[android-beginners] jar file play on android..

2009-05-09 Thread vineeth Desai
Hi All, Please could you please help me getting this problem solved. Can we run the j2me.jar file which use to run on n75 nokia phones will this same j2me.jar file will run on android without any modifications. Please reply me urgently.. Note:j2me.jar file is game jar file. War regards,

[android-beginners] Re: ListView Entries

2009-05-09 Thread Mark Murphy
Kevin J. Brooks wrote: Is there a way to set the Entries of a ListView through the program code? Something like ListView.setEntries(R.layout.stringarray); If by entries you mean the rows that appear in the list, you use setAdapter(). http://wiki.andmob.org/samplecode Scroll down on that

[android-beginners] Re: Conversion to Dalvik format failed with error 1

2009-05-09 Thread Mark Murphy
MCON Dev wrote: Hello All, I need help to run my first Android Application. I have OpenSuse 11.1. I installed - eclipse, - android sdk - installed the android plugin - setup the ADT - created a new Android application HelloWorld, added TextView and a setText line. - ran the app, the

[android-beginners] Re: Conversion to Dalvik format failed with error 1

2009-05-09 Thread MCON Dev
Mark, I have included android.jar as a library on the build path. If I remove that import android *cannot be resolved*. In place of the android.jar if I put the external path (tools directory) import android *cannot be resolved*, and I get a error* Cannot create linked resource

[android-beginners] Re: Conversion to Dalvik format failed with error 1

2009-05-09 Thread Mark Murphy
MCON Dev wrote: Mark, I have included android.jar as a library on the build path. If I remove that import android _cannot be resolved_. In place of the android.jar if I put the external path (tools directory) import android _cannot be resolved_, and I get a error_ Cannot create linked

[android-beginners] Re: Conversion to Dalvik format failed with error 1

2009-05-09 Thread MCON Dev
Yes, I just did the entire tutorial again. No luck same problem. Siddharth On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: MCON Dev wrote: Mark, I have included android.jar as a library on the build path. If I remove that import android _cannot be resolved_.

[android-beginners] Re: Conversion to Dalvik format failed with error 1

2009-05-09 Thread MCON Dev
So I removed android.jar and then I am not able to import java.* too. I strongly feel its a java build path issue. I added android.jar, JRE System Library and JUnit Library to the Java Build Path. Now I am back to [2009-05-09 17:05:36 - HelloWorld] Conversion to Dalvik format failed with error 1

[android-beginners] Re: Conversion to Dalvik format failed with error 1

2009-05-09 Thread Mark Murphy
MCON Dev wrote: So I removed android.jar and then I am not able to import java.* too. I strongly feel its a java build path issue. I added android.jar, JRE System Library and JUnit Library to the Java Build Path. Now I am back to [2009-05-09 17:05:36 - HelloWorld] Conversion to Dalvik

[android-beginners] SensorManager misbehaving on emulator when app was taken to 1.5

2009-05-09 Thread Cass Surek
Hi guys, I am developing an app that relies heavily on sensors. Last night I've installed the 1.5 SDK and the app that was running fine on 1.1 is no longer doing so. Using logcat, I could spot that the problem is when a new sensor manager instance is to be created. From my working app, I

[android-beginners] Re: SensorManager misbehaving on emulator when app was taken to 1.5

2009-05-09 Thread Mark Murphy
Cass Surek wrote: Any help/clue much appreciated! This is driving me insane. :) Sensors do not work in an Android 1.5 emulator image at present, apparently. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2566 -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com |

[android-beginners] Re: SensorManager misbehaving on emulator when app was taken to 1.5

2009-05-09 Thread Cass Surek
Thanks for pointing that out, Mark. For the moment, I should stick to 1.1 then, as there's not practical way of developing it that way (I do not have the devel version of the phone, only an unlocked G1). Signed up for your books the other day - great stuff! :) Cheers Cass On May 9, 2:16 pm,

[android-beginners] Re: SensorManager misbehaving on emulator when app was taken to 1.5

2009-05-09 Thread Mark Murphy
Cass Surek wrote: Thanks for pointing that out, Mark. For the moment, I should stick to 1.1 then, as there's not practical way of developing it that way (I do not have the devel version of the phone, only an unlocked G1). Yes. I am in the same situation, waiting for my G1 to get

[android-beginners] Re: Differentiating between Simulator and Real device

2009-05-09 Thread Cass Surek
Any chance you can check for IMEI info? You would not find that info on the emulator (or if you do, it will be a default IMEI). Good luck, Cass On May 8, 6:43 am, aa aagarwa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I need to change urls depending on simulator v/s. real device. Do anyone know how can I

[android-beginners] Soft Keyboard Question

2009-05-09 Thread csyperski
I have an app I am trying to port to 1.5, but I can't find any good example of using the soft keyboard, my app currrently has a view that uses: setOnKeyListener To listen to keyboard input from the hardware keyboard. My question is can a view still listen to key input from a softkeyboard, and

[android-beginners] Unable to Run or Debug in Emulator or Dev Phone using SDK 1.5

2009-05-09 Thread avrono
Hi, I recently upgraded from SDK 1.1 to SDK 1.5. Using code that I was debugging in SDK 1.1 I am unable to debug the code using SDK 1.5 I am however, able to manually run the application : Here is the LogCat output == I/vold

[android-beginners] Re: Does this exist? Emulator for running Windows Mobile (ARM, xScale, etc) apps on Android

2009-05-09 Thread sssdeecee
On May 8, 11:10 am, jknox jk...@trisoft.com wrote: On May 8, 7:59 am, sssdeecee connelly.sh...@gmail.com wrote: But I was thinking if one could run their Windows mobile apps on an Android based phone, it would help to increase it's popularity. Personally, I have invested a lot in

[android-beginners] Re: Differentiating between Simulator and Real device

2009-05-09 Thread sm1
Ashish, in the emulator, the DeviceID from the TelephonyManager is 000, i.e., 15 zeros. It is not that on a real device. try (in an Activity for example): TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager) getSystemService (Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE); // must have

[android-beginners] Re: Does this exist? Emulator for running Windows Mobile (ARM, xScale, etc) apps on Android

2009-05-09 Thread Mark Murphy
sssdeecee wrote: Perhaps a new group could be set up to discuss this? Please do. What you are discussing is not really a topic for this list, which is dedicated to newcomers making native Android applications using the SDK. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com |

[android-beginners] Layout gravity - bug in portrait mode?

2009-05-09 Thread Anna PS
Hi I would like to align an ImageView with the very bottom of the screen. I've used android:layout_gravity=bottom, and another element with android:layout_weight=1 to push the ImageView down to the bottom. My XML code below works nicely in landscape - the image is flush with the bottom of the

[android-beginners] Why is this not working?

2009-05-09 Thread Kevin J. Brooks
I thought this would work, but obviously I am doing something wrong. setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapterString(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,R.array.beers)); --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[android-beginners] Re: Why is this not working?

2009-05-09 Thread Kevin J. Brooks
BTW the list is blank. The code is the onCreate method. On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 12:07 -0400, Kevin J. Brooks wrote: I thought this would work, but obviously I am doing something wrong. setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapterString(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,

[android-beginners] Re: Layout gravity - bug in portrait mode?

2009-05-09 Thread Mark Murphy
Anna PS wrote: I would like to align an ImageView with the very bottom of the screen. I've used android:layout_gravity=bottom, and another element with android:layout_weight=1 to push the ImageView down to the bottom. If you want to stick with LinearLayout, here are two suggestions: 1. If

[android-beginners] Re: Layout gravity - bug in portrait mode?

2009-05-09 Thread Anna PS
If you want to stick with LinearLayout, here are two suggestions: 1. If you want a spacer, use View rather than TextView. TextView has some intrinsic size, since it expects to have some text in some font. View has no size. 2. Try android:layout_height=0px on that spacer, rather than

[android-beginners] Re: Layout gravity - bug in portrait mode?

2009-05-09 Thread Anna PS
OK - I know what's causing the problem, but I don't know how to fix it. :-/ If the PNG image in the ImageView is less than 320 pixels wide (the width of the portrait screen), it works OK - the image aligns neatly with the bottom in both landscape and portrait mode. But if it's 320 pixels wide

[android-beginners] Re: Layout gravity - bug in portrait mode?

2009-05-09 Thread Mark Murphy
Anna PS wrote: OK - I know what's causing the problem, but I don't know how to fix it. :-/ If the PNG image in the ImageView is less than 320 pixels wide (the width of the portrait screen), it works OK - the image aligns neatly with the bottom in both landscape and portrait mode. But if

[android-beginners] Force alarm sound

2009-05-09 Thread kaloer
Hi, Is it possible to force the volume up? I have an alarm that should wake the user even if the phone is on silent mode.. Is that possible? Thank you, //Kaloer --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[android-beginners] Re: How to create and open an SQLite database? (Based on NotePad tutorial)

2009-05-09 Thread AJ
D'oh! Wow, can't believe I missed that... my first time using SQLite here, in case that wasn't already obvious. :p The database gets created now. Thank you very much! A few follow-up questions: - Where do these error logs you speak of live? What exactly are adb logcat and DDMS? - How does

[android-beginners] Re: How to create and open an SQLite database? (Based on NotePad tutorial)

2009-05-09 Thread Mark Murphy
AJ wrote: D'oh! Wow, can't believe I missed that... my first time using SQLite here, in case that wasn't already obvious. :p It's close enough to the SQL used in other places that you sometimes forget the idiosyncrasies. - Where do these error logs you speak of live? What exactly are adb

[android-beginners] Re: Apps updating update

2009-05-09 Thread El
Whoops, missed the notice. Thanks for the clarity. On May 8, 8:29 pm, Disconnect dc.disconn...@gmail.com wrote: ..its had autoupdate since the rc33 release. On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:11 PM, El elgui...@gmail.com wrote: Since we have not heard about when Market will have auto-updating for

[android-beginners] Re: Force alarm sound

2009-05-09 Thread Raphael
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:31 PM, kaloer mkal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is it possible to force the volume up? I have an alarm that should wake the user even if the phone is on silent mode.. Is that possible? AudioManager manager = (AudioManager)

[android-beginners] IMF Articles

2009-05-09 Thread jtaylor
One of the major new features we are introducing in Android 1.5 is our Input Method Framework (IMF), which allows developers on-screen input methods such as software keyboards. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/updating-applications-for-on-screen.html This is a concise article that

[android-beginners] Problem in getting Image URI(s) from camera

2009-05-09 Thread Tejas
Hello, Many people want this functionality, so do I. This is one of my attempts. Can anyone guide me where am I going wrong... I need to get the image URIs of all the images clicked by the camera when it was running. The basic logic I apply is this: 1] Before starting the camera, store a time

[android-beginners] Listview again

2009-05-09 Thread Kevin J. Brooks
Hey People, I am at a loss. I have tried multiple ways to get this done. I have tried setListAdapter also with the same results. The ListView is always blank. What am I doing wrong? ListView lvDrinks = (ListView)this.findViewById(android.R.id.list);

[android-beginners] Re: Listview again

2009-05-09 Thread Mark Murphy
I am at a loss. I have tried multiple ways to get this done. I have tried setListAdapter also with the same results. The ListView is always blank. What am I doing wrong? When you are stuck, grab the code from an example bit of code (e.g., the SDK samples), get it working, then slowly

[android-beginners] Re: Listview again

2009-05-09 Thread Kevin J. Brooks
Thanks Mark, I finally figured it out. On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 19:55 -0400, Mark Murphy wrote: I am at a loss. I have tried multiple ways to get this done. I have tried setListAdapter also with the same results. The ListView is always blank. What am I doing wrong? When you are

[android-beginners] putExtra

2009-05-09 Thread Kevin J. Brooks
I am trying to pass a simple string in to a new activity. I feel a little dense. I have looked at the samples, and I just can't seem to get it through my thick head. What do I need in the first parameter. public static final String DRINK_TYPE = type; . . . Intent i = new

[android-beginners] Re: putExtra

2009-05-09 Thread Tejas
Dude, Use Java functions equals or compareTo, == operator won't work Cheers, Tej On May 9, 11:04 pm, Kevin J. Brooks bear123434...@comcast.net wrote: I am trying to pass a simple string in to a new activity.  I feel a little dense.  I have looked at the samples, and I just can't seem to get

[android-beginners] Re: Layout gravity - bug in portrait mode?

2009-05-09 Thread Romain Guy
fill_parent means be as big as your parent, not take the remaining space. On May 9, 2009 12:11 PM, Anna PS annapowellsm...@googlemail.com wrote: OK - I know what's causing the problem, but I don't know how to fix it. :-/ If the PNG image in the ImageView is less than 320 pixels wide (the width

[android-beginners] Re: putExtra

2009-05-09 Thread Robert Slama
Hi, if you have static final String DRINK_TYPE you can use follow construct if(className.DRINK_TYPE.equals(beer)){ } or make new class just with constats class IConstants ... public static final String DRINK_TYPE = type; public static final String BEER = beer; public static final String LAGER