The OS market share list is here:
http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html
My recommendation: Require Android 2.0 and Open GL ES 2.0, this will
allow you to use vertex/fragment shaders. Check for extensions like
vertex buffer objects and use them, but don't require
Well great, there are two threads now. Here's the other one:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2093594/opengl-extensions-available-on-different-android-devices
On Oct 18, 11:48 am, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
The OS market share list is
here:http://developer.android.com/resources
Just look at the links I posted.
String extensions = gl.glGetString(GL10.GL_EXTENSIONS);
-Mike
On Oct 18, 2:07 pm, Leigh McRae leigh.mc...@lonedwarfgames.com
wrote:
Somewhat off topic, but is there a means to an extension from java?
How would you get the interface for the function?
On
you which extensions exist which is pretty 101. I'm talking
about extensions that introduce a new function such as the VBO extension
would require glBufferData if running on OGL ES 1.0
On 10/18/2010 5:11 PM, EboMike wrote:
Just look at the links I posted.
String extensions
I'm changing the theme of an activity in onCreate using setTheme (I'm
doing that even before calling super.onCreate(), as this is supposed
to be more reliable).
It does work in the sense that it changes the background and
foreground colors. However, my layout has a few elements that use
styles
of providers. I'll check their policy on this.
But since AdSense prohibit that, then I guess it's a bad approach
after all.
Thank you for your fast reply. =)
On Jun 22, 12:12 pm, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
Who's the provider for your apps?
If it's AdSense, then the guidelines clearly
Mark, when using the gdata API, you will need to query the user for
the username and password of the gmail account to use. Is that
correct? Or is there a nifty way to get an authentication token with
the account linked to the phone (if there is one?).
I haven't found any good samples on the web,
Who's the provider for your apps?
If it's AdSense, then the guidelines clearly prohibit you from doing
that:
Misleading to clicks
Publishers are not allowed to use language to lead users to click
Google ads, such as:
* Feel free to click an ad
* Contribute to the
Why don't you simply compile your app against API 4? (It's a setting
in the project properties). If you use any methods or classes that
don't exist yet, you will get compile errors.
Unless you're using reflection or hard-code flags, this should be a
good enough test. SHOULD, just off the top of
Can you elaborate? You're trying to prevent activity B from being
accessed before the password check in activity A has been successful?
I assume that activity B is any arbitrary activity?
-Mike
On May 12, 11:41 pm, gujian outspacem...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,everyone.Recently I'm doing an
-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of EboMike
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 10:10 PM
To: Android Developers
Subject: [android-developers]FLAG_BLUR_BEHINDextremely slow on Droid?
It seems like usingFLAG_BLUR_BEHINDmakes an activity extremely slow
- every redraw takes forever, even when just
Haha... I went through the same process, and it took the Verizon guys
over an hour to figure it out!
They need to give you a phone number for the Verizon employee number
services (you need a number based on which part of the US you're in).
Basically, the phone number you have is the kind that
Leigh, you can't just hijack an existing discussion thread and post a
completely unrelated question.
Please open a new thread with your question.
On May 12, 11:04 am, Leigh McRae leigh.mc...@lonedwarfgames.com
wrote:
Hello,
I am having a problem with what some of the triangles in my static
I'm afraid this is the wrong mailing list. You may want to check out
android-platform, that's where all the cool kids are who can help you
getting repo and git to work.
That said, you may want to re-read the instructions on
source.android.com - typically, everything should work once you follow
It seems like using FLAG_BLUR_BEHIND makes an activity extremely slow
- every redraw takes forever, even when just editing an EditText. It
almost sounds like the blur effect is being redone on the entire
screen in software (actually, even that couldn't possibly be that slow
with a normal blur
1. That's a somewhat common message, but can you actually correlate it
to a problem? The message says background processes, and your app is
most likely not a background process. What is the exact problem?
2. Are you dealing with bitmaps at all?
3. Do you only see the problem when debugging, or
am, Sasikumar.S sasikumar.it1...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not dealing with any bitmaps...
No memory leak in my DB.
Just retrieve data from DB and display in custom listview.
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:10 PM, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
1. That's a somewhat common message, but can you
/ActivityManager(57): Activity idle timeout for
HistoryRecord{43bec310 com.android.launcher/.Launcher}
05-07 12:51:14.962: DEBUG/HomeLoaders(1031): items cloned, ready to
refresh UI
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:39 PM, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
Let me rephrase my questions.
1. What EXACTLY
Can you be a bit more descriptive about how you launch application B?
You said A. Application A starts a service and launch[e]s another
application. But you mean that your application used
Activity.startActivity(), so the service has nothing to do with it?
In that case, it's expected behavior -
Define thread-safe.
Are you asking if it's possible to decode two bitmaps at the same
time? To decode a stream while something else is using the stream? To
do it in a worker thread?
My take is that it's re-entrant, i.e. you can run it multiple times at
the same time in separate threads, but all
wondering about all the memory allocations. Do you
have several threads running? Without any idea what the code does, I
can only stab in the dark.
-Mike
On May 7, 12:29 am, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
Judging by the many times the GC kicks in, it sounds like something is
constantly
Several Droid users have reported that my app's entire database just
destroys itself randomly after a few days or so. This seems to be
specific to the Droid. I'm at a loss.
My app has a service that runs in the background to display
notifications, it also supports widgets. Both of those (and the
You can find that out with android.os.Build.VERSION, but depending on
what you want to do, that sounds like a hacky way to check for
availability of functions. If you're looking for the existence of a
certain function, you could check that through reflection instead.
On Oct 15, 5:11 pm, Brady
...@gmail.com:
Mike,thank you very much!
If we want to install Android Market on our product(mobile phone) ,
must We contact Google?
On 10月14日, 上午9时01分, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
luggie, it's closed source. It's not freely available. If you have a
phone that came
See this very recent thread about using functions of a newer SDK while
maintaining compatibility with an older one:
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_frm/thread/a2a91988e2353dd1#
On Oct 14, 6:54 pm, xingye yeas...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm using sdk1.1, there is no
It's a closed-source application and not freely distributed. You may
not install it on an emulator.
(That's actually good, the potential for abuse is quite high.)
On Oct 13, 6:00 am, luggie lug...@gmail.com wrote:
in emulator
On 10月13日, 下午8时40分, luggie lug...@gmail.com wrote:
, luggie lug...@gmail.com wrote:
I want to install Android Market in my mobile device(android),how can
I do?
thanks!
On 10月14日, 上午7时00分, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
It's a closed-source application and not freely distributed. You may
not install it on an emulator.
(That's actually good
Task killers aside, what about if the OS decides to stop a process
because memory is low? Say an app has an alarm set to happen in 2
hours, and the user decides to run Google Maps for a minute. Android
might kill said app because memory runs low. Ten minutes later, the
user is back on the home
want to support 1.5 SDK and also being able to use
the new SmsManager class. I think the only way to do that is using the
solution suggested by EboMike (with reflection), but I think is more a
patch than the correct way around. Other solution could be to compile
the code to the desire target
There's also a great article on the developer blog about using newer
API with an old target:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/backward-compatibility-for-android.html
I'm extensively using 1.5 features in my app while still maintaing
compatibility with 1.1. The key is to set the
.
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:36 PM, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
There's also a great article on the developer blog about using newer
API with an old target:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/backward-compatibility...
I'm extensively using 1.5 features in my app while still
Well, there are subtle differences that can break an app that don't
expect them. Like this:
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/3f97829b6260ead3
On Oct 6, 7:57 pm, niko20 nikolatesl...@yahoo.com wrote:
What API's are you guys using that just going from 1.5 to
You can star this issue: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=738
But, whatever you do, PLEASE do not add a comment with something to
the effect of yeah, I agree. You will spam 233 people with a useless
mail.
On Oct 5, 6:09 pm, jonathan topcod...@gmail.com wrote:
is it possible
, Max_well maxouw...@gmail.com wrote:
I think (hope) it's an emulator bug.
I filled a bug btw :http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3973
Simon
On Oct 1, 7:44 am, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
Settings.System.getString(resolver, Settings.System.DATE_FORMAT)
returns null
Settings.System.getString(resolver, Settings.System.DATE_FORMAT)
returns null if the user never made a selection.
If the user does choose a date format and then switches back to
default format, getString() will return .
That was not the case before (and is breaking apps that relied on a
valid
That is a very bad way of doing it. What if the user presses the HOME
button? What if the user goes to a different activity using the
notification bar? The camera button? What if it's a device that allows
switching activities using a custom button?
Relying on a button press to detect the
an intent filter if applicable? What else is expected to honor
the flag?
-Mike
On Sep 5, 8:58 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:15 PM, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
However, if you want to voice your opinion and want to tell the
Android developers
on the
star will increase the star count and make the issue more important.)
-Mike
On Sep 4, 9:22 am, Keiji Ariyama ml_andr...@c-lis.co.jp wrote:
Hi EdoMike,
I'm sorry to bother you.
And Thank you for your kindness!
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EboMike wrote:
There is a very recent thread right
There is a very recent thread right here where this is being
discussed. The last post was a few days ago.
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_frm/thread/c72762894a5663b3
In short: It's not supposed yet, and it is not an immediate priority.
-Mike
On Sep 3, 9:31 am, Keiji
(pi.packageName,
activityInfo.name); ) and then call queryIntentActivities() on that,
but none of that gives me the actual intent filter information.
-Mike
On Jul 31, 9:31 am, Marco Nelissen marc...@android.com wrote:
The package manager has APIs to do this.
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:52 AM, EboMike ebom
It's easy to leave memory leaks, especially when static variables are
involved, and especially-especially when dealing with UI-related
things (where a bitmap could hold a reference to its view and vice
versa). Romain wrote an article about that a while ago.
That said, I'm not tempted to actually
I need to parse a date using a flexible date format (like MM/dd/
or dd-MMM), and so far I've always used SimpleDateFormat for that
(since unfortunately, android.text.format.Time.parse doesn't support
date format strings). This works fine in an US environment, but as
soon as I switch to any
There are several discussions about PendingIntents in this group,
they're a bit confusing at first because the system identifies them
only by action and data, not extras, so multiple PendingIntents with
the same action and data are considered the same.
You need to make them unique, either by
I suppose the developer chose to enable copy protection for it. That
means that rooted phones cannot download it.
On May 22, 11:00 am, Bill Zimmerly billzimme...@gmail.com wrote:
I have the developer's G1 with Cupcake 1.5 and am trying to download
this application...
He said FINAL sdk, and no, the FINAL 1.5 has not been released yet.
You will find several threads in this group that hint at issues that
are or are not fixed in the final 1.5 SDK.
On May 21, 6:43 pm, Eric Wong (hdmp4.com) ericwon...@gmail.com
wrote:
Is this a joke that you don't know Android
say final? 1.5 is already shipping on
devices, so for most purposes things are pretty set in stone.
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:14 PM, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
He said FINAL sdk, and no, the FINAL 1.5 has not been released yet.
You will find several threads in this group that hint
? Is it by design that non-US locales do not have month names
when trying to format a date), but I don't know the underlying
question of the OP.
On May 21, 8:10 pm, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
Bug-fixes.
Example thread (I just searched for final
1.5):http://groups.google.com/group/android
You can always restart your activity, which is pretty much
instantaneous. There is no other way, this requirement to re-inflate
the layout for a change is rooted too deeply in how Android works.
On May 21, 8:33 pm, quanghuytruongd...@gmail.com
quanghuytruongd...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Dianna
Make sure your app has the WAKE_LOCK permission, and use
PowerManager.WakeLock to keep the device powered up. You'll find
details in the docs.
On May 21, 10:21 pm, iDeveloper ideveloper...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I have a slideshow function in my app and if the number of images is
more, the
Some users are reporting that I'm using the wrong email address when
sending a mail to a contact from my app. I can't repro that locally,
so I'm at a loss at how that could happen.
Here is roughly what I do:
Uri uri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(Contacts.People.CONTENT_URI,
contactId);
// Note:
The instructions for my app are in HTML format in my assets so I can
display them with proper formatting and hyperlinks in a WebView. Given
that they're in the assets folder, not res, I can't properly localize
them (i.e. something like assets-de wouldn't work).
What's the proper way to localize
with a changelog that I haven't seen.
-Mike
On May 6, 8:18 am, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
In an 1.5 environment, it seems likeSimpleDateFormat.parse() no
longer throws an exception if it can't parse the string - it simply
returns null. Did that change
Well, the docs make it very clear that your key is extremely
important. If your laptop was stolen? Well, then your source code
would be gone as well, unless you backed that up. And why would you
back up your source code but not your key?
You can ask a question on the Android Market forum, but I
In an 1.5 environment, it seems like SimpleDateFormat.parse() no
longer throws an exception if it can't parse the string - it simply
returns null. Did that change?
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Jeff, is there a list of classes that are prohibited? Looks like
TableLayout is also on the no-fly list.
On Apr 17, 1:17 pm, Jeff Sharkey jshar...@android.com wrote:
Yes, that's working as intended. There are unsolved issues with how
to get EditText content back across PendingIntent
I'd like to add widget support to my app, but I suppose that it'll
take quite a while until 1.5 is globally rolled out.
I assume that widget support means that I need to compile against 1.5
and set up the minSdkVersion to 3, so I'll effectively lock out
anybody with 1.1. Other than adding a
).
On Apr 30, 8:00 pm, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to add widget support to my app, but I suppose that it'll
take quite a while until 1.5 is globally rolled out.
I assume that widget support means that I need to compile against 1.5
and set up the minSdkVersion to 3, so I'll
such as a compatibility matrix. Of course you need to
steer your users over to the site somehow. Happens I've set that all
up (except for an 1.5-based release, has been broken by 1.5) and
included a More button in the About dialog.
On Apr 30, 8:54 pm, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, I did
My app has a notification that is supposed to silence itself for a day
if you click on Clear All Notifications. Every day, I see a
notification pop up as expected, but after I turn my phone off for a
while and then on again, the notification is done. When I check my
data, I see that the silence
I'm creating a managedQuery in the FilterQueryProvider.runQuery() of a
ResourceCursorAdapter. That works fine, but if I set up a filter, then
go to a different app, then go back to the app with the filter, the
app crashes with 'attempt to acquire a reference on a close
SQLiteClosable' in the
I have the same problem, but I need a better solution. I'm doing a
managed query on the contacts and am already filtering out entries
that do not have a DISPLAY_NAME, but I still get all the suggested
contacts. I need to deal with contacts that have a name but no phone
number or email address.
I
/ +
Contacts.Groups.GROUP_MY_CONTACTS + /members);
Works like a charm for me. I can imagine that at least part of this
URL is contained in the Contacts.Groups.CONTENT_* strings, so it would
be cleaner to use those.
-Mike
On Mar 18, 11:39 pm, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
I have the same problem
I'm currently hosting an app on my own server so my beta testers can
test it. I've set up the apk MIME type to be application/
vnd.android.package-archive, and when I try to download the app from
the emulator, it downloads the 53KB apk file and installs it.
When I try to do the same thing from a
).
Al.
EboMike wrote: I'm currently hosting an app on my own server so
my beta testers can test it. I'...
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an OutOfMemoryError
Some guys claim that this crash can be avoided by catching this error
(catching an error instead of an exception is quite unusual by the
way)...
On Jan 18, 12:31 am, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey gym,
1) You don't have to go that far. No need to close or reset
The Task Manager for Root Users app works just fine for the purpose,
no point for every single application to implement its own custom exit
functionality.
That said, a task manager is somewhat of a necessity to get rid of
rogue apps that feel like onPause() doesn't apply to them and have
some
at 8:51 PM, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
The Task Manager for Root Users app works just fine for the purpose,
no point for every single application to implement its own custom exit
functionality.
That said, a task manager is somewhat of a necessity to get rid of
rogue apps that feel
I shouldn't really feed the trolls, but that post has me intrigued.
What is that game Google and T-Mobile are playing? First of all, T-
Mobile? What do they have to do with anything? And what's said game?
On Jan 27, 9:17 pm, Alexey avolo...@gmail.com wrote:
So you'd rather delayed the release
the following discrepancies compared to the descriptions
here, using a similar, simple application which uses Gallery, and
BitmapFactory:
1) EboMike, How exactly do I run the application without a debugger
attached? I assume that closing Eclipse entirely, and launching a
new emulator from a DOS prompt
My app deals with tons of pictures that are on an arbitrary location
of the device (typically somewhere on /sdcard, presumed private to the
app). The gallery has a context menu that calls addIntentOptions on
them so you can send them via MMS, use them as contact pictures, etc.
How do I need to
I've been able to get external JARs for common code (which uses the
android.jar) to work. I'm using a pretty clumsy way and I'm sure
there's a more elegant solution out there, but it works for me.
Since it's been a while since I set it up, I might not remember the
exact steps. Basically, I
it will be resolved at some point in the
future.
On Jan 9, 12:54 pm, fadden fad...@android.com wrote:
On Jan 8, 8:06 am, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
For a simple demonstration of how BitmapFactory leaks, try this:
In the debugger, add an exception break on caught/uncaught instances
to deal with, at the same time this
is effectively preventing me from debugging some of my apps for a
prolonged period.
-Mike
On Jan 6, 2:18 pm, fadden fad...@android.com wrote:
On Jan 5, 1:59 pm, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
This problem seems to be particularly prevalent with exceptions
. Without a debugger attached, the memory usage
is stable.
On Jan 5, 1:51 pm, fadden fad...@android.com wrote:
On Jan 3, 12:18 am, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
I take that back... I looked a lot more into the issue, and it seems
that the leak only occurs when a debugger is attached
.
-Mike
On Dec 31 2008, 10:39 am, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
There is clearly something wrong. I've tried to plug a leak in
BitmapFactory.decodeStream() (which is called internally by
BitmapFactory.decodeFile() ), and that indeed fixed a memory leak
whenever you create a bitmap (seehttp
reaches a total
allocated size of 16 MB and your app needs more memory, you get an
OutOfMemoryError.
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:30 PM, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Romain. I'm grabbing them from a server, but you're right, if
anything, I should convert and re-save them
necessary cleanup and
double check anything you might be doing with static members.
Cheers,
Justin
Android Team @ Google
On Dec 11, 3:03 pm, EboMike ebom...@gmail.com wrote:
I tried using BitmapFactory.Options when calling
BitmapFactory.decodePath() on Romain's recommendation to resize
I tried using BitmapFactory.Options when calling
BitmapFactory.decodePath() on Romain's recommendation to resize the
1024x768 JPG files down to 480x320 before displaying them in a
Gallery, but that didn't help at all - if anything, it made things
worse. The app still runs out after viewing just a
I've already asked this in a href=http://groups.google.com/group/
android-developers/msg/9cdbf47be2505810?hl=enThis thread/a: Here
is a pretty simple Gallery setup. It seems to leak with every image
that's loaded (see the original thread for details).
I'm tempted to file it as a bug, but I want
] wrote:
If the convertView is always null and all the views you create are
kept in the Gallery's recycler, there's definitely a bug. I would like
to know however what is the size (in pixels) of the images you load in
the Gallery.
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:45 PM, EboMike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
PROTECTED] wrote:
I just checked and the bug is simply that Gallery does not convert the
views. I'll try to fix it as soon as possible.
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:45 PM, EboMike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've already asked this in a href=http://groups.google.com/group/
android-developers/msg
in that case. Gallery, like
ListView, GridView, etc. uses a recycling heap. Every time a view is
unused, it is moved to the recycler. Unfortunately, if it's never
taken out of the recycler...
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:07 PM, EboMike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks a lot, Romain! Question
BitmapFactory.Options or Bitmap.createScaledBitmap to load your image
pre-scaled to a much more reasonable size.
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:23 PM, EboMike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks a lot for the very quick replies. One last thing: Do you happen
to have any remote idea about when the next SDK
().freeMemory() returns
~760KB.
-Mike
On Nov 16, 12:34 pm, EboMike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm reading JPGs off the storage device, and they are typically
1024x768 since they came straight from a server. The VM typically
errors out allocating ~1MB of memory. (One time, it errored allocating
30KB
is in internal flash, or
ImageSwitcher.setImageURI(new ContentURI(/sdcard/mypath/
myimage.jpg)) when loading from SD card. Just my two cent guess.
Regards
On Nov 15, 7:57 am, EboMike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey blind, you're right, I'm using Drawables -- BitmapDrawables, to be
precise
.
If you're currently at 3/4 MB, then everything's fine :))
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:00 AM, EboMike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for your answer, Romain!
How much of those 16MB are accessible to the app? When I look at the
Heap view in the DDMS, I only see one heap with a total size
of the Bitmap you are trying to create?
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:33 AM, EboMike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Um, yes... except that I'm randomly getting OutOfMemoryExceptions when
I create a new bitmap :)
On Nov 16, 11:13 am, Romain Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
16 MB is the maximum limit
while releasing the ones that you do not need at any given moment.
Finally, calling System.gc() when loading a new image does no harm and
might help the garbage collector to stay further away from the heap
limits.
On Nov 13, 6:10 am, EboMike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm getting this error too
It's been six months since the last activity on any group regarding
FTP, but there is still no post that explains how to solve the problem
with the java.io.IOException stating Unable to connect to server:
{0} whenever trying to connect to an FtpURLConnection. (The FTP use
from Android thread goes
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