[android-developers] Re: Note on Size of Apps

2009-04-16 Thread droozen
and it shows up as 0 byte! The 4k I think is for some data stored by the calculator like the last result to be re-shown on application start. -- http://www.deepdroid.com On Apr 15, 4:12 pm, droozen droozenr...@gmail.com wrote: So I wrote my own calculator app because I wanted to have

[android-developers] Note on Size of Apps

2009-04-15 Thread droozen
So I wrote my own calculator app because I wanted to have some different functionality than the calculator that comes with the phone. Now, I notice the calculator that came with the phone, when looking through the Manage Applications, only shows as being 4kb in size. My calculator ends up being

[android-developers] SDK 1.5 released - A Couple Questions

2009-04-14 Thread droozen
For those of you who have had a chance to look at the new SDK on the emulator, I was wondering: Does the onscreen keyboard pop-up automatically when the user enters a text field? Or is that something we'll have to add in our code to enable? Does an onscreen numpad pop-up when entering a

[android-developers] Re: SDK 1.5 released - A Couple Questions

2009-04-14 Thread droozen
Thanks! On Apr 14, 3:06 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:58 PM, droozen droozenr...@gmail.com wrote: Does the onscreen keyboard pop-up automatically when the user enters a text field? Or is that something we'll have to add in our code to enable

[android-developers] Losing Data on Reboot

2009-04-10 Thread droozen
So, I made a mistake and I still had the debug version of my app (from Eclipse) on my phone when I tried to install a signed version. The install failed, but I could no longer access the debug version in Manage Applications to uninstall it. I was at work and couldn't reinstall the debug version

[android-developers] Re: Losing Data on Reboot

2009-04-10 Thread droozen
on a reboot. I'm not doing anything different that I can tell, but maybe there's some known problem that can caused shared preferences to crash and disappear like this? On Apr 10, 8:35 am, droozen droozenr...@gmail.com wrote: So, I made a mistake and I still had the debug version of my app (from Eclipse

[android-developers] Re: Make My App Available By Intent

2009-04-09 Thread droozen
and whatnot, but I'm just trying to test to see if it can work so i can make the intent available from my app) On Apr 8, 9:07 pm, Birjodh Tiwana tiwana.birj...@gmail.com wrote: So did the second  way work for you? On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:24 PM, droozen droozenr...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry. The second

[android-developers] Re: Make My App Available By Intent

2009-04-09 Thread droozen
. On Apr 9, 11:59 am, droozen droozenr...@gmail.com wrote: No, when I try to call the intent with startActivity I get a Force Close error, whether I try: Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.setAction(intent.action.VOLUME_CONTROL); startActivity(intent); or Intent intent = new Intent

[android-developers] Intent to Trigger a Dialog Only

2009-04-09 Thread droozen
I want to expose a portion of my app with an intent that will only display a simple dialog box for system setting. The only way I currently know how to do this is to have an activity that accepts an intent. In the activity I don't use setContentView. I only create and show the dialog. The

[android-developers] Re: Intent to Trigger a Dialog Only

2009-04-09 Thread droozen
Works perfectly. Thanks! On Apr 9, 2:53 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Use Theme.Dialog for your activity's theme, and just put your dialog contents inside of it instead of in a separate Dialog window. On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:41 PM, droozen droozenr...@gmail.com wrote: I

[android-developers] Re: Make My App Available By Intent

2009-04-08 Thread droozen
Sorry. The second way I tried to start the intent was: Intent intent = new Intent(intent.action.VOLUME_CONTROL); startActivity(intent); (without the com.roozen in front) On Apr 8, 11:12 am, droozen droozenr...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe this belongs in the beginners group, but I'm trying to make

[android-developers] Re: Start after boot - autostart

2009-04-08 Thread droozen
For this kind of operation, using a SharedPreferences object might be a little easier, less dirty, and take less space for you. On Apr 8, 9:52 am, Manfred manfred.fettin...@gmail.com wrote: I write now in a file if the user wants autostart, at booting the file is read and i finish activity if

[android-developers] ScrollView and Programmatically Scrolling

2009-04-03 Thread droozen
So, I have a ScrollView with a single TextView inside it. Upon initial startup I set the text of the text view to an internally stored string and try: ScrollView myScroll = (ScrollView) findViewById(R.id.my_scroll_id); myScroll.fullScroll(ScrollView.FOCUS_DOWN); No scrolling happens. (The

[android-developers] Re: Need for backup functionality

2009-04-03 Thread droozen
/databases/database name if i remember rightly. On Apr 2, 9:23 pm, droozen droozenr...@gmail.com wrote: So I've come to a need to backup data in my application, so a user can safely restore the important data. I had an idea about how to go about this, but relatively it's a lot of work just

[android-developers] Re: Layout file not recognized as such in eclipse

2009-04-03 Thread droozen
You're missing a at the end of the LinearLayout declaration. However, I've noticed the same error, where eclipse wouldn't recognize a layout file as such (so that I could get a preview of it), but when I ran it in the emulator, it ran fine and the layout displayed fine (so I assume no error in

[android-developers] Re: Best way to check/sanitize data in a preferenceActivity

2009-04-03 Thread droozen
Preference.onPreferenceClickListener()? On Apr 3, 3:20 pm, chris christ.pe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm using a PreferenceActivity with a PreferenceScreen defined in a xml file. i want to make sure that the data set on a preference editor are valid (integer , integer in a range) So , i

[android-developers] Need for backup functionality

2009-04-02 Thread droozen
So I've come to a need to backup data in my application, so a user can safely restore the important data. I had an idea about how to go about this, but relatively it's a lot of work just to test if it would work, so it'd be nice to get a thumbs up or thumbs down to my plan from someone who has

[android-developers] Re: How to scale a view without scaling its children ?

2009-04-02 Thread droozen
Would you post your xml for your layout? If the children of a view are using the android:layout_height or android:layout_width property, for example, in a way that is tied to the parent (such as, android:layout_height=fill_parent) then I imagine changing the size of the parent should, as defined

[android-developers] Re: Advice for possibly paying someone to port app to iPhone

2009-03-30 Thread droozen
I take it, then, that you are not an iPhone developer. Not sure which way I would go on this one. If your friend already has some iPhone experience, I assume he already has an iPhone developer account which you'll want to use. In which case it might be better to set up a contract where he uses

[android-developers] Re: market://details not working?

2009-03-30 Thread droozen
I'm guessing you are working off some old data. See this page: http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/publishing.html The intent should be a Uri something like market://search?q=pname:package or market://search?q=pub:Developer Name to see all your apps. On Mar 29, 3:45 pm, Michael

[android-developers] ProgressBar - Emulator not working?

2009-03-23 Thread droozen
I just wanted to run a ProgressBar test, as it's my first time using them on the Android. Here's my XML (in a Linear Layout): ProgressBar android:id=@+id/progress android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=25dip android:indeterminate=false

[android-developers] Re: Building user interfaces at runtime with layouts from server

2009-03-23 Thread droozen
We might have to know why you want to build this way. There could be other possibilities, including using a much simpler xml that you could parse yourself and add UI elements programmatically. Or have a variety of layouts available that you could set, depending on a value you've downloaded,

[android-developers] Re: Multiple ListViews in one Activity

2009-03-23 Thread droozen
Short Answer: I don't think you can Longer Answer: ListActivity, as described in the javadocs: ListActivity hosts a ListView object that can be bound to different data sources. -- Note the singular a, as in one Screen Layout ListActivity has a default layout that consists of a single, full-

[android-developers] Re: who can tell me how to achieve this function?! thx!!!!

2009-03-23 Thread droozen
They're probably saving your name on their webserver somewhere, and perhaps using your phone number to identify the phone and display that name. On Mar 22, 9:06 pm, wanzi ! wanzihe...@gmail.com wrote: Is anybody download the PaPi games from market and played it? I found when I played one of

[android-developers] Re: ProgressBar - Emulator not working?

2009-03-23 Thread droozen
That worked, thanks. On Mar 23, 12:27 pm, Marco Nelissen marc...@android.com wrote: Try adding this to your xml: style=?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:50 AM, droozen droozenr...@gmail.com wrote: I just wanted to run a ProgressBar test, as it's my first

[android-developers] Re: Multiple ListViews in one Activity

2009-03-23 Thread droozen
Ah, I see. I guess I assumed he was using a ListActivity, the way he was describing it. How else would you access the OnListItemClicked or a similar such capture to be able to manipulate both lists outside of a ListActivity? And it's a bit off topic, but yes, a ListView handles scrolling, which

[android-developers] Re: ListActivity.onListItemClick() only responds to trackball/dpad clicks

2009-03-23 Thread droozen
Have you tried following the Notepad tutorial and this line in your onCreate method? registerForContextMenu(getListView()); On Mar 23, 1:31 pm, Matthias m.kaepp...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I have been struggling for over two hours now getting a custom ListActivity to respond to

[android-developers] Intents and Uris, for Ringtone Picker

2009-03-12 Thread droozen
I'd like to allow the user to choose a Ringtone from my application, that I will play later for an alarm. Looking at the javadocs, I see EXTRA_RINGTONE_DEFAULT_URI in RingtoneManager, and extra that, it says, is Given to the ringtone picker as a Uri. There is also an EXTRA_RINGTONE_PICKED_URI

[android-developers] Notification to play sound

2009-03-12 Thread droozen
So I've set up my app to have a repeating alarm, daily, as the user decides, using AlarmManager. I want the user to select a ringtone for it. This works fine, too. I store the string of the Uri they selected in a preference to pull it back when my alarm gets run. To pull it back, I do this:

[android-developers] Re: Two applications in one Manifest file ?

2009-03-12 Thread droozen
You want to have two applications in your application? Why not make the other application a separate application? I'm not sure if the xml would let you and all that, but I why would you want to? On Mar 12, 11:49 am, sandy8531 mathur...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to have two application

[android-developers] Re: startActivityForResult problems

2009-03-11 Thread droozen
Not sure if this is your problem, but I do notice you commented out the super.onActivityResult function in your onActivityResult function. I don't know all of what the parent method for that function does, but it's pretty good practice to always call the super method first when you override a

[android-developers] ContentProvider InstantiationException

2009-03-06 Thread droozen
So, I was trying to create my own ContentProvider. I want a recurring notification (say, once a day) so I discovered that I should be able to do this by setting a repeating alarm that my BroadcastReceiver class can pick up. Because it's going to perform some calcs, it immediately starts a

[android-developers] Re: ContentProvider InstantiationException

2009-03-06 Thread droozen
provider can't be instantiated. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:51 AM, droozen droozenr...@gmail.com wrote: So, I was trying to create my own ContentProvider. I want a recurring notification (say, once a day) so I discovered that I should be able to do this by setting a repeating alarm that my

[android-developers] Re: ContentProvider InstantiationException

2009-03-06 Thread droozen
, 2009 at 10:25 AM, droozen droozenr...@gmail.com wrote: Hence the InstantiationException. I get that. But WHY can't it be instantiated or, the real kicker, how can I get it to work? From what I can tell, and from what I keep reading in everything I can find on ContentProviders, everything

[android-developers] Re: Spaces in strings.xml strings

2009-03-05 Thread droozen
and combining them in to one string. On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:07 PM, droozen droozenr...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, I see, but I guess I didn't explain my entire issue. I don't know a whole lot about working with the SQLite databases, so right now I'm able to do what was done in the Notepad tutorial

[android-developers] Re: Spaces in strings.xml strings

2009-03-04 Thread droozen
. :S On Mar 3, 12:30 pm, Marco Nelissen marc...@android.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:26 AM, droozen droozenr...@gmail.com wrote: So, we're supposed to be using our strings.xml to construct most or all of our strings, right? I had a situation where I wanted to display to the user

[android-developers] Spaces in strings.xml strings

2009-03-03 Thread droozen
So, we're supposed to be using our strings.xml to construct most or all of our strings, right? I had a situation where I wanted to display to the user Some string blah blah + some value. So I put two views in a horizontal LinearLayout, with my Some string blah blah (with that space on the end,