[android-developers] Re: ContentProvider - Update Field with multiplication result of other
but my surprise was find in column total this content: Price * Quantity Hi, Why is it a surprise ? That is exactly what you are asking Android to do : Put the STRING : OrderLineContract.Columns.PRICE + * + OrderLineContract.Columns.QUANTITY in the column total. Your question shows a real gap between what you want to achieve and what you know about programming. Kind of like : I want to play in the NBA but what is this orange round-shaped thingy for ? OrderLineContract.Columns.PRICE does not contain the value of the field, it contains the name of the field Using aVariable1 + * + aVariable2 does not multiply, it concatenates the string. You should really start here : http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/index.html Good luck. Yahel -- 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 disable copy/paste in EditText
I've just found the answer to that so I'll put it here for other
Googlers reference, but as Mark said : It can be really user-hostile.
So you have to use this only in perfectly defined situations and be
sure you won't upset your users by implementing this.
For example, in my app people can put comments on photographs. These
comments should be unique to keep the freshness and since the subject
of the app is prone to a lot of spam and, it allows me to stop a
spammer from just going on random pictures pasting the same comment
over and over again.
So here it goes. In your activity ad the following :
@Overrideprotected void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu)
{ //super.onCreateContextMenu(menu); //Be sure to
comment this line
or remove it completely.menu.clear(); }
Yahel
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[android-developers] Re: Current mobile connection speed?
Not exactly what you ask for but this is how I do it.
I'm not trying to be specific about the speed in kbs of the connection
because it can change a lot due to the user moving from cell to cell.
So I simply detect what kind of mobile connection we are on and send a
slow connection warning only when connected via EDGE or GPRS.
Here is the code that returns true if the connection is a slow one :
public boolean internetConnectionIsLowSpeed() {
ConnectivityManager connec = (ConnectivityManager)
getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
if (connec.getActiveNetworkInfo()==null) return(false);
if
(connec.getActiveNetworkInfo().getType()==ConnectivityManager.TYPE_WIFI)
{
return(false);
}
if
(connec.getActiveNetworkInfo().getType()==ConnectivityManager.TYPE_MOBILE)
{
switch(connec.getActiveNetworkInfo().getSubtype()) {
case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_GPRS :
return(true);
case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_EDGE :
return(true);
case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_UMTS :
return(false);
case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_UNKNOWN :
return(false);
default : return(false);
}
}
return(false);
}
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[android-developers] Re: Method to take Wireshark traces
Sorry mate but your question is about java on a desktop, not on
Android.
Maybe try to ask on a java forum.
Good luck.
Yahel
On 6 déc, 07:49, Tom avayam...@gmail.com wrote:
HI All,
Here i have copied the code. I am trying to write a code (for
phone automation) using which i want to connect to wireshark and start
taking traces on that.
while the wireshark is running i am doing some activities on phone like
make calls, browse websites etc.
When I am done with that, I want to stop wireshark to take more traces.
The problem in the code below is, with the line in red color. I cannot go
to next step till i dont get out of that line. i.e. if i once start
wireshark traces, it does not stop and if i stop to
go to next step, i cannot capture traces. Please help me to find out any
work around for that. Its ok if i can write wireshark part and other
application activites in two diffrnt methods.
try
{
String line;
File file = new File(C:\\+filename);
Writer output = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file));
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime() ;
Process p = rt.exec(start /B C:\\Program Files\\Wireshark\\tshark.exe -i 2
-a duration:100);
BufferedReader bri = new BufferedReader (new
InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
while ((line = bri.readLine()) != null)
{
output.append(line);}
output.close();
bri.close();
//System.out.println(Done.);
p.destroy() ;
//System.out.println(Run);}
catch(Exception exc)
{
exc.printStackTrace();
System.out.println(Error running wireshark);
}
Thanks.
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[android-developers] Re: Bad implementation of GPS on Samsung Galaxy tabs?
You do know that GPS is based on satellites that revolves around the earth in space ? Once inside, your GPS on ANY device will have a hard time getting a clear sky view, let alone synchronise with enough satellites to get a position. You might have some luck if you are near a window, but anyway, since it will have a hard time getting a fix, it will try and try and try and your battery consumption will go up and up and up. Good luck. Yahel On 6 déc, 08:51, Terry terb...@gmail.com wrote: I have an app which uses the GPS, and e.g. requests an update only every 10 minutes. This results in almost no extra battery consumption on ordinary phone devices with Android 2.x. When I try the same app on a Galaxy Tab 10.1 with android 3.1 INDOOR, it uses the battery like crazy. The GPS indicator indicates that the GPS searches for a position most of the time. Outdoors it works more as expected. It seems that when the GPS has problems getting a position fix, it keeps trying. Have anyone else experienced this? Is it a problem with the Galaxy Tab, or with Android 3.x? Are there any work-arounds? -- 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: strange error
ProgressThread cannot be resolved to a type You probably got your code from a sample or an existing project but forgot to include a file or part of a file that defines the class ProgressThread. Take a look in the original folder for a file called : ProgressThread.java and include it in your new project. Yahel -- 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: Publish modified APK to the Android Market without triggering an Update to existing users?
However, you should not discount the question for what it is. It benefits us all to understand the nuances of the Android market and the publishing process. Its a technical question, so let's find an answer. As I told you in my previous answer : Trying to upload an apk with the same or lower version number from the current one will only give you an error message. It will not break anything. It is actually one of the few thing that doesn't break in the Android Market. If you are afraid to try it for yourself and you don't seem to want to hear it from us, then it is going to be hard to end that thread. So I repeat : YOU CAN NOT DO THAT BUT IF YOU TRY IT WILL NOT BREAK ANYTHING. Loud and clear ? :D Yahel -- 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: Webviews side by side
I have two Webviews side by side, and, when one of them gets scrolled vertically, I need to scroll the other. Second answer on Google for Android webview scroll : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2238938/how-to-programmatically-scroll-android-webview Yahel -- 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: Publish modified APK to the Android Market without triggering an Update to existing users?
You can't upload a new apk with a lower version number than the current one on the market. You can try it for yourself. Nothing bad will happen, you'll just get an error stating what i've just mentionned. Don't be to worried about frustrating people. You can simply add a quick note at the top of your description and in the recent changes : * The new update is preparing the ground for the awsome new feature coming this month. So stay tuned And there you go. Simply email this line to the few that will email you and you're done. Good luck. Yahel -- 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: question about other markets
Hey Jim, Sorry, don't want to be harsh or anything so please take the following as constructive criticism. More markets won't help your apps. The Android Market is like Goliath and even Amazon looks like David. Others are just ant-sized compared to the official market. So if your app doen't perform at all on the Android Market(No download, no paid install), the problem is not exposure but your app. Google announced 600 000 new Android phone are activated per DAY !! That's a lot of exposure !! I've checked the page of your Bouncing buckies app on the market. The target audience for your app seems extremely limited, maybe chemists that work in the carbon field and love their job so much that they find buckies fun to watch on their leisure time. Beside, I can tell you know how to code and do it well, but you are lacking, just as I do and many of us engineers do : Graphical, art skills. That is just not our thing. People will download an app even if it's not close to their taste if the screenshots and the video give them the Wow effect !! Since it is obvious you don't mind hard work, instead of putting said hard work in publishing on other markets, here is what I would do to boost your profit on Android : - Drop ultra-niche audience : Android phones and tables are a huge thing among 18-45 males, half the audience is from the US, half from the rest of the world - Make a game : Interactivity with our phones is key. It is the second category of the market that has the most downloads - Make a very useful app : Something that you would use on a daily basis yourself - Find a friend(kid at the local school ?) that can draw. Like really draw and have him/her photoshop all the artwork for you, you'll pay them in pizza or something. Then make your game/app/livewallpaper with it and respect the artwork as truly as possible. That's just my two cents. Feel free to disagree :) Take care and good luck with your android endeavours :D Yahel On 8 août, 05:17, Jim Graham spooky1...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 07:53:31PM -0700, Chrystian Vieyra wrote: I think the only other big market is amazon app store. I am not a big fan of amazon app store, as amazon gets to set the app price Ok, then ... three questions: 1) do I get to set a minimum price? 2) how much of [price] do they take? 3) do they have a sign-up fee and/or per-listing fee (as I've heard Apple does---I read a comment that they charge $100/app uploaded to their market...don't know if it's true or not)? I'm sitting here looking at a Market that has failed to list Bouncing Buckies in the new apps list, and [GASP! SURPRISE] only one (known) paid install...and that one probably came from my listing in the Android Forums new app announcements page I made some changes to all of the pages for it today (added a YouTube video), but still have yet to see anything ... but, because of a known bug, there could be another one, or another hundred or more, or . who knows, and from what the bug listing says, it might be a while before I know about any of them (if any exist). I'm getting really, really frustrated. I don't even know whether I should work on and release another one, or wait I have the ideas, but. (sorry...I'll stop the frustrated rant now) So I'm seriously considering additional listings on other markets Thanks, --jim -- 73 DE N5IAL (/4) MiSTie #49997 Running FreeBSD 7.0 spooky1...@gmail.com ICBM/Hurr.: 30.44406N 86.59909W My policy on spammers: Castrate first, ask questions later. -- 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 Url Redirect
Hey G.,
Redirection is done on the server side. So you don't really have a way
of controlling that.
The server does the redirection wether you like it or not BEFORE
sending any web pages. So that you can't get the original site you
were going for if the server doesn't let you.
I'm not sure I understand why you would want to override the
redirection but my guess is that you are redirected to a mobile
website and that you want to land on the desktop website.
In this case, depending on what triggers the redirection on the
server, you might try changing the User Agent and/or display size
header of the request.
Most website use the User Agent header to tell if the user is on a
mobile device or on a desktop computer and then serves the website
accordingly.
Good luck.
Yahel
On 5 août, 10:16, gaurav gupta gaurav.gupta...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Guys,
M calling a webview to show a website, but in mobile or tab.
but url is redirecting .
i want to open a particular website , not its redirected url.
m using this code ,
Kindly check my code and let me know where is problem.
its urgent.
Thanks in Advance.
WebView mWebView;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
//mWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
mWebView.loadUrl(example url);
mWebView.requestFocus();
mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient()
{
@Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url){
// do your handling codes here, which url is the requested url
// probably you need to open that url rather than redirect:
view.loadUrl(url);
return true; // then it is not handled by default action
}});
}
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[android-developers] Re: Request to Google's Android SDK team
If my users were inconvenienced, I would try to give them a temporary solution to hold them over until I have a good solution. But that's just me. It's a difference in engineering philosophy. Your innocence is touching :D Google doesn't have users, it has beta-testers. I know it's going to hurt the engineer in you but Google expects you to work the way they do : Launch bêta-4 crashes out of 5 launch-no graphic design-not usability-tested app and simply add a way to monitor the crashes and beta-testers(users:) feedback. It worked well for them. But to be fair they just copied Microsoft recipe :D Beside, you have 600 000 new potential customer every day, so if the 600 000 of today are upset, well you'll do better tomorrow :D It's called the Google Way :D Yahel. -- 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: croping, scaling and rotating a Bitmap make my app crash
Bitmap + Android + Memory = PIA Look into BitmapFactory.Options to be used with a BitmapFactory http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/BitmapFactory.Options.html and specifically the inSampleSize options and try to find the balance between memory usage and image quality. Small device = small memory = small bitmaps or Dalvik will commit suicide :D Yahel -- 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: Application exits silently
Application that exit prematurely are usually only silent to end users. But you as an Android Developper my friend, you have tools that will make regular people look at you in awe and scream your name. Girls will probably try to rip your shirt off too... You've bee warned : Look into the mighty LogCat of hell and be prepared to see dead PackageManager. Yahel -- 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: Alarm Service
Where I can use Alarm Service, looks like the schedule information will be persisted only till the device gets boot up. The drunk coder from India strikes again :) If you wonder how these messages gets here : Prakash gets drunk, then comes home : My wife that B..ch.I'll have a boat one dayAnd then he tells me...Oh WTF...Oh yeah Android...Alarm service...Need to pee and falls asleep :D Yahel On 23 juin, 16:03, Sivaprakash sivaprakashshanmu...@gmail.com wrote: -- - Prakash. -- 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: Please review check my newly launched app.
Hi Abdul, I am going to share a long long secret tradition among developpers with you. Please do not go and tell others about it as it is so very secret. A long time ago, a thursday around 11h23 in 1982, an obscur, dark and dangerous age where software companies had to pay the beta-testers mafia, a young man by the name of Gates decided to take his fate and ours in his own hands. Those beta-testers are parasites he said. And the crowd cheered... Those beta-testers are like users but we have to pay them instead of getting paid for our buggy code...And the crowd cheered and boooed Those beta-testers smell bad under the armpit he added for good measureAnd the crowd cheered and boooed some more again. A new age was born : Users are beta-testers and they pay us to be just that. So don't be a fool, do just like the Android Market single-man Team or the Microsoft Word team : Ship your crap to the world and they'll tell you what's wrong with it. Oh and by the way this technique is called : User feedback (and wink;) ... Don't forget to wink after you say it, it will tell people who are in the know that you are on the same page. Yahel -- 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: textview and unicode
As Zsolt and Kostya already told you Android won't have a font that includes such special characters. The one you seem to want to use looks like a printer thingy. If you are trying to use unicode characters as icons then you'd better start using Pngs for your icons. Including a font that would hold all of the fancy characters in unicode up to #5000 will add at least 1-2 Mb to the overall size of your app. A png saved for web in 48x48 is less than 10 Ko. And you can use it as the background of your text field. Yahel On 20 juin, 14:25, dashman erjdri...@gmail.com wrote: i'm setting some text into textview .setText( \u2399 ); not working - shows up as a box. help! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Strange exception
That's what the first three lines of your stacktrace suggest. Yahel On 16 juin, 18:33, Felix Garcia Lainez fgarcialai...@gmail.com wrote: Umm... So the error is on one of my touchevents implementations for textview objects (and subclass like edittext)? On 16 jun, 15:00, Yahel kaye...@gmail.com wrote: really would be crazy, no? Crazy ? Yes ! Tedious ? Yes ! But you can probably narrow it down since it is raised by a TextView ontouch event. Have fun :) Yahel -- 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 celebrites api
The Ice Cream Sandwich Android team ??? These guys never stop, I eagerly wait of their Tomorrow Lottery Numbers API. Such an helpful piece of coding. Do you think they'll include a getCellPhoneNumberForStalkingPurposes() and a howToGetInHerPantsToBeACelebrityToo() method in the celebrity one ? I sure could you use the fame :s Yahel -- 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: Strange exception
Hi, It can really be anything. Modded Rom, bad implementation by a few manufacturer of some of the apis. As Treking told you, in those case your best bet is to use your uncaught exception mecanism to send yourself internal logs that you generate for yourself. Not only the stacktrace but a detailed log of whats happening in your app and that you can customise. Store every action your user does, everything your app does in an Array. Using a 16:29:12 Before action X, 16:29:15 During action X, 16:30 After action x protocol. And when your app crashes, send this array in your report. You'll then see the chronology of events and maybe you'll catch the culprit that kills your app. My two cents : Most not in my code bugs are generated on objects creation (eg. AudioBuffer audioB = new AudioBuffer(); ). So be sure to put a log line just before and a log line just after any of those. Long and tedious...Yes...Efficient...Yes :D Yahel -- 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: Strange exception
really would be crazy, no? Crazy ? Yes ! Tedious ? Yes ! But you can probably narrow it down since it is raised by a TextView ontouch event. Have fun :) Yahel -- 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
Sorry that you only found out now about google's ways of doing things. That is true to everything Google and that's the best advice I can give you : Never ever rely on one of their ecosystems to be your only source of income. Actually you can broaden this : Never ever rely on anyone ecosystem to be your only source of income. But it is especially true for Google : You see, they seem like a huge company making billions of dollars in benefice each year so you'd think they would have a huge staff helping their users, communicating before taking decisions, warning people of services disruption, not pushing piles and piles of bugs into the Android Market each and everytime they upgrade it since there is a good 10 000 developers using it. But the truth is : For every project Google launches the team that works on it is only of 2-6 people. Only engineers, no designers, no graphists, no supervisors, no usability engineer. And with such small teams for applications that have tenth of thousands users you can easily see how they have no time to treat things case by case. So what happened to you is something like this : An engineer found out that one malware used permissions XX and a specific access to i/o via NDK. So since he has no time for these foolisheries he just pulled all the apps that have these specifics in their code. - That's 10 apps and there is one with 6,5 millions downloads and a five star rating and no complaints - Yeah I don't care we don't have time for this, pull the plug !! For what it's worth, with a delay of two weeks I was able to have a contact with the Android Market team once on this mail address : android-market-support AT google.com I really feel your pain and I hope you get it sorted out. But be sure to start several other apps for iphone as I did and find other revenues that do not depends on someone else framework. Good luck. Yahel On 14 juin, 10:57, n.a devuni...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Guys and Google, I'm the developer of the most popular flashlight application on the Android Market - Tiny Flashlight + LED (over 6.5 million downloads, top 50 in the overall applications ranking). Today I found that Google have deleted my developer account without any notice and removed Tiny Flashlight from the market. I saw the news that Google removed 10 malware apps from the Android Market (http://phandroid.com/2011/06/14/google-removes-10-new-malware-apps-fr... ) and decided to write you. Seems like I've been affected by this and I hope this will be resolved soon, because I have invested a lot in Tiny Flashlight. For the one year since Tiny Flashlight has been released, I've managed to create one of the best android applications on the market. Although a flashlight application seems easy to create, it's actually quite hard on android, because the different hardware vendors have different camera drivers and this requires a lot of workarounds just to start the camera led / flash. This takes a lot of time and investment. In the last 4 months alone I had to buy over 20 different android devices, spend huge amounts of time finding a way to start the led on these devices and making the whole process trouble-free for the user. I've also gone a step further. Tiny Flashlight is one of the few applications, which supports all android versions on the market - 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, and 3.1. It's the only flashlight application, which still works on Motorola Quench / i1 / Backflip (all Android 1.5). Tiny Flashlight has become my primary source of income and the investment I've made is huge. Every single line of code has been written by me (except the Admob, Millennial Media, and Flurry SDKs, but I think they are respectable companies and would never allow any malware in their distributed SDKs). I just can not afford to make the tiniest mistake with Tiny Flashlight, because it's one of the top applications on the market and I have over 4 million active users and I've invested my life into this. I’m angry that Google never contacted me. They just deleted the whole account. I hope that they will fix it soon, before I lose my users and ranking position. http://www.appbrain.com/app/tiny-flashlight-led/com.devuni.flashlight -- 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
I'm sorry to be that guy, but you really should start thinking that they really just deleted everything about your account, not just hid it somewhere and are able to put it back up for you. That's the thing about general intervention and not case by case intervention : Fire and forget. I really do hope for you that this time the Android Market Team has been a little more profesionnal and kept backup but I really wouldn't count on it if I were you. Come back to tell us what happenned if they ever get back to you. Good luck mate. Yahel On 14 juin, 14:29, n.a devuni...@gmail.com wrote: Apple, at least, gives you 5 days to fix your issues and doesn't suspend the whole account. This is a bad situation to be in. I've sent an e-mail to android- market-support AT google.com but if they answer me after 2 weeks all will be lost. I'll lose my ranking position and will never be able to come back. A whole year of investment deleted in a single click. On Jun 14, 1:44 pm, Yahel kaye...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry that you only found out now about google's ways of doing things. That is true to everything Google and that's the best advice I can give you : Never ever rely on one of their ecosystems to be your only source of income. Actually you can broaden this : Never ever rely on anyone ecosystem to be your only source of income. But it is especially true for Google : You see, they seem like a huge company making billions of dollars in benefice each year so you'd think they would have a huge staff helping their users, communicating before taking decisions, warning people of services disruption, not pushing piles and piles of bugs into the Android Market each and everytime they upgrade it since there is a good 10 000 developers using it. But the truth is : For every project Google launches the team that works on it is only of 2-6 people. Only engineers, no designers, no graphists, no supervisors, no usability engineer. And with such small teams for applications that have tenth of thousands users you can easily see how they have no time to treat things case by case. So what happened to you is something like this : An engineer found out that one malware used permissions XX and a specific access to i/o via NDK. So since he has no time for these foolisheries he just pulled all the apps that have these specifics in their code. - That's 10 apps and there is one with 6,5 millions downloads and a five star rating and no complaints - Yeah I don't care we don't have time for this, pull the plug !! For what it's worth, with a delay of two weeks I was able to have a contact with the Android Market team once on this mail address : android-market-support AT google.com I really feel your pain and I hope you get it sorted out. But be sure to start several other apps for iphone as I did and find other revenues that do not depends on someone else framework. Good luck. Yahel On 14 juin, 10:57, n.a devuni...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Guys and Google, I'm the developer of the most popular flashlight application on the Android Market - Tiny Flashlight + LED (over 6.5 million downloads, top 50 in the overall applications ranking). Today I found that Google have deleted my developer account without any notice and removed Tiny Flashlight from the market. I saw the news that Google removed 10 malware apps from the Android Market (http://phandroid.com/2011/06/14/google-removes-10-new-malware-apps-fr... ) and decided to write you. Seems like I've been affected by this and I hope this will be resolved soon, because I have invested a lot in Tiny Flashlight. For the one year since Tiny Flashlight has been released, I've managed to create one of the best android applications on the market. Although a flashlight application seems easy to create, it's actually quite hard on android, because the different hardware vendors have different camera drivers and this requires a lot of workarounds just to start the camera led / flash. This takes a lot of time and investment. In the last 4 months alone I had to buy over 20 different android devices, spend huge amounts of time finding a way to start the led on these devices and making the whole process trouble-free for the user. I've also gone a step further. Tiny Flashlight is one of the few applications, which supports all android versions on the market - 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, and 3.1. It's the only flashlight application, which still works on Motorola Quench / i1 / Backflip (all Android 1.5). Tiny Flashlight has become my primary source of income and the investment I've made is huge. Every single line of code has been written by me (except the Admob, Millennial Media, and Flurry SDKs, but I think they are respectable companies and would never allow any malware in their distributed SDKs). I just can not afford to make
[android-developers] Re: Mac source control
Git has a rather steep learning curve but is the best tool available today. Svn is a lot simpler to learn and use but is not as versatile as Git. If you are a single developer on your project and don't want to invest the time then SVN is perfect for you. You'll be good to go in a few minutes. If you are several developers working intensively on the project then GIT is a must have. Good luck. Yahel On 17 mai, 17:30, bob b...@coolgroups.com wrote: What's a good source control system for the Macintosh Android developer? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Help me in detecting sound pulses (basically frequency detection)
You need to take a look at an algorithm called Fast Fourier Transform. You can find one implementation here : http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/?p=449 Good luck. Yahel -- 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: Is it true, Paid Aandroid apps from indian origin can not be published?
Please report to this page to know which countries are able to sell on the market : http://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=143779topic=1100168 Yahel On 13 mai, 10:16, mack2978 smashmah...@gmail.com wrote: Could any one from android support please confirm that Paid Aandroid apps from indian origin can not be published, it is true? -- 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: UI Framework Bug?
I believe you have a case of view reusing.
The ArrayAdapter will reuse row views whenever possible to preserve
memory. So if you set a Bitmap to visible that might be what carries
it as visible on usually the row X+5. So that you would need to reset
everything on the view that was dynamically changed in the GetView.
For example :
@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup
parent) {
View v = convertView;
if (v == null) {
LayoutInflater vi =
(LayoutInflater)c.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
v = vi.inflate(R.layout.list_view_row, null);
}
TextView label = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.label);
ImageView spinner = (ImageView) v.findViewById(R.id.spinner);
MyContainer item = (MyContainer) items.get(position);
label.setText(item.getText());
spinner.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
if (item.isLoading()) {
label.setText(***+item.getText()+***);
spinner = (ImageView)v.findViewById(R.id.spinner);
spinner.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
Animation spinnerAnimation =
AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(getContext(),
R.anim.rotate);
spinner.startAnimation(spinnerAnimation);
}
return v;
}
Not sure though.
Good luck.
Yahel
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[android-developers] Re: UI Framework Bug?
Your solution seems to simple not reuse the views. I don't think you'll hit a performance issue speed-wise but you may want to check memory-wise as I believe this is the main reason behind this design. Especially if you have one bitmap per row, a long list of row could trigger Bitmap exceeds VM budget memory exceptions. Yahel -- 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: is there any idea that files are only used by application those are stored on media card?
For a slightly more secure implementation you could encrypt/decrypt only a small part of the mp3 files, eg the header - enough to render them unplayable by other players, that way you don't need to encrypt/decrypt the entire .mp3 file We'd be on StackOverflow I'd +1 on you big time :D These are very good advices !! I feel so dumb not to have think you don't need to encrypt the all file to limit I/O operation as the OP asked !! -- 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: is there any idea that files are only used by application those are stored on media card?
but can anyone tell me how can i apply drm rights to my songs. Google for these : WMDRM or AAC DRM But I'm not sure WMDRM is readable by Android. Just so you know : If your content is this valuable that you want to encrypt it with DRM(wich is flawed anyway) then be warned that this content will be offered for free everywhere on the Internet in less than two monthes(days it it is really great content). The only reason I would go to all the trouble of finding a way to add DRM to files is to seal a deal($$) with less tech savvy people that would think that the content they produce is safe in my app(even thought it is not really). Say these mp3's are the best mp3's on the planet and I'm a low tech hacker : I'd plug a jack in my phone and to my computer, play the file on the phone and record it in the computer and tadah, I have ripped your MP3 and your $12 000 DRM licence + 10 days work for the implementation are just a pure loss of money and time. Maybe if you told us what the app is about we could help you find a way to monetize your app in a complete different fashion. Good luck. Yahel -- 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: is there any idea that files are only used by application those are stored on media card?
Simply implement your own media player inside your app. Files that are stored in the asset folder of your app are by default private and not accessible by any other app. No need to encrypt them except if you're afraid of people manually unpacking your apk. Yahel -- 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: is there any idea that files are only used by application those are stored on media card?
The limit for an apk is 50 meg. Yahel -- 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: is there any idea that files are only used by application those are stored on media card?
Rereading your questions, I'm not sure I understand your problem. You seem to have find a decent workaround using this encrypt/decrypt scheme. Can you tell us what is going wrong ? -- 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: is there any idea that files are only used by application those are stored on media card?
As everyone told you, crypting and decrypting in the app is a huge security breach since the password has to be in your app anyway. Reverse engineering Android apps is very very easy for people who do this kind of things. Also be aware that except if using https for your file transfert, the download urls are also pretty easy to snif off the network. On another note if you just want to be secure against normal end users and don't worry too much about the hardcore hackers then you're ok. In this case I would recommend that you implement your own filestream class with embedded crypting/decrypting. If you're mp3's cannot get out at all and that's a requirement I believe you have to follow Marcin advice to get the best DRM container you can find. But Mark is completely right : There's only two types of DRMs, the one that were hacked and the one that are going to be hacked :) So much so that a lot of non-free legal mp3 download services now offer only DRM free mp3's Yahel -- 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: Image processing in Android
Bitmap memory management is buggy and completely unintuitive. It does
not show in MAT as it is allocated in another place and not counted in
the heap. Well it is counted but not easily released or something.
My app is all about images(a world of faces), and here is how I get it
to work most of the time :
//decodes image and scales it to reduce memory consumption
private Bitmap decodeFile(File f){
try {
//decode image size
BitmapFactory.Options o = new BitmapFactory.Options();
o.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new FileInputStream(f),null,o);
//Find the correct scale value. It should be the power of
2.
final int REQUIRED_SIZE=480;
int width_tmp=o.outWidth, height_tmp=o.outHeight;
int sampleSize=1;
while(true){
if(width_tmp/2REQUIRED_SIZE || height_tmp/
2REQUIRED_SIZE)
break;
width_tmp/=2;
height_tmp/=2;
sampleSize*=2;
}
//decode with inSampleSize
Bitmap bitmap = null;
boolean cacheHasBeenCleared = false;
BitmapFactory.Options options = new
BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inSampleSize=sampleSize;
byte[] tempBuffer=new byte[8000];
options.inTempStorage = tempBuffer;
while ( (bitmap == null) (sampleSize 64) ) {
try {
bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(new
FileInputStream(f),
null, options);
} catch (OutOfMemoryError e) {
if (!cacheHasBeenCleared) {
this.clearMemoryCache();
//Try to free up some memory
System.gc();
System.runFinalization();
System.gc();
cacheHasBeenCleared = true;
}
sampleSize *=2;
}
}
return bitmap;
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {}
return null;
}
The idea is to try to decode the file at top quality. If that throws
out of memory error, it tries to free memory and reopen the file but
with a smaller scale. Rinse and repeat.
Oh and don't think the second system.gc() can be removed that would be
so naïve of you :D That's Android framework we're talking about :D
Good luck with your app.
Yahel
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[android-developers] Re: Version2 uploading to Android Market
As Cull told you there is no need to worry about that, the market won't let you upload a new version if it as been signed with a different key. You'll get an error and that's all. For you second question, I guess if the line with the [certificate is valid from 16/10/10 19:48 to 03/03/38 18:48] shows the same exact date and time for the from section, its pretty safe to assume that it is the correct certificate. Yahel On 8 fév, 10:44, subhashini alaguchokku subhashini.andr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I checked with jarsigner -verify -verbose -certs my_application.apk if the certificates for two versions of build are same. The result was both were same. So can this be considered that we have used the same certificate for both versions Thanks, A.Subha On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:55 PM, cuil yahoo cuilya...@gmail.com wrote: Don't worry, you cannot upload a version with a different key, the uploader will give you an error. Be sure to use the same key. -- Cuil On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:26 PM, subhashini alaguchokku subhashini.andr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Would like to know if there is any method to check before uploading to Andorid market, whether the key used to sign for the second version of an app is same as first version If there is no method, what will happen if we upload the new version using the same package name as first version and the key used is wrong? Thanks, A.Subha -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: SKIA Bitmap loading ??
A little up on this. No one really ?
Yahel
On 3 fév, 19:49, Yahel kaye...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm starting to implement a lazy image loader for the listview in my
new project so I was gathering informations and came across Romain Guy
full featured implementation in the project Android Shelves
:http://code.google.com/p/shelves/source/browse/trunk/Shelves/src/org/...
While reading I found this piece of code I cannot understand
(FLAG_DECODE_BITMAP_WITH_SKIA is set to false above in the code) :
if (FLAG_DECODE_BITMAP_WITH_SKIA) {
expiring.bitmap =
BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in);
} else {
final ByteArrayOutputStream dataStream = new
ByteArrayOutputStream();
out = new BufferedOutputStream(dataStream,
IOUtilities.IO_BUFFER_SIZE);
IOUtilities.copy(in, out);
out.flush();
final byte[] data = dataStream.toByteArray();
expiring.bitmap =
BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(data, 0, data.length);
}
I think SKIA is the Image library written by google, at least used by
google.
What I don't get is why is he doing a test here and what is the
difference between the two types of loading ? They both are decoded by
BitmapFactory. Why would the result be different ?
Any insight ?
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[android-developers] Re: Bitmap factory and ICC aware JPG
My problem is that I don't choose the file I want to use, they are picked by the user from internet. I'm wondering if the way Romain Guy handles things in my other question is not about that kind of problem. I'll give it a shot. Yahel On 21 jan, 16:33, nagarjuna lingala nagarjuna.ling...@gmail.com wrote: Internally there is difference between bitmap and jpg . You try to use bmp file . Or try to convert that jpg to bmp by using mspaint. Dont hesitate me. it is just i hoped On 1/21/11, Yahel kaye...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your answer, I was going to go this way but then I read the wikipedia article about jpeg and I think I understood that sometimes the icc is coded in the pixels and sometimes it's not. Making it quite difficult to work out. I'm thinking of using the capture ability of a webview and the facts that it knows how to load the image to try to get around. Yahel -- 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 -- Sent from my mobile device * MIND OVERLOADING* -- 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: SKIA Bitmap loading ??
Excellent link and info Kostya, thank you. I believe you're right it's not the same implementation but it's the same principle. I hadn't seen this article. Very interesting. Yahel -- 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: SKIA Bitmap loading ??
Thanks for your input Romain, could you comment on the original question as well ? What was the point of the SKIA testing and what are the difference between the two way of downloading an image ? Yahel On 4 fév, 12:53, Romain Guy romain...@android.com wrote: Shelves is still relevant, but it should be updated to show newer APIs and take advantage of multiple resolutions and densities. There might be better samples out there though :) 2011/2/4 Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com It's really a shame that that blog has no search function. But I think I remember reading somewhere that Shelves is too old to be useful as a sample these days. The blog post is I linked to is, I believe, more recent. -- Kostya Vasilyev --http://kmansoft.wordpress.com 04.02.2011 13:27 пользователь Yahel kaye...@gmail.com написал: Excellent link and info Kostya, thank you. I believe you're right it's not the same implementation but it's the same principle. I hadn't seen this article. Very interesting. Yahel -- 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 -- 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] SKIA Bitmap loading ??
Hi all,
I'm starting to implement a lazy image loader for the listview in my
new project so I was gathering informations and came across Romain Guy
full featured implementation in the project Android Shelves :
http://code.google.com/p/shelves/source/browse/trunk/Shelves/src/org/curiouscreature/android/shelves/util/ImageUtilities.java
While reading I found this piece of code I cannot understand
(FLAG_DECODE_BITMAP_WITH_SKIA is set to false above in the code) :
if (FLAG_DECODE_BITMAP_WITH_SKIA) {
expiring.bitmap =
BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in);
} else {
final ByteArrayOutputStream dataStream = new
ByteArrayOutputStream();
out = new BufferedOutputStream(dataStream,
IOUtilities.IO_BUFFER_SIZE);
IOUtilities.copy(in, out);
out.flush();
final byte[] data = dataStream.toByteArray();
expiring.bitmap =
BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(data, 0, data.length);
}
I think SKIA is the Image library written by google, at least used by
google.
What I don't get is why is he doing a test here and what is the
difference between the two types of loading ? They both are decoded by
BitmapFactory. Why would the result be different ?
Any insight ?
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[android-developers] Re: Is this possible with Android
No sorry, android apis do not provide a way to send audio to a call. Yahel On 29 jan, 08:59, Johny pyt...@hope.cz wrote: I am thinking about this scenario 1.In a mobile with Android will be running my script. 2. Someone will dial the number( say number A) of that mobile where the script is running. 3.The script will answer and ask the caller( the caller has say number B) to dial the number where he wants to be connected to( say number C) 4.The caller ( with his number B )will enter the number C 5.The script will dial that number C and makes the connection between number B and C so that they can talk together. Is this possible to do that with Android? Thanks L. -- 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: Newbie help, please.
You are not initializing your object Vibrator. This is really like java 101. You should start by learning java. Otherwise it's going to be very difficult for you. http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/tutorialLearningPaths.html Good luck. Yahel -- 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: Bitmap factory and ICC aware JPG
Up ? Any insight of any kind from anyone ? Thanks. Yahel -- 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: Bitmap factory and ICC aware JPG
Thanks for your answer, I was going to go this way but then I read the wikipedia article about jpeg and I think I understood that sometimes the icc is coded in the pixels and sometimes it's not. Making it quite difficult to work out. I'm thinking of using the capture ability of a webview and the facts that it knows how to load the image to try to get around. Yahel -- 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: another problem with Galaxy Tab and fullscreen
Seems like you are missing the fullscreen bit of the syntax : android:theme=@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen Yahel -- 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 detect Face and Smile Face matching in Android?
Take a look at this port of openCV https://github.com/billmccord/OpenCV-Android/blob/master/README.rdoc Good luck. Yahel -- 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] Bitmap factory and ICC aware JPG
Hi all, I'm fighting a weird battle over here. Using this simple code : URL bitmapURL = new URL(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/ 4069/4432443443_3ece4b42d9.jpg); HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)bitmapURL.openConnection(); connection.setDoInput(true); connection.connect(); InputStream input = connection.getInputStream(); bitmapFromUrl = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input); I'm able to create a bitmap from the url of a jpg file. Well most of the time. The url included in the code is of a jpg that cannot be decoded by bitmapfactory. I narrowed it down to the fact that it uses an ICC color profile. Which seems to me to be the only true difference from this other one which loads fine : http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1370/879345990_d778558446.jpg I thought that icc color profile were headers and that decoders which did not know what to do with it just ignore them. But it doesn't seem to be the case for Android BitmapFactory. Anyone has any idea how I could overcome this problem ? Side note : If I feed the guilty url to a webview component, it displays it fine with no problem. Could that be used in any way to make a bitmap out of it ? Thanks. Yahel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] How to use Android documentation ?
Hi guys, I'm facing a productivity problem with Android. Basically, I can do whatever I want with the framework, I always find out a solution to everything I need to do. My problem is, I never find a solution/explanation on the Android developer web site. It just never happens. For example, I'm just trying to save a picture to the SD card. With a single google search, I find some code/explanation about getExternalStorageDirectory () on say StackOverflow. Look at it, understand it, implement it on my own to be sure I grok it. But then to be thorough, I make a second quick search and discover MediaStore. Some people use it to store images. But no explanation at all on what it is, what are the advantages, why I should use it. Does it take care for me of the location/sd cars presence/sd card mountability ? And of course, the Android documentation is just plain useless on the subject. Just gives me the methods and properties with laconic sentences that are usually unhelpfull if I don't already know what it is the purpose of the object. So my question is : What am I missing ? How do you guys understand what object to use and why when the documentation doesn't tell you ? Again, I always find someone smarter than me who understood/debugged/ private investigated, so that I can always achieve what I meant to do, but I've been developing for 20 years now and I find it tough to feel so dumb. Yahel -- 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 not decode high resolution picture
How to open a high resolution png picture, the picture is
4000x3000,but it crashed when it was decoded.
It depends what you want to do with the image.
If it is a background for a game and you need it at this size, then
you need to break it up and come up with a common tile preloading
scheme.
If you just want to display it on the screen you just need to
downscale it a lot.
I use this function in my code to try to get the biggest picture that
can actually fit in memory, it's far from perfect, especially the fact
that you actually can't feed the sampleSize with a float and have to
go full integer at a time but it works without degraging the picture
quality even when displayed on tablets :
private Bitmap getDownsampledBitmapFromFile(String fileName, int
sampleSize) {
//Try to free up some memory
System.gc();
System.runFinalization();
System.gc();
BitmapFactory.Options options=new
BitmapFactory.Options();//reset
object
byte[] tempBuffer=new byte[8000];
options.inTempStorage = tempBuffer;
options.inSampleSize=sampleSize;
Bitmap downsampledBitmap = null;
try {
downsampledBitmap =
BitmapFactory.decodeFile(fileNameToUpload,
options);
} catch (OutOfMemoryError e) {
sampleSize ++;
}
return(downsampledBitmap);
}
I'm using it 'as is' because it worked for my purpose but if I had
time I would run a benchmark to test if the double gc and finalization
could not be moved to the catch and allow for a bigger size image to
be computed without outofmemory exception.
Yahel
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[android-developers] Re: Suggestions for my inventory application
What else can i add in this to make it the only inventory solution out in mobile. Being ambitious is a nice quality... :D Take a look at what your competitors do, on mobile platforms(ios, android, windows mobile 6.5) and desktop. And go from there A quick obvious one : Scan the barcode if any on your product, retrieve the item from a webservice and allow for nice and easy input of quantities either sold or purchased Yahel On Dec 29, 6:50 am, Abhishek Talwar r.o.b.i.n.abhis...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys I have an application on which i have been working on for a while now. The application has 4 major areas :- 1. Item Master - Where user can create new products 2. Purchase - Created products are inflated in autocompletetextview and user can add quantity to it . 3. Sale - Created products are inflated in autocompletetextview and user can enter quantity of it sold . 4. Stock - This shows the list of the products present along with the colour and quantity. What else can i add in this to make it the only inventory solution out in mobile. Let me know. I don't mind spending time. Regards Abhishek -- 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: Game pretty much like mine
That's a bummer but : - Your competitor seems to be here for a long time, how come you didn't check before investing monthes ? - No one knows that your physics is better, no one really compares, you download a game, you play it - Your app doesn't show on the market on my nexus one from France. The other app does - There's room for everyone, if your game is addictive enough people will play it - Be happy, the other apps has evangelized players to that kind of game, they'll know what to expect and your download rate will be better - You know have an incentive to make your game even better, competition is always a good thing - I guess your talking about graphism when you say profesionnal, then just find a friend, or a friend of a friend who can draw better than you and go for a fun but less polish style. There's a couple of game you can find that looks like they are drawn on a page with a pencil for exemple. Bottom line : Competition is always good and there's room for everyone, it's not because they downloaded your competitor that they won't download yours(quite the contratry actually)...If yours is better people will notice Good luck. Yahel On Dec 20, 8:22 am, brian purgert brianpurge...@gmail.com wrote: So yesterday I,m looking around on the app market and I noticed that there is a game very similer to the game I've been working on for months now, so now im pretty bummed out I thought I would be the first to bring this type of game out for android but Im not. The game that is similar to mine is mxmoto, its a pretty good game but the physics aren't anywhere as good as mine, for instance you can beat any level if you hold your phone straight, and its much to sensative for the average user... well the thing is I can't make my game look professional like. What do you guys think I should do. My game is called doodle bike btw and its similar but there is more physics like spinning objects and gravity changes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Why Android Why???
I need(not want, need) a phone with a 4' screen, a physical keyboard, a trackball and a front camera...Where does it fit in your scheme for a single one-size-fit-all device ? Android will never beat any iphone : Android is a framework not a device It's as if you were saying on a Microsoft forum : Hey computer manufacturers how come there's a DVD drive on that computer and not on this one, and why is there a trackpad on this notebook and not on my desktop computer...I want consistency :D Thanks for sharing anyway :D Yahel On Dec 17, 5:43 am, JasunX yase...@gmail.com wrote: The reason I'm posting in the Developer's forum is because I couldn't find a single collective and official discussion forum - and also in hopes that someone high up on that ladder will actually get to review my concerns (big hopes yeah) - Moderator - if this is too inappropriate for this forum - please guide me to a suitable one. I'm at a loss for words regarding Android manufacturers - I think all they want to do is make money. Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying Google (via Android) just wants to make money - I'm talking about HTC, Samsung, LG, etc etc... These manufacturers want to compete with Apple's iPhone - we all know this - it's the core element that keeps them manufacturing. But why screw us around? I'm not trying to be cynical - I'm just trying to be realistic. 1. I've used Apple's devices, namely, iPhone (3GS 4) and the iPad - and to my dismay - the hardware did not disappoint - the software however did - I can't express how much I despise the iOS platform it makes my teeth grind that it even exists. I used the iPhone 3GS for one night and I couldn't stand the device. 2. I've used an Android device - Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Galaxy Tab - and couldn't get enough. The device integrates so seamlessly with your google account it makes using either your PC or your Android device a seamless experience altogether. I've experienced much better accuracy when typing, especially on the Samsung Galaxy S compared to that of ANY iOS device. Obviously this has been contested as there are some reports that say typing on Android's touchscreens is a hassle compared to the iPhone or iDevices for that matter - and in my experience that's a load of bull. One reason - haptic feedback. So Android as a software platform - brilliant - apart from the seamless integration with your google account - it's just the UI that's such a pleasure. Just having a home button (like Apple's junk) might make you feel that's all you need - but after using Android, you'll come to find that your Settings, Home - and Return button make any mobile device bloody comfortable to use. It just speeds up your entire movement and collaboration with the device. Now that we've got that out the way - I can firmly pull my head out Android's @$$ - let's get to the problem - the manufacturers. They all want to rival Apple's iPhone. They're all looking for the iPhone killer - maybe not Android fans as a whole - but the manufacturer's would like nothing more than to beat Apple's devices to a pulp. But why? Why oh Why oh Why? Can't you design a cellphone to match the exact specifications of the Apple iPhone? Now I anticipate a lot of hate speech toward me regarding this - and I accept that some of you may be angry but hear me out. Why does Apple create their devices the way they do? What is it about their design that Apple Fanboys find so fascinating? There's three answers I can't give, among others that may exist. 1. Size: Look at Apple's iPhones - you don't see Apple making them bigger, or thicker, or wider - Apple goes smaller every time - but not so much that it makes the device feel cheap or insignificant. You want a solid device and Apple has maintained that with regard to physical design. But Android? Yes sure, you get your Xperia X10 Mini's - but that device feels like a friggin toy! It's too damn small! Yes sure you get your Samsung Galaxy S - but still - the few millimeters added onto the length actually does make a difference, and with the thickness at such a minimum - it makes the device feel so delicate and awkward. 2. Symmetry: What makes typing on the Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S such a comfortable, convenient pleasure? Symmetry! Apart from the screen - you have what I'm going to refer to as the little black pieces that make up the rest of the phone - and these exist at the top and bottom - i.e. succeeding the top and bottom of the screen. With such symmetry it allows you to type so much more comfortably without any offset on how your two hands are holding the device - this is so important and hardly any Android manufacturer's stick to this code - make the bottom and top little black pieces after the screen the same size! MAKE THE BACK AND FRONT SEAMLESS - DON'T HAVE A LITTLE CAMERA LENS STICKING OUT THE BACK OR A TRACKBALL OR EVEN SO MUCH AS A BUTTON STICKING OUT! Those
[android-developers] Re: Fun - Android Market failure on update
Ah nobody played but the answer were : 1, 3, 6 ... Thank you Android Market Team...Always glad to be your Beta-Testers :) Yahel On Dec 11, 5:02 pm, Yahel kaye...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, The market team seems to want to push some more updates. Since they probably did not test those better than the previous ones, I thought it would be fun to bet on what's going to break this time : 1. Download/Active install count 2. FC reports 3. Checkout 4. LVL 5. New rating system hides all apps for all users 6. Posting/Updating of apps in the console Ok, I'm first, I'm betting 2 internets on n°5 and to be safe 1.5 internets on n°1 which is always a winner :D Yahel -- 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: Fun - Android Market failure on update
Yes I know what you mean... What amazes me is the fact that from what I've heard it is very hard to get a job at Google, it involves a process that takes up to two monthes and lots of interviews. You'd think those guys know what unit testings are :s I would really love to know what are Google's strategy/goals behind Android for Google to make it look so much like they don't care at all. What's even more amazing is : Why on earth is the platform this successfull ? I've been a web/intranet developer for 10 years now, if I had shipped products with such a low level of reliability/functionalities and such a high level of bugs I would be living under a bridge in a house of cardboard today :s Anyway...We now know about it. So I stopped hoping I could make a living of the Android Market and looked for other opportunities. Yahel On Dec 19, 12:24 pm, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: And speaking of testing: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13259 I know it's harmless, but it's not what you'd expect to see from code in com.android.* -- Kostya 19.12.2010 14:17, Yahel пишет: Ah nobody played but the answer were : 1, 3, 6 ... Thank you Android Market Team...Always glad to be your Beta-Testers :) Yahel On Dec 11, 5:02 pm, Yahelkaye...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, The market team seems to want to push some more updates. Since they probably did not test those better than the previous ones, I thought it would be fun to bet on what's going to break this time : 1. Download/Active install count 2. FC reports 3. Checkout 4. LVL 5. New rating system hides all apps for all users 6. Posting/Updating of apps in the console Ok, I'm first, I'm betting 2 internets on n°5 and to be safe 1.5 internets on n°1 which is always a winner :D Yahel -- Kostya Vasilyev -- WiFi Manager + pretty widget --http://kmansoft.wordpress.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: Fun - Android Market failure on update
Do not confuse the Android *platform* with the Android *Market* I don't. But part of the success of the platform should come from apps made by developpers who tries to cope with the piece of junk that is the market, the piece of junk that is the documentation, the non-existing piece of junks that are communication channels between google and Android developpers. But despite all of this, the growth of the Android *platform* is incredible. Bottom line : Why should they care. My apps are free and I'm not trying to make a living of Android dev, but some are trying and it's downright insulting from Google to push untested updates that breaks everything on people who spent a year or more working on an app and its reputation. Anyway, that's my last rant on the subject. When you surf on someone else's business, you should expect to be treated like a parasite :D If someone from the market can make the delete link from the screenshots actually remove the screenshots in a reliable and reproductible way it would be nice, if not well you know...Happy holidays anyway :D Yahel -- 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: Fun - Android Market failure on update
Sorry I promised it was my last rant on the market but then this happens and I couldn't stop laughing : http://www.picvalley.net/v.php?p=u/2809/69253461918203477631292789388CRkaZVDRjg1Pl0HPbAb7.JPG Way to go market team :D Yahel -- 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: Layout: Battery usage bar
Julie Andrews is a spam bot... That's why she doesn't have much to say :D Yahel On 13 déc, 17:33, Brill Pappin br...@pappin.ca wrote: Julie, Your responses still don't contain any content. Maybe something wrong with your reader? - Brill -- 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] Fun - Android Market failure on update
Hey guys, The market team seems to want to push some more updates. Since they probably did not test those better than the previous ones, I thought it would be fun to bet on what's going to break this time : 1. Download/Active install count 2. FC reports 3. Checkout 4. LVL 5. New rating system hides all apps for all users 6. Posting/Updating of apps in the console Ok, I'm first, I'm betting 2 internets on n°5 and to be safe 1.5 internets on n°1 which is always a winner :D Yahel -- 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: Market not updating?
Guys, it is notorious that the only thing the Market console allows you to do is post your app and update it. It already has a lot of trouble doing this, don't expect anything else from it. The numbers you see are random at worth, hints at best. The market console is a temporary-we'll make it better someday when we have time-half baked-we need to ship tomorrow so do your best-one man team effort-crapware :s But hey as Google always says, it's free, so be happy you can at least post your apps :D We repeat out loud for everyone : DO NOT RELY ON THE NUMBERS, OR ANYTHING FOR THAT MATTER, IN THE MARKET CONSOLE. It is a waste of time for you. Yahel On Dec 8, 1:30 am, Brill Pappin br...@pappin.ca wrote: I seem to be having a problem with my paid apps in the market. No comments or downloads showing but I have about 30 purchases since this morning. Is anyone else noticing their apps stuck like that? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: App freezes when the power key is pressed
If you have flickering going on, then either : 1) You are drawing only your new shape on top of the canvas and not redrawing the entire canvas from a bitmap the size of your Canvas 2) You are not drawing every frame in your surfaceview thread loop. The idea of double buffering is simple, instead of drawing directly to your surfaceview canvas, you draw on a bitmap buffer that is the same size as your canvas. Then when the drawing is done on this bitmap, you draw the entire bitmap on the entire screen which is very fast and efficient. Just to be sure...You do have two separate threads ?? One for calculation and next frame computing(game logic thread) and one which is the surfaceview drawing thread ? Yahel -- 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: prevent user from clearing app data
In other words there's no way to protect my app from the user simply deleting app data, and the only solution is for me to build my own licensing server? You mean like it is on every single operating system on the planet ? Well then Thanks Microsoft, thanks Apple, thanks Linus :D In case you did not notice in your everyday use of desktop softwares and the thousands of DRM schemes, users can erase anything(regedit rules:) from their computers and that's a good thing. Does that make it hard for developer to protect their work ? Yes. Is it normal behavior ? Yes ! Depending on your target audience and severity of piracy on your niche, you could simply rely on the good old : If I hide it, they most likely won't find it : Find a good weird and system like name and store a file or directory on the sd card that contains the date or number of uses. Sure if someone notices he can always erase the file or directory but it will be far harder to uncover than simply using sharedpreferences. Normal end-users will see their demo stops, Pirate users will have decompiled/recompiled your app anyway. Anyhow this is not Google or Android's fault, it is again those pesky users who wants to be in control !! So thanks pesky users, you guys think your the best uh ?! :DD Yahel -- 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 freezes when the power key is pressed
For the screen-orientation, you just have to specify the one you want in the activity tag of your manifest.xml : http://developer.android.com/intl/de/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html I agree with Dianne on the not so impressive Sony-Ericson way to help you fix an issue for THEIR devices !! As for double-buffering : You app offers psychedelic animation...I had not notice the flickering as I thought it was part of the What did I smoke this time ? concept :D But if it was not intended you should definitely use double buffering. Although it is weird because I had understood that SurfaceViews implemented double buffering out of the box. Are you using SurfaceView ? Double-buffering being very straightforward, i'll let you search for it. The basic idea being that you don't draw directly to screen but in a bitmap the size of your screen first and then draw that buffer to the screen while computing the next frame. Yahel -- 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 freezes when the power key is pressed
Good for you. Just so you know I tested your app extensively on both my nexus one and my Htc Hero. Everything worked smoothly. No crash even after a lot of orientation changes, and home keypressing monkey style :D Just one idea though : I understand that you wanted to know what was going wrong and its really a good thing since you learned a lot from it but if you had wanted to go the easy route, your app really doesn't need to handle screen orientation at all. It doesn't add anything to the experience since the drawings do not depend on it. I would even go as far as to say that it is distracting since you decided to leave the notification bar that gets redrawn everytime. Just my last two cents :) Yahel On Dec 3, 6:01 pm, Eyvind Almqvist eyv...@mobile-visuals.com wrote: I think I have fixed it now. I discovered that lots of objects were created over and over again for every screen turn in the view constructor. I fixed this by making the these objects static. I mailed the new version to you. You got it for free, it will cost 4,5 $ in the appstores:) On 3 Dec, 10:23, Eyvind Almqvist eyv...@mobile-visuals.com wrote: I got this test result from SonyEricsson: We have tested your latest version which you send to me. The rotation issue still can reproduce on both android 1.6 and 2.1. And the reproducibility of this issue is much higher than before. On 1.6, theappwill force closed after I rotate the screen more than 2 times. This is very strange. I thougth that I fixed the rotation problem and they say that it is worse now... On 2 Dec, 20:38, Eyvind Almqvist eyv...@mobile-visuals.com wrote: Thanks, I read the article. Then I saw that I had a global reference to a context, which I didn't need. I removed it and then it worked much smoother. I think this fixed the leak. I don't have any reference to a context at all now. I mailed youmyapp. Hope it works like it should on your HTC! On 2 Dec, 14:48, Yahel kaye...@gmail.com wrote: When they rotate the screen several times, This is usually a symptom of a memory leak. Try to read this article from Romain Guy :http://www.curious-creature.org/2008/12/18/avoid-memory-leaks-on-andr... It explains how they can happen from a single handle to the context. The fact that you do not have crash but again this black screen(no drawing being done) probably means that you actually handle this exception with a try catch somewhere. Ifmyguess is correct then you simply have to put a Log.e(error,error happens here : xxx); in every catch of yourappand you'll find where it happens. Again the difficulty is to be able to reproduce the problem. Again you should implement something like the android-remote- stacktrace so that when it happens on someone devices you get the stacktrace from their session which will give you good clues on what's happening. “Sorry! Activity XXX(in application XXX) is not responding” happens when you have a very long operation that hangs the main UI thread so that the user can't use it anymore. Maybe this is a clue for you to what is happening. Do you have a long calcultation, double buffering drawing, loading of a big bitmap or something similar in the main thread ? If you tell me which game it is I can try to reproduce the problem onmyHTC Hero which is an older phone so might be more sensitive to the problem. Yahel- Dölj citerad text - - Visa citerad text -- Dölj citerad text - - Visa citerad 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: App freezes when the power key is pressed
When they rotate the screen several times, This is usually a symptom of a memory leak. Try to read this article from Romain Guy : http://www.curious-creature.org/2008/12/18/avoid-memory-leaks-on-android/ It explains how they can happen from a single handle to the context. The fact that you do not have crash but again this black screen(no drawing being done) probably means that you actually handle this exception with a try catch somewhere. If my guess is correct then you simply have to put a Log.e(error,error happens here : xxx); in every catch of your app and you'll find where it happens. Again the difficulty is to be able to reproduce the problem. Again you should implement something like the android-remote- stacktrace so that when it happens on someone devices you get the stacktrace from their session which will give you good clues on what's happening. “Sorry! Activity XXX(in application XXX) is not responding” happens when you have a very long operation that hangs the main UI thread so that the user can't use it anymore. Maybe this is a clue for you to what is happening. Do you have a long calcultation, double buffering drawing, loading of a big bitmap or something similar in the main thread ? If you tell me which game it is I can try to reproduce the problem on my HTC Hero which is an older phone so might be more sensitive to the problem. Yahel -- 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: Proposal to Market Place
person give you one just because they want to be jerks. I would like to propose a change . Good luck proposing, nobody's listening :s to the market rating system where a rate of 1 or 5 must include comments What you'll get is : 1 star ratings with the following very helpful(but short to type) comments : - lame - wt wrk - awful - meh Even worst : Upset that they can't post their one star rating without a comment they'll make it count by being even meaner :s And for the 5 stars ratings they'll be the same as now but a lot fewer since they require more work. So you'll have the worst of both world :D If you really want feedback on your app, you should probably simply implement it in your app and ask for it when people press your Quit button(that you really shouldn't have because it's against android policy...but anyway :) Not sure if this advice applies to you but this type of rating system exists since arpanet or so and works very well. In the long term, 1 star-jerk rating are just overwhelmed with the 4 and 5 stars of people who took time to actually test your app and understood it. So wait a few weeks and it won't matter anymore And one last thought, even though it is tough to see them appear in the comment list, 1 star-jerk rating means nothing about your app if they are not the norm in your ratings. They just give you a clue about the lazyness and attention span of the 1 star-jerker :D Oh and one last-last thought : If your last comment out of 3 comments in total is this 1 star-jerk rating, did you know you can download your app, rate it and comment it under your google market account ? Every time you change your comment it will come back to the top. Take care. Yahel On Dec 2, 7:06 pm, Leon Moreyn-Android Development lmor...@earthcam.com wrote: As a developer I find it difficult to understanding ratings sometime. 1 to 5 is a good scale. But here is the problem with scale you can have people give you a five for the sake of giving you a five or a If I am receiving a one due to technical Also with the 5 I would like to know what is working so very good on my app that I could continue to use it in future developments. This way as we develop more apps we can get a better sense as what the rating really mean and the ppl who are rating the apps really think about them. 1 and 5 the extremes should require feedback as the 2 to 4 are mostly middle ground and could be left alone for the average jerk to rate. -- 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 review the app inside the app ; need not to go android market to rate app
Uri uri = Uri.parse(market://search?q=pname:your.package.name); Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri); intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK); startActivity(intent); If you go this way, don't forget to check there is a market intent available. I had a lot of FC's due to some device not having a market to handle such a link. Yahel -- 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: Porting Andoid Apps
Someone already had an issue when porting applications from a device to another one ? Every single one of us doing more than just displaying images of cats that purs when you click on it :D Multitouch, opengl support, intent availability, hardware support, the list of compatibility issues goes on and on, some you can test (presence of sensor,...) some you can't. It's the drawback when you have multiple hardware running on framework. There is one company I can't find the name anymore that have some kind of way to let you try your app on as many devices as you can. It costs a lot though. The most spreaded way to go is to add something like android-remote- stacktrace to receive a full stacktrace by email when an unhandled error occurs on one of your client device. Good luck with your game. Yahel -- 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: Please help with an ideea
http://tinyurl.com/34f6d55 :) Yahel -- 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 freezes when the power key is pressed
Ok that's weird. If you have nothing in your onStart and your onResume sets the loop as running for your drawing loop, then that is where you should have a look. My guess would be that the restarting of your looping via setRunning doesn't do what you think and that it is just not restarting at all so that you don't have any drawing going on. Or maybe you are creating objects in your onCreate method that get destroyed when your apps looses focus and that are never recreated again because onCreate is only called the very first time you launch your activity. First thing would be to Log.e(drawing,I'm drawing) in your thread drawing loop. Yahel On Nov 30, 10:50 am, Eyvind Almqvist eyv...@mobile-visuals.com wrote: After I insert the USB cable, there is three options “1. Connect your phone. 2. Install PC Companion. 3. Charge phone.” No matter which option I have selected, the app will just freeze without any message. When I press the power key to go to power save mode and then press it again to resume the application, the app will just freeze without any message. I test by doing lots of screen orientation changes, like you recommended.But I can not replicate the freezing problem on my Samsung galaxy. I don't have the SonyEricsson X10 and X8 devices to test on. I try to simulate a power key press on the emulator, by pressing the power button. I debug and onKeyDown is called, but onpause() and onResume() is not called. Doesn't onpause() and onResume() get called when the power key is pressed? I can not simulate insertion of a USB cable on the emulator. My onStart method only call the superclass, so I don't see how an exception could be raised here. My onResume method also sets the graphics thread to setRunning(false), which means that the thread will continue, but it will not execute the drawing loop. On 29 Nov, 19:16, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: What do you mean your app freezes? This is not a typical failure case when pressing the power button. :} On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Eyvind Almqvist eyv...@mobile-visuals.com wrote: My app freezes when the power key is pressed. This happens on SonyEricsson X10 and X8, but not on Samsung Galaxy S. This is what happens: 1)Launch the application-Press power key- Press power key again to active app-App freeze. The app also freezes when the USB cable is inserted, like this: 2)Launch the application- Insert USB cable-Message pops up and click any option to continue- App freeze. I am distributing apps to SonyEricsson's Playnow appstore. They have reported this as error, so I have to fix this. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? I have already followed all the advices in Designing for Responsiveness on http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/responsiveness.html -- 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.- Dölj citerad text - - Visa citerad 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: App freezes when the power key is pressed
What do you mean by freeze ? A Force close or a This app does not respond, wait or kill message, or no message at all ? From what you describe I'd guess you have a memory leak or an exception raising during the onStart or onResume of your app. You can probably replicate the problem on any device by just doing a few screen orientation changes which will mimick what you describe(the lost of focus by your activity) Don't stay in the dark when you can't access a device that crashes, use something like the android-remote-stacktrace to receive emails from your app with the full stack. http://code.google.com/p/android-remote-stacktrace/ Good luck. Yahel On Nov 29, 7:05 pm, Eyvind Almqvist eyv...@mobile-visuals.com wrote: My app freezes when the power key is pressed. This happens on SonyEricsson X10 and X8, but not on Samsung Galaxy S. This is what happens: 1)Launch the application-Press power key- Press power key again to active app-App freeze. The app also freezes when the USB cable is inserted, like this: 2)Launch the application- Insert USB cable-Message pops up and click any option to continue- App freeze. I am distributing apps to SonyEricsson's Playnow appstore. They have reported this as error, so I have to fix this. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? I have already followed all the advices in Designing for Responsiveness on http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/responsiveness.html -- 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] Market is completely out of order !!
No news from the Android team(one-man team most probably : ) about the market being completely screwed and unusable : - Half my app do not appear anymore in the list - Delete links under the screenshots don't work anymore - Even though there is a highres icon present and showing, saving sends error This field is required I mean ok, Mister Market Developer you are alone in your office doing the job of a complete team but come on, Unit Testing before launching new version is the bare minimum. We know google isn't helping you much and there not giving you even an assistant but last count from july gives 10199 developers using the Market console. That's a lot of people depending on you. Could you try a little harder please ?? Yahel -- 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: guitar tuner
Hi mate, I worked on one recently but never finished the job. I found this open source code directly in java code perfect for Android and which works ok and is pretty easy to understand : http://thesongeditor.com/ref/FFT.java I had pretty good result with it. Good luck. Yahel -- 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 - Yay or Nay?
At this point I'm leaning towards no DRM... hopefully that's the right decision. A good thing it is not an irreversible decision :D Put your apps on the market with no DRM but a single call home via http request at the very first start of the app. In a month you'll be able to compare you're actual sales number to the number of app which called home and estimate the piracy ratio of your apps. Then take the most pirated one, implement LVL just for this one. Wait for a month and see if the piracy ratio changes enough to make it worthwile to add LVL to your other apps. And of course, be sure to report back here to us. I like beautiful graphics and long analytic blog posts...Thank you very much :D Good luck. Yahel -- 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: Product images for marketing materials
Your printer is a douchebag ... Just sign him a release stating that you won't sue him if any problem should arise and be done with it Phil Endecott from Scotland :) Oh yeah Samsung is so really going to be pissed off by a developper diffusing one of the press-release pictures of their product displaying an app. They might sell one, it would be so horrible. :D Yahel On Nov 10, 4:12 pm, Phil Endecott spam_from_goo...@chezphil.org wrote: Dear All, What do people know about rights to reproduce device graphics for web sites and marketing materials? I have some great images of the Galaxy Tab that were published with their launch press release, and I have assembled a flyer showing my app running on it. However, my printer won't print it unless I can convince him that I have the right to do so. I've spent a long time trying to reach the right person at Samsung but so far without any luck (you are in a twisty maze of telephone menu options, press 1 to abandon hope). So, I'm wondering if anyone has any experience to share or perhaps suggestions of other manufacturers whose material is published with a clear re-use rights statement. If not, the flyer is only going to have pictures of Apple devices on it, which would be unfortunate. Many thanks, Phil. -- 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: AppsLib (Archos store) is not legit?
I was in contact with their Developper relation manager a month ago. I told her that I would not release my apps on the appslib store if I could not test it first on Archos hardware. She told me there was no way to get lended or offered one of their device but that they might some day offer 20% discount on their overpriced hardware to developpers. So I told her I would not release my apps on their market. Two days later I received an email saying : Thank you for registering as a developper on our market and publishing your apps with us Not very courteous but hey they do business what do they care about developpers. Yahel On Nov 9, 10:51 pm, SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com softwareforme@gmail.com wrote: Hello, What do you all know about AppsLib? I know they were a small startup store who partnered with Archos to provide them with an app store on their devices. Recently we found that they are distributing pirated software, including an old copy of our product, PhoneMyPC, for free. We have contacted AppsLib several times, and Archos directly twice, only to be ignored by all parties. We had AppsLib in our list of markets to release products into once our licensing mechanism is finalized, but we have now removed them and will not do business with them. I sincerely hope Archos device owners can download SAM from SlideMe, or some other reputable app market. What's your experience? Is this unusual for that store, or is this just how they do business? Warm regards, Scott SoftwareForMe Inc. -- 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 many devices have the nexus one / HTC desire multi touch bug and would you release a game utilizing multitouch anyway?
Hi, Sorry but it's not only the nexus or the desire, it's all the htcs and some other. The answer to your question is in the market : Almost no games are multitouch because it is so broken. Mine(Armaboing) which is as simple as it can gets is using a massive amount of logic and took me a massivea amount of time to be almost decent in two players mode. If massive multitouch gestures is needed. Don't waste your time. Or be prepared to have only a very small share of the market and dreadful comments. I just realised : you said gesture. This might be different, my game uses only taps which are reported wrong almost everytime. In any case, you should prototype your gesture with a very simple app before and tests them on a nexus, a desire or a hero to see what happens for you. Yahel On Nov 6, 10:43 am, noriato fabri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, so there's the multitouch issue with the Nexus One and HTC Desire. Is there some documentation on what other devices have this hardware error and what the total market share is? If you had a game idea that needs massive multitouch gestures, would you go for it on Android or would it currently be a waste of time with only a few devices supporting it? Peter -- 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 books
Here, well we all are pro-Mark Murphy's books... Haven't read them but given the amount of definite and accurate answers he gives in this group I would say this is a safe call :D Yahel -- 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: Stolen app on market
Because I care about the Android project which I find to be such a great idea on paper and such a poor realisation. Well the framework is ok but the market ? I spend a lot of time in and around that piece of junk and it slowly building a huge itch, so much so that I bought a Mac. That's why ... But I'm an entrepreneur, I'm suppose to thrive on constraints and use them at my advantage to make my business flourish and if the Market allows that kind of behavior, I know now exactly what to do next ;) What's the name of your app by the way ? ;) Yahel -- 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: multiple images in a one single image
Well the collage part is easy and tough : Just use one of the many flavor of drawBitmap and matrices(if you want rotation and/or scale randomness) from your source image into your big destination image. What I found difficult and did not solve that properly, is how to layout the pictures nicely so that they all are visible. The easiest way I found was to dispose the image in a grid with random but limited rotations(+/-25°) and play around with cells size. The smallest the size the more the picture overlap. Then to be able to click one, I would just get the coordinate of the touch event and compute which grid cell it corresponds to. You can maybe even do all of that without creating a big bitmap but just using imageviews. Yahel On 12 oct, 15:35, ntimesc ntim...@gmail.com wrote: i want to create a bitmap / image which has many images like Collage which has more then one images in a single picture. I have stored all my images in a grid view but now i want to create a single image from all those images. And even i want to make few images click able so what can be the road map to do this ? any sort of help / example will be helpful. search for a for collage image image in google . one can see what it is exactly -- 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: Stolen app on market
Ok, this is getting ridiculous !!
We are on theft issue here, not just spam or something dull.
GOOGLE should not just remove the app. This is a big, huge, and the
worst infringement you can find in the whole history of market
crapiness : The account of this guy should be deleted. period.
As soon as GOOGLE receive the first CD letter and checked that it is
indeed exactly the same app, boom !! Even if all the other apps are
his own work.
Yahel
On 12 oct, 15:57, Nightwolf mikh...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for the answers.
We reported about infringement to adMob and Google. AdMob advised to
file CD to Google and we did so.
On 4 окт, 21:44, { Devdroid } webnet.andr...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 October 2010 19:14, Nightwolf mikh...@gmail.com wrote:
Recently I've discovered that our app Little Python is distributed by
developer who call himself Adam Gates. He renamed our app to snake,
replaced icon and changed AdMob id.
He has 55 published apps. Please take a look may be you'll find yours.
Is there any way to shut him down? Please advise.
Sure. Write to Google using this link (in Market console Help on the
upper side, then Contacting Us on bottom and then
Android Market Developers: Publishers Merchants then
probably Application Removal which would lead you to this:
http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/request.py?contact_ty...
Write down your discovery
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[android-developers] Re: Stolen app on market
Atually there is no legal issue here. Against the TOS + theft : Account terminated ! I can admit although with difficulty, 32 spammers with 10 000 apps(actual numbers) and 14 years old, made-in-5-minutes crapps, to artificially increase the count of apps in the market for marketing purpose. But this is something else. I'm glad I just bought a Mac. Diversification will soften the feeling as I won't be 100% Android as today !! Yahel -- 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: Advertising network
Ah I thought the name was familiar : Is Avril your sister or just the fake top-model avatar you made yourself on linked-in ?? :D As for mobclix, you should maybe read this blog post before choosing...The comments are gold : http://www.androidsx.com/admob-vs-mobclix-2nd-round/ Take care :D Yahel http://www.a-world-of-faces.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: android internationalization problem
i wanna to test it if the language is Norwegian On the emulator I wouldn't know, but on actual device, simply download more locale from the market and set the locale you want to be in. Its instanteneous and works very well. That's what I use to test my localization. Yahel -- 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] Market misery !!
I am so upset !! It is not enough that the just-in category is flooded by bigboobs finders crap-apps all the time so that the exposition time of any decent app is a mere couple of hours but now after patiently waiting a week before launching my new update, it does not even appear in the just-in category !!! I'm promoting my app all I can on my blog, myspace, facebook, twitter, tumblr and all, but the best exposition tool should normally be the market !! [Actual question] So how long between two updates to be sure to show up in the just in category ? Beside : I'm buying a mac mini this very week-end and starts porting my apps to iphone and if these ports works well on webos and iphone, I think i'll just quit this information black hole that is the Android platform !! -- 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: caller id spoofing
Hi Greg, I think caller id is not sent by the phone that makes the call but is actually served to the receiving phone by the company at the other end. This might exists as an option in some professionnal phone contract. You should call the phone company which have the sale's staff contract. I'm not sure but you could also take a look at google voice that gives a fair amount of freedom with what you do with your phone numbers. But It won't be Android related. Yahel On 7 oct, 23:40, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: I've searched and found nothing helpful so I'm now asking for guidance. I have a client who wishes to spoof the caller id for his phones he assigns to his sales staff. He wants the number to appear to be from his main office to better handle return calls from potential buyers. Is this possible? After reading many posts on this list and much time Google'ng, I'm thinking it's not. Meanwhile he is pointing to his internal phone system which does exactly as he described. All his office phones appear to dial out from the same number as far as the receivers caller id is concerned. How can I pull off the same on Android? Thanks, -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.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] Gone element blocking the view
Hi all, I have a fairly easy layout : Two relative layouts filling the parent frame layout. firstRelativeLayout appears first in the xml and secondRelativeLayout appears next. firstRelativeLayout has it's visibility not set in the xml (visible by default). secondRelativeLayout has it's visibility set to gone. firstRelativeLayout respond to touch perfectly. Then I programmatically set secondRelativeLayout visibility to visible and back to gone. firstRelativeLayout does not respond to touch anymore. Any idea what can go wrong ? Yahel -- 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: project help
Hi Mike, That's a very long mail just to try to hire an Android developper for half the potential revenue of splendor ideas you don't share anything about :) I think Treking and Rocky are right. May I suggest you go back to West Virginia University and find an under graduate in computer science ? Your deal is more likely to ring a bell there and he'll put time and effort you can't imagine. You can even lure them with the $13k a month success story from the creator of car locator :) Take care and I look forward to see your splendor apps on the market. Keep us posted. Yahel -- 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] Market ranking
Hi all, I know my question answers but since there's a lot of you who really spend your time scrutinizing your rank, downloads and all, I'm trying it maybe someone came up with empiric science on this one : Does anyone understood even bits of how the market ranks apps in the market ? I usually don't look at stats but following another post on this topic, I counted my rank in my category ... 565 ... Ouch that hurts !! Especially when half the apps in front of mine, are crap apps with less downloads and ratings as low as 1 star :). Not that it would make a difference being rank 250 instead of 565...But this is humiliating a little :s Since my app has been on the market for one month, i'm wondering if age matters ... I know I should have asked in the market black hole of hell google group but the name says it all. And I'm sure some of you already figured out some of the black magic used by the Market to rank apps. Thanks for any insight. Yahel http://www.a-world-of-faces.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: Market ranking
Hi Kumar, Ok I guess then I'm going to jump a few places in a bit then. What do you mean by 30days/60days download ? Yahel On 6 oct, 13:11, Kumar Bibek coomar@gmail.com wrote: Well, there are a lot of factors. A few of them are: 1. No of downloads 2. No of active installs 3. Reviews of users 4. 30day/60day downloads These are only a few of them. All this was mentioned in one of the Android Developers Lab that I attended. On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Yahel kaye...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I know my question answers but since there's a lot of you who really spend your time scrutinizing your rank, downloads and all, I'm trying it maybe someone came up with empiric science on this one : Does anyone understood even bits of how the market ranks apps in the market ? I usually don't look at stats but following another post on this topic, I counted my rank in my category ... 565 ... Ouch that hurts !! Especially when half the apps in front of mine, are crap apps with less downloads and ratings as low as 1 star :). Not that it would make a difference being rank 250 instead of 565...But this is humiliating a little :s Since my app has been on the market for one month, i'm wondering if age matters ... I know I should have asked in the market black hole of hell google group but the name says it all. And I'm sure some of you already figured out some of the black magic used by the Market to rank apps. Thanks for any insight. Yahel http://www.a-world-of-faces.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.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Kumar Bibekhttp://techdroid.kbeanie.comhttp://www.kbeanie.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: Adding Rate this application capability
Interesting find : My english is not that good so I'm not sure about the wording : Incentive means to offer something in return or simply to ask for a good rating ? I can see the point in the first one, I suppose the second one makes more sense. Thanks. Yahel. On 6 oct, 16:00, Brill Pappin br...@pappin.ca wrote: check the Market policy as you don't want to get your app removed. Developers should not attempt to change the placement of any application in the Market by offering incentives to users to rate an application with higher or lower ratings; or by themselves rating an application multiple times. found at:http://www.android.com/market/terms/developer-content-policy.html It doesn't specifically say you can't direct them to the ratings though, only that you can't offer incentives... so maybe a grey area. - Brill Pappin On Oct 6, 7:54 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Amit amitmishr...@gmail.com wrote: I wan to know how this is achieved. http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/publishing.html#marketi... --- -- 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: Adding Rate this application capability
You need to be aware of intangible incentives too Ok so the reward being tangible or intangible as to exists. That's the meaning of incentive I understand. Thank you. Just to be sure, and I know you are not lawyers or anything so in the end it will be my call but I just spent the day implementing this message(english version) in my app : You can really help us by rating this app with 5 ★ in the market and leave a nice, short comment Would YOU consider it as an incentive or is it just a request that is compliant with the TOS ? Thanks. Yahel -- 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: Adding Rate this application capability
Cool, I thought so but since my english is not perfect, I wanted to have a second opinion. It will be in the next release then :D Thank you very much. Yahel http://www.a-world-of-faces.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: OutOfMemory exception in OnCreate
You might want to try just tossing a System.gc()
Thanks for your answer, unfortunately, I'm already doing it :
//Try to avoid crashing with outofmemory in the app oncreate
try{
setContentView(R.layout.main);
} catch (Exception e) {
System.gc();
System.runFinalization();
System.gc();
setContentView(R.layout.main);
}
But no dice. It does not happen as much though, so it kind of fixed
it.
I'm going to see in the next few days, if it is always the same device
or framework.
I'll keep you posted.
Yahel
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[android-developers] OOS : How do you use google groups ?
Hi all, Sorry for this OOS but Android developper is the only part of my life on google groups and call me thick but I can not for the life of me understand how it works !! I have the hardest time following a thread i'm participating in because I can simply not find it back when I look for it, even using the search engine at the top !! I'm not receiving email alerts to warn me when somenone answers in it In my profile tab, there is a summary of my last messages ... Which lags by 2 weeks !! Sometimes message I sent never appear there at all. I'm suscribed to a Gay Pictures group I'm pretty sure I never applied to :s Can someone tell me is setup to monitor and use google groups effectively. From my point of view it really looks likes the internet of 1985 :s Again sorry for the OOS. I really hope I'll find this thread back somewhere ... Yahel -- 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: Screen shot of the canvas screen
How can get the screen shot? Kindly Switch to DDMS perspective in Eclipse, then in the top left corner select the device you are running, then click on the darkblue icon above the list. It will take a screenshot of whatever is displayed on your device screen. Yahel -- 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: OOS : How do you use google groups ?
Thank you both for your answers...Since everyone has a google group now I thought it was a really awsome piece of sofware and that I was just to dumb...Good to know it's not all my fault :D I'm going to try your suggestion of using receiving the list by mail and filtering it in my mail client. If it doesn't work I'll give using gmail a try. I really wonder how a huge company like google seems to only ship half baked product. This amazes me. Ok they are free, nevermind :) As for the OOS ... Good thing you asked me, nobody has ever asked me before and I just discovered that I meant OOT. I kind of frenchised it : out of subject instead of out of topic ... I wonder how many poor fellows are still asking themselves if they are old dinosaurs to not know that acronym I made up :D Thanks to both of you. Yahel -- 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] OutOfMemory exception in OnCreate
Hi all,
I'm having a hard time resolving a crash report.
It's an OutOfMemory exception that occurs during the setContentView in
the onCreate of my main activity.
I just want to be sure I understood Android LifeCycle well :
1) The onCreate of my main activity is called once and only once
during the life time of my application ? Is that correct ?
2) Just like for the big bang, before the oncreate of my activity,
nothing exists for that activity, so memory consumption is zero, no
objects exists right ?
So what can cause that sometimes, with random framework and devices, I
get an OOM exception ?
I mean if say my background image is causing this, it should blow up
everytime, on every device, shouldn't it ? I mean the result should be
reliable.
The background image is a standard jpg : 360*480 weighing 37kb,
nothing fancy really :s
The crash report below :
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity
ComponentInfo{com.kayenko.awof/com.kayenko.awof.Main}:
android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #10: Error
inflating class unknown
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:868)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #10:
Error inflating class unknown
at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:513)
at
com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneLayoutInflater.onCreateView(PhoneLayoutInflater.java:
56)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:
563)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:618)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:407)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:320)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:276)
at
com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:
198)
at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1647)
at com.kayenko.awof.Main.onCreate(Main.java:174)
at
android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:
1047)
at
android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:
2627)
... 11 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at android.widget.FrameLayout.init(FrameLayout.java:79)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.constructNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:446)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:500)
... 22 more
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget
at android.graphics.Bitmap.nativeCreate(Native Method)
at android.graphics.Bitmap.createBitmap(Bitmap.java:468)
at android.graphics.Bitmap.createBitmap(Bitmap.java:435)
at android.graphics.Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(Bitmap.java:340)
at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.finishDecode(BitmapFactory.java:
488)
at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeStream(BitmapFactory.java:
462)
at
android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeResourceStream(BitmapFactory.java:
323)
at
android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromResourceStream(Drawable.java:
697)
at android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java:1709)
at android.content.res.TypedArray.getDrawable(TypedArray.java:601)
at android.view.View.init(View.java:1885)
at android.view.ViewGroup.init(ViewGroup.java:291)
at android.widget.FrameLayout.init(FrameLayout.java:83)
... 26 more
Thanks for any hint.
Yahel
http://www.a-world-of-faces
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[android-developers] Re: OutOfMemory exception in OnCreate
Thank you for your answer. So now I understand that the onCreate method can be called several time, for example on orientation change. My app is set to Portrait mode only using manifest's android:screenOrientation=portrait so I don't expect any orientation change in the app. Could there be any other obvious reason for the activity to be reinstanciated, therefore triggering the onCreate method again ? My app does only startActivityForResult and a Share Intent nothing more than that. But that must be what happens, I'm going to reread thoroughfully the Activity documentation and try to cleanup and save only what's needed in the onDestroy method. Thanks again. Yahel On 3 oct, 00:32, Prakash Iyer thei...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Yahel kaye...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm having a hard time resolving a crash report. It's an OutOfMemory exception that occurs during the setContentView in the onCreate of my main activity. I just want to be sure I understood Android LifeCycle well : 1) The onCreate of my main activity is called once and only once during the life time of my application ? Is that correct ? If what you mean is the process, then your answer is a no. Assuming this is an Activity that can be launched from the launcher, i.e. no other Intent, a process will be spawned the first time the user decides to start your Activity. Then it goes through the lifecycle as described quite well in the Activity documentation. Thus it is quite likely that onCreate gets called multiple times, e.g. if you have not over-ridden the orientation change, it will get called whenever the phone moves from landscape to portrait or vice versa. You can test this out quite easily on the emulator. Thus, if you have static variables etc. they will live thru all of this. Your view will be cleaned up and redone in the onCreate. 2) Just like for the big bang, before the oncreate of my activity, nothing exists for that activity, so memory consumption is zero, no objects exists right ? Not correct. onCreate is called on an instance, so all the static variables and any thing else required by your instance, e.g. a String that you may have defined as a member variable etc is already loaded. Maybe you knew that and are asking something else?? So what can cause that sometimes, with random framework and devices, I get an OOM exception ? I mean if say my background image is causing this, it should blow up everytime, on every device, shouldn't it ? I mean the result should be reliable. The background image is a standard jpg : 360*480 weighing 37kb, nothing fancy really :s I think more detail here will help, Is this a bitmap loaded into a variable? If yes and you hold a reference to your Activity object elsewhere, you might leak for every orientation change. ... -- 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: OutOfMemory exception in OnCreate
Thank you for your answer. You haven't shown us enough of your code (code snippets) for us to... Yes sorry about that, it's just that I don't seem to understand where everything goes wrong. The line giving me an error is a simple setContentView with a simple background image in a FrameView. So I am trying to narrow down the causes before I overflow the group with my 10 000 or so lines of code :D But since many instances of your activity can exists, Do you mean that there can be multiple instances of my app running at the same time, all using the same oncreate method ? I didn't know it was possible...Could you explain to me how to reproduce this case ? Tahnks again for your time. Yahel -- 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
