[android-developers] Re: How to rectify Transformer exception

2011-06-05 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Sure, you look at the exception and its stack trace. Then try to determine, using various debugging tools at your disposal, what in your code could be causing the problem. That will be $50 which you can PayPal to me. On Jun 6, 2:27 pm, HariRam wrote: > Hi guys, > I am doing application with p

[android-developers] Installing platforms without internet access

2011-06-05 Thread Raghav Sood
Hi, In a few days time I will be going to my grandparents house which does not have an internet connection. Over there my new laptop (Macbook Pro) will be sent to me. I am taking the android starter package, eclipse and adt plugin with me on my pendrive. Is there any way to download and keep the

[android-developers] How to rectify Transformer exception

2011-06-05 Thread HariRam
Hi guys, I am doing application with parsing XML file. I used TransformerFactory to modify XML file. when i use TransformerFactory in android 2.2 version its working fine, at the same time when using TransformerFactory in android version 2.1 i am getting Transformer exception. Can anybody know how

[android-developers] Bluetooth encryption technique in android

2011-06-05 Thread manish
Dear All I want to set the encryption key size for Bluetooth in Android, but not able to find the files where the exact encryption happens . I have seen that BluetoothSocket class does take "encryption" as a boolean argument in constructor, but when i followed it to the JNI layer, found that i

[android-developers] [SOLVED] startActivityForResult does not return control to calling Activity

2011-06-05 Thread Anirvan
hello, i found the source of my troubles - it was to do with the manifest setting. i had set the "android:noHistory" attribute to true for the tab activity from which i launched the other activity. lesson learnt :] On Jun 6, 1:25 am, Anirvan wrote: > i have a tab layout. in one of the Activity'

[android-developers] How can I get app ratings to display on my website?

2011-06-05 Thread Spiderfly Studios
I've seen a lot of sites that display app ratings and comments, but how? I would like to display that info on my website, but I can't find the info on how to do so anywhere. It would be great if there were a simple WordPress plugin to do so, but there isn't. So I'm left to try an figure out how

[android-developers] Re: Activity lifecycle: invoking finish

2011-06-05 Thread albnok
If you've noticed, cleaning stuff up let's say clearing a bitmap or nulling an image before you call another activity will result in a temporary blanking out. So onDestroy has to happen after the next activity is fully drawn. If you use 14mb in Activity A and 14mb in Activity B on a 16mb heap devic

[android-developers] Mix audio files

2011-06-05 Thread neha
hi Is there nay way to mix two or more audio files. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-deve

[android-developers] Monetize Your Android App and Maximize Your Reach

2011-06-05 Thread OrenTodoros
Hi Group Oren Todoros here, Online Marketing Strategist at the AppSnips, part of the Logia Group. I'd like to introduce you to an effortless solution that will help you generate more revenue from your Android apps. The advanced tools and extensive distribution channels that AppSnips offers for A

[android-developers] Re: A tricky but simple solution for who requires modal dialog

2011-06-05 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I can confirm Theme.Dialog works. I use it in my own app without any issue whatsoever. The background activity is still visible dimmed. On Jun 6, 12:55 pm, Qi Luo wrote: > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Mark Murphy wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Qi Luo wrote: > > > I've tried

[android-developers] import error in AIDL, guessing Android.mk needs fixing.

2011-06-05 Thread maliha
Hi, I am writing an aidl which will needs to use NetworkInfo from com.android.internal.telephony.gsm.NetworkInfo, I am using 'import com.android.internal.telephony.gsm.NetworkInfo' in myService.aidl, I am able to generate the apk for my app but when I try to build with the android source code i am

Re: [android-developers] Re: A tricky but simple solution for who requires modal dialog

2011-06-05 Thread Qi Luo
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Qi Luo wrote: > > I've tried this, but I didn't figure out how to build a real dialog-like > and > > modal activity. Here's 2 issues I ran into, > > 1. I created a dialog-themed activity, but the background of

Re: [android-developers] Re: Fragment Compatibility support down to Android 1.1

2011-06-05 Thread TreKing
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Peli wrote: > The compatibility library still contains references to AsyncTask which is > not available until 1.6, so it does not compile with 1.1 or 1.5, but once > compiled with 1.6 or higher it seems to load fine in 1.1 and 1.5. > http://developer.android.com/r

[android-developers] how to deal with details when using rtsp?

2011-06-05 Thread Hitendrasinh Gohil
Hi, I m using rtsp for radio streaming and my problem is that i need to show the track details associated with the currently playing song. server sends the track details to the clients that are currently connected at the begining of song.How can i handle this situation at android client side? I m

[android-developers] Re: Advanced Memory Leak, What could be the cause/How to find it ?

2011-06-05 Thread albnok
(Apologies for double-post... Xoom Honeycomb browser crashed twice upon posting!) Also an edit to my previous post: Click Histogram again and search for the extra objects. Right-click and click "Merge Shortest Path to GC Roots" and look for the "exclude all phantom/weak/soft etc. references". You

[android-developers] Failed to register input channel?

2011-06-05 Thread Nikolay Elenkov
I've been getting this error a lot in ACRA lately. Seems it happens mostly when trying to display a Toast or a progress dialog. It is only happening on 2.3.3 so far, but across different devices. Any idea what can be causing this? Here are some stacktraces: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed t

[android-developers] Re: Fragment Compatibility support down to Android 1.1

2011-06-05 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
The Market statistics chart for Platform versions haven't been updated since they first made it available, so I wouldn't rely on that. If you don't believe me, count up the total and it should match the total install count shown on the main page and on the top chart. I know that this is the case

[android-developers] Re: GPS lat & long

2011-06-05 Thread JP
Lat and lon are projected to MapView's y and x coordinates, through Projection. On Jun 5, 3:53 pm, ingy abbas wrote: > The GPS Latitude and longitude is not ( x and y Direction ) ?Is it z > direction ( slider some how )? When the map with overlay item appear > on the mobile it seems like the ove

Re: [android-developers] Re: Fragment Compatibility support down to Android 1.1

2011-06-05 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Well I didn't have this supporting 1.5 because it was causing failures when Dalvik tried to load some classes. You'll want to carefully test anything you do. On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Peli wrote: > Interestingly it seems to work (at least in the 1.1 and 1.5 > emulators). > The compatibili

[android-developers] Re: Fragment Compatibility support down to Android 1.1

2011-06-05 Thread Peli
Interestingly it seems to work (at least in the 1.1 and 1.5 emulators). The compatibility library still contains references to AsyncTask which is not available until 1.6, so it does not compile with 1.1 or 1.5, but once compiled with 1.6 or higher it seems to load fine in 1.1 and 1.5. Market stati

[android-developers] Android Manifest Build Details in version string

2011-06-05 Thread MCON Dev
Hello, I am wondering if there is a way to get a automated customized build version name when I build a android application on eclipse. I need the build to be like "majorversion:minorversion DDMMHHMM" I need a way to read the system date, time. Format it as DDMMHHMM" Conny -- You recei

Re: [android-developers] Bundle.putSerializable not calling custom writeObject(ObjectOutputStream) method?

2011-06-05 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Well the object isn't actually serialized until it needs to be sent across processes. On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Emanuel Moecklin <1gravity...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Dianne > > My custom serialization methods get called if I do the > serialization/deserialization myself by writing/reading the

[android-developers] Re: lg optimus freezing

2011-06-05 Thread gjs
Hi, I'd guess it is a G2X, mine is just as bad, reboots regularly & also won't start unless pop battery so can't use as day to day phone. LG POS. Regards On Jun 5, 6:26 pm, Raghav Sood wrote: > I have an LG Optimus P500. It frezes quite often but that was because one of > my apps had some bug

Re: [android-developers] Bundle.putSerializable not calling custom writeObject(ObjectOutputStream) method?

2011-06-05 Thread Emanuel Moecklin
Hi Dianne My custom serialization methods get called if I do the serialization/deserialization myself by writing/reading the object to/from a byte[]. If the same object is written using putSerializable the methods are NOT called. So my assumption is that the Bundle is never actually serialized

Re: [android-developers] Re: Actionbar.DISPLAY_HOME_AS_UP causes activity to not call destroy, is this by design?

2011-06-05 Thread Mark Murphy
Reading your question, and with Honeycomb being relatively new, I thought perhaps I had seriously screwed up how that "home affordance" worked. Hence, I'm grateful that this is working for you. On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Christer Nordvik wrote: > That's what I get for coding at night. I had

Re: [android-developers] Re: getting exception on updating ui?

2011-06-05 Thread Mark Murphy
Most media players have the MediaPlayer owned by a Service, to handle this scenario, plus to allow the media to keep playing even after the user presses HOME or otherwise leaves the app. On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Hitendrasinh Gohil wrote: >> Hi mark, >> > >  thankx a lot i have resolve with

[android-developers] GPS lat & long

2011-06-05 Thread ingy abbas
The GPS Latitude and longitude is not ( x and y Direction ) ?Is it z direction ( slider some how )? When the map with overlay item appear on the mobile it seems like the overlay items are Z direction Not straight X and Y So is this True ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [android-developers] Back Button implementation

2011-06-05 Thread Dianne Hackborn
When you get the back button, call finish() on your activity. That's all the default implementation does. On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:09 PM, kaushik p wrote: > Hi all > > can anyone please help me implementing the back button in my app > exclusively?? I am building an app to help illiterate ppl ,

[android-developers] Re: EditText stops displaying characters as I'm typing?

2011-06-05 Thread Eric Carman
As this is an on-again, off-again problem, it appears to be on again. I can reproduce this on a G-Slate. Back to square one -- 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@google

[android-developers] startActivityForResult does not return control to calling Activity

2011-06-05 Thread Anirvan
i have a tab layout. in one of the Activity's corresponding to a tab, i use "startActivityForResult" to launch another activity to do something. Once the tasks in the new activity are done, i invoke the "finish()" method to return to the tab Activity which launched it. strangely enough, when the n

Re: [android-developers] Fragment Compatibility support down to Android 1.1

2011-06-05 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Making it work on 1.5 and earlier is not actually so simple, because of the way the Dalvik class loader works on those versions. The approach the library uses a lot for being able to call newer functions (having the calls in a separate class that is only used if running on the appropriate version)

Re: [android-developers] Re: getting exception on updating ui?

2011-06-05 Thread Hitendrasinh Gohil
> > Hi mark, > > thankx a lot i have resolve with the help of postdelayed. "3. Do not put a MediaPlayer in a static data member, as you appear to have done with LocalMediaPlayer. Static data members should be avoided where possible, and I fail to see why this case would be necessary." I have thr

[android-developers] Back Button implementation

2011-06-05 Thread kaushik p
Hi all can anyone please help me implementing the back button in my app exclusively?? I am building an app to help illiterate ppl , so they do not know how to use the android back button ,i need to exclusively put it on the screen . However i want to use my back button exactly ia the way, natur

Re: [android-developers] Bundle.putSerializable not calling custom writeObject(ObjectOutputStream) method?

2011-06-05 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Android doesn't do anything to stop your code from working. As you seem to have already said, it is just doing standard serialization as here: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=blob;f=core/java/android/os/Parcel.java;h=31f87198878aa4ac6c1dd3f8be6e151c1d1c89d8;hb=HEAD

Re: [android-developers] Re: Advanced Memory Leak, What could be the cause/How to find it ?

2011-06-05 Thread B Lyon
what version of android? On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 2:51 PM, albnok wrote: > Comment everything out. Make a routine where you rotate and go in and > out of the activity. Start activity fresh, do hprof dump, do the > routine, get another dump. Click Histogram and click the right most > icon to compare

Re: [android-developers] CWAC Demo

2011-06-05 Thread Simon Platten
Thank you so much, that was it! Regards, Simon On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: > The offending line is this: > > public myService(String name) { > super(name); > setIntentRedelivery(true); > } > > Android instantiates components (services, activiti

[android-developers] Re: Advanced Memory Leak, What could be the cause/How to find it ?

2011-06-05 Thread albnok
Comment everything out. Make a routine where you rotate and go in and out of the activity. Start activity fresh, do hprof dump, do the routine, get another dump. Click Histogram and click the right most icon to compare to the fresh dump. You may spot some extra objects. Click Histogram again and se

Re: [android-developers] Bundle.putSerializable not calling custom writeObject(ObjectOutputStream) method?

2011-06-05 Thread Emanuel Moecklin
Hi Mark The serialization code works because my workaround I mentioned in my previous post works ("write everything into a byte[] using ObjectOutputStream.writeObject() on top of a ByteArrayOutputStream and then put the byte[] into the Bundle"). I tested your onRetainNonConfigurationInstance/

[android-developers] Re: Advanced Memory Leak, What could be the cause/How to find it ?

2011-06-05 Thread albnok
Figure out how to get OOME quickly (usually rotating and going in and out if activities). Comment EVERYTHING out. Test that there is zero gain. Get a hprof dump when app is freshly loaded, do the rotate and in and out test, get another dump, compare the histograms (right most icon in MAT). You may

Re: [android-developers] CWAC Demo

2011-06-05 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
The offending line is this: public myService(String name) { super(name); setIntentRedelivery(true); } Android instantiates components (services, activities) using the component's default constructor. An explicit non-default constructor like the above prevents the compiler

[android-developers] Re: Actionbar.DISPLAY_HOME_AS_UP causes activity to not call destroy, is this by design?

2011-06-05 Thread Christer Nordvik
That's what I get for coding at night. I had forgotten that I had created my own base activity that had implemented starting a new Intent and no finish call. Sorry about that, and thanks for responding :-) -Christer On Jun 5, 1:31 am, Mark Murphy wrote: > AFAIK, the top left icon has no effect,

[android-developers] CWAC Demo

2011-06-05 Thread Simon Platten
Earlier I posted a question regarding a problem I'm having with my BroadcastReceiver and onReceive method. I found that the logic in onReceive would sometimes crash and I couldn't find an explanation why, one road I went down was to try creating a thread in onReceive, whilst this was better, it di

[android-developers] basic4android Fly With Me app tested

2011-06-05 Thread Thomas
I finally got around to having a friend test this little app on a newer Droid as it has been working on my t-mobile G1. It worked nicely there as well. This app helps shoppers find their car in the mall parking lot. Down load at http://tombtalk.net/apps I was testing the basic4android setup and a

Re: [android-developers] Re: Uri.fromFile() returning different results on identical phones

2011-06-05 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
According to your logs, the current working directory at the time that the file path is constructed is different. Since the source path is relative, this produces different results. Assuming you know where "Game 1.xwg" really is, why not construct an absolute path to begin with? -- Kostya 2011/

[android-developers] Re: Uri.fromFile() returning different results on identical phones

2011-06-05 Thread eehouse
Thanks for the suggestion. It's provided the clue that will let me work around the problem. But for the record, calling getAbsolutePath() isn't changing the result: I still get different paths on the two (identical) devices: Code: Utils.logf( "launchGame(%s)", path ); File file

Re: [android-developers] Background services and notifications.

2011-06-05 Thread Edam
Hi, Thanks for the info. I'll update my app to use the alarm manager to wake the service. The service will then get the location, (possibly connect to web service) and check if a notification should be sent. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android D

Re: [android-developers] Re: A tricky but simple solution for who requires modal dialog

2011-06-05 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Qi Luo wrote: > I've tried this, but I didn't figure out how to build a real dialog-like and > modal activity. Here's 2 issues I ran into, > 1. I created a dialog-themed activity, but the background of  it was always > black, and the main activity under it was tota

Re: [android-developers] Re: A tricky but simple solution for who requires modal dialog

2011-06-05 Thread Qi Luo
I've tried this, but I didn't figure out how to build a real dialog-like and modal activity. Here's 2 issues I ran into, 1. I created a dialog-themed activity, but the background of it was always black, and the main activity under it was totally invisible. 2. activity could be started and expect a

[android-developers] Re: Amazon AppStore, are you earning something from there?

2011-06-05 Thread Adam Ratana
I've been thrilled and surprised with my modest results in the Android Market for my photography geek app ("Sun Surveyor") so far; in the Amazon App Store, though, when my sales recently tripled(!) to 3 copies sold, it was listed as #10 in the Top Paid Apps for Photography, a week or so ago. Which

Re: [android-developers] Bundle.putSerializable not calling custom writeObject(ObjectOutputStream) method?

2011-06-05 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Emanuel Moecklin <1gravity...@gmail.com> wrote: > What other way do I have to prevent the StackOverflowError? I'd start by testing your serialization code in a unit test and confirm that it works, independent of its use with Bundle. Perhaps you have done this alrea

[android-developers] Re: Android LifeCycle and Singleton Instances

2011-06-05 Thread DulcetTone
Mark, thanks so much for that. I had overlooked those pages in my focus on the Javadoc. It would be great if the germ of those nuggets were placed into the Javadoc. I think I have the tools to resolve these lifecycle issues. tone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

Re: [android-developers] Bundle.putSerializable not calling custom writeObject(ObjectOutputStream) method?

2011-06-05 Thread Emanuel Moecklin
Hi Dianne 1. Everything I try to persist is UI state, some UIs are just a little more complex than others. Persisting it some other way doesn't make sense because it is indeed just part of the UI and not needed anywhere else. 2. I'm not persisting objects of 100 different classes

[android-developers] Fragment Compatibility support down to Android 1.1

2011-06-05 Thread Peli
I've modified the "Android Compatibility support v4, revision 2" ( http://developer.android.com/sdk/compatibility-library.html ) slightly so that it can be used on Android 1.5 or Android 1.1 as well. The only modification so far was to support Build.VERSION.SDK_INT on versions earlier than 1.6. Th

Re: [android-developers] NullPointerException in java.io.File.fixSlashes?

2011-06-05 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
I've seen this crash in development, caused by "new File(null)". Perhaps you could check how your code comes up with the path fed into the constructor? -- Kostya 2011/6/5 Mark Murphy > Well, line 234 of File.java is not in the fixSlashes() method in the > latest stuff in the repo, based on what

Re: [android-developers] NullPointerException in java.io.File.fixSlashes?

2011-06-05 Thread Mark Murphy
Well, line 234 of File.java is not in the fixSlashes() method in the latest stuff in the repo, based on what Google Code Search is telling me. What are the models of devices that are giving you this problem? On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Derek wrote: > Hi all, > > We get crash reports with th

[android-developers] NullPointerException in java.io.File.fixSlashes?

2011-06-05 Thread Derek
Hi all, We get crash reports with the following error: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.io.File.fixSlashes(File.java:234) It appears on File file = new File("path/subfolder"); on some devices only. We cannot reproduce it. Where could this problem from from? Cheers. -- You received this

Re: [android-developers] Repeating alarm service

2011-06-05 Thread Simon Platten
Thanks Mark, I have that sample application from a previous query, I'll take another look. Regards, Simon On 05/06/2011 2:38 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Simon Platten wrote: I think I may have fixed it, I looked around for some information on BroadcastReciever '

Re: [android-developers] Repeating alarm service

2011-06-05 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Simon Platten wrote: > I think I may have fixed it, I looked around for some information on > BroadcastReciever 'onRecieve' routines.  I suspected it was that I was > spending to much time in this routine, but I couldn't find anything to back > this up. > > What I h

Re: [android-developers] Repeating alarm service

2011-06-05 Thread Simon Platten
I think I may have fixed it, I looked around for some information on BroadcastReciever 'onRecieve' routines. I suspected it was that I was spending to much time in this routine, but I couldn't find anything to back this up. What I have done now is to create a worker thread when the onRecieve

Re: [android-developers] Repeating alarm service

2011-06-05 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Use the logcat to see the stack trace. You might want to run it in a command line window to see it more clearly. The debugging session stops because the broadcast for your alarm times out, and Android kills the process. You could also use Handler.post() / sendMessage() to immediately return contr

Re: [android-developers] Uri.fromFile() returning different results on identical phones

2011-06-05 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
The path you're feeding to Uri.fromFile is not absolute. Make it so (by calling file.getAbsolutePath or file.getCanonicalPath) and you should get consistent, predictable results. -- Kostya 2011/6/5 eehouse > I've tracked a crash in my app that's only reproducible on one phone > (that I've seen

[android-developers] Repeating alarm service

2011-06-05 Thread Simon Platten
I have an alarm service runnining in Android 2.1, there is a problem with the service in that for some reason unknown to me it starts to exception after a period of time. To try and capture the reason why, I have scheduled the service to run at 1 second intervals. I can see in the debugged when t

[android-developers] Re: Communication with Flash (swf)

2011-06-05 Thread sleith
Hi, really thanks for your answer :) Did you ever tried this before? So the android app will continuously looping every x second to read a file for any input right? Is it really possible? i mean for swf to write and read a file in android platform. Maybe if you have a trial source code, it would b

Re: [android-developers] lg optimus freezing

2011-06-05 Thread Raghav Sood
I have an LG Optimus P500. It frezes quite often but that was because one of my apps had some bug in it. (I wrote it.) It never rebooted though. Which Optimus do you have? On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:51 PM, TreKing wrote: > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:57 PM, bob wrote: > >> I have an LG Optimus tha

[android-developers] Re: JSON OR SOAP ?

2011-06-05 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Cool, that would make a good addition to the compatibility library, as I'd assume, it's fairly self-contained. On Jun 5, 8:21 am, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Streets Of Boston > wrote: > > > Personally, I would choose XML because Android already includes pull and > >

[android-developers] Re: Market link without "related apps" garbage

2011-06-05 Thread amir
Hi We have encountered the same problem when sharing via Facebook. have you found a solution for the random icon problem? Does any one know if I can set a specific icon as default so he will have priority over other images/icons? does changing the icon name can make him be the first one selected?

[android-developers] Re: Problems with main.xml after uncritical sourcecode changes

2011-06-05 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I take that back. It's still happening with the newest tools. Though it's now improved in that a single Clean/Rebuild will actually fully build the project now instead of having to do it 2-3 times before. This is on Helios SR2, Windows Vista X64. On Jun 5, 1:00 pm, Zsolt Vasvari wrote: > Yes,

Re: [android-developers] LOg in form

2011-06-05 Thread Knutsford Software
I should have said that I now have my login form working - I needes an onresstart 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