[android-developers] Three states checkbox

2016-05-24 Thread ab 2ndguide
Hello, Three states checkbox is a quite common situation and an often requested feature on Android. Is there a good reason to not implement it? Regards, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: [android-developers] Android: Google drive integration, what is “com.google.android.gms.version”?

2015-04-06 Thread Ab
"app XXX requires Google Play > Services update" (or some such), linked to Google Play app. > > -- K > > > 2015-04-06 16:28 GMT+03:00 Ab >: > >> My application integrates with Google Drive using the old api, it does >> not include Google's library project

[android-developers] Android: Google drive integration, what is “com.google.android.gms.version”?

2015-04-06 Thread Ab
My application integrates with Google Drive using the old api, it does not include Google's library project (instead it includes a bunch of jars like 'google-api-client-1.12.0-beta.jar', 'google-api-services-drive-v2-rev59-1.12.0-beta.jar', etc...). This causes an issue because this line in m

[android-developers] In 4.4, Paint.measureText() is not backwards compatible. Any workarounds?

2013-12-11 Thread Ab
It is crucial for my app to be able to accurately measure Strings; I have been usingPaint.measureText() to do this. Unfortunately, in 4.4, this method was changed to no longer return a precise value, instead it returns a up-rounded value. Is anyone aware of another method I can use to precise

[android-developers] Re: Unlike previous versions, Paint.measureText() returns a rounded value in 4.4?

2013-12-10 Thread Ab
ub.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/commit/8e04840f38a16f806754dfca3de50c2548e67913 > > > > On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 8:45:45 PM UTC, Ab wrote: >> >> I make heavy use of the Paint.measureText() method and was surprised to >> find that in 4.4 thefloat this method returns is always roun

[android-developers] Unlike previous versions, Paint.measureText() returns a rounded value in 4.4?

2013-12-10 Thread Ab
I make heavy use of the Paint.measureText() method and was surprised to find that in 4.4 thefloat this method returns is always rounded up. In previous versions, no rounding occurred. I ran the below code on a 4.0.4 device and a 4.4 device. The results for the 4.0.4 device are first, the resu

[android-developers] ViewPager does not respect WRAP_CONTENT?

2013-11-22 Thread Ab
I would like to create a ViewPager whose width wrap's to its contents, and is centered horizontally in it's parent. The first code snippet uses a LinearLayout to create this effect, as shown in the first screenshot. The second code snippet is my attempt to do this with a ViewPager instead of

[android-developers] Re: How to determine application's method count?

2013-03-20 Thread Ab
; Well, what 3rd party JARs are you using? > > > Thanks. > > > > On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 4:02:54 PM UTC-5, Ab wrote: >> >> I'm encountering issues with my application having to many methods. In >> the last post in the below link, a poster posts the me

[android-developers] How to determine application's method count?

2013-03-19 Thread Ab
I'm encountering issues with my application having to many methods. In the last post in the below link, a poster posts the method count for his application (broken down by package). I unable to find how I can get this information for my application, any suggestions? https://code.google.com/p/

[android-developers] Trying to integrate with drive app, error occurs opening document

2013-03-11 Thread Ab
I am trying to integrate with the Drive App using the instructions here: https://developers.google.com/drive/integrate-android-ui. I followed the instructions and now my app shows as an "open with (using google drive)" option when I select a file in the Drive app. However, when I try to open w

[android-developers] Issue building project which uses library project

2012-10-26 Thread Ab
I found many postings concerning this error, but none of the solutions worked for me. I have project A, B, and C. Projects A and B are marked as library projects, project B imports project A as a library, and project C imports project B. When running project C from eclipse, I get the below er

Re: [android-developers] Android fails converting p12 file's certificates to x509; converts properly using java

2012-10-18 Thread Ab
Thank you for your help, this fixed my problem. On Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:30:40 UTC-4, Nikolay Elenkov wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Ab > > wrote: > . > > > > Is due to java.security implementation on Android,

[android-developers] Android fails converting p12 file's certificates to x509; converts properly using java

2012-10-17 Thread Ab
I am running the below code to open a p12 file and convert it's certificates to x509. For the linked p12 file, I get the below exception (have tried on multiple android OS builds). This conversion works properly when I run similar Java code. Also, on desktop applications like Internet explor

[android-developers] retrieving the values in EditTexts in ExpandableList.

2012-08-27 Thread AB
Hi All, I have created an expandableList with two groups and some child elements in each group. the child elements are EditTexts. Now the problem is, on click of submit button, i want to get the values entered in the edittexts, i am not able to access the child elements. How do i get this solved

[android-developers] Re: android:largeHeap attribute not working?

2012-05-30 Thread Ab
Oops, the largeHeap attribute should go inside the application tag -- this works now. On Wednesday, 30 May 2012 12:04:40 UTC-4, Ab wrote: > > I added the android:largeHeap="true" attribute to my android manifest, > but it doesn't seem to make a difference in my applica

[android-developers] android:largeHeap attribute not working?

2012-05-30 Thread Ab
I added the android:largeHeap="true" attribute to my android manifest, but it doesn't seem to make a difference in my application's allowed memory. When I run the below activity on my Acer A100 (running android 3.2.1), I get the following results: largeAmount = 256 normalamount = 48 a

Re: [android-developers] Re: Rendering off UI thread causes ANR on Samsung Note

2012-05-02 Thread Ab
I posted this on the Samsung forum and received a response confirming the issue and instructing that the issue had been forwarded to the proper engineers. So, in the event this is indeed specific the Samsung Note, it will, hopefully, be fixed -- eventually. In the mean time I plan to work arou

Re: [android-developers] Re: Rendering off UI thread causes ANR on Samsung Note

2012-05-01 Thread Ab
I hadn't, but I just did on your suggestion. The call chain I see in eclipse looks the same as one in the traces.txt file: http://pastebin.com/hummn87H It appears that the thread gets wedged while drawing one of the ImageButtons. On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:09:19 UTC-4, Kostya Vasilyev wrote

Re: [android-developers] Re: Rendering off UI thread causes ANR on Samsung Note

2012-05-01 Thread Ab
Guy) wrote: > > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Ab wrote: > > I added a log statement into the while loop. Based on this statement, > the > > while loop continues after the UI has frozen. > > That's odder still. > > Can you package up the entire p

Re: [android-developers] Re: Rendering off UI thread causes ANR on Samsung Note

2012-05-01 Thread Ab
I added a log statement into the while loop. Based on this statement, the while loop continues after the UI has frozen. On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:36:25 UTC-4, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: > > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:26 PM, abe oppenheim > wrote: > >> Well, try adding a sleep first and

Re: [android-developers] Re: Rendering off UI thread causes ANR on Samsung Note

2012-05-01 Thread Ab
demonstrates the issue. >>>> >>> I highly doubt it... Your app creates a thread that runs forever and >>> doesn't do anything? Sounds like you have a bug... >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Justin Anderson >&

Re: [android-developers] Re: Rendering off UI thread causes ANR on Samsung Note

2012-05-01 Thread Ab
Ah, ok... I see that now. Um... maybe I'm missing something, but what is >> the point of doing this? What exactly are you trying to accomplish? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Justin Anderson >> MagouyaWare Developer >> http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware >

Re: [android-developers] Re: Rendering off UI thread causes ANR on Samsung Note

2012-05-01 Thread Ab
e UI. >>> >> >> Ah, ok... I see that now. Um... maybe I'm missing something, but what is >> the point of doing this? What exactly are you trying to accomplish? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Justin Anderson >> MagouyaWare Developer >> http:/

Re: [android-developers] Re: Rendering off UI thread causes ANR on Samsung Note

2012-05-01 Thread Ab
I'm sorry if the code isn't clear. The new thread instantiates a Canvas and paints into it with Canvas.drawBitmap(). Neither the instantiation nor the method call effect the UI. On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:25:34 UTC-4, MagouyaWare wrote: > > the thread rendering off the UI thread doesn't touch/m

Re: [android-developers] Re: Rendering off UI thread causes ANR on Samsung Note

2012-05-01 Thread Ab
the thread rendering off the UI thread doesn't touch/modify/update the UI > > -- 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 ema

[android-developers] Rendering off UI thread causes ANR on Samsung Note

2012-05-01 Thread Ab
This TestActivity mimics some behavior in my app, which casues an ANR on the Samsung Note ( running Android version 2.3.6). It did not produce an ANR on a few other devices I tried, including 2 different Samsung devices both with 2.3.6. Based on the traces.txt file, the GUI thread appears to g

[android-developers] Re: Synchronization issue caused by drawing to Canvas in a non-ui thread?

2012-04-24 Thread Ab
Unfortunately my RenderTask varies from about .5seconds - 5 seconds. So, it is very undesirable to either perform it on the UI thread, or to force the UI thread to wait on it. Any idea what causes the ImageButton.draw() to hang, its possible the hanging is preventable/fixable? On Tuesday, 2

[android-developers] Re: Synchronization issue caused by drawing to Canvas in a non-ui thread?

2012-04-24 Thread Ab
uesday, 24 April 2012 13:21:01 UTC-4, Ab wrote: > > My app has a layout that contains some ImageButtons. In addition, my app > renders some Bitmapsfor later use. The Bitmaps are rendered by > creating a Canvas with a Bitmap parameter, and then drawing into the > canvas. This Bit

[android-developers] Synchronization issue caused by drawing to Canvas in a non-ui thread?

2012-04-24 Thread Ab
My app has a layout that contains some ImageButtons. In addition, my app renders some Bitmapsfor later use. The Bitmaps are rendered by creating a Canvas with a Bitmap parameter, and then drawing into the canvas. This Bitmap rendering task occurs in a non-ui thread, so the gui can remain

[android-developers] Android: Dialogs have extra, ugly space on droid 3?

2012-03-14 Thread Ab
The first image is from a Galaxy Note, the second is from a Droid 3. Both of them produced from the below code. The dialog on the Droid 3 has a significant amount of extra, ugly space. This space is even uglier on more complex dialogs. Is there any way to prevent it? public void onCreate(Bundle b

Re: [android-developers] Odd issue involving hardware acceleration

2012-03-02 Thread Ab
oesn't help with you getting crash reports from users > messing > > with things they shouldn't. > > > > You could check in your app if hardware acceleration is being used, and > if > > in that case just change your UI to a simple message telling them they >

[android-developers] Odd issue involving hardware acceleration

2012-03-01 Thread Ab
My app allows the user to draw on the screen by capturing and processing touch events. Additionally, my application makes use of Canvas.drawPicture and some other methods not supported by hardware acceleration. On some ICS devices there is an option to force hardware acceleration in settings: "for

[android-developers] Re: Access installed security certificates?

2012-02-24 Thread Ab
4, 3:46 pm, Ab wrote: > Users can install p12 security certificates on their android devices. > Is there a way that I can list the installed certificates > problematically, and obtain references to them (presumably as a > java.security.KeyStore object)? -- You received this message beca

[android-developers] Access installed security certificates?

2012-02-24 Thread Ab
Users can install p12 security certificates on their android devices. Is there a way that I can list the installed certificates problematically, and obtain references to them (presumably as a java.security.KeyStore object)? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

[android-developers] Re: Application settings lost when updating to new version?

2012-02-24 Thread Ab
particular I should look for in the log? On Feb 23, 8:04 pm, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > What is printed in the log?  What has changed in your manifest?  It doesn't > help to make people try to guess what you are doing. :) > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2

[android-developers] Re: Application settings lost when updating to new version?

2012-02-23 Thread Ab
then update through the market, the settings are cleared So, any ideas about changes which might cause this? On Feb 23, 3:39 pm, Ab wrote: > I recently released a new version of my app. When users update to the > new version (through google market), the settings (there are stored &

[android-developers] Application settings lost when updating to new version?

2012-02-23 Thread Ab
I recently released a new version of my app. When users update to the new version (through google market), the settings (there are stored using SharedPreferences) for their application are cleared -- I am fairly confident this did not happen in previous versions. Can anyone suggest a reason why th

[android-developers] Re: Safe/smart way to retrieve list of trusted CA?

2012-02-22 Thread Ab
Perfect! Thank you. On Feb 22, 9:02 am, Nikolay Elenkov wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Ab wrote: > > I am using the below code to retrieve this list. It seems to work, > > however it doesn't seem particularly safe/smart because I can't find > > any d

[android-developers] Safe/smart way to retrieve list of trusted CA?

2012-02-22 Thread Ab
I am using the below code to retrieve this list. It seems to work, however it doesn't seem particularly safe/smart because I can't find any documentation that indicates the .bks file will always be available at the hard coded location. Is this method reasonable, or is there a safer/smarter way to

[android-developers] Is this the proper way to spawn a worker thread?

2012-02-15 Thread Ab Caballero
I am attempting to spawn a worker thread in a service to do the service's work. But when i run the debugger, the system does not appear to create the worker thread. however, the application is listening for updates private void startMainService() { startThread(); } privat

[android-developers] Re: How to customize selectors for items in ActionBar?

2012-02-07 Thread Ab
Nevermind. I see now that actionbar Views can be obtained with Activity.findViewById(id), where the id comes from MenuItem.getItemId() for the corresponding MenuItem. Thanks for the help. On Feb 7, 7:18 am, Ab wrote: > Ok, so I can use this to define a color for selected state, etc.  But

[android-developers] Re: How to customize selectors for items in ActionBar?

2012-02-07 Thread Ab
android.com/reference/android/R.styleable.html#Theme...> > and > setting a shape drawable with our desired colouring > << > > -- K > > 7 февраля 2012 г. 14:27 пользователь Ab написал: > > > > > > > > > I would like to programmatically set the bac

[android-developers] How to customize selectors for items in ActionBar?

2012-02-07 Thread Ab
I would like to programmatically set the background of an ActionBar item to draw as a specific color. For a View I would accomplish this by setting the background of the View to a custom selector, which uses my specific color for the "selected" state; then I would call View.setSelected(boolean) to

[android-developers] How to dynamically change ActionBar icon in honeycomb?

2012-02-07 Thread Ab
I would like to dynamically change the "home" icon in the ActionBar. This is easily done in v14 with ActionBar.setIcon(...), but I can't find anyway to accomplish this in previous versions. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To

[android-developers] Re: content provider

2012-01-20 Thread Ab Caballero
I only need to move files from the device to the cloud so that they can be analyzed. However, I need a mechanism to determine which files from the device to sync with the cloud, i.e., i do not wish to use bandwidth moving files to the cloud that are already there. I also need this to be a scheduled

[android-developers] Re: content provider

2012-01-19 Thread Ab Caballero
Thanks folks On Jan 19, 11:06 am, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Ab Caballero wrote: > > there seems to be documentation about using the SyncAdapter for this > > type of operation but that the implementation requires > > ContentProviders. >

[android-developers] Re: content provider

2012-01-19 Thread Ab Caballero
is a > "sync this directory of stuff with this online counterpart". I'm not > even aware of a third-party solution for that, though I seem to recall > there was some work going on for a git client library. > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Ab Caballero wrote: > >

[android-developers] content provider

2012-01-19 Thread Ab Caballero
I have an application that stores files to the SD card of the device. If I want to sync that data with the google cloud, do i need to write a content provider, or is there some other way to share the data? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Devel

[android-developers] Weird memory issue on Samsung Galaxy Note

2011-11-22 Thread Ab
My application crashes on the Samsung Galaxy Note, apparently due to memory issues. The weird part is that my app does not appear to be using a particularly large amount of memory at the time of the crash. However, according to the logs, the OS seems to think that memory is running low and starts

[android-developers] Re: GPS filtering

2011-11-01 Thread Ab Caballero
thanks On Nov 1, 1:21 pm, Kristopher Micinski wrote: > http://code.google.com/p/gps-averaging/ > > > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Ab Caballero wrote: > > Any ideas on how to average the fixes?. > > > On Nov 1, 12:44 am, gjs wrote: > > > Hi, > >

[android-developers] Re: GPS filtering

2011-11-01 Thread Ab Caballero
d of time. All of > which is harder if the device is also moving. > > Regards > > On Nov 1, 5:44 am, Ab Caballero wrote: > > > > > That's what i did by using if(hasAccuraacy() && getAccuracy() < > > minDistance)... > > It just doesn'

[android-developers] Re: GPS filtering

2011-10-31 Thread Ab Caballero
That's what i did by using if(hasAccuraacy() && getAccuracy() < minDistance)... It just doesn't seems to limit the fixes enough On Oct 29, 6:01 am, lbendlin wrote: > yes. write your own logic to accept fix events or not -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group

[android-developers] GPS filtering

2011-10-28 Thread Ab Caballero
Using requestLocationUpdates(), the GPS fetches more than one location fix per interval. I have attempted to use hasAccuracy() and getAccuracy() to filter the amount of data that is fetched. However, it doesn't limit the fetch to one single point. Is there any way to filter the data so that I captu

[android-developers] Re: copy from internal storage

2011-10-20 Thread Ab Caballero
20 14:54:52.978: INFO/LoginActivity(8925): Bytes transfered 10-20 14:54:52.978: INFO/LoginActivity(8925): flushed 10-20 14:54:52.988: INFO/LoginActivity(8925): output close 10-20 14:54:53.000: INFO/LoginActivity(8925): input close There. On Oct 20, 3:06 pm, Ab Caballero wrote: > The stack

[android-developers] Re: copy from internal storage

2011-10-20 Thread Ab Caballero
and it works on real devices, except I'm > calling it before opening the database, from inside my "db open > helper"-alike. Wonder if that's what's making the difference. > > -- Kostya > > 21.10.2011 0:08, Ab Caballero пишет: > > > > > > > Hi,

[android-developers] Re: copy from internal storage

2011-10-20 Thread Ab Caballero
ces, except I'm > calling it before opening the database, from inside my "db open > helper"-alike. Wonder if that's what's making the difference. > > -- Kostya > > 21.10.2011 0:08, Ab Caballero пишет: > > > > > > > Hi, Kostya. > > >

[android-developers] Re: copy from internal storage

2011-10-20 Thread Ab Caballero
database path, use context.getDatabasePath > > For the sdcard, use Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory > > -- Kostya > > 2011/10/20 Ab Caballero > > > > > Hi, > > I am attempting to copy a file from internal storage like so: > > > void e

[android-developers] copy from internal storage

2011-10-20 Thread Ab Caballero
Hi, I am attempting to copy a file from internal storage like so: void exportDB() throws IOException { InputStream input = new FileInputStream("/data/data/ com.drayagerecorder/databases/DB"); // create directory for backup checkStorage(); File dir = new Fil

[android-developers] GPS logging

2011-10-17 Thread Ab Caballero
Hi, I'm using requestLocationUpdates() to update the location of a vehicle and I only need to update its location every minute or so. So I have the parameters set accordingly. However, I also want to use the location service to allow a driver to log and time stamp events throughout his journey an

[android-developers] GPS logging

2011-10-17 Thread Ab Caballero
Hi, I'm using requestLocationUpdates() to update the location of a vehicle and I only need to update its location every minute or so. So I have the parameters set accordingly. However, I also want to use the location service to allow a driver to log and time stamp events throughout his journey an

[android-developers] Re: Need help with problem reading local variables

2011-09-19 Thread Ab Caballero
Thanks, Nick! I had written a method to do that an inadvertently forgot to call it. It was driving me crazy. On Sep 19, 12:29 pm, Nick Risaro wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Ab Caballero wrote: > >                                        StringBuffer fileBuf = new > &g

[android-developers] Need help with problem reading local variables

2011-09-19 Thread Ab Caballero
I am copying a SQLite database to a CSV file. I know the data is being written to the database, but when i write the code to save it as a CSV to external storage, the local variables are not being read. Any help is appreciated: //This is where i create the database private void initDatabase() {

[android-developers] Activity test fails on getActivity()

2011-08-18 Thread Ab Caballero
I am unit testing the activities in an application. The first activity test runs fine and everything passes. The second test fails at getActivity() returning a NPE. I am assuming that since this is unit testing that getActivity() should launch the activity even if this activity is reliant on a prev

[android-developers] jUnit testing with multiple activities

2011-08-17 Thread Ab Caballero
I am testing an application with multiple activities and one service using jUnit (Robotium et al is not an option). I need to figure out a way to test all of the components in such a way as to mimic a user. I can easily test one activity and a service, but have not found a way to test an entire app

[android-developers] jUnit testing with multiple activities

2011-08-17 Thread Ab Caballero
I am testing an application with multiple activities and one service using jUnit (Robotium et al is not an option). I need to figure out a way to test all of the components in such a way as to mimic a user. I can easily test one activity and a service, but have not found a way to test an entire app

[android-developers] Re: Test Case Error

2011-08-11 Thread Ab Caballero
Thanks On Aug 11, 11:53 am, Diego Torres Milano wrote: > Use: > >             sendKeys("SHIFT_LEFT T E S T SHIFT_LEFT T R I P"); > > instead of > >            sendKeys("TestTrip"); > > On Aug 10, 5:39 pm, Ab Caballero wrote: > > > > &g

[android-developers] Re: Test Project Question

2011-08-11 Thread Ab Caballero
1754/how-to-call-button-perform... > > On Aug 9, 6:09 pm, Ab Caballero wrote: > > > > > I want totestthat when abuttonis pressed, that it always does the > > work it is supposed to do, in this case, start a service. Are there > > any built-in methods

[android-developers] Test Case Error

2011-08-10 Thread Ab Caballero
I have a fairly simple Test Project that tests the user interface of an activity. My problem is that it fails toward the end of the test and i don't know why. 1) The preconditions for getActivity(), the buttons and view pass 2) The test that the view is visible passes 3) The test that the view is

[android-developers] Test Project Question

2011-08-09 Thread Ab Caballero
I want to test that when a button is pressed, that it always does the work it is supposed to do, in this case, start a service. Are there any built-in methods for a button press? I have looked through the documentation and seen a lot of stuff on spinners but not a whole lot on buttons. -- You rec

[android-developers] Re: Audio Recorder

2011-08-04 Thread Ab Caballero
uot;/Logger"; > > to get the right mount point for your sd card. > > Hope this helps. > > Nico > > 2011/8/4 Ab Caballero > > > > > I'm trying to provide an audio recorder within an application for the > > user to dictate notes. I keep getting an

[android-developers] Audio Recorder

2011-08-03 Thread Ab Caballero
I'm trying to provide an audio recorder within an application for the user to dictate notes. I keep getting an error that there is no valid output file and that the external storage is not available (I know it is because i am using it in a separate activity). Any thoughts would be appreciated. pri

[android-developers] paused activity

2011-07-28 Thread Ab Caballero
will only bring me back to the previous activity and i do not wish to use an intent to restart the A activity. Any ideas? Ab -- 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@

[android-developers] Re: Spinner question

2011-07-26 Thread Ab Caballero
I got it working, but not with the case statement. Instead, I created three instances of onItemSelectedListener(). However, I'm not certain that this is the most efficient way to achieve the result. On Jul 26, 12:58 pm, TreKing wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Ab Caballero wrot

[android-developers] Re: Spinner question

2011-07-26 Thread Ab Caballero
i thought each spinner was identified by the findViewById() method? On Jul 26, 11:58 am, TreKing wrote: > First problem I notice is you're setting 3 different adapters to the same > Spinner. > > --- > --

[android-developers] Re: Spinner question

2011-07-26 Thread Ab Caballero
I am attempting to assign each selected spinner value to the variables ORIGIN, DESTINATION and TRIP_TYPE, respectively. The variables are null after assignment. On Jul 26, 11:45 am, TreKing wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Ab Caballero wrote: > > I have an activity with three

[android-developers] Spinner question

2011-07-26 Thread Ab Caballero
Hi, I have an activity with three spinners and am having trouble retrieving the data from them. The code below is not yielding the desired results. Any help is appreciated. Spinner spinner = (Spinner)findViewById(R.id.origin); ArrayAdapter o_adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(

[android-developers] Re: Accessing local data in a bound service

2011-07-13 Thread Ab Caballero
Thank, Mark! I chose the latter as the name of method as it seemed appropriate. /Ab On Jul 13, 1:54 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Ab Caballero wrote: > > My onServiceConnected() code looks like this: > > > public void onServiceConnected(Compo

[android-developers] Re: Accessing local data in a bound service

2011-07-13 Thread Ab Caballero
r is mBoundService, which is of type MainService. Once I do this, I'm not sure how to pass TRIP_INFO to it. My knowledge of binders is slim. Thanks, /Ab On Jul 12, 5:01 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Ab Caballero wrote: > > What i wanted to do then was

[android-developers] Re: Accessing local data in a bound service

2011-07-12 Thread Ab Caballero
ra("trip information", TRIP_INFO); Any help is appreciated and I hope that i wasn't too confusing. /Ab On Jul 12, 4:13 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Ab Caballero wrote: > > I am binding to a service to access GPS data. However I can't access

[android-developers] Accessing local data in a bound service

2011-07-12 Thread Ab Caballero
I am binding to a service to access GPS data. However I can't access the data directly because it is local to the LocationListener class. I have attempted to create a shared preference and access it that way: SharedPreferences prefs = getSharedPreferences(USER_SHARED_PREFERENCES, MODE_WORLD_READAB

[android-developers] Re: Files that I write to the sdcard do not show in Windows explorer, for Acer Iconiatab?

2011-07-06 Thread Ab
urphy wrote: > Oh, that's really not a good idea. I'm surprised the OS even lets you > fake that event. > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Ab wrote: > > This also works: > > > sendBro

[android-developers] Re: Files that I write to the sdcard do not show in Windows explorer, for Acer Iconiatab?

2011-07-06 Thread Ab
This also works: sendBroadcast(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MEDIA_MOUNTED, Uri.parse("file://" + Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(; Though this doesn't: sendBroadcast(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MEDIA_MOUNTED, Uri.parse("file://" + path))); On Jul 6, 9:49 am,

[android-developers] Re: Files that I write to the sdcard do not show in Windows explorer, for Acer Iconiatab?

2011-07-06 Thread Ab
Thanks, this worked! I used the below code, is this a smart usage? if not, could you recommend a better strategy? (I'd like it to be compatible with api version 7 and above) //called after writing file, from my activity if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 11) { new SingleMediaScanner(this, path); }

[android-developers] Re: Files that I write to the sdcard do not show in Windows explorer, for Acer Iconiatab?

2011-07-06 Thread Ab
sdcard (not to move it, just change the name), it will then show up in windows explorer. This makes me suspect they are doing something I am not... On Jul 6, 8:36 am, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Ab wrote: > > So, do I need to create files differently in 3.

[android-developers] Files that I write to the sdcard do not show in Windows explorer, for Acer Iconiatab?

2011-07-06 Thread Ab
In my application, I create files and write them to the Sdcard. This works fine on my Samsung Galaxy running 2.2, but has some issues on my Acer Iconcia Tab running 3.0. On the Galaxy, my created files show as expected in DDMS and in windows explorer (when the tab is mounted as a USB device). On

[android-developers] Re: Files that I write to the sdcard do not show in Windows explorer, for Acer Iconiatab?

2011-06-29 Thread Ab
I suspect this is a possibility. But, files created but other applications (like files downloaded in the browser, or notes created in a memo app) do show up through the usb in windows explorer. On Jun 29, 2:55 am, Marcin Orlowski wrote: > iconia does not mount as usb drive same way most devices

[android-developers] How to deal with bulk licensing?

2011-06-28 Thread Ab
A company would like to purchase a large number of licenses of my application. They do not want to have individual device users make the purchase on their individual Google accounts. Also, I would prefer not to build them an unlocked apk out of fear of it being distributed. Do I have any intelligen

[android-developers] Files that I write to the sdcard do not show in Windows explorer, for Acer Iconiatab?

2011-06-28 Thread Ab
In my application, I create files and write them to the Sdcard. This works fine on my Samsung Galaxy running 2.2, but has some issues on my Acer Iconcia Tab running 3.0. On the Galaxy, my created files show as expected in DDMS and in windows explorer (when the tab is mounted as a USB device). On

[android-developers] Re: Can't write to sdcard

2011-06-15 Thread Ab Caballero
You are indeed correct:) A major oversight on my part. Ab On Jun 15, 1:26 pm, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: > The colon in the filename (between 19 and 37) is likely invalid for FAT32, > even under a Linux kernel, for historical reasons. > > It would be more obvious if Android used p

[android-developers] Re: Can't write to sdcard

2011-06-15 Thread Ab Caballero
File file = new File(sdDir + "/" + currentTripName + ".kml"); yields: 06-15 13:25:29.209: WARN/System.err(13412): java.io.FileNotFoundException: /mnt/sdcard/2011Jun1419:37.kml (Invalid argument). I also checked the file permissions, which are: lwrxwrxwrx root root. After that i remounted the sdc

[android-developers] Android: app incompatible with Huawei?

2011-06-14 Thread Ab
I have two apps listed on the marketplace. One of them is a free demo application, and the second is a second key application that unlocks the full version of the first application. I received a report from a user that the demo installs on their Huawei, but the market lists they application as "inc

[android-developers] Re: Can't write to sdcard

2011-06-12 Thread Ab Caballero
It does not On Jun 12, 11:56 am, Kumar Bibek wrote: > Does the file/dir get created at all? > > *Thanks and Regards, > Kumar Bibek* > *http://techdroid.kbeanie.comhttp://www.kbeanie.com* > > > > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Ab Caballero wrote: > > It

[android-developers] Re: Can't write to sdcard

2011-06-12 Thread Ab Caballero
wrote: > Where, specifically, are you getting this error? > > If this is the emulator, do you have any external storage set up? By > default, there is none. > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Ab Caballero wrote: > > Still getting the same error. I fo

[android-developers] Re: Can't write to sdcard

2011-06-12 Thread Ab Caballero
external > storage. > > Also, make sure you have the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission. > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Ab Caballero wrote: > > I am attempting to save data to the sdcard with the following code but > > get a file not fou

[android-developers] Can't write to sdcard

2011-06-12 Thread Ab Caballero
I am attempting to save data to the sdcard with the following code but get a file not found exception: String fileContents = fileBuf.toString(); Log.d(tag, fileContents); File sdDir = new File("/sdcard/Logger"); sdDir.mkdirs(); File file = new File("/sdcard/Logger/"+currentTripName+".kml"); FileWr

[android-developers] Re: Updating a service with data from an activity

2011-06-09 Thread Ab Caballero
mBinder; } However, I am not sure how to go about "grabbing" the data from activity for use in the service On Jun 9, 7:31 am, TreKing wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Ab Caballero wrote: > > I need to send data from an activity to a persistently running GPS service >

[android-developers] Updating a service with data from an activity

2011-06-09 Thread Ab Caballero
I need to send data from an activity to a persistently running GPS service and I'm not certain how to do this. Below is the code from my activity and service. ANY help is greatly appreciated. //%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%&%& // THIS IS THE ACTI

[android-developers] Re: Android: how to draw an ImageView with the same size regardless of device?

2011-05-13 Thread Ab
ounds, packaging it with the application, and specifying it as the background for the ImageButton. Issue 1 cannot be resolved, but the difference it creates is relatively minor once issue 2 is dealt with. On May 13, 12:01 pm, Ab wrote: > DisplayMetrics.density just returns the scaling factor

[android-developers] Re: Android: how to draw an ImageView with the same size regardless of device?

2011-05-13 Thread Ab
does not exactly follow the real screen size as given by > xdpi and ydpi, but rather is used to scale the size of the overall UI > in steps based on gross changes in the display dpi." > > On May 12, 9:41 am, Ab wrote: > > > > > > > > > *Edit.  Sorry, first

[android-developers] Re: Android: how to draw an ImageView with the same size regardless of device?

2011-05-12 Thread Ab
*Edit. Sorry, first sentence after "1." should read: IT seems that the fact that 66 pixels shows on my Galaxy as 8mm, when it should be 10mm (based on provided dpi), ISN'T DUE to a false dpi returned from DisplayMetrics. On May 12, 12:29 pm, Ab wrote: > Diane, > > Than

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