[android-developers] How to stream video

2010-10-02 Thread zohar lerman
Hi, I want to play video file that exists in one of my servers. I am using MediaPlay and VideoView classes and it works fine but the problem is that the video start to play only when it finished downloading the whole file. How can i stream it, meaning play the video while it continues to

Re: [android-developers] 3rd-party applications signature/system permissions

2010-10-02 Thread Dianne Hackborn
There is no system key. Each manufacturer signs the platform with their own certificate (or even different certificates for different devices). If these apps are getting this permission at all, it will only be on a small subset of devices; there is no way to be signed to get such permissions on

[android-developers] Re: How to stream video

2010-10-02 Thread Doug
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/6b2b900d44836788 -- 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,

[android-developers] Re: MediaPlayer and video problem

2010-10-02 Thread Doug
On Sep 29, 11:13 am, Anton Okolelov gemo...@gmail.com wrote: I tryed VideoView, but no result... You might want to keep trying with VideoView, because if you can't get that to work, then it probably won't work at all. The source for VideoView will help you understand what to do if VideoView

[android-developers] repo sync giving fatal error for CyanogenMod donut branch

2010-10-02 Thread Suchita Sharma
Hi All, I am facing some issue in downloading the source code from CyanogenMod for Donut branch. I am following the steps as explained in link: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Compile_CyanogenMod_for_Dream_%26_Sapphire But after i do repo sync,it is giving error : * bash-4.0$ repo

Re: [android-developers] repo sync giving fatal error for CyanogenMod donut branch

2010-10-02 Thread ravi kumar sahu
hi sharma. hw r u ? On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Suchita Sharma suchi.bhard...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, I am facing some issue in downloading the source code from CyanogenMod for Donut branch. I am following the steps as explained in link:

Re: [android-developers] Re: CRC32 checksum use in order to secure Android LVL Applications

2010-10-02 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:11 PM, DanH danhi...@ieee.org wrote: What you really want to be sure of is that the application is signed with your certificate. (Of course, I've not yet found a way to access that info.)

Re: [android-developers] android design considerations: AsynchTask vs Service (IntentService?)

2010-10-02 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Prakash Iyer thei...@gmail.com wrote: Service, OTOH, is designed to work in the background without requiring user interaction. Problem is that for your Activity to display the results it must somehow interact with your service. Ideally you will want to spawn the

[android-developers] ListPreference disable item

2010-10-02 Thread rrd
I have a currency exchange rate watcher application. The user could choose if he would like to get currency rates or foreign exchange rates. An other preference is to choose the selling, buying or middle rate. If the user choose to see currency rates I would like to disable midde rate from the

[android-developers] Re: Using 3G and WLAN simultaneously

2010-10-02 Thread Jens
Asked and answered. http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/4a4d8fbc87d20c/ec0177df1fa1534c?lnk=gstq=We+have+an+application+where+we%27d+like+to+use+the+Wifi+connection+on+a+#ec0177df1fa1534c Only works on 2.2+ - and the current solution is somewhat hackish.. On 1

[android-developers] Re: How to stream video

2010-10-02 Thread Indicator Veritatis
You need to serve it with a streaming server instead of a mere HTTP server. Red5 will work. Or Darwin. Or ffserver. You'll have to decide which is best for your needs. Darwin can be hard to install and configure, but it is very good and handles many streaming formats/ protocols. ffserver handles

[android-developers] Re: android design considerations: AsynchTask vs Service (IntentService?)

2010-10-02 Thread Indicator Veritatis
Your point that they are 'orthogonal' is a surprise, and could use more elaboration. After all: from the Javadoc on AsyncTask, it sounds like the whole purpose of it is for one purpose only: to set up easy communications between an Activity (the normal owner of the UI main thread) and a worker

[android-developers] video player

2010-10-02 Thread Ahmed Shoeib
hi, i want to play video on android can anyone help me to play video ? thanks, -- 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

[android-developers] Re: 3rd-party applications signature/system permissions

2010-10-02 Thread APF
On Oct 2, 2:50 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: There is no system key.  Each manufacturer signs the platform with their own certificate (or even different certificates for different devices).   I see. Several Google-made applications in the Market request many signature

[android-developers] Strabge behaviour in ListView with single choice mode

2010-10-02 Thread jlopeznava...@gmail.com
Hi, I have a ListView with 4 rows and I want to color the text inside each row when a row is clicked, the code below works fine but if I change the selection mode of the ListView to single mode the View object received is not the correct one. In this case : if I click row number 1 it colors the

[android-developers] Same device - different targetSdkVersion = different DisplayMetrics, why?

2010-10-02 Thread Martin
Hi! I am debugging my game directly on the device (Nexus One), so the width and height of the screen should NEVER change, am I right? When I start DisplayMetrics dm = new DisplayMetrics(); getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(dm); System.out.println(dm.widthPixels+

Re: [android-developers] Same device - different targetSdkVersion = different DisplayMetrics, why?

2010-10-02 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Applications built with sdk 3 (Android 1.5) and not having supports-screens tag in the manifest are assumed to only be able to deal with HVGA / mdpi screens. Android runs them in compatibility mode, and presents fake screen dimensions / density to the application (HVGA, 320x480, 160 dpi).

[android-developers] Re: Same device - different targetSdkVersion = different DisplayMetrics, why?

2010-10-02 Thread Martin
Thank you!! :-) My game worked perfekt with android:targetSdkVersion=3. I changed it to 8 and all my Bitmaps, which I draw with canvas.drawBitmap are cropped after this change. I draw my Bitmaps, for example the background-bitmap like this: canvas.drawBitmap(Global.imageBackground,

[android-developers] Could use some help (free game on Galaxy S problem)

2010-10-02 Thread Patrick
I put a free trial version of my game (RGBbot Trial Version) out on the market and although it seems to run well on my N1 and a friend's Droid X, I'm getting error reports from Samsung Galaxy S owners with an IllegalStateException trying to play an audiotrack. If a Galaxy S owner could send me a

Re: [android-developers] Re: Same device - different targetSdkVersion = different DisplayMetrics, why?

2010-10-02 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Martin, Game code should be adapted to use real screen dimensions. You will most likely want to have high-res versions of your game artwork, and possibly low-res versions, provided in the application. Having high-res (hdpi) images is important so your game looks crisp on high-res devices.

RE: [android-developers] Corrupt installation

2010-10-02 Thread lloyd
Could you point me to that thread? Yes the 2 problem customers have LG phones. How can they do a re-install of the app without my having to make a fake release and have the Market update all users? I do not want them to do a un-install as that would cause them to lose their data. Right?

[android-developers] Re: android design considerations: AsynchTask vs Service (IntentService?)

2010-10-02 Thread Bret Foreman
The best IntentService pattern I use is handling online web services, which can take several seconds to respond. I launch IntentServices to get data from various web services, and the data is placed in an SQLite db. The IntentService broadcasts a message back to the UI activity when it's done and

Re: [android-developers] Re: OpenGL lockups in 2.2

2010-10-02 Thread Leigh McRae
Maybe set swap interval. I have to say I feel your pain as Android is starting to feel like PC when it comes to graphics drivers. On 10/1/2010 9:03 PM, Robert Green wrote: Update - I just tested with eglWaitGL right before swapBuffers and I got the same nasty performance hit as glFinish.

[android-developers] Scrollable Menu Bar like Fox news app

2010-10-02 Thread Ganapathy.C
If anybody know the code for create scrollable menubar in app.. Insted of tab i want that scrollable menu thankyou. -- 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

[android-developers] Re: OpenGL lockups in 2.2

2010-10-02 Thread Jeremy Statz
I'm not mixing Native in with anything either, straight Java is enough trouble as is. :P I noticed a definitely framerate hit with glFinish as well, but I'd rather suffer through that than have it forcibly lock up and reboot people's phones. The worst thing is everybody but HTC seems just fine

[android-developers] Re: Running OpenGL ES 2.0 application on emulator

2010-10-02 Thread Lance Nanek
The GLES20Activity in the API Demos uses an alternate OpenGL ES 1.x render implementation when it detects that OpenGL ES 2.0 is not supported, like on the emulator. Look at the source code. That's pretty much the whole point of that sample activity. On Oct 1, 6:50 am, Andy milind...@gmail.com

[android-developers] Android library project symbolic link name

2010-10-02 Thread Jeremy Statz
Is there any way to control the name of the link that Eclipse makes when it integrates a library project? I have inconsistency going on depending on the machine, and I don't understand why. The project structure is really simple, basically there's a library called _engine and a set of other

Re: [android-developers] Android library project symbolic link name

2010-10-02 Thread Xavier Ducrohet
I think you don't have the same version of ADT on your different machines. We released 0.9.8* a few weeks ago which changed how we handle libraries in Eclipse. There's a migration document here: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/eclipse-adt.html#libraryMigrating * actual current

Re: [android-developers] Library Projects support ?

2010-10-02 Thread Xavier Ducrohet
The link you referenced shows which version of the 1.6 SDK component supports library projects (http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/eclipse-adt.html#libraryReqts). I'm guessing you have an older version. rev 3 (for 1.6) is needed. Use the SDK updater to get an update to the 1.6 SDK

[android-developers] Cell tower location with CDMA

2010-10-02 Thread Brian
Is this possible? It seems that all of the GSM location services use the Google maps API, or OpenCellID.org. Is it possible to convert CDMA BSID, SID, and NID to the CellID and LAC values from a GSM cell, in order to use these common API's? If not, how does my Droid find cell location? I want to

[android-developers] Re: Hiding the virtual keyborad in a ListActivity

2010-10-02 Thread Prajakta Shitole
Hi, You can try the below code and see if it works: getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN); this would be at the window where you want to hide the keyborad. or I had used the below piece of code in the onClick event of a button (*Butto*n is my

[android-developers] Re: CRC32 checksum use in order to secure Android LVL Applications

2010-10-02 Thread DanH
That interface says signatureS. How does one know which is which? And is there a way to actually access the public certificate? On Oct 2, 4:05 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:11 PM, DanH danhi...@ieee.org wrote: What you really want to be sure of is

[android-developers] Re: Hiding the virtual keyborad in a ListActivity

2010-10-02 Thread Eyal
I tried your code on a simple activity, with a handful of widgets organized with a LineraLayout and it doesn't work. The virtual keyboard shows up all the time, takes over half the screen, and refuses to go away. What on earth can I be doing wrong? Thanks, Eyal On Oct 2, 8:07 pm, Prajakta

[android-developers] Re: OpenGL lockups in 2.2

2010-10-02 Thread Robert Green
I actually am adding a safe mode setting to the game that people can use if it's freezing on their device. I can't have it on all the time or the game really is unplayably slow on the first gen phones and it never seems to lock up on those - just snapdragons. What are you guys talking about with

[android-developers] Re: OpenGL lockups in 2.2

2010-10-02 Thread Jeremy Statz
Back in the day glSwapInterval is what you'd use to synchronize with a CRT's refresh rate. Setting it to one basically means that swapBuffers wouldn't happen until the next display refresh. I'd thought it was dead and buried, but this appears to indicate otherwise:

[android-developers] Re: OpenGL lockups in 2.2

2010-10-02 Thread Jeremy Statz
That said, I just sat down to test that, and eglSwapInterval doesn't appear to be supported on Android, at least I don't see it in either EGL10 or EGL11. On Oct 2, 3:06 pm, Jeremy Statz jst...@gmail.com wrote: Back in the day glSwapInterval is what you'd use to synchronize with a CRT's refresh

[android-developers] Turning Location Updates Back On After Turning Them Off

2010-10-02 Thread plutonianandroid
I am developing on 2.1 and location updates will not resume after removing them and adding them again. Is this an issue with the system? -- 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] Re: video player

2010-10-02 Thread Sudsak
READ THE DOCUMENTATION. http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html Google is your friend, use it. On Oct 2, 6:57 am, Ahmed Shoeib ahmedelsayed.sho...@gmail.com wrote: hi, i want to play video on android can anyone help me to play video ? thanks, -- You received this message

Re: [android-developers] android design considerations: AsynchTask vs Service (IntentService?)

2010-10-02 Thread Prakash Iyer
I'm not sure I agree with your comment that it is the wrong question. In fact your explanation of how a majority of the cases a Service runs in the same process is precisely why most people will consider these as alternatives. I was trying to point out to the OP that if the OP ever wanted to

Re: [android-developers] Corrupt installation

2010-10-02 Thread Prakash Iyer
PS: Google on the groups website actually works. Here, I have done it for you... http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/d1380717b108b7db/d15fbc13dc64647d?lnk=gstq=LG+Verizon+OTA#d15fbc13dc64647d Seems like is the user uninstalls and then reinstalls from the Market

[android-developers] Re: OpenGL lockups in 2.2

2010-10-02 Thread Jeremy Statz
Sorry to spam so many replies into this thread here... I just went and tested a couple of my wallpapers on the G2, since I've been getting new and strange reports about them. One that was NOT using glFinish seemed to behave okay, but the other that was using it was locking up every single time

[android-developers] OutOfMemory exception in OnCreate

2010-10-02 Thread Yahel
Hi all, I'm having a hard time resolving a crash report. It's an OutOfMemory exception that occurs during the setContentView in the onCreate of my main activity. I just want to be sure I understood Android LifeCycle well : 1) The onCreate of my main activity is called once and only once during

Re: [android-developers] android design considerations: AsynchTask vs Service (IntentService?)

2010-10-02 Thread Tom Gibara
AsyncTask is excellently documented: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/AsyncTask.html http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/AsyncTask.htmlAsyncTask has no interaction with the Activity lifecycle, except for that which you introduce with your own code. It's for

Re: [android-developers] OutOfMemory exception in OnCreate

2010-10-02 Thread Prakash Iyer
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Yahel kaye...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm having a hard time resolving a crash report. It's an OutOfMemory exception that occurs during the setContentView in the onCreate of my main activity. I just want to be sure I understood Android LifeCycle well : 1)

[android-developers] Re: OutOfMemory exception in OnCreate

2010-10-02 Thread Streets Of Boston
You haven't shown us enough of your code (code snippets) for us to begin figuring out what may be wrong with your app. Could you provide more details? But to your questions; 1. The onCreate is called once per Activity instance. If you have instance-variables/fields in you activity, you can assume

Re: [android-developers] android design considerations: AsynchTask vs Service (IntentService?)

2010-10-02 Thread Prakash Iyer
Each his own. Try writing a AsyncTask that say lives for more than 10s and in the final result say updates a text field. Now before the AsyncTask completes, just change the orientation. I'd bet most developers would assume the text field will get updated. Most developers would be wrong as the

[android-developers] Problem after reopen the application !!!

2010-10-02 Thread tarek attia
Hi all, I have a weird behaviour on T-mobile ,as I made an application,then after closing it and reopen it immediately after closing ,a message box telling me that the application had to stop and fatal error occurred,then I reopen it again after this,it opens normally Any Idea ? Do I miss

[android-developers] Re: Is anyone's active install % dropping like a rock lately?

2010-10-02 Thread Lance Nanek
you have some automatic tools to do that or something I never saw in my console ? Seems like a daunting task ... I ended up writing a web scraper for the publishing console using HtmlUnit. The numbers in the console are populated using JavaScript (generated via Google Web Toolkit), so you

[android-developers] Re: Problem after reopen the application !!!

2010-10-02 Thread tarek attia
the alert box is as the follow :- The process com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:56 AM, tarek attia tarek.m.at...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have a weird behaviour on T-mobile ,as I made an application,then after closing it and reopen it

Re: [android-developers] android design considerations: AsynchTask vs Service (IntentService?)

2010-10-02 Thread Tom Gibara
AsyncTasks can be used in a number of contexts, not only in Activities. And where they are used in activities, there are many way of plumbing them to the activity lifecycle. Here are three scenarios that I would generally use AsyncTasks for (rather than services): 1) Dynamically rendering an

Re: [android-developers] Re: Problem after reopen the application !!!

2010-10-02 Thread Miguel Morales
What does the logcat/stacktrace say? Your app may be being destroyed when you navigate from it. On Oct 2, 2010 4:02 PM, tarek attia tarek.m.at...@gmail.com wrote: the alert box is as the follow :- The process com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at

[android-developers] Re: Mapping 6 faces of cube with 6 different images

2010-10-02 Thread Lance Nanek
Technically, you can draw the faces separately, binding a different texture in between each draw. That'll be really slow, though. It's usually better to put all six images into a single texture, then for each face use texture coordinates into that single texture to only show the part with one of

Re: [android-developers] Re: android design considerations: AsynchTask vs Service (IntentService?)

2010-10-02 Thread Tom Gibara
Based on my experience with similar implementations, I would recommend this approach. In my case, I used a ContentProvider to accumulate data from an IntentService. This allowed me to obtain data in the form of Cursors that would automatically trigger view updates in response to change

[android-developers] Re: OutOfMemory exception in OnCreate

2010-10-02 Thread Yahel
Thank you for your answer. So now I understand that the onCreate method can be called several time, for example on orientation change. My app is set to Portrait mode only using manifest's android:screenOrientation=portrait so I don't expect any orientation change in the app. Could there be any

Re: [android-developers] android design considerations: AsynchTask vs Service (IntentService?)

2010-10-02 Thread Agus
item #5 seems not user friendly to me. assuming that user can open other applications on the phone and since that the sync takes 10-20 minutes i suggest initiating an asynctask in a service. If you use a service, android will try hard not kill your application process. On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at

[android-developers] getting the true paint dimensions of a canvas

2010-10-02 Thread dashman
i have a View subclass and i overrode the onDraw method void onDraw(Canvas canvas) when i do a canvas.getHeight() - i get 480 in the emulator. that's the full screen height - i'm pretty sure the canvas does not include the title bar etc. shouldn't canvas.getHeight() return the true height of

[android-developers] Re: OutOfMemory exception in OnCreate

2010-10-02 Thread Yahel
Thank you for your answer. You haven't shown us enough of your code (code snippets) for us to... Yes sorry about that, it's just that I don't seem to understand where everything goes wrong. The line giving me an error is a simple setContentView with a simple background image in a FrameView. So

[android-developers] Re: Amazon | xxx - Business Opportunity

2010-10-02 Thread Lance Nanek
The lack of users on alternative app stores is a big disadvantage. Still, if they had a method for in app purchases, including of expendable virtual goods and of extra subscription services, that is super easy for users to use, I'd probably use their store. Selling unlock apps like we have to on

[android-developers] Re: OutOfMemory exception in OnCreate

2010-10-02 Thread Lance Nanek
You might want to try just tossing a System.gc() in early on in your onCreate. That almost always solves out of memory problems for me on Android. It's a shame the memory management is so badly written that it needs this. You aren't supposed to be able to get an out of memory error when garbage

[android-developers] No LogCat message when debugging on a real device

2010-10-02 Thread John Gaby
Why don't I get LogCat messages when I debug on a real device as opposed to the emulator? Thanks -- 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

Re: [android-developers] No LogCat message when debugging on a real device

2010-10-02 Thread 苏坦托Sutanto
You have to click device/emulator first in Eclipse show view devices On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:22 AM, John Gaby jg...@gabysoft.com wrote: Why don't I get LogCat messages when I debug on a real device as opposed to the emulator? Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [android-developers] getting the true paint dimensions of a canvas

2010-10-02 Thread Romain Guy
You are mistaking the size of the Canvas with the size of your View. There is usually one Canvas shared by all the Views, so the Canvas is as big as the window. On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:50 PM, dashman erjdri...@gmail.com wrote: i have a View subclass and i overrode the onDraw method  void

[android-developers] Re: No LogCat message when debugging on a real device

2010-10-02 Thread John Gaby
I guess that I don't know what you mean by clicking the 'device/ emulator' in Eclipse. When I run the program, I choose the device. Note that the debugger works fine with the device, but I do not see any LogCat messages. Can you be more specific about what I have to set? Thanks. On Oct 2, 6:27 

[android-developers] Re: WebView - Unable to call a dynamically added Javascript (part of a HTML) inside a DIV using innerHTML

2010-10-02 Thread Swaroop
I agree that this is more of a HTML/JS question, but I've posted it here because the Browser implementation behind WebView is Android Specific and wish to understand a generic way to put innerHTML if any one has done the same in Android Development. Android's WebView and browser implement the

[android-developers] Android and XMLHttpRequest()

2010-10-02 Thread kypriakos
Hi all, does the default browser in Android support JS/AJAX and the XMLHttpRequest object? Running it in small test scripts using the browser in the emulator does not seem to (a) generate the correct set of HTTP headers (no Content- Type or Length, no GET statement and instead it shows an

[android-developers] unit testing asynchronous API calls ?

2010-10-02 Thread Alex
Hi, I have a suite of components that perform some asynchronous processing and post results back to UI thread (pretty standard thing utilizing AsyncTask). Now I'm trying to come up with the unit tester (utilizing android.test classes) that would call the components APIs, wait for result and

Re: [android-developers] android design considerations: AsynchTask vs Service (IntentService?)

2010-10-02 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Prakash Iyer thei...@gmail.com wrote: Each his own. Try writing a AsyncTask that say lives for more than 10s and in the final result say updates a text field. Now before the AsyncTask completes, just change the orientation. I'd bet most developers would assume

[android-developers] clone method wrapped in android?

2010-10-02 Thread jpathak
Hi, I had a general question regarding the Object clone method in Android. Is there a particular reason that in Android, the object clone method was split up into two methods, effectively creating a wrapper (clone) and wrapped methods (internalClone) which is not the way Java does it? (I just