[android-developers] Re: Emulator is not able to connect to network

2008-12-18 Thread yukinoba
hi David, I have the same situation to this. However, I could connect to internet by using HttpClient and get responses. The "3G icon" appears in the top of Android home, but browser does not work at all. I have my own proxy address with proxy.local:80, and sets in the Eclipse preference and usin

[android-developers] Re: Customize layout of ExpandableListView

2008-12-18 Thread luke
Hi mscwd01, It is works great, thanks very much. but what about extends BaseExpandableListAdapter ? Maybe i should provide a ImageProvider for the dynamic image binding. Thanks again :) On Dec 18, 8:10 pm, mscwd01 wrote: > Hey Luke, > > Sure, I managed to solve it myself after several tedious h

[android-developers] Re: Has anybody received an android dev phone in the US yet?

2008-12-18 Thread Dirk Jäckel
Hi! I ordered at the 13. of December for delivery to Germany and I wonder how many times this has to be cleared: Package Progress LocationDateLocal Time Description KOELN (COLOGNE), DE 19/12/2008 7:55REGISTERED WITH CLEARING AGENCY / SHIPMENT SUBMITTED TO CLEARING

[android-developers] Re: certificate ssl webservice keystore

2008-12-18 Thread yukinoba
hi, I have surveyed lots of solutions to this problem. However, most solutions break (or say, cheat) the SSL verification for development usage, and surely I don't want to make this kind of solutions in my own application. Could you help to provide a guideline how to create application-specific k

[android-developers] Re: Emulator is not able to connect to network

2008-12-18 Thread David Turner
first, use "emulator -wipe-data" to rest your /data partition.If this still doesn't solve the problem, try updating to 1.0_r2 and let us know On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Esther wrote: > > My emulator can't connect to network by Browser or Email application > but the PC does connect to inter

[android-developers] How to create an InputStream from a content Uri

2008-12-18 Thread PAS
I have discovered how to get an InputStream object from a Uri pointing to an image stored on the SD card!!! Since the method to do this was not straight forward to me, I would like to share it so that others may not suffer like I did. A ContentResolver is the thing needed, but it is an abstract c

[android-developers] Re: How can we use sqlite3 for database purpose

2008-12-18 Thread eyedol
Check the Notepad tutorials. On Dec 19, 3:47 am, "luckcomesh...@gmail.com" wrote: > Hi All, > > How can we use sqlite3 for database usage in Android. I'm trying to > use it, but I couldn't get enough information on these things. I want > to create new database(new tables) and want to use that in

[android-developers] Re: Does LogCat support UTF-8 to display?

2008-12-18 Thread yukinoba
Thx Ralf ;-) On 12月16日, 上午5時35分, Ralf wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:55 PM, yukinoba wrote: > > > hi all > > > does anyone know thatlogcatsupports utf-8 display or not? > > I ve tried to transfer non-unicode string message objects to the Log > > method, with new String(s.getBytes(""), "utf

[android-developers] Re: Accessing contacts ?

2008-12-18 Thread for android
You can start an intent with actionpick and set the type as People.content type..and on the activityresultset u will get the uri with intens.getData.From that in ur activity u have the uri frm whch u can get the info about the contact selected. On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Sarath Kamisetty <

[android-developers] Re: Question about battery draining - alarm scheduled service

2008-12-18 Thread code_android_festival_way
Yeah I know that. My problem is that I am not sure about how battery draining this could be. Doing something everytime the screen goes off. (ok just for a few ms but well) Thank you for your answer. On 18 Dez., 20:53, "Dianne Hackborn" wrote: > There is a broadcast sent when the screen goes off

[android-developers] Re: How can we use sqlite3 for database purpose

2008-12-18 Thread luckcomesh...@gmail.com
Hi everyone, Want to create data base using Android and need to populate in the required places. Please tell me the procedure to get the each column values(like first name, last name) in a specific row by calling some functions(like get/ set) to populate in user interface part. Give me some examp

[android-developers] Why Google does not accepts my Visa credit card?

2008-12-18 Thread DOKA
Hello all! I am trying to pay registration fee as Android developer to sell my program in Android Market, but see error telling me about payment fail. Why does it happend? I already payed successfully with this Visa Classic card for another services, e.g. I have bought a domain. --~--~-

[android-developers] Accessing contacts ?

2008-12-18 Thread Sarath Kamisetty
Hi, My sample application wants to display the contacts (that were previously added) in the phone and let user pick some of them. Are there any APIs we can use to access the contents of the contacts ? If contacts are stored in some database, do I need to know the underlying schema of contacts ?

[android-developers] Emulator is not able to connect to network

2008-12-18 Thread Esther
My emulator can't connect to network by Browser or Email application but the PC does connect to internet properly with no proxy. The "3G" icon on the emulator status bar never appears like the emulator running on other PC. Could someone help me on this issue? (I'm using the emulator in android-sdk

[android-developers] How can we use sqlite3 for database purpose

2008-12-18 Thread luckcomesh...@gmail.com
Hi All, How can we use sqlite3 for database usage in Android. I'm trying to use it, but I couldn't get enough information on these things. I want to create new database(new tables) and want to use that in my application as I need to add, update, delete the rows(or records) in each table for a wel

[android-developers] AnimationDrawable: Animating more than one AnimationDrawable at the same time

2008-12-18 Thread Lorelei
I have this method public void animate(ImageView image, int iTime){ AnimationDrawable frameAnimation=new AnimationDrawable(); Drawable anim1 = image.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.thing); Drawable anim2 = image.getResources().getDrawable (R.

[android-developers] Equalizer

2008-12-18 Thread Aasha
Is there any in-built support for equalizers in Android? For Music Player or maybe for the audio-out (either through speakers or bluetooth headset)?? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developer

[android-developers] Re: Extending a tablelayout

2008-12-18 Thread for android
any help On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:42 PM, for android wrote: > i need to get a customizable tablelayout with borders. Hence in the > onDraw,I have the following code,but i get only the left side and top of the > rectangle.but not on the right and bottom lines of the rectangle. > > > I have l

[android-developers] Re: Detect TAB key?

2008-12-18 Thread Keith Wiley
Yeah, it sounds like the best way to implement this behavior is to avoid the Keyboard level enirely and do it by catching tab characters as they are appear in the edit text, removing them, reassigning the previous text to the box, and then performing the desired request focus on the next edit text

[android-developers] Re: Activity finishOnBackground attribute

2008-12-18 Thread for android
Probable on the restart of the activity u need to update the list. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Soonil Nagarkar wrote: > > Giving this topic some life, is there any way to implement something > similar to finishOnTaskBackground? It is possible to reenter a task > that was previously in the b

[android-developers] Re: Button issue

2008-12-18 Thread vaibhav goel
how come a pop up menu appear on clicking a button unless and until in its onclicklistener, popup menu is being invoked pls elaborate what are u trying to do... Vaibhav On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:32 AM, diya blore wrote: > > Hi ALL. > i m facing an issue.. wheni click on button a pop up m

[android-developers] MetaWidgets generates UI by inspecting model, any one tried it?

2008-12-18 Thread Android geek
Hey, there's a opensource framework http://metawidget.sourceforge.net/ which claims to build the UI automatically by inspecting the model, it has support for android also http://metawidget.sourceforge.net/doc/reference/en/html/ch03s04.html#section-metawidgets-implementing-your-own-android Any o

[android-developers] Debugging HTTP streaming using MediaPlayer

2008-12-18 Thread Moto
So to my amusement! I tried doing the following: m.setDataSource("http://scfire-dtc-aa01.stream.aol.com:80/stream/ 1027"); m.prepare(); m.start(); And PAM! well using a wireless connection and my friend WireShark I was able to see a healthy communication that seemed to be streaming just fine! No

[android-developers] Re: Port 554 closed?

2008-12-18 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
In the current version, ports below 1024 aren't accessible to applications. JBQ On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Moto wrote: > > I have been trying to create a local RTSP server on my phone but I > haven't had any luck! I'm trying to connect from MediaPlayer to my > localhost server on port 855

[android-developers] Re: Replacing default Menu with a Dialog

2008-12-18 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Fwiw, you can just replace the entire menu view with your own so your custom UI slides out like a normal menu instead of popping up a dialog. This would give an experience much more consistent with what users expect. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: > > the.victim wrote: > > d

[android-developers] Port 554 closed?

2008-12-18 Thread Moto
I have been trying to create a local RTSP server on my phone but I haven't had any luck! I'm trying to connect from MediaPlayer to my localhost server on port 8554 since port 554 doesn't work at all My server handles the replies to the mediaplayer but somehow the player shuts down right away

[android-developers] Re: Search Not Working

2008-12-18 Thread sjia
It took me a lot time to figure out the problem. http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ android" android:label="@string/search_label" android:hint="@string/search_hint" > Note that all user-visible strings must be provided in the form of "@string" references. Hard-coded strings, which

[android-developers] Re: Have WebView default to horizontal orientation

2008-12-18 Thread Dan
Yeah, I've noticed the same. I just posted a new thread though and it worked right away. Maybe it was just something they were working on that's fixed now? On Dec 15, 5:20 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > Dan wrote: > > Thanks for your reply.  I've actually gotten this taken care of > > already... > >

[android-developers] App Developer Emails

2008-12-18 Thread Dan
I'm not sure if this is concrete enough to file a bug report or not...but about 2 in 3 emails I receive about apps I've submitted to the market are blank. They always have the subject of one of my apps and have what looks to be a valid email in the "from" part of the email. Just wondering if thi

[android-developers] Re: Replacing default Menu with a Dialog

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Murphy
the.victim wrote: > don't know the advantages of your solution Mark, but the solution of > mscwd01 was not that wrong. > just moving the dialog.show() to the overriden method > onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) would have done the job. oncreatemenu > is just called once. There might be side-effects

[android-developers] Re: G1 vs. Fedora Core (6+) vs. udev

2008-12-18 Thread enervatron
Sure... the reason that I posted it here is so that it would get indexed and hence be googleable so that us mortals can find it too :) Mike On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Jean-Baptiste Queru wrote: > > Do you think that you could copy-paste your email (as is) in a new bug > report at b.androi

[android-developers] Re: Replacing default Menu with a Dialog

2008-12-18 Thread the.victim
don't know the advantages of your solution Mark, but the solution of mscwd01 was not that wrong. just moving the dialog.show() to the overriden method onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) would have done the job. oncreatemenu is just called once. On 18 Dez., 13:30, mscwd01 wrote: > That worked nicely

[android-developers] Re: G1 vs. Fedora Core (6+) vs. udev

2008-12-18 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Do you think that you could copy-paste your email (as is) in a new bug report at b.android.com so that we don't lose track of it? Thanks, JBQ On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:27 PM, wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've finally figured out what was going wrong with the udev stuff on > Fedora Core 6 > setting u

[android-developers] G1 vs. Fedora Core (6+) vs. udev

2008-12-18 Thread enervatron
Hi all, I've finally figured out what was going wrong with the udev stuff on Fedora Core 6 setting up the USB device for adb. The advice for Ubuntu may be correct, but it doesn't work out of the box with Fedora Core 6 and probably higher. The reason is because Fedora Core 6 has a rule in /etc/ude

[android-developers] Re: Cupcakes Email and K9

2008-12-18 Thread Dianne Hackborn
The system image is read-only. No, you can't remove things from there. And it would be pointless to, because no data can be written there. And besides you'd get it back in the next OTA update... unless that update was incremental and relied on the current system image to be how it expects and y

[android-developers] Re: Detect TAB key?

2008-12-18 Thread Dianne Hackborn
It is seriously easier for them to chord ALT+TAB (both on the left side of the keyboard making it especially awkward) than to move the trackball? Well whatever. But anyway, your code will break on pretty much any other future device than the G1 -- those that have a different keyboard layout, and

[android-developers] Re: Detect TAB key?

2008-12-18 Thread Keith Wiley
Well, I understand your point, but I'm writing a program in which the user might be doing lots of data entry into numerous text fields. In my own testing so far it is much much easier, less error prone, and generally more efficient to do this with the tab and return keys instead of the thumb whee

[android-developers] Re: HTTP Post with header

2008-12-18 Thread HCH
generally: http post requires content-length unless you use chunked encoding. In the example you give set the content-length to the length of your StringEntity. On Dec 17, 4:00 am, agal wrote: > Hi, > > I want to do an HTTP Post in Android, using the HttpClient 4.0 APIs. > This is my code s

[android-developers] Re: Original Android 9-Patch Files (.9.png in android.jar contain no patch marks?)

2008-12-18 Thread Robert Green
Nevermind. Every problem I've had today has been resolved by realizing that the lib/res/default dir in the SDK has it all. I should have looked there before digging in the jar. On Dec 18, 5:46 pm, Robert Green wrote: > I'm building custom buttons, spinners and text areas for my latest app > an

[android-developers] Original Android 9-Patch Files (.9.png in android.jar contain no patch marks?)

2008-12-18 Thread Robert Green
I'm building custom buttons, spinners and text areas for my latest app and I totally understand how 9-patches work but the btn_default... 9.png files that I found in my android.jar look right but don't contain the 1px 9-patch border! Looks like none of the 9.png files do. What I wanted to do was

[android-developers] Re: Using Linkify on a TextView and event bubbling

2008-12-18 Thread Nik Bhattacharya
Anybody?? On Dec 9, 8:57 pm, Nik Bhattacharya wrote: > Hello, > > I have the following situation.  I have a LinearLayout that has an > onclick listener on it.  In the linear layout, I have a TextView that > has some text in it.  I use Linkify on the TextView with the following > intention: > > I

[android-developers] Re: Simple Text Editor

2008-12-18 Thread Xavier Mathews
You know what Michael... you gone stop commin at me like dis! On 12/18/2008, Michael wrote: > > Ignoring the previous reply > >> 1. be able to place and retrieve text files on gphone flash memory via >> usb > > You'd be better off storing things like this on the SD card, rather > than in pho

[android-developers] Surface formats vs. Bitmap formats

2008-12-18 Thread Ian
Hi all, I'm creating Bitmaps to draw in a surface. I want to do the right thing and handle as many Surface pixel formats as I can, while creating the Bitmap format that will be most efficient for that Surface. So I'm wondering how to reconcile these formats: Bitmap.Config confi

[android-developers] Re: Simple Text Editor

2008-12-18 Thread Michael
Ignoring the previous reply > 1. be able to place and retrieve text files on gphone flash memory via > usb You'd be better off storing things like this on the SD card, rather than in phone memory. More space for one, and if you want to be able to retrieve the files via the USB data connecti

[android-developers] Re: How can I specify message body part in SMS intent?

2008-12-18 Thread devileper
I have found the approach of using type "vnd.android-dir/mms-sms" only works when the DIALER app is closed. If sent while the dialer app is open I receive the following error: "Connection problem or invalid MMI code." Anyone have some other ideas? On Dec 9, 1:56 pm, "devile...@gmail.com" wrot

[android-developers] Re: How To Eliminate Preferences Values Database?

2008-12-18 Thread Michael
On Dec 18, 3:05 pm, "Xavier Mathews" wrote: > Yea Delete your prefrence data... be sure that the xml can not convert > to rss! Then delete the older file from the explorer. You realize that RSS is just an XML file with a particular schema, yes? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~---

[android-developers] Re: Cupcakes Email and K9

2008-12-18 Thread Michael
I notice that we can't remove the "system packages" either. I just tried "adb uninstall com.android.email" and of course it didn't work... got: W/PackageManager( 48): Attempt to delete system package com.android.email from the emulator. Figured I'd see if I could save some space :) --~--~-

[android-developers] Re: support for encryption

2008-12-18 Thread Dan Bornstein
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:30 AM, sthustfo wrote: > Does the current android SDK provide support for > > 1. AES-128 encryption > 2. MD5 hash computation Yes on both counts. AES is available for use via the class javax.crypto.Cipher (along with helpers CipherInputStream and CipherOutputStream), a

[android-developers] Re: Changing Google image server

2008-12-18 Thread nknize
Anyone have any insight? Thanks! - Nick On Dec 9, 7:59 pm, nknize wrote: > More specifically, can we point the MapActivity to a company owned > Enterprise Earth Server that contains our own fused image layers? > Currently the MapActivity pulls the Satellite and Map layers > fromhttp://google.

[android-developers] Re: More MediaPlayer questions

2008-12-18 Thread Xavier Mathews
Don't hijack the post create your own. On 12/18/2008, Rajendrakumar C wrote: > > HI, > > Can anyone of you know how to extract the comosers info from Mp3 file. > Please let me know if you know that. > > > -- Xavier A. Mathews Student/Browser Specialist/Developer/Web-Master Client Based Te

[android-developers] Re: support for encryption

2008-12-18 Thread Xavier Mathews
Aes yes. MD5 don't think so. On 12/18/2008, sthustfo wrote: > > Hi, > > Does the current android SDK provide support for > > 1. AES-128 encryption > 2. MD5 hash computation > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- Xavier A. Mathews Student/Browser Specialist/Developer/Web-Master Client Based Tech Supp

[android-developers] Re: Simple Text Editor

2008-12-18 Thread Xavier Mathews
Hello this has already been posted! Please don't post more than once. Now I am guessing that you are talking about the G1. Flash memory is kinda like ram so i am not sure if you can get into the phone flash mem and start tranfering files on there. It also depends on how much space you have nor

[android-developers] Re: How To Eliminate Preferences Values Database?

2008-12-18 Thread Xavier Mathews
Yea Delete your prefrence data... be sure that the xml can not convert to rss! Then delete the older file from the explorer. On 12/18/2008, Mark Murphy wrote: > > Massimo Barbera wrote: >> For testing purposes I have changed the value of one preference >> (android:key="my_value") from a class ex

[android-developers] Re: How To Start a RTSP connection

2008-12-18 Thread Dave Sparks
I can only guess that the RTSP client in OpenCore didn't like something it found the DESCRIBE response. I'm not sure that it can handle broadcast mode. Maybe someone from PV will be able to provide some insight. Did you get an error message back from the MediaPlayer through onErrorListener? On D

[android-developers] Re: How to remove a file in assets at run time?

2008-12-18 Thread Dianne Hackborn
You can use "adb pull" to retrieve an .apk from a running system. In this case our model is much more like PalmOS than windows, where the thing you download and install is also the thing that you run, there is no separate installer. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:41 AM, jarkman wrote: > > Dianne - t

[android-developers] Re: Cupcakes Email and K9

2008-12-18 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Correct that feature is to just allow you to install an app update just like you would of a third party app. To be able to update, the new app must be signed with the same certificate as the one built into the system. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Jean-Baptiste Queru wrote: > > The detailed

[android-developers] Re: Question about battery draining - alarm scheduled service

2008-12-18 Thread Dianne Hackborn
There is a broadcast sent when the screen goes off. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:07 AM, code_android_festival_way < festival.s...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hello. > > I'm thinking about implementing an Alarm which starts up a little > CheckupService which checks if another WorkService (on which I r

[android-developers] Re: Activity finishOnBackground attribute

2008-12-18 Thread Dianne Hackborn
It sounds like you would be better off looking at the desired behavior of your notification activity rather than your app. In particular, you can set it up to launch separately from the app, so pressing back will always return to what the user was previously doing. The app model doc should descri

[android-developers] Re: Service launching multiple times

2008-12-18 Thread Dianne Hackborn
A particular Service component is managed as a global singleton in the system, that is there will only ever be one instance of a Service component created at a time. The core Service functionality allows you to tell the system about work being done by your application outside of the normal activit

[android-developers] Re: How To Eliminate Preferences Values Database?

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Murphy
Massimo Barbera wrote: > For testing purposes I have changed the value of one preference > (android:key="my_value") from a class external to my > PreferenceActivity, trough editor.putBoolean("my_value", value); > > now each time the PreferenceActivity is started, I have an exception. > > How can

[android-developers] support for encryption

2008-12-18 Thread sthustfo
Hi, Does the current android SDK provide support for 1. AES-128 encryption 2. MD5 hash computation Thanks in advance. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group

[android-developers] Key store error

2008-12-18 Thread Spanish Android
Hi, I am getting an IOException "wrong version of key store" when I run the following code: KeyStore keyStore = KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.getDefaultType()); Can anybody help me? Thanks a lot! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are su

[android-developers] Simple Text Editor

2008-12-18 Thread nealpobr...@gmail.com
Hi, i really need a simple text editor and to my surprise there does not appear to be one. so i was thinking of creating one. here is what i'd like to do: 1. be able to place and retrieve text files on gphone flash memory via usb 2. onclick of the text file create a full screen editable text bo

[android-developers] Re: Has anybody received an android dev phone in the US yet?

2008-12-18 Thread eric
Apparently next-day air is pointless. I ordered it on the 15th, Fed Ex. Hasn't arrived yet. There is a web-site for tracking, but it is lame and well-hidden. I'll bet somebody at Google has a nephew at Brightstar. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message bec

[android-developers] deleting whole call log

2008-12-18 Thread shaz
I'm trying the whole call log using following code int deleted_rows = cur_context.getContentResolver().delete (CallLog.Calls.CONTENT_URI, null,null); The deletion is successful and whole call log is emptied but deleted_rows always contain 0. Is this a bug in android ? the following calls alway

[android-developers] Problem in Creating context menu in MapActivity

2008-12-18 Thread sweetal...@gmail.com
I have MapView and I want to create context menu on the long press on map but I am unable to create. I have try to create by two way 1. map =(MapView) findViewById(R.id.maps); map.setOnCreateContextMenuListener(new View.OnCreateContextMenuListener (){ @Override

[android-developers] Re: How to create a socket in Andriod platform

2008-12-18 Thread Eric Lu
You could try to request android.permission.INTERNET in your manifest file. -- BRs, Eric Lu On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:25 PM, silverburgh.me...@gmail.com < silverburgh.me...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > If I need to open a new socket in Andriod platform, do I need to set > some permission before

[android-developers] How To Eliminate Preferences Values Database?

2008-12-18 Thread Massimo Barbera
Dear all, I have a PreferenceActivity whose structure is described in a preferences.xml file: we know this leads to construct a GUI interface trough which you can change the value of our preferences For testing purposes I have changed the value of one preference (android:key="my_value") from a c

[android-developers] Hebrew support - even partial is good

2008-12-18 Thread Sheepz
Hi, While browsing some websites on my phone, I have found that the G1 does not support showing Hebrew fonts. In a world of Unicode Java it seems that at the very least you would include fonts for other languages - i know that this solution is not all encompassing and will give very limited suppor

[android-developers] Simple Text editor

2008-12-18 Thread nealpobr...@gmail.com
Hi, I am considering working on a simple text editor and have a couple questions: 1. Does the textedit class have copy/paste built in or does it have to be implemented separetly? 2. Would a full-screen text box app displaying/saving text from a .txt file be difficult to implement? Is there is a t

[android-developers] how to replace defaule Home on the Emulator

2008-12-18 Thread anderson
hello i am just want to remove the defaule Home, and put the sample Home to replace it i search the internet and i found there will be a Home.apk at /system/ app but i cant saw it at Android 1.0 emulator Q1 : is it be replace or ? i also found a related topic at this group "Replace Home Scree

[android-developers] Mobile Developers Research Project asking for Android's opinion, by Carnegie mellon University

2008-12-18 Thread alberto
Hi guys, we're doing a research project on the mobile ecosystem in the Mobility Research Center at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley. Our main goal in our current study is to understand the decision- making process followed by mobile applications developers/start-ups. We are particularly interested

[android-developers] simple g1 text editor questions

2008-12-18 Thread Neal
Hi, i was thinking of writing a simple text editor that can do the following: 1. read/overwrite text files on gphone flash memory 2. the text files should be accessible over usb for transfer to/from pc 3. app should create an editable text box populated with the file's text contents 4. the text s

[android-developers] Re: Nullexception when trying to get text user input from dialog box

2008-12-18 Thread vaibhav
Thanks for sharing the solution On Oct 26, 8:30 pm, akurni wrote: > I fixed it by changing >  mTitle = ((EditText) > findViewById(R.id.title_edit)).getText().toString(); > to >  mTitle = ((EditText) > textEntryView.findViewById(R.id.title_edit)).getText().toString(); > > thanks for all your

[android-developers] Context Menu Problem in MapAcitvity

2008-12-18 Thread sweetal...@gmail.com
Hi guys I have a problem in create context menu in Map activity activity. i try to create it by the following two ways. But it is useless 1. map.setOnCreateContextMenuListener(new View.OnCreateContextMenuListener (){ @Override public void onCreat

[android-developers] IllegalStateException: get field slot from row 0 col -1

2008-12-18 Thread DanM
I've seen this problem talked about before on the group, but the general fix seems to be to use a table that has a primary key field named "_id". This field is present in my table, yet I still get this exception. However, I only get this exception when I attempt to use the getColumnIndex method of

[android-developers] Re: Camera.takePicture()

2008-12-18 Thread 冰咖啡不加糖
I call Camera.takePicture(null,rawCallback,null); in onPictureTaken(data,camera) of rawCallback, data is null. I cann't get the raw data. but if I call Camera,takePicture(null,null,rawCallback), the data is not null, it contains picture pixels data. do u know why? On 10月22日, 下午10时19分, Hong wrot

[android-developers] Data SMS

2008-12-18 Thread srinikris...@gmail.com
Has anybody got data SMS working on G1 phone? It looks DATA SMS send/receive is not working on G1 phone. The data SMS sender code sends the message as given below mgr = SmsManager.getDefault(); short port = 1200; String mesg = "Test"; mgr.sendDataMessage(,null,port,mesg.getBytes (),null,null);

[android-developers] Official HOWTO for reflashing Dev 1 system image

2008-12-18 Thread Tomei Ningen
Hello, I just got my Dev 1 phone and can't want to load my own system image on it. I found some pages on XDA developer's site about flashing the system image, but is there an *official* HOWTO from google that shows how to do this safely? Also, I have built a system image using the Android open-

[android-developers] Custom Spinner using 1.0 theme

2008-12-18 Thread Robert Green
I found some old tutorials on creating custom spinners and while they're good, they don't talk about the current spinner (text area w/ down arrow). I've looked through the android.jar res folder as I assumed that there would be the pngs and xml files that I need as a base to start with for my cus

[android-developers] Re: Service launching multiple times

2008-12-18 Thread JP
On Dec 18, 2:41 am, sukumar wrote: > hi, > > Thats not my doubt. My service needs to read some data using htttpget, > this action is performed onStart method of the service. While service > is in middle of reading data from web. If someone starts the service > again. What happens to the task st

[android-developers] Re: Developing "Your Application" IDEAS REQUIRED !

2008-12-18 Thread joe2
I would also suggest, http://moderator.appspot.com/#15/e=f8&t=fa or any of the android forums in which numerous app ideas have been posted: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=android+applications+suggestions+forum&btnG=Search --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received t

[android-developers] Re: Developing "Your Application" IDEAS REQUIRED !

2008-12-18 Thread Peli
A few ideas are mentioned here: http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/board/message?board.id=Android2&thread.id=1250 Peli www.openintents.org www.openintents.biz On Dec 17, 8:16 pm, "T-Mobile Whisperer [G1]" wrote: > Hi Guys, > > The Mission: To develop an android program for the G1 (and hopefully >

[android-developers] Sub Menu

2008-12-18 Thread akurni
Hi, I have question regarding sub menu. I tried to use sub menu on one of my context menu. The behavior that I got from it is, it pops up another menu dialog after I press the that submenu. What i really want is to have menus like the one for the home screen. Instead of opening another menu, it d

[android-developers] Re: BaseAdapter getView question

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Murphy
loty wrote: > Thanks a lot Mark - excellent explanation. > Still have a question: > > getView's first 2 parameters are > --position-- The position of the item within the adapter's data set > of the item whose view we want. > --convertView-- The old view to reuse, if possible. Note: You sho

[android-developers] Re: ID3 Tag

2008-12-18 Thread Ravi Yenduri
Mediascanner has this capability. On Oct 24, 7:45 pm, CiprianU wrote: > Hy guys, > > Can you tell me how can I extract the ID3 tags from an mp3 file, using > Android of course. > > Thanks in advance. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[android-developers] Re: ID3 Tag

2008-12-18 Thread Dave Sparks
The media scanner automatically extracts metadata from any file that it recognizes on the SD card. Can you be more explicit about your use case? On Oct 24, 6:45 am, CiprianU wrote: > Hy guys, > > Can you tell me how can I extract the ID3 tags from an mp3 file, using > Android of course. > > Than

[android-developers] Re: Best Practices for Image Buttons?

2008-12-18 Thread Robert Green
I found this by Romain Guy and it worked perfectly http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/0714e077e25d63a6 On Dec 18, 6:09 am, alan wrote: > if you use a state drawable then you can do this you need the > "" xml element, its not very well documented but if you have > the android

[android-developers] Re: BaseAdapter getView question

2008-12-18 Thread loty
I didn't mean to insult anyone - sorry if it came out that way. Just wanted a clear explanation for what seems to be a weird and unpredictable behavior. On Dec 18, 11:57 am, Mark Murphy wrote: > loty wrote: > > Is this some sort of garbage collection at work here? I have a pile of > > garbage vi

[android-developers] Re: BaseAdapter getView question

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Murphy
loty wrote: > Is this some sort of garbage collection at work here? I have a pile of > garbage views to be recycled and hey you need a view - how about this > one? No, you are SOL... > > I mean if getView doesn't bother returning me my original view for a > given location why bother with convertV

[android-developers] Re: Activity finishOnBackground attribute

2008-12-18 Thread Soonil Nagarkar
Actually, I got the behavior I was looking for by launching the edit activity with the no history flag. It's not quite as flexible as I'd like but everything works as expected. On Dec 18, 11:25 am, Soonil Nagarkar wrote: > Giving this topic some life, is there any way to implement something > si

[android-developers] Re: BaseAdapter getView question

2008-12-18 Thread loty
Is this some sort of garbage collection at work here? I have a pile of garbage views to be recycled and hey you need a view - how about this one? No, you are SOL... I mean if getView doesn't bother returning me my original view for a given location why bother with convertView at all? I guess eith

[android-developers] Re: BaseAdapter getView question

2008-12-18 Thread loty
Thanks a lot Mark - excellent explanation. Still have a question: getView's first 2 parameters are --position--The position of the item within the adapter's data set of the item whose view we want. --convertView-- The old view to reuse, if possible. Note: You should check that this vi

[android-developers] Re: BaseAdapter getView question

2008-12-18 Thread joshv
It makes no sense to me either - I *always* return the same type of view from getView so I have no idea why the framework would ever send me a view of a different type. On Dec 18, 10:11 am, loty wrote: > Thanks josh, > I can definitely do the same but it seems super strange to me that it > would

[android-developers] Re: BaseAdapter getView question

2008-12-18 Thread joshv
In my adapter code I only ever return a single type of view from getView(). This view always has a field with an id of R.id.name. A non-zero percentage of the time I am given a convertView in the parameters passed to getView() and the code: convertView.findViewById(R.id.name) will return null.

[android-developers] Re: Activity finishOnBackground attribute

2008-12-18 Thread Soonil Nagarkar
Giving this topic some life, is there any way to implement something similar to finishOnTaskBackground? It is possible to reenter a task that was previously in the background without going through the launcher, in which case the desired behavior of finishing a task with this flag does not happen.

[android-developers] Re: BaseAdapter getView question

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Murphy
loty wrote: > I can definitely do the same but it seems super strange to me that it > would return anything other than what I created in the initial call. getView() gets called more than once. > Is there any rhyme or reason for what this function gets in the > convertView parameter? Sure. It's

[android-developers] Re: Simple GridView question

2008-12-18 Thread loty
Just to answer my own question in case anyone has the same problem. getCount has to return total number of cells to display in GridView. So if you want to have 3x3 grid getCount needs to return 9 position in getView is linear e.g. position 7 means row 3 cell 1 convertView is a total mystery as it

[android-developers] Re: Unable to emulate Hello, Android

2008-12-18 Thread filbert
Yeah, there's a few threads on this in the Beginner's group and I'm sure there are some here. What you are seeing is the emulator startup screen (equivalent of BIOS maybe?) After that you get the Android startup screen which is the green android logo glowing. After that, the phone will finish bo

[android-developers] Re: BaseAdapter getView question

2008-12-18 Thread loty
Thanks josh, I can definitely do the same but it seems super strange to me that it would return anything other than what I created in the initial call. Is there any rhyme or reason for what this function gets in the convertView parameter? Here what Android docs say --convertView-- The old

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