[android-developers] Android Webkit features and External application opening support

2009-11-29 Thread Saaravanan
Hi, We have a some technical doubts reagrding the android webkit issues. 1. DOC,XLS,PPT,XLSX,PPTX,DOCX does not open in webkit.Is there any way to open it. 2.Can we do any file association in android. Such as when opening an image file or doc file the registered application for it ,like in iphon

[android-developers] passing multi dimensional string array between two actvities.

2009-11-29 Thread pavan
Here is my Problem : I want to pass multi dimensional String array between two activities or pages. I already tried with bundle.putextra like methods. But those allow only one dimensional string array. I really hope you can help me with example java code on this . Here is my String array, fina

[android-developers] launchMode problem

2009-11-29 Thread 刘冰
Hi guys I have a problem about launchMode for activity 1. install my app, open it and go to the C activity A->B->C 2. press home key ,back to the Idle screen . 3. (one instance) long press home key, pop a screen and select my app, i will back to C activity (this is right) 4. (other in

[android-developers] Using Account Manager API of Android 2.0

2009-11-29 Thread abhijith.off...@gmail.com
We developed a application which connects to various social networking hooks .I was having my own algorithms for login and token generation , Recently I saw Account Manager classes and an requirement arose to use it our app. But we are blocked with usage of Account Manager as only API decsripti

[android-developers] Android SDK fails to run Android 2.0

2009-11-29 Thread Epix
I have downloaded the Android SDK and installed all the components. However, for some reason I can only launch Virtual Devices targeting Android 1.5. Any Virtual Device targeting Android 1.6/2.0 would only cause the emulator to show up for a fraction of a second and then terminated without any erro

[android-developers] Soft keypad doesn't appear if EditText.setOnClickListener() is set?

2009-11-29 Thread Mark Wyszomierski
Hi, I have an EditText. If I set an OnClickListener for it, the ime keypad doesn't appear when I click it (using the trackball on the G1): EditText edit = new EditText(context); edit.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v) { // ime keypad won't a

[android-developers] Re: Android listview with pre selected checkboxes

2009-11-29 Thread jeffro
You can create your own ListAdapter and then override the getViews method to setup the checkboxes similar to this: /* (non-Javadoc) * @see android.widget.Adapter#getView(int, android.view.View, android.view.ViewGroup) */ public View getView(int position, View convertView,

[android-developers] Re: Different screen sizes + API level

2009-11-29 Thread jeffro
You'll need to specify which screen sized you support in your manifest file if you use SDK1.6. Read more here: http://d.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html Jeff http://www.trackaroo.com On Nov 29, 2:48 am, Donald_W wrote: > Hello, I would like to ask what settings are necessary f

[android-developers] Re: Upgrading database for an app

2009-11-29 Thread jeffro
Here's a snippet of code that may help you. I rename the old table, create the new table, and then insert the data into the new table while modifying the data. @Override public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion, int newVersion) { Log.d(getClass().getName(),

[android-developers] FLV - VP6 integration

2009-11-29 Thread Nilly
HI, I want to integrate FLV/vp6 to android PV player.How can I do that?I have googled it but I have got only info The parser would have to be integrated as a native OpenCore node. You could integrate the codec as a native OpenCore node or as an OpenMax codec using the IL extensions. How can

[android-developers] Re: View objects lose onclick listeners when screen orientation changes

2009-11-29 Thread Nithin
Hi Joey, Use saveInstanceState()and restoreInstanceState() to save and restore the View settings. When the screen orientation changes, Activity will call saveInsatnceState() and can restore the saved properties in restoreInstanceState(). Thanks On Nov 30, 7:30 am, Joey Carson wrote: > Hello all

[android-developers] Re: Intents for google maps

2009-11-29 Thread Nithin
Hi Sreekanth, You need to get the google map API key and launch your application with Google API 4 from AVD manager. The procedure for getting API key is, http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/38545a723378005f/7cfc6ca3237bf348 Thanks On Nov 29, 11:53 pm, sreekan

[android-developers] Re: Https client in Android

2009-11-29 Thread Nithin
Hi, I also want to know whether Android support Https. Thanks On Nov 30, 9:20 am, JITU wrote: > Hi All, > > Is android supports https ? > > Objective: Sending a xml file over https to a web server. > The GET and POST is working fine with HTTP, but i don't have any idea > regarding https. > > It

[android-developers] Re: Problem with 9-patches in drawable for custom button style

2009-11-29 Thread Jarett
Oh, bummer. Is there some theme-wide (i.e., XML) way to do this, or am I going to have to do it via Java? Is there a recommended way to accomplish this? Also, just out of curiosity, how does it select which 9-patch area to use for the padding? Thanks, Jarett On Nov 29, 5:51 pm, Romain Guy wrote

[android-developers] View objects lose onclick listeners when screen orientation changes

2009-11-29 Thread Joey Carson
Hello all.. This is my first time using a forum for android and I am relatively new to it as well. I'll cut straight to the chase since this is a seemingly trivial issue that I just cannot find an answer to. I have created a table layout of view objects using Java code and have set the onclick li

[android-developers] -http-proxy question ?

2009-11-29 Thread Gopinath Janakiraman
Hello, I am inside a firewall. I am using google GeoCoder API. I started the emulator using -http-proxy http://54.62.228.195:8080 option. I getting the following error E/GeoAddress( 228): java.io.IOException: Unable to parse response from server E/GeoAddress( 228):at android.location.Geocode

[android-developers] Complex Object Collision Detection

2009-11-29 Thread Brian
Hello, I am currently working on a collision detection routine for an Android based game which is capable of handling complex concave curves in 2D. I use complex in this post to describe any non-trivial, arbitrary shape (beyond circles, squares, etc.). My problem is that all of the various method

[android-developers] Intents for google maps

2009-11-29 Thread sreekanth nambu
Hi all I am developing a android project named " Smart Google Maps ".For my App, I need to use Google Maps Application which is built in with Android SDK 1.6.I need to call google Maps from my App. How could I do that? I am able to use call Phone dialer using intents from my Application.But I

Re: [android-developers] Re: app for blocking apps

2009-11-29 Thread Jarrod Overson
That seems really short sighted, to assume that you can understand all cases so bluntly. What if someone wanted to write a parental control application? On Nov 29, 2009 10:06 AM, "Edward Falk" wrote: On Nov 28, 5:16 pm, sleith wrote: > any one know the code to block app so ca... Why would you

[android-developers] Https client in Android

2009-11-29 Thread JITU
Hi All, Is android supports https ? Objective: Sending a xml file over https to a web server. The GET and POST is working fine with HTTP, but i don't have any idea regarding https. It will be great if some sample code can provide me. Regards, jit -- You received this message because you are s

[android-developers] Re: Android in China - What is going on?

2009-11-29 Thread westmeadboy
On Nov 30, 11:16 am, shimsim wrote: > Considering the mobile market size over here and the recent articles I > have been reading on China Mobiles use of Android, I am wondering if > the blocking is being done by the government or by China mobile or for > some other currently undisclosed reason. C

[android-developers] Re: Android in China - What is going on?

2009-11-29 Thread shimsim
Let not be angry that China is blocking Google, getting angry wont help in this case ... this is just about understand the specifics of what is going on. For those of us living in China we are all very aware of the general blocking/filtering that has been going on for a very long time. This is noth

[android-developers] Re: TTS 1.9 not working in Emulator. Please help.

2009-11-29 Thread greg
Last I tried (about a month ago), the TTS tutorial worked on the emulator. Have you tried looking at logcat to get a more detailed message about the problem? - Greg On Nov 28, 2:23 am, Anuj wrote: > Hi, > > No matter how many times I re-create the SD card and start the > emulator along with SD

Re: [android-developers] Re: Picking up a PhoneBook entry under Android 2.0 !!!

2009-11-29 Thread frantz lohier
Thanks Jarkman. 2 questions: 1) Does: int sdkVersion = Integer.parseInt(Build.VERSION.SDK); if (sdkVersion < Build.VERSION_CODES.ECLAIR) Return the OS/SDK version currently run by the underlying platform or does it return the target SDK level the APP was compiled for ? 2) Is there a way for an

Re: [android-developers] Re: Picking up a PhoneBook entry under Android 2.0 !!!

2009-11-29 Thread frantz lohier
Thank you Dmitri for the code. I've reviewed it and don't see any interaction with the AccountManager. One of the problem with SDK 2.0 is that pickup contacts is condition by having a user login with a proper account. My application crashes under the emulator because I cannot profile a Gmail acco

[android-developers] Re: ImageButton handling of transparent src pngs

2009-11-29 Thread NoraBora
try android:background="@null" On Nov 28, 4:12 pm, Mark Rosenberg wrote: > ImageButton doesn't honor the transparency of my android:src png. My > src image is a rounded rectangle, with the remaining portion of the > bounding rectangle set to be transparent. When the button is > displayed, what s

[android-developers] Re: How to enable different css in WebView

2009-11-29 Thread James Wang
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[android-developers] splash screen and low memory

2009-11-29 Thread rukiman
In my game a splash screen is shown which preloads all the sound/ bitmap resources to be used by the game. The game consists of other activities that all depend on resources i.e menu activities, game activity etc. However when simulating low memory conditions in the emulator, I noticed that our ga

[android-developers] How can I enable the Google search by voice in Android phone (HTC dream)

2009-11-29 Thread richard
Hi All, I want to develop an application using the voice recognition. Can anybody tell me how to enable the Google search by voice on android phone? I have the HTC dream device, but I can not find the microphone icon on the right of the Google search widget. Have I missed anything?

[android-developers] Re: determine if app has been launced

2009-11-29 Thread Lance Nanek
How about just using a preference? Something like this: SharedPreferences prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences (getBaseContext()); boolean firstTime = prefs.getBoolean("firstTime", true); if ( firstTime ) { SharedPreferences.Editor editor = prefs.edit(); editor.put

[android-developers] Start another activity with a broadcast intent

2009-11-29 Thread Moritzz
Hi! I'm trying to start an activity out of a widget so I can't use the startActivity() function. So I'm trying to create the correct intent but I don't find what I'm missing. Here's my code: - Intent clickIntent = new Intent(); clickIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTI

Re: [android-developers] Problem with 9-patches in drawable for custom button style

2009-11-29 Thread Romain Guy
The padding is constant in a selector, you cannot achieve what you want this way. On Nov 29, 2009 10:04 AM, "Jarett" wrote: Hi guys, I'm having a bit of a problem with a custom button style. I have the button states (9-patch drawables) set up in a drawable. The style I'm going for is a button

[android-developers] determine if app has been launced

2009-11-29 Thread schwiz
Can anyone suggest a simple way to determine if it is the first time my app has ever been launched since it has been installed? -- 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@googlegr

Re: [android-developers] Re: app for blocking apps

2009-11-29 Thread Spektor Yaron
yes, and you can also time bomb it when the application expires. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1223552/how-to-time-bomb-an-android-application Enjoy, On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Lance Nanek wrote: > I can think of some legitimate reasons. What if the user is a parent, > for example,

[android-developers] Density independence for GradientDrawable

2009-11-29 Thread mgpc
Hi, I'm trying to work with the (wonderfully undocumented) android gradient drawables in a way that's independent of screen density. No luck so far. This is the gradient drawable that I'm using: It looks fine on a standard HTC Dream screen, but the scaling is wrong on the higher-density Droi

[android-developers] Re: app for blocking apps

2009-11-29 Thread Lance Nanek
I can think of some legitimate reasons. What if the user is a parent, for example, and wants to let a very little kid use the phone. They might like to be able to setup an application white list. Without a parental code entered the phone would only run a pre- approved set of apps that the parent h

Re: [android-developers] Overlays on Map

2009-11-29 Thread TreKing
"Is there a limit to the number of Overlays that can be added to a Map?" Don't think so, but if there is it's definitely more than two. "My application works fine when I add two overlays, but fails for more than two" Fails HOW? What's the stack trace / exception / unexpected behavior? "Any idea

[android-developers] Re: why is my app asking to access phone calls and storage?

2009-11-29 Thread Max Binshtok
Rachel, thanks for the extended explanation but I did understand what Diane was saying. I just don't see how this can solve my problem. Or better put how this problem can be solved. I might be wrong (I probably am) but I remember that initially I wanted to get the IMEI or something and without requ

[android-developers] Re: app for blocking apps

2009-11-29 Thread Edward Falk
On Nov 28, 5:16 pm, sleith wrote: > any one know the code to block app so cannot be launched? >.< > thx Why would you want to do this? It sounds like you want to take control away from the user. If the user doesn't want an app launched, they can, you know, just not launch it. -- You receive

Re: [android-developers] Re: ADT installation on Ubuntu 9.10

2009-11-29 Thread Lee Olayvar
I had the same problem. I forget what exactly is needed, and where i found the fix, but i guess Eclipse in the repos is missing something ADT needs. To fix it, i went to "Install New Software", and then added http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo as the location. You probably only need a sp

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android in China - What is going on?

2009-11-29 Thread 许晖
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:18 PM, shimsim wrote: > Like I said in the post, it's blocked 90% of the time, not all the > time, which makes it even stranger. > > The strangest things though is just how quiet Google is being about > this, actually less open that the GFW! > > I can not understand mor

[android-developers] Problem with 9-patches in drawable for custom button style

2009-11-29 Thread Jarett
Hi guys, I'm having a bit of a problem with a custom button style. I have the button states (9-patch drawables) set up in a drawable. The style I'm going for is a button that looks like it gets pushed down, i.e., you can see the front edge of the button until you press it. It works fine for the b

[android-developers] Different screen sizes + API level

2009-11-29 Thread Donald_W
Hello, I would like to ask what settings are necessary for my application to be available on all screen sizes: Is it enough to compile it using SDK 1.6 (but target is set to 1.5 and API level to 3) or maybe I have to set target to 1.6 and API level to 4? -- You received this message because you a

[android-developers] Re: Android in China - What is going on?

2009-11-29 Thread right
It's "business" that should be accused for this On Nov 28, 2:06 am, Hong wrote: > I will not go into details as why Chinese gov't blocking this and that, > there are many reasons, and you certainly cannot hold Google accountable for > the problems you have. > > Anyway, edit /system/etc/hosts, add

[android-developers] Android aapt error

2009-11-29 Thread ShaunP1989
I keep getting the following error message when I try to run any android project. /Documents/Development/SWDS/Client/nbproject/build-impl.xml:338: Execute failed: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/Documents/ Development/SDK/android-sdk-linux/platforms/android-2.0_r01-linux/ tools/aapt" (in

[android-developers] apk files on win serv.08 iis7

2009-11-29 Thread Cid
i'm messing around with handler mappings but i cant seem to get *.apk files to install on phone.. has anyone done this yet? -- 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@googlegroup

[android-developers] android code for displaying signal strength of wifi access point

2009-11-29 Thread Sarath Krishna
hii..I need to develop an application which scans the wifi access points and also gives their signal strength.I wrote the code for scanning the access points but I dont know what packages to use for measuring the displaying strength.Can anyone please tell me how to display the signal strength, also

[android-developers] Overlays on Map

2009-11-29 Thread Samson Sequeira
Is there a limit to the number of Overlays that can be added to a Map? My application works fine when I add two overlays, but fails for more than two. This is a part of my code for (int index=0;indexhttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en

[android-developers] adding ethernet

2009-11-29 Thread SharonW
Hi, I am newbie in Android. I need to add automatic interface selection (Ethernet or WiFi). Moreover, if the Ethernet cable is plugged, the device must be connected via LAN. If the cable is plugged when there is a wifi connection the user will get a pop-up message that ask for his advice. I have

[android-developers] Re: Beginner Question

2009-11-29 Thread Dinesh Harjani
Hello! When the emulator starts, it needs to load the OS like a real device; that's why you're seeing the word "Android". It can take a long time to load, specially if it's loading Eclair. Once it starts though, you don't need to close it every time you build your app; Eclipse will install it aga

[android-developers] how Cursor.setNotificationUri(getContext().getContentResolver(), uri) works?

2009-11-29 Thread zhiqiang wang
hi ,I find out that there is setNotificationUri on Cursor public methods. so what will happen if "notifyChange(uri, null)" been called? will the cursor requery? or if I can register a ContentObserver to observe this event? thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog

[android-developers] Scaling images in WebView (interactively?)

2009-11-29 Thread Mariano Kamp
Hi, I use WebView a lot to display web pages with embedded images. Some of those web pages contain images that are too large (dimensions) to display them on the screen without scrolling. So I would like to resize/scale those images so that they fit. I would be happy with any solution at al

[android-developers] Re: custom protocol handler...

2009-11-29 Thread Miguel Paraz
On Nov 29, 11:17 pm, Miguel Paraz wrote: > Hi, > I tested this with an embedded WebView, and it works. Not sure why the > intent-filter isn't visible to Browser app. I got mine working. It only works as a browser link, and not using the "Go" dialog box. As it turns out, no surprise - even a "mai

[android-developers] Drawing a Nine Patch image

2009-11-29 Thread Neilz
Hi all. I'm trying to create on of these images, but Eclipse won't accept it once I've used the draw9patch tool. I've found other people having the same problem, and saw this comment: ..."I discovered later that the problem I was having was caused by the image not being exactly true to the nine-p

[android-developers] Re: Upgrading database for an app

2009-11-29 Thread Dexter's Brain
Is it sufficient if I change the database version? Or, first I will have to back up the db programatically and then restore all the tables with contents? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to a

Re: [android-developers] Android's dependency on Google Sync

2009-11-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Market is Google's application, not a part of the Android open source platform. I don't know about browsing the market, except that there is probably some dependency of having you logged in or otherwise registered through that connection to know what to do. Keep in mind that Market deals with a l

Re: [android-developers] Re: why is my app asking to access phone calls and storage?

2009-11-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Are you sure you are putting in the right place? And thanks Rachel for the explanation. Trying to explain to the user some subtlety about old applications here seemed pretty difficult, and not to useful for a temporary situation. On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Max Binshtok wrote: > How do I

Re: [android-developers] Re: Detect/intercept screen turning off

2009-11-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
I wouldn't count on the screen off broadcast being delivered at some useful different timing from onPause(). These are both part of the flow of turning off the screen, they will happen pretty much at the same time. On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 3:46 AM, David Given wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESS

Re: [android-developers] Beginner Question

2009-11-29 Thread Wayne Wenthin
Give it some time. The emulator is very slow to load. Once its up it will be fine. Just don't shut it down everytime and you will be good. On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:40 PM, LeBlanc217 wrote: > Hey sorry this might seem kinda dumb but just recently I decided to > try out programing for Androi

[android-developers] Re: Intent to display SMS

2009-11-29 Thread westmeadboy
I've finally come up with this which sort of works. It uses the message uri (e.g. "content://sms/123") to work out the thread_id. Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(msgUri, new String[] { "thread_id" }, null, null, null); long threadId = cursor.getLong(0); Intent intent = new Intent(Intent

[android-developers] Promote Your Apps

2009-11-29 Thread Vassilios Kirellous
Hello, We've created a site that hopefully will help a lot of developers get some much needed exposure for their apps. Its called Mobilesoftee.com (http://www.mobilesoftee.com). You can publish your apps, and we will review them for you - Totally free of charge. Even if they are paid apps, we wil

[android-developers] Re: custom protocol handler...

2009-11-29 Thread Miguel Paraz
Hi, I tested this with an embedded WebView, and it works. Not sure why the intent-filter isn't visible to Browser app. On Nov 12, 1:09 am, sdphil wrote: > i want to do the following thing - > > when a user navigates to a web page, I want to have a link in there > that looks like this: > >     Cli

[android-developers] Re: Selling apps in Market from Poland. Just a simple question, to Googlers;

2009-11-29 Thread oxonom
I want to know the same for switzerland. At the moment we can only speculate about the reasons: - Checkout is not ready but will be. - Android hardware is still crappy and they wait to lauch their own. ;-) - They don't care. On 29 Nov., 11:58, vetch wrote: > when it will be possible ? > > Give m

[android-developers] Re: AutoCompleteTextView and setText()

2009-11-29 Thread Klaus Kartou
I tried to call setText before filling data into the CursorAdaptor, but this isnt a very solid solution since I need to be able to call setText at any time. So I´m still in need of some ideas? :) On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Klaus Kartou wrote: > Hi! > > I have a AutoCompleteTextView with a

Re: [android-developers] Re: Detect/intercept screen turning off

2009-11-29 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dianne Hackborn wrote: > Also you definitely do get paused when the screen is turning off, so you > really should be able to fix things by doing whatever you need to there. What I'm trying to do is to work around bug 3755: http://code.google.com/p/an

[android-developers] Re: appwidget Image on Orientation Change Issue

2009-11-29 Thread Ryan
Ok I think I figured it out. In certain cases when the widget is clicked i updated the RemoteViews to hide some on screen controls/ views using setViewVisibility on the remoteview, however I did not re- set the setImageURI. When the screen rotated the Image dissappeared. However this is odd because

[android-developers] Selling apps in Market from Poland. Just a simple question, to Googlers;

2009-11-29 Thread vetch
when it will be possible ? Give me a timeframe: half a year, year or never. It is important for me, and many other developers, planning their business. Life is short, and we must EAT. Regards -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" gro

[android-developers] Re: custom protocol handler...

2009-11-29 Thread Miguel Paraz
Hi all, I'm having the same problem. On Nov 19, 4:16 am, sdphil wrote: > ping...  still unanswered and unworking... > > On Nov 15, 9:48 pm, sdphil wrote: > > > > > ping... > > > On Nov 13, 11:06 am, sdphil wrote: > > > > okay, tried adding the ? mark.  same thing. > > > > i gotta believe someon

[android-developers] Re: Question for OpenGL developers

2009-11-29 Thread Lior
This is not an efficient way to do it, not for 2D games, and not for 3D games. I'll explain: For 2D games like you describe, you do need layers, but putting each layer in its on view is wasteful, specifically in terms of performance, since the Android framework has to manage the life-cycles of all

Re: [android-developers] Re: why is my app asking to access phone calls and storage?

2009-11-29 Thread Rachel Blackman
I think you didn't understand Dianne's answer. Prior to 1.6, those operations did not require a permission; all apps could get that information. In 1.6 and later, those operations require the appropriate permissions to work. An app targeting 1.6 or later will have an appropriate manifest; if the