[android-developers] Re: A Gesture Recognition Library
Yeah, me too, awesome stuff! On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Nishantha Pradeep ucscnishan...@gmail.comwrote: Good work and I am impressed. I will find someway to try this out cheers Nishantha On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 5:18 PM, mscwd01 mscw...@gmail.com wrote: That's really impressive and i'd guess a whole lot more intuitive to use than the virtual keyboard for quick text entry. I'll definately have a play around with it when I get a spare minute or two; when I do i'll try and provide some feedback. Thanks for sharing! On Apr 11, 11:56 am, sydnal soydan.u...@gmail.com wrote: Hi; back around ADC 1; I had developed a simple gesture recognition library for Android (not for accelerometer; I mean touchscreen - finger gestures). I had to abandon it for quite a while, but recently I was able to clean it a bit and port it to 1.0 SDK. It is released under GPL. Here are some sample videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7A6OHWfSOE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxwGMtNS_YA You can download it here : http://blog.caffeine-driven.com/posts/dkn-a-gesture-recognition-libra... (Yeah the site sucks, i know) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: SDKs comparison with the iPhone
Dianne, Ralf said; You're jumping to conclusions here, and I'd like to be quite interested in seeing the source of your quote as I guess that's your interpretation, not an actual quote. and hence I supplied the quote references as he asked. I make it clear that the SDKs available from AndAppStore are built from the cupcake branch open source tree and provide the date for the build (which, as on most days there are no checkins, can be tracked to specific revision). I also use the publicly available instructions, and I added text to show that the branch is a work in progress and may not reflect what's shipped on devices. This brings me to the question of who deems what's official. JBQ indicated it would be done on a discussion list, which would fit in with many open source projects I've worked on where pre-release versions are circulated and then developers say Yay or Nay to whether it's good enough to call a production release, but this didn't happen with 1.0 or 1.1 as far as I'm aware, so if it really is going to be the community who decide what's bug free enough to go gold when are we going to start seeing release candidates? My personal suspicion is that Google feel only they have a say in what's gets labelled as official and the community will get little or no involvement, which completely misses the point of community based development and all the benefits of having an army of potential testers brings. Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ http://andappstore.com/ * == Funky Android Limited is registered in England Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dianne Hackborn Sent: 13 April 2009 04:39 To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: [android-developers] Re: SDKs comparison with the iPhone Which are exactly what Ralf is saying. You can build an SDK out of some random change # of the tree, and we are going to make it clear to people that it is not official, because: (1) We don't know what was done to build it, and thus what issues it may have (such as networking being broken, it not being provisioned, etc). (2) We don't know the state of the code at whatever place it was built from, and thus don't want to leave people with the impression that this SDK can actually be taken of an accurately reflection of the ultimate real SDK. As an example of the latter, I spent a couple days last week doing a bunch of cleanup of Cupcake, such as hiding new APIs that shouldn't be exposed in the SDK, and exposing APIs that shouldn't be hidden any more. So people can't count on the actual APIs they get in a random build of the SDK to actually accurately reflect what will be the final SDK, and that doesn't even get in to the more subtle issues of changes to the code. On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: Quote sources; Open source builds labelled as unofficial SDK - http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/bb3374b419115644 Source of original quote on unofficial SDKs not working - http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/c408eb22c1722261 The rest of the discussion has moved to -discuss several hours before your email, so please continue any discussion about it over there. Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * == Funky Android Limited is registered in England Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -Original Message- From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ralf Sent: 12 April 2009 03:04 To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: [android-developers] Re: SDKs comparison with the iPhone On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: Now before I start on the iPhone comparison I'm going to pre-empt the normal But Android is open source. response by saying lets be honest and admit it as it stands Android is not an open source project because the public open source repository is
[android-developers] Re: Ultra-Competitive FireWallet supporters
I think what we're seeing is just a feature of a subjective rating system. I posted the scheme I use to rate apps a few weeks ago at http://alsutton.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/marking-on-the-googles-android-mark et/ so that if developers felt I was being unfair on their app they could challenge me using my own post as evidence of why they felt I had unreasonably rated their app. Some users will see giving competing apps a 1* as a true reflection of their opinion that compared to their favourite app another one is just a useless distraction for users. It's one of the reasons that AndAppStore allows users to say if a comment is useful or not, that way you get an indication of what is considered a fair comment and what's considered a blatant trashing of a useful app. Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * == Funky Android Limited is registered in England Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -Original Message- From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of James Sent: 10 April 2009 00:02 To: Android Developers Subject: [android-developers] Re: Ultra-Competitive FireWallet supporters Hi John, This is James Gramata the creator of FireWallet. I really do apologize for users of my product behaving in this way. I definitely do not condone these actions but people are just expressing the way they feel and that is understandable. I have also had a number of comments/ratings on my product asking me not to charge and to keep my product free or that other competing free applications are better while giving me a rating of 1 star regardless of how they actually felt about the quality of FireWallet. These are kind of spam but at the same time they are also legitimate ratings. We as developers just have to hope that the good ratings/comments will outweigh the negative. Thanks, James Gramata On Apr 9, 8:57 am, John Lauricella jjlaurice...@hotmail.com wrote: Somebody named Peter, who has a comment on the FireWallet finance application review page on the Android Market that says something like this Firewallet is the greatest program ever, the best finance program, and the best application period, for Android.. 5 STARS, went on a competing finance application (BudgetProt) review site and wrote Firewallet is way way better 2 STARS!!! That crushed the review stars average for the application and IS HURTING SALES. This is highly confrontational behaviour, and will lead to retaliation. It was not a real review, it was a way to hurt a competing product, by LYING. PLEASE STOP HURTING OTHER DEVELOPERS IN YOUR RACE TO OUTCOMPETE. _ Rediscover Hotmail®: Get e-mail storage that grows with you.http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Redisco... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Does Android not support old SSLv3 protocols?
to dear All, Does anyone meet NoSuchAlgorithmException in SSLContext.getInstance (SSLv3) method? I found Android may close the downward support of old SSL protocols, and keep the latest TLS connections only. Is this true that SSLv3 is not supported in Android? Could anyone provide some information to confirm this? Best regards, Nicholas --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: When will google post official cupcake SDK
This is a known bug in the open source repository. I will roll new SDKs when a fix is made available in the open source repository by the Google engineers. Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * == Funky Android Limited is registered in England Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -Original Message- From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of milton Sent: 13 April 2009 06:14 To: Android Developers Subject: [android-developers] Re: When will google post official cupcake SDK Hi , thanks for providing the SDK. But I found the fake network is not workable. I would like to try the phone call related features, is there any way that I could enable it ? Thanks in advance. Regards Milton On 4月10日, 上午2時23分, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: http://andappstore.com/AndroidPhoneApplications/sdk/ --- * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* == Funky Android Limited is registered in England Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. _ From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mattaku Betsujin Sent: 09 April 2009 19:22 To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: [android-developers] When will google post official cupcake SDK Even a beta SDK would be helpful. There are lots of app developers who don't necessarily know how to build cupcake from the GIT. Given that HTC Magic (based on cupcake, I heard) is rolling out real soon now, wouldn't it be nice to give the app developers a chance to test if their app is compatible with cupcake? Sure, Android API is supposed to be backwards compatible. However, there are quite a few bugs in the G1 that I had to work around with ugly hacks. Now I start to worry if those hacks would break on cupcake. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: why does clicking on 'x' of the linux emulator not working?
This is not supposed to happen, unfortunately it sometimes does :-( What exact Linux distribution are you using ? The culprit is very probably a broken audio sound mixing daemon, generally you can recover by doing a killall -9 esd to kill the buggy EsounD daemon. Does this happen all the time, or only occasionally ? On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:47 PM, AK ajey...@gmail.com wrote: I have been developing on the windows Android SDK until recently i have moved to the Linux SDK. Once i launch the application from eclipse, i click the 'x' of the emulator window and an empty window persists, whereas this does not happen in the windows. I have to manually kill thru the shell (kill -9 emulator process id) Has anybody faced this problem on ubuntu 8.04, with android SDk 1.1 ? Thanks in advance AK --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market
That’s why I set up the company behind AndAppStore. DMCA notices are irrelevant to apps on AndAppStore because the company and it's assets are solely located outside the USA to ensure the USAs ridiculous rules in relation to Intellectual Property do not interfere with the companies global operations. The company respects copyrights, but does not take down apps just because someone paid a lawyer a few hundred dollars to write a letter. You also forget Google is not just a US entity. It has registered companies around the world which are not bound by US laws (such as Google UK Ltd.) which could run and operate Market thus giving them the same freedoms as the rest of us outside the jurisdiction of US law. Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * == Funky Android Limited is registered in England Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -Original Message- From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ralf Sent: 13 April 2009 06:38 To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: [android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market You forget that Google is a US entity and as such is bound to US laws, such as, for example, complying to US export limitations. If you don't like it, you can always create your own app store that is not bound to US laws and encourage developers to use it :-p R/ On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: I think the most tragic thing about this is the guy who brought this up is not US based and so the DMCA is irrelevant to hi as it has no juristiction. If Google wants to apply US laws to everyone around the world who wishes to list an app on market I can see a lot of problems ahead with this and other Intellectual Property related issues. Al. - Original Message - From: Semprebon sempre...@gmail.com To: Android Developers android-developers@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 1:28 PM Subject: [android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market Not strictly true. They can choose to remove the material and not be liable for copyright infringement themselves, or they can ignore the request and become liable. In reality, most will choose the first option. On Apr 11, 3:23 pm, Edward Falk ed.f...@gmail.com wrote: My understanding is: When an ISP or other provider receives a DMCA takedown notice, they have no choice but to take the offending material off line. They can't use their judgment, they just have to do it. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Does iTunes/3GPP metadata supported?
Hi All, Please kindly help to answer the questions below, thank you very very much! 1. Does AAC codec supported in .mp4 container with iTunes metadata? 2. Does AAC codec supported in .3gp container with 3GPP metadata? Also please kindly indicate how retrieve these information, tracing the codes? Thanks a lot!! Ethan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: A Gesture Recognition Library
Very cool. This reminds me of xstroke on iPaq in the old days. http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/tech/freenix03/full_papers/worth/worth_html/xstroke.html It was pretty easy to add new strokes for additional characters in that approach (I recall adding åäö). A glace at the DKN source seems to indicate that the LazyStrokesDictionary needs replaceing, so how about adopting the xstroke approach? Best / Jonas Mariano Kamp wrote: Yeah, me too, awesome stuff! On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Nishantha Pradeep ucscnishan...@gmail.com mailto:ucscnishan...@gmail.com wrote: Good work and I am impressed. I will find someway to try this out On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 5:18 PM, mscwd01 mscw...@gmail.com mailto:mscw...@gmail.com wrote: That's really impressive and i'd guess a whole lot more intuitive to use than the virtual keyboard for quick text entry. I'll definately have a play around with it when I get a spare minute or two; when I do i'll try and provide some feedback. Thanks for sharing! On Apr 11, 11:56 am, sydnal soydan.u...@gmail.com mailto:soydan.u...@gmail.com wrote: Hi; back around ADC 1; I had developed a simple gesture recognition library for Android (not for accelerometer; I mean touchscreen - finger gestures). I had to abandon it for quite a while, but recently I was able to clean it a bit and port it to 1.0 SDK. It is released under GPL. Here are some sample videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7A6OHWfSOE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxwGMtNS_YA You can download it here :http://blog.caffeine-driven.com/posts/dkn-a-gesture-recognition-libra... (Yeah the site sucks, i know) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Cities/Countries data provided by google API
Any help on this? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Margin-problem with changed layout for titlebar
As you are asking, please read http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/hierarchy-viewer.html for the explanations about the hierarchy viewer. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: expandable list view
you can use
@Override
public void onGroupExpand(int groupPosition)
{
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onGroupExpand(groupPosition);
Toast.makeText(ExpandableList1.this, Group Clicked on pos =
+ groupPosition, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
for get selected group position
i think this will help you
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:09 PM, google swapna.annaman...@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
i am creating expandable list with group and childs,
i am able to handle onchildclick()
but not able to handle ongroupclick() can anybody helps in this
regards,
chandra
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[android-developers] Re: running appl in background
If service is running in background in another process, independent of foreground activity process. As per my study I got the two ways to know with background process update, 1. using IPC(AIDL) bindService() 2.broadcasting intent from service whenever we want update for particular function. But as far as first option is concerned the foreground activity should be there running. My background process should run even though the fore ground activity is no more on screen. User ca launch other application also while running my background process. So only second option is remains the choice. Or there is any other way. Am I right about bindService() concept[that it remains only the fore activity is there], is there any other way to keep binding with backservice, to know update of it even though fore ground is no more on screen. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] not able to play file when set data source to the sdcard file
Hello,
I am trying to play file which is stored in SDCARD in emulator. I have
Linux O/S. So i need to provide command in run configuration.
I am providing following parameter.
-sdcard /usr/android/sdcard/mysdcard.iso -audio oss
[i]
The following is my code to play file.
try
{
mMediaPlayer.setDataSource(/sdcard/test_cbr.mp3);
mMediaPlayer.prepare(); // Giving error.
mMediaPlayer.start();
}
catch(Exception e)
{
System.out.println(exception=+e.toString());
}
It is giving me error when i am calling prepare(). Cans some one tell
me what could be wrong in it ? Am i using wrong separator in run
configuration ?
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[android-developers] Re: How to remove the WebView top/left 8-pixel inner margin?
Anyone on this? Do I need to reformulate my question? I know it sounds cosmetics, but since I need to display a HTML banner, the need for accuracy is really needed? Android Googlers, your help is very welcome ;) Regards, Édouard --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: SDKs comparison with the iPhone
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: Now before I start on the iPhone comparison I'm going to pre-empt the normal But Android is open source. response by saying lets be honest and admit it as it stands Android is not an open source project because the public open source repository is pretty worthless in its' current state. As far as I know, open-source is not a value statement, but a set of conditions that rule how sources can be distributed and used. What is available from the git repositories is as open-source as it can be. You seem to believe that the fact that you can't produce exact G1 device images from them makes them worthless, but many people are already using them to port the platform to various other devices. Also, the Android team is trying to make these sources more useful to ADP1 owners, and closer to the internal tree used to prepare certain shipped device binaries. This is something that has been already discussed heavily in these forums and is quite well documented. There are some valid criticisms about this project's roadmap and management but I don't think this is one of them. The last time I tried to build the master branch it failed missing some Google internal API classes. It is expected in any open-source project that sometimes the build of the most recent sources will not work correctly, or will not generate properly working code. This is generally fixed by providing patches, notifying of the problem, and/or waiting a bit for the fixes to be submitted. For the record, I did a full fresh download and build of the master branch two days ago and it built without any problem the generic-eng build product which is the only one you should care about at the moment. Oh, and networking is working in the emulator too. The SDKs I've produce from the cupcake branch seem to be considered by Google employees as pretty useless with comments like This is why we want to be clear it is unofficial, because it is not actually a working SDK being thrown around First, it has been said several times in these forums that the cupcake branch is only there to reflect all the non-proprietary bits used by the internal Android source tree, and that you should not rely on it to build anything that works (be it system images or an SDK). You should really work from the master branch for anything real. Also, the SDK is, compared to generic-eng, a very special build product for a variety of nasty technical details. Due to this it is very frequent that its build will not work or will miss crucial configuration files that break certain features. For cupcake, the tools team has also made a really big number of drastic changes to the way the SDK tools work in order to support new features like platforms, add-ons and AVDs, which did break custom SDK builds more than once. The SDK is also very special because when we release an official one, it comes with official documentation on the public web site, a set of publicly supported APIs which are a very strongly binding contract between app developers and the platform, plus quite a lot of testing to ensure that it works reasonably well in terms of features and host platform support. Believe it or not, this takes a lot of time These are the reasons we say the things you mention: you are packaging non-working SDKs and should not expect us to throw much of our support behind them. At the moment, we don't encourage application developers to use custom SDKs to test their code against Cupcake, do so at your own risk. and networking in the emulator still being broken a week after users started reporting the showstopper problem (And Romain did hint that Google have a fix, I read http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/41fcefc36bd16d44 as there is a version where this is fixed). Networking works well in the generic-eng build product of the master branch. I have tested the SDK build yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is broken, as explained previously. However, this is the kind of thing that will get fixed when preparing an official SDK release. Or you could look at this forum post, and integrate it into your custom build: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/bcd639ecee7f270b --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How can I do Image processing on JPEG data
Not a specialit, but I would say you should use bitmapfacotry.decodeByteArray to decode the jpeg image to some raw pixel image. Hope it helps, Emmanuel http://androidblogger.blogspot.com/ http://www.alocaly.com On Apr 13, 6:47 am, srik sri_reddy...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi I am confused on how to implement image processing algorithm on JPEG data.I have set P.setpicturesize (640,480) so the camera.takepicture (null,null,Imagecapture callbck) returns the image data. Void onPictureTaken(byte[] data, Camera Camera) returns JPEG data, but ---(x = data.length) , the value of x is less than 640*480 bytes.Please kindly let me know how can I start editing pixel information of the image and image comparison algorithms. thank you, Srikanth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: SDKs comparison with the iPhone
Dave, I'm not after G1 device images, I would be happy if I could get access to a fully working cupcake emulator, but no one in the public development community can. I said before the G1 launch I see Android as the platform, not the G1, Magic or any specific device implementation, but at the moment there is *nothing* which we can use to can prepare us for the imminent release of a cupcake device from an OHA member. No one I know would recommend last minute rushed coding, but as every day goes past you're pushing developers further and further into that situation. Vodafone have set a date for the Cupcake powered device release and that's our deadline (which is just over 2 weeks away at best according to Vodafones website), and yet we still don't have *anything* which allows us to do full cupcake testing. The closest we can get is emulators with broken networking. Btw, I do not and have never expect Google to support my SDK builds. The closest I have got to statement like that is asking developers to submit bugs to b.android.com, and expected Google, who have final sign-off on all of the checkins to the public repository, to focus on fixing fundamental bugs like broken networking. After a quick bit of work it looks like the fix for http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=996 only made into master branch and not into cupcake and that fix dates back to November last year. Using the master branch would be fine, if you could tell us it would give a good representation of what to expect from cupcake. So what do you expect us to do?, Do you expect the development community to sit back and take the flak when users start complaining that developers apps don't work correctly on the HTC-Magic?, or do you expect many of us to start pulling all nighters whenever you decide to release an official SDK to make sure our apps are cupcake ready?, because at the moment I can only see we have those two options and to me both of those sound like the OHA and Google really doesn't give a shizzle about the public development community despite its' efforts to help Android become popular. Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * == Funky Android Limited is registered in England Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Turner Sent: 13 April 2009 11:14 To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: [android-developers] Re: SDKs comparison with the iPhone On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: Now before I start on the iPhone comparison I'm going to pre-empt the normal But Android is open source. response by saying lets be honest and admit it as it stands Android is not an open source project because the public open source repository is pretty worthless in its' current state. As far as I know, open-source is not a value statement, but a set of conditions that rule how sources can be distributed and used. What is available from the git repositories is as open-source as it can be. You seem to believe that the fact that you can't produce exact G1 device images from them makes them worthless, but many people are already using them to port the platform to various other devices. Also, the Android team is trying to make these sources more useful to ADP1 owners, and closer to the internal tree used to prepare certain shipped device binaries. This is something that has been already discussed heavily in these forums and is quite well documented. There are some valid criticisms about this project's roadmap and management but I don't think this is one of them. The last time I tried to build the master branch it failed missing some Google internal API classes. It is expected in any open-source project that sometimes the build of the most recent sources will not work correctly, or will not generate properly working code. This is generally fixed by providing patches, notifying of the problem, and/or waiting a bit for the fixes to be submitted. For the record, I did a full fresh download and build of the master branch two days ago and it built without any problem the generic-eng build product which is the only one you should care about at the moment. Oh, and networking is working in the emulator too. The SDKs I've produce from the cupcake branch seem to be considered by Google employees as pretty useless with comments like This is why we want to be clear it is unofficial, because it is not actually a working SDK being thrown around First, it has been said several
[android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market
I've worked for UK operations of some large US companies and for UK companies delivering to UK operations of US companies and US legal restrictions didn't enter into the equation at any point. As a specific example I have *never* worked at a company that took US patents into consideration when developing software and in some cases I think other developers may got some inspiration when hearing about patents involved in US lawsuits. The key point seems to be whether or not the UK operation is a truely separate company, or if the UK operation relies on the use of assets either located in the US or owned by a US organisation. Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * == Funky Android Limited is registered in England Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. _ From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mariano Kamp Sent: 13 April 2009 11:58 To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: [android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market You also forget Google is not just a US entity. It has registered companies around the world which are not bound by US laws (such as Google UK Ltd.) which could run and operate Market thus giving them the same freedoms as the rest of us outside the jurisdiction of US law. I am not sure that this true for all practical matters. I work for an American company and certify once a year that I will adhere to US export restrictions. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: That's why I set up the company behind AndAppStore. DMCA notices are irrelevant to apps on AndAppStore because the company and it's assets are solely located outside the USA to ensure the USAs ridiculous rules in relation to Intellectual Property do not interfere with the companies global operations. The company respects copyrights, but does not take down apps just because someone paid a lawyer a few hundred dollars to write a letter. You also forget Google is not just a US entity. It has registered companies around the world which are not bound by US laws (such as Google UK Ltd.) which could run and operate Market thus giving them the same freedoms as the rest of us outside the jurisdiction of US law. Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * == Funky Android Limited is registered in England Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -Original Message- From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ralf Sent: 13 April 2009 06:38 To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: [android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market You forget that Google is a US entity and as such is bound to US laws, such as, for example, complying to US export limitations. If you don't like it, you can always create your own app store that is not bound to US laws and encourage developers to use it :-p R/ On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: I think the most tragic thing about this is the guy who brought this up is not US based and so the DMCA is irrelevant to hi as it has no juristiction. If Google wants to apply US laws to everyone around the world who wishes to list an app on market I can see a lot of problems ahead with this and other Intellectual Property related issues. Al. - Original Message - From: Semprebon sempre...@gmail.com To: Android Developers android-developers@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 1:28 PM Subject: [android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market Not strictly true. They can choose to remove the material and not be liable for copyright infringement themselves, or they can ignore the request and become liable. In reality, most will choose the first option. On Apr 11, 3:23 pm, Edward Falk ed.f...@gmail.com wrote: My understanding is: When an ISP or other provider receives a DMCA takedown notice, they have no choice but to take the offending material off line. They can't use their judgment, they just have to do it. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market
You also forget Google is not just a US entity. It has registered companies around the world which are not bound by US laws (such as Google UK Ltd.) which could run and operate Market thus giving them the same freedoms as the rest of us outside the jurisdiction of US law. I am not sure that this true for all practical matters. I work for an American company and certify once a year that I will adhere to US export restrictions. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: That’s why I set up the company behind AndAppStore. DMCA notices are irrelevant to apps on AndAppStore because the company and it's assets are solely located outside the USA to ensure the USAs ridiculous rules in relation to Intellectual Property do not interfere with the companies global operations. The company respects copyrights, but does not take down apps just because someone paid a lawyer a few hundred dollars to write a letter. You also forget Google is not just a US entity. It has registered companies around the world which are not bound by US laws (such as Google UK Ltd.) which could run and operate Market thus giving them the same freedoms as the rest of us outside the jurisdiction of US law. Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * == Funky Android Limited is registered in England Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -Original Message- From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ralf Sent: 13 April 2009 06:38 To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: [android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market You forget that Google is a US entity and as such is bound to US laws, such as, for example, complying to US export limitations. If you don't like it, you can always create your own app store that is not bound to US laws and encourage developers to use it :-p R/ On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: I think the most tragic thing about this is the guy who brought this up is not US based and so the DMCA is irrelevant to hi as it has no juristiction. If Google wants to apply US laws to everyone around the world who wishes to list an app on market I can see a lot of problems ahead with this and other Intellectual Property related issues. Al. - Original Message - From: Semprebon sempre...@gmail.com To: Android Developers android-developers@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 1:28 PM Subject: [android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market Not strictly true. They can choose to remove the material and not be liable for copyright infringement themselves, or they can ignore the request and become liable. In reality, most will choose the first option. On Apr 11, 3:23 pm, Edward Falk ed.f...@gmail.com wrote: My understanding is: When an ISP or other provider receives a DMCA takedown notice, they have no choice but to take the offending material off line. They can't use their judgment, they just have to do it. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: finish() not killing Activity
can u give some sample code, technical details about that touch thresholding, I have been trying to implement and I am missing important events On Apr 13, 7:07 am, Ralf ralfo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Todd Sjolander guyfantas...@gmail.com wrote: Marco, your hunch was right. I was somehow creating multiple copies of Activity C. In case anyone can benefit from this, let me explain how it went wrong. I implemented onTouch() in Activity B, which would create an Intent for Activity C, and then call startActivity(). For some reason, onTouch() would get called multiple times with each touch, launching a new Activity C each time. Ah indeed. Remember that touch on the emulator, via the mouse, is a very precise operation -- you click one pixel, once. On a real device your finger generates lots of input events due to the imprecision of the point being touched, pressure, etc. If you real on a precise touch, you might want to implement a threshold in your touch listener to filter out noise. R/ Jon, I've seen some oddities from that myself, although I can't really make sense of it. But it's helpful to keep that in mind. Thanks! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: not able to play file when set data source to the sdcard file
Hi, It is giving me error when i am calling prepare(). Normally, this error occurs, when you didnt put sdcard in emulator. Launch emulator with SDCard. You put the .mp3 file in data/misc folder and try, if its working then the problem is launch emulator with SDCard only.. Thanks Nithin nithinwarier.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market
What puzzles me is that when tetris clones were pulled from apple app store, a lot of tech related sites reported the news. However, not even one android related site wrote a word about the android market application removal. They only complained about the tethering apps removal. But no word on DMCA removals. Why? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to remove the WebView top/left 8-pixel inner margin?
I think the margin is probably implemented in C code inside WebKit. I looked at this in the past as well and couldn't find any Java options to configure the margins. What do you mean by accuracy? Do you mean finding the exact position of your HTML objects inside the WebView? On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:12 AM, elDoudou the.edouard.merc...@gmail.comwrote: Anyone on this? Do I need to reformulate my question? I know it sounds cosmetics, but since I need to display a HTML banner, the need for accuracy is really needed? Android Googlers, your help is very welcome ;) Regards, Édouard --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] GB2312
some file in my sdcard can not been showed correctly. i find the code of the file name is GB2312 in chinese. so i can not been showed correctly. who know how to change the gb2312 to unicode. so the chinese can been showed correctly? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: sdcard
i found the matter may be the title of the file. because i seen the log LOGW(JNI WARNING: illegal start byte 0x%x\n, utf8);.who know why? On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Marco Nelissen marc...@android.comwrote: If it's been scanned, but doesn't appear in the database (as you said earlier), you'll have to figure out why the file was rejected. Also, if you're having problems on a particular device, you should probably post over on the android-porting list instead of here. On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:47 AM, l hx lihongxia8...@gmail.com wrote: i am sure that the file can been played in android. when i inport android to my device such as pxa310, it can be played in my device. but i can not be seen in my emulation. but some other mp4 file can been seen in my emulation. i just copy the file into the sdcard normally and can be seen in the /sdcard catalog. i see in the mediacanner.java that ttis file is been sannered also. On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Marco Nelissen marc...@android.com wrote: Are the files in a supported format? How did you put the files in /sdcard? On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:33 PM, l hx lihongxia8...@gmail.com wrote: and i meet a matter such as: some file in the /sdcard can not be seen in the trackbrowserActivity of music app. i found the file also can not be found in the database of the mediaprovider. who know why? On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Marco Nelissen marc...@android.com wrote: It would help if you said what error you're getting. You can check whether the file is actually there by doing something like adb shell ls -l /sdcard and checking that the file exists. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Nithin nithi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi to all I push the one video file... and tried to play that video file in emulator.. But i got error... Can any tell me how can i check weather video file insert or not... Thank You Nithin N V --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] How to improve your ratings
Not that I do this intentionally :-) Usually people give ratings only after they use your app. Now, after running the app, giving ratings is a hassle. The user needs to go into Market, find your app, and rate it. But if you push a new update, those users who like your app enough will download the update, and conveniently they can rate your app during the download. For the people who hate your app, they won't bother to install the update. And, if they use Settings to uninstall your app, they won't even have a chance to give you one star before uninstalling. I found this out because every time I push an update, within a few hours I get a bunch of new ratings and good reviews. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Webview questions
Hello,
say I have a local html invoked using webview, has the content...
a herf=foo('me') test /a
Is it possible when user click on the hyperlink, a method in my Java
class called foo() will be called?
Or any otherway to keep track if a user clicked on a specific elements
in the HTML page?
Thanks
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[android-developers] Re: not able to play file when set data source to the sdcard file
Thanks nitin for your quick reply. From you suggestion i solved my problem but i am not geting why it is not able to access file from sdcard even if the file is available there so there should be something wrong in it. I also added the command line paramiter which i am passing so please take a look and let me know if you found something wrong in it. On Apr 13, 5:10 pm, Nithin nithin.war...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, It is giving me error when i am calling prepare(). Normally, this error occurs, when you didnt put sdcard in emulator. Launch emulator with SDCard. You put the .mp3 file in data/misc folder and try, if its working then the problem is launch emulator with SDCard only.. Thanks Nithin nithinwarier.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] XML With Xliff
Hi, I have seen projects with Xliff and wanted to know how exactly it's used. i saw it on the lock screen and wanted to do it myself so i took this line: string name=lockpattern_recording_incorrect_too_shortConnect at least xliff:g id=number%d/xliff:g dots. Try again:/string But i get XML Parsing Error until i erase the entire xliff tag... Thx for replying. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Showing/hiding dynamically the title bar
Write your own title-bar. It's a hassle, but this is a way to do it. Create a View that looks like a title-bar and put it on top of your screen. You can hide and show it at any time. On Apr 10, 4:27 am, bonfo vale...@javaground.com wrote: Hi, I already know ho to hide the title bar with the getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); in the Activity onCreate() method before the setContentView() call. But i want something different. I'd like to show/hide the title bar in any moment. To make an example, place a button in the view that toggle the title. Unfortunately the requestFeature can be done only before the call to setContentView(). How to you think is the best way to achive this? There is a way to solve this issue? Thanks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: More Than One Instance of Application
This won't work. Android controls the creation of activities. Android provides callbacks such as 'onCreate' (and 'onDestroy', etc.) that inform the application developer of the lifetime management of his/her activity. In anser to the original question from Noam: go to http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html and read up on the Launch Modes section. You'll get the info you need from there. On Apr 9, 7:15 pm, Roman roman.baumgaert...@t-mobile.com wrote: Noam, Try to use the singleton pattern in your application. If you have already an instance created and try to create another one, then you would not be able to do this because of the singleton pattern. Sr. SW Engineer Roman Baumgaertner ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. On Apr 9, 2:39 pm, Noam noam.ha...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Is there a way to prevent the user of opening more than one instance of my application? For example: User clicks on App and opens it. The user clicks on the home button. (the app is still running in the background) The user clicks on (not the menu button, but the button above it in the homescreen), and then opens the application again. Does it open the same instance, or does it create another one? If it does create another one, how can I prevent it from creating another one, and just opening the existing instance? Thanks, Noam.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to enable DUN in G1 phone?
Its not included. And never will be, since google is doing what tmob says and removing tethering ability. (Thats not to say that future cupcake-based JF images won't have it, for example. There are already patches out there that I did 'way back when' that enable it. It is not worth the effort right now since the current BT stack is limited to 115k.) On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:22 PM, angie hanab...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, All! 1. How to enable DUN in G1 phone? 2. If DUN is not in G1 phone, which Android version include DUN...? Please help me. thanks! -Angie- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market
Anyone who is surprised by this must be very, very new to the programming game. I've been waiting for this since the store opened. IMHO, to the extent that the Android community becomes a proxy for those that think All Ideas Should Be Free And Stealable, that is the extent to which Android will never be a real grown-up operating system. On Apr 7, 8:43 am, tasos.klei...@gmail.com tasos.klei...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday April 4th, I received a message from google saying that my game Robotic Space Rock was pulled from the android market after a request made by a legal firm representing an entity known as Tetris Company. My application was removed from the android market together with Blocks, Cubik, Net Tetris, Netblocks and Tetroid (6 apps in total) under claim that it violates the DMCA and more specifically trademarks and copyrighted material owned by the Tetris Company. However, none of the trademarks or copyrighted material (music, graphics and sound effects) are present in my game. Sound effects and music were created by me specifically for the game. There is no reference to the word tetris in the game. Additionally, all the game code, graphics and sound effects were created by me and published on the code sitehttp://code.google.com/p/monolithandroid Additionally, I am not aware of a software patent covering the game mechanics of Tetris, so I cannot see how I could violate something that is not protected by a software patent. Also, even if the game was protected by a patent, the patent would have expired, since the original game, Tetris, was created 23 years ago. However game mechanics cannot be covered by patents. I would also like to point out that my game is available completely free of charge to every user of the android market. I wrote those concerns to Google and I sent an email to the EFF. The bottom line is that for my application to be restored on the android market, I have to send a DMCA counter-notification. And then the Tetris Company can sue and take the case to Court. When games were pulled from the iPhone App store, they blamed apple, but it is not hard to see that behind application removals we can find companies like the Tetris Company, that demand application removals claiming copyright infringement and trademarks. However, it is not easy to battle these companies as individual developers. I, for example, am a Greek citizen living in Greece, so it is difficult for me to file a counter-notification, because then the Tetris company will probably sue me and I will have to defend my case in court. Why should I bother? Am I making money out of the game? No! But even if I did you can see how easy it is for corporations to neutralize developers like that. I think that something should be done. Independent developers should get together to battle against such misuse of the law by corporations. And to those that want more facts, you can find more details on my blog:http://tkcodesharing.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Webview questions
You need to do this:
a href=javascript:window.jsinterface.mymethod('parameter') xxx /a
In Java code:
intf = new Object {
public void mymethod(String param) {
}
}
myWebView.addJavascriptInterface(intf , jsinterface);
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Roy M setesting...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
say I have a local html invoked using webview, has the content...
a herf=foo('me') test /a
Is it possible when user click on the hyperlink, a method in my Java
class called foo() will be called?
Or any otherway to keep track if a user clicked on a specific elements
in the HTML page?
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[android-developers] Re: Showing/hiding dynamically the title bar
If you want the title most of the time, and only hide it temporarily, you can use a PopupWindow. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Streets Of Boston flyingdutc...@gmail.comwrote: Write your own title-bar. It's a hassle, but this is a way to do it. Create a View that looks like a title-bar and put it on top of your screen. You can hide and show it at any time. On Apr 10, 4:27 am, bonfo vale...@javaground.com wrote: Hi, I already know ho to hide the title bar with the getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); in the Activity onCreate() method before the setContentView() call. But i want something different. I'd like to show/hide the title bar in any moment. To make an example, place a button in the view that toggle the title. Unfortunately the requestFeature can be done only before the call to setContentView(). How to you think is the best way to achive this? There is a way to solve this issue? Thanks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] how expensive findViewById ??
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[android-developers] Re: draw text as big as possible inside a rectangle
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[android-developers] Re: how expensive findViewById ??
It depends on how often you call it and what your app is doing anyway. Now matter how good it's implementation is access to a member variable is always much faster than a function call. On the other hand you might not notice any improvement in case your app does some stuff that takes 1000 times longer than a call to findViewById. Take a look at this: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/performance.html#samples On Apr 13, 6:04 pm, Alexey avolo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, trying to find some performance numbers for findViewById - need to convince to change bunch of the findViewById for the same widget to member variable with just one findViewById on create . Or may be i'm wrong and it's fine ? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Customize filter with MultiAutoCompleteTextView
Anyone know? On Apr 11, 3:12 pm, Al alcapw...@googlemail.com wrote: Currently I'm using the default filter but I would like to be able to make it so I can ignore some letters at the beginning of the strings in the adapter. I've had a look at the public methods available on MultiAutoCompleteTextView but can't find anything on how to pass my own filter to it. Any idea how to do this? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: how expensive findViewById ??
yeah, that reference doesn't have number i'm looking for. On Apr 13, 11:20 am, Michael Bollmann michael.bollm...@googlemail.com wrote: It depends on how often you call it and what your app is doing anyway. Now matter how good it's implementation is access to a member variable is always much faster than a function call. On the other hand you might not notice any improvement in case your app does some stuff that takes 1000 times longer than a call to findViewById. Take a look at this:http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/performance.html#... On Apr 13, 6:04 pm, Alexey avolo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, trying to find some performance numbers for findViewById - need to convince to change bunch of the findViewById for the same widget to member variable with just one findViewById on create . Or may be i'm wrong and it's fine ? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Unable to download app on the dev phone from the android market...
Thanks for the reply I had read the 2047 article but there they are saying even if i dont change the Copy Protection the next upgrade will not work. Is it so? Havexz On Apr 12, 10:59 pm, Jon Colverson jjc1...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 13, 4:02 am, havexz bali.param...@gmail.com wrote: I am unable to download my app from the android market. Is it because of some settings I have to do while publishing? What is the reason that dev phone is unable to download the app? The same app is downloadable on other normal android phones. Please help this is really bugging me. Did you switch on the Copy Protection option when you uploaded your app? Copy protected apps can't be downloaded on ADP1s. If you're thinking about switching off the protection option look at this bug first, because changing the setting can cause some severe problems:http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2047 -- Jon --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] how to re-draw the listview ?
Hi all, here is my question: 1. I created a new ListAdapter and a new layout xml for the list item as followings: RelativeLayout xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ android android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=64dip TextView android:id=@+id/line1 android:visibility=visible android:textAppearance=?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium android:layout_width=wrap_content android:paddingLeft=4dip android:layout_height=wrap_content android:layout_alignParentTop=true android:layout_alignWithParentIfMissing=true android:layout_toRightOf=@id/testicon android:ellipsize=marquee android:singleLine=true / CheckBox android:id=@+id/checkbox1 android:layout_width=wrap_content android:layout_height=wrap_content android:paddingLeft=4dip android:text= android:layout_alignParentRight=true android:visibility=invisible/ /RelativeLayout 2. as you may noticed that I set the CheckBox as invisible as the initial state 3. in my list activity, I want to show the CheckBox for all list items it may be triggered by a button click or some other events, so what I want to do is: just refresh the list, make the checkbox get shown. 4. so I changed the visibility in BaseAdapter::getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent): CheckBox itemChkBx = ( CheckBox ) mActivityContext.findViewById ( R.id.checkbox1 ); itemChkBx.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE); but I have to scroll the list to make the checkbox get shown. I also tried the getListView().invalidateViews() method, but it doesn't stable, so do we have a method to force the list view re-draw everything? Regards, James --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Read text file and search contents
Greetings, I am new to Java and Android. I have a flat file (pipe-delimited) stored in R.raw called wordlist.txt. I want to open this file and quickly search for a word I pass into my procedure. I've been searching for a simple way to do this but not having much luck. Can anyone share some code on how to do this? Thanks SO much for any help! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: New application - testing help wanted
Hi Camurphy, I have G1 and i am willing to help you to test your application. Send me the details Regards, Amer On Apr 13, 10:17 am, camurphy camur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I recently developed an application, published it and to my horror about half of the people who downloaded it were having major issues with it. It is a very simple application designed to allow the toggling of connectivity to 3G/EDGE/GPRS services. It exploits the fact that if you set the APN type of an access point on the phone to a hyphen, the phone does not try and connect to it. When first run, the application copies all the access point names and types into a database. It then sets the APN type of every access point to a hyphen. It then displays 'Disabled'. When the application is next run it restores the APN type of each access point. This works perfectly on my development dream and the emulator. I can not tell what part of this is failing for people so if anyone would like to help me test this application it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Using SQLite for caching and serialization options
Hi All, I've got some classes which inherit from a single class, but differ significantly in the data they store. They get returned in a list of the parent class so there's a mix of the two. Because there could be a bunch of these in the results I'd like to cache them into an sqlite db and have an adapter which pulls data from there as the listview requires it. Seeing as they're so different I can't just dump required info into columns in a db (particularly given one type has a hashmap). Is it possible to use bundle and parcels? The bundle forcing it to be flattened? I couldn't see a way to dump a parcel to a string to push it into sqlite. This leaves me with just serializing objects and streaming it into a string before I'm out of ideas. Any suggestions on the most efficient way to deal with this? I'm also not sure on the overhead of serializing and retrieving objects for the db. I can see it quite possibly ripping through battery. Cheers, Alan. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Gallery Child View Problem
I have created a child class from the Gallery view, named MyGallery. I did this because I wanted to get rid of the onFling event in the gallery view. Having that achieved, it lead me to a different problem. Scrolling the Gallery with the Dpad doesn't work now. When I tried using the original Gallery class, the dpad works fine. But when I extend the Gallery and use my custom gallery class, the dpad stops working. Am I missing something? Please help. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: cant read file from data/data/pkg/files/...
Hi, Please change this line code . FileOutputStream fos = mcontx.openFileOutput(imageName, Context.MODE_WORLD_READABLE) On Mar 30, 10:29 am, Komal komal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am saving an image using openFileOutput and now i want to use this image in my java script file. I am saving image using this code : Bitmap b=DownloadImage(imageUrl); FileOutputStream fos = mcontx.openFileOutput(imageName, Context.MODE_WORLD_WRITEABLE) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] help......i am a Beginners
package com.androidyo.firstbmi;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class Bmi extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
Button button=(Button)findViewById(R.id.submit);
button.setOnClickListener(calcBMI);
}
private OnClickListener calcBMI = new OnClickListener()
{
public void onClick(View v)
{
DecimalFormat nf=new DecimalFormat(0.00);
EditText fieldheight=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.height);
EditText fieldweight = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.weight);
double height =
Double.parseDouble(fieldheight.getText().toString
());
height=height/100;
double weight =
Double.parseDouble(fieldweight.getText().toString
());
TextView result = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.result);
TextView fieldsuggest = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.suggest);
if(height=0||weight=0)
result.setText(input wrong);
else
{
double BMI = weight / (height * height);
result.setText(Your BMI is +nf.format(BMI));
if(BMI25){
fieldsuggest.setText(R.string.advice_heavy);
}else if(BMI20){
fieldsuggest.setText(R.string.advice_light);
}else{
fieldsuggest.setText(R.string.advice_average);
}
}
}
};
}
MY question:
when runing the app .if i input nothing .it will force close
how can i fix it???
please give me a hang...i am a beginners.thanks
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[android-developers] Re: not able to play file when set data source to the sdcard file
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Honest honestsucc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am trying to play file which is stored in SDCARD in emulator. I have Linux O/S. So i need to provide command in run configuration. I am providing following parameter. -sdcard /usr/android/sdcard/mysdcard.iso -audio oss The sd card image needs to be a FAT filesystem image, not an ISO image. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: sdcard
That message indicates the name is not valid utf-8. What's the name/encoding you used? On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:39 AM, l hx lihongxia8...@gmail.com wrote: i found the matter may be the title of the file. because i seen the log LOGW(JNI WARNING: illegal start byte 0x%x\n, utf8);.who know why? On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Marco Nelissen marc...@android.com wrote: If it's been scanned, but doesn't appear in the database (as you said earlier), you'll have to figure out why the file was rejected. Also, if you're having problems on a particular device, you should probably post over on the android-porting list instead of here. On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:47 AM, l hx lihongxia8...@gmail.com wrote: i am sure that the file can been played in android. when i inport android to my device such as pxa310, it can be played in my device. but i can not be seen in my emulation. but some other mp4 file can been seen in my emulation. i just copy the file into the sdcard normally and can be seen in the /sdcard catalog. i see in the mediacanner.java that ttis file is been sannered also. On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Marco Nelissen marc...@android.com wrote: Are the files in a supported format? How did you put the files in /sdcard? On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:33 PM, l hx lihongxia8...@gmail.com wrote: and i meet a matter such as: some file in the /sdcard can not be seen in the trackbrowserActivity of music app. i found the file also can not be found in the database of the mediaprovider. who know why? On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Marco Nelissen marc...@android.com wrote: It would help if you said what error you're getting. You can check whether the file is actually there by doing something like adb shell ls -l /sdcard and checking that the file exists. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Nithin nithi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi to all I push the one video file... and tried to play that video file in emulator.. But i got error... Can any tell me how can i check weather video file insert or not... Thank You Nithin N V --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Does iTunes/3GPP metadata supported?
Some of the iTunes metadata is supported, but not all of it. If you bought a song from the iTunes music store, it should at least get artist/album/title/year from the file. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Ethan lawrence@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Please kindly help to answer the questions below, thank you very very much! 1. Does AAC codec supported in .mp4 container with iTunes metadata? 2. Does AAC codec supported in .3gp container with 3GPP metadata? Also please kindly indicate how retrieve these information, tracing the codes? Thanks a lot!! Ethan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: how expensive findViewById ??
I guess findViewById uses some kind of map implementation with O(log n) So my guess is that it's about 100-200 compared to 0 when you use member access. On Apr 13, 6:40 pm, Alexey avolo...@gmail.com wrote: yeah, that reference doesn't have number i'm looking for. On Apr 13, 11:20 am, Michael Bollmann michael.bollm...@googlemail.com wrote: It depends on how often you call it and what your app is doing anyway. Now matter how good it's implementation is access to a member variable is always much faster than a function call. On the other hand you might not notice any improvement in case your app does some stuff that takes 1000 times longer than a call to findViewById. Take a look at this:http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/performance.html#... On Apr 13, 6:04 pm, Alexey avolo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, trying to find some performance numbers for findViewById - need to convince to change bunch of the findViewById for the same widget to member variable with just one findViewById on create . Or may be i'm wrong and it's fine ? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: help......i am a Beginners
You almost no information as to what goes wrong, but my guess is that
since you didn't input any values, the call to Double.parseDouble()
throws an exception.
BTW, since you say you're a beginner, you might want to give the
android-beginners mailing list a try.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:11 AM, yoyo zjw...@gmail.com wrote:
package com.androidyo.firstbmi;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class Bmi extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
�...@override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
Button button=(Button)findViewById(R.id.submit);
button.setOnClickListener(calcBMI);
}
private OnClickListener calcBMI = new OnClickListener()
{
public void onClick(View v)
{
DecimalFormat nf=new DecimalFormat(0.00);
EditText fieldheight=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.height);
EditText fieldweight = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.weight);
double height =
Double.parseDouble(fieldheight.getText().toString
());
height=height/100;
double weight =
Double.parseDouble(fieldweight.getText().toString
());
TextView result = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.result);
TextView fieldsuggest = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.suggest);
if(height=0||weight=0)
result.setText(input wrong);
else
{
double BMI = weight / (height * height);
result.setText(Your BMI is +nf.format(BMI));
if(BMI25){
fieldsuggest.setText(R.string.advice_heavy);
}else if(BMI20){
fieldsuggest.setText(R.string.advice_light);
}else{
fieldsuggest.setText(R.string.advice_average);
}
}
}
};
}
MY question:
when runing the app .if i input nothing .it will force close
how can i fix it???
please give me a hang...i am a beginners.thanks
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[android-developers] Re: finish() not killing Activity
In general, you shouldn't be starting an activity at all passed on movements. Probably not on downs either. Only on ups. And at that point, if you want to abort the operation based on movement, just look at how far the up event x and y is away from the original down event. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:04 AM, quakeboy prasna...@gmail.com wrote: can u give some sample code, technical details about that touch thresholding, I have been trying to implement and I am missing important events On Apr 13, 7:07 am, Ralf ralfo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Todd Sjolander guyfantas...@gmail.com wrote: Marco, your hunch was right. I was somehow creating multiple copies of Activity C. In case anyone can benefit from this, let me explain how it went wrong. I implemented onTouch() in Activity B, which would create an Intent for Activity C, and then call startActivity(). For some reason, onTouch() would get called multiple times with each touch, launching a new Activity C each time. Ah indeed. Remember that touch on the emulator, via the mouse, is a very precise operation -- you click one pixel, once. On a real device your finger generates lots of input events due to the imprecision of the point being touched, pressure, etc. If you real on a precise touch, you might want to implement a threshold in your touch listener to filter out noise. R/ Jon, I've seen some oddities from that myself, although I can't really make sense of it. But it's helpful to keep that in mind. Thanks! -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Gallery Child View Problem
How did you get rid of the onFling event? It sounds like whatever you did to achieve that also broke scrolling. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Alekh alek...@gmail.com wrote: I have created a child class from the Gallery view, named MyGallery. I did this because I wanted to get rid of the onFling event in the gallery view. Having that achieved, it lead me to a different problem. Scrolling the Gallery with the Dpad doesn't work now. When I tried using the original Gallery class, the dpad works fine. But when I extend the Gallery and use my custom gallery class, the dpad stops working. Am I missing something? Please help. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: running appl in background
No. You are right that bindService() will keep the target service running (ONLY if you pass in the appropriate flag), but if you use startService() then the service will remain running even if nothing is bound to it. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:35 AM, jj jagtap...@gmail.com wrote: If service is running in background in another process, independent of foreground activity process. As per my study I got the two ways to know with background process update, 1. using IPC(AIDL) bindService() 2.broadcasting intent from service whenever we want update for particular function. But as far as first option is concerned the foreground activity should be there running. My background process should run even though the fore ground activity is no more on screen. User ca launch other application also while running my background process. So only second option is remains the choice. Or there is any other way. Am I right about bindService() concept[that it remains only the fore activity is there], is there any other way to keep binding with backservice, to know update of it even though fore ground is no more on screen. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: SDKs comparison with the iPhone
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: Dave, I'm not after G1 device images, I would be happy if I could get access to a fully working cupcake emulator, but no one in the public development community can. I said before the G1 launch I see Android as the platform, not the G1, Magic or any specific device implementation, but at the moment there is *nothing* which we can use to can prepare us for the imminent release of a cupcake device from an OHA member. Yes, and we have said pretty consistently that application developers should rather wait for an official cupcake SDK rather than try to build their own, if they want to avoid more frustration than they imagine. If you want to surf on the bleeding edge, the generic-eng build product in the master branch is the only thing you should try, and even this is a rocky road for an application developer, less so for a system integrator. Apart from that, we're still committed to providing a Cupcake SDK before devices ship, and we want to gradually but seriously reduce the gap between our internal tree and the public one. We have been doing that for quite some time but this is not directly visible. The Android team is currently doing many internal changes in the tools and processes it uses internally to reach this goal, but this takes some time, especially when you're trying to build shippable products at the same time. No one I know would recommend last minute rushed coding, but as every day goes past you're pushing developers further and further into that situation. Vodafone have set a date for the Cupcake powered device release and that's our deadline (which is just over 2 weeks away at best according to Vodafones website), and yet we still don't have *anything* which allows us to do full cupcake testing. The closest we can get is emulators with broken networking. I can tell you that most applications will work on Cupcake is they run on the 1.0 and 1.1 firmware images. The problematic ones are generally those who use unfrozen/unstable APIs, and developers have been warned well in advance that problems are to be expected. There may be a few corner cases, like some permissions being modified or removed for system-level security reasons, but they should hopefully be exceptions and will be explicitely documented when the SDK is out. I have been dog-fooding cupcake builds for a while now, and I don't think I've encountered more than one application over 50+ that did have a problem on them. However anecdote is not data, so take that with a grain of salt. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: help......i am a Beginners
You need to make sure that there is text in the TextEdits before
calling parseDouble because it will throw an exception otherwise.
Something like:
String heightText = fieldheight.getText().toString();
if( heightText != null !heightText.equals()){
// do stuff here
}
should work.
On Apr 13, 3:11 pm, yoyo zjw...@gmail.com wrote:
package com.androidyo.firstbmi;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class Bmi extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
Button button=(Button)findViewById(R.id.submit);
button.setOnClickListener(calcBMI);
}
private OnClickListener calcBMI = new OnClickListener()
{
public void onClick(View v)
{
DecimalFormat nf=new DecimalFormat(0.00);
EditText fieldheight=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.height);
EditText fieldweight = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.weight);
double height =
Double.parseDouble(fieldheight.getText().toString
());
height=height/100;
double weight =
Double.parseDouble(fieldweight.getText().toString
());
TextView result = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.result);
TextView fieldsuggest = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.suggest);
if(height=0||weight=0)
result.setText(input wrong);
else
{
double BMI = weight / (height * height);
result.setText(Your BMI is +nf.format(BMI));
if(BMI25){
fieldsuggest.setText(R.string.advice_heavy);
}else if(BMI20){
fieldsuggest.setText(R.string.advice_light);
}else{
fieldsuggest.setText(R.string.advice_average);
}
}
}
};
}
MY question:
when runing the app .if i input nothing .it will force close
how can i fix it???
please give me a hang...i am a beginners.thanks
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[android-developers] Re: SDKs comparison with the iPhone
Dave, There are a number of cases where the cupcake changes affect how UIs are rendered. Take, for example, the one I reported at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/48dc0 0dad63aac41 which does not use unfrozen/unstable APIs, does not involve permissions, and relates to an XML layout which renders differently between 1.0/1.1 and cupcake (and Romain was kind enough to confirm that the cupcake layout I saw is an accurate reflection of how the layout manager was suppose to work). This isn't just an API thing, there could be a number of developers who have stuck to the API guidelines yet get blindsided by changes in cupcake (see http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/f060b726d81c207b for another example). Are you really expect that one or two weeks is enough for every app written to go through a testing procedure to check for problems? Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * == Funky Android Limited is registered in England Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. _ From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Turner Sent: 13 April 2009 18:17 To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: [android-developers] Re: SDKs comparison with the iPhone On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: Dave, I'm not after G1 device images, I would be happy if I could get access to a fully working cupcake emulator, but no one in the public development community can. I said before the G1 launch I see Android as the platform, not the G1, Magic or any specific device implementation, but at the moment there is *nothing* which we can use to can prepare us for the imminent release of a cupcake device from an OHA member. Yes, and we have said pretty consistently that application developers should rather wait for an official cupcake SDK rather than try to build their own, if they want to avoid more frustration than they imagine. If you want to surf on the bleeding edge, the generic-eng build product in the master branch is the only thing you should try, and even this is a rocky road for an application developer, less so for a system integrator. Apart from that, we're still committed to providing a Cupcake SDK before devices ship, and we want to gradually but seriously reduce the gap between our internal tree and the public one. We have been doing that for quite some time but this is not directly visible. The Android team is currently doing many internal changes in the tools and processes it uses internally to reach this goal, but this takes some time, especially when you're trying to build shippable products at the same time. No one I know would recommend last minute rushed coding, but as every day goes past you're pushing developers further and further into that situation. Vodafone have set a date for the Cupcake powered device release and that's our deadline (which is just over 2 weeks away at best according to Vodafones website), and yet we still don't have *anything* which allows us to do full cupcake testing. The closest we can get is emulators with broken networking. I can tell you that most applications will work on Cupcake is they run on the 1.0 and 1.1 firmware images. The problematic ones are generally those who use unfrozen/unstable APIs, and developers have been warned well in advance that problems are to be expected. There may be a few corner cases, like some permissions being modified or removed for system-level security reasons, but they should hopefully be exceptions and will be explicitely documented when the SDK is out. I have been dog-fooding cupcake builds for a while now, and I don't think I've encountered more than one application over 50+ that did have a problem on them. However anecdote is not data, so take that with a grain of salt. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market
This is not legal advice. I actually am a lawyer, and these copyright violation claims are very shaky. Basically, they have a copyright to the exactly worded source code. So if they wrote int numTetrads = 50 and you wrote int numBlocks = 50 you would not be infringing. You need to copy, wholesale, a portion of their code in order to infringe on their copyright. Further, they have trademarks on the look and feel of colors/blocks and a trademark on the name Tetris. So technically, according to the law there is no claim. With that said, if they have a good lawyer and are in front of a retarded judge, then maybe they can go somewhere with this. They also have NO software patent claims, nor allege any. Even if they DID have a software patent, software patents are under a lot of scrutiny, and it probably would not take too much to get it invalidated. On Apr 13, 10:43 am, Sundog sunns...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone who is surprised by this must be very, very new to the programming game. I've been waiting for this since the store opened. IMHO, to the extent that the Android community becomes a proxy for those that think All Ideas Should Be Free And Stealable, that is the extent to which Android will never be a real grown-up operating system. On Apr 7, 8:43 am, tasos.klei...@gmail.com tasos.klei...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday April 4th, I received a message from google saying that my game Robotic Space Rock was pulled from the android market after a request made by a legal firm representing an entity known as Tetris Company. My application was removed from the android market together with Blocks, Cubik, Net Tetris, Netblocks and Tetroid (6 apps in total) under claim that it violates the DMCA and more specifically trademarks and copyrighted material owned by the Tetris Company. However, none of the trademarks or copyrighted material (music, graphics and sound effects) are present in my game. Sound effects and music were created by me specifically for the game. There is no reference to the word tetris in the game. Additionally, all the game code, graphics and sound effects were created by me and published on the code sitehttp://code.google.com/p/monolithandroid Additionally, I am not aware of a software patent covering the game mechanics of Tetris, so I cannot see how I could violate something that is not protected by a software patent. Also, even if the game was protected by a patent, the patent would have expired, since the original game, Tetris, was created 23 years ago. However game mechanics cannot be covered by patents. I would also like to point out that my game is available completely free of charge to every user of the android market. I wrote those concerns to Google and I sent an email to the EFF. The bottom line is that for my application to be restored on the android market, I have to send a DMCA counter-notification. And then the Tetris Company can sue and take the case to Court. When games were pulled from the iPhone App store, they blamed apple, but it is not hard to see that behind application removals we can find companies like the Tetris Company, that demand application removals claiming copyright infringement and trademarks. However, it is not easy to battle these companies as individual developers. I, for example, am a Greek citizen living in Greece, so it is difficult for me to file a counter-notification, because then the Tetris company will probably sue me and I will have to defend my case in court. Why should I bother? Am I making money out of the game? No! But even if I did you can see how easy it is for corporations to neutralize developers like that. I think that something should be done. Independent developers should get together to battle against such misuse of the law by corporations. And to those that want more facts, you can find more details on my blog:http://tkcodesharing.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Map not Displaying, Just tiles only
Have you added the INTERNET permission?
On Apr 13, 6:17 pm, nithin warier nithin.war...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I tried to display map in emulator. But its showing just tiles only. I
am attaching the screenshot and the log message is like this.
04-13 22:30:06.934: INFO/ActivityManager(48): Start proc org.me.map for
activity org.me.map/.MapAct: pid=615 uid=10022 gids={3003} 04-13
22:30:06.944: DEBUG/dalvikvm(607): VM cleaning up 04-13 22:30:06.954:
DEBUG/dalvikvm(607): LinearAlloc 0x0 used 541500 of 4194304 (12%) 04-13
22:30:06.976: ERROR/dalvikvm(607): pthread_setspecific failed, err=22 04-13
22:30:07.425: INFO/System.out(615): Setting locale to en_US 04-13
22:30:07.466: WARN/Maps_Persistence(615): Couldn't find file:
/data/data/org.me.map/files/DATA_Preferences 04-13 22:30:07.545:
INFO/jdwp(615): received file descriptor 27 from ADB 04-13 22:30:07.645:
WARN/Maps_Persistence(615): Couldn't find file:
/data/data/org.me.map/files/DATA_Tiles 04-13 22:30:07.675:
WARN/Maps(615): Couldn't
restore map info, data == null 04-13 22:30:07.995: INFO/MapActivity(615):
Handling network change notification:CONNECTED 04-13 22:30:08.015:
ERROR/MapActivity(615): Couldn't get connection factory client 04-13
22:30:08.194: INFO/ActivityManager(48): Displayed activity
org.me.map/.MapAct: 1400 ms
Please tell whats wrong with this, My source code is very simple, I ididnt
try anything special,
public class MapAct extends MapActivity { /** Called when the activity is
first created. */ @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{ super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); }
@Override protected boolean isRouteDisplayed() { // TODO Auto-generated
method stub return false; } }
Thanks
Nithin
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map.bmp
3112KViewDownload
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[android-developers] How to validate data being entered into an EditText control?
Hi I have an EditText control to accept IP address fields. Its xml input attribute allows everything else except IP addresses. How to make the control accept dotted IP quad addresses only? Thanks Videoguy --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Read text file and search contents
Here is a basic example of reading a raw resource: http://unlocking-android.googlecode.com/svn/chapter5/trunk/FileStorage/src/com/msi/manning/chapter5/filestorage/ReadRawResourceFile.java. On Apr 13, 12:26 pm, CompuCor caro...@compucor.com wrote: Greetings, I am new to Java and Android. I have a flat file (pipe-delimited) stored in R.raw called wordlist.txt. I want to open this file and quickly search for a word I pass into my procedure. I've been searching for a simple way to do this but not having much luck. Can anyone share some code on how to do this? Thanks SO much for any help! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Ikon ayanafr...@gmail.com wrote: This is not legal advice. I actually am a lawyer, and these copyright violation claims are very shaky. Basically, they have a copyright to the exactly worded source code. So if they wrote int numTetrads = 50 and you wrote int numBlocks = 50 you would not be infringing. You seem to be saying that I could take someone's source code, rename all the variables, and then claim it as my own. That can't be right. Also note that with most languages the binary would be exactly the same. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market
You can never patent abstract ideas. Game ideas cannot be patented OK, so we've established you're not a patent lawyer... :) My favorite patent is the one for swinging sideways on a swing, which IMO illustrates you can patent pretty much anything. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Ikon ayanafr...@gmail.com wrote: Your contention that grown up operating systems should not allow you to copy ideas is totally unfounded. You can never patent abstracty ideas. Game ideas cannot be patented. Whether they should be is a different discussion. You can go right and now, and make a game on Windows with a story very similar to fallout, and write all your own code, and use all your own graphics/sound assets and you will not be infringing on that IP in any way. A company may come and try to sue you, but that has no relevance to a maturity of an operating system. On Apr 13, 10:43 am, Sundog sunns...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone who is surprised by this must be very, very new to the programming game. I've been waiting for this since the store opened. IMHO, to the extent that the Android community becomes a proxy for those that think All Ideas Should Be Free And Stealable, that is the extent to which Android will never be a real grown-up operating system. On Apr 7, 8:43 am, tasos.klei...@gmail.com tasos.klei...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday April 4th, I received a message from google saying that my game Robotic Space Rock was pulled from the android market after a request made by a legal firm representing an entity known as Tetris Company. My application was removed from the android market together with Blocks, Cubik, Net Tetris, Netblocks and Tetroid (6 apps in total) under claim that it violates the DMCA and more specifically trademarks and copyrighted material owned by the Tetris Company. However, none of the trademarks or copyrighted material (music, graphics and sound effects) are present in my game. Sound effects and music were created by me specifically for the game. There is no reference to the word tetris in the game. Additionally, all the game code, graphics and sound effects were created by me and published on the code sitehttp://code.google.com/p/monolithandroid Additionally, I am not aware of a software patent covering the game mechanics of Tetris, so I cannot see how I could violate something that is not protected by a software patent. Also, even if the game was protected by a patent, the patent would have expired, since the original game, Tetris, was created 23 years ago. However game mechanics cannot be covered by patents. I would also like to point out that my game is available completely free of charge to every user of the android market. I wrote those concerns to Google and I sent an email to the EFF. The bottom line is that for my application to be restored on the android market, I have to send a DMCA counter-notification. And then the Tetris Company can sue and take the case to Court. When games were pulled from the iPhone App store, they blamed apple, but it is not hard to see that behind application removals we can find companies like the Tetris Company, that demand application removals claiming copyright infringement and trademarks. However, it is not easy to battle these companies as individual developers. I, for example, am a Greek citizen living in Greece, so it is difficult for me to file a counter-notification, because then the Tetris company will probably sue me and I will have to defend my case in court. Why should I bother? Am I making money out of the game? No! But even if I did you can see how easy it is for corporations to neutralize developers like that. I think that something should be done. Independent developers should get together to battle against such misuse of the law by corporations. And to those that want more facts, you can find more details on my blog:http://tkcodesharing.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Persistant Variables
I have an activity that responds to the accelerometer. When the device is rotated, a different layout is displayed based on whether the phone is portrait or landscape. I notice, however, that each time the phone is rotated, the onCreate method is called and all of my instance variables are reset. Is there any way to make the values of these variables persists? Thanks, Kirk --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Using SQLite for caching and serialization options
You could use an object-oriented database such as http://www.db4o.com/android/, of course this one requires GPL. On Apr 13, 5:41 am, Alan Jones skyp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I've got some classes which inherit from a single class, but differ significantly in the data they store. They get returned in a list of the parent class so there's a mix of the two. Because there could be a bunch of these in the results I'd like to cache them into an sqlite db and have an adapter which pulls data from there as the listview requires it. Seeing as they're so different I can't just dump required info into columns in a db (particularly given one type has a hashmap). Is it possible to use bundle and parcels? The bundle forcing it to be flattened? I couldn't see a way to dump a parcel to a string to push it into sqlite. This leaves me with just serializing objects and streaming it into a string before I'm out of ideas. Any suggestions on the most efficient way to deal with this? I'm also not sure on the overhead of serializing and retrieving objects for the db. I can see it quite possibly ripping through battery. Cheers, Alan. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Incorrect clip rect in onDraw()?
Thanks for the explanation. We worked around this behavior send
separate messages to a Handler on the UI thread. I'm curious, though,
to why Android doesn't handle the invalidate regions separately.
On Apr 9, 11:46 am, Romain Guy romain...@google.com wrote:
setText() invalidates the TextView entirely and when two invalidates
happen in the same UI event (as it is the case in your code), the
invalidate region becomes the union of the two original invalidate
regions.
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Leisuresuit Larry larrywan...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all,
We came across a strange behavior. The cliprectof our custom view is
getting reset to its entire visible region, if we change the value of
another view.
Below is a sample app to demonstrate the behavior:
main.xml:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
LinearLayout xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/
android
android:orientation=vertical
android:layout_width=fill_parent
android:layout_height=fill_parent
com.test.MyView
android:id=@+id/view
android:layout_width=fill_parent
android:layout_height=100px /
TextView
android:id=@+id/text
android:layout_width=fill_parent
android:layout_height=wrap_content /
/LinearLayout
ClipTest.java:
package com.test;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.KeyEvent;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class ClipTest extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
�...@override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
}
�...@override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.text);
tv.setText(Test);
findViewById(R.id.view).invalidate(100, 0, 150, 75);
return true;
}
}
MyView.java:
package com.test;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.View;
public class MyView extends View {
public MyView(Context context) {
super(context);
}
public MyView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
}
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
super.onDraw(canvas);
Rectclip= canvas.getClipBounds();
System.out.println(clip +clip);
}
}
If you run the above app, MyView.onDraw() prints clipRect(0, 0, 320,
100). If you comment out tv.setText(Test);, then MyView.onDraw()
prints clipRect(100, 0, 150, 75).
Why does setting the TextView's text affect MyView'scliprect? How
can we get the correctcliprectin MyView.onDraw()? Thanks for any
help!
Larry
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[android-developers] Re: Persistant Variables
Take at look at on onSaveInstanceState() You can use that to save things into the bundle that is passed to onCreate() On Apr 13, 7:26 pm, Kirk kirk.mora...@gmail.com wrote: I have an activity that responds to the accelerometer. When the device is rotated, a different layout is displayed based on whether the phone is portrait or landscape. I notice, however, that each time the phone is rotated, the onCreate method is called and all of my instance variables are reset. Is there any way to make the values of these variables persists? Thanks, Kirk --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to remove the WebView top/left 8-pixel inner margin?
That was my fear, i.e. that the left and top margin be hard-coded deep down on the C inaccessible layer ;( Thank you for taking the time. By accuracy, I mean that I want to control the width of the total WebView widget, so that it takes exactly 320 pixels and that the loaded HTML inside the WebView contains a 320-wide pixels image that should perfectly fit the Android device width of 320 pixels... This does not seem to be possible because of this built-on margin, except in a margin can be set negative... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to validate data being entered into an EditText control?
Could you could create your own KeyListener and pass it into the TextView via setKeyListener()? On Apr 13, 7:02 pm, Videoguy puri_mall...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi I have an EditText control to accept IP address fields. Its xml input attribute allows everything else except IP addresses. How to make the control accept dotted IP quad addresses only? Thanks Videoguy --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How-to start service automatically on system startup and on installation
I have been down this road with my app, you probably don't want to do this. It is much better to have the app that uses the service start the service when it needs it and simply leaves it running. mike On Apr 9, 10:47 am, kijiten orma cutbl...@gmail.com wrote: Translate English version : hello, someone can be how to define a service that launch automatically at startup and / or when installation without having to go through activity. I look beautiful everywhere, I do found that the functions and BindService but StartService which requires action outside. thank you. French version : bonjour, quelqu'un saurait-il comment définir un service qui se lancerai automatiquement au démarrage et/ou lors de l'installation sans pour autant passer par une activity. J'ai beau regarder un peu partout, je ne trouve que les fonctions startService et BindService mais qui nécessite une action extérieur. merci. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: how expensive findViewById ??
Actually it's not nearly so smart -- it is just a traversal through the view hierarchy until it finds a matching id. As with all things, you should avoid doing this repeatedly if you don't need to (keep the thing you find in a variable so you don't have to look it up again). For more subtle performance questions, the profiler is really what you need to use. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Michael Bollmann michael.bollm...@googlemail.com wrote: I guess findViewById uses some kind of map implementation with O(log n) So my guess is that it's about 100-200 compared to 0 when you use member access. On Apr 13, 6:40 pm, Alexey avolo...@gmail.com wrote: yeah, that reference doesn't have number i'm looking for. On Apr 13, 11:20 am, Michael Bollmann michael.bollm...@googlemail.com wrote: It depends on how often you call it and what your app is doing anyway. Now matter how good it's implementation is access to a member variable is always much faster than a function call. On the other hand you might not notice any improvement in case your app does some stuff that takes 1000 times longer than a call to findViewById. Take a look at this: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/performance.html#... On Apr 13, 6:04 pm, Alexey avolo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, trying to find some performance numbers for findViewById - need to convince to change bunch of the findViewById for the same widget to member variable with just one findViewById on create . Or may be i'm wrong and it's fine ? -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market
The variable example was just a small example. My point was that on the variable rename alone is not a copyright violation, just because it relates to the same idea. However you cannot copy someones functions and rename the functions/vars and make it your own. This is obviously a close call, and it must be made by a fact-finder. As for your example of a swing, my comment was directed towards video- games, and not physical apparatuses, which are clearly patentable. I know what is accepted as patentable or not by the USPTO, as I submit these patents on a regular basis. On Apr 13, 2:18 pm, Marco Nelissen marc...@android.com wrote: You can never patent abstract ideas. Game ideas cannot be patented OK, so we've established you're not a patent lawyer... :) My favorite patent is the one for swinging sideways on a swing, which IMO illustrates you can patent pretty much anything. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Ikon ayanafr...@gmail.com wrote: Your contention that grown up operating systems should not allow you to copy ideas is totally unfounded. You can never patent abstracty ideas. Game ideas cannot be patented. Whether they should be is a different discussion. You can go right and now, and make a game on Windows with a story very similar to fallout, and write all your own code, and use all your own graphics/sound assets and you will not be infringing on that IP in any way. A company may come and try to sue you, but that has no relevance to a maturity of an operating system. On Apr 13, 10:43 am, Sundog sunns...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone who is surprised by this must be very, very new to the programming game. I've been waiting for this since the store opened. IMHO, to the extent that the Android community becomes a proxy for those that think All Ideas Should Be Free And Stealable, that is the extent to which Android will never be a real grown-up operating system. On Apr 7, 8:43 am, tasos.klei...@gmail.com tasos.klei...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday April 4th, I received a message from google saying that my game Robotic Space Rock was pulled from the android market after a request made by a legal firm representing an entity known as Tetris Company. My application was removed from the android market together with Blocks, Cubik, Net Tetris, Netblocks and Tetroid (6 apps in total) under claim that it violates the DMCA and more specifically trademarks and copyrighted material owned by the Tetris Company. However, none of the trademarks or copyrighted material (music, graphics and sound effects) are present in my game. Sound effects and music were created by me specifically for the game. There is no reference to the word tetris in the game. Additionally, all the game code, graphics and sound effects were created by me and published on the code sitehttp://code.google.com/p/monolithandroid Additionally, I am not aware of a software patent covering the game mechanics of Tetris, so I cannot see how I could violate something that is not protected by a software patent. Also, even if the game was protected by a patent, the patent would have expired, since the original game, Tetris, was created 23 years ago. However game mechanics cannot be covered by patents. I would also like to point out that my game is available completely free of charge to every user of the android market. I wrote those concerns to Google and I sent an email to the EFF. The bottom line is that for my application to be restored on the android market, I have to send a DMCA counter-notification. And then the Tetris Company can sue and take the case to Court. When games were pulled from the iPhone App store, they blamed apple, but it is not hard to see that behind application removals we can find companies like the Tetris Company, that demand application removals claiming copyright infringement and trademarks. However, it is not easy to battle these companies as individual developers. I, for example, am a Greek citizen living in Greece, so it is difficult for me to file a counter-notification, because then the Tetris company will probably sue me and I will have to defend my case in court. Why should I bother? Am I making money out of the game? No! But even if I did you can see how easy it is for corporations to neutralize developers like that. I think that something should be done. Independent developers should get together to battle against such misuse of the law by corporations. And to those that want more facts, you can find more details on my blog:http://tkcodesharing.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Ikon ayanafr...@gmail.com wrote: The variable example was just a small example. My point was that on the variable rename alone is not a copyright violation, just because it relates to the same idea. However you cannot copy someones functions and rename the functions/vars and make it your own. This is obviously a close call, and it must be made by a fact-finder. As for your example of a swing, my comment was directed towards video- games, and not physical apparatuses, which are clearly patentable. I know what is accepted as patentable or not by the USPTO, as I submit these patents on a regular basis. If you file patents on a regular basis, then surely you must have heard of the 'swing' patent before, which isn't actually a patent for the apparatus itself, but for a method for swinging sideways on a standard swing. Anyone who was ever a child should be aware of the prior art for that, yet it still got issued. Perhaps patent clerks don't go through the normal human growth cycle but emerge fully grown from a vat or something... :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market
They've lost. They will probably lose again. They need to stop trying to make a mockery of copyrights. On Apr 13, 3:09 pm, Sundog sunns...@gmail.com wrote: OK, so after checking Wikipedia my memory was flawed... though there were massive copyright fights over Tetris that dragged on for years, the original author ended up making very little. But a quick scan of the History part of the entry should convince anyone pretty quick that they don't want to fight The Tetris Company. On Apr 13, 12:49 pm, Sundog sunns...@gmail.com wrote: Again, you both might want to review a little history... in particular the (if memory serves, pretty successful and pretty savage) fight of the author of Tetris to protect his intellectual property over the last 20 years or so. And as I think someone else pointed out, your understanding of the issues involved is not complete, as one would think was self evident in the Google action... game ideas are most certainly protectable. Try writing a Monopoly clone and see what happens, real quick. Are you unaware of the recent Scrabble issue on the iPhone? I don't think you see my point, which is that an operating system/ community/environment that openly disregards intellectual property rights is, in my humble opinion, doomed to failure from the get-go from the inability to form a viable business model for anyone involved. On Apr 13, 11:44 am, Ikon ayanafr...@gmail.com wrote: Your contention that grown up operating systems should not allow you to copy ideas is totally unfounded. You can never patent abstracty ideas. Game ideas cannot be patented. Whether they should be is a different discussion. You can go right and now, and make a game on Windows with a story very similar to fallout, and write all your own code, and use all your own graphics/sound assets and you will not be infringing on that IP in any way. A company may come and try to sue you, but that has no relevance to a maturity of an operating system. On Apr 13, 10:43 am, Sundog sunns...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone who is surprised by this must be very, very new to the programming game. I've been waiting for this since the store opened. IMHO, to the extent that the Android community becomes a proxy for those that think All Ideas Should Be Free And Stealable, that is the extent to which Android will never be a real grown-up operating system. On Apr 7, 8:43 am, tasos.klei...@gmail.com tasos.klei...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday April 4th, I received a message from google saying that my game Robotic Space Rock was pulled from the android market after a request made by a legal firm representing an entity known as Tetris Company. My application was removed from the android market together with Blocks, Cubik, Net Tetris, Netblocks and Tetroid (6 apps in total) under claim that it violates the DMCA and more specifically trademarks and copyrighted material owned by the Tetris Company. However, none of the trademarks or copyrighted material (music, graphics and sound effects) are present in my game. Sound effects and music were created by me specifically for the game. There is no reference to the word tetris in the game. Additionally, all the game code, graphics and sound effects were created by me and published on the code sitehttp://code.google.com/p/monolithandroid Additionally, I am not aware of a software patent covering the game mechanics of Tetris, so I cannot see how I could violate something that is not protected by a software patent. Also, even if the game was protected by a patent, the patent would have expired, since the original game, Tetris, was created 23 years ago. However game mechanics cannot be covered by patents. I would also like to point out that my game is available completely free of charge to every user of the android market. I wrote those concerns to Google and I sent an email to the EFF. The bottom line is that for my application to be restored on the android market, I have to send a DMCA counter-notification. And then the Tetris Company can sue and take the case to Court. When games were pulled from the iPhone App store, they blamed apple, but it is not hard to see that behind application removals we can find companies like the Tetris Company, that demand application removals claiming copyright infringement and trademarks. However, it is not easy to battle these companies as individual developers. I, for example, am a Greek citizen living in Greece, so it is difficult for me to file a counter-notification, because then the Tetris company will probably sue me and I will have to defend my case in court. Why should I bother? Am I making money out of the game? No! But even if I did you can see how easy it is for corporations to
[android-developers] Re: XML With Xliff
You probably need to declare the xliff namespace prior to its use. Also the xliff stuff is only for localization; if you aren't giving your strings to localizers (who use this information to determine how to handle parts of the string), there is little reason for dealing with it. Of course if you think you may be doing this in the future, it is certainly not a problem to pro-actively but the stuff in now. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:05 AM, MaTriXy elkri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have seen projects with Xliff and wanted to know how exactly it's used. i saw it on the lock screen and wanted to do it myself so i took this line: string name=lockpattern_recording_incorrect_too_shortConnect at least xliff:g id=number%d/xliff:g dots. Try again:/string But i get XML Parsing Error until i erase the entire xliff tag... Thx for replying. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: how expensive findViewById ??
Thanks. that answers my question. On Apr 13, 1:40 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Actually it's not nearly so smart -- it is just a traversal through the view hierarchy until it finds a matching id. As with all things, you should avoid doing this repeatedly if you don't need to (keep the thing you find in a variable so you don't have to look it up again). For more subtle performance questions, the profiler is really what you need to use. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Michael Bollmann michael.bollm...@googlemail.com wrote: I guess findViewById uses some kind of map implementation with O(log n) So my guess is that it's about 100-200 compared to 0 when you use member access. On Apr 13, 6:40 pm, Alexey avolo...@gmail.com wrote: yeah, that reference doesn't have number i'm looking for. On Apr 13, 11:20 am, Michael Bollmann michael.bollm...@googlemail.com wrote: It depends on how often you call it and what your app is doing anyway. Now matter how good it's implementation is access to a member variable is always much faster than a function call. On the other hand you might not notice any improvement in case your app does some stuff that takes 1000 times longer than a call to findViewById. Take a look at this: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/performance.html#... On Apr 13, 6:04 pm, Alexey avolo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, trying to find some performance numbers for findViewById - need to convince to change bunch of the findViewById for the same widget to member variable with just one findViewById on create . Or may be i'm wrong and it's fine ? -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market
OK, so after checking Wikipedia my memory was flawed... though there were massive copyright fights over Tetris that dragged on for years, the original author ended up making very little. But a quick scan of the History part of the entry should convince anyone pretty quick that they don't want to fight The Tetris Company. On Apr 13, 12:49 pm, Sundog sunns...@gmail.com wrote: Again, you both might want to review a little history... in particular the (if memory serves, pretty successful and pretty savage) fight of the author of Tetris to protect his intellectual property over the last 20 years or so. And as I think someone else pointed out, your understanding of the issues involved is not complete, as one would think was self evident in the Google action... game ideas are most certainly protectable. Try writing a Monopoly clone and see what happens, real quick. Are you unaware of the recent Scrabble issue on the iPhone? I don't think you see my point, which is that an operating system/ community/environment that openly disregards intellectual property rights is, in my humble opinion, doomed to failure from the get-go from the inability to form a viable business model for anyone involved. On Apr 13, 11:44 am, Ikon ayanafr...@gmail.com wrote: Your contention that grown up operating systems should not allow you to copy ideas is totally unfounded. You can never patent abstracty ideas. Game ideas cannot be patented. Whether they should be is a different discussion. You can go right and now, and make a game on Windows with a story very similar to fallout, and write all your own code, and use all your own graphics/sound assets and you will not be infringing on that IP in any way. A company may come and try to sue you, but that has no relevance to a maturity of an operating system. On Apr 13, 10:43 am, Sundog sunns...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone who is surprised by this must be very, very new to the programming game. I've been waiting for this since the store opened. IMHO, to the extent that the Android community becomes a proxy for those that think All Ideas Should Be Free And Stealable, that is the extent to which Android will never be a real grown-up operating system. On Apr 7, 8:43 am, tasos.klei...@gmail.com tasos.klei...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday April 4th, I received a message from google saying that my game Robotic Space Rock was pulled from the android market after a request made by a legal firm representing an entity known as Tetris Company. My application was removed from the android market together with Blocks, Cubik, Net Tetris, Netblocks and Tetroid (6 apps in total) under claim that it violates the DMCA and more specifically trademarks and copyrighted material owned by the Tetris Company. However, none of the trademarks or copyrighted material (music, graphics and sound effects) are present in my game. Sound effects and music were created by me specifically for the game. There is no reference to the word tetris in the game. Additionally, all the game code, graphics and sound effects were created by me and published on the code sitehttp://code.google.com/p/monolithandroid Additionally, I am not aware of a software patent covering the game mechanics of Tetris, so I cannot see how I could violate something that is not protected by a software patent. Also, even if the game was protected by a patent, the patent would have expired, since the original game, Tetris, was created 23 years ago. However game mechanics cannot be covered by patents. I would also like to point out that my game is available completely free of charge to every user of the android market. I wrote those concerns to Google and I sent an email to the EFF. The bottom line is that for my application to be restored on the android market, I have to send a DMCA counter-notification. And then the Tetris Company can sue and take the case to Court. When games were pulled from the iPhone App store, they blamed apple, but it is not hard to see that behind application removals we can find companies like the Tetris Company, that demand application removals claiming copyright infringement and trademarks. However, it is not easy to battle these companies as individual developers. I, for example, am a Greek citizen living in Greece, so it is difficult for me to file a counter-notification, because then the Tetris company will probably sue me and I will have to defend my case in court. Why should I bother? Am I making money out of the game? No! But even if I did you can see how easy it is for corporations to neutralize developers like that. I think that something should be done. Independent developers should get together to battle against such misuse of the law by corporations. And to those that want more facts, you can find
[android-developers] Re: SDKs comparison with the iPhone
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: Are you really expect that one or two weeks is enough for every app written to go through a testing procedure to check for problems? Of course not. We know that the current situation is far from perfect, but we aren't making it hard on you on purpose. We want to make it easy for you to release good quality app, and early access to releases is one way where we have a lot of progress to do. We hope to get better in the next releases. I know it is frustrating, but as David said we've been working on improving things. Hopefully this will become visible soon. Xav -- Xavier Ducrohet Android Engineer, Google. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market
A method can be patented. And not 'anything' On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Marco Nelissen marc...@android.com wrote: You can never patent abstract ideas. Game ideas cannot be patented OK, so we've established you're not a patent lawyer... :) My favorite patent is the one for swinging sideways on a swing, which IMO illustrates you can patent pretty much anything. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Ikon ayanafr...@gmail.com wrote: Your contention that grown up operating systems should not allow you to copy ideas is totally unfounded. You can never patent abstracty ideas. Game ideas cannot be patented. Whether they should be is a different discussion. You can go right and now, and make a game on Windows with a story very similar to fallout, and write all your own code, and use all your own graphics/sound assets and you will not be infringing on that IP in any way. A company may come and try to sue you, but that has no relevance to a maturity of an operating system. On Apr 13, 10:43 am, Sundog sunns...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone who is surprised by this must be very, very new to the programming game. I've been waiting for this since the store opened. IMHO, to the extent that the Android community becomes a proxy for those that think All Ideas Should Be Free And Stealable, that is the extent to which Android will never be a real grown-up operating system. On Apr 7, 8:43 am, tasos.klei...@gmail.com tasos.klei...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday April 4th, I received a message from google saying that my game Robotic Space Rock was pulled from the android market after a request made by a legal firm representing an entity known as Tetris Company. My application was removed from the android market together with Blocks, Cubik, Net Tetris, Netblocks and Tetroid (6 apps in total) under claim that it violates the DMCA and more specifically trademarks and copyrighted material owned by the Tetris Company. However, none of the trademarks or copyrighted material (music, graphics and sound effects) are present in my game. Sound effects and music were created by me specifically for the game. There is no reference to the word tetris in the game. Additionally, all the game code, graphics and sound effects were created by me and published on the code sitehttp://code.google.com/p/monolithandroid Additionally, I am not aware of a software patent covering the game mechanics of Tetris, so I cannot see how I could violate something that is not protected by a software patent. Also, even if the game was protected by a patent, the patent would have expired, since the original game, Tetris, was created 23 years ago. However game mechanics cannot be covered by patents. I would also like to point out that my game is available completely free of charge to every user of the android market. I wrote those concerns to Google and I sent an email to the EFF. The bottom line is that for my application to be restored on the android market, I have to send a DMCA counter-notification. And then the Tetris Company can sue and take the case to Court. When games were pulled from the iPhone App store, they blamed apple, but it is not hard to see that behind application removals we can find companies like the Tetris Company, that demand application removals claiming copyright infringement and trademarks. However, it is not easy to battle these companies as individual developers. I, for example, am a Greek citizen living in Greece, so it is difficult for me to file a counter-notification, because then the Tetris company will probably sue me and I will have to defend my case in court. Why should I bother? Am I making money out of the game? No! But even if I did you can see how easy it is for corporations to neutralize developers like that. I think that something should be done. Independent developers should get together to battle against such misuse of the law by corporations. And to those that want more facts, you can find more details on my blog:http://tkcodesharing.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to validate data being entered into an EditText control?
That is what I thought initially. But Editable has all types of InputFilters you can register to validate/constrain input being entered. I didn't find any filter so far that can validate IP quads. I will write one probably. Thanks Videoguy --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market
Actually even method patents are in peril. See a recent case called In Re Bilski. Even method patents must be tied to particular physical apparatuses, or must transform some physical subject matter into another state or thing. On Apr 13, 3:18 pm, george_c chrisg...@gmail.com wrote: A method can be patented. And not 'anything' On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Marco Nelissen marc...@android.com wrote: You can never patent abstract ideas. Game ideas cannot be patented OK, so we've established you're not a patent lawyer... :) My favorite patent is the one for swinging sideways on a swing, which IMO illustrates you can patent pretty much anything. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Ikon ayanafr...@gmail.com wrote: Your contention that grown up operating systems should not allow you to copy ideas is totally unfounded. You can never patent abstracty ideas. Game ideas cannot be patented. Whether they should be is a different discussion. You can go right and now, and make a game on Windows with a story very similar to fallout, and write all your own code, and use all your own graphics/sound assets and you will not be infringing on that IP in any way. A company may come and try to sue you, but that has no relevance to a maturity of an operating system. On Apr 13, 10:43 am, Sundog sunns...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone who is surprised by this must be very, very new to the programming game. I've been waiting for this since the store opened. IMHO, to the extent that the Android community becomes a proxy for those that think All Ideas Should Be Free And Stealable, that is the extent to which Android will never be a real grown-up operating system. On Apr 7, 8:43 am, tasos.klei...@gmail.com tasos.klei...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday April 4th, I received a message from google saying that my game Robotic Space Rock was pulled from the android market after a request made by a legal firm representing an entity known as Tetris Company. My application was removed from the android market together with Blocks, Cubik, Net Tetris, Netblocks and Tetroid (6 apps in total) under claim that it violates the DMCA and more specifically trademarks and copyrighted material owned by the Tetris Company. However, none of the trademarks or copyrighted material (music, graphics and sound effects) are present in my game. Sound effects and music were created by me specifically for the game. There is no reference to the word tetris in the game. Additionally, all the game code, graphics and sound effects were created by me and published on the code sitehttp://code.google.com/p/monolithandroid Additionally, I am not aware of a software patent covering the game mechanics of Tetris, so I cannot see how I could violate something that is not protected by a software patent. Also, even if the game was protected by a patent, the patent would have expired, since the original game, Tetris, was created 23 years ago. However game mechanics cannot be covered by patents. I would also like to point out that my game is available completely free of charge to every user of the android market. I wrote those concerns to Google and I sent an email to the EFF. The bottom line is that for my application to be restored on the android market, I have to send a DMCA counter-notification. And then the Tetris Company can sue and take the case to Court. When games were pulled from the iPhone App store, they blamed apple, but it is not hard to see that behind application removals we can find companies like the Tetris Company, that demand application removals claiming copyright infringement and trademarks. However, it is not easy to battle these companies as individual developers. I, for example, am a Greek citizen living in Greece, so it is difficult for me to file a counter-notification, because then the Tetris company will probably sue me and I will have to defend my case in court. Why should I bother? Am I making money out of the game? No! But even if I did you can see how easy it is for corporations to neutralize developers like that. I think that something should be done. Independent developers should get together to battle against such misuse of the law by corporations. And to those that want more facts, you can find more details on my blog:http://tkcodesharing.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Map not Displaying, Just tiles only
i did both these already...
my i got map API and put all permissions in manifest
uses-permission android:name=android.permission.INTERNET/
uses-permission
android:name=android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION /
uses-library android:name=com.google.android.maps /
still its showing his error, what may be the reason..
Thanks
Nithin
On Apr 13, 11:04 pm, Charlie Collins charlie.coll...@gmail.com
wrote:
Also make sure you have a maps key, the error message you are getting
look unrelated, but just check that to make sure.
http://code.google.com/android/maps-api-signup.html
On Apr 13, 1:17 pm, nithin warier nithin.war...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I tried to display map in emulator. But its showing just tiles only. I
am attaching the screenshot and the log message is like this.
04-13 22:30:06.934: INFO/ActivityManager(48): Start proc org.me.map for
activity org.me.map/.MapAct: pid=615 uid=10022 gids={3003} 04-13
22:30:06.944: DEBUG/dalvikvm(607): VM cleaning up 04-13 22:30:06.954:
DEBUG/dalvikvm(607): LinearAlloc 0x0 used 541500 of 4194304 (12%) 04-13
22:30:06.976: ERROR/dalvikvm(607): pthread_setspecific failed, err=22 04-13
22:30:07.425: INFO/System.out(615): Setting locale to en_US 04-13
22:30:07.466: WARN/Maps_Persistence(615): Couldn't find file:
/data/data/org.me.map/files/DATA_Preferences 04-13 22:30:07.545:
INFO/jdwp(615): received file descriptor 27 from ADB 04-13 22:30:07.645:
WARN/Maps_Persistence(615): Couldn't find file:
/data/data/org.me.map/files/DATA_Tiles 04-13 22:30:07.675:
WARN/Maps(615): Couldn't
restore map info, data == null 04-13 22:30:07.995: INFO/MapActivity(615):
Handling network change notification:CONNECTED 04-13 22:30:08.015:
ERROR/MapActivity(615): Couldn't get connection factory client 04-13
22:30:08.194: INFO/ActivityManager(48): Displayed activity
org.me.map/.MapAct: 1400 ms
Please tell whats wrong with this, My source code is very simple, I ididnt
try anything special,
public class MapAct extends MapActivity { /** Called when the activity is
first created. */ @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{ super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); }
@Override protected boolean isRouteDisplayed() { // TODO Auto-generated
method stub return false; } }
Thanks
Nithin
nithinwarier.blogspot.com
+919739146701
map.bmp
3112KViewDownload
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[android-developers] Re: Embed Contacts activity
That is not the phone app, that is the contacts app, which implements the entire UI. The main thing the phone app implements in the in-call screen. On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Bin Chen binary.c...@gmail.com wrote: I seached this forum and someone said for the security reason, we can only embed the activity we own, but I am wondering how the phone app embeds the activity from contacts? Is there any tricks for that? Thanks. Bin -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market
This is as wrong as wrong can be. Believe this at your economic peril. On Apr 13, 11:39 am, Ikon ayanafr...@gmail.com wrote: This is not legal advice. I actually am a lawyer, and these copyright violation claims are very shaky. Basically, they have a copyright to the exactly worded source code. So if they wrote int numTetrads = 50 and you wrote int numBlocks = 50 you would not be infringing. You need to copy, wholesale, a portion of their code in order to infringe on their copyright. - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market
Again, you both might want to review a little history... in particular the (if memory serves, pretty successful and pretty savage) fight of the author of Tetris to protect his intellectual property over the last 20 years or so. And as I think someone else pointed out, your understanding of the issues involved is not complete, as one would think was self evident in the Google action... game ideas are most certainly protectable. Try writing a Monopoly clone and see what happens, real quick. Are you unaware of the recent Scrabble issue on the iPhone? I don't think you see my point, which is that an operating system/ community/environment that openly disregards intellectual property rights is, in my humble opinion, doomed to failure from the get-go from the inability to form a viable business model for anyone involved. On Apr 13, 11:44 am, Ikon ayanafr...@gmail.com wrote: Your contention that grown up operating systems should not allow you to copy ideas is totally unfounded. You can never patent abstracty ideas. Game ideas cannot be patented. Whether they should be is a different discussion. You can go right and now, and make a game on Windows with a story very similar to fallout, and write all your own code, and use all your own graphics/sound assets and you will not be infringing on that IP in any way. A company may come and try to sue you, but that has no relevance to a maturity of an operating system. On Apr 13, 10:43 am, Sundog sunns...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone who is surprised by this must be very, very new to the programming game. I've been waiting for this since the store opened. IMHO, to the extent that the Android community becomes a proxy for those that think All Ideas Should Be Free And Stealable, that is the extent to which Android will never be a real grown-up operating system. On Apr 7, 8:43 am, tasos.klei...@gmail.com tasos.klei...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday April 4th, I received a message from google saying that my game Robotic Space Rock was pulled from the android market after a request made by a legal firm representing an entity known as Tetris Company. My application was removed from the android market together with Blocks, Cubik, Net Tetris, Netblocks and Tetroid (6 apps in total) under claim that it violates the DMCA and more specifically trademarks and copyrighted material owned by the Tetris Company. However, none of the trademarks or copyrighted material (music, graphics and sound effects) are present in my game. Sound effects and music were created by me specifically for the game. There is no reference to the word tetris in the game. Additionally, all the game code, graphics and sound effects were created by me and published on the code sitehttp://code.google.com/p/monolithandroid Additionally, I am not aware of a software patent covering the game mechanics of Tetris, so I cannot see how I could violate something that is not protected by a software patent. Also, even if the game was protected by a patent, the patent would have expired, since the original game, Tetris, was created 23 years ago. However game mechanics cannot be covered by patents. I would also like to point out that my game is available completely free of charge to every user of the android market. I wrote those concerns to Google and I sent an email to the EFF. The bottom line is that for my application to be restored on the android market, I have to send a DMCA counter-notification. And then the Tetris Company can sue and take the case to Court. When games were pulled from the iPhone App store, they blamed apple, but it is not hard to see that behind application removals we can find companies like the Tetris Company, that demand application removals claiming copyright infringement and trademarks. However, it is not easy to battle these companies as individual developers. I, for example, am a Greek citizen living in Greece, so it is difficult for me to file a counter-notification, because then the Tetris company will probably sue me and I will have to defend my case in court. Why should I bother? Am I making money out of the game? No! But even if I did you can see how easy it is for corporations to neutralize developers like that. I think that something should be done. Independent developers should get together to battle against such misuse of the law by corporations. And to those that want more facts, you can find more details on my blog:http://tkcodesharing.blogspot.com- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit
[android-developers] Re: Persistant Variables
Thanks that works great. I feel kind of stupid for not figuring that out on my own now. I do think it's silly for onCreate to be called again on rotate; there should be an onOrientationChange event or something. Kirk On Apr 13, 11:31 am, MrChaz mrchazmob...@googlemail.com wrote: Take at look at on onSaveInstanceState() You can use that to save things into the bundle that is passed to onCreate() On Apr 13, 7:26 pm, Kirk kirk.mora...@gmail.com wrote: I have an activity that responds to the accelerometer. When the device is rotated, a different layout is displayed based on whether the phone is portrait or landscape. I notice, however, that each time the phone is rotated, the onCreate method is called and all of my instance variables are reset. Is there any way to make the values of these variables persists? Thanks, Kirk --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Change Spinner content on fly
Hi all, I've a ListActivity containing entries present in my db. Each line of this list is a Linearlayout containing image and text. To avoid to reload a part of my db each time, I load it one time. Records are put in my list used to build my adapter. I would like to set invisible some lines of this ListActivity when user clicks on a button. In debug mode, the view seems Gone, but even if I use forceLayout on adapter or requestLayout, the list is not reloaded. Do you have an idea? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market
I find it disheartening that this discussion is even taking place. Is this really the level of understanding of intellectual property rights among the community? Let's say you're Electronic Arts with Tetris and Monopoly ready for the Android platform, as they claimed was imminent way back in OCTOBER. Are you going to release your games in a Wild West free-for- all where anyone can clone your game and sell it? Not a chance. That isn't the way the real world works, whether it fits with the everything should be free philosophy or not. It's piracy, whether we want to say the word or not. It seems so simple: Come up with your own ideas, or at least if you're going to copy something, make sure it's in the public domain first. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Persistant Variables
I think that there is a permission for saying that you will handle it and another event that you can hook. But I've not explored those :) On Apr 13, 8:49 pm, Kirk - Actual Metrics kirk.mora...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks that works great. I feel kind of stupid for not figuring that out on my own now. I do think it's silly for onCreate to be called again on rotate; there should be an onOrientationChange event or something. Kirk On Apr 13, 11:31 am, MrChaz mrchazmob...@googlemail.com wrote: Take at look at on onSaveInstanceState() You can use that to save things into the bundle that is passed to onCreate() On Apr 13, 7:26 pm, Kirk kirk.mora...@gmail.com wrote: I have an activity that responds to the accelerometer. When the device is rotated, a different layout is displayed based on whether the phone is portrait or landscape. I notice, however, that each time the phone is rotated, the onCreate method is called and all of my instance variables are reset. Is there any way to make the values of these variables persists? Thanks, Kirk --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: FTP on android
I am using wifi. Now actually my AndFTP is working but still no change in the app i wrote. Thanks Birjodh On Apr 11, 11:54 pm, Marco Nelissen marc...@android.com wrote: Are you accessing the server through wi-fi, or through the carrier network? If the latter, make sure it's actually accessible from your carrier's network. On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 2:39 PM, tiwana tiwana.birj...@gmail.com wrote: By th way the problem is with my dev phone not with emulator, emulator is working fine. On Apr 11, 2:07 pm, tiwana tiwana.birj...@gmail.com wrote: Actually my bucket upload is also not working.It is not able to connect to anyFTPserver. What settings do i need to change? David Given wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Murphy wrote: [...] Bear in mind that the Android emulator runs in a virtual machine (qemu). Just because you can get to theFTPserver from your desktop does not necessarily mean you can get to it from the virtual machine. Also, don't forget that depending on how youFTPsession is configured then the server might need to make a connection back to your Android system ---FTPis a ghastly protocol, and needs to be configured just right (PASV) to avoid this: http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.html - -- ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ─http://www.cowlark.com─ │ │ All power corrupts, but we need electricity. --- Diana Wynne Jones, │ _Archer's Goon_ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ4NTRf9E0noFvlzgRArcJAJ9PaPtNzwl35G+ziZH+wWXKjCLCfgCfWvl/ G6lErc/AmwUU36VYUb1K1Fs= =PFsP -END PGP SIGNATURE- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Permissions to install other apps...
So when will be the cupcake available? On Apr 9, 7:06 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: That's why apps can't install other apps without the user being involved. I was addressing the first part of the original poster's request, being able to download and run Dalvik code in your own process. In that case the new API will let you do this, though of course you are running the other code as -yourself- so taking responsibility for anything it does. On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:35 PM, BIRJODH birjodh.tiw...@gmail.com wrote: Would not it be somewhat dangerous to allow apps is /data/app folder to install other applications?? An app can just create an infinite loop in which downloads applications which do not require any permission and keep on installing them and fill out the memory space? Birjodh On Apr 9, 1:56 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: There is an API in cupcake to allow you to perform the dexopt into your own directory. That will be available when cupcake is available. On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Eborix13 ebori...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, We are a team of Android developers and we are facing a serious problem for quite some time. Our app (a game client) is designed in such a way, that once it's installed it can be used to download games from a game server. In order for the downloaded games to work, they have to be installed and launched by the client. The problem is that the client has no write/update rights for the / data/dalvik-cache directory, unless we specifically execute the chmod 777 command for that directory. Setting the android.permission.INSTALL_PACKAGES permission in the client's manifest file also doesn't work. After reading countless forums where other people have complained about the same problem, we would like to know when this issue is going to be resolved. Apparently the code for this feature already exists (the DexFile class of the so called cupcake release) but it hasn't been released yet. What's more frustrating is that the Android team points out that all Android apps are equal, that system apps are equal in rights to custom apps. Obviously this is not the case. If the client game app is installed in the /system/app the problem described above is solved. System apps have the right to dynamically install other apps. Regular apps (installed in the /data/data folder) do not. Is this issue going to be resolved anytime soon? Will the cupcake DexFile class going to be present in the next release? This is a rather urgent problem since we are waiting for this new functionality in order to continue development. Thank you... -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: SDKs comparison with the iPhone
Xav, We're 6 months in and on the 3rd firmware release, lessons should have been learnt already. Personally I don't care whether it's intentional or not. The end result is the same for me in that Google are once again involved in the release of some new Android related functionality and once again the development community seems to be pretty low on the list of considerations. Al. Xavier Ducrohet x...@android.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: Are you really expect that one or two weeks is enough for every app written to go through a testing procedure to check for problems? Of course not. We know that the current situation is far from perfect, but we aren't making it hard on you on purpose. We want to make it easy for you to release good quality app, and early access to releases is one way where we have a lot of progress to do. We hope to get better in the next releases. I know it is frustrating, but as David said we've been working on improving things. Hopefully this will become visible soon. Xav -- Xavier Ducrohet Android Engineer, Google. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Animating resizing of TextView
I have a textView that changes size dynamically and I want to animate the resizing. Here are my steps: (1) use TextView.layout to set the initial size - editText.layout(0, 0, 200, 50); (2) use startAnimation(scale) to scale the textView in the Xdirection (to animate resize) scale android:fromXScale=1.0 android:toXScale=1.5 android:fromYScale=1.0 android:toYScale=1.0 android:pivotX=0% android:pivotY=0% android:duration=600 / (3) Set the new size of the textview using layout() - editText.layout (0, 0, 300, 50); If I use ScaleAnimation, the text in the view get stretched or squeezed. Is there a way to animate the resizing of the textview without causing the text to get stretched or squeezed? -George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Apps labeled as Tetris Clones removed from Android Market
Are you unaware of the recent Scrabble issue on the iPhone? You are probably referring to Scrabulous on Facebook. As far as I am aware, this also was mainly a trademark issue. Hasbro has claimed copyright on the game itself, but of course, that doesn't really mean much. I don't think you see my point, which is that an operating system/ community/environment that openly disregards intellectual property rights is, in my humble opinion, doomed to failure from the get-go from the inability to form a viable business model for anyone involved. I don't see this happening. However, at the very least within this thread, TTC's factual intellectual property rights are in dispute. See, I think we all here believe in copyright. Some however may believe that copyright should expire at some point (which in fact it does). Some may believe that the rules of a game like Tetris should not be covered by copyright. Evidence I've seen so far seems to suggest that indeed they aren't. Laws also differ between different countries. Clearly, it's a judgment call how far intellectual property rights should go. Michael --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: SDKs comparison with the iPhone
it would be done on a discussion list, which would fit in with many open source projects I've worked on where pre-release versions are circulated and then developers say Yay or Nay to whether it's good enough to call a production release, I'm not sure what Open Source projects work like that. All projects I've ever been involved with have some kind of circle of leadership that decides what is released, and when. Sometimes community input plays a larger role, sometimes it is smaller. I think we all agree that Android moving towards being more community driven is a good thing, and should happen rather sooner than later. But at the end of the day, there will always be a single instance calling the shots, and for Android, for the foreseeable future, that will be Google. You really can't expect a random private build that you made to be considered anything other than unofficial. In pretty much any Open Source project I've ever heard of. Michael --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to remove the WebView top/left 8-pixel inner margin?
There is a hack to do what you want -- make your WebView into a width of 336 -- that way you will have extra 8 pixels on each side. Then, put in somewhere off screen (use absolute layout), and get a drawing cache from it. That way, you can use the drawing cache bitmap, and draw that onto the real screen (minus the 8 pixel borders). You should also override the onDraw() method. This way you know whenever the webview changes, and reload your drawing cache. If you want to handle user input, that would require more hacks so that you can feed the events to the webview. I have not exactly done this before, but I have been using WebView in hackish ways and I think this might work. Good luck! On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:37 AM, elDoudou the.edouard.merc...@gmail.comwrote: That was my fear, i.e. that the left and top margin be hard-coded deep down on the C inaccessible layer ;( Thank you for taking the time. By accuracy, I mean that I want to control the width of the total WebView widget, so that it takes exactly 320 pixels and that the loaded HTML inside the WebView contains a 320-wide pixels image that should perfectly fit the Android device width of 320 pixels... This does not seem to be possible because of this built-on margin, except in a margin can be set negative... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: How to remove the WebView top/left 8-pixel inner margin?
Oh, come to think of it, (assuming you want a WebView banner at the top of the screen) if you use AbsoluteLayout, you can put the WebView at (-8,-8). This can get rid of the top,left, and right edge. Then, place another View over the bottom edge of the WebView to cover that part as well. this way, you have the visible areas of the WebView to extend exactly to where you want it. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Mattaku Betsujin mattaku.betsu...@gmail.com wrote: There is a hack to do what you want -- make your WebView into a width of 336 -- that way you will have extra 8 pixels on each side. Then, put in somewhere off screen (use absolute layout), and get a drawing cache from it. That way, you can use the drawing cache bitmap, and draw that onto the real screen (minus the 8 pixel borders). You should also override the onDraw() method. This way you know whenever the webview changes, and reload your drawing cache. If you want to handle user input, that would require more hacks so that you can feed the events to the webview. I have not exactly done this before, but I have been using WebView in hackish ways and I think this might work. Good luck! On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:37 AM, elDoudou the.edouard.merc...@gmail.comwrote: That was my fear, i.e. that the left and top margin be hard-coded deep down on the C inaccessible layer ;( Thank you for taking the time. By accuracy, I mean that I want to control the width of the total WebView widget, so that it takes exactly 320 pixels and that the loaded HTML inside the WebView contains a 320-wide pixels image that should perfectly fit the Android device width of 320 pixels... This does not seem to be possible because of this built-on margin, except in a margin can be set negative... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
