[android-developers] Android Market is broken (server error), can we get confirmation from Google that they are working on this issue?

2010-12-20 Thread Chister Nordvik
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=5f475fcdfcc22233hl=en Our app has been gone from the market since Saturday along with a lot of other apps from other developers, and still we haven't heard anything from Google confirming that there is an issue with the new(?)

[android-developers] Re: Restricted location in publisher GUI is not working on some devices

2010-12-19 Thread Chister Nordvik
Just for the records it was due to the operator using swedish sim- cards in Norway... On Dec 2, 10:00 pm, dan raaka danra...@gmail.com wrote: I am seeing this disappearing issue on some of my apps as well. -Dan On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:28 AM, Chister Nordvik cnord...@gmail.com wrote

[android-developers] Re: App disappeared from Market Home

2010-12-18 Thread Chister Nordvik
Be careful updating now, I just tried and the following happened: - The app disappears - The category changes to games (if you forget that the console changes the category to games when you edit...) - Next time you edit it (by tweaking the URL) you get screenshots and icons from the first time you

[android-developers] Re: Restricted location in publisher GUI is not working on some devices

2010-11-25 Thread Chister Nordvik
filtering goes beyond geo-restriction go through this onehttp://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/market-filters.html -Dan On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Chister Nordvik cnord...@gmail.com wrote: We have an application that is restricted to one country (Norway). But I am sitting here

[android-developers] Re: High Resolution Application Icon keeps disappearing

2010-11-24 Thread Chister Nordvik
I tried adding it back again and it just deleted my whole app. Guess I should have left it alone. What a great console we have for Android Market. Wondering if they have beta-testers for it, or they just treat us as their testers? -Christer On Nov 24, 11:20 pm, Nathan critter...@crittermap.com

[android-developers] Re: Google Maps API hidden maps and opengl

2010-11-13 Thread Chister Nordvik
Did you ever figure this one out? I tried to create a very simple map application, but got the stub exception at startup both on device and in emulator: E/AndroidRuntime( 263): Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: stub E/AndroidRuntime( 263):at

[android-developers] Restricted location in publisher GUI is not working on some devices

2010-11-10 Thread Chister Nordvik
We have an application that is restricted to one country (Norway). But I am sitting here with multiple devices, HTC Wildfire, SE XP10 (after 2.1 upgrade) and SE XP 10 Mini (after 2.1 upgrade) that fails to find the application even though they are registered on a Norwegian network (Tele2). The SE

[android-developers] Re: New countries, but not possible to move existing account?

2010-10-05 Thread Chister Nordvik
I would also like to know this. But you may actually want to switch to a US account if you can. A few days ago the SwiftKey app switched from UK£0.60 to US$0.99 because like many non-US developers they were getting a lot of payment declined US orders. Then I would have to setup a US company

[android-developers] New countries, but not possible to move existing account?

2010-10-01 Thread Chister Nordvik
We have registered a company in the UK to be able to sell on the Android Market. Now that the market is opened in our own country (Norway) it would be great to move the applications so that our income would be in the Norwegian account. Or change our exisiting country to Norway. This is not

[android-developers] Adaptive streaming - any plans for Android implementation?

2010-09-28 Thread Chister Nordvik
I am working on a iPhone/Android project where we stream H.264 video from live events. This works great with adaptive streaming on the iPhone but the Android devices doesn't offer this so we have to decide on which stream to offer the user. When the user sits in a car streaming the event the

[android-developers] Re: How much money do you make?

2010-09-19 Thread Chister Nordvik
But how do you get featured? Our sports app is in top 5 and has been there 6 months. Never been featured. ESPN apps are always featured. Does it favor US sports apps? Ours is a soccer one... Would be great if we knew how they were chosen. On Sep 18, 11:13 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com

[android-developers] App icon not working after upgrade, but reboot fixes the problem...

2010-09-14 Thread Chister Nordvik
Hi. I have an app with about 200.000 users and recently upgraded it. This has worked fine before but now I suddenly got 30-40 emails and lot of 1* because the app icon didn't work anymore. It said the program wasn't installed. If they went to My Downloads in the Android Market they could open the

[android-developers] Re: App icon not working after upgrade, but reboot fixes the problem...

2010-09-14 Thread Chister Nordvik
This usually happens if you rename the Activity (or move it to a different package). The system get confused because its cached the old name somewhere. A reboot usually fixes this but not always. The workaround is to add a dummy Activity at the old location (which is a subclass of the new

[android-developers] Is it possible to change colors.xml file at runtime?

2010-09-09 Thread Chister Nordvik
I have an application where I would like the users to be able to change the theme. Currently my layout have elements like this: LinearLayout android:orientation=vertical android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=fill_parent android:background=@color/background_transparency what I

[android-developers] Re: Is it possible to change colors.xml file at runtime?

2010-09-09 Thread Chister Nordvik
Resources cannot be modified at runtime. However, there is nothing preventing you from creating a getCustomColor() method somewhere that looks for your override value and returns it, otherwise returning the color resource value. But then I would need to set all my colors at runtime. Is there

[android-developers] Http connections gives timeouts randomly with DefaultHttpClient

2010-08-12 Thread Chister Nordvik
Hi. If I make myself a test downloading data with AsyncTask via the DefaultHttpConnection and run the test in a loop with 20 iterations I always get one or two socket timeouts. Does anyone know the reason for the timeout? Is this related to Http connection management issues? I have tried both

[android-developers] Re: C2DM example ChromeToPhone, contents of quot;dataMessagingToken.txtquot;

2010-07-16 Thread Chister Nordvik
Good luck with the signup. I've been asking google for ac2dmaccount for 2 month now. My application is ready for publishing. But is worthless without thec2dm:( Great, 2 days of coding spent on nothing. All because I didn't see the signup-button. Good thing I didn't promise you 300.000 users

[android-developers] Re: Why doesn't this discussion list function properly on Android phones?

2010-07-15 Thread Chister Nordvik
Same 401 error here also (Nexus One). I thought I was the only one :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

[android-developers] Re: WebView / HTTPClient shared cookies ?

2010-07-15 Thread Chister Nordvik
An Android app I am building requires web authentication for users to make data calls. In Adobe AIR and later the iPhone, we did this by rendering a login page in a webview-equivalent page and setting a cookie when the user signs in. Subsequent data calls use the same Cookie Jar and so are

[android-developers] C2DM example ChromeToPhone, contents of dataMessagingToken.txt

2010-07-14 Thread Chister Nordvik
Hi. I've been working/struggling with the C2DM examples to get them to work in my setup. I have almost everything in place but I can't send messages to the device because I haven't a ClientLogin Auth token. In the ChromeToPhone example this seems to be stored in dataMessagingToken.txt. It's

[android-developers] Re: C2DM example ChromeToPhone, contents of dataMessagingToken.txt

2010-07-14 Thread Chister Nordvik
I haven't tried getting Chrome2Phone working, but in general, I'd use a text editor. :-) Haven't thought of that! Here's a curl script to get the token: http://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/blob/master/Push/C2DM/auth.sh Thanks!. You saved me a lot cursing at lacking documentation (or

[android-developers] Re: C2DM example ChromeToPhone, contents of dataMessagingToken.txt

2010-07-14 Thread Chister Nordvik
And just when I thought I had it going for me I got this QuotaExceeded message: com.google.android.c2dm.server.C2DMessaging sendNoRetry: Got error response from Google datamessaging endpoint: QuotaExceeded Any clues to what is wrong this time? I guess the error message says it all, but do I have

[android-developers] Re: paypal mobile payment allowed?

2010-07-06 Thread Chister Nordvik
I think you can distribute your free app  through market, and provide paypal financed donwload of paid parts through some other means.   This way your paid parts are not served through market. Well, if we only could get Google to confirm this... Spotify - free in the market, but you have to

[android-developers] Re: paypal mobile payment allowed?

2010-07-06 Thread Chister Nordvik
The alternative market approach is hopeless in my eyes. Currently we have at least: SlideMe, AndAppStore, AndroidPit, SE PlayNow, Motorola, Lenovo, Handango, Mobihand, OnlyAndroid, GetJar ++ You will not get me submitting screenshotsAPK and descriptions for all of those. And I guess there are

[android-developers] How to make a widget that doesn't drain the battery and updates often

2010-06-05 Thread Chister Nordvik
Hi. I want to make (yet another) news widget. Initially I thought it was enough to: 1. Download all the news articles 2. Update the widget every 5 seconds to change the currently displayed article using AlarmManager (AlarmManager.RTC) 3. Update the widget every 30-60 minutes to get new articles

[android-developers] Re: How to make a widget that doesn't drain the battery and updates often

2010-06-05 Thread Chister Nordvik
Frankly, I don't know why the Genie... service sticks around for the stock News and Weather. It does not appear to be affecting the thoroughly irritating and non-configurable change-the-headline-every-five-seconds feature, as that persists even when I shut down the service via the Settings

[android-developers] How to get current timezone when user has selected use network-provided values

2010-05-27 Thread Chister Nordvik
I am using the function: http://developer.android.com/intl/de/reference/java/util/TimeZone.html#getRawOffset%28%29 to get the GMT offset and use that to display dates in the users timezone. This works great if the users has set a timezone in the settings of Android, but if the user has selected

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-04-20 Thread Chister Nordvik
Couldn't agree more. How many people in here have contacted Google, FedEx Brightpoint just because of lack of information from Google? A simple mail saying: Sorry, you'll get your phone in May would have been enough. And don't get us started on the Android Market! The petition (http://

[android-developers] Re: Petition: Google, please improve the Android Market.

2010-03-15 Thread Chister Nordvik
Just wanted to add my vote to this also. I have submitted our app to: - Ovi Store - Windows Mobile Marketplace - iPhone App Store - Samsung App Store (WM) - Android Market And not to start a riot here, but all of the above has better functionality than the Android Market. Longer descriptions,

[android-developers] Re: Can anyone tell me ONE app that shows up in Android Market on HTC Tattoo

2009-12-01 Thread Chister Nordvik
If you have time, could you tell me the names of a few apps that show up on your Tattoo phone? Here is a few apps I can see on the Tattoo: FotMob, a must have app! Sportstap Livescores -Christer, FotMob developer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[android-developers] Re: NEEDED: Apps to feature on Sprint Microsite

2009-10-30 Thread Chister Nordvik
Just wanted to chime in here since there was some negative comments about Android developer programs. We actually got a free Android device about 2 weeks ago from one of these developer programs in exchange for a NDA. It could happen to you :-) -Christer -- You received this message because you

[android-developers] MediaPlayer.Create returns null on some Android handsets?

2009-10-20 Thread Chister Nordvik
Hi! I have a background service that plays a sound when an event has happened with the following code: 1. MediaPlayer mp = MediaPlayer.create(getBaseContext(), R.raw.theEnd); 2. mp.start(); But sometimes I see from my errorlogs that people are getting a nullpointer on line nr 2 here. My music

[android-developers] Re: MediaPlayer.Create returns null on some Android handsets?

2009-10-20 Thread Chister Nordvik
resources to not work quite right. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Chister Nordvik cnord...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I have a background service that plays a sound when an event has happened with the following code: 1. MediaPlayer mp = MediaPlayer.create(getBaseContext

[android-developers] SingleTask, SingleTop how to properly implement a GUI

2009-10-13 Thread Chister Nordvik
Hi! Our application which consists of something like this: Main menu = View contacts = Edit contact = View groups = Settings = Browser settings I have then added gestures so that the user can jump between any of these screens with a gesture. But this leads to a huge activity stack that

[android-developers] Webview with progress and url overriding

2009-10-09 Thread Chister Nordvik
Hi! I would like to add a Webview that both intercepts the URL clicks and shows a progress when loading. URL overriding: myWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() { @Override public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) { ... Progress:

[android-developers] How to manage service lifecycle when device kills it due to low memory

2009-08-25 Thread Chister Nordvik
Hi! I have a service that polls for data. To indicate this to the user I have a persistent notification in the statusbar. In some cases when the device goes low on memory it destroys the service but OnDestroy is not called. Later when there is available memory OnCreate is called. Is this normal

[android-developers] Stuck in landscape mode after launching YouTube

2009-05-13 Thread Chister Nordvik
Hi! 1. User clicks an image in my app 2. The app launches YouTube 3. Screen is rotated in landscape 4. User presses home button 5. User starts my program again 6. My program is launched with the main screen but it's stuck in landscape mode (due to Youtube switching orientation) Nothing I do

[android-developers] Transparency on Views behaving differently in 1.5

2009-04-25 Thread Chister Nordvik
Hi! I have a lot of Views where I have set a background image on the top LinearLayout and then I have nested a new linear layout below with a background that is semi-transparent. This works great in 1.1, but in 1.5 the transparency is just disregarded and this breaks my app as the text on top is

[android-developers] Re: Android Market broken? Can't see the new release of my app in the Android Market?!

2009-02-17 Thread Chister Nordvik
So where are the support people and the reports on what's happening?? Well, in my opinion almost all market related questions are ignored: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/5d9a68b5393e4752?hl=en#

[android-developers] Android Market - subscription based payment or workarounds?

2009-02-16 Thread Chister Nordvik
Hi! 1. Does the Android Market supports subscription based payment? if not 2. Can we sell the application for one year at a time? Or is this against the Android Market rules? 3. Do we get any information when the user purchases the application so we can track who has purchased the application?

[android-developers] How to use Webview as a ListItem and have smooth scrolling?

2009-02-15 Thread Chister Nordvik
I am showing a RSS feed in my application using Webview as ListItem and it works great except that it is very sluggish at times. Since I don't know the size of the content then I can't set the height of each Webview and therefore I have the following code (this is the code for a single ListItem):

[android-developers] Re: Has anyone succeeded in displaying non latin-1 characters in Webview after RC33?

2009-02-14 Thread Chister Nordvik
Thanks! That did the trick :-) Seems like they changed the behavior in RC33, but now it works perfectly again. -Christer --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this

[android-developers] Re: Webview has changed in RC33, problem with touch event and encoding

2009-02-10 Thread Chister Nordvik
: String xml = html + body + Norwegian chars: æøå + /body + /html; myWebView.loadData(xml, text/html, UTF-8); Output RC33: Norwegian chars: ??? Output before RC33: Norwegian chars: æøå -Christer On Feb 9, 8:06 pm, Chister Nordvik cnord...@gmail.com wrote: The update also broke the polish

[android-developers] Webview has changed in RC33, problem with touch event and encoding

2009-02-09 Thread Chister Nordvik
Hi! I am using the webview to show a RSS feed and it has worked great until RC33. I now have two problems: 1. I am using a OnClicklistener for each item in a ListView where the item consists of a LinearLayout containing an image + a webview. This event is no longer fired when clicking the

[android-developers] Re: Webview has changed in RC33, problem with touch event and encoding

2009-02-09 Thread Chister Nordvik
The update also broke the polish RSS feed that I've used to display news for soccer (http://ekstraklasa.wp.pl/ver,rss,rss.xml). I would really like to know what happened with the Webview (or XML library) in this release! -Christer --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[android-developers] Re: What determines Android Market popularity ranking

2009-02-04 Thread Chister Nordvik
. Bernhard On Feb 1, 10:56 am, Chister Nordvik cnord...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone figured out this magic formula? I have a app that has 15000 downloads, a rating of 4.38(600 ratings), but it is still less popular than a competing app with 1 downloads and a rating of 3.45. How

[android-developers] Re: What determines Android Market popularity ranking

2009-02-01 Thread Chister Nordvik
Has anyone figured out this magic formula? I have a app that has 15000 downloads, a rating of 4.38(600 ratings), but it is still less popular than a competing app with 1 downloads and a rating of 3.45. How is this possible? My guess is that it is related to the number of uninstalls but

[android-developers] Re: Updated app not showing up in Market's by date sorting?

2009-01-25 Thread Chister Nordvik
There's been multiple posts of this and no answers from Google, so is this a hack that someone has found? It might seem like it since nobody is willing to post examples of how to get their app to the top of the list when releasing an upgrade. I've released multiple upgrades but the by-date

[android-developers] Re: Parsing RSS feeds, encoding problems

2009-01-25 Thread Chister Nordvik
The issue has still new status so either Google is just ignoring it or they think it's a bug in my code. I tried a little more and I experienced similar problems when fetching XML that has encoded html inside the tags (typically RSS feeds). This code works perfectly when running on the desktop

[android-developers] Re: Parsing RSS feeds, encoding problems

2009-01-25 Thread Chister Nordvik
Jan, 20:02, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Chister Nordvik wrote: The issue has still new status so either Google is just ignoring it or they think it's a bug in my code. I tried a little more and I experienced similar problems when fetching XML that has encoded html inside

[android-developers] Android browser is really slow/buggy when clicking on checkboxes

2009-01-16 Thread Chister Nordvik
Hi! I have made an app that shows a list of RSS feeds at the main screen. One of the reasons is to be able to generate polls for the users and host them on my webserver. The Android browser is close to unusable when clicking checkboxes. At least on my device. The behavior that I am

[android-developers] Re: Market paid-for apps

2009-01-02 Thread Chister Nordvik
requirements of paying         companies and         individuals in those countries.         I'd be interested to hear what you've formed your view from..         Al.         Chister Nordvik wrote: I understood it differently :-)         The market will open to different coun

[android-developers] Re: Market paid-for apps

2009-01-02 Thread Chister Nordvik
us? Or do we have to establish a UK company? Anyone else thought about this? -Christer On 2 Jan, 15:02, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: We're always open to suggestions for improvements :). Al. Chister Nordvik wrote: Seems like I was wrong: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p