[android-developers] Interested in hearing from other devs on remote data strategies

2011-01-24 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi All, Hoping to hear from some of you other developers your thoughts with regard to storing data remotely. It seems to me that data synchronisation between the device and a remote database adds quite a lot of complexity to an application. Some applications I've done assume the user will always

[android-developers] Tabs On Sense Devices

2010-12-11 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi all, Has anyone found themselves with the same problem I do when using a TabWidget on Sense Devices. It appears that the text colour for selected/unselected tabs are reversed. I.e. instead of the selected tab being white text and unselected gray, it's the other way around so the selected tab

[android-developers] EXTRA_OUTPUT file path being ignore capturing Video woes

2010-11-10 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi All, I'm having a pig of a time creating a basic video capture feature in my application. I want to call the default video capture tool my device and had the file saved to a specific location. From the documentation this is achieved by providing a Uri in EXTRA_OUTPUT, however what's

[android-developers] Re: Cannot install on app on 1.6 device confusion

2010-10-20 Thread JimmyHoffa
, JimmyHoffa photos.d...@gmail.com wrote: My minimum SDK version is 4, I created it with the 1.6 SDK specified so not sure why he can't see it or install it.  He has a 1.6 Magic handset. Show your manifest file -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[android-developers] Cannot install on app on 1.6 device confusion

2010-10-19 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi all, I've published an app today mainly for my forum users to use, just a very simple app that displays wallpapers derived from the forum. Problem I'm having is one guy says it doesn't appear in the market, and I've even sent him the APK to install manually but it fails. My minimum SDK

[android-developers] Re: How to email uncaught exceptions?

2010-10-17 Thread JimmyHoffa
. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:28 PM, JimmyHoffa photos.d...@gmail.com wrote: I love the feature where we can inspect any exceptions for app's published on the market through the developer site but curious as to whether we can tap into this feature for app's we don't publish to the market so we

[android-developers] How to email uncaught exceptions?

2010-10-15 Thread JimmyHoffa
I love the feature where we can inspect any exceptions for app's published on the market through the developer site but curious as to whether we can tap into this feature for app's we don't publish to the market so we can email any exception details to a specific email address for example. Does

[android-developers] Text To Speech API question

2010-10-04 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi all, Just a passing thought I wanted to check out whether it's possible using the TTS engine to apply effects to voices. Without beating around the bush my 'requirement' if you can call it that is to playback a robot sounding version of whatever sentence the user has recorded using a mix of

[android-developers] Confusion when picking contacts

2010-05-28 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi all, I'm using Android 2 SDK, and have a list activity in which I want to display the users contacts. So I'm retrieving the contacts cursor in a standard way : Uri contacts = ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI; // Form an array specifying which columns to return.

[android-developers] Re: What is the default user agent string for Android 2.2 Froyo?

2010-05-28 Thread JimmyHoffa
On my install the user agent shows : Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-gb; Nexus One Build/FRF50) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1 Rgds, On May 27, 10:34 pm, Darth priyaj...@gmail.com wrote: As the title suggests, can someone list it? Thanks --

[android-developers] Can I send an image byte[] to ACTION_VIEW intent?

2010-05-13 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi all, Just wondering if its possible to use the built in image viewer to display an image sourced from a database. I'm hoping I can pass the byte[] as an extra to the ACTION_VIEW intent, but can't find any docs on it so far. Alternatively I'll have to roll my own viewer or first write the

[android-developers] Slow viewing image with ACTION_VIEW

2010-05-13 Thread JimmyHoffa
Anyone experienced a very slow response (i.e. 10 seconds) when simple calling an ACTION_VIEW intent for an image on the sdcard? There is around a 10 second delay, eventually there are two INFO level log entries Texture Creation fail, qlError 1281 Built thumbnail and screennail for 0 in 25 So

[android-developers] Re: Looking for advice into best way to store images within app

2010-05-07 Thread JimmyHoffa
if an important req is to maintain the ability to always raise new jobs (and your current sd becomes full). However our importance on maintaining ease of access to all previousimagesis probably less than yours as we also send all reports andimagesto the server. Rich On May 6, 7:54 pm, JimmyHoffa

[android-developers] Re: Looking for advice into best way to store images within app

2010-05-06 Thread JimmyHoffa
apk's size will be huge. the best way is to keep your images somewhere in the cloud, and access them through the app. Thanks and Regards, Kumar Bibek On May 5, 8:45 pm, JimmyHoffa photos.d...@googlemail.com wrote:   0  vote down  star Hi all, I'm just looking for some insight

[android-developers] Looking for advice into best way to store images within app

2010-05-05 Thread JimmyHoffa
0 vote down star Hi all, I'm just looking for some insight into what would be the best way for me to store images as part of my app. I have an activity that represents a 'Job' which has a couple of edittext's and underneath was planning on using the Gallery component to show images

[android-developers] Re: Background Intent

2010-02-09 Thread JimmyHoffa
Well you could call a service instead. On Feb 4, 6:21 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Is it possible to start an Intent but kepp it hidden? For example now to start the intent I am using         startActivitity(intent). Suppose the intent is to start a web browser, the

[android-developers] How to modify contact detail screen?

2010-01-16 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi All, Just like to share some thoughts and ask if anyone knows how to modify the stock Contacts detail screen. I'm not 100% convinced I will adopt this strategy yet but I need to allow the user of my application to maintain contact information, with extra fields specific to my app' so I

[android-developers] Alarm Manager Query

2010-01-15 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi All, I'm new to using the alarm manager and was wondering if the following is possible.. I am creating a Android 2 Application which uses a database to store 'appointments' , date/who/reason etc.. What I want to do when viewing an appointment is to allow the user to select Remind Me +

[android-developers] Re: Alarm Manager Query

2010-01-15 Thread JimmyHoffa
are and therefore would all need to be re-established. On Jan 15, 3:50 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: JimmyHoffa wrote: Hi All, I'm new to using the alarm manager and was wondering if the following is possible.. I am creating a Android 2 Application which uses a database to store

[android-developers] Re: Alarm Manager Query

2010-01-15 Thread JimmyHoffa
I'll look into that, thanks for your input. On Jan 15, 5:09 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: JimmyHoffa wrote: Thanks Mark, I didnt realise that they need re-esablishing so that's good to know. I'm concerned whether the alarms can be removed individually, as in the SDK

[android-developers] Does showAlert now take 5 lines to do same?

2009-12-07 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi all, The subject says it all, just curious if I've missed something or does displaying a quick warning to the user require code such as the following; Dialog msg = new AlertDialog.Builder(Login.this) .setPositiveButton(OK, null) .setMessage(Please enter both login name and password)

[android-developers] Re: Does showAlert now take 5 lines to do same?

2009-12-07 Thread JimmyHoffa
Yeah ok, I know what you're saying, its not significantly a great deal extra work but I wasn't sure if it was the only way since they dropped the showAlert oneliner. On Dec 7, 11:00 pm, Jason Proctor jason.android.li...@gmail.com wrote: and the requirement he's describing would be better

[android-developers] Re: Does showAlert now take 5 lines to do same?

2009-12-07 Thread JimmyHoffa
Thanks all for the replies. On Dec 7, 11:25 pm, Jason Proctor jason.android.li...@gmail.com wrote: i have a utility method which takes a Context and either a string resource ID, a raw string, or a Throwable, and pukes up a Toast appropriately. that way it's only one line of code in the

[android-developers] Orientation Sensor problems.

2009-06-22 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi All, Hoping someone can help me make sense of my problem, Using eclipse to create a v1.5 compass application for my tmobile G1. What i'm experiencing is wacky heading results from the orientation sensor. the important bits of my code are : the setup of the sensor is sensorManager =