[android-developers] Re: How to control a sound notification duration?

2008-12-13 Thread elDoudou
Thank you for the information. I was mislead because the Android built-in ring tones under 'system/ media/audio/ringtones' seem to loop when played. Yes, the idea of scheduling an alert for cancelling the notification is a solution, if the sound is looping.

[android-developers] A notification sound taken from the Android .apk

2008-12-13 Thread elDoudou
Hello. I can't find in the API nor in this discussion group a way to attach a sound which is present in my Android application 'res/raw' folder, to a notification. Is it feasible? Since the Nofitication.sound attribute is a URI, the problem can be thought in terms of finding a way to turn an

[android-developers] Re: How to use built in email application to send email from my application?

2008-12-13 Thread dileep singh
hey please check this link.http://androidguys.com/?p=3100#comment-5168 once again mark has proved himself that he is always dere to help android guys. Thanks mark On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Peli peli0...@googlemail.com wrote: I'd love to see that one extra line in your example that

[android-developers] Re: Using G1 as modem

2008-12-13 Thread Tee
If you are not going to make a productive comment, its best to make no comment at all...Every other HTC phone can be used as a modem, like my previous mda vario 3 and the new mda vario iv...so theres no reason why there cant be one for G1..i just hope someone can make it quickas I recently

[android-developers] Re: Using G1 as modem

2008-12-13 Thread Al Sutton
Please see the following informational poster in relation to Xavier http://tinyurl.com/2yqfx2 I'm not sure how the Google guys feel about him describing himself as a Google Group Client Based Tech Support Specialist in his signature (especially as it comes from a gmail address), but

[android-developers] Re: Android Dev Phone 1 + Shipping to Germany

2008-12-13 Thread patte
I placed my order 6th december. Because i didnt get any message with any information about tracking number i wrote to andr...@brightstarcorp.com at 10th december. They answered very quick at the same day and provided me the ups tracking number - Your order has shipped. UPS got the package 9th

[android-developers] London Google Mobile Apps jobs...

2008-12-13 Thread Al Sutton
Just in case anyone in the UK is thinking of joining the mother ship http://www.google.co.uk/support/jobs/bin/answer.py?answer=36918 Al. http://andappstore.com/ -- == Funky Android Limited is registered in England Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is

[android-developers] Re: Android Dev Phone 1 + Shipping to Germany

2008-12-13 Thread Christine
On Dec 13, 11:35 am, patte ehrl...@infosion.de wrote: If UPS delivers saturdays I wil get it TODAY, if not on MONDAY ;-) They don't deliver on Saturdays unless the shipper buys an additional option for delivery on Saturday. I guess you'll get it on Monday. My order of 12-6 was removed from

[android-developers] Re: continuously polling webserver for updates.

2008-12-13 Thread Charlie Collins
Yes, many Android applications use the network for data, it is very common. I have several that do so, and that includes binary data (images). For the upcoming Manning book Unlocking Android I wrote a NetworkExplorer sample app that does a bunch of networking stuff and demonstrates various

[android-developers] Re: light xmlrpc clent side lbrary

2008-12-13 Thread Charlie Collins
An android-xmlrpc might be cool, a good library for handling such networking would be a great thing actually (I wouldn't use xmlrpc in all cases, but in some, yes). Nevertheless, I was unable to get a peek at the code, are you using the Google Code SVN hosting for that project, or not? At

[android-developers] Re: continuously polling webserver for updates.

2008-12-13 Thread Charlie Collins
Also skink, I replied on your other thread about android-xmlrpc. Looks very promising, but for an open source project you need to provide the CODE, not just the binary artifact (and you licensed it Apache there, so it's open source). If I could see the code I would check it out. On Dec 12, 7:44 

[android-developers] Re: How to use built in email application to send email from my application?

2008-12-13 Thread blindfold
Fabulous Peli! Thank you. I found the online documentation a bit intimidating at first, but this example gives a great flying start. Regards On Dec 12, 9:08 pm, Peli peli0...@googlemail.com wrote: I'd love to see that one extra line in your example that shows how to add an image file

[android-developers] Re: light xmlrpc clent side lbrary

2008-12-13 Thread skink
On 13 Gru, 11:11, Charlie Collins charlie.coll...@gmail.com wrote: An android-xmlrpc might be cool, a good library for handling such networking would be a great thing actually (I wouldn't use xmlrpc in all cases, but in some, yes). Nevertheless, I was unable to get a peek at the code, are

[android-developers] Re: light xmlrpc clent side lbrary

2008-12-13 Thread skink
hi Charlie, i put XMLRPC.tar.gz in Downloads tab ;) in couple of hours i'll add the code to svn actually it took not so long svn is now ready for access cheers pskink --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[android-developers] Re: How to use built in email application to send email from my application?

2008-12-13 Thread Mark Murphy
dileep singh wrote: hey please check this link.http://androidguys.com/?p=3100#comment-5168 once again mark has proved himself that he is always dere to help android guys. Thank Peli, not me -- I just added some more words around the research he and the OpenIntents team did. -- Mark Murphy

[android-developers] Re: continuously polling webserver for updates.

2008-12-13 Thread skink
On 13 Gru, 12:13, Charlie Collins charlie.coll...@gmail.com wrote: Also skink, I replied on your other thread about android-xmlrpc. Looks very promising, but for an open source project you need to provide the CODE, not just the binary artifact (and you licensed it Apache there, so it's open

[android-developers] Blending between views

2008-12-13 Thread Steff
Hi I have a layout with two fullscreen views on top of each other. The bottom view just shows a .png picture. The top view shows some OpenGL rendered graphics. When some translucent objects on the top view moves over a non-black area of the bottom view, blending is real bad - example1: blue in

[android-developers] Android Developers' Unlocked G1 Phone - Pictures and description of what is in the box

2008-12-13 Thread Edmon
I just wanted to share images and description of what is really unlocked G1 phone. I got mine two days ago, so I took few pictures. I was somehow unpleasantly surprised how barebones the kit is and how the whole ordering process through Brightstar feels like you are ordering from a mompop

[android-developers] Re: Android Developers' Unlocked G1 Phone - Pictures and description of what is in the box

2008-12-13 Thread Disconnect
JF wrote an article up with pics (and he added the kb pics, since it is somewhat unique) at www.gotontheinter.net/node/12 - it is a not-quite-side-by-side comparison of the G1 he had with the ADP1 he has :) On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Edmon ebeg...@gmail.com wrote: I just wanted to share

[android-developers] Application icon still appears in the Android menu after uninstalling the application.

2008-12-13 Thread code_android_festival_way
Hello! I got several feedback messages from users of my application that after uninstalling it the application icon still appears in the Android menu. Could someone please help me finding the reason for that behaviour? Is it something in the Manifest? In addtition it would be interesting for

[android-developers] Re: Transitioning from Free to Paid

2008-12-13 Thread Craig
Here (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread? tid=360a84c852124bc5hl=en) is another conversation about this I've been tracking - I'm hoping Google (OHA?) will clarify this one. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[android-developers] Re: How to control a sound notification duration?

2008-12-13 Thread Dave Sparks
Some of the ringtones contain special metadata to make them loop. These sounds will play forever and aren't appropriate for notifications. Unless you want really annoy your users. :) The notifications directory has sounds that don't loop. On Dec 13, 12:02 am, elDoudou

[android-developers] How to Handle Event Handlers?

2008-12-13 Thread bhavana
How to Handle Event Handlers? http://interviewdoor.com/questions-faqs/viewtopic.php?f=155t=1161 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

[android-developers] Re: Android Dev Phone - shipping to Canada?

2008-12-13 Thread Matt Zukowski
The shipping charge is insane. I can't believe bright star is charging this amount with a straight face. I'm also not particularly impressed with that you don't see the shipping charge until the very end, after you've already entered your credit card info (and signed up for the Android

[android-developers] Re: Android Dev Phone 1™

2008-12-13 Thread Doug Sims
I ordered mine on December 10 with regular ground shipping to Memphis. My credit card was charged on Dec 11 (by Gotta Go Blue.) I've called the Brightstarcorp number repeatedly since then and finally got through today. I spoke with Dana who was, as someone else in this thread mentioned,

[android-developers] Android OpenGl Documentation?

2008-12-13 Thread Mark F.
Whatever happened to that? I'm planning to write a game for the Android platform using openGl, and i'm unable to find any documentation/tutorials for it. Yes, I have looked through the Android docs (several times and) and even external sources. Some docs that i found covered some Android openGL

[android-developers] A file folder and phone file storage feature requirment.

2008-12-13 Thread JBQ
Hello everybody, The G1 has no file folder,when take a picture,it must be saved to SD card.I want to save the new file to phone storage.then I have to do 1.change the save dirction and 2. make a file folder to show it.Could anybody give any advice?Thanks. JBQ

[android-developers] Group of Android developers

2008-12-13 Thread it.minsk
Group of Android, J2ME and Blackberry developers a available. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[android-developers] Simple Image Application

2008-12-13 Thread Unionblitz
I'm new to Android and I have finished up a Hello Android application. I would like some pointers to learn how to add a simple background image and a couple of buttons on an application. So for, it's been hard tackling the learning curve with the Android framework, so obviously the more plain

[android-developers] programming tutorials and free source code

2008-12-13 Thread Caragea Silviu
Hello guys , Some times ago I had launched a developers community , formed to provide a place where programmers around the world can meet and exchange ideas. My community address is http://www.intelliproject.net . If you are interested to join us and to share some of your source code and

[android-developers] Re: Has anybody received an android dev phone in the US yet?

2008-12-13 Thread mmitchel
I received my developer phone following an order placed on the 8th. There was not any email or tracking information provided, it just showed up FedEx.. Give it a little bit, we all are excited ;) On Dec 12, 8:50 pm, Disconnect dc.disconn...@gmail.com wrote: For people who haven't yet gotten

[android-developers] Android using Pc's Internet over a USB connection

2008-12-13 Thread Ryan Hugo
Is it possible to use a USB connection to provide Android with internet? Can't seem to find a way on the web =\ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send

[android-developers] Service Launch problem

2008-12-13 Thread Urig
Hi everybody, I need help :) I have an Activity which tries to start a Service (in the same process). It never succeeds... I recieve the following NullPointerException 12-13 11:39:06.158: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(324): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception 12-13

[android-developers] Re: Android Dev Phone 1™

2008-12-13 Thread tweitzel
@p.christov92: Go to the UPS website, choose Sendungsverfolgung, then click Sendungsverfolgung anhand Referenznummer. Enter your Android Dev Phone order no. into the input field Sendungsreferenz. If it has been sent, you'll get all the information. I've ordered mine on December 8th, it has been

[android-developers] Re: Link to buy unlocked phone does not work

2008-12-13 Thread tibor
I got to the the actual shop with checkout once but when I return now to actually buy, it bounces back to the home page. I hope it's temporary. On Dec 6, 9:59 am, ARW s...@arw.in wrote: On the pagehttp://market.android.com/publish/Home, I see:   Development phones   As a registered

[android-developers] Re: error on my Mac 10.4 Power book: cannot execute binary file

2008-12-13 Thread janu0204
i too am facing the same problem but on Linux ubuntu kindly let me know how did you solve this regards ram On Nov 24, 10:11 pm, elviani.huse...@googlemail.com elviani.huse...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I am new toandroid, and I just install theandroidon the eclipse and trying to run my first

[android-developers] Re: A file folder and phone file storage feature requirment.

2008-12-13 Thread Justin (Google Employee)
You'd need to write an application that uses the camera and then saves the data to internal storage. However, why do you want to do this? Internal storage is extremely limited, please, please, for the benefit of end users, only use for storage for data that must be secured and can't be secured

[android-developers] Using resources in WebView

2008-12-13 Thread Eric
My app has ImageButtons that use icons in drawable. I want a help page that can refer to those icons. I made a help html file and put it in assets/help/help.html. Now I can load it using file:///android_asset/ help/help.html. The problem is how do I access the ImageButton icons? Is there a way

[android-developers] Re: Keeping a Service Alive

2008-12-13 Thread John Spurlock
Cannot thank you enough for this - exactly what we needed to know. Using the shell command we found out that our service hosting the playing mediaplayer was marked with an oom_adj of 2 - and would be killed after opening several other apps or extended phone idle. After changing the service to a

[android-developers] Re: Has anybody received an android dev phone in the US yet?

2008-12-13 Thread sidecircle
Maybe oversea people get a different treatement: Speaking for me (France) I've placed my order last tuesday and as of today (saturday) I'm still without any news, without any shipping confirmation, without any tracking number... My credit card got indeed charged a juicy $580 instantely. On 13

[android-developers] Re: Has anybody received an android dev phone in the US yet?

2008-12-13 Thread sidecircle
Maybe oversea people get a different treatement: Speaking for me (France) I've placed my order last tuesday and as of today (saturday) I'm still without any news, without any shipping confirmation, without any tracking number... My credit card got indeed charged a juicy $580 instantely. On 13

[android-developers] Re: Using resources in WebView

2008-12-13 Thread Xavier Mathews
Cant you just convert you image to the image type you want and then format it to html? All your images should be page file that is where you should find the drawabldm icons unless they are placed on a toolbar. On 12/13/2008, Eric rellimc...@gmail.com wrote: My app has ImageButtons that use

[android-developers] how to get menu handler/instance

2008-12-13 Thread sjia
I'd like to disable/enable a menu item in the OnCreate() function protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) Is there any system call to get the menu handler/instance? thanks in advance --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[android-developers] Re: Has anybody received an android dev phone in the US yet?

2008-12-13 Thread Edmon
I've got mine. Here are the details and pictures: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/web2-place/unlocked-g1-android-just-received-what-is-in-the-box-28770 On Dec 13, 2:36 pm, sidecircle andr...@sidecircle.com wrote: Maybe oversea people get a different treatement:  Speaking for me (France) I've

[android-developers] Re: Android Dev Phone 1™

2008-12-13 Thread Christine
In English: on the UPS website choose tracking, then tracking by reference, provide the order number under shipment reference, don't fill out any other fields, press track. On Dec 13, 1:03 am, tweitzel tweit...@gmail.com wrote: @p.christov92: Go to the UPS website, choose Sendungsverfolgung,

[android-developers] Re: Has anybody received an android dev phone in the US yet?

2008-12-13 Thread sacoskun
It is something really awkward. The time period of shipping ADP to Florida is unknown. Can we say less than a week or are there any faster shipping option?! On Dec 13, 8:05 am, mmitchel mmitc...@gmail.com wrote: I received my developer phone following an order placed on the 8th. There was not

[android-developers] Re: Anyone get a tracking number for the dev phone?

2008-12-13 Thread jeroen020
Thanks a bunch! The reference check on the UPS website showed me the details. It's in Cologne now, so I'm guessing a Monday arrival in Amsterdam! On Dec 11, 8:01 pm, cyntacks kevin.clout...@cyntacks.com wrote: Check out this thread:

[android-developers] Custom Components and Custom Attributes

2008-12-13 Thread tenacious
How can I distribute custom components which have custom attributes to other projects? Is it possible to define my custom attributes in code (versus xml) which would make it easier to compile the entire component into a JAR without the need for the host project to define attributes in XML? What

[android-developers] Re: Problem with the sqlite database

2008-12-13 Thread thisnameagain
Wondering if you ever solved this? I am getting a similar problem and I have not found anything that works, or others solutions. On Nov 26, 10:30 pm, bharath kumar bhrthkum...@gmail.com wrote: Hi AndroidDev, 11-24 19:27:38.287: ERROR/Database(5891): Leak found 11-24 19:27:38.287:

[android-developers] Re: Problem with the sqlite database

2008-12-13 Thread thisnameagain
I cleared up my problem with the SQL not closing and creating a leak by make sure to close the connection in onDestroy. I had tried to close the connection earlier, but that caused a different problem. When I close it in onDestroy everything works well. Hope that might help someone. On Dec 13,

[android-developers] Re: Has anybody received an android dev phone in the US yet?

2008-12-13 Thread Yev
To US customers: Has anyone been able to track the phone via https://www.fedex.com/AltRefTracking?cntry_code=us I was told if you put your order# in the reference, your ship date, country, it should show up. I ordered mine on 12/9 and still nothing. On Dec 13, 1:27 pm, sacoskun

[android-developers] Re: Has anybody received an android dev phone in the US yet?

2008-12-13 Thread Aaron
Worked perfectly for me. Other people have said it, too. On Dec 13, 5:10 pm, Yev yevm...@gmail.com wrote: To US customers: Has anyone been able to track the phone viahttps://www.fedex.com/AltRefTracking?cntry_code=us I was told if you put your order# in the reference, your ship date,

[android-developers] Is a SIM Required for Dev 1?

2008-12-13 Thread cyntacks
Hi all, This may be a dumb question, and it may be more apparent once my Dev 1 phone arrives but... Does the Dev 1 require a SIM card to test the applications we build? In other words, we won't ever use the phone outside of the lab (e.g. no phone calls). We just want to upload our software and

[android-developers] Re: Problem with the sqlite database

2008-12-13 Thread Paul
In order to play nicely with the resources you share with other applications I think you might want to consider creating your connection in onCreate, and cleaning it up in onPause. You mentioned an issue when you tried that earlier but it might be worth resolving within your app. This will keep

[android-developers] How to power off the emulator

2008-12-13 Thread Xiongzh
Hi friends, A small issue in my emulator in Vista: Either I pressed the red phone button for long time or pressed the power off button in the up-left side, the emulator was in 'Shutting down ...' status for long time. How can it be powered off as the real device? Is it OK to just close the

[android-developers] Re: Android Dev Phone 1 + Shipping to Germany

2008-12-13 Thread Walter Chang
well, i ordered mine the very first day and it arrived at tao yuan, taiwan on friday night(12/12). so i should be able to play with it on monday. can't wait! On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Christine christine.kar...@gmail.comwrote: On Dec 13, 11:35 am, patte ehrl...@infosion.de wrote:

[android-developers] how to install the 'Radar' package to the android platform?

2008-12-13 Thread ying...@gmail.com
Hi, How to install the 'Radar' package to the android platform? When I run an application it said 'Please install Radar package' Thank you. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group.

[android-developers] Re: The G1 (RC30) K-9 eMail client

2008-12-13 Thread SLSq
And, the update (v 0.21) ... continues to have the same problems !!! The details have already been provided for the previous version. The problems described were confirmed by reviewing the system logs associated with actual email systems being used. On Dec 5, 1:11 pm, SLSq slsqui...@gmail.com

[android-developers] Please help with android source making

2008-12-13 Thread Dr. Tingrong Lu
Hi, I downloaded android source and make according to the doc (I've set the ANDROID_JAVA_HOME). The webkit browser on the emulator made from source cannot access the Internet, meanwhile the webkit browser on the emulator come with android SDK 1.0r1 can. Can anyone help figure out what's wrong

[android-developers] Re: Using Homemade TrueType Fonts In Android

2008-12-13 Thread illiniwatcher
Mike: The one that appears is the default Android system font (named something like DroidSans). It's like not having a font applied at all. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Charles On Dec 11, 3:31 pm, Mike Reed r...@google.com wrote: If you substitute yourfontfor the one in ApiDemos, and

[android-developers] Re: why does the same code NOT work same in different scenarios? JNI issue, please help.

2008-12-13 Thread kevin_fan
I will make a new post in Android-Platform group,hopefully I can get some help there, thanks Dianne! On Dec 13, 4:52 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Hi, since native code is not currently supported in the SDK, this post is not appropriate for this group.  Please post on one of

[android-developers] Receiving Alarms when the program is not running

2008-12-13 Thread moazzamk
Hey all, I am trying to write a program that sets and alarm and has to display a text when the alarm goes off . The problem is my program might not be running when the alarm broadcast is sent so my program keeps crashing. Is there a way I can code an alarm receiver that can display an alert even

[android-developers] Re: error on my Mac 10.4 Power book: cannot execute binary file

2008-12-13 Thread Bill Napier
Are either of the mac users running on an old powerbook? Like the PowerPC (non-intel) powerbooks? The Android SDK is only works on Intel-based mac's. (I would love to see universal binaries for the mac stuff as well so I can use my PPC mac...) b On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:11 AM,

[android-developers] Re: Custom Components and Custom Attributes

2008-12-13 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Sorry, right now we don't have a way for libraries bundle their own resources. This is definitely a big hole that needs to be filled, but I don't know when that will happen. On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 2:14 PM, tenacious fbeach...@gmail.com wrote: How can I distribute custom components which have

[android-developers] Re: Service Launch problem

2008-12-13 Thread Dianne Hackborn
You are probably doing stuff in your constructor. Don't do that, do your initialization in onCreate(). On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Urig gimelsht...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, I need help :) I have an Activity which tries to start a Service (in the same process). It never

[android-developers] Making an SD Card-capable launcher.. possible?

2008-12-13 Thread David Orriss Jr
Has anyone looked at the feasibility of this at all? -- David Orriss Jr. My blog: http://www.codethought.com/blog --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group,

[android-developers] Is there really no possibility to detect incoming calls with a receiver?

2008-12-13 Thread code_android_festival_way
Hello! Is there really no possibility to react on incoming calls with the help of a BroadcastReceiver? I can catch everything except incoming calls. At the moment I have to rely on a non stop running server listening for the telephone state with the PhoneStateListener which is not really great