[android-developers] Re: what is the meaning of 'cross compiling'

2009-01-10 Thread hmmm
like, you compile in the windows environment to produce a program which runs on arm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-compiling Nothing much to think about - Original Message - From: lucius lucius.fo...@gmail.com To: Android Developers android-developers@googlegroups.com Sent:

[android-developers] Re: DRAG AND DROP

2009-01-10 Thread kaushik sur
hi Peli thank you very much for giving me the correct direction. regards Kaushik On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Peli peli0...@googlemail.com wrote: Introduce new member variables of your class: int mOffsetX; int mOffsetY; Then below you do something like: if ( action ==

[android-developers] Re: my rotated bitmaps unrotate immediately after invoking setCenter() method

2009-01-10 Thread DMT
Problem solved. Had nothing to do the 'setCenter()' fn. Problem was with the way I was computing my angle/orientation updates: when the map is recentered, the user's cartesian coords are also automatically shifted, so must use geodesic info instead. On Dec 21 2008, 8:46 pm, DMT

[android-developers] Re: Text animation question

2009-01-10 Thread Meth
Hello, It is not enough to use a single TextView for the effect you need. You should rather use TextSwitcher class. Take a look at SDK samples. There is com.example.android.apis.view.TextSwitcher1 class there. It is good demonstration of using TextSwitcher class. Hope this helps. On Jan 10,

[android-developers] Re: Suggestions for Image Libraries to use on Android.

2009-01-10 Thread ams163
Maybe: http://code.google.com/p/jjil/ http://code.google.com/p/jjil/wiki/SequencesAndLadders On Jan 9, 5:37 am, Ryan Moulton ryanmoul...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking to develop an application for which I need to do convolutions and the like on an image. I haven't done image processing

[android-developers] Re: any other method

2009-01-10 Thread Faber Fedor
http://commonsware.com/Android/index.html (Not affiliated, just a happy buyer.) On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:56 PM, msmsmukesh msmsmuk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,Any method to quick to learn the android. -- Faber Fedor Cloud Computing New Jersey http://cloudcomputingnj.com

[android-developers] Dev Phone: Copying restricted files form device to PC

2009-01-10 Thread František Fuka
I have Android Dev Phone 1 and I want to be able to programatically copy files form it do my PC (through USB). However, I cannot use adb pull because some of the files I want to copy are owned by different users that system. I can copy these files by starting shell on the device, then doing su,

[android-developers] Re: any other method

2009-01-10 Thread Mark Murphy
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[android-developers] Re: JSON easy Marshall/Unmarshall

2009-01-10 Thread Mark Murphy
ams163 wrote: Hello, We are working on an client / server application - and the design goals for the communications framework are: 1. Low bandwidth 2. Low Latency 3. Scalable 4. Fast marshall/unmarshall What sort of communications framework do you recommend? We think json would

[android-developers] Connecting a Google Dev phone to UK Vodafone

2009-01-10 Thread Simon Brooke
Just in case anyone else is struggling with this, there is a solution, and it's easy. When you get your new Dev phone, and you stick a Vodafone SIM in it, it fails to connect to Google's servers and can't initialise. It seems to be bricked. But wait, all is not lost. Buy a T-Mobile

[android-developers] Traceview only shows old data

2009-01-10 Thread Al
I ran a trace on my app using the Debug class, but it seems the new trace data isn't loaded by Traceview and somehow only the old data is shown. I've recreated the sdcard, wiped the emulator and created a new launch config (in Eclipse). I also changed my package name but traceview still shows the

[android-developers] Re: JSON easy Marshall/Unmarshall

2009-01-10 Thread Fred Grott(shareme)
Thanks Mark.. Is that the only one that works right now? On Jan 10, 6:52 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: ams163 wrote: Hello, We are working on an client / server application - and the design goals for the communications framework are: 1. Low bandwidth 2. Low

[android-developers] Re: JSON easy Marshall/Unmarshall

2009-01-10 Thread Mark Murphy
Fred Grott(shareme) wrote: Is that the only one that works right now? The only one...what? The OP's list had many other alternatives. I agree with his assessment: -- JSON is nice but you either need to do your own marshalling code or use something like Thrift (which, unfortunately, can only

[android-developers] Re: Connecting a Google Dev phone to UK Vodafone

2009-01-10 Thread blindfold
I'm with Vodafone in The Netherlands, and I did not need to buy a different SIM card to get my dev phone 1 registered with Google. I remember that I did have to add live.vodafone.com (and perhaps web.vodafone.nl when doing things via Wifi, not sure) to the list of access point names, and of

[android-developers] Parsing Special Characters with SAX Parser

2009-01-10 Thread mobilek...@googlemail.com
Hi, I'm having hard time parsing special characters such as '' with the default handler provided in org.xml.sax.helpers. Basically, the parser reads up to where it encounters '' and skips the rest. I tried escaping the with amp; and #038; but none worked. Any ideas? Thank you!

[android-developers] Re: Connecting a Google Dev phone to UK Vodafone

2009-01-10 Thread Al Sutton
You can get free PAYG sim cards from T-Mobile UK from; http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/free-pay-as-you-go-sim-cards/ blindfold wrote: I'm with Vodafone in The Netherlands, and I did not need to buy a different SIM card to get my dev phone 1 registered with Google. I remember that I did have

[android-developers] Re: Parsing Special Characters with SAX Parser

2009-01-10 Thread Mark Murphy
mobilek...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I'm having hard time parsing special characters such as '' with the default handler provided in org.xml.sax.helpers. Basically, the parser reads up to where it encounters '' and skips the rest. I tried escaping the with amp; and #038; but none

[android-developers] my app sometimes take 1 second to load, sometimes 50 seconds

2009-01-10 Thread bwilliam...@gmail.com
Hi all, I'm pretty stumped here. I've got an app that more or less follows the layout of LunarLander, with an Activity, a View, and a Thread. The View extends SurfaceView and the thread is what does the drawing. It is relatively light on resources - 16 PNGs totalling 240KB, one simple layout

[android-developers] Re: Text animation question

2009-01-10 Thread g1bb
That worked great, and much more smoothly than an animation. Thanks! On Jan 10, 2:53 am, Meth rniedzi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, It is not enough to use a single TextView for the effect you need. You should rather use TextSwitcher class. Take a look at SDK samples. There is

[android-developers] Re: my app sometimes take 1 second to load, sometimes 50 seconds

2009-01-10 Thread bwilliam...@gmail.com
Very strange. Someone pointed out to me that I really shouldn't be using com.android as a package, since it's not my domain. I just hadn't changed it from when I was mirroring LunarLander. And since I changed it, my apps has yet to take longer than 3 seconds to load. On Jan 10, 12:20 pm,

[android-developers] Eclipse plugin URL invalid?

2009-01-10 Thread Mark Wyszomierski
Hi, Just switched to eclipse-ganymede, was trying to get the android plugin via the getting started directions here: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/ but keep getting an error about that URL being invalid. Is anyone else having the same problem, the URL used to work when I was

[android-developers] Re: JSON easy Marshall/Unmarshall

2009-01-10 Thread Shahbaz Khalid
Thanks for the hint Mark - we'll try that as well. Btw we just wanted to let everyone know that we've tried latest trunk code from http://fisheye.codehaus.org/browse/jackson/ (just pick the binary tarball links in the bottom lefthand corner, install and, go to directory, and do 'ant dist' -

[android-developers] Re: Eclipse plugin URL invalid?

2009-01-10 Thread Quartz
Remove the s and use http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/ instead. On Jan 10, 1:48 pm, Mark Wyszomierski mar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Just switched to eclipse-ganymede, was trying to get the android plugin via the getting started directions here:    

[android-developers] WebView: Need help with local file Urls in the browser

2009-01-10 Thread Mariano Kamp
Hi, let's say I write content onto the local filesystem using Context.openFileOutput(). For the sake of this example one file IS index.html and one IS image.png. The former references the latter in the html code. How can I get the browser to display the content? I tried many

[android-developers] Re: Eclipse plugin URL invalid?

2009-01-10 Thread blindfold
Get it from here: http://code.google.com/android/adt_download.html On Jan 10, 7:48 pm, Mark Wyszomierski mar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Just switched to eclipse-ganymede, was trying to get the android plugin via the getting started directions here:    

[android-developers] Need help working with xml layout

2009-01-10 Thread Brad A
I have a List and am providing a specific view for each row. All java functionality is workign fine, it's the layout of the view elements that is giving me trouble. I This is the layout I'm trying to achieve (how to show in text message?): Image - Text(name)/Text(Price) - Button - CheckBox

[android-developers] Re: Touch *extremely* expensive performance-wise

2009-01-10 Thread Stoyan Damov
Dianne, I want to thank you again for your advice - it actually helped. I process at most 10 touch movement events per second (good enough for the app) and sleep the UI thread after the moves - this did boost the second thread enough so that most of the app's time is spent in physics updates and

[android-developers] Re: Traceview only shows old data

2009-01-10 Thread Stoyan Damov
Is it possible that you're running traceview with a wrong trace file? I don't use the emulator so it might be an emulator-related thing but so far the tracing works fine for me w/ the device. On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Al alcapw...@googlemail.com wrote: I ran a trace on my app using the

[android-developers] Bundle getting lost after send

2009-01-10 Thread Al
I'm using a Bundle to store some info and then sending it to a Handler. Problem is the Bundle shows up empty on the other end. I've logcat-ed the Bundle before sending and after receiving on the other end, before it's sent, I see the data as expected, but once my HandleMessage gets called,

[android-developers] [android.developers] Low on space

2009-01-10 Thread Stoyan Damov
Hi guys, I own a G1 and am using it for development. I have the phone for about a month now and today I got this notification Low on space with the message Phone storage space is getting low. I only have a few programs installed and these take about 4MB. I've deleted the browser's cache, and

[android-developers] Re: Traceview only shows old data

2009-01-10 Thread Al
Heh, I tried cd-ing to the SDK folder and running it directly from there with an absolute path to the trace file and it worked! Should have tried that before. All sorted now. On Jan 10, 9:22 pm, Stoyan Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible that you're running traceview with a wrong

[android-developers] Change linear layout programmatically - problem

2009-01-10 Thread EvgenyV
Hi! I'm trying to change height layout from wrap_content to fill_parent from code. Using landscape mode. public class BBB extends Activity { @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

[android-developers] Re: Change linear layout programmatically - problem

2009-01-10 Thread hmmm
Might it be because as stated in the docs for setLayoutParams() These supply parameters to the parent of this view specifying how it should be arranged. and in this case there's no parent of the view, so the attempted operation is not valid. You might want to try the same with some child view

[android-developers] Database Leak in LogCat - SQLiteDatabase, Cursor, Lifecycle

2009-01-10 Thread 3D
In LogCat I keep getting Database Leak found. The 'tag' is Database and the 'message' is Leak found. And its followed by many lines of red in LogCat. I'm using an SQLiteDatabase and I access it from two Activities and one Service. In the Service I explicitly close both the cursor and then the

[android-developers] Re: Change linear layout programmatically - problem

2009-01-10 Thread Evgeny V
Actually I have tried first to change it for any child view.Same result... On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:42 AM, hmmm akul...@mail.ru wrote: Might it be because as stated in the docs for setLayoutParams() These supply parameters to the parent of this view specifying how it should be arranged.

[android-developers] Re: Need help working with xml layout

2009-01-10 Thread Faber Fedor
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Brad A hashbro...@gmail.com wrote: Related, when specifying a button, is there a way to just have the button dynamically size to whatever text is holds? In theory 'android:layout_width=wrap_contents' is supposed to do precisely that, but it's not working for

[android-developers] Re: Need help working with xml layout

2009-01-10 Thread Brad A
Yes, it's frustrating to say the least. Hard to understand why it makes certain UI decisions. BTW - in your code example you put wrap_contents. The actual property value is wrap_content. Not sure if that was just typed in the email or if you have that error in your code. OK - So I got my

[android-developers] Re: Common code with Eclipse

2009-01-10 Thread gymshoe
1) I think this problem is solely related to using external JAR's. I tried to do reference an external JAR for the first time, and got exactly the same error. If you have solved this issue, please post. 2) Sorry, don't know about this. Thanks, JIm On Nov 19 2008, 2:50 pm, Alvin Yates

[android-developers] Proper Intent for an image/jpeg picture when using addIntentOptions?

2009-01-10 Thread EboMike
My app deals with tons of pictures that are on an arbitrary location of the device (typically somewhere on /sdcard, presumed private to the app). The gallery has a context menu that calls addIntentOptions on them so you can send them via MMS, use them as contact pictures, etc. How do I need to

[android-developers] Re: Common code with Eclipse

2009-01-10 Thread EboMike
I've been able to get external JARs for common code (which uses the android.jar) to work. I'm using a pretty clumsy way and I'm sure there's a more elegant solution out there, but it works for me. Since it's been a while since I set it up, I might not remember the exact steps. Basically, I

[android-developers] Re: Change linear layout programmatically - problem

2009-01-10 Thread Peli
There's this suspicious line: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams Have you tried to explicitly write: LinearLayout.LayoutParams instead of just LayoutParams whereever it appears? (because each Layout has their own set of LayoutParams that are not necessarily

[android-developers] the Trackball and MotionEvents

2009-01-10 Thread blake
I notice that TrackballEvents are different that MotionEvents, and it makes me wonder what happens on a device that does not support a touch screen. Suppose I have an Etch-a-Sketch application, that allows me to do crude drawings on my screen. With the G1 phone, I just watch for MotionEvents

[android-developers] Re: the Trackball and MotionEvents

2009-01-10 Thread blake
... it appears that I was mistaken. Both trackball movement and screen taps generate MotionEvents. They are delivered completely differently, though Trackball events through dispatchTrackballEvent, and touch events through dispatchTouchEvent. I remain mystified by how the trackball is

[android-developers] Re: Need help working with xml layout

2009-01-10 Thread Brad A
BTW Faber - Did get button to resize according to the text, use android:layout_width=wrap_content and then and explicit padding, ie android:padding=10sp On Jan 10, 5:53 pm, Brad A hashbro...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, it's frustrating to say the least.  Hard to understand why it makes certain UI

[android-developers] Re: Low on space

2009-01-10 Thread info.sktechnol...@gmail.com
Go to Settings - Applications - Manage Applications Use the hardware Menu button and Sort By Size. Near the top you will probably find Package Installer. If it is large, choose it and then Clear Data I had this problem too, until I figured it out. On Jan 10, 3:43 pm, Stoyan Damov

[android-developers] Re: Change linear layout programmatically - problem

2009-01-10 Thread hmmm
I've tried but the same result. Now in DDMS log I have: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.widget.LinearLayout$LayoutParams - Original Message - From: Peli peli0...@googlemail.com To: Android Developers android-developers@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 3:39 AM

[android-developers] Re: Suggestions for Image Libraries to use on Android.

2009-01-10 Thread Ryan Moulton
Thanks a ton, that's exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for. On Jan 10, 2:32 am, ams163 shahbaz.kha...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe: http://code.google.com/p/jjil/ http://code.google.com/p/jjil/wiki/SequencesAndLadders On Jan 9, 5:37 am, Ryan Moulton ryanmoul...@gmail.com wrote: I'm

[android-developers] Re: the Trackball and MotionEvents

2009-01-10 Thread Dianne Hackborn
The framework translates raw trackball events into DPAD events if nobody consumes the trackball event. At this time Android only supports devices that have a touch screen. The trackball is optional, and can be replaced by a DPAD. On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:21 PM, blake blake.me...@gmail.com

[android-developers] Re: Touch *extremely* expensive performance-wise

2009-01-10 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Thanks, glad to hear it helped. Sorry I was slow responding to your last detailed message. Fwiw, you should generally avoid trying to directly control scheduling. Let the kernel schedule the threads as needed; the only issue you had here was that your main thread was using as much CPU as it

[android-developers] Re: Concern about application file size for publishing due to Media files

2009-01-10 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Mahesh Vaghela mah...@indianic.com wrote: *Friends, is there any way by which we can directly put our mp3 files on sd card, just at the time of installation?* Sorry, not at this point. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note:

[android-developers] Re: Concern about application file size for publishing due to Media files

2009-01-10 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Mahesh Vaghela mah...@indianic.com wrote: Can you please comment on why there is very limited (70mb) space available for developers. Because that is how much space remains on the G1's internal flash after taking out the space needed for the operating system and

[android-developers] Re: DRAG AND DROP

2009-01-10 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Fwiw, changing layout parameters is a really inefficient way to do animations on the screen. I would strongly suggest looking at the launcher code and doing something inspired by that. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions

[android-developers] Re: WebView: Need help with local file Urls in the browser

2009-01-10 Thread Fred Grott(shareme)
no..my html files n my apk are referenced as href=file:///android_asset/filename.html image use the same base url On Jan 10, 2:05 pm, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,    let's say I write content onto the local filesystem using   Context.openFileOutput(). For the sake of

[android-developers] Re: any other method

2009-01-10 Thread Fred Grott(shareme)
Ed Burnette's Android book..my bias he is a professional peer/friend of mine.. On Jan 9, 10:56 pm, msmsmukesh msmsmuk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,Any method to quick to learn the android. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

[android-developers] Re: Change linear layout programmatically - problem

2009-01-10 Thread Romain Guy
In this case you to use FrameLayout.LayoutParams. Note that having a FrameLayout as the parent of your content view is not guaranteed and could very well change across implementations and/or versions. On Jan 10, 2009 5:49 PM, hmmm akul...@mail.ru wrote: I've tried but the same result. Now in

[android-developers] Re: What is causing Service not registered from unbind(service)?

2009-01-10 Thread Ricardo Rabelo
Dear, On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:56 AM, zero zeroo...@googlemail.com wrote: o_0'' for real ?!? that would mean i'm depending on luck and good faith then calling anything on that connection. oh, well. in the garbage

[android-developers] Re: Common code with Eclipse

2009-01-10 Thread gymshoe
Thanks for the explanation. This sounds useful for creating reusable, user-created libraries. I guess my problem is that I was experimenting with importing external jars which were not android specific. These fail to load (which I guess should be obvious), with errors described previously. Jim

[android-developers] Recording Audio

2009-01-10 Thread Tez
Hi, I want to record audio from the emulator using the mic. Can anyone send me some sample code on how to do this. Also, I want to know whether it is possible to redirect this mic o/p to a memory buffer or network socket. Cheers, Earlence --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

[android-developers] Re: any other method

2009-01-10 Thread msmsmukesh
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