The manifest contains the class. There also weren't any changes to the
manifest entry or the imports of the receiver class.
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I got several mails about my app crashing since the recent update. In the
developer console, I see several stack traces with a ClassNotFoundException.
Strange thing is, the class surely exists, and the error doesn't seem to
happen on every device. At least the developer edition (i.e. debug
On 31 Dez. 2011, 11:10, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe it's a 4.0.2 vs 4.0.3 problem. You could try it in an emulator
and if it's a regression in 4.0.3, create a bug report.
It seems to be a 4.0.3 bug. I've got the same bug both on the 4.0.3
emulators (4.0.0 don't work for me -
If your device isn't too buggy to do it (which isn't that rare...),
simply pass the URL instead of the file name
(setDataSource(http://...;)).
And you should do MediaPlayer.prepare() in its own thread, otherwise
establishing the connection and buffering might end with an ANR.
If you need a way
On 9 Aug., 16:59, b0b pujos.mich...@gmail.com wrote:
I have not tried multiple APK support but IMHO it is much trouble for
what it's worth.
It is much more simple to have a universal APK, even if size is
bigger.
Where it works, you're right. But show me how to support Android 1.5
(or even
I'm currently adding new Honeycomb features to my app. After adding
the Action Bar, there are now two menu buttons - one in the upper
right corner (Action Bar) and one in the Status Bar. Both will open
the menu in Honeycomb style (dropdown in upper right corner).
Any ideas how this could happen
The concept is quite fine imho, but sadly the Market still has some
severe bugs.
I uploaded a new update that uses multiple apks yesterday.
The apk upload area works fine, at least for my usecase (legacy
version for Android 1.5/1.6, other version for 2.0+ devices), it also
shows (temporary)
This is mostly sharing some experiences, maybe it helps some others. I
don't really expect anything will change by telling this...
Oh, and it's not about the Android version fragmentation, though
it's pretty bad to see that the majority of users isn't able to use an
important feature, just because
On 15 Jun., 12:46, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote:
Have you filed any bug reports on b.android.com?
No. I don't see much sense in it, since everything works flawless on
Nexus S, so it don't seem to be core problems.
It certainly appears as if the CTS doesn't properly exercise those
On 27 Apr., 21:24, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
Um. This API was introduced in Froyo/2.2 (that is API 8).
Oops, sorry, mixed up the version numbers... :o
ACTION_DOCK_EVENT is about the device being placed in a dock. Calling that
API puts the device in to car mode, but that
On 27 Mrz., 06:34, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
Better:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/UiModeManager.html
Sadly, this works only if you only target the about 2% devices with
Android 2.3...
But the main reason for me to revive this thread: Is it possible to
Additionally: Is there a way to emulate thedockmodes? I only found
some old tools that stopped working since Android 2.2.
Little update: I tried to emulate at least the car dock mode with
UiModeManager.en-/disableCarMode(). I get the steering wheel in the
notification bar and a Config changed
If after bindService, there is an orientation change or the activity is
finished before onServiceConnected is called, myBinder will still be
null, and your code won't call unbindService, despite having called
bindService.
You're right, I'll change that.
Don't know if this can later cause
I'd like to handle a file extention (.m3u8) which has no registered
MIME mapping for the extention, when the file is opened in a file
manager/explorer. But no matter what I try, the file managers I tried
aren't able to open the file with my app. Is this something that is
generally impossible in
I've been notified about this problem as well. It seems like using the
PACKAGE_REPLACED intent should make it able to offer a workaround.
Otherwise, if you offer an alarm clock function or any other important
schedule, you'd got to tell your users they have to disable auto
update and restart your
I think this would also break the user experience. Better use a
spinner. You can show different foreground images if you use proper
layouts and adapter.
For both button and spinner you could simply set a new button
background when the item has changed, i.e. in the OnClick- or
I try to display (and change) the current default ringtone in an app.
Both Settings.System.getUriFor(Settings.System.RINGTONE) and
RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_RINGTONE) will
return content://settings/system/ringtone (at least on my device).
I tried to get the title with
I think it's even more funny with the Widget guidelines. The Google
search Widget seems to be the only one left which looks at least
somewhat like that.
http://developer.android.com/intl/de/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/widget_design.html
I guess Google has adopted the Wicca motto: And ye harm
)
android.preference.Preference.onBindView(Preference.java:441)
android.preference.Preference.getView(Preference.java:391)
android.preference.PreferenceGroupAdapter.getView(PreferenceGroupAdapter.java:
221)
( - no class of my app appears in stack)
Regards,
Mort
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On 2 Feb., 09:57, roguel6 miguel.rode...@gmail.com wrote:
I am having the same issue with 2.2.2. The method getCurrentPosition() in
MediaPlayer doesn't return the correct value. It is lower than real value. I
have tried the same code in 2.1 and that works perfectly. Any fix for this?
At least
As Mark stated correcly, you can't modify the original except with an
own ROM.
However, you can respond to ACTION_SCREEN_OFF or ACTION_SCREEN_ON
(note you must register it manually with registerReceiver, it's not
enough to add it in the manifest!) to show your own Activity.
You can either use
Is there a way to get the default local charset/encoding for a device?
I.e., I'd like to get e.g. ISO-8859-1, windows-1251, ISO-2022-CN, or
whatever is common in the device's default locale (and supported by
the device), not UTF-8 like Charset.defaultCharset() or
System.getProperty(file.encoding)
Only a blind shot: Did you check whether another instance of frustrum
is used? Like e.g. an accidental float[][] frustrum = ... in the
function or maybe even an if block or something similar, so a local
instance is used instead of the class member, parameter, or whatever
was intented.
However, I
On 18 Jan., 11:03, Marcin Orlowski webnet.andr...@gmail.com wrote:
When my app is downloaded from Market and installed, could some code
be executed?
No. Which is good.
I wouldn't say that in such a generalized way. I'd be annoyed if an
Activity would be invoked, but I can imagine there could
On 11 Jan., 17:37, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote:
The likelihood of your Service running un-interrupted for 30 minutes,
especially if you're not running in the foreground, is extremely low.
Well, if really necessary, one could show a notification and use
startForeground.
I for one would
On 12 Jan., 09:12, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
Many classes that are public make use of private classes for implementation.
That isn't a reason to make those other classes public.
Of course. I just meant in this case the public and private classes do
share the problems.
If one
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:01 PM, John Lussmyer johnlussm...@gmail.comwrote:
Is there any way to do that via settings in the XML?
Give them both the same weight.
Sadly, this also works only for short texts like OK and Cancel. If you
need word wrap or a word's too long, the layout is messed
On 11 Jan., 23:25, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
The widgets aren't public because we aren't happy with them, and don't want
to commit to them in their current form and be stuck with that in the
platform forever more.
But Date- and TimePicker are public and using the NumberPicker
I think if you're feeling masochistic, you could create 9 images and
do some kind of manual 9-patch image with e.g. table or linear
layout views. Just like in bad old HTML times... ;)
If your dynamically created images aren't too complex, you might
also use something similar to the XML shape
I don't know if I get a bit off-topic, but it's still related to
Honeycomb and tablets:
I've seen several apps in the Honeycomb videos which displayed in one
screen what must've been multiple Activities before, like e.g. the
mail list and single mail view.
Will there be an easy way to support
On 10 Jan., 22:21, Kumar Bibek coomar@gmail.com wrote:
The reason why a NumberPicker is not public or a part of the SDK is
perhaps because it's not a widely used widget. If it were, it would
have been a part of the SDK, and the widget would have been public.
IMO.
I think it's more like
It's pretty simple: Use theme=android:Theme.Transparent (in
AndroidManifest.xml) and use a .png with alpha channel as background
of the activity's root view for the gray layer above.
But be warned: This can slow down performance pretty much. E.g., I've
never seen BW's animations without sagging on
On 14 Dez., 20:46, Brill Pappin br...@pappin.ca wrote:
not sure what her problem is, maybe a competitor or something, but the
comment is completely bogus.
I'm afraid that's the old problem with separating what permissions
might allow an app to do vs. what an app actually does with them.
Of
A suggestion for a later update: a checkbox in the device selection
dialog or maybe an optional query would be nice. Because sometimes, I
just want to do a quick check on the actual device, and debug mode
often is painfully slow...
btw: What happened to create signed application package? It's
Not sure which bug you mean.
I now of two troubles with 9patch-drawables:
- AFAIR (might be wrong): If you've got only ldpi/mdpi images and a
hdpi device, the images are first stretched with 9patch to the mdpi
pixel size and then to hdpi. I.e., the corners might become
sawtoothy, but will stay the
On 11 Nov., 19:24, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote:
Any device that has the Android Market on it will have a MENU and a
BACK hard or soft button.
I think the Home button is mandatory as well, the Search button seems
to be optional.
Most devices without Market will have those buttons
Hello
I want to know how to change the orientation of my layout inside of eclipse
in my manifest I have
android:screenOrientation=landscape
in my layout xml I have
android:orientation=horizontal
but when I click the layout button it still shows it as a vertical layout
Thank You
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On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Greg Mort gregm...@mortyg.com wrote:
Hello
I want to know how to change the orientation of my layout inside of
eclipse
in my manifest I have
android:screenOrientation=landscape
in my
On 3 Nov., 15:03, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote:
If it were searchable, people would just use it as an extension to their app
description to add more stuff people might search for to find their app.
Not only that, it might also confuse results. A changlog often
includes some internals
On 29 Okt., 13:14, Eric F ericfrie...@gmail.com wrote:
Then I suspect these may be more of the points of disagreement:
D) It's up to the developer of an application to offer the user
controls to tweak performance sapping or battery draining.
E) A user uninstalling an app that performs
a task manager to switch apps, he couldn't
easily return to the Shelves app. That's where the paused status
would come in.
2) People associate, just like on the desktop, not wanting a function
of an application to quitting the application. Earlier mort was
suggesting the same thing. Twitter
On 28 Okt., 06:36, Syner idesignsgr...@aol.com wrote:
(...) most of the time i am using back or home to exit the
app which sounds like it is not exiting the app.
Depends on your definition of exiting ;)
By default, the foreground stuff is suspended until you resume to the
app, while a running
New to this, just want to make sure this is viewable to people... can
someone at least tell me that?
thanks
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Greg Mort gregm...@mortyg.com wrote:
?
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:17 PM, morty346 gregm...@mortyg.com wrote:
I have a issue that I have been
?
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:17 PM, morty346 gregm...@mortyg.com wrote:
I have a issue that I have been struggling with for some time and its
becoming quite frustrating...
I have an app that a user can modify the background image of a widget
in a configure activity. Once they select what
I would have to strongly disagree with this first statement. Lots and
lots of very popular Windows applications do NOT provide any
indication of background activity.
True, but I was more relating to the usual user experience. For most
Windows applications, one assumes they're running as long
On 27 Okt., 09:42, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote:
- Ready = waiting for AlarmManager/C2DM events (maybe with an alarm
clock as status icon?)
There should be no code running at this point; hence, IMHO, this
status is pointless and confusing.
I don't think so. From a user's point
I don't think so. From a user's point of view, there's no difference
if there's a started service that's actually doing something by
Handler.postDelayed every 5 minutes and an app that does the same by a
repeating AlarmManager.
Sure there is. It's called a process and a big chunk of RAM.
On 25 Okt., 20:11, Miguel Morales therevolti...@gmail.com wrote:
Try overriding your onFinish() or onPause(), you might be able to do
what you're trying to do there.
onFinish() is only invoked for the back button, unless you finish() in
onPause().
Handling the Home button is only possible if
On 26 Okt., 08:55, Kumar Bibek coomar@gmail.com wrote:
I am a bit confused as to under what circumstances one would like to handle
the Home Screen button.
As said, the most common use I stubled upon are lock screen
widgets (usually rather Activities with FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED). Esp.
if such
It seems that the background property is one thing that cannot be
updated through RemoteViews.
Indeed, even the generic reflection functions (setInt, setLong, ...)
didn't seem to work for me.
But you can use a combination of FrameView and ImageView, and then use
setImageViewResource for the
On 25 Okt., 20:18, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, I also get those, and respond back that Android is different.
I mostly do that as well, sometimes in pretty long mails...
Educating users is better than implementing kludges that users wish on a
whim.
... but I think it's a
Actually the official twitter application has a big sign out option in its
menu, right next to settings.
But what if a user just wants no updates temporarily until the app's
restarted, like he's used to by any other OS? And not have to sign on
again after the restart?
Also it is important to
On 25 Okt., 05:41, Frank Weiss fewe...@gmail.com wrote:
I kind of agree, but I think I'll stick with what I said. I think the issue
is that when developers see an app listed in what appears to be a list of
running processes (like unix ps or Windows Task Manager), they tend to jump
to the
On Oct 8, 4:00 am, Julian Bunn jjb...@gmail.com wrote:
I saw a temporary boost over a few days, then a plummet ... to below
the previous levels. What's going on?!
I guess it's more or less just the usual procedure: People are getting
their salaries/allowances either at the beginning/end or
Some of my app's preferences could use some more explanation than the
scarce space available for the summary. Sadly, there doesn't seem to
be support from the system, like an optional help button that shows a
longer text.
How do you solve this problem? The first thing that comes to mind is
an
Add a help option menu choice to your PreferenceActivity.
Do you mean with long press on the entry or with the menu button?
Either way, there's the trouble Android doesn't signal whether these
options exist or not, and in a preference activity, most users won't
be looking for them. (I'd even bet
On Sep 8, 12:01 am, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote:
I have to ask.. in the last year since I started learning Android (haven't
had much time the past several months to do much other than read some of
these emails), how many more markets has Google got Android into that offer
apps to be
OK, found a working solution - no idea if it was indented that way,
SDK documentation is very fuzzy and incomplete in this area...
To stay with my example:
In attrs.xml, define the CSS class ;):
resources
attr name=headline format=reference /
/resources
In styles.xml, define the style to
to Google's Market to simplify updates, support a single place to
go, and hope it get's better one day? Do you support some selected
alternatives? (Which ones and why?) Or any alternative you get to know
and are able to support?
Regards,
Mort
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would ignore the current theme, while
I'd rather need something like style 'headline' for the current
theme. How can I accomplish this?
TIA,
Mort
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It's hard to tell without the actual image, but I guess there *is* a
pixel too much. Did you check the 9th (or 10th? not sure whether it
starts with 0 or 1) pixel in the border line?
Maybe you should check with draw9patch, it's a tool installed with the
Android SDK (in tools subdirectory). It
If it's any help, I use this method:
public static Bitmap loadResizedBitmap( String filename, int width,
int height, boolean exact ) {
Bitmap bitmap = null;
BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
On Aug 31, 12:37 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
Yes, it is, this was on oversight when we made the different filtering
options more visible. It will be fixed in Gingerbread.
Great! Android really needs a different task management - from the
user perspective.
Technically it's
On Aug 29, 9:11 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
This is a flaw in their design (and in the design of current ad servers as
well). By having you link their code into your app, you are required to
take responsibility for their permissions. Yet it is their code, you don't
have
Update your current app to do nothing more than show a dialog with a link to
your new app in the market.
This would annoy users of old devices even more. Imagine you download
an update, and then it's just a dialog that tells you to download an
app you can't find in the Market.
However, you
I'd like to respond in my music player to other apps (like Maps)
gaining an audio focus.
However, I only found requestAudioFocus to pass a listener. But I
don't want the focus (it's just fine to have music in background), I
just want to be notified if some other app requests it.
Did I
I think you should work with getItemViewType(int position) and
getViewTypeCount(), so Android knows there are different views for the
items.
Example (untested ugly style):
public int getItemViewType(int position) {
if ( position == 5 ) return 1;
else return 0;
}
public int
From what I got so far, it seems like the browser tries to save the
entire page contents, which might cause troubles - either because it's
too slow (1/5s time limit) or because there's not enough free space on
the internal flash.
Maybe it'd be a solution to save the state in steps. First the URLs,
The experience I shared there was practical - and there are times and
requirements when you do need to start a service at the boot time, and
it's really better to run it in a separate process. For example, any
mail-like application would have such requirements.
Autostart might be useful, but
I updated the Eclipse plugins (Help - Check for update). Since the
restart after installation, the plugins aren't working any longer.
They're still enlisted in installation details, but there are no
Android preferences, no Android menu entries, no editor (Could not
open the editor: No editor
Music players were the most common example for remote services even on
Google's SDK site.
Got a link for that handy?
Sorry, can't find it right now... Maybe I just misunderstood
something?
How is it possible to enable playing while the
app's in background without a remote service?
Strange... Maybe the exported attribute makes the difference?
Update: Seems like it does. At least in the emulator and on my device.
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So I did:
- add android:process=:remote in the manifest
You should not need that, and it may well be the source of your difficulty.
Sorry for the late reply, didn't notice it at first...
If I remove android:process=:remote and leave the app, music will
stop eiter immediately or after the
I've got a music player service which should keep on playing in
background.
So I did:
- add android:process=:remote in the manifest
- return START_STICKY in onStartCommand (because MediaPlayer does the
work until the track is finished)
- invoke startForeground when Activity becomes invisible
Sorry, I've got the reason... I had a timing problem with the
HEADSET_PLUG Intent, which is sent when registered, and in my case
caused a stopSelf() because the service thought it wasn't required
(bad value in internal status flag). The strange behaviour then
happened, because the service right
You get AVRCP keys with the MEDIA_BUTTON Intent. But I don't know of
support for track information. I'm afraid you need to do that low
level, if it's possible at all (that is, without having to flash a
patched ROM or at least having root access and using NDK...).
On 10 Mai, 01:13, Moto
onStop() and onPause() works great if your app only has one activity.
But they're also invoked if you switch to any sub activity, even if
it's done with startActivityForResult(). Only exception is when the
sub activity uses a transparent theme. (Well, onPause() is invoked for
sure, onStop() only
Example: suchandsuchappcrond_service.. CROND service? This is what
the alarm manager is for, doing a repeated task every so often. If you
are consuming memory being in the background all the time, when you
could simply invoke the alarm_manager to wake you every so often, that
is much better
Yep the problem is largely associated with services and not just random
processes running. That is why the running services UI was introduced.
Trouble with that is, it doesn't show the *running* services but the
*started* services.
Esp. services written for 1.x might just linger around to do
Hi,
it's pretty simple: add a broadcast listener to MEDIA_BUTTON:
intent-filter android:priority=some number
action android:name=android.intent.action.MEDIA_BUTTON /
/intent-filter
You need to give it a priority, which decides whether it's handled
before or after other apps. In other words,
Got my N1 as well - but sadly it's not working. The display just
remains black. It vibrates, it makes sounds when I press the volume
buttons, the trackball and buttons light up, but the display just
displays nothing... :(
Where do I have to send the device? And how many months will I have to
wait
I like to do some long running initializing work in a remote service,
and during that, a progress dialog shall be shown.
So basicly, I invoke ProgressDialog.show, run a oneway method of the
service with a callback to be invoked when it's finished, and in the
callback dismiss the dialog.
I
As far as the lack of communication is concerned - is anyone really
surprised by this? This is Google. Ignoring their customers is pretty much
what they do (after Search, of course).
That's a bit over the top, imho. Compared to other companies, Google's
support in this group, on stackoverflow,
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