[android-developers] How to deal with negative anonymous reviews?

2012-05-09 Thread FractalBob
One of my apps is the victim of repeated negative reviews by an anonymous poster. No comments are made, just a star rating of 1 done twice, probably by the same poster. I reported this to Google, but they don't seem interested in doing anything about it. Here is their reply to an e-mail I sent on

[android-developers] Re: How to deal with negative anonymous reviews?

2012-05-09 Thread FractalBob
The problem is that there are ad services that charge per app download, but they demand a minimum rating. So, for new apps, if they start off with a rating of, say, 1, unless enough people take the trouble to try it in spite of the rating (not everyone looks at ratings as objectively and

[android-developers] Re: How to deal with negative anonymous reviews?

2012-05-09 Thread FractalBob
Thanks, I'll give it a try. On May 9, 7:32 pm, John Coryat cor...@gmail.com wrote: After some thought on my answer, I will add that there is something that actually can be done. I don't know how it actually affects the ratings but it does seem that it might help. This only goes for people who

[android-developers] Editable WebView or a reasonable facsimile thereof?

2012-04-25 Thread FractalBob
Anyone know if there is an editable WebView somewhere in the wild or if Google has plans to make the standard WebView editable? I need such a creature for an app I'm working on (my app is based on K9 Mail, which uses an extension of WebView). Mozilla provides an editable browser-type window to its

[android-developers] Re: Editable WebView or a reasonable facsimile thereof?

2012-04-25 Thread FractalBob
I know about spanned text and I'm prepared to use EdiText only if I have to, but my question is about a true editable WebView, which would facilitate my app immensely. On Apr 25, 4:32 am, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: Another way probably worth looking into is to use spans. For

[android-developers] Re: Large data downloads from a Web app to Android client getting Out of memory error

2012-04-15 Thread FractalBob
probably have to modify the server to support piecewise uploads. -- K 4 апреля 2012 г. 22:27 пользователь FractalBob ruom...@gmail.com написал: On Apr 4, 8:48 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:38 AM, FractalBob ruom...@gmail.com wrote: The data, a kind

[android-developers] Re: Large data downloads from a Web app to Android client getting Out of memory error

2012-04-15 Thread FractalBob
with API 8, but hey, the sources are only a few clicks away. -- K 4 апреля 2012 г. 22:27 пользователь FractalBob ruom...@gmail.comнаписал: On Apr 4, 8:48 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:38 AM, FractalBob ruom...@gmail.com wrote: The data, a kind

[android-developers] Re: Large data downloads from a Web app to Android client getting Out of memory error

2012-04-04 Thread FractalBob
, unfortunately; too much legacy code. On Apr 3, 9:19 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:57 PM, FractalBob ruom...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone have any ideas on why this is happening The error tells you exactly why: you are running out of memory. and how to fix

[android-developers] Re: Large data downloads from a Web app to Android client getting Out of memory error

2012-04-04 Thread FractalBob
On Apr 3, 9:19 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:57 PM, FractalBob ruom...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone have any ideas on why this is happening The error tells you exactly why: you are running out of memory. and how to fix it? Inspect your response in a web

[android-developers] Re: Large data downloads from a Web app to Android client getting Out of memory error

2012-04-04 Thread FractalBob
On Apr 4, 8:48 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:38 AM, FractalBob ruom...@gmail.com wrote: The data, a kind of mail attachment, is a music file Why are you reading lines from this data then? The data is coming in Base 64 encoded from the Web app

[android-developers] Large data downloads from a Web app to Android client getting Out of memory error

2012-04-03 Thread FractalBob
I'm sending the following request to a Web app running on Tomcat: connection = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection(); writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(connection.getOutputStream())); writer.write(email_addr= + URLEncoder.encode(email_addr, UTF-8) + + passwd= +

[android-developers] How do I create an editable browser window?

2012-03-22 Thread FractalBob
I'm building an app, based on the mail client K-9 Mail, that requires an editable View object that renders full HTML; something like WebView, but editable. Does anyone know what I can use or how to proceed? TIA! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

[android-developers] Re: How do I create an editable browser window?

2012-03-22 Thread FractalBob
, FractalBob ruom...@gmail.com wrote: I'm building an app, based on the mail client K-9 Mail, that requires an editable View object that renders full HTML; something like WebView, but editable. Does anyone know what I can use or how to proceed? TIA! -- You received this message because you

[android-developers] Question about scrambling the keyboard

2011-01-31 Thread FractalBob
Hi, I'm writing an app that randomly scrambles the keyboard, so that when the user presses, say, the 'A' key, some other letter might get displayed. The only way I see of doing this (actually, the way I do it now) is to register a KeyListener and return the randomized keystroke. The problem

[android-developers] Question about scrambling the keyboard

2011-01-31 Thread FractalBob
Hi, I'm writing an app that randomly scrambles the keyboard, so that when the user presses, say, the 'A' key, some other letter might get displayed. The only way I see of doing this (actually, the way I do it now) is to register a KeyListener and return the randomized keystroke. The problem

[android-developers] Table row content disappearing on rotate

2011-01-28 Thread FractalBob
Hi, I have an app that includes two TableLayouts whose rows are filled in dynamically. Whenever I rotate the device, the rows are cleared for both tables. This only happens with the tables, not with other views, like TextViews. The relevant XML and Java code are as follows: *play.xml:*

Re: [android-developers] Table row content disappearing on rotate

2011-01-28 Thread FractalBob
Thanks for the link. I read it but I couldn't see the relevance. Does device rotation require that the activity state, including the entire row data, be saved by the app? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this

Re: [android-developers] Table row content disappearing on rotate

2011-01-28 Thread FractalBob
Thanks, that puts me in the right direction! -- 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] Table row content disappearing on rotate

2011-01-28 Thread FractalBob
Thanks for the link, Kostya. Yeah, I understood that TreKing meant Activity, not the app process. -- 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

Re: [android-developers] Highlighting an icon in a Gallery widget

2010-12-10 Thread FractalBob
Simple and elegant; thanks, TreKing. -- 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] Highlighting an icon in a Gallery widget

2010-12-09 Thread FractalBob
Hi, I have a Gallery widget containing a bunch of icons. When the user selects one of them, I need to temporarily change the icon's background color before launching the app associated with the icon. How do I change the color? I know how to change to color, but not how to change it back! HELP!!

[android-developers] Highlighting an icon in a Gallery widget

2010-12-09 Thread FractalBob
Hi, I have a Gallery widget containing a bunch of icons. When the user selects one of them, I need to temporarily change the icon's background color before launching the app associated with the icon. How do I change the color? I know how to change to color, but not how to change it back! HELP!!

[android-developers] Detecting flings in a ListActivity containing non-simple views

2010-11-13 Thread FractalBob
Hi, I have a list that contains views consisting an ImageView followed on the right by a TextView: LinearLayout android:orientation=horizontal android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=wrap_content ImageView android:id=@+id/news_image

[android-developers] Re: Detecting flings in a ListActivity containing non-simple views

2010-11-13 Thread FractalBob
understanding how list view works with recycling views and such. I'm attaching my listeners in the getView() method of the adapter I use to load the list. As for view recycling, I don't see why that would be an issue. On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:20 AM, FractalBob ruom...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I

[android-developers] Re: ListView.setOnItemClickListener() fails to catch selection events for custom list items

2010-11-07 Thread FractalBob
a week now and it's driving me nuts. On Nov 4, 3:03 pm, Filip Havlicek havlicek.fi...@gmail.com wrote: Try removing the listener from TextView(s) and see if that makes any difference. 2010/11/4 FractalBob ruom...@gmail.com However, I don't implement any interfaces; is the the problem

[android-developers] Re: ListView.setOnItemClickListener() fails to catch selection events for custom list items

2010-11-04 Thread FractalBob
://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/ListActivity.html#..., android.view.View, int, long) That should fix your problem. Best regards, Filip Havlicek 2010/11/4 FractalBob ruom...@gmail.com I thought I knew how to catch list selection events in Android and then I regained

[android-developers] Re: ListView.setOnItemClickListener() fails to catch selection events for custom list items

2010-11-04 Thread FractalBob
? On Nov 4, 6:29 am, FractalBob ruom...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your suggestion, Filip. I added the following to the ListView:     public void onListItemClick (ListView l, View v, int position, long id)       {       item_index = position;       Toast.makeText(this, item clicked = + position

[android-developers] Re: ListView.setOnItemClickListener() fails to catch selection events for custom list items

2010-11-04 Thread FractalBob
On Nov 4, 11:09 am, Kumar Bibek coomar@gmail.com wrote: Have you set your list items to be focussable? Mean are some of your views in your item layout focussable? I have setFocusable(true); for the TextView I'm clicking on; still no good. On 04-Nov-2010 11:35 PM, FractalBob ruom

[android-developers] Re: ListView.setOnItemClickListener() fails to catch selection events for custom list items

2010-11-04 Thread FractalBob
, FractalBob ruom...@gmail.com wrote: I think the reason it's still not working is because I'm not sure what interface onListItemClick implements, so I tried public class NewsListActivity extends ListActivity implements OnClickListener and I implemented onClick, to no avail. Anyone know what I

[android-developers] ListView.setOnItemClickListener() fails to catch selection events for custom list items

2010-11-03 Thread FractalBob
I thought I knew how to catch list selection events in Android and then I regained consciousness. In my situation, I have a ListView that I populate with a custom view, all of the same class (let's call it the NewsChannel() class). NewsChannel consists of a LinearLayout of ImageViews and

[android-developers] Instantiating a layout defined via XML at runtime

2010-10-18 Thread FractalBob
Hi, I have a ListView that I want to populate with objects whose layout is defined via XML. Is there a way to instantiate a layout at runtime, editing stuff like the Android layout ID, etc., and then load the new layout into the list? TIA! Bob -- You received this message because you are

[android-developers] Re: Instantiating a layout defined via XML at runtime

2010-10-18 Thread FractalBob
() method when the convertView parameter is null. On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:20 AM, FractalBob ruom...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a ListView that I want to populate with objects whose layout is defined via XML. Is there a way to instantiate a layout at runtime, editing stuff like

[android-developers] Re: Creating a JTree-like widget for Android?

2010-08-28 Thread FractalBob
On Aug 27, 8:08 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:20 AM, FractalBob ruom...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the pointer. You're welcome! It seems the objection to a JTree like view is that you'd run out of space on a small screen, but that's not valid

[android-developers] Re: Creating a JTree-like widget for Android?

2010-08-27 Thread FractalBob
to use menus as suggested in the link; it would be too klunky, IMO. On Aug 26, 4:58 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:56 PM, FractalBob ruom...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know if it's possible to extend this to an arbitrary number of levels? See this recent

[android-developers] Creating a JTree-like widget for Android?

2010-08-26 Thread FractalBob
Hi, I need to create something like a JTree for my app and have been looking at ExpandableListView, but it only allows two levels. Does anyone know if it's possible to extend this to an arbitrary number of levels? I need a single top level and, below that, several second levels, each of which may

[android-developers] Proprietary MIME headers getting deleted by the SDK?

2010-06-10 Thread FractalBob
Hi, My app adds proprietary headers to a MimeMessage with setHeader() and up until the point the message is sent, I've confirmed with the debugger that the headers are in the message. But after the message is sent and I looked at it, all my headers are gone. Is this a known bug in the SDK? This

[android-developers] Automatic scrolling of table when rows are added

2010-05-25 Thread FractalBob
I have a TableLayout wrapped in a ScrollView and as the table expands with new rows, I want the last item added to be displayed. How can I do this? TIA! Bob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email

[android-developers] Decorating a TableLayout to make it look like a table

2010-05-24 Thread FractalBob
Hi, I need to make the TableLayout look like a table, with the border decorations and all. What's the best way to do that? As it is now, it looks like crap, not at all like a real table. TIA! Bob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers

[android-developers] Re: scroll view and TableLayout

2010-05-24 Thread FractalBob
Try creating the headers by hand, say, with a TextView, and put your ScrollView containing the TableLayout underneath it. On Apr 29, 11:44 pm, rahulp rahul.d.notori...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I have a Scrollview Table Layout. In which i have a header column and another header row. I want

[android-developers] EditText pops up Chinese characters when typing

2010-05-24 Thread FractalBob
I have a strange problem in the simulator. I define my UI with XML and when I begin typing into an EditText, a strip of Chinese characters pops up at the bottom of the screen. What's going on and how do I disable this behavior? TIA! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[android-developers] Building Google's Android e-mail client with NetBeans

2010-05-24 Thread FractalBob
Hi, I'm having problems building the e-mail app with NetBeans. I get the following errors: res\layout\account_setup_account_type.xml:29: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at 'text' with value '@string/account_setup_account_type_pop_action').