Re: [android-developers] inapp billing testing - static product android.test.purchased no longer returns a signed response for a test account

2013-01-13 Thread androidmediadeveloper
Thanks for the confirmation. That sucks though. Takes out the mechanism to test inapp purchases. Hope this is one bug Google gets to soon -- 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] inapp billing testing - static product android.test.purchased no longer returns a signed response for a test account

2013-01-09 Thread androidmediadeveloper
anyone else notice this issue as well ? have been testing for over a year with the static product (android.test.purchased), and have myself added as a test account. Making a purchase used to come back with a signed response, and the response came back with the signature field filled in, but

[android-developers] How to dispaly XML format to normal UI in Run Time

2012-12-10 Thread androidmediadeveloper
Fetch using asynctask, Parse the XML and assign to ui elements -- 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 email to

[android-developers] using pure webviews for Facebook auth

2012-12-07 Thread androidmediadeveloper
Has anyone explored doing Facebook auth purely with webviews from inside of a native Android app ? Without using the Facebook Android SDK that is I'd like to seee if this is feasible for our app since by doing this I will have control of the redirect URL in the oauth flow (and we already have a

Re: [android-developers] Re: Can't able to install google play billing

2012-06-19 Thread androidmediadeveloper
Career will fly. Based on the potential I see in your posting, you should expect nothing short of a million dollars on your first app on market ! -- 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] Re: mediascannerconnection.scanFile does not update album_art

2012-03-29 Thread androidmediadeveloper
the database file from the phone out and view it, only the audio_meta entry seems recreated, the albums and album_art entries are not. Thanks ! On Mar 28, 10:58 pm, androidmediadeveloper kamathaj...@gmail.com wrote: I have spent 2 entire days on this but havent been able to figure out

[android-developers] mediascannerconnection.scanFile does not update album_art

2012-03-28 Thread androidmediadeveloper
I have spent 2 entire days on this but havent been able to figure out, if someone has any ideas, please please share. I am basically trying to update the album_art on a user's music collection. So, when a user is playing a track, he/she can make a get art request. I fetch art from an external

[android-developers] Re: apk expansion patches (for larger apks)

2012-03-13 Thread androidmediadeveloper
Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:46 AM,androidmediadeveloper kamathaj...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know if this recently announced patch file mechanism http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/03/android-apps-break-50m... 1. Can a patch be conditionally

[android-developers] apk expansion patches (for larger apks)

2012-03-09 Thread androidmediadeveloper
Anyone know if this recently announced patch file mechanism http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/03/android-apps-break-50mb-barrier.html 1. Can a patch be conditionally downloaded based on an inapp purchase ? 2. Works for apks which are lesser than 50 MB in size ? 3. Can the additional

[android-developers] Re: Same codebase, 2 apks, one free, another paid ?

2012-02-18 Thread androidmediadeveloper
name, essentially creating a separate paid app. -- K On 02/17/2012 11:55 PM, androidmediadeveloper wrote: We are trying to come up with a tablet optimized pro product that we only want shipped in the market as a paid app. We currently do have a free app in the market which is doing

[android-developers] Same codebase, 2 apks, one free, another paid ?

2012-02-17 Thread androidmediadeveloper
We are trying to come up with a tablet optimized pro product that we only want shipped in the market as a paid app. We currently do have a free app in the market which is doing fairly well. I understand there are package naming restrictions and even if we build multiple apks (phone and tablet), we

[android-developers] Re: Licensing issue on Multiple-apk feature.

2012-02-09 Thread androidmediadeveloper
This is interesting. We are also going along the same route and knowing this would help. Dont know if inapp biling suffers frim the same. What is the response code that comes back on checkaccess ? On Feb 8, 11:55 pm, droid-stricken harik...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have two APKs for an

[android-developers] Re: In-App Billing Tracking By Android Market

2012-02-01 Thread androidmediadeveloper
For the reinstall check, we've used a shared preference. If prefexists, dont check, if pref missing then check the market. Another kludge would be to use the sqlite db version Just my 2 cents On Feb 1, 2:03 am, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Which kind of defeats the purpose of

[android-developers] Re: Can the LVL check for Paid app be done from my free app ?

2012-01-11 Thread androidmediadeveloper
got confirmation from the google developers, the check for a paid app cannot be done from inside of any other app, even if it is from the same publisher signed with the same key. So, that is that I guess. On Dec 6 2011, 12:21 pm, Kevin TeslaCoil Software ke...@teslacoilsw.com wrote: Recently

[android-developers] Re: new developer tools (rev 16) breaks the ant build for LVL, needs build.xml on the library project

2012-01-11 Thread androidmediadeveloper
For anyone else who has this problem, the answer as I figured out turns out to be fairly simple. The only thing that build.xml on the LVL project should have is this property name=project.is.library value=true / this is apart from other standard build file plumbing. On Jan 10, 10:06 am, Fred

[android-developers] Re: new developer tools (rev 16) breaks the ant build for LVL, needs build.xml on the library project

2012-01-10 Thread androidmediadeveloper
I've read thru the docs. The question is specific to changes in the way apps are built with command line tools like ant and how they build library projects. Seems like the library project (lvl in my case) needs it's own build.XML in addition to whatever the documentation talks about. Need a

[android-developers] new developer tools (rev 16) breaks the ant build for LVL, needs build.xml on the library project

2012-01-09 Thread androidmediadeveloper
We used to have the LVL library as part of the app as a library project, the app was built with ant and it worked up until the upgrade to the latest version of the developer tools, now it refuses to compile with an Invalid file issued after the Building libraries echo message from the build.xml.

[android-developers] Re: Can the LVL check for Paid app be done from my free app ?

2011-12-06 Thread androidmediadeveloper
: Why not use in-appbilling to unlock the features in yourfreeapp? That way user's don't have to install a secondappthat does nothing but unlock features in anotherapp. I'm doing this in my own apps and it works nicely. Emanuel Moecklin 1gravity LLC On Dec 5, 9:54 am, androidmediadeveloper

[android-developers] Can the LVL check for Paid app be done from my free app ?

2011-12-05 Thread androidmediadeveloper
I have a Free app with pro features locked. I also have a paid app that is basically a stub, an unlocker. My question is this, can I run the LVL check to see if user has purchased the unlocker/stub app from inside of my free app ? It'd be great if this were possible, but from my experiments until

[android-developers] Re: Can the LVL check for Paid app be done from my free app ?

2011-12-05 Thread androidmediadeveloper
sorry, not clear. the free app can check if the paid app was purchased ? it is the same publisher. also, seems like i can use the android:sharedUserId and write the license into shared prefs from one app and have the other read from it. Is this a security issue ? thanks ajith On Dec 5, 11:50 

[android-developers] Re: Can the LVL check for Paid app be done from my free app ?

2011-12-05 Thread androidmediadeveloper
, signing both apps with the same key and using a signature-protected permission is another. 5 ÄÅËÁÂÒÑ 2011šÇ. 21:28 ÐÏÌØÚÏ×ÁÔÅÌØ androidmediadeveloper kamathaj...@gmail.com ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: sorry, not clear. the free app can check if the paid app was purchased ? it is the same publisher. also

[android-developers] Re: In-app billing: Creating coupons ?

2011-11-16 Thread androidmediadeveloper
Thanks for the suggestions there Kostya, we're going with a issue refund after purchase approach in lieu of anything in the platform. -Android Media developer On Nov 7, 3:51 pm, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: In-app billing does not allow free (of charge) items. You can refund a

[android-developers] In-App purchase and a Paid entry (2 separate listings on android market)

2011-11-16 Thread androidmediadeveloper
Anyone encounter a situation where you had to place an app, with in- app purchasing to pro as well as yet another paid entry on the Android Market ? We currently have a free app with an upgrade to pro option available via in-app billing, and the product team wants to create more discoverability

[android-developers] In-app billing: Creating coupons ?

2011-11-07 Thread androidmediadeveloper
We want the ability to setup a beta program for our pro app, which uses in-app billing. I am exploring the possibility of giving our beta testers access to the pro features on the app for free for a limited amount of time, i.e., until we ship it in public. Was wondering if there is a way to

[android-developers] Re: LVL and InApp Billing

2011-10-03 Thread androidmediadeveloper
Sorry, yea, ours will be a managed item available via inapp billing. Interesting, so without LVL, its not possible to get data points on how many devices have the app installed ? I'm assuming the android market automatically allows for apps (paid or not) to be installed on all the user's devices,

[android-developers] Re: Inapp billing question

2011-10-02 Thread androidmediadeveloper
So, there is a way to upload a new version of the app (previous free app already exists in market with same package name) without publishing it ? The market warns Clicking Save will make the app live on market Thanks Ajith On Oct 2, 1:55 pm, Emanuel Moecklin 1gravity...@gmail.com wrote: 1)

[android-developers] What are peoples' thoughts on developing for Kindle Fire

2011-10-01 Thread androidmediadeveloper
It is well known that Kindle Fire is based on a 2.2 Fork of Android. However, Amazon has not once mentioned the Android name in all their Fire marketing. Wondering how all this is going to bode for Android developers such as us. Would be great to be able to port our existing apps onto Fire but

[android-developers] LVL and InApp Billing

2011-10-01 Thread androidmediadeveloper
Have noticed several posts on this issue but no specific resolution, so, trying again. We are going to market with a paid app built using Google's InApp billing infrastructure. We've secured the purchase database with all the security best practices and it seems to be working well. Is there

[android-developers] Inapp billing question

2011-10-01 Thread androidmediadeveloper
We already have a free app in the market which is doing fairly well. We now want to offer a newer version of the app, this with the ability to go Pro via Inapp billing. I've run several tests with the static requests and they all seem to work well. When I tried to upload the app to market to test,

[android-developers] Re: Inapp Billing: Security best practices

2011-09-14 Thread androidmediadeveloper
yep, good suggestions. we're probably going to lean on a mix of native code and obfuscation with server side validation coming in soon. thanks On Sep 13, 10:08 pm, Nikolay Elenkov nikolay.elen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:56 AM, androidmediadeveloper kamathaj...@gmail.com

[android-developers] Inapp Billing: Security best practices

2011-09-13 Thread androidmediadeveloper
We are integrating with market to provide inapp billing on our app. The implementation guide says for additional security, we can use a server to do the key verification process. This is so we dont bake the apk with the public key I suppose. Having a server side presence for us for right now is

[android-developers] Re: I can't show random images in the ImageView

2011-08-07 Thread androidmediadeveloper
also, once you change the bitmap, you need to call invalidate() so onDraw is called again On Aug 6, 4:41 pm, Zwiebel hunzwie...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks I will try it! On aug. 6, 20:04, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: You are calling TextView.setText(int)

[android-developers] Drawing a smooth curve that connects 10 points in my bitmap

2011-08-05 Thread androidmediadeveloper
I have a bitmap that I draw on at runtime, and I basically come up with 10 points on the bitmap that I'd like to see connected with one smooth curve. Using the Path.lineTo to draw individual lines now which are obviously individual sharp lines connecting 2 successive points. Any good ideas for

[android-developers] Re: Drawing a smooth curve that connects 10 points in my bitmap

2011-08-05 Thread androidmediadeveloper
to work with. -niko On Aug 5, 8:01 am, androidmediadeveloper kamathaj...@gmail.com wrote: I have a bitmap that I draw on at runtime, and I basically come up with 10 points on the bitmap that I'd like to see connected with one smooth curve. Using the Path.lineTo to draw individual lines

[android-developers] Re: Drawing a smooth curve that connects 10 points in my bitmap

2011-08-05 Thread androidmediadeveloper
i mean niko, sorry. cant even spell right after working with layouts for hours at a stretch ! On Aug 5, 2:04 pm, androidmediadeveloper kamathaj...@gmail.com wrote: great suggestion, thanks niki, will try this and post on results ! On Aug 5, 12:03 pm, niko20 nikolatesl...@yahoo.com wrote

[android-developers] Re: Drawing a smooth curve that connects 10 points in my bitmap

2011-08-05 Thread androidmediadeveloper
cornerpatheffect with a decent radius seems to work ok for now, not scientific at all but the curve looks smooth and aesthetic On Aug 5, 2:07 pm, androidmediadeveloper kamathaj...@gmail.com wrote: i mean niko, sorry. cant even spell right after working with layouts for hours at a stretch

[android-developers] Best practices on how to structure code for Free Vs Paid app ?

2011-07-19 Thread androidmediadeveloper
We have a free app in the Android market from the last one year which has done very well, and are in the initial stages of coming up with a paid version of the app with an enhanced feature set. In terms of continuing to support a free app and a paid app (with the paid app having all the features