date:20110423

Run:

android update project -p .

from the directory containing AndroidManifest.xml -- this will
generate default.properties for you. Most likely, it'll complain about
not having a target, which means you'll need to also add the -t switch
with an appropriate build target API level.

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:43 PM, J Handal jhand...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi All,

 http://apps-for-android.googlecode.com/svn     is not building.

   file  default.properties are not found,   I tried all the tricks
 checkout,import,clean,build,import jars,libraries,build path,etc.

    Other repositories built fine
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[android-developers] Re: TabActivity not the main activity

2011-04-23 Thread Axel B

Thank you!
Actually, my tabActivity was not complete, my mistake.
Problem solved.

On 23 avr, 00:35, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote:
Use adb logcat, DDMS, or the DDMS perspective in Eclipse to examine
LogCat and look at the stack trace associated with your error.

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Axel B axel.bour...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone,
I hope someone will be able to help me with this issue.
I'm developing a program that starts with a first Activity, which is
my welcome screen.
I would like to call an activity from here (using a start button on
this screen), that would be a TabActivity.

But I keep having problems when I do so (program stops unexpectedly).
Plus I don't see any examples where a TabActivity is not the main
activity of the program.
Hence, I really wonder if this is possible.

Anyone can help me?

Thanks by advance.

Axel

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Re: [android-developers] ListActivity Memory leak with onConfigurationChanged

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Taf neild...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm using a ListActivity, with onConfigurationChanged. I'm doing this
 because I don't want onCreate to be called so i don't have to reload
 data in the list view every time I change orientation.

That is a poor rationale. Use onSaveInstanceState() and
onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() to hold onto your data model
between the old and new instances, please.

 I've found that when I call setListAdapter in the onCreate method of
 my ListActivity , after a Number of orientation changes I get an out
 of memory error. If I don't set the ListAdapter I don't see the out of
 memory error.

 Just wondering if anyone else has seen this and knows of a way to
 solve it?

Fix your Adapter implementation.

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Re: [android-developers] Re: Is there a min SDK level for android.hardware.telephony feature?

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote:
 However, I notice this does not work (returns false) for some devices that
 definitely do have telephony (e.g. HTC Legend and Motorola Milestone). In
 both cases, they are running SDK 7, so I wonder whether this particular
 feature is an SDK 8+ thing?

 I'd say these devices simply have a firmware bug or something
 returning the wrong value.

Agreed. I don't remember the Legend, but the Milestone would have
shipped with an earlier version of Android than 2.1, then got OTA
upgraded (or the equivalent). It may be that Motorola missed whatever
corner of the firmware has the value that gets returned here. For the
Milestone specifically, you might consider asking your question on the
MOTODEV support boards.

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[android-developers] How to point a marker on google map according to our choice.

Your question is ambiguous. Please state the problem you have and what you have 
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[android-developers] Re: java

2011-04-23 Thread DanH

I'd suggest you get a decent book on Java and play around with it a
bit before tackling Android.  Shouldn't take a lot with your
background, but a few days doing that would be time well spent.

(Trying to think of an application to implement, but nothing coming to
mind at present.  Maybe someone else has an idea for a command line
Java app/toy?)

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[android-developers] Re: ListActivity Memory leak with onConfigurationChanged

2011-04-23 Thread Taf

Hi Mark,

Yes, I think I'll have to look at using the the way you've suggested.
It was just that
onConfigurationChanged seemed like a really nice and simple way of
achieving what I wanted. Though
it does say somewhere in the docs that it should be used as a last
resort. Not sure why? I guess it
circumnavigates all the Activity life cycle calls and hence you can
end up getting memory leaks as I am seeing.

Thanks for the quick response.

On Apr 23, 12:05 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Taf neild...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm using a ListActivity, with onConfigurationChanged. I'm doing this
because I don't want onCreate to be called so i don't have to reload
data in the list view every time I change orientation.

That is a poor rationale. Use onSaveInstanceState() and
onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() to hold onto your data model
between the old and new instances, please.

I've found that when I call setListAdapter in the onCreate method of
my ListActivity , after a Number of orientation changes I get an out
of memory error. If I don't set the ListAdapter I don't see the out of
memory error.

Just wondering if anyone else has seen this and knows of a way to
solve it?

Fix your Adapter implementation.

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[android-developers] Re: replace transparent color bitmap with alpha

OK, color me confused. Why are you expecting to do this with PorterDuff?

PorterDuff works on images (or colors) with alpha to combine them. The alpha 
controls how they combine.

I don't see any way to get information from the color channels to the alpha 
channel via PorterDuff. The output alpha channel is always a function of the 
source and destination alpha channels -- and not of the color channels.

Even if there were modes that derived alpha from color -- what you're 
looking to do is very different than the sort of operations involved in 
PorterDuff. Except for clamping the result between full-on and full-off 
(however you choose to represent those values), PorterDuff operations are 
linear.

Have you considered painting using AvoidXfermode? I.e. construct your paint 
with an Xfermode of new AvoidXfermode(your transparent color, 0, 
AvoidXfermode.Mode.TARGET).

Here's a twisted little app that demonstrates, It constructs two changing 
bitmaps -- a background gradient and a foreground. It alternates between two 
modes -- Opaque and Transparent. In Transparent mode, the Color.MAGENTA 
circles are replaced using AvoidXfermode with transparent regions, showing 
the background. It also replaces a square region with half-transparency of 
the same color via the same general technique.

Please view responsibly.

package com.example.transparent;

import java.util.Random;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.graphics.AvoidXfermode;
import android.graphics.AvoidXfermode.Mode;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.Bitmap.Config;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.LinearGradient;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.PorterDuff;
import android.graphics.PorterDuffXfermode;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.graphics.RectF;
import android.graphics.Shader;
import android.graphics.Shader.TileMode;
import android.graphics.Xfermode;
import android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class Transparent extends Activity {
private final Random m_random = new Random();
int m_bg_color_1 = Color.RED;
int m_bg_color_1_delta = 0;
int m_bg_color_2 = Color.BLUE;
int m_bg_color_2_delta = 0;

int m_state = 0;
final Bitmap m_foreground = Bitmap.createBitmap(300, 300, 
Config.ARGB_);
final Bitmap m_background = Bitmap.createBitmap(300, 300, 
Config.ARGB_);

private int clamp(int c) {
return Math.max(0, Math.min(255, c));
}

private int add(int c, int delta) {
if (delta  128) {
return clamp(c - (256 - delta));
} else {
return clamp(c + delta);
}
}

private int nextColor(int c, int delta) {
return Color.rgb(
add(Color.red(c), Color.red(delta)),
add(Color.green(c), Color.green(delta)),
add(Color.blue(c), Color.blue(delta))
);
}

private final int MAX_VELOCITY = 5;

private int newDeltaComponent(int c) {
if (c == 0) return m_random.nextInt(MAX_VELOCITY-1) + 1;
if (c == 255) return 255 - m_random.nextInt(MAX_VELOCITY);
return c;
}

private int newDelta(int c) {
return Color.rgb(newDeltaComponent(
Color.red(c)),
newDeltaComponent(Color.green(c)),
newDeltaComponent(Color.blue(c)));
}

private boolean atLimit(int c) {
return Color.red(c) == 0 || Color.red(c) == 255 || 
Color.green(c) == 0 || Color.green(c) == 255 || Color.blue(c) == 0 || 
Color.blue(c) == 255;
}

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
final ImageView iv = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.image);
final Handler h = new Handler();
Runnable animate = new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
Bitmap background = createBackground();
iv.setBackgroundDrawable(new 
BitmapDrawable(background));
boolean transparent = ((m_state / 50)  1) 
== 1;
Bitmap bm = createForeground(transparent);
iv.setImageBitmap(bm);
m_state++;
m_bg_color_1 =

Re: [android-developers] Re: ListActivity Memory leak with onConfigurationChanged

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Taf neild...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Mark,

 Yes, I think I'll have to look at using the the way you've suggested.
 It was just that
 onConfigurationChanged seemed like a really nice and simple way of
 achieving what I wanted. Though
 it does say somewhere in the docs that it should be used as a last
 resort. Not sure why?

It does not force you to reload all of your resources. Hence, you have
to do all that yourself.

You might think well, gee, it's portrait - landscape, so I just
fiddle with my layout, how tough can that be?. But then, what happens
if the user changes their locale while your app is in memory? They
come back to your app, and either:

1. You added locale to your android:configChanges attribute, in which
case you have to have all of the code yourself to reload all of your
visible strings, and not miss any

2. You only have rotation-related values in android:configChanges, in
which case your app probably crashes or otherwise has results that you
don't like, because the old activity will be destroyed and a new
activity created

There are a fair number of configuration changes (see the docs for
android:configChanges). One way or another, you have to handle all of
them. Using android:configChanges, therefore, is best for places where
the pain of manual resource management (and getting right now and as
you change resources in the coming months) is still less than the pain
caused by destroying and recreating an activity.

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Re: [android-developers] Re: Is there a min SDK level for android.hardware.telephony feature?

2011-04-23 Thread Mark Carter

I've experienced this with the following devices:

Motorola Milestone (7), Spice Mi-310 (8), HTC Desire (7), Samsung Galaxy
Apollo (7), T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide (7), ZTE Racer (7), Nokia N90 (10),
Taiwan Mobile T2 (7), Samsung Galaxy 5 (7), HTC Legend (7)

I expect some more devices will pop up over the next few days.

Side note - Nokia N90!?

To summarise, I think there are too many devices to hardcode these special
cases. The sim card check may be enough though I'm still open to other
suggestions...

Actually, the main reason I'm checking for this is to know whether or not to
show a list of SMS messages. So maybe a better approach would be to do a
quick check for what the SMS content provider returns. Won't be good enough
to check for the presence of messages (i.e. no messages won't prove
anything) but maybe there is something else to check for in this regard to
discover whether SMS messages are applicable to the device?

2011/4/23 Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com

 On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  However, I notice this does not work (returns false) for some devices
 that
  definitely do have telephony (e.g. HTC Legend and Motorola Milestone).
 In
  both cases, they are running SDK 7, so I wonder whether this particular
  feature is an SDK 8+ thing?
 
  I'd say these devices simply have a firmware bug or something
  returning the wrong value.

 Agreed. I don't remember the Legend, but the Milestone would have
 shipped with an earlier version of Android than 2.1, then got OTA
 upgraded (or the equivalent). It may be that Motorola missed whatever
 corner of the firmware has the value that gets returned here. For the
 Milestone specifically, you might consider asking your question on the
 MOTODEV support boards.

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[android-developers] Re: java

2011-04-23 Thread Robert


WIth those 3 languages you should be good.  I had trouble wrapping my
head around the Android Activity Lifecycle.  Suggest you read the
following and reference often:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/activities.html
particularly 
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/activities.html#Lifecycle

To understand the lifecycle I found it helpful to put in stubs for the
routines like  OnPause OnResume OnStart, OnDestroy and others with
nothing other than a Log.d message to show when they were called.
(including Log.d in OnCreate).  I was really surprised to see that
OnCreate is NOT called every time that the launch icon is touched and
that OnPause is called when going to the settings, OnResume when
coming back.   Orientation change is even more interesting.  It's one
thing to read it, but much more concrete when you see it in your own
program.  The Lifecycle does matter when writing code since the
program is a living entity that may be around for days on your phone
and never totally start from scratch.

I came to Android/Java from 30 years of Assembler, COBOL, FORTRAN,
PHP.  The concept of objects having methods (that look like what I
knew as subroutines in the code) and programs that don't end when
finished (COBOL Stop Run,  Java: finish() ) was a bit different.
After a couple of months using Google's App Inventor (http://
appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/) then I totally understood the
concept of objects and their related code.

 I've gone from thinking that Object Oriented programming is the next
level of dumbing down  programmers to that's  way cool and a good
successor to what we used to call structured programming .

So in summary:
- Use App Inventor for a couple of apps
- read the suggested documentation
- do the tutorials as another person as suggested
- find a tutorial that does something you want in your program and use
it as the basis

Robert

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[android-developers] Re: Display list of saved tables to be opened

2011-04-23 Thread Robert

Well I would put the names into a table that you can read (and maybe
some descriptive info too)  but you didn't look far to find your
answer.

A quick google for  sqlite select tables found:
http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite.htmlin there is a section Querying
the database schema   go read that and you'll find a SELECT that does
exactly what you want (actually more than you probably need).

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Re: [android-developers] Re: java

2011-04-23 Thread Filip Havlicek

What we do with students is implementing a common command-line database (of
employees, cars etc) or a sudoku solver/generator. Practices most of the
basic Java stuff, not bad for a beginner. And I'm pretty sure there are a
lot of other options (possibly more interesting), although these are easy to
comprehend as what is the input, output, expected behaviour etc and one can
focus on the Java itself while coding it.

Best regards,
Filip Havlicek

2011/4/23 DanH danhi...@ieee.org

 I'd suggest you get a decent book on Java and play around with it a
 bit before tackling Android.  Shouldn't take a lot with your
 background, but a few days doing that would be time well spent.

 (Trying to think of an application to implement, but nothing coming to
 mind at present.  Maybe someone else has an idea for a command line
 Java app/toy?)

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[android-developers] Ignoring magnetic field sensor, calibrating the accelerometer

2011-04-23 Thread Socrates

I'm trying to use the accelerometer sensor for a game.

1) I am currently ignoring the magnetometer and using a static value
for the magnetic field vector. My reasoning is that the magnetometer
is subject to interference and will likely give more varied values
than the accelerometer, so I'd like to not use it if possible. I'm
also not sure that it is necessary for most motion-based game
control.  Does this make sense?

2) I'm attempting to get a baseline accelerometer value, but it
appears as if the sensor returns a junk/default value for a given axis
unless a change is detected along that axis. So it seems as if I can't
get an accurate baseline value while the phone is lying perfectly
still -- am I understanding this right? Is there any way to work
around this problem?

Thanks.

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[android-developers] Re: peculiar or undocumented behavior of ExifInterface?

2011-04-23 Thread mukgup

Looks like the know issue in android.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=14772q=exifcolspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars


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Re: [android-developers] How to disable key press events!!

2011-04-23 Thread Pratik Prajapati

Hi Marcin,

For the In-flight entertainment kind of device. When ever there is
any accoutrement to be made, the android based unit must get muted and all
key ( mounted on the device + external key pad ) must get disabled for that
much time.

Any effective solution?

Regards,
Pratik Prajapati

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Marcin Orlowski
webnet.andr...@gmail.comwrote:

 Use own listener and eat all releated events. But anyway, this does not
 sound as good idea though. What for you need this (especially most devices
 got nothing like keys available all the time) for?

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 I need to disable the key events (any key pressed) for some predefined
 time. How the key pressed events be disabled?

 Regards,
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[android-developers] Where can I find the new widget template PSDs for Android 2.X?

2011-04-23 Thread Eric Li

Hi,
The widget frame PSDs found in Widget Design Guidelines are outdated as the 
style has been changed since Android 2.X. Where can I obtain those Android 
2.X style PSDs like the one below? Thanks.

Regards,
Eric

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_OwNjPHS8dpw/TbLaf4TYEAI/C74/ShYeFcSEFMU/res_drawable-hdpi-finger_appwidget_bg.9.png

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Re: [android-developers] How to disable key press events!!

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Pratik Prajapati
pratik.prajap...@gmail.com wrote:
 For the In-flight entertainment kind of device. When ever there is
 any accoutrement to be made, the android based unit must get muted and all
 key ( mounted on the device + external key pad ) must get disabled for that
 much time.
 Any effective solution?

An in-flight entertainment kind of device is custom hardware running
custom firmware and therefore will solve this problem via that custom
firmware. Android SDK applications should not be involved in the
process at all.

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Re: [android-developers] Re: how to access desktop files from android app remotely?

2011-04-23 Thread Nikolay Elenkov

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Peter Webb r.peter.w...@gmail.com wrote:


 You can't plug your droid into your home Windows network and use
 Windows networking to access file systems (as far as I know);
 presumably because it is either very difficult or impossible.


Sure you can. Most file manager apps have a Samba plugin,
so you can mount windows shares. If you have a rooted
phone, you can do it the other way around too -- install
the 'Samba filesharing on Android' app and you can turn
your phone into a Samba server.

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[android-developers] Re: Ignoring magnetic field sensor, calibrating the accelerometer

2011-04-23 Thread Igor Prilepov

1. Yes, there are a lot of issues related to the magnetic sensor but people 
still use it for thousands years so the real question is do you need it or 
not.
2. I don't know what does it mean baseline values. Accelerometer always 
returns noise values (as well as any other sensor) - this is a nature of any 
real data source.
There is no work around this problem but there are many methods to filter 
noise out. All of them requires certain level of knowledge in math, 
statistics, etc. and they are very complicated. Take a look at Kalman filter 
on Wikipedia to get some feeling about this area.


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[android-developers] Re: Timezone Question

2011-04-23 Thread String

No offense, Bob (and I do mean that, I value your posts on this forum), but 
I think we can safely assume that the OP knows how to calculate times of 
sunrise and sunset. He's already showing that in his app, from the sound of 
things, and is probably doing OK with that aspect.

The issue at hand is how (and maybe whether) to work around a user having 
set their phone to a different zone than the one they're actually in. Nobody 
says this is affecting the absolute (UTC) time of sunrise/sunset in the 
calculations, it's purely about display. 

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[android-developers] Problem setting file permissions when filename has a space

2011-04-23 Thread Paul

I have a question over at StackOverflow that's been sitting there for
over a month, and wondered if maybe someone here (or a Googlite) could
answer it.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5149739/android-problem-setting-file-permissions-when-filename-has-a-space

I have an app where I store .png images in the app's cache directory,
and as I am sharing these files via messaging, etc, I need to make the
files readable temporarily by everyone (i.e. chmod 755).

As suggested in another thread, I am running Runtime.getRuntime.exec()
to do this:

Runtime.getRuntime().exec(setperm chmod 755 /path/to/filename.png);

This works fine, and as I am filtering / and \, any name works...
except a name with a space, unsurpisingly. This fails:

Runtime.getRuntime().exec(setperm chmod 755 /path/to/file name.png);

So, coming from linux, I try wrapping the file path in quotes, which
works on linux, but still fails to change the file perms on Android:

Runtime.getRuntime().exec(setperm chmod 755 \/path/to/file name.png
\);
or
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(setperm chmod 755 '/path/to/file
name.png');

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Paul

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Re: [android-developers] Problem setting file permissions when filename has a space

I have put an answer in the SO question. In a nutshell, don't put them
in the cache dir. Use openFileOutput() and set MODE_WORLD_READABLE.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Paul pmmen...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have a question over at StackOverflow that's been sitting there for
 over a month, and wondered if maybe someone here (or a Googlite) could
 answer it.

 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5149739/android-problem-setting-file-permissions-when-filename-has-a-space

 I have an app where I store .png images in the app's cache directory,
 and as I am sharing these files via messaging, etc, I need to make the
 files readable temporarily by everyone (i.e. chmod 755).

 As suggested in another thread, I am running Runtime.getRuntime.exec()
 to do this:

 Runtime.getRuntime().exec(setperm chmod 755 /path/to/filename.png);

 This works fine, and as I am filtering / and \, any name works...
 except a name with a space, unsurpisingly. This fails:

 Runtime.getRuntime().exec(setperm chmod 755 /path/to/file name.png);

 So, coming from linux, I try wrapping the file path in quotes, which
 works on linux, but still fails to change the file perms on Android:

 Runtime.getRuntime().exec(setperm chmod 755 \/path/to/file name.png
 \);
 or
 Runtime.getRuntime().exec(setperm chmod 755 '/path/to/file
 name.png');

 Any ideas?

 Thanks,

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[android-developers] Re: Problem setting file permissions when filename has a space

2011-04-23 Thread Maps.Huge.Info

Have you tried escaping the space?

path/to/file\ name.png

-John Coryat

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[android-developers] Wifi manually turned off, freezes phone, requires battery removal

2011-04-23 Thread Cris94107

Users are reporting a unique bug in my Remote Control App that when
they manually turn off wifi, their phone locks up, and requires
battery removal.

While I will work to fix this bug within my own App (Songbird
Remote),  I would think this is a bug in the Android OS, and there
should be no way a java App even if it wanted to, should be able to
freeze a phone, and lock it up requiring battery removal.

Any body else encounter similar issue when wifi is turned off
manually?

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[android-developers] Re: java

2011-04-23 Thread DanH

Yes, something to become familiar with SQL would be good, though the
Android interfaces differ significantly from vanilla Java's.  And any
sort of puzzle solver would exercise the basics.

On Apr 23, 8:10 am, Filip Havlicek havlicek.fi...@gmail.com wrote:
 What we do with students is implementing a common command-line database (of
 employees, cars etc) or a sudoku solver/generator. Practices most of the
 basic Java stuff, not bad for a beginner. And I'm pretty sure there are a
 lot of other options (possibly more interesting), although these are easy to
 comprehend as what is the input, output, expected behaviour etc and one can
 focus on the Java itself while coding it.

 Best regards,
 Filip Havlicek

 2011/4/23 DanH danhi...@ieee.org

  I'd suggest you get a decent book on Java and play around with it a
  bit before tackling Android.  Shouldn't take a lot with your
  background, but a few days doing that would be time well spent.

  (Trying to think of an application to implement, but nothing coming to
  mind at present.  Maybe someone else has an idea for a command line
  Java app/toy?)

  On Apr 22, 10:09 am, hoss7 hoss...@gmail.com wrote:
   hi
   i want start develop android app
   can i develop android app if i dont know java?

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RE: [android-developers] Re: Timezone Question

2011-04-23 Thread Tommy

Jake,

 

I have a vb project that auto detects Time Zone and Day Light Savings Time..
I found these JS files online and they seem to work great..

 

TimeZoneDetection.js   :

 

//Provided by
http://www.michaelapproved.com/articles/timezone-detect-and-ignore-daylight-
saving-time-dst/

function TimezoneDetect() {

var dtDate = new Date('1/1/' + (new Date()).getUTCFullYear());

var intOffset = 1; //set initial offset high so it is adjusted on
the first attempt

var intMonth;

var intHoursUtc;

var intHours;

var intDaysMultiplyBy;

 

//go through each month to find the lowest offset to account for DST

for (intMonth = 0; intMonth  12; intMonth++) {

//go to the next month

dtDate.setUTCMonth(dtDate.getUTCMonth() + 1);

 

//To ignore daylight saving time look for the lowest offset.

//Since, during DST, the clock moves forward, it'll be a bigger
number.

if (intOffset  (dtDate.getTimezoneOffset() * (-1))) {

intOffset = (dtDate.getTimezoneOffset() * (-1));

}

}

 

return intOffset;

}

 

 

DSTDetection.js:

// provided by
http://www.michaelapproved.com/articles/daylight-saving-time-dst-detect/

//Find start and end of DST

function DstDetect() {

var dtDstDetect = new Date();

var dtDstStart = '';

var dtDstEnd = '';

var dtDstStartHold = ''; //Temp date hold

var intYearDayCount = 732; //366 (include leap year) * 2 (for two years)

var intHourOfYear = 1;

var intDayOfYear;

var intOffset = TimezoneDetect(); //Custom function. Make sure you
include it.

 

//Start from a year ago to make sure we include any previously starting
DST

dtDstDetect = new Date()

dtDstDetect.setUTCFullYear(dtDstDetect.getUTCFullYear() - 1);

dtDstDetect.setUTCHours(0, 0, 0, 0);

 

//Going hour by hour through the year will detect DST with shorter code
but that could result in 8760

//FOR loops and several seconds of script execution time. Longer code
narrows this down a little.

//Go one day at a time and find out approx time of DST and if there even
is DST on this computer.

//Also need to make sure we catch the most current start and end cycle.

for (intDayOfYear = 1; intDayOfYear = intYearDayCount; intDayOfYear++)
{

dtDstDetect.setUTCDate(dtDstDetect.getUTCDate() + 1);

 

if ((dtDstDetect.getTimezoneOffset() * (-1)) != intOffset 
dtDstStartHold == '') {

dtDstStartHold = new Date(dtDstDetect);

}

if ((dtDstDetect.getTimezoneOffset() * (-1)) == intOffset 
dtDstStartHold != '') {

dtDstStart = new Date(dtDstStartHold);

dtDstEnd = new Date(dtDstDetect);

dtDstStartHold = '';

 

//DST is being used in this timezone. Narrow the time down to
the exact hour the change happens

//Remove 48 hours (a few extra to be on safe side) from the
start/end date and find the exact change point

//Go hour by hour until a change in the timezone offset is
detected.

dtDstStart.setUTCHours(dtDstStart.getUTCHours() - 48);

dtDstEnd.setUTCHours(dtDstEnd.getUTCHours() - 48);

 

//First find when DST starts

for (intHourOfYear = 1; intHourOfYear = 48; intHourOfYear++) {

dtDstStart.setUTCHours(dtDstStart.getUTCHours() + 1);

 

//If we found it then exit the loop. dtDstStart will have
the correct value left in it.

if ((dtDstStart.getTimezoneOffset() * (-1)) != intOffset) {

break;

}

}

 

//Now find out when DST ends

for (intHourOfYear = 1; intHourOfYear = 48; intHourOfYear++) {

dtDstEnd.setUTCHours(dtDstEnd.getUTCHours() + 1);

 

//If we found it then exit the loop. dtDstEnd will have the
correct value left in it.

if ((dtDstEnd.getTimezoneOffset() * (-1)) != (intOffset +
60)) {

break;

}

}

 

//Check if DST is currently on for this time frame. If it is
then return these values.

//If not then keep going. The function will either return the
last values collected

//or another value that is currently in effect

if ((new Date()).getTime() = dtDstStart.getTime()  (new
Date()).getTime() = dtDstEnd.getTime()) {

return new Array(dtDstStart, dtDstEnd);

}

 

}

}

return new Array(dtDstStart, dtDstEnd);

}

 

 

Hopefully this will help your situation ?

 

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[mailto:android-developers@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of String
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 11:41 AM
To: android-developers@googlegroups.com
Subject: [android-developers] Re: Timezone Question

 

No offense, Bob (and I do mean that, I value your posts on this forum),

Re: [android-developers] Problem setting file permissions when filename has a space

No shell commands are part of the SDK.  Using shell commands is likely to
result in your app breaking randomly across devices and platform versions.

The recommended way to do this is to write a content provider, which the
other app can call ContentResolver.openFileDescriptor() etc.  It is actually
really easy to write such a content provider -- it doesn't need a database
or anything, just to implement ContentProvider.openFile().

Every situation I have seen where MODE_WORLD_* is used it causes more
troubles than just writing a content provider.  I regret having made that.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Paul pmmen...@gmail.com wrote:

 I have a question over at StackOverflow that's been sitting there for
 over a month, and wondered if maybe someone here (or a Googlite) could
 answer it.


 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5149739/android-problem-setting-file-permissions-when-filename-has-a-space

 I have an app where I store .png images in the app's cache directory,
 and as I am sharing these files via messaging, etc, I need to make the
 files readable temporarily by everyone (i.e. chmod 755).

 As suggested in another thread, I am running Runtime.getRuntime.exec()
 to do this:

 Runtime.getRuntime().exec(setperm chmod 755 /path/to/filename.png);

 This works fine, and as I am filtering / and \, any name works...
 except a name with a space, unsurpisingly. This fails:

 Runtime.getRuntime().exec(setperm chmod 755 /path/to/file name.png);

 So, coming from linux, I try wrapping the file path in quotes, which
 works on linux, but still fails to change the file perms on Android:

 Runtime.getRuntime().exec(setperm chmod 755 \/path/to/file name.png
 \);
 or
 Runtime.getRuntime().exec(setperm chmod 755 '/path/to/file
 name.png');

 Any ideas?

 Thanks,

 Paul

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Re: [android-developers] Wifi manually turned off, freezes phone, requires battery removal

2011-04-23 Thread Kostya Vasilyev


Cris,

FWIW -

I've never seen this particular problem, but have seen WiFi get into a 
state where it's technically enabled, and yet does not function at all 
(i.e. no scans, no connectivity).


-- Kostya

23.04.2011 20:10, Cris94107 пишет:

Users are reporting a unique bug in my Remote Control App that when
they manually turn off wifi, their phone locks up, and requires
battery removal.

While I will work to fix this bug within my own App (Songbird
Remote),  I would think this is a bug in the Android OS, and there
should be no way a java App even if it wanted to, should be able to
freeze a phone, and lock it up requiring battery removal.

Any body else encounter similar issue when wifi is turned off
manually?




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[android-developers] progressbar spin counterclockwise?

I was looking into a simple way to get the (small) ProgressBar to spin
counterclockwise, and it seems to come down to the class
AnimatedRotateDrawable, which looks to be hard-coded to spin clockwise
- it sets the angle increment to 360/framesCount, with no apparent
option to change the sign of the increment.  Most people probably have
come to expect that, I guess.

A lot about this (public) class AnimatedRotateDrawable seems to be
kind of hands-off - two of the attributes are private somehow
(framesCount and frameDuration), and I couldn't subclass it in a quick
attempt to see about trying to tweak this behavior (not that
subclassing would have worked).

In my case, if I am showing the spinning progress bar at all (which I
don't need to - I think that it's just a nice touch), then I need to
be able to flip the direction.  Before I get off of this little
distraction for the moment, I was wondering if any one else had played
with this before.  I guess I could just assimilate the class, add
assumed-to-be trivial changes for the flip option, and then change the
indeterminate drawable on the progressbar in the code, but I was
wondering if I'm missing some obviously simpler way.

thx

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RE: [android-developers] Re: Timezone Question

2011-04-23 Thread Tommy

Forgot to mention. I'm not sure if you are already using this but the Navy
has a nice pearl script you can POST to and retrieve a good bit of Sun/Moon
data. They have to forms one allows you to enter the city name and state to
get the data (not all cities are listed) the other allows you to specify
lat/lon and a few other fields to get that sun/moon data for anyplace in the
world.

 

The forms are below:

 

For City Name/State only:
http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/data-services/rs-one
-day-us

 

For the more advanced form:
http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/data-services/rs-one
-day-world

 

Let me know if you have any issues using these forms. I'll be more than
happy to assist

 

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Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 11:41 AM
To: android-developers@googlegroups.com
Subject: [android-developers] Re: Timezone Question

 

No offense, Bob (and I do mean that, I value your posts on this forum), but
I think we can safely assume that the OP knows how to calculate times of
sunrise and sunset. He's already showing that in his app, from the sound of
things, and is probably doing OK with that aspect.

 

The issue at hand is how (and maybe whether) to work around a user having
set their phone to a different zone than the one they're actually in. Nobody
says this is affecting the absolute (UTC) time of sunrise/sunset in the
calculations, it's purely about display. 

 

String

 

 

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[android-developers] 'E-Mail Developer' button creating a lot of spam?

2011-04-23 Thread Matt M

Hello,

I added an E-Mail Developer button to my application and ever since I
get random e-mails throughout the day that either have an empty
message body or just one or two words in a different language (looks
like Russian or something similar, sometimes an Asian language).
Occasionally I get one that just reads Good. At first I thought it
was just a user complimenting me, but its happened to much to be a
coincidence. For what its worth, just last night I updated to version
X and already the e-mails I receive are from that version, barely 24
hours old.

I'm worried this means my app has been hacked and decompiled.. but
thinking about it more logically I'm not getting just extra general
spam as if my e-mail had been 'stolen' and spread around, it's all
originating from the E-mail Developer button. Plus, my app is barely
equivalent in status to Angry Birds so I cant imagine it being at the
top of a hackers To Do list.

Is anyone else having this problem? If not, and you have an contact
button installed, how did you set it up? Maybe I went about it the
wrong way..

Thank you for your help!

Matt.

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[android-developers] Re: Ignoring magnetic field sensor, calibrating the accelerometer

2011-04-23 Thread Socrates

Here's what I mean by a baseline value: I'm using
SensorManager.getOrientation() to determine the device's orientation.
I am only concerned with the difference in orientation relative to a
static orientation (which I'm referring to as the baseline value) at
any given time. The baseline value could be hard-coded, but I'd like
to have more flexibility and set this value based on the orientation
of the device when the application is started.

The problem I'm facing isn't noise per se; the initial values I get
from the sensor are consistently inaccurate, so I'm not sure how to
obtain a baseline orientation.

On Apr 23, 11:25 am, Igor Prilepov iprile...@gmail.com wrote:
 1. Yes, there are a lot of issues related to the magnetic sensor but people
 still use it for thousands years so the real question is do you need it or
 not.
 2. I don't know what does it mean baseline values. Accelerometer always
 returns noise values (as well as any other sensor) - this is a nature of any
 real data source.
 There is no work around this problem but there are many methods to filter
 noise out. All of them requires certain level of knowledge in math,
 statistics, etc. and they are very complicated. Take a look at Kalman filter
 on Wikipedia to get some feeling about this area.

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Re: [android-developers] 'E-Mail Developer' button creating a lot of spam?

2011-04-23 Thread Kostya Vasilyev

Yeah, I see it happen with my applications as well.

One user was nice enough to send me emails asking who the hell I was.
Several of them, actually (guess my email address was somehow added to their
contact list).

In recent versions of my apps I removed my email from one place and changed
it from a button into a link in another.

Those who really intend to get in touch with me can always find my site /
email in the about window or the Market details window, and they do.
23.04.2011 21:00 пользователь Matt M matthew.mag...@gmail.com написал:
Hello,

I added an E-Mail Developer button to my application and ever since I
get random e-mails throughout the day that either have an empty
message body or just one or two words in a different language (looks
like Russian or something similar, sometimes an Asian language).
Occasionally I get one that just reads Good. At first I thought it
was just a user complimenting me, but its happened to much to be a
coincidence. For what its worth, just last night I updated to version
X and already the e-mails I receive are from that version, barely 24
hours old.

I'm worried this means my app has been hacked and decompiled.. but
thinking about it more logically I'm not getting just extra general
spam as if my e-mail had been 'stolen' and spread around, it's all
originating from the E-mail Developer button. Plus, my app is barely
equivalent in status to Angry Birds so I cant imagine it being at the
top of a hackers To Do list.

Is anyone else having this problem? If not, and you have an contact
button installed, how did you set it up? Maybe I went about it the
wrong way..

Thank you for your help!

Matt.

[android-developers] Re: replace transparent color bitmap with alpha

2011-04-23 Thread BusyByte

I was able to get it to work with the following code:

final Paint paint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
final int transparentColor = Color.parseColor(# + imageTrans);
Xfermode mode = new AvoidXfermode(transparentColor, 0, Mode.TARGET);
paint.setXfermode(mode);
paint.setColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);

final Bitmap temp = imageBitmap.copy(Bitmap.Config.ARGB_, true);
final Canvas canvas = new Canvas(temp);
canvas.drawBitmap(imageBitmap, 0.0f, 0.0f, paint);
tilesetBuilder.imageBitmap(temp);
imageBitmap.recycle();
imageBitmap = null;

Thanks for the help,
Shawn

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Re: [android-developers] progressbar spin counterclockwise?

You could not use a ProgressBar, but rather your own Drawable resource
(e.g., a PNG file) and a RotateAnimation.

Or, you could use a pair of AnimationDrawables, each referring to the
same set of underlying PNG files, just in the opposite sequence.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:51 PM, B Lyon bradfl...@gmail.com wrote:
 I was looking into a simple way to get the (small) ProgressBar to spin
 counterclockwise, and it seems to come down to the class
 AnimatedRotateDrawable, which looks to be hard-coded to spin clockwise
 - it sets the angle increment to 360/framesCount, with no apparent
 option to change the sign of the increment.  Most people probably have
 come to expect that, I guess.

 A lot about this (public) class AnimatedRotateDrawable seems to be
 kind of hands-off - two of the attributes are private somehow
 (framesCount and frameDuration), and I couldn't subclass it in a quick
 attempt to see about trying to tweak this behavior (not that
 subclassing would have worked).

 In my case, if I am showing the spinning progress bar at all (which I
 don't need to - I think that it's just a nice touch), then I need to
 be able to flip the direction.  Before I get off of this little
 distraction for the moment, I was wondering if any one else had played
 with this before.  I guess I could just assimilate the class, add
 assumed-to-be trivial changes for the flip option, and then change the
 indeterminate drawable on the progressbar in the code, but I was
 wondering if I'm missing some obviously simpler way.

 thx

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Re: [android-developers] apps-for-android.googlecode.com/svn

2011-04-23 Thread J Handal

Thanks Mark,

BTW  I found the command   android update project -p:  @ directory:

C:\Users\JH\Desktop\Android
2.2\android-sdk_r06-windows\android-sdk-windows\tools

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Re: [android-developers] apps-for-android.googlecode.com/svn

2011-04-23 Thread nathan forbes

On Apr 23, 2011 1:20 PM, J Handal jhand...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks Mark,

 BTW  I found the command   android update project -p:  @ directory:

 C:\Users\JH\Desktop\Android
2.2\android-sdk_r06-windows\android-sdk-windows\tools









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[android-developers] parsing an image from an xml file from a network

2011-04-23 Thread Siva Kannabiran

in my app  when i click a button it goes on to a url and it returns back an
xml file. The xml file recieved is opened in a new activity called B as a
list view. The xml file is as follows
Search
  Searchdata
  id1/id
  First_nameRaj/First_name
  Last_nameKan/Last_name
  latitude38/latitude
  longitude129/longitude
  DatebirthApr 15, 2011/Datebirth
 image
http://demo.greatinnovus.com/restingspot/img/add_photo.png/image
  /Searchdata
  Searchdata
   id2/id
   First_nameR/First_name
   Last_nameR/Last_name
   latitude37/latitude
   longitude122/longitude
   DatebirthApr 15, 2011/Datebirth
   image
http://demo.greatinnovus.com/restingspot/img/add_photo.png/image
  /Searchdata
Search

From this xml file i am listing out all the first name's in activity B. When
i click on any of the first name i am moving on to a new activity C where i
want to display the last name,dob of the selected first name. In activity C
i have a button image. When i click on it i am moving to a new activity D
where i want to show the image of the selected first name.

How to do this, please help me.

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Re: [android-developers] progressbar spin counterclockwise?

This is basically a special class for that progress spinner design.  Which
is now old.  In HC the spinner looks different.  If you try to hack on
whatever spinner you happen to get from the platform you are running on to
do something different, you will probably fail in one way or another as you
encounter a different platform with a different spinner.

I can't imagine why you need to have it rotate in the other direction, but
if you need something different you should just make your own spinner style
that has nothing to do with whatever is in the platform.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:51 AM, B Lyon bradfl...@gmail.com wrote:

 I was looking into a simple way to get the (small) ProgressBar to spin
 counterclockwise, and it seems to come down to the class
 AnimatedRotateDrawable, which looks to be hard-coded to spin clockwise
 - it sets the angle increment to 360/framesCount, with no apparent
 option to change the sign of the increment.  Most people probably have
 come to expect that, I guess.

 A lot about this (public) class AnimatedRotateDrawable seems to be
 kind of hands-off - two of the attributes are private somehow
 (framesCount and frameDuration), and I couldn't subclass it in a quick
 attempt to see about trying to tweak this behavior (not that
 subclassing would have worked).

 In my case, if I am showing the spinning progress bar at all (which I
 don't need to - I think that it's just a nice touch), then I need to
 be able to flip the direction.  Before I get off of this little
 distraction for the moment, I was wondering if any one else had played
 with this before.  I guess I could just assimilate the class, add
 assumed-to-be trivial changes for the flip option, and then change the
 indeterminate drawable on the progressbar in the code, but I was
 wondering if I'm missing some obviously simpler way.

 thx

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Re: [android-developers] progressbar spin counterclockwise?

thanks Dianne - yeah I expected someone asking that

custom seems to be where I need to go if this is to be messed with at
all, and that's what I needed to know

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
 This is basically a special class for that progress spinner design.  Which
 is now old.  In HC the spinner looks different.  If you try to hack on
 whatever spinner you happen to get from the platform you are running on to
 do something different, you will probably fail in one way or another as you
 encounter a different platform with a different spinner.
 I can't imagine why you need to have it rotate in the other direction, but
 if you need something different you should just make your own spinner style
 that has nothing to do with whatever is in the platform.

 On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:51 AM, B Lyon bradfl...@gmail.com wrote:

 I was looking into a simple way to get the (small) ProgressBar to spin
 counterclockwise, and it seems to come down to the class
 AnimatedRotateDrawable, which looks to be hard-coded to spin clockwise
 - it sets the angle increment to 360/framesCount, with no apparent
 option to change the sign of the increment.  Most people probably have
 come to expect that, I guess.

 A lot about this (public) class AnimatedRotateDrawable seems to be
 kind of hands-off - two of the attributes are private somehow
 (framesCount and frameDuration), and I couldn't subclass it in a quick
 attempt to see about trying to tweak this behavior (not that
 subclassing would have worked).

 In my case, if I am showing the spinning progress bar at all (which I
 don't need to - I think that it's just a nice touch), then I need to
 be able to flip the direction.  Before I get off of this little
 distraction for the moment, I was wondering if any one else had played
 with this before.  I guess I could just assimilate the class, add
 assumed-to-be trivial changes for the flip option, and then change the
 indeterminate drawable on the progressbar in the code, but I was
 wondering if I'm missing some obviously simpler way.

 thx

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Re: [android-developers] parsing an image from an xml file from a network

2011-04-23 Thread Nasif Noorudeen

pass values through bundle and intent

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Siva Kannabiran sivasanka...@gmail.comwrote:

 in my app  when i click a button it goes on to a url and it returns back an
 xml file. The xml file recieved is opened in a new activity called B as a
 list view. The xml file is as follows
 Search
   Searchdata
   id1/id
   First_nameRaj/First_name
   Last_nameKan/Last_name
   latitude38/latitude
   longitude129/longitude
   DatebirthApr 15, 2011/Datebirth
  image
 http://demo.greatinnovus.com/restingspot/img/add_photo.png/image
   /Searchdata
   Searchdata
id2/idnt
First_nameR/First_name
Last_nameR/Last_name
latitude37/latitude
longitude122/longitude
DatebirthApr 15, 2011/Datebirth
image
 http://demo.greatinnovus.com/restingspot/img/add_photo.png/image
   /Searchdata
 Search

 From this xml file i am listing out all the first name's in activity B.
 When i click on any of the first name i am moving on to a new activity C
 where i want to display the last name,dob of the selected first name. In
 activity C i have a button image. When i click on it i am moving to a new
 activity D where i want to show the image of the selected first name.

 How to do this, please help me.

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[android-developers] Re: ListActivity Memory leak with onConfigurationChanged

2011-04-23 Thread Taf

OK, that's a fair point. I've changed my code to use
onRetainNonConfigurationInstance now, and this seems to work nicely.

Thanks.

On Apr 23, 12:28 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Taf neild...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Mark,

It does not force you to reload all of your resources. Hence, you have
to do all that yourself.

You might think well, gee, it's portrait - landscape, so I just
fiddle with my layout, how tough can that be?. But then, what happens
if the user changes their locale while your app is in memory? They
come back to your app, and either:

1. You added locale to your android:configChanges attribute, in which
case you have to have all of the code yourself to reload all of your
visible strings, and not miss any

2. You only have rotation-related values in android:configChanges, in
which case your app probably crashes or otherwise has results that you
don't like, because the old activity will be destroyed and a new
activity created

There are a fair number of configuration changes (see the docs for
android:configChanges). One way or another, you have to handle all of
them. Using android:configChanges, therefore, is best for places where
the pain of manual resource management (and getting right now and as
you change resources in the coming months) is still less than the pain
caused by destroying and recreating an activity.

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[android-developers] Re: how to center aligned multiline text

2011-04-23 Thread Manish Garg

:-(. I dont think it will be good workaround. I need to make my
application compatible to different form factor and in case of tablet
it is coming in one line. So I can't put new line character.

On Apr 22, 3:10 pm, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote:
 Manish,

 As far as I can tell, when TextView breaks text into multiple lines, it
 always takes as much width from the parent view as it can.

 One possible workaround is to include explicit linesbreaks, \n, into
 the string.

 -- Kostya

 22.04.2011 22:53, Manish Garg пишет:



  Hi All,

  In my application, I am displaying some text in textview on tabs. I
  have customized tabs view. because of the text length it is wrapping
  in two line which is fine with me.

  But this text is getting aligned with the left and no more in center
  of the tab view.

  ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
  LinearLayout
     xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android;
     android:layout_width=fill_parent
     android:layout_height=fill_parent
     android:background=@layout/mailbox_tab_bg_state
     android:gravity=center

     TextView
             android:id=@+id/tabTxt
             android:text=list view
             android:layout_width=wrap_content
             android:layout_height=wrap_content
             android:textColor=@layout/tab_text_color_selector
     /TextView
  /LinearLayout

  I tried to set text view's gravity property as center then text in two
  line get in center but it wasn't left aligned with respect to each
  other. I wish that lines should be in center of the tab view and left
  aligned with themselves.

  Thanks  Regards,
  Manish Garg

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Re: [android-developers] 'E-Mail Developer' button creating a lot of spam?

2011-04-23 Thread Marcin Orlowski

I have contact form built-in (so you type there and the it launches MUA for
sending). Former versions had no message length check. This resulted in
flood of empty mails as these users (to not offend them more :) most
likely found sending empty mail accurate entertainment. In later revisions I
check message length, and if it's shorter than (iirc) 25 chars you cannot
proceed and send it. Typing *that* much (even random) chars fortunately
appears too much for these people.

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Re: [android-developers] progressbar spin counterclockwise?

thanks for the tips, Mark.  I'll play with it.  It might need to be an
animation list or whatever

btw - RotateDrawable would be a two-line way to do it (custom little
icon seems to get animated fine) to replace the indeterminate
drawable, but RotateDrawable seems to insist on rotating clockwise,
too... it sets toDegrees to max (fromDegrees, toDegrees), so you can't
specify it go from 360 to 0.

Dianne - in looking at your note again, I can't tell if you were
suggesting that the best thing to do (for someone want to do this in
the first place) would be to replace the progress bar functionality
wholesale (yes overkill).  Of course I want to avoid depending on
internals or anything else in the API susceptible to change.


On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:50 PM, B Lyon bradfl...@gmail.com wrote:
 thanks Dianne - yeah I expected someone asking that

 custom seems to be where I need to go if this is to be messed with at
 all, and that's what I needed to know

 On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
 This is basically a special class for that progress spinner design.  Which
 is now old.  In HC the spinner looks different.  If you try to hack on
 whatever spinner you happen to get from the platform you are running on to
 do something different, you will probably fail in one way or another as you
 encounter a different platform with a different spinner.
 I can't imagine why you need to have it rotate in the other direction, but
 if you need something different you should just make your own spinner style
 that has nothing to do with whatever is in the platform.

 On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:51 AM, B Lyon bradfl...@gmail.com wrote:

 I was looking into a simple way to get the (small) ProgressBar to spin
 counterclockwise, and it seems to come down to the class
 AnimatedRotateDrawable, which looks to be hard-coded to spin clockwise
 - it sets the angle increment to 360/framesCount, with no apparent
 option to change the sign of the increment.  Most people probably have
 come to expect that, I guess.

 A lot about this (public) class AnimatedRotateDrawable seems to be
 kind of hands-off - two of the attributes are private somehow
 (framesCount and frameDuration), and I couldn't subclass it in a quick
 attempt to see about trying to tweak this behavior (not that
 subclassing would have worked).

 In my case, if I am showing the spinning progress bar at all (which I
 don't need to - I think that it's just a nice touch), then I need to
 be able to flip the direction.  Before I get off of this little
 distraction for the moment, I was wondering if any one else had played
 with this before.  I guess I could just assimilate the class, add
 assumed-to-be trivial changes for the flip option, and then change the
 indeterminate drawable on the progressbar in the code, but I was
 wondering if I'm missing some obviously simpler way.

 thx

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Re: [android-developers] progressbar spin counterclockwise?

I don't know off-hand if progress bar has an API to set the drawable.  If
so, just use that.  If not you'll need to roll your own.  It would probably
be easy to copy the code out of the framework.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:52 PM, B Lyon bradfl...@gmail.com wrote:

 thanks for the tips, Mark.  I'll play with it.  It might need to be an
 animation list or whatever

 btw - RotateDrawable would be a two-line way to do it (custom little
 icon seems to get animated fine) to replace the indeterminate
 drawable, but RotateDrawable seems to insist on rotating clockwise,
 too... it sets toDegrees to max (fromDegrees, toDegrees), so you can't
 specify it go from 360 to 0.

 Dianne - in looking at your note again, I can't tell if you were
 suggesting that the best thing to do (for someone want to do this in
 the first place) would be to replace the progress bar functionality
 wholesale (yes overkill).  Of course I want to avoid depending on
 internals or anything else in the API susceptible to change.


 On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:50 PM, B Lyon bradfl...@gmail.com wrote:
  thanks Dianne - yeah I expected someone asking that
 
  custom seems to be where I need to go if this is to be messed with at
  all, and that's what I needed to know
 
  On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com
 wrote:
  This is basically a special class for that progress spinner design.
  Which
  is now old.  In HC the spinner looks different.  If you try to hack on
  whatever spinner you happen to get from the platform you are running on
 to
  do something different, you will probably fail in one way or another as
 you
  encounter a different platform with a different spinner.
  I can't imagine why you need to have it rotate in the other direction,
 but
  if you need something different you should just make your own spinner
 style
  that has nothing to do with whatever is in the platform.
 
  On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:51 AM, B Lyon bradfl...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  I was looking into a simple way to get the (small) ProgressBar to spin
  counterclockwise, and it seems to come down to the class
  AnimatedRotateDrawable, which looks to be hard-coded to spin clockwise
  - it sets the angle increment to 360/framesCount, with no apparent
  option to change the sign of the increment.  Most people probably have
  come to expect that, I guess.
 
  A lot about this (public) class AnimatedRotateDrawable seems to be
  kind of hands-off - two of the attributes are private somehow
  (framesCount and frameDuration), and I couldn't subclass it in a quick
  attempt to see about trying to tweak this behavior (not that
  subclassing would have worked).
 
  In my case, if I am showing the spinning progress bar at all (which I
  don't need to - I think that it's just a nice touch), then I need to
  be able to flip the direction.  Before I get off of this little
  distraction for the moment, I was wondering if any one else had played
  with this before.  I guess I could just assimilate the class, add
  assumed-to-be trivial changes for the flip option, and then change the
  indeterminate drawable on the progressbar in the code, but I was
  wondering if I'm missing some obviously simpler way.
 
  thx
 
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Re: [android-developers] progressbar spin counterclockwise?

2011-04-23 Thread Romain Guy

ProgressBar lets you change the drawables (setProgressDrawable()).

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.comwrote:

 I don't know off-hand if progress bar has an API to set the drawable.  If
 so, just use that.  If not you'll need to roll your own.  It would probably
 be easy to copy the code out of the framework.


 On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:52 PM, B Lyon bradfl...@gmail.com wrote:

 thanks for the tips, Mark.  I'll play with it.  It might need to be an
 animation list or whatever

 btw - RotateDrawable would be a two-line way to do it (custom little
 icon seems to get animated fine) to replace the indeterminate
 drawable, but RotateDrawable seems to insist on rotating clockwise,
 too... it sets toDegrees to max (fromDegrees, toDegrees), so you can't
 specify it go from 360 to 0.

 Dianne - in looking at your note again, I can't tell if you were
 suggesting that the best thing to do (for someone want to do this in
 the first place) would be to replace the progress bar functionality
 wholesale (yes overkill).  Of course I want to avoid depending on
 internals or anything else in the API susceptible to change.


 On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:50 PM, B Lyon bradfl...@gmail.com wrote:
  thanks Dianne - yeah I expected someone asking that
 
  custom seems to be where I need to go if this is to be messed with at
  all, and that's what I needed to know
 
  On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com
 wrote:
  This is basically a special class for that progress spinner design.
  Which
  is now old.  In HC the spinner looks different.  If you try to hack on
  whatever spinner you happen to get from the platform you are running on
 to
  do something different, you will probably fail in one way or another as
 you
  encounter a different platform with a different spinner.
  I can't imagine why you need to have it rotate in the other direction,
 but
  if you need something different you should just make your own spinner
 style
  that has nothing to do with whatever is in the platform.
 
  On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:51 AM, B Lyon bradfl...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  I was looking into a simple way to get the (small) ProgressBar to spin
  counterclockwise, and it seems to come down to the class
  AnimatedRotateDrawable, which looks to be hard-coded to spin clockwise
  - it sets the angle increment to 360/framesCount, with no apparent
  option to change the sign of the increment.  Most people probably have
  come to expect that, I guess.
 
  A lot about this (public) class AnimatedRotateDrawable seems to be
  kind of hands-off - two of the attributes are private somehow
  (framesCount and frameDuration), and I couldn't subclass it in a quick
  attempt to see about trying to tweak this behavior (not that
  subclassing would have worked).
 
  In my case, if I am showing the spinning progress bar at all (which I
  don't need to - I think that it's just a nice touch), then I need to
  be able to flip the direction.  Before I get off of this little
  distraction for the moment, I was wondering if any one else had played
  with this before.  I guess I could just assimilate the class, add
  assumed-to-be trivial changes for the flip option, and then change the
  indeterminate drawable on the progressbar in the code, but I was
  wondering if I'm missing some obviously simpler way.
 
  thx
 
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Re: [android-developers] progressbar spin counterclockwise?

Diane

it does have a public setIndeterminateDrawable - I can set it with a
RotateDrawable and it works to spin whatever I want there... which is
cool and easy... it just apparently does it clockwise only... I just
need to replace it with something that can spin stuff backwards
and I need to learn the other stuff anyway.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
 I don't know off-hand if progress bar has an API to set the drawable.  If
 so, just use that.  If not you'll need to roll your own.  It would probably
 be easy to copy the code out of the framework.

 On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:52 PM, B Lyon bradfl...@gmail.com wrote:

 thanks for the tips, Mark.  I'll play with it.  It might need to be an
 animation list or whatever

 btw - RotateDrawable would be a two-line way to do it (custom little
 icon seems to get animated fine) to replace the indeterminate
 drawable, but RotateDrawable seems to insist on rotating clockwise,
 too... it sets toDegrees to max (fromDegrees, toDegrees), so you can't
 specify it go from 360 to 0.

 Dianne - in looking at your note again, I can't tell if you were
 suggesting that the best thing to do (for someone want to do this in
 the first place) would be to replace the progress bar functionality
 wholesale (yes overkill).  Of course I want to avoid depending on
 internals or anything else in the API susceptible to change.


 On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:50 PM, B Lyon bradfl...@gmail.com wrote:
  thanks Dianne - yeah I expected someone asking that
 
  custom seems to be where I need to go if this is to be messed with at
  all, and that's what I needed to know
 
  On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com
  wrote:
  This is basically a special class for that progress spinner design.
   Which
  is now old.  In HC the spinner looks different.  If you try to hack on
  whatever spinner you happen to get from the platform you are running on
  to
  do something different, you will probably fail in one way or another as
  you
  encounter a different platform with a different spinner.
  I can't imagine why you need to have it rotate in the other direction,
  but
  if you need something different you should just make your own spinner
  style
  that has nothing to do with whatever is in the platform.
 
  On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:51 AM, B Lyon bradfl...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  I was looking into a simple way to get the (small) ProgressBar to spin
  counterclockwise, and it seems to come down to the class
  AnimatedRotateDrawable, which looks to be hard-coded to spin clockwise
  - it sets the angle increment to 360/framesCount, with no apparent
  option to change the sign of the increment.  Most people probably have
  come to expect that, I guess.
 
  A lot about this (public) class AnimatedRotateDrawable seems to be
  kind of hands-off - two of the attributes are private somehow
  (framesCount and frameDuration), and I couldn't subclass it in a quick
  attempt to see about trying to tweak this behavior (not that
  subclassing would have worked).
 
  In my case, if I am showing the spinning progress bar at all (which I
  don't need to - I think that it's just a nice touch), then I need to
  be able to flip the direction.  Before I get off of this little
  distraction for the moment, I was wondering if any one else had played
  with this before.  I guess I could just assimilate the class, add
  assumed-to-be trivial changes for the flip option, and then change the
  indeterminate drawable on the progressbar in the code, but I was
  wondering if I'm missing some obviously simpler way.
 
  thx
 
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[android-developers] Re: Codecs on Android

Um, the platform documentation?

http://developer.android.com/intl/de/guide/appendix/media-formats.html

Your specific device documentation, from the manufacturer, if you're 
interested in what additional formats are supported?

Really, you kind of lost me when you start talking about people sneering, 
etc. It really sounds like you already know we'll point you at the easily 
accessible, googleable documentation. It doesn't sound you tried to find the 
information and failed. Masochism?

I think you have a couple further questions in there after you've read the 
documentation, but I won't try to sort them out for you. I will note that 
the tablet is a nearly-meaningless phrase, as there are any number of 
tablet-format devices from various manufacturers running Android.

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[android-developers] Phone for development

2011-04-23 Thread Raghav Sood

Hi,

I was thinking of buying a new phone for development and zeroed in on Samsung
Galaxy Pro 
B7510http://www.samsung.com/in/consumer/mobile-phone/mobile-phone/smartphone/GT-B7510LKAINU/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail.
I wanted to know if this is a good choice and if any of you have used it how
is it? Also will it be better than my current Optimus P500?

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[android-developers] Re: 'E-Mail Developer' button creating a lot of spam?

2011-04-23 Thread Maps.Huge.Info

I use a link and most of the time the contact e-mails are legit.
Sometimes, I get those odd character ones and of course the empty ones
as well. I would say for every odd one I get twenty good ones so I'm
happy with the current state of affairs.

-John Coryat

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[android-developers] Connect to emulator with Putty?

2011-04-23 Thread David Williams


All,

Is there a way to connect to the Android emulator (I am on Windows 7) 
with Putty?  I did a search and tried connecting to ports 5554 and  
on the localhost, but that didn't work.

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[android-developers] WebView and geolocation questions

I have been attempting for a few days now to get a webview to work with a 
location based service. Every post I can find seems to say the same thing - 
create a webchromeclient and override onGeolocationShowPrompt(). 

I have gone as far as directly creating a copy of this and running it.
Code: https://gist.github.com/886546
Web page used to test: http://www.sourcerebels.com/geo/

The web page loads everything up until Geolocation supported, and then does 
nothing.
Can someone at least test that code and tell me if they are having the same 
problem?

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[android-developers] path to sqlite3 database

2011-04-23 Thread lloyd1949

By default, the sqlite3 database is stored at /data/data/package
name/databases/database name

Is it possible to change the storage location to a path on the sd card
for example?


If Yes, would this be something like overriding something like the
sqliteopenhelper, setting some global parameter?

Any suggestion/example would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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[android-developers] Re: path to sqlite3 database

You may have to change it anyhow, as any database you in the package is 
readonly.  You can place the database onto SD card  but be aware that the 
card may be removed by the user.

eventually you can use a simple buffer copying

private void copyDataBase() throws IOException {
// Open your local db as the input stream
InputStream myInput = myContext.getAssets().open(DB_NAME);
// Path to the just created empty db
String outFileName = DB_PATH + DB_NAME;
// Open the empty db as the output stream
OutputStream myOutput = new FileOutputStream(outFileName);
// transfer bytes from the inputfile to the outputfile
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int length;
while ((length = myInput.read(buffer))  0) {
myOutput.write(buffer, 0, length);
}

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myOutput.flush();
myOutput.close();
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[android-developers] Re: Display list of saved tables to be opened

It's a database design question, not an Android question. That's not evading 
answering you -- it's probably the most helpful thing I'll tell you! 
Understanding that your question really has nothing in it related to Android 
will help you find the information you need, beyond anything I can tell you.

It's also a fairly basic database schema design problem. You clearly don't 
know the basics of how to design the schema for a database -- so that's what 
you need to go learn. That's really important knowledge for any programmer 
these days, so it'll be well worth your time.

With that said, I'll try to get you started, to connect your problem to the 
concepts.

SQL (and SQLite) databases are *relational* databases. That means, each 
table defines a set of relationships, and you represent your data in terms 
of the relationships. Each table defines a particular type of relationship; 
each column in a table defines a particular role in the relationship; each 
row is a separate relationship of that type.

Generally, I would NOT save each project in a separate table in the 
database. Let's look at the concrete concepts you have. (These are sometimes 
called entities in database design).

1) Project.
2) A main 2D array. You don't say clearly what it contains, but I infer it 
may be a 2D array of strings, so I'll go with that.
3) A parallel 2D array A. Again, it's a bit unclear, but it appears it may 
be also a 2D array of strings.
4) A parallel 2D array B -- likewise.

So let's define our tables. I'm going to assume that we want fully-general 
2D arrays here, of arbitrary size and content, and that we'll actually use 
the database to represent them. That will illustrate databases a bit better 
than the alternative of encoding your data into a big string, and decoding 
it after you retrieve it.

I'm NOT going to go into the details enough to give you a concrete schema -- 
partly to save my time, and partly because you need to go read up on that 
anyway.

The logical place to start here is the Project table. But I'm not going to 
do that, because I want to illustrate a thinking process and strategy you 
need to be able to go through, called normalization. So if you are feeling 
that's where we should start, you're right, but be patient.

Let's instead start with your main 2D array. A 2D array is logically a 
relationship between two positive integer coordinates -- let's call them I 
and J -- and a value, which we'll call V since I don't know what your data 
means. Further, each of these bits of data is associated with a project, 
let's call that Project_Name

So we have the following Array_Main
Project_Name I J V
Work 0 0 Elephant
Work 0 1 Fish
Work 0 2 Cow
Work 1 0 Pig
Work 1 1 Sheep
Work 1 2 Horse
Play 0 0 Cat
Play 0 1 Dog
Play 1 0 Hamster
Play 1 1 Iguana

OK, you can see we've represented two projects here and their main arrays, 
of two different shapes. We can do things like:

SELECT I, J, V FROM Array_Main
WHERE Project_Name = 'Work'

to get all of the main data for the project named 'Work'.

We can also select just a part of it, for example:

SELECT I, J, V  FROM Array_Main
WHERE Project_Name = 'Work'
AND  I  2 AND J  2;

(Thus illustrating we can store and use more data than we need to actually 
load at any one time).

Now we can do the same for the other two arrays, in two additional tables, 
Array_A and  Array_B.

OK, now let's take a look at what we have -- we have a piece of duplicated 
information in every row, in three tables -- the Project_Name. Collapsing 
this sort of duplication is called normalization.  It's a whole topic of 
its own, but here what we want to do is pretty simple: Replace this string 
with a project ID, and have a separate table that establishes the 
relationship between project ID and name.

This has a number of benefits, most of which I won't go into -- but one very 
obvious one is, you can now rename the project, without  touching every data 
row in the database! It's also more efficient, extensible, etc. etc.

So now we have a table Project:
Project_ID Project_Name
 1 Work
 2 Play

and Array_Main (and _A and _B):
Project_ID I J V
1  0 0 Elephant
1  0 1 Fish
1  0 2 Cow
1  1 0 Pig
1  1 1 Sheep
1  1 2 Horse
1  0 0 Cat
1  0 1 Dog
1  1 0 Hamster
1  1 1 Iguana

Now, we can select our main data thus:

SELECT I, J, V  FROM Array_MAIN
INNER JOIN Project ON Array_Main.Project_ID = Project.Project_ID
WHERE Project_Name = 'Work';.

We can even write:

SELECT Array_Main.I, Array_Main.J, Array_Main.V as MAIN, Array_A.V as A, 
Array_B.V as B FROM Project
INNER JOIN Array_Main ON  Project.Project_ID = Array_Main.Project_ID
INNER JOIN Array_A ON Project.Project_ID = Array_A.Project_ID AND 
Array_Main.I = Array_A.I AND Array_Main.J = Array_A.J
INNER JOIN Array_B ON Project.Project_ID = Array_B.Project_ID AND

Re: [android-developers] progressbar spin counterclockwise?

why not simply transform the view of the progressbar, with a scale transform 
along the center vertical?

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[android-developers] Re: Display list of saved tables to be opened

Generally speaking, if you need to query the schema at runtime, you're 
probably not making good use of SQL -- unless you're making some sort of 
schema-agnostic general tool.

Creating a table per project is not generally a good approach. It really 
doesn't let the database be a database, and may be very inefficient for 
creating/deleting projects, doesn't give you the referential integrity that 
you'd get with a foreign key constraint, etc.

Still, knowing how to examine the schema is a very useful skill during 
development!

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Re: [android-developers] Connect to emulator with Putty?

Make sure you are using telnet, not SSH or another protocol. Putty works
fine for me, with telnet on 5554, on Vista.

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[android-developers] Re: WebView and geolocation questions

2011-04-23 Thread Maps.Huge.Info

Have you considered using Android code to write your own location
service? You have a lot more options doing it this way.

-John Coryat

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[android-developers] Re: Android shared preferences assignments not persisting between emulator sessions

2011-04-23 Thread roschler

@Kostya, no I don't use Wipe Data.

I don't know what the exact underlying problem was at this point but I
managed to fix things by manually deleting the sharedpreferences file
from the emulator's shared_prefs folder while in the ADB shell, and
then recreating it as an empty file using echo -n app_global.  Note
app_global is just an arbitrary name I chose for the
sharedpreferences file.  I can't be certain, but it looks like the
emulator will not recreate the sharedpreferences file if you delete it
yourself manually, like I did when I was having trouble persisting
sharedpreferences writes between emulator sessions and tried that to
fix the problem.  Now everything works fine.

-- roschler

On Apr 23, 3:28 am, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote:
 Robert,

 Do you start the emulator with Wipe data option, by any chance?

 If you are, that explains it, as wiping the data means well, wiping
 the data.

 The preferences are stored in the file system of the emulated Android
 device, just like on a real phone, not directly within the host
 computer's file system.

 You can find the files under:

 /data/data/your package name/shared_prefs

 -- Kostya

 23.04.2011 10:02, Zsolt Vasvari пишет:









  No idea about the MODE_PRIVATE stuff, but I use
  PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences() and it works fiine.
  Why do you need to control the file name?

  On Apr 23, 12:15 pm, roschlerrobert.osch...@gmail.com  wrote:
  I am using the following code to save data to my Android application's
  shared preferences:

       private SharedPreferences getOurSharedPreferences() {
           return getSharedPreferences(SHARED_PREFS_FILENAME,
  MODE_PRIVATE);
       }

       SharedPreferences sharedPrefs = getOurSharedPreferences();
       SharedPreferences.Editor editor = sharedPrefs.edit();
       editor.putString(keyName, theString);
       if (!editor.commit())
           throw new RuntimeException(Unable to save new string.);

       // Get it back as a test.
       String s2 = getStringFromStorage(keyName);

  Where SHARED_PREFS_FILENAME is a private final static string and
  keyName is the name of whatever key I'm currently using as a field
  name. The commit works fine, I don't get an exception. As you can see
  I added a test that retrieves the recently committed string and when I
  check it (s2) the value is fine. So I am not having any problems with
  shared preferences storage during the lifetime of my app. However,
  when I relaunch the application in the emulator the shared preferences
  storage area is empty and I can't find the values I stored in the last
  emulator session. I did some reading and as far as I can see the
  stored values should persist across sessions, apparently they are
  saved in an XML file belonging to the emulator. Yet I am having
  problems.

  Can anyone tell me why my shared preferences storage values are not
  persisting between Android emulator sessions?

  -- roshcler

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Re: [android-developers] Re: Click event on Edit-Text's Right Drawable.

2011-04-23 Thread Sunil Lakhiyani

hey Zsolt Vasvari
can you please explain in detail? and any code or example would be great
help for me.

Thanks

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote:

 I messed around this for a long time in my app and finally I decided
 that the simplest way was to have a compound control that comprised of
 an EditText and a ImageView.  It works great.



 On Apr 23, 9:33 am, Sunil Lakhiyani slakhiyaniandr...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Hello Developers,
 
  I have one Edit Text with right drawable.
  The xml code is
 
  TextView android:id=@+id/trip_txt_to
  android:layout_width=wrap_content android:layout_height=wrap_content
  android:text=@string/addname android:layout_alignParentLeft=true
  android:textStyle=bold android:textColor=@color/black
  android:typeface=normal android:padding=10dp
  android:layout_below=@+id/lineview1 /
 
  test.ui.CustomEditTextActivity
  android:id=@+id/nameofpersonr android:layout_height=wrap_content
  android:hint=@string/hint
  android:layout_toRightOf=@+id/name android:textColor=@color/black
  android:typeface=normal
  android:layout_below=@+id/lineview1
  android:drawableRight=@drawable/icon
  android:layout_width=180dp
  /test.ui.CustomEditTextActivity
 
  ImageView android:id=@+id/clearnameimage
  android:layout_alignParentRight=true
 android:layout_width=wrap_content
  android:layout_height=wrap_content android:scaleType=fitXY
  android:layout_below=@+id/lineview1
  android:src=@drawable/deleteicon android:padding=5dp/
 
  and CustomEditTextActivity.java
 
  public class CustomEditTextActivity extends EditText {
  private Drawable rightSideDrawable;
  private Rect rectangleBounds;
 
  public CustomEditTextActivity(Context context, AttributeSet attributeSet,
  int defStyle) {
 
  super(context, attributeSet, defStyle);
 
  }
 
  public CustomEditTextActivity(Context context, AttributeSet attributeSet)
 {
  super(context, attributeSet);
 
  }
 
  public CustomEditTextActivity(Context context) {
  super(context);
 
  }
 
  @Override
  public void setCompoundDrawables(Drawable left, Drawable top,
  Drawable right, Drawable bottom) {
  if (right != null) {
  rightSideDrawable = right;
   }
  super.setCompoundDrawables(left, top, right, bottom);
 
  }
 
  @Override
  protected void finalize() throws Throwable {
  rightSideDrawable = null;
  rectangleBounds = null;
  super.finalize();
 
  }
 
  public Rect getRectBound() {
  return rectangleBounds;
 
  }
 
  public Drawable getRightDrawable() {
  return rightSideDrawable;}
 
// on touch event code i got from some site..
  @Override
  public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event)
  {
 
  if(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP 
  rightSideDrawable!=null)
  {
   rectangleBounds = rightSideDrawable.getBounds();
  final int x = (int)event.getX();
  final int y = (int)event.getY();
 
  if(x=(this.getRight()-rectangleBounds.width()) 
  x=(this.getRight()-this.getPaddingRight())
   y=this.getPaddingTop() 
  y=(this.getHeight()-this.getPaddingBottom()))
  {
  this.setText();
  event.setAction(MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL);//use this to
  prevent the keyboard from coming up
  }
  }
  return super.onTouchEvent(event);
  }
 
  }
 
  Now problem is,
 
  when i open the activity, it shows me keyboard and i can right in edit
 text,
  but as soon as i touch to edit text it launches another activity, i
 called
  it InfoActivity.java. But InfoActivity.java is supposed to be launched
 if
  I click on drawable not on edit text.
  Can you please help me to get click event or touch event on right hand
 side
  drawable, instead of edit text? or is there any other alternative way?
  Also, because of this i can not use this line for keyboard..
 
 
 this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
 
  Can anyone help me in that? I have made lots of changes in ontouch event
  written above but fail.
 
  So please help me in that. I really appreciate it. Thank you in advance.

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[android-developers] Re: WebView and geolocation questions

My purpose in developing this app is to enable access to a webapp. A 
particular tool in this webapp using google maps. The webapp also needs to 
function on a browser.

I am confused by the lack of functioning samples and the unhelpful 
documentation available.

If anyone has any experience getting this to work I would appreciate the 
assistance.

Thanks

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Re: [android-developers] Re: WebView and geolocation questions

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Moose coatedmo...@gmail.com wrote:
 My purpose in developing this app is to enable access to a webapp. A
 particular tool in this webapp using google maps. The webapp also needs to
 function on a browser.

Either write an HTML5 offline-cached Web app, or use PhoneGap as your
container. I'm not sure what you're gaining by rolling your own
container.

 I am confused by the lack of functioning samples and the unhelpful
 documentation available.

If nothing else, you're not calling
webView.getSettings().setGeolocationEnabled(true);

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[android-developers] Re: Ignoring magnetic field sensor, calibrating the accelerometer

the initial values are not inaccurate, they are just not what you think 
they should be. Define lying flat on the table - are you sure the table is 
level? in both dimensions? Etc.

Instead of fighting the sensor you could include a calibration function in 
the app that accepts the user's statement now it lies flat on the table at 
face value and uses it as the baseline.

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Re: [android-developers] Re: WebView and geolocation questions

Thanks for the suggestion, I will definitely be looking into phonegap - I 
have seen it mentioned a lot lately.

I added the call to enable geolocation - the link to the sample code I 
posted isn't actually my own stuff.

It still doesn't make any sense that this functionality doesn't work as is 
though. I would really appreciate any insight into the workings of 
Goelocation. Maybe by pulling apart the phonegap source I'll be able to 
figure something out.

I'm still interested in functioning examples.

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Re: [android-developers] progressbar spin counterclockwise?

thx

Are you referring to the setScaleX/Y new in SDK 11, which seems to be
certainly the way to try there?


On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 6:23 PM, lbendlin l...@bendlin.us wrote:
 why not simply transform the view of the progressbar, with a scale transform
 along the center vertical?

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Re: [android-developers] progressbar spin counterclockwise?

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 3:23 PM, lbendlin l...@bendlin.us wrote:

 why not simply transform the view of the progressbar, with a scale
 transform along the center vertical?


You don't know what it actually does.  If the original poster for some
reason actually needs some animation that rotates counter-clockwise there is
no guarantee doing this will actually cause that to happen.  For example the
indeterminate indicator in the standard Honeycomb UI is not clearly rotating
in one direction or the other.

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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
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Re: [android-developers] progressbar spin counterclockwise?

no need for that . Use a simple Canvas scaling during dispatchdraw. That is 
supported all the way down to API3

@Override
protected void dispatchDraw(Canvas canvas) {
canvas.save(Canvas.MATRIX_SAVE_FLAG);
canvas.scale(-1f,1f, getWidth() * 0.5f, getHeight() * 0.5f);
 super.dispatchDraw(canvas);
  canvas.restore();
}
  


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[android-developers] Re: 'E-Mail Developer' button creating a lot of spam?

2011-04-23 Thread Zsolt Vasvari

I have just about 0% spam rate from contact e-mails.  Actually, I
don't remember receiving a single non-legitamate e-mail.  I guess it
depends on the kind of user base your app attracts.

On Apr 24, 5:25 am, Maps.Huge.Info cor...@gmail.com wrote:
 I use a link and most of the time the contact e-mails are legit.
 Sometimes, I get those odd character ones and of course the empty ones
 as well. I would say for every odd one I get twenty good ones so I'm
 happy with the current state of affairs.

 -John Coryat

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[android-developers] Honeycomb / 3.0 / OpenGL ES / Broken / Again!?!

2011-04-23 Thread MichaelEGR

Greets,

I finally jumped the shark and got the G-Slate and all my 3D demos
from the simplest to the much more complex result in a blank screen. I
just got the G2x too and have the Nexus S, N1, G1, Droid, etc. and my
engine / platform works great on every OS 1.5+... Auriga3D flies (old
build too).

TyphonRT, my soon to be released platform many years in the making,
manages it's own GL context and doesn't use the API / SDK provided
GLSurfaceView. As things go I've been in a massive refactoring
operation and can't currently compile the 3D stuff for about a week
more (currently using old builds that run fine on all devices
including G2x). This is the exact same thing that happened with
Android 2.0 w/ horrible OpenGL driver support, unannounced changed
implementations of core OpenGL ES methods (was it the implementation
of eglChooseConfig if I recall correctly you guys changed without
telling anyone). So you guys either changed an implementation of a
fundamental GL method or for some reason my GL attribute system is not
requesting a proper context or falling back correctly even though it
works on every other OS and device combination I have including the
G2x, so it's not a Tegra 2 thing.

All I got to say is that did you guys even try to test 3D / GL support
using an example / test case that doesn't use the API / SDK supplied
GLSurfaceView. It's obvious things are way buggy or something is not
right when managing ones own context / surface. Remember exact same
code runs amazingly well on all OS versions with a wide range of
devices.

I'm trying to pour some ice water on the back of my neck, but how can
you guys let such slipshod work get released (I really do appreciate
the work of the Android team, but not the poor quality / rushed
aspect). I hope a 3.0.1 is coming darn soon just like 2.0.1 and you
guys fix the issues just like 2.0.1.. I was delayed 2.5 - 3 weeks
finding workarounds for the 2.0 release. Granted 2.0.1 fixed things
too (6 weeks later; 3 after my workarounds), but guess what my bread
winning client canceled my contract back then due to the unplanned 3
week delay and I had major hardship. This time I just finished a short
term contract (non GL and something that got _a lot_ of press
recently), so I'm not going to be out on the street because of this
f'up. Can I now assume there will be major GL issues every OS release
with serious GL fundamental API breakage on major point releases
(let's not bring up Froyo and the borked Java bindings, so I guess
it's not just major point releases)?

Granted again it'll be about a week until I finish up some of the last
major refactoring here and can compile the 3D demos I have for my
engine / platform again and I'll get to the bottom of it and find the
egl error or which method call is misbehaving. I hope it's something
really simple like a wrong attribute combination. My system right now
attempts to grab a context with the following params and backs off to
lower parameters if nothing matches:

High Quality (Droid + really all 2nd gen and up devices)
EGL_RED_SIZE, 5,
EGL_GREEN_SIZE, 6,
EGL_BLUE_SIZE, 5,
EGL_DEPTH_SIZE, 24,

Medium Quality (G1, Hero 1st gen, etc.)
EGL_RED_SIZE, 5,
EGL_GREEN_SIZE, 6,
EGL_BLUE_SIZE, 5,
EGL_DEPTH_SIZE, 16,

So you guys either changed the implementation to a GL method or when
requesting standard high quality settings the G-Slate freaks / GL
driver freaks out and it thinks it has a proper context, but things
are borked.  As I said everything is fine on the G2x / Tegra 2 and
every other device and OS version 1.5+, so this points mostly to an
unannounced underlying GL method implementation change. I'll find it
in a week once I can compile my 3D tests / demos again, but if someone
from Google cares to pipe up and point me to the release notes that
owns up to any underlying fundamental GL API implementation changes
that would be great. You guys didn't do proper release notes for 2.0
and the GL method implementation changes had to be yanked from yah on
this list, so I can only assume the worst and that this may be the
case again. Now the answer is _NOT_ to use the SDK / API provided
GLSurfaceView. Thanks, but no thanks... I'm glad you guys have built
in workarounds or whatever is making all of your platform 3D tests
pass without examining the larger and more fundamental GL API usage.
Raw OpenGL ES API and custom context management / usage should not
break like this!  I seriously want to provide you guys with a non-SDK
GLSurfaceView implementation of a super simple spinning cube and it'd
be nice if it was added to the test suite as clearly you guys are not
testing non SDK oriented GLSurfaceView apps otherwise this would be
caught _EASILY_.

I'd also be a bit more gracious too if this wasn't the _4TH_ major OS
release to have serious low level graphics API problems. Like I said
this time I didn't lose a client over it, I can't begin to tell you
how professionally unsatisfying it is to have a client blame oneself
for a delay when it is out

Re: [android-developers] progressbar spin counterclockwise?

Now who would commit such a user experience continuity* atrocity? 

* yes, I made that up.

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[android-developers] VP8 Codec Support GB Capabilities

2011-04-23 Thread scs sek

Hi All,

Does any one has the answer for VP8 GB support spec. like version, max bit
rate support and max frame rate (ex. nexus one or nexus S based)?

Regards
SCS

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Re: [android-developers] Re: Timezone Question

While one hopes he does, it's not always a good assumption.  But that aspect
wasn't the intended focus of my remarks.

The point is -- the timezone SHOULD have absolutely ZERO impact on the
actual calculated times.

There are really only three ways to get an error here that I can see. (Chime
in if you can come up with more!)

* Using the wrong location.
* Doing the wrong calculation.
* Displaying with the wrong timezone (including DST errors, but that
shouldn't be possible as a program error that I can see).

A fourth possibility is a confused user; I'm not sure how to break down the
possibilities there -- though using a TZ with different DST characteristics
might be included.

But I think the first step in sorting out the problem is to identify which
problem you have, and that was why I was covering the territory. I hope the
OP understands that I don't know any details of his knowledge or app, and
can disregard any aspect of my message he's confident he's adequately
eliminated!

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 8:40 AM, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.comwrote:

 No offense, Bob (and I do mean that, I value your posts on this forum), but
 I think we can safely assume that the OP knows how to calculate times of
 sunrise and sunset. He's already showing that in his app, from the sound of
 things, and is probably doing OK with that aspect.

 The issue at hand is how (and maybe whether) to work around a user having
 set their phone to a different zone than the one they're actually in. Nobody
 says this is affecting the absolute (UTC) time of sunrise/sunset in the
 calculations, it's purely about display.

 String


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Re: [android-developers] progressbar spin counterclockwise?

that is pretty simple and seemed to work (I needed to put it in an
overridden onDraw in this case)

well, there *was* a reason I was curious to see about getting it to go
counterclockwise -

and I am curious to go look at the HoneyComb one now

thx again all

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:36 PM, lbendlin l...@bendlin.us wrote:
 Now who would commit such a user experience continuity* atrocity?

 * yes, I made that up.

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Re: [android-developers] Honeycomb / 3.0 / OpenGL ES / Broken / Again!?!

I am not aware of any existing GL applications that completely break like
this.  I have run lots and lots of the top applications on Xoom without
trouble.  Applications also haven't generally broken on previous platform
releases, and I am pretty sure there are many applications on Market that
don't use GLSurfaceView.

To be honest, I don't have more time than to just scan through your long
rant; it looks like most of what you are trying to do is let off steam than
look for anything constructive, so I'll leave it at that.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 6:36 PM, MichaelEGR foun...@egrsoftware.com wrote:

 Greets,

 I finally jumped the shark and got the G-Slate and all my 3D demos
 from the simplest to the much more complex result in a blank screen. I
 just got the G2x too and have the Nexus S, N1, G1, Droid, etc. and my
 engine / platform works great on every OS 1.5+... Auriga3D flies (old
 build too).

 TyphonRT, my soon to be released platform many years in the making,
 manages it's own GL context and doesn't use the API / SDK provided
 GLSurfaceView. As things go I've been in a massive refactoring
 operation and can't currently compile the 3D stuff for about a week
 more (currently using old builds that run fine on all devices
 including G2x). This is the exact same thing that happened with
 Android 2.0 w/ horrible OpenGL driver support, unannounced changed
 implementations of core OpenGL ES methods (was it the implementation
 of eglChooseConfig if I recall correctly you guys changed without
 telling anyone). So you guys either changed an implementation of a
 fundamental GL method or for some reason my GL attribute system is not
 requesting a proper context or falling back correctly even though it
 works on every other OS and device combination I have including the
 G2x, so it's not a Tegra 2 thing.

 All I got to say is that did you guys even try to test 3D / GL support
 using an example / test case that doesn't use the API / SDK supplied
 GLSurfaceView. It's obvious things are way buggy or something is not
 right when managing ones own context / surface. Remember exact same
 code runs amazingly well on all OS versions with a wide range of
 devices.

 I'm trying to pour some ice water on the back of my neck, but how can
 you guys let such slipshod work get released (I really do appreciate
 the work of the Android team, but not the poor quality / rushed
 aspect). I hope a 3.0.1 is coming darn soon just like 2.0.1 and you
 guys fix the issues just like 2.0.1.. I was delayed 2.5 - 3 weeks
 finding workarounds for the 2.0 release. Granted 2.0.1 fixed things
 too (6 weeks later; 3 after my workarounds), but guess what my bread
 winning client canceled my contract back then due to the unplanned 3
 week delay and I had major hardship. This time I just finished a short
 term contract (non GL and something that got _a lot_ of press
 recently), so I'm not going to be out on the street because of this
 f'up. Can I now assume there will be major GL issues every OS release
 with serious GL fundamental API breakage on major point releases
 (let's not bring up Froyo and the borked Java bindings, so I guess
 it's not just major point releases)?

 Granted again it'll be about a week until I finish up some of the last
 major refactoring here and can compile the 3D demos I have for my
 engine / platform again and I'll get to the bottom of it and find the
 egl error or which method call is misbehaving. I hope it's something
 really simple like a wrong attribute combination. My system right now
 attempts to grab a context with the following params and backs off to
 lower parameters if nothing matches:

 High Quality (Droid + really all 2nd gen and up devices)
 EGL_RED_SIZE, 5,
 EGL_GREEN_SIZE, 6,
 EGL_BLUE_SIZE, 5,
 EGL_DEPTH_SIZE, 24,

 Medium Quality (G1, Hero 1st gen, etc.)
 EGL_RED_SIZE, 5,
 EGL_GREEN_SIZE, 6,
 EGL_BLUE_SIZE, 5,
 EGL_DEPTH_SIZE, 16,

 So you guys either changed the implementation to a GL method or when
 requesting standard high quality settings the G-Slate freaks / GL
 driver freaks out and it thinks it has a proper context, but things
 are borked.  As I said everything is fine on the G2x / Tegra 2 and
 every other device and OS version 1.5+, so this points mostly to an
 unannounced underlying GL method implementation change. I'll find it
 in a week once I can compile my 3D tests / demos again, but if someone
 from Google cares to pipe up and point me to the release notes that
 owns up to any underlying fundamental GL API implementation changes
 that would be great. You guys didn't do proper release notes for 2.0
 and the GL method implementation changes had to be yanked from yah on
 this list, so I can only assume the worst and that this may be the
 case again. Now the answer is _NOT_ to use the SDK / API provided
 GLSurfaceView. Thanks, but no thanks... I'm glad you guys have built
 in workarounds or whatever is making all of your platform 3D tests
 pass without examining the larger and more fundamental GL

[android-developers] Re: Honeycomb / 3.0 / OpenGL ES / Broken / Again!?!

2011-04-23 Thread MichaelEGR

Yes apologies and thanks for your quick reply. You provide great info
and are timely which is appreciated.. I'd be glad to buy a round for
the Android team... um how large is it again? Android graphics team?
um the really cool graphics folks? at I/O ;) I should not be allowed
to post on the Internets after a long work session and these days its
6/7 days a week marching to launch as it's on my dime.. Do take it for
semi-serious plus the lolz though; I know you guys work hard and
Android has come a long way and it's still just beginning. I think
it's spectres from Android's past that are nipping at my heels in this
case due to the  similarity. I'm just a little knackered that I think
I know exactly the area things are failing in (init as things go) and
I can't immediately fix or test it nor can I afford at the moment to
get a Xoom or 3rd Tegra 2 device; will try and track a non G-Slate
down though. It's just odd things work great on 1.5-2.3 OS across
numerous devices, but not G-Slate / 3.0. I will let you know what I
find out soon.

For one brief flash while rapidly trying to rotate the screen w/
Auriga3D / quake 3 class engine I saw a flash of textures that all
looked correct; I haven't been able to repeat that though and as
things go though the intro screen for now is just a flat quad texture,
so it should show up as it's not rocket science. The simple 3D cube
demo of course is not working too, so init problem is likely and as
mentioned when I get this massive refactor done (I'm about to unleash
a component oriented platform of 550+ components that form a cross-
platform Java middleware SDK w/ lots of goodies + base engine +
component entity system support) I'll be able to test thoroughly the
3D demos in 1-2 weeks. I've been refactoring for months thoroughly
moving away from strict OOP. It was much more work than I thought to
create a robust component oriented platform. As I mentioned it's more
spectres of Android's past haunting me and scaring me to death that
something like this will happen after I release and potentially charge
devs for a quality middleware platform.  Basic GL init should just
work across the majority of devices or failures detected and displayed
to the user.. Black screen.. Not digging that so much. I'll be putting
in extra effort to detect errors during init and display user
actionable errors + error reporting. I actually have that in there
now, so also perplexes me why nothing would pop up.

Can you perhaps mention a Java based game of significant complexity
that doesn't use the API/SDK GLSurfaceView.. I like to compare my
efforts against Deadly Chambers, but it is using the API GLSurfaceView
and works out of the box on tablets (G-Slate at least) with no / minor
changes; nicely too on Tegra 2 devices. It would be good to reference
other Java GL non API / GLSurfaceView oriented apps in times of
crisis.

Some general worries though.. I've not shipped yet, but soon and these
issues again give me the jitters as I'd like to think other devs /
users would understand, but not everyone is so forgiving especially
when it's pro / paid middleware (GPLv3 w/ commercial license for the
core).

My hands are tied for now if you don't know of any specific underlying
GL implementation method changes then I just have to get the demos
back up and step through the init process and potentially test on
another Honeycomb tablet.

I'd offer sending you the simple 3D cube demo or anyone else for a
head check and that would be much appreciated.

Regards...

On Apr 23, 7:03 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
 I am not aware of any existing GL applications that completely break like
 this.  I have run lots and lots of the top applications on Xoom without
 trouble.  Applications also haven't generally broken on previous platform
 releases, and I am pretty sure there are many applications on Market that
 don't use GLSurfaceView.

 To be honest, I don't have more time than to just scan through your long
 rant; it looks like most of what you are trying to do is let off steam than
 look for anything constructive, so I'll leave it at that.

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