Re: [android-developers] How Are Content Providers To Interpret Section 5.3 of Google Play Developer Distribution Agreement?

2016-02-22 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I doubt it's that, as much as it is that Google legal won't be reading this mailing list. Google engineers are likely going to get in hot water if they make comments regarding the company's stance on their legalese, and so I doubt any of them would do it. And finding the right person to direct this

Re: [android-developers] Can I use name..

2016-02-18 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I'm not a lawyer, but no, you can't. You'll be attempting to profit off a trademark. In fact, even making your game seem too similar to space invaders might get you a takedown. Kris On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 6:47 AM, 'Michal K.' via Android Developers wrote: > Hi, > I'm working on a remake game

Re: [android-developers] Re: My apk is pirated

2016-01-21 Thread Kristopher Micinski
What metrics did you usually use to check app integrity? E.g., file checksum? Kris On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 12:48 PM, jtoolsdev wrote: > Along with the suggestions from the are depending on your app when you check > for those things maybe make the app seem it is running like normal but it > isn

Re: [android-developers] My apk is pirated

2016-01-20 Thread Kristopher Micinski
pirating an APK is easy: get it, take it off the device, change the package name, repackage it as your own, put it up on google play. Send google play a takedown notice and hope for the best. Kris On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:25 AM, WeiHung wrote: > I have an paid app on google play. Unfortunatel

Re: [android-developers] Android Studio Emulator error regarding Intel HAXM

2016-01-13 Thread Kristopher Micinski
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27718713/while-running-android-avd-manger-it-shows-error-hax-kernel-module-is-not-instal On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Krystal Balduc wrote: > Hello, I apologize if this isn't the correct forum for this support request. > I installed Android Studio and Andro

Re: [android-developers] How to Increase The Performance Of Mobile Apps?

2016-01-05 Thread Kristopher Micinski
http://developer.android.com/tools/debugging/debugging-tracing.html http://developer.android.com/tools/help/systrace.html Kris On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Howard Cornell wrote: > App performance is one of the most crucial factors that determines the > success of a mobile application. Perfo

Re: [android-developers] Re: Building user interfaces at runtime with layouts from server

2016-01-02 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Sorry, that was a bad link. It didn't talk about pull parsers, but rather DOM parsers. Here's a better one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5409940/android-xml-pull-parser-from-url On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Kristopher Micinski wrote: > What? No it does

Re: [android-developers] Re: Building user interfaces at runtime with layouts from server

2016-01-02 Thread Kristopher Micinski
What? No it doesn't: http://www.androidhive.info/2011/11/android-xml-parsing-tutorial/ Kris On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Luis Carlos Ramírez Rodríguez wrote: > The problem is that XmlPullParser requires for the XML definition to be > present at the APK build-time. What we are striving to f

Re: [android-developers] Re: Building user interfaces at runtime with layouts from server

2016-01-02 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I'm not sure what the problem is: the method to do this has been in the API since level 1. > Viewinflate(XmlPullParser parser, ViewGroup root) > Inflate a new view hierarchy from the specified xml node. Create an XmlPullParser, set the reader to one you've pointed at the URI containing the conten

Re: [android-developers] Traceview in Android 5

2015-12-16 Thread Kristopher Micinski
You should also be aware that the Systrace tool has been introduced. http://developer.android.com/tools/help/systrace.html Kris On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:19 AM, Karthik k wrote: > Hi, > > Traceview is used to profile the Android apps. For Android version <= 4.4, > Traceview is implemented usin

Re: [android-developers] Is this list dying?

2015-10-23 Thread Kristopher Micinski
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > I recently posted to stack overflow and received more and faster responses > (ie no responses from this list). When I google for an android issue, I get > lots of stack overflow response. Along with this, I think the number of questions that

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to avoid reverse engineering of an APK file?

2015-04-16 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Generally someone doesn't really care about the way you wrote your java code. Few people have code that actually needs protecting. If you're running something you don't want to give out to someone, you should never be sending the code to them anyway (you should run it via a service). Kris On T

Re: [android-developers] How to avoid reverse engineering of an APK file?

2015-04-14 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Proguard will definitely help, but the basic answer is that it's impossible. If you can run the APK you can extract it. Proguard makes it much harder to determine what's going on because method names will be obfuscated, but (e.g.,) framework methods will still be visible (since they're dynamicall

Re: [android-developers] Sending and receiving SMS within my own app and not show in the built in text app

2015-04-01 Thread Kristopher Micinski
"Why do you want to do this?" is a better response than "this is a totally stupid design and is not possible!" If someone asks about the use of a certain feature for a use which it's not designed, it usually is because they are trying to do something that could be accomplished by another method fo

Re: [android-developers] Sending and receiving SMS within my own app and not show in the built in text app

2015-03-31 Thread Kristopher Micinski
and office's miles apart? > This is a internal office app , if sms is not the way, then we > need a more optimal method. > > On Mar 31, 2015 7:01 PM, "Kristopher Micinski" > wrote: >> >> Using SMS to communicate *between* apps on the phon

Re: [android-developers] Sending and receiving SMS within my own app and not show in the built in text app

2015-03-31 Thread Kristopher Micinski
n the app that will work also, basically don't need to > have the messages in 2 places, right now when I send a message it's in the > app and also in the default text app. Since the priority is set high, is > there a way to stop the message from moving onto the default app? > &g

Re: [android-developers] Sending and receiving SMS within my own app and not show in the built in text app

2015-03-31 Thread Kristopher Micinski
What's the motivation for doing this? It seems kind of counterintuitive that you'd want to do this, because presumably if the user *does* send a text, they want a record of it. It's easy to imagine a spam app which sends tons of texts and leaves no trace of it for the user to see! But I'm a littl

Re: [android-developers] Re: Which pattern is most common for apps that involve communication with servers?

2015-02-20 Thread Kristopher Micinski
each task's account, > etc. > > The data is written to a database, served up by a content provider (most of > the time anyway, when I need simple automatic cursor-based re-query). > > -- K > > > 2015-02-21 2:10 GMT+03:00 Kristopher Micinski : >> >> The main hypot

Re: [android-developers] Re: Which pattern is most common for apps that involve communication with servers?

2015-02-20 Thread Kristopher Micinski
The main hypothesis I'm wondering about is how developers pass data from their app to the network. Since any use of the network necessarily involves threads, there are a variety of ways this could occur. Most of the ways with which I'm familiar utilize methods where the communication between the

Re: [android-developers] Which pattern is most common for apps that involve communication with servers?

2015-02-20 Thread Kristopher Micinski
and the pattern. > > -- K > > On Friday, February 20, 2015 at 4:39:32 AM UTC+3, Kristopher Micinski wrote: >> >> I agree, that sounds like a useful pattern. I *think* that's >> relatively close to how Volley is implemented (though I haven't read >> the i

Re: [android-developers] Which pattern is most common for apps that involve communication with servers?

2015-02-19 Thread Kristopher Micinski
ous) and it's > easier to manage state in the UI, to indicate to the user what the app is > doing, and to queue up tasks when necessary. > > -- K > > > 2015-02-19 23:30 GMT+03:00 Kristopher Micinski : >> >> Right, that's a good point I did not mention. >&

Re: [android-developers] Which pattern is most common for apps that involve communication with servers?

2015-02-19 Thread Kristopher Micinski
ing some analysis on them, Kris On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:13 PM, TreKing wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Kristopher Micinski > wrote: >> >> I was >> wondering if there were any other patterns that app developers used >> that I hadn't

[android-developers] Which pattern is most common for apps that involve communication with servers?

2015-02-19 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I am trying to get an idea of what most developers use to interact with web services. The two main patterns I see in apps is to either create: - Create an AsyncTask to make restful requests, and then do something with `onPostExecute`, or to - Create a service, and then have some API between th

Re: [android-developers] What is the max number of apps?

2015-02-01 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I would suspect in the example you listed, the developers simply replaced their images and sprites with new ones and made minor (if any) programming changes. I don't think there's anything explicitly in the rules that disallows this: people offer reskinned version of their apps (or design packs) a

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is it possible, that Android kills a service inside an app?

2015-01-05 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I think the answer to your question is no: it wouldn't be that helpful from a memory footprint perspective to simply kill the service: memory allocation happens at the process level. For this to be useful, the service would have to be "killed" out in some heuristic way, then some GC would have to

Re: [android-developers] Send a message from server to mobile

2014-12-07 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Usually push notifications should be "fast enough." They should be on the order of seconds. If you need something faster the only way I can think of that might possibly improve speed is a connection to the server that remains open: but I would highly doubt that it would really improve anything si

Re: [android-developers] Issues || not found

2014-11-16 Thread Kristopher Micinski
erard. > > > On Sunday, November 16, 2014 12:07:40 AM UTC+1, Kristopher Micinski wrote: >> >> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Matat Deltot wrote: >> > -Security: At robbery scenario , the thief can disable al radios at the >> > lock >> > screen, so i

Re: [android-developers] Issues || not found

2014-11-15 Thread Kristopher Micinski
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Matat Deltot wrote: > -Security: At robbery scenario , the thief can disable al radios at the lock > screen, so i cannot call to check nearby people, or locate via device > manager. They can also just take out the battery. Kris -- You received this message beca

Re: [android-developers] need code for retrieve and display browser history and bookmarks...

2014-06-21 Thread Kristopher Micinski
To be honest, I don't think you can successfully retrieve the browser history anymore. First, many users don't use the stock browser included on most devices, and second, I think the permission for retrieving history and bookmarks has been long deprecated. Sucks. Kris On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1

Re: [android-developers] Re: GOOGLE REMOVED MY APP - WHY?

2014-05-27 Thread Kristopher Micinski
FYI the video you linked to is pretty offensive... Kris On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Terry wrote: > Most of the past two months I have spent trying to get various publishers of > antivirus software and apps to remove my app from their lists of malware. > Which was much harder than I thought

Re: [android-developers] Re: looking for HTML5 and javascript based sdk....

2014-05-14 Thread Kristopher Micinski
gt; more straight-forward and terse approach. > > Needless to say, I'm very happy with the performance of node.js. And this, > coming from someone who was Java only for many (9) years. > > """ > > > > > > 2014-05-12 16:30 GMT+08:00 Doug : &

Re: [android-developers] Re: looking for HTML5 and javascript based sdk....

2014-05-11 Thread Kristopher Micinski
What are you even talking about: Any JavaScript program is also going to have threads, too. You seem to be making this argument: Java has multiple threads, and that makes the programs slow. It sounds like all of this is coming from a completely uneducated viewpoint on systems design, but there ar

Re: [android-developers] Re: looking for HTML5 and javascript based sdk....

2014-05-11 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I don't get your point: Java needs a runtime. JavaScript needs a runtime. Both of them need runtimes. He never said Dalvik was "slow," but everything can be optimized. Does native code run faster than interpreted / JIT code? Probably. The *exact same thing* is going to be an issue with JavaScr

Re: [android-developers] Re: looking for HTML5 and javascript based sdk....

2014-05-11 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Everything you are saying here is "I have heard Java is slow, and that's what is probably making Android slow! Here's an example of some things I think are slow because of Java. Now I'm going to apply this as evidence to the entire Android platform to show why Java must be slow on it." Please s

Re: [android-developers] looking for HTML5 and javascript based sdk....

2014-05-11 Thread Kristopher Micinski
First of all, this is just downright false, JS *will* be slower than Java, but I'll address each of your points. On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:51 AM, 李白|字一日 wrote: > thanks for the reply. > > but i may think differently. > > javascript runtime can be shared, and no new memory allocation and memory >

Re: [android-developers] looking for HTML5 and javascript based sdk....

2014-05-10 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I have no idea why you think that using Java is "slow and memory consuming:" especially when so many apps are being complied to native code and the framework is getting better by the month. FYI anything on JavaScript is going to require even *more* memory, since the runtime of a JavaScript library

Re: [android-developers] Re: Does the Android emulator run inside a VM?

2014-05-09 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I remember doing this last year, I had to unlink some of the GL drivers to get things to go through... I used a testing suite which did GUI interaction and had no need to use UI. Kris On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Charles wrote: > Thanks, > > Yeah, it does work if I choose WXGA; RAM 512, hea

Re: [android-developers] Re: Why apps not developed in C ?

2014-03-31 Thread Kristopher Micinski
One big reason is that a lot of time is spent in system libraries, which are written in C/C++. I believe in the original talk on Dalvik, it was indicated that 70% of the time was spent in non-interpreted code. You also have to remember that Dalvik has a JIT compiler and now an LLVM based runtime (s

Re: [android-developers] Location based App

2014-03-12 Thread Kristopher Micinski
In some cases, the location just isn't available all the time. What happens if the user goes indoors, out of cell range, etc...? Then getting a fix just won't work. Kris On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Rahul Shukla wrote: > Hello all, > > I am developing an android application wherein I need

Re: [android-developers] Android API for editing video.

2014-02-02 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I seriously doubt that any video editing API exists for Android, specifically given that finding video manipulation APIs is already difficult, and most of them probably use huge amounts of heap space and native code. Your best shot would probably be to take an API and try to make it work on Androi

Re: [android-developers] Android is there any api that provide info about screen elements.

2014-01-26 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Generally there aren't any APIs that will let you access information about other applications. This is mostly for security reasons. So the answer to your question is no. Kris On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 3:00 AM, 12169 wrote: > Hi, > > I have an application in which i open the device settings pa

Re: [android-developers] D.E.F.E.C.T. 'Subscription' can be purchased for free

2014-01-19 Thread Kristopher Micinski
"the enemy is the google" timeless words, so succinctly elucidated, captivating in a single sentence. Kris On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Build Account wrote: > STEPS TO REPRODUCE: > 1.implement billing client into any app. and register subscription product > in dev console. > 2.run the app

Re: [android-developers] Adding a system library

2014-01-12 Thread Kristopher Micinski
There isn't really a systematic way to add a library to the system in the same way that you can install a DLL on most systems. Instead, in Android, you can expose certain API hooks through AIDL, which might be what you want. It's almost certain that you don't want to add a library to the system,

Re: [android-developers] Any one could give me a help? App published can not be found!

2014-01-04 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Oh, no, I'm wrong, it turns out you also work for that company too, reading the comments on your Google+ link. Apologies. Kris On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Kristopher Micinski wrote: > FYI your app shares a name almost verbatim with another very popular app, > which may l

Re: [android-developers] Any one could give me a help? App published can not be found!

2014-01-04 Thread Kristopher Micinski
FYI your app shares a name almost verbatim with another very popular app, which may likely own a trademark on it. You should check to make sure you're not in violation of that trademark if you continue to keep your app out... Kris On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 9:54 AM, mc wrote: > Hello! I have an

Re: [android-developers] Dolby Audio API

2014-01-03 Thread Kristopher Micinski
This seems nice, but I would recommend putting the API specs online (e.g., a JavaDoc dump...). And as a matter of professionalism, you should correctly format your source examples :-)... Kris On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Eric Ang wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > I recently joined Dolby Laboratori

Re: [android-developers] Why are Android apk on Google Play market bound to a Google Account?

2013-12-27 Thread Kristopher Micinski
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:33 AM, TreKing wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Heshan Perera < > anthonyheshanper...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I know the advice to tackle this situation is to request an online login >> but, for an application that does not require web connectivity for its bas

Re: [android-developers] Why are Android apk on Google Play market bound to a Google Account?

2013-12-26 Thread Kristopher Micinski
FYI this is why full app encryption exists in Jelly Bean. DRM is a moving target, you could always imagine a user which roots the device and copies the APK out of memory (though this would be pretty technically involved...). So while no perfect solution exists, full app encryption definitely gets

Re: [android-developers] Re: Anyone from Google reading this group? (Was: Wrong stack behaviour in Android 4.4)

2013-12-26 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I don't have any information on this particular issue, but if anyone did, they would have pointed it out. I pointed you at various other resources which may be more helpful than the Android development list. In particular, this list relates to app development. While asking about issues which impact

Re: [android-developers] Re: Anyone from Google reading this group? (Was: Wrong stack behaviour in Android 4.4)

2013-12-24 Thread Kristopher Micinski
You should really stop acting rude if you want anyone to help you. First you said you bumped an issue to which nobody responded (which is fine, within reason), but all you seem to do is argue. I already gave you an accurate answer, acting rude makes you even less likely to get a response, and if yo

Re: [android-developers] Re: Anyone from Google reading this group? (Was: Wrong stack behaviour in Android 4.4)

2013-12-23 Thread Kristopher Micinski
erns the Activity stack - hence my "pings". > > -- > BoD > > On Sunday, December 22, 2013 7:02:27 PM UTC+1, Kristopher Micinski wrote: > >> I don't think you understand what that word means, or at the very least, >> you're using it incorrectly :-). &

Re: [android-developers] Re: Anyone from Google reading this group? (Was: Wrong stack behaviour in Android 4.4)

2013-12-22 Thread Kristopher Micinski
n Thursday, December 19, 2013 7:17:58 PM UTC+1, Kristopher Micinski wrote: > >> Google engineers routinely read and comment on the contents of >> messages from this group, so I would suspect the answer is yes.. >> >> Krs >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 9:12 A

Re: [android-developers] Re: Anyone from Google reading this group? (Was: Wrong stack behaviour in Android 4.4)

2013-12-19 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Google engineers routinely read and comment on the contents of messages from this group, so I would suspect the answer is yes.. Krs On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 9:12 AM, BoD wrote: > PING. > > > On Monday, December 2, 2013 11:18:35 PM UTC+1, BoD wrote: >> >> Ping. > > -- > You received this message

Re: [android-developers] Google Play Game Services - Cloud Save

2013-12-18 Thread Kristopher Micinski
e if you implement a set of features > and meet certain guidelines. > We're probably not going to get featured =/ but might as well shoot for the > stars and do things the way they want =] > > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Kristopher Micinski > wrote: >> >> Uhh.

Re: [android-developers] Google Play Game Services - Cloud Save

2013-12-18 Thread Kristopher Micinski
//developer.android.com/training/cloudsave/conflict-res.html > I'm also concerned that if it doesn't meet their quality guidelines, then it > would not be considered for featuring. > Maybe I'm being paranoid =] but then again, maybe i'm not > > -Chad > > > On W

Re: [android-developers] Android app with source code required

2013-12-18 Thread Kristopher Micinski
This is JavaScript, which probably isn't what Desan wants.. Kris On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 4:54 PM, 장시영 wrote: > hi > > A Prototype of Mobile Client for E-commerce Application > > http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/233818/A-Prototype-of-Mobile-Client-for-E-commerce-Applic > > > > > 2013/12/18 De

Re: [android-developers] Google Play Game Services - Cloud Save

2013-12-18 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I don't see why this would be at all problematic. It seems completely within the guidelines that says this is a bad idea. The Cloud Save API is just that, an API: so I'd use it however it worked best for you! Kris On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Sheado wrote: > Hi Android, > > Would it be co

Re: [android-developers] Have developers ever been sued because of what their program does?

2013-12-16 Thread Kristopher Micinski
The short answer is that you should ask a lawyer. I have never heard of an app writer being sued for this kind of app, but I wouldn't be surprised if their had been a lawsuit. In the US you can sue someone for a pretty huge array of things. It's probably pretty safe to assume that the answer to "

Re: [android-developers] Re: Swipe app out of recent tasks permanently kills app (like force-stop) even though it's running background services!

2013-12-14 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Just as a note: you're being fairly condescending to people who are suggesting solutions to you free of charge in a pretty polite way.. I personally don't know what the semantics of the swipe away are: but I wouldn't be surprised if it were to kill the app. I am not sure whether or not I'd call i

Re: [android-developers] Re: Looking for API to gain access to my email

2013-12-11 Thread Kristopher Micinski
They have to be stored somewhere on the phone: but they don't have to be accessible to you. I believe in this case they are *not* available through any public API... Kris On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Daniel Chacon wrote: > Well I was looking to create just a simple app to clear the trash f

Re: [android-developers] Re: I want to make an application can do automated testing.

2013-12-01 Thread Kristopher Micinski
In general you can't control very much, but sendevent will help... http://ktnr74.blogspot.com/2013/06/emulating-touchscreen-interaction-with.html Kris On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 4:47 PM, 12169 wrote: > Hi, > > i want to do this on other applications. > > > On Sunday, December 1, 2013 12:06:14 PM

Re: [android-developers] I want to make an application can do automated testing.

2013-12-01 Thread Kristopher Micinski
You might want to have a look at this system, which does record and replay for a fairly large set of apps: http://www.androidreran.com/ Kris On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 2:36 PM, 12169 wrote: > Hi, > > In android i want to make an application that can do automated testing of > android applications

Re: [android-developers] testing app from PC on attached phone

2013-11-29 Thread Kristopher Micinski
dinary windows drivers for the Sony phone are obviously working or I > wouldn't be able to see the phone from PC connect. > > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Kristopher Micinski < > krismicin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I mean, if you type in "adb devices&qu

Re: [android-developers] testing app from PC on attached phone

2013-11-29 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Eclipse android plug in won't even > recognize the hardware phone. > > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Kristopher Micinski < > krismicin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Can you get any response from ADB? >> >> Kris >> >> >> >> On

Re: [android-developers] testing app from PC on attached phone

2013-11-29 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Can you get any response from ADB? Kris On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:52 AM, peter gottlieb wrote: > Bad guess. I clearly stated that the windows 7 setup had already worked > with the Sony Erickson, but now doesn't. For all PC-phone interactions > (browse files on the phone from the PC, update

Re: [android-developers] Application crashes on Formatted Android Phone

2013-11-27 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Has anyone faced the problem of their app working on one device and crashing on another? Absolutely. For so many reasons that there is no way to be able to tell what your problem could possibly be. You should install a crash reporting system in your app, so that when it does generate crashes the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Dalvik vs ART

2013-11-15 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I doubt that will happen. Translating from Dalvik to native code is tuned to make sense, but switching to another ABI would be more difficult. It may happen, though I doubt it will anytime soon. There's no reason that you can't interface to binaries through JNI anyway, as long as they follow the

Re: [android-developers] Bluetooth connection

2013-10-31 Thread Kristopher Micinski
It seems that something like this would do the trick: http://www.miniinthebox.com/bluetooth-master-uart-board-wireless-transceiver-module-uart-interface-host-mode_p394547.html?currency=USD&litb_from=paid_adwords_shopping&gclid=CJbo1KSwwboCFdGe4AodKzQAzQ It's got a UART interface and lets you stic

Re: [android-developers] Simulating tens of thousands of android devices

2013-10-31 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Mukesh is right on this one. Stress testing your server won't be any different than testing any other sort of server. Just create a dummy that simulates what an Android device would do and throw thousands of requests at it. Ideally, if you're using some sort of service (e.g., Rails) you should G

Re: [android-developers] Re: why does SharedPreferences framework allow you to insert a preference with a null key - given it can't reload the preferences afterwards?

2013-10-30 Thread Kristopher Micinski
> > On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:27:03 PM UTC+2, Kristopher Micinski wrote: >> >> I would honestly suspect that it's "meant" to be this way, and perhaps >> the documentation is buggy. If you want, posting a bug report might >> get some action by

Re: [android-developers] Re: why does SharedPreferences framework allow you to insert a preference with a null key - given it can't reload the preferences afterwards?

2013-10-30 Thread Kristopher Micinski
report ? > > > On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 8:23:46 PM UTC+2, Kristopher Micinski wrote: >> >> Your question seems more to deal with intention rather than >> complaining. I believe that Nobu's response was merely interpreting >> the implementation and try

Re: [android-developers] Re: why does SharedPreferences framework allow you to insert a preference with a null key - given it can't reload the preferences afterwards?

2013-10-30 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Your question seems more to deal with intention rather than complaining. I believe that Nobu's response was merely interpreting the implementation and trying to interpret it, so there's no use in trying to complain at him for providing a guess at something he didn't even write. kris On Wed, Oct

Re: [android-developers] New Android Development Tool..

2013-10-17 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I do all my development via command line, using the ant build scripts and emacs JDEE works well enough. What joe131 wrote is just a thin wrapper around all of that anyway, Kris On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > I cannot answer for joe131, and I can't use his tool since i

Re: [android-developers] how to track the location continously...

2013-10-17 Thread Kristopher Micinski
ng it as a foreground service (due to other reasons, yet the >> service was still always on), all complaints were gone and people started >> praising the app claiming all battery issues were solved... *facepalm* >> >> Users... they're the worst :-P >> >> >

Re: [android-developers] how to track the location continously...

2013-10-17 Thread Kristopher Micinski
none of that use case makes sense anyway. kris On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Kristopher Micinski wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Piren wrote: > >> A foreground service is sort of the way you build apps that live >>> indefinitely. >>> >> I wouldn

Re: [android-developers] how to track the location continously...

2013-10-17 Thread Kristopher Micinski
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Piren wrote: > A foreground service is sort of the way you build apps that live >> indefinitely. >> > I wouldn't say that, foreground services die like everything else... they > are persistent little buggers, but it doesn't take much to get rid of them. > Especial

Re: [android-developers] how to track the location continously...

2013-10-16 Thread Kristopher Micinski
That's right, and I highly doubt you really want continuous location updates anyway. If you really do, then you do want this architecture. A foreground service is sort of the way you build apps that live indefinitely. Kris On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:41 PM, TreKing wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 16,

Re: [android-developers] how to track the location continously...

2013-10-16 Thread Kristopher Micinski
If you want continuous location updates you generally want a foregrounded service anyway... Kris On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Abhilash Baddam < abhilash.androiddevelo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to track the User current location continoulsy till he s > In my app there are t

Re: [android-developers] Re: What is difference between the Android App downloaded using Google Play store and the one directly installed?

2013-10-08 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I have some severe doubts that unpackaging would include rewriting on the device side in standard AOSP, simply because it's open source and that unpackaging code is publicly available and people can easily snoop it to see what's happening. Instead, the typical use case for this is rewriting at the

Re: [android-developers] Put an app on site and not on market

2013-10-07 Thread Kristopher Micinski
This doesn't have anything to do with Android. If you want to authenticate the user before allowing them to download the file, then simply put the download link behind an authentication gateway. Kris On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Pankaj Deshpande wrote: > Thanks Richards, > I want the same

Re: [android-developers] Re: What is difference between the Android App downloaded using Google Play store and the one directly installed?

2013-10-05 Thread Kristopher Micinski
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Richard Schilling wrote: > I think you're right Kristopher that there is something in the TOS. But, > seeing as how we all know Google can decompile any app it gets anyway I > think there's also something in the TOS that binds Google to protecting > your intellectu

Re: [android-developers] Re: What is difference between the Android App downloaded using Google Play store and the one directly installed?

2013-10-05 Thread Kristopher Micinski
If the stores do this, they probably say so in their TOS, it seems legally dubious to modify your app without your consent. Kris On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Richard Schilling wrote: > It's possible that some stores will modify your app to add some Digital > Rights Management checks to help

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to make a Service That will periodically send the Users Location on a server

2013-10-05 Thread Kristopher Micinski
t; On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Kristopher Micinski < > krismicin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You can ask for the last known location. >> >> Kris >> On Oct 5, 2013 3:33 PM, "HImanshu Mittal" wrote: >> >>> But Sir I have a question than , >

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to make a Service That will periodically send the Users Location on a server

2013-10-05 Thread Kristopher Micinski
You can ask for the last known location. Kris On Oct 5, 2013 3:33 PM, "HImanshu Mittal" wrote: > But Sir I have a question than , > How a blue dot is availaible at the position where I am , but the function > is not able to fetch the data than... > ?? > > > On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Richa

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to make a Service That will periodically send the Users Location on a server

2013-10-04 Thread Kristopher Micinski
anshu5...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I have enabled it ... >>>>>> If it was not enabled the blue dot would not have appeared >>>>>> But as the permissions are there it appears on the map !!! >>>>>> &g

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to make a Service That will periodically send the Users Location on a server

2013-10-04 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I guess the problem is, if your location is unavailable, how are you expecting that that will be fixed? This doesn't make any sense, if it's not available, it's not available, Kris On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 6:16 AM, HImanshu Mittal wrote: > Hello friends, > I have just checked it out that my ser

Re: [android-developers] Android Dataset

2013-09-30 Thread Kristopher Micinski
FYI: http://www.malgenomeproject.org/ https://github.com/chadrem/market_bot Kris On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Moutaz Alazab wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Is there any automatic method for downloading Android applications from > Google market directly to my PC, I want to do some static an

Re: [android-developers] How to Verifying Correctness of App in Eclipse

2013-09-27 Thread Kristopher Micinski
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Anirvan wrote: > Hello Kris, > > Appreciate your response. > > Even I have an inkling that trying to write some plugin might just end up > being something *big*. However, what we need to establish is whether a > particular user was able to follow our tutorial and d

Re: [android-developers] How to Verifying Correctness of App in Eclipse

2013-09-27 Thread Kristopher Micinski
So the obvious question that comes to mind is: why do you need to do this within Eclipse, rather than using an Android testing framework. Are you talking about whether or not the user *physically* created the code, rather than testing it actually worked? I would give a word of warning against tryi

Re: [android-developers] Lower level documentation on how Google's backend starter works w/ Android devices

2013-09-22 Thread Kristopher Micinski
2:58 PM, Ken wrote: > > > On Friday, September 20, 2013 1:25:08 PM UTC-4, Kristopher Micinski wrote: >> >> There are specific clauses in the TOS for Play (at least) that stipulate >> you can't write apps that could compete with Google apps, under which I >> pres

Re: [android-developers] Lower level documentation on how Google's backend starter works w/ Android devices

2013-09-20 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I doubt such a thing exists, because I doubt Google would be very happy with you using their protocol for an app. There are specific clauses in the TOS for Play (at least) that stipulate you can't write apps that could compete with Google apps, under which I presume this use would fall. Kris O

Re: [android-developers] Need to Load .a static lib.

2013-09-16 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Specifically, since app execution happens with the context of a Dalvik VM, it doesn't make any sense to hook in a static library. Your application is not being run as a native process, but rather by proxy of being in the VM. The VM forks from a zygote process, and it makes sense to call dynamical

Re: [android-developers] how to make simple local wifi/bluetooth multiplayer app ?

2013-09-13 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Alljoyn seems to be a helpful API. Doing these p2p BT / wifi overlays is a real pain, and I'd highly recommend against it if possible. Most people sync to a central server which mediates games, but if you feel hell bent on doing it I suppose you could hack it up. (I've made something like this b

Re: [android-developers] android how to exit the application?

2013-09-09 Thread Kristopher Micinski
gt; that post is about killing an app, not exactly the same thing. > > > On Saturday, September 7, 2013 1:28:05 AM UTC+3, Kristopher Micinski wrote: > >> You should read this thread: >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/**questions/2033914/quitting-an-** >> applicat

Re: [android-developers] android how to exit the application?

2013-09-06 Thread Kristopher Micinski
You should read this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2033914/quitting-an-application-is-that-frowned-upon Kris On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:46 PM, ashish wrote: > Hi, > > what is best why to exit android application ? > i found difficulty to exit android application in some cases. > e

Re: [android-developers] Android push notification server for enterprise

2013-09-01 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I agree with Michael. It would be easy, but at the same time it's pretty hard to get background services correct when they need to be constantly available polling the internet. E.g., it's pretty easy to kill battery life doing this. The reason people use GCM is because it does the hard work in g

Re: [android-developers] Re: Did Google just kill MobFox?

2013-08-27 Thread Kristopher Micinski
I think they're a vestigal holdover from when in app billing didn't exist and these things weren't really enforced, but you can feel free to email them if you'd like clarification. Kris On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Keith Wiley wrote: > Fair enough. Thanks for the info. That leaves me rat

Re: [android-developers] Any suggestions for Ad platform in addition to AdMob

2013-08-17 Thread Kristopher Micinski
That's fair, http://appflood.com/blog/list-of-mobile-ad-networks-february-2013 gives a pretty comprehensive list... Kris On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 7:31 PM, limtc wrote: > Thanks pal. I am just afraid of putting all the eggs in one basket. I have > a popular simple app with a simple banner ad g

Re: [android-developers] close on minimise application

2013-08-13 Thread Kristopher Micinski
You don't close the application, you can finish() the activity, however. Kris On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:00 AM, passer wrote: > Hello. > > I have application which should be ask password on start. > > I done it so. onCreate MainActivity calls(startActivityForResult) > EnterPasswordActivity. I

Re: [android-developers] Webscokets

2013-08-13 Thread Kristopher Micinski
ould you suggest a third party alternative ? > I have searched for it without success. > I am developing a chat. I have a Node.js Socket.io server implementation. > > Regards, > > > 2013/8/12 Kristopher Micinski > >> Not in the SDK to my knowledge. But what are yo

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