Re: [android-developers] Dealing with 1000's of different devices, each one with its own bugs

2013-07-31 Thread Omer Gilad
I would certainly support by adding known issues if there was such a system. I'm not familiar with any free website that can easily create such a database - anyone? On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 4:59:19 PM UTC+3, Daniele Segato wrote: > > On 07/31/2013 03:36 PM, οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½-οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ

Re: [android-developers] Dealing with 1000's of different devices, each one with its own bugs

2013-07-31 Thread Omer Gilad
I am missing the point of this post. Are you saying that there is no solution? If so, what do you suggest? Just stop developing for Android? When I say "not aware of that", I mean that it doesn't show up as a practical solution from the eyes of developers. Maybe they're aware of that and do inter

[android-developers] Re: Dealing with 1000's of different devices, each one with its own bugs

2013-07-31 Thread Omer Gilad
- are vendors actually forced to pass the CTS with their customizations? On Friday, July 26, 2013 1:39:14 AM UTC+3, Omer Gilad wrote: > > .I am wondering how developers here are dealing with the fact that there > are 1000's of devices out there, some of them running your applications in

Re: [android-developers] Dealing with 1000's of different devices, each one with its own bugs

2013-07-31 Thread Omer Gilad
being asked from Google is to be assertive and strict about who they give Google Play certification to. I don't expect Google to fix vendor bugs, that's impossible - but I expect Google to demand high quality without compromise. On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 3:32:41 PM UTC+3, Daniele Segato

Re: [android-developers] Dealing with 1000's of different devices, each one with its own bugs

2013-07-31 Thread Omer Gilad
Daniele Segato wrote: > > On 07/26/2013 12:39 AM, Omer Gilad wrote: > > .I am wondering how developers here are dealing with the fact that there > > are 1000's of devices out there, some of them running your applications > > in very broken ways > > .I keep run

[android-developers] Re: Dealing with 1000's of different devices, each one with its own bugs

2013-07-30 Thread Omer Gilad
s a paid game, make sure the debug versions are limited in >> capability and will only be good for debugging. >> >> >> >> >> On Monday, July 29, 2013 12:29:25 AM UTC+3, Omer Gilad wrote: >>> >>> What you wrote is the obvious part of what I d

Re: [android-developers] Re: Dealing with 1000's of different devices, each one with its own bugs

2013-07-28 Thread Omer Gilad
ther it will be open source any time soon. I think the idea is > what I just mentioned, collaborative crowd based testing services that > allow you to test on a wide range and variety of devices with very > expressive test scripts and possible end user testing when applicable. >

Re: [android-developers] Re: Dealing with 1000's of different devices, each one with its own bugs

2013-07-28 Thread Omer Gilad
t still stands: if > you want to test on greater devices, do it with a service and possibly > humans in the loop. Big testing services should integrate this work > cycle too, for when pushbutton tests don't work...) > > Kris > > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 5:29 PM,

[android-developers] Re: Dealing with 1000's of different devices, each one with its own bugs

2013-07-28 Thread Omer Gilad
;? > Would be a shame to lose sales because of the vendor's problems. > > On Thursday, July 25, 2013 3:39:14 PM UTC-7, Omer Gilad wrote: >> >> .I am wondering how developers here are dealing with the fact that there >> are 1000's of devices out there, some of them

[android-developers] Re: Dealing with 1000's of different devices, each one with its own bugs

2013-07-28 Thread Omer Gilad
> so you can fix the bug on the phone you do not have physical access to. > > I asked my friend in cell phone store to test on the different Android > phones, > then I will remote read the log and test the code. > > On Thursday, July 25, 2013 6:39:14 PM UTC-4, Omer Gilad w

[android-developers] Re: Dealing with 1000's of different devices, each one with its own bugs

2013-07-28 Thread Omer Gilad
iOS specific issues that will frustrate > you.. especially since you're used to how Android is. > > > > On Friday, July 26, 2013 1:39:14 AM UTC+3, Omer Gilad wrote: >> >> .I am wondering how developers here are dealing with the fact that there >> are 1000&#

Re: [android-developers] Dealing with 1000's of different devices, each one with its own bugs

2013-07-26 Thread Omer Gilad
enter a reboot triggered by application code. >> >> I don't have an answer for this situation either. It's just something I >> have to deal with every day, costing me a lot of wasted time and a >> depressed mood. >> >> The irony is, users always ass

Re: [android-developers] Dealing with 1000's of different devices, each one with its own bugs

2013-07-26 Thread Omer Gilad
would be possible to do in the > community right now: just buy a server, write some code to distribute > the APKs with a feedback / review system, etc..) > > Kris > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Omer Gilad > > > wrote: > > I agree that it's better t

Re: [android-developers] Dealing with 1000's of different devices, each one with its own bugs

2013-07-25 Thread Omer Gilad
running on the market: that's the design decision made by Android. > The CTS helps get you farther to a holistic / cohesive platform, but > in the end it's a numbers game: knowing which devices, API levels, > user bases, countries, etc.. to care about is something the > experi

Re: [android-developers] Dealing with 1000's of different devices, each one with its own bugs

2013-07-25 Thread Omer Gilad
test your app on huge numbers of devices for a subscription based > fee. > > Kris > > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Omer Gilad > > wrote: > > I've found that even the biggest app developers like Skype, Gameloft, > etc. > > have device issues

Re: [android-developers] Dealing with 1000's of different devices, each one with its own bugs

2013-07-25 Thread Omer Gilad
edge, testing, metaprogramming, > etc... > > Kris > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Omer Gilad > > wrote: > > .I am wondering how developers here are dealing with the fact that there > are > > 1000's of devices out there, some of them running your

[android-developers] Dealing with 1000's of different devices, each one with its own bugs

2013-07-25 Thread Omer Gilad
.I am wondering how developers here are dealing with the fact that there are 1000's of devices out there, some of them running your applications in very broken ways .I keep running into these kind of issues again and again for the past 3 years, and to be honest, I'm fed up with it .I've decided

[android-developers] Running code right after installation

2011-01-30 Thread Omer Gilad
Hi, I am looking for a way to run code right after being installed - without waiting for activity launch\boot\etc. I have used the following manifest declaration: And created a BroadcastReceiver - my onReceive gets c

[android-developers] Launching an activity with the task affinity of the phone application

2010-11-17 Thread Omer Gilad
Hi, I want to launch an activity that will display on top of the native phone application as a dialog. I suppose that the best way to do that is to launch as a new task, with the task affinity of the phone application. How can I safely obtain the correct task affinity? Is that the best solution for

[android-developers] Activity won't display on Motorola Milestone

2010-11-17 Thread Omer Gilad
Hi, I've encountered a weird situation on Motorola Milestone where an activity (started from background) doesn't get displayed visually on the screen, although it thinks it does (onCreate() gets called, ActivityManager logs "Displayed activity XXX..."). It doesn't happen on other devices so I know

[android-developers] Re: WebView native crash when overriding WebChromeClient.onCreateWindow()

2010-10-03 Thread Omer Gilad
New issue opened: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11655 -- 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 t

[android-developers] Re: Problem with AudioRecord on Samsung Moment

2010-09-26 Thread Omer Gilad
Samsung devices (all of them) have many bugs related to audio API. In our application we've handled this by applying specific solutions to known device models - you will have to investigate and find workarounds for that. On Sep 26, 4:05 am, Steve Hugg wrote: > We have been getting reports of audi

[android-developers] Re: WebView native crash when overriding WebChromeClient.onCreateWindow()

2010-09-26 Thread Omer Gilad
I'm jumping it. Could anyone help? On Sep 21, 10:32 am, Omer Gilad wrote: > Hello, > I'm using a webview inside my application in order to display a web > interface. One part of the web interface is a javascript that opens a > popup. > I'm currently attempting to

[android-developers] WebView native crash when overriding WebChromeClient.onCreateWindow()

2010-09-21 Thread Omer Gilad
Hello, I'm using a webview inside my application in order to display a web interface. One part of the web interface is a javascript that opens a popup. I'm currently attempting to use onCreateWindow exactly as documented, and after the call finishes (And a new window is supposed to be created), the

[android-developers] Installing new root CA certificate from application

2010-09-14 Thread Omer Gilad
Hello, My application redirects its users to a known domain (secure.gate2shop.com) that its root certificate doesn't exist on Android devices. Normal PC browsers have no problem accessing the site, but Android browser displays to the user that the certificate is untrusted. I don't want that behavio

[android-developers] Re: Accurate sleep()\timer in Android

2010-07-07 Thread Omer Gilad
On Jul 6, 10:38 pm, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > > 2. The operation I'm doing involves network activity - UDP\TCP packet > > sending. Is there good native support for networking that is device > > independent (like the normal libc, libz)? Or maybe I should ask this > > in the NDK group? > > You have

[android-developers] Re: Accurate sleep()\timer in Android

2010-07-06 Thread Omer Gilad
run at > times, though the jitter will be significantly smaller (as long as your > process is not in the background scheduling group). > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Omer Gilad wrote: > > Hello, > > Does anyone know of a precise way of measurin

[android-developers] Accurate sleep()\timer in Android

2010-07-05 Thread Omer Gilad
Hello, Does anyone know of a precise way of measuring 80 milliseconds for scheduling purposes? Thread.sleep() and SystemClock.sleep() don't seem accurate enough. Purpose - I want to schedule a certain event to happen in an exact interval of 80 milliseconds and I don't want the time to skew (schedu

[android-developers] Unexplained error from MediaPlayer

2010-02-21 Thread Omer Gilad
My code tries to play an MP3 file from res/raw. FileDescriptor fd = appContext.getResources().openRawResourceFd(R.raw.ringtone) .getFileDescriptor(); player = new MediaPlayer(); try {

[android-developers] Synchronizing AudioTrack and AudioRecord

2010-01-21 Thread Omer Gilad
Hello, My application uses AudioTrack in streaming mode and AudioRecord simultaneously. My problem is that I start them at the same time, but I have no guarantee that they will actually start playback\recording in the same timestamp. The reason I need this kind of accuracy is because I use echo can

[android-developers] Problem using AudioRecord in Motorola Milestone

2010-01-17 Thread Omer Gilad
My application uses AudioRecord to record streaming voice. On ANY OTHER Android device it initializes properly and works great, excluding Motorola Milestone, which force closes and the log shows: 01-17 14:08:41.124: DEBUG/AudioHardwareMot(1059): AudioMgr:AudioHardwareMot::openInputStream enter 01-

[android-developers] Echo Cancellation

2010-01-10 Thread Omer Gilad
Does anyone know how to use the device's echo cancellation functionality? I'm implementing my custom VoIP and it would save me a lot of work and CPU usage if the device did that for me, like in a GSM \CDMA call. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android

[android-developers] DatagramSocket.receive() sometimes blocks for too long

2009-12-28 Thread Omer Gilad
Hello, I have a thread that constantly polls a UDP connection and posts the received data to another thread. It uses a connected DatagramSocket, reads a packet (which is always the same side), gets the data and posts it. Code looks like: protected void work() { byte[] buffer = new byte[SOME_BU

[android-developers] Blocking on a Socket read operation while in sleep mode

2009-12-28 Thread Omer Gilad
I have code that runs in the background and holds a connected Socket and it's InputStream. It calls read() infinitely until something is received, then continues to parse. Socket timeout is 0 of course. I am interested in what would happen when the device goes to sleep? Is the CPU off? Will this s

[android-developers] DatagramSocket.receive() sometimes blocks for too long

2009-12-28 Thread Omer Gilad
Hello, I have a thread that constantly polls a UDP connection and posts the received data to another thread. It uses a connected DatagramSocket, reads a packet (which is always the same side), gets the data and posts it to a message queue (not the android one, my implementation). The problem happen