[android-developers] Re: Is it faster to draw directly on a portrait or a landscape layout?
The faster orientation will depend on your device. phone A can have native landscape, while phone B can have native portrait. for a given device you should probably look at the display driver to find out which orientation is 'native'. On May 14, 3:29 pm, admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com wrote: Presumably one layout or other must be native to the O/S and the other layout needs an expensive internal rotation + transformation in order to display in correct position. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Is it faster to draw directly on a portrait or a landscape layout?
I don't know the actual G1 hardware. On some HW devices however even hardware rotation has its price like - power consumption - memory bandwidth issues If the architecture has shared memory between application processor and display controller, then even HW rotation might have one read and write the entire framebuffer in order to perform the rotation. Or if one wants to avoid the read and write of the frame buffer one had to perform scattered RAM accesses accross multiple RAM banks. Both can increase the memory bandwidth consumption and might thus stall the main processor more often. In order to test this you had to try running an application which modifies the screen rather frequently and which tries to perform some memory intensive (out of cache) native operations. If one case is slower, then you know, which rotation is 'native' or, that the hardware is built such, that there is no performance hit. Without knowing the HW in detail difficult to say. On May 14, 4:52 pm, Romain Guy romain...@google.com wrote: It doesn't really matter, especially on a G1. The screen orientation is handled at the low level by SurfaceFlinger so the orientation doesn't impact the actual Skia (SGL) drawing commands. The rotation itself is handled by a special hardware chip on G1. On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:29 AM, admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com wrote: Presumably one layout or other must be native to the O/S and the other layout needs an expensive internal rotation + transformation in order to display in correct position. -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer romain...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: how to speciyfy multiple dns servers for emulator
Thanks a lot. I overlooked the -help-option switch. This definitely clarifies. On May 12, 4:11 pm, David Turner di...@android.com wrote: comma separated. Try -help-dns-server for more details On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:43 AM, a druid klausf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I found following documentation with 'emulator -help' -dns-server servers use this DNS server(s) in the emulated system so how do I specify multiple servers? Comma separated, blank separated, colon separated, repeating the switch multiple times? thanks in advance P.S. What's the most efficient way - to submit documentation 'bugs' - to submit suggestions for documentation improvement? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] how to speciyfy multiple dns servers for emulator
Hi, I found following documentation with 'emulator -help' -dns-server servers use this DNS server(s) in the emulated system so how do I specify multiple servers? Comma separated, blank separated, colon separated, repeating the switch multiple times? thanks in advance P.S. What's the most efficient way - to submit documentation 'bugs' - to submit suggestions for documentation improvement? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: DTD file for syntax checking of layouts / manifest files
Thanks for your answer. Is this the same for the Manifest file ? On May 6, 5:39 pm, Romain Guy romain...@google.com wrote: There is no DTD for the layout files because they use dynamic tag names. A DTD cannot be written. On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:53 AM, a druid klausf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Some XML tools request DTD files in order to allow syntax checking. Is there any place for official Android DTD files for the Manifest / for the layout XML files? If yes, Where could I find them? If no: Wyy does Google / Android not provide them? Thanks in advance for any answer clarification. -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer romain...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to Disable Onscreen Keyboard
Go to settings - Locale text and uncheck Android keyboard On May 6, 4:22 am, MikaSue mika...@mikasuedesigns.com wrote: I have downloaded SDK 1.5 and now when I enter a edittext field, this annoying onscreen keyboard pops up. Is there a way to disable it in the emulator? It's very annoying and slows my development down. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] DTD file for syntax checking of layouts / manifest files
Hi, Some XML tools request DTD files in order to allow syntax checking. Is there any place for official Android DTD files for the Manifest / for the layout XML files? If yes, Where could I find them? If no: Wyy does Google / Android not provide them? Thanks in advance for any answer clarification. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Documentation does not specify when an API was added
WOuld be a good feature. I'm missing it. On May 1, 11:45 pm, Jon Colverson jjc1...@gmail.com wrote: On May 1, 9:27 pm, Mike Hearn mh.in.engl...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed WebView seemed to have some new methods I didn't remember from before. Unfortunately I can't tell exactly which ones are new, without actually trying them and waiting for the SDK to catch the mistake. Could the docs please state in which API release a method, class, interface, enum etc was added? This is pretty fundamental to know when trying to figure out how to implement something. I agree that it would be very nice to have this in the docs, but in the meantime there are always the API Differences reports:http://developer.android.com/sdk/api_diff/3/changes.html I filed an issue about the Javadocs:http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2557 -- Jon --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Android 1.5 SDK now available
Hi havexz. I backup your proposal. Knowing when a feature has been introduced is very useful. I suggested something similiar some days ago (if I didn't forget to send it) On Apr 27, 11:41 pm, havexz bali.param...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Xav for the update. I have a suggestion regarding the online 1.5 sdk documentation. Is it possible to add the the sdk version (version with which the API is introduced) with the APIs in the reference section. Example (just a fake example): onLayout(boolean changed, int l, int t, int r, int b) sdk_v1.0 onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) sdk_v1.5 This will help developers to know which apis are new and which ones are old and help them cofigure there releases (using minSdkVersion) easily and efficiently. This kind of notation is also used in Windows Mobile SDK. Havexz On Apr 27, 1:12 pm, Xavier Ducrohet x...@android.com wrote: Hello developers, The Android 1.5 SDK, and the 1.5 images for ADP1 are now available for download. More information athttp://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/android-15-is-here.html Xav -- Xavier Ducrohet Android Developer Tools Engineer Google Inc. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: where can i get the source code of the command monkey?
Hi Dianne, Just for fun I wanted to write a Service, which can display the current activityManager, the current Window Manager and the current Service Manager, in Monkey.java this is done by Monkey.getSystemInterfaces() with mAm = ActivityManagerNative.getDefault(); How can I get the same functionality for an Android application? and of course, how can I compile it. Thanks in advance On Apr 16, 10:33 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: You need to build it with the platform build system. This is not intended to be used outside of that. On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:46 AM, adrian linca30...@gmail.com wrote: Hello group, I download the source code from [platform/development.git]/cmds/ monkey/ and want to build in eclipse. But I don't have some non-public classes. like: import android.app.ActivityManagerNative; import android.app.IActivityManager; import android.app.IActivityWatcher; where can I get the non-public classes? Thanks and best regards, Adrian On Apr 16, 2:54 am, swarup me.s...@gmail.com wrote: git source path : [platform/development.git]/cmds/monkey/... On Apr 15, 10:57 am, adrian linca30...@gmail.com wrote: Hello group, I don't have a option -f in my commandmonkey(/system/bin/monkey). example: adb shellmonkey-f script_file_name. But the command unknown option -f. So I want to get the source code of the commandmonkey, then open this option and rebuild it. Regards, Adrian -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: where can i get the source code of the command monkey?
Hi Dianne, In fact my goal is to write my own Monkey-service(initial version only for key presses). What I need is a much more controlled randomness of key presses and key timings. I can create and start a service. I can create a key event: KeyEvent = kevent = new KeyEvent (KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN,KeyEvent.KEYCODE_A); But I don't know how my Monkeyservice can send it to the current activity. How can I compile such service? On Apr 16, 10:33 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: You need to build it with the platform build system. This is not intended to be used outside of that. On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:46 AM, adrian linca30...@gmail.com wrote: Hello group, I download the source code from [platform/development.git]/cmds/ monkey/ and want to build in eclipse. But I don't have some non-public classes. like: import android.app.ActivityManagerNative; import android.app.IActivityManager; import android.app.IActivityWatcher; where can I get the non-public classes? Thanks and best regards, Adrian On Apr 16, 2:54 am, swarup me.s...@gmail.com wrote: git source path : [platform/development.git]/cmds/monkey/... On Apr 15, 10:57 am, adrian linca30...@gmail.com wrote: Hello group, I don't have a option -f in my commandmonkey(/system/bin/monkey). example: adb shellmonkey-f script_file_name. But the command unknown option -f. So I want to get the source code of the commandmonkey, then open this option and rebuild it. Regards, Adrian -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: inject long home key press
Hi Dianna, Thanks for your reply. In fact my problems are in fact even more basic. The command 'sendevent' requires following parameters device type code value How do I have to specify all these parameters. Let's take for example the emulator and let's assume I'd like to press the 'down' key My questions are: device: is this the device string, that I can find with cat /proc/bus/ input/devices type: what is this? code: what is this? value: I assume this is what I could find in the *.kl files, that you mentioed. In order to bother you and the forums less with this kind of questions I would be glad to be pointed to the adequate documentation explaining how sendevent is working and what the parameters of sendevent mean. thanks in advance K On Apr 16, 6:34 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: The codes you send through the driver are the raw events, before they have been translated to Android key codes, so it depends on your hardware. You'll want to look at the source code of whatever build you are using -- there will be a *.kl file somewhere mapping from the driver codes to android codes. On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:54 AM, a druid klausf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi searup. I have one more question. As a newbie I have still the basic problem of locating the document ation, that I need for some tasks. Which document(s) / url list(s) the possible devices / types / key- codes key-values ? thanks a lot in advance. On Apr 16, 2:46 pm, swarup me.s...@gmail.com wrote: try $ adb shell sendevent device type key-code value-press ; adb shell sleep 1 #seconds; adb shell sendevent device type key-code value-release above is for 1 second long press On Apr 14, 11:46 pm, Dan Raaka danra...@gmail.com wrote: I am using this a work-around for the non-working home key in the 1.0 or 1.1 emulator. If there is fix for it. That would work for me as well. On Apr 14, 11:23 am, Dan Raaka danra...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a keycode to inject long home key press into a device via adb like below ? $ adb shell input keyevent 7 # for key '0' -Dan -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] How to send SMS between two emulators (SDK 1.5 or older)
Hi, with the SDK 1.5 it is possible to instantiate two emulators with two different devices. Could I assign a phone number to each device, such, that I could send SMS messages forth and back? thanks and bye --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] why is the sdk 1.5 prerelease releaed with obsolete documentation?
Hi, Well I know, that this is just a pre-release bla . bla . bla, but still this doesn't justify everything. Wouldn't it be nice to have the documentation at least halfways accurate? Or if it's not accurate to add at some kind of 'obsolete' marker to certain chapters. This can be done very quickly and helps users. The very first thing I looked up was docs/guide/developing/other- ide.html Creating an Android project still talks about activityCreator , which doesn't exist any more. Additionally the example still talks about activityCreator.py (which didn't even exist in the previous release under linux) My suggestion to the Google team would be to at least mark all chapters as obsolete, which might have to be rewritten. If the document changes are already known, the obsolete marler could already point to some kind of release notes file with the anticipated changes. In my example this could have been a reference to http://developer.android.com/sdk/preview/ Where is activitycreator I think this suggestion might help to get rid of quite some un necessary support questions. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: why is the sdk 1.5 prerelease releaed with obsolete documentation?
Hi David, I do not talk about the documentation on the web. The documentation packaged with the 1.5. release is wrong as well. If the doc is wrong in any case it might be better to provide a doc.html, which states. This is a pre-release. Don't expect to find any useful documentation here. If you're relally interested in the documentation of the previous release, then click 'here' I still think this would be better than providing bad documentation without any comments. On Apr 16, 4:43 pm, David Turner di...@android.com wrote: The documentation on the official web site is still for 1.1 As as been announced, we will update the site when we release the final 1.5 SDK It's a preview for a reason :-) On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:24 PM, a druid klausf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Well I know, that this is just a pre-release bla . bla . bla, but still this doesn't justify everything. Wouldn't it be nice to have the documentation at least halfways accurate? Or if it's not accurate to add at some kind of 'obsolete' marker to certain chapters. This can be done very quickly and helps users. The very first thing I looked up was docs/guide/developing/other- ide.html Creating an Android project still talks about activityCreator , which doesn't exist any more. Additionally the example still talks about activityCreator.py (which didn't even exist in the previous release under linux) My suggestion to the Google team would be to at least mark all chapters as obsolete, which might have to be rewritten. If the document changes are already known, the obsolete marler could already point to some kind of release notes file with the anticipated changes. In my example this could have been a reference to http://developer.android.com/sdk/preview/ Where is activitycreator I think this suggestion might help to get rid of quite some un necessary support questions. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: emulator speed
Hi, Just a small newbie question: I understand, that the Android emulator is by definition and scope slower than an I-phone simulator. However: There are apps, which have to run on an emulator in order to emulate hte entire HW. However for a lot of algorithmic / GUI stuff a simulator would be more than enough. Is there any alternative to the emulator, which could be used for verifying the GUI / algorithmic part or the part, which just interacts with API's, that exist also on a PC? Basically is there something like a dalvik viewer for linux / windows ? thannks ina dvance for any pointers. This might help to accelerate development. On Apr 14, 10:59 am, walterc weih...@gmail.com wrote: we use emulator in android sdk which emulates the entire hardware stack, down to cpu instructions. iphone sdk uses simulator which does nothing of the sort. On Apr 14, 4:33 pm, admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com wrote: PC is fairly up-to-date spec - AMD Athlon X2 2 GHz, 2 GB's of RAM. Mac I don't have (yet), but I have been trolling on iPhone forums and have heard that iPhone emulator is unrealistically fast. On Apr 14, 9:04 am, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: What are the specs of the PC and Mac you're trying it on? Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* == Funky Android Limited is registered in England Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -Original Message- From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com Sent: 14 April 2009 09:04 To: Android Developers Subject: [android-developers] emulator speed Why is pc android emulator slower than real device but mac iphone emulator faster than real device? I can understand the latter but not the former! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How compile the apk file?
On Apr 9, 10:21 am, kimura...@gmail.com kimura...@gmail.com wrote: How can i building my application alone, generate the apk file?? My source path look like this: /packages/inputmethod/pinyinIME/src/***.java /packages/inputmethod/pinyinIME/res/ /packages/inputmethod/pinyinIME/lib/ /packages/inputmethod/pinyinIME/jni/ Anything wrong with following? cd /packages/inputmethod/pinyinIME/ ; ant --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
