[android-developers] Does Geocoder. getFromLocationName handle local business search?

2008-12-30 Thread Rafael Fernandes
Hi Guys, Just to let you know that I've found this bug here http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1537 that made me realize that GeoCoder might not handle business searches which makes totally sense (currently searching for addresses it works like a charm)... now my question is: Is it

[android-developers] Device id

2008-12-30 Thread jsm
I have an application where I need to check whether the user is using the actual device not a emulator or others. I have seen the API where there is device id method from phone service. I need a generic way to check if the user is on the real device. For example if he has downloaded the app from

[android-developers] Re: AndroidManifest.xml reg.

2008-12-30 Thread Dianne Hackborn
You can only have one application tag. There really should be no need for having multiple. Also, please don't use a package name in the "com.android" namespace. The android.com domain is owned by the OHA, it is not for use by others. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:22 PM, anand wrote: > > Hi All,

[android-developers] Will anyone back to China From USA, pls bring my Android Dev phone to Nanjing.

2008-12-30 Thread mawei1981
Hi, All Will anyone back to China From USA, pls bring my Android Dev phone to Nanjing. Thanks a lot Peter --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send

[android-developers] Re: AndroidManifest.xml reg.

2008-12-30 Thread Xavier Ducrohet
You can certainly have an application with no activity if all your application does is in the background with no UI. You application should probably have one (or more) Service, ContentProvider, or BroadcastReceiver though. When ADT pushes a new apk on the emulator/device for debug it attempts to

[android-developers] SMS Inbox: 2008's toughest problem ( At least for me)

2008-12-30 Thread ipeg . student
### Please help me access the list of sms in the inbox. I am using this code, please let me know what is wrong, it always gives a n unexpected error popup in the emulator. I used a similar code for accessing the contacts list ( Peop

[android-developers] AndroidManifest.xml reg.

2008-12-30 Thread anand
Hi All, I was playing around with the Hello Android program and got the following questions regarding the AndroidManifest.xml file: 1. An application can have multiple "Activity"-ies, likewise is it possible to declare multiple applications in a single manifest file? If yes how to shift focus be

[android-developers] Re: Icons - Recommended size, format, etc?

2008-12-30 Thread Mariano Kamp
What about the icons used in notifications? Are they 24x24 natively? Is there any source where this kind of documentation can be found? I didn't see any. Btw. is there a style guide in the works? Cheers, Mariano On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:17 PM, hackbod wrote: > > But please make it 48x48.

[android-developers] Re: Screen Goes Black Between Activities, and Next Activity never shows up.

2008-12-30 Thread Skooter Columbo
Thanks for the advice, but the counter is a display mechanism. If the UI is not showing then it means the user has cancelled the action Skooter On Dec 30, 10:42 pm, brnzn wrote: > You might also want to consider moving the countdown out to a > service.  That would allow it to keep running even

[android-developers] Re: Why Google does not accepts my Visa credit card?

2008-12-30 Thread Shane Isbell
Hi Doka, At SlideME, we are launching global billing next week. We also don't have a registration fee. Feel free to load up your app at: http://slideme.org, so you can start making money! Shane On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:43 PM, DOKA wrote: > > Hello all! > > I am trying to pay registration fee

[android-developers] Tab host

2008-12-30 Thread Muthu Kumar K.
Hi All, I am creating the tab with out using the XML. It is building as a new activity. But in my case i want to create the tab with out calling the new activity, Let me if it is possible. Thanks, Muthu. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you ar

[android-developers] Re: Charging for Apps

2008-12-30 Thread Shane Isbell
At SlideME, we don't have any restrictions on if users want to handle their own billing or trial upgrades. Use Mogees if you like. The only thing we request is that you disclose everything to the user in your terms. We will also be offering our own billing through SAM, our Android client, next wee

[android-developers] Re: Screen Goes Black Between Activities, and Next Activity never shows up.

2008-12-30 Thread brnzn
You might also want to consider moving the countdown out to a service. That would allow it to keep running even when your UI is not active. On Dec 31, 2:15 pm, Skooter Columbo wrote: > I finally figured out why the screen was turning black. It did not > have anything to do with the Dialog opti

[android-developers] Re: Compile Error(s)

2008-12-30 Thread brnzn
I might be wrong, but it sounds like there's a problem with your accessing debug.keystore. The SDK sets up a default key for development - in Eclipse check the "Default debug keystore" setting under under Window > Preferences > Android > Build. Perhaps something went wrong during the SDK install

[android-developers] How to implement the Billboard in Android' opengl es

2008-12-30 Thread Ernest
Hi,Everyone I review some demo about the opengl ,but not found how to implement the billboard feature(some model always fact to the viewport whatever the rotation).My question is in javeMe has a JSR184 could do this,in Android how to do that?Thank you very much. Best Regards --~--~-

[android-developers] Re: Screen Goes Black Between Activities, and Next Activity never shows up.

2008-12-30 Thread Skooter Columbo
I finally figured out why the screen was turning black. It did not have anything to do with the Dialog option I picked. It was because I had a long running process and I was running it on the UI thread. I moved the long running process out to a seperate thread and this sperate thread updated the U

[android-developers] Compile Error(s)

2008-12-30 Thread Peter
I'm trying to compile a hellworld application or any application for that matter and I keep getting the following errors: 2008-12-30 17:56:53 - hellworld] Error generating final archive: Unable to get debug signature key [2008-12-30 17:59:40 - hellworld] -- [2008-12-3

[android-developers] How do you create an MMS message with audio attachment?

2008-12-30 Thread Blake B.
Hello all, I am trying to create an MMS message with an audio attachment and a message for the user to view and then click "send" themselves. If you create a new Message on your own, you are able to attach an audio file (.amr in this case), but how do you do this programatically? When I do this

[android-developers] Re: why not ship android dev phone to china mainland?

2008-12-30 Thread Eric
Try to get someone from US to forward the package to China? I can only help you if the package comes to Australia or New Zealand, before being sent to you. Cheers Eric Portable Electronics Ltd www.hdmp4.com On Dec 28, 5:07 pm, mawei1981 wrote: > Hi,all > > why not ship android dev phone to chin

[android-developers] Re: About speech recognizer

2008-12-30 Thread Kun Liu
thanks:) 2008/12/31 Dave Sparks > > There is no support for speech recognition in the current SDK. > > On Dec 29, 10:26 pm, michael wrote: > > hi all > >Does this ability is already provided now? > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message becaus

[android-developers] Re: certificate ssl webservice keystore

2008-12-30 Thread yukinoba
OK, and thanks for your mention :-) I have read your source code, and I found it's similar to the source of the email client embedded in the Android source code now. My one question is, the cause that 3rd-party applications could not create a SSL socket, is because of 3rd-party applications can n

[android-developers] Re: Any updates on paid apps timeline?

2008-12-30 Thread Justin Collum
I heard somewhere that there was a 90 day moratorium on not-free apps. Looks like I heard wrong. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > Just to be clear, this is lots of speculation and no facts. :) Some facts > I can share: Android is stable as of 1.0 and we will not be break

[android-developers] Re: About speech recognizer

2008-12-30 Thread Dave Sparks
The voice dialer has its own speech recognition engine - it just hasn't been exposed in a Java API yet. On Dec 30, 3:32 pm, "Eng, Cary" wrote: > No wonder the Voice Dialer never works for me :-/ > > -Original Message- > From: android-developers@googlegroups.com > [mailto:android-develop

[android-developers] Re: native c/c++ "hello world" _ problem

2008-12-30 Thread Anonymous Anonymous
do an adb remount On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:36 AM, AlexG wrote: > > Hi > > A good way to start is running: > > ./adb shell ls / > So you can see all the fs structure which is a bit different then > Unix. > > you can do something like: > > ./adb push myapp /data/app/ > ./adb shell chmod 777 /data

[android-developers] Re: How to quickly update the package without restarting the simulator?

2008-12-30 Thread Xiongzh
Hope in the next version of Android SDK, developer need not to package and reinstall the apk while debugging ... On 12月31日, 上午7时15分, Xiongzh wrote: > Yes, do not need to restart the simulator. Just re-run the application > within Eclipse. The plugin is wise enough to reuse the simulator and > re

[android-developers] Re: About speech recognizer

2008-12-30 Thread Eng, Cary
No wonder the Voice Dialer never works for me :-/ -Original Message- From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave Sparks Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 5:32 PM To: Android Developers Subject: [android-developers] Re: About spe

[android-developers] Re: About speech recognizer

2008-12-30 Thread Dave Sparks
There is no support for speech recognition in the current SDK. On Dec 29, 10:26 pm, michael wrote: > hi all >Does this ability is already provided now? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Dev

[android-developers] Re: USB signal control class?

2008-12-30 Thread Justin (Google Employee)
There's no simple (and perhaps none at all) way to do this on the system that runs on the G1. There might be a way to do this through JNI, but it would be fragile and difficult to develop, if it were even possible. You can, of course, modify the system itself and install on custom hardware (or an

[android-developers] Re: Android Dev Phone 1™

2008-12-30 Thread Justin (Google Employee)
Hmmm, this is the first I've heard of the charging cable not physically fitting the phone. The phone should *not* have a standard miniUSB input, but instead a modified one. When holding the phone with the screen facing up the left side of the port on the phone should be perfectly vertical, but the

[android-developers] Re: How to quickly update the package without restarting the simulator?

2008-12-30 Thread Xiongzh
Yes, do not need to restart the simulator. Just re-run the application within Eclipse. The plugin is wise enough to reuse the simulator and reinstall the package. Thanks Here's the console log: [2008-12-31 07:10:35 - ApiDemos] Android Launch! [2008-12-31 07:10:35 - ApiDemos] adb is running normall

[android-developers] Re: Save data between onDestory/onCreate cycles

2008-12-30 Thread Dianne Hackborn
As the docs say, the onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() should only be used as an optimization, not to replace a working implementation of the normal onSaveInstanceState() et al mechanism. (The latter is the only thing that can be done in the case where an app's process needs to be killed or its a

[android-developers] Re: How do you start a service on installation?

2008-12-30 Thread Dianne Hackborn
How about not finding a work-around, but rather starting yourself up when the user starts your app as intended? Better yet, let them decide whether you will remain running in the background, so if they don't want to be using your app's features during some time they don't have to resort to just un

[android-developers] Re: TextView Widget - OnResume

2008-12-30 Thread Dianne Hackborn
You should not be using singleTask to "fix" problems like this, as the launch mode is intended to control the flow through the activity, not to let you avoid dealing with activity lifecycle. Please read the app model doc to understand what happens when you use this. It can cause very undesirable

[android-developers] Re: RuntimeException when launching activity on emulator

2008-12-30 Thread Dianne Hackborn
The log has the full stack crawl where the error occurred. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Ellen Spertus wrote: > > I'm developing on Windows with Eclipse (Ganymede) with SDK 1.0r2. For > a few days, I was able to run and debug my program on both the > emulator and my phone. Starting yesterday

[android-developers] Re: Any updates on paid apps timeline?

2008-12-30 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Just to be clear, this is lots of speculation and no facts. :) Some facts I can share: Android is stable as of 1.0 and we will not be breaking compatibility, and in particular we will not be breaking applications in the cupcake branch. Comparing Android to iPhone in that way is also a questionabl

[android-developers] Re: Any updates on paid apps timeline?

2008-12-30 Thread Shane Isbell
This may be of some interest for developers who want to charge for applications: SlideME - http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/7ace0e3a9fae4026 Shane On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Sven Boden wrote: > > I think the answer is guessable (and no I don't work for G

[android-developers] Re: How to remove Gallery drop shadow

2008-12-30 Thread devileper
I'm an idiot. The drop shadow I was referring to is the fading edge. This is removed by setting the fading edge to none. android:fadingEdge="none" On Dec 17, 11:18 am, devileper wrote: > Below is my test code.  If you look at the left side of the text you will > see a gradient shadow over the

[android-developers] Re: getFromLocationName() broken?

2008-12-30 Thread Rafael Fernandes
well I've tried my code on my real device and I'm facing the same error... you all are correct, the cupcake branch has fixed the issue (I have the new source here)... even though the error remains for me (even recompiling the platform core etc, bla bla bla)... by the way, I've tried your app here

[android-developers] Re: Android Dev Phone Battery life

2008-12-30 Thread Eng, Cary
FWIW, I've found that if I use the G1 only as a phone, it lasts fairly long. In fact last time when I topped the battery off at 100% and removed it from the charger before I went to bed, it was at 99% 12 hours later when I checked it. So a pure standby-only time of 5 days seems fairly feasible

[android-developers] CPU asleep when using the network

2008-12-30 Thread Gil
I'm developing an application which needs a persistent TCP connection to server. I'm trying to understand what is the proper way of dealing with persistent connections to avoid draining the battery quickly. My understanding is if a socket is connected to the server and the CPU goes to sleep, if pa

[android-developers] Re: TextView Widget - OnResume

2008-12-30 Thread Christine
If what Sundog says is true, i.d. that you have two instances of an activity where there should be only one, you can spedify "singletask" in the manifest file. that solved a similar problem I had. Make sure you spedify "singletask" just fot that one activity. On Dec 30, 8:29 pm, Sundog wrote:

[android-developers] Re: TextView Widget - OnResume

2008-12-30 Thread Christine
If what Sundog says is true, i.d. that you have two instances of an activity where there should be only one, you can spedify "singletask" in the manifest file. that solved a similar problem I had. Make sure you spedify "singletask" just fot that one activity. On Dec 30, 8:29 pm, Sundog wrote:

[android-developers] Sharing a MapView between two Activities

2008-12-30 Thread mscwd01
I have encountered memory issues in the past when using more than one MapView in a given application. However in the application I am currently working on I require two activites to use MapViews. Instead of creating a new MapView object in each activity, is there a way to create one MapView and u

[android-developers] Unable to get all phone numbers of a contact.

2008-12-30 Thread Sarath Kamisetty
Hi, Given a contact URI like content://contacts/people/23 I want to dump all phone numbers - like home, mobile, work, fax etc. all. However when I user managedQuery and got a cursor for this and dumped all the column names the only relevant columns I see are "number" and "primary_phone" (code sho

[android-developers] Re: getFromLocationName() broken?

2008-12-30 Thread Alistair.
Maybe this has been fixed in the latest sdk as I have been using it and it seems to work for me. http://code.google.com/p/netthreads-for-android/source/browse/trunk/place-finder/src/com/netthreads/android/command/GeoCodeCommand.java Al. On Dec 30, 6:06 pm, DMT wrote: > Hi All: anyone know if t

[android-developers] Re: How to quickly update the package without restarting the simulator?

2008-12-30 Thread Brett Chabot
You could try to re-install the app instead, using adb install -r my.apk Although re-installing will retain the application's data, which might not be always what you want. Also, I wasn't clear from your message whether you are doing this or not, but it should not be necessary to close and resta

[android-developers] Re: getFromLocationName() broken?

2008-12-30 Thread Brett Chabot
Hi Rafael: I believe the problem you mentioned in this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_frm/thread/3eca9ea2b22e3695 has been fixed in the open source "cupcake" development branch. Are there are any additional problems with getFromLocationName? Brett. On Dec 30,

[android-developers] Re: native c/c++ "hello world" _ problem

2008-12-30 Thread AlexG
Hi A good way to start is running: ./adb shell ls / So you can see all the fs structure which is a bit different then Unix. you can do something like: ./adb push myapp /data/app/ ./adb shell chmod 777 /data/app/myapp ./adb shell /data/app/myapp On Dec 30, 12:40 pm, soumyaranjan wrote: > hi

[android-developers] About speech recognizer

2008-12-30 Thread michael
hi all Does this ability is already provided now? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

[android-developers] Error in AndroidManifest.xml and some other xml files

2008-12-30 Thread Tony Wu
I'm trying to compile the source coded by sdk 1.5, and I had already replaced the android.jar from sdk 1.0 rc2. Some new import have already been with no problem, but the xml file still have error that can't recognize some tag like "android:windowSoftInputMode" or "android:inputType". Do any one h

[android-developers] SQLite3 sql command to show tables in a database

2008-12-30 Thread michael m
Does anyone know if there is a SQL command for SQLite3 to show the tables in a given database for my Android application or a corresponding class that will deliver a list? I need to find out this information programatically and not through adb. I was assuming to find something in SQLiteDatabase,

[android-developers] RuntimeException when launching activity on emulator

2008-12-30 Thread Ellen Spertus
I'm developing on Windows with Eclipse (Ganymede) with SDK 1.0r2. For a few days, I was able to run and debug my program on both the emulator and my phone. Starting yesterday, I've been unable to launch the activity of the program I'm developing on the emulator or phone. (I can still run my hell

[android-developers] Using directions from com.google.android.maps API

2008-12-30 Thread joggle
Does anyone know if there's a way to get directions either using the java API provided by google or some sort of AJAX type of method? I would like to be able to get routes within my app but can't see any way of doing it at this time (similar to the functionality provided by the GDirections javascr

[android-developers] how to emulate sim card in emulate tools

2008-12-30 Thread hans
Hi, I need help, how to emulate sim card in emulate tools? could anybody tell me the steps about to config it? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send

[android-developers] Re: What is a good way to download a webpage for offline reading?

2008-12-30 Thread leo
How about virtual screenshot the webpage to save in a resolution that is high enough to zoom in the read. Additional save the stripped text of the web page for text reading. Evtl. to overlay on the screenshot. On Dec 30, 12:45 am, Mariano Kamp wrote: > My understanding is that I can store stuff

[android-developers] HELp?

2008-12-30 Thread aaronleaman...@googlemail.com
Im intrested in developing a few ideas, and wondered how and where to start, with developing! please get back to me thanks! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this

[android-developers] how to implement a Full-screen handwriting input method

2008-12-30 Thread xuxiake2...@gmail.com
Hello, every body! I want to implement a Full-screen handwriting input method. First step,I need draw the handwriting on the screen. The handwriting may cover all the views below it. How can i do? I hope any one can help me. thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

[android-developers] Dialog box

2008-12-30 Thread AlexG
Hi I am trying to implement something like: userResponse = showMessageBox(buttons, messages, etc) So far I have started a new activity that presents the message and the button and returns through onActivityResult(). Meaning my activity launches a sub-Activity that shows an AlertDialog with 2 bu

[android-developers] Re: Convert the AMR

2008-12-30 Thread music-fan
yes, eufony can convert amr to other audio formats. it's from http://www.softe.net On Nov 29, 8:32 am, elf wrote: > Hi, > Is there any tool that can convert the AMR files that I got from > Android to other format, e.g. wav. > > I pushed the AMR file to my PC, and then I tried to use the > “conve

[android-developers] Re: Droid Fonts License: does it allows to redistribute them?

2008-12-30 Thread Rex Tsai
Hi, all I like to clarify the license of Fonts, after checking the git repository[1] and the last version of font. I found the license statement in font's metadata has been changed[2] this month. In the Copyright filed of fonts, the license has changed from 'This font software is the valuabl

[android-developers] Re: How to track menu navigation focus changes?

2008-12-30 Thread Enginerd
I'm having a similar issue. I guess you could set up listeners for key up/down (and/or scroll), and check to see where the focus is. It's tacky, but I think it would work for a simple scroll list. Not sure if this would work for all phones though, and it would definitely be a good thing to have.

[android-developers] Re: USB signal control class?

2008-12-30 Thread rruff
Justin, You say "In 1.0 you don't have access to the USB port via the Java API layer. ". Does that imply that there is another interface that may allow me to access the USB port? We would like to use the G1 as a control head for several devices and a wireless link will not be appropriate. We a

[android-developers] unsubscribe

2008-12-30 Thread cuishen cheng
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[android-developers] Re: abusive, explicit language comments in the Android Software Market

2008-12-30 Thread Thatcher Ulrich
If a comment is actual spam, you can long-click on it and select "Report as Spam". I don't know what, if anything, the market does with that info, but it seems like it's worth a try. You could also try doing the same thing with explicit language etc though I don't know what the fallout would be

[android-developers] native c/c++ "hello world" _ problem

2008-12-30 Thread soumyaranjan
hi everybody i am trying to follow Aaron's documentation regarding the running of a c/c++ program on android emulator. but while i am not able to write onto the emulator disk or the file system path /system/sbin because sbin subfolder is not present inside /system folder. but i have a xbin subf

[android-developers] Re: getFromLocationName() broken?

2008-12-30 Thread Rafael Fernandes
well mate this is a mystery at the moment... I've never been able to get this working... you can check my thread here... http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/a9e9314a78a4ff15/a2ad7062c1f3d919?lnk=gst&q=Geocoder.+getFromLocationName+-+no+results+[forwardGeocode():

[android-developers] Re: How do you start a service on installation?

2008-12-30 Thread devileper
Upon further reading, this approach is impossible and is by design. I will find a work around. On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:22 AM, devile...@gmail.com wrote: > > I need a service to begin the moment my application is installed. Is > this possible? > > My current approach is to create a BroadcastS

[android-developers] Re: 2 ListViews vertically and auto growing/shrinking

2008-12-30 Thread gsmd
Thanks. On Dec 30, 6:58 pm, skink wrote: > On 30 Gru, 14:54,gsmd wrote: > > > Awesome. Thanks. > > Could you plz suggest on how to set the proportion for Views to grow/ > > shrink by (like 30:70)? > > layout_weight is your friend here. > > for example: > > layout_weight=3 for first view and layo

[android-developers] Re: TextView Widget - OnResume

2008-12-30 Thread Sundog
Only thing I can think of is that maybe somehow you've created a second TextView object upon resume and the messages are going to the wrong one. I've done something similar... On Dec 30, 9:35 am, Dan wrote: > I'll just say upfront that I apologize if this is a duplicate post. I > originally post

[android-developers] Re: OpenGL texture is upside down

2008-12-30 Thread clark
On Dec 29, 9:18 pm, Tom H wrote: > > I'm using texture coordinates with the origin in the lower left > > corner, like I should. I haven't messed around with OpenGL ES, but in OpenGL you can change the orientation by changing the texture coordinates origin. Instead of starting with the lower lef

[android-developers] geodb file for version1.0 ?

2008-12-30 Thread DMT
Anyone know if/how the geodb file can be populated in Android version 1.0 SDK? I was able to use the geodb file in version m5-rc15 but it doesn't seem to be available in 1.0. If anyone has been able to put geodb to use in v.1.0 pls. let me know how, thanks. --~--~-~--~~~-

[android-developers] getFromLocationName() broken?

2008-12-30 Thread DMT
Hi All: anyone know if the Geocoder.getFromLocationName() method is currently working? Has anybody been able to get it to work? If not, when will it be fixed (in what android release)? Thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribe

[android-developers] getFromLocationName() broken?

2008-12-30 Thread DMT
Hi All: anyone know if the Geocoder.getFromLocationName() method is currently working? Has anybody been able to get it to work? If not, when will it be fixed (in what android release)? Thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribe

[android-developers] Re: Recording audio stream

2008-12-30 Thread Dave Sparks
It's probably not really streaming audio. Some people are working around the issue by "tailing" the file as it is being written. On Dec 30, 5:03 am, FranckLefevre wrote: > The application "Phone Recorder" available in Market softwares already > does this pretty well. > I don't know if sources ar

[android-developers] Re: Android google groups web page -- is it broken?

2008-12-30 Thread Justin Collum
Yeah, I think this google groups thing needs serious work. Comparing this interface to something like StackOverflow, well SO just looks so much better. Google needs to bring some android-style interface magic over to the groups. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Al Sutton wrote: > > I'm pretty s

[android-developers] Re: How to quickly update the package without restarting the simulator?

2008-12-30 Thread Justin Collum
I'm using eclipse. When I start the simulator, run my package, make code changes and hit run again, the new code goes to the simulator automatically without a restart. I wish there was a way to get the emulator to skip its boot sequence. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Xiongzh wrote: > > hi fri

[android-developers] Re: Save data between onDestory/onCreate cycles

2008-12-30 Thread Al
I did read your site posts before deciding how to saving data when rotating, but the problem is onRetain() isn't called, for example, when you set the emulator to destroy activities immediately and then press 'Home'. OnSave() on the other hand *is* called. Because of this, I've decided to

[android-developers] Re: Memory leak in BitmapFactory/Gallery?

2008-12-30 Thread blindfold
I wonder if there could be some bug in this intended VM-like behaviour, because my app continuously uses about 3 to 4 MB on the dev phone 1 according to DDMS (with similar figures reported by freeMemory ()), and DDMS reports a heap size of about 6 MB (not a typo, not 16 MB). And yet my app occasio

[android-developers] Re: Android Dev Phone Battery life

2008-12-30 Thread Disconnect
If you get really bad battery life, calibrate it. Drain it down until it absolutely won't boot. (Lower is better.) Then charge it -uninterrupted- for at least 8 hours (longer is better, up to about 24 hours..) The default charge calibration is worthless. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:30 AM, victorc

[android-developers] Re: When will we get root back?

2008-12-30 Thread Disconnect
Whelp, sounds like you have a problem with your vendor. Sorry to hear that. Please take it up with them, I believe they have web forums available. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:52 PM, nkijak wrote: > > I tried calling T-Moblie and asked for a dev image, a unlocked image, > a unlocked boot loader, r

[android-developers] Re: ● SSL /TLS timeout issue ●●● PLS HE LP ●●●

2008-12-30 Thread Nickname
Just reported this issue as a bug. Bug ID=1683 On Dec 25, 5:24 pm, Nickname wrote: > final refresh before i will add this issue to Android bug > reportwait a secwhere is Android bug report > > On Dec 22, 6:37 am, Nickname wrote: > > > refreshing my RFH... > > > Or, is it insuffici

[android-developers] Re: ● SSL /TLS timeout issue ●●● PLS HE LP ●●●

2008-12-30 Thread Nickname
Just reported this issue as a bug. Bug ID=1683 On Dec 25, 5:24 pm, Nickname wrote: > final refresh before i will add this issue to Android bug > reportwait a secwhere is Android bug report > > On Dec 22, 6:37 am, Nickname wrote: > > > refreshing my RFH... > > > Or, is it insuffici

[android-developers] Re: 2 ListViews vertically and auto growing/shrinking

2008-12-30 Thread skink
On 30 Gru, 14:54, gsmd wrote: > Awesome. Thanks. > Could you plz suggest on how to set the proportion for Views to grow/ > shrink by (like 30:70)? layout_weight is your friend here. for example: layout_weight=3 for first view and layout_weight=7 for the other pskink --~--~-~--~~

[android-developers] Re: Screen Goes Black Between Activities, and Next Activity never shows up.

2008-12-30 Thread Skooter Columbo
I got rid of the AlertDialog, and modified my code to use the ThemeDialog approach. I made sure that I added the attribute android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog" to the Android Manifest file for my application. However I get the same problem. If I comment out the code in the onWindowFocusCha

[android-developers] Re: Opening settings.db from the code!

2008-12-30 Thread Sergi Velez
http://code.google.com/intl/es-ES/android/devel/security.html#userid Sorry for double posting. --- sergi.ve...@gmail.com ["In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."] On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 17:53, Sergi Velez wrote: > From what I know, you don't have permissions

[android-developers] Re: Strange Toast error

2008-12-30 Thread Alvin Yates
Yes, the service is raising the Toast. It's similar (I think) to what the ApiDemo services do. I could use notifications, but I was looking for a quick and dirty way of a simple message in this case (And normally I do). I just never expected that particular error to happen, and I was wondering

[android-developers] Re: Opening settings.db from the code!

2008-12-30 Thread Sergi Velez
>From what I know, you don't have permissions to read/write files from outside your package. --- sergi.ve...@gmail.com ["In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."] On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:57, Amit wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am trying to open the settings.db fr

[android-developers] TextView Widget - OnResume

2008-12-30 Thread Dan
I'll just say upfront that I apologize if this is a duplicate post. I originally posted this message in the Beginners group but now I can't find it anywhere so I thought I would post it here this time. Anyway, I have an activity where I'm just listening for udp messages in a background thread and

[android-developers] Re: 2 ListViews vertically and auto growing/shrinking

2008-12-30 Thread gsmd
Awesome. Thanks. Could you plz suggest on how to set the proportion for Views to grow/ shrink by (like 30:70)? TIA. Mark Murphy wrote: > gsmd wrote: > > 1. I want to place 2 ListViews side-by-side vertically so that each > > would occupy equal horizontal space. What I get so far with > > TableLay

[android-developers] Re: Google Dev Phone

2008-12-30 Thread qh.p...@gmail.com
I am interested as well may be, compile yourself from http://source.android.com/download On 27 déc, 19:52, Oriol Carcelle Bayona wrote: > I have the same question, can anybody tell us how to upgrade the > android version of a Dev Phone 1 edition  ? > Thanks in advance > > Dev_Phone_NewB ha escri

[android-developers] Re: DatePicker and TimePicker widgets

2008-12-30 Thread anand
you can have an icon for time and date picker and upon clicking them you can open up the respective widget in a separate dialog. something similar to the calendar icon in web pages which upon hovering or clicking brings up a calendar. On Dec 29, 6:27 pm, "Sarath Kamisetty" wrote: > but that take

[android-developers] Re: How to download Android source code distribution in sync with Android SDK?

2008-12-30 Thread Sergi Velez
have you tried using tag android-1.0 instead of head? --- sergi.ve...@gmail.com ["In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."] On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 21:05, Wah wrote: > > I followed the instruction here to download Android SDK android-sdk- > linux_x86-1.0_r2 > h

[android-developers] Switch to a SurfaceView from a WebView

2008-12-30 Thread Ulrich Scheller
Hi, I want to show a WebView with some information at the start of my application. After clicking a button, this view should disappear for the SurfaceView of the app. In the following code I try to do this in several ways. What happens is that the WebView disappears, but the SurfaceView doesnt sh

[android-developers] Re: XMPP with Smack and SDK 1.0 success anyone?

2008-12-30 Thread jman
I am having the same issue. Were you able to find a solution to this issue? Thanks. On Nov 10, 5:54 am, "Peter Neubauer" wrote: > Hi there, > it seemsSmackGTalk conenctions are not working anymore due to > certificate problems. Has anyone been able to successfully getXMPP > running again on

[android-developers] MapView couldn't drag&drop when Zoom Controller is displayed.

2008-12-30 Thread honglian...@gmail.com
Hi all In my map application I couldn't drag&drop the MapView when Zoom Controller is displayed. But I found SDK's maps application can do it. Would you like to let me know how to implement it in my code? Thank you very much. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received t

[android-developers] How to quickly update the package without restarting the simulator?

2008-12-30 Thread Xiongzh
hi friends, I'm tired of restarting the simulator again and again for just small changes in the source codes. In my VISTA/3G/Intel Duo laptop, it would take minitues. Is it possible to uninstall and re-install the package without closing the simulator and restarting it? My way is to use adb uni

[android-developers] Problematic Android heap management remaining cause of crashes

2008-12-30 Thread blindfold
One of the main reasons that my app still occasionally crashes is that I have limited control over Android's heap management. In particular, when I launch a new activity from within my app, I see in the DDMS debug view for my dev phone 1 a huge - albeit temporary - free memory dip that sometimes m

[android-developers] Re: How to download Android source code distribution in sync with Android SDK?

2008-12-30 Thread Kenny Yu
On Dec 30, 4:05 am, Wah wrote: > I followed the instruction here to download Android SDK android-sdk- > linux_x86-1.0_r2http://code.google.com/android/download.html > > I also followed the instruction here to download the latest source > code release:http://source.android.com/download > > Howev

[android-developers] DalvikVm crash While starting Wifi service

2008-12-30 Thread >> JJ
Hi all, Could some one help me with the below error logs.. I am running Android on a PXA platform with a custom wifi driver. when I try to invoke Wifi Manager from settings, the GUI crashes. I am attaching the logs below.. Thanks in Advance.. -

[android-developers] Re: jdb attach error

2008-12-30 Thread Kenny Yu
It seems certain JAR file was not seen in your classpath? Eclipse+ADT does this very well. Did you try it? Kenny On Dec 29, 1:40 pm, firstbread wrote: > Hi all > I got a problem when I try to debug Android with jdb. The following is > my steps > > 1、use "am -e debug true ",to start a activi

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