[android-developers] Re: Yet another HTTPS problem with HttpClient in Android SDK v1.0r1

2008-11-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes that's what I see everywhere. but, i can't change my API or cartificate... So I'm destine to search search solution... I try to put a certificate in keystore, and to load it from my app. but i have an IOexception : Wrong verion of Key Store. I really don't understand. Source : KeyStore

[android-developers] Re: Nullpointer ......Stack overflow, expanding

2008-11-05 Thread hackbod
On Nov 4, 8:06 pm, for android [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also i would like to know what you mean by the view heirarchy is too big..I have assumed that the view heirarchy can any be as complex as it can get.Is it a fair assumption. No, calls go down the view hierarchy, so a very deep hierarchy

[android-developers] Re: Creating libraries for android

2008-11-05 Thread hackbod
Sorry, this isn't really supported. You can only create static libraries, without resources, that are bundled into each .apk that uses them. On Nov 4, 8:50 pm, fabcasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the easiest way to create libraries to share across my android applications.  I have been

[android-developers] Re: Nullpointer ......Stack overflow, expanding

2008-11-05 Thread for android
So how exactly do I decide that the hierarchy is very deep or not? is it something quantifiable? Thanks On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:35 PM, hackbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 4, 8:06 pm, for android [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also i would like to know what you mean by the view heirarchy is

[android-developers] Re: startService() fails

2008-11-05 Thread donm
Hi Hackbod, thanks for your reply. I finally made it work. The Component name was wrong and also s.th. with the packages. Checking the logs was a good advice! So long, Martin On Oct 29, 5:19 pm, hackbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whatever is going on has nothing to do with AIDL, since

[android-developers] Re: Improved support for camera on Android emulator.

2008-11-05 Thread blindfold
Amen! Moreover, there are important and undocumented differences between emulator and G1 with respect to camera based image processing. I think that currently every Android developer who is using the camera for input is heavily frustrated, while the Android Team has not given any hint of when the

[android-developers] Permission Denied

2008-11-05 Thread ssk
Hi All, I am invoking a new activity ACTION_MAIN from my app.Now using SendKeySync() function from Instrumentation api's iam sending some key strokes,but iam getting some error like..WindowManager:Permission Denied:injecting key event from pid 233 uid 10017 to window Window {} owned

[android-developers] Re: Improved support for camera on Android emulator.

2008-11-05 Thread blindfold
BTW Mark, since you are with Qualcomm, you should be able to find out more about the QualcommCameraHardware messages that we see in G1 crash logs? It is only most recently that I learnt that camera preview on the T-Mobile G1 uses some YUV 411 encoding instead of the emulators single supported

[android-developers] Re: Where does the emulator look for the SD Card Image File ?

2008-11-05 Thread AndroidKid
Hi All, I'm also facing the same issue. 1. mksdcard 2048M d:\Program Files\myandroid\sdcard.img 2. emulator -sdcard d:\Program Files\myandroid\sdcard.img While executing this second command I got warning message as ### WARNING: SD Card files must be at least 8 MB, ignoring 'd:\Program

[android-developers] Re: Drawing on MapView

2008-11-05 Thread Peter Stevenson
Peter Wrote What is the Question do you what to display the description for each Geopoint Prestes wrote: Hi all, How do I that when every GeoPoint displays a description ? can someone help me? On 29 set, 21:11, Prash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Peter for the post! I was lost

[android-developers] Re: Where does the emulator look for the SD Card Image File ?

2008-11-05 Thread for android
u need to restart the emulator again after pushing the image... On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:01 PM, AndroidKid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm also facing the same issue. 1. mksdcard 2048M d:\Program Files\myandroid\sdcard.img 2. emulator -sdcard d:\Program Files\myandroid\sdcard.img

[android-developers] Re: Succeeded porting Xerces DOM parser

2008-11-05 Thread Jakob Sachse
hello, that seems very interesting. How do you obtain an instance of the SAXParserFactory? For what i suspect the abstract class SAXParserFactory is a member of javax.xml.parsers and the one way of getting a SAXParser Instance. Please correct me if I am wrong. I want to use Xerces since the

[android-developers] Problem with onActivityResult

2008-11-05 Thread Prestes
Hi all, I have a problem with onActivityResult. My class Activity can not return a result for this method. My class A [syntax=java] public class ClassTestA { private Button btOk; private Intent bus; /** Called when the activity is first created. */ @Override

[android-developers] Re: question about build android (2)

2008-11-05 Thread Mark Murphy
hunter wrote: Hi, all: I tried to build android, but met following errors: == frameworks/base/../../dalvik/libcore/concurrent/src/main/java/java/ util/concurrent/locks/UnsafeAccess.java:26: warning:

[android-developers] Re: The application project(process package name) has stopped unexpectedly.please try again.force close

2008-11-05 Thread Michael
Without any real detail I'm sure we've got no idea what you're doing. Perhaps you should be watching the debug log (run 'adb logcat') to see where your application crashes. As for starting one activity from another... well, read the API docs on 'Activity' - see 'startActivity()' and the

[android-developers] Getting GPS Location Crashes

2008-11-05 Thread Bobbie
I've posted with no help, please help me out. I am trying to figure out how to get the GPS location of my device. However, when I use the code below (see CODE TO GET LOCATION) my Android application crashes. I am developing on the G1 phone. If I change the provider to network instead of gps,

[android-developers] Re: Android Icon Creation Software

2008-11-05 Thread Ed Burnette
Those look nice; are the .svg versions available for use as examples/ templates? On Nov 4, 8:50 am, Peli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've created our Android icons using Inkscape.http://www.inkscape.org/ Have a look at some icons here:http://www.openintents.org/en/ for OI Flashlight, OI

[android-developers] Re: Getting GPS Location Crashes

2008-11-05 Thread Mark Murphy
Bobbie wrote: I've posted with no help, please help me out. I am trying to figure out how to get the GPS location of my device. However, when I use the code below (see CODE TO GET LOCATION) my Android application crashes. And the error message is...what? It is difficult to tell you what

[android-developers] Re: Android Icon Creation Software

2008-11-05 Thread Peli
You can find the .svg versions of the OI icons here: http://code.google.com/p/openintents/source/browse/#svn/images/icons_sdk1 Note that we have not specified the license yet, and were thinking of some Creative Commons license. Any advice or suggestion in this direction would be welcome. Peli

[android-developers] Re: Android Database connectivity program

2008-11-05 Thread Anders Rundgren
Hello Ram, You could try to import the MSFT JDBC driver. It is probably very big. But I would not. The best is to create a web-service that talks to SQL server and returns the stuff you asked for. Few if anybody connects to SQL server over the Internet even if it is possible. Over VPN you can

[android-developers] Maps and M5, impossible??

2008-11-05 Thread Altais
Hi, We have an application developed with M5-rc15 SDK that uses maps. Migrate it to 1.0 its a hard work and application is only for demo purpose. (we need to show it only one more time!!) Is there any way to show now a map in M5? Thanks, Altais.

[android-developers] Re: Maps and M5, impossible??

2008-11-05 Thread JP
You're out of luck there. In 0.9 and now 1.0, the MapView constructor has changed to pass the now required Google Maps API key. Manual here: http://code.google.com/android/toolbox/apis/mapkey.html On Nov 5, 8:51 am, Altais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We have an application developed with

[android-developers] Re: Problem with onActivityResult

2008-11-05 Thread Christine
The proper way to do this is to provide an int value for requestCode in startActivity. Then in OnActivityResult you have a switch(requestCode) and within each case you have a switch for resultCode. You seem to be confusing requestCode and resultCode. Your requestCode should probably be something

[android-developers] Re: Maps and M5, impossible??

2008-11-05 Thread Altais
We know the changes. The emulator is better, butwe always can make a Power Point presentation. Thanks! On 5 nov, 18:02, JP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're out of luck there. In 0.9 and now 1.0, the MapView constructor has changed to pass the now required Google Maps API key. Manual

[android-developers] Re: Improved support for camera on Android emulator.

2008-11-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It seems everyone is having simular problems with the limited camera support as well as the lack of emulator support for camera input. I'm more on the application development side, but since this is such a serious problem I'll see if I can talk to the hardware people here. I'll see if we can

[android-developers] Re: Android on device GPS locate not working - code included

2008-11-05 Thread Amir
Hah...no worries and good check on the permissions query, I'm trying something new today as well as hard-coding a location to see if my app can sniff it out. I'll let everyone know about the outcome! Amir On Nov 4, 5:42 pm, C-LIS Keiji Ariyama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amir, I'm sorry...

[android-developers] Why must WebView display local files via a ContentProvider?

2008-11-05 Thread Biosopher
In case you hadn't heard, WebView won't display local files directly via loadUrl(file://YOUR_PATH/file.html). All the solutions create a ContentProvider to access the local files and send them to a WebView using ContentProvider.openFile(). This approach seems less secure than simply sending my

[android-developers] Re: Proper way of handling orientation change + async thread

2008-11-05 Thread zl25drexel
well i am answering my own question again. I figured out a working solution, for those who are interested, see http://bend-ing.blogspot.com/2008/11/properly-handle-progress-dialog-in.html On Nov 4, 9:52 am, zl25drexel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your reply, any example codes? On Nov

[android-developers] Re: hooking to the PHONE button

2008-11-05 Thread Declan Shanaghy
Well that would imply that the default handling is setup they way i suggested it should be! ;-P @simonsh There's your answer! On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:09 PM, hackbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh the -default- handling of the green key is this: private void startCallActivity() {

[android-developers] Re: Verify Error with HTTPMIME / MIME4J

2008-11-05 Thread Declan Shanaghy
Alvin, I have successfuly got multipart posts to work using the jars in this zip file. http://www.shanaghy.com/wah/httpclient-jars.zip I also saw a post on another thread, someone provided this set of jars.

[android-developers] Re: hooking to the PHONE button

2008-11-05 Thread hackbod
It's not the same, you can't steal it from everyone. This only happens when the currently focused app doesn't do anything special with the phone key. The home key, in contrast, can not be handled by the foreground app -- it always starts the home activity. On Nov 5, 10:09 am, Declan Shanaghy

[android-developers] Need help using hat to track down memory usage

2008-11-05 Thread Disco Stu 010
Hello, While perusing the source code, came across a shell function that envsetup.sh defines called runhat. Judging by the parameters, etc., to this function, it allows one to get a heap-dump for a given application. This dump can then be analyzed by the tools hat and jhat. Has anyone

[android-developers] Re: Creating libraries for android

2008-11-05 Thread hackbod
On Nov 5, 4:53 am, Anders Rundgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the following workaround possible: Having multiple applications in a single APK. It seems so by looking at APIExamples but would it be possible to host applications in a own-defined tools window (I.e. like where apps seem to be

[android-developers] Re: Permission Denied

2008-11-05 Thread hackbod
You are trying to inject key events into a window that isn't in your app, which is not allowed. On Nov 5, 12:53 am, ssk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All,           I am invoking a new activity ACTION_MAIN from my app.Now using SendKeySync() function from Instrumentation api's iam sending some

[android-developers] Re: location is always latitude 0 longitude 0 altitude 10 in v0.9

2008-11-05 Thread psaltamontes
Hi, I have change the Regional and Language options to English (United States) and DDMS works. Now I can send locations to emulator, thanks. With KML files the play doesn't work, but If you click in some location of the list that location is sended to the emulator. On 29 sep, 19:58, Xavier

[android-developers] Application installing with default pre-made database file

2008-11-05 Thread Jisung Jung
Hello fellows, Is it possible to install application's pre-made database file during the application's installation time ? If not possible, what's the most recommended way like doing this in Android platform? jisung --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

[android-developers] Android Password Management Root Passwords

2008-11-05 Thread staulkor
I have successfully ported dropbear to Android in native C code. I got everything working and when I go to SSH to the phone (I am doing this on hardware, not the emulator), it asks for the username and password like usual. The problem is there isnt supposed to be a root password (at least I

[android-developers] how to evoke pv logger

2008-11-05 Thread already
hello, I want to see the pv logs while debug. I see in pv part, the logger is always printed as: PVLOGGER_LOGMSG(PVLOGMSG_INST_LLDBG, iLogger, PVLOGMSG_STACK_TRACE, (0,PVAuthorEngine::SetLogAppender)); but can not find how to enable pv log, and where it is printed, Is there any body knowing about

[android-developers] Re: Windows driver for HTC G1 phone

2008-11-05 Thread B
I was confused because at first Windows saw the device, then today it didn't, but then I realized I changed some things in my phone. Go to Settings Then Select SD card Then select Use for USB storage Once I did that, the computer immediately saw my phone. I didn't have to download anything. On

[android-developers] removing preference file and its implication

2008-11-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I noticed an interesting but unexpected behaviour with preference processing in Android. Here’s what I’m trying to do. My app needs to perform some specific tasks when it is launched for the first time after installation. I use an element named “firstLaunch” for this purpose. I set its value

[android-developers] Customizing builtin applications

2008-11-05 Thread Karra
Tried without luck at android-beginners... Is there any documentation on the built-in applications and how they can be extended? I have a couple of ideas for features that I would love to have as part the default address book application, but make little sense as a full blown application. Can

[android-developers] help needed here in code for battery life code...

2008-11-05 Thread Devadath .C.M.
sir/mam, i 'm new to the programming side and just curious to build some mobile applications for android, can you please provide me with details/codes/any helpful material for following technologies/services in android. please give which API is to be used to to get that. they are: 1. battery

[android-developers] Re: Proper way of handling orientation change + async thread

2008-11-05 Thread Fish Kungfu
Maybe we need a Self Help section. ;-) Thanks for posting your self-answers, since they still help everyone. On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:08 PM, zl25drexel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well i am answering my own question again. I figured out a working solution, for those who are interested, see

[android-developers] File permission about MediaPlayer

2008-11-05 Thread pa018
Code first: InputStream is = ;//some mixed audio byte buf[] = new byte[1024]; System.out.println(tempDir.getAbsolutePath()); File temp = File.createTempFile(aaa, .mp3, this.getCacheDir()); FileOutputStream out =

[android-developers] Access assets from within ParcelFileDescriptor / ContentProvider

2008-11-05 Thread effzehn
Hi together, Since a few days we are struggling with accessing asset files. Pretty early I found out that accessing assets is not directly possible with the file:/// Uri. Now my colleague wrote a ContentProvider class. Within the ParcelFileDescriptor from the ContentProvider we use the openFile

[android-developers] Re: SharedPreferences: editor.commit() always false even though it commits

2008-11-05 Thread polo777
Hi Jason, Thanks a lot for your answer. Regarding the security stuff, I created a md5 function that I apply on the password to then store it within the preferences file. As you said, at least it won't be stored plaintext. Again, thank you Bye On Nov 4, 11:23 pm, Jason Parekh [EMAIL

[android-developers] Re: Missing Import android.provider.Telephony

2008-11-05 Thread Fish Kungfu
If you have the disk space available (8GB-10GB to allow Ubuntu and some working room), I'd recommend setting up your pc as dual boot with your Windows and Ubuntu. Always BACKUP your important data first! I'm not affiliated with psychocats.net, but it has a very straightforward guide with

[android-developers] Re: WPA support

2008-11-05 Thread fiziks
you won't find EAP/PEAP support because Cisco themselves (the developers of PEAP) have not only stopped developing and supporting it, but are warning away from it's use due to false sense of security that it brings. Cisco's recommendations are to use other connections types and session based

[android-developers] bionic

2008-11-05 Thread ecabrera
I have several questions regarding bionic: I am writing code for functionality that will reside on the kernel side rather than the user side. Will I still need to use bionic libc? Can I use glibc? I understand that bionic is a subset of glibc. Where can I find which system call functions are

[android-developers] Re: Missing Import android.provider.Telephony

2008-11-05 Thread john
you can see the code in Windows, just pull down the code from git. On Nov 5, 2:54 pm, Protocol-X [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfort at the moment i dont have a pc running linux so i have no way to look at the source. On Nov 5, 1:35 am, Andrew Stadler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a good

[android-developers] Re: Customizing builtin applications

2008-11-05 Thread Mark Murphy
Karra wrote: I want to be able to create and distribute an application that will 'patch' the built-in Contacts application - i.e. augment its functionality in a certain way. I would imagine that a programmable extensible platform should enable such a thing to be easily achievable. Don't

[android-developers] TextView.SavedState example?

2008-11-05 Thread Craig
I would like to use onSaveInstanceState/onRestoreInstanceState in my class that extends TextView, but I don't see how to do it. TextView's implementation of onSaveInstanceState returns null, I couldn't find a way of instantiating a TextView.SavedState, and onRestoreState, which must be called,

[android-developers] Re: TextView.SavedState example?

2008-11-05 Thread Mark Murphy
Craig wrote: TextView's implementation of onSaveInstanceState returns null You're subclassing it, so you should be able to return whatever Parcelable you want. If, in some future Android implementation, the superclass returns something, you'll need to tuck that within your Parcelable as

[android-developers] Re: Listing Folders and Files

2008-11-05 Thread gjs
Hi, Have a look at this, for example - http://www.anddev.org/android_filebrowser__v20-t101.html - you will need to adapt it for V1.0 Regards On Nov 5, 8:49 pm, parani kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Now I am working to get the folders list and files list.Can you suggest me how

[android-developers] Change active AlarmManager event

2008-11-05 Thread hve.dk
Is it possible to change a repeating AlarmManager event - after the Activity, that scheduled the intent has finished. I like to change both the time for next event and the intervals between repeats. Is it possible to do it inside the onReceive of the BroadcastReceiver?

[android-developers] App idea for a developer: Translate Voice to Text for SMS while driving

2008-11-05 Thread DigiJeff
I think it would be very beneficial for someone to make an application that translate voice to text for sms messages. Example: When I'm driving I dont want to take my eyes off the road when I want to reply to a text, so if there was an easy way to respond back via sms with voice that would be so

[android-developers] Re: Favorites list

2008-11-05 Thread Romain Guy
The favorites list does not contain the name of all people you call/that call you. It contains the name of the people you call *the most*. On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction, I have

[android-developers] Re: Android Password Management Root Passwords

2008-11-05 Thread Brian Beattie
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 04:20 -0800, staulkor wrote: I have successfully ported dropbear to Android in native C code. I got everything working and when I go to SSH to the phone (I am doing this on hardware, not the emulator), it asks for the username and password like usual. The problem is

[android-developers] Re: App idea for a developer: Translate Voice to Text for SMS while driving

2008-11-05 Thread DigiJeff
awesome thanks for the response, didnt know! On Nov 5, 9:40 pm, Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: too bad... Speech Recognition API not available yet. so I think... TTS or STT still impossible at this stage... but... according to some video... out there(youtube)... they claim that speech

[android-developers] Re: Bash, C, or Korn Shell?

2008-11-05 Thread Bill Zimmerly
What do you mean? What kind of browser? If you mean a HTML browser, it shouldn't be too difficult to port a text browser like lynx to the emulator's shell, but WHY? (The emulator's Webkit GUI browser works great already.) On Oct 30, 1:18 pm, Ro9u3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: off topic... how do i

[android-developers] Wrap Text around ImageView

2008-11-05 Thread Beginner
Hi, I asked this in the begginer's group, without much success. So I'm going to try it here as well... I'm trying to get a pretty standard effect. An image (in an ImageView) on the the top-left corner of the screen, with text (in a TextView) that wraps around it. (So part of it is on the right

[android-developers] Re: Can't return View derived class for BaseExpandableListAdapter? (used to work)

2008-11-05 Thread Jason Parekh
Hi Mark, The problem is when you do: mcv.setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)); A view's layout parameters should be the type its parent expects to see (because those parameters are really used for the layout (parent) to

[android-developers] Re: removing preference file and its implication

2008-11-05 Thread Jason Parekh
The SharedPreferences keep a cache in memory. So, when you remove the file, it ends up using the cached value (false) from memory. Try rm'ing the file, killing your process (from Devices tab in eclipse), and then relaunching. jason On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

[android-developers] Re: removing preference file and its implication

2008-11-05 Thread Devi Prasad
Hi jason, that works! Thanks for pointing me to it. On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Jason Parekh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The SharedPreferences keep a cache in memory. So, when you remove the file, it ends up using the cached value (false) from memory. Try rm'ing the file, killing your

[android-developers] Re: Thread Question

2008-11-05 Thread joshbeck
I'm fairly new at this and just to the point where threading makes sense. So, my my main process is also considered a thread? True --- False I write a simple HelloWorld.java program. This program has 1 thread, the main flow of execution. ? Thanks, Josh On Nov 5, 7:26 pm, hackbod [EMAIL

[android-developers] Re: Bash, C, or Korn Shell?

2008-11-05 Thread Fish Kungfu
One indirect way is to ssh to a remote Linux box using ConnectBot and run Lynx or whatever you like from that machine. I've done just that and it works fine. Cheers...~~Fish~~ On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Bill Zimmerly [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: What do you mean? What kind of browser? If

[android-developers] Re: Listing Folders and Files

2008-11-05 Thread parani kumar
Dear gjs, It was a great help to me..I will dig it and come up with a solution. Thanks for your response. -- Thanks, parani On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:07 AM, gjs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Have a look at this, for example - http://www.anddev.org/android_filebrowser__v20-t101.html -

[android-developers] How to set up as a straight vertical display

2008-11-05 Thread dailyLife
Hi,EveryOne. Today, I finally had to buy the G1, I have to write the software installed on the G1 above to see results, every time I open the keyboard, software, images are also displayed along with change. Who can tell me how to set up as a straight vertical display shows that even open the

[android-developers] Re: Updating /system/etc/hosts has no effect

2008-11-05 Thread Anders Rundgren
Sorry but I found out that the carriage return characters left by Notepad is incompatible with Linux. Lessons learned: Windows != Linux :-) On Nov 4, 7:37 am, Anders Rundgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I managed through help from Google (thanks!) make /system writeable by issuing adb remount. I

[android-developers] Re: Creating libraries for android

2008-11-05 Thread Anders Rundgren
Dear Hackbod, Sorry for being a bit off with the terminology but Android is new to me and to most other developers as well. What I asked for, was how the thing you have called the drawer could be reused. I.e. I want to put a folder in the main drawer (must it be app rather?) and when hitting

[android-developers] Re: Android for flip phones and smaller devices

2008-11-05 Thread hackbod
On Nov 5, 5:38 pm, marc0047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this will change! Consider this Google/Android: what if I want to put Android in my refrigerator or light fixture??? Well you can take the source code and modify it for your device.

[android-developers] Re: Change active AlarmManager event

2008-11-05 Thread hackbod
Well you can unschedule the old alarm and schedule a new one. On Nov 5, 6:46 pm, hve.dk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to change a repeating AlarmManager event - after the Activity, that scheduled the intent has finished. I like to change both the time for next event and the

[android-developers] Re: Thread Question

2008-11-05 Thread hackbod
http://code.google.com/android/intro/appmodel.html The last section is on threads, though it's strongly recommended you read the whole thing. On Nov 5, 9:58 pm, joshbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm fairly new at this and just to the point where threading makes sense. So, my my main process