Re: [android-beginners] setting up eclipse

2010-03-18 Thread Justin Anderson
First, this is an Android support group... Have you tried the eclipse forums? Second, if you were a little more specific we might be able to help you... What supporting applications are you talking about? The only thing I can think of that you need to install is the Java JRE. However, to

Re: [android-beginners] My android project did not show up in emulator.

2010-03-18 Thread Justin Anderson
Have you looked at the logcat output? -- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't. -- On Sat, Mar 13, 2010

[android-beginners] Re: Email Accounts

2010-03-18 Thread Ali Asghar
What about the AccountManager in sdk 2.0? On Mar 17, 8:12 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Ali Asghar wrote: Is there any way that i can access the email accounts that are saved in the default email client of android. The email applications are not part of the official SDK.

Re: [android-beginners] Terminal type text output for debugging?

2010-03-18 Thread Erős Levente
Search for Logcat. You can use the Log class to write output there: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Log.html Greets, Levente On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 02:51, BobG bobgard...@aol.com wrote: I notice when I use setText to output some text to a textview it defaults to the top

[android-beginners] Re: How to know the size of a file in adb shell prompt

2010-03-18 Thread skink
On Mar 17, 5:34 pm, rocky84 rocky84 hulkman...@gmail.com wrote: *Hello all, i want to extract the size of a file in adb shell using some perl utility. this works fine for me as below in windows but does not work in adb shell prompt (#) i used this function in windows stat($filename);

[android-beginners] Re: setting up eclipse

2010-03-18 Thread Mauricio
On Mar 18, 2:49 am, Justin Anderson janderson@gmail.com wrote: First, this is an Android support group...  Have you tried the eclipse forums? Second, if you were a little more specific we might be able to help you... What supporting applications are you talking about?  The only thing I

[android-beginners] Android sounds

2010-03-18 Thread Traveler
Is there any example code that shows how to create beep sounds of variable tone and duration? Thanks for any advice -- 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] Android sounds

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Murphy
Traveler wrote: Is there any example code that shows how to create beep sounds of variable tone and duration? Thanks for any advice There is the ToneGenerator class: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/ToneGenerator.html You can find some places in the Android source code

[android-beginners] Re: possible to send an xml file via HttpClient?

2010-03-18 Thread KC Dev Android 06
Hi, i have managed to figure out how to send an xml file using httpPost. my next question is how do i do the reverse i.e download a file but this time using HttpGet. So far am i on the right track in doing this? httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); // Prepare a request

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Slowing down gesture builder?

2010-03-18 Thread Tim
Thanks Dave! That's exactly what I did. I made a copy of it like you mentioned (I had to change the name of the new project since it wouldn't let me a second GestureBuilder) with the updated fadeOffset but that didn't work. To get an idea of what I'm doing. I was writing a chinese character that

[android-beginners] Re: Android sounds

2010-03-18 Thread BobG
I get the idea from looking at the docs that tonegenerator makes it easy to use one of the listed tones, but not so easy to just play 1khz. Didnt see any spec for starttone(freq, duration) for example I just used cooledit to generate a wav file (it has a tone generator function) and play it as a

[android-beginners] Re: Terminal type text output for debugging?

2010-03-18 Thread BobG
Log files are redirected to a file, right? Anyway to write to the screen? -- 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 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To

[android-beginners] احصل على اجدد الأ فلام والبرامج والأخبار والألعاب من هنا

2010-03-18 Thread alagmy
احصل على اجدد الأفلام والبرامج والأخبار والألعاب من هنا سجل معنا واحصل على اجدد البرامج والألعاب والأفلام العربيه والأجنبيه والأخبار (الحوادث - الفن والفنانين - الأخبار )حصريا ونرحب بالأعضاء النشيطين معنا لتشارك باقى الأعضاء الردود والمواضيع الحصريه سجل من هنا

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Terminal type text output for debugging?

2010-03-18 Thread Xavier Ducrohet
No, logcat is output to your development computer. Either in a terminal (see http://developer.android.com/intl/fr/guide/developing/tools/adb.html#logcat) Or in DDMS (see: http://developer.android.com/intl/fr/guide/developing/tools/ddms.html) or in the eclipse plug-in (open the DDMS perspective).

[android-beginners] Can I get design doc on Audio Flinger

2010-03-18 Thread MuNNa
Hi I Want to understand the audioflinger and the audio HAL in android 25E. 16. Is there any document on this. Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks in advance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your

[android-beginners] use Facebook in app

2010-03-18 Thread Saurabh
Hi I want to use facebook api in android app.I have seen http://www.xeomax.net/fbrocket api but It open as we bpage.But I want a way where I can customize Login Screen,Status Post Screen.but not like a web page. As it found in iPhone. If there is any way Please suggest me -- You received this

[android-beginners] Error: An SDK Target must be specified.

2010-03-18 Thread Mr. sakthi
Hello guys, I'm a android beginner. And I'm using the latest vertsion of the Android SDK with Eclipse.the problem is While creating the new android project, step 1: I entered the project name. step 2: Then the new project window highlighting the error An SDK Target must

[android-beginners] Re: possible to send an xml file via HttpClient?

2010-03-18 Thread Andreas
Hi, What you want to do is to open a HttpURLConnection to the URL specified, and then open an OuputStream towards that connection. Then you open an InputStream from the File you want to send, and transfer the data from the File InputStream to the Http OutputStream. Easy as π ;) Andreas On Mar

[android-beginners] layout-land with onConfigurationChanged

2010-03-18 Thread Ben
I'm new to this group and I've got one thing that's been bugging me. In my application, I want to override the default reorientation from androids for two reasons: 1) my main view is animated and the redraw routine checks for changes in the screen height 2) It is faster to not reload everything

[android-beginners] Re: RSS feeds

2010-03-18 Thread quarkus
Hello Folks, i am trying to implement the NewsDroid (http://www.helloandroid.com/ tutorials/newsdroid-rss-reader) but i can´t get it to work. obviously it has been written under an older sdk Version. anyone who has a version which works under the current sdk ? i would really love to work with

[android-beginners] how to use touch screen on the emulator

2010-03-18 Thread mamila
Hi all, my friend is trying to develop locale application that recognizes text entry using a touch screen input method. unfortunately, he was unable to figure out how to change the input method to touch screen. can anyone give us some suggestion on how to start the touch screen input method on the

[android-beginners] Re: Serial Data Transfer via Bluetooth

2010-03-18 Thread Ben
I've attempted to use the unofficial Bluetooth API for 1.6, got through finding the adapter and the remote device, but could not open an RFCOMM socket. You should be able to put the Jar anywhere as long as Eclipse--if that is what you are developing on--points to it. There are instructions on how

[android-beginners] MMS

2010-03-18 Thread Chitra MCA
HI Using content provider(content://mms/ content://mms/ part) i am getting MMS details.i.e., Subject, Txt Message, Attachment. These details are getting from SQLite database. Same like how can getting mms sender,receiver phone number. In SQLite DB, we have addr table. its

[android-beginners] Re: How can I catch a ring event?

2010-03-18 Thread Andreas
Hi, In TelephonyManager there's a method called listen. If you provide that with a PhoneStateListener, you can use the callback method onCallStateChanged to listen to the events CALL_STATE_IDLE, CALL_STATE_RINGING and CALL_STATE_OFFHOOK. Good luck! Andreas On Mar 12, 11:17 pm, df

[android-beginners] Re: Audio Processing

2010-03-18 Thread dario
DSP in Java has been available for over 10 years, it's just quite different with embedded and mobile devices for obvious performance and power reasons (vs in C). But don't despair, with the JNI API (also available for as long) you can reuse your C expertise and call C code from Java. Check out

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Prevent uninstallation of app?

2010-03-18 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
In theory... how many users use a single cell phone? Even if I let someone else use my phone, I don't have a way to let my phone know that it should currently be in different-user-mode. Ahhh, theory and practice. In theory, in a lot of emerging economies there are phone companies made up of

[android-beginners] Is there any book on rails?

2010-03-18 Thread Gordons
Hello everyone! I just joined the group. I am very new to Android and i am looking for any ebook that can help me in my learning Ruby and as well Rails. Thanks Everyone. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and

[android-beginners] setting prioritys on buttons

2010-03-18 Thread jony
Hello Android Developers, I am trying to figure out how to set priorities on imagebutton. I want to have a layout with a bunch of Icon or buttons that can be selected either by touch, radio, or checked box. As these images are selected they are set on queue to be displayed in order of

[android-beginners] Method called when hilighting a ListView item

2010-03-18 Thread Gérald Gounot
Hello there, I implemented an activity by extending ListActivity. In this class, I overrided onListItemClick() in order to perform some actions when the user clicks on list items. There is no problem about that. Nevertheless, I'd like to perform actions when the user only focus an item. In fact,

Re: [android-beginners] using java classes

2010-03-18 Thread Niaz Habib
Android does like Java classes. Android is implemented in Java. Assuming you have learned Java (or any other typed language), You just have to specify a type when you declare a variable. So rewrite the line as: Date date = new Date(); Also, make sure you import the class as import

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Audio Processing

2010-03-18 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Bob, I consider myself an Expert doing digital signal acquisition and processing on microcontrollers an PCs in c. Last few weeks I've found out that non of that helps me learn java. Zilch. Zero. Nada. I bet they used c in phones 10 years ago. Whose idea was it to switch everything to java?!? I

[android-beginners] Re: Serial Data Transfer via Bluetooth

2010-03-18 Thread Lovers v. Haters
I agree-- Amarino is pretty useful. I'm doing a project that uses Amarino to transmit strings of data over XMPP. (Google put the kibosh on making your own jabber client, but I found a useful JAR to get around it.) Put Amarino together with XMPP and your device becomes a great transmitter for

[android-beginners] Android Resources for Application development

2010-03-18 Thread Fred Grott(Android Developer, http://mobilebytes.wordpress.com)
I completed a Google Knol article on Android Resources for Application Development: http://knol.google.com/k/fred-grott/android-resources-for-application/166jfml0mowlh/12# Hopefully, it is useful -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners

[android-beginners] Passing ArrayList of objects to a ListView?

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Freeman
Hi everyone. Please bare with me as I am very new to Android. I've looked around and seem to only find hard to understand and conflicting answers to this question. I have a program reading a web service and creating an ArrayList of 'Customers', each of which contain a nested ArrayList of

[android-beginners] how can i write a Broadcast Receiver that will be invoked when user clicks on any application icon.

2010-03-18 Thread mike
hai every one, i have a query. how can i write a Broadcast Receiver that will be invoked when user clicks on any application icon. i tried by writing receiver android:name = myreceiver intent-filter action android:name = android.intent.action.MAIN /intent-filter /receiver but it is not called.

[android-beginners] No resource found that matches the given name (at 'entries' with value '@arrays/items').

2010-03-18 Thread anushree
main.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? RelativeLayout android:id=@+id/widget28 android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=fill_parent xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android; ListView android:id=@+id/widget29 android:layout_width=fill_parent

Re: [android-beginners] Error: An SDK Target must be specified.

2010-03-18 Thread Xavier Ducrohet
What do you mean you cannot enable the box? I don't think it's ever disabled. On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Mr. sakthi sakthic...@gmail.com wrote: Hello guys,   I'm a android beginner. And I'm using the latest vertsion of the Android SDK with Eclipse.the problem is While creating

Re: [android-beginners] Can't dispatch DDM chunk error

2010-03-18 Thread Xavier Ducrohet
First, you can ignore DDM dispatch reg wait timeout, it's a benign error. What's more problematic is the line ActivityManager: java.lang.NullPointerException It looks like the activity Manager fails to launch your app's activity. Can you check the logcat output, there's probably the full

Re: [android-beginners] Is there any book on rails?

2010-03-18 Thread Greg Donald
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Gordons godwinc.ag...@ymail.com wrote: Hello everyone! I just joined the group. I am very new to Android and i am looking for any ebook that can help me in my learning Ruby and as well Rails. http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

Re: [android-beginners] Passing ArrayList of objects to a ListView?

2010-03-18 Thread TreKing
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Mark Freeman mark.allen.free...@gmail.comwrote: I'm having trouble determining the best way (or any way for that matter) for me to pass the ArrayList of Customers to a new Activity Have you Customer class implement Parcelable, define the methods to convert

[android-beginners] Your feedback on Samples/Tutorials/Articles

2010-03-18 Thread Megha Joshi
Hi everyone, As many of you might have noticed by now, we have added a new Resourceshttp://developer.android.com/resources/index.htmltab under developer.android.com. It contains samples, tutorials and technical articles. We want your feedback to add more samples and tutorials to it.. Please

Re: [android-beginners] Is there any book on rails?

2010-03-18 Thread Kevin Duffey
Why do you need to learn Rails for Android? Curious... On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Gordons godwinc.ag...@ymail.com wrote: Hello everyone! I just joined the group. I am very new to Android and i am looking for any

Re: [android-beginners] Error: An SDK Target must be specified.

2010-03-18 Thread Ray Tayek
At 11:19 PM 3/17/2010, you wrote: ... I entered the project name. step 2: Then the new project window highlighting the error An SDK Target must be specified. But i can't enable the Build SDK Group Box. How to over come this this problem. I hope u can solve this problem.plz

[android-beginners] Can u give some idea

2010-03-18 Thread Mr. sakthi
hello guys, Can u give some idea to complete this program The program will... 1.1 Read from ContractContacts, select the first three contacts with phone numbers and call each one simultaneously 1.2 The program will determine if the contact; (a) does not answer after a predefined

[android-beginners] Android tutorial sites

2010-03-18 Thread Gethin Dawson
Tutorial sites are very important for beginners, check out the list of really good tutorial sites that I found http://bit.ly/aDxGrG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack

Re: [android-beginners] use Facebook in app

2010-03-18 Thread wahib haq
hello dear ! I am having the same issues for past few days. I posted three times on the group but no one replied. its pretty sad for me ... and what you have posted about fbrocket is a new thing for me. I'll check it out. by the way i tried with fbconnect api

Re: [android-beginners] use Facebook in app

2010-03-18 Thread Kevin Duffey
In order to log in to facebook, wouldn't you need a users login name and password for facebook login? Do you ask for that in your app, save it on device to use it? On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:00 PM, wahib haq wahib.t...@gmail.com wrote: hello dear ! I am having the same issues for past few days.

Re: [android-beginners] use Facebook in app

2010-03-18 Thread wahib haq
yes i need a login id and password. The benefit of fbconnect api is that it does it all on its end. so no need to build screens from our end. the api responses back and we can use the authentication to log in the user. On 3/19/10, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: In order to log in to