[android-developers] MapView in Fragment using compat library

2011-08-30 Thread Watcher
Some months back, someone posted a hack to the compatibility library to get a MapView to display in a fragment (see posts by @Streets of Boston): http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_frm/thread/b705bbd72d28d000/df84933c3a460c71?pli=1 Indeed this does display the mapview in

[android-developers] UMTS Signal strength : RSCP or RSSI ?

2010-09-27 Thread Watcher
Hello, I need some clarification on API docs. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/SignalStrength.html getSignalStrength() indicates: Get the GSM Signal Strength, valid values are (0-31, 99) as defined in TS 27.007 8.5

[android-developers] Getting the frequency bands used by phone

2010-04-20 Thread Watcher
Hi, I've been perusing the SDK docs and can't find any way to determine the frequency band of the cell the phone is using: I want to be able to differentiate between 1900Mhz and 850Mhz. Did I overlook this or is it missing ? If it is missing, what is the best way to turn this into a feature

[android-developers] Getting the frequency bands used by phone

2010-04-20 Thread Watcher
Hi, I've been perusing the SDK docs and can't find any way to determine the frequency band of the cell the phone is using: I want to be able to differentiate between 1900Mhz and 850Mhz. Did I overlook this or is it missing ? If it is missing, what is the best way to turn this into a feature

[android-developers] Sprint 4G Evo phone

2010-03-23 Thread Watcher
Hi, Sprint has announced a 4G phone... as far as I can tell it will run WiMAX on Android 2.1 So where are the TelephonyManager phonetype, signalstrengh, cell location et al. ? Or is this an HTC customization of Android we won't see elsewhere ? After all there are some cupcake builds with CDMA...

[android-developers] Re: Same servicein multiple APKs, only want best one to launch

2009-12-19 Thread Watcher
Hi, I have read your post already which is why I was playing around with the packagemanager. I suppose that is the workable solution you are mentionning ? If that is so then my question to Diane remains : how do I launch a service explicitly, not using a string action, when its class is in another

[android-developers] Re: Same servicein multiple APKs, only want best one to launch

2009-12-18 Thread Watcher
may not be in the current APK. Thanks On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Watcher watche...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have the same service in multiple APKs. In each of the APKs, I am going to launch the serivce. Because the APK are difference applications that have been installed upgraded

[android-developers] Re: Same servicein multiple APKs, only want best one to launch

2009-12-18 Thread Watcher
Using android:priority is an interesting idea ! I didn't even know it was there. Reading from the docs, I see that When an intent could be handled by multiple activities with different priorities, Android will consider only those with higher priority values as potential targets for the intent.

[android-developers] TelephonyManager.getNetworkType() returns type for on French UMTS networks (?!?)

2009-12-18 Thread Watcher
Hello, According to http://developer.android.com/intl/fr/reference/android/telephony/TelephonyManager.html, TelephonyManager.getNetworkType() should return a number between 0 and 3 at API level 3. I am however getting sometimes getting 4 as a response for all operator networks in France.

[android-developers] Re: Program unique identifier

2009-12-18 Thread Watcher
If your software is running on a phone-less tablet, chances are you won't even get an instance of TelephonyManager so getDeviceId() won't work Unique program identifer is the package identifier although anyone could use the same id as yours... On Dec 18, 4:49 am, lphpc glp...@gmail.com wrote:

[android-developers] Same servicein multiple APKs, only want best one to launch

2009-12-17 Thread Watcher
Hi, I have the same service in multiple APKs. In each of the APKs, I am going to launch the serivce. Because the APK are difference applications that have been installed upgraded at various times, the service implementation in each may be different. I am trying to figure out a way to make sure

[android-developers] Signal strengh of other cellular networks

2009-11-30 Thread Watcher
Hi, I know how to get the Signal Strengh of the cellular network the phone is connected to. What I haven't figured out is whether it is possible to get the signal from other providers than the one currently used by the phone. IE, my phone has an Orange SIM, I know the signal strengh for Orange.