[android-developers] Re: How to connect to a remote MySQL DB without webservices... ?

2010-10-19 Thread gosh
Hi saex, Iff you have control of the/your server, and if it runs a JSP web server such as Apache TomCat (free), you could use my 'really simple' web service protocol for your purposes called: 'SQL+PaWS' to get direct/barebones and easy access to an SQL server (including MySQL) with standard SQL

[android-developers] Re: Piracy Breakdown by Country

2010-08-28 Thread gosh
Looking at your numbers again, your 'total installs' for Australia seem way out-of-whack with the rest of the countries listed, i.e.: * Take the UK versus Australia figures, your total installs are: UK= 335, Australia=321 * There are about 60 million people in the UK, and only 22 million in

[android-developers] Re: Piracy Breakdown by Country

2010-08-27 Thread gosh
Hi Dave, Thanks for the stats - as disconcerting as they are. As an Australian software developer I was very disappointed to see Australia up top in the percentages on your scale of software pirates, wrt to your app - which I find hard to explain, subjectively or otherwise. I'll make a few

[android-developers] Re: Chilling news: Oracle sues Google over Android

2010-08-20 Thread gosh
Its true that if you look at the topics of the 7 patent Oracle cites: 1. Protection Domains to Provide Security in A Computer System 2. Controlling Access to a Resource 3. Method and Apparatus for Preprocessing and Packaging Class Files 4. System and Method for Dynamic Preloading of Classes

[android-developers] Re: Chilling news: Oracle sues Google over Android

2010-08-19 Thread gosh
The Irony of Java's success on the device UI via Android There's lots of irony in the successful use of the Java 'language' within the phenomena that the Android OS has become. E.g. Java began life at Sun as Oak which was meant to be a language for small devices up to set-top boxes. It went on at

[android-developers] Re: Chilling news: Oracle sues Google over Android

2010-08-14 Thread gosh
I think Java has really become 'the new Cobol' this side of 2020 - helped along significantly by both Oracle's purchase of Sun, and by Google making it a mainstream/relevant UI language (at last!) via Android - i.e. its now past its innovation stage, and has become heavily mainstream and stable

[android-developers] Re: Why doesn't this discussion list function properly on Android phones?

2010-07-15 Thread gosh
Hasn't worked on my HTC Magic either for 12 months now. I've just assumed it is just part of the Android 'User Experience'. ... at least you get an error message;) Luxury! On Jul 15, 4:52 am, DonFrench dcfre...@gmail.com wrote: A little off topic, but it is about Android phones and this

[android-developers] Re: Android paid apps in Ireland

2010-07-01 Thread gosh
sell Android apps into the facebook community, take a look at ZappMarket Thats a very cool idea - its given me a whole new perspective on Facebook... I've stayed away from facebook for years, for philosophical reasons: I've always considered it to be an attempt to fence-off the Internet into a

[android-developers] Re: Oracle Android App Store

2010-06-16 Thread gosh
. Also I suspect that Apple wouldn't have passed MS in market cap if theappstorehad the same return policy as the android market. Leigh On 6/10/2010 11:51 AM, gosh wrote: OracleAndroidAppStore Here's the countries that developers can currently sell from via Android Market: http

[android-developers] Re: Oracle Android App Store

2010-06-13 Thread gosh
Btw, I saw that you (via AndAppStore) got an honorable mention in the WIRED article re 'Independent App Stores' yesterday. Congrats. Steve On Jun 13, 1:54 am, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: On Jun 12, 8:44 am, gosh steve...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: (our revenue is from ads in the client

[android-developers] Re: Oracle Android App Store

2010-06-12 Thread gosh
, gosh steve...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: HTC don't have the global reach. Of the Taiwanese companies ACER is probably the most international in reach and intent - although they are pretty much a Microsoft shop. They have this annual pattern thats been going for years, where they demonstrate

[android-developers] Oracle Android App Store

2010-06-10 Thread gosh
Oracle Android App Store Here's the countries that developers can currently sell from via Android Market: http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?answer=150324 Here's the countries that Android Market offers free apps to:

[android-developers] Re: Oracle Android App Store

2010-06-10 Thread gosh
their core business. Also I suspect that Apple wouldn't have passed MS in market cap if the app store had the same return policy as the android market. Leigh On 6/10/2010 11:51 AM, gosh wrote: Oracle Android App Store Here's the countries that developers can currently sell from via

[android-developers] Re: Oracle Android App Store

2010-06-10 Thread gosh
Slight problem, The pre-installed market in every phone is Google's. How do you overcome that ? Thats why I suggest its got to be an Oracle-level company - some entity that carriers will do deals with at the pre-installed market level and/or that the customer will type into the browser from

[android-developers] Re: Oracle Android App Store

2010-06-10 Thread gosh
HTC don't have the global reach. Of the Taiwanese companies ACER is probably the most international in reach and intent - although they are pretty much a Microsoft shop. They have this annual pattern thats been going for years, where they demonstrate some prototype typically running some variant

[android-developers] Re: Why is Android so buggy?

2010-06-07 Thread gosh
Like Olivier says, most of us don't have the time to spend in fixing open source bugs. What do you think the free phones are for. Did you really think they were free. Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this

[android-developers] Re: Android Apps purchasing from anywhere in the world

2010-05-26 Thread gosh
In the 8 months of 'nothing' from Google on this issue, we've seen a way to make it work for the software developer too, as it should: This other approach involves 'not killing iPhone', but maintaining some plurality in your platform dev choice. Consider the Android market as your 'test' market,

[android-developers] Re: Did anyone try Paypal in-apps Library?

2010-05-26 Thread gosh
I agree that it probably means they have rushed it to market, to seize an opportunity. Would also be interested to hear of peoples experience/s with it. On May 26, 9:05 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: On May 26, 9:30 am, gosh steve...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: You're easily turned off

[android-developers] Re: samsung app store

2010-05-25 Thread gosh
Does a user 'donation' thru Paypal really constitute an authorized payment though? I don't thing so. A donation is voluntary thing, a payment is something you are required to make in a vendor-customer deal. Steve On May 25, 10:56 pm, Chi Kit Leung michaelchi...@gmail.com wrote: I read the

[android-developers] Re: Did anyone try Paypal in-apps Library?

2010-05-25 Thread gosh
You're easily turned off. If Google started letting you sell JavaScript 'Web Apps' thru the 'Web Store' would that turn you off Android Java apps? or off Android Market (if it morphs into Web Store as expected)? On May 25, 4:18 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: When I saw that PayPal

[android-developers] Re: samsung app store

2010-05-24 Thread gosh
There was some Press around January this year about Motorola launching an apps store. I checked their site recently (here: http://developer.motorola.com/shop4apps/ ) and it seems that they only do China, but soon will also be Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Does anyone have experience of

[android-developers] Re: samsung app store

2010-05-24 Thread gosh
There's also this site at Sony/Ericsson: https://submit.sonyericsson.com/developer/login/ Does anyone have experience of registering their Android app/s with Sony/Ericsson to access any markets beyond the current reach of paid apps in Android Market? I'm particularly interested if you have

[android-developers] Re: samsung app store

2010-05-23 Thread gosh
They did announce the 'Web Store' at IO which is most probably the shared future with Android Market. i.e. Buy your web apps or your android apps from the same store, the store that runs in HTML5 on your desktop, and therefore most probably will also run on your Android (and 'soon' your Google TV

[android-developers] Re: Selling apps from Canada in the Market?

2010-04-07 Thread gosh
I wouldn't hold your breathe there Brill. If you do a search in this group on thread titled 'Countries for selling priced applications in Android Market' you'll see that many others 'were' asking this question back in August 2009 (and elsewhere in this group). Google allowed nine countries to

[android-developers] Re: Selling apps from Canada in the Market?

2010-04-07 Thread gosh
of the processor industry. - Brill Pappin On Apr 7, 9:45 am, gosh steve.goschn...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't hold your breathe there Brill. If you do a search in this group on thread titled 'Countries for selling priced applications in Android Market' you'll see that many others 'were' asking

[android-developers] How to use com.android.gallery with an image in the .apk ?

2010-02-12 Thread Gosh
help would be appreciated. Ps: i apologize for my poor english skills GoSh. -- 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

[android-developers] Re: Growing pains for Android developers??

2009-11-14 Thread gosh
I think you hit the 'nail on the head' Niko with your We can't judge Google based on knowledge we DONT have. - and maybe its the legal team who are driving the car. The tech side of Android, including this group's info-feeders and strokers of the many considerable egos amongst us, are Great - and

[android-developers] Re: Countries for selling priced applications in Android Market

2009-09-20 Thread gosh
Since then two more countries have been added to the drop-down: Japan Italy Cheers Steve On Sep 17, 2:28 am, monsoon steve...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: FYI I joined up to Android Market the other day (10th Sep 2009), and also could not get past the 'Location' drop-down menu (and, it was only

[android-developers] Image with a Button, or text with ImageButton

2009-08-12 Thread gosh
Hi there, A 'Button' view comes up with text, while the 'ImageButton' widget comes up with an image but no text, is there a way to relatively easily (e.g. method calls, say), either: 1. Add text to ImageButton (like those buttons that appear in menu item/via the physical menu button)? or 2.

[android-developers] Inserting the 'status-bar' within ones own full-screen View

2009-08-10 Thread gosh
I read somewhere in the Android documentation that (paraphrasing here): 'if you do make your own View take up the whole screen, it is then possible/even-advisable, to insert and manage the 'status-bar' within your View'. How do you do that? - i.e. insert the status-bar within ones own 'full-