[android-developers] Re: Multiple Activites That Share 75% of a Layout...Layouts Within Layouts?

2010-09-06 Thread JimBadger
Cheers both of you. It is sort of like a tab view...and yet not. How customisable is a tab view? Can I have the tabs at the bottom, for example? (don't worry, I'm just thinking aloud, I *will* do my own research there. As for viw visibility/ViewFlipper: Thanks, I'll look into those too. -- Yo

[android-developers] Multiple Activites That Share 75% of a Layout...Layouts Within Layouts?

2010-09-06 Thread JimBadger
Hi there, This one's a bit hard to put into words, with my limited understanding of what I'm asking about, so, please bear with me! :) I'm creating a game where there's a screen that, for the most part, is shared by four different activites - but a key portion of the screen will be completely dif

[android-developers] Re: Activities I Don't Want the User to be able to go Back to

2010-09-05 Thread JimBadger
Wow, thanks for the quick responses. That simple for question 1, huh? Call finish()? :) Will do, ta. (I just presumed that once you called StartActivity, that was it, bam, you were out of the calling activity and into the called). What about part 2? I want a visual refresh of Activity A when re

[android-developers] Activities I Don't Want the User to be able to go Back to

2010-09-05 Thread JimBadger
Hi, I'm developing a non-realtime Android game, and am having trouble figuring out the best way to sequence and control my activities. For example, when the user first installs and runs the app, he's into Activity 1: The Game. He selects a new game slot (1 of 3) and goes to Activity 2: Create Ch

[android-developers] Re: Help Needed Getting JSON to Jersey Web Service and Consuming it

2010-07-30 Thread JimBadger
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[android-developers] Help Needed Getting JSON to Jersey Web Service and Consuming it

2010-07-30 Thread JimBadger
Hi, I've just recently started out with Android development, and have progressed to the point where I have written a very basic Hello World Jersey RESTful web service, and successfully called it from within my Android App. What I want to do now though, is send a new user record (just name and pas

[android-developers] Which Android Version to Develop for?

2010-07-16 Thread JimBadger
Greetings group! My first post, so apologies if my questions are stupid/obvious/common. I have a team just about ready to start development of a game, but I'm not sure what do do about Android versions. My original intention was to develop for 2.1 - we all have 2.1 phones (Desires and Galaxy S's)