[android-developers] Help/collaboration needed from Dianne or someone at the Android team in explaining some results on a mobile computing project/article on time-shifted location

2011-12-23 Thread André Coelho
Hello. I'm an MSc student at University of Minho, Portugal and I'm currently involved in a *Mobile Computing project* in which we use +Android to facilitate conducting *user experience studies* and gathering various data. We devised a method for gathering *location information*, powered by Android

[android-developers] Re: Save user options in reboot

2011-06-16 Thread André Coelho
Take a look at this http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/SharedPreferences.html and this http://saigeethamn.blogspot.com/2009/10/shared-preferences-android-developer.html Those links will help you achieve what you want. SharedPreferences does exactly what you want. On Jun 16,

Re: [android-developers] Good phone for development - and getNeighboringCellInfo()

2011-06-11 Thread André Coelho
I have done something similar to what you want. I developed an application that we needed for a study. It collects GSM and WiFI data, stores it in a file that I later process with a perl script. The script sends GSM and WiFi data to Google's geolocation api and retrieves location coordinates (like

[android-developers] Re: Good phone for development - and getNeighboringCellInfo()

2011-06-11 Thread André Coelho
Sorry, I think i might have mailed you a response more than once. On Jun 9, 4:21 pm, Davide Ronchi wrote: > Hi all. > > I am about to start an Android development project. I would like some > advice before starting with the project. > > First of all, I have done some research on which phone would

Re: [android-developers] Good phone for development - and getNeighboringCellInfo()

2011-06-11 Thread André Coelho
nally, from our results, I can tell you that using just GSM data doesn't provide you with very precise location data. Either use GSM+WiFi or just WiFi which have nearly identical results. Anyway, it obviously depends on how precise you want your location data to be. Regards, André Coelho 20

[android-developers] Content Provider using external file storage (text file)

2011-06-09 Thread André Coelho
ied to a file on external storage. All the examples I find use Content Providers tied to database tables. Can someone please point me in the right direction or shed some coding light? (BTW, I have read the Android Developer texts on Content Providers, also, I'm using Android 2.2). Any help