[android-beginners] Re: SharedPreferences with Context between two Activities

2010-04-12 Thread Stu
to. Any more suggestions? Regards, Stuart. On Apr 9, 5:01 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Stu wrote: Hi, I seem to be struggling with the concept of Context in Android when dealing with the application preferences. I have an application with a few different classes. I need

[android-beginners] Re: SharedPreferences with Context between two Activities

2010-04-12 Thread Stu
Ok, sorry for the double post, but I managed to get this sorted. Suddenly preferences seem clearer to me. I apparently had some sort of epiphany. :) Thanks for the pointers. Stu. On Apr 12, 9:14 am, Stu stuart.gilb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mark, I have made the change you suggested

[android-beginners] Spinner won't work with ArrayAdapter in one project but will in another

2009-04-03 Thread Stu
Hi, I've been developing a quick little application for the last few days and I've encountered some problems trying to get my spinner to display a list of numbers that I have stored in an array resource. Basically I'm copying the Hello, Spinner example on

[android-beginners] Re: Is there a way to fake camera input on the emulator?

2008-11-12 Thread Stu
I don't know of any way in the emulator. I do know that zxing used to have a way of reading in an image from the device as camera input. It used to be that you used adb to copy a file over to /tmp/barcode.jpg That's no longer supported though. I did speak with some people on the zxing list to

[android-beginners] Re: Feedback for my idea for Live Locations

2008-11-11 Thread Stu
Hi Tane, I think the application is a good way to get started with writing for Android. I can imagine some people would use it... But I think it'd be quite a drain on the already quite short-lasting battery. The update would have to happen quite sparingly. Once an hour or something. I also

[android-beginners] Re: Overriding dispatchTap on a MyLocationOverlay

2008-11-08 Thread Stu
No ideas then? :( On Nov 7, 11:23 am, Stu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone. I've implemented a basic map that has a MyLocationOverlay on it. I'm trying to make it do something when I tap on my current location. I've read the docs about dispatchTap() [http://code.google.com/android

[android-beginners] Overriding dispatchTap on a MyLocationOverlay

2008-11-07 Thread Stu
Hi everyone. I've implemented a basic map that has a MyLocationOverlay on it. I'm trying to make it do something when I tap on my current location. I've read the docs about dispatchTap() [http://code.google.com/android/ reference/com/google/android/maps/ MyLocationOverlay.html#dispatchTap()] and

[android-beginners] Re: mark the location on the map

2008-11-06 Thread Stu
Hi Dennis, is the rest of the source for your application available anywhere? I'd be interested to see it. Regards, Stuart. On Nov 6, 3:30 pm, Dennis Wilmsmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Read the hints regarding Location-based Service APIs:http://code.google.com/android/toolbox/apis/lbs.html

[android-beginners] Re: Novice programmers lets build together.

2008-11-06 Thread Stu
I think an MSN client would be extremely useful. I was quite miffed as to why I couldn't find it on my new G1 after seeing it on so many Google and other review videos on YouTube. :( I'm struggling my way through making any sort of application at the moment, but I might feel more inclined to