[android-beginners] How to call an intent of an installed application

2010-03-26 Thread rocky84 rocky84
Hello all, as using the adb shell command adb shell am start -a android.settings.APN_SETTINGS i can call the APN settigns intent. if i installed a new app (say abc.apk) could anybody please let me know how can i call the intent of that particular application?? my installed applicationa are

Re: [android-beginners] What am I doing wrong?

2010-03-26 Thread Mark Murphy
Ben Orchard wrote: I am attempting to figure out where my code is going wrong. Any help at all would be appreciated. I am SO frustrated about this. Here's the story. I have code copied from this seemingly popular tutorial:

[android-beginners] VDC is Interested in Your Engineering Experiences

2010-03-26 Thread OnTargetEmbedded
VDC is conducting its annual survey of mobile and embedded engineers so if you are involved in the engineering of mobile or embedded systems/software, this is your chance to influence key solution suppliers. The research covers embedded software, hardware, tools, and development practices. Your

[android-beginners] Re: How to call an intent of an installed application

2010-03-26 Thread Dan Liew
To call APN_SETTINGS you would do something like the following: Intent test = new Intent(); test.setAction(android.settings.APN_SETTINGS); startActivity(test); I have only learnt one way to start other intents in my applications and that is by explicitly referencing the package name and

[android-beginners] Re: Changing the background color of a list row

2010-03-26 Thread Stefan
I have located the problem and just need some help. The adapter resuse view's in the getView method. What is happing is I am changing the background and the views are being recycled and the background never defaults back. Is there a way that I can set the default background of a view (preferably

[android-beginners] Re: How to call an intent of an installed application

2010-03-26 Thread Kitzy
If that application has an action asociated with it's intent, you should use that: Example: Intent i = new Intent (com.abc.INTENT_ACTION); startActivity (i); If it doesn't have an action, you could try to call it with the package name and class, although I don't know if it will let you call it

[android-beginners] Re: is my sd card full?

2010-03-26 Thread Kitzy
If you don't have many/any apps on your phone, you could have a problem with tombstone files. Something that happened to my phone when I first got it and caused by an error dump when using bluetooth, or turning it on/off The only way to check and fix is to root the phone. See:

[android-beginners] getDuration() in VideoView returns -1 !!!

2010-03-26 Thread Abhi
Hi, Has anyone tried using the getDuration() method in VideoView? It returns a -1 for me always. Is there a way around? Thanks, Abhi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack

[android-beginners] Android Emulator don't show up (Linux Fedora 12 x86_64)

2010-03-26 Thread yodaa
Hello, I decided to install my Android development environment on my second OS: Fedora 12 x_86_64 (KDE) with proprietary NVIDIA Drivers. My distribution is up to date. SUN Java JRE, JDK and Eclipse Galileo EE are installed, Android SDK 2.1, ADT eclipse plugin , android SDK tools, Google APIs...

[android-beginners] Changes to group moderation

2010-03-26 Thread Roman Nurik
Hi all, We've just made some changes to the moderation settings for Android- discuss and Android-beginners. From now on, requests to join the group (to post and reply to messages) will be moderated for spam prevention purposes. Messages themselves will no longer be moderated, and should appear in

[android-beginners] external input device

2010-03-26 Thread Francisco
Hi I'm looking to create an external input device for my G1 phone. It would plug into the USB port (where else!) and would contain a few buttons on it that, when pressed, it would mimic the pressing of certain keys on the physical keyboard. The reason? I'm looking to make an external controller

[android-beginners] Problem with ContextMenu

2010-03-26 Thread Speed
Hi All I am unable to import android.view.Menu.Item; android.view.View.OnPopulateContextMenuListener; my android sdk version is SDK platform Android 2.1, API 7, revision 1 regards Bilal -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group.

[android-beginners] coordinate system

2010-03-26 Thread Kris
does anyone know the specifics about the decimal co-ordinate system ? I need to calculate a distance from the user without using an overlay. is this even possible using the decimal coordinates to measure displacement from a particular point without using layers on a google maps instance? eg

[android-beginners] Free Push Notification Service for Android

2010-03-26 Thread j...@xtify
Hello Android Beginners! There was such a huge amount of interest when Xtify announced our geo- triggered notifications platform from GTUG's and Android groups around the world that I wanted to share this with you as well. Xtify has opened our push notification webservice so that you can push

[android-beginners] Help required on Eclair Video Camera framework

2010-03-26 Thread Subash
Android release: Eclair on TI SDP3430 board Objective: To integrate the video encoding functionality(H.264 codec) using proprietary mechanism instead of onboard DSP Primary code changes: OMX component for video encoding and CameraHal modified (see below for details) Files in these directories are

[android-beginners] I need javax.microedition.io in android, what can I do ?

2010-03-26 Thread Rustam Rakhimov
Hi Android developers I need javax.microedition.io in android, what can I do ? I need some classes from there and functions -- 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

[android-beginners] Fwd: Adding a new package to the source

2010-03-26 Thread Anandi
Hello all, I am also trying the same thing and getting same error. Can anyone please provide the solution to this problem? Anu -- Forwarded message -- From: Wick twick...@gmail.com Date: Feb 11 2009, 10:37 am Subject: Adding a new package to the source To: Android Beginners

[android-beginners] how to get sudoku source coed

2010-03-26 Thread narwins
HI Every One I m new to the android development. I interested to learn android much n munch. I want to know where I will get source code of sudoku and how to build in eclipse. Please help me, Thank You -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

[android-beginners] Trackball Light

2010-03-26 Thread Boardy
Hi all, I am currently looking at developing an application for the android environment. Before starting on my project I have been looking at the android developeres guide and going through the different things that I want to get working. I have been looking at making notifications in the

[android-beginners] How to change view

2010-03-26 Thread arvind awasthi
Hi all, This is my code @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); View mview = new View(this); setContentView(R.layout.splash); try { Log.i(info, start);

[android-beginners] surfaceview setbackgrounddrawable()

2010-03-26 Thread joppe
if i leave the setBackgroundDrawable() call out of the V constructor, i get black background with a line drawn from the lower right corner to the top left corner; and where ever i move the cursor afterwards (all as expected), but when i have that method call, i only get the initial x=y=0 line

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

2010-03-26 Thread Bill Traynor
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:43 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. This is a good tutorial: http://www.railstutorial.org/ to start

[android-beginners] Re: selection random string from strings.xml

2010-03-26 Thread CaptainChaos
The xml file is preprocessed into java source R.java which is then built into your project. If you look at the source (in the gen folder) for R.java you will see that R.string.q0 is a public static final int, i.e. a named constant if you will, and that the _value_ of the ints are in ascending

[android-beginners] Launch Activity from BroadcastReciever

2010-03-26 Thread Andrew MacKillop
Hey. I have a BroadcastReceiver, which works well, however, I want to show a full UI when it is hit. At the moment, I can create a Toast, which appears, but I can't seem to make a UI appear (I'd rather not make one programmatically). So, unable to set a content, I tried to use Intent to change to

[android-beginners] Animating a ViewGroup without Clipping

2010-03-26 Thread DanaH
I am trying to understand how to animate a ViewGroup which is larger than the screen extents such that it is not clipped to the screen extents. Below is a simple but unsuccessful example attempting to accomplish this. Specifically, I expected the line myTable.setClipChildren(false); to

[android-beginners] Change View

2010-03-26 Thread arv
Hi all, I write this code to change screen after some duration so it seems like a splash but it is not working fin can u help me public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.splash); try {

[android-beginners] Android Emulator Internet Connectivity*

2010-03-26 Thread epoch
I followed these steps on following Emulator. Emulator Details = (Target Name= Android 1.6, Platform = 1.6, API Level= 4). Steps = Settings - Wireless Controls - Mobile Networks - Access Point Names - T-Mobile US. Then entered value for proxy and port, and thus can access the Internet

[android-beginners] Align ImageView to the right

2010-03-26 Thread Rodrigo Chiossi
Hi there! I'm new to android and I'm trying to create a simple layout, with a TextView aligned to the left and an ImageView aligned to the right, both in the same line. I've tried many approaches, but the Imageview never aligns to the right. Here is my latest attempt: ?xml version=1.0

[android-beginners] Unable to Zoom Camera in Android 2.1

2010-03-26 Thread AJ
Hi Group I have an application in which I am using the camera. I want to perform ZOOM on this camera, but unable to do so. My code looks like that. Camera_camera; Camera.Parameters parameters = _camera.getParameters(); _zoom = _zoom + zoomStep; // zoomStep is some int value int _zoom

[android-beginners] Recovering Activity Stack?

2010-03-26 Thread Gerry Rodman
Use Case: User performs menu action to spawn Child Acitivity (CA) from Main Activity (MA). CA is translucent allowing MA to be viewed as shaded background. (CA is spawned using startActivity. Also I have tried using startActivityForResult but it still does not give the desired result.) User

Re: [android-beginners] No support for copy protection on Backflip?

2010-03-26 Thread jana janarthanan
REMOVE ME On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:28 AM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Roger schiavo...@gmail.com wrote: Does the copy protection work and do most people use it? Google around the Android Group and the Market Support Forum. You will find that the

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

2010-03-26 Thread Lazarus
I think touch = click, so OnClick = OnTouch. Take it easy On Mar 18, 10:10 am, mamila amt...@yahoo.com wrote: 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

[android-beginners] Internet Connectivity

2010-03-26 Thread epoch
When I am giving proxy settings (Settings-Wireless Networks-Mobile Networks-Access Point Names-TelKila) in my Android Emulator, I can access internet through browser in older version of android emulator (1.6), but same method is not working in new version of emulator (2.1). How can I access

[android-beginners] Re: [android-porting] opencore test result

2010-03-26 Thread Deva R
I want to ask why it shows 1 success and 1 failure . there should be only 1 pass or 1 fail only . Do each test case have multiple sub-tests within them ? which class in source code finally decide whether it is pass or fail ? . Looks like some bookkeeping gone wrong.. couldnt track how/why..

[android-beginners] Multi markers in MapActivity

2010-03-26 Thread bibiloute
Hello everyone, After various research, I have not answered my question, then: Is there a way to differentiate several markers in the same places in a MapActivity? I placed markers at the same place but only the first reaction to an event OnTap. I have seen solutions based on Javascript, but

[android-beginners] sqlite sample sd-card

2010-03-26 Thread hermann
hi there i looking for small sample how to access a sqlite db on sd-card. can anybody help with a small snipet ? cu hermann -- 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

[android-beginners] Media Package in android source

2010-03-26 Thread Anandi
Hello all, I am trying to find out the location of Media Package in android source. I am curious about it, because this package is accessible anywhere(I can import it in any application in any workspace). I am also looking for the option in make file which makes the build system to generate this

[android-beginners] Moving the first gallery item to left

2010-03-26 Thread Shyam M
Hi, Looking at the Gallery example in the link http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/views/hello-gallery.html I see that the first item in the gallery is placed at Center Is there a way to move the first gallery item to left?? any thoughts would be of help. Thanks, Shyam -- You received

[android-beginners] Question about Andriod application's IPC

2010-03-26 Thread RAJ
Hello, Have a real basic question about IPC exists in android application space(SDK) I have two projects in eclipse workspace – (So two processes) one is activity which is UI app Second one is “service” which exposes some apis to client (above UI App) I want my first UI app(activity) to call

[android-beginners] I need javax.microedition.io for android, where can I take it ????

2010-03-26 Thread Rustam Rakhimov
I need javax.microedition.io for android, where can I take it -- 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] Re: Serial Data Transfer via Bluetooth

2010-03-26 Thread Shane
Hi guys, Im new to android and im trying to use the bluetooth backport. Could someone explain what the step put backport_android_bluetooth.properties in to your src directory. means? Do i create a file and paste in the code or is there something im missing. Ive followed the other steps and its

Re: [android-beginners] I need javax.microedition.io in android, what can I do ?

2010-03-26 Thread Mark Murphy
Rustam Rakhimov wrote: Hi Android developers I need javax.microedition.io in android, what can I do ? I need some classes from there and functions JavaME is not part of Android. So you can: Step #1: Find an open source implementation of what you need. Step #2: Copy it into your project

Re: [android-beginners] external input device

2010-03-26 Thread Mark Murphy
Francisco wrote: Hi I'm looking to create an external input device for my G1 phone. It would plug into the USB port (where else!) and would contain a few buttons on it that, when pressed, it would mimic the pressing of certain keys on the physical keyboard. The reason? I'm looking to

[android-beginners] PCM format

2010-03-26 Thread MadVillain
Hey I'm just beginning writing Android apps and have a basic, but poor understanding of digital audio. Can someone tell me what the format of PCM 16-bit is? Is it signed/unsigned? Is it floating point/fixed point? What is the byte ordering? What bit pattern represents an amplitude of zero? I'm

[android-beginners] MediaRecorder Events flow

2010-03-26 Thread Anandi
Hello all, Can anyone please explain me how the audioflinger and surfaceflinger are invoked in MediaRecorder's events? Basically I am keen to know how JNI implementation of MediaRecorder api's invokes the PVMediaRecorder's methods. Thanks in advance Anu -- You received this message because you

[android-beginners] Re: Help with displaying HTML formatted strings from an ArrayAdapter

2010-03-26 Thread PKC
Try this: String[] plainStrings = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.history); Spanned[] htmlStrings = new Spanned[plainStrings.length]; for(int i = 0 ; i plainStrings.length; i++) { htmlStrings[i] = Html.fromHtml(plainStrings[i]); }

[android-beginners] Passing Command line arguments

2010-03-26 Thread Naveen
Hello, I am new to Android Development. I have a few questions to ask. 1) How can i pass command line arguments to an android application. Lets say, i have to pass an Integer value as a command line argument to an android application while launching it. 2) can we launch an application made

[android-beginners] corrupt otapackage

2010-03-26 Thread adam s
trying to compile from source. get the it compiled then attempt to send to otapackage and then recieve this error code [code]Copying: out/target/common/obj/APPS/ SignatureTestTests_intermediates/classes-full-debug.jar Copying: out/target/common/obj/APPS/SignatureTestTests_intermediates/

[android-beginners] Input question.

2010-03-26 Thread Larry Cashdollar
Hi, I am very new to java/android, mostly a C/php/perl programmer. What is the simplest way to get input from the keyboard? in C pretty much I am looking for fgets(); Do I need to create an input method for every type of input regardless of complexity? -- You received this message because you

[android-beginners] Canvas undo drawing

2010-03-26 Thread SW
In my app I am using draw commands to create a template to the canvas and then using DrawCircle to create circles in response to a screen tap. I want to have a way to undo the circle drawings in a backward chronological order. I can get rid of the circle but it also erases my template lines.

[android-beginners] InstrumentationTestRunner Error Help!

2010-03-26 Thread jimmyv
Okay, so I'm new to Android dev, and I've been doing the tutorials and stuff. Yesterday, everything compiled and ran fine. Then, I decided to add some sound clips to my app, everything still compiled and ran fine. Today, I keep getting the following error. I also tried to make my own app, and I

[android-beginners] Re: dev phone 2, 1.6 and bluetooth?

2010-03-26 Thread newth
Official 1.6 API doesn't support Bluetooth. You can use backport- android-bluetooth (http://code.google.com/p/backport-android- bluetooth) in your project. On Mar 9, 10:44 pm, BobG bobgard...@aol.com wrote: I have a dev phone 2 (htc ion?) with os 1.6. My boss has a moto droid with 2.0 and I can

[android-beginners] Creating a widget on android

2010-03-26 Thread Ty
Is there code that can be copied and modified to my specifications? How do I get an image from my PC to my widget? How do I create a theme using images from my PC? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and

[android-beginners] Basic IME help.

2010-03-26 Thread Larry Cashdollar
Hi, I am looking to take input from the android keypad, and I am curious what is the easiest method? -- 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

[android-beginners] Midi Synthetizer

2010-03-26 Thread Michael Levy
Hi, I’m hoping for clarification on whether or not any current Android libraries support MIDI.The android.media package looks like it focus on interacting with a soundtrack, which is not really what I’m after… What I'm trying to do in my project is to create a MIDI file from a list of

[android-beginners] Re: Importing a class from another project in Eclipse. Application fails to run with ClassNotFoundException

2010-03-26 Thread Keith Williams
Just curious- does your class really need to implement RectangleDrawerCallBack (since it is a class already, not an interface)? On Mar 17, 12:39 am, Dan Liew delcyp...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reply. Yes my activity is listed in the manifest file. It's definitely a problem with using

[android-beginners] Best Practices

2010-03-26 Thread Spredzy
Hi everyone, I'm quiet new in the Android world and I am starting some applications developement. I would like to know if some of you knows any website with known Best Practices and Pitfalls to avoid. I've read the part on the official Android pages, but I was wondering if someone knew more

Re: [android-beginners] the process android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly

2010-03-26 Thread Dani Anjaya
What are you using ? Nexus one ? On Mar 25, 2010 11:18 AM, Mr. sakthi sakthic...@gmail.com wrote: hi when starting up the android, i get the error message window the process android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly. please try again. so i can't execute the application. Hw i can overcome

[android-beginners] Conversion to Dalvik format failed - error

2010-03-26 Thread vinu
hi friends, we are building an app that uses the current location(latitude and longitude) .This app fetches the records i.e places of interest along with lat and long from db ,we need to calculate distance and display 100 nearest records.After goggling i found a link from stackoverflow pointing

[android-beginners] Errors in sample code

2010-03-26 Thread Jarrett
Anytime I open a new project using sample code included in the Android SDK it has errors all over the place and I obviously not run the app in the simulator. What am I doing wrong? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try

[android-beginners] Re: Help with displaying HTML formatted strings from an ArrayAdapter

2010-03-26 Thread PKC
try this: ... String[] plainStrings = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.history); Spanned[] htmlStrings = new Spanned[plainStrings.length]; for(int i = 0 ; i plainStrings.length; i++) { htmlStrings[i] = Html.fromHtml(plainStrings[i]); }

[android-beginners] Maximum character that we can send to SMS application

2010-03-26 Thread AJ
Hi group I facing one strange problem. I am sending some text to SMS app as a body. But when the text size increases more than 200 characters, it cuts the body from there. Only first 200 characters are appearing in the SMS body. But I can write more text when SMS gets launched :( Is there any

Re: [android-beginners] Multi markers in MapActivity

2010-03-26 Thread Mark Murphy
bibiloute wrote: Hello everyone, After various research, I have not answered my question, then: Is there a way to differentiate several markers in the same places in a MapActivity? I placed markers at the same place but only the first reaction to an event OnTap. I have seen

[android-beginners] Errors while starting newly built emulator after building android

2010-03-26 Thread Parse
I have 2 work with android source code build. I make clean the source, then I make and when i was starting the emulator of new build, [va...@test out]$ ./host/linux-x86/bin/emulator emulator: ERROR: You did not specify a virtual machine name, and the system directory could not be found. If you

[android-beginners] Mediarecorder and Audioflinger,surfaceflinger and cameraservice

2010-03-26 Thread Anandi
HI all, Can anyone please tell me the location where the audioflinger, surfaceflinger and cameraservice talk to MediaRecorder's APIs? Thanks Anu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Library Class Method

2010-03-26 Thread Sreekant Sreedharan
REMOVE ME On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Kitzy kitzyk...@gmail.com wrote: I was looking for something for my program and ran across this other posting which I think really helps answer some of the questions addressed in this thread:

[android-beginners] question: installing dreaimg.nbh without an sd

2010-03-26 Thread bluizzo
i wanted to know if you can install dreaimg.nbh through android sdk without using the sd card? i want to know this because i cant use my sd card at all and all of a sudden ive been getting force closes for every single action i make on the phone (main one i get is process

[android-beginners] Android market place crashes on receiving intent for an application that doesn't exists in marketplace

2010-03-26 Thread Gaurav
Hi, I am creating an application that checks the installation of a package and exits after launching the market-place with its id. When I try to launch market place with id of an application say com.mybrowser.android by throwing an intent android.intent.action.VIEW with url:

[android-beginners] Re: spinner question

2010-03-26 Thread rob
Sounds like you are using the android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item for the view when creating your ArrayAdapter. You need to use the android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item for the view. So the statement would look like adapterForSpinner = new ArrayAdapter(this,

[android-beginners] m.youtube.com always returns to vnd.youtube:75GQ29urU1U?vndapp=youtube_mobilevndclient=mv-googlevndel=home

2010-03-26 Thread srinivasulu
Hi, I am working android mobile platform , where if i type youtube.com , browser redirects to m.youtube.com. but if i click any video getting following error. vnd.youtube:75GQ29urU1U?vndapp=youtube_mobilevndclient=mv- googlevndel=home web page not available. Any known reason why it is not

[android-beginners] main.out.xml

2010-03-26 Thread Matze
Hey Folks, I've been hanging around this problem for almost two days and I'm very frustraded. I accidently executed the main.xml file while I was trying to start my normal application (currently I'm going through the tutorial on at Android Developers). However, a new file was created named

[android-beginners] Re: Help with displaying HTML formatted strings from an ArrayAdapter

2010-03-26 Thread rsung
test On Mar 23, 11:12 am, Soren soren.wins...@comcast.net wrote:   I appologize for the absolute beginner questions, but I am having a tough time understanding this.   I need some help of how to display the strings that I have marked up with simple html into a TextView. I have found Spanned

[android-beginners] Re: Help with displaying HTML formatted strings from an ArrayAdapter

2010-03-26 Thread rsung
test On Mar 23, 11:12 am, Soren soren.wins...@comcast.net wrote:   I appologize for the absolute beginner questions, but I am having a tough time understanding this.   I need some help of how to display the strings that I have marked up with simple html into a TextView. I have found Spanned

[android-beginners] Ant Debug

2010-03-26 Thread Yogi_Bare
Hi all :-) So I have thus far been unable to build any app from any tutorial all for the same reason (i think) I am able to run ant compile with no problem. However if I try to run a simple ant debug, I always get a BUILD FAILED. It is always preceeded by the following; Buildfile: build.xml

[android-beginners] Re: is my sd card full?

2010-03-26 Thread jimmyv
Well I'm taking a wild guess, but you said you partitioned the SD card? Most likely the secondary SD is the alternate partition. Not sure how to fix your inability to install stuff, though. On Mar 25, 10:22 am, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: hi, i am using htc g1, with openeclair

[android-beginners] problem in android.process.acore

2010-03-26 Thread Farhan
Hi developers When i want to run a program the output console displays the following message in red color emulator-5554 disconnected! canceling 'bd.dhk.kur.first activity launch'! After that the emulator opens but shows that 'com.process.acore' is not responding and the application is does

Re: [android-beginners] Launch Activity from BroadcastReciever

2010-03-26 Thread Justin Anderson
You created the intent but you aren't doing anything with it. You need to actually start the activity via the intent... Assuming your intent is correct the following line of code will launch the activity for you: context.startActivity(i); Hope that helps, Justin

Re: [android-beginners] Change View

2010-03-26 Thread Justin Anderson
The UI is only updated after the onCreate method finishes You may want to look at using ASyncTask to do what you want to do... -- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't.

[android-beginners] Re: Download a file from a URL extremely slow, am I doing it right?

2010-03-26 Thread Stormtap Studios
Just as a followup in case anyone reads this later, it turns out the download was only slow on my Android Dev Phone 2, my client installed the app on their Nexus One and the code downloads the file in approximately 10 seconds. Time to figure out what's up with my dev phone! Mark thanks again for

Re: [android-beginners] Passing Command line arguments

2010-03-26 Thread ~ TreKing
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Naveen naveen.3...@gmail.com wrote: 1) How can i pass command line arguments to an android application. Don't think you can do this ... and why would you want to? The closest thing you'll come to this is passing parameters in the Intent used to launch the

Re: [android-beginners] coordinate system

2010-03-26 Thread ~ TreKing
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Kris krisga...@gmail.com wrote: I need to calculate a distance from the user without using an overlay. If you need the distance between to geographical points (i.e., two sets of longitude and latitude), look at the Location class. It has a static helper

Re: [android-beginners] How to change view

2010-03-26 Thread Justin Anderson
I swear I just answered this exact same question for you about a half an hour ago -- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't.

Re: [android-beginners] No support for copy protection on Backflip?

2010-03-26 Thread Justin Anderson
Remove yourself -- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't. -- On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:06 PM, jana

Re: [android-beginners] How to change view

2010-03-26 Thread ~ TreKing
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 6:54 AM, arvind awasthi arv30...@gmail.com wrote: I design a screen to show it as splash screen it is not displaying can anybody tell how to do this. You're running that code in the main UI thread, which means you set the view to slash, then immediately put the main

Re: [android-beginners] problem in switching two activities

2010-03-26 Thread Justin Anderson
First, I would recommend using two different activities rather than just switching views. Second, take a look at the logcat output as it will give you more information about the crash. -- There are only 10 types of people in the

Re: [android-beginners] New Forum Community.

2010-03-26 Thread Justin Anderson
The link doesn't work... -- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't. -- On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:07 PM,

Re: [android-beginners] Creating a widget on android

2010-03-26 Thread Justin Anderson
*Is there code that can be copied and modified to my specifications?* Sure. What are your specifications * How do I get an image from my PC to my widget?* The same way you do for images for a normal android application * How do I create a theme using images from my PC?* I don't know what

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Library Class Method

2010-03-26 Thread Justin Anderson
Remove yourself... -- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't. -- On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Sreekant

Re: [android-beginners] New Forum Community.

2010-03-26 Thread ~ TreKing
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Justin Anderson janderson@gmail.comwrote: The link doesn't work... This ... and also, what will this forum offer that these groups don't? Besides having another list to check?

[android-beginners] Re: New Forum Community.

2010-03-26 Thread AndroidDevForum
Sorry everyone. I have a typo in the URL. Here is a good link: http://www.androiddevforum.com On Mar 23, 10:07 pm, AndroidDevForum webmas...@androiddevforum.com wrote: Hello, I just wanted to let everyone know that there is a new forum community for developers of android applications.

Re: [android-beginners] Ant Debug

2010-03-26 Thread Xavier Ducrohet
Since the rest of the build is working fine (including the custom Ant task that imports the android_rules file), it looks like everything is properly configured, but jarutils.jar might be missing from your SDK (under SDK/tools/lib). Xav On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Yogi_Bare

Re: [android-beginners] main.out.xml

2010-03-26 Thread Xavier Ducrohet
Try a clean, if that doesn't remove an error marker that shouldn't be there (which happens occasionally), just delete it manually. Open the Problems view, select the marker and hit del on your keyboard. Then clean your project again and make sure the problem doesn't show up again (which would mean

[android-beginners] Interface

2010-03-26 Thread taru
Hi I am new to Android.i am building the front end of my project with android.and the backend is a database using mysql.I need to build an interface to integrate the two.How do i go about it?? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group.

[android-beginners] Re: mkdir permission denied on android emulator

2010-03-26 Thread salman shah
hi did you got any help regarding this i m also stuck here On Mar 11, 7:04 pm, Sachin Sharma sachin.a...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am using a android emulator. I created a sdcard on it by using a option in eclipse. Once I start the emulator, I go to 'terminal emulator', give command 'cd