[android-beginners] set network operator via own programm

2010-04-15 Thread jeth
Hello All! I'm thinking about a projekt and until now i can't figure out if it's possible to change the network operator via a programm. I know one can do this by hand using the settings-dialog. One part of my project is to change the network operator (one by one) and read the signal

[android-beginners] Re: what's vanilla andriod?

2010-04-15 Thread a2ronus
I think Vanilla Android is just the standard Android: http://androidforums.com/htc-incredible/55162-vanilla-android-vs-htc-sense-ui.html. On 8 apr, 07:22, Tao mt8...@gmail.com wrote: I heart andriod 1.5,1.6,2.0,2.1;but do not hear vanilla andriod, is there anybody know that? Thank you. -- You

Re: [android-beginners] How to get child Activity?

2010-04-15 Thread Sebastián Treu
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Rodrigo Chiossi xrodr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there! I have a main Activity and I'm starting a child activity with startActivity(intent). I want to get the Activity Object created for the child. How can I do it? I don't know for what, as when you start the

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2010-04-15 Thread Web
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[android-beginners] Gmail code not working with android

2010-04-15 Thread Imran Tanveer
Hello, I have trying for many days but gmail code is not working with android.Anybody plz help me.This is what i get when run my code I/SSLSocketFactory( 335): Using factory org.apache.harmony.xnet.provider.jsse.opensslsocketfactoryi...@40160710 E/SendMail( 335): Could not connect to SMTP

[android-beginners] Re: How to get child Activity?

2010-04-15 Thread Rodrigo Chiossi
Thanks for the Answers, but none of them really seems like an option for me. Giving more details about what I am doing: First, the user press a button on the main Activity. When the LongClick triggers, I start the second Activity wich also has a button which should be pressed when the activity

Re: [android-beginners] Re: How to get child Activity?

2010-04-15 Thread Justin Anderson
Not sure how well it would work, but if you REALLY want to do something like this, you cold possibly try to just change the view of your current activity instead of starting a new activity. I wouldn't recommend it and I'm not sure if that will really work... There are lots of people who have

Re: [android-beginners] Text Color

2010-04-15 Thread Justin Anderson
Well, what color are you wanting to make? http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Color.html says this: *The Color class defines methods for creating and converting color ints. Colors are represented as packed ints, made up of 4 bytes: alpha, red, green, blue. The values are

Re: [android-beginners] Re: How to get child Activity?

2010-04-15 Thread Mark Murphy
Rodrigo Chiossi wrote: First, the user press a button on the main Activity. When the LongClick triggers, I start the second Activity wich also has a button which should be pressed when the activity starts and should only be released when the user takes his finger off the screen. Why are you

Re: [android-beginners] How to close activities in the navigation stack?

2010-04-15 Thread ~ TreKing
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Stormtap Studios r...@stormtapstudios.comwrote: Does this make sense? I think you might run into trouble if Android kills your activities on the bottom of your custom stack. Then when you press back from the top, you'd skip a few and may end up closing your app

[android-beginners] KML maps activity

2010-04-15 Thread Sebastián Treu
Hi, Is it possible to start maps activity with an KML file? I have tried but always I get an error. I read this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2470948/getting-maps-to-accept-a-dynamically-generated-kml-file withous luck, but instead a .php I put the .kml file directly (same as the

[android-beginners] Re: KML maps activity

2010-04-15 Thread Sebastián Treu
sh*t...I hate myself...Was the server, I changed server and works ... I apologize the noise...again. Regards, -- If you want freedom, compile the source. Get gentoo. Sebastián Treu http://labombiya.com.ar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

[android-beginners] Is it necessary to know the Java APIs to create Android Applications?

2010-04-15 Thread ajb468
I have studied core Java very well but very little of the Java APIs. Should I learn them before I start programming in Android or will knowing the Android APIs be enough? Is there any benefit to using the Java APIs in an Android app. If so, can someone give me an example? -- You received this

Re: [android-beginners] Is it necessary to know the Java APIs to create Android Applications?

2010-04-15 Thread Mark Murphy
ajb468 wrote: I have studied core Java very well but very little of the Java APIs. Should I learn them before I start programming in Android or will knowing the Android APIs be enough? Is there any benefit to using the Java APIs in an Android app. If so, can someone give me an example? That

[android-beginners] Re: How to get child Activity?

2010-04-15 Thread Rodrigo Chiossi
I have already tried 3 different approaches to the problem: The first was this one i described previously, which would be the ideal for my app. The second one, i created an ActivityGroup which was responsible for starting two activities and on LongClick event I was swaping the DecorViews of the

Re: [android-beginners] Text Color

2010-04-15 Thread Kevin Brooks
I want the text to be black. It is coming out grey. On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Justin Anderson janderson@gmail.comwrote: Well, what color are you wanting to make? http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Color.html says this: *The Color class defines methods for

Re: [android-beginners] Text Color

2010-04-15 Thread Mark Murphy
Kevin Brooks wrote: I want the text to be black. It is coming out grey. Try FF00 instead of 00. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 2.0 Available! -- You received this message because you are

[android-beginners] Is there a 'volume fader'?

2010-04-15 Thread BobG
I'd like to have a 'volume control'... a vertical fader with a knob you can slide up and down. I think the horizontal version is a 'seekbar' right? Any way to specify a vertical seekbar? If not, whats the next step? Make a 'volume control' widget? Any links to where to read about this? Thanks. --

Re: [android-beginners] Is there a 'volume fader'?

2010-04-15 Thread Mark Murphy
BobG wrote: I'd like to have a 'volume control'... a vertical fader with a knob you can slide up and down. I think the horizontal version is a 'seekbar' right? Any way to specify a vertical seekbar? Not that I am aware of. If not, whats the next step? Make a 'volume control' widget? Or

[android-beginners] Any good site for searching Android API

2010-04-15 Thread Jacky Lam
Dear all, Any good site or offline documentation which allow me to search and reference for Android API/Class/Object/Attribute? Thanks. BR, Jacky -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging

[android-beginners] Re: Android emulator problem

2010-04-15 Thread tony obrien
Are you letting ECLIPSE start the emulator or are you trying to do it manually? On Apr 15, 12:56 am, anton.maximov anton.maxi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your

[android-beginners] Re: Add two buttons to a graphics view?

2010-04-15 Thread tony obrien
Can't you add BUTTONs to whatever main layout your invoking? On Apr 14, 12:16 pm, BobG bobgard...@aol.com wrote: I have a little app that reads the accelerometer and draws a vector in graphics. Seems to be working ok, but I'd like to have a pair of buttons 'up' and 'dn' underneath it to inc

[android-beginners] How should I handle a DB Delete Confirmation?

2010-04-15 Thread Juan
Hey guys, I'm working on an application thats effectively a glorified log book. It maintains each log item in an SQLite table row, and displays the logs in a List among other activities. I want to implement a delete confirmation dialog so that users avoid losing a log if their finger slips to the

Re: [android-beginners] Any good site for searching Android API

2010-04-15 Thread Mark Murphy
Jacky Lam wrote: Dear all, Any good site or offline documentation which allow me to search and reference for Android API/Class/Object/Attribute? Thanks. http://developer.android.com -- use the search field in the upper right corner. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)

[android-beginners] Re: How to close activities in the navigation stack?

2010-04-15 Thread Stormtap Studios
Oh that does sound like a much better way to do it. Thanks! On Apr 15, 8:59 am, ~ TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Stormtap Studios r...@stormtapstudios.comwrote: Does this make sense? I think you might run into trouble if Android kills your activities

[android-beginners] Re: Android emulator problem

2010-04-15 Thread anton.maximov
I try to start emulator and manually, over commandline, and over Eclipse. And each time i see this problem ( -- 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] Text Color

2010-04-15 Thread Kevin Brooks
I tried the FF00 and it is still Gray instead of black. The Background I have as FFDCDCDC so I get the background color I want. On 4/15/2010 11:49 AM, Mark Murphy wrote: Kevin Brooks wrote: I want the text to be black. It is coming out grey. Try FF00 instead of 00.

Re: [android-beginners] Text Color

2010-04-15 Thread Justin Anderson
If all you want is black you could do this: android:textColor=@android:color/black -- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't.

Re: [android-beginners] Text Color

2010-04-15 Thread Kevin Brooks
I figured it out. I was putting the Text Color at the Layout declaration instead of the element declaration. :) On 4/15/2010 10:07 PM, Justin Anderson wrote: If all you want is black you could do this: android:textColor=@android:color/black

[android-beginners] Camera Digital zooming..

2010-04-15 Thread SaiKiran
Hi, As per the Android SDK, it was mentioned that from 2.0 onwards it supports the camera digital zooming, but i could not find anything related to this in the entire SDK, so did anybody use this feature?, if yes, please let me know how to achieve the camera digital zooming using Android SDK 2.0

[android-beginners] Re: How to get child Activity?

2010-04-15 Thread Kitzy
What if you start your activity after release? Or use a broadcast receiver? Why do you need the new activity to know when you release? -Kitzy On Apr 15, 10:35 am, Rodrigo Chiossi xrodr...@gmail.com wrote: I have already tried 3 different approaches to the problem: The first was this one i

[android-beginners] Re: How to close activities in the navigation stack?

2010-04-15 Thread Kitzy
Also look into the different flags you can set when you start an activity, under Intent.java -Kitzy On Apr 15, 12:30 pm, Stormtap Studios r...@stormtapstudios.com wrote: Oh that does sound like a much better way to do it.  Thanks! On Apr 15, 8:59 am, ~ TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: