[android-developers] Re: New Android Market Client Update
Unless your app is Smart phones for Complete Morons in 3 easy words, then chances are you don't want that person anyway as someone you'd have to support. It would cost you more than they paid for the app. First time I see a developer stating that certain customers are below his dignity level to support. But then again Kurt Cobain also didn't like how many uncool people listened to his music... In general, given the average prices on Apps on the market, any support question that you get will cause you an amount of work that - if multiplied by a sensible hourly rate - will exceed the profit from that specific user by far. I also don't see a problem in selling a game that you can finish in an hour. Hey, you shell out more dollars per hour for almost any other sort of entertainment. What's your cost for a movie ticket? You also can't go back to the box office afterwards asking for a refund because you did not like the film. Imagine what it would do to Hollywood if you could. Most paid apps come with a free demo version. For those apps, who needs a refund option at all? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Support Large Screen
There is a new feature in Android 2.3 which lets you specify whether your app supports extra large screens. Quote from the 2.3 release notes: Extra Large Screens The platform now supports extra large screen sizes, such as those that might be found on tablet devices. Developers can indicate that their applications are designed to support extra large screen sizes by adding a supports screens ... android:xlargeScreens=true element to their manifest files. Applications can use a new resource qualifier, xlarge, to tag resources that are specific to extra large screens. For details on how to support extra large and other screen sizes, see Supporting Multiple Screens. The system handles the image scaling for you if you place your graphics files in the respective folders (e.g. drawable-hdpi). I don't think that the system scales your graphics to a different size on a 854 screen than on a 800 screen (anyone knows this for sure -- please shout). Personally I'm handling the scaling myself in my code via BitmapFactory.createScaledImage. With that you can be sure your App scales to any screen size, also on non Google supported hardware. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, 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 2.3 not handling orientation change properly - screen is not redrawn
I'm having exactly the same issue in my App. Worked fine in all other Android versions before. It also seems to be for the change from landscape to portrait only. The other way around works fine. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: android:layout_alignParentBottom=true on code
You can do this via the LayoutParams. E.g. like below: RelativeLayout relativeLayout = new RelativeLayout(this); RelativeLayout.LayoutParams relativeParams = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT); relativeParams.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM); TextView myView = new View(this); relativeLayout.addView(myView, relativeParams); -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, 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: Regarding the surfaceview
Had a similar issue. I think the problem is not that the callback method is not called, but rather that when a surfaceView gets destroyed and a new one created, also a new handler is created. See here for a solution to this that worked for me: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/3514e1890ed958e2/8874eff5e487553a?hl=enlnk=gstq=tobias429#8874eff5e487553a On Jul 26, 3:30 pm, ameya dandekar ameya...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am currently working on the app in which my media player class is singleton, and i want to play the video files. I use surfaceView for the video display part. But the problem i m facing is when i change the orientation , the previous playback disappears (if was playing) and the new surface view is getting created ..but the callback method surface created is not getting called in which i want to take further action. Where am i going wrong ? Regards, Ameya -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, 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: canvas problem
Create your own class e.g. MyView and let it inherit the class View.
Override the onDraw method of this class.
public class MyView extends View {
@Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
super.onDraw(canvas);
//Your own code to paint a circle here
}
Add an instance of MyView as a view to your linear Layout. This allows
you to draw whatever you want in the MyView view in your Layout, and
still use the standard handling for buttons.
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[android-developers] Re: paypal mobile payment allowed?
1. Publish a paid app on the market, you get 70% of the revenue, Google (or the OHA) gets 30% 2. Only serious alternative to generate revenue: publish a free app and put advertising on. The percentage of the advertising revenue that you get is typically at the advertising-company's discretion. Biggest player on the market is: Google Comparing the speed at which Google approaches introducing AdSense for Mobile to the speed at which they are going in adding new payment options or eligible to sell countries to the Market, I would believe that option 2 is simply to lucrative to Google as to entice them to put a lot of energy in making option 1 more attractive. I personally don't expect any action from Google that would promote distribution of paid Apps any time soon. I still hope to be proven 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: Switching GLSurface view and regular view issue.
It's as per the error message that you get. When you create a view in
one thread (like e.g. within your main activity), you can not change
this view from another thread. There are various ways how to work
around this.
One is as follows:
In your thread, create a sub-class:
public class ChangeView implements java.lang.Runnable {
public void run() {
//Do whatever changes to the view need to be done
}
}
Create an instance of this class in your thread. Whenever you need the
code in the class to be executed, post it towards your main view via
view.post().
On Jun 30, 10:43 am, choi devmc...@gmail.com wrote:
I found it there is prablem when i changed it in another thread. it
always said me. how to changed it without error message.
06-30 08:35:03.102: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(627): android.view.ViewRoot
$CalledFromWrongThreadException: Only the original thread that created
a view hierarchy can touch its views.
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[android-developers] Re: Admob ads linking to scam sites, possible additional app-security problems
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[android-developers] Re: SurfaceView Lifecycle - Switching between a Layout and a SurfaceView
Hi Mun,
No answer to this yet. What I found however is that it's not that the
SurfaceView does not get created again. Android in fact creates a new
one, however it looks like at the same time also a new holder is
created. As my code however holds a link to the then outdated holder,
it is not notified of the creation.
As a workaround, in my main thread, whenever lockCanvas returns null,
I try to get the surfaceHolder again. This is working fine on an app
that's installed on several thousand phones now across Android 1.5,
1.6 and 2.1
Relevant code of the main thread is below:
if (!gotSurface) {
try {
sleep(100);
}
catch (Exception e){ }
}
if (gotSurface) [do your game action];
Canvas c = null;
try {
c = surfaceHolder.lockCanvas(null);
if (c==null) {
//Canvas could not be locked, try to get a new
surface holder
surfaceHolder=mySurfaceView.getHolder();
}
else {
synchronized (surfaceHolder) {
gotSurface=true;
[Do your draw operation onto Canvas c];
}
}
}
finally {
if (c != null) {
surfaceHolder.unlockCanvasAndPost(c);
}
}
I'm taking care to only execute this code once I can be reasonably
sure that my application is in the state where the surfaceView should
be visible. I put in the sleep(100) part as I noticed that if I try to
get the surfaceHolder in shorter intervals this blocks the application
after a while.
Hope this works for you as well.
Best regards,
Tobias
On May 27, 3:29 pm, Mun m...@orcadigital.com wrote:
Hi,
Did you manage to find an answer to this yet?
I'm experiencing the same problem such that my surfaceview gets
destroyed, (after calling setContentView to load another layout) but
never gets created again!
Thanks,
Mun
On May 9, 10:37 pm, tobias429 ecker...@gmx.de wrote:
I've built an application that switches between two screens - a
LinearLayout and a SurfaceView - via the application.setContentView()
method.
When switching between the two screens, the surface of the SurfaceView
gets destroyed, and never created new again.
Here is what I do:
During my application, I switch between the two screens via calling
setContentView() from my application.
My SurfaceView starts a thread that renders the view, once the surface
is created. This works fine the first time I'm doing this:
1. Create the SurfaceView
2. Get a handle of the surfaceHolder, and add my SurfaceView as a
surfaceHolder callback
3. Call setContentView(SurfaceViewScreen) from my app, to bring the
SurfaceView screen to the front
This now nicely calls onSurfaceCreated() in my SurfaceView.
Based on a user action, I later call setContentView(Layout) to display
my standard Layout again. This nicely calls the onSurfaceDestroyed()
mehod of my SurfaceView.
The problem is now, that if I change back again to the SurfaceView via
calling application.setContentView(SurfaceView), the surface never
gets re-created, i.e. neither does onSurfaceCreated() get called, nor
does my view render correctly, as in the according thread
surfaceHolder.getCanvas() returns null.
What am I doing wrong?
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[android-developers] Re: Application losing SharedPreferences and Sqlite database on Droid
I got several reports from users that my application had lost the preferences. This is more than a year ago when the G1 was most prevalent... I switched to saving preferences in a file instead, and complaints stopped. Check the following threads for similar reports: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/afdecee0355fb700/6b17e6db3a895935?hl=enlnk=gstq=lose+preferences#6b17e6db3a895935 http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/9803a767fce77703/ffb50141d419808c?hl=enlnk=gstq=lose+preferences#ffb50141d419808c http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/16ecfa2dff93cd86/cb500d1efdb079e3?hl=enq=lose+preferenceslnk=ol; http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/afdecee0355fb700/b8e7d93fdc15d637?hl=enlnk=gstq=preferences+field+users#b8e7d93fdc15d637 Haven't seen any explanation though whether this is a legitimate bug in Android or wrong coding on the developers behalf. At any rate, I couldn't get preferences to work, whereas storing the data in files works perfect. If you have problems using preferences, I can only recommend to go for files instead. On May 17, 9:45 pm, luoster luos...@gmail.com wrote: I just got this on a G1, so its definitely not Droid exclusive... On Mar 30, 11:22 am, Matt (preinvent) m...@preinvent.com wrote: On Mar 24, 4:40 pm, Doug dougforp...@gmail.com wrote: This problem happened to one of my users just today - he has a Droid. I asked if anything weird had happened before the problem occurred (like the phone misbehaving). He said: The only random weird behavior I noticed before the problem was that my phone suddenly stopped ringing this morning for incoming calls - I checked the ringer volume and its up. I see a missed call in my Droid's phone log - and I get an email from YouMail - but it never rings. Just started happening this morning. There was no auto reboot (that I noticed) and it wasn't switched off until I noticed the issue and tried to resolve it myself with a reboot. OK, this is bizarre - I have experienced this in my Droid as well. I don't know if any of my users have seen this, or if it's even related, but it's not an isolated incident. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group athttp://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] SurfaceView Lifecycle - Switching between a Layout and a SurfaceView
I've built an application that switches between two screens - a LinearLayout and a SurfaceView - via the application.setContentView() method. When switching between the two screens, the surface of the SurfaceView gets destroyed, and never created new again. Here is what I do: During my application, I switch between the two screens via calling setContentView() from my application. My SurfaceView starts a thread that renders the view, once the surface is created. This works fine the first time I'm doing this: 1. Create the SurfaceView 2. Get a handle of the surfaceHolder, and add my SurfaceView as a surfaceHolder callback 3. Call setContentView(SurfaceViewScreen) from my app, to bring the SurfaceView screen to the front This now nicely calls onSurfaceCreated() in my SurfaceView. Based on a user action, I later call setContentView(Layout) to display my standard Layout again. This nicely calls the onSurfaceDestroyed() mehod of my SurfaceView. The problem is now, that if I change back again to the SurfaceView via calling application.setContentView(SurfaceView), the surface never gets re-created, i.e. neither does onSurfaceCreated() get called, nor does my view render correctly, as in the according thread surfaceHolder.getCanvas() returns null. What am I doing 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: How to fix java.lang.IllegalThreadStateExeception: Thread already started.
Run into the same issue. What I'm doing is to not stop the thread and
restart it, but kill and rebuild it. I.e. kill the thread via:
boolean retry = true;
while (retry) {
try {
myThread.join();
retry = false;
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
}
}
When you need it again, create a new one and start it. Obviously this
is the crude way to do it, but with anything else I run into the same
illegal state issue. Interested if anyone has a better approach.
On May 6, 9:10 am, MSChoi moon_...@hotmail.com wrote:
I made an application which has a thread for a notification
progressbar.
First time I started the thread, it works fine.
But Second time I tried to start the thread again, the application
stop with the exception.
How can I solve this problem?
Please give me any clue.
[==My thread code below==]
private class ProgressThread extends Thread {
Handler mHandler;
final static int STATE_DONE = 0;
final static int STATE_RUNNING = 1;
int outIncreamentPercent;
int mState;
ProgressThread(Handler h) {
mHandler = h;
}
public void run() {
int i = 0;
setState(STATE_RUNNING);
while (mState == STATE_RUNNING) {
if (i MAX_LOOP_COUNT) {
setState(STATE_DONE);
} else {
if (i % 100 == 0) {
outIncreamentPercent = (int)
(((float) i / MAX_LOOP_COUNT) *
100);
rv.setProgressBar(R.id.customProgressBar,
100,outIncreamentPercent, false);
mNotificationManager.notify(NOTIFICATION_ID,notification);
try {
Thread.sleep(100);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch
block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
i = i + LOOP_INCREMENT;
}
super.run();
} /* sets the current state for the thread, * used to stop the thread
*/
public void setState(int state) {
mState = state;
}
}
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[android-developers] Re: How to see all the applicat ions in the Google Market？
Try those web-sites: http://www.androlib.com http://www.cyrket.com http://www.androidpit.com http://www.androidzoom.com Anyone knows further sites? On Apr 29, 8:30 am, Grant Jia jeasun...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, friends, The official web site just show the top applications both free and paid, where or how could I see all the applications in the market? Thanks. Best Regards, Grant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group athttp://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: How to obtain a google developer phone in germany?
Chris, You can develop on any Android phone. The Developer phones are only specific in that they are guaranteed to come without a sim-lock and can easily be rooted. AFAIK the G1 developer phone can't be upgraded to any Android version higher than 1.6. due to memory limitations, so if you want to specifically test on a physical device that's on 2.1 getting a Nexus One would be a good idea. If you get a phone, you might want to check that the OS is Android without any manufacturer specific add on like e.g. the HTC Sense user interface. From what it looks like those phones are the last ones to receive any OS upgrades, as the manufacturers need to adapt their specific Android OS add-ons as part of the upgrade. Apart from that you can of course develop using the different emulators that come with the SDK. You'll need to do this anyhow for testing, as it will be very difficult to get your hands on any type of combination of Android OS, Screen Resolution and hardware features that's out on the market. Cheers, Tobias On Apr 28, 2:17 pm, chris ach...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I plan to develop several apps for the android platform. I'm not yet entirely sure if I need a google developer phone or if it is sufficient to buy any android phone (e.g. HTC Desire, which is available in Germany) ? As far as I know there are three google developer phones available: G1 G2 Nexus One But only the Nexus One is deployed with Android 2.1. Do I really need to import a Nexus One via the United States to get a google developer phone which runs Android 2.1. Maybe I'm missing something? Any tips are appreciated. Thanks, Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group athttp://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: Deploy a build for a specific resolution
Hi Viorel, Filtering by OS is quite simple. You can specify in your application's manifest the target, minimum or maximum OS version your application needs, e.g.: uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=3 android:targetSdkVersion=4/ The market will show your app then only to phones that have the required OS version. On the resolution it's a bit more tricky. You can specify, also in the manifest, what resolutions your phone supports, e.g.: supports-screens android:smallScreens=true android:normalScreens=true android:largeScreens=true android:anyDensity=true android:resizeable=true/ The market will list your app then only for phones that are able to display the required size. The logic is however that the market will list the application on any phone that has the required resolution or better. I.e. if you specify that your application supports only largeScreens (largeScreen=true, everything else=false), the market will list it only on phones with a big screen. However if you specify smallScreens=true, the market will display your app to all phones with a small screen resolution or better, regardless of whether you set normalScreens and largeScreens to false or not. Best regards, Tobias On Apr 26, 8:10 pm, Viorel galanvio...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, It is possible to deploy a build on Google Market filter by the resolution and handset? For example: I want to deploy a build that works only on the devices that have 480x800 and only OS 2.x Thanks, Viorel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group athttp://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: Game stutters when drawing outside screen
Is the image that you are drawing exactly the same size as the screen area that you are filling? I noticed in my games that resizing of images is apparently an incredibly costly operation with Android. As soon as I draw a bitmap and the OS has to adjust the size of it, the game begins to stutter as the resize operation takes a lot of CPU time, and what's worse, it seems to take a different amount of time every frame. Don't know if you might be seeing the same effect. On Apr 26, 10:26 am, Peter peteroerlem...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. I probably shoud have mentioned this in my original post. Objects sometimes leave the screen, therefore they are party drawed outside the screen until they are removed. On 320x480 screens this isn't visible, but on bigger screens it is. Drawing the image every frame solves this problem. On Apr 26, 8:53 am, ko5tik kpriblo...@yahoo.com wrote: I would say that you do not need to redraw that image part every frame - nothing happens there, and as there are no overlapping window on android there is no need to repair it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group athttp://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 athttp://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: Question for Admob users
In Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France I also saw pretty much exclusively geo-targeted ads in the local language. The click-through rate with those seems to be much higher. Does anyone know though if the access_coarse_location is really required for this? After all you can get a users location out of the IP address as well. Any experience in running global ads with and without the permission? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject.
[android-developers] Re: Being legally harassed, by a large iPhone developer
Not a lawyer, but that's my understanding as well. Take all the Connect 4 clones on the Market. I don't think anyone has a patent on the game concept itself (according to Wikipedia it's been out since the 17th century). However Hasbro has registered the title Connect 4 as a trademark in the US. This is why you see all games with this title sooner or later disappearing from the market as Hasbro files DMCA takedown notices to Google. See here for an example: http://www.4feets.com/2009/12/dmca-notice-connect-4-online-now-four-online/ In this case, I believe it's ok to make a game with the same mechanics. You just can't call it Connect 4. Or more specific, you can't call it Connect 4 on the US market as from what I have seen the trademark only applies there. I would imagine it's the same with Ravensburger's patent on Memory. The thing is now of course, how to you check for all countries where the Android Market is active, if some company has actually trademarked your game title... On the game mechanics, I remember there were cases in the past where this was claimed to be an issue as well. Anyone remembers The Great Giana Sisters on C64 and Amiga? The game had original graphics, levels and sounds. The game-play however was basically a Super-Mario clone. Nintendo didn't take this to well and tried to force the publisher to take it off the market. Check this link for the full story: http://classicgames.about.com/od/computergames/fr/greatgianasisters.htm There is no mention in the article that this ever went to court, on the contrary, it's indicated that the threat wouldn't have hold up in a court. Still, it's always the question for an indie developer whether you want to spend your spare time and life savings on fighting it out. On 24 Mrz., 08:35, ko5tik kpriblo...@yahoo.com wrote: On Mar 23, 5:53 pm, Hong lordh...@gmail.com wrote: So NO ONE in the world can ever make a memory type of game EVER, except them? You can make it, but you will have to avoid word Memory anywhere near your game. (as it is trademarked) - but it depends on legislation which is applicable to you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject.
[android-developers] Re: No stats? 0 total; 0 active installs while 5000 AdMob impressions??
The update of the market stats appears to have been down for the last two days. Mine have been updated again some hours ago. If you check back on the market you might see yours to be updated now as well. On 8 Jan., 09:13, greg1x gre...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi! I have uploaded a free AdMob supported app to the market two days ago. AdMob shows 5000 impressions (and revenue), while: Android.com: 0 total; 0 active installs (0%) Android Market on the phone: 50 downloads 5000 Ad impressions (and revenue) for 50 downloads and 0 installs can not be true. I would really like to see my stats. Anyone else facing the same problem? Thank you! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: scaling game images according display sizes
Hi Andrea,
I also wanted to avoid compatibility mode. More for the reason of
being able to actually use the higher resolution rather than out of
performance concerns.
For one of my games I applied a routine to scale the images myself
upon start-up of the application just like you describe (I used Bitmap
drawables). As the system then does not need to resize the drawables
any longer upon drawing them on the screen, this has speed up the
performance of the game quite drastically.
Best regards,
Tobias
On Jan 7, 3:38 pm, Andrea andrea.pai...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Jason,
On 7 Gen, 05:11, Jason Arora jaso...@gmail.com wrote:
Are you drawing in a separate thread (like the LunarLander example)?
If not and your game is real-time, I seriously recommend switching to
that model.
I don't use a SurfaceView (like LunarLander) but a normal view because
in my tests I found it much more stable then the surfaceView. Keep in
mind that android was 1.5. With 1.6/2.* things maybe changed, I have
to test it. There are no threads in the game apart the one used for
loading all the images before the game starts.
Also, I don't believe you should be seeing a slow-down in
compatibility mode... In my experience, it has worked pretty well.
Trust me, with the code structure explained before the frame rate
slows down, I tested it on the DROID device at last london android
lab.
Andrea
On Jan 6, 11:56 am, Andrea andrea.pai...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Robert, thanks for the reply.
Ok the images are loaded as Bitmaps (not drawable) and drawed on the
onDraw(Canvas c) method of a view. Inside that method I invalidate()
all the view. So the game runs as fast as it can. The game is using
dirty rects technique to redraw only the portions of the screen that
need to be changed. Here is the simply code structure:
//on a view
private void onDraw(Canvas c){
//do staff
invalidate();
}
if you need some other info, tell me it.
a.p.
Robert Green ha scritto:
What's your design like? How are you drawing everything? If you tell
me that, I can offer some suggestions.
On Jan 6, 9:02 am, Andrea andrea.pai...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I developed a game with the g1 in my mind. Now I want to support large
screen sizes but I don't want to add in the apk different images for
different screen sizes because now the apk is 3mb and when installed
trought market it became 6mb (due to protection on). If i have to
double the images to support new screens, the apk would be too heavy
(about 13mb, i think) so I'm wondering to know if scaling images at
runtime by myself (without compatibility mode) maybe the best way for
supporting larger screens. Someone tried this solution? Compatbility
mode does a great work in scaling images but it slows down drastically
the framerate (i think because the scale operation is made every time
an image is used/moved and not only once on the load of the image
itself).
Thanks
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[android-developers] Re: Start and Stop music on application launch and stop
Hi Hassan, You can use the onPause() and onResume() functions for this. Just override the original functions and place the code to start your sound in onResume() and the code to stop your sound in onPause(). In case you have several activities that can be independently started and stopped, I'd use a static class with a counter of how many activities are active right now. Every time an activity executes onResume(), increase the counter by one, every time onPause() is called, decrease it by one. You can then stop your sounds in onPause() in case the counter is set to zero. Ditto for onResume(), where you only need to start your sound in case that static counter was zero beforehand. Haven't tried this though, just an idea. Best regards, Tobias On Jan 5, 7:14 am, Hassan Imtiaz hassan.imt...@cprods.com wrote: Hi, In my application i have several activities and i want to start background music whenever my *Application* is launched and stop music whenever *Application* is paused or stopped. Any help?. Regards, Hassan Imtiaz -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, 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: Menu Item Name
Hi,
menu.add() returns the menu item that was created. You can create a
global variable, assign the returned menu to this global variable, and
then access this any time you like.
E.g.:
In your global variable definitions, add:
MenuItem startMenu;
in onCreateOptionsMenu() you add:
startMenu=menu.add(0, 1, 0, Start);
In you onOptionsItemSelected, you then just have to state:
startMenu.setTitle(Pause);
Cheers,
Tobias
On Jan 4, 1:19 pm, Sasikumar.S sasikumar.it1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I added 2 menus.
menu.add(0, 1, 0, Start);
menu.add(0, 2, 0, Stop);
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)
{
switch (item.getItemId()) {
case 1:
if(item.getTitle().equals(Start))
{
item.setTitle(Pause);
}
return true;
case 2:
return true;
}
return false;
}
when i click the stop menu, the start menu name should be changed.
How to change that?...
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[android-developers] Re: AdSense Android - A Disappointed Developer's Rant
Hi, I went through exactly the same process after doing exactly what you described you did: displaying ads on a web-page that gets opened in a webview out of an Android application. See the post - is android and adsense a valid business model for the full story. My adsense account remains disabled to this date. After this adsense experience, I switched to display ads from admob. I found admob to be working very well. The team at admob is very approachable and helpful. I can only highly recommend working with them. Best regards, Tobias On 14 Aug., 23:40, Photics m...@photics.com wrote: Hi Mark, This happened in March / April of 2009. I'm not sure if the mobile ads were ready yet. I'm thinking that I wouldn't be able to use them now. Should I apply for the beta if myAdSenseaccount has been closed? (I'm thinking that the answer is no.) I'm not sure mobile apps would work for my php/mysql based MMORPG, but it certainly would be awesome for some of my other project ideas. (See how this is frustrating?) I used the JavaScriptAdSensecode on my web pages and I used the Webview to display those pages on Android devices. At least, I'm happy with the response from the Android team! :-) I was contacted by someone from Google, who requested additional information. I replied and I am waiting for a response. Maybe this story will have a good ending. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, 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: Playing sounds multiple times using MediaPlayer
Thanks for the tip! This actually does the trick. What I'm doing now is a bit more complex. I've created a helper class that multiplies the number of MediaPlayers used. So instead of using one MediaPlayer for the bingSound, I use a new class, which internally creates an array of MediaPlayers. bingSound is an instance of this helper class. If i call bingSound.play(), the helper class initializes the first MediaPlayer in the array and starts it. When bingSound.play() is called again, the helper class takes the second MediaPlayer in the array and so on. With this I can fire off the same sound very quickly several times, without having to make sure that the sound has finished before it can be played once more. For all MediaPlayers created I set the onCompletionListener as you suggested with the effect you described: the system does not fill up with MediaPlayer remnants any more. With this everything works fine now. All in all pretty complex though. On 29 Okt., 09:27, blindfold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With option 2, did you try using a setOnCompletionListener() with a bingSound.stop() and bingSound.release()? This cleaning up ought to prevent your system from filling up with MediaPlayer remnants - unless of course you make so many calls to bingSound.start() per unit of time that the system has no chance (on average) to finish playing one bingSound before the next bingSound request already comes in. This approach works for me. Regards --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Playing sounds multiple times using MediaPlayer
I am looking for a solution to play sounds multiple times in an application. In the application, as soon as a user performs operation A, the application shall respond with a *bing* sound. Performing operation B shall produce a *bong*. That means during the application life cycle, both sounds will potentially be played several dozen times. I have tried three different ways to achieve this. None of them seems to work: For all options, I have added 2 wav files, one for *bing* and one for *bong* in the application's Resource Package. Option 1: === For both wav files, I am opening a MediaPlayer via e.g. bingSound=MediaPlayer.create(context, resid). In the application, whenever a sound shall be played, I call bingSound.start(). Result: This works fine the first time. If I call bingSound.start() a second time no sound plays, and I get an exception that I called start() on a MediaPlayer instance in the wrong state. Option 2: === Whenever the application shall play a sound, I create a new MediaPlayer from scratch via e.g. bingSound=MediaPlayer.create(context, resid); bingSound.start() Result: This works fine a number of times, until appearantly the maximum number of MediaPlayers is reached, and the application simply halts. Option 3: === I create a new MediaPlayer via MediaPlayer.create(context, resid). I set looping to true. When the application shall play the sound, I call bingSound.start(). When the sound shall stop, I call bingSound.seekTo(0), followed by bingSound.pause(). Result: This works fine for looping sounds. For the classical *bing* sound that shall only be played once and does not loop, it is next to impossible to time the calls in a way that the sound is only played once. Question === Is there any possible approach to play the same, non looping sound several dozen times in an application? Thanks for any help! Tobias --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
