Wow. This is the third time I've tried to post this. For
some reason, my first attempt at a response not only did not
go through, a reload of this page to check to see if it had
appeared here (it hadn't) ended up putting me in a completely
different group. I just now discovered this.
On Jul 2,
On Jul 2, 8:46 am, Kostya Vasilyev wrote:
> And according to this:
>[http://tinyurl.com/3dh8hym]
>27 June 2011: Total installs stats now accurate
> Whether this is really the case, remains to be seen.
Well, the Market stats were updated while I was away for a bit.
My total installs near
Sorry for this...more Market questions.
1) Is the download count that users see in the Market app based
on total installs, or active installs?
2) If it's based on active installs, and given that active
install counts are still broken (showed zero for a while when
I had confirmed that at
Yesterday, I ran into quite a number of problems with the web
site interface to this group (android-developers, just in case
it randomly tosses my post into another group, like it did
yesterday---that's one of the problems).
1) I posted an update to the thread I started, titled "What is
the dif
On Jul 2, 8:46 am, Kostya Vasilyev wrote:
> No, both are good, but active installs are better.
>
> Still, I'm with Raghav on not worrying about them too much - especially
> if you have a paid app, focus on your orders instead.
Not a paid app, but right now, I'm focusing on the one rating I
have (
On Jul 2, 8:22 am, Kostya Vasilyev wrote:
> "active install" = "install" "installed, used for while, then
> uninstalled"
So, "installs" is bad, "active installs" is good, then, right?
Ouch.
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In the developer's console, what is the difference between an
"install" and an "active install" ?
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On Jul 2, 12:41 am, TreKing wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Spooky wrote:
> > And the line-wraps in the description are (were) also hosed.
> > I think I just fixed that---I unpublished it, took out all
> > line breaks except at paragraphs, and re-published it. Th
On Jul 2, 12:15 am, Spiral123 wrote:
> minutes, if not seconds.
Ok, I must have screwed up, then. I just discovered it by
looking in apps->photography->just in ... but a search still
returns no results found.
And the line-wraps in the description are (were) also hosed.
I think I just fixed that
I just published (about 10 minutes ago, maybe a bit longer) my
first app, Point Lobos Gallery. How long does it typically take
before I can actually see it in the Market (using search)?
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I just published (about 10 minutes ago, maybe a bit longer) my
first app, Point Lobos Gallery. How long does it typically take
before I can actually see it in the Market (using search)?
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I wrote:
> For a simple and free gallery app, is there any reason to
> obfuscate it?
I've noticed that, in the top-level directory for my app,
Eclipse creates a file called proguard.cfg ... is Eclipse
already doing the obfuscation? Or is it just setting up
a config file so all I have to do is ru
For a simple and free gallery app, is there any reason to
obfuscate it?
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Thanks to everyone for the very, very helpful responses. Among
the most helpful are the posts stating that using ads is a good
way to annoy (or otherwise push) people enough to buy the paid
version.
As I've mentioned before, I am a cancer survivor, knocked out
of the job market by cancer and its
On Jun 30, 5:07 pm, TreKing wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Spooky wrote:
> I doubt ads alone would drive people away. Most free apps have
> them and people are used to it.
True. But then we get back to the "I know exactly zilch about
how to do this..." and the
On Jun 30, 4:11 pm, TreKing wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Brad Gies wrote:
> > You won't make any money from the ads, but it might be worth
> > having them to convince users to purchase a paid version.
And that worries me...the fact that the ads might end up being
too obtrusive and t
I'm about to release my first app, and would like some opinions
about adding ads and a $2 donation to remove the
ads...specifically, is it worth the effort (keeping in mind that
I currently know exactly NOTHING about how to do this)
My app is a simple photo Gallery, showing, in this case, a se
On Jun 24, 9:28 pm, gjs wrote:
> I'd suggest you overlay the quake data graphically on a map
> rather than just as a list of text.
Yeah, no kidding, especially when the worlwide quake data is
already online at the USGS site as both a list and as maps
:-)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
Who nee
On Jun 22, 10:40 pm, TreKing wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:33 PM, naveen kumar
> wrote:
>
> > I want to devide large video file in parts without content loss please help
> > me.
Hey, India guy, I gave you ALL of the information you need to do
exactly that! Or did you expect me to fly to I
On Jun 22, 9:55 am, NaveenShrivastva
wrote:
> > >>> > when i am trying to play large video then getting
> > >>> > exception outofmemory.
You mentioned that you are loading a 1 GB video file. Are you
trying to load the entire file into memory at the same time?
I don't know if most video players
On Jun 4, 11:45 pm, Mystic Prowler wrote:
> Apps Can do that? I am quite concerned about that. Why would
> there even be an app that does that?
Honestly, I don't know. I'll leave the answer to that to the
more experienced folks here. Personally, though, I prefer not
to make any assumptions, ei
On Jun 4, 11:32 am, TreKing wrote:
> Android Market coming pre-installed on most devices, Amazon's
> app having to be manually installed, and sideloading disabled
> on AT&T devices are also major factors.
Just FYI, if by "sideloading" (a term I haven't heard before),
you mean loading from outsid
For layout of the pages, samples, etc., I'll skip that here and
just look at the Developer's Forum pages on those topics.
But I do have other questions. First, background on my app.
It's a collection of some of my photography favorites (this
one will be from the Scenic/Nature category). I don't
On Jun 2, 7:12 pm, Dianne Hackborn wrote:
> There is no such concept as "the size of each individual screen" for
> wallpapers. First, it depends on the current launcher and how many screens
> it want to have. Second, because launchers usually use parallax (though
> they don't have to), there is
On Jun 2, 6:18 pm, Romain Guy wrote:
> Wallpapers are larger than the screen, you can query the size
> the wallpaper should have by using the WallpaperManager API.
Let's see, I've already tried (as shown in the revised code
in my previous post) getDesiredMinimumHeight() and
getDesiredMinimumWidt
I've done some testing, reading, testing, reading, testing,
reading, and so on, since last night's post, and I have some
updates to add. Perhaps this will be enough information for
someone to be able to help me figure out what's going wrong (at
least, I really hope so!).
I've added code to check
On Jun 2, 12:33 am, Spooky wrote:
> dimenstions,
DOH! That's another of those side-effects...I can't always see
errors like that. And sometimes, I see text where it isn't, and
it isn't where it's supposed to be. Again, very annoying.
Later,
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Given the following code (indentation reduced to fit max line length):
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// load and resize the original image
Bitmap image = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),
mImageIds[info.position]);
// original size == w,h
Ok, maybe that didn't make sense What I'm looking for, *IF* it
exists for Android/Java, is
some way to open up, say, a console, load the code, and check the
value returned by some
line in the code without having to use the AVD (which doesn't work on
my system) or build,
install on my phone, a
First question: is everyone else able to post via e-mail?
If so, how long, after you were removed from moderation,
did it take before you were allowed to do so? Was it a
month or so? Longer?
Second, if others ARE able to post via e-mail, why
can't I? Who do I contact to get this resolved?
Can
Moderators: When I try to post to this group via e-mail (I've been
subscribed and out of the
moderation queue since 11May2011), I get the following sent to
postmaster@my system:
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem
To: spooky1...@gmail.com
X-Failed-Recipients: android-developers@googlegroups.com
Subjec
01:33:13PM -0400, Mark Murphy wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Spooky wrote:
> > Apologies if this is posted twice, but it doesn't appear to have made
> > the e-mail digest since I posted it last night. How do I get the
> > currently-displayed image's fil
Apologies if this is posted twice, but it doesn't appear to have made
the e-mail digest since I posted it last night.
How do I get the currently-displayed image's filename or R.drawable.
[filename] from the Gallery widget?
And how many months does it take before you can post via e-mail after
you'v
On May 30, 7:26 am, "Jonas Petersson" wrote:
> On 2011-05-30 14:13, Kostya Vasilyev wrote:
>
> > I rememeber reading that this list is moderated for new users and it
> > takes a few days to be able to post (if that's the case, it's a good
> > question why there is stil spam here).
Apparently, it
On May 30, 3:57 am, mpiks jonathan wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> Is there another way one can post a problem and get solution apart
> from sending an email to android-developers@googlegroups.com?
You mean you CAN send post by sending e-mail to the list? When I
tried that (my first post), it was reject
I'm looking at the Gallery example from the Android-sdk samples
(android-7/ApiDemos/src//view/Gallery1.java), and am trying
to load the currently-displayed image, from the long-press
context menu, as wallpaper.
In that example, I have the index number within the array of
R.drawable.filename va
Ahh, ok, thanks. That makes a *LOT* more sense! :-)
Later,
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Question: In the online version of "Programming Android", the
author(s) make the following two comments, back to back (the
second is in a shaded box):
---
If you elect to be a publisher of paid
applications, you will be directed to a page
where you can
On May 25, 6:42 pm, ctccromer wrote:
> My Phone: Motorola Bravo
Ok...same here.
> I'm working on setting up Google App Inventor so I can make an
> app for Android. However, I'm having an issue at the part
> where I'm supposed to manually install a Driver for my specific
> phone.
I tried AI ou
On May 24, 9:27 pm, TreKing wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:00 PM, DanH
> wrote:
> > [nothing worth quoting]
> You made a pretty bold but vague statement that clearly has a
> lot of people curious what the logic and rational behind it is.
> You could just state your reasoning behind the state
On May 23, 10:25 pm, Zsolt Vasvari wrote:
> Not to sound braggy, but my app has been netting $3000+/mo in
> sales for the past 6 months, after Google's cut.
The previous poster in this thread mentioned that they get, on
average, about $100/month. Even half of that, to me, would be a
huge boost,
On May 23, 10:45 pm, B Lyon wrote:
> did you mess with the GestureDetector stuff? it handles some
> of the determination of whether something is a scroll or fling,
> etc..
I did, before I found the tutorial that I used as a guide for my
app's code. I got exactly nowhere with it, though. I seem
As determined as I was to solve this without having to ask
for help, I am now officially confused beyond all hope.
I've been digging, and digging, and diggin, through searches and
sample code, trying to find out how to change images (next or
previous) in an ImageView that displays one of many
ring the Eglin AFB Armament Museum
(also commonly referred to as the Eglin Air Park). Lots of
static displays of everything from the old AC-47 Spooky, the
AC-130A Spectre, etc., to the SR-71, and lots of bombs, missles,
etc., too. Then, possibly another, focusing on the beaches we
have here (which,
On May 22, 11:57 pm, Zsolt Vasvari wrote:
> First of all, I would think very seriously about not building a new
> app that supports 1.5 in the middle of 2011.
HonestlyI'm not so sure that I'm going to now. I'd seen (and
asked
about this in the Android Forums/"Lounge" forum about a week ago--
First, I've been advised (building an app for Android 1.5 and up) to
stay away from
res/drawables-?dpi and just use res/drawables ... then, I read that
the right way
IS to use res/drawables-?dpi.Which is right?
Second, the SDK samples all use android.R.drawable.* ... and yet, the
reference pag
Just FYIthere is an error in the Morse Code
sample for the API demos in the sample code, at
least in Android-7.
U is listed as DIT DIT DAH. This is correct.
V is also listed as DIT DIT DAH. This is not correct.
V is DIT DIT DIT DAH.
:-)
Later,
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On May 20, 1:04 am, Saurav wrote:
> Hope this helps.
Looks like exactly what I need. Thanks! I also have something
far more likely to get better search results (for a reference page),
too---so thanks for that, as well!
Later,
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On May 19, 11:25 pm, Saurav wrote:
> You mean wallpaper for phone home screen?
Ok, here's a chance for me to possibly clear up my own confusion.
I've
been under the impressions that A) the home screen is THE screen
that you get when you press the HOME button, and that the rest are
other screens,
I've been trying to find a reference and/or example page
explaining how to write a png image file from res/drawable
to the background as wallpaper for about the last five days
now ... I give up...time to ask for help finding either or
both of the above I've seen all kinds of references to
unre
On May 18, 1:22 am, Zsolt Vasvari wrote:
> If you offer a donation option, though, it must be via the in-app
> billing.
This is true. But not anywhere near as significant when we're
talking about an extra $0.50 or $1.00 to cover the 30% (and
keep it a nice, even price instead of something like $
On May 17, 11:45 pm, Zsolt Vasvari wrote:
> I believe you are not against the "spirit" of the TOC as you are not
> really circumventing the 30% of profit that Google makes from selling
> your app. What you are doing is e-commerce and I doubt Google charges
> the 30% to e-commerice sites such as
On May 17, 5:50 pm, TreKing wrote:
> Google works in mysterious ways. Just because some apps happen to do things
> that they shouldn't and haven't been caught yet doesn't make it OK.
Ok, I'm confused. Let's say I have users of my photography app (when
I get it all
finished and looking the way
On May 16, 11:34 pm, Albert Rosa wrote:
> I havent but im interested to know the tutorial if you can provide a link
> to it that would be helpful.
Well, I don't have the link to the actual Youtube video, but I can at
least point you to where you can no doubt find it. Check out the
Marakana w
On May 16, 9:39 pm, Spooky wrote:
The same post twice. Sorry, not sure how that happened
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On May 16, 7:15 pm, Nicholas Johnson wrote:
> Something like this should work:
>
> String[] textValues =
> getResources().getStringArray(R.array.your_string_array);
>
> for (int i = 0; i < textValues.length; ++i) {
>mTextView.setText(textValues[i]);
>
> }
>
> ^obviously this code isn't very
On May 16, 7:15 pm, Nicholas Johnson wrote:
> Something like this should work:
>
> String[] textValues =
> getResources().getStringArray(R.array.your_string_array);
>
> for (int i = 0; i < textValues.length; ++i) {
>mTextView.setText(textValues[i]);
>
> }
>
> ^obviously this code isn't very
On May 16, 7:15 pm, Nicholas Johnson wrote:
> Something like this should work:
>
> String[] textValues =
> getResources().getStringArray(R.array.your_string_array);
>
> for (int i = 0; i < textValues.length; ++i) {
>mTextView.setText(textValues[i]);
>
> }
>
> ^obviously this code isn't very
I'm looking for documentation on how to display a single item (indexed
by an integer) from a text-array in
res/values/strings.xml in a TextView. I've found information on
linking string-array values with just about
everything else, but I've apparently missed the documentation on using
string-arra
On May 15, 10:15 pm, DanH wrote:
> About once a day I see something along the lines of the following. (I
> wasn't able to find an example in the Android forum, even though I
> know I saw one yesterday
I seem to recall posting something to that effect a few days ago.
Thing is, it was true. I rea
On May 15, 2:17 pm, DanH wrote:
> If you look around, about half those posting here (and on other forums
> for other platforms) are kids who have essentially no programmer
> training but have managed to modify a few example projects to do
> interesting (to them) things and hence consider themsel
New question
I'm trying to access an array of text strings by its integer index (at
laest, I think that's what I'm trying to do!).
The array is defined as (it's actually longer than this---this is the
shortened version):
String[] descriptions = {"Santa Rosa Sound (NW FL)",
SUCCESS!!!
I have a few more things to change (image files getting renamed
without my knowing about it,
causing mis-matches, etc. But after making all of the changes,
getting rid of res/drawable-*
and limiting it to drawable/, fixing the names, restarting Eclipse a
few times, etc., etc., it
On May 15, 10:33 am, Kostya Vasilyev wrote:
> 15.05.2011 19:10, Spooky пишет:
>
> > Right now, I'm experimenting with building it based loosely on
> > the MultiResolution sample in the SDK (under Android-8, building for
> > Android 1.5 and up).
>
> match_p
I'm working on a set of photography apps (currently splitting them up
by
category, e.g., ScenicNature, Lightning_etc,
Eglin_AFB_Armament_Museum,
etc.). Right now, I'm experimenting with building it based loosely on
the MultiResolution sample in the SDK (under Android-8, building for
Android 1.5 an
On May 13, 5:01 pm, Mark Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Spooky wrote:
> All you do is copy your third-party JAR
> into libs/ and add it to your project with Add JAR on the Libraries
> tab of the Build Path dialog.
I started off by making a NEW project: Yamba2.
On May 13, 5:01 pm, Mark Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Spooky wrote:
> > and
> > they are
> > the only two JAR files in the Yamba directory on the disk
I don't know why I wrote that...android.jar is referenced by the
.classpath file, but it is NO
On May 13, 3:27 pm, Mark Murphy wrote:
> Also, you may wish to visit that book's official support point:
>
> https://marakana.com/forums/android/learning_android_book/
Already posted this there. No response yet. I'm guessing that I'm
more likely to get a response here. I seem to recall seei
On May 13, 3:10 pm, Mark Murphy wrote:
> Either the JAR you added has java.nio.CharBuffer in it
The JAR file is jtwitter-yamba.jar (renamed to jtwitter.jar), and
there is no
sign of java. anything anywhere in it.
> or you
> accidentally messed up your build path to include some other Java JAR
While trying to build the Yamba example code from "Learning Android",
I am getting the following error. I suspect that it
may have something to do with the external jar file, jtwitter.jar (the
book version which has one error from the original
patched):
--- CUT HERE
On May 13, 8:35 am, Mark Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Spooky wrote:
> > Is "nonce" a typo? Or is it a term that I'm not familiar with yet?
> > (serious question).
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce
Ok, thanks G
In the Application Licensing page, I'm confused about the following
line:
"The application provides its package name and a nonce that is later
used to validate any response from the server"
^^
Is "nonce" a typo? Or is it a term that I'm not familiar with yet?
(serious question).
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And then, while trying to get an apk file from a build, I got a new
error (which was NOT there when this built, without an apk file,
before:
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[2011-05-12 13:36:14 - Yamba] Dx
trouble processing "java/nio/CharBuffer.class":
Ill-adv
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:13 PM, B Lyon wrote:
A *LOT* more after we went to e-mailand though he doesn't know it
yet (but will in a minute), he pointed me to the problem.
In my .classpath file, jtwitter.jar was listed first, and then
android.jar. I exited out of Eclipse, opened the .clas
Thanks to B Lyon and a LOT of e-mail exchanged last night and this
morning, this problem is SOLVED.
In my .classpath file, jtwitter.jar was listed first, and then
android.jar. I exited out of Eclipse, opened the .classpath up with
vim,
reversed the two lines, re-started Eclipse, and it built jus
On May 11, 10:03 pm, B Lyon wrote:
> well, org.json.JSONArray is apparently in both jtwitter.jar and
> android.jar, which can confuse things, I think. I've yet to mess with
> the twitter stuff. It looks like there's a twitter library that is
> "android-ready" called twitter4j you might want to
Ok, just to be safe, I'm posting the whole .classpath file:
See anything wrong?
Thanks,
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Ok, over 13 hours since I posted my question about the error I'm
having (like many others, it would appear) about
getting a consistent error saying, "Conversion to Dalvik format failed
with error 1" (may not be 100% exact, but
you know the one I'm asking about Since I have yet to get an
answe
I'm getting the following when trying to build the "Yamba" project
from the "Learning Android" book (I'm in the middle
of Chapter 6 right now). I'm using Eclipse version 3.5 (Galileo) and
release 11 (just updated yesterday, no change in error
messages from release 10) of the Android SDK on windows
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