Re: [android-developers] How to make an Android app which cannot be deleted event after hard reset

2017-02-13 Thread 'Jean-Baptiste Queru' via Android Developers
You can't, because this violates software layering: you can't have something built on top of an OS whose behaviors survive the installation of another OS. Software that accomplishes what you want would have to be much much lower in the stack, and would frankly be a very bad idea. JBQ --

Re: [android-developers] No Real Persistent Background Work? Pathetic Google -.-

2017-02-13 Thread 'Jean-Baptiste Queru' via Android Developers
I'm assuming that you have an explicit and strong reason to stay away from GCM or Firebase. Two aspects: -In any mobile environment, you absolutely have to be able to deal with situations where sockets get closed on you anyway, and not have connectivity for a while. If you want to match GCM or

Re: [android-developers] Android Webview Url loading Issue

2016-09-26 Thread 'Jean-Baptiste Queru' via Android Developers
Spaces aren't legal characters in URIs, even though many tools accept them. You should URI-encode them. While this is not a fully scalable solution for all types of characters that might appear in a URI and cause problems, replacing all spaces in a URI with %20 is likely to solve your immediate

Re: [android-developers] Why won't my app work on devices running 6.0?

2016-05-25 Thread 'Jean-Baptiste Queru' via Android Developers
The biggest problem you can have running on 6.0 is expecting that your app has all the permissions it requests, whereas starting with 6.0 the user can revoke some of those permissions, even if you target an earlier version. That is a great opportunity to ask yourself for every single permission

Re: [android-developers] Android dialer app license

2016-05-03 Thread 'Jean-Baptiste Queru' via Android Developers
Odd, somehow the Dialer directory doesn't contain the customary NOTICE and MODULE_LICENSE_APACHE2 files that are included in most Android directories. Likely an oversight from Google, most probably when Dialer got split off from Contacts. Oops, I guess I deserve some of that blame. Individual

Re: [android-developers] Screen on event

2016-04-25 Thread 'Jean-Baptiste Queru' via Android Developers
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#ACTION_SCREEN_ON Using this is probably a bad idea, though, as it requires that you keep a Service running at least while the screen is off, which in turn uses RAM, which in turn might cause other services to get bumped from

Re: [android-developers] Must Enable Location to use Bluetooth and WiFi Background Scanning: Android API 23 Hardware Identifiers Changes

2016-04-25 Thread 'Jean-Baptiste Queru' via Android Developers
Those BT and WiFi APIs are used to determine proximity between devices, i.e. location, so it's expected that they are also tied to location as a baseline. JBQ -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" QuéruMobile Excellence Architect, YahooSent from Yahoo Mail On Saturday, April 23, 2016 5:10 PM, Nancy G

Re: [android-developers] users able to download older apk version

2016-04-05 Thread 'Jean-Baptiste Queru' via Android Developers
blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; } Assuming that the new APK is available to the same users as the old one, there are several scenarios that can cause what you're

Re: [android-developers] How are big android applications managaging and optimizing network calls specially for poor networks like 2g ?

2016-01-13 Thread 'Jean-Baptiste Queru' via Android Developers
blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; } Your biggest problem on a 2G network might actually be latency. Resolving DNS, establishing a TCP connection, negotiating TLS

Re: [android-developers] Game not playing on some compatiable devices

2016-01-12 Thread 'Jean-Baptiste Queru' via Android Developers
There are many devices out there with screens below 320 dpi. Even if your app is phone-only, there are many hdpi phones out there (240 dpi) (480*{800,848,854}), and mdpi isn't quite dead yet (160 dpi). Chances are, an issue very directly related to the screen density would affect all such

[android-developers] Re: How to prevent app to be removed/uninsalled

2009-07-02 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Or even the android-porting mailing list if you're not planning to contribute that application back to the Android Open-Source Project. JBQ On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Yusuf T. Mobileyusuf.s...@t-mobile.com wrote: We plan to build our own firmware and have the app pre-installed. This

[android-developers] Re: Install issue w/non-market app OTA install to T-Mobile G1‏

2009-05-28 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Can you try serving the same file over an https connection (instead of http)? Does the issue disappear 24 hours after the first failure? JBQ On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Robin Cobb robinc...@hotmail.com wrote: I submitted this (very 1st post) to this forum 8 hours ago and it never

[android-developers] Re: Android 1.5 modifying width Height

2009-05-26 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
You should ask this question in the android-porting group JBQ On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:39 AM, shirish_samsung shirish@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am relatively new to android,i have ported android 1.5 on my target,but the display seems to be cropped ,i mean the displayed image seems to be

[android-developers] Re: Problems with putExtra in notifications

2009-05-26 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Indeed, the system doesn't distinguish PendingIntents based on their extras alone. JBQ On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Andy King andyk...@greatlogic.com wrote: I have seen some posts identifying issues with PendingIntent objects, indicating that there is no distinction between the

[android-developers] Re: Input for App Widgets? Search Widget?

2009-05-26 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
If I remember correctly, the search widget is part of the home app, it's not implemented with the app widget APIs. JBQ On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:18 PM, SurtaX garylo@gmail.com wrote: Hi I have noticed that alot of the basic input controls are not implemented for app widgets (Ie.

[android-developers] Re: Development in G1 in Ubuntu 9.04

2009-04-29 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Try to call your file 51-android.rules. (I think something changed in 9.0.4 where a module that the android stuff relies on is also initialized at step 50 which ends up being too late). JBQ On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Breno breno.min...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is Ubunto 9.04

[android-developers] Re: Google Un-Proffesional?!

2009-04-29 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
We can't test on every possible version of every possible environment. The file in question compiles for us on all platforms (the 1.5_r1 SDK was built with that exact source code). All the changes are reviewed individually and automatically built for each target platform. And we did explicitly

[android-developers] Re: Application doesnot quit on calling finish()

2009-04-28 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
finish() doesn't close your application, is just closes your activity. The Appliction object itself stays behind, as well, as the entire process, as long as there's memory available to keep them around, so that re-launching your app is faster then next time around. JBQ On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at

[android-developers] Re: Application doesnot quit on calling finish()

2009-04-28 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: finish() doesn't close your application, is just closes your activity. The Appliction object itself stays behind, as well, as the entire process, as long as there's memory available to keep them around, so that re-launching your app is faster

[android-developers] Re: Application doesnot quit on calling finish()

2009-04-28 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
referenced by static variables, so might be all the variables are still hiding in the memory even after the app has exited. is there any other way to kill the process when finish() is called...? On Apr 28, 6:10 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: This is not the way Android works

[android-developers] Re: What UI Elements in AppWidget?

2009-04-26 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Correct, you can only use the exact classes that are marked as available. JBQ On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:09 AM, nEx.Software justin.shapc...@gmail.com wrote: Is it safe to assume that classes derived of those allowed are not usable? So, if I created a custom button or something that extends

[android-developers] Re: Copy protection License key management

2009-04-26 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
The issue (1) with turning copy protection on (or off) was in Android 1.0/1.1, and there's been no fix for it made on top of those versions. I believe that it is fixed in 1.5, which means that you might be OK if you deliver a copy-protected version with minSdkVersion=3 - I'm not sure, though.

[android-developers] Re: Android v. 1.5 = FAIL #2: Directly Manipulating Settings

2009-04-24 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
All right, here's the deal: One of the reasons that motivated the change is battery life, which is a major point of frustration for many Android users. More precisely, we've noticed in our testing that there was a strong correlation between user complaints about battery life and specific

[android-developers] Re: Android v. 1.5 = FAIL #2: Directly Manipulating Settings

2009-04-24 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
It's already possible for a user to see an app's permissions - though it'd be nice indeed if the list could be organized the other way (contributions welcome). At least anecdotally, though, we've noticed that users (even sophisticated ones) don't associate poor battery life or control over some

[android-developers] Re: vold or mountd

2009-04-23 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
This question should go in the android-porting group. Thanks, JBQ On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:53 AM, l hx lihongxia8...@gmail.com wrote: now android use the vold instead of mountd. who know why? and if i use vold, i can not mount the sd card in my device. how i can do? -- Jean-Baptiste

[android-developers] Re: About the OpenWnn project

2009-04-23 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
It's not part of the cupcake project. JBQ On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:49 PM, moontain chen.worksp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi The OpenWnn project was involved in the cupcake project when I got the code at 1st April, but it disappears in the latest cupcake code. Why? Will it be in the final

[android-developers] Re: As application developers are we allowed to access system properties like ro.config.sync?

2009-04-20 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
The proper way would be to start the relevant activity. I don't know whether the specific Intent to start that activity is documented as part of the public API, though. JBQ On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Hans hkess...@gmail.com wrote: Google applications do it, and apparently it used to be

[android-developers] Re: As application developers are we allowed to access system properties like ro.config.sync?

2009-04-20 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Well, that's not the kind of setting that you should change in the user's back. Launching an activity allows the user to make a conscious decision about the way they manage their phone. JBQ On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Hans hkess...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 20, 11:03 am, Jean-Baptiste

[android-developers] Re: How do I get the source code of Android 1.1_r1?

2009-04-20 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
We focused our energy on getting the source code for 1.5 available. JBQ On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Marek Urbaniak marek.urban...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 28, 9:12 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: The exact source code for 1.1 is not available. Why? -- Jean

[android-developers] Re: how to check if sdcard is mounted in program

2009-04-16 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Environment.getExternalStorageState() JBQ On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:34 PM, sunwrt wrt.su...@gmail.com wrote: Any guy knows how to check if sdcard is mounted in program Thanks in advance! -- Jean-Baptiste M. JBQ Queru Android Engineer, Google. Questions sent directly to me that have

[android-developers] Re: Elan sues Apple for multitouch patent infringment... and guess what....

2009-04-15 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
First, this isn't quite on-topic for this group (neither is the meta-discussion about patent laws and their interpretation that is almost guaranteed to follow), as this has no relationship to the official Android SDK. Second, more importantly, many people who read and participate in this group

[android-developers] Re: Early Look Android 1.5 SDK

2009-04-14 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
The latest cupcake source drop (done a few hours ago) matches the preview SDK. We're working to tag it. Note that this isn't release 1.5 of Android, it's just a code drop that matches an official preview SDK. It's not going to run on ADP1 as it lacks the proprietary files that are needed for

[android-developers] Re: Cupcake SDKs available for download

2009-04-05 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
-I'd like to point out that this isn't an official SDK, with e.g. no guarantee that applications developed with it will work on future versions of Android. Should anyone have questions about using it, please use the android-discuss group as android-developers is for questions about the official

[android-developers] Re: Cupcake SDKs available for download

2009-04-05 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jean-Baptiste Queru Sent: 05 April 2009 14:12 To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: [android-developers] Re: Cupcake SDKs available for download -I'd like to point out that this isn't an official SDK, with e.g

[android-developers] Re: Cupcake SDKs available for download

2009-04-05 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
[mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jean-Baptiste Queru Sent: 05 April 2009 17:08 To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: [android-developers] Re: Cupcake SDKs available for download [inline] On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: Hi JBQ

[android-developers] Re: Cupcake SDKs available for download

2009-04-05 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
This is definitely new in cupcake - it's part of the work that has been done by the tools team to allow a single SDK to work with multiple target configurations, and the visible effect is that launching the emulator outside of either the source tree or a fully-configured SDK distribution might

[android-developers] Re: why repo sync can not get the alsa module from git repository though they are there on http://android.git.kernel.org/

2009-04-04 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
This isn't quite the right group for this question, at the moment android-porting would be appropriate. The alsa code is specific to certain hardware and isn't part of the core Android Open-Source Project, so it isn't included in the main manifest for the project. JBQ On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at

[android-developers] Re: override errors when migrating development computers

2009-04-04 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
You probably migrated from a Java 1.6 to a Java 1.5 environment. Java 1.6 allows to specify @override on interface methods, Java 1.5 restricts it to superclass methods. JBQ On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Bob bshumsk...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to change the computer that I am

[android-developers] Re: SD Card

2009-04-02 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
You're asking in the wrong group - this group is to support developers creating apps using the official SDK. JBQ On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Eric Chen jude...@gmail.com wrote: I met the same problem from two weeks ago, if any one fixed it pls help me. Best Regards Eric Chen On Wed,

[android-developers] Re: OutOfMemoryError (external allocation too large for this process)

2009-04-02 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Use smaller images. You're trying to allocate a bitmap that's 20 times larger than the screen. That's just unrealistic on a constrained device like a cell phone. JBQ On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:08 AM, zeeshan genx...@gmail.com wrote: any solution? On Apr 2, 2:05 pm, zeeshan genx...@gmail.com

[android-developers] Re: *** Why 1 G1 can see Paid Apps in the Android Market and Another Not? ***

2009-04-01 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Dev phones indeed explicitly don't get OTA updates, for several reasons: -developers are assumed to be capable of manually updating their phones. -those phones are designed to allow running custom versions of the system, and an automated update could cause some damage. -developers have

[android-developers] Re: Why does Android use Binder for IPC?

2009-03-31 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Please don't cross-post. Thanks, JBQ On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Bai.Luo bai@zte.com.cn wrote: what is the advantage and special feature of Binder in android? -- Jean-Baptiste M. JBQ Queru Android Engineer, Google. Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being

[android-developers] Re: How to get the permission WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS

2009-03-31 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
is BLUETOOTH_ADMIN. Maybe other permission rather than the permission WRITE_SECURE_SETTING is needed? Stanley On Mar 26, 9:35 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: As far as I know this permissions won't be available to applications. My understanding is that there activities that your application

[android-developers] Re: Save an mp3 from a remote site

2009-03-31 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
No problem playing an MP3 from the SD card. You should be able to ACTION_VIEW the file:/// URI directly, or invoke the media scanner on it and ACTION_VIEW the resulting content:// URI (added bonus for the second method is that the file will immediately show up in the music player as well). JBQ

[android-developers] Re: Multi Touch support in Android

2009-03-30 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
There are no multi-touch APIs in Android. JBQ On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Pratap ajit@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Rajesh for your inputs. Can somebody from Google provide an official stand on multi finger touch capability on android. Regards -- Jean-Baptiste M. JBQ Queru

[android-developers] Re: Dev Phone and RC33 update

2009-03-29 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Queru j...@android.com wrote: That wouldn't work, as you could download with the locked firmware, flash an unlocked firmware, and get the files out. JBQ 2009/3/2 vendor vendor@gmail.com: What do you think about the idea of two firmware versions for ADP1? 2009/3/3 Jean-Baptiste

[android-developers] Re: How do I get the source code of Android 1.1_r1?

2009-03-28 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
The exact source code for 1.1 is not available. 1.1 isn't hugely different from 1.0, which you can get with repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git -b release-1.0 repo sync but that's most probably not going to be line-exact. JBQ On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 6:05 PM, luggie

[android-developers] Re: How to get the permission WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS

2009-03-26 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
As far as I know this permissions won't be available to applications. My understanding is that there activities that your application will be able start that allow the user to change the settings in question. JBQ On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Stanley.lei xiaofeng.lei...@gmail.com wrote:

[android-developers] Re: Anything on Android that can do smooth scrolling?

2009-03-26 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
There are some problems with that approach: -it's an arms race. You've already identified the need for certain apps to continue running even when there's an exclusive app running, which'd have to be protected by a permission. Either that permission is system-only and we move further away from

[android-developers] Re: Anything on Android that can do smooth scrolling?

2009-03-26 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Stoyan Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: Screw the developer. I'll put myself in the shoes of the user. I have launched myself a game. I want it to run at full speed. I could care less that a background service, polling RSS feeds have just found out that

[android-developers] Re: Anything on Android that can do smooth scrolling?

2009-03-26 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Stoyan Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: Screw the developer. I'll put myself in the shoes of the user. I have launched myself a game. I want

[android-developers] Re: Cupcake coming in April? Where is the SDK?

2009-03-25 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Code drops before the one that was done about 2 weeks ago had another mechanism for the management of the SD card (mountd vs vold), so that vold.conf wouldn't be necessary there. JBQ On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Anonymous Anonymous firewallbr...@googlemail.com wrote: For me too the sdcard

[android-developers] Re: Cupcake coming in April? Where is the SDK?

2009-03-24 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
1.1 was essentially a update of a few Google-proprietary bits on top of the same platform as 1.0. From the point of view of the Android platform (and therefore of the SDK as well), the differences between 1.0 and 1.1 are extremely minor. Cupcake is a branch name, it's not a released version. A

[android-developers] Re: Cupcake coming in April? Where is the SDK?

2009-03-24 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
on a new release of a platform are users who are trying out a new 'phone in a shop. Al. -Original Message- From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jean-Baptiste Queru Sent: 24 March 2009 15:39 To: android-developers

[android-developers] Re: Cupcake coming in April? Where is the SDK?

2009-03-24 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jean-Baptiste Queru Sent: 24 March 2009 15:39 To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: [android-developers] Re: Cupcake coming in April? Where is the SDK? 1.1 was essentially a update of a few Google

[android-developers] Re: Cupcake coming in April? Where is the SDK?

2009-03-23 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Engineers can't talk about forward-looking scheduling aspects. That's not our job, and that's not something we're allowed to talk about. We can however talk about hard facts. There's been a source code drop recently, and David gave instructions on how to use that to compile your own SDK-like

[android-developers] Re: How to login to the root of Android Dev Phone 1?

2009-03-23 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Run su in your shell, and you'll be running a root shell. JBQ On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:45 PM, havexz bali.param...@gmail.com wrote: Also tried login to shell using adb but i am unable to browse to that directory.. the error is given below: $ ls ls sqlite_stmt_journals cache sdcard

[android-developers] Re: Why my application get Not granting permission warning when i install it by adb and AppsInstaller

2009-03-22 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Those permissions are reserved for the system and aren't available to applications. JBQ On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Ling Yun drling...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, All guru I am a beginner for android development. I found my application always get Not granting permission warning when I

[android-developers] Re: Error code

2009-03-21 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Heh. Jason Parks is my manager at Google, he's a member of the Core Technical Team for the Android Open-Source Project, and he is responsible for the overall performance and stability of the Android platform. He broke it because, well, that's what he does ;-) JBQ On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:40

[android-developers] Re: General Question to Google Team - Pin favourite threads

2009-03-18 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
If you're using the web UI for groups, how about bookmarking the threads you're interested in? JBQ On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Tommaso nuccio.tomm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Google-Team, I was wondering, why there is no functionality to pin threads a user is interested in. As there is

[android-developers] Re: General Question to Google Team - Pin favourite threads

2009-03-18 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
And, of course, you can star a conversation and see it in the web UI under Favorites. JBQ On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: If you're using the web UI for groups, how about bookmarking the threads you're interested in? JBQ On Wed, Mar 18, 2009

[android-developers] Re: Putting Android on Par with the iPhone Software

2009-03-18 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
You should really move this thread to android-discuss, so that people who are actually trying to achieve something here don't see their discussions lost in the noise. Thanks, JBQ On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Schiffres schifty...@gmail.com wrote: This is a message to all other Android

[android-developers] Re: Is /cache supposed to be accessible?

2009-03-18 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
didn't see in the framework to ask for a file download or is the normal way to do that is to do it manually (using HttpClient or URL.openConnection and all that jazz). Thanks a lot! BoD On Mar 18, 3:50 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: It's not accessible to applications. JBQ

[android-developers] Re: Transferring paid apps G1 - HTC Magic

2009-03-17 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
If those apps were downloaded from Android Market, just be sure to sign into the new device with the same Google account and re-download the apps there (they'll be listed in Market - My Downloads). JBQ On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Carl Whalley carl.whal...@googlemail.com wrote: With the

[android-developers] Re: Store log messages on adp1

2009-03-17 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
As far as I know this is not run-time configurable. JBQ On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Michael Bollmann michael.bollm...@googlemail.com wrote: Is it possible to configure the ADP1 to keep the last 5mb(for example) of log messages especially when it's not connected to a development

[android-developers] Re: Hosting APKs files on site works for emulator, but not device?

2009-03-17 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
something like ?x=y at the end of the URL when downloading it. That should have solved it too. -Mike On Mar 17, 5:49 am, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: There is a transparent proxy on T-Mobile's port 80, which works at the IP level (so it doesn't need to be explicitly configured

[android-developers] Re: Some questions about modding stuff in the source code

2009-03-15 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Mark's answers are correct. A bit of extra precision: -use the android-platform group if you want to contribute your changes back to the main Android source for inclusion in future official releases. Use android-porting if you are working in a copy of the Android source and don't intend to

[android-developers] Re: Matching SDK version to code? NPE Bug in WebView?

2009-03-15 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Unfortunately neither the exact code for the 1.0 SDK nor for 1.1 (especially for 1.1) are available. Versions 126986 and 128600 respectively match PLAT-RC33 (current version for the T-Mobile G1 in the US) and TMI-RC9 (the European equivalent). Here's the relevant code in 1.1, which matches the

[android-developers] Re: class com.android.camera.UploadService does not exist?

2009-03-15 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
I haven't looked in detail, but this looks like yet another case of a platform application that uses private platform APIs and therefore can't be built against the SDK. JBQ On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Hans hkess...@gmail.com wrote: Manifest for Camera.git application lists this service.

[android-developers] Re: class com.android.camera.UploadService does not exist?

2009-03-15 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
in-house at Google? I'm just looking for what my requirements would be in order to build the Camera application if truly necessary. Thanks, Hans Appreciated - Hans On Mar 15, 10:58 am, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: I haven't looked in detail, but this looks like yet

[android-developers] Re: Matching SDK version to code? NPE Bug in WebView?

2009-03-15 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: Unfortunately neither the exact code for the 1.0 SDK nor for 1.1 (especially for 1.1) are available. Versions 126986 and 128600 respectively match PLAT-RC33 (current version for the T-Mobile G1 in the US) and TMI-RC9 (the European equivalent). Here's

[android-developers] Re: class com.android.camera.UploadService does not exist?

2009-03-15 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
on this a bunch but found nothing but vagaries that make it sound like no ones actually doing this right now. Thanks, Hans On Mar 15, 11:40 am, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: Oh, I see. The real problem is that the class in question was deleted a long time ago, but the manifest

[android-developers] Re: Repo Client init problem ubuntu 8.10

2009-03-14 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Sounds like you don't have git installed on your system. JBQ On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:03 PM, doubleslash doublesl...@gmail.com wrote: I have the same problem. I tried curl and verified indeed the whole python script was downloaded. I installed libreadline5-dev instead of lib32readline5.dev

[android-developers] Re: where can i modify ro.kernel.android.gps ?

2009-03-13 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
ro stands for read-only. Those can't be modified. JBQ On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Nio luodali...@gmail.com wrote: hi all, I can find that build.prop in the direction product/generic/system/ build, and there are some items like ro.build.id=TC3 etc. I want to add my modification here

[android-developers] Re: Merchant account signup down?

2009-03-13 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
I've notified the Android Market team about the situation. JBQ On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:16 PM, jsdf jasons...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to sign up for a merchant account but it seems to be down: Sorry, we could not setup your merchant account. Please try again later. Can anyone else

[android-developers] Re: where can i modify ro.kernel.android.gps ?

2009-03-13 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
. 2009/3/13 Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com ro stands for read-only. Those can't be modified. JBQ On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Nio luodali...@gmail.com wrote: hi all, I can find that build.prop in the direction product/generic/system/ build, and there are some items like

[android-developers] Re: where can i modify ro.kernel.android.gps ?

2009-03-13 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
the OEM. I guess i can change or add some thing in the file build.prop. I saw lots of item like that there. 2009/3/13 Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com Those are set in the factory, they're not meant to be modified by applications. JBQ On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Daliang Luo luodali

[android-developers] Re: Android Debug Bridge (ADB) license

2009-03-13 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
I'm looking into this. JBQ On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:34 AM, andycarr acarr_...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi, do you know which license the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) is licensed under? I am unable to find any reference to the ADB license in the SDK documentation. The file NOTICE.TXT, in the

[android-developers] Re: Android Debug Bridge (ADB) license

2009-03-13 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
The relevant information is here: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/system/core.git;a=blob;f=adb/adb.c;h=fa5269f5037c652a32954596aa90ab7ce9c73d9b;hb=HEAD I've made a note to make that more clear in the future. JBQ On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com

[android-developers] Re: Android 1.1_r1 SDK released and developer.android.com launched

2009-03-13 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
There isn't any. 1.1 isn't explicitly available in the open-source tree. All the features developed for 1.1 were merged into the cupcake tree, which is available. JBQ On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Michael Burton m...@niskala.org wrote: Don't see a clear response to this, has anyone found

[android-developers] Re: Attn: Android Engineers. Feature request

2009-03-11 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Please mention this a http://b.android.com so that we don't lose track of it. Thanks, JBQ On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Colin crgod...@gmail.com wrote: There may be issues with this, but I have run into problems developing for android that could easily be solved by this: Maybe add an

[android-developers] Re: Risk of upgrading to 1.1?

2009-03-11 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Well, there is a risk that a bug in 1.0 that would have been fixed in 1.1 could be hit by your application. I'm not explicitly aware of such situations, but that's definitely possible in theory. It is possible (and in fact reasonably easy) to downgrade an ADP1 back to 1.0, the drawback being

[android-developers] Re: Am I being banned from the list?

2009-03-11 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
I got one of those too. My guess is that some member on the list has an auto-auto-responder because their mailbox is full. JBQ On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Stoyan Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for the prompt reply. I don't know what could be the problem, I'm posting by

[android-developers] Re: No Latitude in ADP1.1

2009-03-09 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Unlike consumer devices that are designed for specific regions or countries, the Android Dev Phone 1 is a worldwide phone, configured to be identical in all geographies. The Android Dev Phone 1 ships in countries where Google Latitude isn't available, and that currently prevents from enabling

[android-developers] Re: Bitmap is recycled but I didn't do it?

2009-03-07 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
We'll gladly accept high-quality contributions to optimize this. JBQ On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Stoyan Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, the Android engineer who wrote the throwIfRecycled method should be lynched. I understand that it saves an if, as in: if

[android-developers] Re: Uninstall built-in app

2009-03-06 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
(1) - yes the other app will still receive broadcasts, expose providers, services, etc... The choice only happens for calls to startActivity that hit two or more equivalent activity intent filters. (2) - in settings / manage applications, preferences can be removed. Or by uninstalling your

[android-developers] Re: Why different behaviour when exiting app using BACK and HOME ?

2009-03-05 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
The default behavior of the back key is to exit your activity by calling finish() (which should pop to the next activity in the activity stack of the task your activity was in, or to another task if your activity was at the bottom of its task). You can override that. The behavior of the home key

[android-developers] Re: Uninstall built-in app

2009-03-05 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
That's not possible. If your application responds to the right intents, the user will be offered a choice when doing an action that can be handled both by the built-in application and by your application. JBQ On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:12 AM, shaddu shad...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Android, We

[android-developers] Re: How to update Android Dev 1

2009-03-05 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
No official system images are currently available for the ADP1. We're working on it. JBQ On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:30 AM, victorcab victor...@gmail.com wrote: Have you found any info? I am looking for a similar solution. On Feb 10, 3:30 am, Andreas Jellinghaus tolon...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,

[android-developers] Re: Why different behaviour when exiting app using BACK and HOME ?

2009-03-05 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
. But - wouldnt that cause problems elsewhere (other instances where the OS or another app may want/need to close down my app) ?! Shimon On Mar 5, 3:57 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: The default behavior of the back key is to exit your activity by calling finish() (which should pop

[android-developers] Re: How to make an application NOT uninstallable like build-in apps

2009-03-05 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
You need to be able to work directly in the system image, i.e. to work directly with (or to be) a device manufacturer. JBQ On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Explore Android explore.andr...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi All, I am working on social networking application and our company/operator

[android-developers] Re: developer.android.com breaks on G1 ?

2009-03-04 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Yes, it's a known issue. From what I know the browser in android has issues with CSS overflow on divs. JBQ On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Sen senecajust...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone noticed that if you try to browse the Reference section of developer.android.com, it doesn't let you scroll

[android-developers] Re: Does the web browser that came with Android support svg files?

2009-03-04 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Indeed, it's not supported. JBQ On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Anonymous Anonymous firewallbr...@googlemail.com wrote: I think svg is not supported On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Videoguy wrote: I have an svg file created in Inkscape app. I am

[android-developers] Re: Does the web browser that came with Android support svg files?

2009-03-04 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
:10 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: Indeed, it's not supported. JBQ On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Anonymous Anonymous firewallbr...@googlemail.com wrote: I think svg is not supported On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote

[android-developers] Re: Dev Phone and RC33 update

2009-03-03 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
in every single area, and especially in some of the Google-proprietary areas like Maps or Market. JBQ On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:57 PM, John Gruenenfelder jo...@as.arizona.edu wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:44:21AM -0800, Jean-Baptiste Queru wrote: Even if you don't want to trust Google

[android-developers] Re: Why standard component with private members?

2009-03-03 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Those members are private, either because there are other ways to achieve the same goal, or because they might change in the future in a what that would break applications that rely on it. I guess that your situation is the second one. JBQ On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Alger, Lin

[android-developers] Re: Android Browser - Downloading files with square brackets in the name [ ]

2009-03-03 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Indeed. This was fixed in the source code (it's in the cupcake development tree) and the fix will be in a future release. JBQ On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Alec alechol...@gmail.com wrote: As an update i just raised a bug report on the android bug tracker

[android-developers] Re: Android Browser - Downloading files with square brackets in the name [ ]

2009-03-03 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
writing an application and using the default browser to let the user browse and download files which will occassionally have square brackets in. Will there be a browser update any time soon, or do i need to wait for cupcake for the fix? Many thanks Alec On Mar 4, 12:08 am, Jean-Baptiste

[android-developers] Re: Non-USD prices causing credit card rejections

2009-03-02 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Looks like this question was originally asked in the right forum. JBQ On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?fid=5d08f29aeb3d97060004642249d98a40hl=en Google *really* need to do something about

[android-developers] Re: Need Official HOW-TO: Upgrade from Original ADP1 firmware to RC33

2009-03-02 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
in to the wild. Google is beginning to show contempt for the very people they want supporting the product. On Feb 18, 1:51 am, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: We're working on having an official 1.1 system image available for the ADP1. It will not be PLAT-RC33, which is specific

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