Re: [android-developers] Re: Where are ldpi version of built-in icons

2010-11-21 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Tauno Talimaa wrote: > I don't see xhdpi mentioned anywhere in the documentation - I just > found a commit to AOSP from with the comment "Merge "xhdpi" into > froyo". Would it be possible to update the documentation to also > mention this density If froyo is inde

Re: [android-developers] Re: Where are ldpi version of built-in icons

2010-11-21 Thread Dianne Hackborn
2010/11/21 Zsolt Vasvari > In other words, if you are targeting 1.6 or later, all you need is the > hdpi version and it will be scaled to mdpi and ldpi? Are there any > performance penalties associated with that scaling? > Well there are certainly *some* performance penalties, since the bitmap

[android-developers] Re: Where to find the application I installed on android phone

2010-11-21 Thread Chris Stratton
You can't find them because the /data directory is often not browsable on a secured (consumer) device However, you may be able to access files below there if you can guess their exact path names For example, your application is probably in /data/app/ your.packagage.name.apk and it's .so may be in

[android-developers] creating diamond shape

2010-11-21 Thread sunrises
Hi, how can we create diamond shape view using 2D or 3D,I need to show the Images in that customized view instead of default ImageView class Thank you -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to andr

[android-developers] AdMob ads only display for a second

2010-11-21 Thread CrazyH
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has seen this problem before. My app displays an AdMob AdView followed by a ListView. When the app first starts, I'd see an empty space where the AdView should be. After a while, I'd see an ad being displayed. However, this where the strange happens. The ad only d

Re: [android-developers] Re: Where are ldpi version of built-in icons

2010-11-21 Thread Tauno Talimaa
I don't see xhdpi mentioned anywhere in the documentation - I just found a commit to AOSP from with the comment "Merge "xhdpi" into froyo". Would it be possible to update the documentation to also mention this density If froyo is indeed supporting this? I can see mainly these following pages that d

[android-developers] Re: Where are ldpi version of built-in icons

2010-11-21 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
In other words, if you are targeting 1.6 or later, all you need is the hdpi version and it will be scaled to mdpi and ldpi? Are there any performance penalties associated with that scaling? What about 1.5? I know 1.5 is ancient, but I think I will support it as long as 3% or more of the users us

[android-developers] How to create a emulator for Samsung Galaxy

2010-11-21 Thread Android Humanoid
Hi Everyone, Can anyone tell me how to create an emulator for samsung phone. Is there any add-on for this. -- 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 unsubscr

[android-developers] Re: Static Layout for whole app that must be in all Activity

2010-11-21 Thread Doug
I think the question is essentially asking how to have a view that stays on the screen at all times even between changes in active activity. If there is a way to do that, I don't know what it is. The only thing I can see that stays on the screen uninterrupted is the status bar, and only if the ac

Re: [android-developers] Problem in providing a string to the JavaScript

2010-11-21 Thread nubh bhargava
Guys, I am able to do it. By converting the value to String which I am fetching from Java. The value was coming in the alert which was strange earlier. Thanks for helping anyway. Nishant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To

[android-developers] created bitmap is incorrect using getDrawingCache()

2010-11-21 Thread MG
Hi all! I want to capture the visible area of the webview. I used getDrawingCache() and it captures the visible area of the webview. But the scaled bitmap seems to be incorrect, the text is blurry. here is my code: -- webView = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.web); webView.setDrawingCacheE

[android-developers] Softkeyboard not displaying in 2.2 landscape mode

2010-11-21 Thread Sarwar Erfan
Hi, I am facing a strange problem. My app works fine in 2.1 (emulator + device). But, when I use 2.2 (both emulator + device) then there is an issue with the soft keyboard. There is a Activity in landscape mode in the app (use android:screenOrientation="landscape"). There are two EditText in that

[android-developers] Android market free app unchanged for the last 4 days

2010-11-21 Thread narasimha rao
in android market i am publish app 4 days back , just the download numbers for my (free) app have been unchanged for the last 4 days.only show in number of rating only . Doubtless they will get round to updating them eventually. -- Thanks & Regards, KVL Narasimha Rao. Contact No: +91 9912656178

Re: [android-developers] Problem in providing a string to the JavaScript

2010-11-21 Thread nubh bhargava
Ya, that's what really makes me worry. I get the string as output when I provide an alert and when I pass the string which I have commented in the above code a specific function the code works fine. Just don't understand the problem why its not showing the output when I pass the string from Java. F

[android-developers] Re: order by clause

2010-11-21 Thread pramod.deore
I had also tried as Cursor c = sampleDB.query(SWITCH_TABLE_NAME, new String[] {"SwitchID,SwitchName,RoomID,RoomName"}, "RoomID= ",null,null,null," ASC"); But still it is not working.Any clue? On Nov 22, 9:13 am, "pramod.deore" wrote: > Hi , > I have a table that has

[android-developers] Focus in ListPreference

2010-11-21 Thread DemoShadow
Does anyone know how to disable (or make transparent) the default orange focus in a listpreference? -- 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

[android-developers] order by clause

2010-11-21 Thread pramod.deore
Hi , I have a table that has 4 columns.There is no primary key in that table. Now I want to retrieve table data according to ascending order of one column (say ascending order of RoomID). I had tried it as Cursor c = sampleDB.query(SWITCH_TABLE_NAME, new String[] {"Swit

Re: [android-developers] google map api

2010-11-21 Thread TreKing
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 7:23 PM, kevindroid wrote: > Is there anyway to get directions of two geopoints? > http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/directions/ > and draw an overlay on the map? > http://code.google.com/android/add-ons/google-apis/reference/index.html --

Re: [android-developers] Gray square Maps problem

2010-11-21 Thread TreKing
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Elyager wrote: > why is that? please I need some help. After Google search for "android map google logo empty" http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=395 --

[android-developers] Re: Grid view problem

2010-11-21 Thread pramod.deore
Anybody know how to add text for each image? Thanks On Nov 20, 4:14 pm, "pramod.deore" wrote: > I have 2 xml files as > 1)icon.xml > > xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"; > android:id="@+id/widget44" > android:layout_width="wrap_content" > android:layout_height="wrap_cont

Re: [android-developers] Re: Detecting Task Resume

2010-11-21 Thread Stephen Jungels
The link you provided goes to a design document. The technical information you need is here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html SJ On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Doug wrote: > I don't think there aren't events to capture for task foregrounding > and backgrounding.  An

Re: [android-developers] how to build android.jar?

2010-11-21 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Shuo wrote: > Hi All, > > I am writing an app which is using the android.jar in dir: > > /platforms/android-4/ > > Then I modified some code in the file: > > /platforms/android-4/sources/org/apache/harmony/nio/internal/ > SocketChannelImpl.java > > So how can I reb

Re: [android-developers] google map api

2010-11-21 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 8:23 PM, kevindroid wrote: >  Is there anyway to get directions of two geopoints? and draw an > overlay on the map? Not through the Google Maps add-on, sorry. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog

[android-developers] google map api

2010-11-21 Thread kevindroid
Hi, Is there anyway to get directions of two geopoints? and draw an overlay on the map? I can't seem to find the documentations about this. Can anyone help? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send emai

[android-developers] how to build android.jar?

2010-11-21 Thread Shuo
Hi All, I am writing an app which is using the android.jar in dir: /platforms/android-4/ Then I modified some code in the file: /platforms/android-4/sources/org/apache/harmony/nio/internal/ SocketChannelImpl.java So how can I rebuild the android.jar and make my app use the code I modified? Th

Re: [android-developers] Re: Help passing a variable from one class to another

2010-11-21 Thread TreKing
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Larry/MavrickProductions < ohiooutofdo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wanted/needed: A way to call the R.id.hour and R.id.mins from a different > activity as the "set clock" time for my countdown timer. > I don't think you want to "call the R.id.hour and R.id.mins", becau

[android-developers] Re: android for OCR library?

2010-11-21 Thread JP
Assembly required. On Nov 21, 4:34 am, ko5tik wrote: > On Nov 20, 8:36 pm, JP wrote: > > > The Tessaract OCR engine:http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ > > has been integrated in Android. Here's a writeup by a team that's > > gotten it to > > work:http://www.itwizard.ro/mezzofanti-augment

[android-developers] Re: Detecting Task Resume

2010-11-21 Thread Doug
I don't think there aren't events to capture for task foregrounding and backgrounding. An individual activity can of course know when it is being paused and stopped, but under normal circumstances the activity doesn't always know why. What is it that you need to do differently if the task gets ba

Re: [android-developers] Re: Gallerylayout in appWidget ?

2010-11-21 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Honest wrote: > thanks for your reply. so can you suggest me how i can make it ? You cannot put a Gallery widget in an app widget. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.c

[android-developers] Re: How to make a trial version which starts a limited amount of times?

2010-11-21 Thread Michael A.
On Nov 20, 11:34 am, MobileVisuals wrote: > Thanks for explaining, now I understand what you mean when you say > that there is not much use to make a time limited trial. > What do you mean with "Android Market already implements a default > time limited trial version of your app"? Do you mean that

[android-developers] Re: Gallerylayout in appWidget ?

2010-11-21 Thread Honest
hello kumar thanks for your reply. so can you suggest me how i can make it ? On Nov 17, 6:44 pm, Kumar Bibek wrote: > Nope > > On 17-Nov-2010 3:12 PM, "Honest" wrote: > > hello, > > i want  to make an app widget which i can display on home screen of > mobile.  can i use Gallery layout in it >

Re: [android-developers] Re: Passing values from an Activity to a class that extends View Class

2010-11-21 Thread Frank Weiss
My understanding of MVC and the Android SDK is informed by the ListView/ListAdapter relationship. I'm wondering why anyone would suggest and why the OP would suppose that the Activity should be supplying the model data to the View. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

Re: [android-developers] Re: Handler.postDelayed not working when screen goes off

2010-11-21 Thread Dianne Hackborn
You don't need to try around with different things, the behavior is very well defined: if you are not holding a wake lock, the CPU is allowed to go to full sleep, so no code can be executed until an external event wakes it up. A thread sitting there waiting on a timer is never an external event.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Where are ldpi version of built-in icons

2010-11-21 Thread Dianne Hackborn
The closest matching density is selected, and it is scaled appropriately to get an image for the actual density. This of course only works for images. (For other resource types, the closest matching density is picked... and then used without any change. Probably don't want to do that.) For any

Re: [android-developers] Re: Where are ldpi version of built-in icons

2010-11-21 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
If you have none of the alternate versions for a drawable, then you don't have that drawable at all, agreed? So the only question is, is it only "drawable" that can be subject to automatic scaling, or does it work for e.g. drawable-hdpi to drawable-ldpi conversion. I *think* it's the latter, at l

[android-developers] Where to find the application I installed on android phone

2010-11-21 Thread cindy
I installed an application using JNI. I want to find where the .so library is located and the directory of the application I have installed. I use the DDMS to search all the directory. However I could not find either of them. Where could I find them and how? Thanks! April -- You received this

[android-developers] Re: Where are ldpi version of built-in icons

2010-11-21 Thread jotobjects
On Nov 21, 9:34 am, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: > What happens is that Android automatically scales drawables down to ldpi > resolution, it's transparent to the application. That would be good. Does anybody know where that is documented? This page says - "If no matching resources are available, th

[android-developers] Re: What Intent for Browser without URL

2010-11-21 Thread jotobjects
Thanks - Makes sense. I should be able to look for Activities that have Intent filters for category.DEFAULT and URI scheme = http. That part is standard Android behavior (I think?). When I start the Activity it might not work the way I hope. As you say, some browsers might even give a 404 or s

[android-developers] Re: streaming mp4 from Internet

2010-11-21 Thread Ahmed Shoeib
what do you mean by this video is my video or not ?? and how to start MP4Box on device ?? On Nov 21, 10:55 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Ahmed Shoeib > > wrote: > > but i tried it on areal device > > how can MP4Box added to fix this problem ?? > > You do not run MP4Bo

[android-developers] Re: streaming mp4 from Internet

2010-11-21 Thread Ahmed Shoeib
how to support it or do you have any other way to play mp4 file ?? On Nov 21, 10:27 pm, Kumar Bibek wrote: > You cannot fix this. This media type is not supported on your device, > > Kumar Bibekhttp://techdroid.kbeanie.comhttp://www.kbeanie.com > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Ahmed Shoeib >

[android-developers] Re: 512x512 high res icon required?

2010-11-21 Thread Mark
I went to remove an old app from the market and it REQUIRED me to upload a 512x512 icon before I could UNPUBLISH the app. At least I have a heads up now to start making all these large icons before I need to push any updates out for my other apps. -- You received this message because you are sub

[android-developers] Re: resetting the ListView after Adapter's data was changed.

2010-11-21 Thread poohtbear
OK, Regarding item #1 setSelectedPosition(0) will do the trick. Regrading #2 i'm still not sure. If i must have the onScroll methods to be called uppon data set change do i have to call notifyDatasetInvalidated ? why datasetChanged doesn't do the trick, there is scrolling involved basically if the

Re: [android-developers] streaming mp4 from Internet

2010-11-21 Thread Kumar Bibek
You cannot fix this. This media type is not supported on your device, Kumar Bibek http://techdroid.kbeanie.com http://www.kbeanie.com On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Ahmed Shoeib wrote: > hi , > > i got this message when trying to play mp4 video on android from url > ( video is not valid fo

[android-developers] Re: streaming mp4 from Internet

2010-11-21 Thread Ahmed Shoeib
but i tried it on areal device how can MP4Box added to fix this problem ?? On Nov 21, 10:40 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Ahmed Shoeib > > wrote: > > how to support it > > You need to modify the video. The video is not safe for streaming. > > http://groups.google.com/

[android-developers] streaming mp4 from Internet

2010-11-21 Thread Ahmed Shoeib
hi , i got this message when trying to play mp4 video on android from url ( video is not valid for streaming on this device ) the code i use to play mp4 Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); intent.setDataAndType(Uri.parse(url), "video/mp4");

Re: [android-developers] Re: streaming mp4 from Internet

2010-11-21 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Ahmed Shoeib wrote: > but i tried it on areal device > how can MP4Box added to fix this problem ?? You do not run MP4Box on the device. Either this is your video, or it is not. If it is your video, on your PC, run MP4Box on the video file, and arrange it so your

Re: [android-developers] streaming mp4 from Internet

2010-11-21 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 11/21/2010 09:17 PM, Ahmed Shoeib wrote: > hi , > > i got this message when trying to play mp4 video on android from url > ( video is not valid for streaming on this device ) > > > the code i use to play mp4 > > Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); >

Re: [android-developers] Re: streaming mp4 from Internet

2010-11-21 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Ahmed Shoeib wrote: > how to support it You need to modify the video. The video is not safe for streaming. http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_frm/thread/f3ce21be6a10b50a/cc31b391e11e3c33 Use MP4Box -hint to fix it. http://www.videohelp.co

Re: [android-developers] Galaxy Tab in debug mode on Win 7 x64

2010-11-21 Thread YuviDroid
Hey, I just got my Galaxy Tab and tried to use it in debugging mode with Eclipse. When I first connected it, the drivers were not found and nothing worked. But I noticed that on the Tab itself it said something related to the Samsung software "Kies"so I went and downloaded/installed it. The dr

[android-developers] Re: Help passing a variable from one class to another

2010-11-21 Thread Larry/MavrickProductions
Sorry for the delay, it's been a long week! Pertinent code from R.java: public static final class id { public static final int hour=0x7f050008; public static final int mins=0x7f050009; Pertinent code from timeactivity.java (thanks to kankan for the wheel code - GREAT stuff):

Re: [android-developers] Re: Handler.postDelayed not working when screen goes off

2010-11-21 Thread Paul Townsend
Just tried that bvut dose the same thing, although I have used countdownTimer in a custom TextView that I wrote so I could have a countdown timer for the UI and this dose not pause. I might look into to transfering the other timer bits to the text view and use that as a all in one timer solution an

Re: [android-developers] Re: What Intent for Browser without URL

2010-11-21 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 1:55 PM, jotobjects wrote: > The docs say you can use an "http:" uri, which is not quite a > "specific real URL" in the way I guess you intend. > > http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/g-app-intents.html > > Is your advice in conflict with that page in the docs says

[android-developers] Re: What Intent for Browser without URL

2010-11-21 Thread jotobjects
The docs say you can use an "http:" uri, which is not quite a "specific real URL" in the way I guess you intend. http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/g-app-intents.html Is your advice in conflict with that page in the docs says about browser intents? It seems like my resolveActivity call

[android-developers] Re: What Intent for Browser without URL

2010-11-21 Thread jotobjects
On Nov 19, 7:24 pm, Brad Gies wrote: > Do you really need to do it with an intent Can't you just put a > blank page in your app, and have it load that, or put a blank page on > your website? Or am I missing something in what you are asking for? That is about the same as using about:blank.

[android-developers] New MiKandi Launch with Support For Paid Apps

2010-11-21 Thread Shane Isbell
New MiKandi launch, check out the promotional vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3qNsDmRWlo If you guys have paid apps, publish them and start making some money. Shane -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this grou

Re: [android-developers] Re: Where are ldpi version of built-in icons

2010-11-21 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
What happens is that Android automatically scales drawables down to ldpi resolution, it's transparent to the application. Works pretty well: hdpi drawables, on the other hand, often look better if created by hand (not always, but often). Device compatibility is not affected by what resources

Re: [android-developers] Handling Android device without Menu button

2010-11-21 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Stephen Lebed wrote: > I have a couple of apps currently in the marketplace and they follow > the Android design guidelines as close as possible.  One of the people > who purchased my app says he's using it on a device without a 'menu' > button.  The device is  a

[android-developers] Re: What Intent for Browser without URL

2010-11-21 Thread jotobjects
So I came up with what I thought was a great solution which worked initially - Intent resolveIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.fromParts("http", "", null)); PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager(); ResolveInfo ri = pm.resolveActivity(resolveIntent, PackageManager.MATCH_DEFAULT_ON

Re: [android-developers] Re: What Intent for Browser without URL

2010-11-21 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:23 PM, jotobjects wrote: > So I came up with what I thought was a great solution which worked > initially - > > Intent resolveIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, > Uri.fromParts("http", "", null)); > PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager(); > ResolveInfo ri =

[android-developers] Re: Where are ldpi version of built-in icons

2010-11-21 Thread jotobjects
Hm. So the sample apps don't support ldpi at all. What happens if you try to run such an app on an ldpi device? Does it fail? Is not allowed to be installed in the first place (not sure how that could be detected in advance)? Is it true that there are hardly any (or none) ldpi Android devices

[android-developers] Handling Android device without Menu button

2010-11-21 Thread Stephen Lebed
Hi All, I have a couple of apps currently in the marketplace and they follow the Android design guidelines as close as possible. One of the people who purchased my app says he's using it on a device without a 'menu' button. The device is a Eken M0002, a 7" tablet running Android 1.6 I know tha

Re: [android-developers] Adapting for GoogleTV: Trackball/D-pad selection with onTap() in MapView strangeness - working example?

2010-11-21 Thread Jonas Petersson
For the record: The onTrackballEvent() route turned messy so the workaround I've decided to use for now is instead mapView.setOnKeyListener() to trigger on KEYCODE_DPAD_CENTER and explicitly loop over the items calling hitText() until I get a hit. Seems rather ugly to me, but at least it giv

[android-developers] resetting the ListView after Adapter's data was changed.

2010-11-21 Thread poohtbear
I have a list view that can display items based on internal state (it has items, and 'viewed' items). i need to be able to toggle between by two states, i do that using a simple button that change the adapter's state and the adapter then called notifyDatasetChanged(). My data DOES gets updated, how

[android-developers] Re: android for OCR library?

2010-11-21 Thread ko5tik
On Nov 20, 8:36 pm, JP wrote: > The Tessaract OCR engine:http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ > has been integrated in Android. Here's a writeup by a team that's > gotten it to > work:http://www.itwizard.ro/mezzofanti-augmented-reality-through-text-reco... Could not install it on 2.1 - HTC

[android-developers] Re: Market statistics stall

2010-11-21 Thread Adam Hammer
I think android attests to the fact that they get plenty of things right. I also however have had downloads stuck since the planned outtage. On Nov 21, 1:29 am, DraganA wrote: > Same here, it's a shame google cannot get the simplest things right. > > On Nov 21, 5:47 am, Peter Webb wrote: > > >

Re: [android-developers] Re: Passing values from an Activity to a class that extends View Class

2010-11-21 Thread Artak Kalantarian
You have to be careful with statics, as they have a longer life span than your activity. If you store your activity or something that refer to your activity in a static variable, and your activity is destroyed and recreated, you may end up keeping the old activity in the memory. You should be ok,

Re: [android-developers] Intent loading issue in MenuItem

2010-11-21 Thread Chandana Napagoda
Hi, Is any body know fix this? I cannot open Google map Activity from menu item. ? On Nov 20, 2010 8:40 PM, "Chandana Napagoda" wrote: Hi, I tried on device and emulator both, If There is only Map Activity(ChandanaActivity) It's works fine, When I integrate with with Other Activity (test

[android-developers] Re: Can't Upgrade Apps Since Console Maintenance ?

2010-11-21 Thread blindfold
I also have Firefox 3.6.12 but for me the new images never showed after pressing the Upload button. They do now after uploading via Google Chrome. Don't know what's different. On Nov 21, 10:19 am, Pent wrote: > > Argh! Just found that I can upload PNG feature graphic and 512x512 > > icon just fin

Re: [android-developers] Re: iOS UI Patterns Bleeding into Android apps

2010-11-21 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Lance Nanek wrote: > I would have been much more impressive to hear something like, "we > tested it in usability studies and found users like the icons moving > around while they are trying to press them and are able to select apps > more efficiently and with grea

[android-developers] Re: iOS UI Patterns Bleeding into Android apps

2010-11-21 Thread Lance Nanek
I would have been much more impressive to hear something like, "we tested it in usability studies and found users like the icons moving around while they are trying to press them and are able to select apps more efficiently and with greater satisfaction." Or whatever justification you think it has

[android-developers] Re: Market statistics stall

2010-11-21 Thread DraganA
Same here, it's a shame google cannot get the simplest things right. On Nov 21, 5:47 am, Peter Webb wrote: > Stalled for me as well. Still getting new comments as always, just the > download numbers for my (free) app have been unchanged for the last 4 > days. Doubtless they will get round to upda

Re: [android-developers] Passing values from an Activity to a class that extends View Class

2010-11-21 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
In the world of "pure" Object Oriented Programming, there is this (age-old) pattern, MVC, model / view / controller. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model–View–Controller It means storing the data in some kind of somewhat centralized place (Model), with Views accessing this data when needed. This

[android-developers] Re: Can't Upgrade Apps Since Console Maintenance ?

2010-11-21 Thread Pent
> Argh! Just found that I can upload PNG feature graphic and 512x512 > icon just fine with Google Chrome, but not with Firefox! Apparently > the extended interface is not yet browser-neutral, because I had > uploaded the other images in the past just fine with Firefox (which is > my default browser

Re: [android-developers] widget buttons/images changing the layout

2010-11-21 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Hendrik, You can see the source to power control widget here: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Settings.git;a=summary Drawables are here: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Settings.git;a=tree;f=res/drawable What I do in my app, is use ImageViews in

[android-developers] Re: [android-porting] Patches in Android

2010-11-21 Thread Deva R
when u talk about android kernel => only board support patches are required to make it work on a platform. note: for kernel.org linus's kernel tree => u need android patchset and your platform patches. > I was just wondering if someone could explain to me the actual need of patching the Android ke

[android-developers] Re: Capture Video of App

2010-11-21 Thread Lance Nanek
> For previous videos, I've used a tripod and a camcorder aimed downward > at a table. This can still work reasonably well, but won't meet the > alternate stores requirement of "unaltered, unedited capture from the > app". You could always try asking the account manager if camera video capture of

[android-developers] Re: Passing values from an Activity to a class that extends View Class

2010-11-21 Thread Ajay.kakumanu
we can share the values from to Activity class to another class in diffrent ways by using static memebers we can share the values. another way is expose one method like Getvalues() in Activity class which conatins fresh values of variables and we can call this method from View class by creating obj