar)

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Lee
-28 23:33:54 - Android_Hello] Launching: Hello.Hello >> [2008-06-28 23:33:54 - Android_Hello] Automatic Target Mode: launch >> emulator. >> [2008-06-28 23:33:54 - Android_Hello] Launching a new emulator. >> [2008-06-28