Re: [android-developers] What's happening to my posts here? Is someone deleting them?

2010-09-17 Thread Chris Stewart
say*, but it's true. It's not you at all, it's me. :-p -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Kostya Vasilyev

Re: [android-developers] Re: appbucket: all apps for $9.99 per year, are we just going to watch?

2010-09-17 Thread Chris Stewart
o step up and protect our rights and their market by throwing their weight behind it in a courtroom. Until that happens, all we have are our own methods of copy protection which have proven to be rather insufficient. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstew

[android-developers] Re: How can i access the /data/data//files/my_file.txt on a real android device

2010-09-17 Thread Chris Stratton
You do not have permission to browse a listing (read) of the /data directory, but you do have permission to access it contents (execute for a directory). And you may have the r permission on the directories and files your app creates. So if you use something that lets you type in the full path, s

[android-developers] Re: appbucket: all apps for $9.99 per year, are we just going to watch?

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Stratton
On Sep 16, 8:59 pm, mot12 wrote: > 2) Users are cheap (maybe goes together with point 1). I have a free > version of my main app (an alarm clock with all kind of bells and > whistles) that doesn't ring on Wednesdays. I actually had one user > comment that he changes the clock every Tuesday to Thu

Re: [android-developers] Save configuration value as integer in Preference Activity

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Greenman
Sorry, yes EditTextPreference is what I was thinking. That and ListPreference is what was hanging me up. I ended up doing as you and others have mentioned and stored the values as strings. > Can you point to where you saw that? The doc for Preferences says: > "It is up to the subclass to deci

Re: [android-developers] How to install the .apk file into blackberry

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Greenman
1. Open blackberry battery cover 2. remove battery 3. find 2 pieces of wire 4. take blackberry and wire to nearest wall outlet 5. strip insulation off ends of wire 6. insert one end of each wire into wall outlet 7. touch other ends to battery contacts on blackberry. 8. If still conscious, r

Re: [android-developers] Save configuration value as integer in Preference Activity

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Greenman
I believe I remember reading somewhere that Preferences can only be saved as a String. I ran into this myself and just saved it as a string and parsed the value out I needed. Also I believe the "numeric" attribute is deprecated in favor of inputType. On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 09:49 -0700, Laimona

[android-developers] parseSdkContent failed java.lang.NullPointerException

2010-09-16 Thread Chris
I have been using Eclipse 3.5.2 for some time now working on an android app, but for some reason my computer froze when launching the emulator. After a restart, Eclipse will no longer launch giving the error: parseSdkContent failed java.lang.NullPointerException I've deleted and re-extracted bo

[android-developers] Can I Create a VIEW which can access many tables in CONTACTS 2?

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Song
Hello, I'm Chris I want to make a view table which can access the whole information of one user using lookup key. If I select view table with LOOKUP = 'saf2ijof3oijsdf' then the result will be NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE, Currently, to access those information I make more than 4

Re: [android-developers] How can i save a data into the phone, and keep this data after uninstall?

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Stewart
>> Store your data online somewhere. You can't force the user to keep data on their phone or on the SD card if they don't want it, and with good reason. Agreed. I'm pretty sure there's no other place you can store information that persists after someone uninstalls y

[android-developers] Re: Ramdisk image

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Stratton
You need to ask on android-porting. They really should rename this group to android-java-sdk Silwerstar wrote: > Hi, > > I have just started using 0xlab's android port. I have been > successfully able to create the file system and have been able to > flash it as well. However, I have 2 questions

[android-developers] Re: [AO PCM] Failed to open /dev/msm_pcm_out for writing!

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Stratton
Apps run as unpriveleged users and so can't access the audio device directly. You are supposed to do sound through the java apis. pgil wrote: > I would like to open an mp3 file with my own audio player(based on > mplayer and FFmpeg) I packaged in a apk file. It runs fine using > command line and

[android-developers] Formal Android training

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Stewart
se folks before, which doesn't mean much since I've never really looked either. I'm curious to know if anyone here has gone through any formal training, or if you could where would you look? [1] http://marakana.com/training/android/ -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewa

[android-developers] Re: Ramdisk image

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Stratton
Silwerstar wrote: > Hi, > > I have just started using 0xlab's android port. I have been > successfully able to create the file system and have been able to > flash it as well. However, I have 2 questions to ask: > 1) How do I create a ramdisk image and what should be the bootargs > given at the u

[android-developers] Re: shared library so size versus apk size

2010-09-15 Thread Chris Stratton
An apk is a zip file (try opening it as one) so the .so is stored inside it compressed. The savings from removing the apk would count both the compressed apk and any parts of it that get uncompressed during installation, such as shared libraries and the dexopted version of the class file. pgil wr

Re: [android-developers] Re: Can android support more than one sdcard?

2010-09-14 Thread Chris Stratton
Dianne Hackborn wrote: >Does there need to be a > facility for the user to trawl through these different storage areas and > move things around if they are running out of space on one? Does every > single application need to provide a UI for the user to select where to > store its data, and to mo

[android-developers] Re: Stop the launcher activity from starting the application

2010-09-14 Thread Chris Stratton
I don't know if you can make it not launch, but you could check a flag in all of your onCreate onStart etc methods and just call finish() without doing anything... except maybe saying "disabled". Nithin M Warrier wrote: > Hi, > > I have a enable and disable button. When this button is enable, user

[android-developers] Re: Stop the launcher activity from starting the application

2010-09-14 Thread Chris Stratton
I don't know if you can make it not launch, but you could check a flag in all of your onCreate onStart etc methods and just call finish() without doing anything... except maybe saying "disabled". Nithin M Warrier wrote: > Hi, > > I have a enable and disable button. When this button is enable, user

[android-developers] Re: Another developer has published an app using the EXACT same name as mine

2010-09-14 Thread Chris Stratton
I suspect the pattern of ABBREVIATION: Same Spelled Out is too generic for an unoriginal abbreviation already in common use to be able to trademark it - just moving an existing idea to android shouldn't create new legal territory any more than moving one from bricks & mortar to the internet, but

Re: [android-developers] Re: Documentation & tutorials

2010-09-14 Thread Chris Stewart
span of 5 1/2 weeks. On a side note, at work I have a huge Apple fanboy who likes to compare the platforms, and I love tossing in the notion that I've deployed 13 versions of my app in such a short time frame, but I digress. :) -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<

[android-developers] Re: Disabling the USB port?

2010-09-13 Thread Chris Stratton
Compile a kernel without usb drivers. You will need root or an engineering bootloader to install it. Or you could just leave usb debugging off and decline to mount mass storage mode. Tez wrote: > Is there any other way that can block the USB port so that no data is > transferred? > > Where are t

[android-developers] Re: VideoView with cookie.

2010-09-12 Thread Chris Stratton
You could look in the docs, or the source code. If the answer is no, how about generating a customized client-specific url upon authentication and sending the video player to that. This would then timeout after a few hours and be replaced with a short video error message. On Sep 12, 9:22 am, ke

[android-developers] Re: Can android support more than one sdcard?

2010-09-12 Thread Chris Stratton
Additionally, I think the galaxy's hardware design makes more sense if viewed not as having two sd cards, but rather as product designers trying to combine the best of both large fixed storage ala iphone or pre with user price point scalable removable storage ala other android devices, blackberry,

[android-developers] Re: Can android support more than one sdcard?

2010-09-12 Thread Chris Stratton
In the case of features like dual sd cards, dual cameras, dual sims, etc which already exist on shipping smarthpones of other flavors, its a safe bet that they will show up on an android device sooner or later. The android architects can provide leadership on how to handle them - or they can suffe

[android-developers] Re: Getting platform files from command line

2010-09-12 Thread Chris Stratton
Google on sdk offline install or something like that - someone figured out the url of the xml file it grabs which contains paths of the downloads relative to itself. On Sep 12, 3:44 am, Dan Roberts wrote: > Hi Everyone, >     I apologize if I'm in the wrong place, and I apologize if you've alread

[android-developers] Re: Working Around Samsung Double-SD Problem

2010-09-10 Thread Chris Stratton
How about reading /proc/self/mounts or /proc/partitions ...and of course falling back to default if none of that works. You could also bury a user modifiable path string somewhere in a config menu Pent wrote: > > Looks close for the Galaxy S, but on my retail Euro version Build.MODEL > > is "GT-

[android-developers] Re: Background Service to recode different activities and upload on server

2010-09-09 Thread Chris Stratton
You can't - an explicit design decision because it would be a gross invasion of privacy. If you wanted to do it with the user's consent they would need to use your apps rather than stock or 3rd party ones, or have your modified installation of. android rather than the device manufacturers or carri

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android App Licensing Mechanism Still Easy to Break!!

2010-09-08 Thread Chris Stewart
Haha, nice. :) Even if it is easy to break, it's still night and day more useful than copy protection. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fanta

[android-developers] Re: Dynamically load jar files in android runtime?

2010-09-08 Thread Chris Stratton
Android doesn't understand java. Java is used during development, but the java class file inside the jar must be converted to a dex class file before android can use it. CaryWang wrote: > I have a jar file in my app local data "/data/data/application > packageName/test.jar". I want to load the cla

[android-developers] Re: stack corruption detected : aborted

2010-09-06 Thread Chris Stratton
Perhaps you should instrument the depth of the recursion. And maybe limit it - would not be good if feeding a trick file to your app can crash or corrupt it. I made a wrapper for the android log vprint function that looks like a normal printf and sprinkle it liberally through my code, can simply

[android-developers] Re: Statistics on Rooted Phones

2010-09-06 Thread Chris Stratton
You must not make assuming rooted devices are uncommon or even detectable part of your business statements, as that would be dangerously misleading to anyone who might rely on it. On Sep 6, 1:36 am, Tez wrote: > Its just a research study we are carrying. Certain operations can be > performed on a

[android-developers] first time run / one time pop up

2010-09-05 Thread Chris
How can I tell if this is the first time that this version of my app has been run? So I can show release notes/what's new? -- 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

[android-developers] Re: How to realize software aut o version update?

2010-09-05 Thread Chris Stratton
1) Make an xml file in res with a base version number 3) devise some clever and cryptic combination of sed and other commands to increment it 4) add this incantation of stark un*x awesomeness to your eclipse project as a custom builder 5) sit around all day playing nethack and periodically click

[android-developers] Re: Phone storage running out after multiple installs

2010-09-05 Thread Chris Stratton
ing that I'm doing that may be "slightly" left of center is > loading a native lib.  AFAIK there is no way to "unload" a native > lib.  Can't see a reason why this would cause a file handle to be left > hanging around though. > > On Sep 5, 9:13 am, Chris

[android-developers] Re: Phone storage running out after multiple installs

2010-09-04 Thread Chris Stratton
On linux, if you delete a file which soneone else has an open file handle to, it doesn't actually go away until all handles are closed (you just can't find it by name to open new ones). I'm guessing that when you install a new version during a development session the old version isn't completely g

[android-developers] Re: Connect to localhost on a Nexus One?

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Stratton
Ideas 1) put the phone on a local wifi network along with the pc hosting your test server. 2) run the test server on the phone 3) you can use an adb forward to let the pc connect() to the phone. Write something on each end to proxy & tunnel connections back out. 4) deploy your server on the int

[android-developers] Replace preloaded class?

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Stratton
Is there any way for an ordinary application to replace low level classes that are preloaded on startup, so that higher level preloaded classes will end up calling my custom versions rather than the originals? I'm thinking the answer is no, but want to make sure I haven't overlooked something. --

[android-developers] Re: Licensing Verification Library & Apps Solely for "Unlocking"/Removing Ads

2010-09-01 Thread Chris Stratton
roach that makes most sense to me. > > Especially if you already have an unlocker - convert it to LVL, and > > change the call in the free app as outlined above, but leave the rest > > of your architecture alone. > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Chris Stratton >

[android-developers] Re: Licensing Verification Library & Apps Solely for "Unlocking"/Removing Ads

2010-08-31 Thread Chris Stratton
I'm not seeing any obvious reason why the free version can't just query the license server about the unlocker by itself, but maybe I'm overlooking something. On Aug 31, 9:52 pm, GJTorikian wrote: > So: > > Launch Free App->Launch Unlocker App->Run LVL->Return Result->Parse > Result in Free App >

Re: [android-developers] Re: If I turn off Copy Protection, what will happen?

2010-08-31 Thread Chris Stewart
ould only affect users running 1.5. They'd need to uninstall and reinstall. Thankfully my 1.5 user base is extremely low. I've gone ahead and made the change in the market and will keep an eye out for when my next update hits. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy F

[android-developers] If I turn off Copy Protection, what will happen?

2010-08-31 Thread Chris Stewart
disable it now? What will happen to my existing customers? I've not seen a single definitive answer on this topic. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fan

Re: [android-developers] New Market Feature: Counts of ratings

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Stewart
I saw that too, very nice. I do wish I could select one and see any comment associated with it. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football Inside

[android-developers] Copy protection getting deprecated

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Stewart
users. I must say, I'm quite nervous about how this will get handled for existing apps using copy protection. Has anyone seen this already and maybe I missed the conversation? -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-application

[android-developers] Google TV Developers

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Morris
t launched, but I think when the SDK is released, Android market is opened, and the market for smart TVs grow, the developer community will grow with it. Please join us at http://www.gtvconnection.com for Google TV specific development. - Chris -- You received this message because you are subscri

[android-developers] Re: Is there a way to request permissions from a user as you need them?

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Stratton
I think its going to be very difficult to prevent applications without network or sms permissions from leaking any data they can obtain to the outside world by means of another application that does have those permissions. Its even possible for an application without network permissions to infrequ

[android-developers] Re: Is there a way to request permissions from a user as you need them?

2010-08-28 Thread Chris Stratton
On Aug 28, 4:00 pm, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > Sorry but you are wrong.  When my wife got her Droid and started installing > apps, she quickly came to me asking about a game she was installing that > said it would read her contact data.  She knew what that meant, and wasn't > happy about it, and de

Re: [android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Stewart
w if those were purposeful to make it all fit or not, just FYI. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football Insider<http://chriswstewart.com/andr

Re: [android-developers] Is there anyway to turn USB debuggin on/off

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Stewart
Are you trying to do this from code, or through the UI? There's the option for it under Settings -> Applications -> Development, but it sounds like you're asking about doing it through code and that I have no idea about. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantas

Re: [android-developers] Shipping Android App from India

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Stewart
ystem. Of course, there's no official word on either and so there's no telling when (and if), either will happen. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for MFL fantasy footba

Re: [android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Stewart
Bah, you've convinced me to at least give it a try. I'll let you all know if I see any difference. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy

Re: [android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Stewart
I'm really curious to get more context around that. Frankly, I'm interested and if I can get more info I might give it a shot myself. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app

Re: [android-developers] Changing from one dev machine to another, keystore question

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Stewart
If I'm understanding your first sentence, I'm at work and cannot test it for myself right now. I'm not sure what you're saying beyond that point. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football

[android-developers] Changing from one dev machine to another, keystore question

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Stewart
when doing this? -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football Insider<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football-insider/>

Re: [android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Stewart
e before and after descriptions you're using in the market for your app. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football Insider<http://chrisw

Re: [android-developers] Copy protected apps

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stewart
As always, appreciate your help TreKing. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Aug 26, 2010 9:08 PM, "TreKing" wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Chris Stewart wrote: > Can anyone confirm this? I can't, but that's what this guy said in my other thread: h

Re: [android-developers] Copy protected apps

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stewart
on changes, so the database is no longer accessible and the only way to fix is to uninstall/reinstall. Can anyone confirm this? -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Aug 26, 2010 8:12 PM, "TreKing" wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Chris Stewart wrote: > > Seems li

[android-developers] Copy protected apps

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stewart
this situation? -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com -- 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 an

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stewart
As others have said, it's not overly effective. I wouldn't do it just because I'd want to see if it ever changes. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for MFL fantasy fo

Re: [android-developers] Re: Can we install Android SDK on windows 7 if yes then how ?

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stewart
I've been developing mostly on Windows 7 with no issues at all. I used the basic instructions in the Developer Guide. I've also done some development on my Ubuntu netbook, which wasn't _quite_ as simple, but pretty simple. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy

Re: [android-developers] Re: Active Installs Dropping Like Crazy but Total Downloads Increasing Steadily!

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stewart
Yeah I can imagine. I think what you should focus on is that your downloads are _steadily_ rising. That's really what matters most and so if that continues and your position isn't being affected, negatively, I wouldn't worry too much about it. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewa

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stewart
offered to Google to correct it. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football Insider<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football-i

[android-developers] Re: Android Emulator vs iPhone emulator (Why does it take so long)

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stratton
Sounds like a great idea! I believe qemu and the android emulator on top of it are both open source, so go for it! On Aug 25, 4:02 pm, Bret Foreman wrote: > VMWare can do this. It can save the running state of everything on an > instance and restore and resume where it left off. The emulator wou

[android-developers] Re: android manifest file from an unzipped apk cannot be read

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stratton
Sharing and re-using other people's code without their permission is not part of the philosophy. Generally, when someone grants permission as a practical matter they also make the source code available. With regard to the technical question, the file is in some kind of quasi unicode binary format

[android-developers] Custom ContentProvider in shared libarary - bad design?

2010-08-25 Thread Chris
I built a custom content provider which works fine. I'm in the process of creating a free and paid version, so I moved most of the classes into a library including my custom content provider. Is that bad form / design? I ask because I'm running into problems allowing both the free and paid versi

Re: [android-developers] Creating Icons?

2010-08-25 Thread Chris Stewart
I have a designer I work with for them. It's not an expensive thing and he turns them around quickly. If anyone wants his contact info, let me know. I couldn't recommend him more highly. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android

Re: [android-developers] Why is android build times so slow...

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stewart
That's interesting. I find that I never wait on it since it's always happening behind the scenes as I make changes. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for MFL fantasy footbal

Re: [android-developers] Android Emulator vs iPhone emulator (Why does it take so long)

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stewart
While it's inconvenient the first time, it's not something you have to do time and time again while developing. I don't find it to be an issue at all. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/

[android-developers] Re: Protobuf on Android

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Miller
A package of protobufs, what do you mean? Why can't you generate java code from your .proto file as you would normally, then just include that code in your app? Is there a package somewhere of protobufs? If not, should I build my own and if so, would I build a Java Package, Android App, etc..

Re: [android-developers] User request refund 20 days after purchase

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stewart
efunds when the app is working fine? It's a scary precedent to set, but I would still refund the one off request. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for MFL fantasy football owner

[android-developers] Re: USB ports on N1 - usable?

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stratton
from some perpherals. Yes you can get a shell and even set up adb over wifi but its a pain. On Aug 24, 10:08 am, FrankG wrote: > And how will you switch back to the "normal usb mode" if this should > work ? > > On 24 Aug., 10:00, Chris Miller wrote: > > > >

Re: [android-developers] Re: Newbie's Android problem

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stewart
I'll add, that if it's the first time you're booting the emulator, it might be taking longer than future requests. I certainly can't prove that definitively, but it seems to me that more is happening behind the scenes that first time as it's prepping the emulator for fir

[android-developers] Re: Can I use Android source code in my Application(Commercial)

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stratton
On Aug 24, 10:51 am, Paul Turchenko wrote: > AFAICT, since Android source is under Apache License, you will have to > opensource you application if you use their code (but it shouldn't > mean it can't be commercial). To get more idea you should probably > read license that covers Android's source

Re: [android-developers] Re: Problem with SAX parsing

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stewart
+1 for XmlPull. I tried giving SAX a go but had so many issues structurally with how I organized my code. XmlPull gives you a more "serial" approach and makes it easier to integrate, while providing an enormous performance boost over DOM. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.co

Re: [android-developers] New to Android and programming

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stewart
Java problem solved. I think having that Java background gives you the freedom to think about how you're structuring your Android application for reuse and performance. While it's not a requirement to do that, it absolutely helps when adding new features and maintaining existing code. -

[android-developers] Re: I want to get system permission?

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stratton
On Aug 24, 10:11 am, CaryWang wrote: > Do you have anyelse method?I want to know user opreation?e.g.when user run > application i know,exit application i know. You should probably try to rethink your goal in light of the android activity lifecycle. Users don't 'exit' android application under

Re: [android-developers] app idea?

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stewart
Oh come on TreKing, get hip with the times. Plz! :p -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football Insider<http://chriswstewart.com/android-app

[android-developers] Re: LVL found to be easy to crack

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Stratton
I think the suggeston was that the same call to native code accomplish the antipiracy check and some critical part of application functionality. But I'm not sure that native code is any harder to patch, and there are still identifiable syscalls or calls back up to java for i/o to show where it tri

[android-developers] Re: USB ports on N1 - usable?

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Miller
It's not straightforward, but it is possible with a custom kernel. See this thread for details: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=694427 Assuming I have a USB device I want to attach to a N1, would it be usable? Lets assume I have the drivers or can write them to interact with th

Re: [android-developers] Layout options for overlaying views

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Stewart
tive layouts. I've yet to find a way to do this in the context of my game. Thanks for your reply Mark. Even just typing that response out myself helps me wrap my head around the problem better. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/andro

[android-developers] Layout options for overlaying views

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Stewart
youts would you use? -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy Football Insider<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football-inside

[android-developers] Re: Contact application code for windows

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Stratton
Try browsing it online at android.git.kernel.org There is probably a link somewhere there or in android developer docs about obtaining a windows git client that you can use to checkout a copy. On Aug 23, 11:41 am, Sohan badaya wrote: > Hi All, > > From which link i can copy contact application c

[android-developers] Re: How to check the Foreground Process from a Service

2010-08-22 Thread Chris Stratton
I had something sort of working once, but it kept doing things like reporting an ime as the foreground, rather than the activity it was accepting input on behalf of... which made it useless for my purpose. On Aug 22, 4:29 pm, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > Note that these methods are very much not inte

Re: [android-developers] Pro and Lite versions of your apps

2010-08-21 Thread Chris Stewart
I'll have to give the other path a go tomorrow and see how that goes. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for fantasy football fanatics and MFL owners Social Updater<http://chriswstew

[android-developers] Pro and Lite versions of your apps

2010-08-21 Thread Chris Stewart
I've done a little searching and found a few different ways to do this, but I'm curious what the general consensus is. Most of what I found was over a year old and maybe there's a better way currently. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chrisws

[android-developers] Re: Camera Application Not Working When I Test on My Phone

2010-08-20 Thread Chris Maurer
My development environment is windows 7 64 bit. I think I'm using jdk 1.5.20 and not 1.5.21 based on a recommendation from Eclipse. Chris On Aug 19, 9:28 pm, Chris Maurer wrote: > I'm trying to test against 1.5 sdk 3.  I'm only trying to access the > camera and the sd

Re: [android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-20 Thread Chris Stewart
no one would admit >> responsibility. >> So we invented Locale. Problem solved." Thanks for proving the point. That description tells me absolutely nothing about what I'm being asked to pay for. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chri

[android-developers] Use of 3rd party game engines

2010-08-20 Thread Chris Stewart
all. http://rokonandroid.com/index.php http://www.andengine.org/blog/ -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for fantasy football fanatics and MFL owners Social Updater<http://chriswstewart.

[android-developers] Re: Cannot use the sdcard while connected by means of USB - problems testing

2010-08-20 Thread Chris Stratton
You may have an app installed which makes mounting automatic instead of by your choice. A little searching shows something called doubletwist has been doing this by default unless you tell it not to - and if one app can, so can others. Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

[android-developers] Re: Camera Application Not Working When I Test on My Phone

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Maurer
egroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Murphy > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 12:23 AM > To: android-developers@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: [android-developers] Re: Camera Application Not Working When I > Test on My Phone > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Chris Maurer wrote

[android-developers] Server error on checkout for paid app via Google Checkout

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Stewart
um Thread: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=33dbf92eca99b2b7&hl=en Google Code Issue: Issue 10261: Multiple users getting Server Error when purchasing apps in Android Market http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10261 -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fan

Re: [android-developers] Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Stewart
se it keeps the viewable section short but provides an option for us as developers to give more detail when the app in question requires it. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for fantasy

Re: [android-developers] Getting critical feedback on your application

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Stewart
Very tough problem and I think we've all experienced it. For me, I've gotten the very best feedback from users via email. Unfortunately, that's far and few in between but at least it's something. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://ch

[android-developers] Re: Camera Application Not Working When I Test on My Phone

2010-08-18 Thread Chris Maurer
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Chris Maurer wrote: > > I have a HTC Incredible and I'm trying to write a simple application > > to take a picture and save it on the SD card.  When I run the tutorial > > athttp://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/Camera/Pict

[android-developers] Re: Camera Application Not Working When I Test on My Phone

2010-08-18 Thread Chris Maurer
i apologize for my ignorance, but what will the Java stack trace look like in logcat On Aug 18, 8:21 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Chris Maurer wrote: > > Here's the messages I get consistently when I start up the application > > > 08

[android-developers] Re: Camera Application Not Working When I Test on My Phone

2010-08-18 Thread Chris Maurer
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Chris Maurer wrote: > > I have a HTC Incredible and I'm trying to write a simple application > > to take a picture and save it on the SD card.  When I run the tutorial > > athttp://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/Camera

Re: [android-developers] Does Google provide direct (paid) technical support for Android SW development?

2010-08-18 Thread Chris Stewart
I was definitely expecting an advertisement... -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for fantasy football fanatics and MFL owners Social Updater<http://chriswstewart.com/android-app

Re: [android-developers] Re: Exiting Application

2010-08-18 Thread Chris Stewart
Certainly sounds like it. Why would you want to take the camera resources, indefinitely, without letting other applications use it? I'd be really curious to see your actual application idea but I have a feeling it's not a good idea... -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy

Re: [android-developers] Re: connect to sql server

2010-08-18 Thread Chris Stewart
Instead of putting it on C, you'll need to put it in the context of a web server that can handle PHP. IIS, or Apache, for example. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for fanta

[android-developers] Camera Application Not Working When I Test on My Phone

2010-08-17 Thread Chris Maurer
I have a HTC Incredible and I'm trying to write a simple application to take a picture and save it on the SD card. When I run the tutorial at http://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/Camera/Picture it works fine in the emulator. However, when I try and test it on my phone I get "The

[android-developers] Re: Serial Ports -reading or writing?

2010-08-17 Thread Chris Stratton
On Aug 16, 3:01 pm, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > I am not aware of any current Android devices that support USB host mode. > G1/Dream, MyTouch/Saphire, and Hero all do with kernel patches (root required) and external bus power. Believe they also have low voltage serial ports. If I recall, one of th

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