[android-developers] How to Verifying Correctness of App in Eclipse

2013-09-27 Thread Anirvan
The question might appear a bit vague, so allow me to explain a bit. I'm part of a startup that is trying to build a way to set up an Android tutorial, whereby, users also get to build a proper, functioning app alongside. Unlike teaching web-based technologies, we can't emulate the

Re: [android-developers] How to Verifying Correctness of App in Eclipse

2013-09-27 Thread Anirvan
against trying to do things that require parsing with Eclipse: it would be a huge amount of work to do this, it's much larger than an extension to the ADT. (And, working with Eclipse's representation of java code is rather horrible.) Kris On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Anirvan anirvan

[android-developers] Re: How to Verifying Correctness of App in Eclipse

2013-09-27 Thread Anirvan
definition is getting a bit vague, so I'll possibly go dig around more and come back with something specific, if required. On Friday, 27 September 2013 19:12:04 UTC+5:30, Anirvan wrote: The question might appear a bit vague, so allow me to explain a bit. I'm part of a startup that is trying

[android-developers] Re: Android Controlling Installation of new apps?

2011-08-29 Thread Anirvan
provided by the Android stack. On Aug 29, 12:37 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Anirvan anirvan.majum...@gmail.com wrote: to that end, i was wondering if the Android Market app broadcasts any intent at the point when the user clicks Install for a new

[android-developers] Re: Android Controlling Installation of new apps?

2011-08-29 Thread Anirvan
PM, Anirvan anirvan.majum...@gmail.com wrote: i was thinking of building an app that provides some kind of control overinstallationofappsin a device. the control mechanism is, of course, meant for the device owner to configure. You are welcome to write your own firmware with this sort

[android-developers] Android Controlling Installation of new apps?

2011-08-28 Thread Anirvan
i was thinking of building an app that provides some kind of control over installation of apps in a device. the control mechanism is, of course, meant for the device owner to configure. to that end, i was wondering if the Android Market app broadcasts any intent at the point when the user clicks

[android-developers] startActivityForResult does not return control to calling Activity

2011-06-05 Thread Anirvan
i have a tab layout. in one of the Activity's corresponding to a tab, i use startActivityForResult to launch another activity to do something. Once the tasks in the new activity are done, i invoke the finish() method to return to the tab Activity which launched it. strangely enough, when the new

[android-developers] [SOLVED] startActivityForResult does not return control to calling Activity

2011-06-05 Thread Anirvan
hello, i found the source of my troubles - it was to do with the manifest setting. i had set the android:noHistory attribute to true for the tab activity from which i launched the other activity. lesson learnt :] On Jun 6, 1:25 am, Anirvan anirvan.majum...@gmail.com wrote: i have a tab layout

[android-developers] Re: Using Toast in Services

2011-06-04 Thread Anirvan
to add to what marcin said, if your wifi class doesn't extend Activity, and is simply a utility class/or some class that you call from an Activity, you simply need to pass the Activity class' instance, this, to the scan() method. however, if your wifi class extends Thread, then you'd be better

[android-developers] Lifetime of static [instance] variables

2011-05-28 Thread Anirvan
hello, for quite some time i was blissfully of the opinion that static [instance] variables exist as long as the app runs. however, to my dismay, and much alarm, i feel that it's not true. for mere testing, i created a static list of strings, and in my main activity class overrode the onDestroy

[android-developers] Re: Lifetime of static [instance] variables

2011-05-28 Thread Anirvan
in the Settings application. Making a small code change and relaunching the debug session is another way to make sure you get a brand new process. -- Kostya 2011/5/28 Anirvan anirvan.majum...@gmail.com hello, for quite some time i was blissfully of the opinion that static [instance

[android-developers] Avoid Tabs from disappearing when searching

2011-05-18 Thread Anirvan
hello, i've got a tabbed layout, and on one of the tabs i have a search functionality. When the user makes a new search, i need to show the results. However, doing so involves starting another activity to handle the search results. this causes the tabs at the bottom to disappear. The user can