I have been receiving complaints from users of my application that
have the HTC Hero. The HTC media player on this phone always
intercepts the Bluetooth media buttons. I searched the development
forum and found this post:
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/a27
Its good to see people really thinking about interaction design. Apple
has given their developers many more resources in this are than Google
has. As Ben wrote, I try to address some of this at my blog (http://
www.BinarySheep.com) but I have a long way to go.
The "+" button behavior on iPhone can
Hey,
That's an interesting article - I can definitely see the menu button
changing standard user behaviors and the interactions they come to
expect. I'd definitely agree that the context menu is a strong point
of the platform. It took me a few weeks to get comfortable with the
back button, so I ca
Probably not. Googlers got one for free, but us mortal developers are
not considered worthy of a similar treatment.
On Jan 10, 6:22 am, ian wrote:
> Does anybody know if developers will be able to buy a Nexus for less
> than $529?
>
> I need a phone for testing my apps soon but the price seems s
Did anyone get a fix for this issue ?
Im using eclipse and android sdk r2. My scenario is res/raw/abc.xml. I have
the following code
Resources res = Resources.*getSystem*() ;
FileDescriptor *fd* = res.openRawResourceFd (R.layout.
*main*).getFileDescriptor();
Or
InputStream in = res.openRawReso
they never sold the actual developer phones to developers cheaper, I
doubt they will discount the nexus one for us.
On Jan 9, 11:22 pm, ian wrote:
> Does anybody know if developers will be able to buy a Nexus for less
> than $529?
>
> I need a phone for testing my apps soon but the price seems s
Does anybody know if developers will be able to buy a Nexus for less
than $529?
I need a phone for testing my apps soon but the price seems steep.
Also I'm worried 2,1 may break my apps, which are designed for 1.5.
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Great, thanks Mark (by the way, your books are great).
One quick more: how do I know the min/max resolution of a screen offered by
a given device ?
Thanks,
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Mark Murphy wrote:
> frantz lohier wrote:
> > Does anybody know a way for an Activity to retrieve the name
Yves Glodt wrote:
> About the +-button: Do not forget on Android you have a menu. (kind of a
> "context-menu")
>
> So, create a menu and include an "Add"-button in that menu. So you can
> do with "settings", "reload" without using space on the touchscreen.
> The menu just appears when needed.
>
>
About the +-button: Do not forget on Android you have a menu. (kind of a
"context-menu")
So, create a menu and include an "Add"-button in that menu. So you can do
with "settings", "reload" without using space on the touchscreen.
The menu just appears when needed.
The menu (or context-menu if you
VY wrote:
>
> I just did this and adb devices is still showing nothing.
>
> I did all these while the phone is mounted as a USB drive on my Linux
> host. Is that ok?
Try it unmounted. I forget whether that works or not on Linux.
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I just did this and adb devices is still showing nothing.
I did all these while the phone is mounted as a USB drive on my Linux host.
Is that ok?
I also did all these with sudo, so have root privileges
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Mark Murphy wrote:
> VY wrote:
> >
> > Hi:
> >
> > I connect
thanks is working now, it was exactly what you said, I was looking
into Intent and put/get Extras...
I had no clue of this PendingIntent behavior.
On Jan 9, 10:06 pm, Mark Murphy wrote:
> Albert wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > Can someone see what I am doing wrong here, when I try to get the
> > extras I se
VY wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> I connected my Android phone (Android 1.6) to my Ubuntu laptop.
> I put in the udev rules as listed on this page:
>
>http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/device.html#setting-up
>
> I have rebooted as well. However, "adb devices" do not see my phone
> and I c
Hi:
I connected my Android phone (Android 1.6) to my Ubuntu laptop.
I put in the udev rules as listed on this page:
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/device.html#setting-up
I have rebooted as well. However, "adb devices" do not see my phone
and I can see my phone under lsusb. I
Kyle Stewart over at BinarySheep.com seems to feel the same way about
the lack of HI guidelines. He's drafted his own guidelines off of the
iPhone HIG documentation - looks pretty good, but there's lots left to
add:
http://www.binarysheep.com/?p=108
- Ben
On Jan 8, 3:54 am, Michael Rueger wrote
Edward Hinchliffe wrote:
> Thanks mark for the speedy response as always.
>
> Thread 1 is listening for messages (in xml format) on a TCP socket and
> is sending the string over to thread 2.
OK, so thread 1 is blocking on network I/O, so that makes sense.
> Thread 2 will parse the message
> into
I have an app that downloads several gifs and then needs to overlay
them (not all centered at the same point), honoring the transparency
of the images.
I am currently planning to subclass ImageView.
What is an efficient way to do the overlay/merge?
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Thanks mark for the speedy response as always.
Thread 1 is listening for messages (in xml format) on a TCP socket and is
sending the string over to thread 2. Thread 2 will parse the message into an
object and interpret it. Thread 2 can also accept message objects and build
an xml string, which it'
Thanks Mark, it works.
On Jan 9, 3:32 pm, Mark Murphy wrote:
> Business Talk wrote:
> > How is it that I can open a file with
>
> > FileInputStream inputStream = _Context.openFileInput("songs.zip");
>
> > but not with
>
> > ZipFile zipFile = new ZipFile("songs.zip");
>
> > the ZipFile throws the
redders wrote:
> Currently I have two threads, other than the UI thread, which need to
> communicate with each other.
Why?
> Thread one needs to be able to send
> messages directly to thread two, and vice versa.
Why?
> At the minute, my code looks like this:
>
> runnable1 = new myRunnable();
Albert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can someone see what I am doing wrong here, when I try to get the
> extras I sent on my intent it always returns null
>
> Intent activityIntent = new Intent(context, TopImage.class);
> activityIntent.putStringArrayListExtra("com.mobile.dev.LIST",
> mStringList); //mString
Hi,
Can someone see what I am doing wrong here, when I try to get the
extras I sent on my intent it always returns null
Intent activityIntent = new Intent(context, TopImage.class);
activityIntent.putStringArrayListExtra("com.mobile.dev.LIST",
mStringList); //mStringList is not null for sure
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Jason Proctor wrote:
>
> it would be really nice if the piece of code that got annoyed said *what*
> had annoyed it!
> otherwise it's "can you guess the number Android is thinking of" all over
> again.
> #bettererrormessagesplease #soapbox
>
#patcheswelcome
Thou
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:36 AM, skink wrote:
> On Jan 9, 12:15 am, dane131 wrote:
> > ok i will check it out..is there an easier way than that??
> you could use Context#sendBroadcast(Intent)
>
Yeah if the work it is to do is short (not blocking for network or UI or
whatever), this works well an
Hi Everyone,
Currently I have two threads, other than the UI thread, which need to
communicate with each other. Thread one needs to be able to send
messages directly to thread two, and vice versa. What is the best way
to implement this?
At the minute, my code looks like this:
runnable1 = new myR
I can't think of many reasons you'd want to do this with the user's
interests at heart!
Perhaps the only one is the stolen phone scenario, where the user is
no longer the owner...
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On Dec 10 2009, 7:03 am, ydario wrote:
> I tried adding contacts code to this project
>
> http://code.google.com/p/androidaccounts/
>
The referenced project no longer exists. Are there any similar
projects to check out? If not, could someone who has a handle on this
start a new project?
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Zhou Li wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> I'm working on a security project which needs connect to internet in a
> stealthy manner. It will be perfect if our app can access internet
> without asking for the permission INTERNET. I found it is OK to open
> browser with a URL without that permission but the user
Hi, all,
I'm working on a security project which needs connect to internet in a
stealthy manner. It will be perfect if our app can access internet
without asking for the permission INTERNET. I found it is OK to open
browser with a URL without that permission but the user will notice
that. Is there
On Friday 08 January 2010 06:58:31 Mario Chacon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm from Argentina and I'm searching the weight of the Nexus Box, Could you
> tell me how much it is, please? I can't find it and I need to know before
> the ship.
Weight: 2.0 lbs/0.9 kg
> Thank you
> salu2...
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Excellent, great reply! Thanks!
I know what you mean about storing the images on the SD card, but the
location in the DB.
And textview is the way to go? That's what I was going for, ease and
a one-liner is good for me! :)
On Jan 10, 1:45 pm, theSmith wrote:
> Very feasible, I would use a dat
How is it that I can open a file with
FileInputStream inputStream = _Context.openFileInput("songs.zip");
but not with
ZipFile zipFile = new ZipFile("songs.zip");
the ZipFile throws the FileNotFoundException. What am I missing?
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How is it that I can open a file with
FileInputStream inputStream = _Context.openFileInput("songs.zip");
but not with
ZipFile zipFile = new ZipFile("songs.zip");
the ZipFile throws the FileNotFoundException. What am I missing?
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Business Talk wrote:
> How is it that I can open a file with
>
> FileInputStream inputStream = _Context.openFileInput("songs.zip");
>
>
> but not with
>
> ZipFile zipFile = new ZipFile("songs.zip");
>
> the ZipFile throws the FileNotFoundException. What am I missing?
openFileInput() knows abo
> Can you please tell me if an app is picking up the system wallpaper to
> set it in an Activity, will the new live wallpaper break the
> activity?
Not at all. The wallpaper now lives in its own process, in its own
window. If your app uses the correct theme in its manifest, it will be
transparent
> But if you have any way
> of passing word up the chain of command, please try to let them know
> that external developers are a vital part of the ecosystem, and
> releasing the appropriate SDK *before* any new OS version needs to be
> a priority. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that releasing an
Very feasible, I would use a database to hold the images filenames but
actually store the images on the sd card.
Changing the text of a textView is like one call, very easy.
-theSmith
On Jan 9, 1:05 pm, Breezy wrote:
> I'm about to begin work on a simple app that is just flash cards and
> answer
If you have sync turned off, the market will ask you to 'enable
background data usage' Then takes you to the Data synchronization,
background data setting.
My guess is that it sends a list of applications that you have
installed with their version numbers, which is how it can tell if they
need to
Following http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/views/hello-mapview.html
to create a MapView based app works but gives a deprecation warning on
the mapView.getZoomControls() call for 1.6+. The new way is just to
call setBuiltInZoomControls(true) on your MapView and the controls
will appear a
Thanks Mark, I understand. I did it just for testing. The file will be
coming over the wire but for now since I don’t have the backend
services I wanted to put the test file locally and deal with this way.
On Jan 9, 2:19 pm, Mark Murphy wrote:
> Business Talk wrote:
> > I don’t see ‘files’ direct
Business Talk wrote:
> I don’t see ‘files’ directory under the /data/data//
> in the ddms (in the emulator).
That should be lazy-created the first time you try using it from your
app. You will not be able to push a file there until then.
Bear in mind that you will not be pushing files in that di
I don’t see ‘files’ directory under the /data/data//
in the ddms (in the emulator). I can see the ‘database’ and the ‘lib’
directories. It doesn’t seem to be possible to create it manually in
the ddms so when I manually push the file onto the device it goes
under the application directory, /data/d
Any other Market services, you know of, that might support such
functionality?
On Jan 9, 12:03 pm, Sena Gbeckor-Kove wrote:
> There is no support for that kind of set up unfortunately.
>
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I'm about to begin work on a simple app that is just flash cards and
answers... It will be a couple hundred flash cards (some with images,
some with just text) and the answers to those cards.
My question is, how should I set this up? Should I use a database to
store each one or what? I'm afraid
frantz lohier wrote:
> Does anybody know a way for an Activity to retrieve the name of the
> phone (maker/model) ?
Look at android.os.Build for those sorts of details.
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Does anybody know a way for an Activity to retrieve the name of the phone
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This is my current thinking too.
I found a method in the PowerManagerService called "dump" that would
be the perfect tool to help me out here (it lists all currently held
wakelocks - along with other interesting items), but the method isn't
exposed via the IBinder interface. If anyone knows of a
Usually stream returned by http connection will support mark (see
InputStream#markSupported), but it's safer to wrap returned stream
with BufferedInputStream since size of buffer is unknown on original
stream (and it may not be large enough to keep all necessary data).
With stream which support mar
What I mean is that I just want to start reading from the start of the
Stream again, not request the whole http page again.
so basically - read a little of the stream and do some tests I have
created
then send the stream to another function where I need the entire
stream from the beginning
On
using findViewById() 81 times seems more demanding than creating them
at runtime to me.
There is always an Exception thrown if your app is crashing, look at
the logcat in the 'DDMS' view in Eclipse.
If you only see a runtime exception then you need to get the cause
from the exception. Surround the
If you are writing the applications (or otherwise over seeing it) it
is not hard have communication between applications, you just have to
read up on intent filters for the application's manifest.xml
Correct me if Im wrong, but you should be able to create an
application that checks if the other a
There is no support for that kind of set up unfortunately.
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In advance of the release I do have a question about this feature.
Can you please tell me if an app is picking up the system wallpaper to
set it in an Activity, will the new live wallpaper break the
activity?
On Jan 9, 1:16 am, String wrote:
> On Jan 9, 7:30 am, Romain Guy wrote:
>
> > We are c
I have a question related to the payment infrastructure. I have an
application similar to the iTunes. The application is installed from
the ‘Market’ but the songs are downloaded from my side and charges are
applied to every song’s download. I would prefer to make the songs
available through the Mar
Am I missing something? if I want to download a zip file using let’s
say HttpClient and parse this zip file using the ZipFile it looks like
the only way to do it is to save it locally first and than open it
with the ZipFile. Is it the case? I could use the ZipInputStream but
it makes it so much mor
I have tried doing the EditTexts programatically in a loop. No luck.
Still gives me the same problem. I am having a hard time trying to
figure out what the exact problem is. I am new to the eclipse IDE and
the android programming.
On Jan 9, 12:31 am, TreKing wrote:
> > Now when I try to do a sim
it is an issue for me because for some reason when this happens it
calls my oncreatdialog
On Nov 27 2009, 12:55 pm, Dianne Hackborn wrote:
> Don't worry about it, it's not an issue.
>
> 2009/11/27 Per Sandström
>
>
>
>
>
> > I have had a few reports coming in from Droid-users using my apps and
>
It would seem to me that a more logical approach would be to save the
stream when reading it then parse the data rather than re-read the
stream a second time. What if the second time there was an error? I'm
not positive how this works, it may be that the stream is cached so
you're not actually maki
I am getting the input of a webpage using
InputStream in = httpConnection.getInputStream();
I then use the XmlPullParser to check if an error has occurred.
If no error has occurred, I then want to reset the InputStream back to
the beginning so that I can parse it through another function I have
Eric Crump wrote:
> We need to deploy Androids to remote locations where there is no cell
> service. What seems to be the only option is to create our own
> localized cell network (yes, we know that is expensive.) The sole
> purpose would be to support Android applications. What would be the
> r
Eric Crump wrote:
> -Is it possible to push new applications to an Android over a socket
> and install it?
Only if a user is at the phone at the time and can approve the
installation. SDK applications cannot silently install other
applications. The only way to have this happen without user interve
Nikhil Agarwal wrote:
> Could anyone please let me know when will the Android Calendar api
> come out? It is very important for my application.
No time real soon, based on the reports we have seen to date. You are
strongly encouraged to find some other solution. Bear in mind that:
-- not all Andr
We need to deploy Androids to remote locations where there is no cell
service. What seems to be the only option is to create our own
localized cell network (yes, we know that is expensive.) The sole
purpose would be to support Android applications. What would be the
requirements from a phone per
thank, so your guess is that the market application synchs at least
partial information? For example, 'Featured' application information,
and/or partial infor for other categories?
I haven't found any setting for the background data. What do you mean
by that?
On Jan 9, 1:13 am, theSmith wrote:
Hi
Could anyone please let me know when will the Android Calendar api
come out? It is very important for my application.
Thanks
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I have a need to manage a large number of Androids at one time. I have
a large suite of applications that I need to be able to talk to and
share data with. All the management needs to take place from a
central server. What I would like to do is have a service running on
Android that manages my su
Maybe your app running it coincidently causing a problem with
something in the SenseUI widgets - they do fancy stuff with messages
etc don't they?
On Jan 9, 3:32 am, Doug wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an app that works on any version of Android from 1.5 up - this
> makes it compatible with the HTC H
How can I tell, using "android.telephony.SmsManager," if the phone
supports SMS? Will the getDefault() value be null? Anyone have any
idea?
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If you implement Flurry analytics you can see remote Exceptions by device and
location.
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Manoj wrote:
> Please tell me how i can run the service automatically on bootup in
> 1.1 version of android where there is no IntentRecevier.
Simple: don't use Android 1.1.
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Its always good to test :)
I believe there are some automated tests carried out on the apk but as long as
you are happy with your file you can push it up.
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On Jan 9, 12:15 am, dane131 wrote:
> ok i will check it out..is there an easier way than that??
you could use Context#sendBroadcast(Intent)
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For passing stuff from Activity-A to Activity-B, use a bundle and pass it in
the intent while starting the target activity.
Intent intent = new Intent(ActivityA.class, ActivityB.class);
intent.putExtra("name", "myName");
intent.putExtra("age", 24);
Hi!
I'm trying to do a single query on Facebook. To do that, I'm using
FBRocket ( http://xeomax.net/fbrocket/ ).
Everything worked fine when the code was located in my main Activity.
I however moved it to another class then:
package com.example.helloandroid;
import it.polimi.elet.contextaddict.m
On 1/9/2010 10:32 AM, ls02 wrote:
How do I implement SOAP Web service client on Android? Can someone
point me to any examples?
http://code.google.com/p/ksoap2-android/
There were a few discussions about using it on this list, just search
the archives.
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Thanks for the reply, but that doesn't answer my question.
On Jan 9, 9:15 am, Sasikumar S wrote:
> http://www.androidpeople.com/category/edittext/
>
> see this...
>
> On Jan 8, 10:08 pm, zosq wrote:
>
>
>
> > I am simple sudoku app. My main.xml has 81 EditText and 2 buttons as
> > shown below.
>
Yes I did check for null. It is not the null exception. I am having
problems finding out what kind of an error it is. There is no error in
the code. The program stops in the middle while running.
"Why don't you generate your EditTexts programmatically in a double
loop?" That is a good idea but I w
On Jan 9, 7:30 am, Romain Guy wrote:
> We are certainly not trying to piss off developers. The SDK is coming
> *very soon* and we understand your frustration. Trust me that if we
> could release it right now we would.
Romain,
Thanks for your response, and I do want to reiterate that my (our)
fr
What do iPhone developers do?
On Jan 8, 7:46 pm, Petroleum Nasby wrote:
> This is from an old thread, but I think a lot of people still have
> this problem, so new thread.
>
> On Nov 19, 11:59 pm, Dianne Hackborn (at Google) wrote:
>
> > We don't recommend using the built-in icons. This has alre
Thanks for digging that out. rev 3 of the driver pack didn't play for
me either. Had to (gasp) rely on xda-developers as posted below.
On Jan 7, 12:53 am, "SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com"
wrote:
> Interesting.
>
> I downloaded rev 3 of the driver pack, but could not find the proper drive
Hi,
Any one know about
In Android Widget Package how many Classes are there?
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