[android-beginners] Re: Android based application for healthcare

2010-07-24 Thread pcmac77
By the way, interfacing the Arduino controller module can be done on almost any platform you may be interests in, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPoneOS, and Android. Com modules available include USB, serial, WiFi, BT, and cellular (I am aware of GSM but others like CDMA and iDEN may also be avai

[android-beginners] Re: Android based application for healthcare

2010-07-24 Thread pcmac77
If interfacing with the phone's "EMR" sensor or some other transceiver that simulates surrounding EMR is not feasible, one might look into an implementation with Arduino, which normally consists of a controller module and various optional sensor modules. It's pretty good for prototyping. There a

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android based application for healthcare

2010-07-24 Thread Akila Sethuraman
Thanks Mr.Dan for answering this questionI think i got confused and assumed that the sensor in the mobile phone also detects Electromagnetic radiation.But now either I have to try to find out if pacemakers are affected by magnetic fields or look for sensor which can sense EMR and transfer i

[android-beginners] Re: Android based application for healthcare

2010-07-24 Thread DanH
Yeah, I completely forgot about USB. On some (non-Android) phones it's not accessible to the app, so it didn't come to mind. On Jul 24, 9:37 am, Bret Foreman wrote: > As for connecting sensors to the phone, your best bet will be USB > based sensors. Almost the entire sensor market has gone over

[android-beginners] Re: Android based application for healthcare

2010-07-24 Thread DanH
The cellphone does, in general, have a "sensor" that consists of the cellphone radio. This is, as I understand it, a multi-function radio that uses software techniques to simulate the electronics that would be present in a more conventional design, and it is in theory capable of all sorts of trick

[android-beginners] Re: Android based application for healthcare

2010-07-24 Thread Bret Foreman
I've used about every sensor available on an Android phone and I don't know of one that would be appropriate for EMR. Here's the current list: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Sensor.html Which one are you planning to use? -- You received this message because you are subs

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android based application for healthcare

2010-07-24 Thread Akila Sethuraman
Thanks all for your inputs. But now, your answers have triggered some more questions- 1. Just like Mr.Dan has proposed, we are planning to implement a simple pacemaker. Its basic function would be to periodically check the heartbeat and see if it is irregular. If the heartbeat is say 50 per minute,

[android-beginners] Re: Android based application for healthcare

2010-07-24 Thread Bret Foreman
As for connecting sensors to the phone, your best bet will be USB based sensors. Almost the entire sensor market has gone over to these devices because of their easy connection to PCs. The only hitch will be getting access to the hardware I/O specifications of the sensor so you can talk to it. Most

[android-beginners] Re: Android based application for healthcare

2010-07-24 Thread DanH
What you propose is complex but doable. For the pacemaker simulator, note that you should not try to control the pacemaker (too complex and too much liability) but should treat it as a "read only" source of information. (Though it's not entirely clear why you need a connection to the pacemaker at

[android-beginners] Re: Android SIM Card API

2010-06-02 Thread Indicator Veritatis
One more thing: you might want to Google "SIM Application Toolkit", or start with the Wikipedia article on the same. Support for this toolkit was announced in Android SDK 1.5, and then little was heard about it. On Jun 2, 7:21 am, sohguanh wrote: > Actually what I wanted is to be able to copy the

[android-beginners] Re: Android SIM Card API

2010-06-02 Thread Indicator Veritatis
Did your search include the package 'android.provider'? Specifically and mainly, 'ContactsContract' in that package? Of course, this provides only the interface, not the implementation, but it does provide much of what you want. Now you just have to find the implementation for the SIM of that inte

[android-beginners] Re: Android SIM Card API

2010-06-02 Thread sohguanh
Actually what I wanted is to be able to copy the contacts on my Android phone into the SIM card. So in order to do that, I need some API that will allow me to read the contacts follow by API to write them to the SIM card. Telephony class does not provide those methods for me to accomplish the abov

[android-beginners] Re: Android SIM Card API

2010-06-02 Thread Indicator Veritatis
By asking specifically for SIM card, you are asking for implementation, where the API provides interface instead, as is good Object Oriented practice. See the SDK online references for packages android.telephony. Even there, SmsMessage.getIndexOnSim() has been deprecated -- no doubt because it con

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Publisher

2010-05-27 Thread Danny Pimienta
Cool, I figured that was the case since they are using their own checkout or app sales. Knowing Google and their obsession with beating out Apple the rollout will happen sooner than later. Sent from my iPhone On May 27, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Raveesh wrote: > Thanks Danny, but no need to check. I'v

[android-beginners] Re: Android Publisher

2010-05-27 Thread Raveesh
Thanks Danny, but no need to check. I've already looked up the T&C and it's true for paid apps since the payment is done through Google Checkout, which only offers Merchant accounts in the said countries. They say they're working on it, so hopefully the expansion starts fast. On May 27, 6:05 pm,

[android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-14 Thread Indicator Veritatis
That might not be good enough. I found, for example, that my system runs Eclipse a LOT better after being upgrade from .5 to 2.5 Gigs of RAM. But I still have occasional problems with Eclipse locking up the system completely, usually only when using Ctl-Tab to switch BACK to Eclipse. On May 14, 6:

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-14 Thread TreKing
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Kevin Brooks wrote: > I have to shut down the IDE every time I run my application. If you are having consistent issues where things just aren't working right, I would just uninstall and re-install everything.

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-13 Thread Kevin Brooks
I have to shut down the IDE every time I run my application. On 5/13/2010 8:34 AM, TreKing wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Kevin Brooks > wrote: Anyone have a clue what is happening? In these cases, I usually close everything, run "adb kill-server", a

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-13 Thread TreKing
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Kevin Brooks wrote: > Anyone have a clue what is happening? In these cases, I usually close everything, run "adb kill-server", and restart. - TreKing - Chicago tran

[android-beginners] Re: [android-developers] ubuntu 10.04 emulator not launching

2010-05-12 Thread OOD Tsen
I meet the same problem in ubuntu 10.04 32 bit version. I found the problem is no permission to launch ddms in ubuntu 10.04 Try this command in your android folder. #chmod +x out/host/linux-x86/bin/ddms On May 4, 6:26 pm, Riaz Ur Rahaman wrote: > I am using ubuntu 64bit version and have nvidia

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-12 Thread Kevin Brooks
I am having a similar problem. When I try to launch my application I receive the following messages even if I already have the emulator running. [2010-05-12 22:29:37 - FlashcardLoop] -- [2010-05-12 22:29:37 - FlashcardLoop] Android Launch! [2010-05-12 22:29:37 - Flas

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-12 Thread Xavier Ducrohet
if you strictly use Eclipse, then you shouldn't have to change your path. Eclipse uses the location to the SDK folder (set in the Eclipse preferences under Android) to find all the external tools it needs. Xav On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:25 PM, tiger wrote: > Regarding the path, the installation

[android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-12 Thread tiger
Regarding the path, the installation instructions do say to add SDK tools folder to your Windows path. I am a professional Java dev. and I cannot remember the last time I had to edit the Windows path. Given there is an installer and GUI- based IDE support, if it is necessary for the Android SDK to

[android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-12 Thread tiger
"It's a bingo!" I have isolated the problem - the reason is something to do with the Windows path. I had a look for that DDMS program, by going to the logical place for it in Windows Explorer - /tools I did not run DDMS. This Explorer window was open in the background, that is all. I believe tha

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-11 Thread TreKing
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:05 PM, tiger wrote: > This confirms what I have been saying - that Eclipse is not seeing or > communicating with the running emulator after it starts it. > If you run DDMS, does that list the emulator as a target? ---

[android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-11 Thread tiger
On May 11, 5:19 pm, TreKing wrote: .. > Instead of launching your app to trigger the emulator to start, launch the > Emulator from the AVD control window. Wait for it to boot. Unlock the screen > if necessary. Then try running your app, selecting the emulator instance as > your target. What happ

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-11 Thread TreKing
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:26 AM, tiger wrote: > Yeah, I definitely unlocked it. As I said from the console messages > in Eclipse, you can see it is stopped at the point where it is waiting for > feedback from the emulator, but it is not getting it. > Instead of launching your app to trigger the

[android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-11 Thread tiger
Yeah, I definitely unlocked it. As I said from the console messages in Eclipse, you can see it is stopped at the point where it is waiting for feedback from the emulator, but it is not getting it. On May 11, 3:43 pm, Justin Anderson wrote: > Is it displaying the lock screen?  If so, you need to

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-11 Thread Justin Anderson
Is it displaying the lock screen? If so, you need to unlock the emulator, and Hello World should be sitting right there waiting for you... -- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who d

[android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-11 Thread tiger
On May 10, 2:55 pm, TreKing wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:32 AM, tiger wrote: > > Eclipse does not seem to see the emulator has fully booted up. > > Please elaborate. Last message in Eclipse is: "Launching a new emulator with Virtual Device"... I can see on the web that there should be subs

[android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator - Eclipse cannot see it

2010-05-11 Thread tiger
On May 10, 2:55 pm, TreKing wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:32 AM, tiger wrote: > > Eclipse does not seem to see the emulator has fully booted up. > > Please elaborate. The last message in the eclipse console is "Launching a new emulator with Virtual Device"... Looking online, I should be se

[android-beginners] Re: Android GPS degree format

2010-05-07 Thread cellurl
yea its definitely degrees. No minutes, no seconds, just degrees and fractional degrees. DD Decimal Degrees (49.5000°,-123.5000°) On May 6, 1:09 pm, TreKing wrote: > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:47 AM, msurrow wrote: > > Does any one know what the degree format of the GPS fixes one get from the

Re: [android-beginners] Re: [android-developers] ubuntu 10.04 emulator not launching

2010-05-04 Thread Riaz Ur Rahaman
I am using ubuntu 64bit version and have nvidia graphics card. I switched between different nvidia drivers but that didn't help. Using eclipse 64bit version. After some googling I found that this error is an ok thing. Since when I run glxgears and close the window I see the same error on 9.04

Re: [android-beginners] Re: [android-developers] ubuntu 10.04 emulator not launching

2010-05-03 Thread Kaustubh Padegaonkar
Guys, he is asking help because his emulator isnt working. :) All we have replied is that its working one mine! Any suggestions? Kaustubh Padegaonkar, thetuxra...@gmail.com On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Greg Donald wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:30 AM, riazrahaman wrote: >> Was not able

[android-beginners] Re: [android-developers] ubuntu 10.04 emulator not launching

2010-05-03 Thread Greg Donald
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:30 AM, riazrahaman wrote: > Was not able to launch the emulator on Ubuntu 10.04. > > Is this a known issue with the 10.04 Lucid lynx ubuntu? Works fine for me. Just tested, all mine work. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message beca

[android-beginners] Re: Android Managing services and activities

2010-04-26 Thread msurrow
Okay - I might remember incorrectly (explains why I couldn't find it again :), but I did some testing on this. If i force a RuntimeException in a scheduled timer task in a service, the task will keep on triggering after the exception. if I force a RuntimeException in a method of a service I do ge

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android number formatting question

2010-04-25 Thread Mark Murphy
BobG wrote: > If I get the drift of the answers, its that Android Beginners can't > make the mistake of asking a question in the Android Beginner's forum > if it is a General Java question that could be answered from memory by > an experienced java programmer, but not necessarily by a beginner? > T

[android-beginners] Re: Android number formatting question

2010-04-25 Thread BobG
If I get the drift of the answers, its that Android Beginners can't make the mistake of asking a question in the Android Beginner's forum if it is a General Java question that could be answered from memory by an experienced java programmer, but not necessarily by a beginner? Tough Forum. Is there a

[android-beginners] Re: Android number formatting question

2010-04-24 Thread Indicator Veritatis
IOW, the same way you do that formatting in any other Java program. So not entirely appropriate for this group. On Apr 23, 8:53 am, "~ TreKing" wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Traveler wrote: > > How do I format a floating point number to 2 decimal places in Android? > > http://lmgtfy

[android-beginners] Re: Android square root function

2010-04-23 Thread cellurl
Find a way to avoid square-roots. In school they say take the square-root for everything, but in real-life, if you really study the problem (like gps distance or such), you rarely really need it. Just think in terms of squares, it saves a ton of computation (and battery). 2cents. jp -- You recei

[android-beginners] Re: Android Java

2010-04-23 Thread Zigurd
The Java language in Android is, still, Java. So you can't go wrong with learning Java from a good introductory book. Head First Java is a good place to start: http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Java-Kathy-Sierra/dp/0596009208 After you are up to speed, try Effective Java: http://www.amazon.com/Eff

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Java

2010-04-23 Thread Mark Murphy
natediddy wrote: > I mean I see all the material about Java when doing a search, I guess > its just that there is so much about it that it gets confusing on what > I need to know...or what I'm supposed to do with the info. Ah, I see. I've poked at the WikiBook some, and it's not bad. Otherwise,

[android-beginners] Re: Android Java

2010-04-23 Thread natediddy
I mean I see all the material about Java when doing a search, I guess its just that there is so much about it that it gets confusing on what I need to know...or what I'm supposed to do with the info. Or which is basically spam and which isn't. I read through a lot of the tutorial at sun.Java's we

[android-beginners] Re: Android Development Phones

2010-04-22 Thread Indicator Veritatis
As you noticed, the official developer phone is a bit pricey. But since it is still generally best to target application for 1.5, an unlocked G1 phone is just as viable, and a lot less pricey. You have probably already noticed that you cannot upload an app from the emulator to the Android Market.

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator don't show up (Linux Fedora 12 x86_64)

2010-04-20 Thread Michael Cheselka
Hello Indicator, Of course this is true. I did this in anticipation of trouble and afterwards found none. I'd still twiddle the permissions just for safeties sake. Regards, Michael Cheselka 650-488-4820 On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 15:54, Indicator Veritatis wrote: > I didn't have to follow tha

[android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator don't show up (Linux Fedora 12 x86_64)

2010-04-20 Thread Indicator Veritatis
I didn't have to follow that many steps to get it up and running. Yet I am running under Fedora, too. For example, 'yum' will allow wild-cards, so that where he ran many yum commandlines, I needed only one. Nor do I remember having to twiddle with permissions. Then again, I am still running SDK v

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator don't show up (Linux Fedora 12 x86_64)

2010-04-17 Thread Miguel Guirao
wow!! all this have to be done in order to get Android up and running?? I have been following the instrucctions on the Android web site and it is far more simple than all these!! how come?? On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Michael Cheselka wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed android 2.1 on Fedo

[android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator don't show up (Linux Fedora 12 x86_64)

2010-04-17 Thread Mike Jones
Sorry about the reporting, reading this on the train going to work and my fat fingers hit it by mistake :/ sorry about that On Apr 17, 3:03 am, Michael Cheselka wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed android 2.1 on Fedora 12 x86_64 and it's working for me. > > 1st step, I followed other peoples adv

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator don't show up (Linux Fedora 12 x86_64)

2010-04-17 Thread Michael Cheselka
Hello, I just installed android 2.1 on Fedora 12 x86_64 and it's working for me. 1st step, I followed other peoples advice and installed the following rpms: yum install glibc.i686 glibc-devel.i686 libstdc++.i686 zlib-devel.i686 ncurses-devel.i686 libX11-devel.i686 libXrandr.i686 2nd step,

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator don't show up (Linux Fedora 12 x86_64)

2010-04-16 Thread Michael Cheselka
Hello, This is wrong! Pulse Audio is new, not old. People are using it more and more not less and less. It is working better all the time on Fedora 12. Originally I had problems now and then with Pulse Audio but not in the last few months. In fact, my bluetooth headphones work best under Fed

[android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator don't show up (Linux Fedora 12 x86_64)

2010-04-16 Thread Indicator Veritatis
You should not have to disable audio to run the emulator. I wish I could be sure my proposal would work for this problem, but I don't: since it is a good idea anyway, I will go ahead and say you should try removing pulse-audio from your Fedora installation, since nobody uses it anymore anyway, yet

[android-beginners] Re: Android emulator problem

2010-04-16 Thread Kitzy
Try using eclipse to first - create the avd And second - to start it Within eclipse you can create many avds, see if by creating a new on you still have the problem. -Kitzy On Apr 16, 7:22 am, tony obrien wrote: > Try letting ECLIPSE start it for you... make sure you have an AVD > defined. > >

[android-beginners] Re: Android emulator problem

2010-04-16 Thread tony obrien
Try letting ECLIPSE start it for you... make sure you have an AVD defined. On Apr 15, 2:03 pm, "anton.maximov" wrote: > I try to start emulator and manually, over commandline, and over > Eclipse. And each time i see this problem ( -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[android-beginners] Re: Android emulator problem

2010-04-15 Thread anton.maximov
I try to start emulator and manually, over commandline, and over Eclipse. And each time i see this problem ( -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow

[android-beginners] Re: Android emulator problem

2010-04-15 Thread tony obrien
Are you letting ECLIPSE start the emulator or are you trying to do it manually? On Apr 15, 12:56 am, "anton.maximov" wrote: > Hello. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overfl

[android-beginners] Re: Android Emulator don't show up (Linux Fedora 12 x86_64)

2010-04-14 Thread yodaa
I hopefully found a workaround see: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1350997&posted=1#post1350997 That's weird but audio is involved is this issue, arguments must passed in the run configuration to disable audio: In Eclipse, "Run" > "Run Configuration" > "Android Application" > "my

[android-beginners] Re: Android Managing services and activities

2010-04-14 Thread Bub
I think Mark is right. No restart on crashed services. Maybe this is what you're talking about when it comes to the restarting of activities? http://developer.android.com/videos/index.html#v=fL6gSd4ugSI If not my apologies. I'm a noob myself... -Bub -- You received this message because you are

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android phones still require data plan?

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Murphy
alexk-il wrote: > I've set my Google account on my HTC Hero over the WiFi. I'm still > using my phone without mobile networking with WiFi as the only > available option. As I noted in one of my posts on this thread, some phones do not require the Google account when the phone is first turned on. S

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android phones still require data plan?

2010-04-12 Thread Michael Cheselka
Hello, Why would you need to register with Google to use the WiFi? Are there hacked ROMs enabling use for web browsing and ssh without registering with Google? Is there a list of CDMA Android devices? Is there an Android phone market place for buying used Android CDMA phone besides obvious plac

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android phones still require data plan?

2010-04-11 Thread opgenorth
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 17:40, Mark Murphy wrote: > A wrote: >> I'm curious about this approach. With normal phone activation >> it occurs through the cellular network. Why is it through the >> data plan for Android? > > You need both. The data plan is used to register your Google account > with t

[android-beginners] Re: Android phones still require data plan?

2010-04-11 Thread alexk-il
On Apr 11, 2:40 am, Mark Murphy wrote: > > Also, don't these phones generally > > come with Wifi? If so why not use Wifi for activation? > > Because you cannot set up WiFi until you register your Google account > with the phone. Mark, I've set my Google account on my HTC Hero over the WiFi. I'

[android-beginners] Re: Android phones still require data plan?

2010-04-10 Thread A
On Apr 10, 7:40 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > Because you cannot set up WiFi until you register your Google account > with the phone. That's really strange. Many devices have Wifi capability, for instance my printer, and selecting a router to use doesn't require any catch-22 situation of needing an a

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android phones still require data plan?

2010-04-10 Thread Mark Murphy
A wrote: > I'm curious about this approach. With normal phone activation > it occurs through the cellular network. Why is it through the > data plan for Android? You need both. The data plan is used to register your Google account with the phone. > Also, don't these phones generally > come with

[android-beginners] Re: Android phones still require data plan?

2010-04-10 Thread A
I'm curious about this approach. With normal phone activation it occurs through the cellular network. Why is it through the data plan for Android? Also, don't these phones generally come with Wifi? If so why not use Wifi for activation? On Apr 10, 5:38 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > A wrote: > > Hi all

[android-beginners] Re: [android-porting] opencore test result

2010-03-26 Thread Deva R
> I want to ask why it shows 1 success and 1 failure . there should be only 1 > pass or 1 fail only . Do each test case have multiple sub-tests within them > ? > which class in source code finally decide whether it is pass or fail ? . Looks like some bookkeeping gone wrong.. couldnt track how/why.

[android-beginners] Re: [android-porting] opencore test result

2010-03-23 Thread Uander
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Deva R wrote: > > I want to ask why it shows 1 success and 1 failure . there should be only > 1 > > pass or 1 fail only . Do each test case have multiple sub-tests within > them > > ? > which class in source code finally decide whether it is pass or fail > ? . > >

[android-beginners] Re: Android sounds

2010-03-20 Thread BobG
If you have a beep.wav file, make a dir in res called raw, put it there. Up near the top of the activity you have public Mediaplayer beep; then in oncreate you have beep=Mediaplayer.create(getBaseContext(),R.raw.beep); and farther down in an ontouch or onsensorchanged or some other event, you say b

[android-beginners] Re: Android tutorial sites

2010-03-20 Thread jarnaud
Hello, you are right, tutorials site are very important for beginners. Here is another resource: a training based on 21 videos covering all the aspects a beginner should learn. http://android.voxisland.com Videos are HD. Enjoy On Mar 19, 12:44 am, Gethin Dawson wrote: > Tutorial sites are very

[android-beginners] Re: Android sounds

2010-03-19 Thread Traveler
Thanks for the replies. I can use all the info I can get. I was kind of looking for something like a Hello Beep example. On Mar 18, 3:47 pm, BobG wrote: > I get the idea from looking at the docs that tonegenerator makes it > easy to use one of the listed tones, but not so easy to just play > 1kh

[android-beginners] Re: Android sounds

2010-03-18 Thread BobG
I get the idea from looking at the docs that tonegenerator makes it easy to use one of the listed tones, but not so easy to just play 1khz. Didnt see any spec for starttone(freq, duration) for example I just used cooledit to generate a wav file (it has a tone generator function) and play it as a re

[android-beginners] Re: Android SDK Setup.exe error - GetTempFileName failed. The directory name is invalid

2010-03-17 Thread davemac
Just a guess here, but did you unzip your files into the top-level directory of your C: drive? Try creating a C:\android_install folder, or something like that to hold your files. Then try it again. - dave On Mar 10, 2:51 pm, dmagnum wrote: > I downloaded android-sdk_r05-windows.zip and extracte

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android developers form

2010-03-05 Thread Walt Armour
Yeah, most likely. Scan and clean time. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 09:03, BobG wrote: > I clicked this and I couldnt close the page that came up. Beware? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Beginners" group. > > NEW! Try asking and tagging y

[android-beginners] Re: Android developers form

2010-03-05 Thread BobG
I clicked this and I couldnt close the page that came up. Beware? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscri

[android-beginners] Re: Android Initialization (specifically, where does screen timeout get set ??)

2010-03-03 Thread ms12
Try looking in frameworks/base/packages/SettingProvider/res/values/ defaults.xml Of course, you don't need to change this if the keys are defined correctly to wake the system up. Check the laytout file that is being used in /system/usr/layout and see the documentation for how to define keys that c

[android-beginners] Re: [android-developers] Select wallpaper from..

2010-02-25 Thread Manjunatha M
Can anyone from android help me on this?? On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Manjunatha M wrote: > Hi Dianne et al, > > Can any one help me on this?? > > regards, > Manju > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Manjunatha M wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> To hide my activity from the list in "Select wallp

[android-beginners] Re: Android Versions

2010-02-17 Thread Kitzy
They are names for the differnt versions. Cupcake=v1.5 My phone, for example, ues 1.5 so I am developing with SDK 1.5. They are not bound to different versions of linux, however, android is run on a subset called dalvik, and if you download the source, it has beed tested to build in ubunto. For

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android application not playing sound on phone

2010-02-16 Thread Simon Platten
Hi, Thank you for the reply, both files play on a PC, but only one will play on the phone. On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Kingcrowley wrote: > sometimes you find encoding problems with MP3s, as in they don't use a > standard encoding..not sure what codecs Android supports but maybe > just

[android-beginners] Re: Android application not playing sound on phone

2010-02-16 Thread Kingcrowley
sometimes you find encoding problems with MP3s, as in they don't use a standard encoding..not sure what codecs Android supports but maybe just try and play the file normally through the media player and see if it works On Feb 14, 8:37 pm, Sy wrote: > Hi, > > I have been developing my first Androi

[android-beginners] Re: Android application not playing sound on phone

2010-02-16 Thread Simon Platten
Its odd, but one of the MP3 files will play the other just sounds like a blip, both files sound fine on the PC. Here is the modified play routine: private void playSound(int dResource) { try{ if ( m_objMediaPlayer != null ) { m_objMediaPlayer.stop();

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Beginner Video Tutorials

2010-02-16 Thread Syed Rizvi
thank you guys for the videos...surely everyone will go through them. Regards Syed On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:25 AM, jarn...@voxisland.com < jarn...@voxisland.com> wrote: > Absolutely, try this set of android tutorials for developers: > http://android.voxisland.com > and let us know what you th

[android-beginners] Re: Android Beginner Video Tutorials

2010-02-16 Thread jarn...@voxisland.com
Absolutely, try this set of android tutorials for developers: http://android.voxisland.com and let us know what you think. On Feb 9, 4:58 pm, ctrlnick wrote: > Hi , > > I am an experienced C# developer, but however I am beginner to the > Android world. > > I would love to learn android by watchin

[android-beginners] Re: Android Beginner Video Tutorials

2010-02-16 Thread Doug
I don't know about Android videos, but I would recommend a video titled "Eclipse and Java for Total Beginners" by Mark Dexter. I started in Android without having sufficient knowledge of either Eclipse or Java. If I had used the video before I started Android, it would have been a lot easier for

[android-beginners] Re: android application using its location functionality

2010-01-30 Thread Zigurd
Get an Android handset and find out what the standard applications do. That will give you some ideas. The source code for a simple app called MJAndroid that uses location can be found here: http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596521509/ In addition to the SDK, you will need a maps API key. The direct

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

2010-01-26 Thread Justin Anderson
Check the android-developers group... That is the group for anything dealing with source. -- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't.

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android Hello World not working

2010-01-26 Thread Justin Anderson
What does your AndroidManifest.xml look like? The activity that you want the user to be able to launch (and show up in the list of launchable applications) needs to contain the following: Hope that helps, Justin -- Ther

[android-beginners] Re: Android Hello World not working

2010-01-26 Thread myhtcmobile
Hi Rock, I'm facing the same issue. I have followed the exact example and the emulator is starting up but no sign of "Hello Android". The output in eclipse: [2010-01-26 10:20:06 - Locator]Android Launch! [2010-01-26 10:20:06 - Locator]adb is running normally. [2010-01-26 10:20:06 - Locator]No Lau

[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: Android development on Netbeans

2010-01-18 Thread Indicator Veritatis
There is a netbeans plugin for it, but I could never get it to work. A lot of other people have had the same problem, so I would not recommend wasting time on it. Eclipse has its own problems, but since the entire Android development world is using Eclipse and the ADT plugin, it is and will always

[android-beginners] Re: Android development on Netbeans

2010-01-18 Thread transmutableJ
There is a plugin for Netbeans called nbandroid (http://kenai.com/ projects/nbandroid). The wiki page has tutorials for how to use it: http://kenai.com/projects/nbandroid/pages/Home On Jan 15, 4:26 am, QterMgnus wrote: > Can I use  Netbeans for Android development ? > is there a tutorial ? --

[android-beginners] Re: Android dev phone and Mac snow leopard

2010-01-17 Thread dandroid
folks, btw, i forgot to mention the android details: firmware version: 1.6 kernel version: 2.6.29-00479-g3c7df37 build number: DRC83 any tips/suggestions would be welcome. cheers deva On Jan 17, 7:41 pm, dandroid wrote: > hello, > i am trying to use android htc phone (http://developer.htc.com/ >

[android-beginners] Re: Android Developer Needed - Atlanta

2010-01-17 Thread Michael boggess
Also, have you posted this to stack overflow? You might catch a good dev that can produce what you need. On Jan 17, 1:44 pm, Kevin Duffey wrote: > Just out of curiosity.. what are the pay rates for android developers? I am > also curious for remote/work at home developers. I would love to find so

Re: [android-beginners] Re: [android-kernel] Instructions to install Android on Netbook

2010-01-14 Thread Sean Hodges
http://www.androidx86.org/ On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Kevin Duffey wrote: > I am going to go out on a limb here and say that the underlying linux OS > that android runs on probably runs on intel, but as far as I know the > Android JVM.. and hence the NDK native code is compiled for ARM proc

Re: [android-beginners] Re: [android-kernel] Instructions to install Android on Netbook

2010-01-14 Thread Kevin Duffey
I am going to go out on a limb here and say that the underlying linux OS that android runs on probably runs on intel, but as far as I know the Android JVM.. and hence the NDK native code is compiled for ARM processor only. If there is an Android OS that runs on Intel.. that you can boot into, pleas

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android 2.1 SDK

2010-01-14 Thread Sean Hodges
If you choose to switch to NetBeans, then no problem. However, I think your problem was probably the infamous button click problem in the GTK version of Eclipse: http://mou.me.uk/2009/10/31/fixing-eclipse-in-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/ No idea why some people hit this, I've not encountered it on t

[android-beginners] Re: [android-kernel] Instructions to install Android on Netbook

2010-01-13 Thread Jaswinder Singh Rajput
Hello Yi Sun, On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Yi Sun wrote: > Acer has a bios that can not handle the grub we are using. Check the > "getsource" wiki to see how to install iso image on u usb drive. > You mean usb image does work on Acer, I should use CD iso, right ? By the way is these content

[android-beginners] Re: [android-kernel] Instructions to install Android on Netbook

2010-01-13 Thread Jaswinder Singh Rajput
Hello, With USB image android-x86-20091113_usb.img on Acer Aspire one D250-1962 Netbook, I am getting : GRUB Loading stage2... Thats it. Am I missing something. Thank you, -- Jaswinder Singh. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:15 PM, he

[android-beginners] Re: Android 2.1 SDK

2010-01-13 Thread Casper Bang
Thanks Sean. My primary Ubuntu with Eclipse 3.5 refuses to do download anything in that dialog - it simply sits there with no feedback. And my other Ubuntu (laptop) gives me a dependency error when trying to install Android Development Tools. I will try NetBeans. On Jan 12, 5:18 pm, Sean Hodges w

[android-beginners] Re: [android-kernel] Instructions to install Android on Netbook

2010-01-13 Thread Jaswinder Singh Rajput
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:15 PM, hedwin wrote: > Check www.android-x86.org > OK, I am also CC android-x86 and I found the instructions : http://www.android-x86.org/releases/releasenote_1_6 I will test it on Acer Aspire one D250-1962 Netbook. Thank you, -- Jaswinder Singh. > On Mon, Jan 11, 2

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Android - Calling Webservice of .Net

2010-01-13 Thread ryan alford
Here are two links: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1052300/how-to-call-a-net-webservice-from-android-using-ksoap2 http://composedcrap.blogspot.com/2009/08/connecting-to-net-web-service-from.html

[android-beginners] Re: Android - Calling Webservice of .Net

2010-01-13 Thread umar
i am also looking the help to same issue can any one provide me that??? On Dec 15 2009, 5:18 am, developer wrote: > Hi, > > I want to call one web services made in .Net. > > I want to consume this server in my Android application. > > The method inside Web service will accept one parameter. > > I

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