Re: [android-developers] Request is not from browser- need help

2010-01-17 Thread Kevin Duffey
I am assuming you posted 3 times by accident? Yes.. cookie. Desktop (or mobile device) applications don't maintain cookies automatically like a browser. Usually a jsp page returns a jsessionid= back as party of the response. You can then append this to pass the same cookie back... or look into

Re: [android-developers] Re: ATTENTION ANDROID TEAM: Take back control of Android.

2010-01-17 Thread Kevin Duffey
First.. let me ask for those of you that have apps in the market.. if I have a 1.5 version out there.. it shows up on any device that is 1.5 or later, right? Now..if I update it to run on 2.0.. will the update be made available or even notify 1.5/1.6 users? Or does it only show up for 2.0 and

Re: [android-developers] Bussiness Model

2010-01-17 Thread Kevin Duffey
For the OP.. I think what Frank says above is very true.. although possibly not so big yet on Android. There are a couple of barriers that I wonder if we'll be able to get past. The biggest barrier to me is having to NOT use your carrier to pay for items. It would be VERY nice if the market would

Re: [android-developers] Re: ATTENTION ANDROID TEAM: Take back control of Android.

2010-01-17 Thread Kevin Duffey
...@gmail.comwrote: On Jan 17, 9:26 pm, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: First.. let me ask for those of you that have apps in the market.. if I have a 1.5 version out there.. it shows up on any device that is 1.5 or later, right? Now..if I update it to run on 2.0.. will the update

Re: [android-developers] How to navigate from one page to another?

2010-01-17 Thread Kevin Duffey
Hy Frank, I've done the tutorials, Mark's book, etc. Do you happen to know if there is a way to utilize a single activity and.. sort of like ajax web apps, hide one view and show another without starting another activity? I'm not a fan of handling the various life cycle events for different

Re: [android-developers] Re: ATTENTION ANDROID TEAM: Take back control of Android.

2010-01-18 Thread Kevin Duffey
Good reply Dianne. I get pissed when I read blogs about how fragmented Android is as well. I don't get how it's fragmented. The only fragmentation that seems slightly just is the issue where individual phone vendors are providing their own special UI and extra features. I think the biggest issue

Re: [android-developers] Re: Some application / market questions

2010-01-18 Thread Kevin Duffey
So can you download a pack to the SD card from a server.. and your app can then look on the SD card for packs and load them up dynamically? Your app would provide an interface, the packs would implement it, you could dynamically instantiate them like plugins, based on that interface

[android-developers] Re: Scaling icons on MapActivity with zoom

2010-01-18 Thread Kevin Duffey
So it looks like I may have to manually (programatically) listen for zoom events and scale the images myself... or has anyone been able to get their overlay icons to scale in size with zoom? On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I been messing

Re: [android-developers] Working in Windows 2000

2010-01-18 Thread Kevin Duffey
I take it you don't have an Android phone.. if you do, you may want to develop on that instead... it's more than likely more powerful than your win2K box. :D I got my wife a netbook for $200 that runs windows 7... 250GB hd, 1GB ram, etc. I don't recommend that tho. For about $300 or so you can

Re: [android-developers] Re: Working in Windows 2000

2010-01-18 Thread Kevin Duffey
Actually..that's a decent laptop. Why don't you run Windows 7 on it? I am running Windows 7 Ultimate on lesser hardware and it works great. If the upgrade is not an option I can understand. but I have a 1.6Ghz pentium cpu with 768MB ram and it runs solid. I can't run 10 things at once.. but I am

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to increase FPS (now ~20, desired ~40-50)

2010-01-18 Thread Kevin Duffey
Another thought.. you have the asteroid[i] array.. and then you do the if (asterod.isAlive()) method. First.. eliminate the method call as you've been told. But for this particular example.. why are you keeping an array of objects that may not be displayed? By this I mean.. if you have 30

Re: [android-developers] Re: Scaling icons on MapActivity with zoom

2010-01-18 Thread Kevin Duffey
, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: So it looks like I may have to manually (programatically) listen for zoom events and scale the images myself... or has anyone been able to get their overlay icons to scale in size with zoom? On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Kevin Duffey andjar

Re: [android-developers] Mobile App Socialization - We Need an API

2010-01-18 Thread Kevin Duffey
Ok..read your blog. I personally still don't get the craze over twitter. I enjoy blogging.. when I have something to share..but as I have nobody that reads my blog, I don't really blog any more. I can't stand trying to type on my phone device. The virtual keyboard on the Moto Droid is pretty

Re: [android-developers] setting wma as alarm ringtone?

2010-01-18 Thread Kevin Duffey
I use RingDroid.. I think it supports wma, not sure now. I use mp3 tho with it no problem, and it's a free app. On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:55 PM, sansu sansu.andr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can we set a wma song as alarm ringtone? I set a wma as alarm ringtone but it is playing the different one

Re: [android-developers] Re: Scaling icons on MapActivity with zoom

2010-01-18 Thread Kevin Duffey
Exactly Frank. I'd first like to avoid loading different image sizes for each zoom level for each item I want to place on the map. Here's the thing.. in my app, it shows state parks. If you're zoomed out far enough, you're not going to see any parks. Right now tho, as you zoom out, all my icons

Re: [android-developers] Re: Working in Windows 2000

2010-01-18 Thread Kevin Duffey
Yah.. if you have 3GB of ram, give VirtualBox a try with 1GB ram for the guest Ubuntu. It's a little sluggish to work in..but it does work quite well. On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:19 PM, guiha...@gmail.com guiha...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for all suggestions. I'll try to run linux, either in a

Re: [android-developers] AdWhirl - any experience with it?

2010-01-18 Thread Kevin Duffey
I am curious.. how do you work in ad support into an app? This is one of the business models discussed in other threads, and it seems like providing a lite version with ads, and a pay version is one way to go. Or, just do a full version with ads in it all the time. I would love to know how to get

Re: [android-developers] Re: Scaling icons on MapActivity with zoom

2010-01-18 Thread Kevin Duffey
Good point Frank. Do you know by chance if the draw() method is called several times per second like in desktop/windowing/games? I am guessing it's not as there is no notion of a windowing setup where each window has to repaint itself as windows above it might move around (user dragging window),

Re: [android-developers] Using the AlarmManager as a timing service.

2010-01-19 Thread Kevin Duffey
Interesting Mark... is there no way to have something wake/start an app up when a condition occurs? I was reading the blog on Screebl, it seemed like with the Location support they can activate based on the location or other conditions of the device. I wasn't under the impression that app was

Re: [android-developers] AdWhirl - any experience with it?

2010-01-19 Thread Kevin Duffey
wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: I am curious.. how do you work in ad support into an app? This is one of the business models discussed in other threads, and it seems like providing a lite version with ads, and a pay version is one way to go

Re: [android-developers] Re: Service within a Thread? Thread within a Service?

2010-01-19 Thread Kevin Duffey
One thing you haven't indicated is if you need this remote access when the app starts, or if you actually need to periodically wake up and poll the remote service? If you only need to have a user start your app.. and at that point it requests to the remote service once.. or while the app is

Re: [android-developers] Best Server for Android MultiPlayer Games?

2010-01-19 Thread Kevin Duffey
Wow..where to start. First..I never heard of or looked up those servers you mentioned. But more importantly, exactly what do you need from the server side component for your game? Is it to keep track of player locations in the game world, store all their info, profile, achievements, scores, etc?

Re: [android-developers] Re: ATTENTION ANDROID TEAM: Take back control of Android.

2010-01-19 Thread Kevin Duffey
Couple thoughts on this. TreKing has a good idea. I've seen this done before. The only thing I would be worried about is as a user of the app, having to pass thru all this content to get to the app. Sure, you probably allow them to skip it. A different idea.. is this even worthy..is to provide a

Re: [android-developers] Re: Best Server for Android MultiPlayer Games?

2010-01-19 Thread Kevin Duffey
Hey Robert, Love your online stuff.. read it all. Still got it bookmarked in hopes of using some of it for some game ideas. That said, I think the Ruby language is quite a bit more difficult at least in syntax than Java is. If you already know the Java language, why learn another language for

Re: [android-developers] Re: Service within a Thread? Thread within a Service?

2010-01-19 Thread Kevin Duffey
Interesting. I've got to read up on services more. I thought when you start a service it's a new application that is running along with other background apps. Essentially, I thought you'd have the foreground app PLUS a background app running. When the foreground app closes, the background keeps on

Re: [android-developers] Re: ATTENTION ANDROID TEAM: Take back control of Android.

2010-01-19 Thread Kevin Duffey
I suppose it's too late, or perhaps too many wouldn't have joined up with google if they had done this, but it would have been nice if there was a guarantee from all devices that any app that runs on the emulator will run on devices. I've read not just in these emails, but on other forums as well

Re: [android-developers] hi

2010-01-19 Thread Kevin Duffey
I am watching this now. Pretty kewl. This guy talks really fast tho. :D On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Miguel Morales therevolti...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Rakesh, I have yet to see any good complete tutorials on making an android game. I think this is because there is more than one way to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Webview - fill out an HTTP Form and submit programatically?

2010-01-19 Thread Kevin Duffey
An alternative approach might be to use HttpClient and submit directly to the URL the form does, passing in the form attributes with your call and correct values. You will probably have to look at the page source of the site you are trying to get into tho. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:55 PM,

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to increase FPS (now ~20, desired ~40-50)

2010-01-19 Thread Kevin Duffey
Was just watching the video from back in May by Chris Pruett. He had a performance slide comparing canvas to opengl and as he noted there, canvas is much slower. I am sure you know this, but getting 30fps on a Canvas with more than a dozen or so sprites might be difficult when you factor in game

Re: [android-developers] Understand Device deep sleep behavior and its affect on the application.

2010-01-20 Thread Kevin Duffey
Good set of questions. I've been wondering many of them myself.. just waiting to find out when I get to them. Will be nice if someone knows the specific answers. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Android Development indodr...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, When the device goes to sleep, any activity

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to increase FPS (now ~20, desired ~40-50)

2010-01-20 Thread Kevin Duffey
After I wrote you, I realized that issue too. I remember reading that and after I responded.. wondering if my response was inaccurate. I wonder how much the speed/cores of your cpu play into the emulator performance? I know that my small test apps run faster on my moto droid than they do my

Re: [android-developers] Re: Can't see comments for Android 2.0 version of app

2010-01-20 Thread Kevin Duffey
Is there not a way to poll the market from say, a web app? How do these other sites get their Market app data? I thought there would be some way to actually query the market from either Android or a web/server side so that we could essentially build a market app ourselves? On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at

Re: [android-developers] RPC in Android

2010-01-20 Thread Kevin Duffey
That's pretty vague. RPC to what? The more common way these days is to use RESTful calls using HttpClient to send a REST call to a server, and then parse the xml, json, text, w/e is returned. I know that you can do web services calls, but not really sure how as REST is far easier to deal with. On

Re: [android-developers] Broadcast Receiver and Remote Service

2010-01-20 Thread Kevin Duffey
I am not entirely sure if I understand.. but is it possible when you raise the alert dialog, it's a different activity and that may be why it seems it's not working? Maybe you have to do something in the alert dialog... or maybe it blocks the main activity thread and that is why? On Wed, Jan 20,

Re: [android-developers] Deleting all files

2010-01-20 Thread Kevin Duffey
Not sure of other ways, but couldn't you use some sort of preference check for a new flag the update only knows about, if it's not there, wipe the saves out then set it? Some sort of first run flag for the update? On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Joshua Frank frankjos...@gmail.com wrote: I have

Re: [android-developers] Re: Creating dialogs from a thread

2010-01-21 Thread Kevin Duffey
Did you create a 2nd thread with the run() method having the call to the dialog.. and then queue that thread onto the UI thread? It should work. I am not sure why you need to do the call to the dialog on the UI Thread entirely.. I've done a lot of Swing stuff where the UI thread was event driven,

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to forward a phone call to voice mail ?

2010-01-21 Thread Kevin Duffey
I think he meant programatically..like he wants to write a service app that gets notified of incoming calls and he can write some code that sends the call to voice mail directly. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Kumar Bibek coomar@gmail.com wrote: In the contacts Content Provider, there is

Re: [android-developers] Re: Creating dialogs from a thread

2010-01-21 Thread Kevin Duffey
Ah yes Streets.. that was what I was missing.. been a while since I dealt with UI threads. It's not that you have to run a thread on the UI.. you run a Runnable. The Runnable just defines run() method.. I forget now but I think basically it allows the UI thread to just call run() on your Runnable

Re: [android-developers] Touch screen data

2010-01-21 Thread Kevin Duffey
You looking to build a velocity sensitive music keyboard app? :D On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:29 PM, ltjisstinky jackhenr...@gmail.com wrote: Alot of android phones use the capacitive touchscreen technology. I was wondering if there is away to access any sort of information related to this

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

2010-01-21 Thread Kevin Duffey
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 think it's one of the most confusing issues for non-techie (and even techie peeps that don't know about programming and threads and such) users for android devices. The problem to

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to increase FPS (now ~20, desired ~40-50)

2010-01-21 Thread Kevin Duffey
, and biting the bullet might be the only solution. It's a pity google don't provide a basic example of a 2d GL game with their SDK, if they did, they might end up with a few more decent games on the market. On Jan 20, 7:05 am, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: Was just watching

Re: [android-developers] Re: Activity.finish() x System.exit

2010-01-21 Thread Kevin Duffey
It's too bad the android team can't remove some methods like exit() to avoid these potential pitfalls that aren't documented very well (at least in most books). For guich, looks like you would need to implement some way of detecting that the library is already loaded, so as not to load it again.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Anyone noticing more uninstalls of their app than usual over last weekend/today?

2010-01-22 Thread Kevin Duffey
What exactly is this issue? I am not sure what the original thread was? On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:16 AM, matt smith mattsmith...@googlemail.com wrote: Still not fixed. If google can't fix this, they should feature all of

Re: [android-developers] OpenGL ES

2010-01-22 Thread Kevin Duffey
Just curious..but being a mobile device with limited resources, does it really need OpenGL 2.0? Can it even handle what 2.0 may offer now? Not trying to stir the pot, asking out of curiosity as I sense the anger over the delay and old API and certainly as one interested in game development I'd

Re: [android-developers] Requests from Handsets Only

2010-01-22 Thread Kevin Duffey
Not entirely sure what the android browsers provide in the request header (if you are talking about the browsers on android and not a specific app), but usually their is a header that identifies the client browser and OS sent in the request. On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Flapjack

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

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to force US Account in Android phone

2010-01-24 Thread Kevin Duffey
I see 2. One is free, one is $9.80. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Guillaume tcg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Can someone in the US help me out? Can you go to the Android Market, and search for 'nanonavi' to see if you can see 2 versions? One is paid and one is free. Thank you very much

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

2010-01-24 Thread Kevin Duffey
I deployed my first Android application to the emulator. I still have lots more to learn but I am looking forward to the journey. Regards anthoni On Jan 25, 3:59 am, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: You are definitely going to want to learn Java first. Android should come long

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: 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

2010-01-27 Thread Kevin Duffey
it is back to being awkwardly sat up in bed with the laptop, or fork out quite a bit for a flexible e-book reader like the Kindle :) On Jan 26, 11:55 pm, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: I thought the same thing Anthoni.. I tried a PDF viewer for my moto droid. Don't like it so much

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

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