Re: [android-developers] Re: Game Developers: Some general questions about high scores, achievements, multi player support and in game ads.

2010-03-17 Thread Kevin Duffey
:08 pm, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I am curious how the various groups of game developers, primarily mobile (android in this case) and cross-platform (android/iPhone/facebook) handle storing high scores, achievements, and such as well as how multi player is done

Re: [android-developers] In-App Purchasing and the Market Agreement

2010-03-17 Thread Kevin Duffey
I am curious about this to, as micro transactions allow for addictive games that can draw in players.. thus make it more lucrative for the game developers. I can't imagine that google would restrict the ability of a game to work with say a service that offers these abilities.. in game. Once a game

Re: [android-developers] Re: I don't HATE apple, but I found these interesting things yesterday, poor iphone developers.

2010-03-17 Thread Kevin Duffey
that calling JNI and passing a buffer back from Native Code doesn't have as much overhead as most people think, I've had speed increases of up to 100 or more by doing so, native code is just that much faster than the Dalvik java! -niko On Mar 17, 11:32 am, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com

Re: [android-developers] Re: Game Developers: Some general questions about high scores, achievements, multi player support and in game ads.

2010-03-17 Thread Kevin Duffey
Hi all, Robert, I think we spoke on another thread a while back.. forget now. I am a JEE guy, tried RoR, couldn't stand the language syntax and how slow, for most things it was. I know I know.. RoR is often cited by java developers as being much faster to build apps with, etc. I just don't find

Re: [android-developers] Re: Game Developers: Some general questions about high scores, achievements, multi player support and in game ads.

2010-03-17 Thread Kevin Duffey
and apps. Since we have no real experience in that arena, I'll just leave this link as my contribution. On Mar 16, 8:08 pm, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I am curious how the various groups of game developers, primarily mobile (android

Re: [android-developers] Re: Game Developers: Some general questions about high scores, achievements, multi player support and in game ads.

2010-03-17 Thread Kevin Duffey
, and you'd get the assurance that strengths and weaknesses of MD5 and other arcane cruft is somebody *else's* problem. Mike It's easy too do -- and even if it's not necessary to have that level of security, it's a good technique to be aware of. On Mar 17, 2:27 pm, Kevin Duffeyandjar

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

2010-03-17 Thread Kevin Duffey
Great thread. I happen to agree with both sides of this argument. While I like the idea of several of the current native/java game engines maybe collaborating, coming up with some sort of presentation on why it's prudent for Android to have a much more solid game capable api/sdk, I also think

[android-developers] Game Developers: Some general questions about high scores, achievements, multi player support and in game ads.

2010-03-16 Thread Kevin Duffey
Hey all, I am curious how the various groups of game developers, primarily mobile (android in this case) and cross-platform (android/iPhone/facebook) handle storing high scores, achievements, and such as well as how multi player is done. How does your game(s) access high scores, update the list,

Re: [android-developers] Re: 3D Physics Engine For Android Demo

2010-03-16 Thread Kevin Duffey
Well if it makes you feel any better, us Moto Droid owners were supposed to have an Android experience phone, where we would get updates as soon as they came out, or soon after. We have been waiting for the 2.1 update for over 2 months now, with no information from anyone regarding when we'll ever

[android-developers] 3D Physics Engine For Android Demo

2010-03-15 Thread Kevin S.
is interested in 3D stuff or physics simulation, you can give the app a try. The link is on the follow page. There is a screen shot there so you can get an idea of what the app is. http://www.pieintheskysoftware.com/menuitem-resources-pie-3d-physics-1-0.html -Kevin -- You received

Re: [android-developers] Re: Photoshop.com Mobile editor now available as an Intent

2010-03-15 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Photoshop's result: http://code.google.com/p/emailalbum/source/browse/EmailAlbumAndroid/t... Kevin On 13 mar, 15:59, nayana urs nayana...@gmail.com wrote: can we test this feature in emulator with regards Nayana On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Nivek kevin.gau

[android-developers] Re: Sending huge files with HttpsUrlConnection???

2010-03-15 Thread Kevin Huber
On Mar 12, 6:17 pm, AuxOne tyler.thack...@gmail.com wrote: I have some Android code that can send files to my webserver using an HttpsUrlConnection, but when it tries to send larger files I get an OutOfMemory exception when opening the OutputStream. Can anyone offer some assistance? I sent

[android-developers] Re: Sending huge files with HttpsUrlConnection???

2010-03-15 Thread Kevin Huber
On Mar 12, 6:17 pm, AuxOne tyler.thack...@gmail.com wrote: I have some Android code that can send files to my webserver using an HttpsUrlConnection, but when it tries to send larger files I get an OutOfMemory exception when opening the OutputStream. Can anyone offer some assistance? I would

[android-developers] Re: 3D Physics Engine For Android Demo

2010-03-15 Thread Kevin S.
see JBullet at the time. Thanks for the tip on JStackAlloc. Thanks for the extra points! -Kevin -- 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

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

2010-03-15 Thread Kevin S.
stuff. It seems to work ok. I had to pause the rendering when the menu comes up, or else it was not as responsive as it should be. -Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Device Seeding Program - Differences in phone for developers?

2010-03-09 Thread Kevin Duffey
What is this developer seeding thing? I'd like to sign up! On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:40 PM, nickthecook nickthec...@gmail.com wrote: e.g., this one: http://www.redmondpie.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/NexusOne.jpg On Mar 9, 7:08 pm, nickthecook nickthec...@gmail.com wrote: Google has

[android-developers] Re: Problem with ListPreference in preference view

2010-03-08 Thread Kevin S.
that there was no message in the log that anything was wrong. -Kevin On Jan 17, 8:29 pm, Chris.H mrchi...@gmail.com wrote: This is my first Android app (which is a soft keyboard, with dvorak layout) and so far it has gone pretty smoothly (either because or despite working from the sample code). I've had

Re: [android-developers] database update

2010-02-25 Thread Kevin Anthony
Alter http://www.techonthenet.com/sql/tables/alter_table.php Kevin On Feb 25, 2010 11:40 AM, Dan danieljonharring...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a question about updating an app after release. If I have a database that contains 10 columns and I add a feature that requires an 11th column after

[android-developers] Re: Moving the cursor to the beginning of an EditText

2010-02-17 Thread Kevin Park
You can do it like this. EditText eidtText = new EditText(this); // first, you set text and then.. editText.setSelection(1); editText.extendSelection(0); editText.setSelection(0); On 2월2일, 오후11시44분, Adam Olsen arol...@gmail.com wrote: Using the following code, I am able to move thecursorafter

Re: [android-developers] port forwarding

2010-02-14 Thread Kevin Duffey
Little confused.. are you trying to allow your mobile app connect across the network to your database? On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 4:12 PM, linux newbie linux.newbi...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I am running mysql server (on remote machine) and I can able to connect to it from my host machine. I

Re: [android-developers] Picture while starting app

2010-02-13 Thread Kevin Duffey
I am guessing he wants a splash screen... show an image while he loads some data or something in the background.. then when all done, starts up and the image goes away. Do a search here for splash screen. There are plenty of examples that show how to do it. On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Mark

Re: [android-developers] Re: New sales have come to a halt Re: Developer console stopped updating?

2010-02-13 Thread Kevin Duffey
I am curious why the heck Nexus 1 already got an update and yet Moto Droid, which is supposed to be an Android experience device STILL hasn't got the 2.1 update. There seems to be no communication what so ever from Moto about the update. We were told that within days after 2.1 came out we'd see

Re: [android-developers] Re: Multitouch seems badly broken on Nexus One 2.1-update1

2010-02-13 Thread Kevin Duffey
that the screens are so weak with this feature. I guess us game guys will just have to get a little more creative with our designs. On Feb 12, 2:30 pm, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: Ok.. thanks for the pointer Sean. So question for you and Dianne.. being

Re: [android-developers] Re: Multitouch seems badly broken on Nexus One 2.1-update1

2010-02-13 Thread Kevin Duffey
one. On Feb 13, 6:51 pm, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: So Robert.. is this a platform issue in your mind.. being that it happens on all android devices currently regardless of manufacturer? Or is it a driver issue for each hand set and just oddly happens to be coincidental

Re: [android-developers] Which will make Faster?...

2010-02-12 Thread Kevin Duffey
I would always opt for the 2nd one when possible.. the variables live within the scope of the method, so less chance of them hanging around in memory. I forget if they live on the stack or not when declared/instantiated within the method body as passed in parameters do. But having the method clean

Re: [android-developers] How to start an Activity from a Service and getting a result from it

2010-02-12 Thread Kevin Duffey
The whole purpose of a service is to stay in the background doing something, so not sure why you would want to display a UI in a non-UI based app. As Dianne said, post a notification that shows up on the status bar... when the user slides it down and clicks on it, that can launch an activity...

Re: [android-developers] Multitouch seems badly broken on Nexus One 2.1-update1

2010-02-12 Thread Kevin Duffey
...@android.comwrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: So what I want to know is what is being done about this? Is there a bug file and if so is it This is how the sensor hardware works. It is essentially the same sensor as the G1 and myTouch. Please don't

Re: [android-developers] Re: Multitouch seems badly broken on Nexus One 2.1-update1

2010-02-12 Thread Kevin Duffey
the touchevent for direction and when i want to fire, i press harder (pressure and size event). Best regards. On 12 fév, 09:39, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: Ugh..sorry.. I hate using my moto droid to reply.. fat fingers and a horrible physical keyboard don't go together

Re: [android-developers] Multitouch seems badly broken on Nexus One 2.1-update1

2010-02-12 Thread Kevin Duffey
a suitable wrapper for your requirements: http://lukehutch.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/my-multi-touch-code-ported-to-eclair/ On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: Ugh..sorry.. I hate using my moto droid to reply.. fat fingers and a horrible physical keyboard don't

[android-developers] Greyscale image while getting data array from onPictureTaken

2010-02-12 Thread Kevin Long
Hi, I'm using Camera.PreviewCallback.onPictureTaken to get an image byte array, and try to do greyscale with this byte array. But it's not working. It generates a broken image file in the sdcard. Here is my code: public void onPictureTaken(byte[] data, Camera camera){

[android-developers] Error generating final archive: invalid entry size

2010-02-12 Thread Kevin Peters
I'm trying to use a 3rd party jar file in my project which I am developing in Eclipse. I have no problem processing the jar outside of Eclipse with dx.bat (few warning about Ignoring InnerClasses attribute). When building in Eclipse, I get the same Ignoring InnerClasses attribute... errors and

[android-developers] Instructing ItemizedOverlay when to re-draw

2010-02-11 Thread Kevin
I over boolean draw() and had it return true to have my overlay continually refresh and 'animate' the markers. However, this happens continuously and my backing data only changes periodically. My overlay is already aware of when the data changes. Any idea how I can instruct ItemizedOverlay to

Re: [android-developers] Multitouch seems badly broken on Nexus One 2.1-update1

2010-02-11 Thread Kevin Duffey
So what I want to know is what is being done about this? Is there a bug file and if so is it Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote: To further confirm what others have been saying - Multitouch is not suitable for games on Android at the moment. I'm trying to implement a simple control

Re: [android-developers] Affordable Outsourcing in the Philippines

2010-02-06 Thread Kevin Duffey
Love seeing posts about outsourcing jobs while we keep seeing more jobs being lost all the time. Can someone remove this please.. I fail to see how it's relevant to android development help. On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:58 AM, The AllSetter theallset...@gmail.comwrote: AICOM Global Knowledge

Re: [android-developers] Re: XML Parsing

2010-02-03 Thread Kevin Duffey
If you're using xml pull.. just go until you find the start_tag + the name of the node you need, then exit out of the while loops. On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Frank Weiss fewe...@gmail.com wrote: Add a boolean variable that is set on segfirstroute startElement and cleared on segfirstroute

Re: [android-developers] Re: XmlPullParserException: expected: START_TAG

2010-02-03 Thread Kevin Duffey
Like the others said.. it sounds like a starting element is not being found before either some text or an end tag. Usually you'll see that error with something like: node1 /node2 node3 /node3 /node1 Or node1 /node1 some text node2 /node2 It ALSO depends on how you are moving thru the

Re: [android-developers] Re: sticky client IP address?

2010-02-03 Thread Kevin Duffey
Bob.. you are my hero. The answers you provide in all your responses are chock full of good info. Glad someone with your knowledge is on this forum to provide help. On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Bob Kerns r...@acm.org wrote: This isn't correct, or is misleading. It's kind of like saying

Re: [android-developers] Market flood prevention

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Duffey
Based on your previous post about floods, I would strongly urge you to rework your app into a single app, remove ALL the 120+ apps you have on the market and republish a single app that makes use of server side data for the location issue you are facing. As several said in your other post, your

Re: [android-developers] Re: Unable to get map overly to show

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Duffey
may be missing? Thanks! On Jan 31, 12:10 pm, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm.. I don't know.. I did not set the overlay position.. I just added it to my mapView and mine shows up. Try working with your location settings. I am not sure why the Location is needed tho. I use

Re: [android-developers] Re: Young French Dev need help

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Duffey
Have you tried the SDK docs for the objects you are working with? Perhaps some code that you are using? On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Rubixcube tristanyoun...@gmail.com wrote: No one can help me ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

Re: [android-developers] Re: Droid Video Recorder

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Duffey
Ahh..interesting. That would REALLY suck if Google/Android is allowed to access that resolution but our own apps can't. That wouldn't make much sense to me. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Abhi abhishek.r.sha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kevin You sure can record videos at that resolution but only

Re: [android-developers] showing XML data in TAB in ANDROID

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Duffey
A simple search of google would help Frank Weiss fewe...@gmail.com wrote: It's not clear if you need help getting data into a tab or how to parser XML. Look at developer.android.com for the tabs tutorials. Search the web for XML parsing examples. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:04 AM, pankaj

Re: [android-developers] Re: Forcibly using 3G or CDMA network even though wi-fi is available.

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Duffey
For development reasons, I have to switch wifi off to make use of 3G to route my requests to a domain name that then maps to one of my internal servers (using no-ip.com to forward a dns name to my provider IP.. and setting up my router to forward http requests to proper server). I can also do this

Re: [android-developers] Re: Particular Tag Parsing

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Duffey
You will have to sort your data once you get it. You can't control the order it's processed. If you know for a fact that it will only be 4 items, you could create an array of size 4, then stick the data in the specific index spot of the array. Or you can add it to a list then sort it. That is an

Re: [android-developers] Re: Push Notification API

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Duffey
What sort of push notification API are you looking for? On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:42 AM, nikhil nik...@gmail.com wrote: No On Jan 30, 11:22 pm, Alie Lee alie@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there any push notification API for Android... I tried search with Google but couldnt find any.

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to display unicode text received from a web API

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Duffey
I have a similar issue.. have not yet looked into it, but we have some characters with accents and such that at least in LogCat don't show up correctly. I expected as much from LogCat tho. I have, however, seen them also not show up in displaying them as text in an overlay on a map. I am using xml

Re: [android-developers] Re: OpenGL poor performance with textures?

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Duffey
Hey all, maybe I am way off base on this.. but I recall years ago messing around with writing data to an off-screen buffer, then flipping the buffer to video ram. I am guessing this is no longer done.. or is it? I thought the reason for that years ago was it was much faster to write multiple

Re: [android-developers] Droid Video Recorder

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Duffey
I believe the video can be taken up to 640 x 480 at 30fps.. but not sure of this. I shot some videos of my kids in the snow yesterday and I gotta say I was very impressed with the quality. It was a bit cloudy, so the end result was a little dark, but short of very fast panning actions, it came out

Re: [android-developers] Re: Particular Tag Parsing

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Duffey
Hari, as far as I know you'd usually parse the document into an object, do any updating of the object, then write it back out overwriting the previous version. SAX doesn't store the xml in memory, it streams it, like xmlpull does and you assemble an object tree from the xml as your needs require.

Re: [android-developers] Re: OpenGL poor performance with textures?

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Duffey
Droid has dedicated video ram I believe. Not sure about other devices. I would guess the Nexus One does as well. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Federico Carnales fedecarna...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Robert, I'm using GLSurfaceView. I checked GL_DEPTH_BITS and indeed I have a 24 bit depth

Re: [android-developers] Unable to get map overly to show

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Duffey
Hmm.. I don't know.. I did not set the overlay position.. I just added it to my mapView and mine shows up. Try working with your location settings. I am not sure why the Location is needed tho. I use an ItemizedOverlay for a list of items I pull down from a server, which works fine. My map then

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Programming Class

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Duffey
Bob, I don't disagree at all. I am just amazed that Java has finally reached the 7th grade or so over say, Basic. Back in 1984 I was learning Basic on apple 2s in the 7th grade. I loved it. It is what started me on the path that leads to where I am today. I'd say out of several classes and

Re: [android-developers] Is it possible to un-parcel a parcel without knowing what is in it?

2010-01-31 Thread Kevin Duffey
That is odd? Is it an older version of Android and thus an older API? I am confused as to why an Android device would not do the same thing as other devices? The only thing that would make sense is that there is an older API on the device and the one you're using is newer? If that is the case,

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to stop playing music or sound of other application

2010-01-30 Thread Kevin Duffey
So Alam, are you building a voice dialing app.. where your app controls the voice call.. you could record the audio of the chat, for example.. and you're trying to silence other music from any other app playing? I mean, you're talking about two apps.. one being a game (not yours) that a user

Re: [android-developers] Re: Layout problems: AbsoluteLayout deprecated, how to do it now?

2010-01-30 Thread Kevin Duffey
I am surprised AbsoluteLayout was ever part of Android knowing full well that future devices would be larger screens with more pixels. From what I've read, you don't want to use it so that you don't have to do special coding when the screen size changes from one device to the next. Using the

Re: [android-developers] Android Programming Class

2010-01-30 Thread Kevin Duffey
Wow. 8th grade. They already know java well enough by that age to pick up on android? joshbeck josh.beck2...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone: I teach an 8th grade programming class in San Antonio Texas. We're learning Android and I convinced the school to buy us 3 dev phones for the kids.

Re: [android-developers] OpenGL poor performance with textures?

2010-01-30 Thread Kevin Duffey
I am curious..why do you need 60fps? 30fps is smooth motion to the human eye. I've seen that posted a few times now and fail to understand why 60fps is needed? Of course, I understand doing 30fps would be nice, but if I could yank more out of my game and sustain 30fps, I'd rather do that. On

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to stop playing music or sound of other application

2010-01-29 Thread Kevin Duffey
with this scenario. Anyway please let me know if we can acheive it or not. Thanks and Regads Alam Kevin Duffey wrote: My guess is.. a background service like the media player is playing it. If the user wants to play music on the media player, and your app stops it, you're

Re: [android-developers] Re: Use of final for locals on Dalvik

2010-01-29 Thread Kevin Duffey
you might use method declared variables to help with scope... if you know a variable is only used in the method, why declare public.. keep it in the method and let the method clean it up at the end. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Jason Proctor jason.android.li...@gmail.com wrote: The only

Re: [android-developers] Re: Use of final for locals on Dalvik

2010-01-29 Thread Kevin Duffey
I am a bit rusty on the use of final methods.. I do know they cant be extended.. but I also thought that modern JVMs inline final methods or something..to help speed them up? On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Streets Of Boston flyingdutc...@gmail.comwrote: I'm not sure about DalvikVM, but some

Re: [android-developers] checkout notification API for Android Market

2010-01-29 Thread Kevin Duffey
What is a checkout notification? I am taking a guess here.. you mean if someone buys.. or downloads your app from market, some way for it to notify you? On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Andrei gml...@gmail.com wrote: Did anybody got working checkout notification API for Android Market? Thanks

Re: [android-developers] Re: checkout notification API for Android Market

2010-01-29 Thread Kevin Duffey
, 8:31 pm, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: What is a checkout notification? I am taking a guess here.. you mean if someone buys.. or downloads your app from market, some way for it to notify you? On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Andrei gml...@gmail.com wrote: Did anybody got

Re: [android-developers] Re: How much time it will take to parse

2010-01-29 Thread Kevin Duffey
xpp is much easier to use.. little messy.. but works very well, very fast, and you can often get it much faster depending on if you need to parse the whole document or just one part of it. If you got a 3MB xml, but the tag or whatever you need is found at 1MB.. you can exit at that point and skip

Re: [android-developers] Re: AsyncTask and simultaneous network downloads

2010-01-28 Thread Kevin Duffey
Jason, Rolled your own? Can you share/elaborate? There seems to be other issues with HttpClient. I am looking at either integrating Jersey/JAX-B client side to send REST calls (my server side is all Jersey/JEE6/JAXB based), but if that is too bulky for the app, then I was looking at using

Re: [android-developers] Re: AsyncTask and simultaneous network downloads

2010-01-28 Thread Kevin Duffey
Awesome.. share the code. :) On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Jason Proctor jason.android.li...@gmail.com wrote: the main HttpClient showstopper for me was its buggy cookie implementation - i needed to share cookies between WebKit and HttpClient, and HttpClient wouldn't play nice. however, i

Re: [android-developers] Is it possible to have Options Menu for when a dialog is displayed?

2010-01-28 Thread Kevin Duffey
You can have one, yes.. if your dialog is a separate view/activity. However, why would a dialog have an options menu? I've never seen any UI that when a dialog is displayed, allows you to still work the menu as well. It would not be a normal thing anyone would know to do. If the dialog is a

Re: [android-developers] Re: AsyncTask and simultaneous network downloads

2010-01-28 Thread Kevin Duffey
Hmm.. that would be good to know. On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Biosopher biosop...@gmail.com wrote: Got an update here. The AsyncTask code above appears to run in parallel on a device. Maybe there's something non-parallel in the Emulator's version of AsyncTask? -- You received this

Re: [android-developers] How to stop playing music or sound of other application

2010-01-28 Thread Kevin Duffey
My guess is.. a background service like the media player is playing it. If the user wants to play music on the media player, and your app stops it, you're doing something the user didn't do themselves, forcing them not to be able to listen to music they want while running your app. I don't know if

[android-developers] Emulator on Ubuntu problem running after first time starting emulator

2010-01-28 Thread Kevin Duffey
Hi all, I've seen other posts on emulators, but none seem to match my issue. Basically on a clean boot of my Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit system, I fire up Eclipse, load my project, and run it in debug (or not) mode. Either way, the emulator fires up, takes about 30 to 45 seconds to initialize, and my app

Re: [android-developers] Emulator on Ubuntu problem running after first time starting emulator

2010-01-28 Thread Kevin Duffey
to your application. I could never reproduce it but several people have reported it. Can you confirm that you have a 100% way to reproduce it ? On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've seen other posts on emulators, but none seem to match my issue

Re: [android-developers] How to send data along a phone call

2010-01-28 Thread Kevin Duffey
I doubt it. I think the extra is for the intent receiver to make use of. That is, the phone call api, if it allowed for some extra data that it could use in some way, say a String name value for it to display in the panel instead of the phone number, that is what that is for. It's not going to

Re: [android-developers] Join Us In Protesting!

2010-01-28 Thread Kevin Duffey
I do agree that patenting the XOR process back in they day for animating sprites was ridiculous. Progress bar? So legally someone could sue me for using a progress bar in my app? The patents have gotten so ridiculous that it would make it impossible for anyone but large corporations to license

Re: [android-developers] Re: Guide Me Right Way

2010-01-27 Thread Kevin Duffey
on them, for a lot less. That is what I am waiting for. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Anthoni anthoni.gard...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kevin, Thanks for your input. That kinda puts the kibosch on the whole idea as I have major problems with my eyes anyway (losing them completely, but slowly). So

Re: [android-developers] Re: Launching the correct activity on resume

2010-01-27 Thread Kevin Duffey
Hey guys, Funny I find this thread this morning.. I just posted to Mark Murphy's forum a similar question regarding multi-activity apps and how the life cycle is handled. My question was a little bit different, but similar to this. My main question was how do we handle the various life cycle

Re: [android-developers] Re: US Taxes: Does Google send a 1099 tax form?

2010-01-27 Thread Kevin Duffey
much different. On Jan 27, 12:37 am, Nathan nathan.d.mel...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 26, 3:46 pm, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: I don't want to sound like I am going to cheat the system and not pay taxes.. Well, that is what you sound like. The point is, and I know

Re: [android-developers] Multi-threaded http requests cause exception

2010-01-27 Thread Kevin Duffey
Is it possible the server you are reaching for is single threaded in some way that it rejects more than one request from the same client? On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Biosopher biosop...@gmail.com wrote: I have an app making an https post on one thread while performing a file download on

Re: [android-developers] Adding a distance to a GeoPoint

2010-01-27 Thread Kevin Duffey
I am interested in this too. The numbers are fractional, so I am wondering how you actually figure out the distance say, a 1/2 inch is on the screen relative to the zoom level. Is there an api call that takes into account the zoom level and can give a way to draw a specific distance.. such as a

Re: [android-developers] Re: OpenGL Fillrate Issues

2010-01-27 Thread Kevin Duffey
Is there any reason as to why when you touch the screen, a constant flood of events comes in? I mean, does each event reflect a single pixel on the screen where a touch is happening..and thus a finger that might span a circumference of say 60 pixels, causes tons of events to come in for those

Re: [android-developers] Re: What About Oversize Apps?

2010-01-27 Thread Kevin Duffey
There are other issues to worry about with this tho.. like.. where do you host the images? Do you run your own server and pay for hosting.. domain name reg, etc? If so, do you have the know how to write the server piece (if not, shoot me a private mail, I know how). I wouldn't want to host my pics

Re: [android-developers] Re: What About Oversize Apps?

2010-01-27 Thread Kevin Duffey
also sort of annoying in the sense that it can force an app to have the full internet access when a user might wonder why does it need that?. I mean I do tend to get a bit wary when apps all want internet all the time. -niko On Jan 27, 7:55 pm, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [android-developers] Should Canadian Android developers switch to iPhone instead

2010-01-27 Thread Kevin Duffey
Best of luck to you Michael. Have fun having to code in Objective-C on an apple only hardware for the overly strict and bloated app store market. While I agree with some of what you said, it is indeed frustrating in some situations, I think you might have sort of dove in before you realized what

Re: [android-developers] getting notified on documents change

2010-01-27 Thread Kevin Duffey
Might need more info. Document of what.. added/edited/deleted from what/where? On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Nemat nemate...@gmail.com wrote: Hi friends... I am currently working to get notified when a new document is added/ edited/deleted.But I dont find any way to do this.Can you guys

Re: [android-developers] Re: US Taxes: Does Google send a 1099 tax form?

2010-01-27 Thread Kevin Duffey
I hope I can make it outside the hobby domain as well. :D On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Nathan nathan.d.mel...@gmail.com wrote: If you don't have a tax advisor, there are plenty of IRS publications on the subject of business vs hobby income. I oversimplified in my last post.

Re: [android-developers] why we need to develop android app when iphone app runs on android

2010-01-27 Thread Kevin Duffey
Uh.. first of all.. if the game is web based, then it plays on pcs, macs, linux, iphones, etc .. is that right? How would you even bother trying to write it for android specifically if the game was already web based? I am unclear as to why/how you decided to spend all this time building android

Re: [android-developers] take picture without preview

2010-01-27 Thread Kevin Duffey
Not sure how, but I think the bar scanner app must do something like this as you never have to actually take a picture.. it just automagically seems to find bar codes when they are across the red line it shows and does something with it. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:58 AM, shumin shumi...@gmail.com

Re: [android-developers] Re: Floods

2010-01-26 Thread Kevin Duffey
Sadly, this is exactly the issue that having no approval process on the market is going to generate... bad publicity for Android at large. BlinkTag, you may be the best developer in the world.. your app may be fantastic, but this one really bad design flaw is causing your app, and possibly future

Re: [android-developers] Re: US Taxes: Does Google send a 1099 tax form?

2010-01-26 Thread Kevin Duffey
: Kevin Duffey wrote: I asked that same thing a while ago in response to a different post, I don't recall getting a clear answer to this. I would think that google reports 1099 to IRS to keep track of all income you make... otherwise it's tax free which seems odd to me if you make a few

Re: [android-developers] Android Developers Unite to Help Haiti

2010-01-26 Thread Kevin Duffey
Sounds like a great idea Randy. Someone put a post up about another interesting area we could all unite and help out in. I thought it interesting. There are millions of people right here in the USA that are homeless, without insurance, hungry, etc. The post was basically slamming the movie stars

Re: [android-developers] Re: Guide Me Right Way

2010-01-26 Thread Kevin Duffey
I thought the same thing Anthoni.. I tried a PDF viewer for my moto droid. Don't like it so much. It's much harder to work with than on a laptop screen. It's much smaller of course, and you end up with a lot less realestate, so you continually have to scroll left/right. I suppose you can zoom out

Re: [android-developers] Re: OpenGL Fillrate Issues

2010-01-26 Thread Kevin Duffey
Is there any good resources on tile based games.. like how to construct the game loop, keep it time based, update frames every 16ms or so while calling your physics, collision detection, movement, and redrawing routines in that time? I would love to develop some side scroller/top down tile based

Re: [android-developers] Re: US Taxes: Does Google send a 1099 tax form?

2010-01-26 Thread Kevin Duffey
in excel? I look at Google Checkout and I am unsure how anyone can sustain a real business from it. If I am not forced to, I would never use Google Checkout. On Jan 26, 3:46 pm, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: So that begs the question... how will the IRS know? I don't want to sound

Re: [android-developers] How to stop a service, when all activities are finished?

2010-01-26 Thread Kevin Duffey
I am not for sure, but I think your activity has to bind to the service, or your service needs to listen to a broadcast and your activity would need to broadcast an intent that your service listens for, to shut down. Curious, why do you play the music in a service? Why not in a separate thread of

Re: [android-developers] How to run a i-jetty on a G1

2010-01-26 Thread Kevin Duffey
Not for sure on this, but Android sits on top of Linux.. perhaps you have to set up a hosts file, or iptables or something for Android.. or something like it so that it allows the connection from outside the 127.0.0.1/localhost loop back. Curious, why a server on the phone? What's the use of

Re: [android-developers] please clear this doubts

2010-01-26 Thread Kevin Duffey
May I ask how you got the code, and how you are planning on working on a project like this with what appears to be no knowledge of java, android and so forth. Have you looked at google, the android dev site, amazon for books, etc? There are tons of resources out there. Mark Murphy's books you can

Re: [android-developers] US Taxes: Does Google send a 1099 tax form?

2010-01-26 Thread Kevin Duffey
to proceed with the development of this application? 7. Can we test the features of photo editing application on Emulator? with regards Nayana On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.comwrote: I asked that same thing a while ago in response to a different post

Re: [android-developers] Re: US Taxes: Does Google send a 1099 tax form?

2010-01-26 Thread Kevin Duffey
Thanks Nathan. I really didn't want to sound like I was going to cheat the system. But it is good to clear that up. Appreciate the reply. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Nathan nathan.d.mel...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 26, 3:46 pm, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: I don't want

Re: [android-developers] Re: Guide Me Right Way

2010-01-25 Thread Kevin Duffey
That's the one. Thanks Temitope On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Temitope Akinwande takinwa...@gmail.comwrote: The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development Just got one myself. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: The Java book is good.. Oriely has

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to close an application?

2010-01-24 Thread Kevin Duffey
of another activity that is not yours. Doing a System.exit() may adversely affect the calling (parent) activity. On Jan 21, 5:27 pm, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if I like this model. :D I'll give you one reason that I don't know if it comes up or exists often, but I

Re: [android-developers] Guide Me Right Way

2010-01-24 Thread Kevin Duffey
You are definitely going to want to learn Java first. Android should come long after it. You can try, but will find yourself missing quite a bit and getting stuck a lot if you try to learn Java and Android at the same time. Android is one of those things you do after you understand Java. To

Re: [android-developers] Re: Using OS 1.6 and Up , are we penalized on the market ?

2010-01-24 Thread Kevin Duffey
Carlo, You must have a very protective unique group of people using your app. I've asked dozens of droid users and not one of them pay attention to the permissions. Like others said, they want they app, they install it and so far everyone I've talked to doesn't look at the permissions thing at

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