[android-developers] Error Code 5: Database is locked

2009-08-23 Thread Armond Avanes
Hi Guys, I have different background threads in my application, one doing periodical database updates, another responsible for doing long searches and so. Obviously some are just reading from database while others are writing as well. Once in a while I get database is locked exception. I need

[android-developers] Re: Error Code 5: Database is locked

2009-08-23 Thread Armond Avanes
I forgot to mention that this exception happens (so far) from the service I have for updating database (is executed every 24 hours). Cheersss, Armond Hi Guys, I have different background threads in my application, one doing periodical database updates, another responsible for doing long

[android-developers] custom progress bar.

2009-08-23 Thread sdphil
i am trying to draw a custom progress bar (horizontal). I have this xml -- ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? layer-list xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ android item android:id=@+android:id/background android:drawable=@drawable/progress_background/ item

[android-developers] different images for imagebutton states...

2009-08-23 Thread sdphil
how do I specify different images for an ImageButton when the state changes (i.e. pressed). ImageButton android:id=@+id/Btn1 android:layout_width=wrap_content android:layout_height=wrap_content android:src=@drawable/btn1

[android-developers] custom toggle button with images...

2009-08-23 Thread sdphil
I would like have a ToggleButton with different images for the checked and unchecked states. ToggleButton android:id=@+id/Btn1 android:layout_width=wrap_content android:layout_height=wrap_content android:src=@drawable/btn1

[android-developers] SensorEventListener for SENSOR_ORIENTATION - what are the units of event.values[]?

2009-08-23 Thread olko
I am experimenting with orientation sensor, register it like this: SesnorManager sensor_manager = (SensorManager)getSystemService (Context.SENSOR_SERVICE); Sensor sensor_orientation = sensor_manager.getSensorList (SensorManager.SENSOR_ORIENTATION).get(0);

[android-developers] Developing a shared library client _without_ mydroid code

2009-08-23 Thread GiladH
hey, i am reopening this issue as it is now becoming a high-priority one for our team. we have developed a shared library jar according to the sample:

[android-developers] Re: SensorEventListener for SENSOR_ORIENTATION - what are the units of event.values[]?

2009-08-23 Thread olko
.. I run it on G1. On Aug 23, 10:14 am, olko y.olkho...@gmail.com wrote: I am experimenting with orientation sensor, register it like this: SesnorManager sensor_manager = (SensorManager)getSystemService (Context.SENSOR_SERVICE); Sensor sensor_orientation = sensor_manager.getSensorList

[android-developers] Fake call into real device

2009-08-23 Thread Peacemoon
Can i fake a call into a real deivce as i can do with the emulator. When i debug my program on my real device, the Telephony Actions of DDMS is disabled and i can't fake a call anymore. Thanks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[android-developers] Re: How to update the UI from service

2009-08-23 Thread Abdula
Activity wich started service must get obtained data service for update ui. I think that the first options best suited. Please provide an example for the first option. Thanks. On 21 авг, 21:01, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Abdula wrote: Need service wich retrive data by http and

[android-developers] Re: Simple Java Question

2009-08-23 Thread chinchin
Well you could flush the stream each time, wouldn't that be similar with creating a new formatter? I used to do something similar when reading from files etc. On Aug 23, 1:18 am, Rud rudmerr...@gmail.com wrote: Rather wasteful on a platform like Android. Are there any other options other than

[android-developers] Re: SensorEventListener for SENSOR_ORIENTATION - what are the units of event.values[]?

2009-08-23 Thread olko
.. Ok, that should have been Sensor.TYPE_ORIENTATION i.s.o. deprecated SensorManager.SENSOR_ORIENTATION: Sensor sensor_orientation = sensor_manager.getDefaultSensor (Sensor.TYPE_ORIENTATION); Now the event.values[] look like degrees but they never changes, e.g event.values[0] is always just

[android-developers] Re: catching out of memory errors

2009-08-23 Thread alex
I guess you are trying to perform manipulations on a byte[]. Just use decodeStream(...) or decodeFile(...) instead. Cathing runtime errors is plain wrong. On Aug 23, 2:45 am, Bob bshumsk...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I am getting an outofmemory error (java.lang.outofmememoryerror) from a

[android-developers] Android. TranslateAnimation takes no effect

2009-08-23 Thread LD
Hi, I am trying to create animation that moves an image. Lets have a look at following (like image locations on screen): 01 02 03 04 If I move from 01 to 02, 03 to 04, 01 to 03, 02 to 04, TranslateAnimation works fine. But when I do 01 to 04 (or 02 to 03) I will have no visual animation,

[android-developers] Re: My emulator is running 100% CPU, it's annoying..

2009-08-23 Thread jiaoni
Hi Dianne, Thanks. I tried adb shell top -t command, and here is the result: PID TID CPU% S VSS RSS UID Thread Proc 578 784 83% R 191676K 23200K system er$SensorThread system_server 788 788 8% R948K412K root top top And according

[android-developers] Re: SensorEventListener for SENSOR_ORIENTATION - what are the units of event.values[]?

2009-08-23 Thread olko
.. solution is here: http://mysticlakesoftware.blogspot.com/ - cloning event.values[] does work. On Aug 23, 11:01 am, olko y.olkho...@gmail.com wrote: .. Ok, that should have been Sensor.TYPE_ORIENTATION i.s.o. deprecated SensorManager.SENSOR_ORIENTATION: Sensor sensor_orientation =

[android-developers] EditText onChange

2009-08-23 Thread poncz
My Application need to perform a database search when the user change the text in an EditText view. I need a method like onChange to allow me to know when the text in the EditText changed. How can I detect a change in the EditText view? Thanks,

[android-developers] Re: EditText onChange

2009-08-23 Thread poncz
I think I found it: etSearch.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() { public void afterTextChanged (Editable s){ Log.d(seachScreen, afterTextChanged); } public void beforeTextChanged

[android-developers] set background of ImageButton to transparent leads to the disabled flicker of the button when click

2009-08-23 Thread OiuNt
hello everyone! i try to custom a button like ZoomControls, which has left round corners and fliker when click. i extend the LinearLayout with two ImageButtons, and set the imagebutton with transparent background. However, when click on the button, the button doesn't flicker again.

[android-developers] Thread in multiple Activities .

2009-08-23 Thread rizwan
Hi All , I have started a thread from one Activity and then i have started another activit from parent Activity . Now my Parrent Activity is in pause state . but what will happen to thread that I have started from parrent . I belive it will continuenot going in sleep state any

[android-developers] Download file

2009-08-23 Thread engin
Hi, how can we download a file from server using ftp? How can we use android's download manager manually to download ? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group,

[android-developers] Re: get area name using latitude and longitude

2009-08-23 Thread Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)
Not sure what you mean by area name but the process you're referring to is called reverse geocoding. -John Coryat --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send

[android-developers] Re: get area name using latitude and longitude

2009-08-23 Thread Marc Lester Tan
try this one: final Geocoder geoCoder = new Geocoder(context, Locale.getDefault()); ListAddress addresses = geoCoder.getFromLocation(latitude, longitude, numResults); -Marc On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Honest honestsucc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Can some one tell me how can i get area

[android-developers] getting all the resources from other apks

2009-08-23 Thread Spektor Yaron
Hi, i was able to play around with the resource on a different apk and get them using createPackageContext as you suggested. here is an example of the code: otherAppContext = this.createPackageContext(com.android.demo.notepad2,Context.CONTEXT_INCLUDE_CODE + Context.CONTEXT_IGNORE_SECURITY); int

[android-developers] Re: Screen rotation

2009-08-23 Thread Spektor Yaron
Hi Kabir, if you mean how do you catch these events and change the layout this could help: http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/40792/1954 On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:27 AM, kabir kab...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have an activity which I have defined to keep in portrait position. However I

[android-developers] Re: getting all the resources from other apks

2009-08-23 Thread Dianne Hackborn
I don't believe there is any way to do that from an application. From a desktop, you can use the aapt dump commands to find out about the contents of the .apk. On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Spektor Yaron spekt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i was able to play around with the resource on a

[android-developers] Re: bluetooth use in android

2009-08-23 Thread gymshoe
I am confused. According to above, There is no Bluetooth API in the SDK at this time, yet Android does offer: Stereo Bluetooth support (A2DP and AVCRP profiles) (http:// developer.android.com/sdk/android-1.5-highlights.html) Is there no API for use with the A2DP or AVCRP profiles? thanks,

[android-developers] Re: catching out of memory errors

2009-08-23 Thread Streets Of Boston
Depends... In general, it's no good catching Errors. But I'm using this particular error to see if i have enough memory for creating a full- sized bitmap (no other way of doing this). If not, i catch the outofmemoryerror and will use a smaller sized bitmap. On Aug 23, 5:02 am, alex

[android-developers] Re: media player exception

2009-08-23 Thread Venky
Riz Try this. holder.setType(SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_PUSH_BUFFERS); mMediaPlayer.setScreenOnWhilePlaying(true); On Aug 20, 8:02 pm, riz rizcs...@gmail.com wrote: when I try to createmediaPlayerthrough Create(Context,Resource_ID) (rest of the codr remain same)it played the audio of the

[android-developers] Re: Screen rotation

2009-08-23 Thread kabir
Thanks On Aug 22, 11:27 pm, kabir kab...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have an activity which I have defined to keep in portrait position. However I would still like to change things (slightly) when the screen is rotated, what is the best way of doing this? I notice onConfigurationChanged is

[android-developers] Re: bluetooth use in android

2009-08-23 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Hi Stefano, I know you already say this in your site, but just to be extra clear -- the code here is accessing private APIs, so we make no guarantees about it working in future versions of the platform. There is a very good chance that applications using it will break at a platform update. On

[android-developers] Re: Find long/lat distance X from current location

2009-08-23 Thread alexdonnini
Hi John, Excellent! Connceptually, that's exactly what I was looking for. I will probably need to make some changes to the code but it's a great start. Thank you. Alex Donnini On Aug 22, 2:10 pm, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) cor...@gmail.com wrote: This example using a Google map may be

[android-developers] Re: Writing a Bitmap to a a outputstream

2009-08-23 Thread karthikr
I am trying to write the contents of the bitmap without doing a compress on it for a format, as I am facing somme problems in quality while formatting. I am using thte below code but its not working, ByteBuffer bf = ByteBuffer.allocate(IMAGE_WIDTH*IMAGE_HEIGHT*4);

[android-developers] Re: Writing a Bitmap to a a outputstream

2009-08-23 Thread Streets Of Boston
Bitmap bmToSave = ... // the bitmap you want to save int height = ... // height of bitmap int width = ... // width of bitmap int[] bmData = new int[TMP_BUFFER_SIZE]; // holds the ARGB data for pixels of bmToSave int heightChunk = ... // number of pixel-rows of bmToSave that will fit into the

[android-developers] Re: EditText and Virtual Keyboard

2009-08-23 Thread Hazam
Hi guys, I just got back from holidays :) this is the hack @Override public InputConnection onCreateInputConnection(EditorInfo outAttrs) { InputConnection ic = super.onCreateInputConnection(outAttrs); InputConnectionWrapper icw = new InputConnectionWrapper(ic, false) {

[android-developers] Re: catching out of memory errors

2009-08-23 Thread Nivek
I've coded this too in my first app (EmailAlbum Viewer) which displays pictures contained in archives that are received by email, for example. If someone receive pictures which are too large for the app memory, I prefer catching the error and display an informative message to the user rather

[android-developers] Re: Fake call into real device

2009-08-23 Thread Roman ( T-Mobile USA)
I could think of to extend the framework code for doing this. If you are only interested in receiving the call related intents on SDK level you could modify the framework in a way that you could trigger these events manually. -- Roman Baumgaertner Sr. SW Engineer-OSDC ·T· · ·Mobile· stick

[android-developers] Re: EditText and Virtual Keyboard

2009-08-23 Thread Dianne Hackborn
If possible, it is better to add an appropriate watcher/filter on the text view, and do your specialization as a result of the text being modified. This will work for both hard keys and soft edits. On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Hazam emanuele.disave...@gmail.comwrote: Hi guys, I just got

[android-developers] Re: ListView with multiple buttons, how do I detect which View the buttons were pressed in?

2009-08-23 Thread Croccy22
Hi thanks for the reply, I've set an onClickListener and it's only parameter is View. The problem is don't know how to translate that information back to a useful identifier. I can't use getID ecause the buttons are all created from the same XML layout so they have the same ID. The only unique

[android-developers] Re: getting all the resources from other apks

2009-08-23 Thread Spektor Yaron
Hi, i know it is done somehow by other applications (for example adding new skins to an existing application w/o knowing the name of the layout ahead of time) what am i missing here. is this not the way to do it? should i copy all resources to the file system and read them from there? would that

[android-developers] Re: Thread in multiple Activities .

2009-08-23 Thread niko20
Yes, the thread will continue to run. That Activity's OnPause() will get called. So if you want the thread to stop then put in a flag boolean that the thread can check, and set the flag in the Activities OnPause() callback. -niko --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[android-developers] Re: different images for imagebutton states...

2009-08-23 Thread niko20
Hi, there is no built in functionality to do this. What you have to do is switch the images yourself in the button's onClick handler. Check for if the button was pressed or released in that handler, and then you can use SetImageResource() or such to swap the image that is begin displayed. -niko

[android-developers] Re: set background of ImageButton to transparent leads to the disabled flicker of the button when click

2009-08-23 Thread niko20
Hi, try calling Invalidate() on the View after switching the images. You'll have to do all drawing yourself. -niko --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group,

[android-developers] Re: getting all the resources from other apks

2009-08-23 Thread Spektor Yaron
Hi again, just to verify that i am explaining myself correctly. my code takes all the relevant apk's based on the intent filter and wants to take all the resources from the \layout to later be able to inflate them. i get the package name (e.g.,com.android.demo.notepad2) from the returned

[android-developers] Re: getting all the resources from other apks

2009-08-23 Thread Dianne Hackborn
I'm not sure what this has to do with skinning. I don't know of any applications that scan for different resources for a skin; rather, you create a skin by replacing the existing (layout, drawable, etc) resource with a different one. On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Spektor Yaron

[android-developers] Re: getting all the resources from other apks

2009-08-23 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Sorry but this just isn't something we have APIs for right now. I don't recall anyone wanting to do this kind of thing before, so it hasn't been high on our priority list. Note that layout etc at the resource level are not really folder names -- they are just symbolic names for the part of the

[android-developers] Re: getting all the resources from other apks

2009-08-23 Thread Spektor Yaron
Thanks Dianne, i appreciate your help. firstly i am not even sure how to do the single skin version you suggested, unless i state that the resources names must not change which is something i am not eager to do. secondly, i was thinking (in terms of skins) to allow multiple skins at once. so the

[android-developers] Re: how to add default zoom in/out in my MapView?

2009-08-23 Thread idoun
Hi! You don't have to use the ZoomControls class, if you need just a simple zoom in/out built-in function. Use this simple method. mapView.setBuiltInZoomControls(true); try~! On Jun 30, 7:01 pm, tstanly tsai.sta...@gmail.com wrote: it's a stupid question... there are a ZoomControl widget

[android-developers] Re: getting all the resources from other apks

2009-08-23 Thread Spektor Yaron
Thanks again Dianne, i don't think your solution will do as i also need to know which class i am in (i need to know that 0x7f02 is a drawable and that 0x7f03 is a layout). Is it possible to get the information i need through the AssetManager? any way to hack into the binary data structure?

[android-developers] Re: ADC2

2009-08-23 Thread D.Garcia
Hi all, Any news about submission site? Please, if anybody knows something from official sources just let us know. Thanks, Darío On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 15:19, Jack Ha jack...@t-mobile.com wrote: Check this link: http://www.meetup.com/svandroid/messages/7262249/ -- Jack Ha Open Source

[android-developers] Re: set background of ImageButton to transparent leads to the disabled flicker of the button when click

2009-08-23 Thread OiuNt
thanks for your suggestion! but i don't quite understand your meaning, you mean the flicker of the button when click on should be implemented by myself with two images switching, because the default background has been set to transparent? thanks for your kind! On Aug 24, 6:25 am, niko20

[android-developers] Re: disable HOME key and right soft key

2009-08-23 Thread Shang Hao
Hi Mark, Thanks for your reply.. I actually meant the home key and the End call button on the device. For home key i have found a solution at PhoneWindowManager.java @framework Any idea about the End call button?? Thanks. On Aug 22, 4:03 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote:

[android-developers] Re: disable HOME key and right soft key

2009-08-23 Thread Romain Guy
You cannot disabled these keys from an application. On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Shang Haosahilz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mark, Thanks for your reply.. I actually meant the home key and the End call button on the device. For home key i have found a solution at PhoneWindowManager.java

[android-developers] Re: disable HOME key and right soft key

2009-08-23 Thread Hristo Yordanov
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[android-developers] Re: Error Code 5: Database is locked

2009-08-23 Thread Andrei
If your write time take long i would try this I would create another in memory database, attach it to yours. In memory database table would have same schema. You would write to in memory database and after done do insert into db1.table as select * from db2.table I did something similar but on

[android-developers] Why there is an error when I doing unit test with ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2?

2009-08-23 Thread android.bu...@gmail.com
I am using ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2 to do some test for an activity. I get a button in the setUp() method like this: protected void setUp() throws Exception { super.setUp(); act = getActivity(); btn = (Button)act.findViewById( R.id.bike_button );

[android-developers] Re: disable HOME key and right soft key

2009-08-23 Thread Dan Sherman
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[android-developers] Re: different images for imagebutton states...

2009-08-23 Thread Marc Lester Tan
in your res/drawable folder, put an xml that contains (sample.xml): ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? selector xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android; item android:state_focused=true android:state_pressed=false android:drawable=@drawable/focused / item

[android-developers] Re: disable HOME key and right soft key

2009-08-23 Thread Shang Hao
Hi Roman, Accepted that I cannot play around with these keys from apps...But there must be a way somewhere where they must be getting handledi just need to broadcast and make these keys handling ineffective/ effective Can u help me with the files which i should be looking for

[android-developers] Re: getting all the resources from other apks

2009-08-23 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Resources.getResourcePackageName(), Resources.getResourceTypeName(), and Resources.getResourceEntryName() return the names associated with a resource ID. And by convention, you will get the type name layout for layout resources, drawable for drawable, etc... however, this is only a convention,

[android-developers] Re: getting all the resources from other apks

2009-08-23 Thread Dianne Hackborn
I'm sorry, I thought you were just bringing up skins as an example. The platform currently doesn't support skinning, and when/if it ever does, it will be done very differently than what you are describing here (rather would probably be something like the approach I was describing before). If you

[android-developers] Adding Threshold to Bitmap Images

2009-08-23 Thread Abdul Mateen
Hi, I have a question about adding a threshold images into bitmap images, can this be possible with the Android SDK, if not can anyone here generate the Algorithm for that to add threshold to images. Thank You, Abdul Mateen. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

[android-developers] Re: disable HOME key and right soft key

2009-08-23 Thread Dianne Hackborn
You already said it, PhoneWindowManager is what handles the keys. On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Shang Hao sahilz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Roman, Accepted that I cannot play around with these keys from apps...But there must be a way somewhere where they must be getting handledi just

[android-developers] Re: disable HOME key and right soft key

2009-08-23 Thread Keiji Ariyama
Hi Shang, You can use END_BUTTON_BEHAVIOR setting in Settings.System. Android Developers http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Settings.System.html#END_BUTTON_BEHAVIOR What happens when the user presses the end call button if they're not on a call. Values: 0 - The end button

[android-developers] Problem with Dialog theme when launching from another activity

2009-08-23 Thread ANKIT SOMANI
Hi all, I am facing a strange problem. I have 2 activities. The Second activity having the theme.Dialog (set in manifest). when I launched the second activity from first activity via startActivityforResult(). The Second activity is not Visible. When i minimize it launched it again then its

[android-developers] ADC2 deadline

2009-08-23 Thread rizwan
Hi , can anyone from Google let us know the exact date of submission of ADC2 Applications. or Google is extending date . I m very much curious about it . please let us know. Thanks Rizwan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

[android-developers] Countries for selling priced applications in Android Market

2009-08-23 Thread Michael Leung
Hi, That is near the end of Q3 now. Does anyone know whether there will be a new list of Countries for selling priced applications in Android Market? -- Regards, Michael Leung http://www.itblogs.info http://www.michaelleung.info --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You