[android-developers] Showing image from Url

2010-02-06 Thread pankaj nigam
Hi, i want to display an image from URL,i found one example from forum .but it doing nothing. i m sending the code plz suggest me what to do package com.example.urlImage; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.MalformedURLExc

[android-developers] Sqlite Error

2010-02-06 Thread Sasikumar.S
Hi, In my program i'm using sqlite database. After using that Sqlite program when i'm using some other layout it is showing the below exception. 02-06 14:17:59.320: INFO/dalvikvm(853): Uncaught exception thrown by finalizer (will be discarded): 02-06 14:17:59.371: INFO/dalvikvm(853): Ljava/lang

[android-developers] Re: Sqlite Error

2010-02-06 Thread Manoj
Possible reason for this could be the cursor going out of limits. -- 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 from this group, send email to android

Re: [android-developers] Re: Sqlite Error

2010-02-06 Thread Sasikumar.S
Thank U Manoj. I will try it and then i will inform u. On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Manoj wrote: > Possible reason for this could be the cursor going out of limits. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to th

[android-developers] Im status

2010-02-06 Thread Gpalo
Hi, i try to understand how to bind the im status using ContactsContract.StatusUpdates with the name of a contact. Can anyone help me please. thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to androi

[android-developers] Trying to change the Search text field of QSB

2010-02-06 Thread Sudeep Sharma
Hi, Can anyone please let me know where is the xml file located for inflating the QSB with Text Search filed(Text View) and the default string "Quick Search Box" getting displayed in it. I wanted to change some attributes in the text view which gets displayed to enter the text for search.

[android-developers] Android Nexus One Update is causing problems!

2010-02-06 Thread sdphil
I recently got the Nexus One Update which provides amongst other things - pinch gestures. One other unlucky surprise I got is that the app I am writing behaves differently. When I call finish() my activity's onDestroy() should be getting called. On 1.5, 1.6, 2.0 and 2.1 (before the nexus update)

[android-developers] Re: RatingBar size issues on high-density screens (Droid, Nexus One)

2010-02-06 Thread Michael Elsdörfer
I had trouble with this too. The solution is to use support-screens to enable anyDensity=true. Simply setting "targetSdkVersion" to something >= 4 also works, since this makes anyDensity=true the default. I would have assumed that the SDK that you build against automatically is considered the targ

[android-developers] Network Unreachable (Socket.net Exception)

2010-02-06 Thread himanshu jain
Hi , I am trying to connect to server through HttpUrlConnection, but after sometimes it throws Socket.Net Exception :Network Unreachable. I tired alarm manager to wake up the phone and get the wifi lock but none seems to work . Tell me what to do what should i check and alternative

[android-developers] Affordable Outsourcing in the Philippines

2010-02-06 Thread The AllSetter
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[android-developers] Network Unreachable (Socket.net Exception)

2010-02-06 Thread himanshu jain
Hi , I am trying to connect to server through HttpUrlConnection, but after sometimes it throws Socket.Net Exception :Network Unreachable. I tired alarm manager to wake up the phone and get the wifi lock but none seems to work . Tell me what to do what should i check and alternative

[android-developers] Textview Editable Error

2010-02-06 Thread Sasikumar.S
Hi, I'm using Textview with editable. I'm giving a default value to textview. After executing the program when i try to erase the default value it is not deleting? why? -- Thanks & Regards Sasikumar.S -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Develop

[android-developers] Re: Problem in playing video

2010-02-06 Thread Manoj
Please help me i am stuck on this and need to resolve this immediately. -- 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 from this group, send email to

[android-developers] 2.1 Issue "application is not installed on your phone"

2010-02-06 Thread Nebbie
Hi, I have been told my some customers that on nexus one when they try to run my app from the main menu they see the message "application is not installed on your phone" but when running from the market place is runs fine. Any help please? -- You received this message because you are subscribe

[android-developers] Re: 2.1 Issue "application is not installed on your phone"

2010-02-06 Thread Nebbie
Also this runs fine on all other android versions -- 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 from this group, send email to android-developers+unsu

[android-developers] Re: loading files(images) from sdcard in webView

2010-02-06 Thread Yaya
Hi, There is no one to help me ? -- 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 from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegr

Re: [android-developers] Gps sorting question

2010-02-06 Thread Jiri
Ok, so if I use plain simple trigonometry there is some inaccuracy. I can live with that. Thank you Frank Frank Weiss wrote: It's that simple unless you want to account for latitude compression or obstacles. Latitude compression is usually negligible if the latitude bounds are small (<0.2 deg

[android-developers] What does the "Application modularity" mean in android offical document?

2010-02-06 Thread pa018
hi,all there is an article in android document(Dev Guide/Publishing/Signing Your Applications/Signing Strategies) "Application modularity – The Android system allows applications that are signed by the same certificate to run in the same process, if the applications so requests, so

[android-developers] Variable values just get lost!??!?

2010-02-06 Thread Florian Lettner
Hey guys, I seriously need help with a quite strange problem. I created a client which communicates with a server. Therefore, I have three classes. An activity providing a nice dialog to configure some data, a background service which checks the connection status periodically and a server class whi

Re: [android-developers] What does the "Application modularity" mean in android offical document?

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Murphy
pa018 wrote: > hi,all > there is an article in android document(Dev Guide/Publishing/Signing > Your Applications/Signing Strategies) > > "Application modularity – The Android system allows applications that > are signed by the same certificate to run in the same process, if the > appli

Re: [android-developers] How to pause my media

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Murphy
Rohit wrote: > I have an application that plays music. I want the application to > get notified when the user plays a YouTube video so that I can pause > the music in my own app. Is there a listener I can setup or a > Broadcast receiver that I can setup to get notified of when the video > is p

[android-developers] Re: Dynamically enabling or disabling a widget does not work

2010-02-06 Thread Mobile
I have tried the same thing as per the documentation. But nothing worked. Can someone say whether is this possible or not? Thanks, Parveen On Feb 3, 6:56 pm, Matt wrote: > Hi all. > > We would like to enable or disable widgets via code.  When we say > "disable" we mean that awidgetwhich is regi

[android-developers] Re: Unable to get map overly to show

2010-02-06 Thread andrew android
Can anyone help? Thanks! On Feb 2, 7:42 pm, andrew android wrote: > >   xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"; >  android:layout_width="wrap_content" >  android:layout_height="wrap_content"> >   >  android:layout_height="fill_parent"android:enabled="true"android:clickabl

[android-developers] Re: DOM, SAX or XMLPullParser ? Any suggestions ?

2010-02-06 Thread Sam Dutton
Bear in mind that speed (DOM v SAX) may not be much of an issue for parsing smaller amounts of XML, or where for some reason you can't use the parsed data until you've parsed the entire XML document anyway: SAX shines where you can (and need to) use data (e.g. to update a GUI) as soon as it's parse

[android-developers] How to blur a Canvas or Bitmap?

2010-02-06 Thread Armond Avanes
Hi Guys, Can anyone point me to an example of how to blur a Canvas or Bitmap? Thank you, Armond -- 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 from t

[android-developers] Re: How to blur a Canvas or Bitmap?

2010-02-06 Thread skink
On Feb 6, 3:02 pm, "Armond Avanes" wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Can anyone point me to an example of how to blur a Canvas or Bitmap? > > Thank you, > Armond actually you blur Paint object that is used for drawing on Canvas pskink -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[android-developers] Resume download after app stop/start lifecycle

2010-02-06 Thread Carl Whalley
I've an App which performs a potentially large download in background thread. When the orientation changes or the keyboard is opened the App lifecycle system invokes the start/stop/pause/resume etc calls - is there any strategy available to resume the download rather than just set a flag so the new

Re: [android-developers] Resume download after app stop/start lifecycle

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Murphy
Carl Whalley wrote: > I've an App which performs a potentially large download in background > thread. When the orientation changes or the keyboard is opened the App > lifecycle system invokes the start/stop/pause/resume etc calls - is > there any strategy available to resume the download rather tha

Re: [android-developers] Re: loading files(images) from sdcard in webView

2010-02-06 Thread Tim Bray
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Yaya wrote: > Hi, > There is no one to  help me ? See http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2454 -T -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android

[android-developers] java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: android.view.ScaleGestureDetector

2010-02-06 Thread jeffro
I have a user complaining about a FC on my app and they were kind enough to post the stacktrace. It's a class that I cannot find anywhere and it sounds like it is related to multi-touch. I don't specifically call this class, MapView does so I don't have any control over it. It kind of looks like

[android-developers] Re: Variable values just get lost!??!?

2010-02-06 Thread Streets Of Boston
I don't if it was a typo or not, but shouldn't this code be like this?: public static ServerConnection getInstance() { if(m_connection == null) m_connection = new ServerConnection(); return m_connection; } (added 'm_connection = ' to the second line of the function's body)

[android-developers] Re: gluUnProject again - opengl bug?

2010-02-06 Thread Streets Of Boston
I have no idea how it differs from the original version (as shipped in the SDK). :-) The original version just didn't work and i ported a C-version (google it) into Java. And this seems to work for my app and other developers' apps. On Feb 5, 11:22 pm, Tim Newsham wrote: > Could you explain how

[android-developers] Filtering urls within an activity's intent-filter?

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Wyszomierski
Hi, I'm registering an intent-filter on an activity to listen for url clicks from a certain domain: this works, but is there a way to filter out certain urls from my domain? For example, my app can only do something useful for the user if it gets a url like:

[android-developers] moving the softkeyboard from place

2010-02-06 Thread guich
Hi, When i have a text editor in the bottom of screen, i would like to move the IM to the top. I can easily do this in windows mobile. Is there a way in Android? thanks guich -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to

[android-developers] Re: Variable values just get lost!??!?

2010-02-06 Thread Bob Kerns
In addition to the comment/correction by Streets of Boston... It's unclear from your description just where you're storing your non- static variables. The right way would appear to be in your ServerConnection instance, since that's the static singleton. Your activity will have a much shorter lifes

Re: [android-developers] moving the softkeyboard from place

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Murphy
guich wrote: > When i have a text editor in the bottom of screen, i would like to > move the IM to the top. I can easily do this in windows mobile. Is > there a way in Android? No, but you can use various techniques to have your text editor appear above the IME, for IMEs where that is possible. h

Re: [android-developers] Filtering urls within an activity's intent-filter?

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Murphy
Mark Wyszomierski wrote: > Hi, > > I'm registering an intent-filter on an activity to listen for url > clicks from a certain domain: > > > action> >category> >category> >data> > > > > this works, but is there a way to filter out certain urls from my > doma

[android-developers] persisting application data that will remain after app removal

2010-02-06 Thread guich
Hi, I want to add a flag that will tell how much time my application is running. This flag will have to stay even after the application is removed. And, if its installed back, i must have a way to recover this flag. What's a way to implement this? thanks guich -- You received this message

[android-developers] Re: gluUnProject again - opengl bug?

2010-02-06 Thread Tim Newsham
I opened a bug report on this: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6502 Could you run my test case (http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/unproj/ unproj-tracer.java) with the original unproject function (already there) and with your unproject function and compare the results? I also tri

Re: [android-developers] persisting application data that will remain after app removal

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Murphy
guich wrote: > I want to add a flag that will tell how much time my application is > running. This flag will have to stay even after the application is > removed. And, if its installed back, i must have a way to recover this > flag. > > What's a way to implement this? It is not possible. The clo

[android-developers] Re: moving the softkeyboard from place

2010-02-06 Thread guich
Thanks. Do you know how to *programatically* force the inputmethod to be shown in fullscreen? regards guich -- 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 uns

[android-developers] Re: persisting application data that will remain after app removal

2010-02-06 Thread guich
Hi Mark, Very strange that Android don't support shareware applications. Note that, then, is fairly easy that the user installs a 30-day trial application, remove it and install again. guich -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group.

Re: [android-developers] Re: moving the softkeyboard from place

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Murphy
guich wrote: > Thanks. Do you know how to *programatically* force the inputmethod to > be shown in fullscreen? I don't see an option to do that in InputMethodManager -- you can find out if it is fullscreen, but you can't force it. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://tw

Re: [android-developers] Re: persisting application data that will remain after app removal

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Murphy
guich wrote: > Very strange that Android don't support shareware applications. Note > that, then, is fairly easy that the user installs a 30-day trial > application, remove it and install again. You're looking at the glass being half empty. Users who feel like attacking their Windows PCs with sle

[android-developers] Re: Filtering urls within an activity's intent-filter?

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Wyszomierski
Ok thanks, looks like the preFix attribute does what I need: Thanks On Feb 6, 9:53 am, Mark Murphy wrote: > Mark Wyszomierski wrote: > > Hi, > > > I'm registering an intent-filter on an activity to listen for url > > clicks from a certain domain: > > >   > >     > action> > >       > cate

[android-developers] Background on layout is scrunching contained content

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Nuetzmann
I have a LinearLayout that I set a background to a 9-patch drawable. It appears that the LinearLayout is somehow forcing its contents to display within the center space defined by its background. This is really creating problems as the content is being "scrunched" or compressed to a much smaller s

[android-developers] Re: Background on layout is scrunching contained content

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Nuetzmann
After a quick search I saw some comments of "what not to do"... but in my case it WORKED PERFECT. Rather than setting the layout background in the xml as I had originally done (and what I would have preferred to do). I took a little of the code from another post and set the background in code. Th

[android-developers] Re: Forcibly using 3G or CDMA network even though wi-fi is available.

2010-02-06 Thread Jens
Uh yeah, that's why they added that particular crazed hack - an undocumented call to #startUsingNetworkFeature(int, String). On 3 Feb, 09:31, Anonymous Anonymous wrote: > -- > > MMS cannot be sent over wi-fi.Carriers network is mandatory to send/recv. > The MMSC need t

[android-developers] Re: Network Unreachable (Socket.net Exception)

2010-02-06 Thread Bob Kerns
This error indicates that some router along the path (possibly your local machine) has no route to the network you're trying to reach. If you're running on a rooted phone, you can run traceroute to see the route to the host, if you have it; the busybox version works well. This will show where the

[android-developers] Re: DOM, SAX or XMLPullParser ? Any suggestions ?

2010-02-06 Thread jotobjects
On Feb 5, 5:45 am, "Emre A. Yavuz" wrote: > Hi, > > We need to convert XML messages to a stream or string which can then be sent > via sockets. You can read one XML input with XmlPullParser (or DOM or SAX) and write it at the same time to another stream with XMLSerializer - see XmlPullParserFac

[android-developers] Re: Android Nexus One Update is causing problems!

2010-02-06 Thread Bob Kerns
Is the entire application disappearing, or is it just this activity? onDestroy() doesn't necessarily get called in the former case. On Feb 6, 1:31 am, sdphil wrote: > I recently got the Nexus One Update which provides amongst other > things - pinch gestures. > > One other unlucky surprise I got i

[android-developers] AppWidget on Homescreen: How to focus ImageView or TextView with trackball?

2010-02-06 Thread Moritzz
Hi, I coded an AppWidget the user can add to his homescreen. There are a bunch of images (ImageView) in it that perform different actions like starting Activities on click (realised with PendingIntents). To make it easier to navigate through the AppWidget I'd like to use the trackball (as it works

Re: [android-developers] Re: persisting application data that will remain after app removal

2010-02-06 Thread Frank Weiss
You can really only discourage a determined person from using a time-limited application, unless you use more sophisticated DRM-like approaches. There are a couple of simple things you can do. Add a nag dialog that periodical reminds the user the trial expires in x days, or expired x days ago, alon

[android-developers] Re: Background on layout is scrunching contained content

2010-02-06 Thread Bob Kerns
The right thing to do is to adjust your 9patch with the 9patch tool to indicate what the padding should be. Those are those pixels on the right and bottom. I haven't actually tried setting them to be wider than the stretchable area, but I'd expect it to work. But the other issue I've found is tha

[android-developers] rogue setting of device_provisioned, issue 4358

2010-02-06 Thread jk-bk-vk
Wasn't sure where to post this, so i'm starting here; confident someone will re-direct as appropriate. I've got a stock My-Touch-3G (i.e. not rooted/jail-broken). Recently the response to standard buttons changed drastically: *Regardless of applicat state (awake, sleep, active application, ...) t

[android-developers] Re: TextView scrollHorizontally doesn't work

2010-02-06 Thread jotobjects
Sorry, that doesn't work either On Feb 1, 5:31 pm, Romain Guy wrote: > scrollHorizontally enables user scrolling for editable text fields. If > you want automatic scrolling, use android:ellipsis="marquee" Generating R.java / Manifest.java from the resources... ...\res\layout\main.xml:67: ERROR

[android-developers] Re: TextView scrollHorizontally doesn't work

2010-02-06 Thread jotobjects
Tried to post this the last two days (hopefully problem with this list is now resolved). I haven't given up on figuring out how to display a single line of text that is wider than the view. More observations and questions: (1) ellipsize="marquee" is not allowed for EditText (generates exception)

[android-developers] Re: persisting application data that will remain after app removal

2010-02-06 Thread Bob Kerns
Along those lines, you can persist it, keyed by a unique ID based on the handset, externally in an activation server. But I agree with Frank about emphasizing the value and making the user WANT to purchase, rather than focusing on a customer going to lengths to steal it. They probably weren't goin

[android-developers] Re: Launching the correct activity on resume

2010-02-06 Thread jotobjects
It seems you are not going to get a call to onNewIntent() because in ayanir's example Activity A (the activity launched by the home screen) is not on top of the task stack. Apparently the market application is sending an intent for action.MAIN, category.LAUNCHER. Maybe you would need some kind of

[android-developers] Re: Binding list views to large data sets

2010-02-06 Thread jotobjects
It makes sense that getCount() on the cursor might involve reading all the rows even if it probably doesn't actually instantiate all the objects as Bob Kerns correctly points out. A work around is to do a seperate "select count(*)" with the same where clause but this is only an estimate of the num

[android-developers] Re: gluUnProject again - opengl bug?

2010-02-06 Thread Tim Newsham
FWIW, the following unproject code seems to line up properly for me. Notice that I had to map view coordinates to (-1.25,1.25) instead of from (-2,2). I got these numbers empirically and have no idea why this would be so or how close to the correct values I am. static void fixW(float[] v) {

[android-developers] Re: gluUnProject again - opengl bug?

2010-02-06 Thread Tim Newsham
oops, I meant to (-0.625,0.625) rather than (-1,1) On Feb 6, 10:22 am, Tim Newsham wrote: > FWIW, the following unproject code seems to line up properly for me. > Notice that I had to map view coordinates to (-1.25,1.25) instead of > from (-2,2).  I got these numbers empirically and have no idea

Re: [android-developers] rogue setting of device_provisioned, issue 4358

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Murphy
jk-bk-vk wrote: > Wasn't sure where to post this, so i'm starting here; confident > someone will re-direct as appropriate. Directly emailing core Android developers (per your CC) is not polite. Please bear in mind that there are millions of Android device users, and the core Android development te

[android-developers] New activity instance created for every intent-filter?

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Wyszomierski
Hi, I'm using an intent-filter on URLs for my activity: the launchMode attribute is set to "singleTop", but it looks like a new activity is created every time I click a matching url. I thought that if the activity is already alive somewhere, it would simply be brought to t

Re: [android-developers] New activity instance created for every intent-filter?

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Murphy
Mark Wyszomierski wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using an intent-filter on URLs for my activity: > >android:name=".ActivityTest" > android:launchMode="singleTop" > > >action> > category> > category> > > > > > the launchMode attribute is set to "singleTop", but it looks like

[android-developers] Re: Problems with Activity Flow during OAUTH Authentication

2010-02-06 Thread Brion Emde
I've done some more research on this problem, which seems to me to be pretty important. I do not see how anyone is going to be able to incorporate full OAUTH into their applications, and use the new AccountManager functionality. Looking at my situation more, I think that what I'm actually seeing a

Re: [android-developers] Background on layout is scrunching contained content

2010-02-06 Thread Romain Guy
Why don't you just edit your 9patch image to remove the padding that you put in there? On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Mark Nuetzmann wrote: > I have a LinearLayout that I set a background to a 9-patch drawable. > It appears that the LinearLayout is somehow forcing its contents to > display with

Re: [android-developers] Re: Background on layout is scrunching contained content

2010-02-06 Thread Romain Guy
Without seeing your code it's hard to know what's going on, but background drawables are never drawn in the foreground. On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Bob Kerns wrote: > The right thing to do is to adjust your 9patch with the 9patch tool to > indicate what the padding should be. Those are those

Re: [android-developers] java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: android.view.ScaleGestureDetector

2010-02-06 Thread Romain Guy
ScaleGestureDetector is a class that was added in the latest update of the Nexus One. If your user is using a Droid, it looks like he's been trying to update his Droid manually, using binaries that were not meant for his phone. On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:14 AM, jeffro wrote: > I have a user complai

[android-developers] Re: persisting application data that will remain after app removal

2010-02-06 Thread guich
Hi, We already have the application working this way in many other platforms. Its just very strange that Android don't allow such approach. Is the sd card the only way? I guess that the SharedPreferences is not a good place... thx guich -- You received this message because you are subscrib

Re: [android-developers] Re: persisting application data that will remain after app removal

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Murphy
guich wrote: > We already have the application working this way in many other > platforms. All of whose users will suffer as applications leave crap behind. > I guess that the SharedPreferences is not > a good place... Anything stored in on-board flash for the app (shared prefs, files, database

[android-developers] Re: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: android.view.ScaleGestureDetector

2010-02-06 Thread jeffro
Ahhh..thanks. The joy of custom ROMs. On Feb 6, 1:13 pm, Romain Guy wrote: > ScaleGestureDetector is a class that was added in the latest update of > the Nexus One. If your user is using a Droid, it looks like he's been > trying to update his Droid manually, using binaries that were not > meant

[android-developers] Re: Background on layout is scrunching contained content

2010-02-06 Thread Bob Kerns
That is what I firmly believed -- until extensive testing convinced me otherwise: that NinePatchDrawable's are, unlike everything else, drawn in the foreground. I recognize it's an extraordinary claim, requiring extraordinary evidence. However -- my testing indicated that, no matter HOW I supplie

Re: [android-developers] Re: Background on layout is scrunching contained content

2010-02-06 Thread Romain Guy
I can assure you that NinePatchDrawables are NOT drawn in the foreground. > The only reason I can see this hasn't provoked an uproar (besides > possible hallucinations on my part, which I haven't quite ruled out), > is that the advice is to leave the center center tile transparent. There is absol

[android-developers] Re: bug in Spinner.setSelection when called twice?

2010-02-06 Thread Thierry Legras
Hi, I think i found the solution: a call to ArrayAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged fixed the problem. Thierry. 2010/2/3 Thierry Legras > Hi, > > I saw several people reporting an issue with Spinner.setSelection that does > not seem to work as expected on the second call: the item selection is > co

[android-developers] unicode chars not being dispatched from IM

2010-02-06 Thread guich
Hi, I'm opening the ImputMethod to be able to catch keys into my app. When the user press standard keys, its ok. I get things like: 0 33 101 1 33 101 (action type, keycode, unicode) However, when i long-press a char like A and choose à (ã), i get only: 2 0 0 Any tips of what's going on? thanks

[android-developers] Re: TextView scrollHorizontally doesn't work

2010-02-06 Thread jotobjects
I got it the marquee TextView working after all ! A bit of a mystery about the combination of attributes that works so maybe I am relying on undocumented behavior. For some reason adding android:focusableInTouchMode="true" causes the marquee to activate. Why is that? android:focusable="true" is

[android-developers] Re: rogue setting of device_provisioned, issue 4358

2010-02-06 Thread jk-bk-vk
Thanks Mark !! 1. ack on the protocol/etiquette mistake -- my apologies to everybody 2. i will pursue with T-Mobile and return here just to finalize/report "their soln" so anybody stumbling on this thread will know where/what/ how. I did want to make sure on one inference I'm making from your res

[android-developers] Re: Layout Highlight

2010-02-06 Thread NoraBora
Did you send me an email? I didn't get any. Why don't you post the layout here? On Feb 6, 1:40 pm, haric zhu wrote: > Have you got my layout file, and if you have any other problem about this > issue, please email me:) > > 2010/2/6 NoraBora > > > > > In 'list_selector_background' > > > you can

[android-developers] How to keep WiFi from going to sleep?

2010-02-06 Thread Moto
I'm seeing that some users are downloading data via my application and their connection is dropped because the WiFi is going to sleep. Could I somehow take control over WiFi to keep it alive and once I'm done I return it to it's default state? Thanks, -Moto! -- You received this message because

[android-developers] Re: Unable to parse hprof dump with MAT?

2010-02-06 Thread Moto
Got it working... All I had to do was convert the file using hprof- conv :) Thanks guys for the help! -Moto! On Feb 4, 8:47 pm, Xavier Ducrohet wrote: > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Moto wrote: > > Any ideas?  I just used the "Dump HPROF file" button, and picked it up > > from the sdcard an

[android-developers] Re: unicode chars not being dispatched from IM

2010-02-06 Thread guich
Ok, after a few hours, found the answer: public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) { switch (event.getAction()) { case KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN: eventThread.pushEvent(KEY_PRESS, event.getUnicodeChar(), keyCode,0,convertMeta(event),0);

[android-developers] Re: Network Unreachable (Socket.net Exception)

2010-02-06 Thread himanshu jain
@bob I think i used connect to another website that sends news in order to check whether it is wrong at network side or in my code. Also my question is , can we really implement a service that runs in background indefinitely and give us update if it is available .If yes, then what parameters we sh

Re: [android-developers] Re: rogue setting of device_provisioned, issue 4358

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Murphy
jk-bk-vk wrote: > 2. i will pursue with T-Mobile and return here just to finalize/report > "their soln" so anybody stumbling on this thread will know where/what/ > how. Particularly if the problem is indeed the provisioning bit getting flipped back, T-Mobile may have a way to re-provision it at th

Re: [android-developers] How to keep WiFi from going to sleep?

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Murphy
Moto wrote: > I'm seeing that some users are downloading data via my application and > their connection is dropped because the WiFi is going to sleep. > > Could I somehow take control over WiFi to keep it alive and once I'm > done I return it to it's default state? There's a WifiLock you can hold

[android-developers] Re: How to keep WiFi from going to sleep?

2010-02-06 Thread himanshu jain
You Can do it by acquiring wifilock but for this you need to wake up the phone using Alarm manager. I suggest you to see Alarm Manager and wifilick On Feb 6, 5:01 pm, Moto wrote: > I'm seeing that some users are downloading data via my application and > their connection is dropped because the Wi

Re: [android-developers] Re: Network Unreachable (Socket.net Exception)

2010-02-06 Thread Frank Weiss
Re your question about implementing a service that polls for updates, please look at some of the sample code. For example, Romain Guy's Photostream demo application has a background service that polls the Flikr API webservice for updates and displays a notification in the notification bar. AFAIK wh

Re: [android-developers] Re: DNS Query

2010-02-06 Thread Android Development
Thanks for this discussion Bob. Based on this discussion, I have implemented a DNS client at the application and tested it out too. It works well. On 2/4/10, Bob Kerns wrote: > Ah, this provides a lot more context -- but not all of it! > > Normally, this sort of thing is handled through DHCP or

[android-developers] Re: Network Unreachable (Socket.net Exception)

2010-02-06 Thread himanshu jain
@frank Thank you very much let me look at those sample then i will let you know. once again thanx On Feb 6, 7:14 pm, Frank Weiss wrote: > Re your question about implementing a service that polls for updates, please > look at some of the sample code. For example, Romain Guy's Photostream demo >

[android-developers] Re: Network Unreachable (Socket.net Exception)

2010-02-06 Thread himanshu jain
@frank Can you please tell me where i can find that sample code. thanks On Feb 6, 9:28 pm, himanshu jain wrote: > @frank > > Thank you very much let me look at those sample then i  will let you > know. > > once again thanx > > On Feb 6, 7:14 pm, Frank Weiss wrote: > > > Re your question about

Re: [android-developers] Affordable Outsourcing in the Philippines

2010-02-06 Thread Kevin Duffey
Love seeing posts about outsourcing jobs while we keep seeing more jobs being lost all the time. Can someone remove this please.. I fail to see how it's relevant to android development help. On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:58 AM, The AllSetter wrote: > "AICOM Global Knowledge Workforce™ > > AICOM® (ey-

[android-developers] Re: Background on layout is scrunching contained content

2010-02-06 Thread Bob Kerns
I can assure you that's what I believed, expected, and still want to believe! And yet, supplying, at the same line of code, to the exact same view, an BitmapDrawable vs a NinePatchDrawable, produced dramatically different results. You'll have to see a demo app to believe it. Hopefully, I'll just e

[android-developers] Re: Background on layout is scrunching contained content

2010-02-06 Thread Bob Kerns
gah, meant to reply to this part, too: Please refer to the documentation: http://developer.android.com/intl/de/reference/android/graphics/NinePatch.html "Normally, the middle is transparent so that the patch can provide a selection about a rectangle. " As you can see, I didn't make it up. Anywa

[android-developers] now there is an ant clean target

2010-02-06 Thread jotobjects
Good news that the build.xml ant script now comes with a built-in "clean" target. This is in 2.0.1. Not sure when this was added (it wasn't there in 1.5). This will remove a major source of confusion with resource id's as discussed in this old post. http://groups.google.com/group/android-develop