[android-developers] Share the device specific information

2011-05-15 Thread itog
Hi all, Since I started to develop Android applications, I faced many trouble that depends on devices. Many times I wanted to know the display size,MODEL name and so on of the device. I came up with good idea to find such ways, share the device informations with other developers. So, I

[android-developers] Re: Open Source Chart

2011-05-15 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I vouch for AChartEngine. I use it in my app and the developer is very responsive. Overall, a well-thought out product. On May 15, 1:51 pm, Dan Dromereschi dandromeres...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, You can try AChartEngine. Open-source and free to use. Regards, Dan On May 2, 6:00 pm,

[android-developers] Re: Synchronization with the web server

2011-05-15 Thread Andrei
It is clear. I don't want the problem resolution here. What books will help me to to solve the given problem? On 14 май, 00:52, Miguel Morales therevolti...@gmail.com wrote: By programming it, and probably by using that specific social network android sdk or general api. It other words, by

Re: [android-developers] How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread Knutsford Software
- Original Message - From: Andrew Gregory To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 5:08 AM Subject: Re: [android-developers] How did you get into Android development Apart from the obvious of starting your own app from scratch, you could try searching for

Re: [android-developers] How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread Raghav Sood
Search for Android on google code. On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Knutsford Software i...@knutsford-software.co.uk wrote: - Original Message - From: Andrew Gregory To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 5:08 AM Subject: Re: [android-developers] How

[android-developers] Payout problem on the Android Market?

2011-05-15 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I just posted this on the Android Market support problem. Suprise, suprise, Google is not paying me for all my sales: According to the purchase list, I had 27 purchases of my app on May 13th. The payout received seemed low, so I checked what Google paid me for -- and they only paid for 20

Re: [android-developers] How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread Knutsford Software
- Original Message - From: Raghav Sood To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 8:15 AM Subject: Re: [android-developers] How did you get into Android development Search for Android on google code. Ahh - I thanks I didn't know that existed -- You

[android-developers] Google Maps heat map type overlay?

2011-05-15 Thread Boozel
Hi I have google maps working great in my app. I now want to put on an overlay but instead of discrete icons i want to overlay the map with a semi transparent heat map type layer. Can anyone recommend a way to do this? Thanks in advance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [android-developers] How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread Harri Smått
On May 15, 2011, at 6:18 AM, Adam Ratana wrote: - have fun, experience some joy and passion for the process, it's an end in itself! I can't help from leaving a comment on this point. For me, the whole buzz around Android reminds me a lot of the times we had back in 90s on C64 (here in

[android-developers] Error Message Help

2011-05-15 Thread Big Al
I need help with my programme. I am writing the prograame in Eclipse and it complies ok and says there are no errors, but when I run it in the android emulator it comes up with a box that says the following message: Sorry! The application Weapon List (process com.example) has stopped

[android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread DanH
I got laid off with 35 years of programming experience, got hired at 1/4 the salary by a small phone app outfit, and drew the short straw to do some Android work. On May 13, 5:24 am, Knutsford Software i...@knutsford- software.co.uk wrote: How did people on this list get from learning about

Re: [android-developers] Error Message Help

2011-05-15 Thread Marcin Orlowski
Is there anyway to log or look at a log that can tell me why the programme keeps crashing? If it crashed check logcat for the detailed information on potential culprit. Also it helps to run the app under control of debugger, plant some breakpoints and try to narrow down the place it goes crazy.

[android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread DanH
A smart hiring manager knows that programming skill is far more important than being up on a specific technology. A skilled programmer with no Android experience will take about 2 weeks to begin earning his keep, and a month or two to become comfortable with the technology. A wet-behind-the-ears

[android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread DanH
I started with Java 1.0.x -- writing a virtual machine for it. On May 13, 11:25 pm, Brill Pappin bpap...@sixgreen.com wrote: haha, particularly since 25 years ago, hardly anyone knew java (if it was even released). I have something between 15 or 16 years of experience with java now now (exact

[android-developers] GingerBread Compliance with ATT requirements...

2011-05-15 Thread sahil gupta
Hello Android Team, Just want to get your inputs on details about how shall i go about studying Android (GingerBread) compliance with ATT's device requirements (ADAPT), if anyone has carried out this study kindly share your experience and inputs. Any pointers on this?? Regards Sahil Gupta --

[android-developers] GingerBread Compliance with ATT requirements...

2011-05-15 Thread sahil gupta
Hello Android Team, Just want to get your inputs on details about how shall i go about studying Android (GingerBread) compliance with ATT's device requirements (ADAPT), if anyone has carried out this study kindly share your experience and inputs. Any pointers on this?? Regards Sahil Gupta --

[android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread DanH
One hint. Look around locally for a business that could use some sort of business-specific app. Eg, an inventory tool of some sort -- like one that will help a warehouseman find a specific item int the warehouse. Negotiate whatever deal you can to do an app for them (eg, first two installs

Re: [android-developers] GingerBread Compliance with ATT requirements...

2011-05-15 Thread Mark Murphy
You have posted this question several times in several places. Your various posts are now most of the top search results on: att adapt device requirements I have no idea what ATT's device requirements (ADAPT) are, and based on the search results, it's unclear if anyone else on this planet does,

[android-developers] Need help understanding crash report.

2011-05-15 Thread cellurl
Would anyone want to help me understand this crash-descript/logcat from Amazon. Rgds cellurl -- Your application attempts to call an Android Activity lifecycle method on a background thread. Amazon DRM does not allow developers to invoke Android Activity lifecycle

Re: [android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
15.05.2011 16:12, DanH пишет: I started with Java 1.0.x -- writing a virtual machine for it. I did start with Java 1.0 as well, integrating it as a scripting language into a game engine. It almost worked before the startup ran out of money :) On May 13, 11:25 pm, Brill

Re: [android-developers] Re: PVMFFailure when using MediaPlayer for radio streams

2011-05-15 Thread Menny
I had this issues too, with Android device 1.6 and 2.2 (actually, the only 2.2 device I had this issue with was Galaxy Tab). The solution I found, was to re-encode the original WAV files to MP3 with ffmpeg: ffmpeg -i 1.wav -acodec libmp3lame -b 96k -ar 160001.mp3 -- You received this message

Re: [android-developers] Re: PVMFFailure when using MediaPlayer for radio streams

2011-05-15 Thread Menny
Ho. And in the HTTP header, I made sure I get audio/mpeg value for the Content-Type header key. -- 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: Appending nodes to an existing XML file

2011-05-15 Thread lbendlin
Throw away your requirement (no rewriting of the file) and you have a simple solution. -- 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,

[android-developers] XML files working one minute. failing with multiple errors the next, without any changes

2011-05-15 Thread Spooky
I'm working on a set of photography apps (currently splitting them up by category, e.g., ScenicNature, Lightning_etc, Eglin_AFB_Armament_Museum, etc.). Right now, I'm experimenting with building it based loosely on the MultiResolution sample in the SDK (under Android-8, building for Android 1.5

Re: [android-developers] XML files working one minute. failing with multiple errors the next, without any changes

2011-05-15 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
15.05.2011 19:10, Spooky пишет: Right now, I'm experimenting with building it based loosely on the MultiResolution sample in the SDK (under Android-8, building for Android 1.5 and up). match_parent was introduced in Android 2.2 (API level 8) as an alias for fill_parent. Either change your

[android-developers] Re: Need help understanding crash report.

2011-05-15 Thread Nicholas Johnson
It sounds like you are trying to update an UI element from a non-UI thread. Are you using an AsyncTask, thread, IntentService, etc. and trying to update a UI element from it? Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to

[android-developers] Google I/O 2011 Session material downloads/pdfs working for anyone?

2011-05-15 Thread Adam Ratana
I enjoyed and found very useful many of the Android presentations from this year's Google I/O; however, I am unable to download the related session PDFs. For example, the android protips at

[android-developers] Re: Payout problem on the Android Market?

2011-05-15 Thread Nicholas Johnson
Nope, no payout problems here. In fact, I've been recently surprised by the Android Market since Google IO 2011. The market seems to be refreshing multiple times daily, etc. Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to

Re: [android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread Harri Smått
On May 15, 2011, at 3:09 PM, DanH wrote: A skilled programmer with no Android experience will take about 2 weeks to begin earning his keep, and a month or two to become comfortable with the technology. Here I tend to have slightly different opinion. While I agree mostly, I've seen

[android-developers] Re: XML files working one minute. failing with multiple errors the next, without any changes

2011-05-15 Thread Spooky
On May 15, 10:33 am, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: 15.05.2011 19:10, Spooky пишет: Right now, I'm experimenting with building it based loosely on the MultiResolution sample in the SDK (under Android-8, building for Android 1.5 and up). match_parent was introduced in Android

[android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread giangiammy
Hi, I was interested in working with Android. I had experience as linux embedded developer. I spoke with a firm (for which I already did some works) interested into moving to android embedded market. I offered to start working on Android embedded! My reference was not Android experience (I had

Re: [android-developers] Re: XML files working one minute. failing with multiple errors the next, without any changes

2011-05-15 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
15.05.2011 20:20, Spooky пишет: It seems I keep running into so many errors When resources (XML files) fail to compile, it causes errors in the Java code as well, because R.*.* symbols are a result of a successful resource compilation. caused by typos, You can just ignore Eclipse's

[android-developers] Re: XML files working one minute. failing with multiple errors the next, without any changes

2011-05-15 Thread Spooky
SUCCESS!!! I have a few more things to change (image files getting renamed without my knowing about it, causing mis-matches, etc. But after making all of the changes, getting rid of res/drawable-* and limiting it to drawable/, fixing the names, restarting Eclipse a few times, etc., etc.,

[android-developers] ListView Divider not showing when color changed

2011-05-15 Thread luiX_
Hi, I have this layout for a ListView: ListView android:id=@id/android:list android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=wrap_content android:layout_below=@id/free_shopping_title android:layout_above=@id/free_shopping_total_price /ListView and the divider shows fine at

Re: [android-developers] ListView Divider not showing when color changed

2011-05-15 Thread Nasif Noorudeen
use your own list view don't use built in inside android change ListView android:id=@id/android:list// android:id=@+id/som_id android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=wrap_content android:layout_below=@id/free_shopping_title

[android-developers] Problem of Focusing Keeping (I think)

2011-05-15 Thread Andrea Richiardi
My problem is really difficult to explain actually... I have a ViewAnimator which has some View inside. Views are custom, and each view has its own background. The background is a selector, partly taken from Android source, especially the transition between longpress/normal press (two 9 patch

[android-developers] Re: Why WebView can't click on the link

2011-05-15 Thread Menny
I noticed that OSes prior to 2.3 failed to follow links if setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled and setVerticalScrollBarEnabled are set to false. -- 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] ListView Divider not showing when color changed

2011-05-15 Thread luiX_
If that's needed, this should be a bug in the framework, isn't it? I'm asking in order to open a bug report. 2011/5/15 Nasif Noorudeen nas...@gmail.com use your own list view don't use built in inside android change ListView android:id=@id/android:list//

[android-developers] Task State Being Lost

2011-05-15 Thread Eric
I have two launchMode:singleTask activities in my app. Activity A (also the MAIN/LAUNCHER Activity); taskAffinity=Affinity.A; alwaysRetainTaskState=true Activity B (taskAffinity=Affinity.B; alwaysRetainTaskState=true) 1. When I run the app from the Home Launcher, Activity A starts as expected.

[android-developers] Application not showing up in Settings-Manage Apps--Running Apps

2011-05-15 Thread Eric
I am absolutely sure my application is running, but after I hit the HOME button and navigate to Settings-Manage Apps--Running Apps, I don't see my app in the running list. If I re-enter the app from the LAUNCHER the logs indicate that the app/process is resumed (and NOT restarted), so I'm

[android-developers] Layout sizes not determined when I need them

2011-05-15 Thread RLScott
I have a main activity whose layout is from a typical XML Relative Layout. One of the items in that layout is TextView whose textSize is 15sp. I want to capture the actual size of this TextView after the layout is inflated for use elsewhere in my app. So I tried calling the view.getHeight()

[android-developers] Re: Task State Being Lost

2011-05-15 Thread Eric
One more note on item #4 above. I have set logs in my Activity.onStop/ onDestroy() methods, and strangely I do not see ActivityA1.onDestroy() being called after I resume the main Task in step 4, and the system takes me back to the root ActivityA. The system has apparently orphaned the previously

[android-developers] Re: Progress circle (NOT indeterminate!)

2011-05-15 Thread Serdel
Thanks guys, I have tested all this and almost achieved what I want. I have change the code form Romain Guy a little bit so now I have: item shape android:shape=oval gradient android:useLevel=true android:type=sweep

[android-developers] Re: Task State Being Lost

2011-05-15 Thread Eric
One more item of interest that I just noticed. If I navigate into the Settings--Manage Apps (all apps), and find my application and select it, I do see the button for Force stop enabled. Is my understanding of Running Apps incorrect, in that Android only shows the apps that are _actually_

Re: [android-developers] Google Maps heat map type overlay?

2011-05-15 Thread TreKing
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Boozel boozelcl...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone recommend a way to do this? Sub-class Overlay and do custom drawing. - TreKing

[android-developers] Re: Task State Being Lost

2011-05-15 Thread Eric
On May 15, 2:40 pm, Eric e...@alum.mit.edu wrote: One more item of interest that I just noticed.  If I navigate into the Settings--Manage Apps (all apps), and find my application and select it, I do see the button for Force stop enabled.  Is my understanding of Running Apps incorrect, in that

[android-developers] Re: Application not showing up in Settings-Manage Apps--Running Apps

2011-05-15 Thread Eric
One more item of interest that I just noticed. If I navigate into the Settings--Manage Apps (all apps), and find my application and select it, I do see the button for Force stop enabled. Is my understanding of Running Apps incorrect, in that Android only shows the apps that are _actually_

Re: [android-developers] ListView Divider not showing when color changed

2011-05-15 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
15.05.2011 22:28, luiX_ пишет: ListView android:id=@id/android:list // android:id=@+id/som_id AFAIK, @id/android:list is not valid ID syntax. It's either: @id/your_application_package_id @+id/your_application_package_id or @android:id/predefined_android_id For ListActivity, that should

[android-developers] Re: Task State Being Lost

2011-05-15 Thread Eric
Here is the result of adb shell dumpsys activity before/after I navigate from TaskB/ActivityB back to resuming TaskA (where I expect activity A1 to be at the top of the stack, but it is somehow dropped and I'm left with the root ActivityA). BEFORE === Activity stack: *

Re: [android-developers] Application not showing up in Settings-Manage Apps--Running Apps

2011-05-15 Thread Dianne Hackborn
What version of Android are you running? On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Eric e...@alum.mit.edu wrote: I am absolutely sure my application is running, but after I hit the HOME button and navigate to Settings-Manage Apps--Running Apps, I don't see my app in the running list. If I re-enter

[android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread DanH
For several years our JVM (IBM Series i) held the worldwide performance record. On May 15, 8:04 am, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: 15.05.2011 16:12, DanH пишет: I started with Java 1.0.x -- writing a virtual machine for it. I did start with Java 1.0 as well, integrating it as a

[android-developers] Re: Application not showing up in Settings-Manage Apps--Running Apps

2011-05-15 Thread Eric
On May 15, 2:57 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: What version of Android are you running? 2.3.4, NexusOne -- 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] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread DanH
Actually, I do find that Android is harder to get the hang of than either iPhone or Qt for Nokia, but it's because the Android environment is so obscure and irregular. Switching from Objective C to Qt/C++ to Java is no problem for anyone with reasonable programming skills -- you could fairly

[android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread DanH
If you look around, about half those posting here (and on other forums for other platforms) are kids who have essentially no programmer training but have managed to modify a few example projects to do interesting (to them) things and hence consider themselves to be programmers. They all believe

[android-developers] Re: Layout sizes not determined when I need them

2011-05-15 Thread RLScott
After some Googling I found that others had asked the same quesiton, and here is the answer: You can get a reliable getHeight() or getWidth() for the TextViews in an activity layout until the activity's onWindowFocusChanged(true). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: [android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread Harri Smått
On May 15, 2011, at 10:17 PM, DanH wrote: If you look around, about half those posting here (and on other forums for other platforms) are kids who have essentially no programmer training but have managed to modify a few example projects to do interesting (to them) things and hence consider

[android-developers] Re: Application not showing up in Settings-Manage Apps--Running Apps

2011-05-15 Thread appel
In running services press menu and select show cached processes. -- 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] TextView looks great, but drawText() looks crummy !

2011-05-15 Thread RLScott
If you look closely at a TextView, you will see that it is clean and clear because it uses half-tone shading to avoid that pixelated look. But in my custom view I am calling drawText, and the results are not as good. The stuff drawn with drawText looks a bit ragged because it does not use any

Re: [android-developers] TextView looks great, but drawText() looks crummy !

2011-05-15 Thread Romain Guy
You need to enable anti-aliasing your Paint object: myPaint.setAntiAlias(true) On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:00 PM, RLScott fixthatpi...@yahoo.com wrote: If you look closely at a TextView, you will see that it is clean and clear because it uses half-tone shading to avoid that pixelated look. But

[android-developers] Re: TextView looks great, but drawText() looks crummy !

2011-05-15 Thread RLScott
Thanks. Now it looks great! -- 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: Application not showing up in Settings-Manage Apps--Running Apps

2011-05-15 Thread Eric
On May 15, 3:52 pm, appel johan.appelg...@gmail.com wrote: In running services press menu and select show cached processes. That did the trick, thank you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email

[android-developers] Re: Application not showing up in Settings-Manage Apps--Running Apps

2011-05-15 Thread Eric
It's interesting to note that my Application is cached by Android as a 'cached process' immediately after I hit the HOME button. Is this usually what happens, or is Android treating my app different than usual because it happens to consume a lot of memory (on the order of ~15MB)? -- You

[android-developers] Activity/Service in separate process

2011-05-15 Thread Mark Cz
Hi, Is it possible for two apks to SHARE one service that runs in one of the apks process or runs in a different process ? Meaning, I have two apks running in two different processes (the normal way), for simplicity each apk has only one activity. In addition each apk has one service

[android-developers] Re: Appending nodes to an existing XML file

2011-05-15 Thread Bob Kerns
Simple, yes, but it performs as O(n^2). As your file gets longer and longer, your application will perform slower and slower. If you don't take care to do it off the UI thread, you will eventually start getting force-closes because it stalls out the UI thread. Not generally recommended. All

[android-developers] Re: Appending nodes to an existing XML file

2011-05-15 Thread DanH
Another alternative is a journaled approach. Write the updates to a journal, then merge them with the main file from time to time in a batch processing step. On May 15, 4:57 pm, Bob Kerns r...@acm.org wrote: Simple, yes, but it performs as O(n^2). As your file gets longer and longer, your

[android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread DanH
The better programmers have an engineering background, IMO (or at least an engineering way of thinking). On May 15, 2:43 pm, Harri Smått har...@gmail.com wrote: On May 15, 2011, at 10:17 PM, DanH wrote: If you look around, about half those posting here (and on other forums for other

[android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread amenra horus
I'm undergrad computer science student and would love to make software development for android in particular a career path any tips or intern work u can point me in the direction of? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To

Re: [android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread Miguel Morales
Android development is relatively easy to get into. (For example, I never went to college and work as an Android dev.) Here in the US though, you have to be good at it or else your job will be sent to India. But on the other hand, apps are not as demanding as say making scalable backend software.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Appending nodes to an existing XML file

2011-05-15 Thread Miguel Morales
Hmm, I'd probably do it one of two ways depending on how big the xml file is expected to grow. If it's relatively small, read it into memory, deserialize it, find the node/tag where you wish to append your node, append it and then re-serialize it into the same file. But that's only if it's

[android-developers] Android Connect to python and send current location

2011-05-15 Thread ingy abbas
I want to connect android code with is Map View code with my python code (server ) so i want when i touch the screen or i want to make button when i click to it the android send to the server using the gps i do Send my current location to server SO can i add buttons appear in my map and be action

[android-developers] Trying to access a text (string) array via integer AND question on image size vs ads

2011-05-15 Thread Spooky
New question I'm trying to access an array of text strings by its integer index (at laest, I think that's what I'm trying to do!). The array is defined as (it's actually longer than this---this is the shortened version): String[] descriptions = {Santa Rosa Sound (NW FL),

[android-developers] Open multiple cameras simultaneously

2011-05-15 Thread QD
I want to open at least two cameras at the same time for some usage, (2.3.3 and up) but the log message always shows that CamerasService * lockIfMessageWanted* Is that means open multiple cameras simultaneously is impossible currently? or just my mistake thanks!! -- You received

[android-developers] Remotely trigger notifications

2011-05-15 Thread Mike
I am trying to write an app that will notify the user when a new piece of content is added to my database. I know I can make a service that would just poll the database every two hours or so but I feel like there is a much better way to do this. Is this really the only and or best way to do

[android-developers] How can i find out where the apk was installed?

2011-05-15 Thread Brill Pappin
I've got a situation where we had set our apk to install to location preferExternal but have found that is causes problems. We want to notify the user if they have the apk installed on the SD card and ask them to move it to the phone if they are experiencing problems. How do we determine if

[android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread Brill Pappin
Yah... maybe true... i don't know... but you and i both were those kids at one point. -- 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,

[android-developers] GSM signal strength unknown returned in Gingerbread 2.3.3

2011-05-15 Thread Alex
I have registered a PhoneStateListener and I am listening to onSignalStrengthChanged(asu) and onSignalStrengthsChanged(SignalStrength signalStrength). On Eclair, these events correctly return the GSM signal strength in asu, but on Gingerbread onSignalStrengthChanged always returns -1 and

Re: [android-developers] Remotely trigger notifications

2011-05-15 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Mike mechena...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to write an app that will notify the user when a new piece of content is added to my database.  I know I can make a service that would just poll the database every two hours or so but I feel like there is a much

Re: [android-developers] Activity/Service in separate process

2011-05-15 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Mark Cz ome...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible for two apks to SHARE one service that runs in one of the apks process or runs in a different process ? Yes. Meaning, I have two apks running in two different processes (the normal way), for simplicity each apk

Re: [android-developers] Google I/O 2011 Session material downloads/pdfs working for anyone?

2011-05-15 Thread Mark Murphy
I know that the ProTips presentation was delivered via a custom Android app. I'm not sure if Reto plans on publishing a PDF or not. Keep tabs on his blog to see if he announces something: http://blog.radioactiveyak.com/ On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Adam Ratana adam.rat...@gmail.com wrote:

[android-developers] send lat and long using open socket

2011-05-15 Thread ingy abbas
I want to send this Lat and Long the gps current location on my open socket between my android and my python server . enter code here public void onLocationChanged(Location loc) { GeoPoint point = new GeoPoint((int) (loc.getLatitude() * 1E6), (int)

[android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread DanH
I'm sorry to tell you that Android development is not a career path. Android, as you know it, probably won't exist in 10 years, and likely will be headed downhill in 5. And even if it does survive it will be a dead end job. If you want a job in software development (and not in management or

[android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread DanH
It's one thing to be a kid at 15, playing around with programming. It's entirely another to be a college student (or dropout) at 22 who believes that he's going to strike it rich with apps. Programming is HARD WORK, and you don't learn how to do it well without considerable effort (and practice).

Re: [android-developers] Re: Application not showing up in Settings-Manage Apps--Running Apps

2011-05-15 Thread Dianne Hackborn
It is not treating it differently, this UI change was made in 2.3 to reduce the worry people have about application processes being left around in the background. On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Eric e...@alum.mit.edu wrote: It's interesting to note that my Application is cached by Android as

[android-developers] Re: Image Picker and Cropper

2011-05-15 Thread neuromit
bump... On May 14, 10:17 am, neuromit stuart.lay...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to pick an image from the gallery while also specifying that it should be cropped or resized to certain dimensions? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

[android-developers] Re: Image Picker and Cropper

2011-05-15 Thread Nicholas Johnson
is this a programming question? -- 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] Google I/O 2011 Session material downloads/pdfs working for anyone?

2011-05-15 Thread Adam Ratana
Hi Mark, if you click the link, there is a Session Presentation PDF link which purports to be the presentation. He also said in the presentation to not write it all down because it will be released! :) It's also the same for the other sessions that have PDFs attached. The error message and

[android-developers] Re: Open Source Chart

2011-05-15 Thread Josh Burton
Would be great if google would make a Android version of their chart api, so we can use it offline. -- 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: Task State Being Lost

2011-05-15 Thread Eric
This was working before I upgraded to 2.3.4. I think a bug was introduced in the latest version. I would not be surprised if other people find that their tasks are not resuming in the Activity where they left off. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[android-developers] ListView item click can't work

2011-05-15 Thread a a
Dear All, Why the following function can't work when i click the listview item? @Override protected void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id) { Log.d(aaa, onListItemClick + position); } -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread Spooky
On May 15, 2:17 pm, DanH danhi...@ieee.org wrote: If you look around, about half those posting here (and on other forums for other platforms) are kids who have essentially no programmer training but have managed to modify a few example projects to do interesting (to them) things and hence

[android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread DanH
About once a day I see something along the lines of the following. (I wasn't able to find an example in the Android forum, even though I know I saw one yesterday or this morning [where the guy had the audacity to ask for finished code], so this is from a Qt forum.): Hello Guys... I want to learn

Re: [android-developers] ListView item click can't work

2011-05-15 Thread a a
LinearLayout xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android; android:layout_width=match_parent android:layout_height=wrap_content android:minHeight=?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight android:orientation=horizontal android:paddingRight=6dip

[android-developers] Re: Help me in detecting sound pulses (basically frequency detection)

2011-05-15 Thread Soumyajit Roy
hey thanks for the linkif you have any other material then please share it... a material with some code will be great... On May 13, 3:13 pm, Yahel kaye...@gmail.com wrote: You need to take a look at an algorithm called Fast Fourier Transform. You can find one implementation here

[android-developers] Re: How did you get into Android development

2011-05-15 Thread Spooky
On May 15, 10:15 pm, DanH danhi...@ieee.org wrote: About once a day I see something along the lines of the following. (I wasn't able to find an example in the Android forum, even though I know I saw one yesterday I seem to recall posting something to that effect a few days ago. Thing is, it

Re: [android-developers] Re: Task State Being Lost

2011-05-15 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Misc comments for the whole thread: (1) Please do NOT use affinities named things like Affinity.A. The affinity is a *global* namespace. If some other app happens to use that same name, your two apps will get mixed together. If you want separate affinities within your own app use a name like

[android-developers] Crash Reports - ACRA v4 beta started

2011-05-15 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hi all, I had promised it months ago... and it's finally here! I published one week ago the first beta release of ACRA v4. It finally is a v4, because there have been so many changes since ACRA 3.1 that a simple 3.2 version was just not realistic enough! The archive can be downloaded here: