[android-developers] Testing AndroidTestCase as well as ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2

2012-03-20 Thread Weston Weems
So I've built a test suite that automatically grabs all testcases and runs them. The first chunk of tests I wrote were for AndroidTestCase, and just tested simple algorithms and shared functionality (non ui, Activity in-specific). I came along and built a ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2, that

[android-developers] Re: Android, SQLite, massive (5000%+) loss of performance on a certain query, on a certain device

2012-03-20 Thread Weston Weems
SQL performance often relies on indexing and quantity of data. Generally fields you join on are going to need to be indexed (as they appear to be pk's). Without a where criteria, you're effectively going to end up with a table scan on english words, and compounded by the joins. I dont know

[android-developers] Configuring IDE (Eclipse or IntelliJ) for System Development

2012-03-09 Thread Weston Weems
I'm looking to develop features, fix bugs in the android os, which is going decently with the make my changes, build, push to device, but am looking for something a bit more usable on a regular basis. I've managed to get both ide's able to show many of the projects, and some of the features

[android-developers] Re: Getting access to a UI Context safely from anywhere

2012-02-16 Thread Weston Weems
, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Weston Weems wwe...@gmail.com wrote: Treking Basically this is what I've done... say I have MyAppActivity which has stuff that automatically registers itself into application... events come in, application gets last accessed and I use that to start dialogs etc

[android-developers] Re: Getting access to a UI Context safely from anywhere

2012-02-16 Thread Weston Weems
context..), but a system bar notification probably makes the most sense. kris On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Weston Weems wwe...@gmail.com wrote: Treking Basically this is what I've done... say I have MyAppActivity which has stuff that automatically registers itself into application

[android-developers] Getting access to a UI Context safely from anywhere

2012-02-15 Thread Weston Weems
Ok, I've encountered several cases where I'd like to instantiate classes that exist as a child of my application subclass, events fire say like a communications error, and we'd like to be able to popup a sort of general communication error anywhere in my app. Another example is say where

[android-developers] Re: Getting access to a UI Context safely from anywhere

2012-02-15 Thread Weston Weems
...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Weston Weems wwe...@gmail.com wrote:  it doesnt even seem there is a decent way to test to see if context is 1) a valid ui context from which I can pop dialogs, show dialog fragments etc Don't use a base Context, use an Activity, which itself

[android-developers] Ideas about how I can start activity without flag activity new task

2011-08-21 Thread Weston Weems
Ok, First of all, I'll start out by saying I've done research and understand why android prevents people from being able to do such things, but its really preventing me from being able to build this library as I'd like to. Likewise I'd appreciate people who feel the overwhelming urge to quickly

[android-developers] Styling Honeycomb EditText's when inputType is specified

2011-08-10 Thread Weston Weems
styles.xml and themes.xml, as well as the corresponding statelistdrawables, but have been unable to make it happen, and I'd prefer not to have to find every edittext and specify padding/background etc. Appreciate any pointers! Regards, Weston Weems -- You received this message because you

[android-developers] Drag and Drop fires off listeners on different tabpages of the same tab control (z-index filtering?)

2011-07-14 Thread Weston Weems
, but wanted to filter out the possibility that I am making a dumb little mistake, before taking time for the POC. Regards, Weston Weems -- 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

[android-developers] How to achieve this 3d effect... advice would be appreciated.

2011-04-26 Thread Weston Weems
I want to what amounts to basically whats in the gallery app, when you see the stacks of images, and you scroll all the way to the end, and the stick of thumbs kinda do a 3d rotate a bit, and ease back. I know android.graphics.camera can achieve some of that, but dont quite get how to handle what

Re: [android-developers] ACRA crash reports library - upgrade required !

2011-04-26 Thread Weston Weems
Thanks for keeping on top of things Kevin! On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Kevin Gaudin kevin.gau...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I just published a hot bugfix release of ACRA as users reported that reports were not posted anymore since monday. This is due to a change in the way GoogleDocs

[android-developers] How to achieve this 3d effect

2011-04-25 Thread Weston Weems
Ok, so i am looking to build something that emulates the 3d effect in the gallery with the stack of thumnails, and how when you scroll all the way to the side, the stack of thumbs change perspective a bit, an you can see more/less of the images deeper in the stack. It would seem like I could

[android-developers] Swapping fragments

2011-03-28 Thread Weston Weems
I've recently put together an app that makes heavy use fragments in the master-details view scenario where you'd select the first list item in the fragment and then details fragment would update accordingly. But Iv'e got another need to actually swap out fragments (for the appearance of how say a

[android-developers] Equivalent to dialog display iniitiated from a service

2010-11-11 Thread Weston Weems
I know this question has been asked and been shunned for quite some time. Like everyone else, I believe my idea to be the next big thing and likewise I cant explain exactly what I am trying to do, except that I think its acceptable use in my case. The idea is that the service will be chugging

Re: [android-developers] Re: Equivalent to dialog display iniitiated from a service

2010-11-11 Thread Weston Weems
not interrupt your user. Instead, show a notification that opens WaitActivity which then get the necessary info from your service. On Nov 11, 9:32 am, Weston Weems wwe...@gmail.com wrote: I know this question has been asked and been shunned for quite some time. Like everyone else, I believe my

[android-developers] 2d drawing with shapes and drawables.

2010-06-15 Thread Weston Weems
I've done a *TON* of searching and havent been able to come up with a concrete conclusion to this question... I'd effectively like to use the drawables to create a vector image composed of shapedrawables etc. Then use that where drawables are typically consumed... (img src and backgrounds etc).

Re: [android-developers] Re: Windows Phone and XNA. Nightmare is real. What we do with that ?

2010-03-17 Thread Weston Weems
Meh. I think its important to keep your finger on the pulse of trends... but the fact is no matter how. Good. Frramework is they may and try apple shenanigans... which makes the scare null andvoid On Mar 17, 2010 6:48 AM, Piotr piotr.zag...@gmail.com wrote: M$ has show already done great

Re: [android-developers] Re: Want to start building 3d games, pointers?

2010-03-15 Thread Weston Weems
This is exactly the sort of discussion I was hoping to have. I didnt actually expect to find allt he tools working for me out of the box, but rather hoped to help piece together bits that anyone could use to help expedite it. I appreciate your time... and if i come up with some tools that help