[android-developers] Resources.getColor() return type is too small

2011-07-31 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, How comes Resources.getColor() returns an int? This can't hold the maximum value of 0x because Java int is signed. -- Olivier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [android-developers] Resources.getColor() return type is too small

2011-07-31 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 07/31/2011 03:33 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Olivier Guilyardi l...@samalyse.com wrote: How comes Resources.getColor() returns an int? This can't hold the maximum value of 0x because Java int is signed. An int can hold 0x, because an int is 32

Re: [android-developers] Resources.getColor() return type is too small

2011-07-31 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 07/31/2011 03:57 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Olivier Guilyardi l...@samalyse.com wrote: I know it's 32bit, but using a signed int to hold a value higher that 0x7FFF seems like perverting the sign bit IMO. It can lead to subtle bugs. That ship sailed about

Re: [android-developers] Resources.getColor() return type is too small

2011-07-31 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 07/31/2011 03:40 PM, Marcin Orlowski wrote: On 31 July 2011 15:13, Olivier Guilyardi l...@samalyse.com mailto:l...@samalyse.com wrote: How comes Resources.getColor() returns an int? This can't hold the maximum value of 0x because Java int is signed. Java does

Re: [android-developers] What OS is more user friendly for Android development.

2011-06-24 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
I have 5 devices from different manufacturers. I plug them into a Mac and never had to worry about drivers. It just works. But I actually do all my development work on Linux, and I route adb communications to my Macbook via ssh port forwarding. This setup works flawlessly. I got upset by the USB

Re: [android-developers] Simpler UI Development with Android-Query

2011-05-27 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hello Peter, It's a nice idea and project. I haven't tried AQuery yet, but I have a little remark. In your examples there is: aq.id(R.id.icon).image(R.drawable.icon).visible().clicked(this, someMethod); I'm not a big fan of this clicked() function. The problem is that the java compiler cannot

Re: [android-developers] Mac source control

2011-05-23 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hello Bob, My personal favorite is SVN. A few months ago I worked with a graphic designer. Amongst over things, he designed some bitmaps, xml drawables and animations. I asked him to commit his work to SVN whenever he was done with a task. For this purpose, he used an OSX SVN gui named Versions:

[android-developers] AIDL stubs are not generated anymore

2011-03-07 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, I have recently upgraded to SDK tools r10 and SDK platform tools r3. At first everything worked fine, for a couple days. Then I changed very few things in a layout and in my attrs.xml and the build is now failing in Eclipse. Reverting the changes didn't help. R.java is here but the AIDL

Re: [android-developers] AIDL stubs are not generated anymore

2011-03-07 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Oh, and by the way, this affects two absolutely distinct projects which both have AIDL files, and which used to build just fine. I have cleaned many times, and even reimported a project, but it didn't help. I am using Eclipse 3.4.2 Ganymede. Olivier On 03/07/2011 02:48 PM, Olivier Guilyardi

Re: [android-developers] AIDL stubs are not generated anymore

2011-03-07 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Ok, for the records, I did a fresh install of Eclipse Helios, re-imported my projects, and the problem's gone. Olivier On 03/07/2011 02:55 PM, Olivier Guilyardi wrote: Oh, and by the way, this affects two absolutely distinct projects which both have AIDL files, and which used to build just

[android-developers] New mailing list for Android Audio Developers

2011-01-17 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi everyone! I am glad to announce the creation of the andraudio mailing list, dedicated to audio development on Android, at: andrau...@music.columbia.edu More info and subscribing: http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/andraudio This list is meant to be a place to discuss about audio

Re: [android-developers] Orientation sensorLandscape on Froyo

2011-01-07 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Anyone? TIA On 01/06/2011 04:11 PM, Olivier Guilyardi wrote: Hi, my app only runs in landscape but I would like to allow the reverse landscape orientation (270°), which is supported by Froyo and up AFAICS. The sensorLandscape screenOrienation is precisely what I need IIUC

[android-developers] Orientation sensorLandscape on Froyo

2011-01-06 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, my app only runs in landscape but I would like to allow the reverse landscape orientation (270°), which is supported by Froyo and up AFAICS. The sensorLandscape screenOrienation is precisely what I need IIUC, but this is only available as of Gingerbread. Is there a way to achieve the same

Re: [android-developers] Re: Making a video of your app running

2011-01-06 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 01/06/2011 09:04 PM, Phil Endecott wrote: Some devices have HDMI or composite video out, which you could record in numerous ways. That's correct and the only way to get something smooth, especially if you use OpenGL. More info at:

Re: [android-developers] Application related data and cache options

2010-12-08 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
data in getFilesDir() get deleted when the application is uninstalled, not closed. It is kept along the time, as long as the app is installed. That said, please consider that internal storage space is limited, and /should/ not exceed 1Mb per app IIRC. Therefore, for downloading images, etc..,

Re: [android-developers] How can a Service close an open AIDL connection?

2010-12-07 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 12/07/2010 08:47 PM, Jin Chiu wrote: The only way I've seen for closing AIDl connections is client- initiated: Context.unbindService() Is it possible the Service itself to initiate disconnects for existing AIDL connections? You could use a callback from the service to the clients, to

Re: [android-developers] Re: What Tablet would you get

2010-12-03 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
What about Archos tablets? Here in France they're less than half the price of the Galaxy Tab. On 12/03/2010 11:13 PM, OldSkoolMark wrote: I'm digging my Samsung Galaxy Tab. Stuff I'm working on is not tab specific, but its nice to be able to see the UI easily without having to pick up the

[android-developers] Missing instance state when restoring dialogs

2010-12-02 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, in my app, certain dialogs need some instance data when onPrepareDialog() is called. I am saving this data in onSaveInstanceState() and restoring it in onCreate(). This works fine according to my tests: I received the saved data in the bundle passed to onCreate(), and then the dialogs get

Re: [android-developers] Missing instance state when restoring dialogs

2010-12-02 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
The onRestoreInstanceState() doc does not say that: http://developer.android.com/intl/fr/reference/android/app/Activity.html#onRestoreInstanceState%28android.os.Bundle%29 From what I read, onCreate() is all what is needed. Implementing onRestoreInstanceState() doesn't seem necessary in my case.

[android-developers] Launcher icon gets scaled on X10 Mini

2010-12-01 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, I just got a Xperia X10 Mini running Android 1.6, and the launcher icon of my app is awfully scaled. I'm providing an ldpi icon, which strictly respects the icon guidelines, and after testing I can confirm that this ldpi icon is used in the launcher. But this 36x ldpi icon appears to be

Re: [android-developers] Allowing one .apk to install another?

2010-11-24 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 11/23/2010 10:01 PM, Biosopher wrote: We are providing an Android Service to multiple customers for packaging into their .apks and need to ensure that only a single instance of our Service is running at a time. The ideal situation would be this: When one of our customers's apps is

Re: [android-developers] streaming mp4 from Internet

2010-11-21 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 11/21/2010 09:17 PM, Ahmed Shoeib wrote: hi , i got this message when trying to play mp4 video on android from url ( video is not valid for streaming on this device ) the code i use to play mp4 Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);

Re: [android-developers] Capture Video of App

2010-11-20 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 11/19/2010 10:34 PM, Nathan wrote: One of the alternative app stores is asking for unaltered, unedited capture from the app as a video. Plus I'm also interested in cleaner video than I get by focusing a camcorder on an Android on a table. Who knows how to do that? I think I found some

Re: [android-developers] Capture Video of App

2010-11-20 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 11/20/2010 02:10 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: If you have access to an HTC Droid Incredible or some editions of the Samsung Galaxy S, you can get a cable that outputs the main Android screen to composite video, which you could record. Wow thanks. I have a Galaxy S, and found the TV Out option

Re: [android-developers] Is uses-feature=false inferred by the Market if not included in manifest

2010-11-19 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 11/19/2010 03:30 PM, ses wrote: Seems like a straightforward question: Does the Android Market treat your app as though you have set uses- feature explicitly to false for each feature if you do not declare any uses-feature in your android manifest? Most of my apps so far don't use many

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is uses-feature=false inferred by the Market if not included in manifest

2010-11-19 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 11/19/2010 04:00 PM, ses wrote: You can test all that with aapt: http://developer.android.com/intl/fr/guide/topics/manifest/uses-featu... You can use the aapt tool, included in the Android SDK, to determine how Android Market will filter your application, based on its declared features

[android-developers] [android-discuss] Android market (High res) icon

2010-11-17 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, I have noticed that there's a new high-res icon field in the market console. Does anyone know what that's for? I have tested this new field, and I can tell for sure that it was ignored when rendering the android market icon. Maybe that it will get used after a market upgrade... Furthermore,

Re: [android-developers] Android market (High res) icon

2010-11-17 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
for application details view, and there is not enough room for such large icons in the application list view. Perhaps it's for Google TV or for desktop-oriented Market? Hopefully there is an explanation coming soon enough. -- Kostya 17.11.2010 19:03, Olivier Guilyardi пишет: Hi, I

[android-developers] Service gets instantiated multiple times

2010-09-27 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, IIUC, there should only be one instance of a given service, it is a singleton. However, my (audio engine) service gets instantiated multiple times, although I do nothing for it. When the service crashes (for example when I uninstall the app through adb), it gets scheduled for restart

Re: [android-developers] Service gets instantiated multiple times

2010-09-27 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
the service running as long as either it is started or there are one or more connections to it Olivier On 09/27/2010 10:51 PM, Agus wrote: Calling bindService will start the service if it has not been started, so you dont have to call both methods. On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Olivier Guilyardi l

Re: [android-developers] Content Provider for shared preferences. ?

2010-08-11 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
I think that you want to make a Content Provider: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-providers.html With this you can allow other apps to retrieve data from your app. Internally, you can store this data the way you want, in shared preferences, in a sqlite database, etc..

Re: [android-developers] Free trial and payed apps... How to switch from...

2010-07-28 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, every single app on the market has a unique package name. So if your trial version is com.foo.bar, your full version must be something like com.foo.pro.bar. In addition to modifying the manifest, this involves reorganizing the java source tree when building the alternative version, which

Re: [android-developers] Re: Free trial and payed apps... How to switch from...

2010-07-28 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Yes, that's right, and I don't understand why you consider this to be a nightmare. Other issues may qualify as such, but not this one IMO. The market doesn't allow you to turn a free into a paid app, and I think that's because it would turn into a grand mess for people who upgrade but originally

Re: [android-developers] Re: Free trial and payed apps... How to switch from...

2010-07-28 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
server or now using LVL. Why I should build two APK with different package name if it will be the same software? On Jul 28, 6:32 pm, sblantipodi perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org wrote: I haven't understood if I can't delete my actual trial app from the market. On Jul 28, 3:33 pm, Olivier

[android-developers] Can't mark errors as old in the market developer console

2010-06-25 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, in the developer console, I have a couple of errors, which although fixed in the code and marked old in the console, still show up on the front page. And I highly suspect that this is affecting the rank of my apps. This is obviously a bug in the developer console: 1. at the developer

[android-developers] Problem with developer console error reporting

2010-06-24 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, in the developer console, I have a couple of errors, which although marked old, still show up on the front page. And I highly suspect that this is affecting the rank of my apps. Could this please be fixed? -- Olivier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[android-developers] adb over wifi

2010-06-23 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, has anyone managed to connect to a device with adb over a wifi connection? I'd like to stop plugging the device in and out if possible. Hackish solutions are welcome too. -- Olivier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To

Re: [android-developers] Problem in stopping thread

2010-06-17 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
I personally do that kind of thing: class MyThread extends Thread { private boolean done; public void run() { while (true) { synchronized (this) { if (done) break; } /* do a small part of the heavy work */ } /* cleanup, close files, etc.. */ } /*

Re: [android-developers] Service Vs Thread

2010-06-13 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 06/13/2010 03:46 PM, tarek.attia wrote: I have a question what to Use ,Service Or Thread,as both run in the background There is confusion here, because you are referring to two different meanings of the word background. A thread, in Java but also in many other languages, allows for

Re: [android-developers] Service Vs Thread

2010-06-13 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 06/13/2010 06:23 PM, Olivier Guilyardi wrote: On 06/13/2010 03:46 PM, tarek.attia wrote: I have a question what to Use ,Service Or Thread,as both run in the background There is confusion here, because you are referring to two different meanings of the word background. A thread

Re: [android-developers] Service Vs Thread

2010-06-13 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 06/13/2010 06:49 PM, tarek attia wrote: Thanks you so much for this clarification ,,exactly I want to make an application that keeps running while the user may went of the main application ,,and I guess Service will be the best candidate for doing that ,,, But what if the

Re: [android-developers] Service Vs Thread

2010-06-13 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 06/14/2010 12:00 AM, Olivier Guilyardi wrote: On 06/13/2010 06:49 PM, tarek attia wrote: Thanks you so much for this clarification ,,exactly I want to make an application that keeps running while the user may went of the main application ,,and I guess Service will be the best candidate

Re: [android-developers] Why is Android so buggy?

2010-06-09 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 06/06/2010 11:25 PM, blahblah...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that Android is very buggy compared not only to the iPhone, but to pretty much any other software. It's not just minor bugs either - pretty much every developer will come across many serious bugs. Some examples: [...] Since this

Re: [android-developers] Why is Android so buggy?

2010-06-09 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 06/09/2010 01:29 PM, Anton Persson wrote: OK, the only example you bring up about ANDROID itself is the IOException-part... That is not even a _bug_, that is a usage error. Have you ever used BSD sockets in most other OS:es? It's up to you to handle connection timeouts. TCP/IP over the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Why is Android so buggy?

2010-06-07 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Dianne, On 06/07/2010 11:51 PM, Dianne Hackborn wrote: Our developer tools team is admittedly fairly small, and has done an amazing job with the people they have. Also most of the stuff related to these issues are in the open-source tree, so if they are trivial issues someone could probably

Re: [android-developers] Re: Why is Android so buggy?

2010-06-07 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 06/08/2010 12:36 AM, Xavier Ducrohet wrote: On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Olivier Guilyardi l...@samalyse.com wrote: For instance, how could someone feel like working on patch if the Git head is hidden? Since most of the bugs mentioned in the original email are developer tools, I'll

Re: [android-developers] Re: Why is Android so buggy?

2010-06-07 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 06/08/2010 12:46 AM, Olivier Guilyardi wrote: On 06/08/2010 12:36 AM, Xavier Ducrohet wrote: On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Olivier Guilyardi l...@samalyse.com wrote: For instance, how could someone feel like working on patch if the Git head is hidden? Since most of the bugs mentioned

Re: [android-developers] Re: Why is Android so buggy?

2010-06-07 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 06/08/2010 01:04 AM, Dianne Hackborn wrote: On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Olivier Guilyardi l...@samalyse.com mailto:l...@samalyse.com wrote: This openness is your strength, and I think that it will lead to success if you manage to build an active community of contributors

Re: [android-developers] Re: Why is Android so buggy?

2010-06-07 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 06/08/2010 01:48 AM, Xavier Ducrohet wrote: On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Olivier Guilyardi l...@samalyse.com wrote: I think that your problem is that the whole of Android is too monolithic. You are mentioning branches where you could think in terms of standalone modules. monolithic

[android-developers] Microphone input level

2010-06-04 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, is there a way to change the mic audio input level? This is not about increasing it, as I can do this by applying a software gain. I need to reduce the level, to avoid clipping in loud sound conditions. -- Olivier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [android-developers] Any hope for call recording in 2.2?

2010-05-22 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 05/22/2010 03:28 PM, Steve Hueners wrote: Is the root cause of android phones' inability to record phone conversations documented anywhere? I don't know about documentation, but there are discussions: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2117

[android-developers] Audio input from Bluetooth

2010-05-05 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, if I understand correctly, getting audio input from a Bluetooth mic/headset, using say AudioRecord, is not supported. Is this right? -- Olivier -- 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] AudioRecord fails on Android 2.1

2010-04-12 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, I can successfully create an AudioRecord instance on the emulator, on Android 1.5, 1.6, and 2.0 with the following statement : new AudioRecord( MediaRecorder.AudioSource.MIC, 8000, AudioFormat.CHANNEL_CONFIGURATION_MONO, AudioFormat.ENCODING_PCM_16BIT, 16384); But it

Re: [android-developers] Re: AudioRecord fails on Android 2.1

2010-04-12 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi Gabriel, On 04/12/2010 11:34 PM, Gabriel Simões wrote: Well, yes, there´s a clue. At least I´ve had the same error before and it was this: Everytime you get an error instantiating AudioRecord it doesn´t release it´s resources the way it should so you won´t be able to request it again

Re: [android-developers] Re: OpenGL ES 1.1 question (one more time...)

2010-01-13 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
glColor4x() works fine. Use bit shifting, no need for floats or divisions, eg for value=0xAARRGGBB: int alpha = (value 16) 0xFF00; int red= (value 8) 0xFF00; int green = value 0xFF00; int blue = (value 8) 0xFF00; gl.glColor4x(red, green, blue, alpha); That should be faster.

Re: [android-developers] How to best maintain two different versions of the same app?

2010-01-08 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 01/08/2010 07:15 PM, Mariano Kamp wrote: this seems to be a very basic need, but googling it I got the impression that is not easily or elegantly solvable. The requirement is totally simple: I want to have a lite and pro version of an app. There is a little bit of difference between those

Re: [android-developers] Avoiding String allocation in TextView.setText()

2010-01-04 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 12/28/2009 07:09 PM, Olivier Guilyardi wrote: on Android 1.5, using the Allocation Tracker I see that every time I call TextView.setText() with a StringBuilder as first argument, a String gets allocated from the following call stack (first line is last call

Re: [android-developers] continous raw audio playback using AudioTrack.

2009-12-29 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 12/29/2009 01:01 PM, Ravinder wrote: I am trying to play raw audio samples ( 16 bit , stereo , @ 32000KHz) using AudioTrack, in MODE_STREAM mode. I could play the first video buffer successfully but, After having received onMarkerReached for that raw audio buffer, I wonder how to push

Re: [android-developers] AudioTrack stop/release

2009-12-29 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 12/25/2009 02:00 PM, Business Talk wrote: I keep posting this message hoping that maybe somebody from google (media group in particular) monitors the group. I need to stop the AudioTrack, regardless what's in the buffer, immediately when executing the stop/release. The AudioTrack plays in

[android-developers] Avoiding String allocation in TextView.setText()

2009-12-28 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, on Android 1.5, using the Allocation Tracker I see that every time I call TextView.setText() with a StringBuilder as first argument, a String gets allocated from the following call stack (first line is last call): java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder toString java.lang.StringBuilder

Re: [android-developers] MediaRecorder - how to continuously record in memory (using a circular buffer)

2009-12-26 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 12/24/2009 06:07 PM, flohier wrote: I'm trying to use the MediaRecorder to have my application continuously record audio in memory (to a circular buffer of a known size). Indeed, I'd like to be able to play back the past 10 seconds of recorded based on a certain event in my program. You

Re: [android-developers] Data storage, which data type?

2009-12-16 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 12/16/2009 05:00 PM, Neilz wrote: Hi all. I want to store location data in sqlite. A latitude coordinate is a double, with 15 point precision. As far as I can tell this corresponds with the 'REAL' datatype which is 8 bytes. The alternative I suppose would be to store it as a String, and

Re: [android-developers] How to natively (C++) receive notifications when there is an Internet Connection ( 3G or Wifi ) ?

2009-12-14 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 12/14/2009 03:29 PM, Banderas wrote: I'm developing a C++ application for the android that needs to talk with a server whenever there is an internet connection available. If the internet connection is cut-off the application needs to sleep in order to reduce the battery consumption. If the

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to natively (C++) receive notifications when there is an Internet Connection ( 3G or Wifi ) ?

2009-12-14 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 12/14/2009 04:34 PM, Banderas wrote: Thanks for the answer but I'm not using the NDK . Instead, I'm developing using the entire source code ( AOSP) , so it should be possible. Any indications in how I can implement this feature? I would be very appreciated. I also understand very

[android-developers] Custom translucent theme

2009-10-16 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, I have 2 activities and need the second one to be translucent when started by and over the first one. When I set my activity theme to @android:style/Theme.Translucent, it works. I however want to customize alpha. So, following the example in ApiDemos - app - TranslucentActivity, I write:

[android-developers] Re: Displaying a panoramic image

2009-09-17 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 16 sep, 19:18, Yusuf Saib (T-Mobile USA) yusuf.s...@t- Mobile.com wrote: - is there any Android component for this around ? No[t to my knowledge]. - may I encounter performances problems doing image computation in pure Java when scrolling, etc..? It might be slow and/or occasionally

[android-developers] Displaying a panoramic image

2009-09-16 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, I need to display an interactive (scroll, zoom) panorama out of a qtvr (QuickTime VR) file. I've found some Java code for this, namely PTViewer (http://wiki.panotools.org/PTViewer), which seems to have been ported on J2ME. Before I try and port this code : - is there any Android component