[android-beginners] Re: how to open the new screen

2010-01-26 Thread schwiz
you need to be more specific what do you want to be in the new window? I assume you want to start a new activity in which case you need to use the startActivity method and pass it an Intent for what you want the new window to hold. On Jan 24, 8:51 am, crajesh wrote: > Hi, > >   i am new in andro

[android-beginners] Re: android source integrated into Eclipse

2010-01-26 Thread schwiz
I dunno but it would be super helpful even if you can't edit it! On Jan 26, 3:47 pm, oregonduckman wrote: > I am interested in installing the Android source so that when I am > debugging my app I can step into an Android SDK call, is this possible > and if so are there directions somewhere on how

[android-beginners] Re: Windows or Mac as an Android development platform?

2010-01-21 Thread schwiz
the answer is whatever you like the best! On Jan 19, 6:38 pm, Horváth Antal wrote: > Linux :) > > 2010/1/20 oregonduckman > > > > > Would be interested in people's opinion on which platform provides a > > better host environment for Android development. > > > -- > > You received this message bec

[android-beginners] Re: Problems Compiling Sudoku sample program

2010-01-15 Thread schwiz
Try to email Ed, the author he is usually really quick about answering questions like this. On Jan 15, 11:53 am, Greggawatt wrote: > actually i found my problem this line > xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com.apk.res.android"; > > should have been: > xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.co

[android-beginners] Re: alertdialog, under what circumstances will invoking .show directly cause problems?

2010-01-10 Thread schwiz
I am having a similar issue, where I use onCreateDialog(int) inside I use AlertDialog.builder to build my dialogbox depending on what the int is, and then I use builder.show. However onCreateDialog is only called by onTouch(motionevent) but If I rotate the screen after calling createDialog(2) it w

[android-beginners] Re: purchases across multiple phones

2010-01-08 Thread schwiz
the apps are tied to your google account On Jan 6, 11:09 am, Jeffrey Blattman wrote: > i was curious how the market treats multiple phones for a given google > ID. if i have two phones, will i be able to install a purchased app on > both? or would i need to re-purchase the app for each phone? > >

[android-beginners] Re: Problem with Custom Dialog

2010-01-08 Thread schwiz
I just give my custom dialogs a reference to my main activity so they can access its data. Just cast the Context to your activity name. On Jan 8, 8:18 am, TreKing wrote: > The view you're trying to get the text from resides in the dialog, not the > activity layout. > In your click listener, call

[android-beginners] Re: Create an .apk progamatically

2010-01-04 Thread schwiz
why not just upload the signed apk and have them download it directly? On Jan 4, 12:33 pm, tsimmi wrote: > Hi! > > The problem is this: > > I make an internet connection to some url > and receive an HttpResponse with an app_example.apk. > > Then I want to create a file (an .apk) in the sdcard wit

[android-beginners] Re: help regarding implementation of SAX parser in android

2009-12-31 Thread schwiz
here is a useful tutorial on the subject, the author used to answer questions quickly back in the day not sure if he still does http://www.anddev.org/parsing_xml_from_the_net_-_using_the_saxparser-t353.html On Dec 31 2009, 11:38 pm, Yousuf Faheem wrote: > Hi, > > Happy New Year to all. > I am try

[android-beginners] Re: reboot emulator

2009-12-28 Thread schwiz
you can't reboot that I know of but you can open the emulator with your app installed click on the icon that looks like a phone directly to the right of the print icon in eclipse and choose the emulator you have installed your app on. So that way you can test if your app is launching itself on boo

[android-beginners] Re: Widget android (google)

2009-12-28 Thread schwiz
anything with the google name is closed source On Dec 27, 3:21 pm, Guerbouj Brahim wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to have the code source of Google widget, I searched in > the official site web but I didn't found it. Can any buddy give me the > link. > > Thanks -- You received this message be

[android-beginners] Re: Loading Acitvity

2009-07-02 Thread schwiz
from a user standpoint that sounds really annoying and people are going to hate your app, although it is a neat idea. On Jul 1, 1:01 pm, Victor Pantoja wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to create an activity whose purpose is to show some > advertisements for a while and then go to another activity, whi

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

2009-07-02 Thread schwiz
worked fine for me, although i was using 64 bit. go into device manager with your phone connected select the phone and say install driver. Then find your driver in the sdk folder. On Jul 2, 8:32 am, Wayne Wenthin wrote: > This may help. > > http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=267

[android-beginners] Re: Default browser

2009-06-25 Thread schwiz
default browser is called browser. I use steel www.kolbysoft.com On Jun 25, 11:24 am, Rafa Perfeito wrote: > Hey droiders and droid users, > Coming to you from Portugal so unfortunately only now the first Android > device is preview to release, the HTC Magic. So my question is this: what is > An

[android-beginners] Re: Basic Layout

2009-06-25 Thread schwiz
e Xml for that? > > Regards,, > > Christian Polzer > > christian.pol...@googlemail.com > > On 24.06.2009, at 23:51, Carl wrote: > > > > > thanks. I tried that but unfortunately I then get an > > arithmeticException. > > It also seems pretty comp

[android-beginners] Re: Basic Layout

2009-06-24 Thread schwiz
try using 1 linear layout with a TableLayout tag inside then TableRow inside of that. Make sure your TableLayout has the attribute android:stretchColumns="*" this should do it! On Jun 23, 10:16 pm, ayush wrote: > its hard to figure out without looking at your XML content. my guess > is that yo

[android-beginners] Re: Box2d Graphics In Android

2009-06-03 Thread schwiz
guess your best bet would be to goto http://www.box2d.org/manual.html and read this thing till you have an idea of how to do what you wanna do... There are a few open source android games out there, here is one http://code.google.com/p/alienbloodbath/ On Jun 3, 7:43 am, "vinny.s...@gmail.com" wr

[android-beginners] progress bar overlay

2009-06-01 Thread schwiz
Hello, I am loading some images from the web, and I just want to display the default progress bar while they are downloading so people don't think my app has crashed or whatever. What is the easiest way to do this, I was thinking of just launching a new activity but then I would have to have a se

[android-beginners] Re: I want to install Android in Nokia Phone

2009-03-11 Thread schwiz
http://source.android.com/download goodluck! On Mar 11, 2:45 am, Arasan wrote: > I've a Nokia 6681. And i want to install android in that phone, so can > you please mention how to install it and where to download it from. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this m

[android-beginners] upgrading sdk

2009-02-10 Thread schwiz
Hi I am new to programming and even more new to java. In the upgrading the sdk instructions on developers.android.com they say to "Open a console/terminal and navigate to the /tools directory of your new SDK. Launch the emulator with the -wipe-data option. " Can someone please explain to me how