[android-developers] Re: glTexImage2D is too slow,why?

glTexImage2D simply *is* slow. Moving stuff from system memory to texture memory simply takes time and usually requires copying stuff around more than just the obvious traffic through the bus. In your case, though, I think you could optimize your problem and cut some glTexImage2D calls by combinin

[android-developers] Re: Collecting my Market installation statistics

Hi Tom, Hah, I actually found out about mopapp from your talk at DroidCon London a couple of weeks ago. Thanks for the update! String On Nov 7, 10:41 pm, "Tom / HyperBees" wrote: > @String > I use mopapp.com for reporting purposes, great tool, they are in beta. > Today I did a quick data valida

Re: [android-developers] multiple mime type in email

bump .. -Dan On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Dan Raaka wrote: > I have a email body in HTML and I need to attach an text file, xml > file and an image to the email. I am starting with xml > > In my app with package name com.danraaka.apper > > String filePath = "/data/data/com.danraaka.apper/Re

[android-developers] Anyone have an alternative to VMRuntime.getExternalBytesAllocated()?

Title sums it up nicely... I'm looking for a way to determine how much of the heap my bitmap-heavy app is actually using. It's problematic since the mapped bits themselves are allocated externally, although they still count against your heap limit. The VMRuntime.getExternalBytesAllocated() function

[android-developers] Re: to connect android emulator to google account

Same as you would on a phone. Menu > Settings > Accounts & sync > Add account. Note that the emulator instance will need to have been created for the Google APIs, not base Android. Also, I believe that this was only added with API level 8, but I'm not certain of that. String On Nov 8, 7:06 am, a

[android-developers] The application has stopped unexpectedly

i have two class as trial.java and ImageWoLab0.java(Image without lable 0).When i run my application i am getting error as : The application has stopped unexpectedly!! public void onClick(View v) { switch (v.getId()) { case R.id.btnSequence: Intent intent1 = new Intent();

Re: [android-developers] Re: Extending Application class and broadcast receivers

Well, to be honest I didn't read this on your book, but in _the other one_ :-) In any case, it looks like it's a commonly suggested practice. Thanks anyway, Federico On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:40 AM, davemac wrote: > I saw Dianne's post on Oct 31 regarding this topic. I'm also a co- > author of an

[android-developers] to connect android emulator to google account

Hi, I am new to android and want to know how to connect android emulator to google account . can we do so if yes!!! then how. -- 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@goog

[android-developers] Re: Problem with Playing sound in my cuckoo clock widget

Thanks a lot Alex, I'll check with it.. On Nov 5, 8:58 am, RockNCode wrote: > Hello. > > I suggest you go to frameworks/base/libs/audioflinger/AudioFlinger.cpp > and add LOGE prints to functions createTrack and createTrack_l. Could > you check in createTrack_l if you are entering to this condtion

[android-developers] glTexImage2D is too slow,why?

when draw YUV frame use opengl 2.0 and shader on nexus one,but the function glTexImage2D is too slow ,cost 40-60 ms who can fix it ? the key codes: - int CreateSimpleTexture2D() { int err, i;

[android-developers] Re: Where is the UI state information (used in super.onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)) stored ?

That's what I thought. But why is the UI state then not entirely cleared? But I found the following difference though doing some more testing - I found there's a difference whether the activity is in the foreground or not when I do the kill: Case 1) I start the facebook app, I am on the login pag

Re: [android-developers] Cocos2Android

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 7:30 PM, J Handal wrote: > How to generate a new Debug certificate??? Delete your existing one. - TreKing - Chicago transi

Re: [android-developers] adb connect

1. Enable debug mode on your devices 2. Try to run *adb devices command* in you terminal application, you should see list of existing emulator or existing real devices which connected to you computer. On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:12 AM, kypriakos wrote: > > Hi all - > > which port is th

Re: [android-developers] Re: Where is the UI state information (used in super.onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)) stored ?

On a rooted phone, you ought to be able to kill the Linux process. Just finish or force close may not be secure since the Android OS lazily reclaims processes that are no longer in use. Although on a non-rooted phone this is not an issue, since the Android OS relies on Linux process security. --

[android-developers] Re: write to xml file

He Frank, Thanks for good clarification. On Nov 8, 10:42 am, Frank Weiss wrote: > Just for a clarification. The string.xml file is a source file, it's not > part of the apk, hence it is not available at runtime. Instead, the bulid > process translates it into the R class file, which allows the ap

Re: [android-developers] Re: write to xml file

Just for a clarification. The string.xml file is a source file, it's not part of the apk, hence it is not available at runtime. Instead, the bulid process translates it into the R class file, which allows the application to quickly access the strings directly via Java instead of parsing it at runti

[android-developers] Re: write to xml file

Ok, Thanks for your suggestion. On Nov 8, 10:26 am, Kumar Bibek wrote: > You cannot change the strings.xml. > > If you want to have such changing and updatable arrays, consider using > SharedPrefs or Databases. > > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:49 AM, pramod.deore wrote: > > > > > Ohhh !!! Thanks for

Re: [android-developers] Re: write to xml file

You cannot change the strings.xml. If you want to have such changing and updatable arrays, consider using SharedPrefs or Databases. On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:49 AM, pramod.deore wrote: > Ohhh !!! Thanks for your quick reply. > but my problem is that I have a list. The element in list is displaye

[android-developers] Re: write to xml file

But here in this URL someone had wrote to strings.xml file- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3053062 On Nov 8, 10:19 am, "pramod.deore" wrote: > Ohhh !!! Thanks for your quick reply. > but my problem is that I have a list. The element in list is displayed > after reading the strings.xml file. N

[android-developers] Re: write to xml file

Ohhh !!! Thanks for your quick reply. but my problem is that I have a list. The element in list is displayed after reading the strings.xml file. Now I want to update this list means suppose I want to add some element to that array. How to do this? On Nov 8, 10:09 am, Kumar Bibek wrote: > You cann

[android-developers] Re: Where is the UI state information (used in super.onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)) stored ?

Ok. In my case, I cannot call finish() myself since it's a third party app (Facebook) and the native browser. Therefore I do a kill. Wouldn't that also end the lifecycle as well, with same effect as a finish() ? On Nov 8, 12:55 pm, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > It isn't stored anywhere persistent.  I

Re: [android-developers] write to xml file

You cannot.. On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, pramod.deore wrote: > Hi, in my application I have strings.xml file under values folder. > strings.xml file contain array. Now I want to add element to that > array at runtime. How to do that? > Thanks > > -- > You received this message because yo

[android-developers] write to xml file

Hi, in my application I have strings.xml file under values folder. strings.xml file contain array. Now I want to add element to that array at runtime. How to do that? Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this gr

Re: [android-developers] Where is the UI state information (used in super.onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)) stored ?

It isn't stored anywhere persistent. It is only kept in RAM, and only for as long as that particular activity "instance" may need to be launched again. (That is, if you call finish(), that activity instance is gone, and any saved state no longer needs to be kept.) On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 8:52 PM,

[android-developers] Where is the UI state information (used in super.onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)) stored ?

Where is the UI state information (used in super.onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)) stored and how can it be deleted from another app or command line on a rooted phone? I need to delete the user data (username, password) of both the native Facebook app (com.facebook.katana) and the stock br

[android-developers] CustomDialog

I have a Dialog showing on my application. Right now it is showing in the center of the device. But i want to see that dialog in Top of layout. How to move it? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send emai

Re: [android-developers] How do I add the "Android" directory in Eclipse after importing

Properties-Android Tools-Fix Project Properties. This is a simple way of doing it. Else, you will have to modify the .classpath variable. On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:33 AM, cellurl wrote: > In Eclipse, after I import an existing project, I don't see the > "Android 1.5" directory. > I see the libs,

Re: [android-developers] layout inflator

Try inflating with parent as null. On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: > There should be a more detailed stack trace in logcat. > > Other than that, what is "title", and what is its relation to "convertView" > ? > > -- Kostya > > 08.11.2010 0:57, Hendrik Greving пишет: > > I

[android-developers] adb connect

Hi all - which port is the adb connect : referring to when connecting to a real device? Is that port defaulting to anything (may be between and 5585 odd #) or not? Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to th

[android-developers] Re: Lazy load images into listview

I think for most mobile applications you probably only want one download thread in order to prevent saturation of the (possibly slow) network connection. This thread could simply use a BlockingLinkedQueue to serialize the incoming requests. You'd also want to set aggressive timeouts on the HttpCl

[android-developers] How do I add the "Android" directory in Eclipse after importing

In Eclipse, after I import an existing project, I don't see the "Android 1.5" directory. I see the libs, src, gen, etc, but I don't know how to get the Android one. Q: How do I add that? Any help appreciated! -jim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "And

[android-developers] Cocos2Android

Hi All I installed in my Droid 2.2 http://code.google.com/p/cocos2d-android/source/browse/#svn/branches/moandroid/src/org/jbox2d I got this error: 2010-11-07 19:17:15 - cocos2d_android] Error generating final archive: Debug certificate expired on 11/4/10 3:23 PM! How to generate a new Debug

[android-developers] Re: Extending Application class and broadcast receivers

I saw Dianne's post on Oct 31 regarding this topic. I'm also a co- author of an Android book that advocated the approach of extending the Application class. We're currently busy updating in preparation for Pro Android 3, and I can assure you I've already replaced that section with one explaining ho

Re: [android-developers] Custom Protocol Handler

I thought so - that is how I have used it in the past. Thanks for your help anyway. On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Mark Murphy wrote: > 2010/11/7 paulb : >> Mark, I could not find a way to get shouldOverrideUrlLoading() to >> return objects to the webpage after intercepting them. Do you know of

Re: [android-developers] Proguard Breaks Javascript Interface

Thanks, I followed up on that idea by creating a placeholder interface; I am limiting this to the problem of WebView callbacks so I call it "JavascriptCallback". If I follow the convention of implementing this interface wherever appropriate, the following Proguard rules work:

Re: [android-developers] Proguard Breaks Javascript Interface

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Stephen Jungels wrote: > I've recently started using the WebView Android / Javascript interface > in my projects (and I think it's pretty cool; article here: > http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/using-webviews.html). > > The problem is that when obfusc

Re: [android-developers] Fetch Spinner value outside setOnItemSelectedListener

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:09 PM, sisko wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have a spinner successfully working but I am trying to use the > spinner.setSelection method to "remember" the previous spinner value > when the activity is reloaded. > > Outside of setOnItemSelectedListener, is there a function of the

[android-developers] Fetch Spinner value outside setOnItemSelectedListener

Hi guys, I have a spinner successfully working but I am trying to use the spinner.setSelection method to "remember" the previous spinner value when the activity is reloaded. Outside of setOnItemSelectedListener, is there a function of the spinner that can give me the selected index? The followin

Re: [android-developers] Custom Protocol Handler

2010/11/7 paulb : > Mark, I could not find a way to get shouldOverrideUrlLoading() to > return objects to the webpage after intercepting them. Do you know of > one? No, that is for user link clicks, redirections, etc. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/comm

Re: [android-developers] reverse Geocoder (getFromLocation(lat, lnt) not reliable

yes, it is in a try and catch and i run it within a while loop to retry if it fails. I also log the exception caught when it fails. its just not consistent. Is there a known issue with geocoder ? thanks Sunny. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:03 AM, TreKing wrote: > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:36 AM, sunn

Re: [android-developers] Custom Protocol Handler

Mark and Kostya, Thanks for the tips guys. Mark, I could not find a way to get shouldOverrideUrlLoading() to return objects to the webpage after intercepting them. Do you know of one? If not, I guess the only solution then would be a javascript-based solution, which could even be used in conjunc

[android-developers] Proguard Breaks Javascript Interface

I've recently started using the WebView Android / Javascript interface in my projects (and I think it's pretty cool; article here: http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/using-webviews.html). The problem is that when obfuscation is turned on, the callbacks from Javascript to my Android co

[android-developers] Re: Collecting my Market installation statistics

@String I use mopapp.com for reporting purposes, great tool, they are in beta. Today I did a quick data validation vs Checkout and it seems they overstate figures a bit, we're investigating it. @Brad Are you thinking about a tool for free apps only? Cheers, Tom On Nov 7, 5:44 pm, String wrote:

[android-developers] Understanding DDMS allocations - stopping the GC from working overtime!

Hi all, I'm writing a game and I'm trying to avoid the GC kicking in and causing big framerate drops. I've run DDMS to see what allocations I'm causing and the huge majority of them seem to fall under 2 categories: 1) class java.lang.String, allocated in java.lang.Integer, allocated in toString 2

[android-developers] Re: Remembering Shared Preferences

Hey Kostya, thank you very much for your patience and your suggestion. You were correct and that's helped me move my project along. Thanks again. On Nov 4, 2:10 pm, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: > It seems that the place where you are trying to restore the value from a > Settings object is not the ri

[android-developers] Re: NinePatch Background around ImageView

Not sure to understand the nine patch was just a PNG constructed with the tools. I didn't use any XML file to define properties on the nine patch. Though the nine patch as background worked fine as long as it wasn't changed in the code. I read somewhere about padding that isn't recalculated. But I

Re: [android-developers] layout inflator

There should be a more detailed stack trace in logcat. Other than that, what is "title", and what is its relation to "convertView" ? -- Kostya 08.11.2010 0:57, Hendrik Greving ?: I am implementing a ListAdapter and in getView, I am returning @Override *public*View getView(*int*position,

[android-developers] layout inflator

I am implementing a ListAdapter and in getView, I am returning @Override public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) { switch (position) { case 0: if (title == null) { title = View.inflate(mContext, R.layout.main_settings_title, parent);

[android-developers] Re: ListView.setOnItemClickListener() fails to catch selection events for custom list items

I did; it didn't help. I also went back and changed my code a little bit: public class NewsChannel implements OnClickListener, OnKeyListener { . . . news_channel_text = (TextView)news_content.findViewById(R.id.ne

[android-developers] Re: Drawing views in an AsyncTask

By the way, Romain, you bring up a good point regarding ANRs. And it's not going to help splitting my work up into small groups of operations because a busy CPU might make one group of operations last long enough to trigger an ANR. Instead, I need to break the work into time slices so that the runn

[android-developers] Re: Drawing views in an AsyncTask

I'm not blocking the UI thread. In my test I stubbed out doDraw so it returns immediately and the behavior is the same. It's due to calling dismissDialog from the runnable. On Nov 7, 11:51 am, Romain Guy wrote: > It doesn't work because you are blocking the UI thread. You are not > "streaming" th

Re: [android-developers] Re: Drawing views in an AsyncTask

It doesn't work because you are blocking the UI thread. You are not "streaming" the UI at all like I suggested you do. You need to show the dialog, then build the views by little batches so that you never block the UI thread for more than a few milliseconds at a time. Otherwise your app will appear

[android-developers] Re: AVD suddenly can't reach the internet

False alarm. I reset my cable modem and the problem went away. Strange that only some traffic was effected. On Nov 7, 11:22 am, Bret Foreman wrote: > My AVDs suddenly can't reach the internet. I'm testing using the > browser of the AVD. I haven't changed anything that I think is related > on my d

Re: [android-developers] AVD suddenly can't reach the internet

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Bret Foreman wrote: > My AVDs suddenly can't reach the internet. I'm testing using the > browser of the AVD. I haven't changed anything that I think is related > on my development machine and I can still reach the internet from the > development machine. I'm sort of

[android-developers] AVD suddenly can't reach the internet

My AVDs suddenly can't reach the internet. I'm testing using the browser of the AVD. I haven't changed anything that I think is related on my development machine and I can still reach the internet from the development machine. I'm sort of at a loss figuring out how to start debugging this. Is it po

[android-developers] Icecast client, what's the best approach?

Hi all, I'm in the process of starting a client for a webradio which streams CC contents (hosted at www.gnufunk.org). Its stream is Icecast based, and I have actually created a dumb client by using MediaPlayer on Froyo. MediaPlayer supports this format, but apparently there's no way of getting th

[android-developers] Re: Drawing views in an AsyncTask

I just figured out a slick workaround for this bug. The progress dialog stuff is clearly hosed so I just brute force it. I do a setContentView with the resource R.layout.tellsuserthatworkingisbeingdone, which tells the user to wait a moment. Then I give the framework 100 mS to update the screen, th

[android-developers] Re: unable to dismiss a progress dialog

This issue is more extensively addressed here: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/eddf5a148d0f3d5f/051169abf6fd05c0#051169abf6fd05c0 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group,

[android-developers] Re: Tomcat on Android

For me, Tomcat is just an example of a complete implementation. For our application we just need HTTP, HTTPS, and some basic server instrumentation and logging to identify problems. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to

[android-developers] Re: Drawing views in an AsyncTask

Following Romain's suggestion, I changed the code above to look as below. The interesting thing to note is that the behavior remains exactly the same. The dialog gets dismissed when the activity is new but won't dismiss when there is a configuration change. According to my understanding, the runnab

[android-developers] Re: Collecting my Market installation statistics

Take a look at http://www.mopapp.com. I haven't tried their service, but it looks like what you're after. String On Oct 28, 9:40 am, deg wrote: > On the Market web page, I can see how many copies of my apps have been > installed. > > But, this only shows the current total. If I want to see histo

Re: [android-developers] Custom Protocol Handler

Depending on what you are trying to accomplish in the end, you might be able to use Android's built-in support for intent:// scheme. -- Kostya Vasilyev -- http://kmansoft.wordpress.com 07.11.2010 13:25 пользователь "Mark Murphy" написал: WebView is powered by WebKit. I know of no way to add pro

Re: [android-developers] Re: More complex Scrollview example needed.

One thing you could do is: change the cursor query to "where id >= word_id - 10", where word_id is the id of the word the user searched for. Another is to use a count query for the word, to find out its position within the dictionary, and then setting the list view's position based on that. This a

[android-developers] Re: More complex Scrollview example needed.

The thing is, the BaseAdapter providing the info for the ListView does not have a list, it retrieves the items directly from the database, based on an offset. This is needed because the size of this list would be huge (about 10 entries). I have tried it with adding a lookup offset to the positi

Re: [android-developers] Custom Protocol Handler

WebView is powered by WebKit. I know of no way to add protocol handlers to WebKit via Java. There might be a way to do this via some sort of WebKit plugin, but I don't know the first thing about that. Depending on how the URLs are being used, a better choice may be to use WebViewClient and shouldO

[android-developers] Re: Collecting my Market installation statistics

Sounds good. Please drop me a note when you have this ready or are looking for beta- testers. Time allowing, I might even be able to help with some of the implementation, if you are interested in sharing the code. Feel free to contact me directly by email; I don't always watch this newsgroup too

Re: [android-developers] Controlling the movement of the android device using android emulator

You can simulate it in the emulator by sending location changes manually on the DDMS screen (if you're using Eclipse not sure about other IDE's). But... to do this on a real phone, you will need GPS, and GPS is not very reliable inside many buildings. You can do it with the emulator with a bi

Re: [android-developers] Re: Internal storage on emulator

Hello Mike, The Vibrant is similar to a Galaxy S, right? On the Galaxy S, you have 2GB of "internal storage", and an 8 or 16GB "internal SD card" which seems to actually be external storage. The 8/16GB internal SD card can be accessed with the directory "/sdcard". I think you are meant to store y

[android-developers] Re: Looking for mobile balance transfer study materials

thanks for ur reply. how can i transfer balance from a recharge sim to other non-recharge sims? May i get specific methods, package etc plz? Istiaque Ahmed On Oct 30, 8:34 pm, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: > Can't speak for the whole world, but -- > > The three Russian cellular operators I was referr