Re: [android-developers] Re: Eclipse Helios and SVN problem

2011-02-23 Thread Stephen Jungels
both the existing project, and the library project be placed under version control? As separate project roots in the repository? On Feb 22, 1:04 pm, Stephen Jungels sjung...@gmail.com wrote: Probably the right solution would be to import the src folder separately into a library project, and add

Re: [android-developers] Re: SDK 11 is the slowest yet

2011-02-23 Thread Stephen Jungels
The Honeycomb emulator is faster on my dev system than the preview was, but it is highly sensitive to the emulated hardware. I am using 1024 megabytes of emulated RAM and a 256 meg vm heap size and I still see out of memory errors when the launcher tries to load wallpaper. The AVD refuses to go

Re: [android-developers] Eclipse Helios and SVN problem

2011-02-22 Thread Stephen Jungels
Probably the right solution would be to import the src folder separately into a library project, and add a reference to the library project to your existing project. This would mirror what the designer was doing in the preferred style of Eclipse + Android. On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:50 PM,

Re: [android-developers] What name would get more attention

2011-02-22 Thread Stephen Jungels
If you personally like the physics theme, it can work, but a game needs to be more character based, for example Genius Bike, featuring an absent-minded professor who is sucked into a wormhole while riding his little bike to the Institute for Advanced Studies one morning... On Mon, Feb 21, 2011

Re: [android-developers] Re: Will no longer support Android 1.5

2011-01-17 Thread Stephen Jungels
I've been tempted to drop 1.5, partly because it tends to be installed on low-end devices where people will not have a very good experience of my app, but recently my percentage of 1.5 users has gone up instead of down on some apps. There's a big difference between dropping (loyal) 1.5 users and

Re: [android-developers] Re: Will no longer support Android 1.5

2011-01-17 Thread Stephen Jungels
My stats are from Google Analytics. If you use it and explain what you are doing in your terms of service or license agreement, you are likely to get at least a few comments from users who think you are spying on them, but in some cases it is worth it because you have a better picture of how your

Re: [android-developers] Can't find Activity error

2011-01-13 Thread Stephen Jungels
as different about your manifest file is the lack of fully-qualified class names. (Referring to this page, under the heading Declaring class names:) http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/manifest-intro.html SJ On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Stephen Jungels sjung...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [android-developers] Can't find Activity error

2011-01-12 Thread Stephen Jungels
Unless your android:name elements are fully qualified, they should begin with a period, should they not? On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:05 PM, John Lussmyer johnlussm...@gmail.com wrote: Didn't help. On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: I'd get rid of the

Re: [android-developers] bindService() instantiating a second Service instance

2011-01-11 Thread Stephen Jungels
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Anm andrew.n.marsh...@gmail.com wrote: When memory profiling my app, I've noticed that multiple instances of the same local service class are getting instantiated.  This is not my expectation from my interpretation of the APIs and service example code in the

Re: [android-developers] Re: WebView image source

2011-01-10 Thread Stephen Jungels
If the image is cached in a format that is understood by the browser (ie JPEG, PNG), you should be able to create a content provider that will feed the image to the browser via a custom scheme. On the other hand this could end up wasting a lot of memory so is there a need to cache the image,

Re: [android-developers] Re: WebView image source

2011-01-10 Thread Stephen Jungels
the WebView loads. On Jan 10, 8:42 pm, Stephen Jungels sjung...@gmail.com wrote: If the image is cached in a format that is understood by the browser (ie JPEG, PNG), you should be able to create a content provider that will feed the image to the browser via a custom scheme. On the other hand

Re: [android-developers] Samsung Galaxy Player

2011-01-03 Thread Stephen Jungels
Apparently: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/10/five-steps-to-future-hardware-happiness.html There are also (or will be) the Wifi-only Galaxy Tab, and Google TV. On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Before, the official position was that all apps

Re: [android-developers] Re: Who or What is AppBrain?

2010-12-20 Thread Stephen Jungels
Don't get *too* happy. When AppBrain reports (for example) your install base in Italy, what it is really reporting is a combination of your install base in Italy, and AppBrain's install base in Italy. AppBrain is itself an Android App, and the detailed stats it reports pretty much have to be

Re: [android-developers] Application unavailable in Android Market

2010-12-10 Thread Stephen Jungels
Your apps are visible in the US market on my Droid X (Android 2.2) test device. They're not visible on my Galaxy S (2.1) test device. One thing to look at is the copy protection setting in the developer console. --SJ On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Pedro Duque pmdu...@gmail.com wrote: Thank

Re: [android-developers] Re: Detecting Task Resume

2010-11-21 Thread Stephen Jungels
The link you provided goes to a design document. The technical information you need is here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html SJ On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Doug beafd...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think there aren't events to capture for task foregrounding and

Re: [android-developers] Re: What Intent for Browser without URL

2010-11-19 Thread Stephen Jungels
Have you tried using a standard intent to open the browser with the URL about:blank ? Maybe not exactly what you want, but simple and likely to work everywhere. On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:51 PM, jotobjects jotobje...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks - I don't have a URL to launch and I don't want to

Re: [android-developers] add a linear layout on click of button

2010-11-12 Thread Stephen Jungels
findViewById requires that you have already inflated the xml view (with setContentView, for example). To load a view defined in xml dynamically you want to use a layout inflater of some kind: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/LayoutInflater.html Or you could also just change

Re: [android-developers] ListView.invalidateViews() not working

2010-11-11 Thread Stephen Jungels
For a ListActivity, try onContentChanged(). On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Kumar Bibek coomar@gmail.com wrote: Try notifyDatasetChanged(). This should be called whenever the backing data us changed On 12-Nov-2010 2:01 AM, jotobjects jotobje...@gmail.com wrote: I have an ListActivity

Re: [android-developers] Canvas INSIDE of a Layout???

2010-11-08 Thread Stephen Jungels
This would be an example of creating a custom component. It's covered very well in the docs: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/custom-components.html The requirement for timed updates can be filled by your activity calling invalidate() on the custom view when needed. --SJ On Fri,

Re: [android-developers] Android dev using the Samsung Galaxy S on OSX

2010-11-08 Thread Stephen Jungels
Does your Mac meet the System Requirements? http://developer.android.com/sdk/requirements.html If so, a standard Android device like the Galaxy S would be expected to work (maybe you will have to sort out some device driver issues). The Galaxy S itself is a great phone for development and

Re: [android-developers] Proguard Breaks Javascript Interface

2010-11-08 Thread Stephen Jungels
com.trans_code.android.JavascriptCallback -keepclassmembers class * implements com.trans_code.android.JavascriptCallback { methods; } -- On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Stephen Jungels sjung...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, I followed up on that idea by creating a placeholder

Re: [android-developers] CameraPreview example distorted with samsung galaxy s

2010-11-08 Thread Stephen Jungels
The camera preview example is very simple. Real camera apps letterbox the preview because widescreen phones don't have the same aspect ratio as standard photographic sizes. On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, ping bernd.warm...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Today i tried the sample code to get the camera

Re: [android-developers] Re: CameraPreview example distorted with samsung galaxy s

2010-11-08 Thread Stephen Jungels
Sorry, no. On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 6:52 PM, ping bernd.warm...@gmail.com wrote: Do you know a sample app where this is easily shown? On Nov 8, 11:33 pm, Stephen Jungels sjung...@gmail.com wrote: The camera preview example is very simple.  Real camera apps letterbox the preview because

[android-developers] Proguard Breaks Javascript Interface

2010-11-07 Thread Stephen Jungels
I've recently started using the WebView Android / Javascript interface in my projects (and I think it's pretty cool; article here: http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/using-webviews.html). The problem is that when obfuscation is turned on, the callbacks from Javascript to my Android

Re: [android-developers] Proguard Breaks Javascript Interface

2010-11-07 Thread Stephen Jungels
daniel.drozdzew...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Stephen Jungels sjung...@gmail.com wrote: I've recently started using the WebView Android / Javascript interface in my projects (and I think it's pretty cool; article here: http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/using

Re: [android-developers] [BUG?] Images from drawable-nodpi getting scaled

2010-10-22 Thread Stephen Jungels
In addition to what was said above, if you study the supports-screens directive carefully and set it properly in your manifest, that will most likely clear things up. On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:43 AM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Wri cyri...@gmail.com

Re: [android-developers] Re: Do you spend any time sending DMCA notices

2010-10-14 Thread Stephen Jungels
I think you may have misinterpreted that email. I claimed my apps on AppBrain and got something similar; it's just a verify that they send to the registered email of the app developer, is it not? Also, claiming your apps and paying for promotion are two separate things. Just claiming as I have

Re: [android-developers] Re: Anybody experiencing a boost in sales since opening up to other countries?

2010-10-08 Thread Stephen Jungels
I had a pretty good week but I'm not sure the new markets are the reason why. It would be a lot easier to tell if we had something like Analytics for Google Checkout. --SJ On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:58 AM, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.com wrote: On Oct 8, 7:20 am, Zsolt Vasvari

Re: [android-developers] Follow up for the active install count problem

2010-10-08 Thread Stephen Jungels
My count had dropped to the point where it looked like an abandoned app (about 33% at the lowest, I think). It started to stabilize and then go up again, and after I did a release a few days ago it jumped from 37% to 45%, so I think releasing an update will get things back to normal more quickly

Re: [android-developers] Re: Any proposed changes to the Android Market?

2010-10-07 Thread Stephen Jungels
I have a slightly different take on this than the original poster. Currently Google is treating apps like web pages, and using ranking algorithms to highlight the successful apps. The poor apps don't need to be expelled because they are in the rankings basement where nobody sees them. The only

Re: [android-developers] Re: Gifting paid market apps

2010-10-06 Thread Stephen Jungels
About 24 hours after a buyer has purchased the app, their payment will have gone through and you can use the Checkout console to issue a full or partial refund. I have a separate system for distributing my app to beta testers, but I have used this method in a few cases as well. -SJ On Wed, Oct

Re: [android-developers] Re: Adding Rate this application capability

2010-10-06 Thread Stephen Jungels
Directing users to the details page so they can rate your app doesn't seem questionable as long as you do it in a neutral way and there is no implied reward for a positive rating. There's also no guarantee that it will increase the number of positive ratings more than it increases the number of

Re: [android-developers] File Pushing Problem on to the Emulator

2010-10-06 Thread Stephen Jungels
I have found that file push and pull work much better with the adb command line tool than they do with DDMS. Just use adb, than you can wait patiently for the tools to be fixed. --SJ On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Goutham P N pn.gowt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, In one of the application I need

Re: [android-developers] Bitmap to Bytes then bytes to Bitmap

2010-09-27 Thread Stephen Jungels
The decode byte array call expects JPEG compressed data. You should be consistent about either using unpacked bytes, as in your save operation, or packed bytes, as in your read operation. --SJ On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Jey jp9894562...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,       Am trying to store