[android-developers] Fake ratings & reviews by competitors?

2016-04-16 Thread Toby
It seems like some companies try to damage new, possible competitive, apps by creating fake reviews and ratings (5 stars with "nice" or "good"). Around 2 weeks after publishing our app, it suddenly dissappeared from the "Top New Social" charts in the United Kingdom (and some other countries). I

[android-developers] Data safety when writing important data to SD card

2012-11-27 Thread Toby
close the file, or whether I really needed to. Will java close the file for me when the app goes away? Right now, since the writes are few and far between, I'm just opening and closing the file each time I write a line to it, but that seems really awkward. Thanks, Toby -- You received this me

[android-developers] Make a one app appliance (prevent quitting app)

2012-11-26 Thread Toby
I need to make a one function appliance out of an Android phone for distribution to participants of an event. I want the user to see the app running, but not be able to do anything else. What sort of ways are there to lock down a device so that it appears as a one-app appliance? We retain owners

[android-developers] Can't get to sqlite databases with new phone

2012-11-13 Thread Toby
e phone, which would be ideal. I copied the binary from an emulator and put it in /system/sqlite3. I guess it's dependent on some other libs, because I get this when I run it: reloc_library[1306]: 2727 cannot locate 'sqlite3_enable_load_extension'... CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE Any

[android-developers] Customer can't see my app in the app store.

2012-09-07 Thread Toby
I've got hundreds of install, but this is the first person that can't find my app by searching in the play store. I'm requiring Android 2.2, and she says she is running 2.6. I'm requiring some permissions: HARDWARE CONTROLS TAKE PICTURES AND VIDEOS Allows the app to take pictures and videos wit

[android-developers] Phone can't download my app

2012-07-30 Thread Toby
My company has an app out there that clients use. A co-worker discovered that his Galaxy SII can't find the app in the play store. He did put cyanogen mod 9 on it. Could this cause a problem? My app only requires android 2.2. I require these permissions: Phone calls Network communication Hard

[android-developers] Where to start with simple video games?

2011-03-28 Thread Toby
I'm finishing up my first app for my company, so I am getting more comfortable with android. I'd like to do a personal project now, something like a spacewar game. I figured that there would be a canvas widget somewhere, and that given canvas.plot(x, y) I'd be on my way. It seems that there is

[android-developers] XML layout vs. programmatic

2011-01-13 Thread Toby
Ok, we've thought about MVC paradigms for our company, but unless you really need to hide the code from some "Designer" I can't see the benefits. I want the power of the computer language at hand to allow me to create layouts dynamically. I've been scolded about that by one most learned particip

Re: [android-developers] Re: Changing price in the Market

2011-01-13 Thread Toby
On 1/13/2011 6:04 PM, Zsolt Vasvari wrote: No offense, but you must be living in an extremely poor country if you think $0.99 is not a impulse purchase. What else can you buy for a $1 these days? Honestly, I cannot think of a single thing. Perhaps if you are a kid on a $10/week budget, that mi

Re: [android-developers] How do you manipulate content in an Activity from an external class or another Activity?

2010-12-26 Thread Toby
his doesn't really make sense. What I really want to do is touch views in an activity from an another class that does not subclass Activity. Just a way to compartmentalize functionality. I guess I could pass 'this' from the Activity into the constructor of the other class. Thanks,

[android-developers] Android 2.1 Insert contact problem

2010-10-13 Thread Toby
StructuredPostal.TYPE_WORK ); in.putExtra(CommonDataKinds.StructuredPostal.COUNTRY , "Deutschland"); I really would appreciate your help. Cheers Toby -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android

[android-developers] Re: How to access user installed CA certs

2010-08-05 Thread Toby
ess? true 08-05 10:19:25.192: DEBUG/CertInstaller(665): credential is added: IDENTIFIER Could someone suggest how I go about accessing these credentials from an application? On Aug 4, 12:09 pm, Toby wrote: > I've been struggling to get my application to consume user installed

[android-developers] How to access user installed CA certs

2010-08-04 Thread Toby
I've been struggling to get my application to consume user installed identity CA certs from a p12 file on an SD card. I can't seem to figure out how to access these certs once installed using the Secure Credential Storage (Location & Security > Install from SD card). I've tried the approach recom

[android-developers] Re: Possible to over-ride default Android libraries?

2010-07-27 Thread Toby
e tooverridethe > > > system classpath.  I don't know the answer, but that's the question. > > > > On Jul 23, 2:08 pm, Toby wrote: > > > > > I'm working on a SMIME application to decode .p7m signed and encrypted > > > > messages.  I've g

[android-developers] Possible to over-ride default Android libraries?

2010-07-23 Thread Toby
I'm working on a SMIME application to decode .p7m signed and encrypted messages. I've got a small Java app written using the latest Bouncy Castle libraries and everything is working great. I ran into some issues moving the code into an Android app. I've included the newest BC libraries in the ap

[android-developers] BAck to Activity after WebView

2009-11-14 Thread toby
o the last Activity? It would also be ok to display a soft back button or something. Here my code [snip] WebView webview = new WebView(this); setContentView(webview); webview.canGoBack(); webview.loadData(worker.getHtmlResult(), "text/html", "utf-8"); [snap] Thanks, Toby

[android-developers] Re: Hmm... at last ADC2 is out of our way ... tell about your app and experience

2009-09-07 Thread Toby Knothe
performing well, even in unpredictable situations. Personally, I think the ADC is great for the incentive it gives developers, and the publicity it creates for cool apps that only few users would notice otherwise. Also, the community it created for developers like us was grea

[android-developers] Re: Atomic SQLite Example

2009-08-19 Thread Toby Knothe
t; Delete Table > Delete DB All of these should be covered, but I would suggest you have a look around in SQLiteOpenHelper for some useful helper methods like update (..) and delete(..). Hope this helps, Best Regards Toby As promised, a simple implementation of the abstract methods, @Ov

[android-developers] How to send Email with the stock GMail app

2009-08-09 Thread toby
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[android-developers] Re: Ubuntu Jaunty and adb not playing well together

2009-04-29 Thread Toby Stafford
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