[android-developers] Weird contact behavior in 2.1 - adding phone number

2010-06-10 Thread Jay-andro
I am using the code below to add a phone number to a contact. The code works in some cases and not others. 1. On the 2.1update1 emulator it works all the time 2. On a Nexus One 2.1update1 phone it works when I create a new contact manually, then use my app with the code below to add a phone

[android-developers] Sending programmatic email with attachment

2010-04-30 Thread Jay-andro
Background: I have a voice messaging app that needs to send an email with the audio file attached when user records and presses send. I dont want to have the user see a mail client and press Send in it. He's already aware my app is going to send an email and has pressed a send button in the app.

[android-developers] sending email with a file attached that is not on sdcard

2010-04-29 Thread Jay-andro
Background: I have a voice messaging app that needs to send an email with the audio file attached when user records and presses send. I dont want to have the user see a mail client and push send in it. He's already aware my app is going to send an email and has pressed a send button in the app.

[android-developers] HTML page on Android 2.1 browser renders very small

2010-04-09 Thread Jay-andro
I have a bunch of pages that render normally on the Android 1.6 native browser as well as on the iphone Safari browser, but are heavily zoomed out and small by default on the Android 2.1 native browser. The pages are zoomed out by about 4x making them appear very small. Of course I can manually

[android-developers] Android 2.0 emulator (Droid skin) crawls

2009-11-12 Thread Jay-andro
Is it just me or is everyone experiencing excruciatingly slow startup time followed by extermely poor responsiveness on the Android 2.0 emulator? I've got Eclipse Ganymede 3.4.1, Android SDK 5. My Android 1.5 emulator launches in a flash and performs pretty close to the device itself. Whereas 2.0

[android-developers] resizable framelayouts possible?

2009-08-26 Thread Jay-andro
I want to do a framelayout where the bottom frame is short by default, like only the top tip of it shows above the fold, but when the user touches that frame, it slides up into full view reducing the frame above it in size. Is something on these lines possible? What api's should I look at for

[android-developers] ontouch slideout buttons

2009-08-26 Thread Jay-andro
I want to provide buttons in my app that appear/disappear near the bottom of the screen on touch near the bottom similar to how the browser zoom magnifying glasses appear and disappear. Is there an api to do this? TIA Jay --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

[android-developers] Re: Accessing logs on Android

2009-08-26 Thread Jay-andro
Thanks Mattwho. That helped. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Launch an app from within the native Contacts app

2009-08-03 Thread Jay-andro
I would like to be able to launch my app using a URI scheme rather than an StartIntent. The idea is to be able to embed this link in other apps for example inside a Contact as a URL. clicking on the URL from within the contact should open my app. Is this possible? On iPhone, an app can declare a

[android-developers] Accessing logs on Android

2009-08-03 Thread Jay-andro
Is there a way to access the default logs on the phone for purposes of uploading for debugging purposes? I'd like to be able to provide an Upload Logs button that allows the users of my app to upload their logs if they are encountering issues with the app. I know I can write my logs to my own

[android-developers] Key down events on answer and end call not working anymore in cupcake

2009-06-02 Thread Jay-andro
On the 1.1 platform, we were successfully getting callbacks for the overridden method ‘onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event)’ of an Activity particularly in an In-Call situation. And we were able to handle the ‘keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_CALL’ case when the call is accepted or ‘keyCode ==

[android-developers] Copy protection License key management

2009-04-26 Thread Jay-andro
1. When the copy protection checkbox was first introduced on Android Market, I heard about a lot of issues with people not being able to download etc. Have those issues been resolved now? If I turn on copy- protection on an app with over 10K active users, do I risk a major rebellion? 2. I'd like

[android-developers] How to launch a viewer for common file types?

2009-04-09 Thread Jay-andro
Is there a way to launch a viewer for common file types like TXT, DOC, XLS, PDF from within an app, like Gmail does. Maybe a Google Docs api to pass the file to GD and have it open in the browser? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[android-developers] Uninstalling Trial app when installing Paid app

2009-02-25 Thread Jay-andro
Is there a way to detect upon install or first use, if another app (in this case, the trial version of the same app from the same developer with the same key but different package name) is still installed? If yes, then the next question is can one app uninstall another with the same key, if the

[android-developers] Re: Building multiple app versions for the Market

2009-02-23 Thread Jay-andro
Hi Mattaku (or anyone else who can help) I am trying a similar approach. All my code (trial and full) is in a single codebase. A set of preferences (set differently in the two versions) determine whether the app behaves as a trial or as a full app. In order to create two apk's out of this, I put

[android-developers] Charding existing user for upgrades

2009-02-17 Thread Jay-andro
I have a free app on the Market. With paid support finally arriving, I want to be able to charge for my app. I have readied a new version that includes new features. Can I publish this as a version 2.0 and charge for it including to existing users?

[android-developers] Charging for upgrading from free to paid version with new features

2009-02-17 Thread Jay-andro
I have a free app on the Market. With paid support finally arriving, I want to be able to charge for my app. I have readied a new version that includes new features. Can I publish this as a version 2.0 and charge for it including to existing users?

[android-developers] Market numbers are weird the last few days

2009-02-09 Thread Jay-andro
Starting this past weekend, all of a sudden the Android Market numbers for new Active Users has dropped VERY sharply for my app while the new downloads are higher than usual. (This is usually a symptom of large numbers of existing users re-downloading and re-installing the app) The user comments

[android-developers] Re: What happens to the database when app is upgraded

2009-01-05 Thread Jay-andro
Thanks all, for bringing the SQLiteOpenHelper.OnUpgrade method to my attention. Reading up on it, I'm not clear on a couple of things: - When exactly does it fire - when a new version of the app is installed, or when the new app first tries to open the database, or when the new app tries to

[android-developers] What happens to the database when app is upgraded

2009-01-04 Thread Jay-andro
I have an app that creates an sqllite database on first-use, if one doesn't already exist. Recently I released a new version of the app, and all of a sudden several users are complaining of erros that I didnt encounter in my testing. In my development I always installed using adb over usb, which

[android-developers] Detecting if an Activity is being displayed or not

2008-12-25 Thread Jay-andro
I have a service that runs in the background periodically and checks a database for some data. If it finds whats it's looking for, it shows an Activity to the user to alert him/her of this condition. Next time it runs, if the condition still persists I only want to show the activity if it is not

[android-developers] Transitioning from Free to Paid

2008-12-12 Thread Jay-andro
You may not collect future charges from users for copies of the Products that those users were initially allowed to download for free. This is not intended to prevent distribution of free trial versions of the Product with an “upsell” option to obtain the full version of the Product: Such free

[android-developers] Can we have PACKAGE_ADDED and CHANGED back?

2008-12-11 Thread Jay-andro
In my view, it would be good to have the ability for an app to be notified when it is installed. For apps that work in real-time like when a call comes in, or an SMS or email comes in, and that need some pre-setup to have taken place (like creating a database), it would be very useful to be able

[android-developers] Any way to reject a call programmatically

2008-12-08 Thread Jay-andro
Is there any direct (or convoluted) way to reject an incoming call, i.e. send it directly to voicemail. Meaning (a) if a call is coming in and matches certain criteria (b) send the call to VM, and stop the ringing. (programmatically) I've got (a) under control but I dont know how to do (b). Any

[android-developers] Re: How to send email programmatically?

2008-12-08 Thread Jay-andro
priority for the platform; actually, I would personally much prefer that apps go through the mail UI so the user can be aware of and confirm whatever some non-mail app is sending on their behalf. As a user, wouldn't you prefer this too? :} On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Jay-andro [EMAIL

[android-developers] Re: How to send email programmatically?

2008-12-01 Thread Jay-andro
I too want to send email programmtaically (i.e without a send form). I've got it working with my hardcoded credentials, but I want my app to use the user's account to send the email from the user's account and receive replies to his account. How do I do this? On Nov 12, 10:51 am, Sunit Katkar

[android-developers] NUMBER_KEY not updated when phone number in Contacts is changed by user

2008-11-20 Thread Jay-andro
There is a bug (first reported in January 2008, see http://markmail.org/message/33mcd6w7zgs76suy) that still exists on RC30, where if you Edit an existing contact and change its phone number (I tried it on mobile number, probably occurs for all numbers), the the internal representation of the

[android-developers] Any way to check calendar to see if user is Busy now?

2008-11-13 Thread Jay-andro
I want to check the onboard calendar on the phone (the one thats synced with Google Calendar), to see if the calendar shows the user as Busy at the moment. Any way to do this? I'd prefer to avoid making a call to the Google calendar web service, plus I dont know if that will require my app to

[android-developers] Re: my post is not appearing

2008-10-31 Thread Jay-andro
Yes, this just happened to me as well on my first post to this group. Same thing happened to me on the Android-Discuss group. Subsequent posts worked. Maybe the first (born) one is always taken as a sacrificial offering... On Oct 31, 7:42 am, denismo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roger that. I

[android-developers] Android Source Code online?

2008-10-31 Thread Jay-andro
Is there any place where I can just view the Android source online without first having to download it all to a linux/mac box using repo? Or to download it to a windows machine for browsing/viewing/searching only? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message