[android-developers] What to do about developers who publish games with the same name as what you have published...

2010-03-05 Thread greenrift
I have an app that was published last fall. Recently a developer published an app with the exact same name as my app on the market. His app is very similar to mine. He also seems to be flooding the market with the exact same game only under different names and different publisher IDs. Last

[android-developers] Opening a gzipped raw resource file

2010-01-29 Thread greenrift
I have a gzipped (*.gz) file in my res/raw directory. I'm wanting to open and read from this file, however I'm a bit uncertain how to go about it. This is what I have currently: try{ InputStream is = this.getResources().openRawResource (R.raw.mygztextfile); BufferedReader reader = new

[android-developers] Re: Are the market stats for developers broken?

2009-12-21 Thread greenrift
I put out a bug update for mine on Friday evening. On Dec 21, 3:00 pm, Seni Sangrujee sangru...@gmail.com wrote: That's disturbing that you dropped 20 positions. I'd been thinking that this problem was happening to everyone or the changes wouldn't be enough to change the rankings much. I

[android-developers] HTC Hero, missing applications from Market after firmware update

2009-11-20 Thread greenrift
I'm not sure who I should complain to about this, HTC or Google, but after I did the most recent Hero (sprint) firmware update I am unable to see applications that I developed nor several applications that I paid for (and free ones) on the Market. This makes updating them unavailable. Also, if I

[android-developers] Admob and buttons

2009-11-02 Thread greenrift
Since I'm not getting a response on the Admob group, I thought I'd ask this here... Scenario: I am showing an ad banner for a certain period of time, say 10 seconds. In displaying the ad, I set the visibility of a TableLayout containing buttons to gone and set the visibility of the AdView to

[android-developers] Re: App name/icon problems on Hero after reboot

2009-10-29 Thread greenrift
I just encountered a similar problem with my Sprint Hero (US). Yesterday I updated several applications (include Google Sky!) and I just rebooted my phone and now that application along with several others have either the incorrect launcher icon or the launcher name under the icon is all screwy.