[android-developers] Re: How to properly implement ParcelFileDescriptor.openFile() method.

2010-04-12 Thread gnugu
It fails in DatabaseUtils method: public static void readExceptionWithFileNotFoundExceptionFromParcel( Parcel reply) throws FileNotFoundException { int code = reply.readInt(); if (code == 0) return; String msg = reply.readString(); if (code == 1) { *** this is where the

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to properly implement ParcelFileDescriptor.openFile() method.

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Murphy
gnugu wrote: It fails in DatabaseUtils method: public static void readExceptionWithFileNotFoundExceptionFromParcel( Parcel reply) throws FileNotFoundException { int code = reply.readInt(); if (code == 0) return; String msg = reply.readString(); if (code == 1) {

[android-developers] Re: How to properly implement ParcelFileDescriptor.openFile() method.

2010-04-12 Thread gnugu
Hi Mark, thanks for your response. Indeed that line was wrong. Here is what the method looks like now. I don't get the exception from within my code. Log shows the same as I posted above and picture is not shown. The picture positively exists and is on sdcard. Could it be that it has to be in

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to properly implement ParcelFileDescriptor.openFile() method.

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Murphy
gnugu wrote: Indeed that line was wrong. Here is what the method looks like now. I don't get the exception from within my code. Log shows the same as I posted above and picture is not shown. The picture positively exists and is on sdcard. Could it be that it has to be in Camera directory? No

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

2010-04-12 Thread Mirko Nasato
Yeah why don't you two launch your own free gift program, only to call it off some time later? There wouldn't be nothing wrong with that according to your reasoning, right? :) Kind regards Mirko On Apr 12, 3:16 pm, Thomas Riley tomrile...@googlemail.com wrote: I agree with Al, in some ways, If

[android-developers] Activity Exit Animation

2010-04-12 Thread Bill
I've been using overridePendingTransition to animate Dialog Themed activities' on creation... I would like to use animations when those dialogs exit (as in back pressed or work finished). According to the documentation overridePendingTransition can work when finish() is called, but I've tried

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

2010-04-12 Thread Teo [GD API Guru]
Hi guys, i don't want to be a smart-ass or anything :) It may seem to people looking at this thread that some are complaining which i don't think is true.. Thanks Google for doing this btw! Must be a logistical nightmare to deliver so many phones at once, especially in Europe too, which,

[android-developers] Dear Mark Deloura

2010-04-12 Thread Robert Green
Dear Mark Deloura, I see that you started your first day at Google today. Congratulations on the new gig! I thought as part of your first day as the new Android games guru, I would make a concise list of things that make game development tough for us full-time Android game developers. 1) Touch

Re: [android-developers] How to Validate the Data

2010-04-12 Thread ~ TreKing
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Nubh nubh.bharg...@gmail.com wrote: Was going through some apps, I found out there was one application with validation, lets say we validate the data on web, similarly can anyone suggest and show a piece of code so that can get it how to do it. Besides the

Re: [android-developers] Dear Mark Deloura

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Murphy
Robert Green wrote: 3) Background processes destroy intense game framerates, even on 2.1. http://www.androidguys.com/2010/03/16/code-pollution-background-foreground/ Where did I go wrong in this analysis? And, if there are no significant flaws in the analysis, how does that analysis jive with

[android-developers] Re: Dear Mark Deloura

2010-04-12 Thread Mario Zechner
I want to say Me Too here. I'm not a full time android game developer but invest a lot of my spare time in producing games as well as engines/frameworks for Android. I can only agree to all the points Robert already mentioned. For me the biggest issue is the broken multi-touch which also affects

[android-developers] Spurious calls to onPause?

2010-04-12 Thread asher
I have a relatively simple application with only one activity (in use, anyway). When I launch it, my activity gets the following sequence of calls: onCreate, onResume, onPause. This happens with no user input whatsoever. What's going on with that onPause? The only clue that I have is a line in the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Service.startForeground() messes with scheduling?

2010-04-12 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Yep startForeround() does what it says -- tells the system it should treat your service as if it is in foreground, something the user is aware of. A typical example is background music playback, which needs to get as much CPU as it needs in order to avoid a bad user experience. Generally, if you

[android-developers] Re: Spurious calls to onPause?

2010-04-12 Thread asher
One other bit of information: the activity is not actually paused. If I disable my onPause method, the activity stays frontmost and appears interactive (though I don't have much going on at the moment, so it's a bit hard to tell). Aaron On Apr 12, 3:24 pm, asher as...@vanteon.com wrote: I have

[android-developers] Re: Dear Mark Deloura

2010-04-12 Thread Robert Green
Mark, email yourself from your desktop while playing a game with reasonable cpu/gpu usage. Watch as the game stutters because the gmail process eats CPU while updating, then tell me I'm wrong. I care less about why it happens and more about the fact that it does happen and we game devs have no

[android-developers] Re: DrawableBitmap, Canvas and OR

2010-04-12 Thread Bob Kerns
And just what useful visual result do you want to happen as a result? OR makes sense for black and white, not for color. Or are you using the graphics processor for something other than actual graphics? On Apr 12, 3:30 am, Kaj Bjurman kaj.bjur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is it in some way

[android-developers] Re: how to track all http/https requests

2010-04-12 Thread Bob Kerns
HTTPS will not, under any circumstance, let you get access to header or content information from other applications. This would be a security violation of the highest order! Like steal all your money security violation. Like steal your identity security violation. You can use various protocol

[android-developers] Audio Mixing

2010-04-12 Thread k_day
Despite everything I have read about the difficulty of making low latency audio apps in Android, I am giving it a shot. To start, I loaded each note in an octave into a SoundPool, and then looped through each note that was to be played on that beat and called play(). This didn't even come close

[android-developers] AudioRecord fails on Android 2.1

2010-04-12 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, I can successfully create an AudioRecord instance on the emulator, on Android 1.5, 1.6, and 2.0 with the following statement : new AudioRecord( MediaRecorder.AudioSource.MIC, 8000, AudioFormat.CHANNEL_CONFIGURATION_MONO, AudioFormat.ENCODING_PCM_16BIT, 16384); But it

[android-developers] Re: How to parse JSON in Java?

2010-04-12 Thread Bob Kerns
Actually, Android omits a LOT of the standard J2SE JDK -- though nothing that would impact a JSON parser. But the usual JSON parser is built into Android. Just do new org.json.JSONObject(json string) On Apr 12, 2:33 am, vworld4u vworl...@gmail.com wrote: You can use JSON Parser readily

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android OpenGL Game - App Architecture and Threading Logic

2010-04-12 Thread Miguel Morales
Ah, I see, it might have been due to my misuse of wait() and notify(). In any case, I remember that even sleeping the thread caused decreased fps rate, (which I took as increased cpu usage.) I mentioned the pool thread, not because I implemented one, but because I avoided implementing one and

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to parse JSON in Java?

2010-04-12 Thread Kevin Duffey
Agree with the rest..use JSONObject/array. JAXB I believe can convert JSON to objects as well.. but I may be wrong on that. I know that java/jersey project with JAXB does handle the json or xml into object for me.. just not sure if that is jaxb directly or if jersey is doing some of the work. On

[android-developers] Re: how to define scrollbar's thumb Drawables from java code?

2010-04-12 Thread skink
i hate bumping but... pskink -- 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

Re: [android-developers] Audio Mixing

2010-04-12 Thread Kevin Duffey
Mixing audio in itself is not too hard.. you basically add each byte of each sound (that plays at the same exact point in time). You do face the issue of dynamic range.. if you are mixing 16-bit sounds, you don't want to use a 16-bit value to store the mixed sounds.. you'll overflow it. or clip

Re: [android-developers] Re: how to define scrollbar's thumb Drawables from java code?

2010-04-12 Thread social hub
setScrollIndicators(up, down) is this what you are looking for its in View. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:03 PM, skink psk...@gmail.com wrote: i hate bumping but... pskink -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this

[android-developers] Re: Steps to transfer a simple object from server to android using XML

2010-04-12 Thread Bob Kerns
You can also use XmlSerializer to serialize a DOM, together with about a page of code to walk the DOM. That's a whole lot more painful than it ought to be, but it's better than writing XML tags yourself, which if you find yourself doing, you're doing something wrong. On Apr 12, 5:57 am, Mark

[android-developers] Re: Audio Mixing

2010-04-12 Thread Mario Zechner
I did some audio work on Android and have to agree with Kevin's analysis. Writting to the audio device via AudioTrack works and you can also alter the buffer sizes to get to the lowest possible latency but from what i remember the buffer was still pretty big. Also, AudioTrack does not allow

Re: [android-developers] Re: ListView Example

2010-04-12 Thread ~ TreKing
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:02 AM, dillipk codersnet2...@gmail.com wrote: Any sample code please??? Use the documentation and SDK samples to get started. I'm sure you can find more online with a simple Google search. Then post back if you get stuck and have any specific questions.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Service.startForeground() messes with scheduling?

2010-04-12 Thread Mariano Kamp
My point is that the documentation says nothing at all about raising the execution prio, but you say now that it does, right? What the documentation says is that startForground() helps that the process doesn't get killed and that's what I was after, because it is a costly process wasting bandwidth

[android-developers] Simple bluetooth presence detection?

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Wyszomierski
Hi, Really general, very new to bluetooth. Can we have one android device broadcasting a simple 'hello' bluetooth network (maybe a radius of just a few feet) - then when other android devices come into that area, reply with a 'hello' back? The client devices moving through the 'hello' radius

Re: [android-developers] Re: unable to open database file after OS upgrade

2010-04-12 Thread Mariano Kamp
Skink, awesome. That sounds fantastic. I will try that. Cheers, Mariano On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 7:45 PM, skink psk...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 9, 2:36 pm, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.com wrote: *bump* On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [android-developers] Re: Service.startForeground() messes with scheduling?

2010-04-12 Thread Mariano Kamp
Quoting myself: And you have done so wonderfully. What is it your trying to say though? That it is ok to raise the priority when I don't want my process to be killed. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this

[android-developers] Re: Android Phones

2010-04-12 Thread Vladimir
I used DA 2 years ago when I was working as a j2me developer, it went well, a bit slow but I was able to play the game and test what I wanted to test. Not a very pleasant experience but it got the job done. 2OP: ebay is your friend, I believe you can get a used G1 for $100-150, that's enough to

[android-developers] Re: Draw Text on GLSurfaceView

2010-04-12 Thread Vladimir
To add to what's been said above, if you need a static text or a simple numeric display, and don't want to bother writing a text renderer, you can use the code from samples/apis/graphics/spritetext On Apr 12, 5:39 pm, Renjith renjithkum...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can anyone help me to understand

Re: [android-developers] Re: Service.startForeground() messes with scheduling?

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Murphy
Mariano Kamp wrote: Quoting myself: And you have done so wonderfully. What is it your trying to say though? That it is ok to raise the priority when I don't want my process to be killed. I'm saying what Ms. Hackborn confirmed in her reply to my post -- startForeground() elevates

Re: [android-developers] Re: Service.startForeground() messes with scheduling?

2010-04-12 Thread Mariano Kamp
1) CPU is not a problem per se. My process can happily be starved of CPU, but as it needs to do xml parsing it does task the CPU albeit at it's lowest prio. 2) As I said I rely on an external API that doesn't understand incremental updates. Anyway, I think there is no good solution and the

[android-developers] Re: AudioRecord fails on Android 2.1

2010-04-12 Thread Gabriel Simões
Well, yes, there´s a clue. At least I´ve had the same error before and it was this: Everytime you get an error instantiating AudioRecord it doesn´t release it´s resources the way it should so you won´t be able to request it again unless you restart your phone (or close and reopen the emulator).

[android-developers] Re: Steps to transfer a simple object from server to android using XML

2010-04-12 Thread Anthoni
Still prefer JSON, but if talking to legacy systems then you have no choice to go the XML route. Luckily I have total control over back end server process so I have gone the former route. However, been informed my next program might have to talk to XML back end (SOAP) and was looking into kSoap,

[android-developers] screen pixel size

2010-04-12 Thread Bob
Hi, I need to know how many pixels wide and tall the screen is. I know that there are a bunch of different localization folders that I could make for different views but I just need to know, programmatically, how many pixels are on the screen so I can do some drawing. How can I detect this?

Re: [android-developers] Re: AudioRecord fails on Android 2.1

2010-04-12 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi Gabriel, On 04/12/2010 11:34 PM, Gabriel Simões wrote: Well, yes, there´s a clue. At least I´ve had the same error before and it was this: Everytime you get an error instantiating AudioRecord it doesn´t release it´s resources the way it should so you won´t be able to request it again

[android-developers] Re: Is it possible to use MediaPlayer to play streaming audio?

2010-04-12 Thread RAMGarden
I'm running into the same issue. I've even tried the mp.prepareAsync() method but it fails when I call mp.start(). This is because it is trying to load the whole file into memory I'm guessing. Since a URL stream is usually 24/7 it will never prepare. The closest thing I've come to is this:

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is it possible to use MediaPlayer to play streaming audio?

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Murphy
RAMGarden wrote: I'm running into the same issue. I've even tried the mp.prepareAsync() method but it fails when I call mp.start(). prepareAsync() definitely works with streaming video. I haven't experimented with streaming audio, lacking a good data source. This is because it is trying to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Service.startForeground() messes with scheduling?

2010-04-12 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Why do you want to use startForeground()? What is it giving you? If you want your code to run in the background, it is probably not what you want. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.comwrote: 1) CPU is not a problem per se. My process can happily be starved of

[android-developers] Re: AudioRecord fails on Android 2.1

2010-04-12 Thread HeHe
On Apr 12, 2:34 pm, Gabriel Simões gsim...@gmail.com wrote: I´d like to ask you one thing: have you been able to record a sound and listen to it without problems using the emulator (older versions). I can create an instance and indeed record but when I try to play it the sound is completly

[android-developers] Re: AudioRecord fails on Android 2.1

2010-04-12 Thread Gabriel Simões
Well then I think I will need to hold 400 bucks to buy a real device here in Brazil ... and it´s gonna be a crap samsung On 12 abr, 20:22, HeHe cnm...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 12, 2:34 pm, Gabriel Simões gsim...@gmail.com wrote: I´d like to ask you one thing: have you been able to

[android-developers] To save resources, should services use the android:process attribute?

2010-04-12 Thread Michael Elsdörfer
I have a service that runs continuously. I opted to run the service in a separate process, communicating through IPC with the client activities, thinking this will help conserve memory. If the user is done interacting, Android could shut down the entire client side process. However, the protocol

Re: [android-developers] To save resources, should services use the android:process attribute?

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Murphy
Michael Elsdörfer wrote: I have a service that runs continuously. Please try to avoid that. This is why users attack us with task killers. http://www.androidguys.com/2009/09/09/diamonds-are-forever-services-are-not/ http://www.androidguys.com/2010/03/29/code-pollution-background-control/ Is

[android-developers] Re: Database insertion timings

2010-04-12 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
No, database writing is extremely slow especially with many indecies. In my app, I am getting maybe 10 insers a seconds into a table with 20 columns and 15 indecies. As my app is probably 99.9% reads, I didn't try optimizing the writes too much, not sure if it's even possible. On Apr 13, 12:33 

[android-developers] Re: Custom Spinner

2010-04-12 Thread skyhigh
To customize the way that the spinner drop down looks I think you need to use your own custom layout instead of using the standard android layout android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item You can find the xml layout definition for android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item at the following

Re: [android-developers] screen pixel size

2010-04-12 Thread murali raju
DisplayMetrics dis = new DisplayMetrics(); getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(dis); Log.i(width = ,+ (width = dis.widthPixels)); Log.i(height = ,+ (height = dis.heightPixels)); On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Bob bshumsk...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I need to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Custom Spinner

2010-04-12 Thread murali raju
I tried it, it just reduces the width of the text in the drop down but not the width of drop down. On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:20 AM, skyhigh skyhigh1...@gmail.com wrote: To customize the way that the spinner drop down looks I think you need to use your own custom layout instead of using the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Phones

2010-04-12 Thread chris harper
Thank you for the response. I'll give them a try when I am ready test my app. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Vladimir vladimir.funti...@gmail.comwrote: I used DA 2 years ago when I was working as a j2me developer, it went well, a bit slow but I was able to play the game and test what I

Re: [android-developers] Re: Progress Bar in every row of ListView

2010-04-12 Thread Prajakta Shitole
Is there anyone who had tried this.. the problem with my implementation is that the list view is not getting refreshed..even after writing notifyDataSetChanged.. only the first row gets displayed properly the rest of the rows display the progress bar even when the images hv loaded. On Sun, Apr

[android-developers] Launcher Application Broken Problem

2010-04-12 Thread bappa
Dear All, 1. Does Ideal Screen(Screen Lock) application and Launcher Application( after unlock the screen) is the same ? 2. How can we set/change position and co-ordinate of Ideal Screen/ Launcher Application ? Thanks in advance. Regards Bappa -- You received this message because you

[android-developers] [ANN]VTD-XML 2.8

2010-04-12 Thread dontcare
Note: this email is related to Android Development since many apps use XML extensively. Version 2.8 of VTD-XML, the next generation XML parsing/indexing/xpath engine, has been released. Please visit https://sourceforge.net/projects/vtd-xml/files/ to download the latest version. * Expansion of

[android-developers] Re: Generating a static HashMap from resources?

2010-04-12 Thread HippoMan
My main reason is that I want to have public static final mapped values available to a number of classes. This way, I can instantiate other static final fields using some of the mappings in this HashMap. I can't do that if I have to decode an XML file at run time. If I could dereference

[android-developers] Re: AudioRecord fails on Android 2.1

2010-04-12 Thread HeHe
i believe you should buy one for development, especially after you country has discovered a huge oil field :-) On Apr 12, 4:33 pm, Gabriel Simões gsim...@gmail.com wrote: Well then I think I will need to hold 400 bucks to buy a real device here in Brazil ... and it´s gonna be a crap

[android-developers] Re: Disable scroll in webview

2010-04-12 Thread grace
ya u can do that.. using methods like public void setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled (boolean horizontalScrollBarEnabled) and public void setVerticalScrollBarEnabled (boolean verticalScrollBarEnabled) On Apr 12, 5:48 pm, mmkr manutd...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,     Is it possible to disable the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Phones

2010-04-12 Thread nubh.bhargava
Sounds fun!!! But I need a good phone and a fast one too, and the only thing on my mind is not to shell out $570, i cant afford that much. Please help Thanks NUBH -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send

[android-developers] Re: 'Avoiding memory leaks' article in android blog

2010-04-12 Thread NoraBora
On Apr 11, 11:23 am, Streets Of Boston flyingdutc...@gmail.com wrote: If all it OK, you should only have on activity (the new one) and the old one should be a candidate for garbage collection. But sBackground is (indirectly) still referencing the old activity and it will not be garbage

Re: [android-developers] How to Validate the Data

2010-04-12 Thread nubh.bhargava
How to validate the data in EditText, i.e. on the time of input. I hope now you get it what I mean to say for e.g. we are entering the value of some email id, the validation is required in the login id of the person that he/she doesnt use a special char or there is @ mark and there is '.'

Re: [android-developers] Re: Draw Text on GLSurfaceView

2010-04-12 Thread A.TNG
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Vladimir vladimir.funti...@gmail.com wrote: To add to what's been said above, if you need a static text or a simple numeric display, and don't want to bother writing a text renderer, you can use the code from samples/apis/graphics/spritetext Oh, the sample is

Re: [android-developers] screen pixel size

2010-04-12 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Note that this returns the raw size of the screen, not taking into account decorations around it like the status bar or IME that impact the available space to the app. Apps should almost always be using the view hierarchy's layout system to take care of their size. That is, View.onSizeChanged()

[android-developers] Re: How to Validate the Data

2010-04-12 Thread Kumar Bibek
You do it the normal way. Take the text of the edit text and validate it, just the way you do for web apps with UI validations. Thanks and Regards, Kumar Bibek On Apr 13, 9:44 am, nubh.bhargava nubh.bharg...@gmail.com wrote: How to validate the data in EditText, i.e. on the time of input. I

Re: [android-developers] DrawableBitmap, Canvas and OR

2010-04-12 Thread A.TNG
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Kaj Bjurman kaj.bjur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is it in some way possible to draw something with bitwise OR? I.e. I want the pixel values to be OR:ed with the pixel values that already had been drawn. I could invoke get pixel, and use OR, and then set the

[android-developers] Add jpg file to Gallery

2010-04-12 Thread yangjian
Hi,every body. My question is: I can add to jpg file to Gallery by MediaScannerConnection,but this way do not create a thumbnail. I also can do it by MediaStore.Images.Media.insertImage, it create two thumbnail but the quality is down. Is there a way to add file to Gallery and creat a thumbnail

[android-developers] Why webview caputured data get lost while save in a thread

2010-04-12 Thread yangjian
Hey everybody! picture = w.capturePicture(); // w is the webview int hpp = 1200; int page = 1 + height /hpp; Bitmap b; if(page == 1) { b = Bitmap.createBitmap( width, height, Bitmap.Config.RGB_565); Canvas c = new Canvas( b ); picture.draw( c ); String path = folder +

Re: [android-developers] Disable scroll in webview

2010-04-12 Thread A.TNG
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:37 PM, murali raju manutd...@gmail.com wrote: ya it will be. my requirement is i want to display a large html file in number of pages such that each page would fit exactly into a single screen. I will place a button so that when clicked it would show the next page.

[android-developers] Re: how to define scrollbar's thumb Drawables from java code?

2010-04-12 Thread skink
On Apr 12, 6:11 pm, social hub shubem...@gmail.com wrote: setScrollIndicators(up, down) is this what you are looking for its in View. thanks, but setScrollIndicators is AbsListView's method. what does it have to do View's scrollbar's thumb Drawables? pskink -- You received this message

Re: [android-developers] Why webview caputured data get lost while save in a thread

2010-04-12 Thread A.TNG
Hi, The Picture stuff (which is representing WebView ) is kind of mysterious for me. If here you got a bitmap and split it into several files. The problem should not exist. But it is a Picture. I don't know what's inside and how it's drawn on canvas. Any idea? -- Best Regards, TANG Jiyu Blog:

Re: [android-developers] Re: Audio Mixing

2010-04-12 Thread Kevin Duffey
Very interesting.. but from what you've said, you're running into the same latency issues as everyone else on android. The chance of making a multi-touch MPC program, or a synth that can play multiple sounds at once seems a bit far off yet for Android at this point. :( On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at

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