[android-developers] Interested in hearing from other devs on remote data strategies

2011-01-24 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi All, Hoping to hear from some of you other developers your thoughts with regard to storing data remotely. It seems to me that data synchronisation between the device and a remote database adds quite a lot of complexity to an application. Some applications I've done assume the user will always

[android-developers] Tabs On Sense Devices

2010-12-11 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi all, Has anyone found themselves with the same problem I do when using a TabWidget on Sense Devices. It appears that the text colour for selected/unselected tabs are reversed. I.e. instead of the selected tab being white text and unselected gray, it's the other way around so the selected tab

[android-developers] EXTRA_OUTPUT file path being ignore capturing Video woes

2010-11-10 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi All, I'm having a pig of a time creating a basic video capture feature in my application. I want to call the default video capture tool my device and had the file saved to a specific location. >From the documentation this is achieved by providing a Uri in EXTRA_OUTPUT, however what's happenin

[android-developers] Re: Cannot install on app on 1.6 device confusion

2010-10-20 Thread JimmyHoffa
On Oct 20, 10:14 am, Marcin Orlowski wrote: > On 19 October 2010 16:13, JimmyHoffa wrote: > > > My minimum SDK version is 4, I created it with the 1.6 SDK specified > > so not sure why he can't see it or install it.  He has a 1.6 Magic > > handset. > > Show your m

[android-developers] Cannot install on app on 1.6 device confusion

2010-10-19 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi all, I've published an app today mainly for my forum users to use, just a very simple app that displays wallpapers derived from the forum. Problem I'm having is one guy says it doesn't appear in the market, and I've even sent him the APK to install manually but it fails. My minimum SDK versio

[android-developers] Re: How to email uncaught exceptions?

2010-10-17 Thread JimmyHoffa
; > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:28 PM, JimmyHoffa wrote: > > I love the feature where we can inspect any exceptions for app's > > published on the market through the developer site but curious as to > > whether we can tap into this feature for app's we don

[android-developers] How to email uncaught exceptions?

2010-10-15 Thread JimmyHoffa
I love the feature where we can inspect any exceptions for app's published on the market through the developer site but curious as to whether we can tap into this feature for app's we don't publish to the market so we can email any exception details to a specific email address for example. Does an

[android-developers] Text To Speech API question

2010-10-04 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi all, Just a passing thought I wanted to check out whether it's possible using the TTS engine to apply effects to voices. Without beating around the bush my 'requirement' if you can call it that is to playback a robot sounding version of whatever sentence the user has recorded using a mix of vo

[android-developers] Re: What is the default user agent string for Android 2.2 Froyo?

2010-05-28 Thread JimmyHoffa
On my install the user agent shows : Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-gb; Nexus One Build/FRF50) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1 Rgds, On May 27, 10:34 pm, Darth wrote: > As the title suggests, can someone list it? > Thanks -- You received this me

[android-developers] Confusion when picking contacts

2010-05-28 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi all, I'm using Android 2 SDK, and have a list activity in which I want to display the users contacts. So I'm retrieving the contacts cursor in a standard way : Uri contacts = ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI; // Form an array specifying which columns to return. String[]

[android-developers] Slow viewing image with ACTION_VIEW

2010-05-13 Thread JimmyHoffa
Anyone experienced a very slow response (i.e. 10 seconds) when simple calling an ACTION_VIEW intent for an image on the sdcard? There is around a 10 second delay, eventually there are two INFO level log entries Texture Creation fail, qlError 1281 Built thumbnail and screennail for 0 in 25 So

[android-developers] Can I send an image byte[] to ACTION_VIEW intent?

2010-05-13 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi all, Just wondering if its possible to use the built in image viewer to display an image sourced from a database. I'm hoping I can pass the byte[] as an extra to the ACTION_VIEW intent, but can't find any docs on it so far. Alternatively I'll have to roll my own viewer or first write the imag

[android-developers] Re: Looking for advice into best way to store images within app

2010-05-07 Thread JimmyHoffa
handle cases whereimagescannot be found. Useful > if an important req is to maintain the ability to always raise new > jobs (and your current sd becomes full). However our importance on > maintaining ease of access to all previousimagesis probably less > than yours as we also send all repo

[android-developers] Re: Looking for advice into best way to store images within app

2010-05-06 Thread JimmyHoffa
pk's size will be huge. > > the best way is to keep your images somewhere in the cloud, and access > them through the app. > > Thanks and Regards, > Kumar Bibek > > On May 5, 8:45 pm, JimmyHoffa wrote: > > > > >   0  vote down  star > > > Hi al

[android-developers] Looking for advice into best way to store images within app

2010-05-05 Thread JimmyHoffa
0 vote down star Hi all, I'm just looking for some insight into what would be the best way for me to store images as part of my app. I have an activity that represents a 'Job' which has a couple of edittext's and underneath was planning on using the Gallery component to show images relevant

[android-developers] Re: Background Intent

2010-02-09 Thread JimmyHoffa
Well you could call a service instead. On Feb 4, 6:21 pm, "Mark Murphy" wrote: > > Is it possible to start an Intent but kepp it hidden? For example now > > to start the intent I am using         startActivitity(intent). > > Suppose the intent is to start a web browser, the webbrowser is shown >

[android-developers] How to modify contact detail screen?

2010-01-16 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi All, Just like to share some thoughts and ask if anyone knows how to modify the stock Contacts detail screen. I'm not 100% convinced I will adopt this strategy yet but I need to allow the user of my application to maintain contact information, with extra fields specific to my app' so I figured

[android-developers] Re: Alarm Manager Query

2010-01-15 Thread JimmyHoffa
I'll look into that, thanks for your input. On Jan 15, 5:09 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > JimmyHoffa wrote: > > Thanks Mark, I didnt realise that they need re-esablishing so that's > > good to know. > > > I'm concerned whether the alarms can be removed individu

[android-developers] Re: Alarm Manager Query

2010-01-15 Thread JimmyHoffa
ll are and therefore would all need to be re-established. On Jan 15, 3:50 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > JimmyHoffa wrote: > > Hi All, > > > I'm new to using the alarm manager and was wondering if the following > > is possible.. > > > I am creating a Andr

[android-developers] Alarm Manager Query

2010-01-15 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi All, I'm new to using the alarm manager and was wondering if the following is possible.. I am creating a Android 2 Application which uses a database to store 'appointments' , date/who/reason etc.. What I want to do when viewing an appointment is to allow the user to select "Remind Me " + Spin

[android-developers] Re: Does showAlert now take 5 lines to do same?

2009-12-07 Thread JimmyHoffa
Thanks all for the replies. On Dec 7, 11:25 pm, Jason Proctor wrote: > i have a utility method which takes a Context and either a string > resource ID, a raw string, or a Throwable, and pukes up a Toast > appropriately. that way it's only one line of code in the actual > client wanting to show

[android-developers] Re: Does showAlert now take 5 lines to do same?

2009-12-07 Thread JimmyHoffa
Yeah ok, I know what you're saying, its not significantly a great deal extra work but I wasn't sure if it was the only way since they dropped the showAlert oneliner. On Dec 7, 11:00 pm, Jason Proctor wrote: > and the requirement he's describing would be better served with a Toast, IMHO! > > >Bl

[android-developers] Does showAlert now take 5 lines to do same?

2009-12-07 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi all, The subject says it all, just curious if I've missed something or does displaying a quick warning to the user require code such as the following; Dialog msg = new AlertDialog.Builder(Login.this) .setPositiveButton("OK", null) .setMessage("Please enter both login name and password") .creat

[android-developers] Orientation Sensor problems.

2009-06-22 Thread JimmyHoffa
Hi All, Hoping someone can help me make sense of my problem, Using eclipse to create a v1.5 compass application for my tmobile G1. What i'm experiencing is wacky heading results from the orientation sensor. the important bits of my code are : the setup of the sensor is >> sensorManager = (Se