[android-developers] Re: Android WebView resolving URL occasionally results in multiple hits with different user agents

2014-03-05 Thread IcedNet
Have you logged the strUserAgent to observe the value? when you say wrapper it lends itself to wondering if the device inserts its own bit of info... Other than that, I can only say the WebView is and has always been flaky, so nothing surprises me. On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 10:38:15 AM UTC-5,

Re: [android-developers] Ethernet cables?

2012-10-11 Thread IcedNet
Toshiba Thrive for sure works with USB-Ethernet (Amazon sells a USB-ethernet adapter) with other low-draw devices as well on a passive hub One issue I've run into thus far is the ConnectivityManager does not inform you of loss of connectivity (it will however inform you of getting it) Also, the

Re: [android-developers] Problem (position 0) is more than necessary Invoked getView · bindView of CursorAdapter When you call a non-UI thread from the thread Handler.post

2012-08-23 Thread IcedNet
Are you having issues lazy loading an adapter with images? Your question is difficult to understand, please try to state the issue in a simple way. Peace, Dan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send

Re: [android-developers] ICS USB Host mode -- device permission exists after uninstall

2012-08-12 Thread IcedNet
thanks for the reminder, kris -- posted there as well, yea redundancy! Peace, Dan -- 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

Re: [android-developers] ICS USB Host mode -- device permission exists after uninstall

2012-08-12 Thread IcedNet
Yes and no, it potentially causes failure for dev's (I expct behavior x from API and get behavior y) and is a failure for security reasons as well... ;) Thx again Peace, Dan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to

Re: [android-developers] ICS USB Host mode -- device permission exists after uninstall

2012-08-12 Thread IcedNet
LOL Okay, That I will not argue! ;D -- 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] ICS USB Host mode -- device permission exists after uninstall

2012-08-11 Thread IcedNet
Acer Iconia A500 and Acer Iconia A500 Android 4.0.3 (Lord knows what custom joy layered over that) I can uninstall (via ADB or the Apps settings) and install the app again, the app will show permission is already granted for all connected devices (that are part of the app's scope)... Here's

[android-developers] Re: ICS USB Host mode -- device permission exists after uninstall

2012-08-11 Thread IcedNet
Sorry, meant to say A500 and A200 lol -- 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] Say Hello to the Menu?

2012-07-25 Thread IcedNet
It's like that in the most basic of elements in Android (both camelCase and under_score in the XML attributes), so why not have indecision in the Android usage patterns as well? ;) We just got a guaranteed across-platforms style, so we're moving forward. Now if only there were a standard look

[android-developers] Re: Need freelancer developer to create PDFViewer with Annotation feature

2011-12-18 Thread IcedNet
On Dec 18, 10:07 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: I hope you have a very large pile of money. Man, you got that right.. Peace, Dan -- 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] Re: android 3.0:Text Selection in webview

2011-11-24 Thread IcedNet
You need to refer to the ClipboardManager class in the 3.0 documentation, first, as you are using a deprecated class ...text.ClipboardManager, and method (emulateShiftHeld). Second, I have used the web view extensively in 3.0+, and the standard Selection actionmode functions fairly well - so long

[android-developers] Re: Urgent help required

2011-11-11 Thread IcedNet
treat the assets folder as / (root) for your server, put it all in there... On Nov 11, 8:43 am, Sunil Mishra suniljmis...@gmail.com wrote: As a workaround i tried storing the image in app_images folder in sdcard and trying to provide the url of that path. But still the issues exists. Is

[android-developers] Re: ListItems in ListView with visibility set to GONE still take space

2011-10-28 Thread IcedNet
Remove them from the data set and update the adapter... I'm pretty sure what you're doing is not a good idea, though I' ve never tried it... Peace, Dan On Oct 27, 8:13 am, Peter Berkenbosch peter.berkenbo...@gmail.com wrote:  Hello list, I must be missing something stupid.. but I a list with

[android-developers] Re: RFID card reader

2011-10-17 Thread IcedNet
No links (we did it in house) but you can do it with a USB reader and an Acer A500 tablet -- best match we found. Peace, Dan On Oct 17, 1:13 pm, Studio LFP studio@gmail.com wrote: Unless there is a Bluetooth version, you would probably need to use a tablet (until ICS) and use the USB

[android-developers] Re: listview adapter. Recycle bitmap

2011-10-16 Thread IcedNet
You should look into Romain Guy's 2009/10 Google I/O presentations on UI -- he is the whip with ListViews/UI. If you're looking for what I think you're looking to do -- which is speed up that list view -- he has a view holder pattern that will do just that. Peace, Dan On Oct 16, 10:08 pm, Studio

[android-developers] Re: Home Button

2011-10-06 Thread IcedNet
Yes, yes it does, but it flies in the face of good Android design --- in other words, you should not do that to your users -- the lock screen isn't for that. Peace, Dan On Oct 6, 9:02 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Ubiracy ubiracy@gmail.com wrote:

[android-developers] Re: Android is worst os mobile is this true

2011-10-06 Thread IcedNet
It's an old saying... All OS's suck. Pick one that sucks less and use it. Life is too short for whining. If you've got better skillz, get off your ass and take the helm of your own OS, else publish bug reports like the rest of the world and move on. Bugs and attitude and all, they're doing one

[android-developers] Re: Home Button

2011-10-06 Thread IcedNet
They won't view it as a bug, but yes, I suppose in your case, you could see it as such. It's only a bug if the behavior is not what they desire it to be. We have used a plastic shield to keep fingers away from the System Bar and disabled the action bar in our kiosk apps, perhaps you can discuss

[android-developers] Where's ICS?

2011-10-04 Thread IcedNet
Well... -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options,

[android-developers] Re: Is this a joke??

2011-09-20 Thread IcedNet
Not as funny when you consider OS_THROWS_SIG_SEGV_REGULARLY == true Maybe have fun and fix things instead of making your dev base out to be fools (see Google I/O 2011 videos on you tube) Keep up the good work ;) Peace, Dan On Sep 20, 6:57 pm, b0b pujos.mich...@gmail.com wrote:

[android-developers] Re: android, get screen size in api 3.2

2011-09-14 Thread IcedNet
When are you calling this? I routinely get the tablets' full screen sizes via this method in onCreate Peace, Dan On Sep 13, 5:22 pm, avillar alfonso.vil...@gmail.com wrote: In API 3.2 when you get the screen height, it seems that return value is the screen height minus the height menu bar.

[android-developers] Re: WebView takes up entire screen, I need it to fit in the remaining space of the layout.

2011-09-13 Thread IcedNet
WebView android:id=@+id/searchResultPages android:layout_below=@id/searchResultPages is a pretty good indication you are doing something wrong... Peace, Dan On Sep 13, 9:49 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Try pressing the MENU button. If you see the options menu

[android-developers] Re: Webview UTF-8 broken?

2011-09-11 Thread IcedNet
did you try utf-8 (ie lowercase) ? Peace, Dan On Sep 11, 4:28 pm, bob b...@coolgroups.com wrote: I made a simple test to see if the Webview correctly supports UTF-8: wv.loadData(%E2%80%91, text/html, UTF-8); If it did support UTF-8 correctly, the preceding code should load a single long

[android-developers] Re: Webview android

2011-09-09 Thread IcedNet
You are enabling JavaScript in the WebView, yes? If so, and you still have problems, I would invite you to browse around with Android's Browser to the various library sites' demo pages and watch the fail unfold... It has issues with many things, JavaScript included. It is the public facing

[android-developers] Re: Webview android

2011-09-09 Thread IcedNet
know why but the native webkit engine isn't so cool than firefox, this is a big surprising for me because Chrome is a very good Browser... There is any library ? On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:22 PM, IcedNet d...@icednet.info wrote: You are enabling JavaScript in the WebView, yes? If so

[android-developers] Re: Honeycomb -- Activity.getIntent().getExtras().getString(key) encountering race condition?

2011-09-07 Thread IcedNet
at 9:57 PM, IcedNet d...@icednet.info wrote: Activity two starts and calls an internal AsyncTask which uses `Activity.this.getIntent().getExtras().getString(key)` as a parameter for an object Grab this value in the AsyncTask constructor or onPreExecute(). Do not refer to an Activity

[android-developers] Re: Honeycomb -- Activity.getIntent().getExtras().getString(key) encountering race condition?

2011-09-07 Thread IcedNet
I noticed I forgot to mention, I do not actually use those lines of code for anything, I just placed them ahead of the original code because I had a hunch about it being a race condition... I never use that String, I left the original code in place :D Peace, Dan On Sep 7, 9:58 am, IcedNet d

[android-developers] Honeycomb -- Activity.getIntent().getExtras().getString(key) encountering race condition?

2011-09-06 Thread IcedNet
More just feeling out the community/wondering if anyone has seen this than concerned about our issue, our fix works and has yet to fail. I may file a bug -- but why at this point, whither goest thou, oh Honeycomb? ;) Actually, I am just too busy to write a simple case and try to reproduce this

[android-developers] Re: EditText box doesn't work the same way in PopupWindow as in AlertDialog

2011-08-26 Thread IcedNet
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/PopupWindow.html Depending on how it is instantiated, it may be non-focusable by default... Peace, Dan On Aug 26, 1:09 pm, Frank frank.android@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I am having some difficulty getting an EditText widget work

[android-developers] Re: Android development is very bad

2011-08-22 Thread IcedNet
You will get more snark than help here, both because of the language barrier, your attitude and because, most likely, no one here can help you... The majority of Android apps do not push the envelope, nor do the majority of android devs... If you enjoy the xcode gives me everything environment,

[android-developers] Re: WebView text selection and persistent highlighting dilemma

2011-08-19 Thread IcedNet
a problem to solve IMHO. Peace, Dan On Jul 28, 10:52 am, IcedNet d...@icednet.info wrote: Hello All, I am working on a non-trivial epub format book reader project in 3.1+, implementing it within aWebView. I am stymied at thetextselection/highlight phase (luckily ? I have many more operations

[android-developers] Re: how to enable the dragging option in android browser?

2011-08-16 Thread IcedNet
AFAIK, the browser and WebView are Very limited and Very Different beasts -- Text selection (as in creating a Selection object in the underlying DOM) and Drag/Drop are not implemented/implementable through the API's given us, although I have seen window.getSelection() give spurious and odd results

[android-developers] Re: Java script to Native Bindings reverse

2011-08-15 Thread IcedNet
You can pass simple data types (String, int), objects will not translate. -- JSON should be fine as (key, value) or multiple comma separated values for example, I pass xpath and offset info regularly like so: String startXPath,endXPath,uniqueID,highlightStyle; int startOffset, endOffset; final

[android-developers] WebView TextSelection + JavaScript issue in 3.1+ - solution opinions?

2011-08-04 Thread IcedNet
Hello All, Problem domain: WebView based ePub format reader need text highlights which are accessible via JavaScript methods (ie turn em on, turn em off, save them email them, etc) Anyone in the know, please correct me if I'm wrong: During text selection on a WebView -- Basically we are handed a

[android-developers] Re: WebView text selection and persistent highlighting dilemma

2011-07-29 Thread IcedNet
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, our team created the iPad version of this which is creating a buzz in the education world, and this is not feeling ready for prime time -- as a platform in general... :( -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

[android-developers] WebView text selection and persistent highlighting dilemma

2011-07-28 Thread IcedNet
Hello All, I am working on a non-trivial epub format book reader project in 3.1+, implementing it within a WebView. I am stymied at the text selection/highlight phase (luckily ? I have many more operations to polish up and implement). I can , of course highlight text and use the Clipboard

[android-developers] Re: Can't find my posts :(

2010-09-17 Thread IcedNet
Check your profile...? On Sep 16, 4:47 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: I have had this problem a couple times where I post something and I can never find it again... One time I lucked out because my post was still open on my other computers browser... Anyone have this issues?  I'm a

[android-developers] Re: Driving directions in Google map view

2010-08-16 Thread IcedNet
http://csie-tw.blogspot.com/2009/06/android-driving-direction-route-path.html This is a roll-your-own that allows you to parse the KML return from Google... Better late than never? :) Peace, Dan On Aug 11, 5:25 am, tushar tushar.madhu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am working on an app (not

[android-developers] Re: How to quit the app?

2010-08-05 Thread IcedNet
I believe what they are getting at is that quitting an app in Android is not usually necessary (if ever). My favorite link for this subject (quoted words from Herself): http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/04/multitasking-android-way.html It is a different world from the way Some OS's