[android-developers] Re: How to have your app overlayed on top of any other app?

2011-01-16 Thread pcm2a
t; that > people see all the time.  I am just guessing, but any soft keyboard > is likely another example of a service that spawns interface bits. > > However, I can see this sort of thing being more nuisance than > godsend... one person's "great uses" is another person&

[android-developers] How to have your app overlayed on top of any other app?

2011-01-16 Thread pcm2a
That subject may sound crazy and before today I thought it was impossible. There is a free app called Super Manager on the market. This app gives you a little button to press that is overlayed everywhere. No matter if you are on your home screen, gmail or the browser that icon is overlayed. Pres

[android-developers] Longer description using versionname in Manifest?

2010-08-11 Thread pcm2a
If you look up "Aquarium Donation Live Wallpaper" on the market you will see a normal description but at the bottom where it normally would say Version: #.# he has a whole extra sentence there. I assume he has placed all of this in the version name attribule in the manifest file. Does anyone know

[android-developers] Removing copy protection from my market app?

2010-07-21 Thread pcm2a
If I publish a new version of my application and remove copy protection will any of my users be impacted? For example if users using 1.6 and greater will not be impacted but users still running 1.5 would have to reinstall and resetup the application I could live with that. Thanks! -- You receiv

[android-developers] Re: Moto Droid ADB Drivers no longer work after HTC Evo was used.

2010-06-27 Thread pcm2a
phone. > > On Jun 26, 5:54 pm, pcm2a wrote: > > > > > When I uncheck the Show compatible hardware box the ADB selection > > disappears. > > > My ADK drivers are also revision 3.  However, that hasn't stopped me > > from deleting them and download them s

[android-developers] Re: Moto Droid ADB Drivers no longer work after HTC Evo was used.

2010-06-26 Thread pcm2a
You can update it from the same in the available packages > section if yours is earlier. Then you have to go use the "update > driver" option in the device manager again to switch over to the > updated one. > > On Jun 26, 3:25 pm, pcm2a wrote: > > > > > Whe

[android-developers] Re: Moto Droid ADB Drivers no longer work after HTC Evo was used.

2010-06-26 Thread pcm2a
vices and updating methods. > Although I suspect what you are talking about there might just be a > helpful last used location for something copied into system32/drivers > anyway. > > On Jun 26, 12:52 pm, pcm2a wrote: > > > > > Still have no resolution for this iss

[android-developers] Re: Moto Droid ADB Drivers no longer work after HTC Evo was used.

2010-06-26 Thread pcm2a
folder, which I removed. On Jun 25, 11:52 am, pcm2a wrote: > I have owned my Droid since day 1 and I have been doing Android > development, with ADB working, on my Windows 2003 Server laptop all > this time.  I'll try to be as detailed as possible. > > Things to no

[android-developers] Moto Droid ADB Drivers no longer work after HTC Evo was used.

2010-06-25 Thread pcm2a
I have owned my Droid since day 1 and I have been doing Android development, with ADB working, on my Windows 2003 Server laptop all this time. I'll try to be as detailed as possible. Things to note right off the bat: - Motorola Droid 2.1 - Windows Server 2003 laptop - ADB has worked perfectly wit

[android-developers] Google support number for Droid's sent to Developers from Google?

2010-06-23 Thread pcm2a
A few months ago Google sent top market developers a feww phone (Droid or Nexus). I was one of them and received a Droid. I just now called in to activate the Droid on my Verizon account and was told that it is not activatable. They said that the ESN number is tied to a business account and curr

[android-developers] code.google.com is down for source code viewing or svn

2010-03-19 Thread pcm2a
One example would be here: http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/source/browse/ svn checking out or in is down as well: >svn checkout http://android-wifi-tether.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ >android-wifi-tether-read-only svn: Server sent unexpected return value (502 Bad Gateway) in response t

[android-developers] Code to enable and disable bluetooth for SDK 3 and above?

2010-03-03 Thread pcm2a
Hey all. People are requesting bluetooth toggle support in my More Icons Widget. The problem is I have to keep things compatible with Android 1.5 (SDK level 3) and above. There also are about 9500 free or pay bluetooth toggles that work on SDK 3 and above so I know it must be possible. The only

[android-developers] Nexus 2.1 one sale, WHERE is the SDK!

2010-01-05 Thread pcm2a
These phones are on sale with 2.1 Os on them right now. My friend just ordered two with overnight shipping. How is it even remotely acceptable that people will have 2.1 in their hands before developers even get to touch the SDK? I already have users using the Nexis-Droid 2.1 rom saying that my h

[android-developers] Re: Droid 2.1?

2009-12-28 Thread pcm2a
They ported the Nexus 2.1 build to the droid weeks ago over on alldroid. On Dec 28, 5:25 pm, "Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)" wrote: > I've seen Nexus already, today was the first time I saw Droid with > 2.1. Maybe a test device? > > -John Coryat -- You received this message because you are sub

[android-developers] Where to find this graphic? com.android.internal.R.id.keyboardView

2009-12-28 Thread pcm2a
I am looking for several graphics from Android 2.0 source but I am unsure where online to locate them. Thanks! -- 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 unsu

[android-developers] Multitouch code examples?

2009-12-24 Thread pcm2a
Are there any multitouch code examples that Google provides for SDK levels 2.0 or higher? I do searches on here and on google and come up empty. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-d

[android-developers] Widget - onUpdate gets called even if no room on the screen for it!

2009-12-22 Thread pcm2a
Hopefully someone else has ran into this issue. On SDK level 3 (Android 1.5) if a user adds a homescreen widget that there is not room for, the onUpdate method is still called. So in my widgets, in the onUpdate I check to see if hte widget has been configured. If it has not then I launch the con

[android-developers] Re: How to change widget layout background or hide it dynamically?

2009-12-09 Thread pcm2a
rLayout doesn't have method: setBackgroundDrawable (android.graphics.Bitmap) Neither way seemed to work. On Dec 9, 4:08 pm, Paul Turchenko wrote: > how about setBitmap(R.layout.you_view_id, "setBackgroundDrawable", > mYourBitmapDrawable)? > > On Dec 9, 10:58 pm,pcm2a wr

[android-developers] Sprint Hero users appWidgetId changes after reboot, no settings saved!

2009-12-09 Thread pcm2a
So this one is crazy guys. I have 7000+ users using my widget with no problem at all. However, I got one Sprint Hero using an unrooted phone with no home screen manager besides the default Hero SenseUI. I shot him over a copy of my widget pumped full of debug lines. I can see him add the widget

[android-developers] How to change widget layout background or hide it dynamically?

2009-12-09 Thread pcm2a
I have a simple layout: http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ android" android:background="@drawable/background" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:orientation="vertical"> In my method onUpdate I can get the remote

[android-developers] Re: How to start up the native gallery app?

2009-12-07 Thread pcm2a
I eventually found two spectacular ways to get the list of applications on the phone (including the gallery). Both of these methods are from Android source code! Method one, if you want the list of applications in a list to iterate through: PackageManager manager = context.getPackageManag

[android-developers] Re: Where to start for home screen replacement app?

2009-12-01 Thread pcm2a
Well now i feel like a fool for missing that! It's there and it compiles (as a 1.5 project) and runs fine on my 2.0 droid. Obviously is a solid place to start. It's there in the 1.6 and 2.0 SDK as well but I haven't compared them for differences yet. Thanks! On Dec 1, 12:10 pm, "Mark Murphy"

[android-developers] Re: Is Android backwards compatible?

2009-12-01 Thread pcm2a
"Yes" doesn't really cover all the situations. Google has attempted to make code you write for 1.5 (code level 3) or 1.6 (code level 4) forwards compatible with Android 2.0 (code level 5). This works "mostly" but you may have to make a few tweaks. In my case when they went from 1.6 they broke al

[android-developers] Where to start for home screen replacement app?

2009-12-01 Thread pcm2a
Funny topic maybe, but I feel like I have a decent hold on app development, widget development, and even made a game. I'd like to tinker with creating a home screen replacement but havn't been able to dig up any examples or good places to start. Does anyone have any recommendations or links that

[android-developers] Re: How to start up the native gallery app?

2009-11-27 Thread pcm2a
Maybe I'm asking the totally wrong question here: On any android phone I can press the up arrow and get a list of all the built in and install application. What is the recommended way to get a list of all these items, their icons, and their start intents. Current'y I'm using the PackageManager cl

[android-developers] Re: How to start up the native gallery app?

2009-11-26 Thread pcm2a
I don't need to start up one image, what I need to start up is the gallery application. I'm not wanting to choose one image or return an image back to my application. I just want the gallery app to start up just like you clicked the icon. I do have some good news that I have figured out a way to

[android-developers] Re: How to start up the native gallery app?

2009-11-26 Thread pcm2a
Why would it break in the future? The main function of my app relies on the user to be able to get a list of "install" applications. Think of like an application like App Task Manager that shows you the installed apps and allows you to uninstall them. Running appInfo.getInstalledApplications(0)

[android-developers] How to start up the native gallery app?

2009-11-26 Thread pcm2a
The api has a nice way to get a list of all installed applications: Code: PackageManager appInfo = context.getPackageManager(); List list = appInfo.getInstalledApplications (0); The problem is that the Gallery is not in this list. So what is the correct way to launch the gallery? I have t

[android-developers] How to export from keystore and import into another keystore?

2009-11-22 Thread pcm2a
I have an older keystore and I would like to export one of my apps from it and import that key into my newer keystore. I have tried: keytool -exportcert -keystore keystore.file -file certfile This command exports my cert file. Next I import it into my new keystore: keytool -importcert -keystore

[android-developers] User has returned my app, and then purchased it later on a 2nd time but cannot download it now.

2009-11-22 Thread pcm2a
The user purchases my application from the Android market yesterday and then returned it. The next day he has purchased it again. I can verify this in my google checkout console, I see where he has purchased the app today. Now when he goes into the market and presses download it takes him to the

[android-developers] Re: How to force Uninstall/Reinstall instead of upgrade from the Market?

2009-08-26 Thread pcm2a
ng big apps like Browser) > > On Aug 26, 2009 7:51 PM, "pcm2a" wrote: --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to androi

[android-developers] Re: How to force Uninstall/Reinstall instead of upgrade from the Market?

2009-08-26 Thread pcm2a
er to keep the icon in play until the bug is fixed. On Aug 26, 9:09 pm, Romain Guy wrote: > This is a problem in Home that was fixed in Donut. > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:47 PM, pcm2a wrote: can see and answer them --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

[android-developers] Re: How to force Uninstall/Reinstall instead of upgrade from the Market?

2009-08-26 Thread pcm2a
There must be some option telling it to do that. Did it uninstall the app for you or did it make you uninstall it, then return to the market and reinstall? On Aug 26, 8:41 pm, Michael Leung wrote: > I have not published my app to the market. > But when I upgarde the apps I use, it forced myself

[android-developers] How to force Uninstall/Reinstall instead of upgrade from the Market?

2009-08-26 Thread pcm2a
Evening fellow androiders, I have a weird problem here. In the previous version of my app on the market, I have an icon in "all prorgams" that starts up my config screen for my widget. In my new version I have done away with this icon, and you get to configure it from the actual widget (yay). The

[android-developers] Re: How to read Sensors from home screen Widget (1.5 cupcake)?

2009-08-12 Thread pcm2a
The main Hero widget is a clock with the weather. Every time you turn your screen on, it reads your gps locations and gives you the weather in that location. It is obviously reading the gps sensor from the widget. I am looking to do something similar, except I want to read the compass. --~--~-

[android-developers] How to read Sensors from home screen Widget (1.5 cupcake)?

2009-08-11 Thread pcm2a
Hey all. I am having a difficult time figuring out a way to read the sensor data from a home screen widget. I can successfully create a home screen widget that extends AppWidgetProvider. I can successfully create a stand-alone application that reads sensor data (extends Activity). What seems to