[android-developers] Google Allo App Technicalities.

2016-09-29 Thread William Jones
What is the difference between the technicalities of whatsapp and Google Allo app? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsu

[android-developers] Accept License Switch for Android.bat

2016-04-02 Thread William Davis
Using a build system I have to download several different Android Apis using the Android sdk update etc. commands. Several times this requires me to accept licenses. Which I have to do by piping in "echo 'y'" to the command. The tools should provide a switch to allow for automatic license accept

[android-developers] Google maps in Webview

2016-01-29 Thread William Chan
Hi there! I just built an app with a webview to display my responsive website, but some of the Google maps in the webview are not showing up. Is there something I should be importing or including? Thank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Devel

[android-developers] Android Studio Android App

2016-01-11 Thread William Henry King
Is there any way I can request that Google's Android team code an official Android Studio app for the Play Store, so that we android developers can develop apps on Android itself? And by Android I mean the Remix OS 2.0. The Alpha version is set to be released on the 12th of Jan (tomorrow). By

[android-developers] Re: Where to ask questions about Android Dev API level 9?

2016-01-07 Thread Clint William Theron
this forum makes me sad. you don't tell me why you don't answer my questions On Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 2:13:12 PM UTC+2, Clint William Theron wrote: > > Hi. Just what the questions say. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[android-developers] Where to ask questions about Android Dev API level 9?

2016-01-06 Thread Clint William Theron
Hi. Just what the questions say. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, se

[android-developers] Re: Replacing the settings menu(...) with button items.

2015-12-31 Thread Clint William Theron
The menu I'm talking about is contained in the following markup: -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@google

[android-developers] Replacing the settings menu(...) with button items.

2015-12-31 Thread Clint William Theron
Hi power code writers:-) I chose one of your templates (I think it's the blank or empty one) and I really like the top-right menu, it's the one with the three dots vertically on top of each other. Anyway, when we tap this button a popup container appears with the word settings in it. I hope you

[android-developers] How to replace FloatingActionButton icon with my own icon in Android Studio 1.5.1?

2015-12-31 Thread Clint William Theron
Hi super beings:-) Can you tell me how to change the icon of a FloatingActionButton

Re: [android-developers] question for my app

2015-12-29 Thread William Garcia
If I may interject for a quick response to be in order. Replace your.app.id.here with your actual app id. On Dec 20, 2015 10:54 PM, "mrjasna100" wrote: > erm the link isn't working > > On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 12:24:56 PM UTC

[android-developers] App gives error when trying to run it.

2015-12-16 Thread Clint William Theron
Hi awesome people:-) After creating a project from the templates I get an error when I try to run the app. I think something went wrong downloading the sdk. How can I reinstall/download only the sdk and not Android Studio? Thank you in advance ps The image attached is a screenshot of the error -

[android-developers] Re: Creating a list like the one in android dev guidlines

2013-08-24 Thread William Reed
Maybe something like this but with an image view? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8841283/gmail-like-listview-with-checkboxes-and-using-the-actionbar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to a

[android-developers] Creating a list like the one in android dev guidlines

2013-08-24 Thread William Reed
Hey guys I was going through the android dev guidelines and came upon this awesome list looking thing that would be awesome to have in my app You can see the list on the left phone with the little picture and then the three lines of text. That is exactly wha

[android-developers] Re: When to show a dialog from Fragment and when not to

2013-04-15 Thread William Ferguson
#show that occur from a delayed handler need to first check to make sure the Fragment is still resumed or potentially face the same issue. Or have I missed something? William On Monday, April 15, 2013 6:51:09 PM UTC+10, Piren wrote: > > Errr... we need a damn edit button here. i meant: &

[android-developers] Re: When to show a dialog from Fragment and when not to

2013-04-15 Thread William Ferguson
Hi Piren, what is an appropriate definition of "Started" in this instance? WIlliam On Monday, April 15, 2013 1:17:36 AM UTC+10, Piren wrote: > > Check the fragment state before showing, it should be Started, if not, > keep a flag saying that says this dialog needs to be s

Re: [android-developers] When to show a dialog from Fragment and when not to

2013-04-15 Thread William Ferguson
to determine whether the fragment > is visible and can trigger a dialog. For situations where fragment is in > the background you could use a Toast perhaps? > > -- > H > > On Apr 14, 2013, at 4:25 PM, William Ferguson > > > wrote: > > > I have a Fragm

[android-developers] When to show a dialog from Fragment and when not to

2013-04-14 Thread William Ferguson
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) What is the correct way to handle this scenario? Ideally I'd like to always display the dialog, but if that is not an option, then what do I use to determine whether the dialog should be displayed or not? William -- -- You received thi

Re: [android-developers] Re: Can this variable become null?

2013-03-15 Thread William Ferguson
ant problems of objects with indefinite life spans. If you know what you are doing, fine. But it's similar to the mantra we give kids "don't run with scissors". William -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Develo

[android-developers] Re: Can this variable become null?

2013-02-25 Thread William Ferguson
> You should access it with a getInstance method which will initialize it if >> it is null. >> > You should initialize the variable in the class initialization and declare > it 'final'. > > There are times when you cannot do this, in which case probably Singleton > is the wrong choice. > > F

[android-developers] Re: Alpha ordering ListPreference values to suit current locale

2013-02-04 Thread William Ferguson
rence/ListPreference.java > > -- K > > On Monday, February 4, 2013 5:07:36 PM UTC+4, William Ferguson wrote: >> >> But that gains nothing over adding them as static lists inside the >> resource files. >> It's not like I'm going to changing the names of co

[android-developers] Re: Alpha ordering ListPreference values to suit current locale

2013-02-04 Thread William Ferguson
visibility over localisation of those resources. William On Monday, February 4, 2013 10:46:44 PM UTC+10, lbendlin wrote: > > As I said, I would create a SQLite table with locale, language code and > language title. Then you can do a database query that filters by the > current locale

[android-developers] Re: Alpha ordering ListPreference values to suit current locale

2013-02-03 Thread William Ferguson
that the values displayed by a ListPreference are in alpha order for the current locale? William On Saturday, February 2, 2013 12:50:49 PM UTC+10, lbendlin wrote: > > smells like a database driven custom preference to me. > > On Friday, February 1, 2013 9:13:09 PM UTC-5, William Fergu

[android-developers] Alpha ordering ListPreference values to suit current locale

2013-02-01 Thread William Ferguson
lisch Spanisch Finnisch Should I replicate the keys and values in all resource locales and change their order to suit? Or is their some way that I haven't found yet where I can readily apply a sort to the ListPreference keys and values? William -- -- You received this message becau

[android-developers] Re: Unmanaged items in v3 billing API?

2013-01-30 Thread William Ferguson
Managed consumable items in V3 are the replacement for unmanaged items in V2. I think it is a good move. It has greatly simplified the concept IMHO. And the V3 API looks much, much better. William On Thursday, January 31, 2013 3:56:04 AM UTC+10, Michael Parker wrote: > > Hi all, >

Re: [android-developers] How to specify an IntentFilter that only activates when the Intent comes from within my own app?

2013-01-14 Thread William Ferguson
OK, now that we've established that I have zero choice but to construct my own chooser Intent, what have I missed in the code below? NB this seems so fragile. I feel like I'm having to make too many assumptions how how the Android framework works. /** > * Creates a Chooser Intent conta

Re: [android-developers] How to specify an IntentFilter that only activates when the Intent comes from within my own app?

2013-01-13 Thread William Ferguson
mplement a custom chooser and inject my Activity into it. William On Monday, January 14, 2013 7:47:54 AM UTC+10, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 4:39 PM, William Ferguson > > wrote: > > @Mark @Kristopher really? the doco for android:exported se

Re: [android-developers] How to specify an IntentFilter that only activates when the Intent comes from within my own app?

2013-01-13 Thread William Ferguson
e all relevant Activities available to respond, including my own Activity. But I don't want my own Activity to be able to respond to text/plain shared from another app. Hence why android:exported=false sounds like the perfect solution. William On Monday, January 14, 2013 7:46:34 AM UTC+10, Krist

Re: [android-developers] How to specify an IntentFilter that only activates when the Intent comes from within my own app?

2013-01-13 Thread William Ferguson
text/plain to also make themselves available. @EveryoneElse if you are thinking BroadcastReceivers, LocalBroadcastManager etc then you're on the wrong tangent, this is about starting an Activity. William On Monday, January 14, 2013 4:16:56 AM UTC+10, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: >

Re: [android-developers] How to specify an IntentFilter that only activates when the Intent comes from within my own app?

2013-01-12 Thread William Ferguson
within my app. Ie it shouldn't be available from within other apps. William On Sunday, January 13, 2013 4:12:39 PM UTC+10, Joman Chu wrote: > > Does android:exported=false do what you want? See > http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html#exported >

[android-developers] How to specify an IntentFilter that only activates when the Intent comes from within my own app?

2013-01-12 Thread William Ferguson
t shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND); > shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject); > shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, content); > final Intent chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Share > via")); > context.startActivity(chooserIntent); Wil

[android-developers] Re: How to add AdMob

2013-01-11 Thread William Ferguson
Admob forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/google-admob-ads-sdk I believe this is now a redundant setting. Just set it to " Use test mode setting set in client code " William On Friday, January 11, 2013 3:54:10 PM UTC+10, askl wrote: > > wow thank very mu

[android-developers] Re: How to add AdMob

2013-01-10 Thread William Ferguson
You can leave testDevices in there, it won't hurt. And yes you can use it for all your Activities. NB you may be better off asking Admob questions on the Admob newsgroup. Though you have received some pretty good responses here. William On Friday, January 11, 2013 3:26:28 PM UTC+10, askl

[android-developers] How to avoid useless getView in GridView

2013-01-08 Thread William Guy
I have tested GridView behavior in getView() , and i got: 01-08 11:18:55.925: E/getView(4113): Position: 0, Child Count: 0, ConvertView: Null 01-08 11:18:55.945: E/getView(4113): Position: 0, Child Count: 0 01-08 11:18:55.955: E/getView(4113): Position: 1, Child Count: 1, ConvertView: Null 01-0

[android-developers] How to avoid useless getView in GridView?

2013-01-08 Thread William Guy
I have tested GridView behavior in getView, and i got: 01-08 11:18:55.925: E/getView(4113): Position: 0, Child Count: 0, ConvertView: Null 01-08 11:18:55.945: E/getView(4113): Position: 0, Child Count: 0 01-08 11:18:55.955: E/getView(4113): Position: 1, Child Count: 1, ConvertView: Null 0

[android-developers] Re: Reg: Automatic Time Setting Request

2013-01-03 Thread William Ferguson
You need to set your app up as a listener to an NTP server. On Friday, January 4, 2013 3:47:21 PM UTC+10, Kondlada wrote: > > HI All, > > I am looking to get absolute Time from the mobile Carrier as > My app dependency on current time, Where can not trust the Android System > Time

Re: [android-developers] Replacement for MODE_WORLD_READABLE

2013-01-01 Thread William Ferguson
Thanks Tre, as one of the ACRA committers I have pretty good idea of what's involved. But it's too heavy weight and not transparent enough to the user. Yes I could build it, but I'd rather spend effort elsewhere. William On Monday, December 31, 2012 1:54:41 PM UTC+10, TreKing wr

Re: [android-developers] Replacement for MODE_WORLD_READABLE

2013-01-01 Thread William Ferguson
ldn't that be done later since #onCreate is called on every App startup? William On Monday, December 31, 2012 8:45:57 AM UTC+10, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 5:24 PM, William Ferguson > > wrote: > > So considering the use ca

[android-developers] Replacement for MODE_WORLD_READABLE

2012-12-30 Thread William Ferguson
case how do I rebuild without using MODE_WORLD_READABLE? William -- 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 e

[android-developers] Re: AdMob House Ads

2012-12-07 Thread William Ferguson
John, you might be better off asking this one over in https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/google-admob-ads-sdk William On Friday, December 7, 2012 12:08:44 PM UTC+10, John Coryat wrote: > > I know this probably isn't the best place to ask this but I haven't

[android-developers] Re: App crash report - InputChannel - could not read input channel file descriptors from parcel.

2012-12-06 Thread William Ferguson
I know this is a *really* old thread now, but there is a credible issue raised for it. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=32470 So those that are experiencing it can go and star if you want to add your weight to getting it noticed and fixed. William On Monday, October 3

[android-developers] Re: why progress dialog dismiss after rotating the screen landscap to portrait

2012-11-26 Thread William Ferguson
ready using the FragmentManager, perhaps showing some of your code might help. William On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 2:52:20 PM UTC+10, monty wrote: > > but showDialog is deprecated. > > On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 9:43:50 AM UTC+5:30, William Ferguson wrote: >> >> It is being

[android-developers] Re: why progress dialog dismiss after rotating the screen landscap to portrait

2012-11-26 Thread William Ferguson
reconstruction of the dialog. William On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 1:36:23 PM UTC+10, monty wrote: > > Hello, > i am using android annotation , in my app i am using progress > dialog but after rotation the screen it dismiss(why). > -- You received this message because you

Re: [android-developers] Re: How do I fix this error

2012-11-19 Thread William Ferguson
Actually, considering the info you gave I think Lew's response was quite appropriate and not at all rude. Perhaps you should consider rephrasing your question and providing some more detail next time. William On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 11:39:07 AM UTC+10, Bear35805 wrote: > >

[android-developers] Re: random Resource$NotFoundException reports

2012-11-08 Thread William Ferguson
Exactly what Bob said. Have an app around long enough ad you will see all kinds of weird shit show up in your crash reports. William On Thursday, November 8, 2012 10:08:05 PM UTC+10, b0b wrote: > > I see this kind of errors from time to time. > > Probably due to bad installs or br

[android-developers] junit classes in live Webkit code

2012-10-09 Thread William Ferguson
s was burnt into and being used by a production class. I wonder whether they really meant to use the Java "assert" statement instead and hope it has been fixed since. The Junit Assert class shouldn't be used outside of a test harness. Has anyone else seen anything similar? Willi

[android-developers] Re: Using NFC on Android

2012-10-04 Thread William Chan
and tested. So I shall develop on that. Thank you very much again, William Chan -- 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

[android-developers] Using NFC on Android

2012-10-03 Thread William Chan
Hi I'm working on a project for Uni and I was wondering which is the lowest level of the Android API I would need to use for accessing NFC functions etc. Thank you very much. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to th

[android-developers] Re: Android Application Update is becoming overhead...

2012-09-25 Thread William Ferguson
One of the changes to Google Play announced at Google IO 2012 was incremental updates. You get this for free with the latest version of Google Play. Ie you don't need to do anything to enable it. On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 4:46:39 PM UTC+10, Arunprasad Rajkumar wrote: > > Hi All, > > Suppose

[android-developers] Re: Access Web Services via SOAP on password-protected server from an Android App

2012-09-23 Thread William Ferguson
If the Request requires authentication then you're going to have to authenticate. Sounds like you'll need to provide username/password in the Request header. William On Monday, September 24, 2012 11:19:14 AM UTC+10, solnichko wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Does anyone know how I

[android-developers] Re: Advertising opt out

2012-09-17 Thread William Ferguson
y means and offer to take away the ads for the same coin. On the Ad metrics, reducing the number of ad requests to increase the CPC or eCPM doesn't increase (or even affect) the revenue. It just makes those numbers look better. William https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.xan

[android-developers] Re: Paypal in Android

2012-09-17 Thread William Ferguson
terms I thought were there, so who knows. William On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 4:48:31 AM UTC+10, Lew wrote: > > William Ferguson wrote: >> >> Michael Leung wrote: >>> >>>I got a client which has an online shop using Paypal. They want to >>>

[android-developers] Re: Paypal in Android

2012-09-16 Thread William Ferguson
Only if you intend to violate the terms of your agreement with Google Play . 1) You cannot use a payment mechanism other than Google Play for an app distributed via Google Play. 2) You cannot use Google Play to charge for physical goods. William On Monday, September 17, 2012 3:30:14 PM UTC+10

[android-developers] Re: WIN DEATH Logs

2012-09-16 Thread William Ferguson
Is it from the UI thread? Does the service method take a long time to return? That would be the cause the WIN DEATH and the ANR. William On Monday, September 17, 2012 3:16:40 PM UTC+10, Sat wrote: > > Guys please reply ... > > > On Saturday, September 15, 2012 4:28:17 PM UTC+5:30,

[android-developers] Re: Dungeons in-app billing test app cannot be found in Play Store

2012-09-09 Thread William Ferguson
of the unpublished app. William On Monday, September 10, 2012 2:35:09 AM UTC+10, Escape Radius wrote: > > I'm trying to test the in-app billing example, Dungeons and I'm confused > about testing the app. I have complied the demo .apk, and uploaded it to my > Developer Con

Re: [android-developers] Re: Where/how to find the Google Play identity on Android and how to send that to an AppEngine stance.

2012-08-28 Thread William Ferguson
> > > the Google Play services seems half implemented to me :-( > > AFAIK, it is not available yet, are you referring to the docs? > > https://developers.google.com/android/google-play-services/ > No. Perhaps I misunderstood one of the GoogleIO sessions. They were referring to in-app billing

Re: [android-developers] Re: Where/how to find the Google Play identity on Android and how to send that to an AppEngine stance.

2012-08-28 Thread William Ferguson
7;t even need a global identity, I just need an identity unique to my app. re: OAuth2 on Android - isn't that already available? http://code.google.com/p/google-api-java-client/wiki/OAuth2#Android William On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 3:38:02 PM UTC+10, Nikolay Elenkov wrote: > > On Tu

Re: [android-developers] Re: Where/how to find the Google Play identity on Android and how to send that to an AppEngine stance.

2012-08-27 Thread William Ferguson
o so via a web service you need to pass that auth along with the http request, which means you need to gather it on the Android device first, which leads back to the top. Or did I miss something? William -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Andro

[android-developers] Re: Where/how to find the Google Play identity on Android and how to send that to an AppEngine stance.

2012-08-27 Thread William Ferguson
Surely someone has dealt with this issue before .. On Friday, August 24, 2012 2:49:38 PM UTC+10, William Ferguson wrote: > > I asked this question on StackOverflow ( > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12015303/what-user-identity-should-be-used-to-collate-in-app-purchases-from-go

[android-developers] Where/how to find the Google Play identity on Android and how to send that to an AppEngine stance.

2012-08-23 Thread William Ferguson
ver supplied as part of the purchase flow. So where/how to get it? William -- 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 gro

[android-developers] Lowest memory (storage) consuming photo file format

2012-08-21 Thread William Reed
What do you guys think the best file format is for background images? And for icons? -- 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

Re: [android-developers] Obfuscating a database for in-app billing

2012-08-19 Thread William Ferguson
> > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Przemyslaw Wegrzyn > > > wrote: > >> >> Take a look at Google Play licensing library, it is a good example of >> AES-based obfuscation. >> >> Search for AESObfuscator here >> http://developer.android.com/guide/goog

Re: [android-developers] Obfuscating a database for in-app billing

2012-08-18 Thread William Ferguson
> > http://developer.android.com/guide/google/play/licensing/adding-licensing.html > > > > BR, > > Przemek > > > > > > On 08/18/2012 03:06 PM, William Ferguson wrote: > > > Thanks N

Re: [android-developers] Obfuscating a database for in-app billing

2012-08-18 Thread William Ferguson
Thanks Nikolay, that makes sense. Kostya, you mean obfuscate each field value independently (and yes I prefer to use a DB that writing my own file format). I haven't found any examples that do that. To which library are you referring? Have you got a URL to an example? William On Sat

[android-developers] Obfuscating a database for in-app billing

2012-08-18 Thread William Ferguson
me in the right direction? William -- 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...@

[android-developers] Re: Sliding/moving fragments (like Gmail and Email app) in Honeycomb

2012-07-10 Thread William Swartzendruber
I'm also very curious about how this works. -- 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..

[android-developers] Emulate Gmail's Fragment System

2012-07-10 Thread William Swartzendruber
Gmail on tablets has a system where top level fragments can be pushed off the screen to make room for a new one. Or the fragment on the very left can hide itself when switching to portrait mode, but reappear when going back to landscape mode. How is this done? What classes are used to accompl

Re: [android-developers] Re: Simple app with commons-httpclient-3.1.jar

2012-06-28 Thread Iain William Wiseman
On 20/06/2012 7:16 p.m., Uwe Maurer wrote: Why not just use the built-in http clients? They are optimized for Android and you don't bloat your app with extra dependencies like junit. See here for more information: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/09/androids-http-clients.html Uwe

Re: [android-developers] Multiple applications with WakeLock vs. one WakeLock app

2012-05-13 Thread William Kelley
ime you are allowing the battery to be drained, often > significantly more than it would be otherwise. And your actions here will > show up to the user in the battery use UI so they know who to blame for > killing their battery. > > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 2:51 PM, William Kelley &

[android-developers] Multiple applications with WakeLock vs. one WakeLock app

2012-05-13 Thread William Kelley
I am developing a simple GPS logger that runs as a service, getting fixes in short intervals. As I've read documentation and posts in this forum, I realize I need a WakeLock to keep the service running and logging points. Right now, without a WakeLock, my service runs fine for many hours, even

Re: [android-developers] When using LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates, do I need a WakeLock?

2012-05-11 Thread William Kelley
Just a followup: Tasker and AutomateIt both do have "Prevent device from sleeping" (ie WakeLock) as permissions. -- 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 un

Re: [android-developers] When using LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates, do I need a WakeLock?

2012-05-11 Thread William Kelley
On Friday, May 11, 2012 4:57:35 AM UTC-7, ste1024 wrote: > Sorry for digging up this ancient topic, but an trying to find an answer > to the same question. > In my app so I am able to receive location updates even if I put the > device to sleep, without explicitly holding a WakeLock. > I cam

Re: [android-developers] Re: Long running Android service is getting recreated over and over

2012-05-10 Thread William Kelley
I don't know, I haven't experienced any problems with that yet. I have set my GPS fix interval to as low as 4 seconds and as high as a few minutes (haven't tried anything over that yet) and my device hits those marks just fine. Of course, if I am outside, the fix is usually instantaneous, wherea

Re: [android-developers] Re: Long running Android service is getting recreated over and over

2012-05-10 Thread William Kelley
lbendlin and gjs, thanks for the confirmation that users do indeed want long running services sometimes. And that battery life is acceptable when running GPS almost non-stop. On Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:43:11 AM UTC-7, Kristopher Micinski wrote: > > > What are your smart ways? No matter what, t

Re: [android-developers] Re: Long running Android service is getting recreated over and over

2012-05-10 Thread William Kelley
On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 9:40:20 PM UTC-7, Kristopher Micinski wrote: > > > What you're doing isn't draining the battery only because of the > service, but also because of the location updates you'll be getting.. > GPS fixing is definitely the main battery killer here, but there are smart w

[android-developers] Re: Long running Android service is getting recreated over and over

2012-05-09 Thread William Kelley
Thanks for all the insightful comments. Too many to reply to individually so I'll just plow through them without quoting. As to RAM: RAM is a premium and yet when I look at the process running on my phone, the smallest is using 15M, while most of the others are 20M+, some up to 60M+. I don't kn

Re: [android-developers] Long running Android service is getting recreated over and over

2012-05-09 Thread William Kelley
Thanks. I'm not sure why long running services are frowned upon. As long as they don't overly consume resources and are done with the user's knowledge, and indeed the user *wants* the features of a long running service, then what is the harm? If a user wants to log something for a long time, an

Re: [android-developers] Long running Android service is getting recreated over and over

2012-05-09 Thread William Kelley
So, if I want a long running process (logging GPS points over several hours), I would need to use START_STICKY and then maintain some knowledge of state between service restarts. That is, save state to disk (filename that I am writing to, specifically). And since onDestroy is not called and the

[android-developers] Long running Android service is getting recreated over and over

2012-05-09 Thread William Kelley
I have a simple Android Activity with one button to start and stop a long running Android Service (which does some simple logging). As soon as I start the service, I close the app (Activity) and the service should then run in the background indefinitely. But it doesn't. At random times, the

[android-developers] getHitRect differences in FroYo / Gingerbread / ICS?

2012-05-01 Thread William Sanville
Hello, My end result is to increase the clickable area of certain views that are small. It appears that this can be done with a TouchDelegate, but in my case, there will be scenarios where one container ha

[android-developers] Re: AsyncTask in Android 4.0

2012-04-20 Thread William Ferguson
st 12 months as it avoided changes of threading behaviour between sdk versions. But even good 3rd party libraries can cut down down due to changes in policy like this. William On Saturday, April 21, 2012 5:16:35 AM UTC+10, Nathan wrote: > > Still adjusting to the changes in Android 4.0 regardin

[android-developers] Looking for a favour from someone with an Android 1.6 device

2012-04-01 Thread William Ferguson
x27;d like to find out if this is a quirk of the emulator or if it is real. And if anyone has any ideas as to what the discrepancy is between the 2 builds then I'm all ears. William -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" gro

Re: [android-developers] Way to set android:vmSafeMode at runtime

2012-03-16 Thread William Ferguson
Of course. Perfect. Thanks Mark. Yes, I was somewhat surprised when I noted that there was no doco for vmSafeMode. But I'm not too worried as so far I just want the default in all scenarios except for V9 and V9 instances aren't going to lose than behaviour now. William On Friday

[android-developers] Way to set android:vmSafeMode at runtime

2012-03-15 Thread William Ferguson
really want to switch off JIT for everyone, just for the FROYO users. Does anyone know of a way to set vmSafeMode at runtime? William -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-devel

[android-developers] Re: Mismatch in runtime layout selection based upon size/density

2012-02-24 Thread William Ferguson
Thanks Dianne, that's clarified quite a few things for me. I guess my disconnect was started by fact that the layout qualifiers allow for a density specifier. William On Feb 25, 6:49 am, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > I'm not sure I am totally following you, but if you have two differ

[android-developers] Re: Mismatch in runtime layout selection based upon size/density

2012-02-23 Thread William Ferguson
large- layout_B_more_capabable_screens Or if I want to implement the layouts I have actually been supporting, I can collapse this to - default - layout_A_less_capabable_screens - large- layout_B_more_capabable_screens William On Feb 24, 11:09 am, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > Keep in mind that all densities are a p

[android-developers] Re: Mismatch in runtime layout selection based upon size/density

2012-02-23 Thread William Ferguson
Thanks for the review Mark. I didn't think I was going insane, just tearing my hair out. William On Feb 23, 11:15 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > Replying to the list: > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:54 AM, William Ferguson > > wrote: > > you can download a very small proj

[android-developers] Re: Mismatch in runtime layout selection based upon size/density

2012-02-22 Thread William Ferguson
Thanks Mark, I'll put something together tonight. On Feb 23, 10:07 am, Mark Murphy wrote: > If you create a sample project that can demonstrate the problem, I'd > like to take a peek at it. > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:44 PM, William Ferguson > > > > > >

[android-developers] Re: Mismatch in runtime layout selection based upon size/density

2012-02-22 Thread William Ferguson
ng with is how the decision on which resource qualified layout is chosen. In particular why an 800*400 160dpi device is considered large-hdpi William On Feb 22, 9:35 pm, moktarul anam wrote: > Hi William, > I will suggest you to use layout weight/ weight sum ( basically > instead if giv

[android-developers] Mismatch in runtime layout selection based upon size/density

2012-02-21 Thread William Ferguson
altogether when choosing the layout. Is there a way to programatically determine which resource selectors have been used to choose layout? William -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send em

[android-developers] Re: Why would PackageManager throw PackageNotFound for its own App Package?

2012-02-08 Thread William Ferguson
100k downloads I've only seen about a dozen instances in the last 6 months, but I've had 4 in the last week. I can't see anything else particularly special in the device info. William On Feb 9, 9:00 am, Doug wrote: > If this is reported through the market, I wouldn't tak

[android-developers] Re: Why would PackageManager throw PackageNotFound for its own App Package?

2012-02-07 Thread William Ferguson
But I didn't feed anything after midnight. Honest On Feb 8, 3:15 am, Mark Murphy wrote: > Yup, definitely gremlins. :-) > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:46 AM, William Ferguson > > wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > > Its on the UI thread from a button click. > >

[android-developers] Re: Why would PackageManager throw PackageNotFound for its own App Package?

2012-02-07 Thread William Ferguson
Hi Mark, Its on the UI thread from a button click. William On Feb 7, 11:37 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > When are you calling this? > > One conceivable scenario would be if you are doing this a bit > asynchronously from your activity (e.g., AsyncTask). If the user fired > up your

[android-developers] Why would PackageManager throw PackageNotFound for its own App Package?

2012-02-07 Thread William Ferguson
ry { return context.getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(packageName, PackageManager.GET_SIGNATURES); } catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) { throw new IllegalStateException("Could not find the package for " + packageName + "!!", e); } William -- You received this

[android-developers] Audio During a Call

2012-01-30 Thread William Qaqish
Experts, Numerous blogs state that in-call audio is not accessible however, a recent forum about the Galaxy S ( http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1637137 ) implies that you are capable of playing audio to the caller. Has access to in-call audio been now available to allow audio files to

[android-developers] Re: Failed to register input channel

2012-01-24 Thread William Ferguson
Remote device so I don't have added to logcat or DDMS. On Jan 24, 8:39 pm, Marcelo Henrique wrote: > Device or Emulator  ?  Logcat ...  DDMS  ... is checked? > 2012/1/24 William Ferguson > > > > > > > > > > Anyone? > > > On Jan 23, 11:38 am, Wil

[android-developers] Re: Failed to register input channel

2012-01-24 Thread William Ferguson
Anyone? On Jan 23, 11:38 am, William Ferguson wrote: > I get about one of these errors occurring roughly every 50,000 app > starts, so it's starting to occur pretty regularly now. I have never > managed to make it occur on a local device so I can't check the logs > for d

[android-developers] Two webview windows in one app

2012-01-23 Thread William
Is it possible to have 2 webview windows that each open a seperate site? The first Webview window will have 50% height and so will the 2nd one as well. If not, is it somehow possible to read 2 html pages where the first one will always be "stuck", covering 50% of the screen while the bottom window

[android-developers] Failed to register input channel

2012-01-22 Thread William Ferguson
;m not sure what else I can do. William java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to register input channel. Check logs for details. at android.view.InputQueue.nativeRegisterInputChannel(Native Method) at android.view.InputQueue.registerInputChannel(InputQueue.java:92) at android.view.ViewRoot

[android-developers] Re: Intercept and update Javascript resource loading from webview

2012-01-18 Thread William
I dont know the answer but it is an interesting attempt. Did you figure it out yet? I bet digging deep into the webview, while ugly, would do it On Jan 13, 8:45 am, Ashutosh wrote: > Any idea guys?? > > On Jan 12, 12:11 pm, Ashutosh wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Guys, > > > I am stuck with a sit

[android-developers] Holo Theme and Overflow Button/Menu

2012-01-11 Thread William Mann
Hi, I'm finishing up an application that has an options menu (I'm using the Galaxy Nexus for development) and using the default theme everything works fine. However, I'd like to use the Holo theme and I set that up in my Manifest file. The application still works and I like the theme, but I no

  1   2   3   4   >