[android-developers] Re: How can I create an aircraft-mounted-liked compass?

2010-10-31 Thread Adrian Romanelli
Does an Android 'sensor' have a compass built in? I thought it was just a motion sensor, portrait/landscape, etc., and not a true compass? And as far as I know, the gps device is a coordinate/point location thing, not a compass thing. How would the phone/device actually know its facing North?

[android-developers] Re: How can I create an aircraft-mounted-liked compass?

2010-10-31 Thread Adrian Romanelli
Just to answer my own question, Compass functionality is built into some (all?) devices. I noticed that the up-coming T-Mobile Comet has compass functionality. On Oct 31, 2:06 pm, Adrian Romanelli adrian.romane...@gmail.com wrote: Does an Android 'sensor' have a compass built in?  I thought

[android-developers] Re:

2009-12-06 Thread Adrian Romanelli
What I did was to run the AVD Manager from outside of Eclipse. Using AVG Anti-Virus, turning it off, didn't work for me when trying to update from within Eclipse. 1) Open a command prompt. 2) Go to the directory that the android sdk is installed at, and then its tools subdirectory. For me it

[android-developers] Re: Updates to the Android SDK

2009-12-06 Thread Adrian Romanelli
This is what I did, when I came upon the same problem, and it worked for me (Windows 7 x64). C:\Users\Public\android-sdk-windows\toolsandroid Starting Android SDK and AVD Manager SWT folder 'lib\x86_64' does not exist. Please set ANDROID_SWT to point to the folder containing swt.jar for your