[android-developers] Re: onAppWidgetOptionsChanged - What do the size bounds actually mean?

2014-12-30 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
be nice if the docs could make that clear. On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 12:23:34 PM UTC+8, Dusk Jockeys Android Apps wrote: Sorry just to clarify a typo: The actual widget WIDTH in pixels corresponds exactly to OPTION_APPWIDGET_MIN_WIDTH * screen density. The actual widget HEIGHT in pixels

[android-developers] onAppWidgetOptionsChanged - What do the size bounds actually mean?

2014-12-29 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
The docs refer to the following: onAppWidgetOptionsChanged() This is called when the widget is first placed and any time the widget is resized. You can use this callback to show or hide content based on the widget's size ranges. You get the size ranges by calling getAppWidgetOptions(), which

[android-developers] Re: onAppWidgetOptionsChanged - What do the size bounds actually mean?

2014-12-29 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
* screen density) value is ridiculous, wider than the actual screen resolution. On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 12:28:27 AM UTC+8, Dusk Jockeys Android Apps wrote: The docs refer to the following: onAppWidgetOptionsChanged() This is called when the widget is first placed and any time

[android-developers] Re: Tying a live wallpaper to home screen swipes

2013-10-29 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
This entirely depends on what Home Screen Launcher you are using. On earlier phones, up to around the Samsung S2, the default installed Home Screen indeed provided such callbacks to the Live Wallpaper. Under those home screens, a standard static wallpaper would also scroll in response to

Re: [android-developers] Indeterminate Progress Bar not animating

2013-10-21 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
I had a similar issue before.. seems to do with Window display timing, I couldn't work out. However, I found if I wrapped the ProgressBar in a Layout, and applied the Hide/Show logic to the Layout instead, that worked fine, the progress bar was hidden and displayed when required. Worth a

[android-developers] Re: Problem with layout_above in conjunction with layout_alignBaseline

2013-06-05 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
for you to read the XML and understand the behavior and also prevent this weird behavior. On Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:49:20 PM UTC+3, Dusk Jockeys Android Apps wrote: I have a layout issue which it seems should be simple to do in a RelativeLayout. I have a view A, and a view B which

[android-developers] Problem with layout_above in conjunction with layout_alignBaseline

2013-05-21 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
I have a layout issue which it seems should be simple to do in a RelativeLayout. I have a view A, and a view B which is aligned to A's baseline, and aligned to the right of the parent. B appears correctly. Then I want a view C to be directly above B, and also aligned to the right of the

[android-developers] Re: Android pics inverted when taking with front camera (started via intent)

2012-07-30 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
When you are taking photos of yourself in the front camera, people naturally expect to see the same as if they look in a mirror, so the preview is flipped horizontally. Writing is reversed etc. When the photo is taken, it then takes the real image, without the flipping, so you dont get

[android-developers] Re: List of Phone/Manufacturer/OS specific issues with Android.

2012-07-25 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 5:18:05 PM UTC-4, Larry Meadors wrote: A Wiki seems like a better place than a mailing list for this, no? Larry On the contrary, I think this is an ideal place for the information to be published, its really important that people realise that you cannot rely

[android-developers] Re: Proguard and PreferenceActivity

2012-05-14 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
Indeed, it is fine to call SetContentView in a PreferenceActivity, as long as your content xml contains a ListView with id list, as the OP example clearly does. I use this all the time to add extra useful stuff around the standard list of Preferences, such as Live previews of the changing

[android-developers] Re: Free of cost e-mail marketing tip

2012-04-25 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
Thanks so much for spamming this group with exact details about how you are spamming this group. On Apr 23, 5:19 pm, Lelaina Pierce laney...@gmail.com wrote: Email marketing is one of the highly used medium to reach thousands of peoples through internet but it isn’t that much effective in most

Re: [android-developers] Set Layout Background Image and change color of the image dynamically

2012-03-26 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
Seems simple enough. The original poster has a LinearLayout, and he wants to set the background of said layout to be an image. Which you can do, using LinearLayout.setBackgroundDrawable() So he can just the image to be the drawable. He then wants to change the colour of the image. That is

[android-developers] Re: Google play (Android market) not giving the result with app name.

2012-03-14 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
Others experience may vary, but to be fair when this happened to me last year I contacted Market support, telling them a search for my exact appname was not finding it. Whilst they replied with the usual boilerplate about always changing algorithms, by the next day it was working correctly. So

[android-developers] Re: Cover Flow

2012-03-14 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
Have you even tried Googling for it? Because its there. On Google. So you could find it yourself. Without bothering this list. On Mar 14, 9:55 pm, bob b...@coolfone.comze.com wrote: Does anyone know if there's an easy way to do the Cover Flow interface on Android?  It's the animated, three

[android-developers] Re: Galaxy Nexus is not properly implementing getExternalStorageDirectory; can anyone confirm?

2012-03-14 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
As Kostya said, are you sure that your app/dir directory doesnt already exist? Because if so you would expect a value of false to be returned. Can you first check to see if the directory x exists before running mkdirs(x)? On Mar 15, 5:06 am, GJTorikian gjtorik...@gmail.com wrote: I wrote a reply

[android-developers] Re: AnimationSet

2012-03-13 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
Please learn to spell correctly. You may not think it is important, but it is. If your post is hard to read, then people will give up reading it and you will not get the help you are looking for. yupp with dat v can get is meaningless. It doesn't make any sense. No one here will give you the

[android-developers] Re: Application is launching when i just unlock on the emulator

2012-03-13 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
Probably because Eclipse is by default setup to build and then launch your app on the any available targets, which will include your emulator. So you will maka a change in your code, hit Run, and it will build the app, deploy it to the emulator, and then automatically launch your default activity.

[android-developers] Re: sd card

2012-02-25 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
Nothing to do with this list. Get your technical support elsewhere. On Feb 25, 3:26 am, bob b...@coolfone.comze.com wrote: I just installed a 2GB sd card into my VIZIO tablet.  However, it shows the Total Space as Unavailable: http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z449/m75214/sdcard.png Any

[android-developers] Re: Increase icon size

2012-02-24 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
Since it is a public forum, I will chip in. It IS pleasant to spell everything in full, because that helps communication. It simply makes it easier for everyone else to understand what it is you are trying to say. Otherwise you sound like a 14 year old posting on Facebook, not an assistant

[android-developers] Re: Ethernet jack?

2012-02-23 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
What does this have to do with the Android SDK? On Feb 23, 2:04 am, bob b...@coolfone.comze.com wrote: Anyone know if there's a way to hook a tablet PC up to an Ethernet jack? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To

[android-developers] Re: DOUBT

2012-02-20 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
To rephrase, it makes no sense whatsoever as a title for a post to Android Developers Google Groups. :o) On Feb 20, 3:05 pm, Kristopher Micinski krismicin...@gmail.com wrote: And please note, a Doubt is a disbelief in something. It makes no sense whatsoever as a title.

[android-developers] Re: Avoiding FAILED BINDER TRANSACTION error when updating lots of widget bitmaps

2012-02-19 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
Could you not play with the xml settings of the ImageView itself? I think there are some attributes there that control how the image is displayed, whether or not it is scaled, centred etc. On Feb 18, 4:56 am, YuviDroid yuvidr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, sorry to resurrect this post...but I got

[android-developers] Re: DOUBT

2012-02-19 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
What have you tried so far? And please note, a Doubt is a disbelief in something. It makes no sense whatsoever as a title. In English, Doubt != Question. On Feb 18, 2:33 pm, ramalakshmi krishna.veni...@gmail.com wrote: Hai sir good morning.        I hava a local microsoft sql server 2005.  

[android-developers] Re: OT: Comedy Gold

2012-02-15 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
I thought exactly the same! My mum used to make a wicked fish pie with cod. Takes me back.. On Feb 16, 1:32 am, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: +10 On Feb 15, 2012 10:06 AM, Ted Scott t...@hootinholler.com wrote: Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm not complaining,

[android-developers] Pitfalls of sharing app data between users

2012-02-09 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
I have an app where you can save the state into a custom file and share with another user of the same app. This saved state consists of several jpgs and a text file, archived into a single zip file. When the user wants to share, they are prompted with the usual chooser which supports the Send

[android-developers] Re: Pitfalls of sharing app data between users

2012-02-09 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Dusk Jockeys Android Apps duskjock...@gmail.com wrote: The obvious candidate is to use the application/zip MIME type. The problem is that while this works fine on the default android mail app it is not supported by Gmail

[android-developers] Re: Digest Email not working for over a week

2012-02-08 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
7, 12:44 pm, Dusk Jockeys Android Apps duskjock...@gmail.com wrote: Well, would you believe it, theDigestEmail has started working again. I just had three come through this morning. Showing theDigestfrom January 21st... so only two more weeks of backlog to go! On Jan 29, 2:15 am, Dusk

[android-developers] Re: Digest Email not working for over a week

2012-02-06 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
Well, would you believe it, the Digest Email has started working again. I just had three come through this morning. Showing the Digest from January 21st... so only two more weeks of backlog to go! On Jan 29, 2:15 am, Dusk Jockeys Android Apps duskjock...@gmail.com wrote: The Android

[android-developers] Digest Email not working for over a week

2012-01-28 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
The Android Developers Digest Email, each summarizing around 25 messages to this group, suddenly stopped coming through around a week ago. Does anyone else have the same issue, or is it confined to my account? It happened a few months before, but started again after a few days, so I assumed it

[android-developers] ImageView memory use versus displayed Bitmap size

2012-01-18 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
This is a a backend SDK framework question. Say I have an ImageView that is set to, say, 100*100px, and I set it to show a 50 * 50px Bitmap which I have first loaded, so that it stretches the bitmap to fit its larger size. (Note I mean px rather than dip, I am trying to keep things simple to

[android-developers] Re: ImageView memory use versus displayed Bitmap size

2012-01-18 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
that stretching Bitmaps at runtime is very expensive when hardware acceleration is off. On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Dusk Jockeys Android Apps duskjock...@gmail.com wrote: This is a a backend SDK framework question. Say I have an ImageView that is set to, say, 100*100px, and I set

[android-developers] Re: Android fragmentation study

2012-01-14 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
Apps http://duskjockeys.blogspot.com/ On Jan 14, 2:11 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Dusk Jockeys Android Apps duskjock...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Dianne, for this infomation on Compatibility Testing. Couuld you clarify the exact scope

[android-developers] Re: Android fragmentation study

2012-01-14 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
, it is what it is, so back to work... Regards James On Jan 14, 7:51 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Dusk Jockeys Android Apps duskjock...@gmail.com wrote: from my point of view the animation is part of the functionality, as it is the raison

[android-developers] Re: Android fragmentation study

2012-01-13 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
is not fully featured? Regards James Dusk Jockeys Android Apps http://duskjockeys.blogspot.com/ On Jan 13, 4:40 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: If you find devices that are behaving inconsistently with the standard platform, please please at least file a bug so this is known

[android-developers] Re: Calculate percentage of a video file

2011-11-24 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
Oh for crying out loud... Look at your code! You have current as the total video duration, and total as the current position. Swap the values of the variables. Then get back to us with an Android specific issue... On Nov 24, 6:15 pm, Naveen kumarnaveen.si...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Sir, I

[android-developers] Re: Addictive

2011-11-22 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
Everything TreKing said. Surely you must be aware that describing a game as addictive is simply a common expression in the general population, and is not using addictive in the same extreme sense as drug addiction. Attempting to conflate the two is political correctness at it's worst. Words mean

[android-developers] Re: Architecture of mobile application

2011-11-22 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
BelvCompSys Like 90% of your posts, due to your opaque references, hints at inside knowledge, and otherwise generally obscure method of communication, I have no idea what you are talking about. On Nov 23, 12:06 pm, BelvCompSvs fa829...@gmail.com wrote: (seriously) One of my team leads is a MS

[android-developers] Re: Webkit CSS flip image

2011-11-16 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
Allow me to be the first to say that you are an idiot and I hope nobody helps you. Simply appalling. On Nov 16, 2:05 am, u4yk unsok.ringori...@gmail.com wrote: Before I begin, let me state that I know about issue 12451 (code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=12451).  Now, what I'm trying

[android-developers] Re: How to reactivate an older APK?

2011-10-28 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
wrote: I had exactly the same situation tonight. It has to be a Market Console bug, otherwise what is the value of the reactivate button. On Oct 27, 3:40 pm, Dusk Jockeys Android Apps duskjock...@gmail.com wrote: Before I waste my time

[android-developers] Re: How to reactivate an older APK?

2011-10-27 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
. On Oct 27, 3:40 pm, Dusk Jockeys Android Apps duskjock...@gmail.com wrote: Before I waste my time by asking Market Support, who as we all know are about as useful as a chocolate teapot, has anyone managed to successfully re-activate a previous APK in the Developer Console

[android-developers] How to reactivate an older APK?

2011-10-26 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
Before I waste my time by asking Market Support, who as we all know are about as useful as a chocolate teapot, has anyone managed to successfully re-activate a previous APK in the Developer Console? I had a situation where I made an update last night, quickly realised there was a bug and wanted

[android-developers] Re: WallpaperService.Engine.onOffsetsChanged() gone in ICS?

2011-10-24 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
It must be a bug, as the function does not appear deprecated, removed or otherwise according to the SDK. Ms Hackborn or anyone from Google had a chance to look at this yet? On Oct 22, 3:59 am, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm on the fence whether to report this as a bug, or just

[android-developers] Re: Issue regarding SMS message failed alert dialog.

2011-10-12 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
Why would you not want this message to appear, surely it is important to alert the user that their message has not gone through? On Oct 12, 1:16 am, Eric W. eric.whitc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This is my first time posting so please go easy on me if I break any rules. Thank you. What I

[android-developers] Re: HTC and LG haven't implemented Android in the right way

2011-09-30 Thread Dusk Jockeys Android Apps
What is the Morphing Galaxy Live Wallpaper? I cant see that on the Market. The default Galaxy, Galactic Core and Galaxy Live Wallpaper all work perfectly well on my HTC Desire HD, with no blurring, so they are probably not doing things the same way as you are. On Sep 28, 2:36 am, MobileVisuals