[android-developers] Market search not working + unfair app bombing

2012-01-12 Thread mrqzzz
Hi. We all know the Market is not working well. Search results often give terrible results on phones. More interesting now : if you search "music download" you get only 11 results in your phone(out of 1000s actually there), and checking the screenshots of the 11 apps you discover that they are all

[android-developers] Ringtones and RIAA

2011-10-13 Thread mrqzzz
Hi, i am trying to understand if i am going to get in trouble if i publish a soundboard with a dozen of pieces of famous soundtracks (star wars, superman,etc..) having a lentgh of about 30 secs. or 2 mins. The app allows users to set the tunes as ringtone. Will RIAA sue me? What can i do to preve

[android-developers] Last Market Update : app search fail ?

2011-10-13 Thread mrqzzz
Hi. Since the last Market update (about 1 week ago now) i experience what i suppose is wrong: Pressing the lens on the top right and typing "funny sounds" returns "8767 results" in the top label, but scrolling down i get only 8 apps in the list (and my app is not showing...). Am i missing somethi

[android-developers] Re: RIAA and ringtones

2011-08-03 Thread mrqzzz
Thank you Jim for your tip. Fight hard. Marcus. On Aug 2, 3:50 pm, Jim Graham wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 06:39:07AM -0700, mrqzzz wrote: > > I am > > wondering if there is a clear limit beyond wich an app containing > > music for ringtones infranges the RIAA rules.

[android-developers] RIAA and ringtones

2011-08-02 Thread mrqzzz
Hi. I have red this : http://chillingeffects.org/N/60788 but I am wondering if there is a clear limit beyond wich an app containing music for ringtones infranges the RIAA rules. I searched a lot but was unable to find this information clearly written. Can anyone point me (and others having the sam

[android-developers] Intercept bluetooth headset button or action (again...)

2011-01-03 Thread mrqzzz
Hi. I already found this question, but without any working answer in this group: How do i intercept a blutooth headset's button press (or eventually the action it calls) ? I already tried using a receiver for the action "android.intent.action.MEDIA_BUTTON" but it works only for the regular wired

[android-developers] Can i prevent RecognizerIntent to prompt user to "Retry" or "Abort" in case of RESULT_NO_MATCH, and handle the error myself ?

2010-12-02 Thread mrqzzz
Hi, I am developing a hands-free app that uses Google's Voice recognition intent. In case of RESULT_NO_MATCH error, the Voice Recognition dialog prompts the user if he wants to retry or abort and that breaks the hands- free rule. Is there a way to call the intent and eventually handle any err

[android-developers] Re: Programmatically switching GPS on/off (how do they do it??)

2010-10-04 Thread mrqzzz
> Ummm...is exhaustive a good thing? Sure :) > If they are enabling and disabling the GPS, they found a security > exploit and are exploiting it. That's only supposed to be allowed to > be done by system applications. Ok, so all i can do is show the settings dialog with Intent myIntent = new Int

[android-developers] Programmatically switching GPS on/off (how do they do it??)

2010-10-04 Thread mrqzzz
Hi. I red in these discussion groups that you cannot programmatically turn on/off the GPS : Mark Murphy was exhaustive, as always. But i found a 3rd party App, in the market, that creates a widget capable of switching the GPS on/off. How did they do it? Are they using a different SDK ? Thanks, Ma

[android-developers] Re: Adding my menu item to any text box' menu

2010-09-10 Thread mrqzzz
Thank you Mark for the clear answer :) Cheers, Marcus. On 10 Set, 19:19, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:10 PM, mrqzzz wrote: > > Hi, is it possible to add a custom menu item to the long-press menu > > that opens in any text box ? > > If you modify the fir

[android-developers] Adding my menu item to any text box' menu

2010-09-10 Thread mrqzzz
Hi, is it possible to add a custom menu item to the long-press menu that opens in any text box ? Thanks, Marcus. -- 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 uns

[android-developers] Re: My game runs much slower if i DO specify *any* min SDK version in Manifest.xml

2010-08-04 Thread mrqzzz
n set it to be a fixed size, which causes the > surface flinger to scale it during compositing to match the actual size of > the view in its window, achieving the same effect there.  But you can be > smart and not do this on an ldpi device. > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:27

[android-developers] Re: LVL sandbox in Market ?

2010-08-04 Thread mrqzzz
market right now. Marcus. On Aug 3, 10:29 pm, String wrote: > On Aug 3, 6:22 pm, TreKing wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:37 AM, mrqzzz wrote: > > > Is'nt there a LVL market sandbox for developers? > > > I think it's called "The Android Market&qu

[android-developers] Re: How can I measure FPS?

2010-08-03 Thread mrqzzz
Here is an example (in my case, using Canvas) where in the game loop i call the doDraw(Canvas canvas) to repeatedly paint the scene: private long now; private int framesCount=0; private int framesCountAvg=0; private long framesTimer=0; private Paint fpsPaint=new Paint(); private void doDr

[android-developers] LVL sandbox in Market ?

2010-08-03 Thread mrqzzz
Hi, i think i got the LVL working correctly in my app, but i would like to upload my .apk to the market and do a few licensing-related tests before really allowing access to the masses. If i understand correctly, there is no real way to do this. I say so, because if i search "test" in the market,

[android-developers] Re: My game runs much slower if i DO specify *any* min SDK version in Manifest.xml

2010-08-03 Thread mrqzzz
The issue was solved setting in Manifest.xml supports-screens anyDensity to false: I don't need that feature since i adapt the size of my objects to the screen myself. Thank you Kostya for the helpful tip! Marcus. On Aug 3, 3:58 pm, mrqzzz wrote: > Thanks for the fast reply! >

[android-developers] Re: My game runs much slower if i DO specify *any* min SDK version in Manifest.xml

2010-08-03 Thread mrqzzz
Thanks for the fast reply! That might be the issue... I'll test ASAP. thanks, Marcus. On Aug 3, 3:27 pm, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: > Did you declare support for varying screen sizes? > > http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html > > 03.08.2010

[android-developers] My game runs much slower if i DO specify *any* min SDK version in Manifest.xml

2010-08-03 Thread mrqzzz
...and if i don't specify any min SDK version, it runs smooth. I get average 30 fps vs. 12 fps. I am using Canvas to render and a JBox jar for physics. Tested and re-tested on a Motorola Milestone with Android 2.1 update 1. Using latest Eclipse ADT. Any tips? Thanks, Marcus. -- You received

[android-developers] Bluetooth: programmatically clearing the devices names cache? And unbinding a device? And why does a device become paired after a failed connection attempt?

2010-04-08 Thread mrqzzz
Hi. Question 1: In any Android version, supporting Bluetooth, after a device dicovery is done, there is no way to *programmatically* clear the devices names that were cached by the system during the discovery. (Unless, an attempt to connect to a device is done, then the name is updated.) Is there

[android-developers] Re: How to have TimerTask (or equivalent) that executes even while display is sleeping ?

2010-02-09 Thread mrqzzz
Thank you Mark, your suggestions and tips are great, as always! Marcus. -- 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 to

[android-developers] How to have TimerTask (or equivalent) that executes even while display is sleeping ?

2010-02-09 Thread mrqzzz
Hi. I have noticed that when display goes to sleep, my TimerTask is also freezed, until display is waked up. I need my TimerTask to execute (a BlueTooth operation every few minutes) even while the display is sleeping. How do i achieve this (eventually using something else instead of a TimerTask) ?

[android-developers] Nested TabWidget ?

2010-01-03 Thread mrqzzz
Hello. I am new to Android. I just started with the layout examples and i was wondering how to get nested TabWidgets (a TabWidget inside a tab of another TabWidget). I noticed that android:id="@android:id/tabs" of one TabWidget might conflict with the other... or am i missing something? Thanks, Ma