[android-developers] Re: Hardware accleration slow down every Canvas app. Why?

2012-01-18 Thread Ed Burnette
Fps2D does not show any change when you turn on or off the setting on a GN. On Jan 16, 11:09 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Holy macaroni What a thread. Let's take an anology: First vehicle: A bicycle. You can go reasonably fast with it by the power of a single human.

[android-developers] Re: IllegalStateException: Fragment not added in ActionBarTabs example

2011-05-20 Thread Ed Burnette
Ok, I've entered a bug report. See/vote for: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=17029 . Thanks. On May 19, 2:46 pm, Shane Isbell shane.isb...@gmail.com wrote: I've run into this on occasion, I surrounded it with a general Exception catch to handle this, which seemed to have no

[android-developers] IllegalStateException: Fragment not added in ActionBarTabs example

2011-05-19 Thread Ed Burnette
While writing an app that uses Fragments and tabs on the Action Bar I ran into a crash. I went back to the API Demos sample and can make the same crash happen there. Start the program in the emulator and select App Action Bar Action Bar Tabs. Click Toggle tab mode then Add new tab twice, then

[android-developers] Re: Fragment animation as in Honeycomb Gmail app - how to do that?

2011-05-19 Thread Ed Burnette
There's probably using FragmentTransaction.setTransition() or setCustomAnimations(). On May 19, 12:14 pm, Scythe scythe...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to achieve similar fragment behaviour as in the Honeycomb Gmail app. So I have three fragment next to each other: A, B and C. Initially, A and B

[android-developers] Re: Eclipse wont regenerate files since downloading the 2.3 SDK

2011-03-10 Thread Ed Burnette
Sometimes I have to edit something innocuous in the xml file and in a .java file and save it (with build automatically set) to get a clean build. Project Clean usually works but when it doesn't, the modify- and-save trick usually works. Changing the Android build target temporarily might jostle

[android-developers] Re: Fragment Support forward compatibility?

2011-03-10 Thread Ed Burnette
Do you think this compatibility library could be used for more than just fragments? For example, action bars, touch event changes, and so on? It would be nice to cut down on the use of reflection and version checks when new APIs are added that you'd like to use but still want to run on older

[android-developers] Re: Sudoku

2011-03-03 Thread Ed Burnette
As far as I can tell, those DEBUG/SntpClient messages are printed by a part of the system not related to your program. Just ignore them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

[android-developers] Re: Garbage collector hangs OpenGL on HTC Evo

2011-02-17 Thread Ed Burnette
This may not be related to the hang, but 387K freed and a pause of 46ms in garbage collection sounds like a lot. If you can cut out some of your larger memory allocations and deallocations it might help. Avoiding memory allocs will help your frame rate too. On Feb 16, 11:07 am, Bill Tschumy

[android-developers] Re: Android 2.3 Vs 3.0

2011-02-17 Thread Ed Burnette
The phone and tablet source trees have diverged temporarily but it's expected that the I version of Android will bring them back together. The version number hasn't been decided - it might become 3.1 or 3.5 or something else - just not 3.0. So when somebody says Honeycomb is just for tablets and

[android-developers] Re: Honeycomb SDK

2011-02-17 Thread Ed Burnette
Dianne said Android 3.0 would be level 11 in the final API (http:// groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/dbe54b1e41663284) but I was reading too much into that. It seems clear now it might be 11, or 12, or some other integer in that ballpark. We'll see when it comes out. Dianne also

[android-developers] Re: Honeycomb SDK

2011-02-10 Thread Ed Burnette
hope so, the 3.0 UI looks fantastic. On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: My initial reaction was that it was an homage to Spinal Tap. On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Ed Burnette ed.burne...@gmail.com wrote: 11? Does that mean the next 2.x

[android-developers] Re: Honeycomb SDK

2011-02-09 Thread Ed Burnette
at 5:17 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: My initial reaction was that it was an homage to Spinal Tap. On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Ed Burnette ed.burne...@gmail.com wrote: 11? Does that mean the next 2.x release will be API level 10 and that there will only be one more 2

[android-developers] Re: Honeycomb SDK

2011-02-07 Thread Ed Burnette
11? Does that mean the next 2.x release will be API level 10 and that there will only be one more 2.x release with API changes? Or am I reading too much into it? I was wondering how that numbering hiccup was going to be handled. On Feb 7, 3:01 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: I

[android-developers] Re: Dual mode (Honeycomb Gingerbread) is the same APK.

2011-02-04 Thread Ed Burnette
They could have a wrapper class that detects and uses the 3.0 API if it's there, and otherwise does some fall back behavior that looks good on older versions. On Feb 3, 6:20 pm, Streets Of Boston flyingdutc...@gmail.com wrote: I read this on android-developers.blogspot.com, from

[android-developers] Re: Largest Android application?

2010-08-06 Thread Ed Burnette
Your best option is to try a higher compression rate on your mp3s. Most people are not going to listen to it through studio quality headphones, but rather through a crappy 1cm wide speaker on the back of the phone. Android also supports Ogg Vorbis, AMR-NB, and AMR-WB which might work better than

[android-developers] Re: Motorola Droid (possible android) multi-touch bug and how to reproduce

2010-03-12 Thread Ed Burnette
Please read and vote for this bug: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6297 And also see some commentary about it on my blog here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=1747 --Ed Editor, Planet Android -- http://www.planetandroid.com -- You received this message because you

[android-developers] Re: Mulit-Touch Problems

2010-03-12 Thread Ed Burnette
Please read and vote for this bug: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6297 And also see some commentary about it on my blog here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=1747 --Ed Editor, Planet Android -- http://www.planetandroid.com -- You received this message because you

[android-developers] Re: Android WVGA support

2009-09-09 Thread Ed Burnette
Did you mean uses-sdk? On Sep 9, 12:37 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: You'd do supports-sdk android:minSdkVersion=3 android:targetSdkVersion=4 / and then configure the rest of the manifest as desired. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote:

[android-developers] Re: Broken OpenGL texture output after resuming the app

2009-08-25 Thread Ed Burnette
version of the OpenGL example at http://www.pragprog.com/titles/eband/source_code exhibits this issue, but I hate to put in hacks for short-term problems because they cloud the examples and may be inefficient or even stop working in the future. Thanks, --Ed On Aug 21, 4:58 pm, Ed Burnette ed.burne

[android-developers] Re: Broken OpenGL texture output after resuming the app

2009-08-21 Thread Ed Burnette
, if that's what it is. --Ed Burnette Author of Hello, Android -- http://pragprog.com/titles/eband On Jul 28, 9:02 pm, Michael Angel obliviousau...@gmail.com wrote: I've run into a very strange problem regardingOpenGLtextureoutputs, which only occurs when the app is resumed (particularly when

[android-developers] Re: Broken OpenGL texture output after resuming the app

2009-08-21 Thread Ed Burnette
I have opened Issue 3623 for this problem. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3623 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

[android-developers] Re: AndCooper Build Tool Release

2009-06-02 Thread Ed Burnette
I think he meant: http://mobilebytes.wordpress.com with an r. On Jun 1, 9:13 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Fred Grott(shareme) wrote: The link to the project pages can be found at the MobileBytes blog under the FOSS page: http://mobilebytes.wordpess.com Um... I

[android-developers] Re: How to get more sales on the Android Market

2009-03-03 Thread Ed Burnette
Here's a progress report: 57% of the poll respondents said lower the price so I cut it temporarily from $2.99 to $0.99 (1/3rd the original). In the short time since then, sales increased (2x), but not enough to make up for the price difference. See http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=824 . In

[android-developers] How to get more sales on the Android Market

2009-02-27 Thread Ed Burnette
? Reduce the price on the paid one? Add some more features? These are questions that every Android developer will face. Please have a look, add your vote for the best approach, and share your experiences in marketing your own apps in the talkback section. Thanks, -- Ed Burnette Author, Hello, Android

[android-developers] Re: Having multiple versions of the same app in the market

2009-02-19 Thread Ed Burnette
have 24 hours to decide whether or not to keep it. -- Ed Burnette Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform - now available http://www.pragprog.com/titles/eband/hello-android On Feb 19, 8:42 am, jarkman jark...@gmail.com wrote: I'd love to get a definitive answer

[android-developers] Question on recovering deleted pictures and wallpaper

2009-01-06 Thread Ed Burnette
I USB-mounted my G1 phone and was trying to use Windows to clean up the /sdcard/dcim/Camera directory in preparation to making a copy. Unfortunately Windows reported a bunch of read/write errors and then deleted the whole directory from the sdcard. Any advice on recovering the lost data (I

[android-developers] Re: Android Icon Creation Software

2008-11-05 Thread Ed Burnette
Those look nice; are the .svg versions available for use as examples/ templates? On Nov 4, 8:50 am, Peli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've created our Android icons using Inkscape.http://www.inkscape.org/ Have a look at some icons here:http://www.openintents.org/en/ for OI Flashlight, OI

[android-developers] Re: ADB via USB

2008-10-23 Thread Ed Burnette
I see the doc has been changed to say Windows (32-bit only). I tried it on a Win32 (XP) machine and it worked fine. Any tips on how to port the driver to Win64? On Oct 22, 4:20 pm, Ed Burnette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not working for me. The device driver won't install, and I get

[android-developers] Re: Market Place and Trial Software?

2008-10-23 Thread Ed Burnette
How about this idea: Call your program Beta for now and then in February (or whenever) retire the Beta version and come out with a new non-Beta version that has a charge. The only trick would be to prevent people from auto-updating from Beta to the commercial version without annoying them. IMHO

[android-developers] Re: Android Source Code Now Available

2008-10-23 Thread Ed Burnette
+1 to a zip file version, perhaps updated nightly or weekly. I know we can use the web interface to look at one file at a time, but it would be nice to be able to read it all from a Windows machine. On Oct 21, 4:59 pm, whitehexagon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great news!!  Is it also available as

[android-developers] Re: ADB via USB

2008-10-22 Thread Ed Burnette
It's not working for me. The device driver won't install, and I get this error from Vista64: Description: Windows detected a new device attached to your computer, but could not find the driver software it needs to make the device usable. Each device manufacturer typically includes driver

[android-developers] Re: sqlite3?

2008-09-11 Thread Ed Burnette
I tried taking the /system/bin/sqlite3 from the M5 version and installing it into 0.9_beta but it didn't work. I ran the M5-rc15 emulator with -wipe-data, used adb pull to get the program, ran the 0.9_beta emulator with -wipe-data, ran adb remount to make /system read write, used adb push to

[android-developers] Re: WebView loadUrl does not seem to work...

2008-09-05 Thread Ed Burnette
Try the BrowserView example from http://www.pragprog.com/titles/eband/source_code and see if that works for you. If it does, then compare it against what you're doing in your layout file, your manifest, and your Activity class. -- Ed Burnette http://www.pragprog.com/titles/eband/hello-android

[android-developers] Re: New beta book available: Hello, Android

2008-05-03 Thread Ed Burnette
it there. On May 1, 6:11 am, Ed Burnette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope you'll excuse this bit of self-promotion, but after months of work I'm excited to announce that my newbook, Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform, is now available as a Beta PDF from the Pragmatic