[android-developers] Re: Google Play Developer console testing access issue

2013-05-03 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
you just need to put a comma between the email addresses. On Thursday, May 2, 2013 5:11:32 PM UTC-7, Gary Blakely wrote: > All my apps use Google Play License testing. On the settings page in the > GP Developer console, there is a box where I have my gmail email address. > I have a Google acc

[android-developers] Re: two activities running at same time

2013-04-03 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
Since I started this thread I thought I would post a follow up now that I have finished and published the app. My app is a broadcast listener that kicks off on receipt of an SMS message. Under the right conditions it launches an activity that runs for 30 seconds getting reading from a locatio

[android-developers] Http Post failing on only one phone

2013-03-19 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
The code pasted below has been successfully tested on several phones running Gingerbread, ICS, and Jelly Bean. However when testing on a friends Samsung 4GLTE model SCH-1200 (verison) the code fails. The post throws an exception and in the Catch, the log throws a null Pointer exception. I

Re: [android-developers] Re: two activities running at same time

2013-03-02 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I'm not being sneeky or underhanded. My question is serious. See my answer to Mark. You can try it out right now for free. You think I'm trying to get rich selling to other developers?? You are kidding right? On Saturday, March 2, 2013 5:22:21 PM UTC-7, Lew wrote: > ga...@deanblakely.com w

Re: [android-developers] Re: two activities running at same time

2013-03-02 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
Mark, not sure what you mean. If the user runs the app, it's a FlashLight app where the user can turn on the led to find his way around in the dark. If the app is kicked off by a sms message it does a completely different thing. I have installed the app, never ran the flashlight, sent a sms

Re: [android-developers] Re: two activities running at same time

2013-03-02 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
TreKing. You gressed it. Broadcast receiver. It's an activity that runs for about 600 - 700 mills. On Saturday, March 2, 2013 11:05:23 AM UTC-7, TreKing wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:36 AM, ga...@deanblakely.com < > ga...@deanblakely.com > wrote: > >> Well, the app reliably works wh

Re: [android-developers] Re: two activities running at same time

2013-03-02 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
Kris It's a broadcast receiver it runs on receipt of an sms message and runs for less than a second. Just sends the phone location back to the sender. Re:" trying to get money out of them?" I'm a capitalist. I build products and sell them for money. Nobody has to buy them. Sounds like you

[android-developers] Re: two activities running at same time

2013-03-02 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
Well, the app reliably works while other activities are running and when the phone is locked. I will have it on Google Play next week and you can try it for yourselves (for a couple bucks). It's called SignalBeacon. You send the phone a text and you get back the phones location. It doesn't

[android-developers] two activities running at same time

2013-02-28 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I have an app with a main activity that has no visible interface (android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoDisplay). The app is started by receipt of an SMS message in a BroadCast activity which kicks off another activity (also no GUI) that does work and then sends an SMS message. It works very

[android-developers] Google Play Licensing Testing Problem

2013-02-15 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I think I have a "catch-22" problem with Google Play Licensing. 1. My Android device account must be setup with a Gmail email address. I used deanblakelyu...@gmail.com. 2. I setup my Developer Console (DC) with my real email address ( g...@deanblakely.com) 3. My DC will only

[android-developers] Re: Cannot import from Google Play Licensing Library

2013-02-13 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
The problem was bad google docs at http://developer.android.com/google/play/licensing/adding-licensing.html#imports The import must say com.google.android.vending.licensing. The docs didn't have the 'google' qualifier in it. Google docs are really bad, this has happened probably a dozen time

[android-developers] Cannot import from Google Play Licensing Library

2013-02-13 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I'm trying to add licensing to my app using info from http://developer.android.com/google/play/licensing/adding-licensing.html#impl-DeviceLimiter. Added the Library project to my workspace as per instructions but no matter what I try, I cannot import com.android.vending.licensing. (see graphic

[android-developers] Google Play Licensing documentation issue

2013-02-12 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
Im trying to implement licensing for my app and I'm following the docs at http://developer.android.com/google/play/licensing/index.html#test-env but I'm finding it very challenging. For instance... The section pasted below says that we should "sign in to our publisher account" (do they mean d

[android-developers] problem getting Google API V1 key

2013-02-09 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I have an app that uses Google maps API v1 that I'm trying to generate a release version for. I'm having a problem getting the MD5 Fingerprint I need for my google release key. I have a Debug google api v1 key that I got back when I began writing the app. Everything works fine in debug mode

Re: [android-developers] Google maps api v2 issue

2013-02-09 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
Thanks for the answer and I'm glad that it is NO. As for the complexity, when I first began developing for android I recall it took me less than a half hour to get the Hello Google Maps app working. I've already spent 6 hours on https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/start#i

[android-developers] Google maps api v2 issue

2013-02-08 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I'm about to put my Android app, which uses google api v1 onto the market. I now see that v1 has been depreciated and that I am urged to use v2 instead. I see that v2 appears an order of magnitude more complex and that google play services are needed. Since google play services are needed d

[android-developers] forum administrative issue

2013-01-25 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
The last two posts I have made on this forum did not get posted. The title had to do with ProgressDialog hangs in AsycTask. I posted correctly, twice, but never received the confirming email. When I set the filter for Threads I started, the two latest posts do not show. The older posts I ha

Re: [android-developers] LocationManager RequestLocation Updates issue

2013-01-20 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
Kristopher, Sorry but I don't know what you mean by "useful for scheduling within your app". I'm using the locationlistener to trigger when the phone is moved. (I'm targeting Gingerbread) Are you saying that even with jellybean it doesn't work right? Would I be better off explicitly getting a

[android-developers] LocationManager RequestLocation Updates issue

2013-01-20 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
in the onCreate event for my Service I setup locationlistener... locMgr = (LocationManager)getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE); locLstnr = new MyLocationListener(); debugLog("Instantiated new Location listener", false); locMgr.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVI

[android-developers] Re: DDMS in Eclipse returning 0.0 in getBearing

2012-12-16 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
ok, that is really funny! :) On Sunday, December 16, 2012 2:53:52 AM UTC-7, Piren wrote: > > be creative! > > http://geekrevolutionradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/36396-best_computer_backpack.jpg > > > On Friday, December 14, 2012 8:22:58 PM UTC+2, ga...@deanblakely.comwrote: >> >> Bob, >> S

[android-developers] LocationManager minDistance settings question

2012-12-14 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I'm converting some of my Windows Phone apps to Android. The apps all revolve around movement tracking. In WP7 the location watcher has a "MovementThreshold" property that sets how much movement is necessary for the GPS to trigger a movement event. Typically we want a lower threshold when wa

[android-developers] Re: DDMS in Eclipse returning 0.0 in getBearing

2012-12-14 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
Bob, Since I'm using DDMS you know that I'm running in the emulator on my dev box which, in my case, is a desktop computer. The computer plus the monitor weigh quite a bit and I don't have a very long extension coord. So, I don't think running is the solution. BTW, you wouldn't happen to know

[android-developers] DDMS in Eclipse returning 0.0 in getBearing

2012-12-14 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I've been successfully using a KML file and DDMS to drive my app testing that uses LocationListener. So far I've just been using latitude and longitude which works well. But now I'm trying to use .getBearing and it's always returing 0.0 !! Is this a bug in LocationListener? Is it a bug in DDMS?

[android-developers] Calling StartService multiple times

2012-11-05 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I have an activity and a service. When the Activity first starts up I create an Intent for the service and call StartService(i). This properly starts up the service triggering the services' onCreate event and onStartCommand events. Subsequent to that there are times when I want to pass the s

[android-developers] How to use the ViewPager control

2012-05-09 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I'm planning a port of some apps from Windows Phone 7 over to Android. Going through some blogs I find an "extra" android control called the ViewPager which seems like a poor man's version of the WP7 Pivot control. I would like to try using this control. I plan on targeting Android 2.3.3 (API 10

[android-developers] Re: newbie SQL Light Question

2012-04-25 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
.com/reference/android/database/sqlite/SQLite...[]%29 > > Thanks, > Justin Anderson > MagouyaWare Developerhttp://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:38 PM, g...@deanblakely.com > wrote: > > > > > I'm learning SQLLite using the Not

[android-developers] Re: Newbie Java question

2012-04-25 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
Kostya, thanks. I will never use a checked exception (being a C# programmer). Gary On Apr 25, 2:31 pm, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: > Google for "java checked exceptions". > > -- K > > On 04/26/2012 01:24 AM, g...@deanblakely.com wrote: > > > > > I'm a

[android-developers] newbie SQL Light Question

2012-04-25 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I'm learning SQLLite using the NotePad tutorial appication. The code pasted below is very strange to me. I'm used to using SQL i.e. Select KEY_ROWID, KEY_TITLE, KEY_BODY from DATABASE_TABLE WHERE BLAH BLAH BLAH. One of the nice things about SQL is that it is pretty much the same between the plat

[android-developers] Newbie Java question

2012-04-25 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I'm a C# developer porting my app to Android. The method pasted below has a "throws" clause in the method signature. Although I've looked at the docs, I don't understand what it is doing. There is no throw in the method code. There is no Try Catch so it's not trying to quiet an exception. I mi

[android-developers] Re: How can I use Google Maps in Android Apps

2012-04-08 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
Nadeem, Well, none of that is true but now you are really going to hate me... I was trying to answer a question that Raymond Rodgers asked by going back into my HelloGoogleMaps project I have in Eclipse. I navigated the map back to where I live and it's now current on the map! I know it wasn't b

[android-developers] Re: How can I use Google Maps in Android Apps

2012-04-05 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
ck to provide the very best tools for free as they are trying to get some market share. I'll look at your OSMDroid and OpenStreetMap. Thanks, Gary On Apr 5, 10:32 am, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:06 PM, g...@deanblakely.com > > wrote: > > I built the app in

[android-developers] Re: How can I use Google Maps in Android Apps

2012-04-05 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
hy wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:17 PM, g...@deanblakely.com > > wrote: > > You don't know why having maps that are 7 years old in your app is a > > bad thing??? > > No, I am attempting to determine how you have concluded that the maps > are 7 year

[android-developers] Re: How can I use Google Maps in Android Apps

2012-04-04 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
Mark, You don't know why having maps that are 7 years old in your app is a bad thing??? ok, I get it. You guys are just having fun with me. this forum sucks. On Apr 4, 8:44 am, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:14 PM, g...@deanblakely.com > > wrote: > > If

[android-developers] Re: How can I use Google Maps in Android Apps

2012-04-03 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
ibendlin, OSM hmmm... OpenStreetMap? How compelling is that? I work with Bing Maps on Windows Phone 7 and they are excellent and up to date but, for some reason Bing Maps for Android is not getting any support - they look dead. Gary On Apr 2, 4:10 pm, lbendlin wrote: > There are libraries for

[android-developers] Re: How can I use Google Maps in Android Apps

2012-04-03 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
pps?? Gary On Apr 2, 3:03 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:58 PM, g...@deanblakely.com > > wrote: > > I posted that issue on this forum and was told that Google had > > apparently given up on that library. > > They have not "given up on that libr

[android-developers] How can I use Google Maps in Android Apps

2012-04-02 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I'm an Android platform newbie looking to port some of my Windows Phone 7 mapping apps over here. I went to the Android Developers Resources center where it shows how to develop an app using the Google Maps Library. I did that and noticed that the maps were over 7 years old. I posted that issue

[android-developers] How to open an existing project in Eclipse

2012-04-01 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I'm new to Android and Eclipse. I have been creating new projects in Eclipse with little problem but now I have downloaded an existing project entitled BingMapsAndroidSDK_v1.5. its supposed to be a working app demonstraiting how use use Bing Maps on Android. The directory structure looks like th

[android-developers] Processing REST responses: JSON or XML

2012-03-28 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I have a series of .NET WCF RESTFul services that can produce either JSON or XML format responses. These services will be used by android java clients. I'm presently an android/java newbie. Which format is easier to process. Which is faster. Since they are my own services I don't care to much

[android-developers] Problem reading HTTP stream

2012-03-24 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
The code pasted below gets an exception on tha line that says... InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream()); It's an IO exception that says: java.net.UnknownHostException: www.android.com I checked and that is a valid url. I got the original code from the android doc

[android-developers] Re: Google Maps are very old on Android

2012-03-20 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I was warned it would be weird over here. Gary On Mar 18, 7:09 pm, Zsolt Vasvari wrote: > You didn't specify: > > android:giveMeLatestMaps="true" > > > > On Monday, March 19, 2012 8:07:06 AM UTC+8, ga...@deanblakely.com wrote: > > > I'm going through some of the tutorials and just finished > > He

[android-developers] Re: Google Maps are very old on Android

2012-03-20 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
place to go to learn about developing on Android. No? Gary On Mar 18, 10:22 pm, TreKing wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 7:07 PM, g...@deanblakely.com > wrote: > > > Why would this be? > > The Google Maps add-on has essentially been abandoned. It has not received >

[android-developers] Google Maps are very old on Android

2012-03-18 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I'm going through some of the tutorials and just finished HelloGoogleMaps tutorial. It works alright but I notice that the map is very old - much older than on Google.com. Looking where I live it's at least 7 years old. On Google.com it's no more than 2 years old. Why would this be? the main.

[android-developers] Re: Eclipse packages and package explorer

2012-03-18 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I don't have any problem Java - I read a comparison doc and it's on a par with C#. I'm not looking forward to JavaScript being the new world standard language though. Gary On Mar 16, 1:34 pm, Lew wrote: > ga...@deanblakely.com wrote: > > Lew, > > thanks for responding.  after reading the docs so

[android-developers] Problem using Ksoap2

2012-03-18 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I'm trying to see if it is feasible to access .Net WCF SOAP services from an android client. I found a post at http://naveenbalani.com/index.php/2011/01/invoke-webservices-from-android/comment-page-1/#comment-13485 That shows how to accomplish this using a library named Ksoap2. I'm pretty sure I

[android-developers] consuming .Net WCF SOAP services from Android

2012-03-16 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
What is the best way? I have a set of WCF services that support my Windows Phone 7 Apps. I'm considering porting some of my apps to Android and I'm looking at the best way to access my services from Android. Googling around I see there is a ksoap2 library. Is that the way to go? Thanks, Dean -

[android-developers] Re: Eclipse packages and package explorer

2012-03-16 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
Lew, thanks for responding. after reading the docs some more I see it's all about workspaces so that makes sense. Yea, being used to C#, I expect not to like Java. Unfortunately, I'm afraid both our futures will be with HTML5 and (for crissake) 15 year old JavaSCRIPT Gary On Mar 14, 6:18 p

[android-developers] Eclipse packages and package explorer

2012-03-14 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I'm used to working with IDE's like Microsoft Visual Studio, Delphi, and such. I'm learning the android platform now and I'm using Eclipse. I'm going through all of the tutorials. As I create new activities, I see Eclipse keeps track of everything I have ever done and opens them all up in Packag

[android-developers] Getting Started issue

2012-03-12 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I'm a Windows Phone 7 developer trying to get started on android. I have installed Eclipse, the SDK, the ADT plugin and I should be ready to do hello world. But the instructions don't appear to match the tools... Please see my screen shot at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/39662979/Android%20SDK%20Mang

[android-developers] wysiwug editor in eclipse?

2011-11-22 Thread g...@deanblakely.com
I'm watching this video "android Development tools" where they show a cool wysiwug eclipse editor running on a MAC. My eclipse on my windows computer apparently has no such feature. What am I missing? Thanks Gary -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Andr