[android-developers] Re: noHistory="true" rocks

2009-12-11 Thread Samuh
Dianne, Firstly, many thanks for your reply! > (1) This is a debugging feature, not something to turn on for normal > production. I understand this. > (2) It doesn't finish the activity; it destroys the current instance, which > will thus needed to be re-instantiated the next time the user navig

[android-developers] Re: Please Help me find why htt pclient.execute(httppost);always throws IOException

2009-12-10 Thread Samuh
My opinion was based on this: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=133 -- 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, se

[android-developers] Re: Please Help me find why htt pclient.execute(httppost);always throws IOException

2009-12-10 Thread Samuh
I think, one of the problems could be with the use of localhost in your server URL: "http://localhost:8080/J2ME/servlet/HelloServlet"; Try specifying the IP address of your machine instead and see if it helps. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android

[android-developers] Re: Lazy Loading Images in a ListView

2009-12-10 Thread Samuh
> I found that when I used SoftReferences, they started getting cleared > very quickly indeed, after my cache of thumbnails was up to maybe 20 > or so. > > When I use normal references, the cache grows happily to a couple of > hundred thumbnails without OOMs being thrown. > > Being a java newbie, I

[android-developers] Re: noHistory="true" rocks

2009-12-10 Thread Samuh
I thought "finishing the activity when it becomes invisible" was a taboo (i.e. against the activity and Task design guidelines); however, I can imagine cases where not maintaining a History would help keep the memory footprint of the app low. > Dianne Hackborn wrote: > Another thing you can do is

[android-developers] Re: List view with textviews and imageview, best practices

2009-12-10 Thread Samuh
1. you can look at the video from Google IO conference 2009, called Turbo charging your UI's by Romain Guy; he discussed some of the optimizations you can do when working with ListViews. 2. You can read Mark Murphy's series of ListView tutorials at android guys titled Fancy ListViews: http://www.go

[android-developers] Re: Lazy Loading Images in a ListView

2009-12-10 Thread Samuh
On Dec 9, 1:07 pm, Romain Guy wrote: > You can check out the example I wrote at code.google.com/p/shelves. It > does lazy loading of images from the sdcard. Thanks Romain for your time; I will surely check the implementation out. Cheers! -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[android-developers] Re: Lazy Loading Images in a ListView

2009-12-10 Thread Samuh
skyhigh: thanks for your reply! > > I haven't tried to do a lazy background image load like you are doing, > > but have done some code that uses a holder/wrapper to store the layout > > findViewById which is a nice optimization so that it doesn't have to > > call inflate and findViewById again whe

[android-developers] Lazy Loading Images in a ListView

2009-12-08 Thread Samuh
I trying a hand at ListViews and my current experiment is aimed at displaying some data in a ListView. The data to be displayed in each row is simple: an image and some text. The images come from a remote server and the textual data is hardcoded. I have a class that downloads images using AsyncTas

[android-developers] Re: HTML sanitization

2009-12-07 Thread Samuh
Many thanks Matt and sbruno. -- 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.

[android-developers] Re: HTML sanitization

2009-12-04 Thread Samuh
thanks again for your reply Bibek! > True, May be you could use only one WebView, get all the 20 strings, > add some html formatting yourself, and display. But, if really really > want to display it on a ListView, then, it's difficult. You have to > change/replace those HTML tags manually to somet

[android-developers] Re: HTML sanitization

2009-12-04 Thread Samuh
> The best way I can think of getting around this problem > would be showing your HTML content inside a WebView. :) Thanks for your reply Bibek. That is exactly what I am currently doing. However, I think a WebView would definitely be heavier than a TextView. Assuming, I receive say 20 items in t

[android-developers] HTML sanitization

2009-12-03 Thread Samuh
Hi, I am working on a module that fetches RSS feed, parses it and then displays selective data in a ListView. The problem is some of the data received, contain HTML tags and HTML escape sequences which means I can't display what I get as is. I need to sanitize the string of any HTML that it might

[android-developers] Strange Exception

2009-10-28 Thread Samuh
In my application, the user selects an image from the sdcard. I launch Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT action for "image/*" type. This displays the com.android.camera/.ImageGallery2 activity. When the user makes a selection, I create a Bitmap Object using Media.createBitmap (..). However, when the us

[android-developers] Re: taking a screen shot of whatever is drawn on the view...

2009-10-28 Thread Samuh
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[android-developers] taking a screen shot of whatever is drawn on the view...

2009-10-28 Thread Samuh
I am trying to take a screen shot of whatever is drawn on my custom view's canvas. I use the following lines for the same: //enable drawing cache this.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true); // use the drawing on the cache to create a Bitmap Object Bitmap screenshot = Bitmap.createBitmap(this.getDrawingCac

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