[android-developers] Re: Google has received a subpoena seeking information related to Android applications

2012-10-01 Thread Flying Coder
I got this too -- anyone know what this is about? On Monday, October 1, 2012 6:45:39 PM UTC-4, Andrei wrote: I received this email But i am not interested and want my account to be excluded What do i need to do? Thanks Google has received a subpoena seeking information related to Android

[android-developers] Re: Android 3.2 emulator display freezes as soon as I click apps or + in the home screen

2012-04-09 Thread Flying Coder
Did you ever find a solution to this? I'm having exactly the same problem with the latest tools (r17). Thanks, Steve On Tuesday, October 11, 2011 1:37:21 PM UTC-4, Michael Diener wrote: When running the 3.2 emulator and pressing apps or + in the home screen, the screen starts to move a

[android-developers] Re: Anybody seen a slowdown in sales?

2010-12-18 Thread Flying Coder
Same large drop in sales here too. Also, similar big, overnight drop in ranking for my top-rated app. A few months ago it had been #1 in the Health category for many months. Then was in the top 3 or 4 for several months, then a couple of days ago plummeted to 13th. :-( -- You received

[android-developers] Re: How do you specify ContentProvider authorities when using the Lite Pro app publishing model?

2010-12-14 Thread Flying Coder
Having lite pro ContentProviders is very easy if you use a library project. Simply put all of the shared functionality between lite pro versions, including the ContenteProvider, in the base library project. Then, have 2 separate lite pro projects that use the same base library project.

[android-developers] Anyone have an experience dealing with Ubinuri?

2010-10-27 Thread Flying Coder
I'm sure many, if not most, of us have been contacted by Ubinuri about distributing apps in Korea. Just wondering if anyone has any experience dealing with them? Good, bad? Thanks, Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To

[android-developers] How to use appt --rename-manifest-package during ant build?

2010-10-17 Thread Flying Coder
I have an app with both a free paid version. I have been using appt --rename-manifest-package from the command line to rename the package from one version to another. But, I would like to using ant to do builds. Anyone know how to use the rename-manifest-package option in an ant build? Sorry

[android-developers] How to use appt --rename-manifest-package during ant build?

2010-10-17 Thread Flying Coder
I have an app with both a paid free version. I have been using aapt --rename-manifest-package from the command line to switch from one package to the other. However, I would like to start using ant to do the builds (to more easily use LVL). Does anyone know how to use rename-manifest-package

[android-developers] Re: Anyone else ever submitted to Motorola Shop4Apps? I did and so far it seems dismal - share your experience?

2010-09-20 Thread Flying Coder
I posted one of my most popular apps on Shop4Apps China a few months ago. Sadly, I have yet to make even 1 sale. Granted, the app is in English so I would not expect it to be anywhere near as popular in China as it is here, but I did expect to sell at least a few. Shop4Apps, as well as

[android-developers] Re: Another developer has published an app using the EXACT same name as mine

2010-09-15 Thread Flying Coder
@Dan: thanks for the advice and link -- I will check it out. @Martin: thanks for the feedback. It is very frustrating the Market allows this issue to crop up. At one time at least, I believe it did require apps to have unique names. btw, I still owe you that write-up -- sorry, I've

[android-developers] Another developer has published an app using the EXACT same name as mine

2010-09-14 Thread Flying Coder
Surely, this can't be allowed, can it? What recourse do I have? Thanks, Steve -- 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

[android-developers] Re: Another developer has published an app using the EXACT same name as mine

2010-09-14 Thread Flying Coder
then you may have some recourse with store management, but it would be purely at their discretion, especially given how hard it is to find a unique name anymore. (I wonder how many here even know how to copyright their work?) On Sep 14, 12:41 pm, Flying Coder av8r.st...@gmail.com wrote: Surely

[android-developers] Re: Permission checked at install time, but what happens if the permission user is installed before the permission definer?

2010-09-05 Thread Flying Coder
. This is something that really needs to be improved. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Flying Coder av8r.st...@gmail.com wrote: For example, I am adding an option to my app (Executive Assistant) to integrate with the Astrid TODO list app.  Astrid defines the permissions necessary for doing this. My

[android-developers] Re: Permission checked at install time, but what happens if the permission user is installed before the permission definer?

2010-09-05 Thread Flying Coder
Call it what you want, is there a way to make it happen? I believe the in place update would be sufficient to get the permission recognized. On Sep 5, 11:21 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Flying Coder av8r.st...@gmail.com wrote:    Thanks

[android-developers] Re: Permission checked at install time, but what happens if the permission user is installed before the permission definer?

2010-09-05 Thread Flying Coder
the permissions screen so the user can approve the permissions being granted.  (adb install doesn't go through permissions because the shell is running as the user.) On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Flying Coder av8r.st

[android-developers] Permission checked at install time, but what happens if the permission user is installed before the permission definer?

2010-09-04 Thread Flying Coder
For example, I am adding an option to my app (Executive Assistant) to integrate with the Astrid TODO list app. Astrid defines the permissions necessary for doing this. My app uses those permissions. Everything works fine if Astrid is installed before my app. However, many users will use my app

[android-developers] Re: Want to confirm that app is in background due to Home Key press

2010-08-31 Thread Flying Coder
I agree with Frank Mark: you don't need to detect the HOME key to do what you want. Simply doing the check as part of the activity life cycle should be sufficient. However, I think you can detect when the HOME key is pressed by overriding onUserLeaveHint. I haven't yet had a reason to use it,

[android-developers] DDMS Telephony Status controls not working for the emulator in latest SDK tools

2010-08-05 Thread Flying Coder
I'm trying to test failure modes in my app. Using DDMS Emulator Controls, I set telephony status/data to denied. This removes the 3G icon from the status bar as expected. However, it does NOT prevent my app from accessing the network -- it seems to have no effect at all. This is using the

[android-developers] Looking for recommendations for a textbook to use in a class on Android Development

2010-08-05 Thread Flying Coder
I've been approached by a local community college to teach a course on Android Development. Have you taught such a course? Taken one that you thought was good? I appreciate any recommendations you might offer on textbooks or other materials that you used. Thanks in advance, Steve -- You

[android-developers] Re: Toast message not displayed

2010-08-05 Thread Flying Coder
Hi Nikki, Toast's need to happen on the main UI thread. Slightly different situation, but you may find this thread useful: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/8fe7d6a776f5f2fb/a9ecf18a32891cab#a9ecf18a32891cab Cheers, Steve On Aug 5, 8:48 am, nikki

[android-developers] Re: Strange or blank emails from users emailing from market

2010-07-24 Thread Flying Coder
I get these periodically. I used to reply asking if they meant to send something. The ones who followed up all said that they had just accidentally sent the message. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group,

[android-developers] Re: Android lock screen

2010-07-19 Thread Flying Coder
Hi Mark, I normally enjoy reading your posts here and usually even agree with you. Though in this instance, I have to disagree with your blanket characterization of all current lock screen replacements as malware. I have two apps on the Market that offer lock screen functionality.

[android-developers] Re: Android lock screen

2010-07-19 Thread Flying Coder
Hi Mark, Both apps use only public, documented API's for the lock screen support, though possibly in ways not intended by the framework engineers.  You can choose to call this malware if you like, but the users of these apps clearly don't think so. IMHO, any technique that would allow

[android-developers] Re: Pick a contact - only with phone, email ...

2010-07-12 Thread Flying Coder
Hi, Set the type to: ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_TYPE Cheers, Steve On Jul 11, 8:45 am, andreas andreas.str...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I use this code to start the contact app and pick a contact in my app Intent contactintent = new Intent (Intent.ACTION_PICK);

[android-developers] pirated apps hosted on Google Sites :-(

2010-07-01 Thread Flying Coder
Nothing new about people pirating apps, but this guy is actually trying to pass himself off as a legitimate Google and T-Mobile site: The Official T-Mobile My Touch 3G Fan Page http://sites.google.com/site/officialmytouch3gfanpage/calendar where you can download Free Paid Apps. Google, can

[android-developers] how to display a Toast from an IntentService?

2010-06-11 Thread Flying Coder
So, I have an IntentService that handles button callbacks from a widget. When the user presses a certain button, I want to display a Toast. I return from onHandleIntent almost immediately after doing Toast.show(), which in turn stops the service and kills its thread, which keeps the Toast from

[android-developers] Re: how to display a Toast from an IntentService?

2010-06-11 Thread Flying Coder
Hi Mark, Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately, SystemClock.sleep() doesn't do the trick. :-( Cheers, Steve On Jun 11, 1:22 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Flying Coder wrote: So, I have an IntentService that handles button callbacks from a widget.  When the user

[android-developers] Re: how to display a Toast from an IntentService?

2010-06-11 Thread Flying Coder
a message in a Handler of the main thread, and show it there.  Basically the same as any time you want to touch other parts of your UI. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Flying Coder av8r.st...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mark,    Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately, SystemClock.sleep

[android-developers] Re: Home key - desired behaviour?

2010-06-06 Thread Flying Coder
It would be more accurate to say that onStop is *supposed* to be called whenever HOME is pressed. In 2.1, this does not happen: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6094#c0 Cheers, Steve On Jun 5, 7:59 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: guich wrote: Thanks. I got

[android-developers] Re: Froyo-Problem: Calendar access

2010-05-28 Thread Flying Coder
Definitely looking forward to the day when Android makes the API official again (also VERY much looking forward to the day when there is an API to access the email and/or gmail database). But, in the meantime, prior to Froyo, I was using the following uri to access calendar events:

[android-developers] Re: Even with Min SDK version, building app against 2.2 breaks 1.5?

2010-05-24 Thread Flying Coder
Hi Greg, Did you ever figure out what was going on? I'm having exactly the same problem. Thanks, Steve On May 21, 8:39 pm, Greg Giacovelli miyamo...@gmail.com wrote: Nope it's just in drawable. -Greg On May 21, 5:28 pm, Xavier Ducrohet x...@android.com wrote: Is that resource

[android-developers] Strange layout bug: bottom half of button text missing. Xperia X10

2010-05-04 Thread Flying Coder
Please see this image: http://sites.google.com/a/appventive.com/www/files/button_bug.jpg Notice how the bottom half of the words Done Clear are clipped. This does NOT happen on the emulator or on the N1, Droid or G1. But, apparently is happening on the XPeria X10. Has anyone else seen this?

[android-developers] Re: Lots of lost sales due to Credit Card authorization.

2010-04-28 Thread Flying Coder
Have the customers who contact you about it check their spam folder -- chances are they'll find Google's email there (at least that's been my experience). Cheers, Steve On Apr 26, 9:54 am, Streets Of Boston flyingdutc...@gmail.com wrote: You may experiencing a bug, since e-mails should be

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

2010-03-31 Thread Flying Coder
A pair of Droids in NC, USA today (one for being a ADC2 finalist). Google, you rock! On Mar 31, 4:26 pm, Ginda guentherhaslb...@gmail.com wrote: Germany still waiting (since 6.March ) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To

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

2010-03-30 Thread Flying Coder
NC still waiting (but not complaining -- awesome for Google to do this) On Mar 29, 8:16 pm, Andrei gml...@gmail.com wrote: FL still waiting On Mar 29, 5:58 pm, SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com softwareforme@gmail.com wrote: Washington State, USA. Still waiting. On Mon, Mar 29,

[android-developers] Re: how to detect screen is on or off?

2010-03-29 Thread Flying Coder
I also listen to SCREEN_ON/OFF broadcasts in a couple of my apps. But, starting in 2.1 there is a new isScreenOn method: PowerManager pm = (PowerManager) getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE); boolean isScreenOn = pm.isScreenOn(); It won't actually help me with my apps since I'm interested

[android-developers] Re: Can anyone hook me up with an Exchange email account that I could use for testing?

2010-03-28 Thread Flying Coder
. But if you mean the proprietary Exchange Active Sync (EAS) protocol it's a different matter, but there are free servers for that too. Google is your friend. Regards Marek On Mar 24, 11:43 pm, Flying Coder av8r.st...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kumar,     Thanks, I wasn't aware of MS online

[android-developers] Re: Can anyone hook me up with an Exchange email account that I could use for testing?

2010-03-24 Thread Flying Coder
. You can try that. Thanks and Regards, Kumar Bibek. On Mar 23, 12:09 am, Flying Coder av8r.st...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,    I'm putting together a lightweight email provider for use with one of my apps (based on the K9 mail client).  I'd love to test it with an Exchange account before

[android-developers] Re: Can anyone hook me up with an Exchange email account that I could use for testing?

2010-03-24 Thread Flying Coder
Hi Alexander, Thanks, can you provide any other details? I haven't had any luck in tracking this down. All the best, Steve On Mar 23, 3:23 pm, Alexander Blom alex...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pretty sure Gmail supports Exchange for email now. Try that. On Mar 22, 8:09 pm, Flying Coder

[android-developers] Re: ContentProviders assistance?

2010-03-22 Thread Flying Coder
Hi Mark, See C:\android-sdk-windows\platforms\android-2.0.1\samples\NotePad for an example of using a ContentProvider. To allow the provider to be used by other applications, just set Exported to true for the provider in the manifest. You can also set permissions for the provider to

[android-developers] Can anyone hook me up with an Exchange email account that I could use for testing?

2010-03-22 Thread Flying Coder
Hi, I'm putting together a lightweight email provider for use with one of my apps (based on the K9 mail client). I'd love to test it with an Exchange account before releasing it. I'm hoping that some kind sole out there will be able to hook me up with an Exchange account that I can use

[android-developers] Re: docs for shape xml syntax

2010-01-29 Thread Flying Coder
Docs for this would be awesome! Nedrow: thanks for the link -- that was very helpful. Steve On Jan 28, 10:31 pm, jotobjects jotobje...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks - this sure looks like it might be useful if there was more documentation :( On Jan 28, 3:38 pm, Nerdrow troybe...@gmail.com

[android-developers] Re: Create Nexus One live wallpaper

2010-01-12 Thread Flying Coder
My app also runs on Android 1.5 1.6. Currently, I specify the translucent theme in the manifest. Is there a way to conditionally specify either translucent or wallpaper depending on the SDK version? Thanks, Steve On Jan 10, 2:11 pm, Romain Guy romain...@android.com wrote: No, don't do this

[android-developers] Re: Create Nexus One live wallpaper

2010-01-12 Thread Flying Coder
Never mind - I found a way to do it: define sdk-specific themes in values-v3 values-v5. On Jan 12, 6:47 am, Flying Coder av8r.st...@gmail.com wrote: My app also runs on Android 1.5 1.6.  Currently, I specify the translucent theme in the manifest.  Is there a way to conditionally specify

[android-developers] Re: Android Coverflow widget

2010-01-08 Thread Flying Coder
Wow - looks great! I'll definitely play around with it and will let you know if I have any feedback. Cheers, Steve On Jan 8, 3:45 am, Taf neild...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've had a go at creating a coverflow like widget. My results can be found here:

[android-developers] Android 2.0: Why does my transparent background turn white while scrolling??

2010-01-07 Thread Flying Coder
Hi, I'm using a ListView with a transparent background. It works fine in Android 1.5 1.6, but in Android 2.0 and later, the ListView background turns white while scrolling. I want it to stay transparent, just like in 1.5 1.6. Does anyone know what's going on, or better yet, how I can

[android-developers] Re: Android 2.0: Why does my transparent background turn white while scrolling??

2010-01-07 Thread Flying Coder
never mind, I found the answer: http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/listview-backgrounds.html On Jan 7, 10:08 am, Flying Coder av8r.st...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,     I'm using a ListView with a transparent background.  It works fine in Android 1.5 1.6, but in Android 2.0 and later

[android-developers] ActivityGroup: How do I disable the shadow at the top of the window?

2009-12-05 Thread Flying Coder
Here is the code I use in the parent activity to display a child activity within a FrameLayout. However this FrameLayout is just part of a larger layout and I don't want the shadow that is normally displayed at the top of an activity's window. How do I get rid of the shadow? Much obliged to

[android-developers] Re: Questin about gmail intents

2009-12-03 Thread Flying Coder
Moneytoo: How does one receive the intent? I'd be happy if my app could simply tell when a new gmail has arrived. Thanks, Steve On Dec 2, 6:41 pm, moneytoo m...@seznam.cz wrote: You can receive the intent but you can not cancel the notification. On Dec 2, 7:48 pm, vendor.net

[android-developers] Hero Tattoo: accelerometer doesn't work while screen is off?

2009-11-28 Thread Flying Coder
Hi, I have an app that needs to monitor the accelerometer while the screen is off (I hold a partial wake lock). This works for most phones, but I've had users with the Hero (running 1.5) and Tattoo (running 1.6) report that the motion detection doesn't work while the screen is off. Has

[android-developers] Given a TextView of a specific height, how many lines of text can be displayed?

2009-11-22 Thread Flying Coder
I'm using a TextView in a widget to show some info from a ContentProvider. Right now, the update takes a little longer than I would like because I'm processing all of the data from the content provider, when I really only need the number of lines that will fit in the TextView. What's the

[android-developers] Re: How to preserve old Db table, while adding new table columns for new version of app?

2009-11-16 Thread Flying Coder
Override the onUpdate method of SQLiteOpenHelper and do: if (oldVersion VERSION_WHEN_COLUMN_ADDED) db.execSQL(alter table + TABLE_NAME + add column + COLUMN_NAME + + COLUMN_TYPE + ;); Cheers, Steve On Nov 16, 8:17 am, jagtap.jj jagtap...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody Is there

[android-developers] Apps not showing up on Droid Eris (running cupcake)??

2009-11-13 Thread Flying Coder
I have the min SDK version set to 3 in the manifest. Shouldn't the apps still be available in the Cupcake Market? Anyone know why apps are not showing up there? Or better yet, how to make them reappear? Thanks! Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[android-developers] How to programmatically disable the soft keyboard?

2009-11-08 Thread Flying Coder
My app has a simple number pad dialog for entering data into an EditText. I want to use that instead of the soft keyboard. How can I keep the soft keyboard from displaying when a user clicks on the EditText? I really don't wan to go the thru the hassle of developing a full blown InputMethod

[android-developers] How to interpret device state dump from DDMS?

2009-09-08 Thread Flying Coder
Is there any documentation describing the various sections of dump device state output from DDMS? Thanks, Steve --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send

[android-developers] PhoneStateListener memory leak

2009-09-08 Thread Flying Coder
There appears to be a leak when using PhoneStateListeners. The following code simply reigsters in onResume and unregisters in onPause a PhoneStateListener. Repeatedly launch then press BACK (so the app is finished onDestory is called before the next launch) and the number of activities

[android-developers] Re: PhoneStateListener memory leak

2009-09-08 Thread Flying Coder
Ugh -- yep, that was the problem. Thanks! :-) On Sep 8, 2:04 pm, Romain Guy romain...@google.com wrote: When you do this kind of test, you should force GCs on the system process with DDMS, then force GCs in your process and then check how many activities you have running. On Tue,

[android-developers] small test case that demonstrates out of memory failure using getWallpaper()

2009-09-08 Thread Flying Coder
The code below shows how getWallpaper can lead to an out of memory force close. This is the same code as I posted earlier for the PhoneStateListener question, except getWallpaper() is used for the background. Launch then exit (BACK) repeatedly will result in a force close: 09-08 16:45:30.612:

[android-developers] Re: How to interpret device state dump from DDMS?

2009-09-08 Thread Flying Coder
Bummer -- but thanks! :) On Sep 8, 4:38 pm, fadden fad...@android.com wrote: On Sep 8, 8:24 am, Flying Coder av8r.st...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any documentation describing the various sections of dump device state output from DDMS? Not really.  Some parts are self-explanatory, some

[android-developers] Re: logcat api?

2009-09-06 Thread Flying Coder
There's a great little app on the Market called log collector programmatically reads the logcat output and emails it to someone (I've had my customers do this several times when they encountered problems that I couldn't reproduce). Happily, it looks like this app is open source:

[android-developers] Re: AppWidgetHost - what is the hostId for?

2009-08-20 Thread Flying Coder
Thanks Jeff! On Aug 18, 8:38 pm, Jeff Sharkey jshar...@android.com wrote: The hostId is a number of your choosing that should be internally unique to your app (that is, you don't need to worry about collisions with other apps on the system).  It's designed for cases where you want two unique

[android-developers] Re: how to dial voicemail?

2009-08-18 Thread Flying Coder
16, 11:20 am, Flying Coder av8r.st...@gmail.com wrote: According to the docs, the following should work: Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_DIAL); intent.setData(Uri.parse(voicemail:)); startActivity(intent); But this just brings up the dialer without

[android-developers] AppWidgetHost - what is the hostId for?

2009-08-18 Thread Flying Coder
Hi there, I'm developing my own appwidget hoster and am curious about the hostId used in the constructor: AppWidgetHost(Context context, int hostId) The docs don't say anything about it. Can anyone tell me what its used for, and what values are legal? Thanks for the help, Steve P.s.

[android-developers] out of memory error getWallpaper

2009-08-17 Thread Flying Coder
This has been driving me nuts and I'm hoping someone will be able to help me understand what is happening (or better yet, how to fix it! ;-). I set the background image in one of my apps to the system wallpaper image using the following code: Drawable wp = this.getWallpaper(); background

[android-developers] Re: out of memory error getWallpaper

2009-08-17 Thread Flying Coder
back on reinit with getLastNonConfigurationInstance(). This has been explained by Romain Guy on his blog :http://www.curious-creature.org/2009/02/16/faster-screen-orientation-... On 17 août, 15:58, Flying Coder av8r.st...@gmail.com wrote: This has been driving me nuts and I'm hoping

[android-developers] Re: out of memory error getWallpaper

2009-08-17 Thread Flying Coder
, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Flying Coder av8r.st...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nivek,    Unfortunately, doing recycle on the drawable returned by ContextWrapper.getWallpaper() results in a run-time exception the next time the app is launched:  attempt to use recycled bitmap.  Though curiously, if I

[android-developers] how to dial voicemail?

2009-08-16 Thread Flying Coder
According to the docs, the following should work: Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_DIAL); intent.setData(Uri.parse(voicemail:)); startActivity(intent); But this just brings up the dialer without a number showing. Anyone know how to launch the dialer with the

[android-developers] Constant Garbage Collection for ActivityManager?

2009-08-05 Thread Flying Coder
I'm seeing the following notification in LogCat repeated approximately every 3 seconds: 08-05 10:19:51.500: DEBUG/dalvikvm(58): GC freed 33080 objects / 1212416 bytes in 344ms the number of objects/bytes varies from one line to the next, but only slightly. Pid 58 is the ActivityManager. Only

[android-developers] Re: Constant Garbage Collection for ActivityManager?

2009-08-05 Thread Flying Coder
a production phone. Is there any way to change the debuggable property? On Aug 5, 2:10 pm, fadden fad...@android.com wrote: On Aug 5, 7:32 am, Flying Coder av8r.st...@gmail.com wrote: I'm seeing the following notification in LogCat repeated approximately every 3 seconds: 08-05 10:19:51.500

[android-developers] Re: Constant Garbage Collection for ActivityManager?

2009-08-05 Thread Flying Coder
Thanks -- will give that a try next time this happens. On Aug 5, 5:02 pm, fadden fad...@android.com wrote: On Aug 5, 11:17 am, Flying Coder av8r.st...@gmail.com wrote: fadden:  No, I only have a production phone.  Is there any way to change the debuggable property? Nope. If you have

[android-developers] How do I launch the GMail client programmatically?

2009-07-16 Thread Flying Coder
I know I can do this: Intent intent = pm.getLaunchIntentForPackage(com.google.android.gm); startActivity(intent); But, are there any generic intents that will launch gmail? For instance, I can use ACTION_SEND to send an email, but what similar intent will simply launch gmail? Thanks, Steve

[android-developers] How to detect if sound is currently playing on the speaker?

2009-05-18 Thread Flying Coder
Hi, Is there any way to tell if an app is currently using the speaker (playing music or generating other sounds)? Specifically, I'd like to detect if an alarm clock is going off (not only the one that comes with the system, but any alarm clock), but I'll settle for simply knowing if any