Re: [android-developers] Re: Warning users of strong magnetic field

2012-10-13 Thread Andrew Gregory
Use android.hardware.GeomagneticField and warn when the actual field is significantly above or below what is expected. -- 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

Re: [android-developers] Re: Menu icon contrast

2012-10-01 Thread Andrew Gregory
OK. Thanks for the various suggestions. I'll think about things a little more, but it seems UgglyNoodle's suggestion is going to end up being the best. It looks like I should be able to do nice white icons for Honeycomb+ and my existing light gray for everything else. Thanks to all! Andrew -- Y

Re: [android-developers] Re: Menu icon contrast

2012-09-29 Thread Andrew Gregory
Thanks. Platform version sounds good in theory, but my Gingerbread (v2.3.3) emulator is light-on-dark, while my Gingerbread (also v2.3.3) phone is dark-on-light. How reliable is the emulator for this? I've also heard that menus can't be styled, but I'll look further into that. Are there no system

[android-developers] Menu icon contrast

2012-09-28 Thread Andrew Gregory
Hi, It seems that new devices have a light-on-dark style when it comes to the UI, specifically menus. Older devices have a dark-on-light style. These are completely at odds with each other and makes it difficult to select an appropriately shaded icon for menus. I've settled on a light gray, which

Re: [android-developers] Re: print integer value in logcat.

2012-09-11 Thread Andrew Gregory
On 11 September 2012 20:44, pharaoh wrote: > Try this solution : > (...) > int age = 22; > Log.d(MY_TAG, new Integer(age).toString()); > (...) > > That's a wasted allocation when there's a static toString: Log.d(MY_TAG, Integer.toString(age)); -- Andrew -- You received this message because y

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to get accurate time stamps from Android GPS location.

2012-04-26 Thread Andrew Gregory
Each subframe (sent every six seconds) has the *GPS Time*. The GPS/UTC offset is only sent in subframe 4 of page 18 of the almanac data, i.e. once every 12.5 minutes. Also, a comment on the ZDA message mentioned previously. I had tried that as part of my project R&D and it also returns "best guess

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to get accurate time stamps from Android GPS location.

2012-04-25 Thread Andrew Gregory
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you can't send commands to the Android GPS device. You'd probably need to be root and figure out the underlying device. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-devel

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to get accurate time stamps from Android GPS location.

2012-04-24 Thread Andrew Gregory
1300ms ahead sounds odd. If it was behind I'd say it was just a reporting delay as part of the usual message processing, but ahead is weird. It's not GPS, but if you have an Internet connection, what about querying an NTP server? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to get accurate time stamps from Android GPS location.

2012-04-23 Thread Andrew Gregory
I've not looked at the relevant Android API before, but I would imagine that if you get a GpsStatus object from the LocationManager, then check each satellite for hasAlmanac(), then you might be more likely to have the correct GPS/UTC offset. It is still possible to have received the almanac data f

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to get accurate time stamps from Android GPS location.

2012-04-23 Thread Andrew Gregory
The Wikipedia article on GPS has a lot of info. The Official source of info would be: http://www.gps.gov/technical/ Lots of technical PDFs there! I used the Interface Control Document IS-GPS-200 and SPS Performance Standard Specification, mostly the latter. In short, though, the GPS comms cycle i

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to get accurate time stamps from Android GPS location.

2012-04-23 Thread Andrew Gregory
Some of the time confusion arises because GPS units can report a variety of "GPS Time", "UTC" and semi-corrected GPS Time. I discovered this when building a precision timer for an industrial corrosion monitoring device. On startup the GPS would report UTC plus one second. Within 12.5 minutes it wo

Re: [android-developers] Re: Can't show AlertDialog

2011-06-26 Thread Andrew Gregory
OK, thanks for that. I'll leave the managed dialog as-is. Thanks to everyone who replied here and directly to me. Andrew On 26 Jun 2011 14:32, "TreKing" wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 7:56 PM, andrewg_oz wrote: > >> It seems, >> though, that calling show() pauses the activity, which dismisses t

Re: [android-developers] Re: Integrating ACRA

2011-06-24 Thread Andrew Gregory
I'm not at my pc right now, so I can't check, but have you added the acra jar to the build path? It's in the instructions, so perhaps you missed that bit? Andrew On 24 Jun 2011 19:40, "Raghav Sood" wrote: > Thanks. > > I did look at there example code. As far as I can see I have literally copy >

Re: [android-developers] How did you get into Android development

2011-05-14 Thread Andrew Gregory
Apart from the obvious of starting your own app from scratch, you could try searching for an open source Android project and fix some bugs or add a feature. Andrew On 15 May 2011 11:19, "Adam Ratana" wrote: > This is a great thread. I'd like to add to the below points: > > - do something in a dom

Re: [android-developers] Unique Random numbers

2011-03-29 Thread Andrew Gregory
On 25 March 2011 20:45, Hassy wrote: > > I want to display unique random numbers when button clicked. > if a number appear once, that number should not appear again when > button clicked. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_feedback_shift_register Looks random (and has been used as a random

Re: [android-developers] Custom Dialogs with big messages

2011-02-16 Thread Andrew Gregory
On 16 February 2011 05:28, TreKing wrote: > > Try giving your RelativeLayout a weight of 1 ("take up all the space you > need") and the ScrollView a weight of 0 ("take the space that's left"). Thanks for your reply. I tried that, but it didn't work. I then tried several other arrangements and f

Re: [android-developers] Custom Dialogs with big messages

2011-02-15 Thread Andrew Gregory
Thanks for replying. On 14 February 2011 23:44, TreKing wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:49 AM, andrewg_oz wrote: > >> I've worked around this problem by adding a TextView to the View above >> the Checkbox, then wrapping the whole lot in a ScrollView. The dialog >> grows and shrinks with the me