I'm not much of a cell phone person either and was also waiting for
the Android equivalent of the iPod Touch, but I lost patience and got
a Nexus One without cell service (but still with WiFi networking ...
and I think with emergency call cell service although I don't plan on
trying that) and have
Good idea about drive-mode, at least for the beta testing and initial
release. I don't actually have an Android phone (yet), so was unaware
of this feature. I'll take a look at what it takes to do that.
(Since I'm not really much of a cell phone person, I'm waiting for the
Android equivalent of th
Have you considered giving your users instructions on how to put their
Android phone in USB drive mode and writing a little PC application to
update/backup your application's data files on the SD card? This
might be a setup that the old time Palm users (such as myself :*) are
comfortable with.
On
I'm guessing that there are services somewhere that will allow users
to create accounts and upload/download files, keeping them private.
Certainly Flickr and several other photo sites do this for photos.
Google probably even has something (Google Docs?) that would work.
On Jul 27, 6:04 am, Doug Go
Actually not that large by today's standards -- just in the low
megabytes (<10 Mb I'd guess). The reason for the uncertainty is that
it entirely depends on how much data the user has in their original
database, which can vary widely.
I can understand the web server solution, and of course I alread
Before you jump to the offered solutions, it might be helpful to
momentarily back up and define what you mean by "rather large". For
example, are your data files 1 GB compressed?
On Jul 25, 11:45 am, Doug Gordon wrote:
> What I'm unclear on at this early stage is how the file transfer can be
> a
There are thousands of people out there who will provide you with web
server services, in some cases quite inexpensive. The hard part would
be picking between the choices.
On Jul 26, 9:27 am, Doug Gordon wrote:
> Mark Murphy wrote:
>
> >> Another thought I've had is some way to store the conver
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Doug Gordon wrote:
> Any suggestions on what facilities are available out there for secure
> storage of files that can be uploaded from a PC and then downloaded by an
> Android device?
A Web server.
> Does Google provide anything like this?
Google App Engine, t
Mark Murphy wrote:
>> Another thought I've had is some way to store the converted file out
in the
>> "cloud" somewhere and then have my app retrieve it from there.
>That is probably the simplest for now.
Any suggestions on what facilities are available out there for secure
storage of files th
It is possible to copy an existing SQLite database from your assets
folder to the correct location on the device.
See:
http://www.reigndesign.com/blog/using-your-own-sqlite-database-in-android-applications/
On Jul 25, 8:36 pm, Mark Murphy wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Doug Gordon w
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