[android-developers] Re: License Check fails for 5-10% of legit users

2011-09-20 Thread Howard M. Harte
where this is, however... Howard, how do you track piracy metrics? I'd be interested in integrating that in my app and see if it's worth it to keep LVL around, too. On Sep 19, 7:04 pm, Howard M. Harte hhar...@gmail.com wrote: I put some code into my app to allow LVL failure up to five times

[android-developers] Re: License Check fails for 5-10% of legit users

2011-09-19 Thread Howard M. Harte
I put some code into my app to allow LVL failure up to five times before declaring the app unlicensed. In addition, once licensed, I only checked again once a month. Even still, I had complaints, and pirated copies of my app found their way to warez sites. Like all anti-piracy schemes I've seen

[android-developers] Re: Flash Nexus One with Gingerbread, from scratch

2011-09-12 Thread Howard M. Harte
Since Nexus One is a developer phone, I don't mind answering on this forum: Download the GRI40 update.zip from developer.htc.com, Unlock the bootloader with fastboot own unlock if you have not done so already. Then fastboot update update.zip where update.zip is the name of the GRI40 zip you

[android-developers] Re: Serial Port Connectivity

2011-09-09 Thread Howard M. Harte
Yes, take a look at the Bluetooth Chat example and change the UUID to the one for the Bluetooth SPP profile. -Howard On Sep 9, 1:15 am, parasnath gudia@gmail.com wrote: I have an twitter app.I want to open my twitts in hyper terminal(Serial port). when I click on my twitter app,then all  

[android-developers] Re: Recent developments regarding Android (HTC) patent infringement lawsuits

2011-07-16 Thread Howard M. Harte
In the past, I have worked as an expert witness in several patent litigation cases. What happens is that the law firms involved will hire expert witnesses to do research on these patents, and try to find prior art that invalidates the patents. If the prior art is strong, then the plaintiff may

[android-developers] Re: Writing applications uses ethernet instead of Wifi

2011-07-06 Thread Howard M. Harte
Why does it matter to your app whether you're connected to the internet over WiFi or Ethernet? If you're trying to make Ethernet work at the platform level, try Android-platform. -Howard On Jul 6, 4:44 pm, tarek attia tarek.m.at...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for your response First :-

[android-developers] Re: Fm Radio

2010-12-19 Thread Howard M. Harte
The FM radio receiver is built in to the same chip that does the WLAN and BT. It is actually a third radio in those chips. This is true of the Droid X, which uses the TI WL1271 BT/WLAN/FM chip, and many of the HTC and Samsung devices use the Broadcom BCM4329, which also has BT/ WLAN/FM. I think

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

2010-12-17 Thread Howard M. Harte
I have seen a drastic slowdown in sales over the past few days as well, on the order of 50%. Basically back to what they were in Nov 2009. I didn't change the price or the app. Yesterday, I added a promotional graphic, and did an update to ad support for the Nook Color and the Nexus S thinking

[android-developers] Re: What Tablet would you get

2010-12-09 Thread Howard M. Harte
I have three Android tablets now, Galaxy Tab, Viewsonic gTablet and Nook Color. The Galaxy Tab is really nice, and definitely has the best Android integration out of the box. It also has the most hardware features like dual cameras, 3G, and GPS. The form factor is nice, but I wish they thinned

[android-developers] Re: The server could not process your apk. Try again.

2010-11-15 Thread Howard M. Harte
Make sure you don't have any empty uses-configurations tags. I got hit by this today too, when I added some extra empty tags in my AndroidManifest.xml. Definitely the Market error message could be more helpful... On Nov 15, 8:09 pm, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.com wrote: Since this

[android-developers] Re: adb can't find my Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab ...

2010-11-13 Thread Howard M. Harte
I had the same problem with my VZW Galaxy at first. Unplug the USB cable, then check the USB debugging box. -Howard On Nov 13, 4:43 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:09 AM, OldSkoolMark m...@sublimeslime.com wrote: The 'enable USB debugging' setting is

[android-developers] Re: Google TV

2010-10-25 Thread Howard M. Harte
AM, Shane Isbell shane.isb...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Howard M. Harte hhar...@gmail.comwrote: This is what I received from Logitech yesterday about my preorder: Thank you for your recent pre-order from Logitech. This e-mail is to inform you that the product

[android-developers] Re: Google TV

2010-10-13 Thread Howard M. Harte
On Oct 12, 1:34 pm, Shane Isbell shane.isb...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know the release date? I could have sworn that Amazon said it was October 15th, but now I just see on my order - We need a little more time to provide you with a good estimate. This is what I received from Logitech

[android-developers] Re: Bluetooth Serial Port Programming.

2010-09-24 Thread Howard M. Harte
Hello Nathan, I just released a Bluetooth Terminal Emulator in the Market, and it was my first BT project for Android. I used the terminal emulator code from my other app, but separated the code into an Android Library project so I could share the majority of the code. That was the most

[android-developers] Re: Application checksum at runtime

2010-09-19 Thread Howard M. Harte
What I'm doing in one of my apps is computing the md5sum of the APK on the device. I check that against known md5's on my webserver. The result is cached, and the server check is done only once in a while. I've been testing this for a couple weeks on one of my less popular apps. Seems to work

[android-developers] Re: How much money do you make?

2010-09-18 Thread Howard M. Harte
I've never seen my app in the featured apps list even though it is in the 20-30 highest rated paid apps in its category on AppBrain. When I first published my app about 18 months ago, I would get one order every few days. Raising/lowering the price did not seem to affect the number of purchases.

[android-developers] Re: LVL - A Massive Concern

2010-08-02 Thread Howard M. Harte
One thing I am considering is to check if Market is installed, and that the user is located in a country with access to paid apps before doing an LVL check. Just to bypass LVL and revert to the old behavior in case they dont have Market. My app has 5 users according to analytics, and 6500

[android-developers] Re: Ad-Hoc Networking

2010-06-19 Thread Howard M. Harte
In Android 2.2, WiFi Tethering uses Infrastructure mode, not Ad-hoc. The phone becomes an access point. As for the APIs to control this, I believe they are not exported to the SDK in API level 8. -Howard On Jun 15, 9:04 am, Matthew Powers mtpow...@gmail.com wrote: look at the wlan.ini On

[android-developers] Re: Http -1 when Transfer-Encoding=chunked, Content-Encoding=gzip and Connection=Keep-Alive

2010-03-03 Thread Howard M. Harte
I can see a problem similar to this when I use the browser to connect to my company's web portal. I had a patch for Android 1.x which fixed this, but it doesn't work on Android 2.x. I'd really like to find a fix so I can access my web mail again. -Howard On Mar 3, 12:10 pm, SN

[android-developers] Re: Soft keyboard in Fullscreen/extract mode

2009-09-14 Thread Howard M. Harte
, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Howard M. Harte hhar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 11, 9:52 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: When in landscape, you aren't seeing -any- of your application, the IME is running in fullscreen mode and completely covering it (so there is no reason to do

[android-developers] Re: Soft keyboard in Fullscreen/extract mode

2009-09-12 Thread Howard M. Harte
. the Better Terminal Emulator Pro version has the hack to force resize the app, but is not a free app. Thanks, Howard On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Howard M. Harte hhar...@gmail.com wrote: When Android is in portrait mode and the soft keyboard IME is shown, my app is resized properly

[android-developers] Soft keyboard in Fullscreen/extract mode

2009-09-11 Thread Howard M. Harte
When Android is in portrait mode and the soft keyboard IME is shown, my app is resized properly. When in landscape mode, the soft keyboard IME is always in fullscreen/extract mode, and even though I can see the top portion of my app, it doesn't resize my app. I couldn't find any way to make the

[android-developers] Re: Android WVGA support

2009-09-08 Thread Howard M. Harte
On Sep 7, 3:41 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Dianne Hackborn wrote: There shouldn't be any until WVGA is officially supported in the platform.  That is planned for 1.6, but 1.6 is not yet officially supported, and there is a fair lag from when the platform software is

[android-developers] Re: Android WVGA support

2009-09-08 Thread Howard M. Harte
No. Like I said, 160 dpi at other resolutions means a very different screen size. I mentioned WVGA/5 already, but now imagine the size of a q...@160dpi display... it would be very tiny. The point is that it wouldn't help you at all. This makes sense, but is there a way to leave minSdk=3

[android-developers] onCreateInputConnection gets called only after trackball is pressed

2009-06-08 Thread Howard M. Harte
I'm trying to catch the Return key on the Soft Keyboard IME. I have an onKeyDown handler that works fine for the ADP1's physical keyboard. I also have code in onCreateInputConnection() that sets up the return key on the soft keyboard to be processed as a raw key event: @Override public