[android-developers] Re: No built-in way for adb forward to bind to the host's network interface?

2011-05-06 Thread Chris Stratton
On May 6, 2:00 pm, Brak heybrakywa...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm using adb forward to bind a host TCP port to a listening TCP port on an app on my emulator.  However, this only binds to the localhost interface on my host, and I would like to be able to connect to the emulator from a remote

Re: [android-developers] Re: 1380 Paid Applications in One Free Torrent then How to SELL it?

2011-05-05 Thread Chris Stewart
of focusing any attention on that, I simply work to make my app better. Not sure there's a better way to look at the situation. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Streets Of Boston flyingdutc...@gmail.comwrote: I 100% agree with nemic. You can put tons

[android-developers] Re: AlertDialog with an mail-to link

2011-05-03 Thread Chris
Here's what I do to display a dialog with an email link that opens the default mail app and a web link for support that opens the default browser: private void showHelpAbout() { AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);

[android-developers] Re: android sdk on FreeBSD in Linux emulation mode

2011-05-01 Thread Chris Stratton
Is the auto-downloader trying to be smart and only show packages for your current system? If you do a web search, there are instructions out there for accessing the packages.xml page and figuring out the links to the blobs you want from its contents. You might also consider installing linux in a

[android-developers] Re: URLConnection Verizon 3G

2011-04-29 Thread Chris Stratton
On Apr 29, 8:18 am, lloyd1949 lloydmcfarl...@comcast.net wrote: First I discovered that this does not work in the emulator and that is fine. I accept that. On an actual test device (Motorola Droid), it works perfectly fine but only when the device is connected via WiFi. It just does not work

[android-developers] Re: Developing Android apps for someone else

2011-04-28 Thread Chris Stratton
On Apr 28, 10:12 pm, Ted Hopp ted.h...@gmail.com wrote: We are now writing an app that another company will brand and sell through their own publisher account. *Signing the app* The alternatives we see are: sign with our usual key; create a signing key pair specific to the other company

[android-developers] Re: programming gtablet

2011-04-28 Thread Chris Stratton
Try a web search for instructions on changing the usb VID/PID in the configuration file for the generic driver to match those of the device. On Apr 28, 7:52 pm, bob b...@coolgroups.com wrote: I tried it, but it didn't work. Thanks anyhow. On Apr 28, 4:32 pm, Mark Murphy

[android-developers] Pure Data as your audio engine

2011-04-27 Thread Chris McCormick
I am giving a workshop in Los Angeles this Thursday if you are interested in learning about this stuff. You can sign up here: http://mccrm.cx/l/la-2011 Hope to see you there! Cheers, Chris. --- http://mccormick.cx -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[android-developers] Android Widget Design.

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Ruskai
tutorial. Thank you, Chris Ruskai -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr

[android-developers] Re: how to change id3v2 tag information?

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Slinkman
You should be able to use a normal ID3 tag library. http://javamusictag.sourceforge.net/ Haven't used it personally but I don't see any reason why it would need to be android specific. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To

Re: [android-developers] Using v4 Fragments with v11 ActionBar tabs

2011-04-19 Thread Chris Stewart
As far as I know, you can't use the ActionBar pre-Honeycomb anyway. So you wouldn't have a scenario in which you'd be able to use the ActionBar unless you're targeting Honeycomb. And to clarify, I don't know much, so I could be completely wrong. :) -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com

[android-developers] In-App Purchase broken?!

2011-04-14 Thread Chris
the purchase_state_changed notification. Also, if i cancel the order, i used to get another purchase_state_changed notification and a notification in the status bar as well but I don't get those either now. Is it just me? Thanks, Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[android-developers] Re: I'm stuck - global variable problem

2011-04-14 Thread Chris
You never instantiate mGroups in your Application class so unless you SET it before GETing it, it's going to be null. Chris On Apr 14, 8:31 am, Duskox dus...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, so I searched the net and found a nice way to make a global variable by creating a class that extends

[android-developers] Re: I'm stuck - global variable problem

2011-04-14 Thread Chris
. You need to create an object first which you're now doing in onCreate as you've said. Of course you don't need to do this if your code is setup such that it ALWAYS calls SET before GET. It's fine to do a lazy initialization like that I guess. Chris On Apr 14, 8:57 am, Duskox dus...@gmail.com wrote

[android-developers] Re: In-App Purchase broken?!

2011-04-14 Thread Chris
transactions, then they do come through properly. How long after purchase does it typically take before you see the purchase_state_changed? Thanks, Chris On Apr 14, 9:35 am, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: It's working for me today - but I can only speak for production use, not testing. I

[android-developers] Re: I'm stuck - global variable problem

2011-04-14 Thread Chris
. Chris On Apr 14, 9:43 am, Duskox dus...@gmail.com wrote: Ok I tried now, bumped into antoher error but that is not related to this problem. But I noiced that now that I initialize or better say instantiate this variable, array exists but is still empty, SET doesn't work. I guess

[android-developers] Re: In-App Purchase broken?!

2011-04-14 Thread Chris
Yes mine are non-consumable items as well. I used to get notifications back within a few minutes. It's been 12+ hours and I haven't gotten any back yet. Though doing a restore like others have mentioned work just fine. Chris On Apr 14, 10:00 am, blubl off...@adaria.info wrote: Hi! We

[android-developers] Can we use our own ttf to pass cts?

2011-04-07 Thread Chris
Hi all, I use my own ttf named DroidSans.ttf to run cts. I can't pass some pacakges.(android.widget.cts.RelativeLayoutTest) What's wrong with that? My ttf is correct and I can see it changed successfully in my device. Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[android-developers] Android 3.0 ActionBar, changing colors

2011-04-07 Thread Chris Stewart
of: android:showAsAction=ifRoom|withText. Anyone know how to change these? -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Layouts Are Horrible

2011-04-05 Thread Chris Stewart
I lol'd... +1 -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:30 AM, nation-x shawn.payme...@gmail.com wrote: I lol'd... On Apr 5, 8:25 am, Craigbtx craig...@austin.rr.com wrote: I agree with Dirk and others. After using Microsofts development environment, Visual

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Layouts Are Horrible

2011-04-05 Thread Chris Stewart
of Android. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.comwrote: I lol'd... +1 -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:30 AM, nation-x shawn.payme...@gmail.comwrote: I lol'd... On Apr 5

Re: [android-developers] Android Layouts Are Horrible

2011-04-04 Thread Chris Stewart
I stick to writing my layouts by hand, as it's something that's not terrible once you spend some time learning how to do it. I felt overwhelmed at first too, but the more of it you do the better you get at it. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:51 PM, TreKing

[android-developers] Layout spacing question

2011-04-01 Thread Chris Stewart
found the right keyword combination to yield the results I'm after. Does this ring any bells for anyone? Any insight would be helpful, thanks. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group

Re: [android-developers] Layout spacing question

2011-04-01 Thread Chris Stewart
Thanks Mark, I'll give those a shot tonight. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.com wrote: I have a ScrollView, in a fragment, which takes up

Re: [android-developers] Re: Mount sdcard from code

2011-03-31 Thread Feng Chris
Hi FrankG, Do you know who the NativeDaemonConnector communicate with via socket? Thanks, Chris 2011/2/9 FrankG frankgru...@googlemail.com BTW .. the Settings app simply uses the AIDL Interface to the mount service via IMountService and calls mount. And com.android.server.MountService

[android-developers] Feedback links for each market app

2011-03-29 Thread Chris Stewart
? Or, is there an intent I can fire that both respond to, and if so, are any of you using that and getting through the Amazon approval process? -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send

Re: [android-developers] Re: Feedback links for each market app

2011-03-29 Thread Chris Stewart
Others accomplish the same thing with a compile-time flag they flip between generating the two APKs, which works fine too. Good idea. I'll go that route. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:45 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011

[android-developers] Getting a Google Account token to use for Google Reader calls?

2011-03-26 Thread Chris Stewart
. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr

[android-developers] New tablet-specific area in the Market

2011-03-25 Thread Chris Stewart
should probably do. I know there aren't many Honeycomb specific apps out there yet, so I've been checking to see if my app might show up on that list at some point. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

Re: [android-developers] New tablet-specific area in the Market

2011-03-25 Thread Chris Stewart
. If that's the case, I would hope there's some automatic way that view is being updated as new Honeycomb-specific apps are being released. Until there's enough to justify the category and hand-picked featured system we see for the phone apps. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Fri

Re: [android-developers] New tablet-specific area in the Market

2011-03-25 Thread Chris Stewart
Sadly, very true. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:36 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.comwrote: But, if they're being automatically updated based on apps that are set

Re: [android-developers] Re: Screen Sizes and Densities

2011-03-25 Thread Chris Stewart
as most of our apps aren't mega popular and therefore aren't covering the general landscape of the market. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:41 PM, William Ferguson william.ferguson.au@ gmail.com wrote: *Bump* Surely there is some more recent info on screen

[android-developers] Odd behavior with library projects in Eclipse

2011-03-25 Thread Chris Stewart
with Eclipse and my Android projects. I tried to open/import an existing Android project and could never get it to work. I had to recreate the project from scratch and copy in the code/files to get it working again. Just the oddest stuff. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You received

Re: [android-developers] Re: Amazon Appmarket is now open!

2011-03-24 Thread Chris Stewart
Is anyone noticing a sales jump from the Amazon store? I know it's early and hard to really judge for long term. However, with the launch getting so much buzz, I would expect people to be getting decent downloads relative to their Market numbers. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com

[android-developers] Releasing a tablet-only application

2011-03-23 Thread Chris Stewart
for tablets, how will I need to change my manifest to hide the app from phones? -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com

Re: [android-developers] Releasing a tablet-only application

2011-03-23 Thread Chris Stewart
Thanks for the replies. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:51 AM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.comwrote: Is it really a matter of setting the minimum SDK level to 11

Re: [android-developers] PHP Support or not

2011-03-23 Thread Chris Stewart
in Android. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:56 PM, rishabh agrawal android.rish...@gmail.comwrote: In the android O.S,I want develope web bassed apps.i am a beginner in this field.so plz suggest me PHP is give me help when i create web based apps. -- You

Re: [android-developers] Amazon Appmarket is now open!

2011-03-22 Thread Chris Stewart
I really don't like _how_ you have to get the Appstore app itself. I suppose that's because it's an Appstore within the Market itself. Asking users to enable unknown sources doesn't seem like a good idea. I bet my mom would be confused as hell over this. -- Chris Stewart http

Re: [android-developers] Amazon Appmarket is now open!

2011-03-22 Thread Chris Stewart
to make us spend time thinking about app stores and not our apps. I think that's a problem. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Marcin Orlowski webnet.andr...@gmail.comwrote: Awesome! Or maybe not awesome...they have a Test Drive Now feature that opens up

Re: [android-developers] Re: Amazon Appmarket is now open!

2011-03-22 Thread Chris Stewart
. Or, maybe I shouldn't be surprised #iwanttheandroidmarket -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:09 AM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: Do you guy's apps have the original

Re: [android-developers] Re: ideal system configuration for developing Android 3 apps

2011-03-22 Thread Chris Stewart
Honestly, if you have any serious intention of developing for Android 3.0, you need to forget about the emulator. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:28 AM, j.s. mammen mamm...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, here is what I did to make the Android 3 emulator slightly

[android-developers] TextView at the bottom of a Layout, like a status bar of sorts

2011-03-21 Thread Chris Stewart
this while working with Android 3.0/fragments or if you've seen an example somewhere online I can explore for answers. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email

[android-developers] Gmail loading spinner in Honeycomb

2011-03-21 Thread Chris Stewart
of the system, or was it specifically built into the Gmail client? -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com

[android-developers] Re: TextView at the bottom of a Layout, like a status bar of sorts

2011-03-21 Thread Chris Stewart
) -- TextView -- /RelativeLayout /RelativeLayout -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.comwrote: I'm working on a Honeycomb app and I'd like to have a scrolling ticker at the bottom of the screen. I did something similar

Re: [android-developers] Re: Service stops after 10 minutes of standby

2011-03-21 Thread Chris Stewart
As Nick mentioned, you'll want to look into a wake lock. I would highly recommend Mark's implementation with WakefulIntentService ( https://github.com/commonsguy/cwac-wakeful). I'm using it in my app with no issues at all. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11

Re: [android-developers] Can somebody suggest the best book or online resource for beginning android apps development?

2011-03-21 Thread Chris Stewart
I sound like a fanboy, and I suppose it's true in many ways, but I would recommend Mark's books on Android development: http://commonsware.com. In addition to the books, he's here on the list constantly with a number of other helpful regulars providing great information. -- Chris Stewart http

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Application Sold to 100,000 Users

2011-03-21 Thread Chris Stewart
the best they can be. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:59 PM, varinag gold varinagg...@gmail.comwrote: What difference does it make? Individual Developer may not have that much resources as a company have. not only for marketing but also a work done

Re: [android-developers] Android Development Kit

2011-03-21 Thread Chris Stewart
You'll want to start here for the SDK and tools: http://developer.android.com/index.html. This list is a good place for well thought out questions. General or vague questions will likely go unanswered. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Samir Ghodasara

Re: [android-developers] Re: installing sdk

2011-03-21 Thread Chris Stewart
What version of Eclipse are you using? Did you start with this page (http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html), download the package, and follow the steps below? Then, proceed to the SDK install page (http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html)? Which step are you stuck at? -- Chris

Re: [android-developers] Re: TextView at the bottom of a Layout, like a status bar of sorts

2011-03-21 Thread Chris Stewart
The only point is that's what I've found to work, nothing more. Perhaps I'm not doing it correctly, but it's like pulling teeth trying to get layouts to work like I want them to, so when I find something that works I'm hard pressed to sit there for hours trying to optimize it 100%. -- Chris

[android-developers] A WebView inside of a fragment

2011-03-20 Thread Chris Stewart
android:layout_width=match_parent android:layout_height=match_parent WebView android:id=@+id/webview android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=fill_parent android:layout_weight=2 / /LinearLayout -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You

Re: [android-developers] Re: How is your sales model changing with the introduction of Android 3.0 and tablets, or is it?

2011-03-20 Thread Chris Stewart
that? It will scale it up to the full screen size of your device, which leads to a lot of whitespace in most apps including mine. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Riyad Kalla rka...@gmail.com wrote: Agree on #1; this is how every iPhone/iPad app does

Re: [android-developers] A WebView inside of a fragment

2011-03-20 Thread Chris Stewart
Thanks for linking your example. I'm getting a reference to the WebView now with: WebView webview = (WebView)(getView().findViewById(R.id.webview)); It's not loading my web page just yet, but that's next. :o -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Mark

Re: [android-developers] A WebView inside of a fragment

2011-03-20 Thread Chris Stewart
So, apparently, having the Internet permission is kind of important for what I'm trying to do. :o It's been quite awhile since I've started an Android project from scratch... -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.comwrote

[android-developers] Self contained ProgressDialog in ListFragment?

2011-03-20 Thread Chris Stewart
with the UI. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers

Re: [android-developers] Re: How is your sales model changing with the introduction of Android 3.0 and tablets, or is it?

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Stewart
for the additional work you put into a tablet version is a bad thing. It works that way on the iPad, with no issues. I'm really quite curious. I think it's a big deal right now as the Android tablets are in their infancy and this market is just beginning. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Fri, Mar

Re: [android-developers] Re: How is your sales model changing with the introduction of Android 3.0 and tablets, or is it?

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Stewart
PM, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone have any comments on this quote from me? I do think it's important to note that if you follow approach #1, users that purchased your app will still have access to it on the tablet, it just won't be tailored to that device's experience. I'm

[android-developers] Have you implemented fragments into a pre-3.0 app?

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Stewart
a good experience they'd like to share. :) -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send

Re: [android-developers] Re: How is your sales model changing with the introduction of Android 3.0 and tablets, or is it?

2011-03-18 Thread Chris Stewart
that asking them to pay for the additional work you put into a tablet version is a bad thing. It works that way on the iPad, with no issues. I'm leaning more towards option #2, but I'm a little worried about managing the different views in a single application. -- Chris Stewart http

Re: [android-developers] How many of you are creating promotional videos for your app?

2011-03-17 Thread Chris Stewart
for what a customer is about to purchase. It sucks I can't use the emulator to convey that. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:00 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Kunju Vava android...@gmail.com wrote: plse give any idea

Re: [android-developers] How many of you are creating promotional videos for your app?

2011-03-17 Thread Chris Stewart
. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Marcin Orlowski webnet.andr...@gmail.comwrote: The latest version of Shot Me app features saving videos too. Not fully cinematic experience, still better than nothing :) Requires rooted device. https://market.android.com

Re: [android-developers] How many of you are creating promotional videos for your app?

2011-03-17 Thread Chris Stewart
, not voicing over later, so I can't edit around both the audio and the video in certain situations or it doesn't make sense when it all comes together. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:53 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:40 PM

Re: [android-developers] How many of you are creating promotional videos for your app?

2011-03-17 Thread Chris Stewart
More importantly, I think the Droid X only supports HDMI out for the Gallery (i.e., videos and pictures), not arbitrary stuff. Even better. :) I'll have to go old school on this I think. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Mark Murphy mmur

[android-developers] Dynamically adding fragments at run-time?

2011-03-17 Thread Chris Stewart
to do this? Any pointers, links, or articles would be appreciated. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com

[android-developers] How is your sales model changing with the introduction of Android 3.0 and tablets, or is it?

2011-03-17 Thread Chris Stewart
more options as you see them. How do the different API versions impact your thinking on the subject? -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android AVD 3.0 Problem

2011-03-11 Thread Chris Stewart
I have Visual Studio 08 and 10 on my machine, which I also have been doing development on including using the 3.0 AVD. I've had no issues. I know it's not exactly helpful, but perhaps useful to know. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:23 PM, 曾少彬 forever_ho

Re: [android-developers] Best practices for tablet-centric development

2011-03-11 Thread Chris Stewart
http://blog.radioactiveyak.com/2011/02/strategies-for-honeycomb-and-backwards.html Thanks for the link TreKing, very helpful. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:21 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Chris Stewart

Re: [android-developers] Re: Best practices for tablet-centric development

2011-03-11 Thread Chris Stewart
in my situation, but the article TreKing linked to provided a lot of insight into Fragments and really addressed some of the questions I had about them. Definitely seems like the path to take. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Nathan critter

[android-developers] Best practices for tablet-centric development

2011-03-10 Thread Chris Stewart
as well. I really want to optimize for the Xoom and devices that come out to compete with it. Being able to maintain some functionality for phones would be nice, but if I simply excluded them and went Xoom only, it wouldn't hurt my feelings -- just my download numbers. :o -- Chris Stewart http

[android-developers] Experiences with Application Licensing?

2011-03-09 Thread Chris Stewart
situation. My application requires an active Internet connection at all times due to the nature of what it's doing. If you've evaluated application licensing and have thoughts on how it has worked out for you, or perhaps why you decided not to implement it, I'd appreciate hearing them. -- Chris

Re: [android-developers] Experiences with Application Licensing?

2011-03-09 Thread Chris Stewart
Great thread, thanks for posting that. I guess more than anything the false positives (or, negatives?) scare me the most. Last thing I want to do is piss off a paid customer. Maybe for now I'll just wait and see how LVL improves in the future and consider it in the future. -- Chris Stewart

Re: [android-developers] Global Variables

2011-03-09 Thread Chris Stewart
I tend to do what TreKing suggested. I have a class called CommonVariables that really holds static strings for Flurry event names, the year parameter for my app (it's seasonal and changes once a year) which is used all over the place, and things like that. -- Chris Stewart http

[android-developers] Disabling Soft Keyboard's 'Go' Button for WebView Text Entry

2011-03-09 Thread chris
I am developing an Android application that uses a WebView pointed at a jQueryMobile-based site. Normally, disabling the 'Go' button on the soft keyboard is as simple as adding android:imeOptions=actionDone to the control's XML tag. In the case of WebViews however, this doesn't do the trick. How

[android-developers] How many of you are creating promotional videos for your app?

2011-03-08 Thread Chris Stewart
like a good idea to do this. So, I'm wondering, have any of you done this and want to share the URL to your video? I'm finishing up development now for the current version and so I'll be working on a rough script soon. I'd love to see how other developers have approached this. -- Chris Stewart

Re: [android-developers] How many of you are creating promotional videos for your app?

2011-03-08 Thread Chris Stewart
/tomorrow and have it released shortly thereafter. So I'll work on even a rough video of what I'm thinking about once this dev cycle is over. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 11:18 AM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: I have not and would be interested to hear

Re: [android-developers] Looking for a 1-2 years experienced IOS developer

2011-03-08 Thread Chris Stewart
TreKing, don't you know that reading is hard? Seriously. /sarcasm -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:04 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: *[android-developers]* Looking for a 1-2 years experienced *IOS * developer Really

Re: [android-developers] usb driver xoom

2011-03-08 Thread Chris Stewart
While I have nothing to contribute to this conversation, I just wanted to chime in and express my jealousy that you're developing on a Xoom. :) -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:27 PM, J Handal jhand...@gmail.com wrote: Kostya, I tried from your link

Re: [android-developers] Total install numbers

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Stewart
It could also be due to piracy. I've had similar differences and I'm wondering if my apk is anywhere out there. I need to get around to implementing the license framework. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Mar 4, 2011 9:59 AM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 2, 2011

[android-developers] Scrolling the contents of a LinearLayout

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Stewart
android:background=@drawable/mflspot / /LinearLayout /LinearLayout -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers

Re: [android-developers] Starting an intent, then pressing the back button, how to resume the Handler that was running?

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Stewart
I was mistakenly using onCreate to restart the background process, instead of onStart. Thanks for the refresher. :) -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 8:29 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Chris Stewart cstewart

[android-developers] Starting an intent, then pressing the back button, how to resume the Handler that was running?

2011-03-05 Thread Chris Stewart
running. However, all of the data is still present on my ListView. What method do I need to implement to start that process up again? I tried onResume but that was even called when I visited the initial Activity the first time, so I'm guessing there's something else I should be doing. -- Chris

Re: [android-developers] Refreshing ListView data within an Activity every 5-10 seconds, which approach to take?

2011-03-04 Thread Chris Stewart
this in longer intervals (30+ minutes) when the user is not actively in the app or on this Activity and toss up a notification if something interesting happens with the new data. While also retaining the 5-10 second interval when they are actively looking at this Activity. Long term... :) -- Chris

Re: [android-developers] Re: Announcing: The Android Developers Union

2011-03-03 Thread Chris Stewart
. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Do I not count as a response from Google? Of course! Probably more so than most. However, you didn't

Re: [android-developers] Paid promotions of my Application on Market

2011-03-03 Thread Chris Stewart
the web targeting your app's demographic. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:54 AM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Amit amitmishr...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a possibility in Android Market where I can do some PAID

Re: [android-developers] Opinions on updating a seasonal app; new app or in-app billing?

2011-03-03 Thread Chris Stewart
I don't think anyone's implemented this yet - it doesn't work from the Market side of things, AFAIK. How much of a pain? Well it deals with the Android Market, so probably a huge one. That being the case, I'm glad I didn't spend much time and effort digging into it. :) -- Chris Stewart

Re: [android-developers] Re: Opinions on updating a seasonal app; new app or in-app billing?

2011-03-03 Thread Chris Stewart
. That's another topic I suspect I'll be dealing with for much of this summer and early fall. :) -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Nathan critter...@crittermap.com wrote: I don't see any compelling reason to use in-app purchases in this scenario

[android-developers] Refreshing ListView data within an Activity every 5-10 seconds, which approach to take?

2011-03-03 Thread Chris Stewart
experience. Ideally, not even disrupting them if they happen to be scrolling the view. The data itself will always be additions to data that's already been pulled down, so essentially I'm adding records to my Adapter every 5-10 seconds. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You received

[android-developers] Opinions on updating a seasonal app; new app or in-app billing?

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Stewart
is appreciated as well. Thanks. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android

[android-developers] Will Google send out tax forms?

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Stewart
Has anyone received any information from Google regarding income for 2010? I thought I might receive a document with the amount they've paid out but since I haven't I wanted to see if anyone else had. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You received this message because you

Re: [android-developers] Market package name on Xoom?

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Stewart
Wow, that's certainly not necessary. Folks are simply trying to help you. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Shane Isbell shane.isb...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.comwrote: Don't hard-code

[android-developers] Are you submitting your app to more than just the Android Market?

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Stewart
Now that I'm working on my seasonal app for the 2011 season, I'm wondering if any of the 3rd party markets are gaining traction with other developers. Are any of you submitting to the Amazon market, or any others? What are your plans for these 3rd party markets? -- Chris Stewart http

[android-developers] Setting a wait/sleep on a Service

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Stewart
or is that simply for the purpose of being a sample? Effectively, I want to go and download a file every 15 minutes, see if it has changed, and send a status bar notification if it has. Would the above be the way to go about implementing that? -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- You

[android-developers] Re: Android Market: New country/region pricing - non-US sales drop to zero

2011-03-02 Thread Chris
I think I may be seeing the same. Sales dropped to 0 this morning and have stayed there all day. It's not impossible that its a simple as nobody buying, but it is certainly out of pattern. My sales are also primarily overseas and to a different currency so I can't help but be suspicious. On Feb

Re: [android-developers] Re: Market package name on Xoom?

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Stewart
Really interesting to see a little sneak peak behind the scenes of Android's development. Would be interesting to see more of that honestly. Thanks for all you do Dianne, it's greatly appreciated. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack

Re: [android-developers] Announcing: The Android Developers Union

2011-03-02 Thread Chris Stewart
there reasonably. Simply shouting out demands sounds more like a hostage situation, which in this case is laughable at best, rather than a union. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Rich miser

[android-developers] Question about seasonal apps

2011-02-22 Thread Chris Stewart
My main app is related to fantasy sports and so my plan has been to have the 1.x series of releases be for the 2010 season and have the 2.x releases for the 2011 season. I do intend to charge for the app for each season of use. My initial thought was that I'd need to create a new app in the

[android-developers] Enabling RTSPEngine logcat

2011-02-04 Thread Chris Stankevitz
willing to do anything to get it, including learning about root, ROM, custom ROM generation, compiling android OS source, etc. Thank you, Chris -- 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] Streaming RTSP using MediaPlayer: possible from the emulator?

2011-01-24 Thread Chris Stankevitz
to some firewall issues in the emulator network layer. Is this still the case? Thank you, Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[android-developers] Re: OpenJDK on Android

2011-01-20 Thread chris
Imagine if we could run swing, rmi, if we could run all java code as it is, we could run enterprise application clients. We could have android apps running on the desktop and on the phone. Great idea. why think small ? I need a full J2EE stack to use EJB to manage distributed transactions and

[android-developers] savedInstanceState null?

2011-01-20 Thread Chris
(); this.onSaveInstanceState(test); } onSaveInstance(Bundle save) { save.putBoolean(Run, true); // testing super.onSaveInstanceState(save); } I'd rather use this method than writing to a file or using the saved preferences.. Can someone help me out? Thanks, Chris -- You received this message because you

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