[android-developers] AppsLib (Archos store) is not legit?

2010-11-09 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
Hello, What do you all know about AppsLib? I know they were a small startup store who partnered with Archos to provide them with an app store on their devices. Recently we found that they are distributing pirated software, including an old copy of our product, PhoneMyPC, for free. We have

Re: [android-developers] Re: any lawyer types out there that can get this site down?

2010-04-10 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
@Nick, I know you didn't say that (that you were being dragged in), I was responding to what someone else said, about you. Just pointing out that nobody is to blame if your name is on public records affiliated with things you wish not to be affiliated with. That's sorta your responsibility. @JP,

Re: [android-developers] Re: any lawyer types out there that can get this site down?

2010-04-09 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
Personally, I think the last part of this conversation is much ado about nothing. Nick was the original registrar, and original architect of the illegal business, and the public information shows that connection and that is all. Covering your tracks after a crime is something best left to the

Re: [android-developers] drawText and drawBitmap start location is different?

2010-04-04 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
I don't recall the exact details in Android, but in almost all graphics APIs the Y position for text is either the [baseline] (bottom of a letter 'o' or 'n') or [baseline + descent] (bottom of the letter 'g' or 'y'). In other words, (x,y) for bitmaps is top-left, (x,y) for text is lower left. A

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

2010-04-03 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
We received a Droid yesterday. This morning it received the 2.1 update. Interestingly, a personal Droid purchased on November 6th has not yet received a 2.1 update. On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 12:39 AM, ratson materem...@gmail.com wrote: this is pretty good news, if Fedex is shipping to th EU it

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

2010-03-29 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
Washington State, USA. Still waiting. On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Arnon arnonse...@gmail.com wrote: You mean 4 weeks? ;-) Quote: Please allow 2-4 weeks from the date of submission of the form for delivery of the phone. If you do not receive the phone within that timeframe, please send

Re: [android-developers] Re: Piracy, almost 50% of my new users - Seriously Google?

2010-02-27 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
Hi Xavier, I agree with what's been said; the stats lag reality by some time. You can pretty much count on the number of orders in your console inbox, however; they are usually up to date within a couple minutes. We face the same problem: server back-end. We have various ways to estimate the

Re: [android-developers] Re: help on graphics from newbie

2010-02-26 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
Yes. This is perfect for use in the Surface view. The first code snippet can go anyplace. The relayout call should go where the // Do Stuff Here comment is. The second bit should go where you want to call relayout at (but can't because it's in the background thread). On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at

Re: [android-developers] Re: Piracy sucks, or does it?

2010-02-25 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
Hello, It's a double-edged sword, isn't it? Personally, we are happy that so many are interested in what we build. I mean, we are geeks and take pleasure in the tools and in others getting use out of them. However, we also lament the loss of revenue that is be caused by piracy. I personally

[android-developers] Checkout: Cancellations vs. Refunds?

2010-02-17 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
Greetings, I'm sorry if this issue has been covered; I could not find a topic having the answers I seek. We while back, we were able to click the Refund some money button and select an amount to refund to a customer. Eventually that feature was changed, and now we can only refund the entire

Re: [android-developers] Re: Who wants Multi-touch in all Android versions?

2010-01-27 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
propagated through the framework at all, and applications do not have permission to open the raw driver. On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:03 PM, SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com softwareforme@gmail.com wrote: Our solution is software only, works on production phones (i.e

Re: [android-developers] Re: Who wants Multi-touch in all Android versions?

2010-01-27 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
I'm not clear what you mean by: I am not going down the path to try to figure out how an app that implements pinch-and-zoom on the app level will fare when same functionality is also implemented on the platform level. Could work out of the box, could be ugly. I mean, Multi-touch is fully

Re: [android-developers] Re: Who wants Multi-touch in all Android versions?

2010-01-27 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
:-) Scott SoftwareForMe.com On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.comwrote: On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:31 AM, SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com softwareforme@gmail.com wrote: The issue in this thread was that it is possible to simulate it on all but one [known

Re: [android-developers] Re: Live Wallpaper Tutorial

2010-01-13 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
How does one set the icon for the Wallpaper? When you choose Wallpapers and see the list, each has an icon (preview) next to it, but it's not clear how to provide that. Anybody know? SoftwareForMe.com On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Robert Green rbgrn@gmail.com wrote: Oh man. I threw

Re: [android-developers] Using Nexus One as a development phone: Problem with USB driver under windows 7 64 bit

2010-01-07 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
Interesting. I downloaded rev 3 of the driver pack, but could not find the proper driver. I eventually downloaded it from a forum, here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=613054 SoftwareForMe.com Makers of PhoneMyPC Imagine Multi-touch On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Xavier

Re: [android-developers] Re: Touch handling sleep not helping enough on 1.5/1.6

2010-01-01 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
Hi, Just off the top of my head... * Research event propagation order and catch the event as early as possible (view before activity?) * Be sure to return true to stop propagation from your handler * Look into other methods to catch the event stream besides the onTouchEvent override My

Re: [android-developers] Re: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget

2009-12-03 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
PNG that is no longer being referenced yet. My 2 cents, Matt Kanninen Android Developer On Dec 2, 8:38 pm, SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com softwareforme@gmail.com wrote: The bitmap issue on the Droid is really about whether you want to show more graphics at smaller size

Re: [android-developers] Re: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget

2009-12-02 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
The bitmap issue on the Droid is really about whether you want to show more graphics at smaller size, or the same graphics at larger size. I don't know what you app does, but imagine that it's a 2d game, where the graphics are re-used a lot (land tiles, character icons, etc.). If you let the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Can anyone tell me ONE app that shows up in Android Market on HTC Tattoo

2009-12-01 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
write a local, non-ad-based app, I can go screw myself. On Nov 30, 9:06 pm, SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com softwareforme@gmail.com wrote: Being a real lover of the Android platform, I'm a little frustrated that things aren't perfect, that there are some devices

Re: [android-developers] How to draw a Bitmap Image?....

2009-12-01 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
I'm sure people would be happy to help, but your question is not clear. Can you explain more fully? Why do you want multiple copies of the same image? SoftwareForMe.com Makers of PhoneMyPC Imagine Multitouch On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Sasikumar.S sasikumar.it1...@gmail.comwrote: Hi,

Re: [android-developers] Can anyone tell me ONE app that shows up in Android Market on HTC Tattoo

2009-11-30 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
Being a real lover of the Android platform, I'm a little frustrated that things aren't perfect, that there are some devices that can't [yet] see some apps, and that there are splinter devices (Archos) that won't have access to the de-facto Android App market. Nonetheless, Google's market is

Re: [android-developers] Re: Making a request over mobile network when WiFi is enabled

2009-11-24 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
This is why Tethering requires rooted phones; you cannot have both radio's active at once. The only solution I can think of is to request sufficient permissions for your app that you can turn WIFI off temporarily, let the 3G boot and use it. Of course people would lose their WIFI if it's being

Re: [android-developers] Re: HTC Hero, missing applications from Market after firmware update

2009-11-20 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
Great information. I believe the Eris's problem is in fact the copy protection. I also know the Hero had this problem when launched in the UK. Can anybody estimate the risk of dropping copy-protection? I know our app is pirated already, but is it so much easier to copy without the protection

[android-developers] How does one get their app 'Featured'?

2009-11-19 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
I'm sure this question has been around, but we've been too busy coding to see it pass. Does anybody know the criteria? Scott SoftwareForMe.com Makers of PhoneMyPC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send

Re: [android-developers] Market issues and missing applications

2009-11-19 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
We have received reports of PhoneMyPC (and others) being unavailable to users of the new Hero ROM. Notably: the Hero roll-out in Europe had this issue, and the HTC Eric has this issue. I don't think this is related to the Android Market problems; I think this is an HTC glitch that somehow keeps

Re: [android-developers] Android market .... what's happening?

2009-11-18 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
I also noticed the order of apps in categories is down, some apps that have 100's of comments show with only 5, etc. However, the actual feedback items remain intact. Clearly, somebody tripped on a critical power cord or spilled water in the toaster. Scott SoftwareForMe.com Makers of PhoneMyPC

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android market .... what's happening?

2009-11-18 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
changes or something. By the way softwareforme, the latest update is awesome, faster and more stable! On Nov 18, 10:47 pm, SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com softwareforme@gmail.com wrote: I also noticed the order of apps in categories is down, some apps that have 100's of comments show

Re: [android-developers] Android market .... what's happening?

2009-11-18 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
IT'S SPREADING! PhoneMyPC now shows 32 ratings (though you can still access all 270 or so of them). Scott SoftwareForMe.com Makers of PhoneMyPC On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Wenwei Cai stanley.w@gmail.com wrote: Same issue here. Weird! On 11/19/09, Yao cicikaka2...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [android-developers] Re: Be Careful of Upgrading App with New SDK Version

2009-11-16 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
Yes, exactly. This fat binary method is the simplest to maintain as well because you can keep just one codebase. SoftwareForMe.com Makers of PhoneMyPC On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:19 PM, siuying siu.y...@gmail.com wrote: You may use minSdkVersion=3, and within the code, use reflection or other

Re: [android-developers] Re: Extremely long DNS lookup (and failure) on T-Mobile network

2009-11-16 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
, Mark Wyszomierski mar...@gmail.com wrote: I don't understand this - how are people getting around this? Restarting the app probably isn't too pleasant for the user! Thanks On Nov 15, 2:27 pm, SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com softwareforme@gmail.com wrote: I have seen this too

Re: [android-developers] Re: Extremely long DNS lookup (and failure) on T-Mobile network

2009-11-15 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
I have seen this too, but what's worse, I've found socket connections taking to long to connect, even when not using DNS. For example, our software can connect to a PC via LAN using an IP address. Sometimes it will take 5 seconds, sometimes it will time out. In either case, after such a failure,

Re: [android-developers] App Not showing up on Verizon DROID Phones

2009-11-14 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
Scott. Kumar_/|\_ www.saisk.com ku...@saisk.com making a profound difference with knowledge and creativity... On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:32 PM, SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com softwareforme@gmail.com wrote: Your Manifest looks fine. I have a Droid. I searched the market

Re: [android-developers] App Not showing up on Verizon DROID Phones

2009-11-14 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
at 11:29 PM, SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com softwareforme@gmail.com wrote: *Money Now - PreviewFREE* **SAISK LLC **000 It's there! I have a Moto Droid on Verizon. Could this be a regional thing? Im in Washington State. Scott

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to test if app is shown on Market for all screensizes

2009-11-13 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
I'd love to know if you can see PhoneMyPC. It's not a camera app, but it's been unavailable to a few [HTC] phones. Scott SoftwareForMe.com Makers of PhoneMyPC On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:48 PM, phil philipp.bre...@gmail.com wrote: Let me know what to search for and we can check with our Tattoo,

Re: [android-developers] Scrolling large image - working good but slow

2009-11-12 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
* Skip the gesture detector, just handle the touch events yourself * Do not create a new bitmap. Load it once and blt from it to the surface * Background thread should wait on some object to be notified by UI thread when new x/y scroll is available, then draw We use this approach in PhoneMyPC and

Re: [android-developers] Re: Scrolling large image - working good but slow

2009-11-12 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
. I've changed my code and not using Gestures any more, just onTouch method and handling ACTION_MOVE motion. It's good up to this point. However, can you give a little sample code about blting a bitmap to surface? How can I do this? Thanks On Nov 12, 8:18 pm, SoftwareForMe.com

Re: [android-developers] App Not showing up on Verizon DROID Phones

2009-11-12 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
Your Manifest looks fine. I have a Droid. I searched the market and found MoneyNow - Preview, by SAISK LLC. If that's you, you're AOK. Scott SoftwareForMe.com On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Kumaravel Kandasami kumaravel.kandas...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, additionally I have ON ed the copy

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to test if app is shown on Market for all screensizes

2009-11-12 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
As if it's not enough to have to manage the manifest, but HTC has a bit of a habit of releasing phones that cannot see some apps. Examples include the HTC Hero when it was released in Europe, and the HTC Eris recently released in the USA. I'd like to know if those phones you mention can see our

Re: [android-developers] Re: Choosing Dev Phone

2009-11-12 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
This does come up quite often. I ask myself If I could have just one of our phones, which would I choose? The answer is a tough one. If I wanted to develop apps that would run well on all (or nearly all) Android devices, I would pick a Dream dev phone because it's the first, and later phones are

Re: [android-developers] Re: Who wants Multi-touch in all Android versions?

2009-11-12 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
Our solution is software only, works on production phones (i.e., no rooting or modding required). Scott SoftwareForMe.com Makers of PhoneMyPC On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Nathan nathan.d.mel...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious about this. Does multi-touch require hardware changes? Or am I

Re: [android-developers] Re: Please help me to choose Android Phones (For Android development)

2009-11-10 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
a phone for testing of real-world apps (i.e. not for educational purposes). I have been advised by a couple of people to consider purchasing the ADP1 from Google. What are your views on using the ADP1 which is, moreover, an unlocked phone. Thanks On Nov 10, 10:17 am, SoftwareForMe.com

Re: [android-developers] Infinite Reboot Cycle Caused by Choosing a Remote Location Picture as a Background

2009-11-10 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
Hi Adam, Perhaps unrelated, but thought I'd share. I picked up a Droid Friday morning, and by noon on Saturday, I had had 10 reboots just as you describe (stuck between Droid screen and red-eye screen). Having found many others online having this issue, I returned the phone at 1:00pm Saturday and

Re: [android-developers] Re: Got 12 Google Wave invitations to use, let me know if you need

2009-11-09 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
I would love one as well! softwareforme@gmail.com On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:20 AM, wusch jwu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, could I get one as well please jwu...@gmail.com Thanks, Jeff On Nov 9, 11:43 am, Anna Khotina anna.khot...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dave! I'd love one, thanks! -

Re: [android-developers] Please help me to choose Android Phones (For Android development)

2009-11-09 Thread SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com
Personally, I find all Android phones to be excellent for development. However, here are some things I would consider before deciding. Let's consider these devices: HTC G1 HTC Magic HTC MyTouch HTC Hero HTC Eris Samsung Galaxy Samsung Moment Motorola Cliq Motorola Droid Given the choice of a