[android-developers] Re: Android phones

2010-10-27 Thread James Elsey
Well in the UK at least you can buy prepaid Android 2.2 phones for £99, so technically you could just buy that and use for development and not be tied into any contracts I think the handset is the "San Francisco" on Orange - Regards www.JamesElsey.co.uk On O

[android-developers] Re: How to send data from one activity to another?

2010-10-20 Thread James Elsey
You can either create a class which is available across the entire application and put any data on there and grab it from anywhere (I wrote a tutorial here : http://www.jameselsey.co.uk/blogs/techblog/android-implementing-global-state-share-data-between-activities-and-across-your-application/) Eit

[android-developers] Re: Android Geocoder Issues

2010-10-20 Thread James Elsey
You could try to use the Yahoo APIs for geocoding I wrote a quick tutorial here : http://www.jameselsey.co.uk/blogs/techblog/tutorial-how-to-call-yahoo-rest-web-services-the-easy-way/ On Oct 19, 10:36 pm, Tommy wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am using the Geocoder.getFromLocation(lat,lon,1) and it s

[android-developers] Re: Beta Testers needed for fast-paced retro game

2010-10-15 Thread James Elsey
I would be willing to help Drop me a mail : james dot elsey at gmail dot com -- Kind Regards http://JamesElsey.co.uk On Oct 15, 5:19 pm, Nacho Pintos wrote: > Hi! > > I'm  bedroom developer and I'm finishing my first android game, Flee, > which (hopefully) will be released in the

[android-developers] Re: What is the best gui editor?

2010-09-28 Thread James Elsey
Some links here which may help http://stackoverflow.com/questions/851882/easy-way-to-build-android-ui -- Regards James JamesElsey.co.uk On Sep 28, 2:19 pm, ArcDroid wrote: > I am creating the gui in xml using eclipse, is there a better way? -- You received th

[android-developers] Re: Map Overlay not Updating unless I tap Screen

2010-09-27 Thread James Elsey
I was able to "refresh" the items on my map by calling the activity again I "bound" an intent onto a button (tab in my case) and when clicked, it does startActivity(intent) which forces map to reload its overlay (or whatever you decide to put into onStart() ) Possibly not the most efficient metho

[android-developers] Re: global variable accessible by mapactiivty and activity

2010-09-23 Thread James Elsey
Put data onto an intent and pass that between the activities? Or Setup a global state class and put things in there, they will be available throughout your application I wrote up some guides on this : http://www.jameselsey.co.uk/blogs/techblog/?p=134 On Sep 22, 7:39 pm, dadada wrote: > hi all

[android-developers] Re: What phone to develop on?

2010-09-21 Thread James Elsey
Where are you? If you are in the UK then you might be interested in this article that I found on Google tech news : http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=26545 A £99 Pay as you go android 2.1 handset, I'd call that a bargain On Sep 21, 12:23 pm, tarek attia wrote: > Hi all, > > I wa

[android-developers] Re: Lat Long value using zip code or city name

2010-09-09 Thread James Elsey
You can use the android geocoder to do that http://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/Geocoder.html however it seems that it currently works only on devices, and not emulators (I too am getting this behaviour) http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8816 On Sep 8, 2:07 pm