[android-beginners] Re: How to: (new) HTTP API

2009-04-10 Thread yves
Thank you On Apr 10, 12:09 am, Mark Murphy wrote: > yves wrote: > > I've read a lot of tutorials explaining how to use the HTTP Client > > from the previous Android SDK. > > With SDK 1.1 r1 this API has totally changed. > > > Is there any tutorial for this new API? > > HttpClient is a product of

[android-beginners] Re: How to: (new) HTTP API

2009-04-09 Thread Mark Murphy
yves wrote: > I've read a lot of tutorials explaining how to use the HTTP Client > from the previous Android SDK. > With SDK 1.1 r1 this API has totally changed. > > Is there any tutorial for this new API? HttpClient is a product of the Apache Foundation. Documentation, including examples, can b

[android-beginners] Re: how to connect Android with Sqlite3.

2009-04-09 Thread anand m joseph
haiii i will send some code for go thro in that and make the one object of that one in u r activity class and use this... import android.content.ContentValues; import android.content.Context; import android.database.Cursor; import android.database.SQLException; import android.database.sqlite.S

[android-beginners] Re: How to destroy an Activity in android

2009-04-09 Thread raj.10788
hi, as per mark told you use the finish() method to end the activity. when you finish() the activity the onDestroy() will get called. I hope your don the onCreat() and OnDestroy() methods well. On Apr 8, 8:39 am, Rohit Kundalkar wrote: > @Override >     public void onDestroy() { >         su

[android-beginners] Re: How to change the background color of an element in a list ?

2009-04-08 Thread binklee
Thank you for the informations! It seems to be good hints to start :) On Apr 8, 9:27 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > binklee wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > I've an activity that extends ListActivity. I do a kind of check on > > all elements of the list and if an element corresponds to my criteria, > >

[android-beginners] Re: How to change the background color of an element in a list ?

2009-04-08 Thread Mark Murphy
binklee wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I've an activity that extends ListActivity. I do a kind of check on > all elements of the list and if an element corresponds to my criteria, > I would like to put the background of this element in green (by > example) or to add any visual effect on this element.

[android-beginners] Re: How to destroy an Activity in android

2009-04-07 Thread Rohit Kundalkar
@Override public void onDestroy() { super.onDestroy(); try{ } catch(Exception ex){} } write this in onCreate() method in calculator activity. Do all the finishing stuff in try{} On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Meryl Silverburgh < silverburgh.me...@gmail.c

[android-beginners] Re: How to destroy an Activity in android

2009-04-07 Thread Mark Murphy
Meryl Silverburgh wrote: > Hi, > > how can I destroy an Activity in android? > e.g. if i launch the 'Calculator' Activity, how to destroy it so that > the onDestroy method will get called? Call finish() from within the Activity. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://tw

[android-beginners] Re: how to hook into resize events?

2009-04-04 Thread fosta...@gmail.com
Ok, thanks. I was thinking sublcassing TextView was somewhat heavy handed for such a seemingly simple thing but barring any alternatives it will do. On Apr 2, 3:38 am, Romain Guy wrote: > You can simply use the onSizeChanged() method when you subclass TextView. > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 a

[android-beginners] Re: how to hook into resize events?

2009-04-01 Thread Romain Guy
You can simply use the onSizeChanged() method when you subclass TextView. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:38 PM, fosta...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a TextView whereby the text size is scaled to fill as much > space as possible (I'm basically doing this by repeatedly calling a > Paint#getText

[android-beginners] Re: How to show Scrollbar on Left side of screen

2009-03-28 Thread Romain Guy
> Then, does Andriod has any roadmap to support Arabic languages, which > is a LTR and need scrollbar on LEFT? Unfortunately not at the moment :( > In case I need to provide this support (i.e. scrollbar on left) in > Cupcake, does Android framework allow any scope for this? Is it JAVA > framewor

[android-beginners] Re: How to show Scrollbar on Left side of screen

2009-03-28 Thread debashis
Thanks. I understnad that scrollbar on left side of UI is not possible with current SDK (assuming CupCake version). Then, does Andriod has any roadmap to support Arabic languages, which is a LTR and need scrollbar on LEFT? In case I need to provide this support (i.e. scrollbar on left) in Cupcak

[android-beginners] Re: How to show Scrollbar on Left side of screen

2009-03-27 Thread Romain Guy
Nope :( On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:56 AM, debashis wrote: > > Hi, > I have a UI screen (Vertical orientation) in Android, that display a > english text string. String size is large and I am getting a default > scrollbar on the right side of my screen. Any way to move the > scrollbar to the left s

[android-beginners] Re: How to bind BigDecimal object to SQLiteStatement

2009-03-27 Thread Sebastian Kaspari
On 26 Mrz., 14:43, flaubertg wrote: > How do you bind java BigDecimal object to SQLiteStatement? It doesn't > seem like BigDecimal is suppoted. Hi! Just write and read the object as string: // Convert for writing String writeString = myBigDecimal.toString(); // Convert after reading BigDecima

[android-beginners] Re: How to run the 'AllTests' of ApiDemos in the android sdk sample

2009-03-26 Thread Pankaj Bisaria
Hi All, I will tell you more simple way. To execute the test cases of sample application provided by google please follow the following steps. 1. Open Eclipse and move to your desired workspace. 2. Create new Android Project and select Create Project from existing source. 3. Browse to any sample

[android-beginners] Re: How to draw a broken line in Android?

2009-03-26 Thread Zhang Bo-E13782
Behalf Of Romain Guy Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 4:20 PM To: android-beginners@googlegroups.com Subject: [android-beginners] Re: How to draw a broken line in Android? It's shown in the ApiDemos sample app that comes with the SDK. On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Zhang Bo-E13782 wrote: >

[android-beginners] Re: How to draw a broken line in Android?

2009-03-26 Thread Romain Guy
It's shown in the ApiDemos sample app that comes with the SDK. On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Zhang Bo-E13782 wrote: > Dear all, > I met an issue that can we draw broken line in Android? > After search on goole and investigate it by myself, I still could not found > the function or any info, >

[android-beginners] Re: How to show a dialog on top of another dialog in an activity

2009-03-25 Thread bubble.vnhan
Hihi, you found about how to use if the user entered information in some field and it doesn't validate you show dailog. But I want to correct method you have used. you should method show(). V.Nhan. protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) { return new AlertDialog.Builder(RegisterEvent.this)

[android-beginners] Re: How to config G1 to make both browser and MMS work?

2009-03-21 Thread Tomas
Hi, try setting the apntype for the browser APN to "default" and the apntype for the MMS APN to "mms", I have similar setup (two APN) on my G1 from T-mobile. Cheers T. On Mar 18, 8:37 am, FayGU wrote: > I have a G1 phone and use it in mainland China. > But I can't config it to work with browse

[android-beginners] Re: How to specify the length of the EditText in a Table row

2009-03-19 Thread frizzo
That did not work. Here is my tableRow layout. Maybe I am doing something wrong. On Mar 18, 4:03 pm, Glen Humphrey wrote: > set the following properties for both the EditText and the TextView > widgets. > >      android:layout_weight="1" >      android:layout_width

[android-beginners] Re: How to specify the length of the EditText in a Table row

2009-03-18 Thread Glen Humphrey
set the following properties for both the EditText and the TextView widgets. android:layout_weight="1" android:layout_width="fill_parent" On Mar 18, 2:56 pm, frizzo wrote: > I have a TableLayout with a couple of TableRows.  Inside a table row, > i have an EditText widget followed by

[android-beginners] Re: How to replicate android:editable="false" in code?

2009-03-18 Thread Will
I do not see a related method for that attribute in the EditText class. However, there are other similar things you could do such as android:focus/setFocusable(boolean) or create another TextView whose android:editable="false" and use setVisiblilty() to switch between the editable and not editabl

[android-beginners] Re: How to specify the length of the EditText in a Table row

2009-03-18 Thread Mark Murphy
> I have a TableLayout with a couple of TableRows. Inside a table row, > i have an EditText widget followed by a TextView widget. > > How can I make sure that each widget in the row takes equal width? android:layout_weight should work, as TableRow inherits from LinearLayout. -- Mark Murphy (a

[android-beginners] Re: how to read specific part in a string

2009-03-17 Thread guruk
hi ralf, thanks for your answer. but also... your demo did not worked for me. You may try it yourself. thanks also for the links, will have a look. here now for all fellows, two routines that work - with regular tags.. if they have innertags or not - and a routine that looks specialy for innertag

[android-beginners] Re: how to read specific part in a string

2009-03-17 Thread Ralf
I'd suggest to take that opportunity to learn on regexp and try a/ to understand what the one we gave you does and b/ how to modify it with your new requirement. Franky, regex are not that hard to come up with -- it is harder to read an existing one than to write one :-) I suggest the following

[android-beginners] Re: how to read specific part in a string

2009-03-17 Thread guruk
I will try it... looks good :) i love this regex stuff, but still have no clue about.. haha but if it works.. respect.. can you also do something like sm1 (serge) that includes also attributes like: So i guess we need something like. takeit (OrgString, Tagstring, AltTag) like: takeit (myString,

[android-beginners] Re: How to set EditText to be read-only?

2009-03-15 Thread frizzo
I appreciate your words about consistency and I will consider that. Meanwhile, how do I achieve android:editable="false" in code? I didn't see .setEditable on the EditText widget. Thanks. On Mar 15, 11:26 pm, Romain Guy wrote: > You could use android:editable="false" but I would really advise

[android-beginners] Re: How to set EditText to be read-only?

2009-03-15 Thread Romain Guy
You could use android:editable="false" but I would really advise you to use setEnabled(false) as it provides a visual clue to the user that the control cannot be edited. The same visual cue is used by all disabled widgets and consistency is good :) On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:23 PM, frizzo wrote:

[android-beginners] Re: How to set EditText to be read-only?

2009-03-15 Thread frizzo
Thank you. However, setEnabled(false) disables the entire control (e.g. grays it out, etc..). I don't really want that. I simply want the user to be unable to change a value in the EditText widget. Btw, the reason, I don't just use a TextView widget is that readonly is only needed when certain

[android-beginners] Re: How to set EditText to be read-only?

2009-03-15 Thread Romain Guy
setEnabled(false). You may want a simple TextView inside too. On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:13 PM, frizzo wrote: > > I can't seem to find a method that does that.  Is there a way to do > it? > > Thanks. > > > -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer romain...@android.com Note: please don't sen

[android-beginners] Re: how to read specific part in a string

2009-03-15 Thread Ralf
Or the equivalent: public String takeit(String input, String tag) { Pattern p = Pattern.compile(".*?<(" + tag + ")>([^<]*)"); Matcher m = p.matcher(input); return m.matches() ? m.group(2) : null; } R/ On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:34 PM, EECOLOR wrote: > I think that would be something

[android-beginners] Re: how to read specific part in a string

2009-03-15 Thread guruk
thanks serge, great communication. right now its ok for me, because the code who does create the tags is also from me :) so i can be sure there is always a start and ending tag. just for anyone who is interested here an extended version that does allow to search for several tags in a long string

[android-beginners] Re: how to read specific part in a string

2009-03-15 Thread sm1
Looks good guruk. It's quite fast. I timed it. fyi: The code I posted earlier can also work with input of xml tags with attributes, such as "Hello, this is a test 12345 ..." which is common with tags, and it also avoids raising the nasty RuntimeException IndexOutOfBoundsException (by method sub

[android-beginners] Re: How to add SMS to inbox in android programmatically?

2009-03-14 Thread sync qa3
test delete spam On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:01 AM, senthil wrote: > > Hi, > I have used the below code to send the SMS, But my need is the same > sms should be reflected in the android native sms application. > SmsManager smsManager = SmsManager.getDefault(); > smsManager.sendTextMessage(destAddr

[android-beginners] Re: How to set a mask on an EditText widget?

2009-03-14 Thread Gesh
On Mar 14, 8:50 am, frizzo wrote: > I'd like users to be able to enter a price (e.g. 4.49 or 10.99) and > that's all, no negative numbers or any of that.  Is there a feature > that allows me to do that?  I can't seem to find support for masks. You can use the "android:numeric" xml attribute. Or

[android-beginners] Re: how to read specific part in a string

2009-03-14 Thread sm1
Albert, I don't think that it can be done using StringTokenizer. serge On Mar 14, 12:17 pm, Albert Hernández wrote: > I think that the methods proposed here are very heavy: > XML Parsing is too much for that easy task > "Check it manually" is not optimal > > I suggest you to have a look on the c

[android-beginners] Re: How to perform a HTTP request ?

2009-03-14 Thread Mark Murphy
binklee wrote: > I'm trying to perform a HTTP request and to read the answer. > > My first idea was to import java.net.*; and to use : > > URL url = new URL(myUrl); > String answer = (String)url.getContent(); // !!! produce an error in > Android ! Try this: http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/jav

[android-beginners] Re: How to set a mask on an EditText widget?

2009-03-14 Thread frizzo
That sounds so VB2 On Mar 14, 5:46 am, Mark Murphy wrote: > frizzo wrote: > > I'd like users to be able to enter a price (e.g. 4.49 or 10.99) and > > that's all, no negative numbers or any of that.  Is there a feature > > that allows me to do that?  I can't seem to find support for masks. > > Yo

[android-beginners] Re: How to run the 'AllTests' of ApiDemos in the android sdk sample

2009-03-14 Thread Gavin Aiken
Hey, You can't run these tests as simple java JUnit tests, they need to be run on the device. The process is pretty straight forward and is best explained here; http://dtmilano.blogspot.com/2008/11/android-testing-on-android-platf.html What I am currently trying to work out is how to debug my te

[android-beginners] Re: how to read specific part in a string

2009-03-14 Thread guruk
Hi and thanks for all your great help So I also like to share what I use now public String TakeIt (String xtag, String xhtml) { String x1tag = "<" + xtag + ">"; String x2tag = ""; int xstart = xhtml.indexOf(x1tag); int x1le

[android-beginners] Re: how to read specific part in a string

2009-03-14 Thread Albert Hernández
I think that the methods proposed here are very heavy: XML Parsing is too much for that easy task "Check it manually" is not optimal I suggest you to have a look on the class StringTokenizer: http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/StringTokenizer.html Albert On Mar 13, 11:57 pm, sm1

[android-beginners] Re: How to set a mask on an EditText widget?

2009-03-14 Thread Mark Murphy
frizzo wrote: > I'd like users to be able to enter a price (e.g. 4.49 or 10.99) and > that's all, no negative numbers or any of that. Is there a feature > that allows me to do that? I can't seem to find support for masks. You can use setKeyListener() on the EditText to supply it something that

[android-beginners] Re: how to read specific part in a string

2009-03-13 Thread sm1
I do it this way (it works for me): /** * @param tag The tag without the angle bracket, i.e., * the given value does not start with "<". * @param str The string containing the tags and data. * @return empty string when tag absent or str invalid. */ String takeit(Str

[android-beginners] Re: how to read specific part in a string

2009-03-13 Thread EECOLOR
I think that would be something like this: public String takeit(String str, String tag) { return str.replace(".*?<" + tag + ">(.*?).*", $1); } Greetz Erik On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:14 PM, guruk wrote: > > Hi, > i have a long String and need to capture some text in between of some > tags. > >

[android-beginners] Re: how to read specific part in a string

2009-03-13 Thread Pankaj Bisaria
I think you need to use parse for that. 2009/3/12 guruk > > Hi, > i have a long String and need to capture some text in between of some > tags. > > for example: > > myString="Hello, this is a test 12345 and here i like > to say oioidddad what is that notwise opxmark> and now i close"; > > How w

[android-beginners] Re: How-To: Display Emulator in Landscape (Sideways) View?

2009-03-11 Thread Mark Murphy
JLMG wrote: > I was over at db4o and they had a demo with the emulator displayed in > landscape (sideways) mode. > > How do you do that? - toggles you between portrait and landscape modes in the emulator. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com Android Training in Sweden -- http:

[android-beginners] Re: How to format time in millis to human readable?

2009-03-09 Thread Steven Farley
Just out of curiosity, has anybody tried using Joda Time (http://joda- time.sourceforge.net/) in an Android application? The Joda API is much better than Java's built-in Date and Calendar classes. ++Steve On Mar 8, 12:54 pm, sm1 wrote: > There may be built-in methods for such things as "5 minu

[android-beginners] Re: How to download 1.1 sdk source OR use latest source (sdk 1.5) with eclipse/emulator

2009-03-09 Thread Russell
Thanks for your reply Squalus. Actually I am working on the OS... I have things working now, the problem was I needed to UNinstall ADT 0.8 that comes with the SDK BEFORE I INstall ADT 0.9 that gets built with the latest source. They were conflicting. I then run the newly built emulator from outsi

[android-beginners] Re: How to format time in millis to human readable?

2009-03-08 Thread sm1
There may be built-in methods for such things as "5 minutes ago" but I don't know any yet. for the current time in human-readable form, using some default date display format (which may or may not be dependent on user-preferred locale and date format selection, this remains TBD for Android), the

[android-beginners] Re: How to download 1.1 sdk source OR use latest source (sdk 1.5) with eclipse/emulator

2009-03-08 Thread squalus
Hi there, I'm not sure from reading this but you may be confused just a bit. To write applications for android you just need the android sdk and the eclipse plugins. Install guide for that is here (including linux directions): http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.1_r1/installing.html The bits y

[android-beginners] Re: how to move a button from one position to another?

2009-03-08 Thread TAKEphONE
Hi, I am calling on my gallery widget, and it does not move it. The widget is set at y=0 in the layout XML, and calling the function does not move it... At what stage do I call it ? TIA On Feb 1, 6:40 am, Romain Guy wrote: > Use View.offsetLeftAndRight(). > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:34 PM,

[android-beginners] Re: How to format time in millis to human readable?

2009-03-08 Thread TAKEphONE
Hi, Is there any internal method/object I can use to return a format like the built-in call log does ? (i.e. "5 minutes ago", "2 days ago"...) On Mar 6, 2:55 pm, Tseng wrote: > I wouldn't really use this method to be honest. Even the Android > Documentation sugest to use native methods, instea

[android-beginners] Re: How to format time in millis to human readable?

2009-03-07 Thread droozen
That page also said not to use native methods for trivial computation. In my experience the Java Calendar and Date objects are expensive and memory hungry. Avoid them, including their DateFormatters, whenever possible. That being said, it probably shouldn't matter much unless you are performing m

[android-beginners] Re: How to format time in millis to human readable?

2009-03-06 Thread Tommaso
Hi Marcus, if I get you correctly, you want to display a date in a readable format that comes from miiliseconds. System.currentTimeMillis() returns a primitive long, so Date date = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()) will not work. Try this: long millis = System.currentTimeMillis(); Date date

[android-beginners] Re: How to format time in millis to human readable?

2009-03-06 Thread Tseng
I wouldn't really use this method to be honest. Even the Android Documentation sugest to use native methods, instead of writing your own stuff for methods which are already available (i.e. simple date formating). [Use Native Methods] http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/performance

[android-beginners] Re: How to format time in millis to human readable?

2009-03-06 Thread droozen
The Date object works, but much better to use Calendar. Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); cal.setTime(milliseconds); SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/"); // see javadocs for how to construct date strings. sdf.format(cal.getTime()); Sometimes I construct my human read

[android-beginners] Re: How to format time in millis to human readable?

2009-03-06 Thread Łukasz Warchoł
I would use: Date date = new Date(); date.setTime(milliseconds); and now from date you can read all: year, month, day, hour, min. and sec. Marcus pisze: > Hi, > > as I understand, the internal date-format is the time in millis, since > it is the format to store in sqlite and the format I get fr

[android-beginners] Re: how to move a button from one position to another?

2009-03-05 Thread scrat...@gmail.com
I'm needing to know the same thing. On Jan 31, 11:40 pm, Romain Guy wrote: > Use View.offsetLeftAndRight(). > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:34 PM, srajpal wrote: > > > i cannot seem to figure out how to move abutton > > something likebutton.setTop(10); > > > there are gets for the top and left bu

[android-beginners] Re: How to deploy *.APK files / Applications - not via USB

2009-03-04 Thread Mark Murphy
simonc wrote: > Hi, > Is it possible to store my APK file on the phone / SD card and run it > from there? and how would I go about doing that? I think there are some "explorer" type apps available that browse through the SD card and will install APKs if you choose them. Unfortunately, I don't kno

[android-beginners] Re: How to access Linux using Android SDK?

2009-03-04 Thread xiaodao
In your Android application, you can use normal Java solution to execute a Linux command . For example: Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("chmod 777 /data/ data/...") process.waitFor() ; Not make sure whether it is your question. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~-

[android-beginners] Re: how to update the firmware of the dev phone to 1.1?

2009-03-02 Thread Disconnect
..except the ota update they just pushed specifically has a totally unlocked bootloader. This is an employee dev phone (image), they are unlikely to lock it down. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Andrew wrote: > > On Mar 1, 7:13 pm, Disconnect wrote: > > For 1.1, your official options are "suck

[android-beginners] Re: how to update the firmware of the dev phone to 1.1?

2009-03-02 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
We're working on enabling an official update path to 1.1 for ADP1 owners. JBQ On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Ákos Maróy wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a newbie towards android, just having received my development phone > yesterday. I saw on the android developers site that a newer version of > the S

[android-beginners] Re: how to update the firmware of the dev phone to 1.1?

2009-03-02 Thread Andrew
On Mar 1, 7:13 pm, Disconnect wrote: > For 1.1, your official options are "sucks to be you". Your > unofficial options are a little better - since google updated > all their employees phones you can install the 'holiday' > update. (Available for any testkeys-enabled phone - like the > adp1 - at h

[android-beginners] Re: how to update the firmware of the dev phone to 1.1?

2009-03-02 Thread Tote
So we can agree on that it should be Google who should always provide an official image per SDK version that is fully functional. Anything else is hacking, which is not necessarily bad, but people should not be surprised if they don't get what they want. On Mar 1, 7:13 pm, Disconnect wrote: > Th

[android-beginners] Re: how to update the firmware of the dev phone to 1.1?

2009-03-01 Thread Disconnect
That will not get you 1.1 - it will get you master, which (iirc) is to be called 1.5. (What it is right now is a bleeding edge development branch, that is rarely updated from the internal google branches, plus the fixes needed to build without google's huge collection of closed-source apps and fram

[android-beginners] Re: how to update the firmware of the dev phone to 1.1?

2009-03-01 Thread Andrew
> On Feb 28, 8:20 am, Ákos Maróy wrote: > > I'm a newbie towards android, just having received my development phone > > yesterday. I saw on the android developers site that a newer version of > > the SDK is available - 1.1. the dev phone I got is shipped with 1.0 Please understand what you are d

[android-beginners] Re: how to update the firmware of the dev phone to 1.1?

2009-02-28 Thread malachid
I agree. I have had my ADP1 for a couple months now, and still have not figured out how to upgrade it. Sure, there are docs all over the place -- but they all state that I am going to loose functionality if I upgrade (Market for example). We really need an official guide from Google on how to up

[android-beginners] Re: how to update the firmware of the dev phone to 1.1?

2009-02-28 Thread djupp
Hey Akos The ADP1 is supposed to be updated by you, compiling the source on your own. There are many guides out there that can help you get there (or just to install a preconfigured build of 1.1). Make sure to look through the documentation on source.android.com. One of the most important sources

[android-beginners] Re: How-To Remove An App Icon from Home Page?

2009-02-26 Thread Romain Guy
>> How do you move an Icon from one of the three to another? > > You don't, IIUC.  They will fill up when you have enough icons on your home > page. You do. Long click the icon, drag it to the edge of the screen, wait for a couple of seconds and it will scroll to the next screen. -- Romain Guy

[android-beginners] Re: How-To Remove An App Icon from Home Page?

2009-02-26 Thread Faber Fedor
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:39 PM, JLMG wrote: > > I have an ADP1 and I can not figure out how to remove an Icon from the > 'Home' page after I put one there. Seems silly but after a couple of > hours fussing with it I'm asking for help. > Touch the icon and hold your finger on it (do a "long clic

[android-beginners] Re: How to modify/add Contact Application PhoneTypes(Home, Mobile, Fax, etc)

2009-02-26 Thread LP
ops, i found it! it is under the frameworks dir. thanks On Feb 25, 6:01 pm, LP wrote: > HI, > >   I have been looking to change the contact application PhoneTypes: > Mobile, Home, Work, Work Fax, etc and remove or add new type but i > haven't been able to find where i need to do so. i don't see

[android-beginners] Re: How to pass data between forms?

2009-02-26 Thread Tseng
Depends. SessionState sounds like it's a class which extends BaseSavedState (which is used to preserve states of an widget). For example private static class SavedState extends BaseSavedState { long contactId; public SavedState(Parcel source) { su

[android-beginners] Re: How to access LInux shell command from GUI interface with root permission

2009-02-26 Thread Tseng
Don't start deveral new posts, one is enough. Basically you can't do it. However in R29 Firmware there was an bug, which allowed commands to be executed. But this was an bug/exploit and should not be used as basic for a programm to work as it was already fxied in R30 or R31. So only phones with t

[android-beginners] Re: How to access Linux using Android SDK?

2009-02-26 Thread Tseng
Well, first off: >From the SDK/Framework (read: from within your Android Application) itself there is no way to access the underlaying Linux commands directly if i understand it correctly. If you want to access the shell of your Emulator or DevG1 Phone, you could do it with the "adb shell" comman

[android-beginners] Re: How to access Linux using Android SDK?

2009-02-24 Thread David Turner
"adb shell" perharps? If not, would you care to be more specific? On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:40 AM, steve68 wrote: > > Is it a way to access Linux shell command from with the Android SDK? I > would like to do it as a root user > > Thanks, > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~-

[android-beginners] Re: How to pass data between forms?

2009-02-24 Thread Joseph Arceneaux
What if I have my own custom class, e.g., "SessionState" that I want to pass back and forth? Thanks, Joe On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Odessa Silverberg < silverberg.ode...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Basically by adding the data you want to pass as extras. > > If you need to pass simple values

[android-beginners] Re: How to pass an HttpClient instance to another activity ?

2009-02-24 Thread Chavepeyer Geoffrey
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[android-beginners] Re: How to pass an HttpClient instance to another activity ?

2009-02-23 Thread Mark Murphy
Chavepeyer Geoffrey wrote: > I'd like to know how I can pass the instance of HttpClient created in > a first activity to a second activity. Assuming you really want to do that, you can have the HttpClient be a public static data member of one of the activities (or some common utility class) and r

[android-beginners] Re: How to output to a log file when using Eclipse ?

2009-02-23 Thread squalus
I'm not sure how to do it automatically but you can do this from the command line to at least get text to a console. Do this while the emulator or device is running... adb logcat Hope that helps -Tyson On Feb 20, 4:27 pm, Nitin67 wrote: > Hello, > >     Is there a way to have my program o

[android-beginners] Re: How to pass data between forms?

2009-02-23 Thread Odessa Silverberg
Basically by adding the data you want to pass as extras. If you need to pass simple values, like an integer you could do it by int myValue = 13; Intent myIntent = new Intent(v.getContext(), Item.class); myIntent.putExtras("myValueKeyword", myValue); You can also pass arrays, Bundles, Parcelabl

[android-beginners] Re: How to reorder a ListView

2009-02-16 Thread Romain Guy
You can look at the source code of the Android Music application. The playlist activity lets you reorder items. On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:37 AM, frizzo wrote: > > Is there an example somewhere of reordering a listview? I'd like the > user to be able to drag an item from, say, position 4 to pos

[android-beginners] Re: How to create a "Hello World" application?

2009-02-15 Thread tijomon mathew
Hi, please go through the below tutorials http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/hello-world.html Regards Tijomon Mathew On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:40 AM, harryper...@gmail.com < harryper...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Try this link - very good for me > http://www.hometutorials.com/google-andr

[android-beginners] Re: How to create a "Hello World" application?

2009-02-15 Thread harryper...@gmail.com
Try this link - very good for me http://www.hometutorials.com/google-android.html Best, Harry On Feb 13, 8:49 am, Leonardo Leite wrote: > Hi everybody. > I'm getting started in Android plataform. > I want to know how could I creat a "Hello World" application? > Thanks everybody. --~--~

[android-beginners] Re: How to make the sound heard over the phone.

2009-02-15 Thread Dave Sparks
No, that is not possible with the G1 at this time. The application processor does not have access to uplink or downlink audio. On Feb 15, 12:59 am, frizzo wrote: > If I am on a line with another person and I switch to another app and > play a sound using the code below: > > MediaPlayer mMediaPla

[android-beginners] Re: How to control the height on an individual entry in a ListView widget?

2009-02-13 Thread Mark Murphy
frizzo wrote: > Can you give me an example? Pretty much everything in Android's ApiDemos uses layouts, so there are hundreds of examples of layout XML. The use of layout XML for ListView rows is probably in a handful of the ApiDemos, and also in this blog post series: http://androidguys.com/?s=

[android-beginners] Re: How to control the height on an individual entry in a ListView widget?

2009-02-13 Thread frizzo
Can you give me an example? On Feb 13, 1:07 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > frizzo wrote: > > How can I control the height on an individual entry in a ListView > > widget?  Is there a property I can set?  I can't seem to find it. > > Generally, that is governed by the row View itself. ListView effectiv

[android-beginners] Re: How to control the height on an individual entry in a ListView widget?

2009-02-13 Thread Mark Murphy
frizzo wrote: > How can I control the height on an individual entry in a ListView > widget? Is there a property I can set? I can't seem to find it. Generally, that is governed by the row View itself. ListView effective treats each row as android:layout_height="wrap_content". So, if you want to

[android-beginners] Re: How to create a "Hello World" application?

2009-02-13 Thread Faber Fedor
http://code.google.com/android/intro/hello-android.html On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Leonardo Leite wrote: > > Hi everybody. > I'm getting started in Android plataform. > I want to know how could I creat a "Hello World" application? > Thanks everybody. > > > > -- Faber Fedor Linux New Jer

[android-beginners] Re: How to show content in system?

2009-02-13 Thread Faber Fedor
Is there a reason you can't use the Debug mode in Eclipse? Instead of clicking on the Run button, click on the litte bug to the left of it. You can set breakpoints, watch variables, etc. this may help: https://eclipse-tutorial.dev.java.net/ On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Liaofan wrote: > >

[android-beginners] Re: How to edit the R.java file

2009-02-11 Thread Faber Fedor
Just create the XML file in the correct directory (layout/ for layout files, etc.). If you're using Eclipse and the Android plugin, the R.java file will be rebuilt as necessary. If you're not using Eclipse, you will have to run the ant build manually, IIUC. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:00 PM, tijo

[android-beginners] Re: How to deploy application on device

2009-02-11 Thread srajpal
follow the following steps to run the application on your phone http://code.google.com/android/intro/develop-and-debug.html#developingondevicehardware On Feb 10, 11:15 pm, Ganesan V wrote: > You ned to creae .apk file, Just extract the Helloandroid example and create > project use eclipse and

[android-beginners] Re: How to deploy application on device

2009-02-10 Thread Ganesan V
You ned to creae .apk file, Just extract the Helloandroid example and create project use eclipse and compile it. then you will get .apk file the install that apk file ino emulaor or device. Ganesh. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Anup wrote: > > Hi: > > I am new in Android development. I have

[android-beginners] Re: How to indicate a carriage return in strings?

2009-02-10 Thread frizzo
Figured it out. \n Question of inconsistency though, why does it recognize HTML constructs for pretty much everything else, but uses \n for carriage returns? On Feb 9, 12:45 am, frizzo wrote: > I want to show some text in the AlertDialog.  This text comes from > strings.xml where I've defined a

[android-beginners] Re: How to layout

2009-02-10 Thread frizzo
Never mind, figured it out - RelativeLayout. On Feb 10, 10:08 am, frizzo wrote: > Hello, I have 5 buttons.  I'd like to layout the 1st 4 buttons > starting at the top and going down. > > I want the last button to be docked to the bottom of the screen. > > How can I pull off something like that?

[android-beginners] Re: How to convert base64 to image?

2009-02-10 Thread dilu
I am trying to display the image which is in byte array .How do I write to file and how to access that file to display the image ? On Feb 9, 8:48 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > dilu wrote: > > Hi All, I am getting image from server side as Base64 string in xml > > form.Now i want to convert this base6

[android-beginners] Re: How to play video on background

2009-02-09 Thread Dave Sparks
This is not supported in SDK 1.0. You must have a surface to display the video. If the surface is destroyed, you must pause the video. On Feb 8, 3:23 am, PianoPan wrote: > Hi, > > I refer to the code of apidemo to write a program to play video. I > use the MediaPlayer to play the video file, it

[android-beginners] Re: How to convert base64 to image?

2009-02-09 Thread Mark Murphy
dilu wrote: > Hi All, I am getting image from server side as Base64 string in xml > form.Now i want to convert this base64 string into image.once it will > get converted into image then i will store it into my local database. > Canany one tell me how to do this? Any example iOr sample code for >

[android-beginners] Re: How to simulate the user moving the cell phone from vertical to horizontal?

2009-02-06 Thread ganesh
Hi Aus, For horizontal rotaion is possible when you running browser click option more then flip orientaion.but it in normally we have to select another emulator skin. Ganesh. On Feb 6, 2:02 pm, AusR wrote: > The keys are described on the emulator reference > page:http://code.google.com/android

[android-beginners] Re: How to simulate the user moving the cell phone from vertical to horizontal?

2009-02-06 Thread AusR
The keys are described on the emulator reference page: http://code.google.com/android/reference/emulator.html Switch to previous layout orientation (for example, portrait, landscape) KEYPAD_7, F11 Switch to next layout orientation (for example, portrait, landscape) KEYPAD_9, F12 On Feb 6,

[android-beginners] Re: How to align a widget to the bottom of the screen in a FrameLayout?

2009-02-05 Thread Romain Guy
Just add android:layout_gravity="bottom" on your Button/ On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:41 PM, frizzo wrote: > > How to align a widget to the bottom of the screen in a FrameLayout? > > And a follow-up question. Is there a tutorial (preferably a video > one) that explains things like Layouts, propert

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