[android-developers] Re: How to detect presence of camera on an Android device.

2010-06-28 Thread Ashutosh Sharma
I too am trying to figure this out - is there a reliable way to know whether a device has camera hardware at all? Thanks, Ashutosh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@goog

[android-developers] Defining a class at runtime

2010-06-28 Thread Ashutosh Sharma
Hi, I'm trying to achieve the following: - class A (in application A) derives from class B. - application A loads a dex dynamically (using DexClassLoader). - application A wants to have the *definition* of class B to come from this newly loaded dex. Something similar does happen for the Google M

[android-developers] Re: DisplayMetrics xdpi and ydpi returning incorrect values

2010-01-25 Thread Ashutosh Sharma
On Jan 25, 2:39 pm, Romain Guy wrote: > >> This is a known bug. Although screenDPI=240 is the correct value (it's > >> not the real density of the display, but the density used by the OS > >> for that screen.) > > >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Ashu

[android-developers] Re: DisplayMetrics xdpi and ydpi returning incorrect values

2010-01-25 Thread Ashutosh Sharma
own bug. Although screenDPI=240 is the correct value (it's > not the real density of the display, but the density used by the OS > for that screen.) > > > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Ashutosh Sharma wrote: > > Hi, > > > xdpi and ydpi are currentl

[android-developers] DisplayMetrics xdpi and ydpi returning incorrect values

2010-01-25 Thread Ashutosh Sharma
Hi, xdpi and ydpi are currently returning 96 on a Motodola Droid device. screenDPI returns a stepped value of 240, which still isn't the correct value. This issue was also present much earlier (pre-cupcake) - http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/72ad6ba7683a6b80

[android-developers] Re: Enabling/Disabling activities at run time

2009-08-03 Thread Ashutosh Sharma
Thanks - That seems to be exactly what I was loooking for! Thanks again, Ashutosh On Aug 3, 7:09 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > Ashutosh Sharma wrote: > > Hi, > > > I have an application that has multiple activities with the intent > > action.MAIN (category LAUNCHER), so

[android-developers] Enabling/Disabling activities at run time

2009-08-03 Thread Ashutosh Sharma
Hi, I have an application that has multiple activities with the intent action.MAIN (category LAUNCHER), so that multiple shortcuts appear in the "Applications" list. Is it possible to disable some of these activities at run-time (so that the corresponding shortcuts disappear from the "Applicatio

[android-developers] Re: Adding a shortcut to Programs (launchers) programmatically

2009-08-03 Thread Ashutosh Sharma
his.  The all apps list is populated based > on a query on the package manager, which is generated only by data in the > installed .apk's AndroidManifest.xml files. > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Ashutosh Sharma wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > I'd

[android-developers] Adding a shortcut to Programs (launchers) programmatically

2009-08-02 Thread Ashutosh Sharma
Hi, I'd like to programmatically add shortcuts to "Applications" (list of launchers) - typically these are added automatically when an application is installed. The shortcuts could be to native executables or to regular application launchers/classes. Is this possible at all? If so, could someon

[android-developers] Updating a built-in application - data preserved?

2009-04-09 Thread Ashutosh Sharma
Hi, There was a discussion on this earlier (http://groups.google.com/group/ android-developers/msg/59f5c1ad46e6b94c) - could someone confirm whether the functionality of updating a built-in/system application with a app published on the Android Market will be available in cupcake? If I have an a