[android-developers] Re: Devs: Give your thumbs up on these missing Market features

2009-05-02 Thread Al Sutton
The Market Forum doesn't encourage discussion of ideas in any meaningful way and is pretty poorly run, you only need to look the following recent thread for an example of a regular problem; http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=11f055fff4d8 840a&hl=en The "Google Employ

[android-developers] Re: How to create a Toast from a background operation?

2009-05-02 Thread Mariano Kamp
Sorry, I don't get it. Just to clarify, in your opinion an icon in the status bar (for the rest of the hour / or the user clicks on it) is less annoying than a toast? On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Raphael wrote: > > Being out of network on a cellphone is not "slightly wrong", it's > something

[android-developers] Re: Trouble migrating apps to 1.5

2009-05-02 Thread Teo
Sorry, i forgot about it: Windows Vista (Eclipse Ganymede) On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Raphael wrote: > > Let's start by that simple question: What OS are you using? Windows, > Linux, MacOS? > > R/ > > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Teo wrote: > > Hmm, the problem reappears after restarti

[android-developers] Re: Android v. 1.5 = FAIL #2: Directly Manipulating Settings

2009-05-02 Thread schwiz
this suuucks I can understand googles reasoning behind this but this is way to extreme. Why not make it so the user can decide if they want an app to be able to access these settings or not. Sure there are some apps out there that switched things on and off without the user knowing. But the

[android-developers] Re: Android 1.5 Early look problems

2009-05-02 Thread Jeff Sharkey
Here ya go: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/a5247467151f5e3a j 2009/5/2 EboMike : > > Jeff, is there a list of classes that are prohibited? Looks like > TableLayout is also on the no-fly list. -- Jeff Sharkey jshar...@google.com --~--~-~--~~~

[android-developers] MediaRecorder setCamera function

2009-05-02 Thread bra...@gmail.com
Ok posted this several days ago but it appears to have been deleted. I am looking for clarification on the setCamera function. One would have assumed you could open a camera device and set it as the input device of the MediaRecorder. However this causes a crash because no matter what I do it trie

[android-developers] Re: AudioFlinger - many "write blocked for" log WARN messages

2009-05-02 Thread Mark Carter
I see that AudioFlinger is some native base C++ library. Does anyone know what can be done about all these messages? Having hundreds/thousands of these messages is making the logcat very difficult to use... On May 1, 9:20 am, Mark Carter wrote: > I'm using the MediaPlayer to play audio (mp3) fi

[android-developers] Re: Android 1.5 Early look problems

2009-05-02 Thread EboMike
Jeff, is there a list of classes that are prohibited? Looks like TableLayout is also on the no-fly list. On Apr 17, 1:17 pm, Jeff Sharkey wrote: > Yes, that's working as intended. There are unsolved issues with how > to get EditText content back across PendingIntent boundaries, so we > aren't a

[android-developers] Re: URGENT - Retrieve User Data

2009-05-02 Thread Carter
This is an Android bug which has been discussed on this forum before. Unfortunately, you are screwed. The only workaround is for your users to uninstall and reinstall the app. - Carter On May 2, 5:55 pm, havexz wrote: > Thanks for reply but I m still looking for a solutioncan i > som

[android-developers] Re: AppWidget issues

2009-05-02 Thread Romain Guy
Same thing, won't be fixed in the cupcake update. On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:02 PM, AndroidApp wrote: > > 'won't be able to fix' for 1.5 SDK, what about on the cupcake update? > Dont really care about whether it's fixed for the SDK. > > On Apr 23, 2:02 pm, Jeff Sharkey wrote: >> So just a heads u

[android-developers] How to change background on a Spinner?

2009-05-02 Thread craiget
I'm trying to figure out how to change the default white background from a spinner. I've tried a couple of things and looked around on this newsgroup and elsewhere online. There have been a few related questions, but I haven't deduced the answer yet (maybe I just didn't understand what I've read).

[android-developers] Re: AppWidget issues

2009-05-02 Thread AndroidApp
'won't be able to fix' for 1.5 SDK, what about on the cupcake update? Dont really care about whether it's fixed for the SDK. On Apr 23, 2:02 pm, Jeff Sharkey wrote: > So just a heads up that we won't be able to fix the onDeleted() bug > for the 1.5 SDK.  Here is a quick workaround that you can p

[android-developers] Re: conversion to dalvik format failed with error 1

2009-05-02 Thread Raphael
For the record, I generally get the "Conversion to Dalvik format failed with error 1" error when I do a checkout of an existing project in a new workspace. Doing Project > Clean fixes it. R/ On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:57 PM, chris.cap...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, > > I just updated to SDK 1.5 and

[android-developers] Re: Relationships among apps, tasks, and activities

2009-05-02 Thread devi prasad
some more thoughts... What I've said about taskAffinity and launchMode attributes, in general, makes sense when the activities are in the same app since the default value of taskAffinity will be set to the package name. When the activities across apps activate one another, just the launch mode val

[android-developers] Re: StreeView

2009-05-02 Thread dan raaka
Street is not part of maps !!it is a separate apk .. On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Raphael wrote: > > Looks like the maps addons does not have the streetview activity. I filed a > bug. > R/ > > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Olivier Tournaire > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am currently tryi

[android-developers] Re: Relationships among apps, tasks, and activities

2009-05-02 Thread devi prasad
Well, I DO think that Android documentation speaks about tasks and their affinities, contrary to what I said previously :) I defined a non-default value for the taskAffinity attribute of the activity in question: and the activity gets to run in a separate task. Both 'taskAffin

[android-developers] Re: How to create a Toast from a background operation?

2009-05-02 Thread Raphael
Being out of network on a cellphone is not "slightly wrong", it's something that happens very regularly. R/ On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Mariano Kamp wrote: > Because having many options, logs and tweakable features are just good for > developers, not for users. > I think a toast an hour is n

[android-developers] Re: How to create a Toast from a background operation?

2009-05-02 Thread Raphael
What you are describing is more or less the current workflow of the gmail & email app: - they download regularly your new mails in the background - you do NOT see any notification nor toast whether emails were retrieved or failed to or anything. - you just get a status when you go back to the appl

[android-developers] Re: Devs: Give your thumbs up on these missing Market features

2009-05-02 Thread Keith Wiley
It's already there, you're duplicating it. On May 2, 3:06 pm, Raphael wrote: > I'm moving this to android-discuss, where it belongs. > R/ > > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Keith Wiley wrote: > > > Actually, that approach seems to be completely ineffective, > > considering that I posted this m

[android-developers] Sending SMS messages between AVDs (in Eclips)

2009-05-02 Thread lior
I am using Android Eclipse plug in and before the upgrade to the 1.5 SDK I was able shoot messages (SMS) between two emulators just by using the number that appeared at the top of the emulator window (5554 , 5556 etc.). This functionality is not longer working with the 1.5 SDK (at least for me)

[android-developers] Re: How to create a Toast from a background operation?

2009-05-02 Thread Mariano Kamp
Because having many options, logs and tweakable features are just good for developers, not for users. I think a toast an hour is not annoying (if something goes slightly wrong), but I understand that you might think otherwise. On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Mark Murphy wrote: > > Mariano Kamp w

[android-developers] Re: How to create a Toast from a background operation?

2009-05-02 Thread Mark Murphy
Mariano Kamp wrote: > (a) There is a temporary network problem and a toast says that. The > service goes to sleep and an hour later it tries again. If the user > didn't pay attention to the problem and the toast then that's fine. Why not keep a log of failures and display it to the user when they

[android-developers] Re: Suggestion about android.graphics.path for performance

2009-05-02 Thread freeanderson
Yeap. Thank you for information. On May 3, 7:06 am, Mark Murphy wrote: > freeanderson wrote: > > Hi. > > > Currently android.graphics.path is JNI. > > It has a good performance. Working well. > > But I think it need to be added more features to Path. > > > It's like this: > > > Path p = new Path

[android-developers] Re: Devs: Give your thumbs up on these missing Market features

2009-05-02 Thread Raphael
I'm moving this to android-discuss, where it belongs. R/ On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Keith Wiley wrote: > > Actually, that approach seems to be completely ineffective, > considering that I posted this message there yesterday and received no > responses at all, whereas my post on the Discuss

[android-developers] Re: Suggestion about android.graphics.path for performance

2009-05-02 Thread Mark Murphy
freeanderson wrote: > Hi. > > Currently android.graphics.path is JNI. > It has a good performance. Working well. > But I think it need to be added more features to Path. > > It's like this: > > Path p = new Path(); > p.load(stream); > p.save(stream); > > The reason is simple. Imagine you want

[android-developers] Re: StreeView

2009-05-02 Thread Raphael
Looks like the maps addons does not have the streetview activity. I filed a bug. R/ On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Olivier Tournaire wrote: > Hi all, > > I am currently trying to use StreetView in my application, but I does not > work. I use an AVD based on the Google API which has Maps (displ

[android-developers] Re: How to create a Toast from a background operation?

2009-05-02 Thread Mariano Kamp
I agree for the most part, but maybe I was to abstract to get to the details where we possibly don't agree. My app downloads regularly, say once an hour, new articles. There are two noteworthy outcomes: (a) There is a temporary network problem and a toast says that. The service goes to sleep and an

[android-developers] Suggestion about android.graphics.path for performance

2009-05-02 Thread freeanderson
Hi. Currently android.graphics.path is JNI. It has a good performance. Working well. But I think it need to be added more features to Path. It's like this: Path p = new Path(); p.load(stream); p.save(stream); The reason is simple. Imagine you want to load TrueType font and to build it up to Pa

[android-developers] Re: URGENT - Retrieve User Data

2009-05-02 Thread havexz
Thanks for reply but I m still looking for a solutioncan i some how change the file permissions? On May 2, 4:25 pm, Raphael wrote: > I believe there is no way of doing that. > R/ > > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:29 PM, havexz wrote: > > > URGENT - I had uploaded an application with copy pr

[android-developers] Re: How to create a Toast from a background operation?

2009-05-02 Thread Raphael
>From a user point of view, I don't think trying to display a toast from a non-UI background task makes much sense. Would you like your usage of the phone to be interrupted by random toasts appearing for no apparent reason? Notifications are there for that purpose instead. I'd suggest: - use toas

[android-developers] Re: Button Listeners

2009-05-02 Thread Raphael
Please see the reply I made a couple hours ago to the same thing you posted in android-beginners. http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners/browse_thread/thread/f25bb151ca62bb1/708bd4b8ab765737 R/ On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Mariam Rady wrote: > > Hi everyone, > I'm trying to add an

[android-developers] Re: Devs: Give your thumbs up on these missing Market features

2009-05-02 Thread Keith Wiley
Actually, that approach seems to be completely ineffective, considering that I posted this message there yesterday and received no responses at all, whereas my post on the Discuss forum quickly received several responses, and the post on code.google.com quickly received a few votes. I doubt that

[android-developers] Re: URGENT - Retrieve User Data

2009-05-02 Thread Raphael
I believe there is no way of doing that. R/ On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:29 PM, havexz wrote: > > URGENT - I had uploaded an application with copy protection on. After > that i had removed the copy protection but my new update is unable to > access the files created by older version. Is there a way

[android-developers] Re: Devs: Give your thumbs up on these missing Market features

2009-05-02 Thread Raphael
Neither android-developers nor android-discuss are correct channels for Market feedback. Please use the market support forum here for this kind of purpose, it will be much more effective: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market R/ On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Keith Wiley wrot

[android-developers] Re: how to add a button widget to a custom ImageView.

2009-05-02 Thread wmhtet
it seems that similar question about Custom View and button has been asked at the following thread. http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners/browse_thread/thread/d2e84054373d1703/a2bdcf9d824c2cdf?lnk=gst&q=Button+in+Custom+View#a2bdcf9d824c2cdf I think that I have some workaround to it

[android-developers] Devs: Give your thumbs up on these missing Market features

2009-05-02 Thread Keith Wiley
I have started a discussion thread on the "Discuss" group at: http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/31876cf39acfb836 I have also entered an "Issue" on b.android.com at: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2558 They both list a straight-forward set of r

[android-developers] Re: Regarding APN settings for 3G network.

2009-05-02 Thread Marco Nelissen
For what carrier/network is your 3G sim, and is there a data plan associated with the sim? On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:22 PM, sush wrote: > > Hi, > > I was trying audio/video streaming in android G1 from from rtsp server > through a 3G n/w. In order to do that I tried using a 3G sim where a > serv

[android-developers] Re: URGENT - Retrieve User Data

2009-05-02 Thread havexz
Also I dont want user to uninstall the application and reinstall it as this leads to loss of data. On May 2, 2:29 pm, havexz wrote: > URGENT - I had uploaded an application with copy protection on. After > that i had removed the copy protection but my new update is unable to > access the fil

[android-developers] URGENT - Retrieve User Data

2009-05-02 Thread havexz
URGENT - I had uploaded an application with copy protection on. After that i had removed the copy protection but my new update is unable to access the files created by older version. Is there a way to retrieve the data from the older version so that user data is not lost? --~--~-~--~~-

[android-developers] Re: Can I put something into the ScrollView of WebView?

2009-05-02 Thread Romain Guy
Modify the HTML or the DOM :) On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Mariano Kamp wrote: > And do you see any other way to accomplish what I am looking for? > Just putting both into another ScrollView doesn't seem right when the > WebView wants to scroll itself... > > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:14 PM, R

[android-developers] Re: Light theme doen't work properly in 1.5 SDK

2009-05-02 Thread havexz
Hi Jarkman Well the themes are working fine on 1.1, no issues at all. It just that light theme has some issues on the 1.5 sdk. Thanks On May 2, 3:04 am, jarkman wrote: > I spent a while having trouble with themes set in onCreate being > apparently ignored. > > In the end, I moved all our theme

[android-developers] Re: Can I put something into the ScrollView of WebView?

2009-05-02 Thread Mariano Kamp
And do you see any other way to accomplish what I am looking for?Just putting both into another ScrollView doesn't seem right when the WebView wants to scroll itself... On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Romain Guy wrote: > > WebView doesn't use a ScrollView, it handles scrolling itself, just > lik

[android-developers] Regarding APN settings for 3G network.

2009-05-02 Thread sush
Hi, I was trying audio/video streaming in android G1 from from rtsp server through a 3G n/w. In order to do that I tried using a 3G sim where a server would be running all the time for streaming of music and video. Once after inserting the sim I tried to add a new APN in the mobile networks setti

[android-developers] Re: Sqlite open error : unable to open database file

2009-05-02 Thread havexz
URGENT - I had uploaded an application with copy protection on. After that i had removed the copy protection but my new update is unable to access the files created by older version. Is there a way to retrieve the data from the older version so that user data is not lost? On Apr 29, 9:17 pm, have

[android-developers] Re: winhelp format of sdk docs

2009-05-02 Thread Raphael
The docs are SDK/docs/reference should be reasonably javadoc compatible. R/ On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Raja Nagendra Kumar wrote: > > Hi, > > Are any one aware of good place to download winhelp format of Android > SDK. > > The current SDK's docs and search capabilities are too limited. > >

[android-developers] Re: Validating view components at compile time

2009-05-02 Thread Romain Guy
This cannot be checked at compile time. Well, it could be checked at compile time but you could potentially get false negatives. XML inflation uses reflection so the check happens at runtime. On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Raja Nagendra Kumar wrote: > > Hi, > > We see that if there are any xml

[android-developers] Re: Can I put something into the ScrollView of WebView?

2009-05-02 Thread Romain Guy
WebView doesn't use a ScrollView, it handles scrolling itself, just like ListView. On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Mariano Kamp wrote: > > Hi, > >   I show articles in WebView and would like to add some additional > information, e.g. publishing date, author etc., into the same > ScrollView above

[android-developers] Re: Trouble migrating apps to 1.5

2009-05-02 Thread Raphael
Let's start by that simple question: What OS are you using? Windows, Linux, MacOS? R/ On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Teo wrote: > Hmm, the problem reappears after restarting and i still have to do adb > kill-server every time. > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Teo wrote: >> >> Hi, thanks f

[android-developers] Re: is android:layout_width and android:layout_height manditory attributes

2009-05-02 Thread Romain Guy
> All the view components does take layout_height, layout_width > attributes.. and most of the time the valid value for them (in righly > coded views) is fill_parent. fill_parent is not more common than wrap_content, it depends on your UI. There is no default, you must specify these params. --

[android-developers] Re: Template ROW using xml and api

2009-05-02 Thread Romain Guy
A table with an "infinite" number of rows would be better implemented as a ListView. On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Mark Murphy wrote: > > Raja Nagendra Kumar wrote: >> We have a table which may have infinite rows. > > Unless you have a device with infinite RAM, your table will have finite > r

[android-developers] Re: xml view defination to take event handler class name

2009-05-02 Thread Raphael
In the meantime, you could easily automate this behavior on your side: - one method is to add custom tags to your layout XML. Use an XmlPullParser to parse the XML and when you find an element with an android:id and your tag, use reflection to associate a listener to it. - another method would b

[android-developers] Using AbsolluteLayout even though it is deprecated

2009-05-02 Thread karthikr
Hi Guys, Ihave used absolute layout in the application that I had earlier developed and since it has been deprecated now it has been quite difficult in changing the layout params, can I go forward and publish the application without removing the absolute layout? what will be the problems because

[android-developers] Re: Android Menu

2009-05-02 Thread Raphael
Being consistent with the general user interface is generally a good way to start. As Romain said, you could of course include a view in your layout that looks like a menu, always present, and thus hide or show it depending on user preferences. The rest of your layout would reflow accordingly. T

[android-developers] Button Listeners

2009-05-02 Thread Mariam Rady
Hi everyone, I'm trying to add an OnClickListener and an OnTouchListener on a button. However when I add the OnClickListener on the button it works. Whenever I add the OnTouchListener to the button with the OnCLickListener, none of them works. Here is the code: final Butto

[android-developers] Re: Android 1.5 SDK now available

2009-05-02 Thread Raphael
The emulator uses your host (desktop) computer for connecting to the internet. R/ 2009/5/1 Lucky-dog : > > Hi all >I had install SDK 1.5 and setup AVDs on My windows XP. All these > things got done successfully. But after I start the emulator up, it > seems GSM modem has not started and got N

[android-developers] Re: Template ROW using xml and api

2009-05-02 Thread Mark Murphy
Raja Nagendra Kumar wrote: > We have a table which may have infinite rows. Unless you have a device with infinite RAM, your table will have finite rows. > Would it be possible to > create row by using the xml template say > > >android:layout_width="wrap_content

[android-developers] Re: Duplicated text when using .append in widgets

2009-05-02 Thread Jeff Sharkey
Ooh, this sounds like such a perfect problem to solve with a ListView, android:stackFromBottom, and a ResourceCursorAdapter. :) j On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Alberto M. Scattolo wrote: > > Good morning everybody! > > I'm pretty new to Android so I'm facing some problems :) > I'm using a Te

[android-developers] Re: is android:layout_width and android:layout_height manditory attributes

2009-05-02 Thread Dianne Hackborn
There is no default, a value must be supplied. And I don't think fill_parent is significantly more common than wrap_content. On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Raja Nagendra Kumar < nagendra.r...@tejasoft.com> wrote: > > All the view components does take layout_height, layout_width > attributes.. a

[android-developers] Re: MapView showing as black screen after upgrade to 1.5

2009-05-02 Thread Derek
Thanks JP, looks like MyLocationOverlay.enableCompass() is the culprit. Commenting out that call is allowing the view to display. On May 2, 1:02 am, JP wrote: > Check if your app might be stuck in your overridden > MapActivity.onCreate(). > I had that problem and shuffle things in onCreate() a

[android-developers] Re: SlidingDrawer issue #1?

2009-05-02 Thread dan raaka
take a look at the Launcher source code in the open source ./packages/app/Launcher That should serve as a good example as to how to use it .. -Dan On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Sheepz wrote: > > anyone found a solution? > > On May 1, 10:03 am, cannehal wrote: > > I tkink I have the same issu

[android-developers] Re: conversion to dalvik format failed with error 1

2009-05-02 Thread CnmJbm
ok, it seems i fixed it on my environment. just delete the R.java (by refreshing the project) and rebuild the project. On May 2, 9:57 am, CnmJbm wrote: > i got the same error, TOO!!! > > May Day > > On Apr 28, 3:57 pm, "chris.cap...@gmail.com" > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I just updated to SDK

[android-developers] Re: Mime type on download file

2009-05-02 Thread arnouf
Hi Mark and thank for your answer... I know that it's not the first time that you answer to this type of problem... But my question wasn't not explain enough: I would like to open directly file after the download and not force user to click on file and click on "View or Open" entry. Can you help

[android-developers] Re: conversion to dalvik format failed with error 1

2009-05-02 Thread CnmJbm
i got the same error, TOO!!! May Day On Apr 28, 3:57 pm, "chris.cap...@gmail.com" wrote: > Hi, > > I just updated to SDK 1.5 and all of my projects are failing to build > with the following error: > > [2009-04-28 15:53:23 - Utilities] no classfiles specified > [2009-04-28 15:53:23 - Utiliti

[android-developers] Re: Mime type on download file

2009-05-02 Thread Mark Murphy
arnouf wrote: > I would like to a mimetype to Android Web browser, to allow opening my > application when a certain mime type file is downloaded by the web > browser. > > Apparently, only media file's mime type can be supported by the web > browser. Is it right? No. > How can I do it? AFAIK, a

[android-developers] Mime type on download file

2009-05-02 Thread arnouf
Hi all, I would like to a mimetype to Android Web browser, to allow opening my application when a certain mime type file is downloaded by the web browser. Apparently, only media file's mime type can be supported by the web browser. Is it right? How can I do it? --~--~-~--~~--

[android-developers] Can I put something into the ScrollView of WebView?

2009-05-02 Thread Mariano Kamp
Hi, I show articles in WebView and would like to add some additional information, e.g. publishing date, author etc., into the same ScrollView above the original content. So that it usually doesn't take up space, but the user can just scroll back when the information is needed. Did

[android-developers] Re: Activity execute onDestroy() and onCreate() method when push on keyboard.

2009-05-02 Thread Marco Nelissen
See http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#ConfigurationChanges and http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.attr.html#configChanges On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:29 AM, apostl...@gmail.com wrote: > > I use sdk 1.5 version and same to my handphone, my handphone is u

[android-developers] Activity execute onDestroy() and onCreate() method when push on keyboard.

2009-05-02 Thread apostl...@gmail.com
I use sdk 1.5 version and same to my handphone, my handphone is use G1. Now i test my application on my handphone. When i push on keyboard, i found system will destroy current activity(execute onDestroy() method) and execute onCreate() method again. So i will all current status and all datas. I d

[android-developers] Re: Duplicated text when using .append in widgets

2009-05-02 Thread Mark Murphy
Alberto M. Scattolo wrote: > Hi guys! > It seems to be a problem with an unregistered broadcast receiver > The idea is that I send and sms and I register a broadcast receiver to > know if the sms has been sent. > When can I unregister the broadcast receiver? If you registered it via registerR

[android-developers] AOP support

2009-05-02 Thread Raja Nagendra Kumar
Hi, Does AOP support with in Android sdk. If no, is it possible to use the exsiting AOP impl. and use them to bulild the application. Does AOP break Andriod applications design in any way. Any URL to know more on this topic would be very useful. Regards, Raja Nagendra Kumar, C.T.O www.tejasoft

[android-developers] Re: Documentation does not specify when an API was added

2009-05-02 Thread a druid
WOuld be a good feature. I'm missing it. On May 1, 11:45 pm, Jon Colverson wrote: > On May 1, 9:27 pm, Mike Hearn wrote: > > > I noticed WebView seemed to have some new methods I didn't remember > > from before. Unfortunately I can't tell exactly which ones are new, > > without actually trying

[android-developers] Re: Random crashes on MapActivity when rendering tile

2009-05-02 Thread JP
One more tip - I got the "best bang for the buck" by reducing the footprints of bitmaps and canvases. Mine were unnecessarily big, at first. On May 2, 8:05 am, JP wrote: > I've seen crashes like this (did not take snapshots of the traces to > compare) as well. If I remember correctly, the built-

[android-developers] Re: Random crashes on MapActivity when rendering tile

2009-05-02 Thread JP
I've seen crashes like this (did not take snapshots of the traces to compare) as well. If I remember correctly, the built-in Map app can be crashed like that, too. Just as your trace shows, this occurs mostly in animateTo(). I suspected this had to do with memory availability (or lack thereof) wh

[android-developers] Re: Duplicated text when using .append in widgets

2009-05-02 Thread Alberto M. Scattolo
Hi guys! It seems to be a problem with an unregistered broadcast receiver The idea is that I send and sms and I register a broadcast receiver to know if the sms has been sent. When can I unregister the broadcast receiver? Thanks a lot to everybody! -- A --~--~-~--~~~-

[android-developers] Validating view components at compile time

2009-05-02 Thread Raja Nagendra Kumar
Hi, We see that if there are any xml view tags, which does not exist are going though at compile time but fails at run time.. such as xml like below are valid during compile time but not at run time as it is not able to find ATableLayout Does aapi has any options to check this at compile time

[android-developers] Template ROW using xml and api

2009-05-02 Thread Raja Nagendra Kumar
Hi, We have a table which may have infinite rows. Would it be possible to create row by using the xml template say some thing similar to clone of existing row but with different id's etc. Regards, Raja Nagendra Kumar, C.T.O www.tejasoft.com --~--~-~

[android-developers] is android:layout_width and android:layout_height manditory attributes

2009-05-02 Thread Raja Nagendra Kumar
All the view components does take layout_height, layout_width attributes.. and most of the time the valid value for them (in righly coded views) is fill_parent. What is the default value assumed if one is not given in the xml. I see such a xml definition fails to load at run time with error messa

[android-developers] Re: why thread died? need background thread..

2009-05-02 Thread JP
I suppose you see this when the device goes to sleep. Check out wake locks to keep the CPU awake. Test this out thoroughly, nothing's more annoying than a background thread run amok. Also note if you reach out to the Internet to query a database server - Android shuts off the WLAN adapter after 2m

[android-developers] Re: Android Menu

2009-05-02 Thread Raja Nagendra Kumar
ok. One of the point we were considering was to allow the users to choose if he needs always visible menu (specially if the menu items or one or two). Also application using both menu and layout buttons could possibly confuse the users and may not be a good UI design. Regards, Raja Nagendra Kuma

[android-developers] Re: xml view defination to take event handler class name

2009-05-02 Thread Raja Nagendra Kumar
Nice to note this.. in which release could be expect this feature in.. when is the expected date for this release...pl. Regards, Raja Nagendra Kumar, www.tejasoft.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "A

[android-developers] Random crashes on MapActivity when rendering tile

2009-05-02 Thread chris
Hi , I have from time to time some crashes on the google code for drawing tiles on a mapActivity. 05-02 16:03:00.510: WARN/dalvikvm(6278): threadid=23: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4000fe70) 05-02 16:03:00.540: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(6278): Uncaught handler: thread Thread-28 exi

[android-developers] Re: Bluetooth and Serial Port Profile

2009-05-02 Thread Alin Radut
On Apr 22, 3:09 am, Nick Pelly wrote: > RfcommSocket.java is what you want. SPP is just rfcomm. > Thanks. RfcommSocket is hidden in the 1.5r1 SDK, is there any way I can access it without compiling my own version of the framework? Alin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You r

[android-developers] Re: why thread died? need background thread..

2009-05-02 Thread Mark Murphy
> i would like that when my app is closed it still run in the background > (like at my tracks) to collect data even when it is closed. Use a Service. > but it always dies after a while by itself, why? Android may have killed off your process to reclaim memory. And, of course, if the device goes

[android-developers] Re: Storing app-specific synced data with a contact

2009-05-02 Thread Mike Hearn
I wasn't able to find a good, free Java steganography library that can survive recompression. I think I'll just store the data on the SD card. It's not as nice as having it associated with the contact in the contacts db, as the user can delete the database, swap SD cards or buy a new phone and the

[android-developers] Re: why thread died? need background thread..

2009-05-02 Thread guruk
update: it looks the thread comes only killed after a while when i close the app with the "back" button. when i go out with the "home" button. the thread works endless. so when i click the "back" button i guess it calls "onDestroy", but there i have the same call to my thread. So whats going on,

[android-developers] why thread died? need background thread..

2009-05-02 Thread guruk
hi, bellow just a test sample source for a background thread. i would like that when my app is closed it still run in the background (like at my tracks) to collect data even when it is closed. but it always dies after a while by itself, why? thanks chris package com.chris.alarmer; import andr

[android-developers] Re: Tap Outside Listener for Dialog

2009-05-02 Thread Jason Parekh
If you want your dialog to cancel when the user taps outside its area, check out Dialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside. jason On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:46 PM, UBZack wrote: > > Hi all, > > I was wondering if anyone knew of an event listener that receives "tap > outside" events, that is, taps that ha

[android-developers] Re: API demos and SDK 1.5: is available?

2009-05-02 Thread Evgeny V
Found it in \platforms\android-1.5 On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:12 PM, EvgenyV wrote: > > Hi! > > As far I see the API demos sources are not a part of latest 1.5 SDK. > Can I download it somewhere? > > Thanks, > Evgeny > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this me

[android-developers] Re: Tabhost Disappearing List view

2009-05-02 Thread cre
Mark, Thanks. Will do both. On May 1, 9:05 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > cre wrote: > > I didn't answer your previous question.  No, there are not problems > > with other Adapters only the ones in TabHost. > > I went back and looked at the Hierarchyviewer property values and it > > shows an item co

[android-developers] API demos and SDK 1.5: is available?

2009-05-02 Thread EvgenyV
Hi! As far I see the API demos sources are not a part of latest 1.5 SDK. Can I download it somewhere? Thanks, Evgeny --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group,

[android-developers] Intent.ACTION_PICK and gif image

2009-05-02 Thread Maxence Warzecha
Hi, I'm able to browse image in phone with this code : String directory = "/sdcard/*"; Uri uri = Media.INTERNAL_CONTENT_URI.buildUpon().appendQueryParameter ("bucketId", getBucketId(directory)).build(); Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.setData(uri); intent.setType("image/*"); intent.setActio

[android-developers] Re: Trouble migrating apps to 1.5

2009-05-02 Thread Teo
Hmm, the problem reappears after restarting and i still have to do adb kill-server every time. On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Teo wrote: > Hi, thanks for the response - fixed it in the meanwhile. Apparently it was > something of this sort, i just tried adb kill-server and everything worked > l

[android-developers] Re: Storing app-specific synced data with a contact

2009-05-02 Thread Mike Hearn
No :( I'm needing to store data about individual contacts. Does anybody else have ideas? I really want to avoid steganography that can survive JPEG recompression, it would be an astonishing amount of suck. On May 2, 10:12 am, jarkman wrote: > The sync process seems to re-encode the jpeg. You'll

[android-developers] Duplicated text when using .append in widgets

2009-05-02 Thread Alberto M. Scattolo
Good morning everybody! I'm pretty new to Android so I'm facing some problems :) I'm using a TextView widget to show a log, just some text. The log content is stored on an SQLite database that my app creates and when a new line is added to the databse I use textview.append("my last line") to add

[android-developers] Lost focus on soft keyboard

2009-05-02 Thread Yossi
Hi, I implemented a custom preference screen on which I have an EditText control. The problem I have is when the user clicks on the EditText control to enter data, the soft keyboard pops-up and the EditText loses the focus which makes it impossible to enter data. What do I do wrong? Thanks, Yoss

[android-developers] Re: Ho to deteck key press on soft keyboard

2009-05-02 Thread Yossi
It seems this API is available only for 1.5 and I need the same code to run also for 1.1 So I assume there is no backwards compatible API. correct? Thanks, Yossi On May 2, 12:44 am, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > The InputConnection interface is the API the IME has to your text editor. > TextView pro

[android-developers] Re: Storing app-specific synced data with a contact

2009-05-02 Thread jarkman
The sync process seems to re-encode the jpeg. You'll need to use a robust steganographic method... :-) I had read Contacts.Settings as storing settings for sync accounts, not settings for individual contacts. Is that what you're after ? Richard On May 2, 1:00 am, Mike Hearn wrote: > I would l

[android-developers] Re: Relationships among apps, tasks, and activities

2009-05-02 Thread devi prasad
Hi, Dianne: this is the portion of the dump that I get by executing "adb shell dumpsys activity" : -- Activities in Current Activity Manager State: Task{3 com.robosoft.example} clearOnBackground=false numActivities=3 rootWasReset=true affinity=com.robosoft.example

[android-developers] Re: Light theme doen't work properly in 1.5 SDK

2009-05-02 Thread jarkman
I spent a while having trouble with themes set in onCreate being apparently ignored. In the end, I moved all our theme setting to the manifest, and had no more trouble. Richard On May 2, 2:34 am, havexz wrote: > I am setting the theme in onCreate() methodof every activity. > Any scree