[android-developers] Has anyone written a 2D scene graph yet?
I am struggling with drawing on my custom View. I can make it all work but just not very efficiently. I am using invalidate causing the entire screen to be redrawn. I only need to redraw a small portion of the screen. I tried calling invalidate with a rectangle but that left everything else black. I don't know what is causing everything else to go black if I only invalidated a small rectangle. I see many posts on these similar issues and think that everybody would have a much better experience if there was a 2D scene graph API for android. Then I can just worry about my scene primitive attributes and let the scene graph engine handle all the drawing in the most efficient way possible. -- 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] Android and VOIP
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Re: [android-developers] Android and VOIP
hi, guys: i have done some test. it really worked in a very first step... android can support playing and recording the speach at the same time (the attachment is my test code, head phone is necessary or it will become noisy soon). i believe the next step is to use amr_nb/gsm/g.729 (jni modules is prefered) to compress the pcm16 data into smaller RTP packages, then, send them through wifi or 3g network... but i think the diffculties are not focused on these things, how to keep the android handsets always on-line with lower power consume is the major or we can't let the answer peer response immediately. i have an idea which to use the common tel-line to activate the answer-call peer (just ring 1-2 times then hung up), then the app will catch this event, start the activity and connect to the remote voip server, but how can i control the tel-line signal and identify which call is from voip app or from the regular missed call ... if keeping the caller and answer peer on-line at the same time is the pre-condition, (no matter sip or some other heartbeat like mechanism) the current fact is the phone will use up the battery very soon... any ideas ? great thanks. 于 2010年01月01日 16:55, soft buzz 写道: Hi, do u have idea on Android/VOIP working? share here thanks buzz -- 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 -- 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 AudioTest.tar.gz Description: application/gzip
Re: [android-developers] Android and VOIP
Hi datoudatou, Thanks for your response...i have very less information on VOIP and dats why i am trying to get some good notes from our experts here. Guys please give your inputsafter getting appropriate information i want to provide a one stop information and solution to those who are looking for such informatino. However, currently i m among them :) thanks, buzz 2010/1/1 datoudatou datouda...@gmail.com, hi, guys: i have done some test. it really worked in a very first step... android can support playing and recording the speach at the same time (the attachment is my test code, head phone is necessary or it will become noisy soon). i believe the next step is to use amr_nb/gsm/g.729 (jni modules is prefered) to compress the pcm16 data into smaller RTP packages, then, send them through wifi or 3g network... but i think the diffculties are not focused on these things, how to keep the android handsets always on-line with lower power consume is the major or we can't let the answer peer response immediately. i have an idea which to use the common tel-line to activate the answer-call peer (just ring 1-2 times then hung up), then the app will catch this event, start the activity and connect to the remote voip server, but how can i control the tel-line signal and identify which call is from voip app or from the regular missed call ... if keeping the caller and answer peer on-line at the same time is the pre-condition, (no matter sip or some other heartbeat like mechanism) the current fact is the phone will use up the battery very soon... any ideas ? great thanks. 于 2010年01月01日 16:55, soft buzz 写道: Hi, do u have idea on Android/VOIP working? share here thanks buzz -- 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.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
Re: [android-developers] Re: When the new activity starts, the data of previous activity is gone.
Hi Pranav, I didn't catch the point for your second problem. Do you want to pass the value of edittext in first activity to second activity, then show the strings in the edittext of second activiy. If so, you can try in the similar way as the first problem. BRs, Rui 2010/1/1 android09 pranav.jaja...@gmail.com Hi Rui Wu, Thanks a lot. It works very good and perfectly as i want. Now, i know that where was my problem. Actually, i had not added this line/lines : mData.strFirstName = edFirstName.getEditableText().toString();. That's why i was not getting any result. Now, i got it. I have also one query. I have two activities. First activity consist on edittext and button whereas second activity consist only edittext. When i write in edittext of first activity and press a button of first activity than the edittext of second activity should get the same string. Actually, i want to get the email id from the first activity and also it should be automatically get in the edittext of second activity. If you have any idea about it, please tell me. Again thanks for help me out from this problem. Regards, -- Pranav -- 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.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- BRs, Rui -- 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: AppWidget changes id after reboot
I just found this thread that also confirms that it's a Sprint Hero bug: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/554f72f397a8539f/722034a5aca418c6?lnk=gstq=AppWidget#722034a5aca418c6 On 31 Dec 2009, 23:37, Kaj Bjurman kaj.bjur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a strange problem, on a few devices. I have developed anAppWidget, and it uses a database to store the configuration for each instance of the widget. The widget id is the key in the database. Everything works on most devices, but I got a bug report a couple of days ago. A user said that the widget never worked after reboot. The user who was very helpful sent me a log from his phone, and I could then see that the widget got a new id each time he did a reboot. The log says this about his device (A Sprint Hero in US): Device model: HERO200 Firmware version: 1.5 Kernel version: 2.6.27-533ce29d htc-ker...@and18-2 ) #742 PREEMPT Fri Aug 28 21:59:31 CST 2009 Build number: 1.56.651.2 He can reproduce the problem on his friends device as well, but I have never seen the problem with HTC Hero/Magic here in Europe. Something about the code. onUpdate in my widget class gets invoked after reboot. The integer array with widget id:s does e.g say that only one widget exists, and that it has id 5. I then try to execute: AppWidgetProviderInfo info = appWidgetManager.getAppWidgetInfo (widgetId); and get null back, so I query for all ids: int[] ids = appWidgetManager.getAppWidgetIds(new ComponentName (PACKAGE_NAME, className)); and get back an array that says that a widget with id 6 exists. (The new id is always 1 larger than before reboot) What to do? Is this a known bug? -- 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: What is the Sprint Hero AppWidget problem?
Did you find a workaround? On 4 Nov 2009, 06:20, btm...@gmail.com btm...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I wrote a widget that has been working fine for most folks. However, I started getting bug reports about how the widget would be blank on reboot (not receive an update?), and it seemed that the Sprint Hero continually came up. I thought I was crazy but I'm finding that other people are having the same problems: Searching Google for sprint heroappwidgetproblems yields: Added warning about the problem on the Sprint Hero device: On the Sprint Hero (HTC ROM v1.29.xxx) theAppWidgetAPI is broken in such a way that it won't ... More specific blog post that mentions it but doesn't explain the problem: http://koxx3.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/htc-hero-sprint-bug/ I found the reason : HTC changed the Android widget management at startup ! I hope they will fix it in a new ROM release, but I’d like to find a solution to bypass this problem. EDIT 28/10/2009 : problem solve for ‘Pure calendar’ with new option. I e-mailed the author in hopes of getting an answer, but I haven't received any response. Does anybody with a Sprint Hero know what the problem is? Thank you, -Brian -- 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] Custom Layout
What's the deal with the custom layouts? I implemented a custom layout class and began defining xml layout using my new class. Than I realized that I can't just add the child views that way one can add views to the predefined layouts. I had to do it manually modifing the xml. Than I found out that the onMeasure/onLayout methods were getting wrong getMeasuredHeight/getMeasuredWidth results. Why??? (I realy feel like cursing here but what's to point.) On the other hand, If I do all of it programatically, instantiate the layout object in the activity and add the child view to it, all works fine. Any Ideas? -- 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: Android and VOIP
SIP is commonly used to control a call. Keep in mind that Google's supposed to come out with VoIP for Google Voice on Android. Then everybody will want Google Voice, noone will want your solution, no matter how well implemented, and that was that then. JP On Jan 1, 1:52 am, datoudatou datouda...@gmail.com wrote: hi, guys: i have done some test. it really worked in a very first step... android can support playing and recording the speach at the same time (the attachment is my test code, head phone is necessary or it will become noisy soon). i believe the next step is to use amr_nb/gsm/g.729 (jni modules is prefered) to compress the pcm16 data into smaller RTP packages, then, send them through wifi or 3g network... but i think the diffculties are not focused on these things, how to keep the android handsets always on-line with lower power consume is the major or we can't let the answer peer response immediately. i have an idea which to use the common tel-line to activate the answer-call peer (just ring 1-2 times then hung up), then the app will catch this event, start the activity and connect to the remote voip server, but how can i control the tel-line signal and identify which call is from voip app or from the regular missed call ... if keeping the caller and answer peer on-line at the same time is the pre-condition, (no matter sip or some other heartbeat like mechanism) the current fact is the phone will use up the battery very soon... any ideas ? great thanks. 于 2010年01月01日 16:55, soft buzz 写道: Hi, do u have idea on Android/VOIP working? share here thanks buzz -- 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 AudioTest.tar.gz 8KViewDownload -- 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] Lat Long Problem in Broadcast Receiver
Hello All, I have developed application which runs when SMS is received. At that time I have started thread and passed the object of the Context in thread. In thread, I am accessing Lat-long by implementing LocationListner and also set : LocationManager locationManager = (LocationManager) context.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE); locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 1000L, 500.0f, this); And it's onLocationChanged(), i have fetched lat-long. But onLocationChanged() is not able to call this function. Can anyone has any suggestion what i have made mistake? Regards, Nishant Shah -- 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
Re: [android-developers] Re: blocking UI thread when Yes/No AlertDialog is displayed
@Swapnil, when you say that you cant call Alert Dialog from non ui thread ,
you can do that using a Handler as i said.Did u try that out ? It works in
my case where i do an an AsyncTask (seperate thread)in which i communicate
with the server and based on response i decide which screen to show. For
this i call the sendEmptyMessage which is handled by the Handler which is
written on the UI thread.
Thanks,
Alok.
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Miguel Morales therevolti...@gmail.comwrote:
Sorry, just re-read your original text, it seems that message passing
between threads is the way to go.
Just use two way message passing.
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Miguel Morales
therevolti...@gmail.com wrote:
Why not use Thread.wait() and Thread.notify() to communicate with the
working thread.
Or perhaps message passing to tell the worker thread to wait until
further notice.
here's how I would do it, though I'm not sure about wait() and
notify() since I never use them myself. But I *think* it would go
something like this:
/*worker thread class*/
class MyThread extends Thread
{
Handler mHandler;
public static final int DONE_MSG = 123;
MyThread(Handler pHandler)
{
mHandler = pHandler;
}
@Override run()
{
//do something.
Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putInt(TYPE, DONE_MSG);
Message msg = new Message();
msg.setData(bundle);
mHandler.sendMessage(msg);
}
/*activity class*/
private Handler message_handler = new Handler()
{
Bundle bundle = msg.getData();
int type = bundle.getInt(TYPE);
if ( type == MyThread.DONE_MSG )
{
//dismiss the dialog...
tThread.notify();
}
}
tThread = new MyThread(message_handler);
tThread.start();
//then from your onClick handler
//show the dialog
tThread.wait();
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:49 PM, swapnil kamble swap.kam...@gmail.com
wrote:
Let me reframe my question. My intention is not to block UI thread but
to
block a thread when AlertDialog is shown till the user provides
confirmation
response.
I have handshake process, where I have to provide an option to user
whether
to accept/reject and based on that user response I want to return a
boolean
value. And unless this response is not provided next line should not get
executed, just exactly what Windows MessageBox does.
Now there are two option to start this handshake process, one either
from UI
thread i.e. starting from some onclick event listener. But I can't use
this
way, because I want to block thread until response is not provided(modal
dialog). Blocking this thread means blocking whole app. So this way i
can't
do this.
Second option is to spawn a new worker thread and then run handshaking
from
it, we don't mind blocking non-ui thread. But again problem here is that
I
can't show AlertDialog from non UI thread.
I know there is an option to post message and display AlertDialog from
that
Handler, but then in that case my thread continues and completes its
execution even if user response is not provided which I don't want.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Romain Guy romain...@android.com
wrote:
If you block the UI thread, the dialog won't work. The user won't be
able to click it, and it might not even draw at all. So a very bad
idea :)
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Frank Weiss fewe...@gmail.com
wrote:
Just like Treking, I'm puzzled by Swapnil's desire to block the UI
thread.
Perhaps if he explained what he does not want the UI thread doing
while
the
dialog is displayed, would shed light on the issue for all.
On Dec 29, 2009 9:59 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote:
I can put my code in listeners but still I dont want that thread to
continue its execution
Which thread? The UI thread? I'm pretty sure you DO want the UI
thread
to
continue it's execution. Why would you NOT?
What are you trying to accomplish? I can't think of why you would
want
this
behavior...
-
...
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swap.kam...@gmail.com
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[android-developers] Query on releasing to sony app store
Hi Guys, I am planning to submit my application in sony app market. Is there anything that I can do to make sure that my application is not backed up and pirated from the phone? Or is there an alternate way to make sure that my app runs only on sony devices? Regaards, R.Karthik -- 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 can I rotate an Image in different angles?
HI! I have a png-picture in ImageView rotatedimage = new ImageView () Is there a better way to rotate it in changing directions than the following way? There I have to create a new picture for every new rotating angle and add it to the layout: Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources (),R.drawable.frosch); Matrix rotationMatrix = new Matrix(); rotationMatrix.setRotate(grad); Bitmap rotatedbitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(frogbitmap, 0, 0, rotatedbitmap.getWidth(), rotatedbitmap.getHeight(), rotationMatrix, true); BitmapDrawable bmd = new BitmapDrawable(rotatedbitmap); rotatedimage.setImageDrawable(bmd); mtrx.postRotate(10); rotatedimage.setImageMatrix(mtrx); Greetings, Martin -- 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 minimize the stuttering of the graphics?
Thank you, I will try it :-) Martin On 31 Dez. 2009, 16:16, skink psk...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 31, 3:13 pm, Martin google-gro...@digle.de wrote: Hi! How can I minimize the stuttering of my graphics? I am using MANY ImageView's in my program (and JUST ImageView's). I change their positions directly, when I need to change them without using onDraw to redraw everything. Is it ok, If I do not overwrite onDraw? I have in average 10 objects which I added to the mainscreen-layout. These 10 objects are 5 trees and 5 flowers. The trees and flowers have 5 different states and therefore 5 different ImageViews which I all added to the layout, whose just are invisible. So I have about 50 ImageViews added to my main screen When one of these objects changes its state, I just make its ImageView invisible and the ImageView of the new state visible. Is it ok to do it like that? I realized that if I just use one ImageView for every object and change the ressource of it when its state changes, all objects, which are currently added to the mainscreen-layout, change their position to (0;0). That was the reason, I have so many ImageView's added to the mainscreen-layout. Is there a better solution for that? Greetings, Martin hi, i'd use 10 ordinary Views, each one with own LevelListDrawable pskink -- 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] Package of R.java
Is it possible to instruct Eclipse and Ant to have a R.java file generated in the package com.example whilst the package declared in an AndroidManifest.xml file is com.example.d? -- 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] Downloader activity
Hi there, I have integrated the downloader activity (Google provided) into my application.. On the whole a very straight forward process. A problem I have though, is, after the downloader has completed the window disappears and nothing happens. If I hold down the HOME key I see my app and if I click on it my appss window comes up and runs correctly. Also when I run it subsequently it works correctly. Has anyone else experienced this? It certainly looks like the downloader should trigger my app when it is done; I am not sure if the window is just not getting focus or someething. It is a fullscreen GL app. Any ideas? Steve -- 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: com.android.camera replaced by com.motorola.camera
Thanks very much. This best practice outline is worthy of an official Android blog. Otherwise developers are going to come up with their own misunderstandings (like assuming the com.android.camera component will always be there - not a terribly unreasonable assumption although it violated the rule against depending on classes outside android.jar). Two followup questions about intent resolution - It is unclear to me why the browser was chosen (we don't know what URI was actually supplied). The API doc for android.content.Intent says where no explicit type is included in the Intent, instead the scheme of the intent data ... is considered. In this case the type WAS included. So is it correct to say the scheme would NOT be considered in the resolution? Second question: If there is more than on matching intent filter doesn't the platform put up a chooser automatically (seems like I saw that somewhere)? Happy New Year. On Dec 31 2009, 6:45 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: jotobjects wrote: On Dec 30, 8:39 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Mark Murphy wrote: The intent filter you are trying to match is: intent-filter action android:name=android.intent.action.VIEW / category android:name=android.intent.category.DEFAULT / data android:mimeType=video/* / /intent-filter Actually, to clarify: that's an intent filter for the built-in video player (out of the Camera app). One hopes that most devices have some app that supports a similar filter. What is the best way to find out how the intent should be configured? Magic 8-Ball. (Do I need an extra on this Intent? Signs point to no) :-) Is going to the source code for the camera app and looking at the manifest the best or only way? It's one starting point, to be certain. In this case, it's using a standard action (ACTION_VIEW) and a reasonable-looking MIME type. One would hope that there will be 1+ applications on the device that support viewing that MIME type. As it turns out, there are 2+ in Android proper, as the OP reported that the Browser handled the request, probably based on scheme. You'll note that ACTION_VIEW of video/mpeg is not documented in the SDK anywhere, at least that I can find. This means that it is possible that a given device may have 0 apps that can support it, if some future Android edition modifies or drops the intent filter, or if some OEM messes around too much. That's the reason for my tell the client there is no default video player answer from earlier today, because, technically, there *isn't* a default video player, at least not one that's part of the SDK contract. Would you still have to test every device to see if it works with the video viewer app on that device. That depends a bit on what you want to do and how you want to do it. Given an Intent, you can use methods on PackageManager to figure out if there is anything that would satisfy that Intent. So, if the feature is optional, you could use that to disable a menu choice or button or something, so the user couldn't attempt to use something that would fail. Similarly, you can use createChooser() to deal with the case of 2+ apps thinking they can handle the Intent (e.g., email or GMail or SMS or Twidroid for an ACTION_SEND of text/plain). If, however, the feature is mandatory (i.e., your app can't run without it), you're better served trying to handle it yourself, at least as a fallback option. For example, the OP could implement a simple video player using VideoView and only resort to using it on devices that fail to offer anything that can ACTION_VIEW a video/mpeg. Where things get icky is if there is some device or app that does support ACTION_VIEW of a video/mpeg URL, but its support is broken somehow. This is not significantly different than a desktop OS video player not necessarily having the right codecs to play back such-and-so video content, and there's no great answer for that case, either. Intents and MIME types are not significantly different concepts from their equivalents in desktop OSes. We think that Android should know how to play video because we see our desktops able to play video from a URL. However, at the same time, those of us who don't use Windows much are used to the notion that certain things can't readily be viewed (e.g., link to a Microsoft Access database), MIME type or not. Just as savvy developers try to make their desktop or Web applications deal with varying end user support for different MIME types, so should Android developers. Now, it would be really cool if Google stepped up and declared a more extensive list of Intent actions and Uri/MIME types that all Android devices should support. That would go a long way towards clearing up the sorts of issues the OP encountered. Right now, there's only a half-dozen in the list, and none are based on MIME type:
[android-developers] Re: Package of R.java
I don't know (probably not?) but what is your objective for wanting that capability? On Jan 1, 11:01 am, Marek Urbaniak marek.urban...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to instruct Eclipse and Ant to have a R.java file generated in the package com.example whilst the package declared in an AndroidManifest.xml file is com.example.d? -- 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: aapt and using shared images
I hadn't thought too much about that but had briefly considered it. I'm trying to use these images directly as resources so putting them in assets would require a fair bit more code to get everything loaded up into drawables for use as icons as such (at least, best I can tell it would take more code). At the moment I'm leaning heavily toward the 'copy over to my res/ directory' option because that gives the benefit of everything working cleanly in Eclipse as well. I guess I'll toss this into the pile of feature requests for a future release: ability to have resources in other directories elsewhere in the developer's file system. On Dec 31 2009, 10:52 pm, joebowbeer joe.bowb...@gmail.com wrote: Have you considered packaging the images as assets using aapt's -A modifier? -A additional directory in which to find raw asset files On Dec 30, 11:32 pm, Walt Armour waltarm...@gmail.com wrote: We will potentially be sharing images between an android app and other apps (gotta keep those costs down). I am attempting to find a way to have the android app use image files that are outside of its project directory tree (i.e. not in res/drawable). At the moment I'm thinking some custom work with aapt (via ant build) is my best shot. I will first attempt multiple -S parameters (or multiple values for - S) but I'm not expecting that to work. I will then see about two aapt runs. The first would generate the apk from the non-project directory. The second would generate from the project directory as normal and include (using -I) the first apk. Has anyone attempted something like this before? Does anyone see any immediate problems with any of these approaches? I'm thinking there may be some hiccup in the identifier numbering but hopefully that can be handled. Worst case scenario I'll just add an ant target to manually copy the external resources over before doing the build. I am really loathe to do that though. Accessing the images directly when needed is much safer. -- 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: Android and VOIP
Where was the announcement or rumor on VOIP for google voice on android? Also, there are VOIP products using sipdroid that supposedly do this now. -- 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: Google Analytics
Hi, My guess is that you have to call tracker.start() for each Activity, as it says this in the example: Then call its start() method, passing the web property ID *and activity being tracked*. But that's just a guess... So I've posted those questions in the maybe more appropriate discussiongroup http://groups.google.com/group/google-analytics-api Post: http://groups.google.com/group/google-analytics-data-export-api/browse_thread/thread/b3794b6455a1d399 tracker.stop() you have to call when your application is closing. So onDestroy() in your last Activity or onTerminate() in your Application i guess again. But that would mean each onCreate() tracker.start() does not need to have a matching onDestroy() tracker.close() call? -- 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: aapt and using shared images
On Dec 30 2009, 11:32 pm, Walt Armour waltarm...@gmail.com wrote: may be some hiccup in the identifier numbering but hopefully that can be handled. The resource ID's (R.*) potentially change on every build and are inlined because the Java compiler is not expecting static finals to change. Essentially you have to clean all class files on every build (and there is no clean task in the Android ant scripts) Worst case scenario I'll just add an ant target to manually copy the external resources over before doing the build. I am really loathe to do that though. Accessing the images directly when needed is much safer. ant copy task is pretty smart about not doing unnecessary copies. -- 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
Re: [android-developers] Re: blocking UI thread when Yes/No AlertDialog is displayed
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:39 AM, swapnil kamble swap.kam...@gmail.comwrote: Have you used MessageBox.show() API in Windows ? If yes then you can understand it easily what I am saying. This is API is not really blocking the thread -- it is running a nested event loop, until the user responds to the dialog. This kind of behavior is very deliberately not implemented in Android because it results in poor application interaction behavior and edge cases, which is especially problematic in an environment like a cell phone when an application must be interruptible at any time. For example, if your application is sitting there blocking its main thread like this, and the user receives an incoming call or handles a notification, what do you think should happen? If we try to pause the activity while in this state to move on to the next thing, we will end up calling Activity.onPause() and all kinds of other questionable stuff while nested down inside of your app. Or if you have a broadcast receiver for, say, the device going to sleep, this code would end up being called from deep in your blocking method call. In all of these cases, it is unlikely for the application to really expect this to happen. These kinds of nested event loops are just bad news. PalmOS was the king example of the horror they cause, but even Windows suffers from it -- all those apps that get in weird unresponsive states while waiting on a dialog? MessageBox is often to blame. My strong suggestion: re-arrange your code to not do this kind of thing. You have some method that needs to get input from the user to return a response? Make that method async as well, to return its result in a callback, because if it needs to wait for the user then that is truly what it is. -- 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: Package of R.java
To share code for a normal and a demo version of an application. On Jan 1, 8:27 pm, jotobjects jotobje...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know (probably not?) but what is your objective for wanting that capability? On Jan 1, 11:01 am, Marek Urbaniak marek.urban...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to instruct Eclipse and Ant to have a R.java file generated in the package com.example whilst the package declared in an AndroidManifest.xml file is com.example.d? -- 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: Best HTTP Request Method
Yes, I've tried logging and the HTTP execute definitely takes the largest chunk of time, but how can I speed it up? Is there another protocol/method? On Dec 31 2009, 6:07 pm, jotobjects jotobje...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 31, 12:52 pm, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: It works fine, but it's quite slow...any way to make it faster? A guess would be that the HTTP network speed is 100's of times slower than all the rest of the code. You might log the time before and after the execute method if you haven't already done that. -- 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
Re: [android-developers] Re: Best HTTP Request Method
Considering that the execute method's latency includes network and server times, on what basis do you think it's taking too long? What latency are you observing, less than one second, more than one minute? On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 1:19 PM, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I've tried logging and the HTTP execute definitely takes the largest chunk of time, but how can I speed it up? Is there another protocol/method? On Dec 31 2009, 6:07 pm, jotobjects jotobje...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 31, 12:52 pm, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: It works fine, but it's quite slow...any way to make it faster? A guess would be that the HTTP network speed is 100's of times slower than all the rest of the code. You might log the time before and after the execute method if you haven't already done that. -- 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.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
Re: [android-developers] Re: Package of R.java
You've posed an important software engineering question. I think you might find some answers by googling for: android project dependency Here's another thread that goes into it: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/5a3570fe3b87b62e On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Marek Urbaniak marek.urban...@gmail.comwrote: To share code for a normal and a demo version of an application. On Jan 1, 8:27 pm, jotobjects jotobje...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know (probably not?) but what is your objective for wanting that capability? On Jan 1, 11:01 am, Marek Urbaniak marek.urban...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to instruct Eclipse and Ant to have a R.java file generated in the package com.example whilst the package declared in an AndroidManifest.xml file is com.example.d? -- 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.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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: Lat Long Problem in Broadcast Receiver
Do you have the correct permissions ?? I little bit og Logcat output will help us a lot... :) Thanks and Regards, Kumar Bibek On Jan 1, 9:13 pm, Nishant nish...@saltriver.com wrote: Hello All, I have developed application which runs when SMS is received. At that time I have started thread and passed the object of the Context in thread. In thread, I am accessing Lat-long by implementing LocationListner and also set : LocationManager locationManager = (LocationManager) context.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE); locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 1000L, 500.0f, this); And it's onLocationChanged(), i have fetched lat-long. But onLocationChanged() is not able to call this function. Can anyone has any suggestion what i have made mistake? Regards, Nishant Shah -- 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: Best HTTP Request Method
I guess, the default Android's way is the best. Of course, you can add more libraries, but then that would be redundant. I hope Google has already taken care of the performance part. Thanks and Regards, Kumar Bibek On Jan 2, 3:15 am, Frank Weiss fewe...@gmail.com wrote: Considering that the execute method's latency includes network and server times, on what basis do you think it's taking too long? What latency are you observing, less than one second, more than one minute? On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 1:19 PM, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I've tried logging and the HTTP execute definitely takes the largest chunk of time, but how can I speed it up? Is there another protocol/method? On Dec 31 2009, 6:07 pm, jotobjects jotobje...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 31, 12:52 pm, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: It works fine, but it's quite slow...any way to make it faster? A guess would be that the HTTP network speed is 100's of times slower than all the rest of the code. You might log the time before and after the execute method if you haven't already done that. -- 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.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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] Posts to this Android Dev group hacked/intercepted/moved !?!
I posted a message to this group several days ago - now when I check my Google Groups profile the message in question is appearing under a completely different Google Group (http://groups.google.com/group/ world_wide_with_god_minstry) - this group is filled with other apparently misdirected messages (including several others intended for Android Developers group sent by other today within the last few days. I definitely submitted my message to this group first, here's a link to mail-archive showing that: http://www.mail-archive.com/android-developers@googlegroups.com/msg73192.html. But now the actual message appears here http://groups.google.com/group/world_wide_with_god_minstry/browse_thread/thread/ce4a6500ba51be36/66731f82d4153dda?lnk=gstq=android+database#66731f82d4153dda I'd say this was just my account being hacked, except can't find any way in the UI of actually moving a message after posting it. Is this an error with Google Groups itself? -- 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: Best HTTP Request Method
About 5 seconds, which isn't unbearable, but considering my app needs frequent requests some kind of optimization must be possible. Look at the android market...it seems to load everything pretty fast (much faster than my app at least!) On Jan 1, 3:15 pm, Frank Weiss fewe...@gmail.com wrote: Considering that the execute method's latency includes network and server times, on what basis do you think it's taking too long? What latency are you observing, less than one second, more than one minute? On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 1:19 PM, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I've tried logging and the HTTP execute definitely takes the largest chunk of time, but how can I speed it up? Is there another protocol/method? On Dec 31 2009, 6:07 pm, jotobjects jotobje...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 31, 12:52 pm, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: It works fine, but it's quite slow...any way to make it faster? A guess would be that the HTTP network speed is 100's of times slower than all the rest of the code. You might log the time before and after the execute method if you haven't already done that. -- 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.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
Re: [android-developers] Re: Best HTTP Request Method
I've seen 5 sec occasionally getting an rss feed of about 28 KB using java.net.URL.openConnection().getInputStream() and then parsing it with SAXParser. It looks like you're doing a POST to send form data(?) so you may have to stick with HTTPClient. If you're doing frequent requests, you can probably take advantage of HTTPClient's keep-alive connection management. If you're looking for optimizations, I strongly suggest you create a test app which performs the same request you're having performance problems with. Collect more data, such as the size of the request and response. Try the same request from a different platform (like your laptop or desktop). Compare the network paths between the desktop and Android to the server. I know you'd like to just get an answer do this/try this. I hope that by looking into the problem in more detail you''ll find a solution. On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 3:36 PM, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: About 5 seconds, which isn't unbearable, but considering my app needs frequent requests some kind of optimization must be possible. Look at the android market...it seems to load everything pretty fast (much faster than my app at least!) On Jan 1, 3:15 pm, Frank Weiss fewe...@gmail.com wrote: Considering that the execute method's latency includes network and server times, on what basis do you think it's taking too long? What latency are you observing, less than one second, more than one minute? On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 1:19 PM, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I've tried logging and the HTTP execute definitely takes the largest chunk of time, but how can I speed it up? Is there another protocol/method? On Dec 31 2009, 6:07 pm, jotobjects jotobje...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 31, 12:52 pm, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: It works fine, but it's quite slow...any way to make it faster? A guess would be that the HTTP network speed is 100's of times slower than all the rest of the code. You might log the time before and after the execute method if you haven't already done that. -- 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.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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] onContextMenuClosed() not called under 2.x?
Dear Experts, In one of my applications I programmatically open the context menu when something is clicked in my MapActivity overlay. This works perfectly under 1.x as well as on my 2.0 Milestone. I've used showContextMenuForChild() historically, but openContextMenu() does that same thing. As expected onCreateContextMenu() is called to build the menu and then onContextItemSelected() is called when something is selected. So far all is well. The odd thing is that under 1.x the onContextMenuClosed() method is called when I press the back key, but not so under 2.0. This confuses states for my app since I need to know whether menu is shown or not - or maybe there is a way to know this that I have not (yet) figured out... Is this a deliberate change or should I file it as a bug? Googling comes up pretty dry (stuff that is over a year old). Anyone with a 2.0.1 Droid that would care to test whether this has already been fixed? (The ETA for Milestone 2.0.1 seems hazy still, but it appears that at least one of my reported bugs has been fixed in 2.0.1 event though it isn't flagged as such.) Many thanks in advance / Jonas -- 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 do you draw a new line?!
This is really frustrating, I am trying to get a carriage return drawn in my custom view and nothing is working. I have tried 'System.getProperty(line.separator)' but that makes it say null and I have tried '\r' and '\n' and those just both draw a little square. I am using the canvas.drawText meathod. Thanks for your reply! -- 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: Touch handling sleep not helping enough on 1.5/1.6
I just tried the thread priority hacks but they didn't seem to offer any kind of big improvement. Any other ideas? On Dec 31 2009, 12:27 am, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote: Cool, I'll give it a shot. I was thinking about bumping up my rendering thread. I'll report the results I get. On Dec 30, 10:49 pm, Dmitry.Skiba dmitry.sk...@gmail.com wrote: I can suggest something weird - to boost priority for the time of rendering. See how I did that in ToF:http://code.google.com/p/tapsoffire/source/browse/trunk/src/org/tof/u... (onBeforeRender/onAfterRender) Dmitry On 31 дек, 05:39, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote: I hate to bump it just to bump it but I'm really in need of some good suggestions here. Thanks to anyone who can offer anything new to try. On Dec 29, 3:13 pm, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, I'm really in a bind here. I've got this new game engine that's almost done but the input system is killing me. I have a virtual analog stick on the screen and it works great, especially on Android 2.0 (Droid) but on any 1.5/1.6 device, the touching is causing my game to crawl. I know all of the standard stuff - I pipe my input events into a queue for my main game thread and thensleepfor 16ms which should ensure that no more than 60 motion events are dispatched per second. That works fine but even so, just touching the screen, even with my event handling code commented out (except for thesleep, of course), drops my game from 30FPS to 20FPS. It's really bad. I bound some keyboard keys to the movement to replace thetouchcontrols for testing and the game maintained a great framerate. That won't work because most phones now only have touchscreens so I really need to figure this one out. Wait for Android 2.0 is not a great answer, either. So far I've tried; Activity.onTouchEvent with a 16, 20, 32, 50mssleepbefore returning Activity.dispatchTouchEvent with a 16,20,32 and 50mssleep Commented out all code except thesleepto test - problem is still there, so it's not my hander. What else can I do? -- 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 can I get the highest framerate with this quellcode?
Hi!
I am programming a game with the following quellcode.
I am just using ImageView's which I move around and I have to handle
some touch events.
What do I have to change to have the highest framerate?
If I remove this block
try
{
Thread.sleep(45);
}
catch(InterruptedException ex) {}
the graphics don't get painted and I see nothing.
If I do NOT remove this block, the graphics get painted but I do not
have the hightest framerate and the graphic is stuttering.
How can I solve this problem?
Greetings, Martin
---
Here is the quellcode:
//package
//imports...
public class LeonardFrog extends Activity implements FrogLanded
{
//declaration of variables...
private OnTouchListener jumpListener = new OnTouchListener() {
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
// do something...
return true;
}
};
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
updatePhysicsDraw();
(new Thread(new AnimationLoop())).start();
}
private synchronized void updatePhysics()
{
// This function calculates all new positions of ImageView's
}
public void onDraw ()
{
// This function moves many ImageView's around
}
private Handler handler = new Handler() {
@Override
public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
Global.calculating=true;
updatePhysics();
onDraw();
Global.calculating=false;
}
};
class AnimationLoop implements Runnable
{
public void run()
{
while(true)
{
while(running)
{
try
{
Thread.sleep(45);
}
catch(InterruptedException ex) {}
if (!Global.calculating)
handler.sendEmptyMessage(0);
}
}
}
}
}
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[android-developers] Re: Posts to this Android Dev group hacked/intercepted/moved !?!
Hey, you are true! I also see my posts there: http://groups.google.com/group/world_wide_with_god_minstry/browse_thread/thread/c359df2ca1264536/d44bb834318705e3#d44bb834318705e3 http://groups.google.com/group/world_wide_with_god_minstry/browse_thread/thread/1f8500086eb7bb16/135908ed6a9576ab#135908ed6a9576ab http://groups.google.com/group/world_wide_with_god_minstry/browse_thread/thread/e665b3643afa5285/507ac1af9d85cf65#507ac1af9d85cf65 And if I look at my profile, I see that my messages are also in this group. What happens there? Martin On 2 Jan., 00:18, RoryD rory1doug...@gmail.com wrote: I posted a message to this group several days ago - now when I check my Google Groups profile the message in question is appearing under a completely different Google Group (http://groups.google.com/group/ world_wide_with_god_minstry) - this group is filled with other apparently misdirected messages (including several others intended for Android Developers group sent by other today within the last few days. I definitely submitted my message to this group first, here's a link to mail-archive showing that:http://www.mail-archive.com/android-developers@googlegroups.com/msg73 But now the actual message appears here http://groups.google.com/group/world_wide_with_god_minstry/browse_thr... I'd say this was just my account being hacked, except can't find any way in the UI of actually moving a message after posting it. Is this an error with Google Groups itself? -- 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: Best HTTP Request Method
You might also want to run a method trace around your network activity to see where the most processing time is spent. The results you get wont be in actual time, but a relative time just because method tracing is slow. Just wrap you code with a start and stop calls, and make sure to have the writing to external storage permission in your manifest. // start tracing to /sdcard/calc.trace Debug.startMethodTracing(calc); // ... // stop tracing Debug.stopMethodTracing(); Traceview http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/traceview.html -theSmith On Jan 1, 7:08 pm, Frank Weiss fewe...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen 5 sec occasionally getting an rss feed of about 28 KB using java.net.URL.openConnection().getInputStream() and then parsing it with SAXParser. It looks like you're doing a POST to send form data(?) so you may have to stick with HTTPClient. If you're doing frequent requests, you can probably take advantage of HTTPClient's keep-alive connection management. If you're looking for optimizations, I strongly suggest you create a test app which performs the same request you're having performance problems with. Collect more data, such as the size of the request and response. Try the same request from a different platform (like your laptop or desktop). Compare the network paths between the desktop and Android to the server. I know you'd like to just get an answer do this/try this. I hope that by looking into the problem in more detail you''ll find a solution. On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 3:36 PM, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: About 5 seconds, which isn't unbearable, but considering my app needs frequent requests some kind of optimization must be possible. Look at the android market...it seems to load everything pretty fast (much faster than my app at least!) On Jan 1, 3:15 pm, Frank Weiss fewe...@gmail.com wrote: Considering that the execute method's latency includes network and server times, on what basis do you think it's taking too long? What latency are you observing, less than one second, more than one minute? On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 1:19 PM, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I've tried logging and the HTTP execute definitely takes the largest chunk of time, but how can I speed it up? Is there another protocol/method? On Dec 31 2009, 6:07 pm, jotobjects jotobje...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 31, 12:52 pm, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: It works fine, but it's quite slow...any way to make it faster? A guess would be that the HTTP network speed is 100's of times slower than all the rest of the code. You might log the time before and after the execute method if you haven't already done that. -- 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.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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] Updating a unique AppWidgetProvider from a Service
Here is my issue, I want to be able to update a specific AppWidgetProvider (home screen widget) from a custom service class. I have to build the remote view in the service because I'm also doing some networking in there, which takes some time. The problem is that I can't figure out how to update a specific widget (individual widgets can have different update intervals, using the alarm manager). If I wanted to do it from the onUpdate of the AppWidgetProvider I could just call appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(appWidgetId, remoteView); Does anyone have any experience with this or any suggestions? -theSmith -- 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
Re: [android-developers] Re: Touch handling sleep not helping enough on 1.5/1.6
Hi, Just off the top of my head... * Research event propagation order and catch the event as early as possible (view before activity?) * Be sure to return true to stop propagation from your handler * Look into other methods to catch the event stream besides the onTouchEvent override My experimentation on 1.5/1.6 (many months ago) showed with a short pause (20 ms, if I recall correctly) brought frame rates to about 95% of what they were with no touch events. Thus, what your experiencing might be influenced by something else in your architecture, or perhaps one of the first bullets above. SoftwareForMe.com On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote: I just tried the thread priority hacks but they didn't seem to offer any kind of big improvement. Any other ideas? On Dec 31 2009, 12:27 am, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote: Cool, I'll give it a shot. I was thinking about bumping up my rendering thread. I'll report the results I get. On Dec 30, 10:49 pm, Dmitry.Skiba dmitry.sk...@gmail.com wrote: I can suggest something weird - to boost priority for the time of rendering. See how I did that in ToF: http://code.google.com/p/tapsoffire/source/browse/trunk/src/org/tof/u... (onBeforeRender/onAfterRender) Dmitry On 31 дек, 05:39, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote: I hate to bump it just to bump it but I'm really in need of some good suggestions here. Thanks to anyone who can offer anything new to try. On Dec 29, 3:13 pm, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, I'm really in a bind here. I've got this new game engine that's almost done but the input system is killing me. I have a virtual analog stick on the screen and it works great, especially on Android 2.0 (Droid) but on any 1.5/1.6 device, the touching is causing my game to crawl. I know all of the standard stuff - I pipe my input events into a queue for my main game thread and thensleepfor 16ms which should ensure that no more than 60 motion events are dispatched per second. That works fine but even so, just touching the screen, even with my event handling code commented out (except for thesleep, of course), drops my game from 30FPS to 20FPS. It's really bad. I bound some keyboard keys to the movement to replace thetouchcontrols for testing and the game maintained a great framerate. That won't work because most phones now only have touchscreens so I really need to figure this one out. Wait for Android 2.0 is not a great answer, either. So far I've tried; Activity.onTouchEvent with a 16, 20, 32, 50mssleepbefore returning Activity.dispatchTouchEvent with a 16,20,32 and 50mssleep Commented out all code except thesleepto test - problem is still there, so it's not my hander. What else can I do? -- 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.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
Re: [android-developers] Re: Transparent Button
Thank U On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Wouter wouterg...@gmail.com wrote: use this as your background for your button android:background=@android:color/transparent On Dec 31, 7:55 am, Fei Zhang getid...@gmail.com wrote: use a transparent image as background 2009/12/31 Sasikumar.S sasikumar.it1...@gmail.com Hi, How to make a button as transparent in android?... -- Thanks Regards Sasikumar.S -- 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.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%252bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Thanks Regards Sasikumar.S -- 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: Any Tips for implementing free versions of applications?
upload a paid version too, and in the free version keep track of how many times they play or how long they play with preferences and then don't allow them to start a new game and also give them a button to take them directly to the market with your paid version. On Dec 31 2009, 10:49 am, dan.x.sheph...@googlemail.com dan.x.sheph...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I already mentioned this briefly in another post as part of another publishing topic. But I think it is pretty important for a lot of us to know good ways to make free versions that can't be cracked too easily etc. After all most people just download the free stuff, I know I do, so its important for numbers. I just made a game called ScrollSlider and I want to make a free version with limited evaluation period perhaps, but I could use some advice on how to do it. I'm also having problems with data persistence as views appear and disappear and managing game loop view thread accordingly. Cheers in advance for any tips, Dan www.cuffedtothekeyboard.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: When the new activity starts, the data of previous activity is gone.
Hi Rui Wu, I got the solution of the second problem. Actually, i have used the same string value for the both fields. It means i have used the same string value for the edittext in the first activity as well as in second activity which has also one edittext. When i press next button it takes the string, entered by the user and it shows in the edittext of the second activity. By the way, thank you for communicating with me. Regards, Pranav -- 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: Lat Long Problem in Broadcast Receiver
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I have set this 2 permissions: uses-permission android:name=android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION/uses- permission uses-permission android:name=android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION/uses- permission I am testing this application on device (HTC Tatto) having 1.6 SDK. I am not able to get LogCat because of testing on device. Thanks Regards, Nishant Shah -- 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: Best HTTP Request Method
Thanks a lot! Just wondering: how do you set the keep-alive setting? I just can't seem to get it! Thanks for all your help! On Jan 1, 5:08 pm, Frank Weiss fewe...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen 5 sec occasionally getting an rss feed of about 28 KB using java.net.URL.openConnection().getInputStream() and then parsing it with SAXParser. It looks like you're doing a POST to send form data(?) so you may have to stick with HTTPClient. If you're doing frequent requests, you can probably take advantage of HTTPClient's keep-alive connection management. If you're looking for optimizations, I strongly suggest you create a test app which performs the same request you're having performance problems with. Collect more data, such as the size of the request and response. Try the same request from a different platform (like your laptop or desktop). Compare the network paths between the desktop and Android to the server. I know you'd like to just get an answer do this/try this. I hope that by looking into the problem in more detail you''ll find a solution. On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 3:36 PM, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: About 5 seconds, which isn't unbearable, but considering my app needs frequent requests some kind of optimization must be possible. Look at the android market...it seems to load everything pretty fast (much faster than my app at least!) On Jan 1, 3:15 pm, Frank Weiss fewe...@gmail.com wrote: Considering that the execute method's latency includes network and server times, on what basis do you think it's taking too long? What latency are you observing, less than one second, more than one minute? On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 1:19 PM, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I've tried logging and the HTTP execute definitely takes the largest chunk of time, but how can I speed it up? Is there another protocol/method? On Dec 31 2009, 6:07 pm, jotobjects jotobje...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 31, 12:52 pm, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: It works fine, but it's quite slow...any way to make it faster? A guess would be that the HTTP network speed is 100's of times slower than all the rest of the code. You might log the time before and after the execute method if you haven't already done that. -- 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.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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: Touch handling sleep not helping enough on 1.5/1.6
Were your results of 95% achieved while you were really pushing the GPU? I've found that if I do absolutely nothing but sleep for 16ms and return true, I STILL get massive slowdown. It has nothing to do with my architecture. I'm pushing the GPU down to about 30FPS with a 6ms update and so it seems that the more CPU/GPU time my game needs, the worse this problem is. No problems on the Droid, of course. Only on 1.5 and 1.6 devices. I've tried implementing the sleep in both onTouch and dispatch and they seem to have the same result. Any other ideas? On Jan 1, 10:13 pm, SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com softwareforme@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Just off the top of my head... * Research event propagation order and catch the event as early as possible (view before activity?) * Be sure to return true to stop propagation from your handler * Look into other methods to catch the event stream besides the onTouchEvent override My experimentation on 1.5/1.6 (many months ago) showed with a short pause (20 ms, if I recall correctly) brought frame rates to about 95% of what they were with no touch events. Thus, what your experiencing might be influenced by something else in your architecture, or perhaps one of the first bullets above. SoftwareForMe.com On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote: I just tried the thread priority hacks but they didn't seem to offer any kind of big improvement. Any other ideas? On Dec 31 2009, 12:27 am, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote: Cool, I'll give it a shot. I was thinking about bumping up my rendering thread. I'll report the results I get. On Dec 30, 10:49 pm, Dmitry.Skiba dmitry.sk...@gmail.com wrote: I can suggest something weird - to boost priority for the time of rendering. See how I did that in ToF: http://code.google.com/p/tapsoffire/source/browse/trunk/src/org/tof/u... (onBeforeRender/onAfterRender) Dmitry On 31 дек, 05:39, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote: I hate to bump it just to bump it but I'm really in need of some good suggestions here. Thanks to anyone who can offer anything new to try. On Dec 29, 3:13 pm, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, I'm really in a bind here. I've got this new game engine that's almost done but the input system is killing me. I have a virtual analog stick on the screen and it works great, especially on Android 2.0 (Droid) but on any 1.5/1.6 device, the touching is causing my game to crawl. I know all of the standard stuff - I pipe my input events into a queue for my main game thread and thensleepfor 16ms which should ensure that no more than 60 motion events are dispatched per second. That works fine but even so, just touching the screen, even with my event handling code commented out (except for thesleep, of course), drops my game from 30FPS to 20FPS. It's really bad. I bound some keyboard keys to the movement to replace thetouchcontrols for testing and the game maintained a great framerate. That won't work because most phones now only have touchscreens so I really need to figure this one out. Wait for Android 2.0 is not a great answer, either. So far I've tried; Activity.onTouchEvent with a 16, 20, 32, 50mssleepbefore returning Activity.dispatchTouchEvent with a 16,20,32 and 50mssleep Commented out all code except thesleepto test - problem is still there, so it's not my hander. What else can I do? -- 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.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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] a prabable bug in android.bat
Hi,
We are trying to create avd though ant using the android bat..
When we execute
[echo] Creating avd profile: foo1.5
[exec] Current OS is Windows XP
[exec] Executing 'cmd' with arguments:
[exec] '/c'
[exec] 'android'
[exec] 'create'
[exec] 'avd'
[exec] '-n'
[exec] 'foo1.5'
[exec] '-t'
[exec] '1'
[exec] '-f'
[exec] '-p'
[exec] '${dataDir}'
[exec] ''
[exec] 'c:/temp/raja.txt'
it goes into reccursion and all the tools folder files are getting
delegated.. The issue is ${dataDir} which is not assgined a value has
some internal effect This is observed on DK 1.6 and 2.0 Update too..
createAVD:
[echo] 1
[echo] API3
[echo] API3
[echo] ${${dp.trgt.ref}}
[exec] Android 1.5 is a basic Android platform.
[exec] Do you wish to create a custom hardware profile [no]
Exception in thr
ead main java.lang.StackOverflowError
[exec] at java.io.Win32FileSystem.resolve
(Win32FileSystem.java:237)
[exec] at java.io.File.init(File.java:207)
[exec] at java.io.File.listFiles(File.java:1056)
[exec] at
com.android.sdklib.internal.avd.AvdManager.recursiveDelete(Av
dManager.java:952)
...
[exec] at
com.android.sdklib.internal.avd.AvdManager.recursiveDelete(Av
dManager.java:954)
[exec] at
com.android.sdklib.internal.avd.AvdManager.recursiveDelete(Av
dManager.java:954)
[exec] at
com.android.sdklib.internal.avd.AvdManager.recursiveDelete(Av
dManager.java:954)
[exec] at
com.android.sdklib.internal.avd.AvdManager.recursiveDelete(Av
dManager.java:954)
[exec] The batch file cannot be found.
[exec] Result: 1
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 36 seconds
F:\tejasoft\work\companies\zoomin\mobile\androidant createAVD
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[android-developers] Facing serious problem with static objects
Hi guys, I am facing a problem in my application.
I have a few static arrays and Hashmaps in my app which i fill in when my
Activity starts.Then this activity later launches another Activity. Now
user presses Home button of Back button and again restarts the app, even
then the static objects remain in memory. I beleive this is default android
behaviour.
I have an example app.
package com.cm.test;
import java.util.HashMap;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
public class MyActivity extends Activity {
public static HashMapString, String hMap = new HashMapString,
String();
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
Log.i(***,Hash map size = +hMap.size());
hMap.put(Alok,Alo);
hMap.put(Jitu,Jit);
Log.i(***,Activity onCreate() called);
}
@Override
public void onDestroy()
{
Log.i(***,Activity onDestroy() called);
super.onDestroy();
}
@Override
public void onResume()
{
super.onResume();
Log.i(***,Activity onResume() called);
}
@Override
public void onStop()
{
super.onStop();
Log.i(***,Activity onStop() called);
}
}
Output First time is Size = 0. for 1st launch, Next for every launch ,
HashMap size is 2... If i use ArrayList , the size of ArrayList goes on
increasing.
I dont want this to happen.One thing was that to clear the HashMap in
onDestroy() or in onStop() in case user presses Home button. But my Activity
launches another ListActivity in it. So the alternae option is to clear the
Hashmaps in onDestroy() | onStop() of this activity.
I am not much clear when the Activity exits. From the posts that i have read
i found few things here
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/4c1b8955ebfd5799?pli=1
The manifest part android:clearTaskOnLaunch=true does not work in my case.
What do you people suggest in this case?
Thanks,
Alok.
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[android-developers] Re: Any Tips for implementing free versions of applications?
Thanks, I've just uploaded a trail version. Because it was a puzzle game that takes a certain length of time to do I just made it time out after 2 minutes. They can still keep using it, but only for 2 minutes at a time, which is enough to do puzzle in easy level, but not in medium or hard unless you are some kind of genius with very fast fingers. This way I also don't have to check if they are reinstalling where one would have to leave some kind of data on the phone or keep a record of owners in a remote database or something like that. I think the idea of tracking usage and a link direct to the market is a good one. But I don't know how you tell what the exact direct android market URL to an application is on the phone. Anyway, thank you for your advice. I think when I make something a bit larger/better I might go about spend more time on such things. I did put a hit counter on the associated web site at least just to see if anyone visits the site. If it gets busy, then maybe I could put pay per click adverts on it or something, but I doubt it will get that busy. On Jan 2, 5:06 am, schwiz sch...@gmail.com wrote: upload a paid version too, and in the free version keep track of how many times they play or how long they play with preferences and then don't allow them to start a new game and also give them a button to take them directly to the market with your paid version. On Dec 31 2009, 10:49 am, dan.x.sheph...@googlemail.com dan.x.sheph...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I already mentioned this briefly in another post as part of another publishing topic. But I think it is pretty important for a lot of us to know good ways to make free versions that can't be cracked too easily etc. After all most people just download the free stuff, I know I do, so its important for numbers. I just made a game called ScrollSlider and I want to make a free version with limited evaluation period perhaps, but I could use some advice on how to do it. I'm also having problems with data persistence as views appear and disappear and managing game loop view thread accordingly. Cheers in advance for any tips, Dan www.cuffedtothekeyboard.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: Best HTTP Request Method
I think that it is automatic. Just be sure to keep your HttpClient object around for as long as you're going to be using it. For example: create the HttpClient in your onCreate() and close it in onDestroy() for your activity. On Jan 1, 10:45 pm, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks a lot! Just wondering: how do you set the keep-alive setting? I just can't seem to get it! Thanks for all your help! On Jan 1, 5:08 pm, Frank Weiss fewe...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen 5 sec occasionally getting an rss feed of about 28 KB using java.net.URL.openConnection().getInputStream() and then parsing it with SAXParser. It looks like you're doing a POST to send form data(?) so you may have to stick with HTTPClient. If you're doing frequent requests, you can probably take advantage of HTTPClient's keep-alive connection management. If you're looking for optimizations, I strongly suggest you create a test app which performs the same request you're having performance problems with. Collect more data, such as the size of the request and response. Try the same request from a different platform (like your laptop or desktop). Compare the network paths between the desktop and Android to the server. I know you'd like to just get an answer do this/try this. I hope that by looking into the problem in more detail you''ll find a solution. On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 3:36 PM, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: About 5 seconds, which isn't unbearable, but considering my app needs frequent requests some kind of optimization must be possible. Look at the android market...it seems to load everything pretty fast (much faster than my app at least!) On Jan 1, 3:15 pm, Frank Weiss fewe...@gmail.com wrote: Considering that the execute method's latency includes network and server times, on what basis do you think it's taking too long? What latency are you observing, less than one second, more than one minute? On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 1:19 PM, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I've tried logging and the HTTP execute definitely takes the largest chunk of time, but how can I speed it up? Is there another protocol/method? On Dec 31 2009, 6:07 pm, jotobjects jotobje...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 31, 12:52 pm, SizzlingSkizzorsProgrammer cbo...@gmail.com wrote: It works fine, but it's quite slow...any way to make it faster? A guess would be that the HTTP network speed is 100's of times slower than all the rest of the code. You might log the time before and after the execute method if you haven't already done that. -- 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.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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: Facing serious problem with static objects
What is the reason that your HashMap and arrays are static? Perhaps
they are a component of each instance of your Activity, rather than
having a single HashMap and arrays for all instances?
On Jan 2, 12:27 am, Alok Kulkarni kulsu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi guys, I am facing a problem in my application.
I have a few static arrays and Hashmaps in my app which i fill in when my
Activity starts.Then this activity later launches another Activity. Now
user presses Home button of Back button and again restarts the app, even
then the static objects remain in memory. I beleive this is default android
behaviour.
I have an example app.
package com.cm.test;
import java.util.HashMap;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
public class MyActivity extends Activity {
public static HashMapString, String hMap = new HashMapString,
String();
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
Log.i(***,Hash map size = +hMap.size());
hMap.put(Alok,Alo);
hMap.put(Jitu,Jit);
Log.i(***,Activity onCreate() called);
}
@Override
public void onDestroy()
{
Log.i(***,Activity onDestroy() called);
super.onDestroy();
}
@Override
public void onResume()
{
super.onResume();
Log.i(***,Activity onResume() called);
}
@Override
public void onStop()
{
super.onStop();
Log.i(***,Activity onStop() called);
}
}
Output First time is Size = 0. for 1st launch, Next for every launch ,
HashMap size is 2... If i use ArrayList , the size of ArrayList goes on
increasing.
I dont want this to happen.One thing was that to clear the HashMap in
onDestroy() or in onStop() in case user presses Home button. But my Activity
launches another ListActivity in it. So the alternae option is to clear the
Hashmaps in onDestroy() | onStop() of this activity.
I am not much clear when the Activity exits. From the posts that i have read
i found few things
herehttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa...
The manifest part android:clearTaskOnLaunch=true does not work in my case.
What do you people suggest in this case?
Thanks,
Alok.
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