Re: [android-beginners] Re: Unable to see Google Map - but eveything else seems to be working....

2009-12-31 Thread TreKing
Are you running on an emulator? If so, I believe I've seen others post that they have had to configure some port settings to get things to work. Have you tried other apps that use the internet (like the Browser) to confirm they work? Have you tried running your app on an actual device and seeing

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Unable to see Google Map - but eveything else seems to be working....

2009-12-31 Thread Zhou Su
Thanks much! It turns out that I didn't follower the tutorial to retrieve the MD5 fingerprint but downloaded a generation software to generate the fingerprint. Big mistake! On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 4:39 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: Are you running on an emulator? If so, I believe

[android-beginners] User Interface macro's, how to define and use

2009-12-31 Thread MCON Dev
I need some advice, on designing and implementing a good coding practice for user interface development. This is what I am trying to acheive UI 1 -- | button1 | button 2 | button 3 | button 4 |

[android-beginners] New Year Wishes to the Android team/community.

2009-12-31 Thread Android Development
Hello community, Wishing you a very prosperous new year 2010 ahead. May this new year bring with itself health and happiness for you and your family. Also looking forward to experiencing exciting new features of the android framework in the new year and a plethora of new Android powered devices

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2009-12-31 Thread saurabh sinha
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[android-beginners] Re: What is the best way to store non-editable preferancies

2009-12-31 Thread alexk-il
Hi Justin, Thanks a lot. No need to provide examples for the SharedPreferences, there is enough on the web: http://thedevelopersinfo.com/2009/11/19/using-preferences-in-android/ Best Alex On Dec 31, 5:11 am, Justin Anderson janderson@gmail.com wrote: Don't put anything in the xml file for

[android-beginners] Re: Application Idea, Need Assistance

2009-12-31 Thread Smelly Eddie
A few thoughts; 1 - contacts: have you considered reusing the contacts API, or activity, I think it would provide for a more robust and familiar user experience allowing users to pull from their phone's contacts which are also maintained online (gmail) rather than maintaining 2 distinct set of

[android-beginners] Re: Learning from Mark Murphy's book - threading question

2009-12-31 Thread Smelly Eddie
alexk-il You should not be spawning threads yourself, as it is against Android best practices. Instead look at ASyncTask, which provides methods for pre-execute, onUpdate, and postExecute, and are automagically handled by the Activity manager, so you don;t need to worry about killing them in

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Learning from Mark Murphy's book - threading question

2009-12-31 Thread Mark Murphy
Smelly Eddie wrote: You should not be spawning threads yourself, as it is against Android best practices. I wouldn't say that. There are plenty of scenarios in which you need to manually create threads: -- need finer-grained control over a thread pool than AsyncTask offers -- waiting on

[android-beginners] best way to handle dialogs during screen orientation changes

2009-12-31 Thread Michael Dorin
What is the best way to handle dialogs during screen orientation changes? Do you save then dismiss on the onDestroy() and recreate again on the new onCreate()? Seems like there should be an easy way to do this? Examples and thoughts are appreciated. -Mike -- You received this message because

Re: [android-beginners] Over Lay Problem

2009-12-31 Thread TreKing
overlays.add(positionOverlay); is breaking the application when I add it to the code. What does is breaking the application mean? Exception gets thrown? Doesn't behave as expected? Your phone physically falls apart? What? Anyone has a solution for this? Don't add that line to the code?

[android-beginners] Eclipse error when trying to install the ADT Plugin

2009-12-31 Thread Omega
I've literally been up all night trying to get this to work, and I'm at my wits end. I'm trying to start getting into writting applications for Android, but this little issue is in my way. Upon installing Eclipse, and finally figuring out how to get it to find my JDK, I am now trying to install

[android-beginners] Re: New Android Project in Eclipse - Build Target Section Not Selectable

2009-12-31 Thread matthewevans87
I saw someone say the same thing: That you need to update the adt and it magically works. Unfortunately I am so noob that I don't know what that means. Can you give a little detail? I've been working at this for a few days on and off. It works perfectly fine on my desktop (after some screwing

[android-beginners] Re: New Android Project in Eclipse - Build Target Section Not Selectable

2009-12-31 Thread matthewevans87
Same exact thing here. It is VERY unlikely that the screen size is the problem, as so many have said. If it were, why would the build targets be in the dialog box when you do test project but not when you do android project. VERY frustrating. Let me know if you figure it out... On Dec 25, 11:35 

[android-beginners] importing nbandroid into netbeans

2009-12-31 Thread Marc Mrc
I am new to this. I have downloaded the Android SDK and the android platform components up to 2.0.1, Java Netbeans IDE 6.7.1 and can't seem to find where to pull the nbandroid files into it? I have not used netbeans before and I am learning, when I open a new project I don't see it listed in the

[android-beginners] WebView not loading data?

2009-12-31 Thread John Oliver
I'm trying to load the parsed html data from an rss feed using a WebView, but the webview claims that the page: data:text/html;utf-8,[The html I'm trying to display] is not available. I find it strange that it seems to be putting the html data into the url, when I just want it to display it.

[android-beginners] Re: Android 2.0 has Multitouch Keyboard yes or no?

2009-12-31 Thread Pablo
I think there is multitouch support in the framework, but AFAIK no multitouch capable virtual keyboard has been published... I wonder why google has not published a multitouch keyboard, I would like to think they did test the new multitouch capabilities with something like... a multitouch keyboard

[android-beginners] Getting an error when running the android Hello World tutorial

2009-12-31 Thread pransome
I have followed the instructions for the Hello World tutorial at http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/hello-world.html It all builds as expected, but when I run the application I get ... [2009-12-30 14:26:09 - Android Hello World]Waiting for HOME ('android.process.acore') to be

[android-beginners] MapActivity cannot be resolved to a type .

2009-12-31 Thread sanjay rao
I am trying to run the program mentioned in the link below and i sucessfully have got the api key from the MD5 certificate . http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/views/hello-mapview.html . I was able to run the Hello Android tutorial sucessfully . the method findViewById(int) is undefined

[android-beginners] Re: Google Map is not displaying in emulator

2009-12-31 Thread mapper
Hi, The MapsDemo working fine. But in my app, same coding as MapsDemo, but still not working, only grids are there. I am having this problem since last 3 weeks but not get any solution. I have done lots of experiment for that but the result is same. And how to open port to internet access? Can

[android-beginners] switching from WIFI to GPRS network forcefully progrramticaly

2009-12-31 Thread piyushn
how can i start sending packates through gprs even though wifi is availabel? is there any gprs api? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Unable to see Google Map - but eveything else seems to be working....

2009-12-31 Thread Vaikunth Parmar
Hi, I am running my application in Emulator. While I am running MapsDemo its work fine with my maps Api key. While I am trying to use in my App it showing me only Grids. I have set all the permission for that. Browser working fine in my app. But not picture showing in google map. What will be the

[android-beginners] [OT] Looking for Android developers/Trainers

2009-12-31 Thread Prakash A S
Dear members, Myself from ethics Technologies[1], India based company, offering products and services on Embedded systems, Linux, Open Source technologies and Android Mobile platform. Now we are looking for Android developers and Trainers on full time/part time basis. If you are

[android-beginners] Re: MapActivity cannot be resolved to a type .

2009-12-31 Thread Lance Nanek
Those errors can arise due to not using a Google APIs build target. You can check your build target by right clicking on the project in Eclipse, selecting Properties, then selecting Android. On Dec 30, 8:26 pm, sanjay rao rsan...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to run the program mentioned in the

[android-beginners] Re: Getting different views in Tabs

2009-12-31 Thread tysmailbox
Nevermind I got help from someone by adding --- Intent i = new Intent(this, HelloAndroid.class); mTabHost.addTab(mTabHost.newTabSpec(tab_test2).setIndicator (Ask).setContent(i)); --- in place of the second mTabHost On Dec 29, 11:13 pm, tysmailbox tysmail...@gmail.com wrote: I have an app with 2

[android-beginners] help regarding implementation of SAX parser in android

2009-12-31 Thread Yousuf Faheem
Hi, Happy New Year to all. I am trying to implement a SAX parser in my android application. I placed my xml file in res/xml folder and declared my path as /res/xml/book.xml. SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); try { SAXParser sp = spf.newSAXParser();

Re: [android-beginners] help regarding implementation of SAX parser in android

2009-12-31 Thread TreKing
I haven't used SaxParser, but wouldn't what you're doing be relative to the file in which you're running that code? So unless your source file is in the same root folder as /res/, I wouldn't expect that to work.

[android-beginners] Re: help regarding implementation of SAX parser in android

2009-12-31 Thread schwiz
here is a useful tutorial on the subject, the author used to answer questions quickly back in the day not sure if he still does http://www.anddev.org/parsing_xml_from_the_net_-_using_the_saxparser-t353.html On Dec 31 2009, 11:38 pm, Yousuf Faheem yousuf.syed@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Happy New