[android-developers] Re: Best Application Data Backup solution?

2012-03-07 Thread gcstang
Does no one perform these types of backups or am I asking the wrong question? On Jan 27, 7:09 am, gcstang gcst...@gmail.com wrote: I know there are solutions such as : Amazon S3 Google Storage Sending data to my own server etc... What I'm wondering is what is the implementations that have

[android-developers] Re: Best Application Data Backup solution?

2012-01-27 Thread gcstang
I know there are solutions such as : Amazon S3 Google Storage Sending data to my own server etc... What I'm wondering is what is the implementations that have been tried and are working for others? On Jan 25, 7:09 am, gcstang gcst...@gmail.com wrote: What is thebestsolution to integratebackup

[android-developers] Best Application Data Backup solution?

2012-01-25 Thread gcstang
What is the best solution to integrate backup, external to the device for an Android application? Ideally the solution will be cheap, integrate easily with an existing application and will be seamless to the clients. I know Google Backup is limited so most likely it will not work, but there has

[android-developers] Re: Giving away my book: Genius Android Marketing

2012-01-10 Thread gcstang
Sounds like a great topic, count me in! Thank you, On Jan 5, 10:50 am, scp89 jayvanbui...@gmail.com wrote: I've recently finished writing the first full-length, android-specific book on Android Marketing. It covers tips, tricks, strategies, competitive analysis, and so much more. Everything

[android-developers] SimpleCursorAdaptor ListView using an TextView and ImageView with over 400+ rows Memory Issues

2011-05-24 Thread gcstang
Is this the best way or are there others? I extend SimpleCursorAdapter and override getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) I retrieve my Cursor, inflate my ImageView and TextView, pull the data from the Cursor and populate the TextView and ImageView on the ImageView I store my

[android-developers] Re: How do you exclude sales to a specific country?

2011-03-05 Thread gcstang
Thank you for your help. On Mar 4, 9:45 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:00 AM, gcstang gcst...@gmail.com wrote: If I remove the country from the pricing by unchecking is that suppose to do the same thing? Yes. It's a terrible UI. That grouping is to select

[android-developers] Re: How do you exclude sales to a specific country?

2011-03-04 Thread gcstang
? On Mar 3, 8:56 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:22 AM, gcstang gcst...@gmail.com wrote: If you have an application that you want to be sold in all countries except for say one how can you do this? Is this done in the Developer Console, AndroidManifest

[android-developers] How do you exclude sales to a specific country?

2011-03-03 Thread gcstang
If you have an application that you want to be sold in all countries except for say one how can you do this? Is this done in the Developer Console, AndroidManifest, or something else? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post

[android-developers] Re: One User Has a Problem - How do I debug it?

2011-02-28 Thread gcstang
How would you call this in your Activity? Do you have an example of it being used? Does anything need to be added to the AndroidManifest ? Thank you for your examples, On Feb 27, 10:55 am, Rishi Kumar reeesh...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I attached a couple of our java classes that perform this

[android-developers] Re: Unique device id - which one to choose

2011-02-24 Thread gcstang
. My application has been out in the market for over a year now and I can definitely say that the ANDROID_ID is NOT unique in a lot of cases. On Feb 22, 9:16 am, Oceanblue ns1...@gmail.com wrote: gcstang, I need to get the MAC address from the NDK layer, so I used the socket call:         s

[android-developers] Re: Unique device id - which one to choose

2011-02-16 Thread gcstang
What did you use to get the MAC, when I tried it on my Droid (gen 1) with the wifi off I get a NullPointerException On Feb 15, 4:48 pm, Oceanblue ns1...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your input Brad. I've decided to go with MAC address for now. I tested with my device with wi-fi switched off

[android-developers] Re: Unique device id - which one to choose

2011-02-15 Thread gcstang
Using a Hash of all the ID's is most likely the best solution, gather all the ID's, append your own signature if you like (optional) and hash the long concatenation of all the ID's you can gather, I would recommend using SHA. Most likely not all phones will have all available ID's so by using

[android-developers] Re: Making a video of your app running

2011-01-06 Thread gcstang
Jing possibly? It's free and works pretty well. http://www.techsmith.com/jing/ On Jan 5, 5:12 pm, John Lussmyer johnlussm...@gmail.com wrote: Is there some supported way of making a Video of your app running? Seems kind of silly (and low quality) to have to point your camera at the phone...

[android-developers] Re: Setting up development environment on windows 7

2010-12-22 Thread gcstang
Is your Windows 7 32 or 64bit? Ensure you're using the Oracle JDK should be 1.6.0_23 32bit Not sure installing 64bit will help much either way unless you have a pretty beefy machine, so I would uninstall the 64bit JDK. What path did you install the AndroidSDK to? Did you setup your JAVA_HOME,

[android-developers] Re: What is the best way to send data from Android Application to a Remote MySQL Database?

2010-11-30 Thread gcstang
Agree use a Rest Service or several On Nov 29, 1:56 pm, Leon Moreyn-Android Development lmor...@earthcam.com wrote: You can create an online page to handle data posts to your database. On Nov 29, 7:34 am, priya naral naral.pr...@gmail.com wrote: What is the best way to send data from

[android-developers] Re: LVL returns LICENSED with anonymous accounts...

2010-10-25 Thread gcstang
You can have the one your testing use the same android:versionCode as one you already uploaded and it will allow you to test, without having to upload a newer version. This is what I did and it worked. On Oct 24, 11:21 am, swinefeaster swinefeas...@gmail.com wrote: I have to say the google

[android-developers] Re: error code 5: database is locked

2010-10-25 Thread gcstang
ping, anyone that can answer this? On Oct 16, 10:58 am, gcstang gcst...@gmail.com wrote: Here is the stack: android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException:errorcode5:databaseislocked         at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteStatement.native_execute(Native Method

[android-developers] Re: error code 5: database is locked

2010-10-16 Thread gcstang
(Thread.java:1102) On Oct 15, 11:54 am, DanH danhi...@ieee.org wrote: Where is the error being thrown from?  (You might include the exception traceback.) On Oct 15, 9:44 am, gcstang gcst...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone encountered this and is there a solution to work around it? I'm creating

[android-developers] error code 5: database is locked

2010-10-15 Thread gcstang
Has anyone encountered this and is there a solution to work around it? I'm creating a Thread and in that thread I open a database connection using the DBHelper, perform an update on a field in my database and close it. I create a separate one in the Thread because if the View is closed the global

[android-developers] Re: XML encryption

2010-10-07 Thread gcstang
somehow. On Oct 6, 8:18 am, gcstang gcst...@gmail.com wrote: If you encrypt on the phone side with a known pass (assuming your using symmetric keys) then all the hacker has to do is find your password ( and salt if you use one) you used to create it and decrypt it. I would if possible

[android-developers] Re: Android Web Server

2010-10-07 Thread gcstang
I'd be interested in hearing about the results as well. On Oct 7, 1:38 am, Miguel Morales therevolti...@gmail.com wrote: I'd figure that would kill performance.  Right? On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:35 PM, xiaoxiong weng ad...@littlebearz.com wrote: as long as you have access to a public

[android-developers] Re: XML encryption

2010-10-06 Thread gcstang
If you encrypt on the phone side with a known pass (assuming your using symmetric keys) then all the hacker has to do is find your password ( and salt if you use one) you used to create it and decrypt it. I would if possible use asymmetric keys. (public/private) I've not used them on Android so

[android-developers] Re: Does App size increase after upload to the And. market?

2010-10-06 Thread gcstang
I've also seen a decent increase in size upon install, not just from the market but on a local install the original apk is about 800kb and installed it's 1.37MB, almost double and I'm using LVL with obfuscation. Any way to make this smaller? On Oct 5, 12:21 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com

[android-developers] Re: Android market and customers email...

2010-09-25 Thread gcstang
It's great for emergencies or something but Spamming a user would quickly get you bad feedback in most cases. On Sep 25, 9:42 am, Streets Of Boston flyingdutc...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, you could. But don't spam the users be careful :-) On Sep 25, 6:30 am, sblantipodi

[android-developers] Re: installation unsuccessful errors in market

2010-09-25 Thread gcstang
Customers are constantly having issues, trying to purchase it succeeds but something else goes wrong and they have to cancel then repurchase the application. On Sep 25, 9:04 am, Craig D cdore...@gmail.com wrote: I had this problem on my NexusOne after 2.2 was installed and reported it on the

[android-developers] Re: Request: Don't make us use Ant

2010-09-23 Thread gcstang
Excellent! On Sep 22, 2:12 pm, Xavier Ducrohet x...@android.com wrote: Yes, we are working on full support for proguard in Eclipse and Ant for the next version. On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Craigo craig...@gmail.com wrote: Please update the Eclipse Export Android Application feature

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing Service

2010-09-21 Thread gcstang
I figured, not a problem I just had to ask. Thank you anyways On Sep 20, 2:38 am, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sep 18, 6:46 pm, gcstang gcst...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any examples of how you implemented it that you're willing to share? Probably not, I'm afraid

[android-developers] Re: Is anyone's active install % dropping like a rock lately?

2010-09-20 Thread gcstang
Same happening here On Aug 26, 9:47 am, Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote: I've spotted this thread only now. It's happening to me too - in a week it dropped from a _steady_ 45% (held since several weeks) to 36%, with a single new active install out of regularly increasing

[android-developers] Re: Application checksum at runtime

2010-09-20 Thread gcstang
How can this be done from the clients device? I mean is there an API that I can use to test it or is this done automatically? On Sep 19, 7:24 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: I don't think this will gain you any more than just checking whether the app is signed with your own

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing Service

2010-09-18 Thread gcstang
Are there any examples of how you implemented it that you're willing to share? Even psuedocode would be helpful as an example: Copied java files 1,2,3 into my project as a pkg Implemented methods A,B,C Added X of LVL to onCreate of my main point of access on the application and did X,Y,Z etc...

[android-developers] Re: Settings.Secure.ANDROID_ID not unique on DROID2?

2010-09-08 Thread gcstang
What is the issue with using IMEI? On Sep 7, 5:36 am, Opted Out stock...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just coming into the market and can see some use for my application if each and everyone has a unique ID. Is there still issues or does it appear to be fixed? On Aug 18, 1:48 pm, Maps.Huge.Info

[android-developers] Re: Settings.Secure.ANDROID_ID not unique on DROID2?

2010-09-08 Thread gcstang
Permission isn't as big an issue but the non phone part is definitely a concern. Thank you for you answers On Sep 8, 10:56 pm, William Ferguson william.ferguson...@gmail.com wrote: It also assumes the device is a phone. It may be a wifi only tablet, or whatever. On Sep 9, 2:09 am,

[android-developers] Re: SSLException: Not trusted server certificate

2010-08-31 Thread gcstang
think as long as it works, it should not make any difference I guess. Thank you, AJ On Aug 25, 6:02 pm, gcstang gcst...@gmail.com wrote: See my post here : http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... On Aug 24, 2:48 am,Ajayaja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

[android-developers] Re: back_key implementation

2010-08-28 Thread gcstang
You can also use this so that C is on the top instead of B so when you click back it will go to A if you launch C from B : On your Intent set it so the Activity you're launching is on Top which means B will be removed from the previous position : In B where you launch C add this flag : Intent

[android-developers] Re: JDOM in Android 2.1 or earlier

2010-08-27 Thread gcstang
Just my 2 cents but JDOM is inherently slower than other XML processors and on a mobile platform that's usually not what you want, you should use SAX or something that's built into the API (if possible). I know using SAX and some other methods are a bit more work however if you're parsing on a

[android-developers] Re: SSLException: Not trusted server certificate

2010-08-25 Thread gcstang
See my post here : http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/62d856cdcfa9f16e/dd59b1998d23a660?lnk=gstq=SSL+fake+cert#dd59b1998d23a660 On Aug 24, 2:48 am, Ajay aja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Since my app is going to access our own servers, I think I can use the

[android-developers] Re: Dalvik SegFaults while using CMU Sphinx4

2010-08-03 Thread gcstang
Would love to see the document on how you got it to work. On Aug 2, 2:46 pm, Luis D. Pedrosa luis.david.pedr...@gmail.com wrote: I would be more than happy to document the process, although, at some point, I will most likely have to make changes to Sphinx that are specific to our project and

[android-developers] Re: Correct way to kill the application

2010-07-31 Thread gcstang
If it wasn't for a task killer my phone wouldn't last a day mine as well be tethered to the wall. On Jul 31, 1:31 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: You don't need task killers.  Some people like them, and who I am I to argue with what people like? ;) On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

2010-07-28 Thread gcstang
Excellent! Thank you On Jul 28, 6:44 am, sblantipodi perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org wrote: Hi all... When you bought my software you bought a license, this license can be ported from android to other platform like Symbian, Winmob, bada, JavaME, Blackberry... Every customers who bought my

[android-developers] Re: Market comments disappearing over last few days

2010-07-27 Thread gcstang
I've seen them disappear a lot over the last month or two. On Jul 26, 9:29 pm, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) cor...@gmail.com wrote: Marking a comment as spam only removes it from the marker's device, as far as I know, it has no effect on anything else. Perhaps if enough users mark a comment

[android-developers] Re: Android market rules are changed, you must accept it within 30 days but...

2010-07-26 Thread gcstang
This tells you what changed exactly and why http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/07/adjustment-to-market-legals.html On Jul 26, 3:52 am, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.com wrote: On Jul 25, 12:06 am, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Has the return policy gone from 1 to 2

[android-developers] Re: SQLiteOpenHelper per activity??

2010-07-24 Thread gcstang
Thank you, I'll check this out On Jul 23, 10:08 am, Brion Emde brione2...@gmail.com wrote: The Notebook sample application contains a simple ContentProvider and a list of Notes. That lives here:http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/NotePad/index.html On Jul 23, 9:09 am, gcstang

[android-developers] Re: SQLiteOpenHelper per activity??

2010-07-23 Thread gcstang
Does anyone have a easy example to setup the ContentProvider and a psuedo helper object for use with a ListView? I would be interested in seeing that. Thank you in advance On Jul 23, 1:50 am, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.com wrote: Passing data from Activity to Activity is what

[android-developers] Re: SQLiteOpenHelper per activity??

2010-07-22 Thread gcstang
I still see this error when using a ListView even though I have it set to close and clean up the connection when leaving the view, can't do it right away or the ListView won't work. Any way around this? On Jul 21, 7:29 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: I never keep an actualy

[android-developers] Re: Has anyone get App Inventor accounts?

2010-07-20 Thread gcstang
Same no response On Jul 20, 6:45 am, nation-x shawn.payme...@gmail.com wrote: nada here On Jul 20, 2:52 am, Eelco eelcoaart...@gmail.com wrote: Same here, I registered, but no reply -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To

[android-developers] How to make Rating Bar small and if I click it open a Dialog to change

2010-07-16 Thread gcstang
I've tried using style=?android:attr/ratingBarStyleIndicator but that makes it non interactive, can I wrap it or something to make it so you can click the bar and it opens a Dialog with a full Rating Bar that can be changed? The large one is just huge for the display I'm trying to achieve.

[android-developers] Re: SQLiteCursor on that has not been deactivated or closed

2010-06-18 Thread gcstang
!= null mDbHelper.isOpen()) {   mDbHelper.close(); } On Jun 17, 10:31 pm, gcstang gcst...@gmail.com wrote: I've followed the try/finally approach but still get this error. Is there anything else that can be done? Here is what I have. MediaDbAdapter mDbHelper = null; Cursor c = null

[android-developers] Re: SQLiteCursor on that has not been deactivated or closed

2010-06-18 Thread gcstang
with it in the class that called it instead and it worked, no more errors. On Jun 18, 8:43 am, gcstang gcst...@gmail.com wrote: Even with that I still get this error: INFO/dalvikvm(23250): Uncaught exception thrown by finalizer (will be discarded): INFO/dalvikvm(23250): Ljava/lang

[android-developers] Newer Market Comments Disappearing?

2010-06-18 Thread gcstang
I've noticed over some time that some comments are disappearing and not just old ones but ones that have recently been placed, is this a bug? The comment that I noticed was placed on 6/3 but doesn't show on the phone, it only shows on some sites that index the market. -- You received this

[android-developers] SQLiteCursor on that has not been deactivated or closed

2010-06-17 Thread gcstang
I've followed the try/finally approach but still get this error. Is there anything else that can be done? Here is what I have. MediaDbAdapter mDbHelper = null; Cursor c = null; try { mDbHelper = new MediaDbAdapter(ctxt); mDbHelper.open(); c =

[android-developers] Re: Wifi drop Issues on Motorola Droid

2010-05-07 Thread gcstang
I get drops on my Droid as well any where from seconds to minutes after starting WiFi, whether using a browser or application. On May 6, 6:52 am, KK krishnakumar.ramachand...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to develop a streaming application and I am testing it on multiple devices. But I am seeing

[android-developers] Re: Google should prohibit task killers on Android Market

2010-05-03 Thread gcstang
Way too extreme, without the Task Killers battery life on most phones would be horrible and the speed even on some phones such as the Droid would slow down too much waiting for background tasks to die on their own. Although I understand your frustration there has to be a better resolution for now

[android-developers] Re: How to detect Bluetooth headset key press

2010-04-29 Thread gcstang
I thought this was disabled at the OS levelotherwise wouldn't we be able to press to start a dialing app on our BT Headsets? On Apr 29, 1:31 am, mort m...@sto-helit.de wrote: Hi, it's pretty simple: add a broadcast listener to MEDIA_BUTTON: intent-filter android:priority=some number    

[android-developers] Re: Using same sqlite database from multiple Activities and Services

2010-04-29 Thread gcstang
As am I, I'm doing the same with onPause/onResume. Federico how are you checking if your database connection is open? On Apr 28, 3:18 am, Federico Paolinelli fedep...@gmail.com wrote: An sqllitedb (helper) object for each activity (but the open one is only in the active activity). Every time

[android-developers] Re: Flash support on android

2010-04-23 Thread gcstang
Android has HTML 5 and from what I've seen most of what can be done in Flash can be done in HTML 5...is it an option for you? On Apr 22, 2:12 am, veradis veradism...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,  Can SWF files be played on android 1.5 emulator/phone. My req. is to load an SWF in app. can this be

[android-developers] Re: Android: Trusting all Certificates using HttpClient over HTTPS

2010-04-15 Thread gcstang
This works for me information found on multiple sites but mostly from anddev.org : 1. Create a Fake Trust Manager public class _FakeX509TrustManager implements X509TrustManager { private static TrustManager[] trustManagers; private static final X509Certificate[] _AcceptedIssuers

[android-developers] Re: Is there a way to force deletion of User Data on Application upgrade?

2010-04-14 Thread gcstang
So this would get fired when you increment your database version? On Apr 13, 9:35 pm, NoImJosh josh.n.willi...@gmail.com wrote: If you're trying to create a more robust database, you don't have to delete the existing one.  If you have a class that extends SQLiteOpenHelper, you can call the

[android-developers] Re: Color Picker Preference

2010-04-13 Thread gcstang
How did you use it? I'm faced with the same issue but not sure how to open it and save to a preference key. Did you use another preference to open it or something? On Mar 14, 11:56 am, Yougli thomas.gon...@gmail.com wrote: I reply to myself :) I found out that I could actually use the

[android-developers] Re: Progress Bar in every row of ListView

2010-04-13 Thread gcstang
Do you have example code that you used to get the images to work? I've tried this and my listview gets really slow after scrolling through once then trying to go back through it. Thank you, On Apr 11, 10:46 am, Tunneling jasonalebl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm also interested in this. I've been able

[android-developers] Re: Color Picker Preference

2010-04-13 Thread gcstang
ColorPickerDialog().show(). Finally, implement your colorChanged function where you will use your preference editor to commit the new color. I hope it's clear enough, I totally changed my color picker since then. 2010/4/9 gcstang gcst...@gmail.com How did you use it?  I'm faced with the same issue

[android-developers] Re: Progress Bar in every row of ListView

2010-04-13 Thread gcstang
/p/shelves/from Romain Guyhttp://github.com/commonsguy/cwac-thumbnailfrom Mark Murphy I have followed the tutorial written by Tom van Zummeren. Thanks, Prajakta On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:33 AM, gcstang gcst...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have example code that you used to get the images