[android-beginners] Re: Problem with Ecplise android plugin install

2009-08-24 Thread Tony Su
Congrats for at least covering the likely SuSE specific issues and finally arriving at what might be a more generic problem with the Eclipse Plugin which ironically might be much easier to find the solution... If you're looking at what I think is your problem, the common solution is to downlo

[android-beginners] FYI - Android LiveCD, VMware

2009-08-22 Thread Tony Su
Awhile back on this group was mentioned at least once whether it was possible to launch Android in VMware. A little over 24 hrs ago the Android LiveCD project released its latest (v.0.3) and IMO it looks pretty good in VMware. http://code.google.com/p/live-android/ Some notes: - I strongly rec

[android-beginners] Re: USB data acquisition

2009-07-10 Thread Tony Su
Unless someone can answer definitively based on the phone's technical information, Based on observation only, it's not possible based on general USB architecture. In any USB connection, one endpoint is designated the Host and multiple guests can connect to that Host (IIRC theoretically 256 dev

[android-beginners] Re: adb - for developer handsets only

2009-07-06 Thread Tony Su
You can run adb against any Android device connected in debugging mode (supported on at least the G1). ADB basically enables a remote console to your device, although technically ADB will generally work carriers like T-Mobile may/are putting their own restrictions on what you can do from the l

[android-beginners] Re: VMWare Image of the Android Emulator

2009-07-03 Thread Tony Su
ike to run the emulator on a different machine than the local development machine. Just like I get to do on vmware. More over emulators should ideally run on vmware. Lesser learning curve for large teams. Siddharth On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Tony Su wrote: Still, If someone wanted to pu

[android-beginners] Compiling video - how to display video full screen?

2009-07-03 Thread Tony Su
Am having problems with this both as a User and relating possibility to Development. Anything I compile to the dimensions of the G1 screen trying CIF, HCIF and QCIF, MP4 video and using the 3GP container will display fine on another platform (eg workstation) but when deployed to the G1 fills th

[android-beginners] Re: SDK USB driver for Vista SP1 won't install - Solution?

2009-07-03 Thread Tony Su
are billions of threads on the internet of > > people with the same problem as us and nobody has a solution. This is > > a problem you idiots FIX IT > > > Or at least update the stupid developer page to say your CRAP usb > > driver will not work with Vista 32 so s

[android-beginners] Re: Open source or not

2009-07-03 Thread Tony Su
IMO the question more to the point is what license you want to release your software. If you release closed source unless you encrypt or thoroughly obfuscate your code will likely be accessible to others anyway. Applying the proper license assigns rights to your Users and anyone else with acces

[android-beginners] Re: VMWare Image of the Android Emulator

2009-07-03 Thread Tony Su
Still, If someone wanted to put the work into it, the problem is solvable. The example to look at is Microsoft's Visual Studio, launching the VS mobile device emulators don't use inordinate resources. This capability is likely built into VS because when you launch the MS standalone mobile devic

[android-beginners] Re: creating an avd

2009-06-30 Thread Tony Su
I don't think there is such thing as an AVD utility, at least there isn't such a thing in my SDK. Tony - Original Message - From: ain Sent: Mon, 6/29/2009 10:05pm To: Android Beginners Subject: [android-beginners] creating an avd Ihave looked around on the internet for a solution to

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2009-06-29 Thread Tony Su
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[android-beginners] Re: About Android

2009-06-27 Thread Tony Su
I've been looking at this, There is an Android Mono project, and the Mono runtime is available to end Users through Market. http://www.koushikdutta.com/2009/01/compiling-mono-under-android-build.html It works by a kind of Interopt translating C# calls into Java. But, I don't know how useful

[android-beginners] Re: How to test Sipdroid using an emulator?

2009-06-27 Thread Tony Su
I'm interested in this as well... At least with my experience with Visual Studio, normally you can't import an install package unless the IDE (in this case Eclipse) has the ability to reverse engineer and extract the source code from the package. I'm also interested in whether Eclipse can be

[android-beginners] Re: Q re Android Programming Tutorials a.M Murphy

2009-06-19 Thread Tony Su
Thx, First, the PATH to the tools directory is ambiguous in the Windows version of the SDK... there isn't one directory, there are two directories (again, in the 1.5r2 SDK) one holding the updated versions of files for Cupcake and the other holding version 1.1 files. And, the android file d

[android-beginners] Q re Android Programming Tutorials a.M Murphy

2009-06-17 Thread Tony Su
Hope it's not off-topic asking questions about a specific learning resource in this forum... Book is the Commonsware book "Android Programming Tutorials" by Mark Murphy. After skimming the "Beginner's" book, I'm starting to setup the Android Build environment first on a Windows machine for th

[android-beginners] Any reason why Data connection stays open?

2009-06-15 Thread Tony Su
I read about this recently as a common reason for battery drain, once the data network is accessed, it doesn't time out and stays on "forever" (of course unless either forcibly terminated or the system is powered off). Is there a known reason for this? It's curious because this is the first dat

[android-beginners] Re: starting the htc dream

2009-06-14 Thread Tony Su
I just went through all that. I wasn't able to get unrestricted root access to implement any of the workarounds posted on the Internet. I tried using Telnet and remote ADP, T-Mobile seems to have closed that security hole on all current Android images. In the end, I setup my Google account bef

[android-beginners] Re: Making .apk files?

2009-06-14 Thread Tony Su
On this related subject, I may have a need to create the APK using only the command line (not using Eclipse). I didn't seem to notice that the Android SDK supports this, am I missing something? For that matter, what exactly are the different options how to create an APK? Are there other packa

[android-beginners] Re: Practical questions

2009-06-14 Thread Tony Su
As a person has used Windows Mobile/CE devices for over 6 years and been developing for the mobile platform for over 4 years, I think I can offer some perspective... First, regarding G1 availability, costs and restrictions (since to date anything else is largely vaporware or just launching)...

[android-beginners] Re: SDK USB driver for Vista SP1 won't install - Solution?

2009-06-03 Thread Tony Su
d-beginners/browse_thread/thread/ff713181959c48ee/98dbfe1887d671c0 R/ On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Tony Su wrote: > Howdy, > > When I connect a G1 to Vista SP1, the phone is automatically recognized and > Vista's own USB driver (WpdFs.dll and WUDFRd.sys) is

[android-beginners] Verify - Regular Cupcake update = No root?

2009-06-01 Thread Tony Su
Howdy, Just verifying that at least at this time, it seems that the regular Cupcake update being pushed down by T-Mobile removes all access to root? If so, I assume that gain access to root would require either reflashing to an earlier "non-cupcake" version or one of the modified images floating

[android-beginners] SDK USB driver for Vista SP1 won't install - Solution?

2009-05-21 Thread Tony Su
Howdy, When I connect a G1 to Vista SP1, the phone is automatically recognized and Vista's own USB driver (WpdFs.dll and WUDFRd.sys) is installed, but that driver doesn't work. Nothing I try seems to update or change the USB driver to the one supplied by the SDK... Have tried uninstalling the

[android-beginners] Updated list of app code sources?

2009-04-12 Thread Tony Su
Finally got the ADT installed into Eclipse just now. Recommend KISS instructions(default steps don't seem to work), I don't know why "no repository found" kept displaying when trying to connect using SSL and also pointing to the compressed SDK file, but it finally worked pointing to the web sour