Great stuff Mark, thank you very much. As a first step I'll try recompiling the gdata stuff and see what happens. cheers, Ian
On Oct 13, 10:14 pm, Mark Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > androidian wrote: > > I imported gdata-core-1.0.jar and gdata-spreadsheet-1.0.jar into my > > project and the SpreadsheetService class comes from the latter. The > > HTTP requests must be being done in the setUserCredentials method (all > > inside those two jars). Perhaps one of those jars is not compatible > > with android? > > Off the cuff, given the symptoms, I'd say that's likely. > > > Is there a support matrix somewhere that I can check? > > Not that I'm aware of. > > There are at least two possible problems with any given third-party JAR: > > 1. The JAR makes assumptions regarding the underlying Java platform, in > terms of available APIs or their behavior, and those assumptions fall > down in the case of Android's Dalvik. > > 2. The JAR was compiled with an incompatible version of the Java > compiler, so the bytecode that the Android build process uses gets > fouled up. > > For example, with Beanshell (http://www.beanshell.org), using the JAR > downloaded straight from the site didn't work for, um, beans. However, > when I recompiled Beanshell, using the same compiler as with the rest of > my project, it worked just fine. > > > I'm a little bit confused as to why there would be incompatibilities - > > can you elaborate? > > Assuming those JARs don't have any dependencies of their own (e.g., they > did not make you copy even more JARs into your project), they are > probably using HttpUrlConnection and kin for doing their HTTP work. I > would suspect that the Google Docs login process requires SSL. > > So, going back to my two points above: > > 1. It may be that SSL handling in Dalvik behaves differently than it > does in whatever JavaSE edition your JARs were written for > > 2. It may be that a simple recompile of those JARs from source will suffice > > > My manifest: > > Well, that looks OK, at least in terms of where your uses-permission > element lives. Sometimes people put that inside the application element > by mistake, and Android is pretty picky about that sort of thing. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com > > Android Training on the Ranch! -- Mar 16-20, > 2009http://www.bignerdranch.com/schedule.shtml --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
