Hi,
i've bumped into some weird behavior in Android 2.0 in the emulator:
newly created AVDs show some kind of a Japanase (if i'm not mistaking)
IME when i type in the textbox. The text is shown in the IME but not
in the textbox. I've also seen that disabling certain options which
are enabled by
As I used to tell my customers a long time ago in a place far, far
away:
Any 10 year old with a PHD in physics can do it in a week.
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You can quite easily setup an emulator that has the market app on it.
I did this once Cyrket went off the air as it's a lot easier to view
the position of my apps on the emulator than the actual device. Search
Google for that topic to find out how to do it. Free, paid and copy
protected apps can
Yep, that's what i did too, the package name is reserved. But i think
the name was also reserved too, i had to also change a small detail in
the name so it would accept my submission.
On Nov 12, 7:08 am, Andrei gml...@gmail.com wrote:
i think you have to rename your package and upload as new
I would also be interested in this since Tattoo is pretty cheap
compared to other Android phones here...
On Nov 12, 8:04 am, Nemat nemate...@gmail.com wrote:
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I have to buy a new Android phone for testing android applications I
work upon.What about HTC Tatoo??
Can I buy that
textView.post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
textView.offsetLeftAndRight(50);
}
});
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Nithin nithin.war...@gmail.com wrote:
After a layout means, after attaching the view to layout
I can only give you my impressions from a user of the Dev phone 2
which has been previously released as the Google ION (at the Google IO
2009 conference).
It's a very nice device, I use it as my regular phone now, on ATT with
a $15 data plan and the usual voice plan. It works quite well, runs
1.6
It has the usual, compass, GPS, accelerometer, camera. Check out the
specs on the developer page. Also has a good support forum:
http://groups.google.com/group/io-device
No mention of the 1 year warranty that I saw, hopefully it still has
that.
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Just add a period or dash to the name and that will solve the problem:
My Problem App to My Problem App.
Who will notice?
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thanks Romain.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Romain Guy romain...@google.com wrote:
That's the common Intent.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:22 AM, for android forandr...@gmail.com wrote:
i was referring to the INSTALL_SHORTCUT in the launcher application with
action
I've been puzzled by the lack of ability for a developer to answer
comments made on the market by users. It has been frustrating to see
negative comments or questions made and be unable to do anything about
them...
I've found an easy to use, yet undocumented method to do this.
First, download
I'm just guessing here, but if your app is a paid app then you're not
allowed to download your own app for some odd reason (it's in the
terms), so if you used the same Google account to upload the app as
your G1 has, you shouldn't be able to see it on that device.
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http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/5143e0b6db57b1d0?hl=en#
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Hi everyone,
i have some code that is creating and removing alarms, and which works
great in Android 1.5 and 1.6 but breaks on the Android 2.0 AVD.
The code that's giving this exception is:
Intent intent = new Intent(context, AlarmReceiver.class).setFlags
(
You could check the list of satellites available, if none are visible,
I'm guessing that would mean you have lost the signal.
Here's some code that may help:
private TextView locGpsStatus = null ;
private Integer iGpsStatus = -1 ;
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// Listener for GPS Status...
Now children, repeat after me:
F - U - B - A - R
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I believe it's CEP or Circular Error Probability:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_error_probable
Another words, your point can be anywhere inside the circle of X
meters diameter.
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be in the second round anyway.
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with Jay no doubt) Cyrket, so they went down together.
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Hey, they haven't contacted me yet and I'm sure at least one of my
apps will make it into the next round...
/comedy
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I'm guessing there must be some sort of non-disclosure involved with
this Droid thing and Android 2.0, or else we would have something to
work with. It's a bit frightening to think that there could be
100,000+ devices sold on day one and I've never seen the SDK, don't
know if my app will break
The process seems straight forward to me. What do you have to lose?
Ok, so your app doesn't get 100,000 downloads in a day from the
effort. App publicity is hard to come by, especially for free. It's
seems like a deal that can't be missed, so stop the complaining and
help the promotion out. The
We'll see here soon (tomorrow maybe?). I have an app ahead of me
that's in the 1000-5000 count range for downloads and my install
numbers are approaching 5000, so if it's absolute installs, then the
app ahead of me should move to the 5000-1 count range by tomorrow.
Interesting to find out.
Ok, so miss this opportunity for some free publicity.
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I'm signing up for a Droid on the first day it will be out. Too bad
there isn't a simple way for developers to get their hands on these
devices without signing up for a two year contract.
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Well, perhaps it might be a good idea when those of us who can get
these things offer to others who need it testing services with logcat
output.
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I had no problem adding screen shots to my free apps. I have no paid
apps, so perhaps the mix is causing an issue.
Strangely, the market asks for 320x480 screen shots then reduces them
in size by a few pixels, and sort of smudging them in the process. It
seems like it would have been smarter to
OnScrollListner there is an example in the API demos.
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Now I want to make a ListView,with 20 items,
Then when it scroll to the end,
I get new data and add to the end of ListView dynamic.
Just Like ListView in Android
I have an even weirder problem with one of my apps. In the market,
when my What Zip Code? app is clicked on, it shows a loading
message that occupies the top 1/3 of the screen. It never loads
anything. If you do a back key, then go back into it, the app
description displays fine. Strangely, my
Have you marked the post as spam? It's easy to do in the market app,
just long press on the comment or click on the x to the right of the
comment to flag it as spam. That's about all you can do as far as I
know.
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+1 i have also ecountered this umpteen times on Windows XP.
Sometimes it does not take recognise the internet connectivity.Only a
restart helps
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Hi,
when launching my app from within Eclipse, sometimes the running
Just a bug in the market upload program, the permissions show
correctly in the market app itself, so no worries.
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I know this because my app communicates with our server and leaves
behind important information like version. If I had known that OS
version would matter, I would have transmitted that as well.
Google has been mum about the contest, which is probably
I have been able to scale-up my application in WVGA skins pretty easily for
my app.But in WVGA mode the widget seem to be not working as
desired.Sometimes the widget just gives the message No more room in the
Home Screen even though there is space.Some times it takes up the whole
screen without
Especially for the ones who are left standing!
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On Oct 6, 4:33 pm, CraigsRace craig...@gmail.com wrote:
Allowing an app update would go against their own rules, so it would
be very controversial. Having said that, IMO, I wouldn't mind if they
did
1.6 is out. It's been pushed to T-Mobile users (at least in the US)
and is available as an official download for the Google ION directly
from the HTC site. I just updated my device to 1.6 and thankfully, my
apps still run.
The new market app shows the screen shots that can be uploaded, so
it's a
With that much data, the better choice would be to query a web server
and leave your app light weight and nimble. Anything that big will not
only take too long to download but will fill up way too much space on
the device. Using a web server might even execute faster than using an
internal large
Thanks I got the required functionality from Music Player application :
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This is the current music playing panel, which has special
launch behavior. We clear its task affinity, so it will not
be associated with the main media task and if launched
from a notification will not bring the rest of
To me, the right thing to do would be to stop the first phase of this
contest now, select the to 200 apps, figure out which ones bomb from
1.6 and give the developer a change to only change the bits that are
causing the problems. There would have to be some controls to prevent
upgrades and
On the other hand...
For those that had a submission with a terminal error, it will put
doubt into the minds of the judges as to the cause of the error: poor
programming or 1.6.
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What about:
Settings.Secure.getString(getContentResolver(),
Settings.Secure.ANDROID_ID)
How unique/stable is this setting?
I've been using it and it seems to work fine, at least for now.
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When the remote process gets killed by the OS,then you get a
DeadObjectException.
Any process might get killed by the OS depending on system requirements.
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:22 AM, yukinoba ckmagic...@gmail.com wrote:
to dear all Android developers and fans,
Does anyone ever meet a
look at onResume()
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Siju siju.mat...@gmail.com wrote:
How can I force an activity to close when user presses Home button or
navigates out of the activity?
Do I get a callback when focus goes out of the activity? I cannot see
that in the Activity callback
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The second round of judging also includes user judging - 40% of the
outcome if I remember correctly.
I believe you are incorrect on this. This first round of judging is
user judging, and makes up 40% of an apps
The only fair solution would be to make sure the judging app doesn't
function on 1.6
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I found this peice of code for creating short-cut at the dektop:
Intent shortcutIntent = new Intent
(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
shortcutIntent.setClassName(this, this.getClass
().getName());
Intent intent = new Intent();
Short POLL: Do you face this issue, too [or not?] ?
I've got a Google ION (Magic sort of) and so far, 90% have downloaded
directly out of the app. Perhaps a little more patience is in order.
One thing that may affect my success. I usually do the judging app
after business hours, so the market
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=adc2+terms+and+conditions
Especially:
9. SECOND ROUND JUDGING
a. ENTRIES: Second Round Judging is only for entries selected as
Qualifying Entries in the First Round Judging. The same application
submitted by these Participants for the First Round will be
distributed for
I wonder how many of the users judging the applications have submitted
their own applications and are just voting other applications down to
improve their own chances of winning...
That's a rather cynical view, however, one that's probably close to
the mark in a lot of cases.
I've been
I have three apps in ADC2 and so far have seen a total of 63 users run
them.
There seems to be a very low number of judges participating in ADC2.
I've seen no publicity at all, no mention in the tech press, no TV
coverage, nothing to indicate this contest is running.
I'm guessing that the
There should also be a rating for functionality.
I've reviewed about 50 or so apps and at least 10 have had major
malfunctions or didn't function at all. Things like force close, maps
that were blank (probably no key) and buttons that had no function.
There was even one that simply had Hello,
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1) This belongs to android-discuss, it has nothing to do with
developing apps using the public SDK
Maybe. There are enough conversations regarding ADC2 on this forum to
make it relevant. If Google would open an ADC2 forum, that would be a
better place.
2) TV adds? Are you kidding us or you
I have to agree that any complex or involved apps will not make it
with the way the judging app is written. Google should have made it so
you could keep the apps you're judging for a while at least, in some
sort of special directory, so you could use them for a few days before
deciding if they
Last night I reviewed about 20 apps also and had no problems at all.
Today, I've not been able to review a single one. I get stuck in the
download stage as well.
It's probably due to the higher volume on the market right now.
Perhaps someone at Google forgot to throw some switch to turn on
How do you figure? I see no announcements, no way to download a
judging app, no blog entries, news stories, CNN message on the
scroll...
I did see an entry in the log from somebody running one of our
entries, so maybe testing has begun.
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How the devil are regular users going to be to:
1. Know ADC2 exists.
2. Find the judging app.
I will bet that the majority of judges will be developers! Talk about
a tainted jury!
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I have to say that the judging app is a bit disappointing. There is no
way I can see to skip an app, or if it's not applicable (such as
traffic in England - I'm in the US), to not judge it. There should be
a way to indicate NA and continue. How do you judge an app that you
can't run? All 1 stars?
Oop!
You can hit the menu button and then Skip - that should be more
obvious to the users.
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DDMS tool
Device - screen capture.
You'll have to be running in the emulator or connected to ddms through
the USB cord.
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The reason they don't work on the Android browser (or webkit for that
matter) is that they are using mouse events. If you want to use that
code on the Android you have to use touch events instead. Try reading
up on the following:
touchstart - finger touches the screen
touchmove - finger is
It probably will work, mouse and touch events won't happen
simultaneously.
As for touch, you can have multiple finger touches (think iPhone)
which can be interpreted differently than anything that can be done
with a mouse. Android doesn't (I believe) support gestures at this
point but may in the
One other thing...
I've found differences between the way iPhone and Android handle
events. Mouse events on the iPhone are handled differently on Android,
so keep that in mind as well.
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In a word: YES!
Implementations of JavaScript vary across all the major platforms, you
have to be very careful about testing, test and more testing each time
you make a change to any code on a web page. The worst offenders are
IE6 and IE7. Safari has plenty of quirks and as the iPhone is a
I think a lot of developers, especially ones from the web world,
forget that these mobile devices are like desktop computers of the
mid-90's in power and speed. Trying to get a complex JavaScript
application to run on the phone is probably going to be disappointing.
Just because it runs on FF
You can easily test your device's browser JavaScript capabilities by
calling up a Google Map API (v3 is best on mobile) application. Here's
one you can try:
http://www.usnaviguide.com/v3maps/ProjectedOverlayTest.htm
If this map works, you have JavaScript enabled.
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Use JSON instead. No cross domain security with that method.
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I had this problem as well. I solved it by looping until I got a 200
response. It's 100% effective.
Here's is the relevant code:
http_response_code = -1 ;
HttpURLConnection conn = null ;
int iRetry = 0;
while ( iRetry 10 ) {
iRetry++ ;
try {
conn=
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I'm using:
Settings.Secure.getString(getContentResolver(),
Settings.Secure.ANDROID_ID)
as a unique id for the phone. It doesn't require any additional
permissions and seems to be unique. Someone correct me if I'm wrong...
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I had no trouble uploading my screen shots. Make sure you have no
alpha, which may mean in your case using 8 bit PNG's instead of 24.
You also may have selected to use transparency in your PNG's which
would cause trouble. Make sure you have the exact size asked for as
well.
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What
If you want to depend on an external flash to trigger the camera, and
use that flash to improve the picture, I think you'll find that
impossible as the camera is way too slow to react to such a sudden
event. Try triggering the camera manually. It takes about a second
before the image is captured,
The problem with a non-development phone (or a locked one) is that the
carriers demand such unreasonable terms, like two year contracts and
all. In my area, T-Mobile is available but doesn't work in my home.
The 3-g here for T-Mobile is slower than dial-up and is only available
in a tiny fraction
All I can say to this is:
Good food takes time, be patient!
(my mother)
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Category: Travel
By: John Coryat, USNaviguide LLC
Description:
Radar Now carefully fixes your location to display the animated
weather radar and current conditions closest to you.
The beauty of this application is its speed and simplicity. Radar Now
requires no user input or
You might start with an app that installs just the framework, then use
an internal function to install the graphics and anything that takes
up a lot of space. That way the package installer won't hog all the
space.
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Whatever, it's too late to do anything about it so I suggest you sit
back and enjoy.
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Our entry is
Name: What Zip?
Category: Productivity/Tools
By: John Coryat, USNaviguide LLC
Description:
This application carefully fixes your location to determine your USPS
Zip Code (US Only).
Displays the results as a shaded outline of the Zip Code along with
your location and closest street
On a slightly different topic but related...
It would be great if there was a method called when the app is
uninstalled. My apps connect with a web server and knowing when a user
uninstalls the app would allow cleanup of information the user left
behind. As it sits, I don't know if a user
Did you change your package name in the manifest?
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You knew the rules for months in advance, so who can you blame for not
properly testing your app?
In a way, the rules of this challenge are a lot like the real world of
projects, deadlines and customer expectations. You have a deadline and
the customer (Google in this case) expects to have a
Animated gif's aren't supported by the current version of the Android
browser. It's been noted as a bug and should be fixed in some future
release of the OS.
What you can do is do the animation with JavaScript. You'll need
access to each individual frame as separate images, it's fairly
simple,
Have you tried using DDMS to select the source?
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I suggest you read this entire thread, the answer is there.
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Got the same e-mail, sort of spammy.
I use the example app they posted, Weatherbug which is a nice app.
The ads displayed on it are of reasonable size and unobtrusive, so
perhaps they are an ok source of ad revenue. Don't know how they pay
or what kind of company they are though.
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How can a webview be created with the ZoomPicker enabled and the
webpage zoomed out?
I have the following code that doesn't work:
WebView mywebview = getWebView() ;
mywebview.setWebViewClient(getWebViewClient());
I suggest shortening the description and including a link to your
site. That would make more sense.
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I see no need to extend the deadline, it's been public since May 27th,
if you're not ready by now, you'll probably never be ready. People
have to learn that a deadline means something, extending it would only
punish those who are ready and reward those who can't meet project
goals on time.
-John
I didn't read anything about size restrictions but the rules do say
something about updates after submission. The easiest and surest way
to find this out is to read the rules. They are quite clear and to the
point. Search Google for ADC2 to find them.
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There is nothing in the rules to prevent you from releasing your app
to the market after August 1st, so what's the big deal? I would
suggest that anyone who plans on submitting an app to ADC2 submit it
first to the market for debugging and to catch unforeseen problems.
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On Aug 24,
Not sure what you mean by area name but the process you're referring
to is called reverse geocoding.
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This example using a Google map may be useful: (JavaScript)
http://maps.huge.info/dragcircle2.htm
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/**
* Checks whether the device is able to connect to the network
* @param context
* @return
*/
public static boolean isNetworkAvailable(Context context) {
ConnectivityManager connectivity = (ConnectivityManager) context
As long as the site opens before the end of the month, what difference
does it make?
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You can always purchase an IO phone (Ion) from eBay, probably for less
than the $400 for a dev G1.
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Could any please confirm that this is a bug in the SDK.Due to this we face a
lot of issues in our app.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2764
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I've seen it as low as 75m and as high as 2400m, I'm sure it
fluctuates quite a bit.
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