[android-developers] Re: Ramdisk image

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Stratton
Silwerstar wrote: Hi, I have just started using 0xlab's android port. I have been successfully able to create the file system and have been able to flash it as well. However, I have 2 questions to ask: 1) How do I create a ramdisk image and what should be the bootargs given at the uboot

[android-developers] Formal Android training

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Stewart
, which doesn't mean much since I've never really looked either. I'm curious to know if anyone here has gone through any formal training, or if you could where would you look? [1] http://marakana.com/training/android/ -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp

[android-developers] Re: [AO PCM] Failed to open /dev/msm_pcm_out for writing!

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Stratton
Apps run as unpriveleged users and so can't access the audio device directly. You are supposed to do sound through the java apis. pgil wrote: I would like to open an mp3 file with my own audio player(based on mplayer and FFmpeg) I packaged in a apk file. It runs fine using command line and

[android-developers] Re: Ramdisk image

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Stratton
You need to ask on android-porting. They really should rename this group to android-java-sdk Silwerstar wrote: Hi, I have just started using 0xlab's android port. I have been successfully able to create the file system and have been able to flash it as well. However, I have 2 questions to

Re: [android-developers] How can i save a data into the phone, and keep this data after uninstall?

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Stewart
Store your data online somewhere. You can't force the user to keep data on their phone or on the SD card if they don't want it, and with good reason. Agreed. I'm pretty sure there's no other place you can store information that persists after someone uninstalls your app. -- Chris Stewart http

[android-developers] Can I Create a VIEW which can access many tables in CONTACTS 2?

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Song
Hello, I'm Chris I want to make a view table which can access the whole information of one user using lookup key. If I select view table with LOOKUP = 'saf2ijof3oijsdf' then the result will be NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE, Currently, to access those information I make more than 4 queries

[android-developers] parseSdkContent failed java.lang.NullPointerException

2010-09-16 Thread Chris
I have been using Eclipse 3.5.2 for some time now working on an android app, but for some reason my computer froze when launching the emulator. After a restart, Eclipse will no longer launch giving the error: parseSdkContent failed java.lang.NullPointerException I've deleted and re-extracted

Re: [android-developers] Save configuration value as integer in Preference Activity

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Greenman
I believe I remember reading somewhere that Preferences can only be saved as a String. I ran into this myself and just saved it as a string and parsed the value out I needed. Also I believe the numeric attribute is deprecated in favor of inputType. On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 09:49 -0700, Laimonas

Re: [android-developers] How to install the .apk file into blackberry

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Greenman
1. Open blackberry battery cover 2. remove battery 3. find 2 pieces of wire 4. take blackberry and wire to nearest wall outlet 5. strip insulation off ends of wire 6. insert one end of each wire into wall outlet 7. touch other ends to battery contacts on blackberry. 8. If still conscious,

Re: [android-developers] Save configuration value as integer in Preference Activity

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Greenman
Sorry, yes EditTextPreference is what I was thinking. That and ListPreference is what was hanging me up. I ended up doing as you and others have mentioned and stored the values as strings. Can you point to where you saw that? The doc for Preferences says: It is up to the subclass to decide

[android-developers] Re: appbucket: all apps for $9.99 per year, are we just going to watch?

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Stratton
On Sep 16, 8:59 pm, mot12 martin.hu...@gmail.com wrote: 2) Users are cheap (maybe goes together with point 1). I have a free version of my main app (an alarm clock with all kind of bells and whistles) that doesn't ring on Wednesdays. I actually had one user comment that he changes the clock

[android-developers] Re: shared library so size versus apk size

2010-09-15 Thread Chris Stratton
An apk is a zip file (try opening it as one) so the .so is stored inside it compressed. The savings from removing the apk would count both the compressed apk and any parts of it that get uncompressed during installation, such as shared libraries and the dexopted version of the class file. pgil

Re: [android-developers] Re: Documentation tutorials

2010-09-14 Thread Chris Stewart
. On a side note, at work I have a huge Apple fanboy who likes to compare the platforms, and I love tossing in the notion that I've deployed 13 versions of my app in such a short time frame, but I digress. :) -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android

[android-developers] Re: Another developer has published an app using the EXACT same name as mine

2010-09-14 Thread Chris Stratton
I suspect the pattern of ABBREVIATION: Same Spelled Out is too generic for an unoriginal abbreviation already in common use to be able to trademark it - just moving an existing idea to android shouldn't create new legal territory any more than moving one from bricks mortar to the internet, but

[android-developers] Re: Stop the launcher activity from starting the application

2010-09-14 Thread Chris Stratton
I don't know if you can make it not launch, but you could check a flag in all of your onCreate onStart etc methods and just call finish() without doing anything... except maybe saying disabled. Nithin M Warrier wrote: Hi, I have a enable and disable button. When this button is enable, user can

[android-developers] Re: Stop the launcher activity from starting the application

2010-09-14 Thread Chris Stratton
I don't know if you can make it not launch, but you could check a flag in all of your onCreate onStart etc methods and just call finish() without doing anything... except maybe saying disabled. Nithin M Warrier wrote: Hi, I have a enable and disable button. When this button is enable, user can

Re: [android-developers] Re: Can android support more than one sdcard?

2010-09-14 Thread Chris Stratton
Dianne Hackborn wrote: Does there need to be a facility for the user to trawl through these different storage areas and move things around if they are running out of space on one? Does every single application need to provide a UI for the user to select where to store its data, and to move

[android-developers] Re: Disabling the USB port?

2010-09-13 Thread Chris Stratton
Compile a kernel without usb drivers. You will need root or an engineering bootloader to install it. Or you could just leave usb debugging off and decline to mount mass storage mode. Tez wrote: Is there any other way that can block the USB port so that no data is transferred? Where are the

[android-developers] Re: Getting platform files from command line

2010-09-12 Thread Chris Stratton
Google on sdk offline install or something like that - someone figured out the url of the xml file it grabs which contains paths of the downloads relative to itself. On Sep 12, 3:44 am, Dan Roberts ademan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone,     I apologize if I'm in the wrong place, and I

[android-developers] Re: Can android support more than one sdcard?

2010-09-12 Thread Chris Stratton
In the case of features like dual sd cards, dual cameras, dual sims, etc which already exist on shipping smarthpones of other flavors, its a safe bet that they will show up on an android device sooner or later. The android architects can provide leadership on how to handle them - or they can

[android-developers] Re: Can android support more than one sdcard?

2010-09-12 Thread Chris Stratton
Additionally, I think the galaxy's hardware design makes more sense if viewed not as having two sd cards, but rather as product designers trying to combine the best of both large fixed storage ala iphone or pre with user price point scalable removable storage ala other android devices, blackberry,

[android-developers] Re: VideoView with cookie.

2010-09-12 Thread Chris Stratton
You could look in the docs, or the source code. If the answer is no, how about generating a customized client-specific url upon authentication and sending the video player to that. This would then timeout after a few hours and be replaced with a short video error message. On Sep 12, 9:22 am,

[android-developers] Re: Working Around Samsung Double-SD Problem

2010-09-10 Thread Chris Stratton
How about reading /proc/self/mounts or /proc/partitions ...and of course falling back to default if none of that works. You could also bury a user modifiable path string somewhere in a config menu Pent wrote: Looks close for the Galaxy S, but on my retail Euro version Build.MODEL is

[android-developers] Re: Background Service to recode different activities and upload on server

2010-09-09 Thread Chris Stratton
You can't - an explicit design decision because it would be a gross invasion of privacy. If you wanted to do it with the user's consent they would need to use your apps rather than stock or 3rd party ones, or have your modified installation of. android rather than the device manufacturers or

[android-developers] Re: Dynamically load jar files in android runtime?

2010-09-08 Thread Chris Stratton
Android doesn't understand java. Java is used during development, but the java class file inside the jar must be converted to a dex class file before android can use it. CaryWang wrote: I have a jar file in my app local data /data/data/application packageName/test.jar. I want to load the class

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android App Licensing Mechanism Still Easy to Break!!

2010-09-08 Thread Chris Stewart
Haha, nice. :) Even if it is easy to break, it's still night and day more useful than copy protection. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football

[android-developers] Re: Statistics on Rooted Phones

2010-09-06 Thread Chris Stratton
You must not make assuming rooted devices are uncommon or even detectable part of your business statements, as that would be dangerously misleading to anyone who might rely on it. On Sep 6, 1:36 am, Tez earlencefe...@gmail.com wrote: Its just a research study we are carrying. Certain operations

[android-developers] Re: stack corruption detected : aborted

2010-09-06 Thread Chris Stratton
Perhaps you should instrument the depth of the recursion. And maybe limit it - would not be good if feeding a trick file to your app can crash or corrupt it. I made a wrapper for the android log vprint function that looks like a normal printf and sprinkle it liberally through my code, can simply

[android-developers] Re: Phone storage running out after multiple installs

2010-09-05 Thread Chris Stratton
that I'm doing that may be slightly left of center is loading a native lib.  AFAIK there is no way to unload a native lib.  Can't see a reason why this would cause a file handle to be left hanging around though. On Sep 5, 9:13 am, Chris Stratton cs07...@gmail.com wrote: On linux, if you delete

[android-developers] Re: How to realize software aut o version update?

2010-09-05 Thread Chris Stratton
1) Make an xml file in res with a base version number 3) devise some clever and cryptic combination of sed and other commands to increment it 4) add this incantation of stark un*x awesomeness to your eclipse project as a custom builder 5) sit around all day playing nethack and periodically

[android-developers] first time run / one time pop up

2010-09-05 Thread Chris
How can I tell if this is the first time that this version of my app has been run? So I can show release notes/what's new? -- 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] Re: Phone storage running out after multiple installs

2010-09-04 Thread Chris Stratton
On linux, if you delete a file which soneone else has an open file handle to, it doesn't actually go away until all handles are closed (you just can't find it by name to open new ones). I'm guessing that when you install a new version during a development session the old version isn't completely

[android-developers] Replace preloaded class?

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Stratton
Is there any way for an ordinary application to replace low level classes that are preloaded on startup, so that higher level preloaded classes will end up calling my custom versions rather than the originals? I'm thinking the answer is no, but want to make sure I haven't overlooked something.

[android-developers] Re: Connect to localhost on a Nexus One?

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Stratton
Ideas 1) put the phone on a local wifi network along with the pc hosting your test server. 2) run the test server on the phone 3) you can use an adb forward to let the pc connect() to the phone. Write something on each end to proxy tunnel connections back out. 4) deploy your server on the

[android-developers] Re: Licensing Verification Library Apps Solely for Unlocking/Removing Ads

2010-09-01 Thread Chris Stratton
, but leave the rest of your architecture alone. On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Chris Stratton cs07...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not seeing any obvious reason why the free version can't just query the license server about the unlocker by itself, but maybe I'm overlooking something

[android-developers] If I turn off Copy Protection, what will happen?

2010-08-31 Thread Chris Stewart
? What will happen to my existing customers? I've not seen a single definitive answer on this topic. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football Insiderhttp

Re: [android-developers] Re: If I turn off Copy Protection, what will happen?

2010-08-31 Thread Chris Stewart
need to uninstall and reinstall. Thankfully my 1.5 user base is extremely low. I've gone ahead and made the change in the market and will keep an eye out for when my next update hits. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy

[android-developers] Re: Licensing Verification Library Apps Solely for Unlocking/Removing Ads

2010-08-31 Thread Chris Stratton
I'm not seeing any obvious reason why the free version can't just query the license server about the unlocker by itself, but maybe I'm overlooking something. On Aug 31, 9:52 pm, GJTorikian gjtorik...@gmail.com wrote: So: Launch Free App-Launch Unlocker App-Run LVL-Return Result-Parse Result

[android-developers] Re: Is there a way to request permissions from a user as you need them?

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Stratton
I think its going to be very difficult to prevent applications without network or sms permissions from leaking any data they can obtain to the outside world by means of another application that does have those permissions. Its even possible for an application without network permissions to

[android-developers] Google TV Developers

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Morris
, but I think when the SDK is released, Android market is opened, and the market for smart TVs grow, the developer community will grow with it. Please join us at http://www.gtvconnection.com for Google TV specific development. - Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[android-developers] Copy protection getting deprecated

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Stewart
must say, I'm quite nervous about how this will get handled for existing apps using copy protection. Has anyone seen this already and maybe I missed the conversation? -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android

Re: [android-developers] New Market Feature: Counts of ratings

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Stewart
I saw that too, very nice. I do wish I could select one and see any comment associated with it. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football Insiderhttp

[android-developers] Re: Is there a way to request permissions from a user as you need them?

2010-08-28 Thread Chris Stratton
On Aug 28, 4:00 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Sorry but you are wrong.  When my wife got her Droid and started installing apps, she quickly came to me asking about a game she was installing that said it would read her contact data.  She knew what that meant, and wasn't happy

Re: [android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Stewart
app. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football Insiderhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football-insider/- Android app for all fantasy

[android-developers] Changing from one dev machine to another, keystore question

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Stewart
doing this? -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football Insiderhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football-insider/- Android app for all

Re: [android-developers] Changing from one dev machine to another, keystore question

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Stewart
If I'm understanding your first sentence, I'm at work and cannot test it for myself right now. I'm not sure what you're saying beyond that point. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL

Re: [android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Stewart
I'm really curious to get more context around that. Frankly, I'm interested and if I can get more info I might give it a shot myself. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL fantasy football

Re: [android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Stewart
Bah, you've convinced me to at least give it a try. I'll let you all know if I see any difference. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football Insiderhttp

Re: [android-developers] Shipping Android App from India

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Stewart
. Of course, there's no official word on either and so there's no telling when (and if), either will happen. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football

Re: [android-developers] Is there anyway to turn USB debuggin on/off

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Stewart
Are you trying to do this from code, or through the UI? There's the option for it under Settings - Applications - Development, but it sounds like you're asking about doing it through code and that I have no idea about. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp

Re: [android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Stewart
purposeful to make it all fit or not, just FYI. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football Insiderhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football

[android-developers] Re: android manifest file from an unzipped apk cannot be read

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stratton
Sharing and re-using other people's code without their permission is not part of the philosophy. Generally, when someone grants permission as a practical matter they also make the source code available. With regard to the technical question, the file is in some kind of quasi unicode binary

[android-developers] Re: Android Emulator vs iPhone emulator (Why does it take so long)

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stratton
Sounds like a great idea! I believe qemu and the android emulator on top of it are both open source, so go for it! On Aug 25, 4:02 pm, Bret Foreman bret.fore...@gmail.com wrote: VMWare can do this. It can save the running state of everything on an instance and restore and resume where it left

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stewart
to correct it. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football Insiderhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football-insider/- Android app for all

Re: [android-developers] Re: Active Installs Dropping Like Crazy but Total Downloads Increasing Steadily!

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stewart
Yeah I can imagine. I think what you should focus on is that your downloads are _steadily_ rising. That's really what matters most and so if that continues and your position isn't being affected, negatively, I wouldn't worry too much about it. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy

Re: [android-developers] Re: Can we install Android SDK on windows 7 if yes then how ?

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stewart
I've been developing mostly on Windows 7 with no issues at all. I used the basic instructions in the Developer Guide. I've also done some development on my Ubuntu netbook, which wasn't _quite_ as simple, but pretty simple. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stewart
As others have said, it's not overly effective. I wouldn't do it just because I'd want to see if it ever changes. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy

[android-developers] Copy protected apps

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stewart
? -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- 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] Copy protected apps

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stewart
, so the database is no longer accessible and the only way to fix is to uninstall/reinstall. Can anyone confirm this? -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Aug 26, 2010 8:12 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [android-developers] Copy protected apps

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stewart
As always, appreciate your help TreKing. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Aug 26, 2010 9:08 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.comwrote: Can anyone confirm this? I can't, but that's what this guy said in my

Re: [android-developers] Creating Icons?

2010-08-25 Thread Chris Stewart
I have a designer I work with for them. It's not an expensive thing and he turns them around quickly. If anyone wants his contact info, let me know. I couldn't recommend him more highly. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications

[android-developers] Custom ContentProvider in shared libarary - bad design?

2010-08-25 Thread Chris
I built a custom content provider which works fine. I'm in the process of creating a free and paid version, so I moved most of the classes into a library including my custom content provider. Is that bad form / design? I ask because I'm running into problems allowing both the free and paid

[android-developers] Re: USB ports on N1 - usable?

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Miller
It's not straightforward, but it is possible with a custom kernel. See this thread for details: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=694427 Assuming I have a USB device I want to attach to a N1, would it be usable? Lets assume I have the drivers or can write them to interact with

[android-developers] Re: LVL found to be easy to crack

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stratton
I think the suggeston was that the same call to native code accomplish the antipiracy check and some critical part of application functionality. But I'm not sure that native code is any harder to patch, and there are still identifiable syscalls or calls back up to java for i/o to show where it

Re: [android-developers] app idea?

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stewart
Oh come on TreKing, get hip with the times. Plz! :p -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football Insiderhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications

[android-developers] Re: I want to get system permission?

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stratton
On Aug 24, 10:11 am, CaryWang wangjf...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have anyelse method?I want to know user opreation?e.g.when user run application i know,exit application i know. You should probably try to rethink your goal in light of the android activity lifecycle. Users don't 'exit' android

Re: [android-developers] New to Android and programming

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stewart
having that Java background gives you the freedom to think about how you're structuring your Android application for reuse and performance. While it's not a requirement to do that, it absolutely helps when adding new features and maintaining existing code. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com

Re: [android-developers] Re: Problem with SAX parsing

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stewart
+1 for XmlPull. I tried giving SAX a go but had so many issues structurally with how I organized my code. XmlPull gives you a more serial approach and makes it easier to integrate, while providing an enormous performance boost over DOM. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy

[android-developers] Re: Can I use Android source code in my Application(Commercial)

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stratton
On Aug 24, 10:51 am, Paul Turchenko paul.turche...@gmail.com wrote: AFAICT, since Android source is under Apache License, you will have to opensource you application if you use their code (but it shouldn't mean it can't be commercial). To get more idea you should probably read license that

Re: [android-developers] Re: Newbie's Android problem

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stewart
I'll add, that if it's the first time you're booting the emulator, it might be taking longer than future requests. I certainly can't prove that definitively, but it seems to me that more is happening behind the scenes that first time as it's prepping the emulator for first use. -- Chris Stewart

[android-developers] Re: USB ports on N1 - usable?

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stratton
some perpherals. Yes you can get a shell and even set up adb over wifi but its a pain. On Aug 24, 10:08 am, FrankG frankgru...@googlemail.com wrote: And how will you switch back to the normal usb mode if this should work ? On 24 Aug., 10:00, Chris Miller chris_overs...@hotmail.com wrote

Re: [android-developers] User request refund 20 days after purchase

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stewart
the app is working fine? It's a scary precedent to set, but I would still refund the one off request. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football Insiderhttp

[android-developers] Re: Protobuf on Android

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Miller
A package of protobufs, what do you mean? Why can't you generate java code from your .proto file as you would normally, then just include that code in your app? Is there a package somewhere of protobufs? If not, should I build my own and if so, would I build a Java Package, Android App,

Re: [android-developers] Android Emulator vs iPhone emulator (Why does it take so long)

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stewart
While it's inconvenient the first time, it's not something you have to do time and time again while developing. I don't find it to be an issue at all. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL

Re: [android-developers] Why is android build times so slow...

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stewart
That's interesting. I find that I never wait on it since it's always happening behind the scenes as I make changes. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy

[android-developers] Re: Contact application code for windows

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Stratton
Try browsing it online at android.git.kernel.org There is probably a link somewhere there or in android developer docs about obtaining a windows git client that you can use to checkout a copy. On Aug 23, 11:41 am, Sohan badaya sohan.bad...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, From which link i can copy

[android-developers] Layout options for overlaying views

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Stewart
use? -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football Insiderhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football-insider/- Android app for all fantasy

Re: [android-developers] Layout options for overlaying views

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Stewart
this in the context of my game. Thanks for your reply Mark. Even just typing that response out myself helps me wrap my head around the problem better. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL fantasy

[android-developers] Re: How to check the Foreground Process from a Service

2010-08-22 Thread Chris Stratton
I had something sort of working once, but it kept doing things like reporting an ime as the foreground, rather than the activity it was accepting input on behalf of... which made it useless for my purpose. On Aug 22, 4:29 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Note that these methods are

[android-developers] Pro and Lite versions of your apps

2010-08-21 Thread Chris Stewart
I've done a little searching and found a few different ways to do this, but I'm curious what the general consensus is. Most of what I found was over a year old and maybe there's a better way currently. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android

Re: [android-developers] Pro and Lite versions of your apps

2010-08-21 Thread Chris Stewart
the other path a go tomorrow and see how that goes. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for fantasy football fanatics and MFL owners Social Updaterhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/social

[android-developers] Re: Cannot use the sdcard while connected by means of USB - problems testing

2010-08-20 Thread Chris Stratton
You may have an app installed which makes mounting automatic instead of by your choice. A little searching shows something called doubletwist has been doing this by default unless you tell it not to - and if one app can, so can others. Fabrizio Giudici wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

[android-developers] Use of 3rd party game engines

2010-08-20 Thread Chris Stewart
/index.php http://www.andengine.org/blog/ -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for fantasy football fanatics and MFL owners Social Updaterhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/social-updater

Re: [android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-20 Thread Chris Stewart
Locale. Problem solved. Thanks for proving the point. That description tells me absolutely nothing about what I'm being asked to pay for. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for fantasy football

[android-developers] Re: Camera Application Not Working When I Test on My Phone

2010-08-20 Thread Chris Maurer
My development environment is windows 7 64 bit. I think I'm using jdk 1.5.20 and not 1.5.21 based on a recommendation from Eclipse. Chris On Aug 19, 9:28 pm, Chris Maurer cgmau...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to test against 1.5 sdk 3.  I'm only trying to access the camera and the sd card. I

Re: [android-developers] Getting critical feedback on your application

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Stewart
Very tough problem and I think we've all experienced it. For me, I've gotten the very best feedback from users via email. Unfortunately, that's far and few in between but at least it's something. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android

Re: [android-developers] Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Stewart
the viewable section short but provides an option for us as developers to give more detail when the app in question requires it. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for fantasy football fanatics

[android-developers] Server error on checkout for paid app via Google Checkout

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Stewart
://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=33dbf92eca99b2b7hl=en Google Code Issue: Issue 10261: Multiple users getting Server Error when purchasing apps in Android Market http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10261 -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp

[android-developers] Re: Camera Application Not Working When I Test on My Phone

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Maurer
12:23 AM To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [android-developers] Re: Camera Application Not Working When I Test on My Phone On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Chris Maurer cgmau...@gmail.com wrote: When I step through the code I get an error in Looper.loop() line:124 after

Re: [android-developers] Re: connect to sql server

2010-08-18 Thread Chris Stewart
Instead of putting it on C, you'll need to put it in the context of a web server that can handle PHP. IIS, or Apache, for example. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for fantasy football fanatics

Re: [android-developers] Re: Exiting Application

2010-08-18 Thread Chris Stewart
Certainly sounds like it. Why would you want to take the camera resources, indefinitely, without letting other applications use it? I'd be really curious to see your actual application idea but I have a feeling it's not a good idea... -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy

Re: [android-developers] Does Google provide direct (paid) technical support for Android SW development?

2010-08-18 Thread Chris Stewart
I was definitely expecting an advertisement... -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for fantasy football fanatics and MFL owners Social Updaterhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/social

[android-developers] Re: Camera Application Not Working When I Test on My Phone

2010-08-18 Thread Chris Maurer
, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Chris Maurer cgmau...@gmail.com wrote: I have a HTC Incredible and I'm trying to write a simple application to take a picture and save it on the SD card.  When I run the tutorial athttp://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/Camera/Picture it works fine

[android-developers] Re: Camera Application Not Working When I Test on My Phone

2010-08-18 Thread Chris Maurer
i apologize for my ignorance, but what will the Java stack trace look like in logcat On Aug 18, 8:21 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Chris Maurer cgmau...@gmail.com wrote: Here's the messages I get consistently when I start up the application

[android-developers] Re: Camera Application Not Working When I Test on My Phone

2010-08-18 Thread Chris Maurer
, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Chris Maurer cgmau...@gmail.com wrote: I have a HTC Incredible and I'm trying to write a simple application to take a picture and save it on the SD card.  When I run the tutorial athttp://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/Camera/Picture it works fine

Re: [android-developers] Re: tea time

2010-08-17 Thread Chris Stewart
My guess, without looking at your project, is the names you're using for the resources directories. I had issues with that on 1.5 as well. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for fantasy football

Re: [android-developers] Can Java code be replaced with XML

2010-08-17 Thread Chris Stewart
I'm not aware of any way to do that, but that doesn't mean it's not out there. I'd be curious to see the use case behind a single activity that has 50 buttons. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app

[android-developers] Re: Serial Ports -reading or writing?

2010-08-17 Thread Chris Stratton
On Aug 16, 3:01 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: I am not aware of any current Android devices that support USB host mode. G1/Dream, MyTouch/Saphire, and Hero all do with kernel patches (root required) and external bus power. Believe they also have low voltage serial ports. If I

[android-developers] Camera Application Not Working When I Test on My Phone

2010-08-17 Thread Chris Maurer
I have a HTC Incredible and I'm trying to write a simple application to take a picture and save it on the SD card. When I run the tutorial at http://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/Camera/Picture it works fine in the emulator. However, when I try and test it on my phone I get The

Re: [android-developers] Sqlite Delete doesn't delete

2010-08-13 Thread Chris Stewart
I use db.execSQL to delete. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for fantasy football fanatics and MFL owners Social Updaterhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/social-updater/- An easy

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