[android-developers] Re: a different list mechanism

2011-02-14 Thread Spiral123
With the supplied ListView you can also override a heap of stuff to make it look very different from a 'standard' list. Personally I think I would always start from the default. Some of the guys on the Sony Ericsson developer blog did a nice tutorial around 3d lists:

[android-developers] Re: “Split View” app on Android

2011-02-03 Thread Spiral123
I suggest you read about Fragments in the latest SDK documentation. On Feb 2, 7:00 am, siva siva...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys, I am new to Android development. I like to develop application in split view(ipad has inbuilt framework). I did sample for WVGA800 landscape mode, but for multiple

[android-developers] Re: Honeycomb /system/app

2011-02-03 Thread Spiral123
I've had success with adb install xxx if that is relevant. Maybe a long shot, but have you tried increasing the targetSdkVersion in the manifest? e.g. android:targetSdkVersion=9 On Feb 2, 8:10 am, fred frederico.goncal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Has anyone tried to install an

[android-developers] Re: Problems With Admob AdWhirl eCPM Very Low

2011-02-03 Thread Spiral123
As you say your eCPM looks low, but don't get your hopes up about reaching .50 cents, let alone $2-5. CTR to me looks very low as well, but I'm not sure what the average for your category is. A bigger problem for me is that it looks like you have put your Ad banner line right next to your main

[android-developers] Re: how to get user Email id.

2011-01-31 Thread Spiral123
Can you rephrase your question? Perhaps you can tell us what is your end objective. On Jan 31, 5:41 am, A N K ! T ankit.awasth...@gmail.com wrote: i want to take Mobile owner/user email id through which he registered for gmail or any account --  A N K ! T.. -- You received this

[android-developers] Re: Overlaying points over streets

2011-01-26 Thread Spiral123
wow. this looks like a tricky project. not sure how you would do this dynamically as the tiles that come down from Google (pre Maps5 at least) are in png format iirc - so a lot of processing would be required to spot the roads quickly. V5 Maps may just download the geometry and Maps may render

[android-developers] Re: Overlaying points over streets

2011-01-26 Thread Spiral123
Aparently it's already been done:http://androidcommunity.com/pacmap-location-based-game-updated-20101230/ It's been withdrawn, thanks to Copyright objections (extract from Android Police) http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/01/03/android-pacman-google-maps-pacmap/: Update: PacMap has been

[android-developers] Android 3.0 Platform Preview and Updated SDK Tools

2011-01-26 Thread Spiral123
Thanks Google! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/01/android-30-platform-preview-and-updated.html -- 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

[android-developers] Re: Help with Hacking the State of the Union

2011-01-25 Thread Spiral123
thanks Dave. I'll be interested to see how it goes. I'm thinking of using GAE for some server-side functionality in a couple of months. Nick On Jan 24, 11:19 pm, keyeslabs keyes...@gmail.com wrote: Over the past few days I've hacked together an experiment that targets using an app to augment

[android-developers] Re: GPS turned on automatically on some devices?

2011-01-17 Thread Spiral123
I seem to remember having a similar problem. Does your Map app display the Users current location at any point? If yes, try calling MyLocationOverlay.enableMyLocation() to start updates in your MapView's onResume() and MyLocationOverlay.disableMyLocation() to stop in the onPause() and see if

[android-developers] Honeycomb SDK

2011-01-17 Thread Spiral123
Hi there... a quick request/plea to any Google employees that happen to be lurking around the group at the moment. Many of us here will have seen the CES preview video of Honeycomb and probably like myself are super excited about the possibilities for a future Android tablet version of our own

[android-developers] Re: Detect if app is installed

2011-01-14 Thread Spiral123
I would recommend you re-read the earlier post from Marcin. Let your web page detect a Mobile browser and display a market:// link to your app. If the user follows the link to the Market, it will detect if the app is already loaded on your phone and will prompt you to either Install it or Open

[android-developers] Re: How best to query web repeatedly.

2011-01-14 Thread Spiral123
Well50 mph is about 22 m/s - so driving at that speed in a straight line you are firing web queries off at the rate of approximately 1 every 2 seconds. Running sql queries over the web on a 3G network I'm not really surprised that the app locks up and has lag. Why not write a little app to

[android-developers] Re: Anyone know how to calculate speed WITHOUT GPS?

2011-01-12 Thread Spiral123
Play a tone and record it at the same time. The doppler shift should give you the speed. Works for galaxies. On Jan 12, 9:52 pm, metal mikey coref...@gmail.com wrote: You could use the phone's camera to take video of the car's speedometer and use image analysis to determine what the

[android-developers] Re: Local Search on google maps

2010-12-21 Thread Spiral123
I think the Places API is still in limited developer preview. You could use the ajax api for a local search: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/#fonje. Not too difficult, but probably not 'learning level'. Beware if you use this as it was deprecated last month. The

[android-developers] Re: Anybody seen a slowdown in sales?

2010-12-21 Thread Spiral123
Yeseveryone in Korea who has ever written an App appears to have released it to every market in the world. I would much prefer if Google actually nominated Local Language(s) for each Market and Automatically dumped all Apps not Localized to those languages into a new 'Foreign Language'

[android-developers] Re: Local Search on google maps

2010-12-21 Thread Spiral123
yes. for the local search example (which sends a JSON reply), build the URL query and wrap it in a getHttpJson call: jsonResponse = getHttpJson(urlRequest); query limitations vary by API. check the Terms of Service for each one. On Dec 22, 12:18 am, zeeshan mirza

[android-developers] Re: Google Maps API - Getting GPS data ??

2010-12-15 Thread Spiral123
It sounds like you are working on GPS Breadcrumbing. If you take a snapshot of Latitude, Longitude (optionally Altitude) at defined time intervals during your trip you will be able to calculate Bearing, Velocity between points and distance of each point to a fixed other location using the handy

[android-developers] Re: Can I do anything about bogus user comments?

2010-12-14 Thread Spiral123
I'm afraid the best you can do is to enter a comment in the Marketplace about your own app to address it. It's not a perfect solution, but at least it allows some form of dialog rather than a one-sided rant. I don't suggest you use ALL CAPS though. On Dec 14, 2:46 pm, Brill Pappin

[android-developers] Re: How to control the width and height of Alert dialog.

2010-12-11 Thread Spiral123
rather than write it as an AlertDialog why not create a full Activity but just theme is as a Dialog? Then you could control just about anything. On Dec 10, 11:20 pm, sat sathvikm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can you point me to some examples where AlertDialogs are built using Dialog class ? I have

[android-developers] Re: Market expanding to technically non-compliant devices?

2010-11-30 Thread Spiral123
. Thanks! On Nov 30, 8:20 am, Spiral123 cumis...@gmail.com wrote: GoogleTV.  My Logitech Revue has no touch screen - assuming the market gets expanded to this device (yes please!) then I won't want to see any apps where I need to touch the screen. -- You received this message because you

[android-developers] Re: Market expanding to technically non-compliant devices?

2010-11-30 Thread Spiral123
ah I see what you mean now. Interesting. The situation you are referring to is already upon us: GoogleTV it comes with its own controller that works well and I can also get a separate Logitech app that runs on my Phone that works as a remote controller, effectively replacing the GoogleTV

[android-developers] Re: Market expanding to technically non-compliant devices?

2010-11-29 Thread Spiral123
GoogleTV. My Logitech Revue has no touch screen - assuming the market gets expanded to this device (yes please!) then I won't want to see any apps where I need to touch the screen. On Nov 30, 12:01 am, Peter Webb r.peter.w...@gmail.com wrote: Looking at the Developer's console, I note

[android-developers] Re: Help - Gecoding is failing on a regular basis - does anyone else notice this?

2010-11-29 Thread Spiral123
I use Geocoding a lot and measure the rate of failure in the field. Within my App I will try a particular request up to 5 times before declaring failure with a target of satisfying 95% of requests. I've been hitting that service level consistently over the last 3 months. If anything I would say

[android-developers] Re: How to use Google Places API

2010-11-23 Thread Spiral123
Did you get accepted for the limited developer preview? On Nov 18, 3:12 am, bluepig bluepi...@gmail.com wrote: I found the following note in The Google Places API (Developer Preview) http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/places/#PlaceDetailsRe... Note: To use the Google Places API

[android-developers] Re: Custom Navigator app questions

2010-11-18 Thread Spiral123
wow, you're in a rush. I thought you had all year for this project! Google have spent man-years of development effort to build a Maps solution. Rather than waste the effort to re-engineer it yourself why don't you leverage it to your advantage instead and do something creative and interesting

[android-developers] Re: Gray square Maps problem

2010-11-17 Thread Spiral123
That's odd. The tile that is not displaying is the one that Google overlays their logo onto. Couple of questions: - is the program trying to suppress the Google logo or building an overlay that would hide it? - if you manually drag the map and force it to refresh, is the same map tile not

[android-developers] Re: CAN'T CONNECT MY ANDROID MOBILE PHONE TO MY MAC SYSTEM TO RUN MY APPLICATION.

2010-11-03 Thread Spiral123
possibly a bad USB cable. happened to me. On Nov 2, 3:48 pm, Josiah umajos...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hello Developers, I would be glad if someone could help me by telling me how i can connect my android mobile phone to my mac system to debug and test my applications on my mobile device. I do

[android-developers] Re: Limitations of the MapView and MapActivity design

2010-10-25 Thread Spiral123
Hi Jon. personally I've not found any practical limitation to how MapView/ MapActivity is implemented in Android. In fact, I quite like it. The iphone version of the app shows maps in multiple places which iPhone app? I'd be interested to see what it does. -- You received this message

[android-developers] Re: My tracks navigation overlay?

2010-10-21 Thread Spiral123
http://code.google.com/p/mytracks/ On Oct 21, 10:24 am, dweinand mail...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, can somebody point me to the right direction how the navigation overlays for My Tracks are implemented? I'm talking about the buttons for navigating appearing on the left and right side if

[android-developers] Re: Android Geocoder Issues

2010-10-20 Thread Spiral123
Yes, getFromLocation does sometimes return no results for no visible reason. I put the command within a TryCatch and throw an exception if I get 0 results returned. The whole thing is then wrapped in a countdown loop and I allow up to 3 exceptions before giving up. It's not pretty but it

[android-developers] Re: Google TV

2010-10-13 Thread Spiral123
WellI can answer at least part of my own question. Reading through the developer FAQ (http://code.google.com/tv/web/ faq.html) as the very last point it states that an emulator will be made available with the SDK. On Oct 12, 3:42 pm, Spiral123 cumis...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking

[android-developers] Google TV

2010-10-12 Thread Spiral123
I'm thinking of getting a Google TV box when it comes out in a few weeks. I know that there is going to be an SDK released for the box at some point. Has anyone here heard any news about if we will be able to connect to the Logitech device via USB in order to test our applications, or if will

[android-developers] Re: Android Maps API + KML file

2010-10-05 Thread Spiral123
The Web api for javascript will pull down the KML from Google. To display the information on your map you will have to parse the file manually and build the relevant overlay(s). On Oct 4, 4:51 pm, Tommy droi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I have some KML files I would like to display in my

[android-developers] Re: Android Maps API + KML file

2010-10-05 Thread Spiral123
and load the KML data into it. Tommy Android Mobile Phone Application Developer Database Administrator .net Web Specialist -Original Message- From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Spiral123 Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010

[android-developers] Re: Image Zomming using finger touch.

2010-09-24 Thread Spiral123
The Sony Ericsson guys did a tutorial on this: http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/developerworld/2010/05/18/android-one-finger-zoom-tutorial-part-1/ On Sep 23, 3:31 pm, Ajmer Singh ajmersing...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All I need to implement the Image zoom in and zoom out functionality using the

[android-developers] Re: reverseGeocode is returning null in android 2.2

2010-09-22 Thread Spiral123
Hi sonny reverseGeocode ( getFromLocation()) works pretty reliably (I would say 95% of the time) in my app under 2.2. Certainly no worse than 2.1. I wrap the call inside a TryCatch block and if it throws an exception I wait a second and try again. If its still null after 3 tries the

[android-developers] Re: So can we use Directions API or not in Android?

2010-08-24 Thread Spiral123
thanks for the responsebut still not clear to me. As the request to Google directions is an httpget I assumed that the 2500 limit would be per unique ip address (which as there is no cookie involved is what I believe will be the only unique identifier that google will see on the request

[android-developers] Re: How to make a imageview at right of linearlayout

2010-07-09 Thread Spiral123
Thanks so much for taking the time to post your solution Cindy. I had been bugged by a similar problem for hours and just hadn't thought of wrapping my Image views in a Linear Layout container in order to get them aligned properly. On Jul 7, 6:46 pm, cindy ypu01...@yahoo.com wrote: Following

[android-developers] Re: ListView not refreshing on back button when cursor is changed

2010-07-09 Thread Spiral123
not sure I understand exactly what you are doing, but have you tried calling a .notifyDataSetChanged() on your simple cursor adapter? On Jul 8, 3:14 pm, Connick oconn...@gmail.com wrote: My user has a menu option to jump from a list activity to a preference screen which has options for

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