Re: [android-developers] Re: Cannot compile Desk Alarm Clock (branch eclair ver 2.1)

2010-12-31 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Bob Kerns r...@acm.org wrote: Indeed. This is called eating your own dogfood, and it's a highly valuable part of creating a high-quality product. Crappy Android has been improving over the last year as work has been done to update the various apps to use

Re: [android-developers] Re: Cannot compile Desk Alarm Clock (branch eclair ver 2.1)

2010-12-31 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.comwrote: Calculator, Camera, DeskClock, Gallery3D, Mms, Music, Protips, QuickSearchBox, Tag, and LatinIME. (And it looks like Email may be joining this illustrious list for Honeycomb.) -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework

[android-developers] Re: Screen Rotation

2010-12-31 Thread Robert
Yes, I agree and even said in my original post that I was working to understand how to make that work correctly. Still would be interested to know why the manifest entry doesn't seem to be working as documented. On Dec 31, 12:55 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at

Re: [android-developers] getting a click event on an activity

2010-12-31 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:40 PM, dashman erjdri...@gmail.com wrote: i'm displaying a splash screen Activity and want to wait for the user the click/press on the screen before proceeding. how can i do this. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html

[android-developers] Re: the new eclipse UI design - absolute frustration and waste of time

2010-12-31 Thread Bob Kerns
Actually, I find the huge properties menu to be an improvement over the old properties view (which is still available, BTW). The Attributes you can't seem to control thing is definitely a problem. For example, with a relative layout, depositing an item to be below another, you can't just get

[android-developers] Re: Small, Normal, Large and xlarge. How to handle application?

2010-12-31 Thread Moto
Thanks! I'll look over that blog. -Moto On Dec 18, 10:41 am, pk Lam newbal...@gmail.com wrote: have a look at the following blog post, you might get some idea:http://blog.alsutton.com/2010/12/07/android-tablet-phone-uis-in-one-a... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [android-developers] Re: the new eclipse UI design - absolute frustration and waste of time

2010-12-31 Thread Julian
I think the adt is going backwards, the GUI designer is a waste of time, drag and drop just does not work properly, we just need the up and down arrows back! 2010/12/31 Bob Kerns r...@acm.org Actually, I find the huge properties menu to be an improvement over the old properties view (which is

[android-developers] Re: making Toast like notification?

2010-12-31 Thread Karim B
Yeah I have got that far which is not bad but the ability to change animation, duration is what I'm really after... but yeah thanks guys I guess I will just have to avoid this and using the notification bar then... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[android-developers] Re: Running adb logcat and dmesg commands from within my app.

2010-12-31 Thread Jay
I started reading that, but it still doesn't complete sense. Are there any other more descriptive documents on this out there? On Dec 30, 7:33 pm, jotobjects jotobje...@gmail.com wrote: You get an InputStream from the Process returned by the exec call. Read and study the javadoc for

[android-developers] Re: Issue with messages in this group?

2010-12-31 Thread Gus
Hi: Yes, I 'm using the Web Browser, and I noticed some posts showed up, and dissapeared after a while. Thanks for confirming this..Now I know I'm not crazy! Gus On Dec 31, 9:30 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Gus gussab...@yahoo.com wrote: Are some

[android-developers] using getSurfaceFrame to get display width/height?

2010-12-31 Thread Daniel Quach
So I'm trying out making a live wallpaper and I'm using the sample code provided in the SDK for the cube live wallpaper I wanted to use this code to get the height/width of the display @Override public void onCreate(SurfaceHolder surfaceHolder) { super.onCreate(surfaceHolder);

[android-developers] Re: How to do this kind of screen alignment?

2010-12-31 Thread Mystique
Happy New Year TreKing :) Right, I did try using table but the column will be stretch if the text is longer than the image. Is it suppose to work this way? or it is possible to wrap the longer text to 2nd line? I am now thinking whether there are ways to dynamically take the screen measurement

[android-developers] Virtual screen size

2010-12-31 Thread Pedro Duque
When developing a live wallpaper how can I get the virtual screen size? How can I know in which virtual screen the user is in? Thanks, PMD -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

[android-developers] Re: Issue with messages in this group?

2010-12-31 Thread Bob Kerns
HOW do you know you're not crazy? I'm missing a step in the logic here... :=) Seriously, it's really a shame Google uses what I'd argue is their worst product to support Android this way. It's too bad this isn't a Wave, perhaps Wave would have gained some traction. (Though I suspect it wouldn't

[android-developers] Re: the new eclipse UI design - absolute frustration and waste of time

2010-12-31 Thread Bob Kerns
Then check out the ADT 9.0 Preview 2, which has improvements to drag and drop, and up and down arrows: http://tools.android.com/recent On Dec 31, 1:29 pm, Julian cacif...@gmail.com wrote: I think the adt is going backwards, the GUI designer is a waste of time, drag and drop  just does not work

[android-developers] Re: Cannot compile Desk Alarm Clock (branch eclair ver 2.1)

2010-12-31 Thread Bob Kerns
Excellent! There's no question it's hard work, and there's no doubt it does compete with this or that feature. But I'm confident it will pay off in quality -- and quality, in the end, saves you time. On Dec 31, 12:16 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:14

[android-developers] Re: app security

2010-12-31 Thread Bob Kerns
This isn't really an Android issue. Anyone who gives out credentials for any purpose needs to consider that they may be compromised. The usual ways of dealing with it are to time-limit them, and to allow them to be revoked. But what I think REALLY should be done, is to issue credentials with two

[android-developers] Licensing Verification Library and Demo versions

2010-12-31 Thread John Lussmyer
Is there a relatively easy/good way to have an app that uses LVL, also have a Demo version? It appears that I have to change the Package Name to do this - which changes the Resource file name - so nothing compiles unless I go change the import statement in all my files. Note that I am working from

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to do this kind of screen alignment?

2010-12-31 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Mystique joven.ch...@gmail.com wrote: Happy New Year TreKing :) An a happy one to you :) Right, I did try using table but the column will be stretch if the text is longer than the image. Is it suppose to work this way? By default, yes. It will just try

[android-developers] Re: Virtual screen size

2010-12-31 Thread Pedro Duque
Let me develop on this subject: I've develop a Live Wallpaper that was working perfectly in Android 2.1. It emulate the standard Android wallpaper by having a bitmap scrolling when a user changes screen. To achieve that effect I use the event onOffsetsChanged to detect screen changes when the

Re: [android-developers] Licensing Verification Library and Demo versions

2010-12-31 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 9:01 PM, John Lussmyer johnlussm...@gmail.comwrote: hould I make my entire app an Android Library? and just have 2 nearly empty skeleton projects to build it? (Free and Paid versions) Pretty much.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Virtual screen size

2010-12-31 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Pedro Duque pmdu...@gmail.com wrote: Is this a problem with Samsung Galaxy S implementation or is this a standard behaviour? Did you test it on the emulator? -

[android-developers] Database Database Database

2010-12-31 Thread Abhishek Talwar
Hey guys I have simple 2 button screen which are Create Item and List' These two have been linked to other activities with intent. Now in create.java class i have 2 fields name and description and a save button. So that when the user clicks save button the data must get saved but it is giving me a

[android-developers] Which Intent flag should I use?

2010-12-31 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
This is part of my ongoing effort to tidy up my AppWidget code: When a user clicks on my Widget, it goes to an Activity deep in my app. When the user finishes this activity, I'd like to exit back to the Launcher as opposed to whatever the last Activity on the stack is for my app. Is there an

Re: [android-developers] Which Intent flag should I use?

2010-12-31 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Do you really want this to be deep in your app? If you want finishing to go back to the launcher, it sounds like this should be done as a separate task than the main app task. If that is the case, don't use special Intent flags, just set android:taskAffinity= for this activity. (Or give it a

Re: [android-developers] Re: Virtual screen size

2010-12-31 Thread Dianne Hackborn
It is up to the launcher to decide how much parallax scrolling to do. The sizes and offsets come from whatever the last launcher app set them to be. On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Pedro Duque pmdu...@gmail.com wrote: Let me develop on this subject: I've develop a Live Wallpaper that was

[android-developers] Re: Which Intent flag should I use?

2010-12-31 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Ok, thanks. On Jan 1, 2:33 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Do you really want this to be deep in your app?  If you want finishing to go back to the launcher, it sounds like this should be done as a separate task than the main app task.  If that is the case, don't use special

[android-developers] Reusing BitmapDrawable objects

2010-12-31 Thread John Gaby
I have custom skinned buttons. I set the bitmaps for the button backgrounds using the addState method of the StateListDrawable class and pass in a BitmapDrawable which is loaded from a file on the SD card. Now I am having out of memory issues, so I thought that I would try and cache the

[android-developers] is there any htc mototola specific emulator to test apps?

2010-12-31 Thread manas
Hello We test our apps on usual emulator samsung galaxy 3. What we have observed that - our apps work fine on both of these. But got review from some users that the apps don't work on HTC evo/desire in some cases Droid X. Question - 1. If app works perfectly on one phone, why does it not work

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