[android-developers] Re: Bizarre reviews on Google Play

2013-11-16 Thread FiltrSoft
I wouldn't worry about it. No app gets 100% 5-stars and whenever I look at an app I just look if the majority of people leave a good review. Also, the fact that you can reply to reviews really helps. That review obviously looks like garbage, so no one is going to take it seriously. Also, Goo

[android-developers] Re: Bizarre reviews on Google Play

2013-11-15 Thread FiltrSoft
Amazon is no better. Check out the third review from the top for my app. I think it was someone trying to send a text message or email and got confused and entered it as a review. I've flagged it over and over and it's still there: http://www.amazon.com/FiltrSoft-Filtr-Gaming/dp/

[android-developers] Re: Eclipse or Intellij.. what's the verdict?

2013-03-19 Thread FiltrSoft
Google should build it's own IDE and just model it after Visual Studio. On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 1:47:11 AM UTC-4, Jason wrote: > > OK.. I've just about had enough of eclipse. I have been using it for 10+ > years (ever since it was WSAD :/) and have put up with it's slowness, > buggyness, upg

Re: [android-developers] Re: onCreateOptionsMenu being hit too many times

2013-02-09 Thread FiltrSoft
: it creates the > fragments on demand from getItem() of the adapter. > > On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 5:22 PM, FiltrSoft > > wrote: > > So, should I re-think how I'm setting up my ViewPager? This is the > first > > time I've implemented one, so I was a little in th

Re: [android-developers] Re: onCreateOptionsMenu being hit too many times

2013-02-09 Thread FiltrSoft
So, should I re-think how I'm setting up my ViewPager? This is the first time I've implemented one, so I was a little in the dark on the best practices. I was using this tutorial as base for what I needed to do: http://tamsler.blogspot.com/2011/10/android-viewpager-and-fragments.html On Satur

[android-developers] Re: onCreateOptionsMenu being hit too many times

2013-02-09 Thread FiltrSoft
t argument, wouldn't it. Would I have to use findFragmentByTag, instead? On Saturday, February 9, 2013 2:33:13 PM UTC-5, FiltrSoft wrote: > > I'm having some issue with using a ViewPager and two different layouts for > my app. My app has a listing and details view. When the

Re: [android-developers] onCreateOptionsMenu being hit too many times

2013-02-09 Thread FiltrSoft
On Saturday, February 9, 2013 2:39:17 PM UTC-5, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: > > You claim that your problem is in onCreateOptionsMenu(), yet you do > not appear to implement it. > > Whoops, not sure what happened there, didn't paste Fragment: *MyListFragment.class* public class MyListF

[android-developers] onCreateOptionsMenu being hit too many times

2013-02-09 Thread FiltrSoft
I'm having some issue with using a ViewPager and two different layouts for my app. My app has a listing and details view. When the device is in potrait, I'm using a ViewPager, where the user can swipe between the different detail views and when the device is in landscape, I'm showing both vie

Re: [android-developers] Re: READ_LOGS permission is not granted to 3rd party applications in Jelly Bean (api 16)

2012-10-21 Thread FiltrSoft
On Thursday, July 12, 2012 1:15:33 PM UTC-4, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > If you want the user to give you debugging information, you can have them > generate a bug report with power + volume down + volume up which includes > the logs and lots of other data, and automatically brings up their e-mail

[android-developers] Re: Help: My app has violated the spam provisions of the Content Policy

2012-09-23 Thread FiltrSoft
lol, it's do as I say, not as I do, with The Google. On Friday, August 31, 2012 5:25:40 AM UTC-4, b0b wrote: > > For your enjoyment here's what can be found in the description of the > Google Maps app: > > Keywords: maps, navigation, places, latitude, directions, indoor maps, > local search, Str

Re: [android-developers] Help: My app has violated the spam provisions of the Content Policy

2012-09-23 Thread FiltrSoft
Maybe if Google's search results in the Play Store actually worked, devs wouldn't have to resort to tactics like these to get their apps to show up correctly in searches. On Friday, August 31, 2012 2:27:19 PM UTC-4, TreKing wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Terry >wrote: > >> Yes, ther

[android-developers] Re: Please suggest good book on Android devlopment

2012-09-19 Thread FiltrSoft
You don't need a book. There are a ton of examples just by searching. I would just start with Google's Hello World tutorial: http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.html You'll learn alot more by doing, then reading. On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 10:36:27 AM UTC-4, Jovi

[android-developers] Re: Programmatically publishing app in GooglePlay / Way to automate???

2012-09-17 Thread FiltrSoft
This would be a very nice feature. On Monday, September 17, 2012 4:46:15 PM UTC-4, flohier wrote: > > Dear All, > > Publication of App to the Google play app store has massively an > positively evolve in past 3 years. > > Part of it was the result of management of app and content payment, > supp

[android-developers] Drawable selector not working in Jelly Bean

2012-09-17 Thread FiltrSoft
Posted this on SO, but not getting much help, so thought I'd ask here. You can see all of the details on SO, but basically I have a drawable selector for my ListView that works fine in previous versions of Android except for Jelly Bean. I've narrowed it down to either "state_selected" or "sta

Re: [android-developers] Re: Google nudity policies question. Is our content approvable or not?

2012-09-05 Thread FiltrSoft
I think he was asking if "art" nudity would be accepted in the Play Store, then just regular porn-like nudity, which is why he showed an example, but, I agree, that this isn't the correct forum for a question like that. On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 5:05:50 PM UTC-4, MagouyaWare wrote: > > Serio

Re: [android-developers] how to make live wallpaper with photos ?

2012-09-04 Thread FiltrSoft
I disagree, could be there's one person who makes all of the live wallpapers out there. On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 1:03:40 PM UTC-4, TreKing wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:40 AM, ala hammad <3la2@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> any one know how to make live wallpaper ?? >> > > Yes, given th

[android-developers] Re: Google nudity policies question. Is our content approvable or not?

2012-09-04 Thread FiltrSoft
I'd approve it. :) On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 9:33:57 AM UTC-4, Artyom Karma wrote: > > Hi! we're dev team called Hot Pies. > https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Hot+Pies We have an idea > of "nu art" 3d Live Wallpaper and we wanna know if Google Policy allows us > to show nudit

[android-developers] Re: 7-Day Notification of Google Play Developer Term Violation

2012-08-07 Thread FiltrSoft
I don't think this is true. If that was the case, every news aggregator app would be pulled. Hell, even Google themselves are violating this as their search results display other people's content within their "application" (so to speak). I think the issue is you cannot use other people's cont

Re: [android-developers] How to put ads in live wallpapers?

2012-07-30 Thread FiltrSoft
oaded > live wallpaper on SlideME, but not of them have ever reached the top40 most > downloaded live wallpapers on Google Play, only the top100:( > > Den måndagen den 30:e juli 2012 kl. 01:17:50 UTC+2 skrev FiltrSoft: >> >> lol, I can just see the headlines now, "Google

Re: [android-developers] How to put ads in live wallpapers?

2012-07-29 Thread FiltrSoft
if the free versions has ads. >> >> Could really a business model of only purchases generate as much revenue >> as purchases+ads? Maybe if removing the ads generated much more downloads. >> But there are a lot of live wallpapers with ads, which are getting lots of &g

[android-developers] Re: Goiogle Play - Dev Console not updating since July 25

2012-07-28 Thread FiltrSoft
sorry, meant "hasn't" On Saturday, July 28, 2012 12:00:46 PM UTC-4, Kaptkaos wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone else was seeing this. When I check my dev > console there are now stats for my apps after July 25. Is there a problem > with Google Play or did I miss a memo? Thanks! > -- You rece

[android-developers] Re: Goiogle Play - Dev Console not updating since July 25

2012-07-28 Thread FiltrSoft
You're right, mine has updated either. On Saturday, July 28, 2012 12:00:46 PM UTC-4, Kaptkaos wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone else was seeing this. When I check my dev > console there are now stats for my apps after July 25. Is there a problem > with Google Play or did I miss a memo? Thanks

Re: [android-developers] How to put ads in live wallpapers?

2012-07-27 Thread FiltrSoft
Yea, I don't think live wallpapers were meant as a thing to build a business around, unless you can sell a whole lot of them for $.99, which you might on iOS (if they had the functionality). www.filtrsoft.com On Friday, July 27, 2012 6:22:39 AM UTC-4, MobileVisuals wrote: > > Could you please e

Re: [android-developers] How to put ads in live wallpapers?

2012-07-26 Thread FiltrSoft
on (better organized) and it's ALOT easier to buy apps on Amazon. Google's store is basically organized chaos (though their Developer Console is really nice). On Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:27:18 AM UTC-4, MobileVisuals wrote: > > I agree with what you are saying! I see that

Re: [android-developers] How to put ads in live wallpapers?

2012-07-26 Thread FiltrSoft
On Thursday, July 26, 2012 4:43:40 AM UTC-4, MobileVisuals wrote: > Why is it a terrible idea to put ads in live wallpapers? Everyone I have > talked to says that the only way to make money on Android market is through > advertising, since the downloads to purchase ratio is too low. > > I ag

Re: [android-developers] How to put ads in live wallpapers?

2012-07-25 Thread FiltrSoft
Yea, but what if the live wallpaper is nothing but a big rotating ad? That's gold! http://www.filtrsoft.com/ On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 1:10:12 PM UTC-4, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > > Mixing live wallpapers with attempts at advertising seems like a terrible > idea to me. Have you considering in

[android-developers] Re: HELP! Google removed my app with millions of users!

2012-07-06 Thread FiltrSoft
That is sneaky, though, in his defense, the ads that I have at the bottom do not always show up when first initialized, sometimes it takes hitting the Activity a second time for them to show. On Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:54:09 PM UTC-4, John Coryat wrote: > > I just searched > > Alarm Clock Plus

[android-developers] Re: HELP! Google removed my app with millions of users!

2012-07-03 Thread FiltrSoft
Wow, where exactly do you have your ads? I have ads at the very bottom of my app, wonder if Google would consider that placement that would cause users to accidentally click on them, since they are near the phone's hardware buttons? They really need to be more specific when they ban apps, beca

[android-developers] Re: How to force an exception?

2012-05-23 Thread FiltrSoft
A simple way would be to set SharedPreferences to null, eg: SharedPreferences prefs = null; String exception = prefs.getString("",""); On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:26:19 AM UTC-4, Fran wrote: > > Hi there, > > Just for debugging my code I rather like to simulate the case an > exception is ra

Re: [android-developers] Re: Users not upgrading

2012-05-22 Thread FiltrSoft
;ve pretty much had the same permissions since version 1. On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:24:35 PM UTC-4, Ben Sandee wrote: > > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:06 AM, FiltrSoft wrote: > > Yea, I think I was a little overzealous with my upgrades (hence the 40 > > versions), because I woul

[android-developers] Re: Users not upgrading

2012-05-22 Thread FiltrSoft
Yea, I think I was a little overzealous with my upgrades (hence the 40 versions), because I would find a bug and want it fixed as soon as possible. Also, and this might not be the best way to think about it, I tend to use the Play Store as a "beta" test, in that I will upload more version to t

[android-developers] Users not upgrading

2012-05-22 Thread FiltrSoft
I was just looking at the stats, in the Developer Console, for my app, and the latest version of my app is 42, but I noticed more than half of my users are using version 10. Not sure if this is normal or not. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android

[android-developers] Re: All APK has cracked by apkcracks.net

2012-05-06 Thread FiltrSoft
One way to think about piracy is that the people pirating your app probably wouldn't have bought your app to begin with. On Thursday, May 3, 2012 12:04:16 PM UTC-4, Giuseppe wrote: > > In our app we use Proguard and License system from Google. > > Our app and other thousand of apps are published

[android-developers] Re: Proguard and library projects.

2012-05-02 Thread FiltrSoft
Doing a quick Google search, I found this post: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/android-developers/hkgtZWpYlKU Doesn't look like you need to set proguard on library projects. That guy probably knows what he's talking about. http://www.filtrsoft.com Custom news monitoring app

[android-developers] Re: Proguard and library projects.

2012-05-02 Thread FiltrSoft
I was wondering about this myself. Sorry for the not helpful reply, but I wanted to get email updates to this post. :) On Wednesday, May 2, 2012 3:58:29 PM UTC-4, MB wrote: > > Hi, > > I've an application_project that depends on a library_project. Do we > need to enable proguard for the librar

Re: [android-developers] Re: AsyncTask in Android 4.0

2012-04-22 Thread FiltrSoft
I have to agree with Nathan, I've never read anywhere that AsyncTasks should only be used for "short lived" tasks (a couple seconds). The official documenation says "This class allows to perform background operations and publish results on the UI thread without having to manipulate threads and

[android-developers] Re: AsyncTask in Android 4.0

2012-04-20 Thread FiltrSoft
Some of this is a little over my head, but from what I can understand, if the targetSdkVersion is set to 13 or greater and I have a "long running" AsyncTask (not exactly sure what is considered a long running task), I should use this code to execute the AsyncTask? if(android.os.Build.VER

[android-developers] Re: Need help about Play Store banned application.

2012-04-12 Thread FiltrSoft
It might be b/c of the name of your app. It sounds very much like ""Yahtzee" which is probably trademarked. On Thursday, April 5, 2012 7:37:01 AM UTC-4, Tolriq wrote: > > Hello, > > I've got a little problem with my app being banned from Play Store with > the reason : *REASON FOR REMOVAL*: Viol

[android-developers] Re: Is PhoneGap Good Enough?

2012-02-14 Thread FiltrSoft
I don't know much about PhoneGap, but my philosophy is that there are no shortcuts in proper development. On Feb 14, 1:34 pm, mduffy215 wrote: > It seems that PhoneGap has evolved to the point where it is now "good > enough" to use in an HTML5 project for creating apps for multiple > platforms. >

[android-developers] Re: Why are new apps not featured on Android market anymore?

2012-02-14 Thread FiltrSoft
My guess is they got rid of the "New/Recent/Just In/whatever" section because it would be easy to abuse, since spammers could constantly upload their apps over and over. That being said, it seems relatively easy to prevent this by putting in some kind of time restriction between app uploads before

[android-developers] Re: Almost nobody is rating my app.

2012-02-09 Thread FiltrSoft
Yea, unless your app does something completely out of the ordinary, you will get very few ratings. The rating system is a little wonky, where people have to go back to the market to rate it, and it's probably that extra step that people don't want to bother with. The best thing you can do is mayb

[android-developers] Re: Listview and expandablelistview

2012-01-13 Thread FiltrSoft
well the "profit" part may be a little tricky, with Android. ;) On Jan 13, 10:10 am, TreKing wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Uday Gokhale wrote: > > > How can i achieve this. > > Learn to program, read the docs, read the samples, write some code, fail, > learn, debug, fix, ask a better

[android-developers] net install accuracy

2011-12-29 Thread FiltrSoft
How accurate are the number of "net installs" in my developer console? The only reason I ask is that I have both AdMob and Flurry analytics integrated into my apps and I'm seeing very low usage stats from those, but my developer console shows counts for "net installs". All total, I have only arou