[android-developers] detect click on mapview

2010-03-05 Thread tstanly
hi all, I have a mapview on my application, and now I want to get the longtitude/latitude when user click on mapview, there are two ways to detect click on mapview, that's onTouchEvent and dispatchTouchEvent, however onTouchEvent will not be work, and dispatchTouchEvent work but still have two

[android-developers] X co-ordinate and y co-ordinate, where my view is drawn in screen

2010-03-05 Thread Nithin
Can I know the x co-ordinate and y co-ordinate of my view, where it is drawing in the screen. I am creating a class in java which extends linearLayout. So can I know where my view is drawing in the screen. I want to know the screen x co-ordinate and y co-ordinate, where my View is drawn. Sorry

[android-developers] Re: how to have my custom view class use a layout xml

2010-03-05 Thread jamesc
This refers to R.layout.custom_display_view View.inflate(context, R.layout.custom_display_view, null); Whereas your layout file declares the View as: custom_display_view1 I presume that this is a typo from trimming down the problem? Besides that, it should be R.id. not R.layout., so you

[android-developers] Florida Health Insurance

2010-03-05 Thread hplarc
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[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-05 Thread Markus
Cool idea. I will definately use this in my next project. Thanks. On Mar 4, 11:11 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Wayne Wenthin wrote: Yeah the rest of us are really interested in your good fortune.   Honestly if the market were worth its salt there wouldn't be angry

Re: [android-developers] Re: image overlay

2010-03-05 Thread satish bhoyar
Hi, you can use frame layout. In this case ur second Imageview will be on top of the first. thanks On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:11 PM, skink psk...@gmail.com wrote: Dan wrote: Is there a way to have an image overlaid over another image. For example, I have an instance where I have an

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-05 Thread Tako Au
Agree with you. I've written a pure widget (which cannot be opened) and received tons of 1-star commented Can't open. On Mar 5, 5:56 am, Wayne Wenthin wa...@fuligin.com wrote: Yeah the rest of us are really interested in your good fortune. Honestly if the market were worth its salt there

[android-developers] Supress the native In Call Screen and replace with 3rd party?

2010-03-05 Thread draf...@gmail.com
Currently creating a VOIP application for Android and I was wondering is there any possible way to supress the In Call Dialog when sending a call over GSM and use our own 3rd party In Call Dialog or screen instead? At the minute when we switch from our VOIP call and send it over GSM via the

[android-developers] Screen gets locked with 'call end' button, how to unlock?

2010-03-05 Thread Sachin
Hello, We have ported Android Eclair on our target. After booting the Android and unlocking the screen first time, if we press the 'call end' button then the home screen gets locked. And we are not able to unlock it. Has anyone observed this behavior on their platform? How to unlock the screen?

[android-developers] Re: Screen gets locked with 'call end' button, how to unlock?

2010-03-05 Thread draf...@gmail.com
End call key locks the screen on my HTC Hero, to unlock it I press the menu key On Mar 5, 9:50 am, Sachin sachinpandh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, We have ported Android Eclair on our target. After booting the Android and unlocking the screen first time, if we press the 'call end' button then

[android-developers] Re: image overlay

2010-03-05 Thread skink
On Mar 5, 7:54 am, satish bhoyar getsatonl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, you can use frame layout. In this case ur second Imageview will be on top of the first. thanks On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:11 PM, skink psk...@gmail.com wrote: Dan wrote: Is there a way to have an image overlaid over

[android-developers] Re: X co-ordinate and y co-ordinate, where my view is drawn in screen

2010-03-05 Thread skink
On Mar 5, 7:36 am, Nithin nithin.war...@gmail.com wrote: Can I know the x co-ordinate and y co-ordinate of my view, where it is drawing in the screen. I am creating a class in java which extends linearLayout. So can I know where my view is drawing in the screen. I want to know the screen  

[android-developers] Adding scrollbars in a Custom View

2010-03-05 Thread Neha
Hi, I am working on adding vertical and horizontal scrollbars in a custom drawn View. I have overridden the compute*ScrollOffset, compute*ScrollRange, etc methods and have enabled the scrollbars by called set*ScrollBarEnabled. However, I do not see the scrollbars in my View, even after a call to

[android-developers] Collect information on apps

2010-03-05 Thread mboehmer
Hi there, I know that the android market has no api to query information on apps, e.g. icons, ratings, comments, descriptions, price, or categories. But how do websites that deal with information on apps collect such data? Can anybody give me a hint on how to gather such information? Best

Re: [android-developers] Re: ACTION_NEW_OUTGOING_CALL not working

2010-03-05 Thread Yuvi
Just a guessmaybe there are some permissions to add in the manifest for receiving outgoing calls notifications? Yuvi On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:28 AM, pramod.deore deore.pramo...@gmail.comwrote: Here when I write action android:name=android.intent.action.CAMERA_BUTTON / then message will

[android-developers] How to programmatically disable the the virtual keyboard !!!

2010-03-05 Thread AJ
Hi group Is there any way to disable the virtual keyboard programmatically on particular application. Thanks, AJ -- 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

Re: [android-developers] Re: Semi-urgent request for testing help re. my BBC News app

2010-03-05 Thread Jim Blackler
On 5 March 2010 04:52, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) cor...@gmail.com wrote: I certainly can feel your pain. Radar Now! (125,000 users), which is in your same category, just down the line a few slots, has made me very nervous about updating. The last update I released, about a month ago,

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Riley
Setup an activity that loads when someone attempts to open the widget explaining its a widget (and set properties?) or remove the option to open it. On Mar 5, 9:21 am, Tako Au tak...@gmail.com wrote: Agree with you.  I've written a pure widget (which cannot be opened) and received tons of

[android-developers] Progress Dialog

2010-03-05 Thread LeGeNDuS
Hello! I'm App I'm doing I try to do some operations that are not very fast, and I want to add a progress dialog... I have the next code: ProgressDialog progressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(History.this, ,

[android-developers] Re: X co-ordinate and y co-ordinate, where my view is drawn in screen

2010-03-05 Thread Nithin
thanks a lot skink... On Mar 5, 3:02 pm, skink psk...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 5, 7:36 am, Nithin nithin.war...@gmail.com wrote: Can I know the x co-ordinate and y co-ordinate of my view, where it is drawing in the screen. I am creating a class in java which extends linearLayout. So can I

Re: [android-developers] Progress Dialog

2010-03-05 Thread Christoph Renner
Hi LeGeNDuS I assume this's because your UI thread is busy executing your operations and therefore cannot show the progress dialog. Try to execute your operations in an other thread (e.g. by using AsyncTask). Cheers, Chrigi On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:07 PM, LeGeNDuS legen...@gmail.com wrote:

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-05 Thread Yahel
@ Tako Au I've recently downloaded a widget and when I tried to launch it the app that was bundle with it just contained an alert dialog box telling me how to install the widget. Maybe you should try that. Yahel On 5 mar, 10:21, Tako Au tak...@gmail.com wrote: Agree with you.  I've written a

[android-developers] Re: Accessing Environment Variables by the running process

2010-03-05 Thread MaHaJaN
Yes it need to be an envrionment variable . Is there a way to do that. Some one has mentioned that you need to make a database entry for that but i was not able to figure it out. On Mar 4, 8:19 am, fadden fad...@android.com wrote: On Mar 2, 11:15 pm, MaHaJaN cool.ra...@gmail.com wrote: To

[android-developers] Re: Accuracy in GPS Location

2010-03-05 Thread MaHaJaN
I am not sure whether its horizontal or not so asked the above question. public float getAccuracy () Returns the accuracy of the fix in meters. If hasAccuracy() is false, 0.0 is returned. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/Location.html#getAccuracy%28%29 On Mar

[android-developers] Re: Semi-urgent request for testing help re. my BBC News app

2010-03-05 Thread Yahel
On the Don't update if it ain't broke anguish, You could add a subscribe to receive beta before everyone else alert box the first time your user launch your app. The alert box sends then on a subscription form on the internet and you gather models and emails. Then when you're about to release an

[android-developers] Re: Accuracy in GPS Location

2010-03-05 Thread MaHaJaN
@ Frank and Bob What you are saying is that an android application developer has no idea which type of accuracy value he is getting from the device and he need to compare the values to determine the accuracy type. On Mar 5, 4:32 pm, MaHaJaN cool.ra...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure whether its

[android-developers] Re: Text in a circle that rotates on touch

2010-03-05 Thread skink
Bart wrote: Hi, I'd like to display a given String in a circle (so bend the string so that the end of the string touches the beginning of the string). And Then I'd like to let the user rotate the circle by grabbing and dragging it clockwise or counterclockwise. Do you guys know what would

Re: [android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-05 Thread Abdul Mateen
I am a also a developer, wanting a FREE N1 I have my application Facebook Plus on android market , how can I apply to this seeding ? Thank You, Abdul Mateen. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Yahel kaye...@gmail.com wrote: @ Tako Au I've recently downloaded a widget and when I tried to launch

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Riley
Did you get an email from the Android Team? Does your app have more than 5,000 downloads? 3.5+ stars on the market? On Mar 5, 11:53 am, Abdul Mateen abmat...@gmail.com wrote: I am a also a developer, wanting a FREE N1 I have my application Facebook Plus on android market , how can I apply to

[android-developers] Dialogs on a change orientation

2010-03-05 Thread LeGeNDuS
Hello! I'm doing an APP that shows some dialogs. Those dialogs are Alert dialogs, and when they are being showed if I change the orientation of the mobile I lost them...they are not being kept on the screen. is there anyway to fix this?. Thank you so much -- You received this message because

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-05 Thread Linus
I see that none of your apps on market have 3.5+ rating, so unfortunately you do not qualify for this giveaway. Keep working and you'll get there next time! On Mar 5, 12:53 pm, Abdul Mateen abmat...@gmail.com wrote: I am a also a developer, wanting a FREE N1 I have my application Facebook Plus

[android-developers] Tiling doesn't occur when using tiled background for the Relative Layout

2010-03-05 Thread R.Krp
Hi, I'm facing the following problem: I have a tiled background drawable: bitmap xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android; android:src=@drawable/back_pattern android:tileMode=repeat/ and relative layout: RelativeLayout

[android-developers] How to make a multi-player game on Android

2010-03-05 Thread Maxood
Wonder how can we make a multi-player game in android. Lets say for 2 players like Chess, Scrabble, Draughts, etc. Can anyone guide me on this please? Thank you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send

[android-developers] Regarding contacts launch from other activity---Urgent help needed

2010-03-05 Thread Gladys
Hi, I am trying to display the activities in a application and start the activities selected from the list, which has an string defined by me. For Example, In the xml file,which ever application has defined an attribute named resize, I am filtering that application from the launched application

[android-developers] Re: How to make a multi-player game on Android

2010-03-05 Thread Yahel
Wonder how can we make a multi-player game in android. Lets say for 2 players like Chess, Scrabble, Draughts, etc. You need to be a lot more specific : Multiplayer on the same phone, multiplayer over the internet, mass multiplayer ? Beside, what is it you don't know how to do ? Tell us more

[android-developers] Re: Is it possible to set minimum heap size for each application.?

2010-03-05 Thread James Wang
@mycall #1. The below code mean that every applications on VM start with 2Mb heap size. correct.? =Yes And If I want to change initial heap size for every application, I can do it directly. correct.? =Yes And according to comment, we can pass argument for heap size but in fact there is no way to

[android-developers] Re: How to make a multi-player game on Android

2010-03-05 Thread Maxood
Let's say it is simply a turn based game then do i have to use a Bluetooth API for that? I precisely want a game app that can be played by 2 players on 2 android supported smartphones. Thanks On Mar 5, 5:14 am, Gav gav.ai...@googlemail.com wrote: You can do this over Http or using TCP (or UDP)

[android-developers] How to prevent GLSurfaceView destruction

2010-03-05 Thread Цветко ЛАГАЈОВИЋ
Hi list, I am currently porting a 3D app on Android. This app consists of a 3D view (embedded in a GLSurfaceView) and of menu screens (for settings, search , etc.). My main activity is the one containing the GLSurfaceView. It's always the root of it's task. The problem is that my GLSurface gets

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to make a multi-player game on Android

2010-03-05 Thread Gavin Aiken
Bluetooth is just for close quarters, you want two players on two phones within 10 feet? On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Maxood maqs...@salsoft.net wrote: Let's say it is simply a turn based game then do i have to use a Bluetooth API for that? I precisely want a game app that can be played by

[android-developers] Re: How to make a multi-player game on Android

2010-03-05 Thread Maxood
On Mar 5, 6:03 am, Gavin Aiken gavin.ai...@imperial.ac.uk wrote: Bluetooth is just for close quarters, you want two players on two phones within 10 feet? On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Maxood maqs...@salsoft.net wrote: Let's say it is simply a turn based game then do i have to use a

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to make a multi-player game on Android

2010-03-05 Thread satish bhoyar
hey this will be good to play if it is over internet... On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Maxood maqs...@salsoft.net wrote: On Mar 5, 6:03 am, Gavin Aiken gavin.ai...@imperial.ac.uk wrote: Bluetooth is just for close quarters, you want two players on two phones within 10 feet? On

[android-developers] Re: How to make a multi-player game on Android

2010-03-05 Thread Maxood
I want these players to receive game invitation though this app and then they should be able to play it ...like Chess or Checkers. And they can be anywhere in the world. Is it possible? Whats the feasibility? Wonder if a player can invite another player who lives in the locality? Please comment

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to make a multi-player game on Android

2010-03-05 Thread Gavin Aiken
Yes it's possible, read up on Sockets in Java, you'll have to implement a server to match players based on location. Feel free to come back with some more specific questions when you have done some reading and played around with android a bit. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Maxood

Re: [android-developers] Re: Scrollbar Thumb Color

2010-03-05 Thread social hub
SCroll bar width now is the width of the icon or its the normal width of scroll view? On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:24 PM, NoraBora noranb...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't know there are android:scrollbarThumbVertical. Thanks, social hub. I tested with android:scrollbarThumbVertical=@drawable/icon

[android-developers] Re: Activity lifecycle problem on Nexus One - onStop not called

2010-03-05 Thread Zuli
I agree with Mark Murphy, it seems a problem only when the home screen is displayed after the activity, if I open another activity on top of that (long press on HOME) or if I receive a call the onStop is correctly called... seems to me quite a big issue, think about all the activities that use the

[android-developers] Re: Semi-urgent request for testing help re. my BBC News app

2010-03-05 Thread Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)
In the opening help text, which opens when first installed, at the very end of this text I mention something like Beta testers needed! along with a link to my contact page. So far, I have over 100 users who are in this beta test community. I've used them to test every time and it's quite helpful.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Scrollbar Thumb Color

2010-03-05 Thread social hub
android:scrollbarSizehttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#attr_android:scrollbarSizefor size setting On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:24 AM, social hub shubem...@gmail.com wrote: SCroll bar width now is the width of the icon or its the normal width of scroll view? On Thu,

[android-developers] Re: Activity lifecycle problem on Nexus One - onStop not called

2010-03-05 Thread Streets Of Boston
I think a lot of apps don't use the onStop or onStart. I never found a use for them (so far...). onCreate, onResume, onPause and onDestroy are the most important ones. The NonConfigurationInstance() methods for configuration changes. On Mar 5, 9:26 am, Zuli paolo.zuli...@gmail.com wrote: I

[android-developers] Android NDK installation on windows?

2010-03-05 Thread Abhi
Hi, I am trying to install and run Android NDK on my windows xp machine. I am new to NDK and looking for some help in understanding the installation process. I have downloaded cygwin and GNU Make 3.81 but running the build host-setup.sh command results in a 'Could not find a valid GNU Make

[android-developers] SMS BroadcastReceiver

2010-03-05 Thread Ne0
Hi, I am writing my own sms receiver app and i want it to catch all the sms using a broadcast receiver. This on its own, is no problem, but i want to be able to stop the message being passed to the messaging app. Does anyone know if this is this possible? -- You received this message because

[android-developers] Re: Move the cursor to the end of EditText

2010-03-05 Thread Aracos
Hi glassfool, insted of using set text, try append(text) - this will also move the cursor position. On 22 Feb., 14:48, glassfool maliangp...@gmail.com wrote: After the following two lines are executed, the text  is shown on the left side of theEditText, and thecursoris also on the left edge.

[android-developers] Re: Activity design advice

2010-03-05 Thread Ne0
Look here http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html On 4 Mar, 10:51, Bharatwaj Appasamy bharatw...@gmail.com wrote: How can one find what themes are available? Also, for the style attribute, I once saw that for a checkbox a starStyle was used. How can we find what different

[android-developers] Re: Accuracy in GPS Location

2010-03-05 Thread Bob Kerns
The Javadoc says horizontal accuracy, as EGO says; I dunno why I missed that before. But it's consistent with my observations. But you're dependent on the GPS implementation in the device, and how they implement and report the accuracy computation may vary. If you REALLY care, I'd suggest

Re: [android-developers] Android NDK installation on windows?

2010-03-05 Thread Michael MacDonald
On 03/05/10 10:06, Abhi wrote: Hi, I am trying to install and run Android NDK on my windows xp machine. I am new to NDK and looking for some help in understanding the installation process. I have downloaded cygwin and GNU Make 3.81 but running the build host-setup.sh command results in a

[android-developers] Layout question

2010-03-05 Thread EvgenyV
Hi all! I have horizontal layout contains 2 TextView items. The left width is limited by 10 characters. How can I store strings longer than 10 characters in new lines of this TextView? I need actually fixed width but possibility to grow heigh. Now the text next line (see xml) can't be visible.

[android-developers] Re: How can i make a menu, wich doesn't hide?

2010-03-05 Thread Simon Ringeisen
and how can i make a kind of an iphone menu? somehow like in the iPod app. thx On 3 Mrz., 23:14, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Simon Ringeisen simon.ringei...@hotelpac.ch wrote: I now want a menu to appear and stay when I switch to this tab. I

[android-developers] Re: 1.5 SDK crashing on in onReceive for BroadcastReceiver

2010-03-05 Thread g1bb
Thanks, Bob. That makes sense. It looks like I updated this when the 1.6 SDK came out. Would it make sense to set my targetSdk back to 1.5 and start using android.telephony.gsm.SmsMessage again, or, would I need to create a new package altogether and only target API level 3? Thanks again... this

[android-developers] Re: Supress the native In Call Screen and replace with 3rd party?

2010-03-05 Thread James Wang
You can do nothing on this subject with sdk. I think you should go for some help on android porting. -- 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

[android-developers] Re: registerCallback leaks memory?! Help?

2010-03-05 Thread James Wang
Have you read this one http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/avoiding-memory-leaks.html? -- 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

Re: [android-developers] Making sure activity is alive to receive Intent?

2010-03-05 Thread Sean Hodges
There are better ways of handling this. The purpose of an Intent is to atomically request that an action is performed (and optionally retrieve the result of that action), not to continue a discussion with the activity throughout it's continued lifetime. There are a number of ways to do what you

[android-developers] Is getInstallerPackageName the solution to piracy?

2010-03-05 Thread justinh
I have been seeing a remarkable increase in my apps being pirated. Not only are they 2 versions old, the name doesn't show up in Checkout, but getInstallerPackageName returns null where applicable. These people actually either have the wickedness, or the no brains, to send me a voluntary device

Re: [android-developers] Making sure activity is alive to receive Intent?

2010-03-05 Thread Donal Rafferty
Thanks Sean, they are two additional methods I can look into now much appreciated On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Sean Hodges seanhodge...@googlemail.comwrote: There are better ways of handling this. The purpose of an Intent is to atomically request that an action is performed (and optionally

Re: [android-developers] Re: Supress the native In Call Screen and replace with 3rd party?

2010-03-05 Thread Donal Rafferty
Thanks James, unfortunately porting and getting Roms to customers doesn't make sense On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:12 PM, James Wang jameswangc...@gmail.com wrote: You can do nothing on this subject with sdk. I think you should go for some help on android porting. -- You received this message

[android-developers] Is it possible to have 3G and Wifi connections at the same time?

2010-03-05 Thread draf...@gmail.com
Hi all, I was wondering does anyone know if its possible to open a wifi and a 3g connection at the same time on Android? Is there any way to control access to both Wifi and 3g/GPRS data connections and use them at the same time? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[android-developers] Android NDK on windows error

2010-03-05 Thread Abhi
$ make APP=hello-jni /usr/bin/sh: apps/hello-jni/project/default.properties: No such file or director y /usr/bin/sh: apps/san-angeles/project/default.properties: No such file or direct ory /usr/bin/sh: apps/two-libs/project/default.properties: No such file or directory Android NDK: Building for

Re: [android-developers] Dialogs on a change orientation

2010-03-05 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:04 AM, LeGeNDuS legen...@gmail.com wrote: is there anyway to fix this?. If you use Activity.showDialog() to show your dialogs, the activity will manage them for you and automatically restore them on orientation change.

Re: [android-developers] Is it possible to have 3G and Wifi connections at the same time?

2010-03-05 Thread Mark Murphy
draf...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering does anyone know if its possible to open a wifi and a 3g connection at the same time on Android? No. Is there any way to control access to both Wifi and 3g/GPRS data connections and use them at the same time? No. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)

[android-developers] Re: Supress the native In Call Screen and replace with 3rd party?

2010-03-05 Thread mscwd01
I haven't looked into it but there must be an intent-filter you can use to launch your Call screen when necessary? On Mar 5, 9:39 am, draf...@gmail.com draf...@gmail.com wrote: Currently creating a VOIP application for Android and I was wondering is there any possible way to supress the In Call

[android-developers] How to have a notification icon with image + text

2010-03-05 Thread sangorys
Hello, I want to put an icon in the notification status bar with 1 image + a number. How can I do in using the Notification.icon method ? Thank you -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [android-developers] Re: How can i make a menu, wich doesn't hide?

2010-03-05 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Simon Ringeisen simon.ringei...@hotelpac.ch wrote: and how can i make a kind of an iphone menu? Make an iPhone app. somehow like in the iPod app. What is THE iPod app? In all seriousness, you really have to ask a better question if you want to get a

[android-developers] Market Weirdness?

2010-03-05 Thread dadical
Anyone else noticing some strange behavior on the market lately? Most notably, I've been seeing fairly significant swings in the active install count (on the order of 3 points in a sinlge day) which has been highly unusual for my app so far. Also downloads have been way down over the past few

Re: [android-developers] How to have a notification icon with image + text

2010-03-05 Thread Mark Murphy
sangorys wrote: Hello, I want to put an icon in the notification status bar with 1 image + a number. How can I do in using the Notification.icon method ? Use the icon and the number field in the Notification object. See:

Re: [android-developers] Is it possible to have 3G and Wifi connections at the same time?

2010-03-05 Thread Donal Rafferty
Not even with the NDK? On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: draf...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering does anyone know if its possible to open a wifi and a 3g connection at the same time on Android? No. Is there any way to control access to both

Re: [android-developers] How to pass a property value argument to an instrumentation test runner

2010-03-05 Thread Brett Chabot
The only thing I could think of is to create a specialization of InstrumentationTestRunner that will process the extra com.myApplication.myProperty arguments. The -e arguments get passed as key-value pairs into the bundle parameter in the onCreate method of the test runner. You would need to

Re: [android-developers] Is it possible to have 3G and Wifi connections at the same time?

2010-03-05 Thread Mark Murphy
Donal Rafferty wrote: Not even with the NDK? The NDK has very little formal access to Android internals and certainly cannot rewrite them. Now, with firmware changes, it is at least theoretically possible. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy

[android-developers] Your Android applications can now use a reliable atomic time source...

2010-03-05 Thread Richard Schilling
I just updated a free application I've had on Android Market. It's called Navy Clock and can now serve as an NTP time source for any Android application. If you want your application to get the exact atomic time, you can install Navy Clock and connect to the Navy Clock service. Navy Clock will

Re: [android-developers] Market Weirdness?

2010-03-05 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:29 AM, dadical keyes...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else noticing some strange behavior on the market lately? The other day I noticed that almost all apps in my downloads list had their ratings counts disappear, though the actual comments were still available. It went

[android-developers] Re: Android NDK installation on windows?

2010-03-05 Thread Abhi
Hi Michael, I installed cygwin again selecting the required packages. This is what results when I try to do build/host-setup.sh: $ build/host-setup.sh cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: C:\cygwin\cygdrive\c\android-ndk-1.6_r1 Preferred POSIX equivalent is:

Re: [android-developers] Your Android applications can now use a reliable atomic time source...

2010-03-05 Thread Mark Murphy
Richard Schilling wrote: Navy Clock will update your application with the exact time - to the millisecond. How are you handling the overhead of IPC in your time calculations? http://www.timekeepersite.com/dev.html FYI, that's a 404. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com |

Re: [android-developers] Your Android applications can now use a reliable atomic time source...

2010-03-05 Thread Greg Donald
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: http://www.timekeepersite.com/dev.html FYI, that's a 404. Works for me. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers

[android-developers] Re: Webview textbox and keypad

2010-03-05 Thread nikhil
Any idea people? On Mar 4, 2:20 pm, nikhil nik...@gmail.com wrote: To add to this if I manually scroll the webview so that I can see the textbox while typing, the moment I touch the keypad the webview scrolls back to its old position. On Mar 4, 12:46 pm, nikhil nik...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: [android-developers] Market Weirdness?

2010-03-05 Thread Greg Donald
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:58 AM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:29 AM, dadical keyes...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else noticing some strange behavior on the market lately? The other day I noticed that almost all apps in my downloads list had their ratings counts

[android-developers] How to place a dialog at the bottom on the screen?

2010-03-05 Thread hap 497
Hi, Can you please tell me how can I place a dialog at the bottom on the screen? Thank you. -- 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

[android-developers] Re: How to have a notification icon with image + text

2010-03-05 Thread sangorys
Thanks, it works with Notification.number :-) -- 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] Re: Is getInstallerPackageName the solution to piracy?

2010-03-05 Thread Carlo
Is the string returning by this function consistent when bought from the legitimate google android market ? On Mar 6, 1:23 am, justinh henderson.jus...@gmail.com wrote: I have been seeing a remarkable increase in my apps being pirated. Not only are they 2 versions old, the name doesn't show up

[android-developers] Re: Is getInstallerPackageName the solution to piracy?

2010-03-05 Thread justinh
Carlo, You are wise to consider that. I've had varied results with it. Some phones don't show a result at all, even from free apps, at the correct SDK level. The market app also has a different package name on different phones. It would be a partial solution at best. On Mar 5, 1:38 pm, Carlo

Re: [android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-05 Thread Nikolay Ananiev
My app, Bebbled, has 600k+ downloads, 4.5 rating, and I'm in the EU, but did not get an e-mail. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Linus linus.karnl...@gmail.com wrote: I see that none of your apps on market have 3.5+ rating, so unfortunately you do not qualify for this giveaway. Keep working

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-05 Thread fhucho
What about the engraving on the back? What do you think is most likely: a) No engraving b) We will have option to choose engraving c) There will be some fixed engraving On Mar 5, 8:05 pm, Nikolay Ananiev devuni...@gmail.com wrote: My app, Bebbled, has 600k+ downloads, 4.5 rating, and I'm in the

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-05 Thread anton.slut...@gmail.com
try/catch everything and toast a message in the catch block saying here is where I would have FC'd but I didnt! Give me 5 stars now! :-) On Mar 4, 4:56 pm, Wayne Wenthin wa...@fuligin.com wrote: Yeah the rest of us are really interested in your good fortune. Honestly if the market were worth

Re: [android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-05 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Nikolay Ananiev devuni...@gmail.com wrote: My app, Bebbled, has 600k+ downloads, 4.5 rating, and I'm in the EU, but did not get an e-mail. If you think you qualify, fill out the form anyway. Can't hurt.

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Riley
Sounds like a mistake, just email the address they provided in the FAQ. http://sites.google.com/site/developermarketandroidgiveaway/faq On Mar 5, 7:05 pm, Nikolay Ananiev devuni...@gmail.com wrote: My app, Bebbled, has 600k+ downloads, 4.5 rating, and I'm in the EU, but did not get an e-mail.

[android-developers] Notepadv3 tutorial...

2010-03-05 Thread MaTT
I was working through the Notepad tutorial... http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/notepad/index.html ...and I seem to either have a misunderstanding of what is supposed to be happening, or the code is not working. Below are two snippets of code from the tutorial to illustrate my

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-05 Thread Linus
Nikolay: Maybe your app is too popular? ;) Have you checked that it didn't get caught in any spam filter? If not, try sending Google a mail at the address below. From the FAQ (http://sites.google.com/site/ developermarketandroidgiveaway/faq): We're screening for apps that have 5,000 or more

[android-developers] Re: Free Version of App

2010-03-05 Thread Nathan
I like the idea of the license app unlocking the trial app. I've seen it done on a PDF Reader. I can see potential for it also when installing addons or adding new content to the app, free or paid. There is the potential for customer confusion when you have two icons. But if you let them

Re: [android-developers] Re: Free Version of App

2010-03-05 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Nathan nathan.d.mel...@gmail.com wrote: There is the potential for customer confusion when you have two icons. You can edit the manifest of one so it doesn't show up in the launcher.

[android-developers] Re: Two processes are created on first running of my application?

2010-03-05 Thread fadden
On Mar 4, 3:28 am, pink 444 pnk...@gmail.com wrote: Some times after installing my application and first running my application is creating two processes as follows. app_1    9064  34    111088 15912 afe0d3e4 S com.test app_1    9077  9064  102764 8932  c006b6dc afe0d3e4 S com.test

[android-developers] Re: getting java.lang.VerifyError

2010-03-05 Thread fadden
On Mar 4, 10:16 pm, Bob Kerns r...@acm.org wrote: I've seen Dalvik give a Verify error in cases where I'd expect a NoSuchMethodError. That is, it calls a method that was there when the code was compiled, but at runtime, the version of the class it found did not have that method. This changed

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-05 Thread Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)
Nikolay, 600k+ downloads? This is an Android discussion group, not iPhone... Seriously, I would check your spam trap. Also, check what e-mail account you signed up for with the market. -John Coryat -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers

[android-developers] INTERNET Permission

2010-03-05 Thread Armond Avanes
Hi Guys, One of my users is experiencing an odd problem on network access via my application. Checking his logs shows up the following exception. The odd thing is that I have android.permission.INTERNET in application AndroidManifest.xml and many users have already used my app with no problem

Re: [android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-05 Thread Nikolay Ananiev
Nothing in the spam folder, so I'll fill the form anyway. Hope they won't mind. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) cor...@gmail.com wrote: Nikolay, 600k+ downloads? This is an Android discussion group, not iPhone... Seriously, I would check your spam trap.

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