Re: [android-beginners] Re: ATTENTION: Android-Beginners will be permanently disabled on August 9 2010

2010-08-06 Thread Greg Donald
existing tags instead. /snip Good luck only tagging questions that already have popular tags. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. ATTENTION: Android-Beginners will be permanently disabled

Re: [android-beginners] Re: ATTENTION: Android-Beginners will be permanently disabled on August 9 2010

2010-08-06 Thread Greg Donald
there. I tried again today as a last resort. I'm expecting nothing, as it's likely that's what I'll be getting. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. ATTENTION: Android-Beginners

Re: [android-beginners] ATTENTION: Android-Beginners will be permanently disabled on August 9 2010

2010-08-03 Thread Greg Donald
contact me after joining. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. ATTENTION: Android-Beginners will be permanently disabled on August 9 2010. For more information about this change

[android-beginners] DDMS Allocations tracker not picking up activity when using a real phone

2010-08-03 Thread Greg Siano
I'm trying to use DDMS to track my allocations, but it only finds my activity if I run it on the emulator. If I run my app on my phone it can't find it, even though it finds the phone. Is there anything specific that I need to do that I might have missed? -- You received this message because

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Problems with Google Groups?

2010-06-21 Thread Greg Donald
://www.donfrenchphotography.com/MiscPhotos/ScreenGrab.jpg This sort of thing happens to me sometimes when Ad Block causes style sheets to not load. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking

Re: [android-beginners] NEED help--working on twitter app want list click to be expanded and again shrinked on another click plz help

2010-05-13 Thread Greg Donald
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:15 PM, vin vineet...@gmail.com wrote: hey are u people getting my posts or not ..? if yes plz help @Vin I suspect you might be being ignored for your italicized Comic Sans font in your HTML emails. You might get more action with plain text. Good luck. -- Greg

Re: [android-beginners] About layout

2010-05-13 Thread Greg Donald
when I need table rows for tabular data. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- 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-beginners] Re: [android-developers] ubuntu 10.04 emulator not launching

2010-05-03 Thread Greg Donald
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:30 AM, riazrahaman rahaman.r...@gmail.com wrote: Was not able to launch the emulator on Ubuntu 10.04. Is this a known issue with the 10.04 Lucid lynx ubuntu? Works fine for me. Just tested, all mine work. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You

Re: [android-beginners] How to cancel Android Market developer account

2010-03-24 Thread Greg Donald
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:07 PM, david2 enki1...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any support? Google doesn't do support. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging

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

2010-03-18 Thread Greg Donald
/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-with-rails-third-edition -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- 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

Re: [android-beginners] Start My Next Activity

2010-03-07 Thread Greg Donald
com.example.mypackage) has stopped unexpectedly.  Please try again. Did you add the new activity to your manifest? -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your

Re: [android-beginners] osx

2010-02-16 Thread Greg Donald
? Turn on Numlock, it's on the top row, then press Fn + whatever. Look at the keys, they have numbers printed on the bottom edges in an alternate color, the same color as the Fn key. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [android-beginners] Emulator takes too much time to show up - any solution?

2010-02-08 Thread Greg Donald
the emulator? I find starting the emulator from inside Eclipse takes over two minutes (on an i7 cpu, 12GBs of ram). I find starting it from the command line takes about 2 seconds less so that's what I do. Yup.. pretty sad, I know. Good luck. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com

Re: [android-beginners] Re: موقع جديد لفت ح اى موقع ممنوع او محجوب

2010-01-31 Thread Greg Donald
2010/1/31 Mr. Baseball 34 mrbasebal...@gmail.com: What moderation system are you using on your lists? The one where you tell it to moderate everything. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners

Re: [android-beginners] Re: موقع جديد لفت ح اى موقع ممنوع او محجوب

2010-01-30 Thread Greg Donald
the moderation options on. I would guess no one is purposely letting these spammer posts in, it's just the moderation system is being bypassed. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try

Re: [android-beginners] Eclipse can't seem to locate R.java

2010-01-28 Thread Greg Donald
sometimes when I copy a class file over from another project. Easy to fix, but fairly confusing the first time it happens. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking

Re: [android-beginners] Multi activity app

2010-01-26 Thread Greg Donald
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Vladyslav Namashko vnamas...@gmail.com wrote: So the question is: maybe there is some more optimized methods to switch between activities? I start a timer thread that calls finish() on the old activity a few seconds after I start the new activity. -- Greg

Re: [android-beginners] Urgent How can I deploy android application to Google App Engine ????

2010-01-26 Thread Greg Donald
App Engine app using JSPs: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/webxml.html#JSPs -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- 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] Want to make a simple calculation app... can someone hold my hand?

2010-01-26 Thread Greg Donald
yet? You can get a reference to each prgramatically using findViewById(). http://developer.android.com/intl/fr/reference/android/app/Activity.html#findViewById%28int%29 Are you using Eclipse? -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[android-beginners] Android Virtual Device manager freezing upon creation

2010-01-04 Thread Greg Chambers
So I've been doing so basic development with one little hitch that I've run into so far. I would like to make several AVD's in the AVD manager where each virtual device replicates each of the existing released phones with the Android platform for both hardware and software upon the release of the

Re: [android-beginners] Newbees Revolt., Android Info Sucks

2009-12-24 Thread Greg Donald
interesting problem you'll get more eyes (and answers) by asking it on the regular developers list. At worst an Android engineer will tell you it doesn't do that yet. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

[android-beginners] Re: how to call context menu

2009-12-22 Thread Greg Donald
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: I open my context menu like this:  private OnClickListener optionsClickListener = new OnClickListener()  {   public void onClick( View v )   {     registerForContextMenu( v );     openContextMenu( v );   }  }; How

[android-beginners] how to call context menu

2009-12-22 Thread Greg Donald
my regular menu handler here: public boolean onOptionsItemSelected( MenuItem item ) { switch( item.getItemId() ) { case OPTIONS: registerForContextMenu( v ); openContextMenu( v ); return true; where I have no View to pass? Thanks, -- Greg Donald http

Re: [android-beginners] Just starting this, not working

2009-12-10 Thread Greg Donald
. Any more suggestions? -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners

[android-beginners] Bug in SDK Manager: cannot update

2009-12-10 Thread greg
(OSX 10.5.3): I have re-downloaded the SDK starter pack a few times and this is what happens: I run ./android, click Refresh on Available Packages, and get SSL error. I force HTTPS over HTTP, and Refresh. https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/respository.xml This repository requires a

Re: [android-beginners] Just starting this, not working

2009-12-07 Thread Greg Donald
really matter your computer configuration. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email

Re: [android-beginners] getting started

2009-12-07 Thread Greg Donald
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Sanjeev iamsanj...@gmail.com wrote: 4. The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development by Mark L. Murphy The $35/year deal with Mr. Murphy seems the best deal. You actually get 4 Android books. The examples are high quality and up to date. -- Greg Donald http

Re: [android-beginners] getting started

2009-12-07 Thread Greg Donald
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: The $35/year deal with Mr. Murphy seems the best deal.  You actually get 4 Android books.  The examples are high quality and up to date. http://commonsware.com/ -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ -- You received

Re: [android-beginners] Re: I need to talk to a LIVE PERSON

2009-11-05 Thread Greg Donald
without focused usage examples. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android

[android-beginners] private application on Android Market

2009-11-05 Thread greg
Hello, I'm currently developing an Android application. I'd like to know if it is possible to publish it in Android Market as a private beta, only accessible for the people that have a password to test this application. Thanks, Greg -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[android-beginners] Re: Fresh Android 2.0 instance gives error on Accounts screen

2009-11-02 Thread Greg Jastrab
I'm also experiencing this, running the emulator on both OS X and Ubuntu. On Oct 28, 11:53 am, Scorpicon aar...@gmail.com wrote: I downloaded the Android SDK for the first time yesterday, and installed all of the available packages.  I created a new virtual device using Android 2.0 (API Level

[android-beginners] Re: showDialog() fails to show anything

2009-10-29 Thread Greg Donald
tried building for both 1.5 and 1.6, same result, it never shows up. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email

[android-beginners] showDialog() fails to show anything

2009-10-28 Thread Greg Donald
. Any ideas? TIA. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[android-beginners] Android / SQLite and Java Serialization

2009-08-30 Thread Greg Hedin
as a double, this may be a solution for me. Thanks! Greg Hedin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

[android-beginners] Re: Android / SQLite and Java Serialization

2009-08-30 Thread Greg Hedin
Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Greg Hedin wrote: Is it possible to pass a serializable object to SQLite using the ole 'android.content.ContentValues' class? I am making a to-do-list application and I rather than writing a 'put' line for each member of my task object, I want to send

[android-beginners] Breaking up Activity classes

2009-08-21 Thread Greg Hedin
developers compartmentalize things in their activity classes? Thanks for any helpful info, Greg Hedin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android

[android-beginners] Re: Getting ListView position in touch mode

2009-08-14 Thread Greg Hedin
That is awesome. Thank you so much. I don't have to use getPosition at all. So whether it was a long touch or a trackball long click, info.position is all I need. Cheers! Greg Hedin On Aug 13, 10:43 pm, Romain Guy romain...@google.com wrote: @Override public boolean onContextItemSelected

[android-beginners] Re: hello????

2009-08-14 Thread Greg Hedin
Ha the minute I posted this all my previous posts just showed up. On Aug 13, 11:56 pm, Michael Leung michaelchi...@gmail.com wrote: that is working, I can see your post. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:22 AM, GH greghe...@gmail.com wrote: Why aren't my frickin' topics showing up?!?! --

[android-beginners] Re: hi help me

2009-08-13 Thread Greg Hedin
Hehehe that's funny. Ill just sneak a post in this reply. If you are in touch mode. How can you find out the listview item that was long touched from within a context menu? Greg Hedin On Aug 13, 2009 12:25 PM, Yusuf Saib (T-Mobile USA) yusuf.s...@t-mobile.com wrote: Also http

[android-beginners] Getting ListView position in touch mode

2009-08-13 Thread Greg Hedin
if that is the case? Thanks, Greg Hedin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email

[android-beginners] Re: hi help me

2009-08-13 Thread Greg Hedin
thru. What gives??? Greg Hedin On Aug 13, 2009 8:50 AM, pankaj reliablepan...@gmail.com wrote: helo i m newbie want to learn android. from where i can start studyin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[android-beginners] Development Phone

2009-08-03 Thread Greg
I'm nearing completion of an app and need to begin testing on a real device. G1s are going for quite a bit less than the official development phone on ebay. I'm wondering if its possible to use the G1 without a sim card? Can you still use the WIFI and the rest of the phone functionality?

[android-beginners] Re: extending ListView with an underline

2009-07-28 Thread greg
at convertView = mInflater.inflate (R.layout.list_item_icon_text, null); underlinedView = (UnderlinedView)convertView; Best regards, Greg On Jul 26, 1:46 pm, greg sep...@eduneer.com wrote: After reading the enlightening excerpt from Mark Murphy's _The Busy Coder's Guide

[android-beginners] Re: extending ListView with an underline

2009-07-26 Thread greg
After reading the enlightening excerpt from Mark Murphy's _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ at http://commonsware.com/Android/excerpt.pdf, I believe that the Efficient Adapter's getView is the access point I was looking for. I'll post the code if I get it working. - Greg

[android-beginners] Re: How do i run the emulator?

2009-07-26 Thread greg
The SDK has a tools directory that includes the emulator application, which you can start with the following command line: emulator -avd your_avd_name as described at http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html On Jul 24, 4:42 pm, popetorak popeto...@gmail.com

[android-beginners] extending ListView with an underline

2009-07-25 Thread greg
Although I'm not yet quite fully comfortable with Java or Eclipse, I thought by using the SDK ApiDemos Views/Lists/14. Efficient Adapter sample code as a starting point and the 'Modifying an Existing View Type' instructions at SDK/docs/guide/topics/ui/custom- components.html, I might be able to

[android-beginners] Re: problem starting emulator from command line

2009-07-07 Thread greg
...@gmail.com wrote: hello, i am a beginner too,and I have the same anonying problem as you .my enviroment is 32-vista and android sdk 1.5 r1. if you get some solution,please inform me .thank you very much . 2009/7/6 greg sep...@eduneer.com The reason the android emulator starting from within Eclipse

[android-beginners] post removed about problem starting emulator from command line?

2009-07-06 Thread greg
A couple hours ago I posted a message about the problem I am having when I try to start the emulator from the command line even though I can reliably start the emulator from within Eclipse. It appears the post was removed from the group. Why??

[android-beginners] Re: post removed about problem starting emulator from command line?

2009-07-06 Thread greg
My mistake. The post is still in the group, but further from the most recent post than I expected. On Jul 6, 12:50 pm, greg sep...@eduneer.com wrote: A couple hours ago I posted a message about the problem I am having when I try to start the emulator from the command line even though I can

[android-beginners] Re: problem starting emulator from command line

2009-07-06 Thread greg
Emulator Command Line Options field. The reason for the emulator not starting from the (64-bit Vista) command line is still a mystery. I'll post that problem to the Android Issue Tracker if I don't get any tips from the group. - Greg On Jul 6, 11:18 am, greg sep...@eduneer.com wrote: Although I can

[android-beginners] Re: problem starting emulator from command line

2009-07-06 Thread greg
. Apparently when starting the emulator from within Eclipse, my neglect of closing the emulator was countered by an automatic closing. Thanks again, Greg P.S., In reading the SDK emulator documentation at http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html, I noticed a few typos -- files

[android-beginners] HelloSpinner example runs but gives resource error

2009-06-24 Thread greg
World, HelloSpinner!/string string name=app_nameHello, Spinner/string string name=planet_promptChoose a planet/string /resources - - - Did I miss something in the HelloSpinner instructions that's causing this error? - Greg --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

[android-beginners] Re: HelloSpinner example runs but gives resource error

2009-06-24 Thread greg
By the way, the emulator correctly displays the string (i.e., planet_prompt) at the top of the spinner selections. Yet, the Problems tab of Eclipse claims that no resource matches the name planet_prompt. Anyone else seeing this error in the HelloSpinner example? - Greg On Jun 24, 2:57 pm

[android-beginners] Re: TextView scrolling

2009-05-22 Thread Greg Donald
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: How do I make my TextView scroll as I append new lines?  Here's my code that doesn't work yet: final TextView outputField = (TextView) findViewById( R.id.outputTextView ); outputField.setMovementMethod

[android-beginners] TextView scrolling

2009-05-21 Thread Greg Donald
++ ) { outputField.append( x + \n ); outputField.scrollTo( 0, x * 60 ); } Do I need to repaint or redraw or something? Thanks, -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners

[android-beginners] Re: MapView basic question

2009-02-12 Thread Greg Corradini
and APIdemo - View - Map View also got the grey grid On 1月28日, 上午5時04分, Greg Corradini gregcorrad...@gmail.com wrote: I've got two questions about... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group

[android-beginners] Re: Installing the Eclipse Ganemede Plugin (ADT) for Android

2009-02-09 Thread Greg Corradini
Sri, Below the numbered section you cite there is a section called Troubleshooting ADT Installation. In this section you can manually download the ADT zip file and manually load it into eclipse (see the directions). On Feb 8, 4:13 pm, Sri vat...@gmail.com wrote: Google recommends the following

[android-beginners] Re: Eclipse not seeing ADT tools folder

2009-02-06 Thread Greg Corradini
Yeah let me find later. I'll get back to you on it. I'm out of town right now Sent from mobile phone. Forgive my fat-fingered mistakes. On Feb 6, 2009 3:10 PM, Xavier Ducrohet x...@android.com wrote: Hi Greg, can you point me to the documentation that mention pointing ADT to the tools folder

[android-beginners] Eclipse not seeing ADT tools folder

2009-02-03 Thread Greg Corradini
Hello, I'm on the last step of installing the android ADT plugin in Eclipse 3.4. However, when I go to Window Preferences and try to point Eclipse to my SDK tools folder I get the following error: Could not find folder 'tools' i...id-sdk-windows-1.0_r2\tools\' I've tried everything. Any ideas?

[android-beginners] MapView basic question

2009-01-27 Thread Greg Corradini
I've got two questions about MapViews. BACKGROUND: My MapView SDK ApiDemos didn't show map tiles (got the grey grid). I thought this was b/c I needed a debug Map API key. But now that I've got a Map API Key the tiles still don't show (I've added it to the layout XML and called map library in

[android-beginners] Re: Export to sim somewhat working...

2009-01-22 Thread Greg
Thanks for the info, ill head over there and make a post. On Jan 21, 10:44 pm, Jamie jamie.hu...@gmail.com wrote: This group is for application development using the SDK, not changes or source-code development.  You will have better luck posting this

[android-beginners] Re: Generating MD5 Fingerprint of the SDK Debug Certificate

2009-01-21 Thread Greg Corradini
Settings/Application Data/Android/ debug.keystore -storepass android -keypass android On Jan 20, 6:36 pm, Greg Corradini gregcorrad...@gmail.com wrote: Thks James, I saw that in another post, but it didn't make sense along side the official documentation where they tell you to generate it from

[android-beginners] ApiDemos MapViews no show (Proxy problems?)

2009-01-21 Thread Greg Corradini
I've got two minor questions about MapViews. BACKGROUND: I thought the MapView SDK ApiDemos didn't show map tiles b/c I needed a debug Map API key. But now that I've got a Map API Key the tiles still don't show (I've added it to the layout XML and called map library in manifest XML). QUESTIONS:

[android-beginners] Re: Generating MD5 Fingerprint of the SDK Debug Certificate

2009-01-20 Thread Greg Corradini
on the android page. Sent from mobile phone. Forgive my fat-fingered mistakes. On Jan 20, 2009 6:02 PM, James Yum j...@google.com wrote: Hi Greg, keytool is in the bin subdirectory of the JDK. Cheers, James On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Greg Corradini gregcorrad...@gmail.com wrote: Hello

[android-beginners] Export to sim somewhat working...

2009-01-20 Thread Greg
, the import one seems to force close for some reason... Either way if someone is willing to help finish this thing off id be happy to provide the code, and id love to see this in the next build. Thanks, Greg. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

[android-beginners] Generating MD5 Fingerprint of the SDK Debug Certificate

2009-01-19 Thread Greg Corradini
Hello, I'm trying to use the following keytool command to generate a Map Key for the debug certificate: *keytool -list -alias androiddebugkey -keystore C:\Documents and Settings\corr1gre\Local Settings\Application Data\Android\debug.keystore -storepass android -keypass android* I'm using Windows

[android-beginners] Re: ask for help: write contact into SIM (phonebook app)

2009-01-15 Thread Greg
Im trying to write code into the source code to allow you to use the same interface as the Sim Importer, i have the button and the action written in on the contacts screen however, im having trouble writing the code for the actual Listing of the contacts when i cause the Intent, and then allowing

[android-beginners] both sdks

2008-09-22 Thread Greg Molnar
. Thanks, Greg --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email