Re: [android-developers] Re: Market misery !!

2010-10-10 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
as well and easily connecting any kind of client to it... -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -- You received this message because you

Re: [android-developers] Market misery !!

2010-10-09 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
will only come from you and the mentioned tools. -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[android-developers] Follow up for the active install count problem

2010-10-08 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
? -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post

Re: [android-developers] Re: Java classes not inclded in android

2010-09-30 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
both for Ant and Maven. -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market the Google I/O 2010 features

2010-09-21 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On 9/20/10 15:05 , Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) wrote: I like The 32nd of Never better. It almost sounds like a real date. February 29th, 2011 is good too. -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is anyone's active install % dropping like a rock lately?

2010-09-20 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
, I've been thinking for a long time that I was relatively good in inform people of my product, but I was describing it a cut above its real value. Sort of good ad, bad implementation. Fortunately, it *could* not be that way. -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s

Re: [android-developers] Clarification about ImageView.setImageURI()

2010-09-16 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/14/10 14:02 , Fabrizio Giudici wrote: I'm using ImageView.setImageURI() to render an image that has been previously downloaded from the Internet. It works fine, but I haven't understood whether the call is blocking or not. In my code, I've

[android-developers] OOM after ImageView.setImage() make the phone irresponsive - how to protect?

2010-09-16 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
possible to recover from an OOM in any case. Thanks. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2

Re: [android-developers] OOM after ImageView.setImage() make the phone irresponsive - how to protect?

2010-09-16 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/16/10 21:11 , Fabrizio Giudici wrote: My app, among other things, downloads and displays images from the Internet. Some might be too large and trigge an OOM when ImageView.setImage() is called. For the record, the worse OOM (the one which

Re: [android-developers] Using WebView with local data

2010-09-16 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/9/10 14:11 , Fabrizio Giudici wrote: I'm using WebView to render a simple HTML document that I've loaded in memory from a file. The document contains non-latin characters, and I can say they are correctly loaded since if I put

Re: [android-developers] Using WebView with local data

2010-09-16 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
does mean a String of data in the given encoding?. A String is Unicode 16, how can it have an encoding? Ok for base64 - it's a string representing binary contents, but how a String un utf-8 would look like? - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java

Re: [android-developers] Re: Fine-tuning the WebView

2010-09-14 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
(described in a previous post here), and I also have to manually URLencode a few characters as per documentation, I'm considering writing the contents to a temporary file and passing it to the WebView... - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work

Re: [android-developers] Re: Problem in SimpleDateFormat MMM return month number

2010-09-14 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/13/10 00:32 , Mathieu - gpmoo7 wrote: Hope it helps someone else. 12% are still using Android 1.5 ;( I can confirm that there's a locale problem on some gear with 1.5. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s

[android-developers] Clarification about ImageView.setImageURI()

2010-09-14 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
downloaded, are stored locally forever, I should probably create some smaller-size previews in background and then pass them to Gallery and ImageView? Would that make the UI really more responsive? - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work

Re: [android-developers] GOOGLE, WHAT IS GOING ON with the Active Install %? Bug in install to SDCARD is my guess!

2010-09-14 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
. Also good to know there's some semblance of support for the Market issues. Maybe I won't be so harsh on them from now on =D Great. Let's sit and wait. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici

Re: [android-developers] Re: Handling large screens, such as tablets - still doesn't make sense to me

2010-09-14 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
device and play as a real user, and then find out which is the best way to use my app with it. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP

Re: [android-developers] Re: GOOGLE, WHAT IS GOING ON with the Active Install %? Bug in install to SDCARD is my guess!

2010-09-14 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
update frequently and that it's a good idea to add a specific feature in the app that e.g. reads the info from a RSS feed and pops up an invitation to upgrade when a new version is published. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere

Re: [android-developers] GOOGLE, WHAT IS GOING ON with the Active Install %? Bug in install to SDCARD is my guess!

2010-09-13 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/13/10 15:04 , TreKing wrote: On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it mailto:fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote: So, can you tell us which part of Google we should talk to in order to get some answer

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is anyone's active install % dropping like a rock lately?

2010-09-13 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
and even a new 5-stars. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using

[android-developers] Fine-tuning the WebView

2010-09-13 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
to be embedded in the document? I'd like to see some examples. Thanks. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is anyone's active install % dropping like a rock lately?

2010-09-11 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: [android-developers] Re: somebody stole our app and resell it on the market.

2010-09-10 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
one has got all these options, while with iPhone doesn't (and you *have* to buy a mac) makes the comparison pretty useless to me (in favour of Android). Of course, this is partly subjective. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere

[android-developers] Possible (and not possible) customization of the Tab component

2010-09-09 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
android:layout_height=fill_parent / /LinearLayout /TabHost - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

[android-developers] Using WebView with local data

2010-09-09 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
in the javadoc of WebView. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to make screen shoots with an android device?

2010-09-09 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
- -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: [android-developers] Re: List of Android Devices with specifications to use in Emulator

2010-09-08 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
, but it would not be difficult to write a small HTML scraper to automatically extract the data. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP

Re: [android-developers] Recommendation for an Application with tons of media files

2010-09-07 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
around with your data. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment

Re: [android-developers] Lost my keystore, loads of Apps, what to do?

2010-09-04 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
it's encrypted by a password. Back it up, but keep the store private, such as an USB key or a CDROM. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it

Re: [android-developers] GOOGLE, WHAT IS GOING ON with the Active Install %? Bug in install to SDCARD is my guess!

2010-09-04 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/4/10 09:37 , Dianne Hackborn wrote: Yet another less for me to keep the heck away from these threads. :p So, can you tell us which part of Google we should talk to in order to get some answer to the problem? - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is anyone's active install % dropping like a rock lately?

2010-09-03 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
. BTW, I find it very disturbing that nobody from Google has confirmed that there are no ongoing known bugs with the Market, as I and others have asked about in this thread. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is anyone's active install % dropping like a rock lately?

2010-08-31 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

[android-developers] Strange instance of app not responding error

2010-08-31 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
during tests? I was thinking of a service running in background just consuming some CPU cycles to make the phone less responsive. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is anyone's active install % dropping like a rock lately?

2010-08-31 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
that also in that case Google interest was to have the apps visible :-) Bugs happen, of course. As a side note, how are you guys tracking the daily history of stats? I suppose there's no automated way, right? So we have to set up a spreadsheet and daily copy the data, right? - -- Fabrizio

Re: [android-developers] Strange instance of app not responding error

2010-08-31 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
, IntentService, or background thread for some time. Thanks for pointing out those things. Is it also reading from flash slow? The long operation I'm talking of is reading a bunch of data from the flash to RAM (no network, no writes). - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager

Re: [android-developers] Re: Ratings breakdown in Dev Console

2010-08-31 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/31/10 14:34 , OldSkoolMark wrote: ... and nice to see evidence of Google working on Market improvements. Yes. Perhaps in four / five years we'll get segmented data about phones and countries of users... :-/ - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java

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

2010-08-29 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
) are just useless. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using

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

2010-08-29 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
to others' comments. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using

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

2010-08-27 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
review, tough. (*) Reading that so many of us seem to be experiencing the same thing at the same moment, I'm guessing whether it's a market bug... it would be nice to eventually have a feedback from the Google engineers confirming that on their side everything is fine. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java

[android-developers] Making sure that ... (not an ellipsis) is not wrapped

2010-08-27 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
in all Android appliances that gets rendered as three periods? - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [android-developers] Using Bouncy Castle with an Android app

2010-08-27 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
. This works for me (not for BouncyCastle but for other stuff). With this trick, your source files stay as they are, but the binary code gets fixed before being converted to dex. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog

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

2010-08-26 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
ask them to post a positive review. Even though people can't distinguish your friends from your customers, having the latter ones to post sounds as a better move. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici

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

2010-08-26 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
: it was just an icon resource placed in an improper way). This also caused my ratings to start with a wonderful 1 star - it crashes on my phone that isn't precisely the best way to present yourself to the world. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work

[android-developers] Re: Is anyone's active install % dropping like a rock lately?

2010-08-26 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
I've spotted this thread only now. It's happening to me too - in a week it dropped from a _steady_ 45% (held since several weeks) to 36%, with a single new active install out of regularly increasing new downloads. I even posted that on my blog - a commenter pointed out that when people upgrade an

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

2010-08-21 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
Thanks Kostya, I've already tried that, but if I select Portal Tools I don't see my device from adb (and USB debug connection disappears from the notification area, confirming that the link has been disconnected). - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java

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

2010-08-20 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
. Detaching the USB works, of course, but I want to keep it attached in order to keep adb shell and adb logcat running. Unmounting unilaterally the sdcard from the laptop doesn't work - I see a notification on the phone that the sdcard is again available only when I detach the USB. Thanks. - -- Fabrizio

Re: [android-developers] Optimizing image processing algorithms for Android

2010-08-19 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
interpreted); in 2.2 we have JIT, but can't speak as I haven't seen it yet. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [android-developers] Re: Optimizing image processing algorithms for Android

2010-08-19 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
in Java such as JAI. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using

[android-developers] Rendering problems with an Activity having android:screenOrientation=landscape

2010-08-19 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
visible 4. When quitting the activity, run the reverse steps (setting the widgets to not visible, programmatically switching to portrait mode, waiting for a short delay, finishing). Thoughts? Better workarounds? Thanks. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We

Re: [android-developers] Changing default location of R.java

2010-08-19 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/18/10 22:34 , Fabrizio Giudici wrote: On 8/18/10 12:19 , Roj wrote: Hi, Is there any way to change the default location of R.java file which is getting created in gen folder? By default R.Java will get created in gen folder under

Re: [android-developers] Changing default location of R.java

2010-08-19 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/19/10 17:34 , Fabrizio Giudici wrote: Well, after experimenting I've found that #2 is the way to go, at least if you have explicit intents. In fact, if the code packages for activities stays the same, Android will pop up a question box when

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

2010-08-19 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
don't understand what's wrong. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin

[android-developers] Explicit intent in custom Preferences screen

2010-08-19 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
using an implicit intent, and it's working. But I'd solve a problem if I could use an explicit intent, that is writing the fully qualified class name of the target Activity. I didn't find documentation about this, so I don't know whether it's possible and how to do that. Thanks. - -- Fabrizio

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

2010-08-19 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
stars - are there other ways? - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment

Re: [android-developers] Re: Need confirmation: it is impossible to programmatically set the default locale in a device, right?

2010-08-18 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
it's has problems. For what I've seen it doesn't change the locale in parts handled by Android (e.g. selection of xml resources), so even though it would be picked by my code (where I use Locale.getDefault()) you'd end up with a mix of two Locales, which doesn't make any sense. - -- Fabrizio

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to test Apps on a variety of devices?

2010-08-18 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
an Android phone and I've been helped in a few cases thanks to this channel. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [android-developers] Pros/cons of multiple activities in an app vs. one activity, multiple views

2010-08-18 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
for your application, that could be used by other applications. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [android-developers] Changing default location of R.java

2010-08-18 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
for the official releases and the snapshot builds, so I can install both at the same time. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP

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

2010-08-18 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
considering to embed in the app a simple poll that could be periodically used to explicitly ask for feedback (and eventually prioritize new features). Anyway I'd be happy to hear from others with more experience in this field. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave

Re: [android-developers] Re: Problem computing the free space on the external card - only with a single installation

2010-08-18 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
... And my user has got 14Gb. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to test Apps on a variety of devices?

2010-08-18 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
if you are running a commercial app. But if you're after a free one, it's too expensive as you said. BTW, they offer a good number of Android phones in addition to Motorola. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog

Re: [android-developers] Re: Chilling news: Oracle sues Google over Android

2010-08-17 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
and improve our apps! Right? - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using

[android-developers] Need confirmation: it is impossible to programmatically set the default locale in a device, right?

2010-08-17 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
way to change the default locale than by manually using the Parameters app, right? Of course, I'm talking of testing. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud

Re: [android-developers] Need confirmation: it is impossible to programmatically set the default locale in a device, right?

2010-08-17 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/17/10 23:52 , Frank Weiss wrote: I'd be surprised if you can't do per-app locale changes in Android. It would be ok for me to change the locale of the whole phone. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We

Re: [android-developers] Re: Chilling news: Oracle sues Google over Android

2010-08-16 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
they come to a deal, we really can't know. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin

Re: [android-developers] Re: Chilling news: Oracle sues Google over Android

2010-08-16 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Suggested read: http://blogs.forbes.com/taylorbuley/2010/08/13/android-lawsuit-is-really-just-oracle-flirting-with-google/ - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog

Re: [android-developers] XML parsing slow ... cache!

2010-08-16 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
and a JavaSE app), but it's somewhat brittle. Also, I'm not sure it's fast because introspection is not fast on Android (it might be different with 2.2). Also consider JDom / Jaxen as an alternate XML parser, might be worth while compare their performance. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect

[android-developers] Problem computing the free space on the external card - only with a single installation

2010-08-15 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: [android-developers] Re: Chilling news: Oracle sues Google over Android

2010-08-15 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
will go on. I suppose that time is precisely one of the cards that Oracle is playing. If they settle down to an agreement in a relatively short time, we won't be affected by any major problem. So, there are still some months before one should be worried, I think. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect

Re: [android-developers] Re: My app is not visible for some (potential) users

2010-08-14 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
13, 5:38 pm, Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote: On 8/13/10 18:00 , Lance Nanek wrote: You can have a build target higher than Android 1.5, but still specify Android 1.5 support in the android:minSdkVersion attribute of the uses- sdk element. It's the thing described

Re: [android-developers] Android 1.5 device behaves differently than the emulator

2010-08-14 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
on emulator it was dot separated (thus come conversion calls crashed later on). I've experienced differences too. I was doing the wrong thing with the drawable resource directories - my fault, but the 1.5 emulator worked fine while the real device crashed. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect

Re: [android-developers] Re: Chilling news: Oracle sues Google over Android

2010-08-14 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
principal concerns about Android are the same as one week ago, that is to make my app work at best. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP

Re: [android-developers] Chilling news: Oracle sues Google over Android

2010-08-13 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
10 years on super computer ?The orginal Author rewrote it in java ?Its is ~10 times faster in JAVA ! - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it

Re: [android-developers] Chilling news: Oracle sues Google over Android

2010-08-13 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
. For what comes to Android, I'd like to recall that up to 2.1 we didn't have any JIT, that has been introduced with 2.2. I'd be curious to know whether people who has experienced some performance troubles with Dalvik has tried his app on Froyo. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project

Re: [android-developers] Re: Chilling news: Oracle sues Google over Android

2010-08-13 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
to the currently flawed patent bills, allows every corporate to sue any other one. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [android-developers] Re: My app is not visible for some (potential) users

2010-08-13 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
automatically make the app compatible with every screen, right?. After all, otherwise I shouldn't ever see the app from my Droid that has got a 'large' screen... - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici

Re: [android-developers] Re: My app is not visible for some (potential) users

2010-08-13 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
? - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: [android-developers] Re: My app is not visible for some (potential) users

2010-08-13 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
... in Android docs, right? I hoped to avoid that, but I don't see other solutions. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [android-developers] Re: Chilling news: Oracle sues Google over Android

2010-08-13 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: [android-developers] Re: Chilling news: Oracle sues Google over Android

2010-08-13 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
to the Java specifications and namespaces (the java.* thing). Probably, even though Google has never claimed that Android is Java and their implementation doesn't derive from Sun, the weak point could be the fact that Android uses a subset of the runtime specifications and namespaces. - -- Fabrizio

Re: [android-developers] Re: Chilling news: Oracle sues Google over Android

2010-08-13 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
be licensed independently of an implementation. It's a complex thing and today I've read opposite opinions on many blogs by people who should have a knowledge on the matter. I suppose we'd better to wait some days for a better analysis of the problem. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager

[android-developers] My app is not visible for some (potential) users

2010-08-12 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
the news, I can see more hits on my own webpage, and yet some users can't get the application. Should I fine an issue to the Android issue tracker? - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici

Re: [android-developers] Re: Can't make restartPackage() / killBackgroundProcesses() to work

2010-08-10 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
call some of my application methods to force a clean up of the app status, but it wouldn't be black-box). The only resort is multiple invocation of adb, which seems to do the required clean up. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work

Re: [android-developers] Can't make restartPackage() / killBackgroundProcesses() to work

2010-08-09 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
been able to get the INJECT_EVENT permission, so there is no reason to request it.) Yes, it's a residual for other tries. Thanks. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people

Re: [android-developers] Can't make restartPackage() / killBackgroundProcesses() to work

2010-08-08 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
it work in older emulator versions than 2.2? - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14

[android-developers] Can't make restartPackage() / killBackgroundProcesses() to work

2010-08-07 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
). Of course the 2.2 with the variant that the required permission is android.permission.KILL_BACKGROUND_PROCESSES. Why am I still getting the error? Thanks. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android testing: can't programmatically press buttons, etc...

2010-08-06 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
an explanation, but then I explicitly added setActivityInitialTouchMode(true) in setUp(), I got a visual confirmation that it has been accepted (I no more see a focused button), but it's not yet working. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work

Re: [android-developers] how to check whether insterted SD Card is full or not

2010-08-06 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
to that value erroneously computed as zero (or a very small value) even if the card was ok. But I had no more feedback from him and no other notices of error. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici

[android-developers] Programmatically expanding / collapsing items of an ExpandableListView

2010-08-06 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
++) { expandableListView.collapseGroup(i); } expandableListView.expandGroup(groupCount - 1); - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it

Re: [android-developers] Programmatically expanding / collapsing items of an ExpandableListView

2010-08-06 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/6/10 20:12 , TreKing wrote: On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it mailto:fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote: The code below doesn't work (basically seems to do things at random). What

[android-developers] Android testing: can't programmatically press buttons, etc...

2010-08-05 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
developing mine with NetBeans + Maven. But I don't think this makes a difference. Also, of course my application perfectly works if I manually test it. Thanks. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android testing: can't programmatically press buttons, etc...

2010-08-05 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
of system diagnostics to understand what's happening. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14

Re: [android-developers] Re: Avoiding GPL

2010-06-26 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
times and the intents of the original founders, of Sun Microsystems and Oracle might have been changed. Frankly, if I used MySQL I wouldn't be interested in what their intents are, only in what I can do. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work

Re: [android-developers] Re: Avoiding GPL

2010-06-25 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
it runs in a separate process and is used by connecting with a socket (or other ways, such as clear API access points - otherwise, everything using Linux should be GPL as well, and clearly it isn't). - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work

Re: [android-developers] Re: Avoiding GPL

2010-06-25 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
about, as they are quite open (!) to talk to people. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2

Re: [android-developers] Avoiding GPL

2010-06-23 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
looking at the FSF FAQs or sending them an email would help. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - We make Java work. Everywhere. java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG