[android-developers] Re: Text-to-Speech for Android: Eyes-Free

2009-02-23 Thread Breezy
I can't get my emulator to play the sound of the TTS. I manually installed the APK and now I get a message (for only like 1/2 a second) that says the voice data is being downloaded and that I will have to restart my app. I do it and it says the same thing for a half second. Any suggestions?

[android-developers] Re: Text-to-Speech for Android: Eyes-Free

2009-02-23 Thread Breezy
Oh perfect. Thanks man On Feb 23, 2:25 pm, blindfold seeingwithso...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't tried the TTS on the emulator. Perhaps ask around in the TTS- for-Android grouphttp://groups.google.com/group/tts-for-android Regards On Feb 23, 8:27 am, Breezy mbre...@gmail.com wrote: I

[android-developers] Re: Simplifying the downloading XML or .txt files

2009-02-24 Thread Breezy
because if I did it would change. Can you see something I cant? On Feb 24, 7:55 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Breezy wrote: Is there any good pre-defined classes that make downloading an XML file off the internet a snap?  What about txt files, anything pretty easy and light

[android-developers] Emulator: clearing apps out of cache

2009-02-26 Thread Breezy
When I run the emulator I find that sometimes I will make a change, run to see what's going on and there will be no change. Like the app is cached and it's just re-running the old file. I double checked to ensure it's saved, but no luck. How do I overcome this? Is it because when I shut the

[android-developers] Best option to create alarm

2009-02-28 Thread Breezy
I'm creating an alarm clock app right now but I don't know which direction to go with the event. After reading a bit it doesn't look like I should use java.util.Timer, that appears to be short term. Is there any other functions out there? Or is there some sort of timer event and how would I

[android-developers] need some help with GUI

2009-11-20 Thread Breezy
What's the best way to handle this scenario? I've an app I'm working on that will have 3 different screens (layouts essentially). One will be a search box with a couple radio buttons and a search button. One will be a results list (I'm liking listview for this, sound good?). One will be the

[android-developers] methods not working (force closing), is there something wrong?

2009-11-20 Thread Breezy
I've a couple functions that basically parse XML but it's not XML it is parsing something similar. I use them in PHP to break apart large strings so I converted them to Java for this, but when I use them they force close. I use this code to call them String[] blah = dig_all

[android-developers] Re: methods not working (force closing), is there something wrong?

2009-11-21 Thread Breezy
On Nov 20, 9:08 pm, Arron arro...@gmail.com wrote: It is a lot easier to use ddms and find the exact exception and get the stack trace to figure out what's wrong. On Nov 20, 6:43 pm, Breezy mbre...@gmail.com wrote: I've a couple functions that basically parse XML but it's not XML

[android-developers] Re: methods not working (force closing), is there something wrong?

2009-11-21 Thread Breezy
Okay, I see. So what would be a solution to an error like that? I'm a PHP programmer in which I can write some sloppy code... I'm sort of lost on that. On Nov 21, 6:24 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Breezy wrote: Hmmm, I used that but I can't decipher what it's saying

[android-developers] getting a nullpointerexception, anyone see my problem?

2009-11-22 Thread Breezy
My code is below... With this I want to return an array of all the instances of whatever I'm searching it for. So say my string is... mystring = i like ham, i like chicken, i like carrots,; and I run... myarray = dig_all(like , ,,mystring); then myarray should consist of 'ham', 'chicken', and

[android-developers] Effectively using MediaPlayer and saving resources...

2010-01-18 Thread Breezy
I'm writing a program for my toddler and I'm running into a problem. I call mediaplayer numerous times. Each time a button is clicked it runs media player, but it's a different sound. So should I create a new instance each time? Here's what I'm looking at...

[android-developers] Getting a TextView to span the length of the screen

2010-01-18 Thread Breezy
I've a textview I want to span almost the length of the screen, then 2 buttons at the bottom. Right now I'm using a relative layout with a textview and two buttons and I can almost get it the way I want but the only thing is the textview isn't as long as I want it. I want it to be as long as

[android-developers] Re: Getting a TextView to span the length of the screen

2010-01-18 Thread Breezy
if the paint.measurestring getwidth and decrement text size each time. On Jan 18, 7:39 am, Breezy mbre...@gmail.com wrote: I've a textview I want to span almost the length of the screen, then 2 buttons at the bottom. Right now I'm using a relative layout with a textview and two buttons

[android-developers] Why is MediaPlayer playing before TextView setText takes effect?

2010-01-18 Thread Breezy
When a button is clicked the text of a textview changes and a sound is played, but the sound is played first then the text changes. I would like it to happen simultaneously if not then the text to take effect first. Here's my code... public void playSound(int playingFile) {

[android-developers] Re: instances of MediaPlayer

2010-01-18 Thread Breezy
Not sure, but release and recreate my instances. I just created 2 instances of mediaplayer, but they wouldn't play simultaneously, they played consecutively. On Jan 18, 8:34 pm, rukiman ruksh...@optushome.com.au wrote: Is it possible to have two instances of MediaPlayer to play sounds/ video?

[android-developers] Simple question... how do I open the browser?

2010-01-24 Thread Breezy
When a user clicks the about button in my app's menu I want it to open the browser and go to a specific webpage... Is there like a one- liner out there somewhere to do this? Seems simple but Google is not being helpful right now - or I'm just searching the wrong thing. Thanks! -- You

[android-developers] Re: Simple question... how do I open the browser?

2010-01-24 Thread Breezy
= new Intent(Intent.VIEW_ACTION, Uri.parse(http:// www.cnn.com)); startActivity(i); For future refence in case someone is looking for it. On Jan 24, 8:59 pm, Breezy mbre...@gmail.com wrote: When a user clicks the about button in my app's menu I want it to open the browser and go

[android-developers] Re: Getting a TextView to span the length of the screen

2010-01-26 Thread Breezy
@ Brion, that worked perfectly! Thanks! @ Sasikumar, that was absolutely pointless. You just placed a link pointing to your website and is general, not close at all to what I was looking for and you know that. That is purely a spam message just like the rest of your posts... If someone asks

[android-developers] Screenshot of background apps current state

2010-01-27 Thread Breezy
Okay, I can obtain a list of apps running in the background... like a task manager. But now I want to take a screen shot of the app and what state it's currently in. Is this possible? For example, I want to display a screenshot of an email if gmail is opened in the background and has an email

[android-developers] Aligning webview and buttons...

2010-02-01 Thread Breezy
I want to put two buttons (not HTML) at the top of my view and the webview below it... Almost like frames in HTML, except the top frame is android XML code, not an HTML frame. I can get it somewhat like I want, but whenever the HTML page is too big it goes up and under my buttons, but at the

[android-developers] Re: Aligning webview and buttons...

2010-02-02 Thread Breezy
Anyone have anything? On Feb 1, 8:37 pm, Breezy mbre...@gmail.com wrote: I want to put two buttons (not HTML) at the top of my view and the webview below it...  Almost like frames in HTML, except the top frame is android XML code, not an HTML frame.  I can get it somewhat like I want

[android-developers] How can I draw a simple shape with shapedrawable?

2010-02-09 Thread Breezy
I've looked for a tutorial on it, but I can't figure out how to do it... For starters, and I can dig some more from there, how do I have a simple program draw a simple rectangle? Nothing else, no frills, just draw and display a rectangle? I was thinking for the layout I would use ImageView,

[android-developers] Re: How can I draw a simple shape with shapedrawable?

2010-02-09 Thread Breezy
Hmmm, still a little confused... Are you saying to utilize the ImageView, but draw on it as if it were a canvas? On Feb 9, 6:31 pm, Jason Proctor jason.android.li...@gmail.com wrote: one way is to override your View's draw() and then do stuff with the Canvas instance passed in. the drawLine()

[android-developers] Re: How can I draw a simple shape with shapedrawable?

2010-02-09 Thread Breezy
, etc On Feb 9, 6:47 pm, Breezy mbre...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm, still a little confused...  Are you saying to utilize the ImageView, but draw on it as if it were a canvas? On Feb 9, 6:31 pm, Jason Proctor jason.android.li...@gmail.com wrote: one way is to override your View's draw

[android-developers] Re: WebView

2010-02-09 Thread Breezy
Does your layout XML look like this? LinearLayout xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ android android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=fill_parent android:orientation=vertical WebView android:id=@+id/webview

[android-developers] How should I set up my app? Database for flash cards?

2010-01-09 Thread Breezy
I'm about to begin work on a simple app that is just flash cards and answers... It will be a couple hundred flash cards (some with images, some with just text) and the answers to those cards. My question is, how should I set this up? Should I use a database to store each one or what? I'm

[android-developers] Re: How should I set up my app? Database for flash cards?

2010-01-09 Thread Breezy
feasible, I would use a database to hold the images filenames but actually store the images on the sd card. Changing the text of a textView is like one call, very easy. -theSmith On Jan 9, 1:05 pm, Breezy mbre...@gmail.com wrote: I'm about to begin work on a simple app that is just flash cards

[android-developers] In need of a developer...

2009-06-12 Thread Breezy
I'm looking to hire a developer for a small project. It involves searching and sending a request to my server which will return results in XML format. The app will have to display the results. Then based on that, the user will click on of the results and the app will send another request to

[android-developers] Modifying the UI within Java, not XML

2009-07-11 Thread Breezy
So I have the basics down... I can create a UI with the XML, I can show it and change the screen to another UI (another XML file) but how do I add to the UI? Hmmm, hard to explain... Say I have a header (just 2 textviews) that will remain at the top and below that is a search box and button

[android-developers] Re: Modifying the UI within Java, not XML

2009-07-11 Thread Breezy
ListView, okay, that works. Now how do I make multiple TextViews and insert them into the ListView on the fly? Thanks for the fast response BTW. On Jul 11, 6:02 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Breezy wrote: Kinda like if you search for an app in the market.  There's

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-02 Thread Breezy
Go to Google Checkout (not for sellers, but for buyers!) and go to your order when you paid the $25 to put apps in the market... That order number is about a 15 digit (or so) number. Use that. Heh, I'm old schoolin' it with my G1 my wife got me wayyy back. I've already convinced a good

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-05 Thread Breezy
Just got mine too. Wonder what device I'll get. I wont be upset over a droid because afterall it is free, but I'll sell it and get a Nex 1. I don't have Vz. On Mar 5, 8:18 pm, Mario Zechner badlogicga...@gmail.com wrote: I just received the confirmation e-mail. Seems like my new shiny Nexus

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-05 Thread Breezy
Cleverly they said shipping parters instead of HTC or Motorola. lol I wish they would've said. On Mar 5, 9:00 pm, Seni Sangrujee sangru...@gmail.com wrote: Whew!  Just got my confirmation email too.  I guess I didn't screw up filling out the form after all. -seni On Mar 5, 6:47 pm, Greg

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-06 Thread Breezy
Especially boxes the size of kilos of drugs. lol I'm sure 2-4 weeks is purely for the sake of giving us a timeline... It may be 4-5 days, but if they said that and for whatever reason you didn't get it, someone might throw a fit. We see it all the time... Google promised me and they didn't

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-06 Thread Breezy
I understand that - however, my android device is my primary telephonic communication (and some), I just happened to write a few killer apps on the side. lol Apps that were useful to me, figured others might benefit. So I see Google's point and ultimate goal... But hey, if I'm going to have a

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-15 Thread Breezy
Congrats on receiving it! Regardless of what you received it for is pretty cool to know. Still waiting on mine... No hurry, but my G1 is slower than molasses and I'm running Cyan! lol On Mar 15, 9:19 am, f_heft delphik...@gmail.com wrote: I just received my Nexus One via FedEx - thank you,

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-17 Thread Breezy
Maybe. Declared dead, but nonetheless still missing. ;) On Mar 17, 9:23 am, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) cor...@gmail.com wrote: This just in... Jimmy Hoffa is still dead. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-29 Thread Breezy
Oh geez, let me throw this in here... Alabama - still waiting. I've got patience, plenty of it, but when I hear a step truck drive by I perk up. ;) BTW, FedEx said they're not tracking anything coming to my location (yet). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-30 Thread Breezy
Received my Droid in Alabama today. -- 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 to

[android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-04-02 Thread Breezy
Do you see how many people are requesting to trade a Droid for an N1? Nobody is going to trade. Good luck with it, but mine is already on eBay and I'll be buying an N1. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group,