[android-developers] Re: Better way to protect apps?

2009-04-07 Thread blues
There is no best way, but there is always better way. It's like the DES algorithm, there is way to crack it, but it is expensive. For a $2 app, few people wants to crack it with expensive effort. Currently the apps on the market is not protected at all. Just a little bit more effort from Google c

[android-developers] Most wanted features after 1.5

2009-04-14 Thread blues
As a user: Install apps on the SD cards. The current internal memory is really not enough. As a developer: 1. A real working mechanism to protect the priced app. Currently, the apk file can be copied from the "rooted" phone and publised to anywhere. 2. Native SDK or just a JNI interface firstly.

[android-developers] Text to Speech lib from Android Market

2008-10-28 Thread blues
There is a free lib can be downloaded from Android Market on the G1 phone. It's developed by a google developer. Does anyone know how to use it? Any document about it? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

[android-developers] Network Monitoring

2008-10-28 Thread blues
Is there a way to monitor the IP traffic? For example throughput? If not in java, can it be done through native code? I have seen some IP sniffer source code for linux. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

[android-developers] Re: Network Monitoring

2008-10-29 Thread blues
Can we read from Java? Any permission is required? Blues On Oct 29, 4:34 am, brs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could try to read > > /proc/self/net/dev > /proc/self/net/snmp > > to get interface and protocol level stats. I guess since this is not > part of t

[android-developers] Re: Text to Speech lib from Android Market

2008-10-29 Thread blues
I don't have the G1 yet. But from many sources, the T2S lib is on the market. If I am not wrong, your website anddev.com is one of the source. Blues On Oct 29, 10:01 am, plusminus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot see the T2S-library on the market... am I blind? > >

[android-developers] Re: How open Android will be?

2008-11-03 Thread blues
Now you should understand what the meaning of "open". The G1 phone doesn't give the "root" permission. You won't be able to run most of the commands under /bin. It is like you buy a PC, but you are merely a guest trying to browse the system. Simply, the software I developed on Windows Mobile, won

[android-developers] native programming

2008-11-07 Thread blues
Just ask a basic linux native programming question here: in the source tree: msm\msm\arch\arm\mach-msm\smd.c There is a method smd_open() and other smd_xxx methods. Am I able to call them from a native application? Or can I make a driver to call them, then have java to read/write my char dirver

[android-developers] How to call RIL?

2008-11-17 Thread blues
How to call the RIL functions? I saw the source code of com.android.internal.telephony.gsm.RIL. But I don't see them in the andorid.jar. Is there a way to use it? I know it is not a standard way. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subsc

[android-developers] Re: How to call RIL?

2008-11-17 Thread blues
the system uses to communicate > with the radio stack. It's not meant for consumption by applications, > the TelephonyManager class provides the application level telephony > APIs. > > -Jeff > > > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:44 PM, blues <[EMA

[android-developers] How to disable the security/permission check?

2008-11-19 Thread blues
May I know if this is a way to disable the security/permission check? This is a enterprise project so we have the full control of all the phones. We don't need the market to distribute the software. I need to share the user id of "phone" by doing this: android:sharedUserId="phone" But on the G1

[android-developers] Re: How to disable the security/permission check?

2008-11-19 Thread blues
The userId "phone" is already on the phone and some packages are signed under this Id. The thing is I need to share with those. I hope I don't need to build the whole Andorid source and take the risk of brick the device. On Nov 19, 4:41 am, Mark Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[android-developers] Re: How to disable the security/permission check?

2008-11-19 Thread blues
". On Nov 19, 11:28 am, Mark Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > blues wrote: > > The thing is I need to share with those. > > If you're referring to built-in Android applications, in theory you > should be using whatever sort of public APIs those packages are >

[android-developers] Re: How to disable the security/permission check?

2008-11-20 Thread blues
of the water) or incorporates select features you want > in safe way. > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:00 PM, blues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My goal is to call those RIL methods in the internal RIL.java. > > Since I don't have acces

[android-developers] Dev Phone -- unable to see paid app on market

2009-02-21 Thread blues
Do I have to upgrade to rc33? I have it connected to wifi, but no update so far. Do I have to put a sim card in? It will be better to provider a button to check for newer version, and simply give a response like "we know everybody is on rc33 now, but we won't leave you alone. your ticket number i

[android-developers] Re: Dev Phone and RC33 update

2009-02-25 Thread blues
Shouldn't the dev phone get the new release earlier than the consumer phone? Normally the developers get the pre-release, or beta version earlier before the product gets stablized... It's because the cell phone is a special device which is "service- connnected", so the release priority is revers

[android-developers] Copy protected app issue

2009-03-16 Thread blues
I chose copy protection for my application on the android market. There are some users complain they were not able to download the software from the market and gave me only one star. I am wondering if they are Dev phone users. If yes, could Google ban them even before they start download? One user

[android-developers] Save Bitmap to file

2009-01-07 Thread blues
Is there a way to save Bitmap object to a file? I know we can use compress() to save to png or jpg. But I need the bitmap format for the file. Thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Develope

[android-developers] JNI

2009-01-07 Thread blues
or DEV 1 phone support JNI? Just for test purpose on my own phone. Blues --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: JNI

2009-01-08 Thread blues
m and > build yourJNIlibraries against the gcc toolchain for testing. > > On Jan 5, 5:19 pm, blues wrote: > > > > > I have read all the post aboutJNI. And I knowJNIis not offcially > > supported and google is working on the native SDK and I have to wait. > > >

[android-developers] Re: JNI

2009-01-08 Thread blues
a complete > example of implementing a native code library and a Java glue library that > uses JNI to call it. > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:05 PM, blues wrote: > > > Thanks. > > > I tried System.loadLibrary("mylib"); > > I got exc

[android-developers] TTS Lib and ADC2

2009-09-10 Thread blues
My ADC2 application uses the free TTS lib from Google. One thing I am worrying is that, if the users can download the TTS Lib from the market. Since the application will be downloaded from the special ADC2 "market", I am wondering if there will be any issue (security?) for the users to download T

[android-developers] adc2: can use third party lib from the market?

2009-08-03 Thread blues
example, will the app be able to download and use the lib from the market? any security limitation here? Blues --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this g

[android-developers] Re: adc2: can use third party lib from the market?

2009-08-04 Thread blues
Somehow this post is not showing unless I do a search. Hopefully my reply can help it. On Aug 3, 8:28 pm, blues wrote: > My app uses the text-to-speech lib from the market, which is > developed > by Google Charles Chan. User needs to install the lib from the market > first tim

[android-developers] How to avoid BLANK screen on pause camera preview

2009-06-18 Thread blues
Guys hi , I'm running a standard camera preview (i use the camera api demo as a reference). When i hit the capture button, there is a black screen for a good 1/2 second until the captured image appears. My question is how can i freeze the last image being previewed on the screen while i do the

[android-developers] Implement a rich text editor

2010-11-29 Thread Tony Blues
Hi there, I am wondering if there are any good options to implement a rich text editor in Android. Please note I am talking about a rich text editor that can be used in an Android application, not the one embedded in a web page using HTML and Javascript. My requirements are: * Basic formatting (