Re: [android-developers] Re: Shape having two sided border

2011-06-17 Thread Prakash Iyer
I'm not sure there is any XML way of doing this. You can extend TextView (or whatever is the view that you are looking to have this border on) and implement this in the onDraw. There should also be a way to write a Drawable and do this which can then be extended to any View but I don't know enough

Re: [android-developers] Couldn't be excuted after a button click

2011-06-17 Thread Prakash Iyer
ok, i'll bite. at least i have no clue what you are asking and hence cannot help. you say it couldn't be executed. what do you actually mean? as an example the below code start's the activity only when there is an exception. is that what you wanted? or is that how you cut paste? On Fri, Jun 17,

Re: [android-developers] Re: When will android automatically launch a process when force closed?

2011-06-14 Thread Prakash Iyer
Is this a Service as opposed to an activity? Or is there a BroadcastReceiver? A plain Activity needs an Intent to start so if you are positive you have an Activity then you should print out the Intent in the onCreate and see if you find something. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:00 AM,

Re: [android-developers] Cannot handle exception in a thread

2011-06-14 Thread Prakash Iyer
And when you return from the run method the thread will stop/die by itself. Ideally your main Activity which started this thread off will be the one notifying the user and if needed calling finish... On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: Use runOnUiThread()

Re: [android-developers] How to get internal storage path for music

2011-06-07 Thread Prakash Iyer
There are some phones, eg the first HTC phone at VZW, which have 3 mount points for music. Basically the internal memory is partitioned into the internal filesystem a modifiable partition that can be mounted as a USB drive. Users can move music there this is scanned by the media player but is

Re: [android-developers] Java source code for SDK API 11 12

2011-06-06 Thread Prakash Iyer
Really? I'd love to see the code open sourced as well but I am not sure I can justify needing sources to compile my application. May be you need to elaborate. BTW this group is for using the publicly available SDK, so if you are not doing that you might be in the incorrect mailing group... On

Re: [android-developers] Re: How much HTML5 does the Honeycomb Android Browser support?

2011-05-31 Thread Prakash Iyer
I just tried this on a 2.3.3 tablet and it was interesting to see Firefox score 235 with 9 bonus points (for comparison the default browser was 182 with 1 bonus point). On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Scythe

Re: [android-developers] security exception while reading call logs?

2011-05-25 Thread Prakash Iyer
you are trying to read the contacts but have not sought the permission that it is so nicely printing out right there... On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Hitendrasinh Gohil hitendra.virtuei...@gmail.com wrote: E/DatabaseUtils( 113): java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: reading

Re: [android-developers] Re: Lock status bar

2011-03-04 Thread Prakash Iyer
My 2c, if possible this should be removed when there is a proximity sensor. Really irritating not to be able to see that email or go back to nav using the notification when in speaker-phone/bluetooth mode. I know, not the forum, but... Thanks!! On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Dianne Hackborn

Re: [android-developers] How to implement Calendar App in Android

2011-03-03 Thread Prakash Iyer
, Prakash Iyer thei...@gmail.com wrote: There is no Calendar API in the SDK. So you cannot thru any public API access the calendar on the device if that is what you are looking at. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Santhosh Kumar santhoshgu...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I am working with Calendar

Re: [android-developers] How to implement Calendar App in Android

2011-03-02 Thread Prakash Iyer
There is no Calendar API in the SDK. So you cannot thru any public API access the calendar on the device if that is what you are looking at. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Santhosh Kumar santhoshgu...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I am working with Calendar functionality in android 2.2 api, and

Re: [android-developers] Handling exceptions in AsyncTask

2011-02-28 Thread Prakash Iyer
Ok, urgency taken care of and replied. Now can you shed some light on what is the problem? If there is an exception in an AsyncTask and it stops you from processing, I'd think the right thing to do would be to inform the user (thru the UI thread) of the problem and take care of it from there. On

Re: [android-developers] Re: SDcard mount point in portable way?

2011-02-28 Thread Prakash Iyer
Is this something new? For the HTC phone on Verizon (Desire?) I was pretty sure this returned the paltry external SD card while most users ended up using the built in storage. This causes most apps indexing content on these devices to fail, including the Gesture Search from Google Labs... Would

Re: [android-developers] Re: app causes reboot on DroidX after activity gets destroyed - anybody having similar issues?

2011-02-07 Thread Prakash Iyer
Wow! I don't know if the following is helpful at all. I've seen my DroidX reboot a bunch of times and in almost all cases the offending app is probably Google Maps. I say probably because that's the forefront app. Usually the whole screen freezes - nothing has an impact and then I see that red

Re: [android-developers] Re: app causes reboot on DroidX after activity gets destroyed - anybody having similar issues?

2011-02-07 Thread Prakash Iyer
Cool, I think what you have done is commendable already. BTW if you want to run some tests and I can help on my DroidX, I'd be happy to. On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:35 AM, mot12 martin.hu...@gmail.com wrote: @Mark Thanks for the hint about the MOTODEV forum. That seems worthwhile even though my

Re: [android-developers] Battery usage measurements

2011-01-20 Thread Prakash Iyer
On the phone there's is a what's been using the battery. This says display, contacts etc. I assume this is reasonably accurate on a process level... On Jan 19, 2011 9:33 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [android-developers] Re: Pop up Dialog Not Displaying

2010-12-14 Thread Prakash Iyer
PM, JoeSchmoe rthompson.dtisoft@gmail.com wrote: That's what I thought it was. How do I post to the main thread though? I can't find any documentation on how to do that? On Dec 13, 5:49 pm, Prakash Iyer thei...@gmail.com wrote: Look at logcat. I'm reasonably sure the trouble is that you

Re: [android-developers] Concern on AsyncTask in an Activity

2010-12-13 Thread Prakash Iyer
All what Mark said + be very careful on how the UI gets updated. If you, like most others, are using an inner class for AsyncTask then the outer instance is no longer the visible instance when your app goes away or even an orientation changes. My 2c., AsyncTask has a noble intention but a very

Re: [android-developers] Pop up Dialog Not Displaying

2010-12-13 Thread Prakash Iyer
Look at logcat. I'm reasonably sure the trouble is that you are trying to update the UI from a different thread than the main app thread. In the button case you are in the main thread. You should post message to your main thread from the socket thread and then you should be fine. Sent from my

Re: [android-developers] Re: onItemClick(AdapterView? parent, View view,

2010-12-02 Thread Prakash Iyer
im suppose to be able to call getView. On Dec 1, 7:54 pm, Prakash Iyer thei...@gmail.com wrote: My 2c - you are over-complicating this.The getView is ONLY to give back the view for the item that is requested. If you want this item to be colored X then do it here. If you want another

[android-developers] Receiving ACTION_MEDIA_* broadcast events

2010-12-01 Thread Prakash Iyer
Hello, Wrote a simple activity that uses registerReceiver to register an internal subclass of BroadcastReceiver with an IntentFilter than has ACTION_MEDIA_EJECT as it's action. I have not set any thing else (data/category) or requested permissions in my manifest. I used the APIDemos from the

Re: [android-developers] getView what the arguments means?

2010-12-01 Thread Prakash Iyer
Isn't getView called from the system and you override it to give back a view typically to display a list item? You say that you are calling getView - any specific reason? On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:22 PM, kiros88 ghui...@gmail.com wrote: so basically im trying to figure out what View convertView

Re: [android-developers] Re: Array Adapter

2010-12-01 Thread Prakash Iyer
what do you mean by default view? that method is supposed to return a View which is used to render the list item. the default implementation, whose source i recommend you read, returns back a TextView the id (you can pass a more complex view which has a TextView element etc. all of which is

Re: [android-developers] onItemClick(AdapterView? parent, View view,

2010-12-01 Thread Prakash Iyer
My 2c - you are over-complicating this.The getView is ONLY to give back the view for the item that is requested. If you want this item to be colored X then do it here. If you want another item to be colored Y then do it when getView is called for that item. The state maintenance, i.e. what is X or

Re: [android-developers] Copy a database from a retail phone to a development phone?

2010-11-29 Thread Prakash Iyer
you can export your contacts on your retail phone onto the sdcard, pull them onto your computer, push them onto your development phone, import them onto that dev phone. don't know about call logs... On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Jon Shemitz shem...@gmail.com wrote: I have a need to examine

Re: [android-developers] SQLite and XML

2010-11-11 Thread Prakash Iyer
Look at the NotePad example in the SDK. The main class is SQLiteDatabase. There are functions to insert, update, replace and select. The helper is good for creating and updating. On Nov 11, 2010 8:28 AM, zizzfusion calumer...@gmail.com wrote: So I have a rather simple XML output from a database I

Re: [android-developers] reading contacts...

2010-10-26 Thread Prakash Iyer
You might be using the contact id as id of raw contact. Isn't clear that's the problem as I didn't bother to go thru your logic for contactData but that would result in a problem like what you are describing... On Oct 26, 2010 7:40 AM, A N K ! T ankit.awasth...@gmail.com wrote: while am trying to

Re: [android-developers] Problem With Thread !

2010-10-22 Thread Prakash Iyer
Don't you need to start the thread? On Oct 22, 2010 9:02 AM, MarcoCanali marco.can...@gmail.com wrote: I use thic Code in a Class Of type Service : class A extends Service { @Override public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub

[android-developers] Question on Shelves example

2010-10-21 Thread Prakash Iyer
The reference article on Painless Threading pointed me to the Shelves example as a place to understand AsyncTask. So I was reading that example. One question popped into my head while I was going thru ShelvesActivity. The onPause code calls stopBooksUpdater. That code snippet is as follows,

Re: [android-developers] Re: SQLite Database Issues

2010-10-15 Thread Prakash Iyer
I think what Kumar means is that does this ever work for this user in question? One interpretation of your email is that it works for most users but fails for some. On Oct 15, 2010 10:07 AM, Albert albert8...@googlemail.com wrote: Well it should be very obvious but the table exits, im sure of

Re: [android-developers] Why am I getting NullPointerException although I catch it?

2010-10-15 Thread Prakash Iyer
Your catching a NullPointerException in your inputConnection.getTextBeforeCursor call is unnecessary. You are already checking to see if inputConnection is null. It From the documentation of InputConnection, and I quote This method may fail either if the input connection has become invalid (such

Re: [android-developers] Re: OutOfMemoryError

2010-10-15 Thread Prakash Iyer
to as checking My english is not good. p(~_~?) -- Prakash Iyer: then where should reomever the bitmap? (・_・?) -- DanH : but if I not put super.onPause (); show the following error: 10-15 02:16:10.778: ERROR

Re: [android-developers] Re: OutOfMemoryError

2010-10-14 Thread Prakash Iyer
When are you calling the code to recycle? If I had to guess it looks like you are doing it before the image is used by the canvas. The onDestroy is called when the app is cleaned up, so that isn't very useful in this case. From the snippet you have provided it isn't very obvious why you would run

Re: [android-developers] Re: OutOfMemoryError

2010-10-14 Thread Prakash Iyer
Lisa, Below is a complete guess, so it's worth what you paid for it:) I suspect the Canvas is referencing the bitmap while trying to save state in onPause. This is because when the activity resumes it needs to paint it back. Do you want to move it to onStop? Best, Prakash On Oct 14, 2010 8:36

[android-developers] Question on using custom View for a ListAdapter...

2010-10-14 Thread Prakash Iyer
Hello, I'd like to show my users a list of items and when any one is selected, sort of expand the view. Very similar to the the List example no 6 (List Adapter Collapsed) in the SDK where if you click on the person you see the speech. Now in my app, I allow only one expanded view, easy enough to

Re: [android-developers] Question on using custom View for a ListAdapter...

2010-10-14 Thread Prakash Iyer
. I think I'm making sense... Best, Prakash On Oct 14, 2010 11:16 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Prakash Iyer thei...@gmail.com wrote: In the getView there is a convertView parameter. I didn't see much documentation around it but given it's name

Re: [android-developers] Print documents from an Android device

2010-10-07 Thread Prakash Iyer
Also the paid PrinterShare version does say it will use wifi printers, so you might want to check that. I have only used the free version so don't know for sure. On Oct 6, 2010 7:30 PM, Gober herrsky...@gmail.com wrote: -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [android-developers] onPause not being followed by onStop and onDestroy...

2010-10-07 Thread Prakash Iyer
It is not required that an onPause is always followed by onStop - in fact if you press the home key that's what I have seen as the default behavior. This way if the user goes back to your app, thru the home key press or from launchpad, the onResume will be called and it will all be much faster

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to change the e-mail address programmatically?

2010-10-06 Thread Prakash Iyer
Have you set the required permissions in your manifest? Of course, in that case you should be seeing that error in logcat. You are seeing something in logcat right, i.e. you are sure you are seeing the right logcat? On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Ali Chousein ali.chous...@gmail.com wrote: No,

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to start an activity from a service

2010-10-06 Thread Prakash Iyer
would you be able to use the NotificationManager and let the user start the activity? if possible that might be less intrusive... On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Doug beafd...@gmail.com wrote: startActivity works the same in a service as it does in an activity (Context vs. Activity argument

Re: [android-developers] android design considerations: AsynchTask vs Service (IntentService?)

2010-10-03 Thread Prakash Iyer
to the Activity or UI components are not stale. would help, IMHO. I think we are beating a dead horse here and way off topic for the OP, so I will stop... On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Prakash Iyer thei...@gmail.com wrote: Each

Re: [android-developers] android design considerations: AsynchTask vs Service (IntentService?)

2010-10-02 Thread Prakash Iyer
... As some one pointed out the IntentService is probably a better choice in many cases. Which again brings to question the orthogonality of AsyncTask Service... On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Prakash Iyer thei...@gmail.com

Re: [android-developers] Corrupt installation

2010-10-02 Thread Prakash Iyer
the Market update all users? I do not want them to do a un-install as that would cause them to lose their data. Right? -- *From:* android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto: android-develop...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Prakash Iyer *Sent:* Friday, October 01, 2010

Re: [android-developers] OutOfMemory exception in OnCreate

2010-10-02 Thread Prakash Iyer
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Yahel kaye...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm having a hard time resolving a crash report. It's an OutOfMemory exception that occurs during the setContentView in the onCreate of my main activity. I just want to be sure I understood Android LifeCycle well : 1)

Re: [android-developers] android design considerations: AsynchTask vs Service (IntentService?)

2010-10-02 Thread Prakash Iyer
2010 22:20, Prakash Iyer thei...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure I agree with your comment that it is the wrong question. In fact your explanation of how a majority of the cases a Service runs in the same process is precisely why most people will consider these as alternatives. I was trying

Re: [android-developers] Help with basic Threading / Message handling App

2010-10-01 Thread Prakash Iyer
Can you call the findViewById before the setContentView? If not the text view member is null and that's your problem... On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:54 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:37 PM, EightBitSpade spectegu...@yahoo.comwrote: Unfortunately, I don't exactly

Re: [android-developers] android design considerations: AsynchTask vs Service (IntentService?)

2010-10-01 Thread Prakash Iyer
Not sure I am experienced but I did use both AsncTask and Service, so here is my opinion. AyncTask works great - until the user does something to visually alter your app, e.g. changes orientation or goes to the home screen. Reason is that the AsyncTask will most likely be referring to UI elements

Re: [android-developers] How to show notification while service is running..?

2010-10-01 Thread Prakash Iyer
You should look at the appropriately named NotificationManager... On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Gold thangadura...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I want to show notification in service..! While I click button in my home screen I just call service.!

Re: [android-developers] Corrupt installation

2010-10-01 Thread Prakash Iyer
Could be. If this is a LG on verizon, there's a thread here on how OTA to 2.1 update caused a similarly described problem. On Oct 1, 2010 6:03 PM, lloyd1949 lloydmcfarl...@comcast.net wrote: -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To

Re: [android-developers] Marketplace updates - notified if apk not installed through marketplace?

2010-09-28 Thread Prakash Iyer
I have definitely seen the first issue, at least on 2.1. Seems like the notification pops up only when I run the Market - don't have to check for anything but the very act of running the Market seems to trigger a check on the number of updates available. This seems to be the case on 2.2 as well at

Re: [android-developers] Wallpaper problems on Droid X

2010-09-27 Thread Prakash Iyer
no idea on a solution but if it helps, i can test it out on my droid x and let you (and others) know what, if any thing, shows up on logcat. On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 2:25 PM, samspade79 samspad...@gmail.com wrote: Good Evening Android Developers, My app (amongst other things) enables users to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install to sd and alarms

2010-09-26 Thread Prakash Iyer
Would be nice to have this at the instant the user is experiencing the issue as opposed to a separate FAQ. On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Doug beafd...@gmail.com wrote: Best advise your users, through your dev page or a FAQ, why you can't allow app2sd when it has a home screen widget or some

Re: [android-developers] Reliable way to programmatically open options menu on startup

2010-09-26 Thread Prakash Iyer
would he also need to synchronize the threads? else in the thread that he is displaying the options he might have checked the boolean and then just before he calls his function to display the onStop could have got called in the other thread? possible? On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Dianne

Re: [android-developers] Reliable way to programmatically open options menu on startup

2010-09-26 Thread Prakash Iyer
2010 14:23, Prakash Iyer thei...@gmail.com wrote: would he also need to synchronize the threads? else in the thread that he is displaying the options he might have checked the boolean and then just before he calls his function to display the onStop could have got called in the other thread

Re: [android-developers] How to share data between applications with no dependency

2010-09-19 Thread Prakash Iyer
You could write a content provider app that installs independent of either of your apps. Then each of your apps could check for and ask to install the content provider as appropriate. May not be the simplest but it's a choice. On Sep 19, 2010 8:23 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote:

Re: [android-developers] How to share data between applications with no dependency

2010-09-19 Thread Prakash Iyer
than if the user deleted the file I guess. On Sep 19, 2010 9:28 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Prakash Iyer thei...@gmail.com wrote: You could write a content... Except it won't support the data survives uninstall requirement: -- User installs App

Re: [android-developers] I need complete code of http and php for file upload from android to php server please help me!!!

2010-09-19 Thread Prakash Iyer
Sure. You can find it here, http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Will you take fries and a drink with that? On Sep 19, 2010 9:36 AM, David Harris bumpy...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Members, Please Please help me!!! I need the java code for sending file from android and then a php

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to share data between applications with no dependency

2010-09-19 Thread Prakash Iyer
Yes. That's what I interpreted the OP saying when he says File is an option but he's looking for alternatives. On Sep 19, 2010 10:10 AM, DanH danhi...@ieee.org wrote: Can an application not place images or music in directories on the device, and have those files persist beyond the persistence of

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

2010-09-18 Thread Prakash Iyer
Just my 2c - the freemium model when executed well could be one answer. Basically the free app version should do enough to not invite removal due to either not compelling or too irritating. But it should also entice enough so that the user just bites - again patience is key as not every one will

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to install the .apk file into blackberry

2010-09-18 Thread Prakash Iyer
app written for one phone has a good chance of failing on another JME phone, which is why people say that Sun's promise of write once, anywhere has become (at least for JME) write once, debug everywhere;) On Sep 17, 5:21 am, Prakash Iyer thei...@gmail.com wrote: I would dispute your last

Re: [android-developers] Re: Service and application got crash

2010-09-18 Thread Prakash Iyer
that is one nice tool. reps inbound for that! On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.comwrote: And he should use pastebin at http://pastebin.com/ too, right? On Sep 17, 8:26 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:27 AM, nimi

Re: [android-developers] Re: What's happening to my posts here? Is someone deleting them?

2010-09-18 Thread Prakash Iyer
I agree - Google hasn't figured out scale yet. After all they deal with what a few 10's of searches and emails a day... Some times I wish there would be some one who actually did what Chris is referring to. Coming back in a few hours to email and finding out the top posts are - where are all my

Re: [android-developers] Is it possible to rotate screen by program code but not accelerometer sensor?

2010-09-18 Thread Prakash Iyer
Not sure what you want to do here. Without the accelerometer the system wouldn't recognize that the screen has rotated. You (the user) can disable orientation change in the settings but then no app would ever know the orientation has changed. Now, the app can trap the orientation change and

Re: [android-developers] Re: Eclipse not installing Android Application on Emulator

2010-09-18 Thread Prakash Iyer
try getting logcat output or use adb to install your package on the emulator and see what's happening. my guess would be the minSDK version is higher than what is supported on the emulator... On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:11 PM, AgitoM karel.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hope anyone can still offer a

Re: [android-developers] Exception Logging

2010-09-18 Thread Prakash Iyer
I have thought along similar lines. I think it should just be option a. Don't confuse the user with options. In fact don't even allow user to reply back directly. On Sep 18, 2010 1:19 PM, Brad Gies rbg...@gmail.com wrote: This is a bit long winded (sorry, but I need to explain what I'm doing

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to install the .apk file into blackberry

2010-09-17 Thread Prakash Iyer
I would dispute your last statement - Android is not a JME platform. Any Java based app has really no chance of running as is on a JME platform. In fact as any one who has done serious JME programming will tell you, an interesting JME program has a decent probability of not working as intended

Re: [android-developers] Re: install android hello alert into BlackBerry Mobile

2010-09-17 Thread Prakash Iyer
OP, If you do a search you will find a way to run Android apps on Block/BlackBerry. Involves taking the battery out using cables etc. I haven't done it yet but I am sure, lots of people here would love to hear results;-) On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [android-developers] how to access phone book

2010-09-17 Thread Prakash Iyer
Please read the SDK documentation. There is in fact code to do exactly this. On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:22 AM, mishra ankush.mc...@gmail.com wrote: hello all I am trying to access the phone number but not success , I can access name and id from the original phone book to my application

Re: [android-developers] Re: Browser: Keyboard disappears.

2010-09-17 Thread Prakash Iyer
Hmm, may be the OutOfResources exception has something to do with it? Just sayin'... On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:08 AM, KANTESH BABANNAVAR kantesh...@gmail.comwrote: Please somebody help me to solve this.. On Aug 31, 2:57 pm, KANTESH BABANNAVAR kantesh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Androidians,

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to reverse ListView scrolling behavior?

2010-09-17 Thread Prakash Iyer
Hmm... if I have turned the phone upside down. Or maybe a language that goes from down to top;-) Seriously though I don't see what the high horses here are. People have pointed out, rather patiently, that the normal behavior is what is implemented. Anything that goes against that can still be

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to reverse ListView scrolling behavior?

2010-09-17 Thread Prakash Iyer
Super clever! On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: If this is just for testing, you could put a transparent view on top of the ListView, handle events there, and call scrolling methods in the ListView. -- Kostya 17.09.2010 21:06, Moto пишет: If it

Re: [android-developers] Re: Intent filter to launch an application

2010-09-16 Thread Prakash Iyer
would you mind expanding on how you solved the problem. certainly you have provided a pointer but might help others avoid spending the same cycles... thanks. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Alok Kulkarni kulsu...@gmail.com wrote: Solved the problem. Referred to the Manifest file of Androd

Re: [android-developers] Re: Child activity lifetime in background

2010-09-16 Thread Prakash Iyer
very good thought but isn't this why you should be saving your state and starting off as if you were resuming? from a user's perspective it is the right expectation and from the os perspective this is the right implementation. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:17 AM, viktor victor.scherb...@gmail.com

Re: [android-developers] Re: GOOGLE, WHAT IS GOING ON with the Active Install %? Bug in install to SDCARD is my guess!

2010-09-16 Thread Prakash Iyer
2.2 makes it easier to update all. otherwise if you have a lot of apps and many have regular updates, it is actually quite tedious. personally every update, pre 2.2. was a time for introspection. do i love/use this app enough to spend the minute or two it will take of my effort to click thru the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Verizon Moto droid auto update to 2.2 yesterday

2010-09-16 Thread Prakash Iyer
I have been with the Droid and Droid X on Verizon and never seen this behavior. They send you a notification that an upgrade is ready or if you are anxious (like me), you can go check for upgrades. Looks very unusual - I have seen them sneakily update BlackBerry so I suddenly have newer icons like