Re: [android-developers] Hard Crash (Reboot) in 3.2
Thanks, I've filed a bug. On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Joshua Smith joshuaesm...@charter.netwrote: Update: We've created a small reproducible test case. Run this code for an hour (usually less) on a XOOM with 3.2 and you will reboot. We haven't gotten lucky enough to get a log, so we cannot be absolutely certain that this reboot is the same one we're hitting, but it probably is. Who do I send this to? -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Avoiding FAILED BINDER TRANSACTION error when updating lots of widget bitmaps
It is actually 1MB. The most common reason for this error is a too large IPC. As a quick test, you could try removing half the bitmaps or so and see if it works. If so, the issue is almost certainly an IPC that is too large. If that is the case, you just need to reduce the amount of data being sent over. On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: 01.08.2011 19:02, Ash McConnell пишет: Hi Kostya, It's not that the single bitmap is too large, it's that I'm updating quite a few bitmaps. The biggest bitmap in PNG form (a lot smaller I know) is only 4KB. I am updating 14 ImageViews in each update. Is there any way to split the update for each widget instance somehow? Binder data size limit is 512K, IIRC, so it should be enough for the update. Are you sure the failed transaction is not caused by bad data in RemoteViews (references to views that don't exist, etc.) that cause the remote side (Launcher) to crash? What are the other methods to push a bitmap into a widget? Anything I could search for? ImageView can grab images from a Uri, and supports content:// and file:// style Uris. -- Kostya Thanks for your help! All the best, Ash -- Kostya Vasilyev -- 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.comandroid-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+**unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/**group/android-developers?hl=enhttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Avoiding FAILED BINDER TRANSACTION error when updating lots of widget bitmaps
Those files aren't be accessed by you, they are being opened by another app
(the launcher) when it applies your RemoteViews to the widget it is
displaying.
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Ash McConnell ash.mcconn...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Kostya / Dianne,
Thanks for the replies. As Dianne suggested, removing half the bitmaps
does indeed make it work.
I can't really reduce the amount of bitmaps, so I am trying to use the
setImageURI on ImageView. Unfortunately I am getting permission denied
errors.
Here is the test code I used: -
File file = new
File(context.getFilesDir().getAbsolutePath() +
/skins/Minimal/flight_on.png);
if (file.exists()){
Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(file);
Log.i(LOGTAG, uri.toString());
views.setUri(R.id.buttonSound, setImageURI, uri);
}
The file *does* exist and I get the following log message: -
08-01 17:19:20.304: INFO/WidgetTest(4563):
file:///data/data/sirocco.widgets/files/skins/Minimal/flight_on.png
I didn't think I would have permission problems with the widget's own
files. Is there a problem with accessing these files from a widget
(actually a private service class within the widget)?
Thanks again for your help
All the best,
Ash
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Re: [android-developers] Re: android:allowClearUserData=false
You can't do this, and it is very much a feature that you can't do this. On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Priyank priyankvma...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reply. I wanted to do something similar. I wanted to save some information on the phone, but when the user selects Clear Data, the information needs to persist. I dont mind the information getting deleted if the user uninstalls the application. I tried saving the information in a file in the internal memory (data/ data/com.test/files/FILENAME using openFileOutput(FILENAME, Context.MODE_PRIVATE)) but still the file gets deleted on pressing Clear Data. I do not want to save the file in the SD card. Is there any way I can do that. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Priyank On Jul 26, 1:24 pm, Chris Stratton cs07...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:17:42 PM UTC-4, Priyank wrote: I saw a few posts which said that even though we add this line in the manifest file, we are not able to disable the Clear Data button for an application. I tried it in 2.2, 2.3 and 3.0 and was not able to disable that button. Am I doing anything wrong or is there any other method to do this. Apparently that was only ever available for system applications, and is also broken in some versions. This would be consistent with the android design goal of not letting 3rd party apps make semi-permanent changes to the device. Even if it did work, removing and re-installing the application would get around it. See: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-developers/sQkfGQ9zVrc/AT98os... -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Service or Thread for accelerometer monitoring?
Thread or service is not generally a decision -- they are two different things, for different purposes. A thread lets you do work off of the main UI thread. A service lets you tell the system to try to keep your process around instead of killing it in the background. On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Fred Niggle fred.nig...@googlemail.comwrote: Hello, I am stuck with making a decision and I could use some expert help. I have a need to monitor motion, either with the compass or accelerometer to ensure that someone is safe. I have code which works really well when using the accelerometer, BUT it can suck a battery flat in around 30 minutes. To help mitigate this i am considering a 'duty-cycle- of 1 minute on, and 1 minute off - so should straight away be on to a 50% increase in battery life, and later I'll refine this. Im developing for api 7 (2.1 eclair) and while I have some programming experience, i need guidance on which route to follow to enable the duty-cycle usage of the accelerometer. One avenue of research indicates that using threads is the way to go - however since threads can be killed off with the main UI (screen goes to sleep, etc), so i'm leaning towards using a service which can I can START_STICKY. Which route do you recommend? Thread or Service? Regards, Fred -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: How Android Market's OTA works?
No that isn't true. It is the C2DM mechanism. Android since 1.0 has had a single constant connection to google services to receive tickles when there are things to do -- single email or contacts, etc. One of the tickles is to perform app downloads. This is the exact same mechanism the C2DM is. It has been there since 1.0 for the Google applications, and was only ready to be exposed to third party developers in Froyo. (Also fwiw this is technically not part of the Android platform itself, but proprietary features that Google supplies to developers on top of the platform.) On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Nikolay Elenkov nikolay.elen...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Paul Turchenko paul.turche...@gmail.com wrote: It's push. Android market (vending process on your device) keeps passive connection with Android Market server. Same way Gmail app works. This is why email delivery is instant. Interesting. Do you have any more details about this? Since it doesn't work if you are not logged in to Google Talk, I always thought it uses some sort of XMPP notification. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: ActionBar/Mode Style Regressions with SDK 12r2 and 13r1
Yes, that is terrible, and pretty much guaranteed to break.
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:54 AM, dmitry.lukas...@gmail.com
dmitry.lukas...@gmail.com wrote:
I've found only one way to change default search view icon:-) But this is
terrible solution
SearchView sv = new SearchView(mActivity);
sv.setOnQueryTextListener(mOnSearchQueryTextListener);
menuItemSearch.setActionView(sv);
searchViewChangeHack(sv);
private static int sViewIndex = 0;
private void searchViewChangeHack(ViewGroup sv) {
for (int i = 0; i sv.getChildCount(); i++) {
View v = sv.getChildAt(i);
if (v instanceof ViewGroup) {
searchViewChangeHack((ViewGroup)v);
} else if (v instanceof ImageView) {
if (sViewIndex == 0 || sViewIndex == 1) {
((ImageView)
v).setImageResource(R.drawable.common_bar_search);
}
sViewIndex++;
}
}
}
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Re: [android-developers] Re: How can we keep a particular application on the top always
What I am saying is you shouldn't use an activity, you should go modify the SystemUI code to introduce your window there in the same way the status bar is done. On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:37 PM, trickybit jmack...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way for an activity to specify the type of its main window, in time for it to matter? Thanks On Jul 28, 12:11 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: I suggest looking at the SystemUI process (frameworks/base/packages/SystemUI), which is responsible for showing the status bar and extending as desired. First question you will need to answer is what layer your UI goes in to: above everything including the lock screen, above the system bar / notifications, above toasts, just above apps. It is likely you will need to define a new private window type with its own layer (assigned in PhoneWindowManager) to get it z-ordered where you want. On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Ankit ank82...@gmail.com wrote: Hi , I want to keep my application ( Application A ) on the top always in Android. Application A is not a full screen application, it is a floating window or dialog theme based application. The Application A can launch other application.\ from its own UI portion also other applications can be launched from background from Home screen shortcut / Application Launcher screen. How can we do it? Also the application which are in the background with Application A on top should work normally. e.g. it can Launch other activities (of it own own or some other application), dialog etc. Second doubt/ requirement is - Activity Y is below Activity X, Activity X is below Activity A (of Application A) . Activity X has a close/exit button which would finish its own activity X. Now when that button is pressed the activity get closed but leaves a black screen below activity A. Why does this happen (i think may be because it requires the Back stack to be rearranged) and is their a turn around way of being able to do this. If any application in the background launches another activity/ application then also my application ( Application A ) should come at the top of the launched activity/application. Thanks , Ankit -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: ActionBar/Mode Style Regressions with SDK 12r2 and 13r1
Sorry at this point you can't customize it like that. If you seriously can't live with the standard style, you'll need to make your own. On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:42 PM, dmitry.lukas...@gmail.com wrote: My concern is why I can easily change android:actionOverflowButtonStyle... and cannot do the same with search icon. Gray search icon is not acceptable for our brand style... so default action bar became useless for us, and we should create custom bar for tablet that is ridiculous:) -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: How to add header in ListFragment?
You don't need to be a fragment to participate in the action bar tabs, they just let you do that as a convenience. They are just calling back to you when the tabs are changed. They make it easy to at that point switch fragments, but you can just as well switch views. I'd prefer to not start introducing dependencies on fragments for doing basic UI stuff. The app package has always been layered on top of view and widget, and that is a good thing. On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:26 PM, nadam a...@anyro.se wrote: Another option is to skip the ListFragment and use a ListView directly instead. You only need to use ListFragment if the same list (and related logic) should be displayed in two different activities. Or if the list needs to be a Fragment for other reasons (e.g., to participate in the tab navigation in the action bar). Right now, there are few of these, but I suspect that there will be more of those Fragment dependencies in the future. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in NYC: http://marakana.com/training/android/ -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Pain taking db reads off UI thread
Consider using loaders, for example: http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/Support4Demos/src/com/example/android/supportv4/app/LoaderCursorSupport.html On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Julius Spencer jul...@msa.co.nz wrote: Hi, I have been trying to take database reads off the UI thread and am currently using an AsyncTask, however I am running into trouble swapping out an updated Cursor for a new one in the adapter. (I was previously using requery() on the Cursor which had to be on the main UI thread) The documentation regarding requery() says: Just request a new cursor, so you can do this asynchronously and update your list view once the new cursor comes back. If I update the existing Cursor (mCursor) with the results from a new query and do the following in onPostExecute of an AsyncTask: mAdapter.changeCursor(mCursor); it works pretty well on a Nexus 1. On other devices I am getting errors because I haven't closed the old Cursor. (java/lang/IllegalStateException;: Finalizing cursor android.database.sqlite.SQLiteCursor on null that has not been deactivated or closed) I have tried creating a new Cursor and swapping the Cursors out like so: if(null!=mArtists) mCursor.close(); mArtists = newCursor; but I get performance issues and the view of the list goes back to the top. Has anyone got any ideas on this? Alternatively does anyone have or know of any documentation for using a CursorLoader against a SQLiteDatabase rather than a ContentProvider? Thanks for any help. Regards, Julius. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] How can we keep a particular application on the top always
I suggest looking at the SystemUI process (frameworks/base/packages/SystemUI), which is responsible for showing the status bar and extending as desired. First question you will need to answer is what layer your UI goes in to: above everything including the lock screen, above the system bar / notifications, above toasts, just above apps. It is likely you will need to define a new private window type with its own layer (assigned in PhoneWindowManager) to get it z-ordered where you want. On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Ankit ank82...@gmail.com wrote: Hi , I want to keep my application ( Application A ) on the top always in Android. Application A is not a full screen application, it is a floating window or dialog theme based application. The Application A can launch other application.\ from its own UI portion also other applications can be launched from background from Home screen shortcut / Application Launcher screen. How can we do it? Also the application which are in the background with Application A on top should work normally. e.g. it can Launch other activities (of it own own or some other application), dialog etc. Second doubt/ requirement is - Activity Y is below Activity X, Activity X is below Activity A (of Application A) . Activity X has a close/exit button which would finish its own activity X. Now when that button is pressed the activity get closed but leaves a black screen below activity A. Why does this happen (i think may be because it requires the Back stack to be rearranged) and is their a turn around way of being able to do this. If any application in the background launches another activity/ application then also my application ( Application A ) should come at the top of the launched activity/application. Thanks , Ankit -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: About Android 3.0 status bar hide questions
You can't. You'll notice that nowhere in the standard platform as shipped on Xoom does it disappear. There is no facility to make it disappear. To be able to do this, you would need to take the platform and modify the code that displays the system bar to have an API that only your trusted app can call to make it disappear. On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:26 AM, RichardLalancette.Blogspot.com richard.lalance...@gmail.com wrote: I really need to find a way to hide and show the bottom bar. Our app needs to take over the entire screen. Please advise on a way to do so if you know, even if it means not using the regular SDK. On Jul 21, 8:51 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: No. We shouldn't let you force stop the system UI, either. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:02 AM, chibinho chibinho1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, everyone. Android 3.0 status bar is always appear . And I find it can be disappear when use setting system ui force close. May I develop an app which can auto force close the system ui ? Does Android have provide this API? -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: SurfaceView#setZOrderMediaOverlay(true) not working as expected
Well it is too bad we made that API public. :p You can use adb shell dumpsys window to see the windows in the window manager, to see how your windows have been Z-ordered. Also be sure you are setting this property before the SurfaceView is attached to its window, and never changing it. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Shri shri.bo...@gmail.com wrote: I am occasionaly seeing this on Nexus S Gingerbread MR1 as well. Is this a bug in setZOrderMediaOverlay? On Jul 13, 2:09 pm, Shri shri.bo...@gmail.com wrote: I have a small screen camera preview being shown on top of a larger video (see layout at the end). I use SurfaceView#setZOrderMediaOverlay(true) on the small camera preview, and this works most of the time. However, occasionally, the camera preview is not fully displayed. Only the part of it not blocked by the larger video view is displayed, while the 5dip black border *is* fully displayed on top of the large video. So it seems like SurfaceView#setZOrderMediaOverlay(true) is not working as expected. My understanding of the API is that it guarantees that the SurfaceView will be displayed on top of other SurfaceViews. I do not want to use #setZOrderOnTop as I do want to overlap the camera preview with some icons, and using #setZOrderOnTop(true) would cause the camera preview to display on top of the overlay icons. Any idea why #setZOrderMediaOverlay(true) misbehaves occasionally? I am on Honeycomb MR1 on Motorola Xoom. Thanks, Shri RelativeLayout xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ android android:orientation=horizontal android:layout_width=match_parent android:layout_height=match_parent SurfaceView android:id=@+id/some_video android:layout_width=match_parent android:layout_height=match_parent / !-- Camera preview border -- RelativeLayout android:id=@+id/camera_preview_and_overlays android:layout_width=100dip android:layout_height=50dip !-- Camera preview. #setZOrderMediaOverlay(true) will be called for this. -- SurfaceView android:id=@+id/camera_preview android:layout_width=match_parent android:layout_height=match_parent/ ImageView android:id=@+id/overlay_icon android:layout_width=match_parent android:layout_height=match_parent/ /RelativeLayout /RelativeLayout -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Using Options Menu in a multi-Fragment Activity
You will need to have the activity populate the options menu and call to the current fragment when an item is selected. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Sam sam.oak...@blork.co.uk wrote: I have a FragmentActivity which hosts a FragmentStatePagerAdapter. The pager contains multiple instances of the same fragment, in order that the user can swipe between the items in a list. I want to be able to provide the user with an options menu which will act only on the visible item. For example, I have a list of images displayed in imageviews inside fragments. I want an option menu item allowing the user to set the image as their wallpaper. At the moment when I try this, when onPrepareOptionsMenu is called, the code is called in multiple fragments (usually the current + next one). The same when an item is selected. This causes the wrong image to be set as the wallpaper. How can I prevent the options menu triggering for more than the currently visible fragment? Question also posted to StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6831544/using-options-menu-in-a-multi-fragment-activity -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Turning off all of the APPS running in the background or setting the highest priority on my APP!!!
android:priority is for IntentFilter matching, it has nothing to do with
thread priority. Also third party apps can't get an android:priority 0.
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Sebastian Tomaszewski
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Hello Mark,
Thank you for your reply, I greatly appreciate it.
Fortunately...come on... :)... I guess there is a reason behinid it
is there?
So does that mean that android:priority=*2147483647* didn't do anything
for me in my Manifest. I read somewhere that this could have helped?... A
little bit confused here, but maybe I might have misread this...
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/intent-filter-element.html#priority
Nevertheless, would the application that is running be considred as
Foreground Process? Please let me know.
Thank you and Best Regards,
Sebo
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote:
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Sebo stomasze101...@gmail.com wrote:
Quick question, do you know if there is a way to turn off any APPS
that run in the background (e-mail/GPS...), so my application while it
is running won't be interrupted at all(Except for the OS of
course)?
Fortunately, this is not possible.
OR is there a way to tell when my application starts that my APP is
the highest prioiryt in the whole system?
The foreground process is already the highest prioiryt [sic] in the
whole system.
I tried setting my
Acitivity prioity (In the Manifest) to the highest possible and that
didn't work that well.
There is no Acitivity prioity (In the Manifest).
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Re: [android-developers] Re: My service never runs more than few ours while other services run for days
It is very likely that the other services are also being killed and restarted. If you look at the uptime in Running Services, this is the time since the service was *originally* started. That is, how long it has been *wanting* to run without break. If it gets killed and restarted by the system, that time doesn't break. In fact in the current implementation, after a service has been running continually for around 1/2 hour, it gets dropped down into the background process LRU list to make sure it eventually gets killed and restarted. We don't want services sitting there running for days with memory leaks and eventually eating away all of the RAM that we'd like to use for caching background processes. :) On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.comwrote: Your advice is certainly sound, but I can sympathize with the OP's Service envy, thinking that his Service should also be able to persist for days like certain others. Then again, since he is talking about taking up as much as 10MB, he should not be surprised that his gets killed more often than the others. Any service that is going to persist for so long has to be MUCH more lightweight than that, unless it is a system service. BTW: there has got to be a better way to do this than wait forever for incoming TCP PDUS: somebody in this group once mentioned WebTCP, though it was never clear to me how that solves the problem. On Jul 26, 8:39 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:03 PM, scmailon scmai...@gmail.com wrote: Any idea suggestion is very wellcome :) Don't attempt to keep you service alive indefinitely - it can and will be killed when necessary. Instead, code it to take this reality into account. - TreKing http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Issue with screen layout in 3.2
If you are in compatibility mode, it is obvious because your entire UI is scaled up using bitmap scaling. If you aren't sure, don't say you support xlarge screens, and use the button at the bottom to switch between compatibility and normal modes. By default unless you explicitly say you don't support large screens, you will *not* be run in compatibility mode but the button will be available for the user to switch compatibility mode on. I don't think your issue is related to compatibility mode, but there isn't enough information provided to help diagnose further. On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Vector-Code gkvector...@gmail.com wrote: Upon the release of SDK 13, I tested my application against the new version and was distressed to find that it was no longer laying out properly in HC 3.2. I checked the documentation, found the new compatibility mode and added the xlargeScreens=true element to my manifest. This did not correct the problem. Even with the added tag, my application lays out exactly as if I had not added the tag, although the compatibility button is no longer present. The specific problem is that a subview within my application should be approximately 2 inches wide by 3.5 inches tall. Under versions 3.0 and 3.1, it lays out just this way. Under 3.2, however, in landscape mode, the subview matches the height of the screen. In portrait mode, the size of the subview is correct, but the children within it are not positioned correctly. How can I TRULY disable compatibility mode. BTW, I also cannot get a cursor or highlight text in an edittext in any version of HC even though I've specificly requested them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] For a good time...
(1) Get a Xoom running Android 3.2. (2) Get an Apple Magic Trackpad. (3) Pair the trackpad to the Xoom. (4) Have a good time! I bring this up partly because I think it is cool (and all thanks go to Jeff for the feature), but also because if you are wondering as developers how in the future you may need to modify your app to work on devices without a touch screen... well, the answer may be not much at all. ;) This is also the motivation for new feature constants like http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html#FEATURE_FAKETOUCH_MULTITOUCH_DISTINCTsince a non-touch device that includes a multi-touch trackpad can provide basically full interaction with Android's touch UI for many typical apps. If you don't need direct interaction (such as needed to touch game control buttons or draw figures on the screen), a multitouch trackpad can provide a quite good user experience. Non-multitouch trackpads (represented by FEATURE_FAKETOUCH) don't work as well since all touch interactions with the screen require awkward use of a hardware button to instigate. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: How to know what internal process runs an application
A string is useful to be able to look at the process information in the debugger, and the most common use for this is to have multiple .apks share a process to run in (not run parts of a single .apk in multiple processes), so a string provides the ability to do scoping and generally not go insane. On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 8:05 PM, elDoudou the.edouard.merc...@gmail.comwrote: Thank you Indicator Veritatis for your clear answer. For you, what I intend to do is impossible. I cannot figure out why the Android team declared an android:process attribute, and do not expose that value at runtime to the application, because this information is only an instruction on whether a dedicated Linux process should be allocated for a specific component type (Activity, Service, BroadcastReceiver, ContentProvider ...): the fact that this actually names the Linux process this way is an implementation detail and a coincidence. If the process should be anonymous containers and that it is not supposed to be available from the API at runtime, why not having design an android:process value with an ordinal? I now know that I need to review the Android source code for better understanding that android:process thing. BTW: my application has about 100 activities (I did not say hundreds ;), because this is a very large application, and I already put into common many activities. For information, I'm not totally a rookie: I have already been developing about 40 Android applications (see http://code.google.com/p/droid4me for some of them), and I have been developing now for 25 years (which, of course, does not involve that I'm a good developer ;). Regards, Édouard -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: Small screens and HDPI
And the point is...? On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:42 AM, gjs garyjamessi...@gmail.com wrote: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/07/multiple-apk-support-in-android-market.html On Jul 22, 2:40 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Having a drawable-small indicates a more fundamental problem with what you are doing. Why are you doing such a thing? What is the configuration of this device? You really need to provide more detail of exactly what you are doing and the problematic behavior you are seeing. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Alex alexdavisspec...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I have recently come across a situation where drawable-hdpi resources on a small-screen, hdpi device look terrible. I would like to force smallscreen devices to use mdpi resources. Copying (or resizing) all the pertinent drawables from /drawable-mdpi to /drawable-small causes too much APK size inflation to justify, and it would be *another* item in the resource maintenance hassle. My first idea was to create xml reference files in /drawable-small that reference the drawable-mdpi resources, but i dont know how to hard-link to a specific resolution's (in this case mdpi) drawable via the @drawable/ syntax. Whats my way out? -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: popupwindow
Abstract classes and interfaces both have their downsides: - Abstract classes don't allow multiple inheritance, resulting in an explosion of tiny classes. - Interfaces tend to result in a hard to maintain framework because it is a lot harder to introduce new functionality (can't add a new method with a default implementation for old apps). Plus not being able to have convenience functions can make the interface version less useful. Also the inability to have default implementation in interfaces makes it more annoying in places to control what appears in the SDK, since we can't use our @hide tricks or else third party apps can't implement it because they can't implement the needed hidden methods. I go back and forth between the two. I think I have settled on interfaces for small little things with one or two methods (callbacks like all the things on ListView) and abstract classes for larger protocols. One thing I am sure of, however: protected sucks. On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: An interface is exactly just that (plus constant declerations). With abstract classes, you can have static methods and everything else that comes with a proper class. The drawback is, of course, that you can only inherit from at most one abstract class. I cannot think of even a single example, off the top of my head, where an abstract class in Android could have also been defined as an interface without losing any functionality. On Jul 25, 12:05 pm, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.com wrote: Those many cases for this there is no particularly good reason one was picked over the other are most likely, I hope, the cases where I gave up on trying to figure out why the Android team chose to make the one 'abstract class' and the other 'public interface';) On Jul 21, 10:28 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.comwrote: They do not pause to explain, for example ... why some classes are defined a public abstract classes, while very similar other classes are defined as interfaces. Well hopefully you generally don't care. And to be honest, in many cases for this there is no particularly good reason one was picked over the other. ;) -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: How to know what internal process runs an application
Be we are still not getting to the core problem -- why do you need to have your app initialized certain different ways depending on these uses? How have you gotten to this point? It is the fundamental problem. This is just not naturally how Android works -- processes are simply containers to host specific components like activities and services. On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:19 AM, elDoudou the.edouard.merc...@gmail.comwrote: Thank you Diane. I may have a problem with my design, but if I'm wrong, I'd be delighted to be well guided. I would like my application to initialize a certain way when it is started with an Activity (for instance, I want to set up some caching stuff), whereas when launched via a Service, I do not need it to be initialized that way. The solution that I have found so far is to override the Application.onCreate() method, so as to be notified every time the application process starts, and quick-initialize some stuff. I have declared two android:processes because I thought that it might be possible to distinguish the cause of the application process start, but if you say that it is not possible to determine the android:process responsible for the start of the process, how can I solve my problem, please? Do you have in mind another design pattern which enables the application to be notified at startup, whatever Activity, BroadcastReceiver, Service causes its process to start so as to initialize some stuff, and to distinguish a specific Service where no initialization is supposed to be run, please? I would be very grateful to the person who is able to unblock me. And please, do not tell me that I have a design problem eventually ;) Regards, Édouard On 14 juil, 20:05, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Sorry, there is no way to know. Processes are basically anonymous containers in which to run code. If you are needing to distinguish them, you have a problem in your design. On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:43 AM, elDoudou the.edouard.merc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Doug and thank you. The process id does not indicate the Android declared process in the AndroidManifest.xml file, unfortunately. What I need to know is the android:process which causes the process to start. If I declare a service in the manifest with a specific process name (tag android:process), how do I know at runtime when this specific service process causes the Application::onCreate() method to be invoked, please? Thank you for your time and support. Regards, Édouard -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] What layout the normal 2.3 WVGA 800x480 emulator use?
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Zwiebel hunzwie...@gmail.com wrote: I have a program what looks like good on my HVGA emulator, everything is fine with it (however I don't know why it is use the hdpi drawable, when I have layout-normal-mdpi file too, with drawable-layout-mdpi file too.), layout-normal-mdpi is really wrong. drawable-layout-mdpi shouldn't even compile. First. *Always* have a default resource. So you should have a layout/foo.xml file. This is the basic layout of your app. The one that will be used if nothing else matches the device. Second. Layouts care about screen size, drawables care about screen density. If you have a resource that selects both a screen size and density (-normal-mdpi) there is a 99.9% chance this is not what you want. So if you want to have an alternative layout for tablet screens, in addition to your layout/foo.xml, you would have a layout-xlarge/foo.xml. Third. Densities are for bitmaps. They are used to select between different alternative bitmaps that are available. The platform assumes that if it doesn't have a matching resource for a particular density, it can pick another and it will be scaled appropriately. If what you are selecting is not a bitmap then it can't actually be scaled and you can end up with resources being used that you don't want. So if you want to have two different bitmaps one for mdpi and one for hdpi screens, they would be drawable-mdpi/icon.png and drawable-hdpi/icon.png. Note also that densities are the one exception to our rule always have a default resource -- because we assume we can scale densities, some density will always match no matter what the screen is, so they can all serve as defaults. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: restart application after Android's killed it
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:12 PM, nadam ad...@anyro.se wrote: This is not true for my devices. At least not after manually destroying an app using a task manager. I get the same behavior from launcher icon and back button. On HTC Hero with Android 2.1, I always end up in the launcher activity. On Nexus S with Android 2.3.4 and Motorola Xoom with Android 3.0.1, I always end up in the last activity that was displayed. Starting with 2.2 task managers can only kill background processes, doing the same thing the low memory killer does. Prior to 2.2, they could do a full force stop which would whack the state of the application. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Does a device running Android have to license a JVM?
Android's VM is Dalvik, which is under the Apache 2.0 license. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:15 AM, DavidGarnett davidngarn...@gmail.comwrote: I'm not sure this is a question for Android app developers, but here goes... Does a device running Android have to license a JVM? Some upfront information suggests that a JVM is built in to Android, which I hope would mean that the device manufacturer wouldn't need to pay Oracle for a JVM license. Of course, the manufacturure would have to port Android to the device ... -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: Fragment isAdded() issue ?
Committing a fragment is asynchronous; isAdded() doesn't return true until
the transaction is committed.
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Gab gabriel.del...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a same problem, my fragment lost the reference of activity
after pause/resume...
I don't understand the fragment's lifecycle.
On 19 juil, 15:10, Guian guiandou...@gmail.com wrote:
well well ...
here is the fix I used :
on the creation of my fragment I add a test in fragment.getActivity()
is null ...
if(testFragment == null || testFragment.getActivity()==null)
testFragment = (TestFragment) TestFragment.instantiate(context,
com.mypackage.test.MyFragment);
and I recreate a previously build fragment which I think isn't very
optimised ...
any comment/advise on this is welcome.
On 19 juil, 14:31, Guian guiandou...@gmail.com wrote:
here is the source code forisAdded:
/**
* Return true if the fragment is currently added to its activity.
*/
final public booleanisAdded() {
return mActivity != null mAdded;
}
indeed ... mActivity is null...
I guess I have to recreate this fragment from scratch since I've lost
its activity owner ?
what cause this reference on mActivity being lost ?
if its the onPause = onResume, what's the point of having a onPause
onResume methods to implement in Fragment, if we have to recreate it
anyway ?
On 19 juil, 12:23, Guian guiandou...@gmail.com wrote:
I've seen thatisAdded() can return false even if the field 'mAdded'
in the Fragment is true ?
(seen in the 'Variables' view in eclipse )
does anybody know why ?
On 19 juil, 11:46, Guian guiandou...@gmail.com wrote:
I can't understand how this piece of code :
if(!fragmentsToAdd.isAdded())
ft.add( R.id.parent, fragmentsToAdd, myFragment);
can lead to this exeption :
FATAL EXCEPTION: main
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Fragment already added:
TestFragment{40856358 #0 id=0x7f060024 myFragment}
at android.app.BackStackRecord.doAddOp(BackStackRecord.java:322)
at android.app.BackStackRecord.add(BackStackRecord.java:316)
at com.mypackage.test.MyActivity.onTabSelected(MyActivity.java:164)
does the isAdded() function works fine ?
( used with android 3.1, it happens when leaving the app in pause
state, then resume it and change Tab from the action bar. )
any cu
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Re: [android-developers] Bi-directional IPC and data transfer in between an application and multiple services from other applications
This is an example of a Service using Messenger that allows multiple clients to register for updates: http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/app/MessengerService.html And the client code: http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/app/MessengerServiceActivities.html On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:48 PM, winnie vineet.0...@gmail.com wrote: I have one application, to which many other services (from other applications say 3rd party apps) can be subscribed. And I need to get updated data into my application from the other applications, and so I require have bi-directional communication from my application to other services. The kind of data that I require from all the services is same. Right now using Messenger and Bound Services serves my purpose for bi- directional communication between my application and a service from ONE other application. But now I am stuck how can I extend it to support MULTIPLE services. I know I can get the ComponentName in the callback function onServiceConnected(ComponentName, IBinder) and so I can get the corresponding IBinder interface from the corresponding service (using just one ServiceConnection for all). But when we unbind any service, then we unbind it with ServiceConnection as a parameter, so would it unbind all of my subscribed services which are attached via that ServiceConnection? Do I really need to have multiple ServiceConnections for every service? I am getting really confused with this. Could someone throw some light into possible solution? -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] regarding sqlite database
You don't want to do that. SQLite databases are not intended to store large blobs of data. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:34 AM, chinna872 mayuri.medishe...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, how to store images directly in the sqlite database from the camera Regarding -- chinna872 -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] About Android 3.0 status bar hide questions
No. We shouldn't let you force stop the system UI, either. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:02 AM, chibinho chibinho1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, everyone. Android 3.0 status bar is always appear . And I find it can be disappear when use setting system ui force close. May I develop an app which can auto force close the system ui ? Does Android have provide this API? -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Small screens and HDPI
Having a drawable-small indicates a more fundamental problem with what you are doing. Why are you doing such a thing? What is the configuration of this device? You really need to provide more detail of exactly what you are doing and the problematic behavior you are seeing. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Alex alexdavisspec...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I have recently come across a situation where drawable-hdpi resources on a small-screen, hdpi device look terrible. I would like to force smallscreen devices to use mdpi resources. Copying (or resizing) all the pertinent drawables from /drawable-mdpi to /drawable-small causes too much APK size inflation to justify, and it would be *another* item in the resource maintenance hassle. My first idea was to create xml reference files in /drawable-small that reference the drawable-mdpi resources, but i dont know how to hard-link to a specific resolution's (in this case mdpi) drawable via the @drawable/ syntax. Whats my way out? -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: popupwindow
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.comwrote: They do not pause to explain, for example ... why some classes are defined a public abstract classes, while very similar other classes are defined as interfaces. Well hopefully you generally don't care. And to be honest, in many cases for this there is no particularly good reason one was picked over the other. ;) -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Intent filter changed on Android 3.2?
YouTube still works and it hasn't been changed as far as I know, so I'm not sure what could be impacting that. The IntentFilter matching rules certainly weren't changed in 3.1. On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Tor tor.hough...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have an app that triggers on YouTube URLs, and it worked as designed until Android 3.1. Does anyone know what happened in 3.2 that prevents my app from launching? (I can't see any changes regarding intent- filters in the 3.2 documentation..) Kind regards, Tor -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: Intent filter changed on Android 3.2?
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Nope, but I am sure a lot of changes are not documented. For example, 1280x800 devices now report their screen size as 1280x752. This was a bug fix -- the platform should have been reporting 1280x752, because that is actually the amount of space available to apps even in fullscreen. Due to this bug, prior to MR2 apps that were relying on the display metrics to tell them the actual space they would have (usually games) were clipped at the bottom due to the system bar. Given that the system bar space is completely not usable by apps, not accounting for it basically resulted in no way to do anything useful with the reported display size because you couldn't know how much was being taken away from the app. Also this needed to be accurate to support the new resource configuration options. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Detecting app is pre-installed after it gets updated via android market
FLAG_SYSTEM means the app was originally installed on the system image. If
your app is pre-installed, and an update is installed from Market,
FLAG_SYSTEM is still set for the updated app.
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:08 PM, dan raaka danra...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a app with versionCode=1, pre-installed on the device (ie. the app
is placed under /system/app partition)
Then I post an app updated, versionCode=2, on the android market and the
user download the updates the app. So, the updated app on the device is
located @ /data/app
Under this scenario .. will the below piece of code properly detect that
the app is a system app ?
if((pkgInfo.applicationInfo.flags
ApplicationInfo.FLAG_SYSTEM)!=0){
isSysInstalled = true;
}
-Dan
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Re: [android-developers] Re: Service Being paused on screen off.
Prior to 2.3 the sensors were turned off when the screen went off in order to reduce battery use. This was changed on 2.3, though it's possible we are actually going to end up regretting that change. :p Also even as of 2.3, I wouldn't be surprised if some device's drivers are still turning off the sensor hardware as part of their power management when the screen goes off. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Chris Conry cjco...@gmail.com wrote: And your guess was completely correct. Thank you. The problem is still happening, as soon as I hit the power button the data stops logging. Is there something else im missing about wakelock? On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: Use adb logcat, DDMS, or the DDMS perspective in Eclipse to examine LogCat and look at the stack trace associated with your runtime error. My guess is that you do not hold the WAKE_LOCK permission. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Chris Conry cjco...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the replys, Looking into it the partial wake lock should be my solution, but it isnt implementing well. I keep getting a runtime error on acquire(). my code looks like: PM = (PowerManager) getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE); WL= PM.newWakeLock(PowerManager.PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK, Wakelock); WL.acquire(); I put this in the onStartCommand(), is that incorrect? Should only acquire the wakelock when the screen turns off? Thank you On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Filip Havlicek havlicek.fi...@gmail.com wrote: Acquire a partial wake lock, that should help. 2011/7/20 Jan Nielsen j...@air-port.dk The common ways to sleep in java, only counts cpu time on the Android platform. So a Thread.sleep(60 * 1000); may become 5 or 10 minutes if the phone is in standby, since it only counts when the cpu is awake. afaik you need to use AlarmManager to get called when the phone is in standby. Even a handler postDelayed wont work, as that is also wake time. On 19 Jul., 23:20, Chris Conry cjco...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to build an app that logs sensor data(using a service), and stores it into an SQLite database. My problem is that it stops logging when the screen is off. It works perfectly fine when the screen is on, but when i turn the screen off the data doesn't start logging until I turn the screen on. The process isn't being killed, because it works when the screen comes back on. I've tried implementing it as a Thread. I think that wont work because it needs a context for the database. And I read that using startForeground, but it didn't change. Any Suggestions? Can anyone help? Thank you -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training...At Your Office: http://commonsware.com/training -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't
Re: [android-developers] Re: Service Being paused on screen off.
The only two types of wakelocks are partial and full. A full wakelock will keep the screen from automatically turning off, and the screen being on will definitely mean the sensors are running. Once the user presses the power button and turns the screen off, though, you are in no better a state than holding a partial wake lock. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Filip Havlicek havlicek.fi...@gmail.comwrote: If you are trying to develop a market application, I think there is no workaround. If you just want to experiment with the accelerometer data, you can try different types of wakelock as Mark suggested, some of them might work. Or just keep the device awake while you do the experiments (although you might need to recharge the device every few hours). It might be possible to do something about it on the OS level if you root your devices, although that would need a bit more digging. Best regards, Filip Havlicek 2011/7/20 Chris Conry cjco...@gmail.com Thanks for the answers, Makes sense now, I am using the myTouch 4g and LG ally, sadly both of them I guess turn off their sensors. Its good to hear that the Nexus and some 2.3 device keep it on and hopefully other manufacturers adopt this. I guess i'm going to try and find a work around. Any suggestions? Thank you On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Filip Havlicek havlicek.fi...@gmail.com wrote: Partial wake lock works just fine with accelerometer sensor on Nexus One 2.2 (tested this for over than 6 months as a part of my research), although this might not be the case for different combination of device and OS version. 2011/7/20 Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com Prior to 2.3 the sensors were turned off when the screen went off in order to reduce battery use. This was changed on 2.3, though it's possible we are actually going to end up regretting that change. :p Also even as of 2.3, I wouldn't be surprised if some device's drivers are still turning off the sensor hardware as part of their power management when the screen goes off. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Chris Conry cjco...@gmail.com wrote: And your guess was completely correct. Thank you. The problem is still happening, as soon as I hit the power button the data stops logging. Is there something else im missing about wakelock? On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Use adb logcat, DDMS, or the DDMS perspective in Eclipse to examine LogCat and look at the stack trace associated with your runtime error. My guess is that you do not hold the WAKE_LOCK permission. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Chris Conry cjco...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the replys, Looking into it the partial wake lock should be my solution, but it isnt implementing well. I keep getting a runtime error on acquire(). my code looks like: PM = (PowerManager) getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE); WL= PM.newWakeLock(PowerManager.PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK, Wakelock); WL.acquire(); I put this in the onStartCommand(), is that incorrect? Should only acquire the wakelock when the screen turns off? Thank you On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Filip Havlicek havlicek.fi...@gmail.com wrote: Acquire a partial wake lock, that should help. 2011/7/20 Jan Nielsen j...@air-port.dk The common ways to sleep in java, only counts cpu time on the Android platform. So a Thread.sleep(60 * 1000); may become 5 or 10 minutes if the phone is in standby, since it only counts when the cpu is awake. afaik you need to use AlarmManager to get called when the phone is in standby. Even a handler postDelayed wont work, as that is also wake time. On 19 Jul., 23:20, Chris Conry cjco...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to build an app that logs sensor data(using a service), and stores it into an SQLite database. My problem is that it stops logging when the screen is off. It works perfectly fine when the screen is on, but when i turn the screen off the data doesn't start logging until I turn the screen on. The process isn't being killed, because it works when the screen comes back on. I've tried implementing it as a Thread. I think that wont work because it needs a context for the database. And I read that using startForeground, but it didn't change. Any Suggestions? Can anyone help? Thank you -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
Re: [android-developers] How to include libevent using NDK?
It doesn't matter if you can get that built, NDK apps can;t directly open input devices. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:16 AM, ElFrog nky...@gmail.com wrote: I want to convert my c files(which implemented with libevent) to library using NDK. But when I build these files, it failed. (Of course I already installed libevent API) The first error was event2/event.h : No such files or so i copied directory which contained event.h to jni and LOCAL_C_INCLUDES := $(LOCAL_PATH)/event/include in Android.mk and solved but after that, builder couldn't find libevent library, and I also typed LOCAL_LDLIBS += -L$(SYSROOT)/usr/local/lib/ -levent and error occurs like /home/username/android-ndk-r5c/toolchains/arm-linux- androideabi-4.4.3/prebuilt/linux-x86/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux- androideabi/4.4.3/../../../../arm-linux-androideabi/bin/ld: cannot find -levent how can i fix it?? I used android-ndk-r5c and installed libevent-2.0.12-stable version. And my machine is Ubuntu 11.04 Android.mk: ... include $(CLEAR_VARS) #LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES := LOCAL_WHOLE_STATIC_LIBRARIES LOCAL_MODULE:= blah blah LOCAL_SRC_FILES := \ manager.c \ asdf.c \ LOCAL_C_INCLUDES := $(LOCAL_PATH)/event/include LOCAL_LDLIBS += -L$(SYSROOT)/usr/local/lib/ -levent include $(BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARY) Error Compile thumb : asfd = dsfr.c Compile thumb : sdfr = asdfn.c SharedLibrary : libasfdwadfsga.so /home/asdfsad/android-ndk-r5c/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3/ prebuilt/linux-x86/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-androideabi/ 4.4.3/../../../../arm-linux-androideabi/bin/ld: cannot find -levent collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [/home/elfrog/workspace/DTNManager/obj/local/armeabi/ libdtn_manager.so] 오류 1 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 to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: restart application after Android's killed it
That has nothing to do with what happens when the process is killed. Processes being killed in the background is invisible to the user. The UI flow they go through is absolutely not intended to change just based on whether a process is killed, because it is basically random when that will happen. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:35 AM, lbendlin l...@bendlin.us wrote: if you want to return to a particular activity when the application is (re)launched you can specify that in the manifest android:launchMode=singleTask android:alwaysRetainTaskState=true are two things worth reading about. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: How can I find how many home screens?
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Hal Harrison closeenough.bac...@gmail.comwrote: You have at this point loaded a Drawable for the current static wallpaper... but there is no up-to-date static wallpaper, because you have just replaced it with your own wallpaper. Your wallpaper should absolutely positively not be trying to load the current static wallpaper here. There are no guarantees that this is up-to-date or even valid. The point at which I do this is early on in WallpaperService.onCreate(), before I instantiate WallpaperManager.Engine and well before my WallpaperManager.Engine's onSurfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder hldr) callback with WPcan = hldr.lockCanvas(); WPcan.drawBitmap(...); Isn't it drawBitmap() that replaces the old with my new? And, I get the old Drawable early on by instantiating a WallpaperManager which, according to documentation will, Retrieve a WallpaperManager associated with the given Context. On the emulators I've always received what I expect. When is this Drawable not up-to-date or not valid? Am I missing some emulator state I should be testing? You are now the wallpaper. You are supposed to be drawing the wallpaper; whatever Drawable is returned by WallpaperService is out of date because there is no longer a static wallpaper, *you* are the wallpaper. The implementation of a wallpaper service simply should not be retrieving the wallpaper drawable. The current launcher can set the desired wallpaper width to whatever it wants. I'm unclear about the launcher: Does it only handle the application drawer, the wallpaper and icons on the home screen(s), or both? Can I, as an application programmer, replace the launcher with my own, or is this something phone vendors do? Phrased another way, normally who owns the placement and scrolling of shortcuts, widgets, and folders across the device screen--Android, the phone distributor, or someone else? Launcher is just an app. It is what is launched when you press home. And yes, you can find numerous apps on Market that implement different kinds of launchers that people can use insteadl of the build-in one. (c) upon exit from preview mode, some way to set which home screen (of icons and widgets) will show next. No that is up to the application sitting on top of the home screen, and can change as you move between such apps. I find no way in the emulators to invoke Living wallpapers and therefore get into my preview mode except from a home screen. Therefore exit from my app's preview mode always returns to a home screen. Maybe I'm missing something. I can do it with an ADB shell command. Someone else can invoke it. Maybe in the future the setting for the wallpaper will be in the settings app. Just don't assume that you know such subtle details of UI flow like this. These kinds of things change. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: How to lock current orientation at runtime?
I wouldn't suggest putting it in a Service unless it is really something you want to have executing when the user is outside of your app. For example, a browser typically wouldn't associate a Service with networking, because all of its networking is there to serve the UI. On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.comwrote: What? Why would a restart of your Activity be a problem while waiting for an HTTP response? You DO have the HTTP response in a separate thread and Service, don't you? On Jul 16, 3:41 pm, Brad bradfull...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to lock my activity to the current orientation to prevent an orientation change from restarting my activity while I'm waiting for a http response. So I'm trying to use this: setRequestedOrientation(getResources().getConfiguration().orientation); And it works fine for portrait (orientation == 1), but when the device is in landscape it's getting a value of 2 which == ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_USER And this doesn't lock the screen. Does anyone have any idea why I'm getting this instead of LANDSCAPE? Any suggestions for a better way to lock the current orientation? 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 to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: How to lock current orientation at runtime?
Note that basically everything you do for dealing with a configuration change is *exactly* the same thing you need to do to correctly handle your app being killed in the background if the user has (temporarily) left its UI. Thus making sure you deal correctly with a config change is a really good way to test that you are also able to correctly restore if your process needs to be restarted. If you have transient data that shouldn't be restored (such as a running thread), just use Activity.onRetainNonConfigurationInstance(): http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() (Or as the current document recommends, the more convenient new Fragment APIs.) On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Brad bradfull...@gmail.com wrote: Dianne, thanks for the response - you're probably right, I should just bite the bullet. I'd like to vent a little though about what a hassle it is to deal with orientation changes. It must be the #1 source of bugs in the apps that I've come across (including my own apps). iOS does a lot of things wrong, but it makes orientation changes so much easier than Android. I still haven't found a way to preserve the state of an activity that launches another dialog style activity that gets an orientation change - I end up shoving everything in the db or passing the state data to the dialog class. I'm no guru so I'm probably doing something wrong there, but I wish to God that we could go back in time and come up with a better way to deal with orientation changes that didn't involve killing and reconstructing the entire activity! Ok, done w/the vent. Having said all that I still enjoy programming for Android more than Apple even though I sell a lot more apps on the App Store vs the Market :-) Brad On Jul 16, 8:53 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Those are two different orientations. The Configuration constants: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configurat... The constants for set/getRequestedOrientation(): http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/ActivityInf... Beyond that, I would strongly recommend not doing what you are trying to do. This would result in a UI flow that is very counter to what the user expects -- that either an app is going to run in a particular orientation, or allow them to rotate their screen as they would elsewhere. Ending up locked into whatever orientation they happened to launch the app in is just not how things should work. Besides which, there are all kinds of edge cases you'll never get right -- for example what happens if they press home to leave your app, rotate their device, and then task switch back to your app? Or as another poster mention, if you lock the screen into portrait like this and they flip the lid on their keyboard the orientation won't change to landscape, which is not what they are going to want. You really, really just need to code your activity correctly to be able to destroy and re-create the activity. On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Brad bradfull...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to lock my activity to the current orientation to prevent an orientation change from restarting my activity while I'm waiting for a http response. So I'm trying to use this: setRequestedOrientation(getResources().getConfiguration().orientation); And it works fine for portrait (orientation == 1), but when the device is in landscape it's getting a value of 2 which == ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_USER And this doesn't lock the screen. Does anyone have any idea why I'm getting this instead of LANDSCAPE? Any suggestions for a better way to lock the current orientation? 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 to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com
Re: [android-developers] How to lock current orientation at runtime?
Those are two different orientations. The Configuration constants: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configuration.html#ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE The constants for set/getRequestedOrientation(): http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/ActivityInfo.html#screenOrientation Beyond that, I would strongly recommend not doing what you are trying to do. This would result in a UI flow that is very counter to what the user expects -- that either an app is going to run in a particular orientation, or allow them to rotate their screen as they would elsewhere. Ending up locked into whatever orientation they happened to launch the app in is just not how things should work. Besides which, there are all kinds of edge cases you'll never get right -- for example what happens if they press home to leave your app, rotate their device, and then task switch back to your app? Or as another poster mention, if you lock the screen into portrait like this and they flip the lid on their keyboard the orientation won't change to landscape, which is not what they are going to want. You really, really just need to code your activity correctly to be able to destroy and re-create the activity. On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Brad bradfull...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to lock my activity to the current orientation to prevent an orientation change from restarting my activity while I'm waiting for a http response. So I'm trying to use this: setRequestedOrientation(getResources().getConfiguration().orientation); And it works fine for portrait (orientation == 1), but when the device is in landscape it's getting a value of 2 which == ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_USER And this doesn't lock the screen. Does anyone have any idea why I'm getting this instead of LANDSCAPE? Any suggestions for a better way to lock the current orientation? 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 to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: How can I find how many home screens?
Wow that sounds like you are making it way too complicated, and way too fragile. A few comments: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Hal Harrison closeenough.bac...@gmail.comwrote: 1. Upon exit from preview mode the system will always show the panel of icons and widgets last showing before preview mode. You should not be doing special things upon exit of preview mode. Don't assume there is some flow that will happen there. An engine will be created, and told whether or not it is in preview mode. That is it. Don't make dependencies between these. In WallpaperService.onCreate() I get wallpaper width from WallpaperManager.getDrawable() and getBitmap() and getWidth(), and You have at this point loaded a Drawable for the current static wallpaper... but there is no up-to-date static wallpaper, because you have just replaced it with your own wallpaper. Your wallpaper should absolutely positively not be trying to load the current static wallpaper here. There are no guarantees that this is up-to-date or even valid. There are already APIs on the engine to get the desired size for the wallpaper: Engine.getDesiredMinimumWidth() and Engine.getDesiredMinimumHeight(). Also be sure to handle onDesiredSizeChanged(). 2. device screen width in pixels = wallpaper width / 2; However many homescreens there are, No you can not assume that. The current launcher can set the desired wallpaper width to whatever it wants. 3. offset to center panel of wallpaper = the negative of (device screen width / 2); You can get the screen size with Service.getResources().getDisplayMetrics().width/heightPixels. To compute your center position, it is just standard centering if a smaller container (display size) in a larger container (desired wallpaper size): (getDesiredMinimumWidth()-widthPixels)/2. Therefore, during preview mode I show this center panel. Upon exit from preview mode I get my first onOffsetsChanged() callback and can calculate the real number of home screens and manage my background accordingly. In preview mode I would say you should just show a preview. Don't even try to show multiple panes, it doesn't make sense there. This is why we tell the engine it is in this special preview mode. Perhaps in the future some live wallpaper applications would be better served if the system exposed additional information it obviously has: (a) during onCreate(), some direct way to get device screen size and number of home screens, You can already get the display size through DisplayMetrics. You will not get the number of home screens. Again, that concept doesn't strongly exist. (b) upon entry to preview mode, some way to get which home screen was last showing No just show a preview. (c) upon exit from preview mode, some way to set which home screen (of icons and widgets) will show next. No that is up to the application sitting on top of the home screen, and can change as you move between such apps. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] qHD layouts?
There is no such thing as a qHD layout. Just write your layout to adjust to the screen size using layout managers and such. Worth saying again: do not target specific screen sizes. You will be continually unhappy. On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: What do I need to name my layout folders to get a qHD device to notice them? I have tried layout-large and layout-large-port but the device refuses to use them and still uses my layouts from my layout and layout-port folders. The device I am working with is the EVO 3D. The resolution is 960x540, which isn't listed here: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html The device is drawing my app in the top middle of the screen, with huge black borders around it, even with my layout's height and width both being set to fill_parent. How do I support qHD with proper layouts? -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: How to know what internal process runs an application
Sorry, there is no way to know. Processes are basically anonymous containers in which to run code. If you are needing to distinguish them, you have a problem in your design. On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:43 AM, elDoudou the.edouard.merc...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Doug and thank you. The process id does not indicate the Android declared process in the AndroidManifest.xml file, unfortunately. What I need to know is the android:process which causes the process to start. If I declare a service in the manifest with a specific process name (tag android:process), how do I know at runtime when this specific service process causes the Application::onCreate() method to be invoked, please? Thank you for your time and support. Regards, Édouard -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: startService() runs the service in a seperate process?
No that is absolutely not true. Services run in the same process as other components (unless you explicitly change this with android:process). Services run in the same THREAD as your other components. All of this is documented here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Service.html In particular: What is a Service? Most confusion about the Service class actually revolves around what it is * not*: - A Service is *not* a separate process. The Service object itself does not imply it is running in its own process; unless otherwise specified, it runs in the same process as the application it is part of. - A Service is *not* a thread. It is not a means itself to do work off of the main thread (to avoid Application Not Responding errors). On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:27 AM, kamiseq kami...@gmail.com wrote: services are running in different process, you can bind to it so any activity could exchange data with it. start service just starts service hope that helped -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] How come extending ListActivity results in a crash
It's because you have a bug in your code. You should consider debugging it. :) On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Steven Bruce stevebruc...@gmail.comwrote: I have changed my Bluetooth class from extends Activity to extends ListActivity. Now everytime I run the program BOOM!! It bombs out! What the hell is going on?? Steve -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: How can I find how many home screens?
This is part of the information in onOffsetsChanged(), give by the step size. Sorry for the lacking documentation there; you can get more information about their meaning from here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/WallpaperManager.html#setWallpaperOffsetSteps(float, float) On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Hal Harrison closeenough.bac...@gmail.comwrote: No, sorry. I can envision a home screen implementation with infinite home screens. Thanks, Mark, for the reply. I was afraid of that and am looking at my problem again. What about this? Occasionally onOffsetsChanged() gives an xStep of 0.0 or -1.0. Otherwise it consistently gives 0.5 (emulator 2.1 with three home screens) or 0.25 (emulator 2.2 with five home screens). Therefore, I assume: (1 / xStep) + 1 = number of current home screens. Any problem with my assumption? //at least until xStep gets infinitesimally small : ) -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] App behaves wired after the task is killed by a TaskKiller
A task killer doesn't do anything more than the platform would when it needs to kill your process when it is in the background. You just need to deal with this case. On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:22 AM, dillipk codersnet2...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, My app have some issues after being killed by Task Killer. Sequence: - - Run the app - Press HOME key - Kill all the tasks by TaskKiller - Again run the app.. At this point, instead of starting the App gracefully(by starting the first screen which is a splash screen), it directly go to some other screen with EMPTY data.. Whole app behaves wired and the data is empty everywhere. Can my app listen to any event, when it is killed by a TaskKiller..? I tried debugging by going to onDestroy(), but it never got fired.. Any help on this would greatly appreciated.. Thanks in advance.. DK -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Lights Out mode
Yes you'll need to do this after your view hierarchy is attached to the window manager. On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Nikolay Elenkov nikolay.elen...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Mark mbus...@bitwisecontrols.com wrote: I am trying (unsuccessfully thus far) to dim the system bar on Honeycomb devices. My current layout contains a single WebView. The following is called in my bundle's onCreate routine. Maybe it doesn't work from onCreate()? Try calling it in onStart() or onResume(). -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Disable external storage
Not with a third party app. On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 1:35 PM, garaus m.shu...@gmail.com wrote: There is a situation when user wants to make possible to lock/disable external storage, in other words make it not mountable until this option enabled after password entered. For instance when somebody's tablet has been stolen or lost when screen wasn't locked. Even if data encrypted it still will observable on the non-locked device. Is the any way disable external storage programmatic? -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Android partially destroying an app?
It will only destroy activities if you have a large number of them on your stack. In practice, I think most apps will hit an out of memory error on their local heap before encountering this (and don't have significantly deep stacks), so are unlikely to encounter it. On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 8:17 AM, nadam a...@anyro.se wrote: In a low memory situation Android can shut down apps and has some logic to prioritize which apps to shut down first. I have read some comments that Android can also partially destroy an app by destroying Activities that are not currently used. Since I haven't found any documentation about this, I suspect that this could be a misunderstanding and that what they are experiencing is in fact that the whole app has been destroyed and then the app has been started again by the user. Example: 1. The app starts and creates ActivityA 2. ActivityA starts ActivityB 3. ActivityB starts another app, for instance Google Maps 4. Android destroys only ActivityA due to low memory But what actually happened: 4. Android destroys the whole app due to low memory 5. The user presses the back-button 6. The app starts again and creates ActivityB 7. Developer thinks (based on stack-traces) that the app has been running all the time but only ActivityA was destroyed If Android can in fact destroy just a single Activity, how is the decision made between destroying unused Activities in the least 5 prioritized apps vs. completely destroying the least 2 prioritized apps? Or is the partial destroying just a myth (like the destroying statics myth)? -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Closing AppWidget when force closing an application
If that causes your app widget to break, there is probably something wrong with your implementation. App widgets by design don't rely on their app running all of the time. When the user interacts with the app widget, this should be through an Intent being sent to an app component that will cause it to launch if needed. On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Marcos Fábio mfpere...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to close (remove from home) my AppWidget when the user goes to (Settings - Applications - Manage applications) and click on 'Force Stop' button of my application. The application closes, but the AppWidget keeps on Home and doesn't work. BR, -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] R: How to know if screen is locked
Did you try this? http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/KeyguardManager.html#inKeyguardRestrictedInputMode() On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Federico Pelloni federico.pell...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody? -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: Orientation in landscape
What phone is it? Have you tried the ApiDemos examples on it that use the
sensor to see if they work? Have you tried other applications from Market
on it that are known to work?
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Mike D mdavie...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for pointing me at the post, it makes sense.
However I'm still only ever getting negative degrees when the phone is
in landscape no matter which direction I'm sitting.
I did try and find the function Display.getRotation() but I can't seem
to use that function. I am using getRotationMatrix which is what
everyone else is using in the examples I've seen.
Anyone got any idea's why my phone is always telling me that North is
somewhere to my right when it's in landscape? Or is it a fault with
the phone? I'm using the wildfire google version 2.2.1.
Thanks
Michael
On Jun 30, 1:13 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/09/one-screen-turn-deserv...
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Mike D mdavie...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi guys,
I've been playing around with orientation (especially in relation to
the real world so finding north is very useful) and started with the
google api example.
While investigating how to change that so it worked while the phone
was in landscape I found out that I was using depricated components.
So now I'm using the acceloromiter and the magnetic field to find the
orientation which I found in a mixture of examples on the web.
This again works great while in portrain but landscape gives weird
answers?
I've done some experiments with looking at the different between
landscape and portrait but can't seem to find out what's going on and
how to correct the app to allow me to switch between portrain and
landscape on the fly.
I don't think it's quite as simple and minusing 90 degrees but I'm
willing to be wrong.
Here's my SensorListener onSensorChanged
int type = event.sensor.getType();
float[] data;
if (type == Sensor.TYPE_ACCELEROMETER) {
data = mGData;
} else if (type == Sensor.TYPE_MAGNETIC_FIELD) {
data = mMData;
}
for (int i=0 ; i3 ; i++){
data[i] = event.values[i];
}
SensorManager.getRotationMatrix(mR, mI, mGData,
mMData);
SensorManager.getOrientation(mR, mOrientation);
float incl = SensorManager.getInclination(mI);
String endl = System.getProperty(line.separator);
if (mCount++ 50) {
final float rad2deg = (float)(180.0f/Math.PI);
mCount = 0;
txZ.setText(Azimuth: +
(int)(mOrientation[0]*rad2deg) +
degrees + endl +
Pitch: +
(int)(mOrientation[1]*rad2deg) + degrees + endl +
Roll: +
(int)(mOrientation[2]*rad2deg) + degrees + endl +
incl: + (int)(incl*rad2deg));
}
Many Thanks
Michael
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Re: [android-developers] Re: Force hdpi drawables on mdpi-xlarge devices
It uses a facility that is under development in the platform to do mipmap style drawables. It isn't in any way running at hdpi; it is loading application icons to have a larger size. On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Federico Carnales fedecarna...@gmail.comwrote: On May 23, 7:49 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Don't force the Xoom to use hdpi. You will be inconsistent with every other app, all of which are using the Xoom's correct density which is mdpi. Why do you want to do this? As I've said, Galaxy Tab made a design decision to use a larger density and thus have a blown up UI. Again use the density the device reports so you are consistent with the UI in the rest of the device. Trying to play games like this is only going to lead to pain. Use the density the device reports. Doesn't the stock Honeycomb launcher force HDPI drawables for the app icons? -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: Force hdpi drawables on mdpi-xlarge devices
Yes as I said this is some initial work on doing mipmaps, and oh hey look at that if you are doing a mipmap there is a larger bitmap there that can be used if you want a larger size image. On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 2:16 PM, nadam a...@anyro.se wrote: Just tested this on my Motorola XOOM with Android 3.0.1 and it is using the icon.png from res/drawable-hdpi even though the device is mdpi. On 3 Juli, 10:05, Federico Carnales fedecarna...@gmail.com wrote: On May 23, 7:49 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Don't force the Xoom to use hdpi. You will be inconsistent with every other app, all of which are using the Xoom's correct density which is mdpi. Why do you want to do this? As I've said, Galaxy Tab made a design decision to use a larger density and thus have a blown up UI. Again use the density the device reports so you are consistent with the UI in the rest of the device. Trying to play games like this is only going to lead to pain. Use the density the device reports. Doesn't the stock Honeycomb Launcher force HDPI drawables for the app icons? -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Aw: AsyncTask, Runnable Thread, ???
I think the change will be in Ice Cream Sandwich. Probably shouldn't have written the documentation the way it is, the next release is so meaningless. :p On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, yes, you're right, 3.0 shipped with no change wrt. to previous versions, sorry. http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/3deeb36dccb4e9a5 Yeah, I have an eye out for when this change actually occurs and the promised explanation. I'm hoping it comes with a brass band or something to make it blindingly obvious to everyone what to do, particularly supporting older devices. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 3.5 Available! -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Orientation in landscape
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/09/one-screen-turn-deserves-another.html
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Mike D mdavie...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi guys,
I've been playing around with orientation (especially in relation to
the real world so finding north is very useful) and started with the
google api example.
While investigating how to change that so it worked while the phone
was in landscape I found out that I was using depricated components.
So now I'm using the acceloromiter and the magnetic field to find the
orientation which I found in a mixture of examples on the web.
This again works great while in portrain but landscape gives weird
answers?
I've done some experiments with looking at the different between
landscape and portrait but can't seem to find out what's going on and
how to correct the app to allow me to switch between portrain and
landscape on the fly.
I don't think it's quite as simple and minusing 90 degrees but I'm
willing to be wrong.
Here's my SensorListener onSensorChanged
int type = event.sensor.getType();
float[] data;
if (type == Sensor.TYPE_ACCELEROMETER) {
data = mGData;
} else if (type == Sensor.TYPE_MAGNETIC_FIELD) {
data = mMData;
}
for (int i=0 ; i3 ; i++){
data[i] = event.values[i];
}
SensorManager.getRotationMatrix(mR, mI, mGData,
mMData);
SensorManager.getOrientation(mR, mOrientation);
float incl = SensorManager.getInclination(mI);
String endl = System.getProperty(line.separator);
if (mCount++ 50) {
final float rad2deg = (float)(180.0f/Math.PI);
mCount = 0;
txZ.setText(Azimuth: +
(int)(mOrientation[0]*rad2deg) +
degrees + endl +
Pitch: +
(int)(mOrientation[1]*rad2deg) + degrees + endl +
Roll: +
(int)(mOrientation[2]*rad2deg) + degrees + endl +
incl: + (int)(incl*rad2deg));
}
Many Thanks
Michael
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Re: [android-developers] ANR Reason: keyDispatchingTimedOut when drawing overlay on map?
When the ANR happens all of the process's stacks are written to this file, with the process being accused of the ANR first. All this is doing is dumping the file so you can look at it. So you just want to look at it some time after the ANR, before another ANR happens. On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Boozel boozelcl...@gmail.com wrote: Can you give me some more information on how to use this? do i run it after the ANR? 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 to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] battery status check
This has nothing to do with Android, it is Motorola's driver and/or hardware. I argued with them about this whole 10% increment thing on the Droid. Sad to see they are still doing it. On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Mystic Prowler coolmar...@gmail.comwrote: Well, i have a Motorola Droid X running 2.3.3, and it does that no matter what OS it has. Is there a way to change it a hack? On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Mystic Prowler coolmar...@gmail.com wrote: Juts asking, why is that when Android phones are charging or discharging, it shows in 10% intervals and below 20% it goes down to 5% intervals. Can it be changed to 1% intervals for more accuracy? That is up to the device manufacturer. Some devices report 1% intervals all along. Others -- notably some Motorola devices -- behave has you describe. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, One Low Price! -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Why is it so slow to light on the phone
There is nothing in the system code that knows or cares that the wallpaper is a live wallpaper. In fact the static wallpaper is just a live wallpaper that is implement by the system and draws a static image. My first guest would be that your wallpaper is consuming a lot of CPU and thus slowing down other stuff. On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:25 PM, June Hello junehelloworld.he...@gmail.comwrote: Dear all, I have encountered a problem. If I use live wallpaper and make phone be in sleep state, then I press power key to turn the phone on I find it is very slow to light the phone on. If I use static wallpaper, it is relatively fast. So I wonder what is the main cause? and where is the relative source code? thanks in advance. Best Regards! -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Gmail, content providers, and formalising support..
This is purely an issue for Google with their gmail application. I don't know that much about what goes on with the Google apps, but I suspect it is very unlikely for there to be an API like this. At the very least, I would say giving the user access to read all of your e-mails is *way* more serious than just throwing it behind an install-time permission. Consider other things that need more than that: IMEs, device admins, etc. So I would not hold my breath for this. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Mark mmcg...@gmail.com wrote: With honeycomb, something has changed with the provider, thus breaking the functionality of these apps, and yes i realise again the response will be tough luck, thats what happens when you use unsupported apis and functionality, and i *completely* appreciate that. What i'm interested in is more if there will ever be concrete support for developers to access the gmail content provider or some equivalent api to provide the kind of functionality people actively require these days? I inquired about formalizing support for these undocumented content providers recently, and the answer was that it is not a priority. Of all of them, Gmail would seem to be the least likely to be supported, simply because it is not in the AOSP. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in NYC: http://marakana.com/training/android/ -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] ANR Reason: keyDispatchingTimedOut when drawing overlay on map?
Do adb shell cat /data/anr/traces.txt to see what your app was busy doing
at that point. This is the very first step you need to take: understand
what your app is doing that is causing the ANR.
The next step I would take from that, if it is not enough to solve the
problem, is profile your app.
Note that the ANR dialog happens after your application has been
unresponsive for 5 seconds. This is a heck of a long time.
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Boozel boozelcl...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi i'm trying to draw an overlay onto a google map but i sometimes get an
ANR Reason: keyDispatchingTimedOut .
Can any one tell me what the best structure is to do the drawing and
prevent this?
My code is below. Thanks in advance for any help
public class MyMap extends MapActivity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
DBHelper dbhelp;
final String TAG = SignalSpot;
String [][]rows;
MapView mapView;
Paint mPaint;
Handler serviceHandler;
RunTask rt;
MyLocationOverlay myLocationOverlay;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.map);
dbhelp = new DBHelper(this);
refreshHeatmapData();
//TODO periodically refresh heatmap
mapView = (MapView) findViewById(R.id.mapview);
mapView.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
myLocationOverlay = new MyLocationOverlay(this, mapView);
mapView.getOverlays().add(myLocationOverlay);
serviceHandler = new Handler();
rt = new RunTask();
serviceHandler.postDelayed(rt ,5*1000);
myLocationOverlay.enableMyLocation();
mapView.getOverlays().add(new MyOverlay());
}
@Override
public void onDestroy()
{
super.onDestroy();
myLocationOverlay.disableMyLocation();
serviceHandler.removeCallbacks(rt);
}
public void refreshHeatmapData()
{rows = dbhelp.getAllRows(-1);}
@Override
protected boolean isRouteDisplayed() {
return false;
}
class MyOverlay extends Overlay{
public MyOverlay(){}
public void draw(Canvas canvas, MapView mapv, boolean shadow){
super.draw(canvas, mapv, shadow);
Projection p = mapv.getProjection();
Log.i(TAG,MAP NO OF ROWS: +rows.length);
for(int i=0;irows.length;i++)
{ Log.i(TAG,ACtual Data to draw: +rows[i][2]+, +rows[i][3]);
int x = (int)(Double.parseDouble(rows[i][2])*1E6);
int y = (int)(Double.parseDouble(rows[i][3])*1E6);
Log.i(TAG,Drawing point No:+i+ @ +x+,+y);
GeoPoint in = new GeoPoint(x,y);
Log.i(TAG,GEO POINT- lat: +in.getLatitudeE6()+, lon:
+in.getLongitudeE6());
Point pixels = p.toPixels(in,null);
double ss = Double.parseDouble(rows[i][4]);
//test code for constant circle when zooming
float radius = p.metersToEquatorPixels(100);
RadialGradient g = new RadialGradient(pixels.x, pixels.y,
radius,getColor2(ss) , null,TileMode.CLAMP);
Paint gp = new Paint();
gp.setShader(g);
//myCanvas.drawCircle(x, y, radius, gp);
canvas.drawCircle(pixels.x, pixels.y, radius, gp);
}
}
}
class RunTask implements Runnable
{
public void run()
{ Log.i(TAG,Map data refresh run task);
refreshHeatmapData();
serviceHandler.postDelayed( this, 5*1000 );
}
}
}
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Re: [android-developers] Re : Re: Application installation
You can't do this. You must go through the UI.
2011/6/27 Jérôme Beau javar...@gmail.com
By debugging the Android source code, I can see that the native activity
manager returns -1 (IActivityManager.START_INTENT_NOT_RESOLVED), when asked
to:
startActivity(
android.app.ActivityThread$ApplicationThread@40513a00,
Intent { act=android.intent.action.PACKAGE_INSTALL
dat=/android_asset/Android-release.apk
typ=application/vnd.android.package-archive flg=0x1000 },
application/vnd.android.package-archive,
grantedUriPermissions = null,
grantedMode = 0,
resultWho = 0,
requestCode = -1,
onlyIfNeeded = false,
debug = false
)
Does someone know if this because nobody listens (have intent filters)
to android.intent.action.PACKAGE_INSTALL ? Such a Intent constant seems to
be used nowhere.
Thanks.
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Re: [android-developers] Question on Broadcast receiver with some prioroty set and category set as Home
(1) Third party applications can't have a priority higher than 0. (2) A receiver is different than an activity, and will not handle intents that are being used to launch an activity, so your receiver here will never have any reason to run. On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Sudeep Sharma sudeep.andr...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I have an application set as Home category having higher priority than the normal Home app. This is to show my app first as soon as the phone boots up. I have a broadcast receiver also within my manifest which also has same category home with priority even more than of my activity. Problem is when the phone is booted i do not see control coming in the Broadcast reciever (xyzReciever) at all although its priority is higher than that of activity. Is action android:name=android.intent.action.MAIN / category android:name=android.intent.category.HOME / category android:name=android.intent.category.DEFAULT / not applicable for Broadcast recievers? *Activity Properties* activity android:name=.ABC android:launchMode=singleTask android:clearTaskOnLaunch=true android:configChanges=keyboardHidden|orientation android:excludeFromRecents=true intent-filter android:priority=*101* action android:name=android.intent.action.MAIN / category android:name=android.intent.category.HOME / category android:name=android.intent.category.DEFAULT / /intent-filter *Reciever properties* receiver android:name=.xyzReciever intent-filter android:priority=*102* action android:name=android.intent.action.MAIN / category android:name=android.intent.category.HOME / category android:name=android.intent.category.DEFAULT / /intent-filter /receiver Please respond I shall be thankful. 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 to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Full screen on HTC sensation (qHD)
Your application is running in screen size compatibility mode. The easiest way to fix this it to set an android:targetSdkVersion of 4 or greater. More info here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/supports-screens-element.html On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:01 AM, GekkeHenkie wiel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm creating my first android app, which I derived from the BluetoothChat example. However, on my phone (HTC sensation with qHD resolution, 540 bij 960 pixels) the lowest inch of the screen and a few lines at the sides are not used by the app. See these images: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16350275/android/withoutmenu.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16350275/android/withmenu.png The layout-items are set to fill_parent so I expected something like this (scaled, but set at right resolution in eclipse): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16350275/android/eclipse.png Has anybody an idea where I should look to fix this? So far I didn't find any reference in the projectfiles to the screenresolution. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Launch timeout has expired, giving up wake lock!
This means that your main thread is continually running, pumping message
through its message queue without ever going idle. If that is what you
want, there is nothing to fix. This is why the log message is a warning,
not an error.
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:12 AM, dario ber...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello
I tryed to start Activity from other Activity
startActivity(Main.this,Game.class);
and when Game activity is show on the screen after 1-2 sec its go left
and make black screen and its write this warrning
05-17 10:07:24.819: WARN/ActivityManager(73): Launch timeout has
expired, giving up wake lock!
05-17 10:07:24.849: WARN/ActivityManager(73): Activity idle timeout
for ActivityRecord{40968180 game.android.test/.Game}
what I can to fix?
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Re: [android-developers] Honeycomb: How can I set the Mouse position?
No it is not. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Devomat mo...@2aba.de wrote: Hi, I have a Asus Transformer with Dock-Keyboard + external USB Mouse. Now I wont to set the mouse pointer at a specific position. Is that possible? 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 to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Device administration disabling
This is deliberately not supported. The current device admin API is not for an admin to own the device, it is for it to share sensitive things it is protecting with the user's device. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:42 AM, garaus m.shu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, Device administration app can't not be uninstalled if it is not disabled. User can disable Device Administrators from the settings. When company gives android devices to its employees, company wants to have a control over devices, their statuses and policies, but user can easily get rid of that control. Does anybody know how it is possible to prevent user from disabling Device Administrators? 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 to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: Jackson Object Mapping is so slow in the process with an Activity.
Attaching the debugger turns off the JIT, and requires that Dalvik code running in that process do some work to keep in sync with the debugger. When you do a Binder call, you are having code execute in another process, which is not running under the debugger. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, pretty much any application-side code takes a hit under the debugger, not just JSON parsing. Android API methods that are implemented as Binder (RPC) calls don't seem to take a hit, but any Java code within the application does, and that includes the framework as well. Thanks for sharing the information, though. You might want to test on a real device to get more real-world performance numbers. The emulator (even 1.6 on a fast machine) is slower than a mid-grade phone, and each version of Android gets progressively slower when emulated. -- Kostya 2011/6/23 idleSun idle...@gmail.com It turns out that it is slow when I run it in debug mode. So it is not a big deal. However, if you have a heavy jackson use and want to debug your code then you got to be really patient. On Jun 22, 10:59 am, idleSun idle...@gmail.com wrote: I am using pretty complicated JSON data with Object Mapping to Java Classes that are of course also pretty complicated (inheritance depth -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] How to used new Canvas()?
Getting stuck in lockCanvas() has nothing to do with creating a new Canvas... On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Baodong Chen chenbdche...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All: Can anyone be so kind to give me an example to show how to used new Canvas() to create my own Canvas object and how to use it to draw something like a Bitmap and the show my Canvas object on device's display? I want to do this becasue in my APP, i am doing follows in a native thread through JNI call: Canvas c = mSurfacerHolder.lockCanvas() ; c.dramBitmap(); mSurfacerHolder.unlockCanvasAndPost(); and on some devices,sometimes my APP freezed, and I found my draw thread is freezed in lockCanvas() call. best regards, 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 to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Fullscreen surface view
Why are you setting anyDensity to false? Don't do that. And really, it's 2011. Just set android:targetSdkVersion to = 4 and let the default modern values for these be used. :) On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Martin Wallgren martin.wallgren.it@ gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to create a SurfaceView that covers the screen and that does not have any scaling. In My AndroidManifest I have supports-screens android:smallScreens=true android:normalScreens=true android:largeScreens=true android:anyDensity=false / and in the constructor of my surfaceView I do getHolder().setFixedSize(screenWidth, screenHeight); // 480, 800 in my current emulator The call I get to surfaceChanged is indeed the correct dimensions 06-22 06:37:28.889: DEBUG/AnimatorThread(690): surfaceChanged width=480 heigth=800 But when I lock the canvas I get a canvas that is only 320, 533 06-22 06:37:28.969: DEBUG/AnimatorThread(690): Canvas[w=320, h=533] I believe this has to do with dpi scaling. When I draw a bitmap that is 480x800 to that canvas it will only get painted within the bounds of the canvas (of course), and the pixels outside the canvas does not get painter. What can I do to get a fullscreen SurfaceView that has the same size on the canvas as the pixel dimensions of the screen? -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Any frameworks for app development on Android based tablets
You're crazy. Don't use that, it sucks. It doesn't even let you use multiple inheritance. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Justin Anderson magouyaw...@gmail.comwrote: * I've heard good things about Google's Android SDK for development of apps for Android-based tablet devices.* I second that! You can do all sorts of things with Google's Android SDK for Android-based tablet devices. Thanks, Justin Anderson MagouyaWare Developer http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:46 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:27 PM, spr myofferma...@gmail.com wrote: we are currently evaluating/ exploring any open-source or commercial frameworks that support development of apps for Android-based tablet devices. Please suggest if you have already come across any such frameworks or vendors. I've heard good things about Google's Android SDK for development of apps for Android-based tablet devices. - TreKing http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] how to get a toast exactly on buttons
It really isn't what toasts are for. There are, however, other options like PopupWindow. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:06 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:19 PM, ali ashraf ali.21.ash...@gmail.comwrote: i have around 14 different XML. In each XML i have 26 buttons all have different positions using android:layoutAlignLeft=300sp... etc Like button1 to button26 are set in such a way that all scatter on the UI. This way i have 14 xml. All XML have the same 26 buttons at different positions. These XML come on the UI randomly i.e at run time it is decided tht which XML will take the UI. That sounds ... lovely. PROBLEM:- as any of the XML gets inflated on the UI and when i click on the button i want a toast exactly on the button. You can't do that, AFAIK. That is, you cannot specify a location for a Toast. - TreKing http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: Generic resizable appwidgets in Android 3.1
Yes this is for widgets whose layouts can resize. Specifically, it is for things like the new list app widgets and such that intrinsically have an expandable amount of content. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: While I don't know the answer. I think resizable widgets are for things like lists where you would use a weight=1 type of setup to fill up all the space given to you. So basically, you need to fit your entire layout into the smallest possible size you gave in the desriptor and then size one or more of the views to fill up the the extra space, if any. I don't believe it's a generic replacement for a 1x1, 2x2, 3x3 type of widget where you actually use different layouts to display more info. On Jun 23, 3:14 am, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.com wrote: Following on from my other resizable appwidgets post from this morning, this is a cross-post from StackOverflow, where the question has had all of 9 views... I was happy to see support for resizable appwidgets arrive with Android 3.1, but I'm stumped on how to make them actually work. I'm no appwidget novice, and have no problem adding android:resizeMode=horizontal|vertical to my appwidget definition XML. And that works as far as it goes, the widget is nominally resizable (long-press on it and handles appear that let me drag the border to different sizes). Two problems, though: First, it doesn't appear that my code gets called when the widget is resized. A breakpoint set in myonReceive() handler never gets hit, logcat messages I put in never appear, and so forth. Second, assuming that I can get into my code, I can't see anywhere in the docs to get the current size of the widget. I'm already using calls to AppWidgetProviderInfo.minWidth and .minHeight, but those only reflect the minimum dimensions given in the XML, they don't change at runtime. So, how is one meant to actually implement a resizable widget? String -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: Orientation change action
Your views do need to have an android:id assigned to them to be able to save/restore their state automatically (otherwise they wouldn't be able to correlate the data between the old and new view hierarchies). On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:30 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:16 PM, EmbSysPro char...@embsyspro.com wrote: Firstly, what you state has not been my experience and it did not and does not work on my devices. Perhaps there is another issue involved, but the only reason I went to such toil is expressly because I had to do so for every field to remain the same upon an orientation change. I've got both an android v2.2.1 device and an android v1.5 device and they both exhibit the behavior that I describe above. But both are from the same vendor and I'll need to investigate why I'm seeing what I'm seeing. Very strange. One of my Activities is a simple form with an EditText and some Checkboxes. I do NOT save and restore state in this Activity. If I enter text in the EditText and check some boxes, then rotate my phone, all data is restored, as expected. This is on Nexus One 2.3.4, G1 with 1.6 and just ran it on a 1.5 AVD for shits and giggles. All work as expected. It would be a sad state of affairs indeed if every developer had to manually save and restore every single piece of static UI data in every Activity in this fashion. Try getting rid of one of your save / restore combos and see what happens. Secondly, since I had suffered from the same problem as Suresh and the only answer he was receiving was advising him to RTFM I thought that I would try to help. I was not faulting you for trying to help, if that's what you took from my post. My response to the OP was RTFM because his question was so vague and generic and the concepts for his broad query are explained in the documentation. - TreKing http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: Strange device?
Don't believe written documentation at this point, there has been some chaos in this. The current official numbers used by the platform implementation are: Normal -- 320dp x 480dp Large - 480dp x 640dp XLarge - 720dp x 960dp Technically in the impl Small is just smaller than normal, but as per the CDD the smallest this can be is 320dp x 426dp. * *I really need to write a blog post about this, especially on conjunction with some other stuff coming up. :} On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Dianne, I found the following table in attrs_manifest.xml attr name=screenSize !-- A small screen configuration, at least 240x320db. -- enum name=small value=200 / !-- A normal screen configuration, at least 320x480db. -- enum name=normal value=300 / !-- A large screen configuration, at least 400x530db. -- enum name=large value=400 / !-- An extra large screen configuration, at least 600x800db. -- enum name=xlarge value=500 / /attr Are those correct? I couldn't find the code where it would do the checking -- I guess it's in native code. On Jun 21, 10:17 am, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Dianne. I am actually happy that OEMs are trying to push the envelop with these devices. Some of these strange form factors may stick. So the division point between normal and large is 480dp x 640dp. Can you please tell me (or point me to a source) what the division points between small/normal and large/xlarge are? On Jun 21, 9:51 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Yeah, 240/160. hdpi == 240, mdpi == 160. This device should not normally run applications on both screens. Actually, this is what they did: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.kyocera.tabletmodeextension... So it is a compatible device for purposes of passing the CDD, but you can download an app of theirs that makes it incompatible. Writing the CDD sometimes feels like trying to do a deal with the devil. :p On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Got it. It's the density float in DisplayMetrics. On Jun 21, 9:36 am, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: I am sorry, how did you get 533dp x 640dp from 800x960 hdpi screen? Can you please provide this calculation? Obviously, you divided by 1.5, but where did the 1.5 magic constant come from? I would like to use this info to determine in my app if I am running on a screen at least LARGE and do some stuff differently. On Jun 21, 9:19 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: To be compatible, a device like this would need to run apps in only one of the screens. What it means to run in two screens is not well defined. Fwiw, the division point between normal and large is 480dp x 640dp. So a 800x960 hdpi screen is 533dp x 640dp, just barely classifying as large. On the other hand the aspect ratio of that screen is only 1.2, which is not compatible according to the CDD. It is also not compatible to change the screen configuration, so there are two reasons it must run applications on one screen for compatibility. On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: The Flipout has a 320x240 screen. Ths is definetely the Kyocera Echo. My only question when supporting this device is if the screen consdered Medium or Large? 4.7 seems to be borderline on the screen size chart. On Jun 20, 11:40 pm, Dan dan.schm...@gmail.com wrote: My bet is the Motoroal Ruth/Flipout http://phandroid.com/motorola-flipout/ On Jun 19, 6:56 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: As part of my app, if I notice a screen size/DPI combo I haven't tested on, I pop-up a dialog and ask the user to send me an e-mail about that. Here's what I got yesterday: Display width: 800 Display height: 960 Display DPI: 240 Anybody has a clue as to what kind of device has a 800x960 squarish screen. The HDPI indiciates that it's a phone. I asked the user, but he hasn't come back to me -- my guess it's something unreleased.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Saving a NinePatch to Temp Storage
There is no easy way to do this. You will need to manually generate a PNG image that has included in it a 9-patch chunk whose contents match the description here: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=blob;f=include/utils/ResourceTypes.h;h=10baa11a5114a4efd3ddb1d7fc4d870d8a2e8401;hb=HEAD#l45 On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Jake Colman col...@ppllc.com wrote: I am trying to allow the user to specify the background color of a ninepatch that is part of my res/drawble directory. The modified ninepatch will then be set as the background image for my widget. I realize that you cannot change the contents of res/drawble so I have to write the image to temporary storage and then use setImageFromURI to point at the modified ninepatch. I cannot figure out, however, how to save the image. I have the following code: Drawable bg = this.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.appwidget_bg); bg.mutate(); bg.setColorFilter( color, PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY ); What method can I now use to write this out? There do not seem to be any methods on Drawable that will persist an image. Is there a helper class that I need to use? I did look at BitmapFactory but, unless I misunderstood, it didn't seem to be the solution. Is there a preferred location to use for this kind of temporary file? Is there a better recommended way of doing what I am trying to do? -- Jake Colman -- Android Tinkerer -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: Strange device?
Yes that is the main thing I am talking about there being some chaos in the definitions. :/ On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, thanks. I am testing on the original 7 Galaxy Tab, which is a 600x1024 HDPI device, which gives 400dpx683dp, so unless I am misunderstanding you, it should be classificed as a Normal screen device, but it seems to be pulling resources from the Large folders. Is there special handling for just this case, or is it really supposed to be an OR instead of an AND when it comes to width/height sizes? On Jun 21, 2:37 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Don't believe written documentation at this point, there has been some chaos in this. The current official numbers used by the platform implementation are: Normal -- 320dp x 480dp Large - 480dp x 640dp XLarge - 720dp x 960dp Technically in the impl Small is just smaller than normal, but as per the CDD the smallest this can be is 320dp x 426dp. * *I really need to write a blog post about this, especially on conjunction with some other stuff coming up. :} On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Dianne, I found the following table in attrs_manifest.xml attr name=screenSize !-- A small screen configuration, at least 240x320db. -- enum name=small value=200 / !-- A normal screen configuration, at least 320x480db. -- enum name=normal value=300 / !-- A large screen configuration, at least 400x530db. -- enum name=large value=400 / !-- An extra large screen configuration, at least 600x800db. -- enum name=xlarge value=500 / /attr Are those correct? I couldn't find the code where it would do the checking -- I guess it's in native code. On Jun 21, 10:17 am, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Dianne. I am actually happy that OEMs are trying to push the envelop with these devices. Some of these strange form factors may stick. So the division point between normal and large is 480dp x 640dp. Can you please tell me (or point me to a source) what the division points between small/normal and large/xlarge are? On Jun 21, 9:51 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Yeah, 240/160. hdpi == 240, mdpi == 160. This device should not normally run applications on both screens. Actually, this is what they did: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.kyocera.tabletmodeextension. .. So it is a compatible device for purposes of passing the CDD, but you can download an app of theirs that makes it incompatible. Writing the CDD sometimes feels like trying to do a deal with the devil. :p On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Got it. It's the density float in DisplayMetrics. On Jun 21, 9:36 am, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: I am sorry, how did you get 533dp x 640dp from 800x960 hdpi screen? Can you please provide this calculation? Obviously, you divided by 1.5, but where did the 1.5 magic constant come from? I would like to use this info to determine in my app if I am running on a screen at least LARGE and do some stuff differently. On Jun 21, 9:19 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: To be compatible, a device like this would need to run apps in only one of the screens. What it means to run in two screens is not well defined. Fwiw, the division point between normal and large is 480dp x 640dp. So a 800x960 hdpi screen is 533dp x 640dp, just barely classifying as large. On the other hand the aspect ratio of that screen is only 1.2, which is not compatible according to the CDD. It is also not compatible to change the screen configuration, so there are two reasons it must run applications on one screen for compatibility. On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: The Flipout has a 320x240 screen. Ths is definetely the Kyocera Echo. My only question when supporting this device is if the screen consdered Medium or Large? 4.7 seems to be borderline on the screen size chart. On Jun 20, 11:40 pm, Dan dan.schm...@gmail.com wrote: My bet is the Motoroal Ruth/Flipout http://phandroid.com/motorola-flipout/ On Jun 19, 6:56 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: As part of my app, if I notice a screen size/DPI combo I haven't tested on, I pop-up a dialog and ask the user to send me an e-mail about
Re: [android-developers] Will static variables in a non-activity class remain in memory?
I wouldn't say yes. Calling it often does not make sure it remains in
memory. You are only guaranteed it will remain in memory for as long as
your app is in the foreground, that is as long as its process is required as
per:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/processes-and-threads.html
Once your app is no longer in the foreground -- because the user pressed
home, went to a notification, received a call, etc -- then your process may
be killed at any point and all bets are off.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.comwrote:
Yes. This data will stay in memory for as long as the process is alive.
2011/6/20 Droid rod...@gmail.com
I am storing an ArrayList in a static variable in an ordinary (non
activity) java class.
It works correctly when I load it from an activity, but will it be
guaranteed to remain
in memory even when my activity is not calling it often?
Here is the class:
package com.maps.spoken;
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class NoWordRepeats {
public static ArrayListString ar = new ArrayListString();
}
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Re: [android-developers] Cant stop service
You are responsible for stopping whatever work your service does in its onDestroy(). You can look at the current state of all actively running services with adb shell dumpsys activity services. Make sure your service is actually in there. If it isn't, you aren't cleaning up your worker. On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Boozel boozelcl...@gmail.com wrote: The service continues to write to the log -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Diagram of Android internals
Hi, that is an impressive amount of work. One thing I would suggest -- Android isn't really so divided into the areas you use (human interface, system, multimedia, etc) and I think trying to shove the pieces of it into those categories make this diagram a lot more confusing than it needs to be, with a lot of lines crossing over other parts of the diagram. For example why is AccountManagerService under human interface? It doesn't do any UI, it just keeps track of the accounts the user has added to their device. Likewise LocationManagerService. I can think of a couple different ways to organize the chart: - As layers, with lower-level parts building on top of higher-level ones. For example, at the bottom is the hardware, next the Linux kernel, then core user space pieces like init and the services it starts such as zygote, installd, etc., then the system_process and things that run in it (PackageManagerService, WindowManagerService, ActivityManagerService, ClipboardManagerService, LocationManagerService, and on and on), and then the client-side frameworks built on that (the view hierarchy, app package, etc). - Build a spine of the central part of Android: linux, zygote, PackageManagerService, WindowManagerService, ActivityManagerService and related items. This is somewhat like your system category, but really the core parts of the system (for example Launcher2 and Settings have nothing to do with this). Then you can have separate topical sections for sub-systems that build out from this: the audo system, content providers, telephony, etc. On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Constantine conan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Android developers, I am designing detailed diagram of Android internals. You can find it here: http://www.makelinux.net/android/internals/ What do you think about it? Have you any ideas how to improve it? Thank you in advance. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] skia / purging [x]k from font cache [y entries] - what does it mean? was Re: Custom Fonts
Well having it printed every second or so indicates you are pretty severely thrashing the cache, which can certainly impact performance. For example drawing your UI may not be fitting in the cache so each frame you draw requires re-rendering glyphs back in to the cache. If that is the case, look at doing things like reducing the number of distinct font sizes or families/styles you are using to have less impact on the cache. On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Adam Ratana adam.rat...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the speedy replies Romain and Diane. I take it now that we should not worry about it, beyond the typical known concerns for real-time drawing and rendering, etc. Appreciated -- Adam On Monday, June 20, 2011 2:22:14 AM UTC-4, Romain Guy (Google) wrote: Skia's font cache doesn't count towards your heap limit. On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Adam Ratana adam@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for responding; it seems to be freeing up quite often, probably several to more than several meg of memory a second (if the numbers are right), depending on how often the view is invalidated. I know we are working with limited heap space, is this something we can optimize in our implementation or should we not be concerned at all? Most of the text is the same, but could be generated with new string instances for example. Thanks, Adam On Monday, June 20, 2011 12:58:03 AM UTC-4, Dianne Hackborn wrote: It just means it needs to flush old data from the font cache. You may see this a lot if you are for example drawing at a large number of sizes, as you fill up the font cache with glyphs in a lot of sizes and old glyphs need to be removed to make room. On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Adam Ratana adam...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am noticing the same with an implementation for some new functionality I'm experimenting with. I am doing a lot of canvas.drawText calls on a custom View canvas, using the system font though. Are you doing canvas.drawText a lot, Samuh? Also a bump in case anyone reading has knowledge on this subject. Wondering am I doing something stupid here, trying to avoid jankiness. On Wednesday, June 1, 2011 2:10:27 PM UTC-4, Samuh wrote: We are using four different custom fonts across our app. These files are bundled in Assets and are opened in onCreate of every Activity. While studying the logs of our app we keep observing the following log from Skia decoder. 01-01 19:19:51.585: DEBUG/skia(1510): purging 197K from font cache [20 entries] What does the above mean? And how does it affect performance? Is it desirable? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to androi...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-d...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/**group/android-developers?hl=enhttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hac...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-d...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-develop...@**googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/**group/android-developers?hl=enhttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer roma...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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
Re: [android-developers] How to use whole screen on 1024x480 Android device (Acer Iconia Smart)?
That screen is outside of the compatible range of aspect ratios defined by the CDD, so they presumably are limiting what an application sees to remain compatible. You will need to talk with the manufacturer about any APIs they provide for applications to turn off that compatibility support. On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Oliver oliver.trach...@gmail.com wrote: When running manually compiled Android apps on the Acer Iconia Smart, there always remains a black bar at the bottom of the screen that is not usable by the apps. This happens for my own as well as other apps compiled from source. Pre-installed apps do not show this behavior and make use of the whole screen. The device has a 1024x480 screen, but I can only make use of 855×480 pixels. This is the size reported by getResources().getDisplayMetrics(). So far, any attempts to fix the issue have failed, including: - manually changing the display metrics (using getResources().updateConfiguration(config, metrics). - setting all possible attributes of supports-screens to true in the Android manifest. android:minSdkVersion is set to 10, corresponding to the Android 2.3.3 version on the device. Any ideas? Did anybody successfully deploy self-compiled apps on this device that make use of the entire screen estate? -Oliver -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Bind_APPWIDGET permission
Sorry, third party applications can't get this permission. You need to launch the system's app widget picker for it to interact with the user to determine what widget your app can display. On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Bacon021 wei.pg...@gmail.com wrote: I am developing an launcher, and want to use the bindAppWidgetId method in my desktop edit mode, but the system notify me that the uid don't have the permission. I checked the permission definition, it's protect level is indeed system /signature, is there any method to realize the binding function without the change the certificate to system? I ever find a similar question and the answer was that the application only can use the UI selector to bind the app widget， I just want to know whether there is a workaround method to bind the widget ID? -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: Strange device?
To be compatible, a device like this would need to run apps in only one of the screens. What it means to run in two screens is not well defined. Fwiw, the division point between normal and large is 480dp x 640dp. So a 800x960 hdpi screen is 533dp x 640dp, just barely classifying as large. On the other hand the aspect ratio of that screen is only 1.2, which is not compatible according to the CDD. It is also not compatible to change the screen configuration, so there are two reasons it must run applications on one screen for compatibility. On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: The Flipout has a 320x240 screen. Ths is definetely the Kyocera Echo. My only question when supporting this device is if the screen consdered Medium or Large? 4.7 seems to be borderline on the screen size chart. On Jun 20, 11:40 pm, Dan dan.schm...@gmail.com wrote: My bet is the Motoroal Ruth/Flipout http://phandroid.com/motorola-flipout/ On Jun 19, 6:56 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: As part of my app, if I notice a screen size/DPI combo I haven't tested on, I pop-up a dialog and ask the user to send me an e-mail about that. Here's what I got yesterday: Display width: 800 Display height: 960 Display DPI: 240 Anybody has a clue as to what kind of device has a 800x960 squarish screen. The HDPI indiciates that it's a phone. I asked the user, but he hasn't come back to me -- my guess it's something unreleased.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] skia / purging [x]k from font cache [y entries] - what does it mean? was Re: Custom Fonts
Yes, that will do it. Note that each angle you draw a glyph at needs a new entry in the cache for the bitmap of the glyph drawn at that angle. On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Adam Ratana adam.rat...@gmail.com wrote: After seeing this response, I spent some time to figure out exactly what I was doing now that was causing this to appear in the logs so much. I was puzzled because I wasn't using many styles or colors, the same font, same color. I turned off alpha blending, and removed all the items I was drawing until I was left with 1, and it was still overloading the cache. I narrowed it down to doing: canvas.save(); canvas.rotate(rotationAngle, p.x, p.y); // this is the offending line canvas.drawText(text, p.x, p.y, paint); canvas.restore(); If I rotate and then draw text (this is an AR type implementation where the text is rotating with the phone), this is where the font cache fills up, with just 1 static piece of text. Commenting out the above line doesn't. Even with a large number of text items, NOT rotating the canvas before drawing the text, doesn't fill the cache. This seems kind of strange to me that this would fill the cache, but, is there another way to do this to not fill the cache? On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.comwrote: Well having it printed every second or so indicates you are pretty severely thrashing the cache, which can certainly impact performance. For example drawing your UI may not be fitting in the cache so each frame you draw requires re-rendering glyphs back in to the cache. If that is the case, look at doing things like reducing the number of distinct font sizes or families/styles you are using to have less impact on the cache. -- Adam Ratana adam.rat...@gmail.com -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: Strange device?
Yeah, 240/160. hdpi == 240, mdpi == 160. This device should not normally run applications on both screens. Actually, this is what they did: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.kyocera.tabletmodeextensionfeature=search_result So it is a compatible device for purposes of passing the CDD, but you can download an app of theirs that makes it incompatible. Writing the CDD sometimes feels like trying to do a deal with the devil. :p On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Got it. It's the density float in DisplayMetrics. On Jun 21, 9:36 am, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: I am sorry, how did you get 533dp x 640dp from 800x960 hdpi screen? Can you please provide this calculation? Obviously, you divided by 1.5, but where did the 1.5 magic constant come from? I would like to use this info to determine in my app if I am running on a screen at least LARGE and do some stuff differently. On Jun 21, 9:19 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: To be compatible, a device like this would need to run apps in only one of the screens. What it means to run in two screens is not well defined. Fwiw, the division point between normal and large is 480dp x 640dp. So a 800x960 hdpi screen is 533dp x 640dp, just barely classifying as large. On the other hand the aspect ratio of that screen is only 1.2, which is not compatible according to the CDD. It is also not compatible to change the screen configuration, so there are two reasons it must run applications on one screen for compatibility. On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: The Flipout has a 320x240 screen. Ths is definetely the Kyocera Echo. My only question when supporting this device is if the screen consdered Medium or Large? 4.7 seems to be borderline on the screen size chart. On Jun 20, 11:40 pm, Dan dan.schm...@gmail.com wrote: My bet is the Motoroal Ruth/Flipout http://phandroid.com/motorola-flipout/ On Jun 19, 6:56 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: As part of my app, if I notice a screen size/DPI combo I haven't tested on, I pop-up a dialog and ask the user to send me an e-mail about that. Here's what I got yesterday: Display width: 800 Display height: 960 Display DPI: 240 Anybody has a clue as to what kind of device has a 800x960 squarish screen. The HDPI indiciates that it's a phone. I asked the user, but he hasn't come back to me -- my guess it's something unreleased.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] new Fragments
That log is just a warning, and unrelated fragments, and not causing such an
issue.
Let's still step back -- are you actually having a fragment displayed at
all? Make sure you are actually getting it displayed before then trying to
hide and show it. (And after adding a fragment starts out shown so there is
no reason to hide it unless you are doing some special specific stuff.)
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:18 PM, New Developer secur...@isscp.com wrote:
To Dianne
Thank you for all your support
I have managed to get the fragment concept working
I call show()
FragmentTransaction fMgr = getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
fMgr.show(visitScreen);
fMgr.commit();
And then when done I call hide()
FragmentTransaction fMgr = getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
fMgr.hide(visitScreen);
fMgr.commit();
I just have a new problem But When I recall the function with the .show()
06-19 15:17:50.720: WARN/InputManagerService(21637): Window already
focused, ignoring focus gain of:
com.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy@4169e988
and Do not see the Fragment ? any ideas
Thanks again for everything
On Jun 19, 2011, at 1:40 AM, Dianne Hackborn wrote:
Committing a fragment transaction is asynchronous. You should let it run
and do its thing; don't call getView() outside of the fragment's own
lifecycle.
Have you tried any of the API demos? There are lots of them. I suggest
starting off with one of those known working demos, found here:
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/app/index.html
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 8:10 PM, New Developer secur...@isscp.com wrote:
Here is what I have can you see something obvious
in my MainActivity I call the Fragment using
FragmentTransaction fMgr = getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
VisitMenu fragment = new VisitMenu();
fMgr.add(R.id.menu2, fragment);
fMgr.commit();
fMgr.show(fragment);
Log.w(CHECK , Check 1 + fragment.getView()
);
Log.w(CHECK , Check 2 + fragment.view
);
Both Check 1 and Check 2 return NULL
My Fragment Has this
public class VisitMenu extends Fragment {
private View parent= null;
public View view = null;
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle bundle) {
view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.visit_menu, container, false);
parent= container;
return view;
}
}
and ideas welcome
Thanks in advance
On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:40 PM, New Developer wrote:
I have the SDK Updater done and installed the Compatibility package
When I putextends FragmentActivity
I still get FragmentActivity cannot be resolved to a type
With the offer to change to Fragment
and ideas
thanks again
On Jun 18, 2011, at 1:11 AM, Dianne Hackborn wrote:
Xav's blog post explains how to get the support library, which has
FragmentActivity, through the SDK updater:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/fragments-for-all.html
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:16 PM, New Developer secur...@isscp.comwrote:
Dianne
Thanks and yes is was your blogspot article at the bottom that refers to
FragmentActivity
But I can not find this anywhere and when I type it , it is unknown
thanks again
On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Dianne Hackborn wrote:
Blog posts:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/02/android-30-fragments-api.html
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/fragments-for-all.html
SDK documentation:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/fragments.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Fragment.html
I would suggest that for now you ignore the fragment tag; all it is, is
a convenience for doing certain things. Learn how to directly use the
Fragment APIs and how those work with activities, and then once you are done
with those basic concepts you can throw in fragment layout tags.
(I should probably adjust the Fragment java doc to reflect this approach
as well.)
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:42 PM, New Developer secur...@isscp.comwrote:
Could someone please clarify the method in which to use fragment
There is a Main Activity which has a fragment element within it's
layout
this fragment element is then loaded to a class the extends Fragment
But does the fragment class then have it's own activity ? or
how do you access the elements within the fragment ?
For discussion let us say the fragment has a Button and EditText
Under a normal activity you could access it with
(Button) findViewbyId(R.id.button); but when I put this into a
fragment extended class
findViewById gives an error ?
Also there is one article on Fragment which has a FragmentActivity or
ActivityFragment
But I can not find this anywhere
Thanks in advance
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Re: [android-developers] skia / purging [x]k from font cache [y entries] - what does it mean? was Re: Custom Fonts
It just means it needs to flush old data from the font cache. You may see this a lot if you are for example drawing at a large number of sizes, as you fill up the font cache with glyphs in a lot of sizes and old glyphs need to be removed to make room. On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Adam Ratana adam.rat...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am noticing the same with an implementation for some new functionality I'm experimenting with. I am doing a lot of canvas.drawText calls on a custom View canvas, using the system font though. Are you doing canvas.drawText a lot, Samuh? Also a bump in case anyone reading has knowledge on this subject. Wondering am I doing something stupid here, trying to avoid jankiness. On Wednesday, June 1, 2011 2:10:27 PM UTC-4, Samuh wrote: We are using four different custom fonts across our app. These files are bundled in Assets and are opened in onCreate of every Activity. While studying the logs of our app we keep observing the following log from Skia decoder. 01-01 19:19:51.585: DEBUG/skia(1510): purging 197K from font cache [20 entries] What does the above mean? And how does it affect performance? Is it desirable? 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 to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] list view with alpha transparency effect
Use this: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/AbsListView.html#setCacheColorHint(int) http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/AbsListView.html#attr_android:cacheColorHint Note that doing this means that ListView can't use important drawing optimizations, so on many devices this will cause scrolling to be noticeably less smooth. On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: I have a list view using a layout that has a background color of #8000. When I scroll the list, the list item background color change to a solid color, in this case black. Seems it's ignoring the alpha transparency value on scroll. Is there a way to make it not do that? Thanks. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] new Fragments
Committing a fragment transaction is asynchronous. You should let it run
and do its thing; don't call getView() outside of the fragment's own
lifecycle.
Have you tried any of the API demos? There are lots of them. I suggest
starting off with one of those known working demos, found here:
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/app/index.html
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 8:10 PM, New Developer secur...@isscp.com wrote:
Here is what I have can you see something obvious
in my MainActivity I call the Fragment using
FragmentTransaction fMgr = getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
VisitMenu fragment = new VisitMenu();
fMgr.add(R.id.menu2, fragment);
fMgr.commit();
fMgr.show(fragment);
Log.w(CHECK , Check 1 + fragment.getView()
);
Log.w(CHECK , Check 2 + fragment.view
);
Both Check 1 and Check 2 return NULL
My Fragment Has this
public class VisitMenu extends Fragment {
private View parent= null;
public View view = null;
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle bundle) {
view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.visit_menu, container, false);
parent= container;
return view;
}
}
and ideas welcome
Thanks in advance
On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:40 PM, New Developer wrote:
I have the SDK Updater done and installed the Compatibility package
When I putextends FragmentActivity
I still get FragmentActivity cannot be resolved to a type
With the offer to change to Fragment
and ideas
thanks again
On Jun 18, 2011, at 1:11 AM, Dianne Hackborn wrote:
Xav's blog post explains how to get the support library, which has
FragmentActivity, through the SDK updater:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/fragments-for-all.html
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:16 PM, New Developer secur...@isscp.com wrote:
Dianne
Thanks and yes is was your blogspot article at the bottom that refers to
FragmentActivity
But I can not find this anywhere and when I type it , it is unknown
thanks again
On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Dianne Hackborn wrote:
Blog posts:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/02/android-30-fragments-api.html
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/fragments-for-all.html
SDK documentation:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/fragments.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Fragment.html
I would suggest that for now you ignore the fragment tag; all it is, is
a convenience for doing certain things. Learn how to directly use the
Fragment APIs and how those work with activities, and then once you are done
with those basic concepts you can throw in fragment layout tags.
(I should probably adjust the Fragment java doc to reflect this approach
as well.)
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:42 PM, New Developer secur...@isscp.comwrote:
Could someone please clarify the method in which to use fragment
There is a Main Activity which has a fragment element within it's
layout
this fragment element is then loaded to a class the extends Fragment
But does the fragment class then have it's own activity ? or
how do you access the elements within the fragment ?
For discussion let us say the fragment has a Button and EditText
Under a normal activity you could access it with
(Button) findViewbyId(R.id.button); but when I put this into a fragment
extended class
findViewById gives an error ?
Also there is one article on Fragment which has a FragmentActivity or
ActivityFragment
But I can not find this anywhere
Thanks in advance
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Xav's blog post explains how to get the support library, which has FragmentActivity, through the SDK updater: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/fragments-for-all.html On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:16 PM, New Developer secur...@isscp.com wrote: Dianne Thanks and yes is was your blogspot article at the bottom that refers to FragmentActivity But I can not find this anywhere and when I type it , it is unknown thanks again On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Dianne Hackborn wrote: Blog posts: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/02/android-30-fragments-api.html http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/fragments-for-all.html SDK documentation: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/fragments.html http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Fragment.html I would suggest that for now you ignore the fragment tag; all it is, is a convenience for doing certain things. Learn how to directly use the Fragment APIs and how those work with activities, and then once you are done with those basic concepts you can throw in fragment layout tags. (I should probably adjust the Fragment java doc to reflect this approach as well.) On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:42 PM, New Developer secur...@isscp.com wrote: Could someone please clarify the method in which to use fragment There is a Main Activity which has a fragment element within it's layout this fragment element is then loaded to a class the extends Fragment But does the fragment class then have it's own activity ? or how do you access the elements within the fragment ? For discussion let us say the fragment has a Button and EditText Under a normal activity you could access it with (Button) findViewbyId(R.id.button); but when I put this into a fragment extended class findViewById gives an error ? Also there is one article on Fragment which has a FragmentActivity or ActivityFragment But I can not find this anywhere Thanks in advance -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
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