Re: [android-developers] Re: GPS Location

2011-10-23 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2011-10-23 07:53, John Coryat wrote: GPS doesn't require an internet connection but it does require receiving a very weak signal from a number of GPS satellites. That usually means a view of the sky. Although I agree that it doesn't REQUIRE an internet connection, I must say that all my

[android-developers] Re: show me the money

2011-10-23 Thread String
Sign up for Mopapp (http://www.mopapp.com). It's like analytics for your app sales. String -- 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@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this

[android-developers] Re: GPS Location

2011-10-23 Thread Ali Chousein
One little addition from my side. Internet connection is not needed for getting your location from the GPS receiver. However, most of the times (depending on what you do with the location information of course) you'll need Internet connection to map the location to an address. For inverse

[android-developers] Re: alarm type application: alarm manager not waking up application

2011-10-23 Thread Ali Chousein
What does cal.getTimeInMillis() in the following statement return? Maybe the problem is there. alarmManager.set(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, cal.getTimeInMillis(), pendingIntent); I use the following statement while setting alarms: this.am.set(AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIME_WAKEUP,

[android-developers] Translucent Activity over camera view

2011-10-23 Thread giles ian
Hi All, What i want to do is: I click on a button and the camera starts, now how can i lay a Translucent activity/any view/controls etc over this camera view. Any suggestions how can this be done Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

Re: [android-developers] Re: alarm type application: alarm manager not waking up application

2011-10-23 Thread John Goche
Thank you for your reply but cal.getTimeInMillis() returns the right thing. It has been suggested before that this might be returning the wrong value but whenever I attach my device via USB cable I always see all alarms being set as you can see one of them below (others omitted). I regret that I

Re: [android-developers] Re: alarm type application: alarm manager not waking up application

2011-10-23 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Not sure why you use a static PendingIntent - if it's for optimization reasons, that's really not necessary. I wonder if that, by itself, could cause the behavior you're describing. You can use dumpsys alarm in adb shell to see the actual alarms set in the system, and verify that your code

[android-developers] Rotated alert dialog

2011-10-23 Thread gg9h0st
hello. I'm trying to make a rotated(vertically wide) alert dialog. I've done it by making a transparent activity(force landscape) and shows alert dialog. but the problem is behind activity is rotating landscape too although it was set to portrait only. I badly need help to do it. any solution

Re: [android-developers] Translucent Activity over camera view

2011-10-23 Thread Mark Murphy
Step #1: Create a FrameLayout Step #2: Add the SurfaceView for your camera preview as the first child of the FrameLayout Step #3: Add a LinearLayout or RelativeLayout or something, containing your Translucent... any view/controls, as the second child of the FrameLayout (note that if you are

[android-developers] Open GL glow

2011-10-23 Thread Sam
Hi Does any one know how to add a glow in realtime to a line rendered in OpenGL (in Java not using the NDK). There are threads like this one http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1207160412 that are asking the same question but are not specific to opengl on android. Any android

[android-developers] ActionBar for Tablets, Stacked Menu for Phones?

2011-10-23 Thread tobias
Looking for some guidance on whether to use the ActionBar or not. The problem is that the ActionBar takes away a major amount of real estate on the screen. That's not a problem on tablets. It is on phones though for my app. With Ice Cream Sandwich bringing ActionBars to phones, I'm in trouble: I

[android-developers] Re: How to get the brand and name of the device

2011-10-23 Thread MobileVisuals
I will use Build.MANUFACTURER, since it seems to work on all devices. I mailed you a free download of my 3d app as thanks for the help on the forum. On Oct 22, 10:37 am, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: Build.MANUFACTURER is available starting with API level 4 (Android 1.6), so check

[android-developers] Re: How to get the brand and name of the device

2011-10-23 Thread MobileVisuals
I will release the 3d app with one APK for all devices, since it seems like I can detect the manufacturer on all devices with Build.MANUFACTURER. But thanks for the link, it will useful for other apps. I will release one space live wallpaper app which uses my Point attenuation approach, which

[android-developers] Re: ActionBar for Tablets, Stacked Menu for Phones?

2011-10-23 Thread lbendlin
you could intercept the volume up/down keys to bring the menu back up temporarily -- 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@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send

[android-developers] Re: Rotated alert dialog

2011-10-23 Thread lbendlin
you want the alert dialog to show in a different orientation than the active application? Why? -- 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@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-23 Thread Walt Armour
I appeared to have fixed although I'm not sure exactly why. I closed all the projects in the workspace. Then I uninstalled any ADT components. After the Eclipse restart, I removed the ADT software source from the list of sources, exited out of all the dialogs, and added it back again (mostly

Re: [android-developers] ActionBar for Tablets, Stacked Menu for Phones?

2011-10-23 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:39 AM, tobias ecker...@gmx.de wrote: With Ice Cream Sandwich bringing ActionBars to phones, I'm in trouble: I need a way to use the ActionBar on tablet size devices, while using the regular way to display menus on phones. The action bar *is* the regular way to display

Re: [android-developers] ActionBar for Tablets, Stacked Menu for Phones?

2011-10-23 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
I would bite the bullet and find a way to make your app work with the action bar in place. Just resize your game to fit inside the rectangle it leaves behind. On 10/23/2011 9:39 PM, tobias wrote: Looking for some guidance on whether to use the ActionBar or not. The problem is that the

[android-developers] App not displaying correctly after update

2011-10-23 Thread Larry/MavrickProductions
This is a general observation, but it affects the app that I've written too. On Droid X2, after the 2.3.4 update, the app only fills 3/4 of the screen. It filled the entire screen before and still fills the screen on my original Droid that I use for testing. How can I tell the app to completely

Re: [android-developers] App not displaying correctly after update

2011-10-23 Thread Mark Murphy
Make sure you have the appropriate supports-screens element in your manifest. On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Larry/MavrickProductions ohiooutofdo...@gmail.com wrote: This is a general observation, but it affects the app that I've written too. On Droid X2, after the 2.3.4 update, the app

[android-developers] Space widget in ADT Graphical Layout

2011-10-23 Thread Taf
Hi, I was just looking through some of the API demos for the latest release of Android. In particular I was looking at the grid_layout_1.xml file Which is a GridLayout, and contains a Space widget. I'm looking at this in the ADT Graphical Layout view in eclipse. For me it doesn't seems to

[android-developers] disable asset compression

2011-10-23 Thread bob
Is there a user-friendly way to disable asset compression for my Android project? I want some JNI to read an Android asset. -- 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: weird error

2011-10-23 Thread bob
was because I had Webview instead of WebView On Oct 22, 5:20 pm, bob b...@coolgroups.com wrote: Any ideas why this might be happening? 10-22 19:17:34.490: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2736): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 10-22 19:17:34.490: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(2736): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-23 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
That's interesting. While trying to resolve this, I did a clean install (unzip) of Eclipse 3.7.1 and a new install of ADT. Filed a bug here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=21124 -- Kostya 23.10.2011 9:58, Walt Armour пишет: I'm seeing this behaviour as well. I just had

Re: [android-developers] Space widget in ADT Graphical Layout

2011-10-23 Thread Tor Norbye
The Space views are actually hidden by default; ADT 14 has the beginnings of a rich editor for GridLayouts, which provides guidelines etc -- and it hides Space views by default. There's a Grid mode where you get to edit the view more as a grid than as a free-form layout, so it makes sense to not

Re: [android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-23 Thread Studio LFP
You keep referring to Eclipse 3.7.1 Classic, have you tried Eclipse IDE for Java Developers to see if you get the same results? The Classic package is definitely larger and may come with something that is fighting for default privileges for the XML files. I've done multiple clean installs of

Re: [android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-23 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
The install doc says that Classic is the recommended edition for Android: http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html#Preparing I used to use the Java edition, the issue originally started occurring there. -- Kostya 24.10.2011 0:00, Studio LFP пишет: You keep referring to Eclipse 3.7.1

Re: [android-developers] Re: alarm type application: alarm manager not waking up application

2011-10-23 Thread John Goche
Kostya, Thank you for your reply. However left me give an update on the testing I have carried out. I have reinstalled the app from scratch and set alarms to expire every five minutes (each time an alarm goes off it sets up the next one for the next five minutes). Here is what I have observed:

[android-developers] Re: Native activity and Intents

2011-10-23 Thread chrisn
I have found answers to this through other channels. The real answer is that you need to have an activity, not a native activity. If you have written a native activity already and don't want to change too much code you can derive from the java native activity class (which itself just derives

Re: [android-developers] Re: alarm type application: alarm manager not waking up application

2011-10-23 Thread Studio LFP
Not sure this is it, but I noticed on this line of your code: pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(ctx, 0, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT); You are sending a 0 as the second argument, try sending something other than 0 there. I've noticed in my own experience that this doesn't

Re: [android-developers] Re: alarm type application: alarm manager not waking up application

2011-10-23 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
I would still recommend you repeat your test with a Notification (possibly with a sound), as the system should take care of holding the wake lock(s) as needed for the duration of the sound. As for implementing the wake locks in your code, to display an alert: First, take a look at the docs,

[android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-23 Thread Michael A.
Hi, I'm seeing the precise same problem - though in my case the issue started with my being no longer able to export my apk. (Issue described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7866723/dx-bad-class-file-magic-cafebabe-or-version-0033--with-adk14). Eventually, I tried to reinstall

Re: [android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-23 Thread Studio LFP
What's recommended and what works are not always the same thing. Have you and Michael A. both been opening an existing Workspace even after a fresh install of Eclipse? A lot of settings for Eclipse are stored in the metadata directory of the Workspace and it might be hanging on to some of the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-23 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Yes. After reinstalling Eclipse, I did a fresh clone of the sources from my Mercurial repository and did a fresh import into a new Eclipse workspace. My .metadata directory is not checked in, so Eclipse created a new one. Oh, and the issue occasionally occurs for me under Ubuntu 11 (.04, I

[android-developers] Possible to get AppWidget Height?

2011-10-23 Thread Ash McConnell
Hi Folks, I've found that for some Launchers my AppWidgethttps://market.android.com/details?id=sirocco.widgets doesn't format quite correctly as they squash the AppWidgets by 10 or so pixels (to add a page indicator) - e.g. Samsung Galaxy 2 and Sony Experia Arc. They must not provide the

[android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-23 Thread Michael A.
My clean install was as clean as it can reasonably be - new Eclipse, new ADK, new ADT, new Workspace. Like Kostya, everything was cloned out fresh from Mercurial. The last try was with the Classic - I didn't actually notice whether I had the same problem with the Java IDE (which I also tried), as

Re: [android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-23 Thread Studio LFP
Ok found something really strange. I reproduced your error and I noticed that my XML files were doing the same things yours was in a fresh install except one named main.xml. Well, I noticed that all the others I had had underscores in them, i.e. main_view.xml. I removed the underscore from

[android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-23 Thread Michael A.
So this actually gave me the idea to try the exact opposite - I took my dirty .metadata from my old workspace and copied it over the new clean workspace. Hooray - suddenly opening an Android XML layout file actually opens in the layout editor as it used to. Of course, pretty much nothing else

Re: [android-developers] Re: alarm type application: alarm manager not waking up application

2011-10-23 Thread John Goche
Thanks Kostya, I changed my wakelock from partial wakelock to full wakelock and that seems to have fixed things, albeit somewhat strangely. I now see the screen light up on each timer expiration. I am going to do some more testing and if things go wrong I will try releasing the wakelock from

Re: [android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-23 Thread Studio LFP
Ok, scratch that... got it working with underscores in it also. Not sure exactly how I got it to work, but I did get the layout files to work correctly in 3.7.1 Classic that wasn't working by default. I used the Android Tools Fix Project Properties first, then I forced the default XML handler

[android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-23 Thread Michael A.
Hmm... I don't use underscores in any of my layouts, although I do use them in image file names, strings, etc. Editing the image file names didn't seem to do anything for me, unfortunately. Regards, Michael A. On Oct 24, 12:14 am, Studio LFP studio@gmail.com wrote: Ok found something

[android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-23 Thread Studio LFP
Ok, tested another imported project and it didn't work correctly. I ran the Android Tools Fix Project Properties, closed and reopened the project. All the layouts seem to load correctly once I did this. This seems to be the minimum steps to correct the issue unless there is something else I

[android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-23 Thread Studio LFP
See my other post: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-developers/DdE5Ql_OZsY/Qb4zkr6z-mkJ I think it has something to do with projects being imported. It must not carry some information about it being an Android project and this needs to be corrected via the Android Tools Fix Project

Re: [android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-23 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Michael, can you diff your .metadata directories (old/new) to see what's different? -- Kostya Vasilyev 24.10.2011 2:25 пользователь Michael A. michael.aki...@gmail.com написал: So this actually gave me the idea to try the exact opposite - I took my dirty .metadata from my old workspace and

[android-developers] Re: Possible to get AppWidget Height?

2011-10-23 Thread Studio LFP
Last I checked, there is no way to get the actual height and width that your widget will be rendered at. I'm hoping this changes one day as it is a major pain to get your widget to look right on different devices. Steven Studio LFP http://www.studio-lfp.com On Sunday, October 23, 2011

Re: [android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-23 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Thanks, I didn't have any reason to try that option because my projects are building just fine. Will do this tomorrow and report my findings here (it's 2:40 am in Moscow right now). -- Kostya Vasilyev 24.10.2011 2:31 пользователь Studio LFP studio@gmail.com написал: Ok, tested another

Re: [android-developers] Possible to get AppWidget Height?

2011-10-23 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
As far as I know, there isn't. The closest you can get is to use fill_parent (for width and/or height) subtracting some margins (except for ICS, which adds margins automatically). Does your widget fit the minimum height specified in the docs? -- Kostya Vasilyev 24.10.2011 2:04 пользователь Ash

[android-developers] Re: Eclipse, ADT and opening XML files

2011-10-23 Thread Michael A.
With a new clean workspace, Fix Project Properties + Closing/Reopening the projects worked to get the layout editor activated again as usual. Thanks. Now I just need to figure out why none of my XML layouts and drawables work + why the apk won't export. :-/ Regards, Michael A. -- You

[android-developers] Impossible to Create Write to or Read From Files in the SD Card

2011-10-23 Thread melis
Hi all, i really tried hard but couldn't achieve to create or any other file operations in Android. First thing i did was tp check the availabilty of the SD card media, with the sample code here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html#filesExternal. I have the media and

Re: [android-developers] Re: alarm type application: alarm manager not waking up application

2011-10-23 Thread John Goche
Hi, I have done some more testing. It is working much better now in that each time there is an alarm a window pops up. In one last case though only after sliding the phone guard up I did find that the alarm window started to play late, so it is as though indeed the phone went back to sleep right

Re: [android-developers] Impossible to Create Write to or Read From Files in the SD Card

2011-10-23 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Go for a walk for an hour and try to think about something else. Then when you get back start again from first principles. On 10/24/2011 7:08 AM, melis wrote: Hi all, i really tried hard but couldn't achieve to create or any other file operations in Android. First thing i did was tp check the

Re: [android-developers] Re: alarm type application: alarm manager not waking up application

2011-10-23 Thread John Goche
Well, here is what I am doing now: I acquire a wakelock inside the broadcast receiver and release it from my activity. The only problem I have is that the play() method is asynchronous. I would like to be notified when the sound stops playing via a callback but I see no method for doing so here:

Re: [android-developers] How to use android system freetype engine in native code

2011-10-23 Thread Bi Shuren
Thanks Mark. [?] /shuren On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: There is an android-ndk Google Group that may be better able to answer your NDK question. On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Shuren bishu...@gmail.com wrote: My app has a .so library. To

[android-developers] Android compatibility - transition from Eclipse Ganymede to Helios (/or Indigo)

2011-10-23 Thread Sylvain
We developed an app which uses the Android API 7 (version 2.1) and the Google map library - developed in early 2010 on Ganymede. The environment cannot be reproduced today since the ADT Plug-in can no longer be installed on Ganymede. I installed on either Helios or Indigo. The Android

[android-developers] Problem with developer console (market)

2011-10-23 Thread Lucas Falcão
Hi guys, how you're doing? First, thanks for your attention. My problem is I've uploaded an app to the Market, everything fine Now i was about to push a new version, but i kinda lost (yeah, i forgot) the keystore password. Then i created a new keystore to sing the app. At this point i knew i

Re: [android-developers] Problem with developer console (market)

2011-10-23 Thread Carlos Silva
Change the package name for the new Application. Once a package name is used, it is forever reserved and can't be used again other than for upgrades (for packages with the same signature of course). 2011/10/24 Lucas Falcão lucas.falcao...@gmail.com Hi guys, how you're doing? First, thanks for

Re: [android-developers] Android compatibility - transition from Eclipse Ganymede to Helios (/or Indigo)

2011-10-23 Thread Carlos Silva
Is it the emulator that crashes or your Application on the emulator? On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 00:28, Sylvain sylvain.louc...@gmail.com wrote: We developed an app which uses the Android API 7 (version 2.1) and the Google map library - developed in early 2010 on Ganymede. The environment cannot

Re: [android-developers] Problem with developer console (market)

2011-10-23 Thread Lucas Falcão
Yeah, i think thats the only solution... I was trying to avoid create new project, copy sources, blablabla... I guess im just too lazy . By the way, thaks for the quick response :D On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Carlos Silva r3...@r3pek.org wrote: Change the package name for the new

[android-developers] Re: Implement an XML-RPC server on Android

2011-10-23 Thread Weikang Wan
Hello pskink, I have put the TestXMLRPCServer you just checked in with the client codes together. I made some changes: 1. I put following codes in the end of onCreate() of Test Activity class: Intent intent = new Intent(Test.this, XMLRPCService.class); startService(intent); 2. I changed IP

[android-developers] Re: Implement an XML-RPC server on Android

2011-10-23 Thread Weikang Wan
It seems that the XMLPullParser is not returned Only Log 1 and 2 is printed out; Log 3 and 4 is not. XmlPullParser xmlPullParserFromSocket(InputStream socketInputStream) throws IOException, XmlPullParserException { Log.i(LOG_TAG, xmlPullParserFromSocket); // 1

Re: [android-developers] Problem with developer console (market)

2011-10-23 Thread Carlos Silva
You don't need to do all that, just rename the base package using refactor in eclipse (Press F2 with the base package selected) 2011/10/24 Lucas Falcão lucas.falcao...@gmail.com Yeah, i think thats the only solution... I was trying to avoid create new project, copy sources, blablabla... I

[android-developers] Re: Implement an XML-RPC server on Android

2011-10-23 Thread Weikang Wan
Resolved! Thanks. I found a reversed version from anddev.org forum. Cheers! On Oct 23, 9:00 pm, Weikang Wan weikang@gmail.com wrote: Hello pskink, I have put the TestXMLRPCServer you just checked in with the client codes together. I made some changes: 1. I put following codes in the

[android-developers] Re: Impossible to Create Write to or Read From Files in the SD Card

2011-10-23 Thread Studio LFP
You're on the right track, but it's best not to hardcode the path to a file on the SD Card. Check out this API: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Environment.html#getExternalStorageDirectory%28%29 This will help you get the directory to the SD card. It usually isn't /sdcard,

[android-developers] Re: Settings.Secure.ANDROID_ID not unique on DROID2?

2011-10-23 Thread albnok
Quite simply, one could combine the ANDROID_ID and IMEI as a single string, comma-delimited and use that as a unique identifier. You might get 0123456789ABCDEF,null for a prototype tablet though. This assumes that all WiFi-only devices have unique ANDROID_IDs and all phones have unique IMEIs.

[android-developers] Re: Rotated alert dialog

2011-10-23 Thread gg9h0st
I have a landscape looking view which is portrait(activity) for some reason(it should not be an activity). On Oct 23, 11:55 pm, lbendlin l...@bendlin.us wrote: you want the alert dialog to show in a different orientation than the active application? Why? -- You received this message because

Re: [android-developers] Android compatibility - transition from Eclipse Ganymede to Helios (/or Indigo)

2011-10-23 Thread TreKing
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Sylvain sylvain.louc...@gmail.com wrote: The Android application compiles and loads on the emulator but crashes immediately. What have you done to debug your app in this scenario?

[android-developers] Handling asynchronous events and blocking

2011-10-23 Thread Peter Webb
I don't even know if this is an Android question or a Java question. I am developing a simple game using Lunarlander as a starting point. Input is through OnTouch events. This changes the game's state - eg a touch event may cause some gameplay object to be instantiated. Obviously I don't want

[android-developers] Re: Two emulators communicate via Http

2011-10-23 Thread Sunil Mishra
Hi, Your emulator's local IP will be 10.0.2.15 Now you need to do a port forwarding. For that do the following 1) Open cmd 2) telnet localhost 5554(emulator's no) 3) redir add tcp:portno u whish:port no of application 4) Then try browsing from web browser of pc using localhost:port Enjoy.!!

[android-developers] Re: Handling asynchronous events and blocking

2011-10-23 Thread Studio LFP
I figure you are running a thread that does all the processing as not to block the UI thread. If so, one of the ways I've been doing it is to add something like... public static LinkedListMotionEvent uiEvents; ... to a helper object and then check the length of it every time through the

Re: [android-developers] Possible to get AppWidget Height?

2011-10-23 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Ash McConnell ash.mcconn...@gmail.com wrote: They must not provide the same amount of space (even if you consider device independent pixels) as all units use dp. There is no such concept as the same amount of space. You have no guarantee over the dp size of an