[android-developers] Re: android connectivity manager

2013-10-28 Thread gjs
Hi, Its not wrong it only reports being connected (to the LAN) not the internet. If you really want to check for an active internet connect, send a request examine the response code to some website(s) you know are likely to be up running, google.com perhaps. Regards On Monday, October 28,

[android-developers] Android 2d animation using libgdx or default android animation classes

2013-10-28 Thread Vishwanath M
what is the difference between Android default animation and Libgdx animation lib.? which one is better to use for animation.? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [android-developers] Live Wallpaper Architecture

2013-10-28 Thread shubh
Can you please refer any guide line to understand Live wallpaper architecture, how it communicate with Launcher app? On Monday, April 26, 2010 8:31:58 PM UTC+5:30, Romain Guy wrote: Live wallpapers do not run in Launcher's process, it was a very important decision we made early on when

[android-developers] Problem with repeated use of 'HttpUrlConnection'.

2013-10-28 Thread kbc
I was using 'HttpUrlConnection' to connect to my server. I used to do so quite frequently, like once every 25 seconds or so. After 20 minutes or so, the app crashes with various different errors. And strangely, the errors use to be activity related, like on a 'onClick' event for example. After

[android-developers] 2 different text size in a text view

2013-10-28 Thread Amit Mangal
is it possible to give 2 different text size in a single text view? thanks -- 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

Re: [android-developers] Re: Top New Free Apps of Google play store are not really new

2013-10-28 Thread femi steven
please I would like to unscribe On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 11:23 PM, Nathan nathan.d.mel...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, January 7, 2013 7:10:12 AM UTC-8, FunVector wrote: I noticed new apps shown on Google play Store are sometimes 1 month old. Problem? One month old is pretty new. |

Re: [android-developers] Re: Top New Free Apps of Google play store are not really new

2013-10-28 Thread femi steven
please unsubscribe me On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 11:23 PM, Nathan nathan.d.mel...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, January 7, 2013 7:10:12 AM UTC-8, FunVector wrote: I noticed new apps shown on Google play Store are sometimes 1 month old. Problem? One month old is pretty new. | Wrong forum.

[android-developers] Metro UI Button Animation

2013-10-28 Thread sourabh sahu
Dear All, Is anyone having example for Metro like Button animation on Android. Regards, Sourabh -- 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

Re: [android-developers] Metro UI Button Animation

2013-10-28 Thread Michael Banzon
Do you have an example of what Metro like Button animation means? On Oct 28, 2013 11:13 AM, sourabh sahu souruit...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, Is anyone having example for Metro like Button animation on Android. Regards, Sourabh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

[android-developers] Re: developing with higer sdk than minimun target

2013-10-28 Thread firebreather
how will it have a big impact?. will it make it run faster for the fewer phones it will work on? if there is a significant performance increase it would be worth it to abandon the version 10 users. why does it say I need minimum version 11 declared for tablets when, at least for my app, it

[android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread firebreather
info seems fuzzy on the impact of changing minsdkversion declaration, particularly in the android docs, where it appears to just limit the number of phones the app site will allow to download your app. if that was the case then you'd think everyone would just declare minsdk of 1. i'm

[android-developers] Re: developing with higer sdk than minimun target

2013-10-28 Thread firebreather
if you don't believe me take a look on my post on stack overflow any risk in using a higher sdk to develop than the minsdkversion target in manifest.. it still has 0 responses. i've posted similar questions over the last year, including whether the executable changes or improves with higher

Re: [android-developers] developing with higer sdk than minimun target

2013-10-28 Thread firebreather
On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 5:40:48 PM UTC-5, TreKing wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 4:50 PM, firebreather michaelir...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: is there any significant risk in using a higher sdk to develop than the minsdkversion target declared in the manifest? You run the

Re: [android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread TreKing
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:26 AM, firebreather michaelirvingbr...@gmail.comwrote: info seems fuzzy on the impact of changing minsdkversion declaration, particularly in the android docs, where it appears to just limit the number of phones the app site will allow to download your app. if that was

[android-developers] Re: does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread Piren
TreKing already addressed everything, so i'll just add: will raising the min to 11 change the executable code, improving the run time for my games on version 11 and up phones and tablets? No, in fact, just changing the minSdk to 11 without doing some code modifications would probably do

[android-developers] Re: developing with higer sdk than minimun target

2013-10-28 Thread Piren
See the responses you got in the other post. On Monday, October 28, 2013 4:10:57 PM UTC+2, firebreather wrote: how will it have a big impact?. will it make it run faster for the fewer phones it will work on? if there is a significant performance increase it would be worth it to abandon the

[android-developers] Re: Metro UI Button Animation

2013-10-28 Thread Piren
If you mean the way the Tiles depress, you can easily do it with a simple animation using a Camera and a Matrix. On Monday, October 28, 2013 12:11:26 PM UTC+2, sourabh wrote: Dear All, Is anyone having example for Metro like Button animation on Android. Regards, Sourabh -- You received

[android-developers] Re: does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread Streets Of Boston
*minSdkVersion:* If this is less than the version you are compiling against, *you *have to take care with Java code (methods/classes/etc) that is defined in sdk-versions higher than the declared minSdkVersion. *You *have to deal with making your code somehow compatible with older sdk-versions.

[android-developers] Renderscript Support Library Problems

2013-10-28 Thread Laikis Reor
Hello All, So I was excited for the Renderscript support library but have had some problems getting it to work. Despite following the instructions at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/renderscript/compute.html#access-rs-apis I still get the error 'The import android.support.v8

[android-developers] How to use out and inout parameters in AIDL

2013-10-28 Thread Giles Ian
When I am using out or inout I am getting following error: 'inout String exception' can only be an in parameter. 'out String exception' can only be an in parameter. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group,

[android-developers] Google Play Music database

2013-10-28 Thread nakvic
Hi there, I'm trying to query Google Play Music database. So far I have succeeded with querying for tracks, but not for albums and artists. If I try to query Play Music app for artists or albums, it throws an annoying exception on android 3+: android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: cannot

[android-developers] Re: Google Play Music database

2013-10-28 Thread nakvic
Need to comment on my post: THIS IS A BUG, introduced in latest Google Play Music App. The one of the previous versions works fine, that is why I had it working on android 2.x. Google, please, fix the above mentioned exception in Play Music content provider!!! Regards, Victor On Monday,

Re: [android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread firebreather
i'm developing on version 14 with minsdk declared of 10 (recently up from 8). my biggest user categories are tablets according to my dashboard. according to the docs, I need minsdk declaration of 11, among several other things, for tablets to use my apps. in response to Can you site where this

Re: [android-developers] Digest for android-developers@googlegroups.com - 10 Messages in 7 Topics

2013-10-28 Thread heshoots67 Zuber
I have the same problem. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:10 AM, android-developers@googlegroups.comwrote: Today's Topic Summary Group: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/topics - AndroidPushNotification #141fdb82e555ce54_group_thread_0 [1 Update] - android connectivity

Re: [android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Firebreather: 2013/10/29 firebreather michaelirvingbr...@gmail.com: i'm developing on version 14 with minsdk declared of 10 (recently up from 8). [snip] http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/quality/tablet.html#android-versions which has a long detailed list of 12 things needed

Re: [android-developers] Re: Google Play Music database

2013-10-28 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
... 2013/10/29 Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com: As a developer, I feel your pain, but... ...this group might not be the best place to reach Google Music staff. Try this instead: Sorry, the link: https://support.google.com/googleplay/topic/2999684?hl=enref_topic=2952998# Clicking

Re: [android-developers] Re: Google Play Music database

2013-10-28 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
As a developer, I feel your pain, but... ...this group might not be the best place to reach Google Music staff. Try this instead: 2013/10/29 nakvic nak...@googlemail.com: Need to comment on my post: THIS IS A BUG, introduced in latest Google Play Music App. The one of the previous

Re: [android-developers] Re: Google Play Music database

2013-10-28 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Sorry for the spam (what is it with my fingers today). Meant to post this link too: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/ -- K 2013/10/29 Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com: ... 2013/10/29 Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com: As a developer, I feel your pain, but...

Re: [android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread firebreather
I've never declared a target sdk, I figure that's safer. my android phone is version 10 so I can't increase my minimum or i'd be stuck with the increadibly slow emulator. it took hours to get a screenshot off it for the tablet google play image. it will be some time before I can afford a version

Re: [android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Re: testing on the emulator takes literally hours for each run -- -- do you use the x86 emulator images? I do, and for me, it's faster than a Galaxy Note 2 (Linux, 64 bit, Intel CPU with kvm). http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/emulator.html#accel-vm -- K 2013/10/29 firebreather

Re: [android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread firebreather
also, thanks for pointing out K that this doesn't actually mean I have to use minsdk 11 like I assumed. i'll try just targeting for sdk 11 instead of not declaring a target at all. if it still works on my android 2.6.35.7 phone (version 10), i'll upload the target skd 11 declaration code. On

Re: [android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread firebreather
well it won't work on my version 10 phone with a version 11 target (no compatible device error), so i'll have to leave it with no target declared. On Monday, October 28, 2013 4:38:59 PM UTC-5, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: Firebreather: 2013/10/29 firebreather michaelir...@gmail.com javascript::

Re: [android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
2013/10/29 firebreather michaelirvingbr...@gmail.com: well it won't work on my version 10 phone with a version 11 target (no compatible device error), so i'll have to leave it with no target declared. It's possible to run a targetSdk = 11 on an 2.* device. I do it every day :) A minSdk = 11

Re: [android-developers] does executable code change (improve) with increase in minSdkVersion declaration in manifest? is minsdk 11 declaration really needed for tablets?

2013-10-28 Thread firebreather
it does appear to be working with now with version 11 targeted, so i'll upload that. it recommends version 14 targeted. any opinions on whether I should target 10 or 14? thanks for the responces. if you answer my identical question on stack overflow you'll get star and check attack overflow

[android-developers] .db files being renamed to .back

2013-10-28 Thread Nathan
Not that I have reproduced it here, but . .. Customer reports that some large db files were missing from storage and were replaced by a .back file of the same approximate size. Nothing in my code ever renames a .db file to a .back file. Is there some system process that would do that?

[android-developers] Tying a live wallpaper to home screen swipes

2013-10-28 Thread Matt Schoen
Hi there, I'm making a live wallpaper that I would like to change when the user swipes the screen. I have a TouchListener set up, but I have had trouble precisely matching the behavior of the home screen. In other words, sometimes when I swipe the screen, the home screen will change pages

[android-developers] FM receiver hardware class

2013-10-28 Thread judemwe...@gmail.com
Hi, I have been looking into the android source and surprised there is no FM receiver mechanism. Some documents do indicate there is the class android.hardware.radio but can not seem to find it. Any pointers on getting this or reasons of leaving it out? Regards -- You received this message