[android-developers] Dynamically switching text-to-speech engines under ICS?

2012-07-03 Thread blindfold
Has anyone had any success reliably switching among text-to-speech engines and languages on-the-fly under Android 4.03 (ICS)? Under Android 2.3.3 this worked great using the TextToSpeech method setEngineByPackageName(), but that method is now not only deprecated but for some reason it no longer

[android-developers] Re: android accelerometer to measure distance

2012-01-29 Thread blindfold
So you want to emulate stereo vision based distance measurement through two slightly displaced views? I'm afraid the phone's sensors are not nearly good enough to let you independently measure small (e.g. lateral) displacements with sufficient accuracy to obtain absolute distance measures. On Jan

[android-developers] Re: Strange problem with toggleSoftInput() in Android 2.3.3

2011-09-02 Thread blindfold
); to have the soft keyboard pop up right away. Is the need for this a bug in Android 2.3.3? Like I said I did not need this in Android 1.6 or 2.2. Thanks On Sep 1, 2:44 pm, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: I recently upgraded the firmware of my HTC Desire from 2.2 to 2.3.3, and since

[android-developers] Strange problem with toggleSoftInput() in Android 2.3.3

2011-09-01 Thread blindfold
I recently upgraded the firmware of my HTC Desire from 2.2 to 2.3.3, and since then I find that after starting an Activity I need to call toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0); exactly *3* times before it pops up the soft keyboard. After that it works upon every call until I

[android-developers] Re: ocr implementation with android

2011-08-05 Thread blindfold
OK, thanks for your reply Nikolay. Looking forward to further developments in this area. The ABBYY OCR engines are better than any other OCR engine that I have encountered. Peter On Aug 5, 1:49 pm, Nikolay nikolay.khlebin...@gmail.com wrote: Hey blindfold, As far as i know at the moment we

[android-developers] Re: ocr implementation with android

2011-08-03 Thread blindfold
Hi Nikolay, Do you have plans to sell the ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine via the Android Market as part of a light-weight wrapper app? I have no plans to use the ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine commercially, but would be interested in launching an OCR app based on the ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine from within my own

[android-developers] Re: Install % not updating?

2011-06-28 Thread blindfold
Sometime during the first week of May, my active installs count suddenly dropped by 40% (with no bugs or updates on my side to explain this) while download counts (total installs) kept growing normally. Now that was not as bad as the recent 100% drop in active installs count until the June 24

[android-developers] Re: Install % not updating?

2011-06-27 Thread blindfold
Today my active install count suddenly dropped to 0, zero, zilch, 0 active installs (0 %) while my download count remains at 70,000+. Looks like they are busy trying to fix the counters? :-) On Jun 27, 5:35 am, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Is it only my app which has an install% not

[android-developers] Re: Install % not updating?

2011-06-27 Thread blindfold
Well, they seem to have fixed *that* problem, so now I too am back to the June 24 download count. (At least) one more bug to go... On Jun 27, 9:23 am, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: Today my active install count suddenly dropped to 0, zero, zilch, 0 active installs (0 %) while my

[android-developers] Re: recognize text in images on opening the camera

2011-06-21 Thread blindfold
That is correct. The recognition quality of free open source OCR engines like Tesseract and GOCR is unfortunately still a far cry from what ABBYY delivers. Most OCR engines were developed for flatbed scanners with controlled light conditions, a flat surface, no lens distortion and little skew, and

[android-developers] Re: Accessibility on Motorola XOOM

2011-05-17 Thread blindfold
A partial workaround can be to redefine the volume control buttons as up and down arrow keys to hop from control to control while inside menu and dialogs. I have done this for blind users of Android phones that have a physical keyboard but no d-pad (really, these exist). Also check out the

[android-developers] Re: Open multiple cameras simultaneously

2011-05-16 Thread blindfold
Don't know about simultaneously previewing or capturing from a front and back camera, but I'd say that there has to be a way to simultaneously capture from the dual cameras in the LG Optimus 3D, Sharp Aquos SH-12C and HTC EVO 3D. However, I do not know yet what API they are using. Lacking further

[android-developers] Re: How is your app selling on the Amazon Appstore?

2011-04-28 Thread blindfold
Similar here. My free app gets between 100 and 200 downloads a day on Android Market, and only about 1 per day via Amazon Appstore. On Apr 28, 9:06 am, Droid rod...@gmail.com wrote: My app was tested in India (I knew this cos of an inn app widget giving me locations) and three weeks later

[android-developers] Re: Camera.getNumberOfCameras() not working

2011-04-05 Thread blindfold
getNumberOfCameras() needs API level 9 according to documentation. On Apr 5, 8:54 am, Abhijeet Pathak pathak...@gmail.com wrote: I am getting error Cannot find symbol when using getNumberOfCameras(). I am compiling app for api level 8. Please help me fixing this. Thanks, Abhijeet -- You

[android-developers] Re: Camera.getNumberOfCameras() not working

2011-04-05 Thread blindfold
...@gmail.com wrote: Does this mean Android 2.3? If yes, hows to retrieve number of cameras on android 2.2 (api level 8)? On 5 Apr 2011 13:02, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: getNumberOfCameras() needs API level 9 according to documentation. On Apr 5, 8:54 am, Abhijeet Pathak

[android-developers] Re: Unique ID for a device: why aren't devices certified Android-compliant?

2011-04-01 Thread blindfold
As far as ANDROID_ID -- please be aware that some people concerned about privacy very much do not like applications being able to retrieve something that uniquely identifies their device I only use ANDROID_ID to identify my own test phones and suppress ads when running my app on these test

[android-developers] Re: Amazon Appmarket is now open!

2011-03-22 Thread blindfold
Indeed today I found that the description for my app was rewritten too by Amazon, and in my case I do not really mind the more polished style, although I take no responsibility for any flaws or too much hype in the modified description. Regards, The vOICe for Android

[android-developers] Re: How to turn on the sound in the Android Emulator?

2011-03-02 Thread blindfold
this is the issue... On 25 feb, 12:15, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: You should be getting sound from the emulator by default on Windows 7, but maybe issue 14953http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=14953 affects you too? On Feb 24, 11:03

[android-developers] Re: How to turn on the sound in the Android Emulator?

2011-03-02 Thread blindfold
guessing... On Mar 3, 8:25 am, ThaMe90 theprophes...@gmail.com wrote: I have 2 AVD's available, both set on android 2.2 as the target. Both haven't got the snapshot chechbox checked... On 2 mrt, 17:06, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: Did you avoid checking the Snapshot checkbox while

[android-developers] Re: How to turn on the sound in the Android Emulator?

2011-02-25 Thread blindfold
You should be getting sound from the emulator by default on Windows 7, but maybe issue 14953 http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=14953 affects you too? On Feb 24, 11:03 am, ThaMe90 theprophes...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I wonder how to turn on the sound in the Android Emulator?

[android-developers] No sound with Android 3.0 emulator?

2011-02-23 Thread blindfold
I'm not getting any sound with the Android 3.0 (Honeycomb, final) SDK emulator. I have no such problem with the Android 2.2 and 2.3.1 emulators. This is on Windows 7 64-bit. I have all volume sliders up. Anyone else having this problem? Thanks -- You received this message because you are

[android-developers] Re: No sound with Android 3.0 emulator?

2011-02-23 Thread blindfold
do? Is it a new bug? On Feb 23, 9:26 am, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not getting any sound with the Android 3.0 (Honeycomb, final) SDK emulator. I have no such problem with the Android 2.2 and 2.3.1 emulators. This is on Windows 7 64-bit. I have all volume sliders up. Anyone

[android-developers] Re: No sound with Android 3.0 emulator?

2011-02-23 Thread blindfold
consistently causes problems with the audio device. I did not further investigate though. On Feb 23, 10:07 am, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: I should add that I do get sound also with the Android 3.0 *preview* emulator, but just not with the new final Android 3.0 emulator. I rebooted

[android-developers] Re: No sound with Android 3.0 emulator?

2011-02-23 Thread blindfold
for this information. Can I ask you to file a bug at b.android.com with the text you just wrote here? It will help us track the issue for a future fix. Thanks On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:00 AM, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.comwrote: Problem solved! The trick for me was to delete the huge

[android-developers] Re: No sound with Android 3.0 emulator?

2011-02-23 Thread blindfold
reproducible though. On Feb 23, 4:28 pm, David Turner di...@android.com wrote: Thanks a lot for this information. Can I ask you to file a bug at b.android.com with the text you just wrote here? It will help us track the issue for a future fix. Thanks On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:00 AM, blindfold

[android-developers] Re: Honeycomb SDK

2011-02-07 Thread blindfold
Yes I hope they will fix that for the final Honeycomb SDK, because currently I need to recompile for either uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=4/ uses-sdk android:targetSdkVersion=Honeycomb/ giving me the conventional (Android 2.3-) phone appearance in the Honeycomb emulator, or

[android-developers] Re: Honeycomb SDK

2011-02-07 Thread blindfold
Ah yes, of course, for now (in my case) with the preview SDK uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=4 android:targetSdkVersion=Honeycomb/ and soon with the final SDK uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=4 android:targetSdkVersion=11/. Thank you, Dianne. On Feb 7, 7:06 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com

[android-developers] Re: Emulator with disabled camera still has camera?

2011-02-05 Thread blindfold
It looks like the emulator currently only supports one default hardware configuration for hasSystemFeature() http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11682 which indeed is inconvenient for emulating/testing app behavior for different hardware configurations. On Feb 4, 8:42 pm, Manfred

[android-developers] APIs for stereoscopic camera support in Android 3.0?

2011-02-02 Thread blindfold
Apparently, some Honeycomb (Android 3.0) tablets like the T-Mobile G- Slate are coming out with dual rear-facing cameras for stereoscopic video recording http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/02/01/t-mobile-releases-details-and-images-of-the-lg-g-slate-honeycomb-tablet/ I'd like to do some depth

[android-developers] System Bar location and height in Honeycomb?

2011-01-27 Thread blindfold
How can I find the location (bottom or top) and height of the System Bar (status bar) in Honeycomb? In compatibility testing of my app I find that I get some vertical offsets in screen locations wrong in Honeycomb, apparently because I did not yet account for the System Bar at the bottom of the

[android-developers] Re: System Bar location and height in Honeycomb?

2011-01-27 Thread blindfold
bar or otherwise have any idea it is there. On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:29 AM, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.comwrote: How can I find the location (bottom or top) and height of the System Bar (status bar) in Honeycomb? In compatibility testing of my app I find that I get some vertical

[android-developers] Re: Wake locks and camera

2011-01-26 Thread blindfold
don't need to hold a wake lock. On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:00 PM, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.comwrote: I noticed that in Android 2.2 and earlier I must do either a FULL_WAKE_LOCK or a combination of PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK and FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON to make sure the camera does not get turned

[android-developers] Re: Force Close Does Not Release Camera Resource

2011-01-26 Thread blindfold
Indeed this is an old known issue (1578) http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1578 and only restarting the phone helps. You can try to minimize occurrences by properly releasing the camera yourself when an exception occurs in your app. On Jan 25, 10:41 pm, Joe McCann

[android-developers] Wake locks and camera

2011-01-25 Thread blindfold
I noticed that in Android 2.2 and earlier I must do either a FULL_WAKE_LOCK or a combination of PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK and FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON to make sure the camera does not get turned off after a while with my app in the foreground (and I need a wake lock to keep GPS going). The underlying

[android-developers] Re: Camera preview issue on SDK 2.3 emulator?

2011-01-24 Thread blindfold
wrote: Hi, I also met the same problem. Did you find the solutions?? Thanks On Dec 8 2010, 6:14 pm, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: Am I really the only one with this problem? Even the built-in camera app gives me only a blank screen in the SDK 2.3 emulator, but after

[android-developers] Problem launching Google Goggles from camera app

2011-01-20 Thread blindfold
I'm launching Google Goggles from my own camera app through an intent, which generally works fine, but occasionally Google Goggles refuses to launch, popping up an error message reading Camera Error Cannot connect to camera. You may need to restart your device. and after pressing OK my app

[android-developers] Re: Amazon to Policy Android Market Place

2011-01-15 Thread blindfold
with it to the developer. Thanks On Jan 15, 4:14 am, Brill Pappin br...@pappin.ca wrote: @blindfold I have an experimental app that does the same thing. Luck for us, the Xzing code can be pulled down an added to your local app. However this is apparently a drawback to multiple app stores! - Brill

[android-developers] Re: Interfacing External Camera To An Android Mobile Device

2011-01-14 Thread blindfold
Not without some hacking for enabling USB host mode and installing a Linux USB webcam driver. Sven Killig did something like this http://lifehacker.com/5558594/usb-host-hack-allows-keyboards-flash-drives-to-connect-to-the-nexus-one On Jan 14, 8:13 am, 7Sigma 7si...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is it

[android-developers] Re: Amazon to Policy Android Market Place

2011-01-14 Thread blindfold
My app got rejected by Amazon Appstore today because it searches for a third-party app (the well-known free ZXing barcode reader) on Android Market if the user tries to launch it from my app and it is not installed. The barcode reader acts as a functional extension to my app, launched via an

[android-developers] Re: Amazon to Policy Android Market Place

2011-01-14 Thread blindfold
require apps to handle missing functionality gracefully, but they should not forbid any searches using the Android Market if Android Market is installed. On Jan 14, 4:26 pm, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: My app got rejected by Amazon Appstore today because it searches

[android-developers] Re: Google analytics crash

2011-01-03 Thread blindfold
-keys} On Dec 31 2010, 3:55 pm, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, I have only one global tracker object that I create in the onCreate() of my main activity, and with a regular dispatch interval through the format tracker.start(UA-12345-0, nseconds, this), so I'd say that it all works

[android-developers] Re: Google analytics crash

2010-12-31 Thread blindfold
anyone else getting this? I have recently received several crash reports caused by Google Analytics (version 1.1), such as java.lang.IllegalStateException: no transaction pending at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.endTransaction(SQLiteDatabase.java: 480) at

[android-developers] Re: Google analytics crash

2010-12-31 Thread blindfold
You may be right, although the crash reports that I have all suggest that they were triggered from direct calls to GoogleAnalyticsTracker.trackEvent() in my code leading to java.lang.IllegalStateException: no transaction pending. Judiciously sprinkling try-catch blocks is a great way to further

[android-developers] Re: Google analytics crash

2010-12-31 Thread blindfold
Hmm, I have only one global tracker object that I create in the onCreate() of my main activity, and with a regular dispatch interval through the format tracker.start(UA-12345-0, nseconds, this), so I'd say that it all works from one alive thread. However, in one pair of crash logs the first

[android-developers] Re: App disappeared from Market Home

2010-12-21 Thread blindfold
I got the JSON parsing error too when uploading an updated APK yesterday and today, using Firefox. Did not get this error in the past with Firefox. Just reloading the page then gives you a draft listing, and you can next proceed to fill in the Recent Changes (was grayed out after the error) and

[android-developers] Re: How to simulate a (missing) DPAD

2010-12-18 Thread blindfold
the events. Why are you doing this?  If a device doesn't have a DPAD, the user isn't going to think to use the volume keys to navigate focus(!!).  You should be giving them a good touch-based UI. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:38 AM, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.comwrote: For Android

[android-developers] How to simulate a (missing) DPAD

2010-12-17 Thread blindfold
For Android phones that lack a physical d-pad or trackball (e.g. Alcatel OT-980, Motorola Droid Pro), I am trying to remap the physical up and down volume keys to simulated up and down d-pad keys using code like @Override public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) { if

[android-developers] Re: How to simulate a (missing) DPAD

2010-12-17 Thread blindfold
them a good touch-based UI. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:38 AM, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.comwrote: For Android phones that lack a physical d-pad or trackball (e.g. Alcatel OT-980, Motorola Droid Pro), I am trying to remap the physical up and down volume keys to simulated up and down d

[android-developers] Re: How to simulate a (missing) DPAD

2010-12-17 Thread blindfold
...@commonsware.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:31 AM, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: This currently requires physical keys, because Android still lacks the kind of touch event model of the iPhone where (blind) users can explore the screen by touch and hear GUI elements

[android-developers] Re: How to simulate a (missing) DPAD

2010-12-17 Thread blindfold
://www.seeingwithsound.com/android.htm On Dec 17, 1:00 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:52 AM, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mark. I can easily detect touch events by their coordinates, but not so easily identify what UI elements lie

[android-developers] Re: How to simulate a (missing) DPAD

2010-12-17 Thread blindfold
Hi Brill, you may be right in hindsight, but key remapping seemed like such a simple and effective countermeasure that I expected it to work, and it would have made more Android phone types accessible to blind users. Alas... On Dec 17, 3:04 pm, Brill Pappin br...@pappin.ca wrote: I'm not sure

[android-developers] Re: HeaderView in ListView causing ClassCastException

2010-12-10 Thread blindfold
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4393775/android-classcastexception-when-adding-a-header-view-to-expandablelistview helped me out with addHeaderView() and the infamous ClassCastException. Basically you do TopSearch.setLayoutParams(new ListView.LayoutParams(ListView.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,

[android-developers] Problem with toggleSoftInput() doing nothing after a third-party startActivityForResult()

2010-12-09 Thread blindfold
I have a problem with the soft keyboard after launching another activity. Upon a touch event I use InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0); to pop up the soft keyboard, which works just fine.

[android-developers] Re: Camera preview issue on SDK 2.3 emulator?

2010-12-08 Thread blindfold
Am I really the only one with this problem? Even the built-in camera app gives me only a blank screen in the SDK 2.3 emulator, but after taking a snapshot I do get a picture of the familiar green Android in the Gallery. Thanks On Dec 7, 12:27 pm, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: Just

[android-developers] Camera preview issue on SDK 2.3 emulator?

2010-12-07 Thread blindfold
In testing my camera app in the SDK 2.3 emulator, I find that it runs OK *except* that the live camera preview is missing and instead shows a plain white area. Is anyone else experiencing this? Despite the live preview not showing, I can still do image processing as expected and redraw the

[android-developers] Re: New ADT and SDK breaks Eclipse (Again!)

2010-12-07 Thread blindfold
Confirmed. I had the same issue and solution (I'm on Windows 7 64- bit). On Dec 7, 9:46 am, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: 07.12.2010 8:48, Zarah пишет: - Some errors where encountered when installing, failure to rename a file?  The dialog says close all anti-virus software, so I

[android-developers] Re: Camera preview issue on SDK 2.3 emulator?

2010-12-07 Thread blindfold
up? Thanks On Dec 7, 11:24 am, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: In testing my camera app in the SDK 2.3 emulator, I find that it runs OK *except* that the live camera preview is missing and instead shows a plain white area. Is anyone else experiencing this? Despite the live preview

[android-developers] Re: Market expanding to technically non-compliant devices?

2010-11-30 Thread blindfold
Yes, things are getting confusing if not messy. The Logitech TV Cam accessory for the Logitech Revue Google TV adds a camera to Google TV http://www.logitech.com/en-us/smartTV/accessories/devices/tv-cam but it can reportedly not be used by Android apps: The TV Cam cannot be accessed from other

[android-developers] Re: Feature Graphic, High Resolution Application Icon and Promotional Video.

2010-11-25 Thread blindfold
Right, in my case too the uploaded feature graphic and hi-res icon keep vanishing some time after a successful upload. Looks like someone misconfigured the Monkey tool to write software rather than test software. On Nov 25, 11:10 am, sblantipodi perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org wrote: Hi, as

[android-developers] Re: can we create app to use phone camera as magnifier

2010-11-24 Thread blindfold
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-davidparry-magnifier-qmmmA.aspx On Nov 24, 1:39 pm, Atik atik0...@gmail.com wrote: hi guys i need to know that can we use android phone camera as magnifier glass. i want to create such application, which will open the camera and zoom it to

[android-developers] Re: Can't Upgrade Apps Since Console Maintenance ?

2010-11-21 Thread blindfold
I also have Firefox 3.6.12 but for me the new images never showed after pressing the Upload button. They do now after uploading via Google Chrome. Don't know what's different. On Nov 21, 10:19 am, Pent tas...@dinglisch.net wrote: Argh! Just found that I can upload PNG feature graphic and

[android-developers] Re: Can't Upgrade Apps Since Console Maintenance ?

2010-11-20 Thread blindfold
Well, I cannot upload a feature graphic or 512x512 icon, no matter if I try PNG (with or without alpha) or JPEG. No error messages, but no image shows up. I haven't tried uploading a new app version. On Nov 20, 8:35 pm, Pent tas...@dinglisch.net wrote: I understand the maintenance window is long

[android-developers] Re: Can't Upgrade Apps Since Console Maintenance ?

2010-11-20 Thread blindfold
). Regards On Nov 20, 10:58 pm, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I cannot upload a feature graphic or 512x512 icon, no matter if I try PNG (with or without alpha) or JPEG. No error messages, but no image shows up. I haven't tried uploading a new app version. On Nov 20, 8:35 pm, Pent

[android-developers] Re: Camera saving corrupted photos

2010-11-14 Thread blindfold
2.592 x 1.952 looks like an unusual (unsupported) image size to me. Maybe try 2.592 x 1.944? Regards On Nov 14, 7:58 pm, Stephen Lebed srle...@gmail.com wrote: I can't figure out why I'm getting corrupted images when I save them in my app.  In fact the thumbnail seems to be fine, but the

[android-developers] Re: Camera saving corrupted photos

2010-11-14 Thread blindfold
this line, I can save uncorrupted images. I'm still hunting for an answer.  It is related to my layout xml. On Nov 14, 12:53 pm, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: 2.592 x 1.952 looks like an unusual (unsupported) image size to me. Maybe try 2.592 x 1.944? Regards On Nov 14, 7

[android-developers] Re: Samsung Galaxy Camera flash-mode and zoom-supported oddities

2010-10-08 Thread blindfold
I have no Galaxy S Epic to test with, and I essentially use something like if (camera.getParameters().getFlashMode(camera.getParameters()) != null) parameters.setFlashMode(Camera.Parameters.FLASH_MODE_TORCH) to turn on the torch, so from your description I gather that this ought to work also on

[android-developers] Re: Method called after release()

2010-09-23 Thread blindfold
I also find the Method called after release() occasionally in my camera app's crash logs with end users, and have thus far not been able to track it down because I did not encounter it on my own phones (ADP1 with Android 1.6 and HTC Desire with Android 2.2). Apparently something camera related in

[android-developers] Re: Can android support more than one sdcard?

2010-09-12 Thread blindfold
of this, because it's not just a matter of adding an API -- you also need to figure out the whole UX around this, which is fairly non-trivial. Anyway, done with this thread. On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 1:51 AM, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.comwrote: A marketing or engineering department that can't

[android-developers] Re: Can android support more than one sdcard?

2010-09-12 Thread blindfold
Please stay on topic. Device enumeration is a generalization of the ability to have and use more than one SD card. You have made it quite clear now that you have little interest in that or in adding device enumeration for other device classes. On Sep 12, 9:54 am, Dianne Hackborn

[android-developers] Re: Can android support more than one sdcard?

2010-09-12 Thread blindfold
, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: I hope your colleagues will consider device enumeration as being important for limiting future fragmentation of a supposedly open platform and for encouraging new application areas, going well beyond nice. I imagine that they will add support

[android-developers] Re: Can android support more than one sdcard?

2010-09-12 Thread blindfold
...@commonsware.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:29 AM, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: Therefore I felt that I am not just sketching some hypothetical situation that awaits concrete examples of devices that are being sold by the millions. Oh, in many of these cases, the hardware

[android-developers] Re: Can android support more than one sdcard?

2010-09-11 Thread blindfold
A marketing or engineering department that can't accept limitations is an organization that will never ship a product. When you are a research department you aim to develop new products rather than shorten time to market. When even the basic building blocks are already highly restrictive it

[android-developers] Re: Can android support more than one sdcard?

2010-09-11 Thread blindfold
Right, device enumeration should not have been an afterthought - and in Android it is not even an afterthought yet! Microsoft thought of device enumeration ages ago, with functions like GetLogicalDrives(), waveInGetNumDevs(), waveOutGetNumDevs(), mixerGetNumDevs(),

[android-developers] Re: Camera preview runs dark on Motorola i1

2010-09-08 Thread blindfold
Unless it is you under another alias, there is a similar report at http://www.satelliteguys.us/dishpointer-com-official-support-forum/223914-screen-darkens-motorola-i1.html Regards On Sep 8, 9:47 pm, Mike Reed waterrock...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone have any experience with this? The barcode

[android-developers] Re: Capturing RAW data in Android 2.2(HTC Desire)

2010-09-06 Thread blindfold
suited me best). The vOICe for Android http://www.seeingwithsound.com/android.htm On Sep 6, 4:57 am, uday uday.pic...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Blindfold for ur information... Currently im working on Camera Capture in Android. I can able to display the image in portrait by forcing the preview

[android-developers] Re: Capturing RAW data in Android 2.2(HTC Desire)

2010-09-06 Thread blindfold
...@gmail.com wrote: So you have hard coded in manifest.xml file for the field screenOrientation=landscape am i right?? Do u able to get the correct preview in Landscape mode??? On Sep 6, 11:48 am, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, many have reported problems with camera preview

[android-developers] Re: Capturing RAW data in Android 2.2(HTC Desire)

2010-09-06 Thread blindfold
application?? On Sep 6, 1:50 pm, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: So you have hard coded in manifest.xml file for the field screenOrientation=landscape am i right?? Yes. Do u able to get the correct preview in Landscape mode??? Yes, just check my app. The vOICe

[android-developers] Re: Capturing RAW data in Android 2.2(HTC Desire)

2010-09-05 Thread blindfold
idea of how much memory of raw data will generate for the resolution 640x480 and 176x144?? Actually in my application we have image processing on raw data.. If it is not available then is there any approach to do that?? On Sep 4, 6:13 pm, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. Raw

[android-developers] Re: Capturing RAW data in Android 2.2(HTC Desire)

2010-09-04 Thread blindfold
in smaller (raw) chunks. On Sep 4, 1:11 pm, uday uday.pic...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Blindfold.. So do u got any information regarding this?? What ever it may be the resolution currently Android is not able to do the Raw image capture.. am i right?? On Sep 1, 1:07 am, blindfold seeingwithso

[android-developers] Re: Galaxy Tablet and Android Market

2010-09-03 Thread blindfold
Thanks! That worked very well and helped validate that my app scaled properly to 1024 x 600 (fortunately it did). Next I was curious if I could crank up the landscape resolution to HDTV format (1920 x 1080, dreaming of Android on Google TV), but alas, I could get no further than for instance 1280

[android-developers] Re: Capturing RAW data in Android 2.2(HTC Desire)

2010-08-31 Thread blindfold
Right, already on February 11 2009 Google's David Sparks wrote in response to one of my postings, I'm talking about deprecating the raw picture callback that has never worked. and As for the camera API in SDK 1.0: It was never intended for signal processing.

[android-developers] Re: Why has my app disappeared from the market? Has this happened to anyone before?

2010-08-21 Thread blindfold
Same with me: suddenly 1 total, 0 active installs for my free augmented reality app. I presume it is a Market bug. Just hope my first use yesterday of Chrome to Phone did not trigger some bug... On Aug 21, 7:57 am, KG kevinconca...@gmail.com wrote: Mine did too.  However, the market is acting up

[android-developers] Re: Camera preview - strange on Samsung Galaxy S (2.1update1)

2010-07-10 Thread blindfold
I have no experience with Samsung, but did you try uncommenting all of p.set(ORIENTATION, PORTRAIT); p.set(ROTATION, 90); p.setPreviewSize(s.width,s.height); to see what happens? Anybody experiencing such issue on the Samsung Galaxy S as well? -- You received this message because you are

[android-developers] Re: How to detect presence of camera on an Android device.

2010-07-07 Thread blindfold
1. Are there plans to support pluggable USB webcams (e.g. on netbooks)? In such a case, would the same Android APIs work for them too? I don't expect an answer from Google on this (because they never tell in advance what they will come up with), but just want to say that I am very interested

[android-developers] Re: setParameters Failed

2010-06-23 Thread blindfold
to run it on N1 which has 2.1 update1. so,how to use the above fix to solve this issue on my phone. pls help.. On Jun 22, 5:49 pm, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: See the declined issue discussion on setPreviewSize() athttp://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id

[android-developers] Re: setParameters Failed

2010-06-22 Thread blindfold
See the declined issue discussion on setPreviewSize() at http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7909 and the recommendations made there by Wu-Cheng (Comment 29). Regards The vOICe for Android http://www.seeingwithsound.com/android.htm On Jun 22, 10:59 am, grace grace.a...@wipro.com

[android-developers] Re: How is the camera view angle determined in getHorizontalViewAngle ()?

2010-06-14 Thread blindfold
The getHorizontalViewAngle() and getVerticalViewAngle() can at best return fixed hardware-dependent values as set by the phone manufacturer for their own built-in lens. As soon as the user applies an add-on lens (e.g. one of those magnetic detachable fish-eye lenses as recommended for my app)

[android-developers] Re: Latency due to Garbage collection on onPrevFrame

2010-06-08 Thread blindfold
You may wish to follow the issue 2794 discussion at http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2794 and consider the use of addCallbackBuffer() and setPreviewCallbackWithBuffer(). Regards On Jun 6, 8:53 pm, Jay Ha nicejae...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I'm writing an Augmented Reallity codes

[android-developers] Google TV frame capture?

2010-05-21 Thread blindfold
Will Google allow Android applications to grab and process individual video frames of the currently selected channel in Google TV sets? I would be interested in that, and the process can be very similar to capturing preview images from a (second) camera. Thanks The vOICe for Android

[android-developers] Re: Google TV frame capture?

2010-05-21 Thread blindfold
I know, I seem to make a habit of nagging ahead of time, just like I did with the JIT compiler in 2008 when it is was deemed to have a low priority (and there was no NDK back then to ease the pain), and the need to allow for in-memory audio synthesis and support for multiple cameras. So I rather

[android-developers] Re: ApiDemos/Graphics/CamerPreview Nexus One force close

2010-04-27 Thread blindfold
Thanks for sharing, wurp! Having to work like that is incredibly messy though, and not having a Nexus One to test on I would not want to depend on complex code like that even if it works. I hope someone can shed more light on what is going on here and either fix the bug (Google?) or explain what

[android-developers] Re: Android camera problem on HTC Desire

2010-04-22 Thread blindfold
Did you try other camera (preview/AR) apps from Android Market? I receive regular crash reports from users, almost always due to a java.lang.RuntimeException: startPreview failed error. I cannot reproduce the problem on my good old ADP1 (G1), while the emulator (SDK 1.6 and 2.1) also does not show

[android-developers] Re: Android camera problem on HTC Desire

2010-04-22 Thread blindfold
Interesting. I checked my user crash logs, and I find occasional startPreview related crashes with Android 1.6, 2.0 and 2.01, and four for 2.1-update1, but not a single one for 2.1, making me wonder if the update1 for 2.1 introduces a new problem. Regards The vOICe for Android

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Contributors to Community Forums

2010-03-14 Thread blindfold
I have 275 in Android Developers and 107 in Android Discuss, and an app in the Market, but no e-mail from Google. :-( On Mar 14, 10:09 pm, Tim tdh...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 Mar, 23:27, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote: I only have a meager 340 in this group.  :) I have nowhere near

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-03 Thread blindfold
Too bad, my app (The vOICe for Android) has over 24,000 downloads but a miserable 2.4 rating, so I did not get the e-mail. Well, at least my developer work was recognized and featured on BBC television (BBC Horizon) two weeks ago. Guess one cannot have it all, and yes, that was for work on Nokia

[android-developers] Re: AudioTrack.getPlaybackHeadPosi tion() is buggy????

2010-02-26 Thread blindfold
getPlaybackHeadPosition() work with pause()? On Feb 25, 12:38 am, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: See the earlier threadhttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_frm/thread/5... I did not get useful results from trying to get the current playing position and gave up

[android-developers] Re: AudioTrack.getPlaybackHeadPosi tion() is buggy????

2010-02-25 Thread blindfold
See the earlier thread http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_frm/thread/56ab381d56069436/ I did not get useful results from trying to get the current playing position and gave up on it. I do not know if Android 2.1 is any better here. On Feb 25, 1:12 am, HeHe cnm...@gmail.com

[android-developers] Re: any nexus discount for developers?

2010-01-10 Thread blindfold
, Jeffrey Blattman jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com wrote: Do any of the other mobile OS developing organizations hand out free phones to developers? On Jan 9, 2010 11:12 PM, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: Probably not. Googlers got one for free, but us mortal developers are not considered

[android-developers] Re: any nexus discount for developers?

2010-01-09 Thread blindfold
Probably not. Googlers got one for free, but us mortal developers are not considered worthy of a similar treatment. On Jan 10, 6:22 am, ian stilbit...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody know if developers will be able to buy a Nexus for less than $529?  I need a phone for testing my apps soon but

[android-developers] Re: App crashes on Droid, works fine on G1

2010-01-08 Thread blindfold
The best bet for developers who cannot afford to buy all popular/ latest phones is to upload the stacktrace from the user's phone when a crash occurs. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/601503/how-do-i-obtain-crash-data-from-my-android-application for a lead. I develop on ADP1 and had many

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