[android-beginners] Re: Hello, Android the book

2009-06-08 Thread Wayne Wenthin
I'll second on both of these choices. Plus Mark is pretty on the ball when someone snafu's their password. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: Musashi Baka wrote: Hello Android is indeed excellent. My personal favorite is The busy coders guide to

[android-beginners] Re: Clicks and Gestures on MapView...

2009-06-08 Thread Wayne Wenthin
My low tech solution was to set a flag with onTap that was readable by the other detectors. This let the know that I had picked the overlay item and to ignore the rest of the processing and cleared the flag on the way out. Actually it was a little more complicated than that but it was low tech

[android-beginners] Re: Opening an old project in Eclipse

2009-06-08 Thread Wayne Wenthin
Check to see that you don't have an R.java in your src directory. You probably need to remove that one if you do. On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Mauricio raubvo...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 5, 10:51 am, Balwinder Kaur (T-Mobile) balwinder.k...@t- mobile.com wrote: You need a project

[android-beginners] Re: Where do I start

2009-06-08 Thread Wayne Wenthin
Depending on your development language of choice you will either need to start with a book on Java Programming or pick up one of the numerous books on Android Programming. http://pragprog.com/ has the Hello Android book and http://commonsware.com/has The Busy Coders series. Mark Murphy wrote

[android-beginners] Re: Clicks and Gestures on MapView...

2009-06-08 Thread Wayne Wenthin
(built in) mechanism. Might have to do this anyway - ho-hum. Ian On Jun 5, 10:55 pm, Wayne Wenthin wa...@fuligin.com wrote: My low tech solution was to set a flag with onTap that was readable by the other detectors. This let the know that I had picked the overlay item and to ignore

[android-beginners] OverlayItem Drawable Any way to get current drawable?

2009-06-09 Thread Wayne Wenthin
I am looking at changing the drawable on an OverlayItem when it is tapped and then restoring that to its previous state later. I can't seem to find a way to extract the current drawable out of the OI. I have multiple drawables in the same overlay and would prefer not to split them up. Is

[android-beginners] Re: How to debug on an actual device?

2009-06-18 Thread Wayne Wenthin
This might be a really stupid question but you have loaded the driver for it correct? Windows recognizes it? Under your device manager in windows you see the ADB Interface and under that windows see an HTC Dream composite ADB Interface? On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Zhijun Sheng

[android-beginners] Re: startActivity called from non-Activity context - help

2009-06-24 Thread Wayne Wenthin
Not to hijack the thread but ... Mark do you know any books that cover this stuff because it makes my head hurt also and seems to be one of my main stumbling blocks. On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: Jason Van Anden wrote: I assumed when the

[android-beginners] Re: Random question on app market

2009-07-06 Thread Wayne Wenthin
After my third phone I can absolutely tell you that the NON paid apps do not follow. My guess is that the market relies on the AndroidID to associate downloads. Since I had not paid for an app yet I cannot give you an answer on paid apps. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:47 AM, QLinks

[android-beginners] Re: New Android App

2009-08-14 Thread Wayne Wenthin
That is a nice looking app. I to would like to know how you did the sliders. I haven't messed with the openintent libraries yet but if there are sliders like that in there it would work well with my game I'm developing. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:52 AM, johnjj johnjjtuc...@asamnet.de wrote:

[android-beginners] androidID

2009-08-14 Thread Wayne Wenthin
Is anyone else using this as a Unique identifier? Is there anyway to force this in the emulator?If not what are other people using? I've read where someone said to use the IMEI but I don't see that as valid on devices that don't make calls like netbooks. -- Writing code is one of few

[android-beginners] Re: A Google Maps App

2009-08-18 Thread Wayne Wenthin
I'm sure it's possible. But a word of Warning. If you have never programmed for the Android platform you are in for a really steep learning curve dealing with mapviews. I'm working on about 8 months and I still get surprised at least once a week. But then I could just be slow and old

[android-beginners] Re: Send JSON object via HttpPost method

2009-09-08 Thread Wayne Wenthin
A snippet for what I do... public HttpResponse updateGirl(String url, Pawn girl, int pawnID) { HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpPut httpput = new HttpPut(url); // Execute the request try { ListNameValuePair nameValuePairs = new ArrayListNameValuePair( 39);

[android-beginners] Re: Send JSON object via HttpPost method

2009-09-09 Thread Wayne Wenthin
{ try { is.close(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } return sb.toString(); } On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Wayne Wenthin wa...@fuligin.com wrote: A snippet for what I do

[android-beginners] Re: Skipping the long load time by having the emulator on all the time

2009-10-07 Thread Wayne Wenthin
Yeah like Romain says. If you don't quit you will just have the APK replaced and run when you hit debug. On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Romain Guy romain...@google.com wrote: Just don't quit the emulator :)) On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Mika mts...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello,

[android-beginners] Re: Best Hello World Map Tutorial/Application?

2009-10-14 Thread Wayne Wenthin
http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/views/hello-mapview.html would be a good start. It is what finally gelled all the other knowledge together for me. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Kent Borg kentb...@borg.org wrote: Still stuck in the mud with trying to do a map application, but

[android-beginners] Re: DDMS doesn't show my G1

2009-10-20 Thread Wayne Wenthin
is USB debugging on? On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Matt m...@camerashymedia.com wrote: Hi Mark, I seem to be having the same problem. I thought I could remedy it by getting the G1 drivers in there, and I finally figured out how to do it. In the device manager, when the G1 is plugged

[android-beginners] Re: Android 2.0 SDK is here!

2009-10-28 Thread Wayne Wenthin
Keep trying. I had to select the components individually and it finally made it. I think it is related to a big rush to get the components. I had no problem at home during the evening hours. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Dori dorian.cus...@googlemail.com wrote: Exactly the same

[android-beginners] I just gotta say

2009-11-20 Thread Wayne Wenthin
Sometimes it pays to go back and read books I just restarted Mark Murphy's Busy Coders book and picked up some great tips. Of course I no longer support 1.5 doing them but hey... -- Writing code is one of few things that teaches me I don't know everything. Join the Closed Beta of Call Girl

Re: [android-beginners] Re: How can I install android sdk on windows 7 x64?

2009-11-29 Thread Wayne Wenthin
I believe you need the 32 bit Java. I have it running under windows 7 64 right now and that is the path I had to take On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 4:51 AM, vekexasia vekexa...@gmail.com wrote: Did you find a solution to this? On Nov 18, 3:21 pm, Súper JMN super...@gmail.com wrote: It's just

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

2010-01-28 Thread Wayne Wenthin
I second that! It just happened to me a few days ago. On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Temitope Akinwande takinwa...@gmail.comwrote: Look at your import statements at the top. Is there one that imports android.R? If so, just delete that import statement. Had this happen to me a few times

Re: [android-beginners] how to open the new screen

2010-01-28 Thread Wayne Wenthin
You'll want something like this in your onCreate requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); //Turn off the title bar getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN); //Make it full screen On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:55 AM,

Re: [android-beginners] App icon development?

2010-04-26 Thread Wayne Wenthin
I would just pull your current icon into photoshop and mess around with the layer styles. You can pull off some 3d effect there. On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Chris Ross cross+goo...@distal.comcross%2bgoo...@distal.com wrote: I have an app mostly ready for initial release. What I

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

2010-05-04 Thread Wayne Wenthin
Well to be fair his entire post was in the subject. ;-) On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:01 AM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: Do you really expect to get a response to an empty post? - TreKing -

Re: [android-beginners] Re: chat software , android based

2010-07-15 Thread Wayne Wenthin
You could use a REST based backend using something like RoR or php as your rest server. It's fairly simple and relatively robust. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Emmen Farooq farooq.em...@gmail.comwrote: no server is on a PC, On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:58 AM, chaitanya