[android-developers] Re: More on dreaded Market install failures

2010-11-05 Thread Eric F
I've found that when this happens, going into the application in Market and just hitting install actually successfully updates the app even though the button said install and the app was already installed. Market has been really problematic of late. Recently also it has become stuck in the

[android-developers] Re: Application still Running After Exit

2010-10-29 Thread Eric F
into A) and B) above they should have no need to be able look under the hood of the phone to see how it's operating. Then I made some comments in-line On Oct 29, 1:28 am, mort m...@sto-helit.de wrote: On 29 Okt., 04:49, Eric F ericfrie...@gmail.com wrote: I think there are two problems here, both of them

[android-developers] Re: Application still Running After Exit

2010-10-28 Thread Eric F
I think there are two problems here, both of them psychological and a problem adapting from the desktop. 1) People equate a process existing with an application being active. My recommended solution, in all APIs and OS screens that report active applications should only show/return applications

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-08-25 Thread Eric F
I agree and I don't see how people are missing this valuable point you make Mark. Currently we are at: crackers must modify the program code to allow piracy From here there are two ways to make piracy more difficult: A) Make secure, non-rooted phones reject apps so that even a cracked app won't

[android-developers] Re: With the new Froyo update, my app is being killed instead of running in the background

2010-08-10 Thread Eric F
I am running CM6 RC2 on my Droid, and one thing I think about is whether or not the extra overhead per dalvik process of the JIT on the limited RAM of the device (only 256M for an hdpi device). So even though the rules about process killing may not have changed the device could get into low memory

[android-developers] Re: Strange out of memory on bitmap but there is free heap space

2010-08-10 Thread Eric F
I had a similar problem. I have mostly solved it by switching to a cache of softreferences to the actual compressed image bytes (not the bitmap). And then I use bitmapfactory to create the fully exploded bitmap as needed. The phones have very little memory for how big their screens are. Do some

[android-developers] Re: sdcard MEDIA_MOUNTED, File.canRead = true, File.canWrite = false

2010-08-06 Thread Eric F
Did the SD card get mounted read-only? Somehow that happened on my phone and I have no idea how. Google Listen started reporting that none of my podcasts could download because of SD card read only. I opened up the terminal emulator and ran mount and sure enough ro. I am not sure how this

[android-developers] Re: Correct way to kill the application

2010-07-30 Thread Eric F
Yeah this is exactly what I thought too. Just because non-technical people download task killers from the market doesn't mean that task killers are necessary. In my opinion it is way more likely that the explanation is that people are just very bad at shifting their way of thinking from paradigm

[android-developers] Re: LVL security, are you sure that is secure, I'm a doubt in...?

2010-07-30 Thread Eric F
Most people aren't going to share their google account with someone else just so they can get a $3 app for free. Who is realistically going to give out access to: A) Their email C) Their credit card or payment method for Android market. You lend your account to someone for a $3 app and suddenly

[android-developers] Re: Android App developed by third part but no instruction provided.

2010-07-08 Thread Eric F
You haven't offered anyone in the world enough information to help you. exe program that will allow me to update the app Android apps don't have anything to do with exe files. So I am guessing you have an Android app that does something with a database on the internet. And the .exe program

[android-developers] Re: Even with Min SDK version, building app against 2.2 breaks 1.5?

2010-06-12 Thread Eric F
I believe the full solution is: Target sdk level 8 Minsdk level of 3 have the following resource folders: drawable/ drawable-hdpi-v4/ drawable-ldpi-v4/ Store all your mdpi drawables inside of drawable. No resource duplication, no problems. Does anyone know if there's a problem with this

[android-developers] Re: OutOfMemoryError

2010-06-10 Thread Eric F
First you need to figure out what is taking up all the space in your memory as well as what is causing the OOM. Like is OOM caused when you switch between two activities over and over again? or if you rotate the phone over and over causing the activity to be re-created over and over. In which case

[android-developers] Re: OutOfMemoryError

2010-06-10 Thread Eric F
, 7:20 pm, Eric F ericfrie...@gmail.com wrote: First you need to figure out what is taking up all the space in your memory as well as what is causing the OOM. Like is OOM caused when you switch between two activities over and over again? or if you rotate the phone over and over causing

[android-developers] Re: Force Close on calling add/insert to ArrayAdapter

2010-06-08 Thread Eric F
Looks like according to the documentation http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ArrayAdapter.html ArrayAdapter needs to reference a TextView where it looks like you are giving it the ID of a spinner. -E On Jun 7, 9:44 pm, scadaguru scadag...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to add a

[android-developers] Re: Even with Min SDK version, building app against 2.2 breaks 1.5?

2010-06-08 Thread Eric F
Wow this completely explains what happened to me after updating to the 2.2 SDK. The documentation goes into detail about how the current environment picks hdpi or ldpi or what have you, but doesn't explain how previous versions operate at all. From a beginner's mindset, it seems to follow that

[android-developers] Image zooming/panning inside of a Gallery

2010-06-01 Thread Eric F
I'm trying to combine the capability of doing image zoom/panning inside of a Gallery view. The problem is controlling which touch events are processed by each. In a horizontal drag on the image, the ImageView needs to process the drag in order to pan, up until the edge of the image is reached then

[android-developers] External allocation too large for this process OutOfMemoryException

2010-05-11 Thread Eric F
OK, so I've done some searching, seen others hit this problem but never really saw a solid resolution. I have a situation where I am loading large-ish images (~120KB jpg) from a remote webserver and displaying them to users in a gallery view. Now these images take a bit of time to download, so I

[android-developers] Re: Google should prohibit task killers on Android Market

2010-05-04 Thread Eric F
On May 3, 11:59 pm, mort m...@sto-helit.de wrote: And what's wrong with resource consuming? I coud cache several MB of data in a non-running service, it wouldn't matter. Android would just kick it if the memory's required, and the service would just reload the data when it's restarted. It's

[android-developers] Android Pre Compile step just became very slow

2010-05-03 Thread Eric F
Everything has been going fine on my project. But recently after adding some resources (too many into the assets folder). Realizing that, then deleting the files. It seems like the Android Pre Compile step is taking a long time now. I'm not sure if the two things are related, or what's causing the

[android-developers] Re: Google should prohibit task killers on Android Market

2010-05-03 Thread Eric F
The solution here is a change in attitude. I don't use a task killer on my phone, never have. And my phone sports good performance for weeks on end. I do, however, frequently visit manage applications - running services. And I also uninstall apps that run services that probably shouldn't be.

[android-developers] Re: Android Pre Compile step just became very slow

2010-05-03 Thread Eric F
a great job. -E On May 3, 4:01 pm, Xavier Ducrohet x...@android.com wrote: If you're using Eclipse, go to the preferences and under Android Build, set the output to verbose. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Eric F ericfrie...@gmail.com wrote: Everything has been going fine on my project

[android-developers] Re: Android 2.0

2009-10-27 Thread Eric F
I want to congratulate you guys on how speedy the 2.0 SDK has been pushed out. After just releasing 1.6 and it did not include many of the features people were hoping for (Bluetooth SDK, multi-touch, etc) I figured we'd be well into 2010 before we even were close to these much desired platform

[android-developers] Re: How to hide user dictionary? or suggested words on keyboard

2009-07-08 Thread Eric F
Cool text search! It seems like the best platform enhancement to cover this would be to have a property on text fields that controls two things: 1) An extra dictionary for use auto-completing for that field 2) whether or not the phone's global dictionary should be used (and if custom dictionary