Sorry, bolding and italicizing is the extent of my text formatting
knowledge with Android.
Anyone else know more about this?
On Apr 17, 5:33 am, Sebastian Müller sebastia...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks a lot for your answer. This works great for the Bold thing, but
background isnt
Depending on your specific needs, a service might make sense, but for
simple cases, it's not strictly necessary. You can instead use
Activity.onRetainNonConfigurationInstance(), which allows you to pass
live Java objects to the new Activity instance - i.e., for example an
AsyncTask object. Just
Great! I'm glad you got it to work.
FYI - CopyTexImage2D is a pipeline stall so you will want to set up
your rendering order to account for that. I'm not sure how to
optimize but I would try having it be as near to last as possible to
start with.
I don't know how to get the SubImage function
Actually, just because something is a background service does NOT mean
it is running in a different thread.
Background services run in the main thread. I suspect that this point
of confusion may be involved in your problem, though I don't quite
spot the problem.
Also, you have a handler there
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:57 PM, George | SlideME
george.slid...@gmail.comwrote:
Wish to also say thank you to Paul for uploading his application to
SlideME, considering the negativity of this thread from an ex-partner. I am
sure Paul and many others will be well looked after as best as we
Thanks, Mario.
I think it's somewrong with the driver or the chip. It's not just a
bandwidth problem. If it's really a bandwidth problem, it only has 1/7
bandwidth of milestone? (150ms compare to 20ms with a full screen
tex).That's very funny.
I'm working on some libs, which will be used for our
Hi all,
I'm developping a simple realtime action game 4 Android.
It works nice. but now i want deal with animation FPS and i'm facing a
big problem i can't solve since couple days now.
I started from the famous Lunar Android sample using facebook. got
55-60 frame per second on my G1.
it smelt
Eong,
All Mario and I are trying to say is that the thing you are trying to
do (upload textures every frame) is generally not considered a good
practice and workarounds usually exist that are more efficient,
especially if you can target higher levels of opengl or use extensions
like
Just wondering if anyone can speak on this yet. I'd really like to
know what the state of that fix is as 2.1 is rolled out onto first
generation (MSM7200-based) devices. As it stands, I don't see much of
a problem with touch eating up CPU on the Droid and N1 but those are
much faster phones so I
It wasn't solved, now it ask for less memory but still outOfMemory
sometimes. I really don't know what to do if anyone knows how to
solve it, please tell me!!!
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Actually I take it back about the emulators. I just tested again in
the 2.1 emulator and realized that in my first test, I was holding the
finger down on the screen but unlike a device, it doesn't send
constant motion events if you hold the cursor still. Moving the
cursor (touch) around caused
I really don't know why it's giving me this error...
I load an ImageView with an image of 692kb .jpg, using scroll options,
so you can scroll it around... the strange it's that when the mobile
it's connected to the VM it's less possible to happen.
So...how can I prevent this? is there anyway that
Hi,
I am not big Android programmer .. I cant solve this problem ... but wish
to learn this cocept like u have ,Socket + surfaceView is there any
specific link that u have through which i can learn abt this ..?
please send me if u can ...
thanks,
satish
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:48 PM,
I can confirm that the issue is still there in Android 2.0.1 on my
Milestone as well (and more pronounced) on my HTC Hero which still
runs 1.5. I put together a quick test that you can download from
http://file-pasta.com/file/0/touchflood.apk (Note: it's 300kb because
i used a game dev framework
I've tried sleep() and have switched to wait(1000), notify() / yield()
as outlined by some other devs. I have no empirical evidence that one
works any better than the other. Both consume a range between 25-36%
of the CPU by system_process while touching. That's a full third of
the CPU of the
Is there any way to disable or override the car dock app? I want the
application that I am writing to be able to launch when the device is
placed into the car dock. I have created a BroadcastReceiver for my
app but the standard car dock app displays, not my app. I know that
my broadcast
shookie10 wrote:
Is there any way to disable or override the car dock app?
You should be able to provide an alternative to the car dock app by
having an activity with an intent-filter with the CATEGORY_CAR_DOCK
category.
I would expect the user to then get a choice of what activity to start
FYI,
I've raised to 18 FPS by using LinkedBlockingQueue instead of 8FPS
with while design in Socket writer.
But we are far from 60FPS per second.
Any help?
Thanks
Luc
On 18 avr, 10:18, croco zeug...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm developping a simple realtime action game 4 Android.
It works
I'm using this code ... hope it helps
PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context).edit().clear().commit();
On Apr 16, 11:09 am, Bonifaz bonifaz.kaufm...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone know
how to clear defaults of my own app by code.
I know that a user can always go to Manage
I have a list view which is populated via records from the database.
Now i have to make some records visible but unavailable for selection,
how can i achieve that?
here's my code
public class SomeClass extends ListActivity {
private static ListString products;
private
Prathamesh Shetye wrote:
I have a list view which is populated via records from the database.
Now i have to make some records visible but unavailable for selection,
how can i achieve that?
Step #1: Create your own subclass of ArrayAdapter
Step #2: Override areAllItemsEnabled() in that
Thanks Mark, I'll try it out.
Cheers!
On Apr 18, 6:20 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote:
Prathamesh Shetye wrote:
I have a list view which is populated via records from the database.
Now i have to make some records visible but unavailable for selection,
how can i achieve
Hi Michael
It'll be the Sense UI's IME which has different behaviour to the stock
Android IME. Sadly, I'd suggest that you get your hands on a Sense UI-
equipped device (even a Hero, which whilst it has 1.5 on it, may help
you track that issues).
When you say that ACTION_UP doesn't work, is this
patbenatar wrote:
Perhaps you are forgetting about the chain and theodolite provider.
Mike-
What are those? The LocationManager class only has these two provider
constants: GPS_PROVIDER, NETWORK_PROVIDER.
I was just making a funny, but the larger point is to not code things as
if
Hi there,
I am currently trying to customize ImageButton to show different
draweables as background of the Button while keeping
the image set via the src attribute.
That's my custom_button.xml:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
selector xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android;
Hi Mark, Here's what I did
My Existing Class extending ListActivity
/
***/
public class LifeProducts extends ListActivity {
private static ListString products;
private static
I have already talked a lot about the touch slow down in this forum.
There is another observation I would like to add, may be this can help to
track the problem down.
One of my projects is an Argumented Reality Game.
Of course this kind of App eats energy (CPU cycles) like crazy:
In my app I
Hi All,
I'm interested in doing some enhancements to android emulator (implement
webcam on emulator). Therefore I'm following the android source and
emulators source to get basic understanding the connection between
modules. But its really hard to understand it for someone who is new to
Prathamesh Shetye wrote:
Hi Mark, Here's what I did
My Existing Class extending ListActivity
/
***/
public class LifeProducts extends ListActivity {
private static ListString
never mind, solved it, cheers mate!
On Apr 18, 8:26 pm, Prathamesh Shetye prathamesh.she...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Mark, Here's what I did
My Existing Class extending ListActivity
/
***
/
How big, in pixels, is the image?
On Apr 18, 5:50 am, Kofa elk...@gmail.com wrote:
I really don't know why it's giving me this error...
I load an ImageView with an image of 692kb .jpg, using scroll options,
so you can scroll it around... the strange it's that when the mobile
it's connected to
FYI - CopyTexImage2D is a pipeline stall so you will want to set up
your rendering order to account for that. I'm not sure how to
optimize but I would try having it be as near to last as possible to
start with.
Thanks for the recommendation. In fact, I'm using it as the very last
function in
Personally, I wouldn't be making any coding plans for using the
Galileo system for location handling any time this decade. It will be
amazing if the EU manages to organize it into a working system in any
lifetime of current OS's or apps for that matter. Think of how long it
took to get a working
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Shane Isbell shane.isb...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:57 PM, George | SlideME
george.slid...@gmail.com wrote:
Wish to also say thank you to Paul for uploading his application to
SlideME, considering the negativity of this thread from an
Thanks, Bob!
Unfortunately, it seems Launcher's handle is not accessible (at least
it's not in the SDK).
Bummer, will have to reinvent the wheel and make my own :-(
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2010/4/17 Marco Alexander Schmitz marco.alexander.schm...@googlemail.com
Hi you all,
today I've got a silly little problem and I hope you can help me out.
I want to create a big button that contains a bitmap and some text.
So I created a container
Hello All
I had install SDK 2.0. I am not able to locate aidl.exe in tool directory.
Please help to locate. Is there any location from where I can download?
Thanks In Advance.
Anurag
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Anurag Singh wrote:
I had install SDK 2.0. I am not able to locate aidl.exe in tool directory.
It will not be in the top-level tools directory, but in a
platform-specific tools directory. For example, if you have installed
the SDK in C:\SDK, you will find the Android 2.1 version of aidl.exe in
Thanks a lot, I got the same.
I had install SDK 2.0. I am not able to locate aidl.exe in tool directory.
It will not be in the top-level tools directory, but in a
platform-specific tools directory. For example, if you have installed
the SDK in C:\SDK, you will find the Android 2.1 version of
Hi. please find the link to attached file, i need to have this kinda
layout.
is it possible??
well perhaps it is, but im not getting it how to do it.
i want to specify the whole layout in the xml, but it gives runtime
error
here's the link to the blue print of desired layout:
We have created an AppWidget that takes user inputted text into an
EditText and displays a calculated amount of text inside a TextView on
the Home Screen. We calculate the amount of text based on the
AppWidgetInfo.minWidth, minHeight attributes. We do this to simulate
scrolling; we cut up the
If you're going to do that, why involve a handler
at all?
Now suppose, I use any other function in my service class instead of
handler and say I'm performing a time consuming task in that function.
If the onDestroy method of the service is called, I assume that it
will terminate my function
I've got an app that I don't want to auto-rotate. Currently, I've got
it set up so that it is always in portrait mode. However, I'd like to
add a setting to my preferences where the user can choose either
portrait or landscape mode. Is there a way to force screen rotation?
Or, could I perhaps
I think, it's not right way.
TextView
android:id=@+id/widget39
android:layout_width=wrap_
content
android:layout_height=wrap_content
android:text=TextView
android:layout_alignParentBottom=true
android:layout_alignParentLeft=true
Button
android:id=@+id/widget38
android:layout_width=wrap_content
Specify in your manifest file into Activity block as
android:ScreenOrientation=portrait
I've got an app that I don't want to auto-rotate. Currently, I've got
it set up so that it is always in portrait mode. However, I'd like to
add a setting to my preferences where the user can choose either
Implement OnConfigurationChanged() function of your Activity and also
mention in your manifest as
android:configChanged=s=orientation
How can we tell our AppWidget to recalculate the amount of text
displayed on screen orientation change? Is this possible? How would
you solve this problem?
Implement OnConfigurationChanged() function of your Activity and also
mention in your manifest as
android:configChanges=orientation
How can we tell our AppWidget to recalculate the amount of text
displayed on screen orientation change? Is this possible? How would
you solve this problem?
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Anurag Singh anusingh...@gmail.com wrote:
Specify in your manifest file into Activity block as
android:ScreenOrientation=portrait
My question is, how do I change the orientation through my program? I
want the user, through a settings option, to be able to
Why would you want to allow them to set it in settings when Android handles
the rotation automagically? All you have to do is have a xml file in your
layout directory, then for landscape have a xml file (with the same name)
in your layout-land directory. When in portrait mode Android looks to
I have two machines, one a WindowsXP32, and one 64. Both with AMD64
chips.
I have eclipse on both, and the SDK on both.
I'm using the usb drivers with the HTC Legend (http://
groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/
Hello,
I'm trying to figure out how to define a verical line (1px thick) to
be used as a drawable.
to make a horizontal one, it's pretty straightforward:
shape xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android;
android:shape=line
stroke android:width=1dp android:color=#FF/
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com wrote:
Why would you want to allow them to set it in settings when Android handles
the rotation automagically? All you have to do is have a xml file in your
layout directory, then for landscape have a xml file (with the same name)
The fundamental issue is that there are too many instructions per
event being executed. There is no way around it other than optimizing
the event handling code in KeyInputQueue. No amount of waiting or
sleeping will fix that because those events must run through that code
and that code appears
Isaac Wagner wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Justin Giles jtgi...@gmail.com wrote:
Why would you want to allow them to set it in settings when Android handles
the rotation automagically? All you have to do is have a xml file in your
layout directory, then for landscape have a xml file
But when the devices are paired using Settings/Wireless networks/Wi-
Fi then the notification is skipped and the dialog is shown
immediately. I need the same...
On Apr 14, 11:15 am, VovaN vladimir.nedashkivs...@gmail.com wrote:
If you click on notification dialog'll appear. It's Android
Pre-scale the background image to match the device resolution.
Split the background image in texture tiles like 256x256, 128x128,
Blitt the tiles separately.
2010/4/8 lixin China smallli...@gmail.com
Hi Schneider:
As you said avoid scale the texture. Could you tell me the solution
how
This discussion list gets a lot of people asking questions where they
are barking up the wrong tree. It is commonplace to inquire about their
rationale for barking up that tree and steer them in the direction of
more common patterns. Sometimes, the barking is indeed up the correct
tree, but
I'd like to create native library for Java (using Android NDK) for
Bluetooth. I have read a sample from
http://blog.bruary.net/2009/07/android-bluetooth-hacking-using-ndk.html
but I cannot get hci_get_route working on my HTC Legend. It returns
ENODEV, Bluetooth is enabled and appropriate
I'm trying to learn about Android programming by rewriting a C app
I've moved from DOS to X-windows to Windows as a learning tool. It's
just a silly little app that draws symmetrical 'game of life' patterns
on the screen in a kaleidoscopic fashion. It's structured so that the
patterns do their
It looks like you have to dig a little deeper. The images and the
layout referencing them are in the Launcher package, which is open
source.
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Launcher.git;a=blob;f=res/layout-land/launcher.xml
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Pinheiro
Nope, they don't work on XP-64.
On Apr 18, 12:28 pm, ThomasWrobel darkfl...@gmail.com wrote:
I have two machines, one a WindowsXP32, and one 64. Both with AMD64
chips.
I have eclipse on both, and the SDK on both.
I'm using the usb drivers with the HTC Legend (http://
For fun i extended the example i posted earlier. It now feature cpu
usage output derrived from /proc/stat which should be enough to given
an indication of the slow down occuring due to touch events.
The setup:
- A GLSurfaceView
- An OnTouchListener that does nothing but return true
- A simple
Poking around here some more, it seems like the problem is the way
SurfaceView double-buffers output. You kind of have to draw the
entire surface every time. I had tried unlocking and relocking on
every 'delay' call, but that didn't work either, presumably because
the relock produced an
Hi,
after a long talk with George and some 'lost' emails, I finally
managed to be paid few days ago (April 8).
The main problem was with invoice.
It is very difficult to know what is needed by SlideMe to get your
payout.
You need to request payout balance (we should receive a summary each
month ?
Hi,
I wish to send a list of type MyFriend from one activity to another.
I dont find a bundle.put.. for such an requirement in the api's.
Is there a way somebody could suggest through which I could transfer
different kinds of data.
Thanks,
Raqeeb
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Has any one successfully compiled ffmpeg for use as a shared library??
I tried the doing what
http://oo-androidnews.blogspot.com/2010/02/ffmpeg-and-androidmk.html
says but i keep getting
the following message on compile
Android NDK: Building for application 'ffmpeg-org'
make: *** No rule to
Cool, at least something is coming out of SlideME.
George,
I have a general policy of not attacking people personally, but in this
case, I'll make an exception because I think it is warranted. You are a
dishonest individual. You came on this list and publicly accused me of being
the reason
OK, I understand your thinking a bit better, so hopefully I can
explain a bit better.
onDestroy() is only called when your application is idle. The system
will NEVER directly call a lifecycle method except when the main
thread is idle If you are running some long-lived function from, say,
I guess the only mechanism that would work is to maintain a bitmap of
the whole Surface and draw *that* incrementally. Then on each 'delay'
request, lock the Surface and copy the entire bitmap in to draw the
next 'frame'. Ouch.
Tried this, and it seems to work. Still eager for suggestions
Operator head spacing
I just looked at AndroidManifest.xml again and I noticed I
accidentally left the configuration for the service to run in a new
process each time instantiated (via android:process=:myprocessname.
I was experimenting with this at one point during another debugging
session.
This clears the preferences, but not the default flag set by a user
when a Intent Chooser is shown to him/her.
Am I right?
How can I get back the Intent Chooser Dialog when a user previously
set my app as default. I know you can go to Manage Applications and
click clear defaults but how do I do
Oops!
Sorry..
here is the correct one-
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
LinearLayout xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/
android
android:orientation=vertical
android:layout_width=fill_parent
android:layout_height=fill_parent
RelativeLayout
android:id=@+id/widget28
ohh, all of the tags didnt have '' with them.
I have already added them but they weren't copied dont know why, so
thats not a problem.
On Apr 19, 6:12 am, SheikhAman shekh.a...@gmail.com wrote:
Oops!
Sorry..
here is the correct one-
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
LinearLayout
I have an activity with a ListView check list and a spinner that
controls the sort order of the items in that check list. One of the
sort options is to move the checked items to the beginning of the
list. I would like to allow users to check some items in the list,
select the 'sort by checks'
I found the solution to my problem: Service.startForeground. This call
makes sure my background service will keeps its priority when its
running in the background.
The SDK has a nice example that works across all API levels:
Thanks a lot.
I think this problem maybe could not be solved. I just use relative path to
do the link.
2010/4/16 andrej sarkic andrej.sar...@gmail.com
You should read this first:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html
On Apr 15, 9:45 pm, Ke Wu kerl@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
How to get wifi account and password in code?
Please tell me if you know ,thanks.
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Hi,
I am trying to receive some data from a servlet on to android. It
works fine for the first run but if in case I happen to use the same
activity again, the previous data is getting appended to the new
data.
Could some one please tell me what is wrong. Why dont the variables
get re initialized
Ohk,
Things went fine, and i was able to design a new layout like this-
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
RelativeLayout
android:id=@+id/widget101
android:layout_width=fill_parent
android:layout_height=fill_parent
xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android;
RelativeLayout
Hi Bob,
Thanks a lot for this. This helped me to understand a lot of things.
I found out a good way for starting/stopping a service here:
http://www.brighthub.com/mobile/google-android/articles/34861.aspx
What do you think of this one ?
Cheers,
Tejas
On Apr 18, 7:03 pm, Bob Kerns r...@acm.org
Hi,
I am trying to retrieve the GPS location of the phone. I believe I
cannot create an object of the class which stores the location in a
variable. So that once the class gets instantiated I use a get method
and retrieve the content in the variable.
So I am trying to do this
Hi,
Been wrestling with uses-permission in AndroidManifest.xml for about
1/2 a day, so I may be blinded by my frustration
I've been cleaning up my app (removing debug code, experimental stuff
to blackbox things I didn't understand, etc.). As part of this, I
removed some uses-permission
Let me know how to set up a background image in opengl
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Any help on this?..
Thanks,
Amit
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Amit A android.a...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I wanted to have one more Search with different search UI on the Home
Screen(addition to Quick search box) which can search through restricted
applications and provide user additonal
Have you set uses permission in manifiest file.
uses-permission
android:name=android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION /
- Anurag Singh
Hi,
I am trying to retrieve the GPS location of the phone. I believe I
cannot create an object of the class which stores the location in a
variable. So that
yes.. its getting the locations all right..but i am unable to save the
location somwhere so that i can use it later. thats the whole
issue
I just thought of something...
if I start a service that does the onLocationChanged stuffit would
get the gps locations and store it (somewhere in the
i have been getting the locations fine...thats not issue..so please be
assured that i have set the manifest file right...
i just need to send the lcoations to another activity and i am not
able to do that
i just thought of this...start a service that would collect gps data
at regular
Hi All,
Thanks for ur replyBut my doubt is why I am getting exception in
nexus one onlyI tried the same code with G1.It is working fine
in that.Ok...anyway I will try with requestLocationUpdates
Regards,
SREEHARI.
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What exactly do you mean by second usage?
Just pressing the home key and then tapping your program icon won't
create a new activity instance, unless the old one has been deleted.
You can't depend on it being deleted, in fact, you'd prefer it not be.
Study the diagram in the Activity class
hello everybody, I am developing one application in that I am reading
one file in parts (I am reading 102400 bytes at a time ) and sending
it to server. size of file is more than 5mb. I had write following
method to read the file
public void readFile()
{
try
{
Hey, if you could please give me more details for the same. I'm still
a starter in android development.
On Apr 13, 6:34 pm, social hub shubem...@gmail.com wrote:
hack into onmove onscroll onfling methods and pass them to other view
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Sonic..
Excellent work, Mario. I think it's quite clear that the input
processing code in Android needs help. Eating 20-30% of a Cortex A8
is a pretty big deal.
On Apr 18, 4:21 pm, Mario Zechner badlogicga...@gmail.com wrote:
For fun i extended the example i posted earlier. It now feature cpu
usage
I'll reframe my question. I'm not using a scrollview anymore. I have
two lists being displayed in my activity. I heard that using a
listview within a scrollview causes issues. So I need a way where in I
can scroll both the lists simultaneously. Does that mean I need to
override some functions of a
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