Re: [android-developers] Re: My Newbie problem with compiling the HelloAndroid App

2011-12-05 Thread Mukesh Srivastav
Dude, Very simple problem u have it. Please look at my below statment that would help in resolving. 1. open the Activity ( I mean Java source code) 2. in your Java File, you might added the following import statment import android.R; 3. Remove that import statment and add your package

[android-developers] Re: How to READ a MODE_WORLD_READABLE file from ANOTHER application

2011-12-05 Thread Saied
Now I learn that the .txt asset files get compressed, and openAssetFd fails on compressed files! Wow. is there a workaround for this? I just changed the extension to .jpg and it worked, but that's UGLY. Any thoughts? Thanks. On Dec 4, 11:52 pm, Saied saie...@gmail.com wrote: I spoke too

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to READ a MODE_WORLD_READABLE file from ANOTHER application

2011-12-05 Thread Nikolay Elenkov
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Saied saie...@gmail.com wrote: Now I learn that the .txt asset files get compressed, and openAssetFd fails on compressed files! Wow. is there a workaround for this? I just changed the extension to .jpg and it worked, but that's UGLY. If you store it as a

[android-developers] Re: Not able to get full App logs

2011-12-05 Thread Neel Singh
I am not able to get full App log for an application(In fact any application), based on Android 2.2 SDK, after updating ADT and SDK recently. Its not working even after setting the log level to VERBOSE. Eclipse : Helios Android SDK API : 2.2 Android

[android-developers] Re: Using Spinner as a Button.

2011-12-05 Thread Pocket
Thank you all! I'll try to change button style. On 12月2日, 午前4:36, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Pocket poketo7...@gmail.com wrote: But I want to use Spinner just as a Button. And you don't just use a Button because ... ?

[android-developers] Re: How to READ a MODE_WORLD_READABLE file from ANOTHER application

2011-12-05 Thread Saied
Thanks. I'll look! On Dec 5, 12:24 am, Nikolay Elenkov nikolay.elen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Saied saie...@gmail.com wrote: Now I learn that the .txt asset files get compressed, and openAssetFd fails on compressed files! Wow. is there a workaround for this?

Re: [android-developers] Re: Not able to get full App logs

2011-12-05 Thread Mukesh Srivastav
1. Close the emulator. 2. Got to ADB, Delete the existing emulator 3.Create a New Emulator. 4.Restart the Eclipse... (Please try this step first, if you still not able to see the logs, then do the above four steps). -- Warm Regards, *Mukesh Kumar*, Android Consultant/Freelancer,

[android-developers] Re: Problems reading/writing to SQLite db on SD card.

2011-12-05 Thread MarkG123
Database opens just fine in the windows sqlite3.exe application, I can view the tables. The full callstack: 12-04 19:51:12.665: I/Database(842): sqlite returned: error code = 8, msg = prepared statement aborts at 37: [CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS android_metadata (locale TEXT)] 12-04 19:51:12.665:

[android-developers] Reg: Crash in the native while allocating memory

2011-12-05 Thread Aluvala Suman
Hi All, I am facing a crash issue while trying to allocate a dynamic memory of size 1150 bytes in the android native. Its crashing in-consistently at malloc() function in the android native and some times at free(). The native code which I am using is fully developed and tested (using purify) as

[android-developers] Re: User cannot install an update

2011-12-05 Thread mot12
There may be a permission problem so the userID given to the app does not match the userID of the app data directory. If your user has root, tell him/her to delete the directory /data/data/com.yournamespace... Then reinstall the app. Unfortuantely, only root can do this. Uninstalling the app

[android-developers] Re: How to READ a MODE_WORLD_READABLE file from ANOTHER application

2011-12-05 Thread Saied
It turns out that raw resources are also compressed, and therefore unreadable with openRawResourceFd(raw.test); Is there a sure way to prevent this? On Dec 5, 12:24 am, Nikolay Elenkov nikolay.elen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Saied saie...@gmail.com wrote: Now I learn

[android-developers] Android TileMode REPEAT on Background image stops working

2011-12-05 Thread Jason
I'm having some problems with programmatically setting the background image to tile on a LinearLayout on Android. I've posted a bug report (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/ detail?id=22541), along with an example project but I'm wondering if anyone's seen this before and has a workaround?

Re: [android-developers] Re: Problems reading/writing to SQLite db on SD card.

2011-12-05 Thread Nikolay Elenkov
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:50 PM, MarkG123 mark.gilles...@gmail.com wrote: The full callstack: 12-04 19:51:12.665: I/Database(842): sqlite returned: error code = 8, msg = prepared statement aborts at 37: [CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS android_metadata (locale TEXT)] 12-04 19:51:12.665:

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to READ a MODE_WORLD_READABLE file from ANOTHER application

2011-12-05 Thread Nikolay Elenkov
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Saied saie...@gmail.com wrote: It turns out that raw resources are also compressed, and therefore unreadable with openRawResourceFd(raw.test); Is there a sure way to prevent this? If you mean compressing resources, the only thing I've seen used is changing the

[android-developers] Re: SurfaceHolder.Callback.surfaceCreated not being triggered when surface is re-created

2011-12-05 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
So I've managed to fix that particular problem. I'm not sure exactly what fixed it, but I assume it was a result of a couple different problems. I needed to set the manifest to only ever launch one instance at a time (I was seeing more than one activity object be created which messed things up).

[android-developers] Video view youtube

2011-12-05 Thread ANKUR GOEL
Hi all , i am having activity .on which in small part i have video view i want to show yputuve page on that the video i will play .. my video is playing fine ,,,but i want to show the youtube video picture on that small layout and on click of that play video ... i am not able to show

[android-developers] Re: speech recording

2011-12-05 Thread rachana govilkar
hey hi even i am facing d same problem code am writing to capture audio is given in android guide itself check this link http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/audio-capture.html but it is giving me error for prepare method in StartRecording() LogCat is: 12-05

Re: [android-developers] Re: speech recording

2011-12-05 Thread Raghav Sood
I'd say that your error is coming from one of lines 74, 30, 28 or 88. At least that's what the LogCat says. If you look closer, you will notice that your prepare() method has failed to work and has given you an exception. 12-05 16:11:39.442: ERROR/AudioRecordTest(309): prepare() failed 12-05

[android-developers] Cocos2d Game Lost Focus When we click Volume Up or Volume Down Button On Motorola xoom

2011-12-05 Thread vimal
I am developing a game using Cocos2d FrameWork in Android. i encountered a problem while testing on Motorola Xoom. What I want to do :- When User pressed Volume up and Volume down Button All the Animation should play with sound . But What actually Happened:- when i pressed volume up down

[android-developers] Re: How to READ a MODE_WORLD_READABLE file from ANOTHER application

2011-12-05 Thread skink
Saied wrote: Now I learn that the .txt asset files get compressed, and openAssetFd fails on compressed files! Wow. is there a workaround for this? I just changed the extension to .jpg and it worked, but that's UGLY. Any thoughts? Thanks. is asset _text.txt bigger than 1MB? if so

[android-developers] 2.3.4 - Animation is working on the emulator but not on real device

2011-12-05 Thread Harald
Hi, I spent a lot of time to create a nice animation to slide from one activity to the next an back. The animation is working on the emulator. The emulator has the same android release as my phone. But on my phone, the animation does not work. Does someone know a possible reason? Phone: Huawei

[android-developers] Re: problem parsing the package

2011-12-05 Thread rachana govilkar
hello... y anybody is not replying on this thread??? anywys plz help this time.am just stuck up at audio recording i just wrote this program given in android guide.. http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/audio-capture.html but getting error as prepare() is failed..

[android-developers] Alarm manager problem

2011-12-05 Thread Hassy
I'm creating an alarm application and I already created the basic alarm activity and receiver class.now I want to repeat the alarm on specific day of week. I set DAY_OF_WEEK to 1 to set the alarm repeat on sunday but it doesn't work. Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance()

Re: [android-developers] Re: problem parsing the package

2011-12-05 Thread Mukesh Srivastav
Rachna, Please call the unlock method immediate after preview display,that helps. -- Warm Regards, *Mukesh Kumar*, Android Consultant/Freelancer, India,Hyderabad. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:38 PM, rachana govilkar rachana.govil...@gmail.com wrote: hello... y anybody is not replying on

[android-developers] Re: speech recording

2011-12-05 Thread rachana govilkar
yes thank u for quick reply :) coz i did mention this question on my thread also. n yes it is giving me exceptionIllegalStateException but y so?? i mean i have just wrote program same as provided on d link my program is... package com.privacygram.activity; import

[android-developers] Re: speech recording

2011-12-05 Thread rachana govilkar
n sorry for bad english. On Dec 5, 5:25 pm, rachana govilkar rachana.govil...@gmail.com wrote: yes thank u for quick reply :) coz i did mention this question on my thread also. n yes it is giving me exceptionIllegalStateException but y so?? i mean i have just wrote program

Re: [android-developers] Reg: Crash in the native while allocating memory

2011-12-05 Thread Mark Murphy
Try the android-ndk Google Group, as they are better suited for this sort of NDK question. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Aluvala Suman aluvala.su...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am facing a crash issue while trying to allocate a dynamic memory of size 1150 bytes in the android native. Its

Re: [android-developers] Is is possible to block android system updates with out rooting the device?

2011-12-05 Thread Mark Murphy
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:57 AM, srihari babu hisriharib...@gmail.com wrote: Is there is any way to block android OS updates in the device. For your own devices, you can decline to install them. For other people's devices, no, this is not possible. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)

[android-developers] Re: please give me solution

2011-12-05 Thread Oli Wright
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Re: [android-developers] Re: please give me solution

2011-12-05 Thread Mukesh Srivastav
solution of what +1, What does it mean ? Warm Regards, *Mukesh Kumar*, Android Consultant/Freelancer, India,Hyderabad. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Oli Wright oli.wri...@gmail.com wrote: +1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers

Re: [android-developers] Image Gallery Help

2011-12-05 Thread TreKing
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:48 AM, arvi s.v.a...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if i could get the source code of the default gallery app by cooliris Check the Android source code to see if the stock app is there. Or ask cooliris, if that's their app you're talking about.

Re: [android-developers] Re: please give me solution

2011-12-05 Thread TreKing
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Mukesh Srivastav mukicha...@gmail.comwrote: +1, What does it mean ? http://bit.ly/tek3Lc - TreKing http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking - Chicago

[android-developers] RectF: float parameters in pixelated canvas???

2011-12-05 Thread John Goche
Hello, Can someone explain to me how come there is a RectF class that takes float parameters when the pixel coordinates take integer values? How can I draw a pixel at location (3.5,8.777) for instance instead of at location (3,7). Does this just make sense because of antialiasing? Thanks for

Re: [android-developers] Re: please give me solution

2011-12-05 Thread Jim Graham
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 06:42:16PM +0530, Mukesh Srivastav wrote: solution of what +1, What does it mean ? It means the same as ++1, or - -1, or +2-1, or Later, --jim -- THE SCORE: ME: 2 CANCER: 0 73 DE N5IAL (/4)| Peter da Silva: No, try rm -rf / spooky1...@gmail.com

Re: [android-developers] Re: please give me solution

2011-12-05 Thread Jim Graham
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 07:22:06AM -0600, Jim Graham wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 06:42:16PM +0530, Mukesh Srivastav wrote: solution of what +1, What does it mean ? It means the same as ++1, or - -1, or +2-1, or Oops...that first one is invalid. I haven't had my coffee yet, so

[android-developers] How to create a bitmap from binary data?

2011-12-05 Thread Vincent
Hi, I want to create images from binary data. e.g. If the binary data is: 0110 1110 0011 1010 1000 0001 1011 1100 0110 1101 0100 0011 1001 0011 which is store in 4*4 bytes { 6 14 3 10 8 1 11 12 6 13 15 0 4 3 9 3 } I want to create a image(might be bitmap) from the

Re: [android-developers] Alarm manager problem

2011-12-05 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
If the current day of week is Sunday, your code moves the calendar back in time, to most recent Sunday before now. Add a check for this case, and move the calendar forward one week if needed. 5 декабря 2011 г. 16:19 пользователь Hassy hasith@gmail.com написал: I'm creating an alarm

Re: [android-developers] RectF: float parameters in pixelated canvas???

2011-12-05 Thread Latimerius
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:18 PM, John Goche johngoch...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, Can someone explain to me how come there is a RectF class that takes float parameters when the pixel coordinates take integer values? How can I draw a pixel at location (3.5,8.777) for instance instead of at

Re: [android-developers] emulator for motorola droid x

2011-12-05 Thread TreKing
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:51 PM, mohana priya gpriyara...@gmail.comwrote: Hello android developers.can u please tell me How and where to download the motorola droid x emulator for android application with phonegap.Thanks in Advance. Try the motorola droid x emulator and / or phonegap

Re: [android-developers] Android: How to pause and resume a Count Down Timer?

2011-12-05 Thread TreKing
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:01 PM, catherinefbala...@yahoo.com catherinefbala...@yahoo.com wrote: I am only beginner in android programming and I don't know how to get the value of the countdown timer using savedInstanceState. How do I do this? There is plenty of information on this in the

Re: [android-developers] How can I capture and write my findings in txt file.

2011-12-05 Thread TreKing
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Aaron Chung aaron.cwen...@gmail.comwrote: As the value kept changing, how can I capture the values and save it inside a txt file so that I can open it up with my computer? Read the docs section on persisting data and use standard Java I/O.

Re: [android-developers] emulator for motorola droid x

2011-12-05 Thread Mukesh Srivastav
OMG, Not Again this PhoneGAP... :(. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:32 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:51 PM, mohana priya gpriyara...@gmail.comwrote: Hello android developers.can u please tell me How and where to download the motorola droid x emulator

Re: [android-developers] communicating with hardware remotely from Android device

2011-12-05 Thread TreKing
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Arun arun.pk...@gmail.com wrote: how to communicate with the hardware board remotely from android device..Any ideas ... ? http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: [android-developers] android application

2011-12-05 Thread TreKing
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Jacob Shavia jacobsha...@gmail.comwrote: i'm new to android and am supposed to develop an android game that allows people to navigate a vehicle along simulated real life roads, i have autocad maps for the roads n their presentation is poor how can i implement

Re: [android-developers] MEssaging Application Not Updating

2011-12-05 Thread TreKing
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:30 PM, raja shekar raja.androiddevelo...@gmail.com wrote: When i opening the Application UI is not Updating ... Can anybody give me solution Solution: fix the bug in your app. You're welcome. Seriously, if that's the extent of the information you have to provide

[android-developers] Re: getString in a class with no context - Runtime Error Resource Not Found

2011-12-05 Thread Streets Of Boston
It's great you got it to work. But why do you need a separate class (LanguagePack) to get localized strings/resources? In a method of your activity or another context, you could just do: getString(R.string.some_string)? If you want to access localized resources/strings in code that does not

[android-developers] Re: list actvity is scrolling

2011-12-05 Thread Streets Of Boston
Don't use a ListActivity. You only have a small and fixed amount of elements (8). Use a regular Activity with a layout that has a vertical LinearLayout or a TableLayout as the top element. These two don't scroll. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[android-developers] Re: Unique ID, but not IMEI, IMSI, MAC, AndroidID

2011-12-05 Thread Streets Of Boston
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/identifying-app-installations.html This link suggests and advises identifying accounts, not specific devices. However, sometimes you can't get around it. E.g. if you have an app that publishes digital content under DRM, you usually have to be able

[android-developers] Re: How to create a bitmap from binary data?

2011-12-05 Thread Streets Of Boston
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/BitmapFactory.html -- 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 email to

[android-developers] Can the LVL check for Paid app be done from my free app ?

2011-12-05 Thread androidmediadeveloper
I have a Free app with pro features locked. I also have a paid app that is basically a stub, an unlocker. My question is this, can I run the LVL check to see if user has purchased the unlocker/stub app from inside of my free app ? It'd be great if this were possible, but from my experiments until

Re: [android-developers] Re: Unique ID, but not IMEI, IMSI, MAC, AndroidID

2011-12-05 Thread Mark Murphy
Do you use any sort of a naming convention, so you can identify what's what for later comparison purposes? I'm thinking something a bit along the lines of URL schemes (imsi:... or even imsi-v10:... for an IMSI reported by API Level 10, where the ... is the actual IMSI value). For example, it may

[android-developers] ICS Hardware Acceleration crash

2011-12-05 Thread webmonkey
In my AndroidManifest.xml I have: uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=3 android:targetSdkVersion=8 / And the Application and Activities all have android:hardwareAccelerated=false So the app should not be hardware accelerated. But in the Android Developer console I am getting the following

[android-developers] Re: User cannot install an update

2011-12-05 Thread John Coryat
There may be a permission problem so the userID given to the app does not match the userID of the app data directory. If your user has root, tell him/her to delete the directory /data/data/com.yournamespace... Then reinstall the app. Unfortuantely, only root can do this. Uninstalling the

[android-developers] Re: 2.3.4 - Animation is working on the emulator but not on real device

2011-12-05 Thread Kumar Bibek
What kind of animation it is? It would be great if you could explain how your animation is setup. On Dec 5, 4:43 pm, Harald harald65.si...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I spent a lot of time to create a nice animation to slide from one activity to the next an back. The animation is working on the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Unique ID, but not IMEI, IMSI, MAC, AndroidID

2011-12-05 Thread Streets Of Boston
We use the generated device-id for DRM purposes. The generated device-id is not used as-is. The DRM code creates encrypts it and creates a hash. The hash is used for identifying the device on the DRM server. It is true that an upgrade from 2.2. to 2.3 can trigger a different result if the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Unique ID, but not IMEI, IMSI, MAC, AndroidID

2011-12-05 Thread lbendlin
The vast majority of our support issues is from users that have reflashed the ROM on their device which results in a different Android_ID more often than not. We also decided to use the fallback scenarios of either IMEI or MAC address. (can't use the fancy 2.3 stuff as most users are still on

Re: [android-developers] Re: Unique ID, but not IMEI, IMSI, MAC, AndroidID

2011-12-05 Thread Raghav Sood
In my apps, I assign the user a username, and then generate a UUID (v4) and associate it with the user name. That way I can maintain it across installs, as long as the user uses the same account, Thanks On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Streets Of Boston flyingdutc...@gmail.comwrote: We use the

Re: [android-developers]

2011-12-05 Thread TreKing
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Nattachai Boonkam nattach...@hotmail.comwrote: How to add ‘keyword’ when end-user search in Android market ? Write a description for your app. - TreKing

Re: [android-developers] ICS Hardware Acceleration crash

2011-12-05 Thread Romain Guy
They've probably checked the Force GPU setting in Developers Settings. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:25 AM, webmonkey webmonke...@gmail.com wrote: In my AndroidManifest.xml I have: uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=3 android:targetSdkVersion=8 / And the Application and Activities all have

Re: [android-developers] Android TileMode REPEAT on Background image stops working

2011-12-05 Thread Romain Guy
This bug was fixed in 3.0 and 4.0. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Jason jason.poli...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having some problems with programmatically setting the background image to tile on a LinearLayout on Android. I've posted a bug report (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/

Re: [android-developers] Help! i dont receive value of attributes (parcelable)

2011-12-05 Thread TreKing
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:40 PM, diego scafati dscaf...@yahoo.com.arwrote: private void readFromParcel(Parcel in) { in.setDataPosition(0); // -- WHY? codigodeusuario=in.readString(); } That's probably a problem. Take that out and

[android-developers] Re: User cannot install an update

2011-12-05 Thread mot12
Lucky you. This happened because of a firmware bug in Samsung devices 2.2.1. See here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=14359 or https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-developers/Sm7WCWZYcKU/discussion In the first post, the author describes how he ended up with an

Re: [android-developers] How to prevent webview click through to Google Maps?

2011-12-05 Thread TreKing
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:21 PM, elsigh els...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way for me to prevent that? Capture the geo intent or something like that? IDK, but I'd look at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebViewClient.html and see if any of those methods are called when

[android-developers] Gravity virtual sensor source code

2011-12-05 Thread markus
Hi all! Now that Ice Cream Sandwich is out, I thought I'd have a look at how the virtual sensors have their data calculated, in particular TYPE_GRAVITY. Of course it will involve data from some or all of the real sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetic field), but I've read somewhere

[android-developers] Re: Can the LVL check for Paid app be done from my free app ?

2011-12-05 Thread b0b
Yes this is doable if both app have the same userId You can implement a remote service in the unlocker paid app that check the license. Then your free app invoke binds to that remote service to do the check. If both of your apps share the same android:sharedUserId you're not forced to make

[android-developers] Re: SDK(Android 4.0) launch fail when GPU emulation is activated from the SDK config window

2011-12-05 Thread Kelo
Can anyone help me ? I´ve this error on win7/eclipse helios [2011-12-05 13:40:31 - HelloOpenGLES20] Starting activity com.ejemplo.helloopengles20.HelloOpenGLES20 on device emulator-5554 [2011-12-05 13:40:32 - Emulator] client shutdown [2011-12-05 13:40:34 - HelloOpenGLES20] ActivityManager:

[android-developers] Re: ICS Hardware Acceleration crash

2011-12-05 Thread webmonkey
Thanks Romain Anyway to force if off from the app in code? Or how to detect it so that I can display a message to the user? I see now that there are some websites that advise people to turn it on because it makes everything run smoother. I don't think people realize that not all things can be

Re: [android-developers] Re: please give me solution

2011-12-05 Thread Michael Banzon
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Jim Graham spooky1...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 07:22:06AM -0600, Jim Graham wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 06:42:16PM +0530, Mukesh Srivastav wrote: solution of what +1, What does it mean ? It means the same as ++1, or - -1, or +2-1, or

Re: [android-developers] Re: ICS Hardware Acceleration crash

2011-12-05 Thread Mark Murphy
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:04 PM, webmonkey webmonke...@gmail.com wrote: I see now that there are some websites that advise people to turn it on because it makes everything run smoother. Got any links? At least we can work on trying to get these posts updated, particularly if there's no SDK

[android-developers] Re: Can the LVL check for Paid app be done from my free app ?

2011-12-05 Thread androidmediadeveloper
sorry, not clear. the free app can check if the paid app was purchased ? it is the same publisher. also, seems like i can use the android:sharedUserId and write the license into shared prefs from one app and have the other read from it. Is this a security issue ? thanks ajith On Dec 5, 11:50 

Re: [android-developers] Re: Can the LVL check for Paid app be done from my free app ?

2011-12-05 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Let the free app (main) ask the paid app (the unlocker) run the LVL check and report results using any of the available inter-application communication options available on Android. As far as security goes - encrypting / signing the communication is one option, signing both apps with the same key

[android-developers] Re: User cannot install an update

2011-12-05 Thread John Gaby
Thanks for the suggestions. I had the user try taking out the battery but it didn't help (I HAD previously had him reboot his phone which didn't work either). I am beginning to think that there is something screwed up with the permissions as you suggest. I have actually had a similar problem on

Re: [android-developers] Re: ICS Hardware Acceleration crash

2011-12-05 Thread Romain Guy
This setting is unfortunately a double-edged sword, it was intended for developers so they could easily test their application with hardware acceleration turned on. You can easily check whether your app is hardware accelerated on startup and warn the user it's not supported. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011

[android-developers] Re: ICS Hardware Acceleration crash

2011-12-05 Thread webmonkey
http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/1/2604136/apps-which-crash-on-galaxy-nexus-when-force-gpu-rendering-is-on The first comment there is: I can only surmise that if the app crashes then the developer MAY have deviated from the official API and not followed proper programming practices. Which is of

[android-developers] Re: User cannot install an update

2011-12-05 Thread John Coryat
You'll have to decide what level of support you want to offer. For me, once I've determined it isn't a problem with the app, the user has to look elsewhere for support. I can't help solve problems with the countless versions of Android/carrier/manufacturer OS's and devices. I'd rather spend my

[android-developers] Re: ICS Hardware Acceleration crash

2011-12-05 Thread Kevin TeslaCoil Software
On Dec 5, 12:01 pm, Romain Guy romain...@android.com wrote: This setting is unfortunately a double-edged sword, it was intended for developers so they could easily test their application with hardware acceleration turned on. I interpreted the setting as an aggressive move to make developers

[android-developers] Re: Problems reading/writing to SQLite db on SD card.

2011-12-05 Thread MarkG123
Hmmm, I need to remove entries from tables as I process them... Is there any way this can be achieved on Android? On Dec 5, 9:05 am, Nikolay Elenkov nikolay.elen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:50 PM, MarkG123 mark.gilles...@gmail.com wrote: The full callstack: 12-04

[android-developers] Re: Is useful testing actually possible?

2011-12-05 Thread Diego Torres Milano
CTS (http://source.android.com/compatibility/cts-intro.html) features thousands of tests (literally). I'm sure you will find the examples you are looking for. On Dec 4, 2:11 am, Doug beafd...@gmail.com wrote: I think this goes some way to explaining why there are many bad practices in the

[android-developers] Re: Mobile app discovery

2011-12-05 Thread Jose_GD
Kenneth, I think you are putting discoverability with testability in the same bag. Or have misunderstood you? Discoverability is the real big deal IMO, a very difficult problem to solve. Testability perhaps can be solved (at least partially) if Google helps us with more flexibility in the

[android-developers] Re: ICS Hardware Acceleration crash

2011-12-05 Thread webmonkey
Can you perhaps disable it using: getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_HARDWARE_ACCELERATED); Or does that not work ( I don't have a Galaxy Nexus to test ) On Dec 5, 7:01 pm, Romain Guy romain...@android.com wrote: This setting is unfortunately a double-edged sword, it was

[android-developers] customer retention

2011-12-05 Thread bob
I'm having problems with customer retention. Basically, they download an app, fiddle around, and leave, I think. Is there any canned solution for getting them to sign up for an e-mail list like mailchimp? I want to be able to tell them about new products. Thanks. -- You received this

[android-developers] Re: User cannot install an update

2011-12-05 Thread John Gaby
You are, of course, correct. I just wanted to understand what is happening here so that I can determine whether it is my fault or not, and whether I am going to have others that have this problem. The reality is that for every person that takes the time to report a problem there are probably

Re: [android-developers] customer retention

2011-12-05 Thread TreKing
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:27 PM, bob b...@coolgroups.com wrote: I'm having problems with customer retention. Basically, they download an app, fiddle around, and leave, I think. Is there any canned solution for getting them to sign up for an e-mail list like mailchimp? I want to be able to

[android-developers] Re: User cannot install an update

2011-12-05 Thread John Coryat
That's pretty simple. If they have problems with the installing, updating, launching, downloading, uninstalling or (my favorite) the icon has disappeared, it's not your problem, it's an Android issue. 99.9% of those problems can be simply solved by rebooting or by uninstalling and

Re: [android-developers] How to set background color for context menu

2011-12-05 Thread TreKing
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:11 PM, rambabu mareedu rambabu.mare...@gmail.comwrote: HI to allIn my app iam using context menu for this i want to set some background colors to my context menu can anyone tell is it possible? Don't think so - there's not much you can do with a context menu,

Re: [android-developers] Why doesn't layout_alignCenterInParent work?

2011-12-05 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
I struggled with this for a few hours then gave up on it. Apparently people have been asking this question for several years without a meaningful solution. I ended up using the much-maligned nested linear layouts approach instead. Anyway, the issue wasn't related to height, but width. I'm

[android-developers] !uses-permission

2011-12-05 Thread EmbSysPro
Hi, I've been assigned the task of maintaining some preexisting code and while examining the manifest file I came across the following items, !uses-permission android:name=android.permission.STATUS_BAR / !uses-permission android:name=android.permission.MOUNT_UNMOUNT_FILESYSTEMS / My problem is

[android-developers] Re: User cannot install an update

2011-12-05 Thread mot12
I would agree with John that this is not worth your time as a support issue. But if your user has root access, I would try deleting the app data folder. This has worked for the issue that I addressed. Otherwise, factory reset :(. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[android-developers] scrolling list on text enter in edit text.

2011-12-05 Thread nikki
Hi all, I want to implement the feature for my app. I am having a list of contact and an Edittext on top of it. Now when user type some text in the edittext the corresponding matching name should scroll up(as it is done in contact screen) in the list. How and what is best way to do it. Please

[android-developers] Auto show/hide of Options Menu

2011-12-05 Thread dillipk
Hi, Is it possible to do an Auto Show/Hide of Options Menu programatically? As soon as my activity displays on the screen, I want my Options Menu to display hide automatically. In otherwords, I do not want to press 'Menu' key on the device to display my options menu. Any help or idea to have

[android-developers] Re: Mobile app discovery

2011-12-05 Thread klewelling
I want a service separate from testing. Running an app without installing reduces friction, there is no steps getting in the way of using the app. Your comment about trials is exactly the type of feedback I want. The nature of the solution I had in mind lends itself to trials or timelimits in

[android-developers] messages is not showing using Intent.createChooser()

2011-12-05 Thread ew web
hello, my phone is android 2.3.4. the sharing option, messages, is not showing when I try to share the intent among all registered applications. It works for android 2.2.1 though. Could someone give me a hint what's happening please? Many thanks. -- You received this message because you are

[android-developers] Re: How to create a bitmap from binary data?

2011-12-05 Thread Vincent
Thanks a lot On Dec 6, 1:51 am, Streets Of Boston flyingdutc...@gmail.com wrote: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/BitmapFactory... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [android-developers] how to do imageview 3d animation with pinch and zoom?

2011-12-05 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
OpenGL? On 12/2/2011 6:04 PM, Hitendrasinh Gohil wrote: Hi, can anyone give me some idea how to pinch,zoom(i know but i want all three in one) and rotate image in 3d? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this

Re: [android-developers] !uses-permission

2011-12-05 Thread Mark Murphy
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:33 PM, EmbSysPro char...@embsyspro.com wrote: I've been assigned the task of maintaining some preexisting code and while examining the manifest file I came across the following items, !uses-permission android:name=android.permission.STATUS_BAR / !uses-permission

[android-developers] Re: how to retrieve connected bluetooth headset battery strength

2011-12-05 Thread lbendlin
let me copy and paste that for you /** * Get battery usage hint for Bluetooth Headset service. * This is a monotonically increasing integer. Wraps to 0 at * Integer.MAX_INT, and at boot. * Current implementation returns the number of AT commands handled since * boot. This is a good indicator for

[android-developers] Re: 2.3.4 - Animation is working on the emulator but not on real device

2011-12-05 Thread Harald
It is a translate. But, I found the trouble! It is just a setup issue: Setup - Display - Animation - (All | Some | None) None was selected. I do not know the english words. But I thing all understand the issue. Regards Harald On 5 Dez., 17:04, Kumar Bibek coomar@gmail.com wrote: What

[android-developers] Re: Can the LVL check for Paid app be done from my free app ?

2011-12-05 Thread androidmediadeveloper
ok, thank you. so, i guess the bottom line is that a free app cannot check the license on another app that is a paid app, even if it is the same publisher. there seemed to be several posts that seemed to indicate this would be possible, thats what got me confused. On Dec 5, 12:50 pm, Kostya

[android-developers] Re: SurfaceHolder.Callback.surfaceCreated not being triggered when surface is re-created

2011-12-05 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
Ok, somehow eglCreateWindowSurface is failing to create a valid surface any time but the first. eglSwapBuffers fails with a EGL_BAD_SURFACE error. But eglCreateWindowSurface said it succeeded. I'm stumped. On Dec 5, 2:34 am, Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellst...@gmail.com wrote: So I've managed to fix

[android-developers] Re: User cannot install an update

2011-12-05 Thread John Gaby
Thanks for all your help, the user does not have root access and is not willing to reset his phone. Rebooting the phone also does not help (or so he tells me). So I guess that he is simply stuck with his current version. Thanks again. On Dec 5, 12:39 pm, mot12 martin.hu...@gmail.com wrote: I

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