[android-developers] Re: Freemium Model with In-App Purchases

2011-08-27 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
> we currently considering pulling all our demo > versions from the U.S. market and only offer payed versions. If your app is top rated and you have a few hundred ratings at least, this should be a good way to go. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Andr

[android-developers] HTTP request to Android Market being blocked? (403 response)

2011-08-27 Thread Jason
Hi folks, I'm building a system in which I'm wanting to verify the ownership of a given Android app to a given user. (eg. they enter the package name of their app, and I verify that they own it). I am currently using Google App Engine for this, but it seems this is being blocked by the Android M

Re: [android-developers] Re: Freemium Model with In-App Purchases

2011-08-27 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
It's reasonable to expect that they will attempt to shake down everyone who sells an Android app. It's not reasonable to expect that they will actually sue everyone they contact. Nobody has the resources to do that. I still think this is just one guy in a dark room writing threatening letters h

Re: [android-developers] Re: Freemium Model with In-App Purchases

2011-08-27 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
The guy is still writing letters so it stands to reason some people are paying him. On 8/27/2011 2:49 PM, Andy wrote: Hi makjaveli, i recieved a Lodsys letter 2 Days ago. Same Problem here. I have a button in my app linked to the Android Market. It's simply a button with a underlaying http L

Re: [android-developers] how to show pop up dialog

2011-08-27 Thread gaurav gupta
@Treking .. U r too good On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:26 PM, TreKing wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:25 AM, aparna rani wrote: > >> is it possible do in android. >> > > Of course. > > >> if it is possible give me some sample code >> > > Try doing your own work, then ask a question when you get

[android-developers] DashboardLayout (iosched 2011) behaves weirdly

2011-08-27 Thread Alexis Robert
Hi, I have a little problem with DashboardLayout (the one on iosched 2011 mercurial repository) and as I really don't know what's wrong. I know I'm wrong somewhere, as this layout works for the I/O app, and I've tried to copy the situation of the I/O app everywhere I can, but nothing worked. When

[android-developers] Getting data from EditText failed why.

2011-08-27 Thread aparna rani
hi i am implementing change password option in my app. i displayed dialog alert box. when i trying to get data from edittext failed. why i don't know please help me? LayoutInflater factory = LayoutInflater.from(this); final View textEntryView = factory.inflate(R.layout.password, null);

Re: [android-developers] Getting data from EditText failed why.

2011-08-27 Thread gaurav gupta
H On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 2:27 PM, aparna rani wrote: > hi i am implementing change password option in my app. i displayed dialog > alert box. > when i trying to get data from edittext failed. why i don't know please > help me? > > LayoutInflater factory = LayoutInflater.from(this); > fi

Re: [android-developers] Getting data from EditText failed why.

2011-08-27 Thread gaurav gupta
Hi Aparna, * final EditText oldPassword = (EditText) changePassword.findViewById(R.id.old_password);* *Use this line* ** *final EditText oldPassword = (EditText) textEntryView.findViewById(R.id.old_password);* On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 2:36 PM, gaurav gupta wrote: > H > > > On Sat, Aug 27,

[android-developers] Re: reading choices from spinners

2011-08-27 Thread FBondarenko
That's a java thing: to compare Strings use something like if (strResult.equals("Four")), as (strResult == "Four") checks if the operands are the same object and not if they have the same content. On 26 Aug., 19:49, erik wagner wrote: > Hi all, I have a very simple game that I'm trying to do for

[android-developers] Android Application - NewsBook

2011-08-27 Thread Faizan Shaikh
Read News from various international sources like CNN,BBC,ESPN,FOX NEWS etc using their RSS Feeds. The application contains news feeds from more than 100 sources/channels/websites. It consumes minimum bandwidth and runs very fast even if you are using the GPRS. News feeds are automatically UPDAT

[android-developers] how can i update my application without adding more devices?

2011-08-27 Thread 李白|字一日
it seems i can update my application now? -- 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-developers+unsubscr...@

Re: [android-developers] Getting data from EditText failed why.

2011-08-27 Thread aparna rani
thank you its working fine. On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 2:37 PM, gaurav gupta wrote: > Hi Aparna, > > * final EditText oldPassword = (EditText) > changePassword.findViewById(R.id.old_password);* > *Use this line* > ** > *final EditText oldPassword = (EditText) > textEntryView.findViewById(R.i

[android-developers] Re: how can i update my application without adding more devices?

2011-08-27 Thread 李白|字一日
i would like to ask google why, previously because of the signature expiration, i had to republish my application with new package name. this time again because my updates didn't change supporting devices? my new updates cann't be published? why? " 错误:6 版的 APK 与其他更高版本的 APK 所支持的设备完全相同。系统不会推出这样的 A

[android-developers] Image manipulation similar to google+ app

2011-08-27 Thread charlie babitt
Hallo! Looking on the google+ app on the dashboard, I have seen that they display my profile image and draw a blue circle arround it. What is the easiest way to achieve something like this? I want to create an ImageView which contains an image (I'm loading it from the SD Card) and drawing a rectan

Re: [android-developers] Re: Just received Lodsys letter...

2011-08-27 Thread Andy
Question would be as "super small developer" whats the easiest Exit Strategy. A Patent Lawer in the US easily costs serveral hundert $/hour. Their strategy might be that this effort is too big for most of us. (Especially from Europe / laguage barrier) So after reading http://www.lodsys.com/1/p

[android-developers] Re: In-App Billing forces screen orientation change

2011-08-27 Thread groob
That's the solution we used in another title. I don't like it at all, but nothing else can be done, as one can see. Thank you. On Aug 27, 8:46 am, Zsolt Vasvari wrote: > I would just draw a solid background of a color your choice.  I assume > that the Checkout window takes most of the screen. -

[android-developers] Re: activity transition animations

2011-08-27 Thread Jona
Create your own custom theme and override the activity animations. See the theme.xml file located under the android sdk. On Aug 26, 9:27 pm, hachi wrote: > i am also using windowIsTranslucent to achieve transparent background > on activity B > > On Aug 26, 6:07 pm, hachi wrote: > > > > > I am tr

Re: [android-developers] Re: Just received Lodsys letter...

2011-08-27 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
They want 0.575% of your gross, past, present and future. On 8/27/2011 6:58 PM, Andy wrote: Question would be as "super small developer" whats the easiest Exit Strategy. A Patent Lawer in the US easily costs serveral hundert $/hour. Their strategy might be that this effort is too big for most

[android-developers] Re: In-App Billing forces screen orientation change

2011-08-27 Thread groob
Thank you for your interest, TreKing. The strange thing is the display is of course rotated, but alsoscaled down in height and untouched in width, so it looks like GL scaling has been applied. Nevertheless it might look like a bug or at least an unhandled behaviour, so I need to get rid of it some

Re: [android-developers] Re: Just received Lodsys letter...

2011-08-27 Thread Michael Banzon
What is the patent number they refer to? On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Christopher Van Kirk wrote: > They want 0.575% of your gross, past, present and future. > > On 8/27/2011 6:58 PM, Andy wrote: >> >> Question would be as "super small developer" whats the easiest Exit >> Strategy. >> >> A Pa

[android-developers] Crash on SQLiteOpenHelper::getReadableDatabase when I'm trying to copy new db from raw resources

2011-08-27 Thread pawpaw17
Hi Guys, I ship a pre-created database as a raw resource and copy it into my app's database folder at startup. When I ship updates I overwrite the old db with my new db, which sometimes includes new stuff. I can't reproduce this with any of my devices, but some of my app's users get a crash when

Re: [android-developers] Re: Just received Lodsys letter...

2011-08-27 Thread Andy
I'm only accused for 7,222,078 (the in app billing) beside my app has no in-app purchase or upgrade. It's simply a http link to the android market.I think they are sure that their patent covers the process behind this?!?!. But if so, this would ment, that even web-Applications are not allo

[android-developers] Advice on getting data from one activity to another

2011-08-27 Thread erik wagner
Hi, I guess this is more of a design with more than a little 'how do i' mixed in question. I have two activities (thus far), a main page and an options page. On the options page I set an option that I need to 'see' on the main page (as well as on subsequent other activites). What is the 'best' wa

[android-developers] SSH to device

2011-08-27 Thread kypriakos
Hi all, I have the SSHDroid running on the device and I can ping it. But ssh- ing to it asks for a root passwd and I am assuming that means the phone needs to be rooted, or a root login added to it? Not sure. Since the ssh server is running on a particular port and I get a login prompt back I am

Re: [android-developers] SSH to device

2011-08-27 Thread Mark Murphy
Support for SSHDroid is presumably provided by the SSHDroid authors, not this list. On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:41 AM, kypriakos wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have the SSHDroid running on the device and I can ping it. But ssh- > ing to it asks for a root > passwd and I am assuming that means the phone

Re: [android-developers] Advice on getting data from one activity to another

2011-08-27 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:32 AM, erik wagner wrote: > Hi, I guess this is more of a design with more than a little 'how do > i' mixed in question.  I have two activities (thus far), a main page > and an options page.  On the options page I set an option that I need > to 'see' on the main page (as

[android-developers] Re: SSH to device

2011-08-27 Thread kypriakos
Agreed. A more general question: What does the "adb connect" do exactly? Not much info on the adb page about it. If I run it it says that it's connected to the device but it shows it as offline. Is this supposed to be used in combination with any 3rd party app or I should be able to issue command

Re: [android-developers] Re: SSH to device

2011-08-27 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:03 AM, kypriakos wrote: > What does the "adb connect" do exactly? Not much info on the adb page > about it. Sorry, I've never used it. > I want > to be > able to do that without the USB connection and via TCP. I can tell you that I've used QuickSSHd (http://teslacoils

[android-developers] Re: Advice on getting data from one activity to another

2011-08-27 Thread erik wagner
Thanks! Now to figure out how to use them, hopefully I won't be back later with a 'uh, how do i do this?' question. On Aug 27, 9:50 am, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:32 AM, erik wagner wrote: > > Hi, I guess this is more of a design with more than a little 'how do > > i' mixed

[android-developers] Re: SSH to device

2011-08-27 Thread kypriakos
Really? Well that's what I need - thanks Mark I will follow up! On Aug 27, 11:21 am, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:03 AM, kypriakos wrote: > > What does the "adb connect" do exactly? Not much info on the adb page > > about it. > > Sorry, I've never used it. > > > I want > > to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Advice on getting data from one activity to another

2011-08-27 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:34 AM, erik wagner wrote: > Thanks!  Now to figure out how to use them, hopefully I won't be back > later with a 'uh, how do i do this?' question. Here is a sample project showing using SharedPreferences and a PreferenceActivity: https://github.com/commonsguy/cw-androi

[android-developers] Android SDK 2.3.3, another bug, can't download APK.

2011-08-27 Thread sblantipodi
Hi, can you tell me why I can't download .apk file from the 2.3.3sdk browser? I can do it with all other SDK version but not with 2.3.3. 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-

[android-developers] Terminating apps

2011-08-27 Thread kypriakos
Hi again, I issue a finish() on a single process app, it exits to the home screen of the phone but a ps shows that the process is still running. Is this the proper way to terminate an app? I thought so. Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Androi

Re: [android-developers] Terminating apps

2011-08-27 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:56 AM, kypriakos wrote: > I issue a finish() on a single process app, it exits to the home > screen of the > phone but a ps shows that the process is still running. Android will terminate the process eventually. Android keeps the process running initially, in case the u

[android-developers] Question around Bitmap loading

2011-08-27 Thread blew
Hello fellow developers, This is again, about the famous "external allocation too large for this process" Out of Memory exception when loading Bitmaps into your memory. The problem revolves around the following error message: 1502400-byte external allocation too large for this process. Out of mem

[android-developers] Accelerometer vs Gravity Sensor in game code?

2011-08-27 Thread Jim Graham
When writing game code, what (if anything) is the difference between the accelerometer, G-Sensor, and Gravity Sensor? I'd assumed that they were all different names for the same thing, until I pulled up specs on my Motorola Bravo (MB520), and found a device id for the accelerometer, an "Unsupporte

[android-developers] Re: Reading a MIFARE 1k TAG from 2.3.4 Nexus S

2011-08-27 Thread nadam
http://mifareclassicdetectiononandroid.blogspot.com On 26 Aug, 09:14, Ankit Maheshwari wrote: > Hey all , > can any body please help me with the code to read a MIFARE 1k CARD, > i.e it UID and data from a specific blocks .. asuming that i know both > the keys , > any kinda help will be really app

[android-developers] WebView with Admob Error

2011-08-27 Thread OneaDayJ
Hey guys, Okay, so I am having a heck of a time here doing this app. I am trying to create an app that has the webview up top and admob ads at the bottom. I got the webView aspect to work then when I tried to ad the admob I began getting errors. I first added the manifest and it worked fine, bu

[android-developers] Re: SSH to device

2011-08-27 Thread Chris Stratton
On Saturday, August 27, 2011 11:03:26 AM UTC-4, kypriakos wrote: > > What does the "adb connect" do exactly? Not much info on the adb page > about it. > You would use it to connect to a device which has an adbd listening on something other than the USB, for example listening on TCP so that you

[android-developers] Re: Terminating apps

2011-08-27 Thread kypriakos
Aha ... With "eventually" you mean that if Android does not need RAM the process could be around for a while (or until the phone is rebooted)? Is finish() synchronous and it occurs immediately? I am wondering if it is possible to exit the activity but subsequently ask Android to terminate it immed

[android-developers] Re: SSH to device

2011-08-27 Thread kypriakos
Yes the security aspect is important so I agree with the suggestion. However, I think I did try something along these lines a while back but it didn't work. Is this the right approach? With the phone on USB: setprop service.adb.tcp.port stop adbd start adbd R

[android-developers] How does Android EditText store the content internally

2011-08-27 Thread KK
Hi, I have an android EditText which holds a password. I have to retrieve this in one of my modules and pass it to another. I am calling EditText.getEditableText and encrypting its content. But I want to know if android creates any immutable objects internally for the EdiText Content(like String

Re: [android-developers] Re: Terminating apps

2011-08-27 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:43 PM, kypriakos wrote: > > Aha ... With "eventually" you mean that if Android does not need > RAM the process could be around for a while (or until the phone > is rebooted)? Yes. How long will depend on what's all going on. I would expect it to be gone within an hour or

[android-developers] delay

2011-08-27 Thread bob
Right now, I have code that has to download data from the web after you click a button. So, there's a delay. Anyone know how to make this more user-friendly? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send emai

[android-developers] JDK 7, jarsigner bug.

2011-08-27 Thread sblantipodi
As many other users I'm experiencing problems with singning my APK with JDK 7. http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/100334-Install_parse_failed_no_certificates Is there a workaround or a fix for this? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Dev

Re: [android-developers] How does Android EditText store the content internally

2011-08-27 Thread Kristopher Micinski
You're not doing any IPC? Perhaps I didn't get that, but because you've got sandboxing, if you're keeping the password entirely in your program memory you should be fine with it, modulo possible security flaws in the vm, etc... If you're leaking the passwords out across an IPC barrier, you might

[android-developers] Using multiple fragments in each screen in ViewPager

2011-08-27 Thread winnie
I have been trying the ViewPager from recently supported android compatibility v4 package. In my app, I have multiple screens which I would like to swipe across just like what ViewPager does. But in my app, I have multiple fragments in EACH single screen. In the ViewPager, the FragmentPagerAdapter

Re: [android-developers] delay

2011-08-27 Thread Appaholics
What do you mean by making it more user friendly? On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:36 PM, bob wrote: > Right now, I have code that has to download data from the web after > you click a button. So, there's a delay. Anyone know how to make > this more user-friendly? > > -- > You received this message

[android-developers] Working with the new ContactContracts API

2011-08-27 Thread ודים רוזנטל
Hi, For example, I want to add 2 contacts with name and phone in each contact. I must execute follow code: ContentValues values = new ContentValues(); values.put(RawContacts.ACCOUNT_TYPE, accountType); values.put(RawContacts.ACCOUNT_NAME, accountName); Uri rawContactUri = getContentResolver().inser

Re: [android-developers] Accelerometer vs Gravity Sensor in game code?

2011-08-27 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
They could be referring to a gyroscope sensor. The new Samsung devices have those now in addition to the accelerometer. On 8/28/2011 12:28 AM, Jim Graham wrote: When writing game code, what (if anything) is the difference between the accelerometer, G-Sensor, and Gravity Sensor? I'd assumed tha

Re: [android-developers] delay

2011-08-27 Thread Kristopher Micinski
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Appaholics wrote: > What do you mean by making it more user friendly? > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:36 PM, bob wrote: >> >> Right now, I have code that has to download data from the web after >> you click a button.  So, there's a delay.  Anyone know how to make >

[android-developers] Re: JDK 7, jarsigner bug.

2011-08-27 Thread RichardC
Use JDK 6. JDK 7 is not on the required software page: http://developer.android.com/sdk/requirements.html On Aug 27, 7:42 pm, sblantipodi wrote: > As many other users I'm experiencing problems with singning my APK > with JDK 7. > > http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/100334-Install_parse_failed_no_

Re: [android-developers] Can we have a RelativeLayout with rounded rectangle shape and an image in the background?

2011-08-27 Thread Rajkiran Bande
Thanks dude. You solved my probs. Gr8 work. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:14 PM, gaurav gupta wrote: > Hi > Use framelayout. > > On 25 Aug 2011 23:12, "Raj" wrote: > > Hello, > I am stuck. Can we have a RelativeLayout with rounded rectangle shape and > an image in the background? I was successful i

[android-developers] Implementing onShowCustomView on Android 3.1 throws in HTML5VideoFullScreen

2011-08-27 Thread novemberox
Hi, I'm trying to play video in html on fullscreen. When I click on fullscreen button in video method onShowCustomView is fired. Here is my implementation: public void onShowCustomView(View view, CustomViewCallback callback) { super.onShowCustomView(view, callback);

Re: [android-developers] Re: Adding Views into layouts

2011-08-27 Thread Damien Cooke
Drezden, Thanks for your assistance. It is greatly appreciated. Damien On 26/08/2011, at 1:18 AM, Drezden wrote: > I have an app in the market right now that uses a custom designed tab > bar at the bottom of the screen and a relative layout at the top that > acts as an iframe, so this is very do

[android-developers] Re: JDK 7, jarsigner bug.

2011-08-27 Thread sblantipodi
really boring option. On Aug 27, 10:05 pm, RichardC wrote: > Use JDK 6. > > JDK 7 is not on the required software > page:http://developer.android.com/sdk/requirements.html > > On Aug 27, 7:42 pm, sblantipodi wrote: > > > > > > > > > As many other users I'm experiencing problems with singning my

[android-developers] german french spanish dictionary

2011-08-27 Thread nivedita arora
hi , i am developing word android app which involves use of german french and spanish words.Can somebody help by providing link for the file containing just the dictionary words fr the given language. i am unable to find it :( thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: [android-developers] delay

2011-08-27 Thread TreKing
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Kristopher Micinski wrote: > (Note however, that you still have to use a separate thread, as a service > in and of itself is not a separate thread.) > It is if you use IntentService. ---

Re: [android-developers] delay

2011-08-27 Thread Kristopher Micinski
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:01 PM, TreKing wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Kristopher Micinski > wrote: >> >> (Note however, that you still have to use a separate thread, as a service >> in and of itself is not a separate thread.) > > It is if you use IntentService. Good point, good poin

Re: [android-developers] Image manipulation similar to google+ app

2011-08-27 Thread TreKing
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 5:53 AM, charlie babitt wrote: > What is the easiest way to achieve something like this? I want to create > an ImageView which contains an image (I'm loading it from the SD Card) and > drawing a rectangle as a frame around it. Where should I start looking? > I would start

[android-developers] Re: In-App Billing forces screen orientation change

2011-08-27 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
As much as i hate hacky solutions as the next guy, if you are running a business you must sometimes use hacks to work around bugs. You cannot wait around filing a bug report that may or may not be fixed in this decade. > > Will try with reporting the issue, but just cannot wait till anyone > ad

Re: [android-developers] Re: Failed to register input channel?

2011-08-27 Thread A.TNG
I also get this kind of FC. It happens a lot (only on Android 2.3.3). Still no clue to fix this bug. On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Mark Carter wrote: > I'm getting this too (also only on SDK level 10) - anyone find any > workarounds? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscri

[android-developers] Re: Question around Bitmap loading

2011-08-27 Thread Streets Of Boston
Because the rest of your app is using memory as well. And you'd need 10 blocks of 1.5MBytes of *contiguous *memory. This may not be possible --> Out of memory error. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, sen

Re: [android-developers] Image manipulation similar to google+ app

2011-08-27 Thread Ralph Bergmann
Am 28.08.11 02:11, schrieb TreKing: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 5:53 AM, charlie babitt > mailto:charlie.bab...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > What is the easiest way to achieve something like this? I want to > create an ImageView which contains an image (I'm loading it from the > SD Card) and d

[android-developers] Re: delay

2011-08-27 Thread bob
Thanks. On Aug 27, 2:38 pm, Kristopher Micinski wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Appaholics wrote: > > What do you mean by making it more user friendly? > > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:36 PM, bob wrote: > > >> Right now, I have code that has to download data from the web after > >> yo

[android-developers] Re: Terminating apps

2011-08-27 Thread kypriakos
> > I am wondering if it is possible to exit the activity but > > subsequently > > ask Android to terminate it immediately ... > > If by "it", you mean "the process", please do not do this. Please let > Android terminate it when it is ready to. Whatever problem you are > trying to solve can be sol

[android-developers] Webview transparency bugs?

2011-08-27 Thread bob
Has anyone else noticed that sometimes things don't get drawn right when you make a Webview transparent like this? wv.setBackgroundColor(0x); Here's an example of what I'm seeing: http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z449/m75214/render2.png -- You received this message because you are s

[android-developers] Re: Webview transparency bugs?

2011-08-27 Thread bob
That URL doesn't work for some reason. Try this: http://sites.google.com/site/coolfonne/_/rsrc/1314500336927/problem-html/render2.png On Aug 27, 9:41 pm, bob wrote: > Has anyone else noticed that sometimes things don't get drawn right > when you make a Webview transparent like this? > > wv.setB

Re: [android-developers] Re: Freemium Model with In-App Purchases

2011-08-27 Thread Mark Carter
Out of interest, how do they get the dev's address? -- 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-developers+un