[android-developers] Development tools recommendation thread

2009-09-08 Thread GiladH
be of high value in developing your own Android apps... Peace GiladH --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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@googleg

[android-developers] Developing a shared library client _without_ mydroid code

2009-08-23 Thread GiladH
unacceptable for us. is there any way to circumvent this latter request? tnx, GiladH --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-

[android-developers] Re: creating a shared jar library

2009-08-05 Thread GiladH
ad/write) segment of the shared jar is part of the calling process'es address space => all static data (blocks, constructors etc.) will be initialized _separately_ for each app using the shared jar are my assumptions correct? GiladH On Jul 30, 7:31 pm, Dianne Hackborn wr

[android-developers] Re: shared jar library - source branch under mydroid?

2009-08-05 Thread GiladH
hi, no response in android porting, so i'm re-opening this thread here. your suggestions will be welcomed. GiladH On Aug 3, 5:34 pm, GiladH wrote: > the above post has been moved to android porting. pls disregard. > > On Aug 3, 4:50 pm,GiladH wrote: > > > hey,

[android-developers] Re: shared jar library - source branch under mydroid?

2009-08-03 Thread GiladH
the above post has been moved to android porting. pls disregard. On Aug 3, 4:50 pm, GiladH wrote: > hey, > > we're developing applications that will use a single 'shared library' > jar file. > the jar file will be packed as part of the operating system (built &a

[android-developers] shared jar library - source branch under mydroid?

2009-08-03 Thread GiladH
e root and (b) be compiled with the same java version as mydroid. both a & b are somewhat inconvenient for us (the latter a bit more). is there a way around them? GiladH --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

[android-developers] Re: creating a shared jar library

2009-07-30 Thread GiladH
i take it this option still stands (again - only for open source platform), right? GiladH On Jul 30, 5:04 pm, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > Sorry, Android currently doesn't support third party shared libraries. > > > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:13 AM, GiladH wrote: > &

[android-developers] creating a shared jar library

2009-07-30 Thread GiladH
hey, i have several apps (each in its own apk, process etc) running at the same time on user's device. these apps are all linked to a single common jar file (internally devloped) which contains a large portion of their overall code size. is there a way for me to force Andro to make this common

[android-developers] Click from browser to open the android market application

2009-06-08 Thread GiladH
ng on Android, You help will be most welcomed. GiladH --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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@googlegroups.com To u

[android-developers] SDCard becoming un-writeable

2009-05-29 Thread GiladH
lieve that the sdcard is corrupted, as other apps, picture viewer included, works just fine. I have read a hint somewhere about such a problem relating to the sdcard "moving into read-only mode" but i did not manage to follow that lead. Your ideas will be w

[android-developers] ACTION_SCREEN_OFF no longer detectable in cupcake 1.5

2009-05-25 Thread GiladH
fine . GiladH --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email

[android-developers] Putting the device to sleep?

2009-05-23 Thread GiladH
should i do to get this working? (B) How can i programmatically wake up the device. just to clarify - i'm not interested in a wake lock solution tnx, GiladH --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google G

[android-developers] eigenpictures

2009-05-20 Thread GiladH
Hey, Is there a way to determine whether a given picture was taken on this device? I have found no matching field in database (MediaStore.Images.Media.*) and, afaik, Andro does not allow direct interrogation of jpeg metadata. tnx, GiladH

[android-developers] Re: Displaying a "now loading" image while applic is, well, loading

2009-05-05 Thread GiladH
12:34 am, Marco Nelissen wrote: > Why not set your content view to be an ImageView with the desired image, and > then once you're ready to show the real UI, call setContentView() again with > the real UI? > > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:22 PM, GiladH wrote: > > > Tnx but that

[android-developers] Re: Displaying a "now loading" image while applic is, well, loading

2009-05-04 Thread GiladH
transition between UI and background threads: > > http://d.android.com/reference/android/os/AsyncTask.html > > j > > > > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:02 AM,GiladH wrote: > > > Hey, > > > I want to display a fancy 'loading' image at my app's startup t

[android-developers] Displaying a "now loading" image while applic is, well, loading

2009-05-04 Thread GiladH
Hey, I want to display a fancy 'loading' image at my app's startup time. The problem: my startup code is mostly GUI related, hence needs to run on UI thread. Is there a way to do both - that is run UI-related code on UI thread while an image is displayed to the

[android-developers] 'Non-applicative' ANR when performing extensive GUI operations within application

2009-04-30 Thread GiladH
be appreciated!!! Peace, GiladH DALVIK THREADS: "MyMainThread" prio=5 tid=3 TIMED_WAIT | group="main" sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=1 obj=0x400103e8 | sysTid=1200 nice=0 sched=0/0 handle=-1090745188 at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method) at java.lang.Object.wait(Objec

[android-developers] Re: Application gets killed "because provider is in dying process"

2009-04-12 Thread GiladH
rocess you have a cursor on > crashes for whatever reason, your process needs to be killed as well. > > > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:55 AM, GiladH wrote: > > > Hey, > > > After long running the Media|Player (audio mode) the app I'm > > developin

[android-developers] Monket testing results in fatal ANR

2009-04-12 Thread GiladH
#x27;no lengthy ops on main thread' , is there a clue for anyone what's going wrong? how can I further investigate the location of the problem? TIA, GiladH DALVIK THREADS: "MyAppMainThread" prio=5 tid=3 WAIT | group="main" sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=0 obj=0x4001

[android-developers] Application gets killed "because provider is in dying process"

2009-04-09 Thread GiladH
pon for that matter) is about to be killed -or- (b) avoid my own app's killing after media process kill TIA, GiladH --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To

[android-developers] Re: G1 detected as 'offline' by Eclipse plugin

2009-02-14 Thread GiladH
Hi, If you're ALWAYS having this problem - your best bet it so go to the driver manager and look for yellow (i.e. incompletely installed) USB drivers If you're having this problem every now & again - just boot your PC when it happens. couldn't figure out anything smarter

[android-developers] Re: in-memory live object histogram

2009-02-10 Thread GiladH
I only have G1... Isn't there a way, maybe a poorly documented one, for chmod 777 G1 ? GiladH On Feb 11, 2:35 am, fadden wrote: > On Feb 10, 4:41 am,GiladH wrote: > > > 1. hprof only works on emulator (unless i'm missing something). i > > would much prefer to anal

[android-developers] Adding icon to a contextMenu

2009-02-10 Thread GiladH
Hi, While Contextmenu items support calling setIcon : menu.add(0, ).setIcon( R.drawable.xxx); the icon never gets displayed. Is this a bug? a feature? Is there a reasonably priced workaround for getting icons onto context menus? TIA, GiladH

[android-developers] Re: in-memory live object histogram

2009-02-10 Thread GiladH
l' classes such as Class object and byte[], is there a way for me to learn which 'significant' class is the owner of these classes, e.g.: - your app has 555 byte[] classes, 70% of which are owned by MyClass GiladH On Feb 9, 11:18 pm, fadden wrote: > On

[android-developers] in-memory live object histogram

2009-02-09 Thread GiladH
much simpler! Pls note that DDMS's Allocation Tracker is not what I'm looking for, as it does not allow creation of such type-based histograms. Tnx, GiladH --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group

[android-developers] Re: Read/write JPEG metadata (e.g. in EXIF format)

2009-02-07 Thread GiladH
jpeg acces. GiladH --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, sen

[android-developers] Read/write JPEG metadata (e.g. in EXIF format)

2009-02-06 Thread GiladH
Hey guys, Is there a way to directly access a Jpeg's file metadata, without having to go through the ImageManager services? Tnx, GiladH --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Develop

[android-developers] Identifying pictures taken on 'this' device

2009-01-26 Thread GiladH
ze that it only gets called upon images taken from _my own_ application - and idea goes to basket. I have also looked within MediaStore.Images.Media for fields that might carry relevant information, with no luck. TIA, GiladH --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received th

[android-developers] Re: Viewing G1's data folder (via DDMS)

2009-01-18 Thread GiladH
Works fine with adb. Tnx guys. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send e

[android-developers] Viewing G1's data folder (via DDMS)

2009-01-17 Thread GiladH
ANR file (log msg from G1: 'Wrote stack trace to '/data/anr/traces.txt' ). Any ideas? GiladH --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this

[android-developers] API for creating missing thumbnail files?

2009-01-16 Thread GiladH
? If not - which parameters should I use to generate a thumbnail file identical to the one created by Android itself? Tnx, GiladH --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To

[android-developers] Re: Capturing the PictureWasTaken event

2009-01-16 Thread GiladH
Hey Dave, issue solved by periodically polling the mediaStore, as you suggested. Tnx, GiladH --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email

[android-developers] Capturing the PictureWasTaken event

2009-01-15 Thread GiladH
internall calls: Camera.open().takePicture( null, null, My_jpegImageCallback); The results: BroadcastReceiver successfully called at startup My_jpegImageCallback NOT called when user is taking a new picture. Pls advise. GiladH --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

[android-developers] Android Windows driver gone

2008-12-15 Thread GiladH
Guys, The Android Windows driver, aka android_usb_windows.zip, is no longer downloadable from Android/Docs, plus ~all references to it have been removed. Does this mean there's now a better way for device debugging, that is, other than purchasing the G1 dev phone :) ? G

[android-developers] Re: G1 detected as 'offline' by Eclipse plugin

2008-12-02 Thread GiladH
Problem resolved. Probably due to improper USB driver installation. On Dec 1, 10:34 pm, GiladH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys, > > I can debug my app just fine with the emulator. > > However, when I connect my G1 device to desktop via USB and attempt > to run/d

[android-developers] Re: G1 detected as 'offline' by Eclipse plugin

2008-12-02 Thread GiladH
Hi, Setting "stay awake" makes no differentce. So does rebooting desktop & device... I am using the driver supplied by Google. GiladH On Dec 1, 10:58 pm, joshv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Make sure "stay awake" in the Application | Development menu settin

[android-developers] G1 detected as 'offline' by Eclipse plugin

2008-12-01 Thread GiladH
- Application>Unknown Resources==true - Development>USB Debugging==true Also - application section of manifest app contains: android:debuggable="true" Any helpful idea will be welcomed. GiladH --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message be

[android-developers] p2p connection?

2008-09-28 Thread GiladH
Hey guys, Now that GTalk API is (temporarily?) out, is there a way for one Android mobile to directly communicate with another, possibly belonging to another operator/network/NAT server, possibly located in another continent ? By 'communicate' I mean create TCP/UDP/RMI/any other transmission mod

[android-developers] Re: Programmatically sending MMS?

2008-09-18 Thread GiladH
Thanks, i might. I take this to mean there is no "standard" Android API for MMS sending, right? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android

[android-developers] Programmatically sending MMS?

2008-09-17 Thread GiladH
Hey guys, is there a way for my app to issue an MMS ? If not, is there any other way that allows me to send large (as in 300K) binary data to a peer by his phone numer. SmsManager.sendDataMessage() will not do this trick, as it is limited to 133 bytes messages Tnx, Gilad --~--~-~--~--