Re: [android-developers] Re: Need dictionary database.

2011-07-07 Thread Justin Giles
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Ali Chousein ali.chous...@gmail.com wrote: Check online dictionaries to see if any of them provides a REST interface which would allow you to make queries. Other than that, I'm afraid the late Webster (and peace be upon him) is not a member of this group.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Amazon appstore order reports

2011-04-05 Thread Justin Giles
As of this morning (8am central), the reports are back up and seem accurate. On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Michael A. michael.aki...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I contacted them friday. Got a reply yesterday explaining that they are still having trouble with the reporting. Regards, Michael A.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Mac phone

2011-04-04 Thread Justin Giles
Sometimes when you plug a new device in, you need to restart the adb server for it to see it and make sure the development setting is checked on the phone under Settings-Applications. adb kill-server followed by: adb start-server On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:40 PM, bob b...@coolgroups.com wrote:

Re: [android-developers] Re: Amazon appstore order reports

2011-04-04 Thread Justin Giles
On Apr 4, 6:49 pm, Gregg Reno gregg.r...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't been able to see my Amazon appstore order report in over a week. As a developer with an app in the top 25 paid apps list, this is really frustrating. I have no idea what my sales have been since launch. Am I the only one

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is Android Smartphone application development similar to Android Tablet..???

2011-04-01 Thread Justin Giles
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: 1) Run app on Android Tablet 2) Note any errors 3) Any Errors? No, go to Step 6 4) Fix errors 5) Go to Step 1 6) Done I thought goto statements were generally frowned upon in Java? :) -- You received this message

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is Android Smartphone application development similar to Android Tablet..???

2011-04-01 Thread Justin Giles
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: 1) Run app on Android Tablet 2) Note any errors 3) Any Errors? No, go to Step 6 4) Fix errors 5) Go to Step 1 6) Done I thought goto statements

Re: [android-developers] Amazon Market Reporting

2011-03-30 Thread Justin Giles
Same here, and from what I saw over the first week, there was obviously something broken with their reporting. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Spiral123 cumis...@gmail.com wrote: Is it just me, or is anyone else getting the message: Access to reports is temporarily unavailable at this time.

Re: [android-developers] What is best game engine for Android?

2011-03-27 Thread Justin Giles
For 2D, try Andengine (andengine.org). There's also libgdx ( http://code.google.com/p/libgdx/) For 3D, Unity has some tools (for a price). On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Droid rod...@gmail.com wrote: I reckon that I might need to use game type of content soon, especially with Xoom. So

Re: [android-developers] Re: Amazon Appmarket is now open!

2011-03-25 Thread Justin Giles
I just ran into this yesterday. Only $2.85, but now I have an app I had no interest in and will never use. I emailed them about it and have not heard back yet. Even if one has 1-click payment on, an Are You Sure dialog seems like a no-brainer, especially when the Buy button is next to each

Re: [android-developers] Re: Amazon Appmarket is now open!

2011-03-25 Thread Justin Giles
Well, it looks like the Amazon Appstore has had its first stats true-up. My order/download stats just dropped by around 60% at this last update. Yes, that includes purchases as well. So, either people found a way to get a refund or the Appstore has been counting orders incorrectly thus far.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Amazon Appmarket is now open!

2011-03-24 Thread Justin Giles
Second update: Amazon updated my app's title and descriptions and they're still edited but *much* more in line with what I submitted in the description. I'm a happy panda now. Hot damn I love these people. Developer support rules! Something that you need to check is your Keywords. I

Re: [android-developers] Amazon Appmarket is now open!

2011-03-23 Thread Justin Giles
It varies. When I was first submitting last year, it was a fairly quick turn around...say a week, week and half. Currently it appears the turn around is more in the 1-3 week time frame. On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Matt M matthew.mag...@gmail.com wrote: To those who have submitted apps

Re: [android-developers] Amazon Appmarket is now open!

2011-03-23 Thread Justin Giles
Oh, and it never hurts to send them an inquiry after a week or so has passed. They are very responsive! On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com wrote: It varies. When I was first submitting last year, it was a fairly quick turn around...say a week, week and half

Re: [android-developers] Disappearing Images

2011-03-23 Thread Justin Giles
Any thoughts on this would be great as it is greatly impacting the ratings of my app for those that experience the blank images. The only other change I have made was adding in OpenFeint support. I had a similar issue when I added OpenFeint support. I think my problem was centered around

Re: [android-developers] Amazon Appmarket is now open!

2011-03-22 Thread Justin Giles
Awesome! Or maybe not awesome...they have a Test Drive Now feature that opens up a web based emulator to run your app for 30 minutes as a trial. Don't know how I feel about this. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Ralf Schneider li...@gestaltgeber.comwrote: The Amazon Appstore for Android is

Re: [android-developers] Amazon Appmarket is now open!

2011-03-22 Thread Justin Giles
On 22 March 2011 13:43, Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome! Or maybe not awesome...they have a Test Drive Now feature that opens up a web based emulator to run your app for 30 minutes as a trial. Where exactly did you spot that feature? I just looked up one of my apps Word

Re: [android-developers] Amazon Appmarket is now open!

2011-03-22 Thread Justin Giles
Hm, I do not see anythink like that for app you named - make sure you wasn't logged. I swear it's there for my apps, even when I'm not logged into Amazon. But I'm like others...I can't seem to find it on other apps...ah wait! Found it on another app Impossible Level Game LITE. Here's the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Amazon Appmarket is now open!

2011-03-22 Thread Justin Giles
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:09 AM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: Do you guy's apps have the original descriptions and bullet points you submitted? It seems like Amazon just wrote their own marketing descriptions ... Wow. I just noticed that mine was modified as well. It actually make

Re: [android-developers] Re: Amazon Appmarket is now open!

2011-03-22 Thread Justin Giles
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:23 AM, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.comwrote: In fairness, they did say they were going to edit the descriptions:

Re: [android-developers] Re: Amazon Appmarket is now open!

2011-03-22 Thread Justin Giles
An initial look at the reporting indicates that the stats are delayed a few hours, but it looks like it updates periodically throughout the day. Some items are a bit confusing as there's a discrepancy between downloads and orders. I guess orders are total number of click to download items and

Re: [android-developers] Cloud Computing

2011-03-21 Thread Justin Giles
To my knowledge (I've not scoured every inch of the Android API), there is no built-in cloud computing in Android. What you are going to want to investigate are various services offered by Google and Amazon, such as the Google AppEngine (and other services) and Amazon's EC2. Here are the links

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install % drop again?

2011-03-16 Thread Justin Giles
For example, 1.6 is shown as as having a 4.8% share in one, 7.1% in the other -- they are not even close. So, my theory to discontinue 1.5 and 1.6 support became much murkier as I have no way of knowing which number is right and which one is BS. It's not a matter of the overall averages

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install % drop again?

2011-03-16 Thread Justin Giles
posing as a Market dev waves hand These aren't the Market bugs you are looking for. Move along now, move along. /waves hand /posting as a Market dev In all seriousness, do I feel cheated when I see my stats drop dramatically? Yes. Do I feel like there should be some correction? Yes. Has

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install % drop again?

2011-03-15 Thread Justin Giles
Wouldn't it be great if someone from the Market team gave enough of a damn to take two seconds out of their life to explain what all of it actually means instead of us having to make wild guesses and theories? Man, that would be something ... I think at the bottom of the screen, in really,

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install % drop again?

2011-03-15 Thread Justin Giles
Now the Market for all apps, which I assume to be an average or aggregate of all (in my case two) apps, is ... 57.7% U.S.? And 9.0% is in *South Korea* ? I took that to mean the average across all apps and all developers. So a Market wide average distribution. -- You received this

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install % drop again?

2011-03-15 Thread Justin Giles
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com wrote: Now the Market for all apps, which I assume to be an average or aggregate of all (in my case two) apps, is ... 57.7% U.S.? And 9.0% is in *South Korea* ? I took that to mean the average across all apps and all

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install % drop again?

2011-03-14 Thread Justin Giles
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: I am absolutely planning on moving to the Amazon Market, but how do I do it? I cannot just unpublish the app as, I assume, the LVL would fail for the current users. I guess I could just raise the price to $999 and

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install % drop again?

2011-03-14 Thread Justin Giles
But existing users would rightfully get pissed if they got no updates while another market does. Yeah, I understand that. I guess my post earlier was a bit harsh towards the users. I was under the impression you were wanting to abandon the Android market all together. Anyway, from what I've

Re: [android-developers] Re: Which Mobile Advertising Site?

2011-03-11 Thread Justin Giles
Having ads in an app isn't totally fruitless. Look at Angry Birds on Android...what was it? $1 million/month back in November just from ads? The catch is you have to have enough of a user base to make it worthwhile. While there are some here that are making pennies a day on ads, there are

Re: [android-developers] Re: Which Mobile Advertising Site?

2011-03-09 Thread Justin Giles
I think you answered your own question: using ads this way is utterly pointless. Most of us make nearly nothing on ads in full-blown, interactive apps. You will probably make exactly nothing. I would consider a donate option in there instead. Or a link to the full version, if you have one. I

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install % drop again?

2011-03-09 Thread Justin Giles
Like I said before, I sort of agree with Roger's assessment. That being said, my percentage for my pay app has dropped by 4% in the past 3 days. On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Roger Podacter rogerpodac...@gmail.comwrote: I really think it is just an auto sweep that corrects the installed

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Rank

2011-03-08 Thread Justin Giles
I can vouch for those permissions being needed by Greystripe. I use them in one of my apps and there's no way around those permissions if you want to use their ads. Thanks for taking the time to clarify things Ravi. On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Justin Anderson magouyaw...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Rank

2011-03-08 Thread Justin Giles
I believe AdMob suggests to use the same permissions so they can target ads to specific devices. Yes they do, but you can get by with just the INTERNET permission. Much more favorable to users to only have the INTERNET permission. Most users get scared of the READ_PHONE_STATE permission.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install % drop again?

2011-03-04 Thread Justin Giles
Hate to break this to you, but I have never had my % restored. If anything, the percentage slowly corrects itself but never recovers to the original amount. What I highly suspect this is (in most cases), a correction. What I mean by correction is that when someone uninstalls you app, it might

Re: [android-developers] Re: Announcing: The Android Developers Union

2011-03-03 Thread Justin Giles
Hmm. Lots of them. When Mars comes around next time for its closest pass, we'll have to send a message to the market team about that. Um, I hate to burst your bubble, but life hasn't been discovered on Mars yet. For all we know, the Market team is stationed on Europa or Titan. Perhaps we

Re: [android-developers] (Newbie warning) Adding one of the sample projects to Eclipse

2011-02-27 Thread Justin Giles
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Ryan S music...@gmail.com wrote: Ah! That worked! Thanks! If my questions are too much of newbie questions for this group (it feels like it is) can anybody suggest a forum for total newbs like me to get basic answers to my questions? Google moved their

Re: [android-developers] (Newbie warning) Adding one of the sample projects to Eclipse

2011-02-26 Thread Justin Giles
You need to go one more directory further and select one of the sample project directories, such as Snake. On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Ryan S music...@gmail.com wrote: I did not elaborate because pretty much the whole thing. I mean I click on File-import-General-Existing projects into

Re: [android-developers] Re: SDK or some tool to develop a VERY simple Android game?

2011-02-25 Thread Justin Giles
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Ryan S music...@gmail.com wrote: My idea is mostly educational games with simple UIs. Will check out the three links on the page you sent me... any other tips and advise is also most welcome! If it is educational games with simple UIs, I'd recommend

Re: [android-developers] Android Market having trouble authorizing anyone today?

2011-02-23 Thread Justin Giles
Nope, not just you. On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Nathan critter...@crittermap.com wrote: According to my orders history, the Android Market is taking longer than four hours to authorize anyone today. Cancelled orders are through the roof - not surprising when you consider how horrible

Re: [android-developers] Pins for developers?

2011-02-17 Thread Justin Giles
Sc***ew pins, I want IO ticket. Sold out in 59 minutes when I just went out for lunch? It's outrageous... Doh! I almost did the same thing. Fortunately I convinced myself that I should stick to my computer and eat the blueberry bagel I brought in, just in case. Best dang blueberry bagel

Re: [android-developers] splash image when app is loading

2011-02-11 Thread Justin Giles
There's several approaches for doing this. Just Google android splash screen. I think one of the first few links contains info that I used to create my own. On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Danielle Murkerson dmurkerso...@gmail.com wrote: Ok...so I would need to use some kind of listener

Re: [android-developers] Re: Checkout transitioning to monthly payouts?

2011-02-11 Thread Justin Giles
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Nathan critter...@crittermap.com wrote: Getting a lump sum may seem easier for accounting, but it isn't. My accountant still has to sift through the entire list and determine which transactions are in state for sales tax purposes. This has how it has been

Re: [android-developers] Re: Dictionary for word game ..pls help :)

2011-02-06 Thread Justin Giles
Keep in mind though that depending on the word app, constantly hitting a remote resource is going to cause delays. It would be best to at least cache several words local to the device if you are using that approach. Also, you would need to keep in mind that a user may or may not have an active

Re: [android-developers] Re: In app billing...

2011-02-05 Thread Justin Giles
Ok, you two. Now I'm hungry for a donut while I'm doing my laundry! On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: 05.02.2011 18:59, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) пишет: I believe being able to provide refunds is important. When you go to a real-world store

Re: [android-developers] In app billing...

2011-02-03 Thread Justin Giles
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: How about using it to be able to put your app up on market as a free trial version, using in-app billing to unlock the full version? That's exactly what I was thinking of when I heard the announcement. It would chop

Re: [android-developers] In app billing...

2011-02-03 Thread Justin Giles
/market/billing/billing_admin.html#billing-purchase-type ? On 3 February 2011 21:25, Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com wrote: That's exactly what I was thinking of when I heard the announcement. It would chop my GitHub repo in half! Just some questions about this...sure, the user can unlock

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Development Income Tax Question

2011-01-21 Thread Justin Giles
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Does Google send us a W-2? No. At least last tax season they didn't. Don't rely on any ad companies to do it either. Basically it's the honor system it appears. Again, talk to a professional you trust and always err

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Development Income Tax Question

2011-01-21 Thread Justin Giles
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:22 AM, DanH danhi...@ieee.org wrote: True -- anyone who's able to read programming manuals should be able to penetrate the tax instructions sufficiently to handle this. Just be aware that there IS paperwork that needs to be done. And don't count on the money not

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Development Income Tax Question

2011-01-21 Thread Justin Giles
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:39 AM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com wrote: Also, for those who have made any significant amount of income, you should probably be making quarterly payments throughout the year, or risk

Re: [android-developers] thousands of strings

2010-10-04 Thread Justin Giles
The way I handle this is I have a small database packaged with the initial application install. Upon first run, it attempts to download the full database from my server. If it fails, then the user still has a subset of items to choose from with the smaller database until the next time the game

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

2010-10-01 Thread Justin Giles
Also, when a developer has a slight case of OCD when it comes to how well his/her app is doing, hundreds of visits to the dashboard a day to see stat updates, new comments, new sales is not out of the question. Over time, current and past percentages get ingrained in your head! :) Justin On

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

2010-09-30 Thread Justin Giles
I updated one of my apps on Tuesday. I have noticed that the active install numbers were accumulating at a higher rate than my download numbers. So, I think as people update the app, it is putting the active installs back to normal. So far I've only gone up 1%, but it's nice to see it seemingly

Re: [android-developers] Re: Proguard, Android, and the Licensing Server, or...

2010-09-24 Thread Justin Giles
I think for most of us it is just the idea of going from a familiar, known setup to something new with potential pitfalls that could potentially cause delay in releasing apps initially. I personally look forward to trying the build with Ant as I like to customize things, however, it seems that

Re: [android-developers] Request: Don't make us use Ant

2010-09-23 Thread Justin Giles
Ok, I'll ask the proverbial question Rough time frame for when we can expect this? I'm just wondering if it is worthwhile converting all my build stuff to Ant right now or just wait a few weeks for the built-in solution. Thanks for letting us know it's coming! Justin On Wed, Sep 22, 2010

Re: [android-developers] Re: Proguard, Android, and the Licensing Server, or...

2010-09-23 Thread Justin Giles
Xavier stated in another thread that in the next release there will be built-in support for proguard in Eclipse. I can't find a link right now, but the last discussion on it was earlier today or yesterday. Justin On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.comwrote:

Re: [android-developers] Re: How much money do you make?

2010-09-18 Thread Justin Giles
I tend to agree with Dianne. I've seen a plethora of big name apps as well as unknowns show up. I think the real issue is that all of us who have apps in the Market feel that our apps are the best of the best and should be featured. Any time we see a big name app on the Market we immediately

Re: [android-developers] Any way to animate a 2D Game Smooth without OpenGL ?

2010-09-14 Thread Justin Giles
Just a few moderately uninformed comments/questions... 1) Use DDMS and MAT to try to nail down any possible memory issues that you might be overlooking. 2) Canvas 2D does have significant limitations compared to OpenGL when it comes to a large number of sprites on the screen at once. Is this a

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

2010-08-26 Thread Justin Giles
Join the club! I was noticing a drop about 2 weeks ago, but I released an update to my app that allowed installs to SD card and now it is plummeting nearly 2-3K a day while my download count is steadily rising. So far I've dropped about 10,000 active installs since Sunday when I released the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Greystripe experiences?

2010-08-26 Thread Justin Giles
AdMob is hit or miss for a lot of people. Some do well with it, others do not. Mobclix has a horrible reputation for handling the payouts, but a good reputation for having good CPMs. I contacted Greystripe recently about their banner ads and integration with AdWhirl on Android and they said

Re: [android-developers] Re: App breaks for some users after they update from the Market

2010-08-25 Thread Justin Giles
I've experienced users having crashing problem after an update. I'm not sure if yours is device specific, but I would say almost 99% of the crash reports after updating are from Motorola Droid users (via email and console error reporting). This could mean that a large majority of my user base is

Re: [android-developers] Re: Greystripe experiences?

2010-08-25 Thread Justin Giles
Actually, they are moving to a monthly payment system with a 90 waiting period on the first payment, then monthly after that with a $100 minimum amount you have to have earned before being paid. They focus on full screen ads for Android, but have banner ads now in beta. eCPM fluctuated wildly

Re: [android-developers] WebView and Android 1.5

2010-07-19 Thread Justin Giles
Ok, through trial and error I seem to have things working in 1.5 now. For some reason, all versions 1.5 the pages load fine. However in v1.5, I'm needing to put a webview.bringToFront() after the page load. Seems strange, but that line fixed things. On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Justin

Re: [android-developers] Re: Looking for game developer

2010-07-16 Thread Justin Giles
Please note, I'm not interested in joining you guys for this particular project, but it made me think What would happen if Google or someone on this list organized a HUGE open source project to develop a game that everyone on this list contributed to. Just think of the experience that this

Re: [android-developers] Re: Dell Streak

2010-06-29 Thread Justin Giles
Thanks for the details. That sounds like a good explanation about what is happening. I'll implement the suggestions and see if that fixes things. Justin On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.comwrote: What do you mean by not scaling? As far as I know, the Streak

[android-developers] Hello

2010-06-19 Thread Justin Giles
http://supertablets15335.astomielo.com/ -- 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@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: [android-developers] JetPlayer help

2010-05-17 Thread Justin Giles
Well, again, to answer my own question I ran some tests and it looks like the behavior is as it is described, you CAN queue segments after the jetplayer starts playing. The caveat is that queueing a segment takes time and if the existing segments finish before the one you are queuing is done

Re: [android-developers] Re: Finally, I published my Android/GAE based MMO War Game

2010-04-27 Thread Justin Giles
I've had to mark about 15-20 comments in my apps as pocket empires spam over the past week. It's getting kind of tiring. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Mike michaeldouglaskra...@gmail.comwrote: I've done both. And yet the spam continues... On Apr 26, 7:47 pm, polyclefsoftware

Re: [android-developers] Re: How many Android phones have touchscreens?

2010-04-23 Thread Justin Giles
OT: Hmm...I guess sending mom a chocolate covered HTC Incredible for Mothers Day is out of the question now. Thanks for the warning Kevin! :) On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Kevin Gaudin kevin.gau...@gmail.comwrote: My HTC Magic has been slowly losing it's touch-screen sensitivity after an

Re: [android-developers] Specifying LinearLayout orientation in resource values

2010-04-20 Thread Justin Giles
I suppose you could change the orientation in code. After you assign the view in your onCreate, do a check to see whether the user is on landscape or portrait mode and set the orientation value accordingly. This should be a bit more fool-proof than your method, however it could have its own

Re: [android-developers] Portrait/landscape question

2010-04-18 Thread Justin Giles
Why would you want to allow them to set it in settings when Android handles the rotation automagically? All you have to do is have a xml file in your layout directory, then for landscape have a xml file (with the same name) in your layout-land directory. When in portrait mode Android looks to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Current consensus on whether to use Copy Protect mode when publishing in Market?

2010-04-16 Thread Justin Giles
There were reports, albeit old reports (November/December 2009 timeframe) that having copy protection turned on could cause your app to not be visible in the market on all devices. I know of some developers that turned off copy protection and their apps returned to the market visible to all. I'm

Re: [android-developers] BUG in SQLite? Cannot use Long Integers in Cache Database

2010-04-13 Thread Justin Giles
Here is a list of data types that are allowed in SQLite 3: http://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html Note that there is no official long data type. It would be classified as INTEGER or REAL. For actual long data types that don't seem to be stored well in SQLite you might do better to store as TEXT

Re: [android-developers] Re: Social Gaming Platforms

2010-04-13 Thread Justin Giles
One thing that I worry about with these 3rd party high score/social sites is that they all sort of started out geared towards iPhone. Since Apple is going to start their own social gaming thing, built into the SDK, it kind of makes me wonder if these 3rd party companies are going to dissolve into

Re: [android-developers] Re: Any experienced Greystripe users?

2010-04-06 Thread Justin Giles
I prefer the full page ads for the higher returns.. right now I have an average eCPM of $2.43. I also prefer the ads do annoy, so they buy the paid version of my app. Be annoyed or pay the $0.99. But it seems to me a lot of people don't mind them. You need to find a happy balance

Re: [android-developers] Re: Any experienced Greystripe users?

2010-04-06 Thread Justin Giles
Actually today it's $2.54, sorry :) Admob sucks, my eCPM with them is usually only $0.05 or so. I had the setup you were proposing on one of my apps (admob + Greystripe). Greystripe performed much better, however Admob had a more stable ecpm. Greystripe fluctuated a ton!! It started out

Re: [android-developers] Re: Ads in apps... How to successfully generate a larger revenue?

2010-04-01 Thread Justin Giles
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: So help clarify something to me if you ad guys don't mind.. if you just display an ad.. do you get paid? Or does a user have to click on the ad for you to make any money? If it's both.. I am guessing you get more money

Re: [android-developers] Re: Ads in apps... How to successfully generate a larger revenue?

2010-04-01 Thread Justin Giles
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: Good info.. so you can integrate google adsense into android apps too? IS there info on how to do that? You need to apply to and get accepted to the google adsense for mobile applications.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-31 Thread Justin Giles
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Jason arm...@gmail.com wrote: I received a Droid and I did not see the Read Me First leaflet that was referenced in the Getting Started on Droid - Activation section of the letter. Anyone else who got a Droid know what it looks like, where it was packed or

Re: [android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-29 Thread Justin Giles
Just a FYI for those receiving something from FedEx...they attempted to deliver my phone on Saturday, but it required a signature and of course I wasn't home. Next delivery time is Tuesday. Just a warning that a signature may be required to get your phone. On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:33 PM,

Re: [android-developers] Game Developers: Some general questions about high scores, achievements, multi player support and in game ads.

2010-03-25 Thread Justin Giles
So I am curious, what sort of features for a service like ScoreLoop are sought after by developers? I mean, if a service offers a gamer profile capability, is that somethng that a lot of game developers would make use of, especially if the service works across different platforms that the

Re: [android-developers] Game Developers: Some general questions about high scores, achievements, multi player support and in game ads.

2010-03-24 Thread Justin Giles
/). I'm thinking to release this code as an opensource project as soon as I have the time. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com wrote: Nikolay, First of all, kudos to a great game! It's one of the few that I go back to over and over again. Back to your post

Re: [android-developers] Game Developers: Some general questions about high scores, achievements, multi player support and in game ads.

2010-03-24 Thread Justin Giles
:38 PM, Kevin Duffey andjar...@gmail.com wrote: Holy crap Jusint.. 10s of thousands of updates every day! That is sick! I want to make a game that gets a couple.. hundred or so updates a day. :D Sell your game for .99.. you'll be rich man! :D On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Justin Giles

Re: [android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-24 Thread Justin Giles
I also called and was told that nothing was en route to my location, however I'm not sure if its because the woman that i spoke too doesn't know how to spell Chateau or if its because nothing has been sent yet. She barely spoke English. Just had a similar experience in the online chat with

Re: [android-developers] Game Developers: Some general questions about high scores, achievements, multi player support and in game ads.

2010-03-23 Thread Justin Giles
Nikolay, First of all, kudos to a great game! It's one of the few that I go back to over and over again. Back to your post: Great ideas here! Your online scores idea is great for decreasing the amount of cheating to almost 0. However it seems like it has a lot of overhead to recreate someones

Re: [android-developers] Re: Being legally harassed, by a large iPhone developer

2010-03-23 Thread Justin Giles
Here's an idiots guide to copyright from the US copyright office: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.pdf Great info on their general site as well: http://www.copyright.gov Brief synopsis from the PDF (please read the whole thing to interpret your own way): Who Can Claim Copyright? Copyright

Re: [android-developers] Re: Being legally harassed, by a large iPhone developer

2010-03-23 Thread Justin Giles
Again, I'm no legal advisor, but doing a quick search on the US Copyrights (via the sites I mentioned earlier), I found nothing pertaining to Flight Control as a game. Just a FYI. Do your own research though. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com wrote: Here's

Re: [android-developers] Re: Being legally harassed, by a large iPhone developer

2010-03-23 Thread Justin Giles
Seriously, the right thing to do here is ask for advise from an expert. The advise you get here is likely to be as useful as going to a lawyer and asking him about the Android SDK. Very valid and probably the best piece of advice so far! :) But, it is still nice to get other points of view

Re: [android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-22 Thread Justin Giles
Android adventurers log: Date: 2010-03-22 Day 20, It's been 20 days since I got stranded on this thread. I sent a distress signal to Google right after I found this thread and have only received one response from them: Help will arrive in 2-4 weeks. I'm not sure how much longer I can survive

Re: [android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-22 Thread Justin Giles
HTC Hero on Sprint, HTC Eris on Verizon to name a few. 2010/3/22 Blake La Pierre blakelapie...@gmail.com What phone only has 1.5? 2010/3/22 Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com Android adventurers log: Date: 2010-03-22 Day 20, It's been 20 days since I got stranded on this thread. I sent

Re: [android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-22 Thread Justin Giles
...@gmail.comwrote: Why didn't they get 1.6 like the G1? On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com wrote: HTC Hero on Sprint, HTC Eris on Verizon to name a few. 2010/3/22 Blake La Pierre blakelapie...@gmail.com What phone only has 1.5? 2010/3/22 Justin Giles jtgi

Re: [android-developers] Re: Game Developers: Some general questions about high scores, achievements, multi player support and in game ads.

2010-03-18 Thread Justin Giles
I inquired for more information at Scoreloop. It's free for developers to use. No cost to us. Looks like they make their money from users purchasing coins that the users use to challenge other players. Coins can be had by getting on the high score list, inviting others to Scoreloop, or

Re: [android-developers] Re: Game Developers: Some general questions about high scores, achievements, multi player support and in game ads.

2010-03-17 Thread Justin Giles
Just to throw it out there... There's also Google Apps Engine: https://appengine.google.com It's java or python based (your choice). The free quotas are rather generous. I keep my high scores stored there for my apps and for one of the apps I have over 75000 active installs and I have yet to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Game Developers: Some general questions about high scores, achievements, multi player support and in game ads.

2010-03-17 Thread Justin Giles
And an off topic question.. I see more and more people talking about getting a free phone from google? Is there some place you sign up to get this? I'd love to get a Nexus One to test on... sounds like some people are getting just that.. a free phone to test on? Please see the following

Re: [android-developers] Re: Number of ratings decreased??

2010-03-11 Thread Justin Giles
Yeah, I noticed that, but it was just very strange that I lost 6 in one day when I hadn't lost any in 5 months. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Farproc farp...@gmail.com wrote: Do you notice the Clear my review option menu of Market app? On Mar 11, 11:10 am, Justin jtgi...@gmail.com

Re: [android-developers] What phone to buy for development?

2010-03-11 Thread Justin Giles
Just wanted to chime in and say that before you go off and buy an actual device, I'd recommend using the emulator that comes with the SDK to get you started and make sure you enjoy developing for the platform. The emulator goes a long way and is nearly identical to testing on an actual device.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-11 Thread Justin Giles
You mean they aren't going to spontaneously appear on my doorstep??? Seriously people. If you received the email and filled out the form and google confirmed you meet the criteria, it will be 2-4 weeks. Late March or early April. If you didn't meet the criteria clearly spelled out on their

Re: [android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-11 Thread Justin Giles
11, 1:21 pm, Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com wrote: You mean they aren't going to spontaneously appear on my doorstep??? Seriously people. If you received the email and filled out the form and google confirmed you meet the criteria, it will be 2-4 weeks. Late March or early April

Re: [android-developers] Re: What to do about developers who publish games with the same name as what you have published...

2010-03-06 Thread Justin Giles
Thanks for all the advice guys. I have a question about this started over at the Market help forum, err, I mean black hole. Not sure if I am going to contact the developer or just let his app flounder. If you do a search for my app, it is obvious which one is the correct one. I'm a bit leery

Re: [android-developers] Re: What to do about developers who publish games with the same name as what you have published...

2010-03-06 Thread Justin Giles
I started my app just for fun, but it has mushroomed in the past couple of months. I didn't even think about having any trademarks or copyrights in place until recently. Quite frankly I wouldn't know where to begin. I haven't seen any lost revenue or anything. All of this developers apps are

Re: [android-developers] Re: Problems testing applications on HTC Hero device

2010-02-12 Thread Justin Giles
, but it didn't do the build/software version update. I'm wondering if Sprint didn't give us a development phone or something like that? On Feb 11, 7:00 pm, Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com wrote: Sprint pushed out the update. I'm not sure if it is directly available from HTC or not. Here

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