[android-developers] Re: Test if screenlock is enabled
Aside from Device Admin, there is no API or official way for an app to retrieve for this information. Also, of the top of my head, your query for the pattern won't work on Jellybean (or maybe only works if they configured the pattern before upgrading to Jellybean?). -Kevin On Friday, October 26, 2012 5:40:30 AM UTC-5, AMetnik wrote: I need to check if this app has security (screenlocks), enabled. I have found out how to check for pattern_locks like this boolean b = android.provider.Settings.Secure.getInt( getContentResolver(),Settings.Secure.LOCK_PATTERN_ENABLED, 0)==1; But the other two evades me. I have found a bit about password using the DevicePolicyManager which requires a broadcast receiver and enormous amount of permissions/policies... But this is imho. far overreaching of what is needed since I don't need what kind of password or a like is enabled, but simply if a screenlocking method is being used by the phone(user). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Is it legal to implement APK's silent installation for commercial use?
I would guess that they simulate a user clicking INSTALL from the web based Play Store. I believe this would be technically doable if they either had the user login or had the users Google password. Then the Play Store takes care of pushing the app to the device and installing it in the background. There would still be the notification icon showing it has been installed and hopefully users are weary of typing their Google password into apps. It's likely that such a setup would violate one or more Play Store policies, but I do not know. I think App Brain did something along these lines at some point? -Kevin On Friday, October 26, 2012 4:54:28 AM UTC-5, alex kyo wrote: Thanks, Mark One thing I can definitely confirm is that they are not device manufacturer. Suppose there is a google account(*ga*) which contains several apps. My guess is that they might register a stock device with the *ga* by AccountManager and then call the sync api (I don't know exactly what api will be here) Finally, after the device performed sync process, log out programmatically the apps will be remained and it looks like silent install. On Friday, October 26, 2012 4:00:24 PM UTC+9, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Kristopher Micinski krismi...@gmail.com wrote: Or their company is actually TMobile... Oh, true. A device manufacturer can do this stuff without a problem. I was assuming that this was an SDK app, since this is a list for developing SDK apps, but that may not have been a valid assumption. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 4.2 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Problem with hashing speed
For doing these kinds of benchmark you might want to check out Vogar
http://code.google.com/p/vogar and Caliper http://code.google.com/p/caliper/
They can be used for running microbenchmarks on Android (and elsewhere).
There's some benchmark's at http://code.google.com/p/dalvik/ that can be
used as samples. There's actually already a MessageDigestBenchmark which
might be of interest.
-Kevin
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 9:22:43 PM UTC-5, jing yang wrote:
Thanks for spending some time in doing the tests!
but can you try including byte[] f = md.digest(); inside your loop ?
in my test phone, add the digest() method will increase the timing by
40%.
But since your timings are much faster.. i think it could be due to
the dual core CPU of S2?
wow but i never expected the diffences in timings to be so huge.
do you happen to know any faster method of doing a hash?
THANKS A LOT!!
On May 31, 1:32 am, Harri Smått har...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 30, 2012, at 6:16 PM, jing yang wrote:
I was testing the hash methods on a 16 bytes input, randomly generated
with the SecureRandom class.
I'm still getting far more faster speeds on SGS2, around 4871ms for
524288 iterations. Roughly half of the time is spent generating random
bytes, half calculating hash. My test code as below;
MessageDigest md = null;
SecureRandom sr = null;
try {
MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance(SHA-256);
SecureRandom sr = SecureRandom.getInstance(SHA1PRNG);
byte seed[] = sr.generateSeed(128);
sr.setSeed(seed);
final long LOOP = 524288;
byte buf[] = new byte[16];
long time = SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
for (int i = 0; i LOOP; ++i) {
sr.nextBytes(buf);
md.update(buf);
}
byte[] f = md.digest();
Log.d(timing, time= + (SystemClock.uptimeMillis() - time));}
catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
--
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[android-developers] Re: Will we ever be allowed to make custom widget pickers?
Currently there is no way to avoid using the built in widget selection UI (the list of widgets you get in gingerbread when you add a widget). This kind of sucks because it means you can't have anything like the ICS launcher's widget page. Also the system widget picker in ICS doesn't even use the Holo theme. Definitely a pain for third party launchers. At least there's root... -Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Custom Permission and installation order
I'm trying to implement a custom permission to be used between two of my apps. In AppA I declare: uses-permission android:name=com.teslacoilsw.TEST_PERMISSION / And in AppB I declare: permission android:name=com.teslacoilsw.TEST_PERMISSION android:label=TeslaCoil Test android:protectionLevel=normal / ... service android:name=.TestService android:exported=true android:permission=com.teslacoilsw.TEST_PERMISSION / If I install AppB and then install AppA, it work as expected (AppA can bind to AppB's service). However if I install AppA and then install AppB, I get a SecurityException when trying to bind to the service as the permission is not granted. (Tested on Android 4.0.3) I've investigated adding the permission declaration to both manifests and this does seem to work, I assume because the permission now always exists at install time. However this feels wrong to me. Is there a correct way for an app to declare a permission in an environment like the Market where installation order is not guaranteed? Thanks, -Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Hardware accleration slow down every Canvas app. Why?
The widget / app selector on my Galaxy Nexus does stutter somewhat, but if I scroll it all the way and then back again, it then animates much smoother. Based on this, I'd think it's the app / widget icon cache population, not the drawing. There are stutters at times in the app/widget drawer. (I'm working on a launcher replacement so I've been looking into it). It's difficult to diagnose as there's a lot going on (cache, garbage collection, loading resources from disk) and (proper) benchmarking and hardware acceleration are hard topics. It seems on official Android 4.0.2 on the GN there's a slight stutter when starting to scroll a page for the first time, but removing the call to setLayerType(LAYER_TYPE_HARDWARE, null); does prevent the stutter. I didn't notice a difference on AOSP Android 4.0.3 on the GN (and official 4.0.3 on the NS, but lower resolution which effects things also). Also interestingly, the animation does a setAlpha and the documentation http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#setAlpha(float) states that this implies calling setLayerType with a hardware layer. However I couldn't verify this with getLayerType. (I peaked into the code and didn't find it either, but it's a bit confusing). A comment on this from Romain or another Googler would be greatly appreciated. -Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: AppWidgets Disappearing from list in ICS
I've actually been hacking at the ICS Launcher2 code so I figured I'd
give the widget a try. In my case (GSM Galaxy Nexus, 4.0.2) I keep
getting a NullPointerException in your
AwesomeClockActivity.setTextColour (trace below). Happens with stock
4.0.2 launcher as well as Nova Launcher (my app, based on ICS
Launcher2 from 4.0.3). At least this crash is your own app so it
should be easier to debug :).
If I keep trying to add over and over again it keeps FCs, but
sometimes I don't see I only see the FC from logcat (no dialog) and
see W/ActivityManager( 193): Process sirocco.widgetslite has crashed
too many times: killing!.
Trace:
E/AndroidRuntime(20564): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start
activity ComponentInfo{sirocco.widgetslite/
sirocco.widgets.AwesomeClockActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException
...
E/AndroidRuntime(20564): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
E/AndroidRuntime(20564):at
sirocco.widgets.AwesomeClockActivity.setTextColour(AwesomeClockActivity.java:
572)
E/AndroidRuntime(20564):at
sirocco.widgets.AwesomeClockActivity.onCreate(AwesomeClockActivity.java:
301)
On Jan 5, 3:27 pm, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, just reinstalled from Market, added a clock widget, removed it, tried
to add one again.
The config activity worked fine, then after confirming, this showed up in
the logcat:
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): java.lang.RuntimeException:
Failure delivering result ResultInfo{who=null, request=5, result=-1,
data=Intent { (has extras) }} to activity
{com.android.launcher/com.android.launcher2.Launcher}:
java.lang.NullPointerException
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): at
android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:2976)
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): at
android.app.ActivityThread.handleSendResult(ActivityThread.java:3019)
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): at
android.app.ActivityThread.access$1100(ActivityThread.java:122)
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): at
android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1176)
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): at
android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): at
android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): at
android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4340)
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): at
java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): at
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): at
com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:
784)
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): at
com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): at
dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): Caused by:
java.lang.NullPointerException
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): at
com.android.launcher2.Launcher.getSpanForWidget(Launcher.java:941)
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): at
com.android.launcher2.Launcher.completeAddAppWidget(Launcher.java:964)
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): at
com.android.launcher2.Launcher.completeAdd(Launcher.java:492)
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): at
com.android.launcher2.Launcher.onActivityResult(Launcher.java:528)
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): at
android.app.Activity.dispatchActivityResult(Activity.java:4649)
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): at
android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:2972)
01-06 01:25:08.770 E/AndroidRuntime(26804): ... 11 more
01-06 01:25:08.786 W/ActivityManager(26561): Force finishing activity
com.android.launcher/com.android.launcher2.Launcher
This is on a Galaxy Nexus, retail UK version, GSM, Android 4.0.1.
If I can be of further help, please contact me off-list.
Thanks,
-- Kostya
6 января 2012 г. 0:37 пользователь Ashley McConnell
ash...@siroccoracing.com написал:
Hi Kostya,
Thanks again. I have exactly that code for both config activities, so I
don't think that's the problem. Thanks for the stack trace, I was seeing
that warning in the logs, but it didn't have a stack trace associated with
it for some reason, I'm not sure why.
I've tracked down the source of the warnings and they should be quiet now
:)
The problem he was reporting was when he added a clock component, then
removed it, it was removed from the list of widgets. Can you check to see
if that happens on your device?
Thanks for your help,
Ash
2012/1/5 Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com
The code in Launcher looks up the widget info object by the widget id.
Does your code properly handle that?
Here is my code from a widget config activity:
Intent resultValue = new Intent();
[android-developers] Re: question about lockscreens
But does this mean that you guys are opposed to well known apps such as WidgetLocker, or Lockscreen Agenda? Well I'm the developer of WidgetLocker, so I'm not opposed to it at all :P. But this list is about developing apps that following the documentation, guidelines and restrictions of the SDK. WidgetLocker does not. I know it's hypocritical but I recommend other app devs, especially ones just starting, follow the SDK. It's safer and easier, and (mostly) protects you from fragmentation (I test against ~20 devices. I still need more). As you noticed, this list isn't very helpful if you chose to ignore the SDK rules. I imagine most devs that do, including myself, don't discuss it much. If you choose to ignore them, you're on your own. I wish to make an app that acts as a lockscreen. it would disable the home button, disable the back button, and then it would dismiss itself upon a successful entry of a password. Implementing security in an app, rather than at the system level, is a huge task and well beyond the scope of this list. There isn't even anyone to discuss it with, as it has not been done. Find an app that implements security (Note: WidgetLocker does not. There is good reason.) and if you can't bypassing it in less than 5 minutes, you aren't trying hard enough. Android is designed to disallow apps from blocking other apps. Even ignoring the Home and recent apps buttons, what about an incoming call? Or a phone reboot? Or a SMS popup? Or any notification in the notification bar for that matter? Or a malicious app? Or a task killer? Or the system task killer? Or out of memory? Or a bug causing a force close? It certainly is possible to display a screen that prompts for a password and when the password is enter the screen disappears. But implementing it in a manner that is more than just a false sense of security is very different. I theorize that with root and/or a device admin and a slightly-to-incredibly awkward user experience it's possible, but even if that's true it's a lot of work and a lot of testing and I guarantee you'd run into fragmentation issues of trying to support Sense vs Blur vs TouchWiz vs Stock. A custom rom, rather than an app, definitely could do this, but again this list is not the place to discuss that (There's a firmware building/modifying list for that kind of thing). 1. how do i make an application launch when the screen is activated? ACTION_SCREEN_OFF and ACTION_SCREEN_ON broadcasts. You'll need a service running to receive them (not a manifest receiver). Also note that no app can start within 5 seconds of the Home button being pressed, so Home, screen off, screen on, and you're delayed. 2. what method does one call to dismiss an application? (for example, when a password is entered successfully) Your own activity you mean? finish() or moveTaskToBack(). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: call the default home screen from application?
Since you want to call the default home, you can just send a generic
home intent and let the system call the appropriate app. No need to
use the resolver manually.
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME);
startActivity(intent);
On Dec 15, 1:46 am, ZeeShaN AbbAs meeaaa...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to call the default home screen that comes with my phone from
my application even if its not set as default. I've tried searching
and find this
ArrayListIntent intentList = new ArrayListIntent();
Intent intent=null;
final PackageManager packageManager=getPackageManager();
for(final ResolveInfo
resolveInfo:packageManager.queryIntentActivities(new
Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN).addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME),
PackageManager.MATCH_DEFAULT_ONLY)) {
intent=packageManager.getLaunchIntentForPackage(
resolveInfo.activityInfo.packageName);
intentList.add(intent);
}
this code is working for the all the other launchers but not for the
default launcher. I tried using break points in code and found that at
0 index of list there should be default launcher intent but intent
does'nt hold the value. Do I need some kind of permission thanks.
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[android-developers] Re: Detect that user entered the lock screen password
No, I've looked into it as well. Depending on your setup you might be able to time screen off until user present and compare against the system settings, but that's not a very good solution and I wouldn't recommend it. -Kevin On Dec 15, 1:20 pm, CT ctm...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to detect if the user actually entered their password on the lock screen when they last unlocked the device. I see that a USER_PRESENT intent is sent out when the user unlocks the device, but on the HTC devices, that doesnt actually mean that they had to enter their passwords. Some HTC phones have a setting called Lock screen after. The user will only have to enter their password if the phone has been asleep for more than Lock screen afterminutes. If the user unlocks the phone within the Lock screen after time period then they dont have to enter their password. So I'm wondering if there is a way to detect if the user actually entered their password when they unlocked the device. Many thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Can the LVL check for Paid app be done from my free app ?
Recently there was a discussion on reddit.com/r/Android about a new app being unlocked by in-app-purchase. Users were wishing for an unlock key app or pro version. IIRC their reasons were: 1) Permissions could be less on a pro version (no ads) 2) Fear/uncertainty about if the license would carry over between apps on in-app-billing. Since in-app-purchases are implemented differently by different devs, it's inconsistent. Might be able to get around (2) if it's clearly explained, but it's understandable how users might associate in-app-purchase with temporarily items from games or whatever, compared to app-purchases which are clearly permanent. On Dec 6, 8:41 am, Emanuel Moecklin 1gravity...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Nikolay. The paid section is certainly less frequented than the free section and unlocker apps are confusing. You'll have people complaining that they paid for an app but didn't get any because they don't realize they'd have to download the free app too. Why not just have a paid, full version of your app additionally to the free app which can be upgraded through in-app billing? If you want more discoveries add a live wallpaper or a home screen widget to your app - the app will be listed in the according categories as well ;-). On Dec 6, 7:53 am, androidmediadeveloper kamathaj...@gmail.com wrote: we're also using inapp billing, and it does work. however, the app is listed only on the free section of the market. we want it listed under paid as well, more discovery. Are there easier ways to do this than using an unlocker ? On Dec 5, 8:29 pm, Emanuel Moecklin 1gravity...@gmail.com wrote: Why not use in-appbilling to unlock the features in yourfreeapp? That way user's don't have to install a secondappthat does nothing but unlock features in anotherapp. I'm doing this in my own apps and it works nicely. Emanuel Moecklin 1gravity LLC On Dec 5, 9:54 am, androidmediadeveloper kamathaj...@gmail.com wrote: I have aFreeappwith pro features locked. I also have a paidapp that is basically a stub, an unlocker. My question is this, can I run theLVLcheckto see if user has purchased the unlocker/stubapp from inside of myfreeapp? It'd be great if this were possible, but from my experiments until now, isnt the case. Any advice ? thoughts ? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: ICS Hardware Acceleration crash
On Dec 5, 12:01 pm, Romain Guy romain...@android.com wrote: This setting is unfortunately a double-edged sword, it was intended for developers so they could easily test their application with hardware acceleration turned on. I interpreted the setting as an aggressive move to make developers update their apps for ICS. Of course users are going to check a box marked Acceleration, especially the first wave of ICS users, Galaxy Nexus early-adopters or the CM9-alpha crowd. You can easily check whether your app is hardware accelerated on startup and warn the user it's not supported. Also it appears that view.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null); still works as intended. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:04 PM, webmonkey webmonke...@gmail.com wrote: I see now that there are some websites that advise people to turn it on because it makes everything run smoother. Got any links? At least we can work on trying to get these posts updated, particularly if there's no SDK means of telling Android no means no when it comes to the Force GPU setting (and I see nothing in the SDK that looks promising). -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, One Low Price! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer romain...@android.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Stealing an apk wirelessly
Unless you friend looks like a pirate, you don't have much to worry about :) Well, he wears an eye-patch, but he said it's because he took a peg- leg to it a few years back. Do I have reason to worry? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: How secure are SharedPreferences on rooted devices?
I'm just trying to understand how secure is SharedPreferences and what alternatives are there, that's all. On a rooted device SharedPreferences absolutely can be tampered with. Same with any on-device storage. However this doesn't mean you can't use them. 1) Obfuscation. This is how Google recommends handling LVL data in shared prefs. This is not secure as someone could reverse engineer the obfuscator, but it makes it a pain in the ass and generally not worth it (easier to crack the APK itself). Check out the PreferenceObfuscator used for LVL: http://code.google.com/p/marketlicensing/source/browse/library/src/com/android/vending/licensing/PreferenceObfuscator.java . It gives you stuff like this: string name=5h99XZgr +0i5N2SN0lEDu592x14RTrTj6/VOCCnxGokeazVz9bfLW793kkXg01kaBsJa1// string You can seed the obfuscator with a device id of some kind to prevent users from just copying shared prefs from one device to another. 2) Server signed data. When you authenticate your coupon, instead of saving a true or false, save a string from your server that is cryptographically signed. At the launch of the app you can verify this signature even without internet access. Again this is similar to the LVL approach. It might be too much work as crypto is very confusing. --- Along the lines of what others are saying, don't invest too much in anti-piracy stuff. Release and see what happens, if no one cracks it then don't waste any more time. If it's cracked, look at how they did it and block it in the next update. Keep adding features in updates will keep current and future legit users happy, and have the pirates always playing catch up to the latest version until they get sick of it and just buy it. -Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: localization bloats my app - is there an alternative approach?
Actually in a normal build the resources.arsc file isn't zip compressed with the other files are and it can be quite large. Manually running aapt can compress it (and does by default), but then you get really weird force closes on some froyo devices. I've been meaning to ask about why this is. But my advice is not to split the APK and translations. It will create a lot more work for you and confusion or bugs for users. And phone's storage space is just getting large. On Nov 16, 10:58 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:49 AM, mot12 martin.hu...@gmail.com wrote: My app was about 1.5M, after adding 12 languages I am now looking at 3M because of the multiple string.xml files in the resources. So, you added 1.5MB of space with 12 languages. That's around 100KB apiece. Since this stuff should be compressed in the APK, that's probably close to 1MB of strings per language. Hence, the solution would appear to be: make a less wordy app... :-) Seriously, how big are your string.xml files? -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, One Low Price! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Android 4, still no preprocessing.
Related from the SwiftKey devs:
http://www.swiftkey.net/building-apks-with-different-features-from-a-single-source
For my setup I use ant to do release builds, eclipse to do debug
builds. I build for three markets (Google, Amazon, and direct-purchase/
beta). Each has it's own requirements (copy protection, updates, links
to other apps). I use a custom build.xml, it uses replace to switch
a static final int constant for what market I'm compiling against,
this handles all java preprocessor needs as java doesn't compile
dead code. I also use gcc's preprocessor on AndroidManifest.xml to
turn off permissions I don't need (And Eclipse builds just have all
permissions, which is fine). It's a bit limited and not perfect, but
it does the job and didn't cost much time to setup.
Here's the key parts of it, however these are for ADT13, haven't tried
to do an ant build with ADT14 yet.
Disclaimer, I don't know ant so I might be doing things awkwardly.
This is by no means a packaged solution, but an idea/example for you
to build your own system with.
Basically:
AndroidManifest.xml:
!--
#ifdef LICENSING_MARKET
--
uses-permission android:name=com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE /
!--
#endif
--
MarketHandler:
public static final int NO_LICENSING = 0;
public static final int GOOGLE = 1;
public static final int AMAZON = 2;
public static final int DIRECT = 3;
public static final int USE_MARKET = /* @MARKET_START@ */ DIRECT /
* @MARKET_END@ */;
And:
target name=market
antcall target=marketreplace
param name=marketparam value=GOOGLE /
/antcall
property name=preprocessor.args value=-DLICENSING_MARKET /
property name=out.myrelease.file.name
value=${ant.project.name}-market.apk /
antcall target=myrelease /
/target
target name=marketreplace
exec vmlauncher=false executable=sh
arg value=-c /
arg value=perl -e 's!(\@MARKET_START\@ \*/).*?(/\*
\@MARKET_END\@)!$1 ${marketparam} $2!g' -pi src/com/teslacoilsw/
tesladirect/MarketHandler.java /
/exec
target name=-package-resources
echoPreprocessing AndroidManifest.xml/echo
echogcc -E -x c -P -C ${preprocessor.args}
AndroidManifest.xml/echo
exec vmlauncher=false executable=sh
arg value=-c /
arg value=gcc -E -x c -P -C ${preprocessor.args}
AndroidManifest.xml | sed -e '/^\s*$/d' gen/AndroidManifest.xml /
/exec
...
On Oct 19, 11:51 am, sblantipodi perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org wrote:
for people who posted that links, have you tryed to preprocess using
android?
does it works? I'm under netbeans and it doesn't work.
Are you sure that it workd in eclipse?
On Oct 19, 6:45 pm, Justin Anderson magouyaw...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey guess what? I found both of those with a simple google search...
Thanks,
Justin Anderson
MagouyaWare Developerhttp://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Justin Anderson
magouyaw...@gmail.comwrote:
http://boldinventions.com/index.php?option=com_contentview=articlei...
Thanks,
Justin Anderson
MagouyaWare Developer
http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Nikolay Elenkov
nikolay.elen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:38 AM, sblantipodi
perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org wrote:
How can we live in a world with thousands of devices and dozens of
market without preprocessor?
Learn to use resources, and ditch your C mentality.
Really, this has little to do with Android -- Java has no
preprocessor, and that's that. If you really think you
need one, use gcc (it is doable). Or some Ant/Maven plugin
that does string replacement before compiling.
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[android-developers] Re: Application force close after change it from /system/app to /data/
Removing an APK from /system/app won't clean up the left overs in / data/data. I'd bet that the UID changes and then your properly installed app can't read the database. 1) Don't install apps to /system/app 2) Don't leave crap in /data/data when removing APKs 3) This list is about SDK development, not anything to do with /system -Kevin On Aug 29, 6:35 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:09 PM, sam hrlixi...@gmail.com wrote: Do yo know the reason why this happen after change the app install location? Well if you're trying to open a file relative to the app's install location and change that install location, then it's highly likely you won't find that file in the new install location. Without seeing the rest of your stacktrace, it's hard to say more. --- -- TreKing http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: How to close entire app?
So, if this were a Web app, you would attempt to reboot the user's PC to prevent them from pressing the BACK button in their Web browser? That is exactly how I handle my web apps! So can you send me reboot code for the onBackPressed()? It is urgent. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Just in section
It is a bug, however, that the lock screen tries to engage at all, when I have (since the day I got my Android phone) had it turned off in Settings-Location Security--Set up screen lock (first option set to NONE to Disable screen unlock security). You have disabled the _security_ aspect, this means there is no PIN, Password or Pattern screen. The standard lockscreen (Keyguard) is still active. Android provides an API to disable the keyguard, but it is intended for temporary use. Android 3.x includes System Settings Location Security Configure lock screen Off (never lock the screen) which would do what you want, except it's only on 3.x. Hopefully we see the option available on phones with icecream sandwich. -Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: App Widget Automatically Deleted after Reboot
Make sure you have: android:installLocation=internalOnly In your AndroidManifest.xml, Widgets don't work when installed to the sdcard. Full example: manifest xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android; package=com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker android:versionCode=25001 android:versionName=2.1.1beta1 android:installLocation=internalOnly On Aug 5, 12:17 pm, ndiiie 90 rnd...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have problem in developing app widget. When i try it in real device, after i reboot my phone, the widget is automatically deleted from my home and i must reinstall the app to have the widget in widget list. Is there any specific code must be done to prevent that thing? Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Payout much smaller than expected
On Aug 3, 11:32 am, Nikolay Elenkov nikolay.elen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Kevin TeslaCoil Software ke...@teslacoilsw.com wrote: Mine was split into 4% 96% and I only see the smaller one :(. Definitely will be contacting Google Checkout if I don't see the other deposit in a day or two. Bank is ING Direct. Happens once in a while. Maybe they ran out of punch cards for the day :) I've received the second payout today, so it seems they restocked on punch cards :) -Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Payout much smaller than expected
Mine was split into 4% 96% and I only see the smaller one :(. Definitely will be contacting Google Checkout if I don't see the other deposit in a day or two. Bank is ING Direct. -Kevin On Aug 3, 10:56 am, Jon F Hancock jonfhanc...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah. I've been selling in the market for about a year. I'm familiar with the split payments, but this is the first time one has come through and not the other. Yeah. I've been selling in the market for about a year. I'm familiar with the split payments, but this is the first time one has come through and not the other. It could be my bank. Checkout shows both payouts on Aug 2. Between my app getting pushed down in search lately and this (plus the overall payout was $200 less than I was expecting), I'm starting to get paranoid that Google wants me to get out of the Android development business. Jon On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:11 AM, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.comwrote: It's normal for the payout to come in two parts, one much larger than the other. For example, this month I have one that's about 7% of my Market profit, while the other is about 93%. Don't know why, but it's been like this ever since Google switched to monthly payouts. But if only one has arrived in your account, that's obviously *not* normal. If it doesn't show up in the next day or so, you need to pursue it with Checkout support. String -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Skinning an app
I think a library project will do what you want, and be pretty easy to manage to. You'd create your basic app as a library, then create a new app for each customer, and include that shared library. Any customer specific changes, including drawables, just get placed in a non- library project. The library drawables would be replaced with the customer specific ones and you could even do code changes there too. More on library projects: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/projects/projects-eclipse.html -Kevin On Aug 1, 7:21 am, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: You can reference resources via a theme, with ?attr/blahblah syntax. It certainly works for drawables, and should be easy to test if it works for layouts as well. 01.08.2011 16:18, Christine пишет: I have tried whitelabeling an app, so I can use the same codebase for a number of customers. What's different in the apps is the graphics, styles and layouts, not the code. The best way I could think of is have an ant script that copies the res folder and the manifest file into a separate project, and copy it back to the main project. By running this ant script I switch between skins. But there must be a more elegant way of having skins for an app. Styles won't do it, because that's too limited, you can only change android: attributes, not layouts and drawables. Wouldn't it be nice if a Theme didn't just have it's own styles, but also its own res folder? -- Kostya Vasilyev -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Film Use of Android Device
The adb user also has access to /dev/graphics/fb0 so theoretically you could do this with a shell script over adb instead of rooting the device. On Jul 25, 5:47 pm, lbendlin l...@bendlin.us wrote: If you have a rooted phone and a large SD card you could run a background service that grabs the /dev/graphics/fb0 raw images and stores them for later conversion. Or you convert it on the fly to png - but that might stretch it already. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Google checkout updates
I highly recommend AppMonger to monitor app sales: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rectangularsoftware.appmongerfeature=search_result It has some quirks, but it's nicely polished and gives pretty looking charts. On Jul 21, 11:03 pm, Jim Graham spooky1...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:03:24PM -0500, TreKing wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Jim Graham spooky1...@gmail.com wrote: Just curious...are Google checkout page updates only done periodically, like the Market page updates? Or are they done more often or more or less real-time? Seems like more or less real-time. Ok, thanks. -- 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | Remember your spelling rules, including: spooky1...@gmail.com | I before E except after C Running FreeBSD 7.0 | ICBM / Hurricane: | BEING a native-born American, I don't 30.44406N 86.59909W | always notice our WEIRD spelling Point Lobos Photography Set 1 (Photo-posters): http://jdgapps.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Droid X 2 issue
Most likely it's just hdpi. qHD is the name of the resolution. The Atrix handles this just as extra space, like the older motorolas did with the 854x480 rather than 800x480, it could just display a bit more of your layout but it wouldn't scale up images or anything. So if you are assuming that the screen is 320dp wide, you are in trouble. But if your layout handles stretching well it should be fine. (I have an Atrix and dev against it, I don't have a Droid X2) -Kevin On Jun 25, 9:42 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: normal-xhdpi, AFAIK. But as long as your provide HDPI resources, it will upscale, so it's not something you need to worry about. There are other 540x960 devices out there, for example, the Motorola Atrix. On Jun 26, 10:10 am, limtc thyech...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I got reported from Droid X 2 users regarding the resource issues on new resolution... can anyone tell me what is the drawable type? hdpi? large-hdpi? large-mdpi? Any other devices using 540x960 resolutions? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: How to give a APK file to customer for testing
This is what lawyers and contracts are for. If a user emails me with a legit bug report, they seem to be pleased with a reply including an APK to test. Somehow I don't think they'd appreciate a contract nearly as much. And is the lawyer really going to try to enforce things all over the world, or would the contract be for USA only and cut out all those volunteer translators in other countries? you can sign test versions of the app with your debug keystore which will have an expiration date typically = 1 year This doesn't prevent it from being installed, just prevents you from releasing an update for it. Also worth nothing, that if a beta tester or even pirate is using an app signed with your own key, they can go to the Market and buy it and install the update and now they're legit without hassel. But if they're using a APK signed with a different key (debug key, or signed by the pirate cracker) then they get a Package signed incorrectly error and have to uninstall before they can get the Market version. Now, I am looking for a professional way for deal with the problem. As this must be a very common scenario for every developer. There must be a good solution for this problem. My needs, which may differ other developers: 1) Aside from Google/Amazon I accept paypal directly and have a fair amount ( 2,000) of users that have gone that route. This is a utility app where updates are very important to users. Giving them the APK just once isn't sufficient, they need updates. Only the Market isn't a good solution as some countries still don't have it and many people don't have credit cards or trust Google Checkout. 2) Beta testers and translators, some of which are more trustworthy than others. Before I implemented a proper system one of my non-copy- protected betas was leaked by a translator. I learned my lesson. 3) Gift to previous Google Market users who have switch accounts, got a secondary Chinese tablet type device without the Market, etc 4) Gift to App reviewers, friends, other developers, etc For a long time I handled this with mailing lists to send the APK and updates (with no copy protection) to everyone. (One list for stable and one for beta). This is a headache and does not scale and you get so many emails lost in spam or bounced or whatever. (But it takes very little effort to setup, so you might consider it for that reason. Just replace it before you have several hundred people on the list) I ended up rolling my own setup, which I'm quite pleased with. When I add a user (either beta user or stable user), my server emails them with: Their authorized email address Their authorization code A URL that will always download the latest APK for said app (stable or beta, depending on user type) They download the APK and it prompts them for their email and authorization code, they hit submit and it verifies from my server, then unlocks the app. The app can license check, using a system very similar to LVL (so I can reuse my LVL code), over http. Server controls how many devices the users are licensed for, and I can increase these if I have a trusted beta tester with lots of devices or decrease/revoke if I see someone leaked their credentials. The app can also check for updates by itself and download the latest version and leave a notification for the user to install it. My setup isn't polished enough for people that are not me to use right now. But is there interest in something like this? Would developers pay for a hosted service like this? (I know I would've paid for one when I was looking, but I couldn't find anything that met my needs. AndroidPit will charge you to gift an app and has nothing for betas. AndroidLicenser doesn't do updates or betas and is limited to one license per device) -Kevin On Jun 22, 12:42 am, yogesh bansal yogeshbansa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am newbie android app developer. I am confused, how to deliver the APK file to customer for testing. Let suppose, if i give the apk file directly to customer for testing. Then the purpose of the customer is solved. Now he has the apk file with him and He can use it freely and after that he can refuse to pay the money. It is possible , i have to deliver apk file to customer every day for testing . Once the application is finalized, he can refuse to pay. As I have a consent with the customer, that he has all the right of the application and code, so i cannot upload the application in the android market also. I know that , i can put some kind of check inside the code to restrict the usage. But i feel that won't be a good approach and also not professional solution. Now, I am looking for a professional way for deal with the problem. As this must be a very common scenario for every developer. There must be a good solution for this problem. Please guide me on this problem Thanks Yogesh Bansal -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To
[android-developers] Re: How does launcher get the applications' icons and corresponding text
It does. Source for Launcher2 is available: https://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Launcher2.git;a=summary On Jun 17, 10:37 am, June Hello junehelloworld.he...@gmail.com wrote: Does launcher load icons by using PackageManager as well, I think I need to learn the source code. Thanks a lot for your help On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:22 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:31 AM, June_Hello junehelloworld.he...@gmail.com wrote: I encountered with a question. Where and how does the launcher get the icon and text of the application which has be installed in the phone, Is this information stored in database, or any other way else? and how can I get another app's icon which is showed on launcher from another my own. Any time you want information about other packages installed on the device, first stop should be PackageManager. --- -- TreKing http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Google removed 10 mallware apps - I'm affected. Please help
tesla Hey! That's my keyword (TeslaLED Flashlight)! I do agree that keyword spam doesn't seem big enough of an offense for your whole account to be deleted. Any chance one of your other apps did something that could've been considered malware? Maybe Tiny was just caught in the mix and the target was a different app. Good luck, -Kevin On Jun 15, 1:15 am, Romain Guy romain...@android.com wrote: After the list of devices you have the following: Torch, Light, Camera, Flash, Color, Dark, Bright, Brightness, Brightest, Lights, Signal, Find Keys, Screen, Effects, brightest flashlight, Emergency, Warning, Police, brightest led flash, DroidLight, Maximum, Backlight, Best, Great, Fun, Cool, Coolest, Widget, led flashlight, led flash, led light, brightest led flashlight, camera light, color flashlight, color flash, tesla, bright light, brightness, flash camera, flash, cam light, screen light, light effects, simple flashlight, search, screen brightness, brightest app, max brightness, maximum brightness, dark, darkness, police light, emergency light This looks to me like you overdid it a little bit ;-) On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:02 PM, n.a devuni...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 15, 8:40 am, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: What Google has to do is to create a separate Tags input field in the market admin panel, give it some limit and then let the developers compete. This is the fair way. In your case, 2/3 of your app description was keywords I'm sorry, but this is not true. You can still see it here: http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/market/apps/app/com.devuni.flash... Also, most of the keywords are just device models, which the flashlight works on. -- so you were by far one of the worst violators. Perhaps one of your competitors reported you for stealing from them and Google acted on it. I have no idea. Is there anything stopping you from creating a new account, paying the $25 again and republishing your app? It's not ideal, but since you have a free app, it's not like you have to migrate the users. If your app is good, and I believe it was, your rank would rise fairly quickly. This is a workaround. I hope that Google will change their internal policy and start warning the developers before deleting applications and accounts. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer romain...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Users unable to download from the market
Earlier today I had a ton of Customer review in progress stalls, market comments and a user that email me asking if I was planning on doing something about the download issues people were experiencing. Oh I wish I could. Anyway now things have picked up and my total sales for the day still look normal (Using Appmonger for the summary, highly recommended BTW) If anyone is interested, here is my standard Market issues canned response. Usually send it a few times a day, unless Google is updating the Market in which case I usually craft a custom canned response just for that day that basically says it's out of my control and to wait it out or let me know the order number and I can cancel. I also have a canned response for I looked up your order and it shows as Customer Review in Progress and then just includes what Google says that means and explain that it's out of my control. Canned response: If you send me your order number I can check the status, you can find your Google Checkout Order Number at http://checkout.google.com . But here's a few common Market problems/hints: 1) Incorrect billing information. The Android Market does not directly notify you of this problem and often looks like it's successfully authorized when it has not. Supposedly Google sends you an email notifying you when this occurs. You can check on this and remedy it by checking http://checkout.google.com from a desktop computer and updating your billing information. 2) Reset Market Connection: Make sure that your phone is logged into Google Talk by following these steps: Go to your phone’s app launcher, and press the Talk app If you’re already logged into Talk, press Menu, and then touch Sign out Launch Talk again to sign in https://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=1067233 3) Customer Review In Progress . If this is your first purchase on the Market, Google may be reviewing your account and stalling authorization/downloads until this process is completely. Unfortunately this is completely out of my control. https://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?answer=45175hl=en_US -Kevin On Jun 13, 10:54 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: I've had slow sales for the last 3 days and 0 ratings/comments. My install stats are stuck also. Looks like the Market is not working properly. Or should I say, it's working as poorly as it usually does. On Jun 14, 8:19 am, JonFHancock jonfhanc...@gmail.com wrote: Over the last couple of hours I have had an unusually high number of comments from users giving low stars and complaining that they can't download/install from the market. Haven't had any sales in the last hour either. Anybody else having the same problem? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: In Android, how to get the keyevent of 'home Key' ?
I don't remember anyone asking how to prevent the user from pressing the power key to unlock the phone :) That's be because the power key doesn't unlock the phone :P, it wakes it up, then you slide to unlock. I do actually get user requests to disable the power key from waking the device, but I just say sorry, not going to happen. -Kevin -- Kostya 2011/6/8 Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com Think of home like alt-tab in windows. You never need to capture it. You just need to handle onPause()/onStop() in a way that makes sense for the user temporarily leaving your app. You'll get onFinish() when your app is to be actually destroyed. If you have a need to actually kill off the whole thing when home is pressed, call finish() in onPause()/onStop() and you shall receive the touch of the droid reaper, making for a clean start next time the user tries to enter the activity. On Jun 8, 10:31 am, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.com wrote: Your blog post IS the best explanation I have seen to date of what the Home key really means. I thought it was particularly interesting that it emphasized something I have been dimly aware of but keep forgetting: unlike the Back key, pressing Home does NOT cause finish() to be called. I assume from your description that it triggers only one lifecycle callback, onPause(). It doesn't even itself trigger onStop(), which may or may not follow. But shouldn't it trigger onStop() too? After all, the application is no longer visible. And what about the Activity Stack? Doesn't pressing Home put the least recently used Activity on that stack? In fact, when I put Log.d statements in my main Activity for both onPause() and onStop(), I see both get called when I press the Home key. On Jun 8, 5:13 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Droid rod...@gmail.com wrote: I need to know when the home button is pressed too (otherwise my app returns to visibility again and again for ever). Then fix your bug. (Please don't tell me I need to design my app 'properly', I have been Android dev for over a year now) Tough. Design your app properly. I just wrote up a blog post about why you should not care about the HOME button and how better to solve this problem: http://commonsware.com/blog/2011/06/08/please-ignore-home-button.html -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com| http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android 3.0 Programming Books:http://commonsware.com/books -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: LVL - license validity timestamp
I recommend ignoring the timestamp (and retry count) if the last non- retry response you've received was a licensed response. Yes it could theoretically be taken advantage of, but it can really reduce the number of false positives. I used to do this and the only false positives are when people reset/switch roms/whatever and use a new google account (so not really a false positive). But in a recent update I accidentally did something to sometimes require the timestamp (I have my own LVL-copy that doesn't require Google Market that I use for direct purchases, and I made a change there). Then it seems at the end of last month a handful of LG Optimus phones changed the date incorrectly (???). Users on these devices were locked out but if they set the date to the correct date then the problem was resolved. (Naturally some users had the problem with other apps too, not just mine). Weird. It was only a handful of users that emailed me about it, but I was used to never getting actual false positives, due to ignoring the time stamp before, that it was quite surprising. I've still had a few other reports from users on other devices so I do plan on ignoring the timestamp again in my next update. The pirates don't really attack LVL at that level anyway, they look for where the allow/deny decisions are made and make their smali changes there. -Kevin On Jun 6, 6:19 am, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Recently, I've been getting a lot messages from users about how I am asking for the network to be enabled to verify the license using LVL. I throw up this message whenever I cannot contact the licensing server. I haven't had any complaints until the last couple of weeks, so I investiagated the issue. I am using the Google provided license validity stamp. It seems like the timestamp Google is now returning only shows the license to be valid for no more then ONE HOUR. One hour is useless, I might as well just use the Strict licensing and validate the license every time I start the app. I would have expected the license to be good for days. Has anyone else seen this happening? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Grant SU to app before it accesses root
This group is probably not the best place to ask rooted related
questions as it focuses on SDK development which root is not. XDA or
StackOverflow might be a better bet, in general use of root in
development is poorly documented though.
But no, an Android app cannot* run as root (And as annoying as it can
be, this is really good for security, root is already overused in
apps). You can however use su to open a shell or custom binary and
keep that process running and communicate with that by writing to it's
input stream. It's kind of messy and error handling sucks and you have
to deal with the shell (Unless you write your own binary and
communicate with that).
-Kevin
* Okay nothing is impossible, but seriously it's not realistic
On Jun 5, 10:43 pm, Mike mikec...@gmail.com wrote:
I am trying to create an application that takes advantage of Dynamic
Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS). My phone is rooted and I can
successfully scale my device with the following command:
psProc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{su, -c, echo
30 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed});
However, this command is executed frequently since it appears within
the repaint method of a game. I would like to execute echo 30 /
sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed 30, without
using su, -c, since switching to the root user may be slow. Can I
grant an entire application super user privileges before hand so that
I may omit su, -c, in my execution?
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[android-developers] Re: Amazon AppStore, are you earning something from there?
I'm pleased with the Amazon Appstore, but I do still get the majority of my sales from the Android Market. My app has been ranked pretty high on Amazon since the beginning. I believe part of the reason is that it's oriented at power users and that overlaps with the early adopters of the Amazon Appstore. Also it's a well known app so if people are browsing the store there is a decent chance they've heard of it before on forums or blog sites or whatnot. Recently Amazon did a promotion with my app ($0.99 on sale from $1.99) and that work nicely, afterwards they talked to me about the promotion and posted a little bit about it here: http://www.amazonappstoredev.com/2011/06/developer-spotlight-widgetlocker-by-teslacoil-software.html Also I noticed a nice boost in sales on the 31st, I assume this is do to the traffic to the Amazon store to get Plants versus Zombies for free, then while it was downloading or whatever they browsed a bit and found my app and got it. Nice. -Kevin On Jun 4, 9:50 am, sblantipodi perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org wrote: As title, my apps sells quite good on the android market, haven't sold anything on the amazon appstore and you? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: How to block the Status Bar
A normal app cannot get the STATUS_BAR permission or disable the status bar. It's for system apps only. On May 25, 9:19 am, jhonny jhonny...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, So I'm trying to do an app, but I must to block the status bar, like when you are calling and you can't push down the bar. Does somebody know how can I do this. I read about the permission: String STATUS_BAR Allows an application to open, close, or disable the status bar and its icons. And I'm trying about the BroadcastReceiver, but I don't now how to disable the status bar!! Thank you all -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Career as an Andoid developer. Is there any point?
I quit my day job several months ago for my Android Apps career and am doing very well and love it. But it's not like I set out to be an Android App developer. I taught myself programming and programmed the hell out of whatever I could, went to university for Electrical Engineering/Robotics, got a job doing Perl/MySQL web stuff, almost bought an iPhone but went for the Nexus One instead and started playing with developing for it after work for fun, eventually it grew into something more. I plan on sticking to my Android Apps career as I love it, but if suddenly everyone switches to Chromephones or something, I could easily switch my career to Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or iPhone Apps career. Programming is programming, and practicing such is a worthwhile (and fun) use of time. -Kevin On May 23, 10:25 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Not to sound braggy, but my app has been netting $3000+/mo in sales for the past 6 months, after Google's cut. It all depends what your app is -- if it's a toy app, expect toy income from it. If it's an app that adds serious value to people's lives, expect an income go along with that. It's complete BS what some iPhone advocates are saying about Android users being cheap. That said, even $3000/mo is not a replacement for a real job, to be honest. On May 24, 10:31 am, Justin Anderson magouyaw...@gmail.com wrote: I would have to agree that for the most part creating Android Apps would not be a career. While it is true that a few developers may be able to make it a career the majority of us do it for fun... I have three apps on the Android Market (2 paid and 1 free)... All apps are rated 4 or 4 1/2 stars and yet my highest months of sales are about $100 after Google's cut. Its not bad for a hobby (especially since I write my apps because I use and like them) but anyone trying to make it as a full time career should have a viable alternative. Thanks, Justin Anderson MagouyaWare Developerhttp://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Kristopher Micinski krismicin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 2:11 PM, imran115 imran.hyd...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Hi everyone, I was wondering what peoples thoughts maybe on the application that Android are developing, that allows people with no programming experience to create apps. I am currently learning the basics in Android development and wanted to pursue it as a career. Is there any point, as just about anyone will soon be able to create an app? The link below shows what I am talking about. http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/ Will programming for Android apps no longer be a specialist skill, hence not much of a career? I'm going to argue that Android apps is not a career. You won't find many people making real money on their apps. Most people do it for a mix of fun and profit, if that. Android application development is a really niche area, without a solid background in computer science or some related field, you'll quickly be out of a job with no alternative. But to answer your question, of course not, see the last point in Edsger Dijkstra's How do we tell truth's that might hurt :-) Kris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en-Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Does the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1v work with OSX?
I think the 10.1v is actually the fatter one and the 10.1 is the thinner one that was handed out at Google I/O and not publicly released yet? Anyway the whole Doesn't work with Mac, the world is ending news about the Google I/O tab was totally blown out of proportion. I use a Mac for development and naturally plugged in the tab and started using ADB. Everything worked fine. I didn't even know there was an issue until I saw the news articles the next day. I guess that's for copying files without using adb-push. I'd imagine the 10.1v works with adb also. -Kevin On May 17, 6:36 am, Marcin Orlowski webnet.andr...@gmail.com wrote: Wait for this device to be officially released to find out. I/O pre-release does not really count. Regards, Marcin Orlowski *Tray Agenda http://bit.ly/trayagenda* - keep you daily schedule handy... *Date In Tray* http://bit.ly/dateintraypro - current date at glance... WebnetMobile on *Facebook http://webnetmobile.com/fb/* and *Twitterhttp://webnetmobile.com/twitter/ * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: On CRC32, LVL and tamper-proof app
I mostly agree with the blog post but some additional thoughts: 1) Google just opened up paid apps in more countries. There's potential to turn current pirates into legit users. However if they're already used to downloading your app from the pirate sites then even after you release an update they might not even both getting it from the Market. Unless they can't get it from the pirate sites right away. 2) In my experience, the way Android piracy works is that people get APKs using the 15 minute period, then they run the APK through the easily available LVL removing tool, then they post the APK. They're doing this so frequently and so fast that they DON'T EVEN TEST THE APK before posting. My app used to crash within 10 seconds of launch due to something happening in the LVL removing tool. I had tested the tool before publish and knew about this, but figured hey that means people won't use the tool. Now I know better, such a setup means getting a whole lot of emails from users complaining that it crashes as soon as they open it. So instead I do a really simple check to see if the LVL removing tool was used and if so I finish the activity and launch the Market. By hand a person could find and remove this check easily, but now when people blindly run the tool at least I won't get emails complaining about crashes. My point is that in order to make it inconvenient to pirate, you need your LVL to sneak past the tool. Worrying about a human cracking your app is less of an issue as by the time one does that the app has likely been out for a while and you have an update almost ready. But if the tool works then it can be on all the pirate sites nearly instantly after you release an update. -Kevin On May 12, 2:34 am, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2011/05/final-answer-for-what-to-do-to... I totally agree with that blog post. I believe the vast majority of users, at least for non-trivial apps, resort to piracy not because they are too cheap to pay for it, but because the app is not available in the country they live in and have no choice but to pirate. This is exactly the same reason why a lot of people download new-run TV shows using torrents. It has nothing to with being too cheap to pay a buck for a show, but the simple fact is that they are not given an option. Hulu is not available outside of the US and the 6-12 month delay is unacceptable to a lot of people. But I digress... I believe when the Android Market is finally made available in those additional 99 (really?) countries, things will improve. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: onBackPressed to hide Not destroy activity
moveTaskToBack is what you're asking for, but check the rest of the
documentation about the lifecycle too to make sure it's what you
actually need.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html
On May 6, 11:07 am, Cel kristjan.la...@gmail.com wrote:
i know how to cancel back keypress, so that the activity / main window
stays visible:
public void onBackPressed() {
return;
}
my aim is to hide the activity, however, without finishing it, how do
you do that in the onBackPressed event?
i.e. I would like to get as far as onPause(), but not evoke the
onBackPressed() default behaviour that essentially calls finish().
another way to put it is that i would like to mimic
onUserLeaveHint() ?
any help appreciated!
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[android-developers] Re: Battery Log using service
The suggest to create an alarm to wake up every 5 minutes is a good one. That will actually be more robust than having a service always running. Would it be possible to expand on this at all? My (perhaps incorrect) method of testing behavior with a service that is always running is by killing the process from adb shell. I think I've always seen something in the logcat about the service being scheduled to restart in 5 seconds. This is true either with a startForeground notification icon or with out. I'm guessing that in some cases it might be more than 5 seconds and that's why the 5 minute alarm is a good idea? Thanks, -Kevin -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Developing on Inspire 4G
Actually on ATT you can't use http or dropbox to install APKs because ATT block sideloading. But enabling the phone's System Settings Applications Development USB debugging and using eclipse or adb is easier anyway. (And like Mark said you may need the usb driver) -Kevin On Apr 30, 12:47 am, Russell DuRoss r2s...@gmail.com wrote: Another option is to use Dropbox. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: How launch activity from live wallpaper
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity
ComponentInfo{com.example.android.livecubes/com.example.android.livecubes.c
ube1.XmlSample}:
android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #11: Error
inflating class net.youmi.android.AdView
Your activity is starting, but the activity is crashing because your
XML references net.youmi.android.AdView and that class isn't found.
Most likely your forgot to include the youmi AdView jar. Test first
without ads and then add them when you have it working.
-Kevin
On Apr 15, 10:27 pm, a a harvey.a...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
There have a apk which have published on google market named
Launcher Wall, it can launch activity from it's live wallpaper.
So, i can launch my activity from my live wallpaper also, right? But
following exception caused when tap the live wallpaper to launch.
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800):
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity
ComponentInfo{com.example.android.livecubes/com.example.android.livecubes.c
ube1.XmlSample}:
android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #11: Error
inflating class net.youmi.android.AdView
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1665)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1681)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:118)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:933)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3701)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:
875)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:633)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): Caused by:
android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #11: Error
inflating class net.youmi.android.AdView
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:581)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:623)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:408)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:320)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:276)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.jav
a:207)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1657)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
com.example.android.livecubes.cube1.XmlSample.onCreate(XmlSample.java:14)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1613)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): ... 11 more
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): Caused by:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: net.youmi.android.AdView in loader
dalvik.system.PathClassLoader[/data/app/com.example.android.livecubes-2.apk ]
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
dalvik.system.PathClassLoader.findClass(PathClassLoader.java:240)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:551)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:511)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:471)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): at
android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:570)
03-01 09:45:12.005: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(4800): ... 20 more
[android-developers] Re: widget on lockscreen
It's not a Widget like an AppWidget. It's an activity that starts when the screen is off, similar to the alarm clock popup. Check out FLAG_DISMISS_KEYGUARD and FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED. HTC customized the actual keyguard to pull layout resources from an APK (but only their own APK, except on the EVO 3D maybe). -Kevin On Apr 4, 9:58 am, Martin Obreshkov manig...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm i noticed that MixZing is also having a lock screen widget. If this is only possible for HTC sense how they do it. On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Martin Obreshkov manig...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: It's a firmware thing, so yes, HTCs Sense can do it, but only because HTC wrote the firmware. Imho it's not a gerat idea anyway. One reason for having a lock screen is that it stops things happening when your device is put somewhere where it may get pressure on the screen which may cause undesirable behaviour (e.g. in a bag or pocket), so by putting your controls on the lock screen you run the risk of someone having the music paused or skipped due to a knock on the screen and then having to dig the device out in order to re-start/re-position playback. Al. On Jun 30, 9:24 am, Martin Obreshkov manig...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reply but what about htc sense it has some controls over lockscreen. Is this implemented by htc sense onlyhttp:// phandroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/rosie-lock-screen.jpg On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Sorry this is not currently supported. That comment in the documentation is simply describing what could be done in the future. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:22 AM, manigault manig...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all i am developing music player and i want to put some controls when screen is locked. Is there a way to put widget when screen is lock ? The documentation says that For example, the home screen has one way of viewing widgets, but the lock screen could also contain widgets, but i couldn't find a way to add widget to lockscreen so any ideas ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- When I raise my flashing sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance upon mine enemies, and I will repay those who haze me. Oh, Lord, raise me to Thy right hand and count me among Thy saints. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- When I raise my flashing sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance upon mine enemies, and I will repay those who haze me. Oh, Lord, raise me to Thy right hand and count me among Thy saints. -- When I raise my flashing sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance upon mine enemies, and I will repay those who haze me. Oh, Lord, raise me to Thy right hand and count me among Thy saints. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Amazon appstore order reports
You're not alone. I also suspect during the short time that reporting was available the numbers were wrong. I'm also in the top paid apps for Amazon and really want to know what my numbers are. I contacted them and they said they're aware of the issue and working on it. Hope we get to see some numbers soon. -Kevin On Apr 4, 6:49 pm, Gregg Reno gregg.r...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't been able to see my Amazon appstore order report in over a week. As a developer with an app in the top 25 paid apps list, this is really frustrating. I have no idea what my sales have been since launch. Am I the only one having this problem? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: New Android Phone
There's something wrong with your phone. He already said that: I have a Samsung Galaxy S phone. -Kevin On Apr 3, 2:25 pm, Marcin Orlowski webnet.andr...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 April 2011 21:04, Andrei Gherzan and...@gherzan.ro wrote: Hello to all, I have a Samsung Galaxy S phone. I've been using this phone for a 4 months. In these months i realized that i really need a faster phone. This one works like... :) Really! I mean some times, i have to wait like 20 seconds for my Agenda to come up and running. And this is annoying. There's something wrong with your phone. So i need some advice upon an android phone as i want to buy a new one. This is not the right group for such discussion. Regards, Marcin Orlowski *Tray Agenda http://bit.ly/trayagenda* - keep you daily schedule handy... WebnetMobile on *Facebook http://webnetmobile.com/fb/* and *Twitterhttp://webnetmobile.com/twitter/ * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Preprocess AndroidManifest.xml ?
With all these Markets, apks are starting to get more complicated. I'm taking the approach of a different APK for different Markets. There's some permissions I need in some cases and not in others. Like: com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE It doesn't hurt anything to have it on the Amazon store (And they haven't rejected for it), but it's unnecessary. I also have a direct-purchase option and I want to use, READ_PHONE_STATE. I don't want to include this permission when it's unnecessary for the Google Market or Amazon Appstore. The idea in my head is having an AndroidManifest.xml like: !-- #ifdef USE_GOOGLE_MARKET -- uses-permission android:name=com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE / !-- #endif -- !-- #ifdef USE_DIRECT_LICENSING -- uses-permission android:name=android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE / !-- #endif -- Then run AndroidManifest.xml through cpp. This would mean I could compile debug builds with Eclipse easily, and they'd just have all permissions. But when using Ant I could limit it to just one Market's permissions. (I'm handling actual java code with a static final int MARKET_TYPE deal that gets set by ant) Anyone know of anything like this that already exists? Anyone know why this is a horrible idea and I shouldn't pursue it? -Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Amazon Appmarket is now open!
Opera has just launched its own Mobile App Store And instead of contacting developers to get them to submit their apps before launch, Opera just populated it with pirated software... Not a good way to gain developer support or credibility. -Kevin On Mar 25, 2:07 pm, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Krischik Martin martin.krisc...@noser.com wrote: Did you actually read the terms and conditions for developers and suppliers? Or are you just an Amazon-Fanboy believing that is must be good because it is from mighty Amazon? Luckily for us with an interest in Java, Opera has just lancuhed its own Mobile App Store, supporting Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Android, Symbian, and Java ME, the latter which Google continues to pretend doesn´t exist. http://mobilestore.opera.com/ar,en,usd/java/index.html http://mobilestore.opera.com/ar,en,usd/android/index.html Google´s approach is my way or the highway. The World doesn´t need a new Microsoft, thank you very much. So welcome the other choices... FC -- It begins with a blessing And it ends with a curse; Making life easy, By making it worse; -- Kevin Ayers -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Amazon Appmarket is now open!
Some more details, it was WidgetLocker 1.2.2, which is from July 2010 and several versions out of date. It was named WidgetLockr (Pirate spelling?). It was an unmodified APK signed by me, the one I had posted to the Android Market (no LVL at that time). I contacted Opera with a DMCA takedown notice and received no response. I also contacted supp...@appia.com , because it seemed Opera's store is powered by Appia. I got a reply from partn...@handango.com saying they took it down and to contact them again if there is further problems (They did indeed take it down). So it seems Appia and Handango and Opera are all the same store. A quick check shows that other warez, like Beautiful Widgets, is still available. -Kevin On Mar 29, 4:02 pm, Nathan critter...@crittermap.com wrote: On Mar 29, 1:19 pm, Kevin TeslaCoil Software ke...@teslacoilsw.com wrote: Opera has just launched its own Mobile App Store And instead of contacting developers to get them to submit their apps before launch, Opera just populated it with pirated software... Not a good way to gain developer support or credibility. If that's the case, lets get them shut down with a flood of DMCA complaints. Forget credibility, there should not be any tolerance for that. Nathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Developers Phone Program
I root all my phones. Root lets you access your app's data directory, which is handy for viewing/editing a database or shared preferences file. But I don't run custom roms (Unless I'm actually tested something related to that rom). Custom roms definitely can lead to ridiculous problems. I've gotten several phones from craigslist and ebay. Popular phones can be much cheaper there and you don't need to deal with contracts or activation fees or anything. -Kevin On Mar 24, 3:31 am, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.com wrote: I've had enough irreproducible bug reports from users of rooted phones that I would *never* consider rooting a primary development device. For my money, it's got to be completely stock Android, and as close to vanilla (i.e., no funky manufacturer skins) as possible. String -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Double press home button side effect...
Android gives priority to the default Home application, to prevent it
from being removed from memory. Launchers require lots of memory.
Without this protection there is a good chance the actual launcher
will be killed and need to reload, which is slow and the user sees the
widgets redraw on the screen. Also it might lose any cache it had
which could make the app drawer load slower.
In practice, I've found that this method worked okay on 2.1 for
whatever reason. But with Android 2.2+ it doesn't. I imagine you'll be
able to reproduce the problem if you use a 2.2 device, set AppSwipe!
as the default Home, reboot (rearranges things in memory a bit), then
start using lots of memory-heavy apps like the browser, angry birds,
etc, then when you press the Home button after some time away look for
widgets redrawing.
I believe 2.3 neuters System Persistent as well.
Good luck!
-Kevin
I have an task switching app on the Android Market called AppSwipe!
and one of the most commonly requested features is the ability to
launch my app by long-pressing the home button. Since this is not
possible, I created a way to launch AppSwipe! by double-pressing the
home key.
This feature has been out for over a year and my users love it.
However, I recently received an email from one user who was reporting
some strange behavior when using this functionality... essentially,
the home app is getting killed and taking a long time to restart.
When this occurs there are some other UI issues as well (such as
folders launching with transparent backgrounds and such). It only
happens on very specific devices and I can't reproduce the problem.
Here is the general process that I am using to implement the double-
press of the home button:
1) I created an activity that declares itself as a home replacement
app (see XML below)
2) I have a user-modifiable setting that allows the user to specify
which home app to launch from the home button.
3) When the home button is pressed, my home replacement activity has
the following logic:
a) The first time the home button is pressed a timer is
created and started in onResume()
b) If the timer finishes, then the user-specified home app is
launched
c) If home is pressed again and the timer is still running,
then I cancel the timer and launch my app
Here is the XML that declares my home replacement app:
activity
android:theme=@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar
android:name=.HomeLauncherActivity
android:label=@string/app_home_launcher_label
android:launchMode=singleInstance
android:stateNotNeeded=true
intent-filter
action android:name=android.intent.action.MAIN /
category android:name=android.intent.category.HOME/
category android:name=android.intent.category.DEFAULT /
/intent-filter
/activity
Here is the onResume() method that runs the timer:
@Override
public void onResume()
{
super.onResume();
if (m_prefMgr == null)
m_prefMgr =
PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
if (m_pkgMgr == null)
m_pkgMgr = getPackageManager();
//First Home Button Press
if (m_timer == null)
{
int launchThreshold =
m_prefMgr.getInt(getString(R.string.pref_button_launch_home_click_threshold
_key),
PrefSettings.DEFAULT_DOUBLE_PRESS_HOME_THRESHOLD);
m_timer = new AppSwipeHomeLaunchTimer(launchThreshold,
launchThreshold);
m_timer.start();
}
else //Second Home Button Press
{
m_timer.cancel();
m_timer = null;
boolean swapHomePress =
m_prefMgr.getBoolean(getString(R.string.pref_button_launch_swap_buttons_key ),
PrefSettings.DEFAULT_SWAP_HOME_BUTTON_BEHAVIOR);
if (swapHomePress)
launchHomeApp();
else
launchAppSwipe();
}
}
Here is the code for my launchHomeApp() method:
public void launchHomeApp()
{
try
{
String pkgName =
m_prefMgr.getString(getString(R.string.pref_button_launch_default_home_app_
pkg_key),
);
String className =
m_prefMgr.getString(getString(R.string.pref_button_launch_default_home_app_
class_key),
);
Intent launchIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
launchIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME);
launchIntent.setComponent(new ComponentName(pkgName,
className));
launchIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
startActivity(launchIntent);
finish();
}
catch(ActivityNotFoundException e)
[android-developers] Re: Charge backs
I've gotten a few chargebacks. The email Google sends when this happens includes this nice piece of information: Please note that for Android Marketplace chargebacks received after June 1, 2010, Google will not assess a chargeback fee. And references: http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?answer=137996 What's weird is that Google Checkout still has the option of Cancel entire order. I don't know if such users can still get updates or be LVL-allowed. Full email Google sends: Hello, We received a chargeback notification for Google Order # for the amount of $1.99 because the order is being disputed by your customer's credit card issuer. The customer had claimed that they did not authorize this charge.. In accordance with our policies, Google will not attempt to resolve the chargeback on your behalf because this Android application order is less than contesting threshold. We have adjusted your account for the amount of the chargeback, $1.99. You should see this line item in the 'Other Activity' column in your Payouts tab within two business days. Please note that for Android Marketplace chargebacks received after June 1, 2010, Google will not assess a chargeback fee. Chargebacks fees applied before this date will not be reimbursed. For more information about our Android Market Chargeback Resolution Policy (including the contesting threshold amount), please visit http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?answer=137996 If you have any questions about this particular chargeback, please feel free to respond directly to this email with any questions or concerns. If you have a question regarding chargebacks in general, please contact us at https://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/request.py?contact_type=txn_issuehl=en_GB Thank you for understanding. Sincerely, Robert The Google Checkout Team On Mar 18, 11:22 am, Marcin Orlowski webnet.andr...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 March 2011 19:26, JB onde...@gmail.com wrote: To my understaning, the android market will charge the deleloper 10$ (or something like that) for any charge backs a customer submits. That seems frustrating. Are there anything actions taken toward a customer who uses charge back? In other words, is there anything that would make a customer think twice before charging back? Have you been charged back? As I wonder if you refer to Market regulations or Checkout general regulations? My doubts are based on the Market purchase process that is completely out of your control, so it's hardly possible to i.e. charge user without his knowlegde and acceptancel (he has to start the purchase and confirm it) nor you are able to cheat and i.e. charge more that user expects. It may be the case when you use checkout with i.e. e-store and request more than use saw in i.e. your basket summary, so that would be a subject to charge back. Regards, Marcin Orlowski Tray Agenda http://bit.ly/trayagenda - keep you daily schedule handy... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Charge backs
You tested with an actual Credit Card Chargeback and not just a Google Checkout cancel/refund/whatever? -Kevin On Mar 18, 1:24 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Kevin TeslaCoil Software ke...@teslacoilsw.com wrote: What's weird is that Google Checkout still has the option of Cancel entire order. I don't know if such users can still get updates or be LVL-allowed. They don't. I ran a test with another dev in group. --- -- TreKing http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: NullPointerException onCreate for a small number of users
Do you have howtoplay_button defined in your layout-port/main.xml and
not in your layout-land/main.xml ?
(Or in general if you have multiple main.xml files, for different
screen sizes or whatever, and forgot to update one of them, this can
happen)
-Kevin
On Mar 13, 11:40 pm, acr acr...@gmail.com wrote:
sorry for got to add this..
53: howtoplayButton.setOnClickListener(this);
this works on 99.9 percent of devices
here's a larger snippet:
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
setVolumeControlStream(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
//Get Screen Width
Panel.screenWidth =
getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getWidth();
// Set up click listeners for all the buttons
//View continueButton = findViewById(R.id.continue_button);
//continueButton.setOnClickListener(this);
View newButton = findViewById(R.id.new_button);
newButton.setOnClickListener(this);
View aboutButton = findViewById(R.id.about_button);
aboutButton.setOnClickListener(this);
View howtoplayButton = findViewById(R.id.howtoplay_button);
howtoplayButton.setOnClickListener(this);
View exitButton = findViewById(R.id.exit_button);
exitButton.setOnClickListener(this);
View buyButton = findViewById(R.id.buy_full);
buyButton.setOnClickListener(this);
newButton.startAnimation(AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this,
R.anim.shake));
..
On Mar 13, 11:30 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
Given this:
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at
com.myco.myappfree.myapp.onCreate(myapp.java:53)
at
android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
at
android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2627)
What is on line 53 of your app?
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:03 PM, acr acr...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a relatively successful app in the android market that a very
small amount of users experience force close on start up of the app.
It is not happening on a specific device, im not sure if it's
something these users have installed that is interfering with the app.
I've tried to troubleshoot with a few users having the problem, but
cannot get to the bottom of it.
it happens on both rooted and non-rooted phones
I keep getting a NullPointerException for a small number of users who
use a variety of phones that normally work.
anyone know what may be causing this, or how to get around this? I
can't figure this one out and cannot replicate the problem, please
help.
below are the stack traces from the market (package name changed to
not spam the board)
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity
ComponentInfo{com.myco.myappfree/com.myco.myappfree.myapp}:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at
android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:
2663)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:
2679)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:125)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:
2033)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit
$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:858)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.myco.myappfree.myapp.onCreate(myapp.java:53)
at
android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:
1047)
at
android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:
2627)
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[android-developers] Re: Experiences with Application Licensing?
The pirates will often miss that and catch a lot of well deserved flack from users who have downloaded the broken app. Careful. You ARE going to get bug reports from pirates. And they will waste your time by leaving out the very important point that they downloaded some random apk from some random site. The bug could be a real bug that effects actual users. The bug could be a bug you fixed long ago, but the pirate is using a version from the stone age. The bug could be due to using a private beta that some asshole leaked. Or, the most frustrating to debug, is when the bug is because the pirate did a bad job attempting to crack your app. You'll be so confused how that bug could ever happen, until you eventually find the warez forum and download the cracked apk yourself to see that the pirate commented out too many lines of code when trying to bypass copy protection. You will also have people who claim to have bought your app and getting licensing denied and wondering how to fix the situation, who will never contact you again if you ask for an order number. Good luck, -Kevin On Mar 9, 3:02 pm, jtoolsdev brianjto...@gmail.com wrote: Support for it is rather vague too. On my apps if I run monkey on the app without the licensing I can do 50,000 events and no crashes. The app with LVL crashes on one of those APN keystroke things. The LVL team needs to update the source to prevent that. I believe in using licensing if anything just to slow piracy down. You'll have to make it an ongoing project though changing the code with each release so they can't patch it. Also make the app not work right if the licensing is skipped. The pirates will often miss that and catch a lot of well deserved flack from users who have downloaded the broken app. On Mar 9, 10:58 am, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.com wrote: Great thread, thanks for posting that. I guess more than anything the false positives (or, negatives?) scare me the most. Last thing I want to do is piss off a paid customer. Maybe for now I'll just wait and see how LVL improves in the future and consider it in the future. -- Chris Stewarthttp://chriswstewart.com On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:41 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.comwrote: If you've evaluated application licensing and have thoughts on how it has worked out for you, or perhaps why you decided not to implement it, I'd appreciate hearing them. http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/2... --- -- TreKing http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Attempt to read preferences file without permission
The CTS needs to be updated to test that shared_prefs (and all app data) is actually deleted during an uninstall. Especially if the vendor randomly picked /dbdata/databases rather than /data/data. Or maybe just ban Samsung. I finally got my hands on an affected phone. This one is a Galaxy S i9000-T running 2.2.1. I installed my app and it got app_81, then I uninstalled using adb uninstall com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker then reinstalled and found my preferences had persisted across the uninstall, but no permission denied error. I uninstalled again in the same way, this time I went to the Market and installed Androidify. This is when things got interesting: ps shows: app_813366 2376 242568 31012 afd0ee48 S com.google.android.apps.androidify but ls -l /dbdata/databases shows: drwxrwx--x app_81 app_812011-03-05 18:44 com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker So Androidify got my uid and my preferences now are belong to them. I then reinstalled widgetlocker and got this in ps: app_843582 2376 243124 36396 afd0ee48 S com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker So WidgetLocker is now app_84. But /dbdata/databases still has: drwxrwx--x app_81 app_812011-03-05 18:44 com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker And we are screwed... My (unreleased) work around is to check for this and then use root to chown /dbdata/databases/packagename and /dbdata/databases/packagename/ shared_prefs and /dbdata/databases/packagename/ packagename_preferences.xml . I do this once at first run and I do it every time the PreferenceActivity is opened. Obviously this will only cure rooted phones and I verified the problem on my own phone without root, so those users are still screwed. -Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Lock status bar
The method used by the stock lock screen and while in a call is signatureOrSystem only: !-- Allows an application to open, close, or disable the status bar and its icons. -- permission android:name=android.permission.STATUS_BAR android:label=@string/permlab_statusBar android:description=@string/permdesc_statusBar android:protectionLevel=signatureOrSystem / -Kevin On Mar 3, 6:18 pm, lbendlin l...@bendlin.us wrote: The stock phone app does not lock on my N1. If an app would lock the status bar without my permission I would uninstall that app at once. Have you considered making your app fullscreen? On Mar 3, 5:40 am, Marcin Orlowski webnet.andr...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 March 2011 11:27, Tom thomas.coz...@gmail.com wrote: I know there is a way to expand/collapse and hide status bar. But is it possible to lock it? Phone app locks, so definitely there is, but doubt it's public -- Regards, Marcin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Toast not disappearing
I think I've seen something like if you show a toast and then your activity is destroyed before the toast disappears it might get stuck. Easier to reproduce if you're calling finish(). Probably could avoid it if you save the toast reference and do a .cancel() in onDestroy. -Kevin On Feb 28, 8:53 pm, Julius Spencer jul...@msa.co.nz wrote: Hi, I have an IntentService from which I am showing a Toast using: Toast.makeText(this, errorMessage.toString(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); For some reason it's not disappearing. Just wondering if anyone has seen this before or knows what I'm doing wrong. I'm sure it's just something I'm not thinking of but I'm stumped... Thanks in advance. Regards, Julius. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Toast not disappearing
Well I could be wrong about the cause, but I have definitely seen them stuck before. Killing the process fixed it. It wasn't in production code so I never dug into it. -Kevin On Feb 28, 11:22 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 1, 1:01 pm, Kevin TeslaCoil Software ke...@teslacoilsw.com wrote: I think I've seen something like if you show a toast and then your activity is destroyed before the toast disappears it might get stuck. Easier to reproduce if you're calling finish(). Probably could avoid it if you save the toast reference and do a .cancel() in onDestroy. That's absolutely not the case. A lot of my activities finish with a toast and I've never seen one stuck. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Check permissions
What the others have said is true, but if you want to check the permissions you can with the PackageManager's checkPermission http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html#checkPermission(java.lang.String, java.lang.String) On Feb 26, 1:40 am, Miguel Morales therevolti...@gmail.com wrote: Well, since you are modifying the manifest and recompiling a new apk for each version anyway. Simply have a file such as Const.java in which you define some static fields which you can check against at runtime. You'll have to still make changes to two places, but you won't have to touch your code directly. Also, yes permissions have to be accepted for your app to run and there is no need to check at runtime. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:17 PM, b_t bartata...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What is the correct way to check if app has a permission, for example android.permission.READ_SMS. I would like to create different versions of my app with the same code but different manifest xml with different permissions. So I would like to check runtime if this version has a permission or not. Thanks, Tamás -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- ~ Jeremiah:9:23-24 Android 2D MMORPG:http://developingthedream.blogspot.com/,http://www.youtube.com/user/revoltingx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: GOOGLE TO BAN PAYPAL?!
I cannot think of another enterprise that earns that much money from you and won't support you. It's especially funny (? not the right word for it) when compared to our users. We write apps that the user pays $1 or $2 for and then demands customer support and updates for the rest of their lives. The Google Market provides a service and takes 30% of our income, but doesn't even provide a method of contacting support. 1 star. Like TreKing, I'm very appreciative of Dianne, Romain and others Android developers that regularly post and help with Android development. I'm always happy when I'm googling for help on something and come across a post by one of them as I know it'll be interesting and detailed. -Kevin On Feb 26, 9:33 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: +100 The fact that Google takes 30% of sales, which, for my app, is well into 5 digits/yr and you cannot get any kind of support, is despicable. I cannot think of another enterprise that earns that much money from you and won't support you. Hopefully, when the Amazon Market goes up and running, it will provide competition to the Android Market and this will all improve, but I am not holding my breath. On Feb 27, 10:44 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.comwrote: Have you tried going to the Market support forum? http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/label?lid=7dc8a5... There are people from Market support answering questions there. LOL - Seriously? With all due respect Dianne, have you actually been over there? I spend about as much time there as I do here and I assure you, there is ***no one*** from the Market team answering *anything* over there. There was a time when you could count on Dontae to at least chime in with a bulls*** canned we're looking into it response, but in the last like 6 months or so I have not seen a single response from a Google Employee in that support forum. Sometimes, if you win a lottery, they'll respond to direct developer support requests when major stuff breaks (like the stats that are always breaking). But no one, and I mean NO ONE, from the Market has ever taken even 5 seconds to answer questions only someone from Google could answer, like the points of the TOS discussed here (and this issue has come up quite a few times). At least AFAIK - if you happen to know where these types of questions have been answered, I'm sure we'd all like to know where to go look. I mean, look at what you, Romain, Xavier, and others do here: spending your own free time helping us out wherever you can with issues others can't. I presume you all do this because you care about the product and want us to have a good experience using it. That's why it truly boggles my mind that not a single individual on the Market Team gives enough of a damn about *their* product to respond to even a single post. So, unfortunately, the OP is absolutely correct. Support for the Android Market for both users and developers is essentially non-existent. And this lack of support (and for me personally the fact that no one on that team seems to give a damn) is the chief reason why so many developers have such a terrible perception of everything and anything that has to do with the Android Market. --- -- TreKing http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Graphical corruption upon setting Live wallpaper
leave a complaint in the Market Don't do this. A comment like 1 star. Has graphical errors is useless to any developer and the developer has no way of responding. A detailed email on the other hand can actually help improve the app/ wallpaper/whatever and the developer can reply if they have questions. -Kevin On Feb 23, 3:50 pm, Amit amityadavsuc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Sir, First of all sorry to post it again but what I would do. I am not getting response from anywhere, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5067168/graphical-corruption-upon-.. Here is the problem inline: If I set 'Live wallpaper' in background on LG P500 and launch the application after that pressing 'home icon' anywhere in application and again come back showing major graphical corruption at that point. This doesn't happen with 'Normal wallpaper'! Also, I cross checked with Samsung gt i9020 this also not having. Hope, this time I'll get any response from my team. Thanks in Advance, Amit. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Checking if phone is ROOTED
If you're trying to block features on a rooted phone, then as Dianne
said, there is no guaranteed way. Hackers aren't going to let you
block them.
If you just want to know for analytics or a warning or something a
simple test that still covers most rooted phones is checking for the
Superuser.apk package com.noshufou.android.su. Something like this:
public static String superuserVersion(PackageManager pm) {
try {
PackageInfo pi =
pm.getPackageInfo(com.noshufou.android.su, 0);
try {
return pi.versionName.substring(0,
pi.versionName.indexOf(' '));
} catch (Exception ex) {
return pi.versionName;
}
} catch (NameNotFoundException e) {
return Not Found;
}
}
If you want to add features for root users then either just do your
exec with su and handle the case that the user denied you, or
initially do something like su id, or su followed by an exec id
and check the return value. If it's successful then most likely the
user will allow your future su requests, but still check for errors
just in case they don't.
http://www.xda-developers.com/ is probably a better place for root
related questions. This list tends to be more focused on what's
included in the SDK.
-Kevin
On Feb 16, 9:06 pm, mikedroid michan...@gmail.com wrote:
how to determine if the phone is rooted or not?
does FACTORY_RESET flag can be useD?
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[android-developers] Re: How to delete...?
Pls. *don't* use this style of writing SQL queries! Otherwise you'll always have to watch your back for Little Bobby Tables. http://xkcd.com/327/ On Feb 15, 7:07 am, Sebastian Roth sebastian.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Abhilash baddam abhilash.androiddevelo...@gmail.com wrote: My problem was solved like this.. myDB.execSQL(DELETE FROM favourites where month=' +str1+ ' ); Pls. *don't* use this style of writing SQL queries! JAlexoid (Aleksandr Panzin) had a good suggestion for you. The reason is SQL Injection. Pls. have a read here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection BR, Sebastian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: LVL behavior on client side license validity check for free apps
You cannot change a paid app to free. Once a paid app, always a paid app. This is not true (Unless this was recently changed). Once a free app, always a free app, but a paid app can become a free app (And then always be a free app). -Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: SmaliHook.java found on my hacked application.
This looks like Anti-LVL http://androidcracking.blogspot.com/ Anti-LVL can work through obfuscation/reflection, but it's mostly just find/replace. Though it's automated for the kiddies. Extract the app and read the fingerprints.xml and make your interesting bits harder to find. -Kevin On Feb 1, 4:01 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jostya, Yes, my app is obfuscated and the signature was my signature... It seemed like it doesn't matter if the application is obfuscated. It seems to be a simple hack that was fast! It only took a few hours after release of my application... Incredible... I guess I'm gonna have to get creative... -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Android SDK is so slow that is ridiculous.
And wouldn't you like to have *some* kind of working HC emulator now before devices ship? I just wanted to say yes, absolutely. Thanks for getting this to us soon, even in an unfinished/preview state rather than making us wait for the device to ship and our apps to be broken on customers hardware. -Kevin On Jan 26, 8:05 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: The issue with HC is that it now has a huge screen to draw, and the emulator itself doesn't implement any hardware acceleration of drawing, so it needs to emulate ARM code that is rendering to a window, and then emulate yet more ARM code that composites together the final display. Implementing hardware acceleration of drawing in the emulator is extremely non-trivial. It's not a matter of needing performance testing and improvement. The bottle-neck is very obvious, it is just difficult to solve. And wouldn't you like to have *some* kind of working HC emulator now before devices ship? On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Jake Basile jakerbas...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Core i7-920, 6GB of DDR-1333 RAM, and an ATI 5770. I get maybe 5-10 FPS on the Honeycomb emulator. This thing needs serious performance testing and improvement. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Intent-filter to handle *.foo.zip but avoid handling other zips
Hi, I believe I have figured things out correctly, but I would appreciate input of others to avoid breaking things. I'm hoping to setup my app to be able to download files such as Gingerbread.wltheme.zip from any website and be handled with my app. However I do not want my app to be used for normal Zip files as it's only meant to handle these special wltheme type of zip files. I'd like to use the .wltheme.zip filename as it makes it easy on webservers to send the mime type correctly and it makes it easy for users to extract the files and manually edit them. (Renaming files on Windows is a lot more difficult than it should be). On Gingerbread I can get away with: activity android:name=.UserThemeInstaller android:theme=@android:style/Theme.Dialog intent-filter action android:name=android.intent.action.VIEW / category android:name=android.intent.category.DEFAULT / data android:mimeType=application/zip android:scheme=file android:host=* android:pathPattern=.*\\.wltheme\\.zip / /intent-filter /activity As the Download app will let you download a zip file and then when opening from there lets my app handle it. However for Android 2.1/2.2 it seems the file won't even download without a generic handler for application/zip, so the above only works if the user also has Astro or similar installed. I found that this seems to work: activity android:name=.UserThemeInstaller android:theme=@android:style/Theme.Dialog intent-filter action android:name=android.intent.action.VIEW / category android:name=android.intent.category.DEFAULT / data android:mimeType=application/zip android:scheme=file android:host=* android:pathPattern=.*\\.wltheme\\.zip / /intent-filter intent-filter android:priority=-100 action android:name=android.intent.action.VIEW / category android:name=android.intent.category.DEFAULT / data android:mimeType=application/zip android:scheme=file / /intent-filter /activity Where if the user only has my app installed then they download a .wltheme.zip and it is allowed because of the handler for application/zip. This also doesn't annoy the user much as if they download a normal .zip and do have Astro or similar it won't try to get them to open it with my app as the priority for the generic zip is very low. Worst case is if they user only has my app and downloads a normal zip, then my app will try to handle it and present an error message. This seems acceptable. My question is, am I doing this correctly or is it likely to break something? Thanks, -Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Using internal Android string resources
I actually had this very conversation with my (bilingual) wife the other day. Another potential problem with using system strings in your own project is that if your default language is English and a user has their phone set for a language you don't support, they'll then see English for all your strings, but all the buttons and what not will be in their language. This happens sometimes in localized software. My wife's opinion was that even if the user doesn't speak English well, they will already know the Yes/No/OK/Cancel buttons. But if they do speak English well, they'd rather see the app all in English or all in their language, not some messy hybrid. It makes the app feel unfinished. One neat tool for dealing with the common translations is http://crowdin.net/ which will suggest translations from it's own database of previously translated strings. -Kevin On Jan 22, 7:48 am, DanH danhi...@ieee.org wrote: Yeah, while TPTB have a legitimate reason to object to using any/all of the system translations willy-nilly, it seems like it would be simple and very useful to harden a set of the most common stuff -- yes/no, continue/cancel, etc. Minimal effort on the part of TPTB -- just commit to never deleting those words. On Jan 22, 1:32 am, Brill Pappin br...@pappin.ca wrote: Yes, and I think thats a good strategy for graphics. However there are thousands of string in different language value resources... which is why I say it it would save a heck of a lot of time. IMO it's worth having to test with each new platform. - Brill Pappin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
