[android-developers] InetAddress and the isReachable method

2010-12-22 Thread clarkbriancarl
Hello, A few years ago, I developed a free server monitor (bMonitor) that has ping, port, and http(s) monitor capabilities. It has required very little maintenance to keep up with the rapidly evolving Android OS. However, in the last several months I have noticed more and more users are complaini

[android-developers] Re: What Tablet would you get

2010-12-03 Thread clarkbriancarl
Im holding out for the Notion Ink Adam. There is an anouncement coming on 12/9. Hopefully either the release date or pre-order. I was waiting for the Archos 101, but there a quite a few unhappy people right now on archosfan.com forum concerning the latest firmware upgrade to the 7 and 101. On Dec

[android-developers] Re: Observation and comments on Android and "regularly" scheduled events

2009-03-29 Thread clarkbriancarl
Dianne and Mark, I just wanted to thank the both of you for your help on this. Your suggestions worked beautifully. My application has been running several hours on two different phones and it has not missed a scheduled event yet. Just in case the two of you don't hear this enough, I for one, tr

[android-developers] Re: Observation and comments on Android and "regularly" scheduled events

2009-03-27 Thread clarkbriancarl
e. > > Do you use AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP? > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: > > >> clarkbriancarl wrote: > >> > THanks for the reply. I use your book as a reference from time to > >> > time. I would recommend it to anyone reading this. &

[android-developers] Re: Observation and comments on Android and "regularly" scheduled events

2009-03-27 Thread clarkbriancarl
are doing different. I just want to make sure this is an issue and not a mistake on my part. I am willing to post some code if it is needed. On Mar 27, 10:18 am, Mark Murphy wrote: > clarkbriancarl wrote: > > The best I can get in a 24 our period for an > > alarm scheduled eve

[android-developers] Observation and comments on Android and "regularly" scheduled events

2009-03-27 Thread clarkbriancarl
I have an observation concerning how Android handles scheduled events and would like any suggestions, comments, or feedback on how other developers have handled this behavior in Android. I have noticed that there does not appear to be anyway to schedule an event to happen at "regularly" scheduled

[android-developers] Custom Class and File I/O

2009-02-11 Thread clarkbriancarl
I understand that Android uses an applicaiton ID for File I/O when using openFileInput and openFileOutput. My question is if I create an instance of a class in the Activity onCreate like the following and do some file IO from the new class, why does it fail? If I make the MyClass an inner class o

[android-developers] Re: Please Help! Service seems to sleep when phone is inactive

2009-02-07 Thread clarkbriancarl
t; > void barRight() { >   try { >       wakelock.acquire(); >       doSomeWork(); >   } catch (SomeException e) { >       Log.w(...); >   } finally { >       wakelock.release(); >   } > > } > > On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:19 PM, clarkbriancarl > >

[android-developers] Re: Please Help! Service seems to sleep when phone is inactive

2009-02-07 Thread clarkbriancarl
Thanks for the reply. I've been reading and tweaking for over a week trying to figure this out. Thats a good idea to use the Alarm Manager. I think I will give that a try. I would still like to hear from a more experienced devloper or a google engineer if this is the way an Android service is supp

[android-developers] android.app.Service question

2009-02-07 Thread clarkbriancarl
The android.content.Context api exposes two methods for starting a service. startService and bindService. The api docs state that when a service is started with Context.startService, that requires the service to remain running until stopService(Intent) is called, regardless of whether any clients