[android-developers] Re: Transferred my app to a new country - Sales dropped 50%

Is this only in the past 24hours, because something is seriously wrong with the Market this weekend. We are seeing more than 60% payment declined orders. See also this thread and please report it: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=03351bf9107148ea&hl=en As a non-US p

[android-developers] What is Cursor??

Hi guys I was going through the notepad tutorials and i found something playing a key role in it which is called cursor. Please let me know in simple language that what is this cursor and how can i use it in an application which integrates database. Thanks -- You received this message because you

[android-developers] Re: Transferred my app to a new country - Sales dropped 50%

> Recently I have transferred my app in from my Checkout U.S. account to > an account outside U.S. We notice that our sales have dropped 50% > since then. Looked into the sales log it appears the drop is due to > the Credit Card rejected. 50% is an interesting number. Lets say: 1) the usualy non-

Re: [android-developers] What is Cursor??

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/Cursor.html This interface provides random read-write access to the result set returned by a database query. http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/40842 Notice that Android uses the Cursor class as a return value for queries. Think of the Curs

[android-developers] Using SQLite in with few activities

Hi all, I'm trying to use SQLite in application for first time. My application contains an TabActivity. I would to use an database in some of those activities. Then, I created an DatabaseWrapper. Each time I try to execute query with "rawQuery" method, I obtain this stack : Thread [<3> main] (Sus

Re: [android-developers] What is Cursor??

Thanks Artak Last one helped a lot. I guess i would have to first get strong hand over java before jumping in android world. Regards On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Artak Kalantarian wrote: > http://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/Cursor.html > This interface provides random rea

[android-developers] Re: Transferred my app to a new country - Sales dropped 50%

Hello, So I guess we are bad luck in midst of transition? 20% decline rate is way too much. Should have done more research before moving out from U.S. Checkout. :( On Dec 5, 4:20 pm, webmonkey wrote: > Is this only in the past 24hours, because something is seriously wrong > with the Market this

[android-developers] Re: OnKeyListener not working on virtual keyboard

Having the same issue, but with EditText. On Nov 26, 5:13 am, bobetko wrote: > I don't understand why this peace of code is not working. OnlyDelete > and Return keys are detected. Listener doesn't fire for any otherkey. > My device isNexusOne. > > I tried to override activity's OnKeyDown method a

[android-developers] Android onKey is not fired for soft keyboard on a nexus one

I'm trying to catch onKey events from a soft keyboard. however, only few keys fire the onKey event (Delete, back, etc.). not regular characters. anyone know why? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send em

[android-developers] prevent user from clearing app data

It looks like there's a bug on Froyo where the user can clear app data even if allow clear user data is false in the manifest. I would like to put out a demo that stops working after a certain amount of usage and the simplest way is to put a counter in shared preferences (or another file) somewhere

Re: [android-developers] prevent user from clearing app data

i don't think this is a bug.. On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 2:32 PM, bagelboy wrote: > It looks like there's a bug on Froyo where the user can clear app data > even if allow clear user data is false in the manifest. I would like > to put out a demo that stops working after a certain amount of usage > a

Re: [android-developers] prevent user from clearing app data

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:32 AM, bagelboy wrote: > It looks like there's a bug on Froyo where the user can clear app data > even if allow clear user data is false in the manifest. To quote Ms. Hackborn from Sep 29, "Looks like it broke". Curiously, I find no issue for it on b.android.com. http://

[android-developers] Overlay to make parts of image clickable

I have an image and I want to make parts of it clickable. From my research I can see 2 ways to do this: 1) I could chop the image into pieces and put them into a relative layout 2) I could create a matrix of points that describe the clickable areas and use onTouch events to track clicks Option 1 h

Re: [android-developers] Not able list the files using java.io.File.listFiles()

thanks, is there any way i can access root files ? Any functions ? Rgds, VIn On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:12 AM, TreKing wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 11:56 AM, vinod chitrali < > vinod.t.chitr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> fileListing(new File("/system/")); // Here i am not able list files > > >

Re: [android-developers] Not able list the files using java.io.File.listFiles()

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:59 AM, vinod chitrali wrote: > is there any way i can access root files ? Any functions ? If you root your device and run your app with superuser privileges, then yes. Otherwise, no. This is standard Linux security, which you should be familiar with if you are trying to m

[android-developers] JPEG Image has a map

Hi, I have JPEG, PDF of sketch of my apartment, i want to make it as a google map so that i can use Google API's (geocoding, reverse geocoding) on that. may i know the solution for the problem regards Sal -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Dev

[android-developers] Animated-Rotate

I did some digging in Android code, and saw the use of in the indeterminate progress bar. after trying to create my own drawable with this tag: http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ android" android:drawable="@drawable/spinner_pia" android:pivotX="50%" android:pivotY="50%" android:f

[android-developers] Total and free Memory Usage

Hi, I have been trying to figure out what actually is the correct way to figure out the total system memory the phone has and uses (in my case an emulator) programatically but haven't got a clear idea as of yet. I went through the ActivityManager.MemoryInfo and Debug.MemoryInfo classes. I also we

[android-developers] NDK: result compiled and used on cygwin different from compiled and used on android

Hello guys, Since I work with DSP, the NDK is a dream come true for me. Right now I ´m trying to compile a LGPL lib for audio processing but unfortunately the results aren´t the ones I needed. I´m using windows 7 + cygwin for the NDK (and also for crystax). I have tried both (ndk and crystax) with

Re: [android-developers] Total and free Memory Usage

This is way more complicated than you think it is, and actually something that can be well answered. See here for more: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2298208/how-to-discover-memory-usage-of-my-application-in-android/2299813

Re: [android-developers] Android onKey is not fired for soft keyboard on a nexus one

Because the IME has a much more complicated interaction than just key events, to support things like candidate text and other features. Its communication is through the InputConnection interface. On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:02 AM, oriharel wrote: > I'm trying to catch onKey events from a soft keyb

[android-developers] Re: Using SQLite in with few activities

Ok I get my answers !!! I was mistaken in some name of tables ;-) Now it's working well On 5 déc, 11:49, Antony BODY wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to use SQLite in application for first time. My application > contains an TabActivity. I would to use an database in some of those > activitie

[android-developers] Re: Anybody else getting "document.body is null" JS error when loading Market Dashboard?

I'm not sure about the error, but i can no longer load the market- console on FireFox. It works fine on IE8. On Dec 4, 7:52 pm, Paul Tongyoo wrote: > When I hit the URL "http://market.android.com/publish/Home";, I get an > infinite "Loading" spinner as well as a "document.body is null" JS error >

[android-developers] Re: Layouts

Is there a good tutorial available? Especially, I'd like to know how to implement the relationship from XML to Java code. Regards Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-develop

[android-developers] Streaming mp3 file with RTSP protocol

hi all, I am trying play a mp3 stream file using rtsp protocol. To do this i am using the DarwinStreamingSrvr as a RTSP server and mediaplayer to play the RTSP link. I already tried play the mp4 video file and i didn't had any problems. However, when i try play the mp3 file i don't have sucess and

[android-developers] Re: Button placement problems

Thanks for your contribution Kostya - this really helped with greater understanding of Android layout designing, which is quite annoying to be honest :> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to an

[android-developers] Re: 60% payment declined on Android Market today!

I am getting exactly the same thing. Over the last 2 days almost every order has been 'Payment Declined'. I reckon I have missed out on close to £200 because of this. There is definitely something wrong with the payment process! What's the betting that Google have released yet more untested code

[android-developers] Re: 60% payment declined on Android Market today!

Just to update you... I just had a customer order 2 of my apps (I assume using the same card) - 1 order authorised successfully, the other failed. I smell a bug, a big ugly smelly bug that is losing all us developers a bucket load of cash. As this is losing Google their 30% as well, hopefully th

Re: [android-developers] JPEG Image has a map

I'm assuming that by a JPEG or PDF sketch of your apartment you mean an image of either the architectural plan or elevation, or else some kind of 3D sketch of the exterior or interior of the apartment. I'm assuming that you know the location of your apartment and can thus obtain its geocode manual

[android-developers] Re: 60% payment declined on Android Market today!

As if it isn't bad enough, if this is only affecting non-US publishers, what will it do to our ranking. On Dec 5, 7:10 pm, dooblou wrote: > Just to update you... > > I just had a customer order 2 of my apps (I assume using the same > card) - 1 order authorised successfully, the other failed. > >

Re: [android-developers] Passing objects to new intents

can you please paste here code snippet. On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:50 AM, John C. Bland II wrote: > Just reporting back. It works perfectly. I had a couple glitches but that > was bad coding. :-D > > Thx guys! > > --- > John C. Bland II > Blog: http://www.johncblandii.com > Company: http://www.kat

[android-developers] Re: Anybody else getting "document.body is null" JS error when loading Market Dashboard?

works from here using FF 3.6.10 I can't say about IE - stopped using that back when it started "encountering errors and had to shutdown" every 15 minutes - in IE7 IIRC - ignorant software. I've never seen the JS error either. On Dec 5, 11:15 am, Streets Of Boston wrote: > I'm not sure about the

[android-developers] Strange Problem with releasing bitmaps and 'back' button

Hi, This would be hard to explain so I'll try to make it as simple as it can be. I have an app that consist 2 activities. In the first one I have 2 animations with bitmaps.When I used the google suggested approach for animationdrawable (with xml file) I was constantly having OOME. Only using Bitm

[android-developers] Releasing camera kills all activities in the task

I have a video recording app in which I am setting camera parameters using the `Camera` object. After the recording is done, in the `onPause` I release the camera using the methods `camera.unlock(); camera.release();` The Moment my camera is released i get the following log 12-02 22:23:05.824

Re: [android-developers] Releasing camera kills all activities in the task

That's a hard crash, due to some firmware bug. It might be particular to your device. I recommend that you post it with all pertinent details (e.g., make/model of device) to b.android.com. On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 2:45 PM, funkyidol wrote: > I have a video recording app in which I am setting camer

[android-developers] Re: Passing objects to new intents

In my latest app I had a lot of activities, and had to pass a lot of objects between them. So, I came up with a different solution. I created a base activity, common to the application, and made all my other activities extend my base activity. 1) This is useful as you can put a lot of common meth

Re: [android-developers] Re: Passing objects to new intents

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Neilz wrote: > Now maybe this is obvious, but I must say I haven't seen this in any > other examples. I'm wondering if there's something 'wrong' with  this, > any reason why this shouldn't be done? 1. Watch for memory leaks. Do not put things in static contexts tha

[android-developers] Best approach for LocationPolling service

Hi! I am writing a little app, that needs to poll location every n minutes (usually every 15 or 30 minutes), do some logic with that information and store something into the db. There is a GUI to all that of course, but obviously I dont want that to run in the background as well. Just the polling

Re: [android-developers] Best approach for LocationPolling service

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:02 PM, CChange wrote: > I am writing a little app, that needs to poll location every n minutes > (usually every 15 or 30 minutes), do some logic with that information > and store something into the db. There is a GUI to all that of course, > but obviously I dont want that

Re: [android-developers] Re: Passing objects to new intents

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Neilz wrote: > 1) This is useful as you can put a lot of common methods and vars in > there,,, > As Mark said you can't really do this if you use any of the derived Activity classes (List, Tab, and especially Map). For this kind of "common activity stuff" I create

[android-developers] Re: System Font Files

For those who are interested: The font files are located in /system/ fonts. You can open a file for each of them and copy them wherever you need to. On Dec 2, 12:43 pm, burton miller wrote: > Ping. > > I know there are some brainiacs that can answer this with two lines of > code:) > > I have a

Re: [android-developers] Re: System Font Files

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:43 PM, burton miller wrote: > For those who are interested:  The font files are located in /system/ > fonts. > > You can open a file for each of them and copy them wherever you need > to. Not on a device. You do not have read access to that directory on a non-rooted devic

[android-developers] Re: What Tablet would you get

I was digging on the Notion Ink Adam as well, even jumped through the hoops for the Early Access Program. But then the price stopped me - $732 (+VAT, here in the UK) for a pre-release device. No thanks, too rich for my blood. I still like the look of it, but it's going to have to be REALLY specia

Re: [android-developers] Overlay to make parts of image clickable

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:43 AM, bagelboy wrote: > Option 2 can be scaled easier however I'm not sure how to go about coding > it. > Idea: derive from ImageView a custom view that also includes a list of "hotspots", which are just hit detection areas (squares or circles for simplicity). When you

[android-developers] Re: Passing objects to new intents

Cheers Mark and TreKing for your comments. Interesting... I think for this particular app my model works particularly well. I don't need to use any of the specialist Activity classes (Map, List etc) so that problem never occured to me. But of course for most apps this would be an issue. Also, my

[android-developers] Trying to fill screen on Galaxy Tab

I'm trying to upgrade my app so it makes efficient use of the new large screens. I'm not sure what my app's behavior is on a Droid (which admittedly isn't new, but I've never had one and I suppose could try the appropriate Droid emulator) but for now I'm experimenting with the Galaxy Tab emulator

[android-developers] Re: Overlay to make parts of image clickable

Option 2 would be the best way, as TreKing described. There exists a 3rd option: you could use an image-map within the HTML of a WebView. On Dec 6, 8:48 am, TreKing wrote: > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:43 AM, bagelboy wrote: > > Option 2 can be scaled easier however I'm not sure how to go about cod

[android-developers] Re: prevent user from clearing app data

Not to mention users who uninstall then reinstall your app. String On Dec 5, 1:41 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:32 AM, bagelboy wrote: > > It looks like there's a bug on Froyo where the user can clear app data > > even if allow clear user data is false in the manifest. > > T

Re: [android-developers] Re: System Font Files

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:43 PM, burton miller wrote: > For those who are interested: The font files are located in /system/ > fonts. > You can open a file for each of them and copy them wherever you need > to. > Can you point to a definition for this in the SDK? If not, you are relying on undoc

Re: [android-developers] prevent user from clearing app data

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Mark Murphy wrote: > To quote Ms. Hackborn from Sep 29, "Looks like it broke". Curiously, I > find no issue for it on b.android.com. > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/75f3c8217b758e06 That was specifically discussing syste

Re: [android-developers] Trying to fill screen on Galaxy Tab

This sounds like you are running in compatibility mode; make sure your tag is in the correct place and there are not other problems there. Or just do android:targetSdkVersion="4" or better. Really, people should be writing their apps to target stuff > Cupcake so when they are running on newer pl

Re: [android-developers] prevent user from clearing app data

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Mark Murphy wrote: >> >> To quote Ms. Hackborn from Sep 29, "Looks like it broke". Curiously, I >> find no issue for it on b.android.com. >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/

[android-developers] Re: strange behavior getting content from Gallery on Droid X - sets wallpaper when it shouldn't

Any ideas about this? I got a comment from another person who is apparently having the same issue, but I don't know what kind of phone he has. Has anyone else experienced this? Warren On Dec 2, 8:01 am, Warren wrote: > I had a user report this issue.  The app is designed to have the user > pic

[android-developers] Re: Best approach for LocationPolling service

> > Or should I try to create a kind of service thread that polls every > > (n) minutes and sleeps in between, would that save battery? > > Yes, but it will waste RAM and cause you to be the target of task killers. I disagree - it depends on how do you implement actual "runner". IMHO if you create

[android-developers] Re: JPEG Image has a map

I used the Overlay class for this purpose. Here is the main part of the MyOverlay::Draw() method: // convert bitmap's bounding box into pixels Point top_left = new Point(); mapView.getProjection().toPixels(min, top_left); Point bottom_right = new Point(); map

[android-developers] Re: Releasing camera kills all activities in the task

This log was generated on the Google Nexus One running Android 2.2 On Dec 6, 1:11 am, Mark Murphy wrote: > That's a hard crash, due to some firmware bug. It might be particular > to your device. > > I recommend that you post it with all pertinent details (e.g., > make/model of device) to b.androi

[android-developers] Total and free memory information in android phones and emulator

Hi, I have gone through the ActivityManager.MemoryInfo and Debug.MemoryInfo classes and the API's provided by them to get an insight of the available memory present and the memory consumption being done. I have been through the methods provided by Runtime class to get memory information. I still

[android-developers] Total and free memory information in android phones and emulator

Hi, I have gone through the ActivityManager.MemoryInfo and Debug.MemoryInfo classes and the API's provided by them to get an insight of the available memory present and the memory consumption being done. I have been through the methods provided by Runtime class to get memory information. I still

[android-developers] Total and free memory information in android phones and emulator

Hi, I have gone through the ActivityManager.MemoryInfo and Debug.MemoryInfo classes and the API's provided by them to get an insight of the available memory present and the memory consumption being done. I have been through the methods provided by Runtime class to get memory information. I still

[android-developers] Total and free memory information in android phones and emulator

Hi, I have gone through the ActivityManager.MemoryInfo and Debug.MemoryInfo classes and the API's provided by them to get an insight of the available memory present and the memory consumption being done. I have been through the methods provided by Runtime class to get memory information. I still

[android-developers] Total and free memory information in android phones and emulator

Hi, I have gone through the ActivityManager.MemoryInfo and Debug.MemoryInfo classes and the API's provided by them to get an insight of the available memory present and the memory consumption being done. I have been through the methods provided by Runtime class to get memory information. I still

[android-developers] Re: Trying to fill screen on Galaxy Tab

It was the lack of a targetSdkVersion tag (my min is only 3 since that's all I've ever needed for my app). Thanks. Putting a target in there fixed the problem right up. Cheers! On Dec 5, 5:44 pm, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > This sounds like you are running in compatibility mode; make sure your >

[android-developers] How to differentiate a tap event generated by system or by user

Hi All, Urgently needed help on this. Actually i am recording and playing a sequence of events using getevent and sendevent class, now while playing the recorded events. Now while playing the recorded events i want to know if any new tap event is generated by user. So is there any way to different

[android-developers] Re: Total and free memory information in android phones and emulator

Well, there's always java.lang.Runtime.freeMemory and totalMemory. On Dec 5, 10:08 pm, adithya <24adit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have gone through the ActivityManager.MemoryInfo and > Debug.MemoryInfo classes and the API's provided by them to get an > insight of the available memory present

[android-developers] How to differentiate a tap event generated by system or by user

Hi All, Urgently needed help on this. Actually i am recording and playing a sequence of events using getevent and sendevent class, now while playing the recorded events. Now while playing the recorded events i want to know if any new tap event is generated by user. So is there any way to different

Re: [android-developers] How to differentiate a tap event generated by system or by user

is there any tap event generated not by user's taping behavior? 2010/12/6 ankit : > Hi All, > > Urgently needed help on this. > Actually i am recording and playing a sequence of events using > getevent and sendevent class, > now while playing the recorded events. Now while playing the recorded > e

[android-developers] Media Player For Android

Hi All, I want to build a application to play a audio file while downloading it. Here I want to use buffer. and put the downloaded audio to buffer and while downloading, play it. (Like Steaming). Please Help me... Chamith -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

[android-developers] Port redirection in Android phone

Hi, I have created an application that uses some native library(developed by me istelf). I have created the JNI layer for using the native methods and devleoped the application completely. But now we are facing the issue of 512 local reference issue as in the link below. http://markmail.org/messag

Re: [android-developers] Media Player For Android

Refer to the samples in android sdk android sdk /samples/api demos/media -- 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

Re: [android-developers] Media Player For Android

Thanks... but I need to do a different thing.How I down load a audio file while it playing. I'm very new to android and want to do this. chamith On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:02 AM, nithya nataraj wrote: > Refer to the samples in android sdk > android sdk /samples/api demos/media > > -- > You recei

[android-developers] Re: Port redirection in Android phone

On Dec 6, 12:31 am, Nand wrote: > I have created an application that uses some native library(developed > by me istelf). I have created the JNI layer for using the native > methods and devleoped the application completely. But now we are > facing the issue of 512 local reference issue as in the l

[android-developers] Re: Opening a recently written file using Intents

>>I will say this again: please use real MIME types. Done! Thanks for your time and suggestions, Mark! -- 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

[android-developers] Re: Overlay to make parts of image clickable

Here is a generic solution for handling any number of arbitrary shaped hotspots: 1) create additional bitmap (same size as what you plan to show on the screen) and draw "hot areas" with a specific color. If you have less than 255 hotspots then use 8bpp bitmap with background of color with index 0.

[android-developers] Re: 60% payment declined on Android Market today!

Good someone from the Android Engineering Team who is reading this please notify the Market Team! I woke up and it still all payment declined orders for non-US sellers! On Dec 5, 8:03 pm, webmonkey wrote: > As if it isn't bad enough, if this is only affecting non-US > publishers, what will it do