[android-developers] Android developers in Boston

2010-01-05 Thread alexdonnini
Hello, I would like to connect with Android application developers in the Boston area to share ideas, experiences, and potentially work on joint projects. If you are interested, send me a message at: alexdonn...@ieee.org Thanks. Alex Donnini -- You received this message because you are

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

2010-01-05 Thread MrChaz
From the QA Jason Chen: Q: Why was it necessary for Google to design the phone? Why couldn’t it just be an HTC phone running the new flavor of Android? And will these new features becoming to Droid? A: It’s inaccurate to say Google designed the phone (points to HTC CEO). [Google] is just

[android-developers] Re: MapView Overlay problem

2010-01-05 Thread Stefan
Ok, i try it :) 1. I track gps points in my app and draw my route on a MapView: @Override public void onLocationChanged(Location loc) { if (loc != null) { latitude = loc.getLatitude(); longitude = loc.getLongitude(); if(first)

[android-developers] Re: Platform Eclair is a preview and requires appication manifests to set minSdkVersion to 'Eclair'

2010-01-05 Thread Vladimir
I guess you should try minSdkVersion=5 or 6 On Jan 5, 12:25 pm, skan95 ska...@hanmail.net wrote: Dear All. I will try to modify native Camera package in Eclipse. So, I make Camera project in Eclipse and try to compile it. But, Platform Eclair is a preview and requires appication manifests

[android-developers] Re: Sending market link in mail

2010-01-05 Thread Vladimir
I believe this thread is what you're looking for: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/93e3a1591ec0da37/98cddf6f6604eabd On Jan 5, 2:18 pm, sheik sheik...@gmail.com wrote: hello developers , help me on this issue ..  thanks.. On Jan 5, 11:36 am, sheik

[android-developers] Re: Nine patch pre-scaling on Hdpi

2010-01-05 Thread Jeffrey
The easiest thing I can think of is to make high density images and see if that fixes the problem. I know that fix isn't the best but it might work. On Jan 5, 7:31 am, Pixie m...@labpixies.com wrote: Hello everyone, I have some 9-patch images on my app, and they work great on the medium

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

2010-01-05 Thread Utopar
This is good news! To me that implies the SDK will be coming in a couple of days. On Jan 5, 8:10 pm, pcm2a reeeye...@gmail.com wrote: -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

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

2010-01-05 Thread Wayne Wenthin
This is true. But the phones are being overnighted to people starting today. They have been Dogfooding it for a few weeks. Why are the Developers the last to see it?If this breaks apps, which it is certain to do, they are just further infuriating the Developers that are trying to make this

Re: [android-developers] Menu always Displayable

2010-01-05 Thread Wayne Wenthin
I'll second that. Its actually easier than you think. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Guna guna.andr...@gmail.com wrote: Nithin, If you want to display Menu always means, just design your own layout same like menu and use that.. Guna -Original Message- From:

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

2010-01-05 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Wayne Wenthin wa...@fuligin.com wrote: This is true. But the phones are being overnighted to people starting today. They have been Dogfooding it for a few weeks. Why are the Developers the last to see it?If this breaks apps, which it is certain to do,

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

2010-01-05 Thread MrChaz
Thanks for replying Dianne, it's nice to see an official face in one of these threads. I have to say though that with the best will in the world chances are things are still going to break somewhere, although admittedly minor ones. The other thing, which is more important imo, is engaging with the

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

2010-01-05 Thread Jonas Petersson
Wayne Wenthin wrote: [...] If they continue I may just break down and buy a Mac. At least with Apple you know where you stand... Generally under the foot of Jobs but at least you know it. Heh, I already have a pretty decent MacBookPro and all I can say is that I much prefer running Linux

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

2010-01-05 Thread Wayne Wenthin
Yeah Mr. Jobs would never let my app exist. It would be too controversial. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Jonas Petersson jonas.peters...@xms.sewrote: Wayne Wenthin wrote: [...] If they continue I may just break down and buy a Mac. At least with Apple you know where you stand...

Re: [android-developers] Re: MapView Overlay problem

2010-01-05 Thread TreKing
OK, well your main problem is that while you implemented the Parcelable class, you didn't implement the writeToParcel method or the constructor that takes a Parcel. That's the key. You need to implement the first method to save all you state information (i.e., your member variables) to the Parcel

Re: [android-developers] Re: Reminder: IRC office hours tomorrow

2010-01-05 Thread Megha Joshi
Just a quick reminder for IRC office hours tomorrow at 9am PST, please submit your questions at: http://moderator.appspot.com/#15/e=120951t=1286cf thanks, Megha 2010/1/4 Megha Joshi mjo...@google.com Thanks ..we will be adding those answers in a few days. 2009/12/29 theSmith

[android-developers] Android Books?...

2010-01-05 Thread Duey Oxburger
Can anyone recommend any good Android books for a beginner? I'm mostly interested in games... Thx All, D -- 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

[android-developers] Re: Null pointer exception

2010-01-05 Thread Vladimir
What do you think about this: 1. Cursor created in onContextItemSelected() is null (for some reason) 2. Since its lifecycle is managed by the activity (startManagingCursor (c)), it tries to release it when the activity is stopped (when the new intent is launched) 3. It doesn't expect managed

Re: [android-developers] Re: Nine patch pre-scaling on Hdpi

2010-01-05 Thread Dianne Hackborn
I would strongly recommend making density-specific resources. Graphics scaled from one density to another (especially going up) are never going to look as good as ones designed for the density. Plus doing the pre-scaling on 9-patch images is... interesting. :) It's actually amazing to me that

[android-developers] Re: Start new activity in TAB

2010-01-05 Thread smyl
the activites are with in the same application , but the thing is that when the user clicks on a particular city i can start the activity which contains the forecast for that city but that new activity launches on the whole screen not within the current tab , i.e it doesn't replaces the activity

Re: [android-developers] Android Books?...

2010-01-05 Thread abisai rangel
try some Apress Android Development Pro or Beginner these books give alot of info about 2d gaming premier. if you are into 3d modeling then you will have to find an open gl book On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Duey Oxburger cg-art...@hotmail.com wrote: Can anyone recommend any good Android

[android-developers] Re: MapView Overlay problem

2010-01-05 Thread Stefan
hi, thanks for your answer :) On Jan 5, 11:30 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: OK, well your main problem is that while you implemented the Parcelable class, you didn't implement the writeToParcel method or the constructor that takes a Parcel. That's the key. in one other class of my

Re: [android-developers] Possible to awake the phone by touching the screen?

2010-01-05 Thread Dianne Hackborn
The touch screen is turned off when the device is sleeping to save power, so it can not be used during that time. On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Nazgulled mas...@ricardoamaral.net wrote: Hi, As an heads-up, I'm an amateur developer and a university student in the area but I have not

[android-developers] Re: Led notification on Motorola Milestone

2010-01-05 Thread Emmanuel
I wrote an blog entry on Leds : http://androidblogger.blogspot.com/2009/09/tutorial-how-to-use-led-with-android.html Hope it helps, Emmanuel http://androidblogger.blogspot.com/ http://www.alocaly.com On Jan 5, 5:10 pm, Beth emez...@gmail.com wrote: To define your own color and pattern, define

[android-developers] URGENT- Is SQLiteOpenHelper.onUpgrade() called when installing update from Android Market Place?

2010-01-05 Thread Paul
Scenario: User buys my application from Android Market Place. I update my Application (change version_code, version_name in Manifest). But no change to my DATABASE_VERSION in my SQLiteOpenHelper sub class. User installs update from android market place. Question: Is SQLiteOpenHelper.onUpgrade()

Re: [android-developers] Android Books?...

2010-01-05 Thread Mark Murphy
Can anyone recommend any good Android books for a beginner? I'm mostly interested in games... Game development does not get a lot of coverage in the current crop of Android books. Here's a list of all those I know of in print: http://wiki.andmob.org/books -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)

[android-developers] What does targetSdkVersion do?

2010-01-05 Thread Matt Kanninen
What does targetSdkVersion do? There isn't much detail on what targetSdkVersion actually does. I've read: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#target android:targetSdkVersion An integer designating the API Level that the application is targetting.

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

2010-01-05 Thread whoodroid
This is definitely not an acceptable way to treat your developer audience. How would google developers like it if HTC shipped the N1 to customers directly without the OS, and expected Google to ship the OS to the customer, without ever having seen the device beforehand? Granted there is a world of

[android-developers] Re: URGENT- Is SQLiteOpenHelper.onUpgrade() called when installing update from Android Market Place?

2010-01-05 Thread Mark Wyszomierski
I think it is as you described - if you left the database version number the same, then onUpgrade() won't be called. This is what I have experienced at least. On Jan 5, 5:47 pm, Paul idi...@gmail.com wrote: Scenario: User buys my application from Android Market Place. I update my Application

[android-developers] Re: Android Books?...

2010-01-05 Thread schwiz
Hello Android has a decent couple chapters on graphics and shows how to make a basic sudoku game. There is a link to it in the page Mark shared. If you find anything really good let me know :D Also, here is an open source game engine for android that may help you http://code.google.com/p/rokon/

[android-developers] Re: Android developers in Boston

2010-01-05 Thread Carter
You should attend the next Mobile Monday Boston: http://www.momoboston.com/ It's a free mobile-oriented conference in Boston that happens about once per month on a Monday night. Just keep checking the website for announcements about the next event, probably sometime in January for February. On

[android-developers] Re: Is that possible to get the current sample amplitude by MediaRecorder or other class

2010-01-05 Thread White Chen
Could anyone give me some suggestion? Thanks a lot.. -- 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] API Terms of Use

2010-01-05 Thread to...@webpro.com
Hey I have a question about the maps API terms of use and I was hoping someone could clerify this for me or tell me where I should be asking this question. The following section: 9.1 Free, Public Accessibility to Your Maps API Implementation. Your Maps API Implementation must be generally

[android-developers] Re: API Terms of Use

2010-01-05 Thread Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)
9.1 Free,... I don't see how that could be any clearer. WARNING: IANAL -John Coryat Radar Now! What Zip Code? -- 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

[android-developers] Re: How can I add a button to a linear layout 'right justified'

2010-01-05 Thread Sasikumar.S
http://www.androidpeople.com/category/button/ use button gravity property. ex:- Private Button b1; b1.setGravity(Gravity.RIGHT); On Jan 6, 1:16 am, n179911 n179...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Iroid irfan.f.k...@gmail.com wrote: set the layout weight of TextView to 1.

[android-developers] Re: MapView Overlay problem

2010-01-05 Thread Peter SSK
see this link http://www.androidpeople.com/category/google-map/ On Jan 5, 4:59 pm, Stefan ebay-dah...@web.de wrote: hello, i have an activity with a MapView ad overlays. If i start a new activity and go back to my Activity with the map, i only see the map without my overlays. How can i

[android-developers] Re: Start and Stop music on application launch and stop

2010-01-05 Thread Peter SSK
How to play music in android?... You have any suggestion related this?.. If so pls give some idea for that or example program. On Jan 5, 11:14 am, Hassan Imtiaz hassan.imt...@cprods.com wrote: Hi,     In my application i have several activities and i want to start background music whenever my

[android-developers] Re: Android Books?...

2010-01-05 Thread Lance Nanek
Pro Android Games, published by Apress, came out recently and might make a good addition for that list: http://apress.com/book/view/1430226471 I haven't tried it, however. Well, except for going through the free source code, anyway. On Jan 5, 9:09 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote:

[android-developers] Re: What does targetSdkVersion do?

2010-01-05 Thread Lance Nanek
Can change defaults for supports-screens. Can also disable compatibility features, like reporting a smaller size than the actual display and scaling your app up. See: http://developer.android.com/intl/zh-TW/guide/practices/screens_support.html On Jan 5, 9:15 pm, Matt Kanninen

[android-developers] Is android supports wap push

2010-01-05 Thread saikiran n
-- Forwarded message -- From: saikiran n saikiran@gmail.com Date: Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 4:52 PM Subject: Is android supports wap push To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Hi, Is android supports wap push sms ? If so what is the API to achive this functionality -- You

[android-developers] How to send wap push

2010-01-05 Thread saikiran n
-- Forwarded message -- From: saikiran n saikiran@gmail.com Date: Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:24 PM Subject: How to send wap push To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Hi I am sending the sms using the following code snippet SmsManager sms = SmsManager.getDefault();

[android-developers] How to implement SyncML Device management objects in android

2010-01-05 Thread saikiran n
-- Forwarded message -- From: saikiran n saikiran@gmail.com Date: Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:21 PM Subject: How to implement SyncML Device management objects in android To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Hi, I want to implement SyncML Device management and gone through

[android-developers] Re: No Adobe Flash support for Eclair!?!

2010-01-05 Thread theSmith
Well well well. you all should find this interesting. Man I love CES. http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-previewed-with-flash-10-1-beta-careful-what-you-wish/ Looks like we're going to need a addon flash blocker on android soon... -theSmith On Jan 4, 11:48 am, chris harper

[android-developers] Re: Menu always Displayable

2010-01-05 Thread Nithin
Thanks all for your reply. I created the layout for custom menu. But that doesn't look like the in-built menu in Android. Moreover, I am designing the layout in java, not in xml. Now, I am using imageButton, I will try some other options too. Thanks On Jan 6, 2:59 am, Wayne Wenthin

[android-developers] Re: API Terms of Use

2010-01-05 Thread JP
tommy@, I believe you're not looking in the right spot. Check this blog post, it also includes a link to the *Android* Maps API ToS. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-android-maps-api-terms-of-service.html On Jan 5, 7:40 pm, to...@webpro.com to...@webpro.com wrote: Hey I have

Re: [android-developers] Re: Menu always Displayable

2010-01-05 Thread Frank Weiss
It might be better to not make it look exactly like the Android context menu, with the drop-shadow on the top. If a user touches the back button, they'd expect it to go away. Perhaps take a look at the Gmail persistent bottom menu as a UI guide, which is styled differently than the context menu.

[android-developers] How To show Progress Bar in Tab Activity

2010-01-05 Thread RamaMohan
Hi, I am having a tab Activity with 5 tabs with intents.the classes are used to load data from internet source.I need to show display progress bar while clicking each tab until it completes the data loading. or how to show a progress bar for a finite time after clicking the tab . If any one Knows

[android-developers] How to GIF image for a finate time

2010-01-05 Thread RamaMohan
Hi all, I want to show a loading Image of GIF type for a finite time .how to do this. Please tell me the solution if anyone knows. Thanks, Ram -- 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] How to override activity transition effect with non-res animation?

2010-01-05 Thread mongd
Hi all, I have a question about activity transition effect. As far as I know, there is one method to change activity transition effect, which is 'overridePendingTransition' in Activity class. But the only parameter I can use is 'animation resource id', meaning that the animation is limited to

[android-developers] Re: Maps API in paid App

2010-01-05 Thread mikek
Thanks much! You're right of course, I was assuming the conditions of the general Maps API TOS. It's clear that Google is not requiring a fee for use of Maps API in Android apps. On Jan 5, 10:22 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: Doesn't the Android Maps API TOS refer to and incorporate

[android-developers] Motionevent problems - multitouch events give wrong coordinates

2010-01-05 Thread Mirmathrax
OK, So I have been racking my brain to try to figure out what is going wrong here. I wanted to experiment with multi-touch, so I decided to add the controls for LunarLander to the touchscreen. Instead of adding buttons, I defined regions on the screen that when touched, would act like the buttons

[android-developers] Clicking on an AppWidget to run onUpdate() - should we use ACTION_APPWIDGET_UPDATE?

2010-01-05 Thread kostmo
Hello, I am overriding onReceive() in my subclassed AppWidgetProvider. My home screen widget works fine with a periodic update. I would like to have a click on the widget cause the widget to update. When building the RemoteView, I set a PendingIntent as follows: PendingIntent

[android-developers] Re: Clicking on an AppWidget to run onUpdate() - should we use ACTION_APPWIDGET_UPDATE?

2010-01-05 Thread kostmo
Sorry, I'll answer my own question: I should have used PendingIntent.getBroadcast rather than PendingIntent.getActivity, as in: PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast( context, 0, // no requestCode

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android developers in Boston

2010-01-05 Thread abhinav jaju
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Carter ccjerni...@gmail.com wrote: You should attend the next Mobile Monday Boston: http://www.momoboston.com/ It's a free mobile-oriented conference in Boston that happens about once per month on a Monday night. Just keep checking the website for

[android-developers] MMC Mount infinete why?

2010-01-05 Thread GPU
Hi , In MountListener.java -listenToSocket() calling these functions continiouly . writeCommand(VOLD_CMD_SEND_UMS_STATUS); mountMedia(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory ().getAbsolutePath()); writeCommand(VOLD_CMD_MOUNTED_VOLUMES); Why its

[android-developers] Re: URGENT- Is SQLiteOpenHelper.onUpgrade() called when installing update from Android Market Place?

2010-01-05 Thread Kumar Bibek
Yes Mark is right, Only if you change the databse version, the onUpgrade method will be called. Thanks and Regards, Kumar Bibek. On Jan 6, 8:16 am, Mark Wyszomierski mar...@gmail.com wrote: I think it is as you described - if you left the database version number the same, then onUpgrade()

Re: [android-developers] Re: Sending market link in mail

2010-01-05 Thread sheik ahmed
thank you for the reply . i will look into it and let u know .. regards Sheik On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Vladimir vladimir.funti...@gmail.comwrote: I believe this thread is what you're looking for:

[android-developers] multi resolution image button selectors broken?

2010-01-05 Thread OldSkoolMark
In my res/drawable directory I have: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? selector xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android; item android:state_pressed=true android:drawable=@drawable/startstopin / item android:drawable=@drawable/startstopout / /selector Works

Re: [android-developers] multi resolution image button selectors broken?

2010-01-05 Thread Romain Guy
It is not the right way. Do not use @drawable-ldpi/, just keep the same XML file, it will work. The system will find startstopin and startstopout in the right drawable-XXX/ directory. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:24 PM, OldSkoolMark m...@sublimeslime.com wrote: In my res/drawable directory I have:

[android-developers] Getting cell signal strength for current cell vs neighboring cells

2010-01-05 Thread Doughy
I'm writing an android application that collects cell signal strengths. I am having trouble getting the current cell signal strength, but I don't have any problem getting the neighboring cell signal strengths. To get the current cell signal strength, I created a PhoneStateListener and

[android-developers] How to kill an ImageView?... thx

2010-01-05 Thread Duey Oxburger
Hey All, I'm trying to transition from my main splash screen to the next part of my code. How do I kill my splash screen?... In my main.xml the splash screen image is simply: ImageView android:layout_width=wrap_content android:layout_height=wrap_content

[android-developers] Re: multi resolution image button selectors broken?

2010-01-05 Thread OldSkoolMark
Roman, Thanks for the quick response! Unfortunately, I'm still having issues. It wasn't clear to me whether you were instructing me to just delete the selector xml file in drawable-ldpi, or copy the one from drawable into drawable-ldpi without change. I've tried it both ways to no avail. I don't

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