[android-beginners] Re: LinkedIn Oauth authentication

2010-06-02 Thread jrichards1...@googlemail.com
Any suggestions? im trying to figure out how to construct a URI/URL that executes my applications activity from the phones web browser as i got to pass that as a callback url for OAuth authentication. Cheers in advance. On Jun 1, 9:58 am, jrichards1...@googlemail.com jrichards1...@googlemail.com

[android-beginners] Re: Android SIM Card API

2010-06-02 Thread Indicator Veritatis
By asking specifically for SIM card, you are asking for implementation, where the API provides interface instead, as is good Object Oriented practice. See the SDK online references for packages android.telephony. Even there, SmsMessage.getIndexOnSim() has been deprecated -- no doubt because it

[android-beginners] Adapting Android Bluetooth Chat for multiple devices

2010-06-02 Thread Megh
Hello, I'm doing a college project on Bluetooth for Android, and I'm trying to understand how to manage communication between multiple connected devices. Eventually I'm going to develop a multiplayer Bluetooth Game. Currently I've adapted Android's sample app BluetoothChat to connect my three

[android-beginners] How to set the length of what is presented by Toast.maketext()

2010-06-02 Thread ckloch
Dear All, As part of my program development, I am using the command Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), Latitude [ + location.getLatitude() + ] longitude [ + location.getLongitude() +], Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); to display the current coordinates The command works fine and display the

[android-beginners] Re: Calculating distance between GPS position and way_point

2010-06-02 Thread ckloch
Thank you for your help. The method works fine. I just have one more questions, which solve my current problem regarding the accuracy. I am using the command Location.distanceBetween(lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2, results); to find the distance to a fix point. Unfortunately, my app and I do not agree

Re: [android-beginners] Adapting Android Bluetooth Chat for multiple devices

2010-06-02 Thread Chris Ross
On Jun 2, 2010, at 5:59 AM, Megh wrote: Hello, I'm doing a college project on Bluetooth for Android, and I'm trying to understand how to manage communication between multiple connected devices. Eventually I'm going to develop a multiplayer Bluetooth Game. Currently I've adapted Android's

[android-beginners] Re: Android SIM Card API

2010-06-02 Thread sohguanh
Actually what I wanted is to be able to copy the contacts on my Android phone into the SIM card. So in order to do that, I need some API that will allow me to read the contacts follow by API to write them to the SIM card. Telephony class does not provide those methods for me to accomplish the

Re: [android-beginners] How might I do this (HorizontalScrollView question)?

2010-06-02 Thread TreKing
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Michael Dorin bsddo...@gmail.com wrote: I want each of the layouts to occupy the whole screen and the user slides there finger left and right to get to each of them. Look into ViewFlipper.

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Can a full app (not widget) be postage stamp size?

2010-06-02 Thread TreKing
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:07 PM, james pruett gpscru...@gmail.com wrote: I don't suppose any of you guys would write this for me? Sure - how much are you willing to pay? - TreKing - Chicago transit

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Can a full app (not widget) be postage stamp size?

2010-06-02 Thread james pruett
100%, You can publish it if you want on your market. Don't share your dreams with people who can only offer Why bother? Share your dreams, instead, with the people who offer you a Why NOT? @ThatKevinSmith On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:44 AM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Can a full app (not widget) be postage stamp size?

2010-06-02 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
James, The 30 minute limit only applies to automatic updates scheduled by using the widget .xml desciptor. Your widget provider can update its widgets (using the usual mechanism of RemoteViews) any time it wants. For example, in response to some other broadcast. In my application, this

Re: [android-beginners] How to set the length of what is presented by Toast.maketext()

2010-06-02 Thread Justin Anderson
Sure use the DecimalFormat class. -- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't. -- On Wed, Jun 2, 2010

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Calculating distance between GPS position and way_point

2010-06-02 Thread TreKing
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:07 AM, ckloch htc.kl...@hotmail.com wrote: But what do the different options 1, 2 and 3 in float[] results = new float[1] refer to ? This is explained in the documentation for that function.

[android-beginners] TranslateAnimation on ImageView in GridView

2010-06-02 Thread Daniel Kränkle
Hello, so I think I've tried long enough without any advance. Maybe you guys can help me with my problem. I've got this GridView with some ImageView objects in it. And what I want to do, is translating a clicked picture (ImageView object) to the middle of the Screen. The translation works,

[android-beginners] obtain the SDK level

2010-06-02 Thread Jeffrey Blattman
how can i programmatically obtain the SDK level? thanks. -- 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 unsubscribe from

Re: [android-beginners] obtain the SDK level

2010-06-02 Thread Mark Murphy
Jeffrey Blattman wrote: how can i programmatically obtain the SDK level? Look at android.os.Build. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android App Developer Books:

[android-beginners] Re: Android SIM Card API

2010-06-02 Thread Indicator Veritatis
Did your search include the package 'android.provider'? Specifically and mainly, 'ContactsContract' in that package? Of course, this provides only the interface, not the implementation, but it does provide much of what you want. Now you just have to find the implementation for the SIM of that

[android-beginners] Handling keyevents in the Background (Service)

2010-06-02 Thread Mani Droid
Dear all Is it possible to handle the KeyEvents in the Service? If possible, please guide me. Thanks in Advance Regards Mani -- 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] Re: Android SIM Card API

2010-06-02 Thread Indicator Veritatis
One more thing: you might want to Google SIM Application Toolkit, or start with the Wikipedia article on the same. Support for this toolkit was announced in Android SDK 1.5, and then little was heard about it. On Jun 2, 7:21 am, sohguanh sohgu...@gmail.com wrote: Actually what I wanted is to be