[android-developers] Re: Flaky network connections

2008-11-25 Thread JP
had triggered it in mine, so one would think it wasn't my problem. So... from distance... a handset problem seems unlikely. JP On Nov 25, 4:25 am, joshv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure you are experiencing the same thing I am. It's not a transient waiting for the radio to turn

[android-developers] Re: Flaky network connections

2008-11-25 Thread JP
Not putting words in Mark's mouth but he meant to explain that you need to eliminate uncertainties; one being the site you try to access and if it's bomb proof as you describe; done. Next - you've got to isolate the problem. No way around it even though recreating the problem in a sandbox will

[android-developers] Mobile web and Android app integration

2008-11-27 Thread JP
I was combing through this group but could not find a definite answer (although I suspect the answer is no). Here's my question: Suppose your app is offering services on the handset by receiving and processing Intents. Obviously your app integrates with other apps on that basis, however the

[android-developers] Re: Mobile web and Android app integration

2008-11-27 Thread JP
: JP wrote: I was combing through this group but could not find a definite answer (although I suspect the answer is no). Here's my question: Suppose your app is offering services on the handset by receiving and processing Intents. Obviously your app integrates with other apps on that basis

[android-developers] Keeping network connection alive when paused - Service?

2008-11-28 Thread JP
Is there a way to keep a network connection such as WLAN alive when the handset pauses? I could not find this in the documentation (not sure if this is possible). Here's where I am at: Doing some clean-up work on an app, I've wrapped a background Thread in a Service. This background Thread polls

[android-developers] Re: sdk 1.0 failed to correctly run code

2008-12-06 Thread JP
On Dec 1, 8:22 am, Mina Ramses [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried the code below in eclipse using android sdk 1.0, but always can't get the application to run correctly neither got any of the testing statements in the logCat, i used to set appServer as the default activity and tried to run

[android-developers] Re: Service launching multiple times

2008-12-17 Thread JP
Here's my 2 cents on Services: I personally do not execute anything inside a service. A Service runs in the main Thread of the hosting process, so any real work would interfere with the user experience. I use Service however to provide isolation from the main Activity, and start Threads that

[android-developers] Re: How to bind to a Service only if it was already running?

2008-12-22 Thread JP
Right here: http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/content/Context.html#bindService(android.content.Intent,%20android.content.ServiceConnection,%20int) I am using this and got the expected result. On Dec 22, 6:29 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Currently I'm trying to

[android-developers] Re: How to bind to a Service only if it was already running?

2008-12-22 Thread JP
Not sure if the link jumps to Context.bindService() but this is the method you might be interested in. On Dec 22, 7:08 pm, JP joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com wrote: Right here:http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/content/Context.html...) I am using this and got the expected result

[android-developers] Re: :: using System.gc();

2008-12-23 Thread JP
Depends where it's placed at. I calls to the GC scattered all over, but with discretion. I made a concious design decision to avoid allocating memory in the presentation layer which is handling user interactions. I rely on a separate thread to handle all back end activities such as capturing and

[android-developers] Re: How to bind to a Service only if it was already running?

2008-12-23 Thread JP
I have no experience with this particular need; if you cannot find a call in Context that would offer this capability you need to actively manage this somehow. On Dec 22, 8:14 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: Hey JP thanks for your reply! So I'm looking at what your saying

[android-developers] Re: :: using System.gc();

2008-12-23 Thread JP
the app responsive. You need to understand how to build mutex' though. Calling garbage collection (in the background thread) is in a way just another operation which occurs in background thread processing. I stopped worrying about that a long time back. JP On Dec 23, 5:58 pm, freepine freep

[android-developers] Re: :: using System.gc();

2008-12-24 Thread JP
, I'll try JP's approach ASAP. On Dec 24, 11:16 am, freepine freep...@gmail.com wrote: Hi JP, Yes, I agree to avoid time-consuming tasks in main thread:)What I am saying is that mostly GC will hold the whole process' execution while collecting memory, so it might not behave as you assumed

[android-developers] Re: Out of memory exception on setting wallpaper

2009-03-12 Thread JP
Sounds like the Drawable remains attached to a View between rotations. See blog post: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/01/avoiding-memory-leaks.html On Mar 12, 3:29 am, ursnavin ursna...@gmail.com wrote: Hi , Im trying to develop a home application . Whenever there is a shift

[android-developers] Re: Where can I get com.google.googlenav Package

2009-03-12 Thread JP
Oh yes, googlenav. That's gold, and there's several people including myself that could add great value to their apps with it. googlenav also provides location based search. It was included in m3 and was not made available any longer starting m5.

[android-developers] Re: Where can I get com.google.googlenav Package

2009-03-13 Thread JP
Only if it's guided by a sensor (read: GPS et al) if I remember correctly. The ToS are pretty clear so make a trip back to verify. Then, what's the point. Jenny could go the Open Street Maps route like Nicolas did. On Mar 13, 2:18 am, MrSnowflake mrsnowfl...@gmail.com wrote: You can't use

[android-developers] Re: MapView Zoomer behavior, how?

2009-03-14 Thread JP
By using Overlay http://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/maps/Overlay.html and MapController http://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/maps/MapController.html and possibly subclassing MapView you can create pretty much any manipulation you could wish for. On

[android-developers] Re: RESTful user authentication

2009-03-30 Thread JP
On Mar 30, 8:41 am, Wouter wouterg...@gmail.com wrote: And can i use a database where i can put the user data in? Can i make a restfull web service with eclipse? Check out Google App Engine. It eliminates the overhead of setting up a web server.

[android-developers] Re: RESTful user authentication

2009-03-30 Thread JP
On Mar 30, 9:39 am, Wouter wouterg...@gmail.com wrote: But i cant make a java restful webservice with the Google App Engine! Or am i wrong? You are correct. My point is whether you use Java-built servlets (or not) is the least of your worries. Rather... are you ready and committed to set up

[android-developers] Re: RESTful user authentication

2009-03-30 Thread JP
On Mar 30, 10:21 am, Wouter wouterg...@gmail.com wrote: But it is still Android related because i want to use this webservice only in my android application! Sure but REST is an architecture that provides abstraction from the web service implementation. There is no consideration whether the

[android-developers] Re: GWT and the Android Browser

2009-04-08 Thread JP
... Good luck. JP On Apr 8, 10:53 am, Evan Ruff evan.r...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, Little stream of conciseness here, sorry if this is a bit long/ disjoined. I was wondering if anyone had done any work with GWT and the Android Browser. While I'm getting basic functionality to work

[android-developers] Re: GWT and the Android Browser

2009-04-09 Thread JP
On Apr 9, 7:43 am, Evan Ruff evan.r...@gmail.com wrote: #2. There's some work going on over in the GWT stack to have Gears/AIR/ HTML5 native storage/workers/caches abstracted in GWT. This is a pretty exciting project and will hopefully lead to some truely awesome android ports. Agree, not

[android-developers] Re: SQLite Pre-populated Database

2009-04-11 Thread JP
On Apr 10, 1:41 pm, fg1921 guidedw...@googlemail.com wrote: I must say I am surprised no one at google thinks it's important to provide a better way of including a pre-populated database into a package. ... I don't want to upload the file anywhere as I can't deal with all the extra

[android-developers] Re: Early Look Android 1.5 SDK

2009-04-13 Thread JP
Hey, thanks Xavier! I've read the blog but I am not clear re: backwards compatibility: Will apps currently built against 1.0 or 1.1 run on handsets released w/ 1.5, say the new keyboard-less devices? Or do we need to account for the changes in 1.5 and re-release? (This would be hell) JP On Apr

[android-developers] Re: Early Look Android 1.5 SDK

2009-04-13 Thread JP
in no-mans-land either running on the G1/1.1, or the new ones only, until all old G1/1.1 customers have received their carrier OTA update to reach 1.5.x. On Apr 13, 9:01 pm, Xavier Ducrohet x...@android.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:53 PM, JP joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, thanks

[android-developers] Re: Business search using Android GeoCoder APIs

2009-04-14 Thread JP
If I am not mistaken, that capability was removed a year ago when m5 came out. There's more folks that could use this as well to at least somewhat recover their efforts here. More details here:

[android-developers] Re: Business search using Android GeoCoder APIs

2009-04-14 Thread JP
I put this on the backburner... can't give you any pointers. On Apr 14, 10:58 am, Android_Learner sunil.bha...@aricent.com wrote: Hi, Is there any chance to use Google APIs( Http Based) instead of Android APIs for doing business search? or any other 3rd party Http based APIs(Web service)

[android-developers] Re: Elan sues Apple for multitouch patent infringment... and guess what....

2009-04-15 Thread JP
$ show system /noprocess VMS V5.5-2 on node ETERNAL 12-JAN-2005 16:32:04.67 Uptime 4292 20:18:15 (OK I made that up I typically got only to a few years) On Apr 15, 8:20 am, Sundog sunns...@gmail.com wrote: No argument here. VMS, baby, VMS. On Apr 15, 8:32 am, JP joachim.pfeif

[android-developers] Re: Elan sues Apple for multitouch patent infringment... and guess what....

2009-04-16 Thread JP
Duck, there's a new sheriff in town On Apr 16, 5:02 pm, Raphael r...@android.com wrote: Kill thread. Please move your noise over to android-discuss or /dev/null. This group is for developing with the SDK. R/ On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:57 PM, JP joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com wrote

[android-developers] Re: Elan sues Apple for multitouch patent infringment... and guess what....

2009-04-17 Thread JP
On Apr 16, 11:21 pm, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, whatever happened to Justin? Thumbing through old VMS manuals, perhaps (no patents there that I remember of)? Interesting things to be learned there. How relying on process prioritization alone is insufficient to achieve

[android-developers] Re: Elan sues Apple for multitouch patent infringment... and guess what....

2009-04-17 Thread JP
On Apr 17, 7:07 am, JP joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 16, 11:21 pm, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.com wrote: in a VM environment. VM as in virtual machine not virtual mem. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

[android-developers] Re: memory problems

2009-04-18 Thread JP
You may get this resolved by calling the garbage collector right there; system.gc() after you dereference the byte array with buff=null; On Apr 17, 2:01 pm, petunio juanjosegilmen...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I know this is more a java question, but I have been in many java forums, and the

[android-developers] Re: memory problems

2009-04-20 Thread JP
On Apr 20, 11:08 am, fadden fad...@android.com wrote: On Apr 18, 11:31 am, JP joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com wrote: You may get this resolved by calling the garbage collector right there; system.gc() after you dereference the byte array with buff=null; The garbage collector will produce

[android-developers] Re: uninstall vs. upgrade

2009-04-21 Thread JP
An uninstall/install cycle will wipe the SQLite db and the preferences. The only (reasonable) way to keep user data is through an upgrade. You can test an upgrade by posting the new version (new apk file) on a web site of yours and install it as a non-market app through Android's browser. Once

[android-developers] Re: uninstall vs. upgrade

2009-04-21 Thread JP
On Apr 21, 5:29 pm, Marco Nelissen marc...@android.com wrote: Which is really a bug in the application. If an application updates its database schema, it should include code to migrate old versions of the database to the new schema. Correct, and OP is on the right track to ask the question

[android-developers] Re: Android Killswitch

2009-04-22 Thread JP
On Apr 22, 9:48 am, auj...@gmail.com auj...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for any information on the Android Kill switch ? Well, AFAIK there is no Android Kill switch. Some home cooking is in order. Here's my recipe. The beauty here - you can spice it up as much as you like. As a

[android-developers] Re: Android Killswitch

2009-04-22 Thread JP
flyingdutc...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks JP! If you're worried about the cache, don't use the browser. Instead, use DefaultHttpClient/HttpURLConnection to download your HTML file from your web-site (be sure to set the DefaultHttpClient/ HttpURLConnection not to use any cache). Then show the data from

[android-developers] Re: Android v. 1.5 = FAIL #2: Directly Manipulating Settings

2009-04-24 Thread JP
On Apr 24, 7:26 am, Disconnect dc.disconn...@gmail.com wrote: Now lets look at the new way. Instead of going to one app that has a list (or no apps, in the case of locale) you have to open settings (click 1), scroll down to the bottom (drag), open display (click 2), scroll down to the

[android-developers] Re: Android v. 1.5 = FAIL #2: Directly Manipulating Settings

2009-04-24 Thread JP
You don't need that okToFinishApp = false there in the end. That slipped in when I pulled this together from various places On Apr 24, 7:49 am, JP joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 24, 7:26 am, Disconnect dc.disconn...@gmail.com wrote: @Override protected void onStop

[android-developers] Re: How to deploy large DB with my APK

2009-01-23 Thread JP
On Jan 22, 1:31 pm, Svend Erix svenderiknyga...@gmail.com wrote: It is important that the application is fully functioning imeediately after download. The user should not need to do anything further to use it - so no second downloads. Why don't you download and then execute the .sql

[android-developers] Re: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget

2009-01-23 Thread JP
There's a bunch of discussions about this issue in this forum, just dig a little and you will find what you need to know. Also, Romain Guy posted a write-up about un-binding views (and bitmaps) from activities. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/01/avoiding-memory-leaks.html Admittedly,

[android-developers] Re: Apple Granted Multitouch Patent

2009-01-27 Thread JP
I speculate one of the reasons that multi-touch was not in the Android package because the patent was pending. I predict that noone outside Apple will touch multi-touch even with a 10ft. pole (pun intended). The bigger issue in my view is gesture-based scrolling, which *is* part of Android and

[android-developers] Re: How to implement onKeyDown() for KEYCODE_BACK

2009-01-28 Thread JP
I understand your problem is that the dialog box pops up when you hit *any* key. This is the expected behavior; onKeyDown() is called when any key is hit. You can filter out the desired key code by calling getKeyCode() for the KeyEvent that is passed to the overridden onKeyDown(). Then direct

[android-developers] Re: Apple Granted Multitouch Patent

2009-01-28 Thread JP
On Jan 28, 6:33 am, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: Remember, this is *only* a US patent, It affects anybody outside the US as well, because Google (and others, Palm, for example) either pay up, or limit themselves in what they provide in their products *including the SDKs*. Retrofits

[android-developers] Re: Apple Granted Multitouch Patent

2009-01-28 Thread JP
On Jan 28, 8:05 am, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: You can see from the article athttp://www.infoworld.com/article/09/01/16/Firm_seeks_to_bar_Nokia_RIM... that the worst that a firm can do is try to ban companies importing products into the US which may breach a US patent. I

[android-developers] Re: SharedPreferences - is it secure?

2009-02-07 Thread JP
On Feb 7, 9:43 am, Christoph Studer chstu...@gmail.com wrote: (Note that rooted devices do not provide this security, because any application can possibly become root and do whatever it wants on the phone, AFAIK. But that's the user's risk when rooting a device.) Suppose user loses phone.

[android-developers] Re: Solved Preferences Reset Problem

2009-02-10 Thread JP
Thanks - great find! I've had this lingering around for weeks (I haven't released yet, but getting close) There's still a bug here. If android:persistent=value is not set, the value defaults to false and the SharedPreferences are not cleared in three out of one case. On Feb 7, 3:03 pm, Eric B

[android-developers] Re: Solved Preferences Reset Problem

2009-02-11 Thread JP
Some more testing showed that the problem is not completely gone (in my case). This is one of the last things I have on my list now... I've been pushing this out but I suppose I'll work around all that now and drop the preferences in a Sqlite database table. This will the master copy now and

[android-developers] Re: Solved Preferences Reset Problem

2009-02-11 Thread JP
Personally it would be good enough for me to just work as expected... On Feb 11, 2:06 pm, Eric B ebesse...@gmail.com wrote: It would be really cool if we could plug in different Preference storage solutions. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

[android-developers] Re: Device back key handling

2009-02-13 Thread JP
We've had this one before: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/285f09c791aa5a09/6c7300df82ca38bf?lnk=gstq=JP#6c7300df82ca38bf Has been frowned upon however... On Feb 13, 7:39 pm, Muthu Kumar K. muthum...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Can any one tell me how

[android-developers] Re: hosting apk files on godaddy shared windows hosting

2009-02-15 Thread JP
Friends don't let friends host on Go Daddy Aren't these people known domain hoarders? Anyway, you'll have to pull your web site off and switch to a hosting service that allows you to set *any* MIME association through the User Control Panel. May cost you a few bucks more though. I'm not going

[android-developers] Re: How to tame CPU usage?

2009-02-18 Thread JP
(developer) have control over the UI experience and the results can be optimized. Highly recommended - at the price of the extra effort though. JP --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group

[android-developers] Re: How to tame CPU usage?

2009-02-21 Thread JP
On Feb 18, 2:36 pm, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.com wrote: That sounds very sophisticated. I will try to see how far I can with the current approach and the latency it brings with it. You approach feels too much like doing the operating systems job, which is probably fine and necessary

[android-developers] Re: How many projects are being canned because of Market TCs

2009-02-22 Thread JP
On Feb 22, 1:23 pm, Java Developer supp...@cyntacks.com wrote: Al, We finally made the decision to pull the plug too. I wonder how pro's that build things from scratch (i.e. do not leverage existing back ends such as Weather Channel, Amazon etc.) would sign up to the platform in an effort

[android-developers] Re: Solved Preferences Reset Problem

2009-02-22 Thread JP
On Feb 22, 9:40 am, Jeffrey Yasskin jyass...@gmail.com wrote: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/application-elemen... says that persistent=true means that the system will try to keep your app running at all times. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with preferences,

[android-developers] Re: How many projects are being canned because of Market TCs

2009-02-23 Thread JP
, JP joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 22, 1:23 pm, Java Developer supp...@cyntacks.com wrote: Al, We finally made the decision to pull the plug too. I wonder how pro's that build things from scratch (i.e. do not leverage existing back ends such as Weather Channel, Amazon etc

[android-developers] Re: How to get more sales on the Android Market

2009-02-28 Thread JP
On Feb 27, 2:22 pm, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: I see things at the moment as being similar to the Unix/Linux market place. I know many good Unix sysadmins who would rather spend hours or days seaching out a piece of free software (or writing it themselves) as opposed to paying

[android-developers] Re: Call the developer!!

2009-02-28 Thread JP
On Feb 28, 9:52 am, Stoyan Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: Where's the do no evil in this, huh? At first, I would be a little infuriated as well. I assume you've all wiped your phone no. so the calls we go away soon anyways. To put this in perspective - may I point out that if you were

[android-developers] Re: How to get more sales on the Android Market

2009-02-28 Thread JP
On Feb 28, 11:15 am, Inderjeet Singh inder...@gmail.com wrote: One good model is value-based pricing (there are many books on the topic): price it based on what value you think a user will get from it. Some users will get high value, and some will get fairly low value. You have to look at

[android-developers] Re: Detect shaking

2009-03-01 Thread JP
Don't expect it to be terribly accurate. Good luck. On Mar 1, 5:58 pm, Charlie Collins charlie.coll...@gmail.com wrote: You probably want the SensorManager and SensorListener: http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/hardware/SensorManag...

[android-developers] Re: HELP : Android and GWT

2009-03-03 Thread JP
Well I believe you don't - when executed, a GWT web app is a HTML/CSS/ JavaScript based web app just like any other that you load into the browser. It really makes no difference whether you develop in GWT or native JS, because all you load into the web browser is your code cross-compiled to JS.

[android-developers] Re: SharedPreferences got deleted! - What could be the problem?

2009-03-05 Thread JP
This is a known issue. I worked around it by storing a copy of the preferences in a sqlite database table, and populate the preferences form the database in case the regular preferences are lost. A pain, but in my experience has worked. On Mar 5, 12:46 pm, code_android_festival_way

[android-developers] Customers on metered data plans

2009-03-07 Thread JP
Alright, at the risk this has been discussed before, let me alert everybody that there are customers on metered data plans out there (metered as opposed to unlimited). This is the first time I've heard of it: http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/2c8cd46426a640d6 So

[android-developers] MapView.postInvalidate() triggers redundant call to onDraw()?

2009-10-20 Thread JP
While optimizing code I found that, somehow inherently, a single call to com.google.android.maps.MapView.postInvalidate() triggers two calls to com.google.android.maps.onDraw(), within a single event cycle. This of course noticeable slows down Overlays that display a lot of elements on a MapView,

[android-developers] 1.6: GPS location provider stop unexpectedly (exceeded MIN_FIX_COUNT), bouncing back and forth

2009-10-21 Thread JP
Looks like I've run into some breakage from 1.5 to 1.6 after all... I am registering location listeners with LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates() With GPS as location provider, I run into a problem with navigation stopping by itself after a few seconds, just to return, stop again, in an

[android-developers] Re: 1.6: GPS location provider stop unexpectedly (exceeded MIN_FIX_COUNT), bouncing back and forth

2009-10-22 Thread JP
provider is hibernated as a result of the counter overrun. Look for mFixCount in the source file and it's pretty apparent. On Oct 21, 10:08 pm, JP joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like I've run into some breakage from 1.5 to 1.6 after all... I am registering location listeners

[android-developers] Re: 1.6: GPS location provider stop unexpectedly (exceeded MIN_FIX_COUNT), bouncing back and forth

2009-10-23 Thread JP
(Refers to the logs) This occurs every 3s, although minTime is much higher, just as you've found. I will venture to say that this is harder on the battery than to just let GPS stand. BTW, resting a location provider this way is also mis-spec'ed. If an app registers multiple listeners for a

[android-developers] Re: 1.6: GPS location provider stop unexpectedly (exceeded MIN_FIX_COUNT), bouncing back and forth

2009-10-24 Thread JP
updates gets what it normally would. On Oct 23, 10:30 am, JP joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com wrote: (Refers to the logs) This occurs every 3s, although minTime is much higher, just as you've found. I will venture to say that this is harder on the battery than to just let GPS stand. BTW, resting

[android-developers] Re: 1.6: GPS location provider stop unexpectedly (exceeded MIN_FIX_COUNT), bouncing back and forth

2009-10-24 Thread JP
Intentionally, sure. But this is a *side effect*. On Oct 24, 9:41 am, Christine christine.kar...@gmail.com wrote: You can choke the foreground app anyway, if you want to. But you don't - I guess. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[android-developers] Re: 1.6: GPS location provider stop unexpectedly (exceeded MIN_FIX_COUNT), bouncing back and forth

2009-10-25 Thread JP
the location provider running (through minTime=0). This aspect looks clean after all, good. On Oct 24, 10:10 am, JP joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com wrote: Intentionally, sure. But this is a *side effect*. On Oct 24, 9:41 am, Christine christine.kar...@gmail.com wrote: You can choke

[android-developers] Re: Any word on a dev phone for motorola droid?

2009-10-25 Thread JP
goodbye to rich, meaningful apps, in all the beautiful variety, at least. JP On Oct 25, 2:17 pm, Fred Grott(Android Expert) fred.gr...@gmail.com wrote: Yes that is going to be the problem those doing cool stuff like opengl need an actual device

[android-developers] Re: Google: please change your release process

2009-10-26 Thread JP
As things seem to shape up right now, meaning Verizon/Motorola launching 2.0 and a new device cold, best we can do is to stay on our toes and uncheck Verizon on the Android Market console when time arrives. On Oct 26, 9:04 am, Peter Jeffe pje...@gmail.com wrote: The recent experience with the

[android-developers] Re: Google: please change your release process

2009-10-26 Thread JP
If this is true... insulting to those that conduct open source development truly open source. Makes me consider to change the licensing of the stuffs I've released on Apache 2.0 back to GPL. On Oct 26, 2:30 pm, wimbet wim...@gmail.com wrote: If Google likes your app, you can get early access

[android-developers] Re: Google: please change your release process

2009-10-26 Thread JP
that their apps work. Sigh sometimes I feel the Android team is run very poorly. On Oct 26, 4:22 pm, JP joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com wrote: If this is true... insulting to those that conduct open source development truly open source. Makes me consider to change the licensing of the stuffs I've

[android-developers] Re: Android 2.0

2009-10-26 Thread JP
Wouldn't that be even *more* work? Wow. Only reason I clicked on the poster's profile was to check if this was a troll. Turns out the guy has an @android.com email address. Geez unbelievable. On Oct 26, 4:44 pm, Disconnect dc.disconn...@gmail.com wrote: Ooooh, nice twist! Now its not open

[android-developers] What happened to M3's google.googlenav.Placemark and google.googlenav.Search?

2008-10-14 Thread JP
settled in the API. Has this functionality been resurrected in the current release, and if so, where are the relevant parts? JP --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post

[android-developers] Location based search

2008-10-16 Thread JP
Is location based search available in 1.0? We had classes google.googlenav.Placemark and google.googlenav.Search which provided this functionality in the M3 SDK. The built-in Maps app still offers this feature. Has this been cut off, or have I just not been able to locate it in the current SDK?

[android-developers] Re: How to measure time interval for certain process?

2008-10-20 Thread JP
Not Android-specific; perhaps System.currentTimeMillis() delivers for you. On Oct 20, 5:53 am, Andy Quan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Anybody knows how to measure time interval for certain process rather than CPU elapsed time? I have noticed there is a class named

[android-developers] Catch G1 keyboard open/close

2008-10-26 Thread JP
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[android-developers] Re: Catch G1 keyboard open/close

2008-10-26 Thread JP
, 2008 at 9:22 AM, JP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could not find anything in the documentation that describes how to catch the open/close of the phones's keyboard. I am trying to catch this in order to avoid a stop sent to my app, and more importantly, keep the display in portray when the user

[android-developers] Re: Allocation too large for this process

2008-10-26 Thread JP
On Sep 12, 1:39 pm, Zach Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm able to randomly reproduce a situation that crashes my application. Does this mean that my application is using too much memory? Correct. All it takes are memory requests for a few large bitmaps and you're out.

[android-developers] RC-29: access to 3G data network going down after onResume()?

2008-11-03 Thread JP
Anybody willing to check out a problem I found on the G1 I have? When testing the app I am working on, I am mainly using WLAN in order to have relatively constant up-/download characteristics (speed/ latency). No need to weight T-mobile's network down either. One concern is the coming back to

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

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

[android-developers] Re: Request for developers HTC G1 (T-Mobile) review

2008-11-07 Thread JP
I can't necessarily fill you in on the categories, but here's my take (including the occasional reference to other devel platform I've worked with) The good - I found Dalvik is completely adhering to original Java SE. Pretty sensational in my view. - SDK capabilities far surpass anyhting else

[android-developers] Re: Connect Android application to internet

2008-11-08 Thread JP
Documentation here: http://code.google.com/android/devel/security.html You need to set permission.INTERNET in your AndroidManifest.xml On Nov 8, 10:55 am, Cattivik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My android application must connect to the internet but didn't connect. Exampe:

[android-developers] Re: How to sync Overlay.draw() with screen refresh cycle?

2008-11-09 Thread JP
Hmm, thanks (on a Sunday no less) - I guess I'll have to double check my drawing routines On Nov 9, 10:46 am, Romain Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Drawing on Android is always synced with the screen refreshes. On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 10:30 AM, JP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The regular screen

[android-developers] How to sync Overlay.draw() with screen refresh cycle?

2008-11-09 Thread JP
not find anything like this in the documentation or in the forum - anybody got any tips? JP --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[android-developers] Re: How to handle a long press on a mapview/map overlay

2008-11-13 Thread JP
Using TouchEvent is totally simple. I am using it to determine a long tap. It's a one-liner. On Nov 13, 9:48 am, Amos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can probably implement this in the onTouchEvent method - but I don't want to reinvent the wheel if there's already a way to do this. Any ideas?

[android-developers] Orientation of native zoom controls based on screen alignment left/right/bottom?

2008-11-13 Thread JP
I am having difficulty finding the right button to control the orientation of the native zoom controls such that they properly align with the left or right border of the screen; I use the zoom controls in a MapView. Below the (standard fare) XML layout. I can push the native zoom controls into

[android-developers] Re: Location-based Service APIs

2008-11-19 Thread JP
On Nov 19, 5:55 am, salman.geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have got the coordinates provided by the Mock location as mentioned in the Api but please Help me in making DIrect communication with the GPS. That's what I did, and I have not found a problem with accessing the GPS location

[android-developers] MyLocationOverlay - change provider criteria?

2008-11-20 Thread JP
After testing MyLocationOverlay a little I am under the impression it is following the strategy of selecting the best location provider following the Maps app strategy. This means, If GPS is enabled by the user, the preferred location provider will be GPS, selected in preference to wireless

[android-developers] MyLocationOverlay monopolizing location updates?

2008-11-21 Thread JP
is enabled? Or am I doing something wrong? JP --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[android-developers] Re: Anyone able to get streetview working?

2008-11-22 Thread JP
On Sep 30, 10:01 am, zl25drexel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone able to get streetview working? Yes, it took a little experimenting with the parameters. Here's a snippet, hope it helps - snip --- Intent myIntent = new

[android-developers] Re: How do i detect the click of home button?

2008-11-23 Thread JP
It is possible to catch the home button, but as Jeff pointed out, this is not good practice. If you need to do clean-up work before you let the app complete, override onPause(), onStop() and/or onDestroy() On Nov 22, 11:22 pm, for android [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to know how do i detect

[android-developers] Re: Flaky network connections

2008-11-24 Thread JP
I am working on an app with similar requirements and behavior. 15 seconds polling cycle to XML server. (User can set it, so user decides the level of load (;-)) I've had similar problems as you describe, and here's a couple of strategies I've employed successfully (i.e. surviving multiple test

[android-developers] Re: Google: please change your release process

2009-10-27 Thread JP
You are right of course, that was meant to include a kill switch to float temporarily for some intelligence gathering. On Oct 27, 2:12 am, MrChaz mrchazmob...@googlemail.com wrote: That's a slippy slope to start on JP, not long until we're building for vendor specific custom OS's

[android-developers] Re: Google: please change your release process

2009-10-27 Thread JP
Sure, the apk's will execute. Beyond that: How do you know the apps perform? You should know better. On Oct 27, 7:12 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: SenseUI build Apps do not need a dedicated build for HTC Sense. MotoBlur build Apps do not need a dedicated build for

[android-developers] Re: Google: please change your release process

2009-10-27 Thread JP
OK, this is one: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.0.html#api is OBE. After review of the documented changes to 2.0, I know already my 1.6- based releases will break. Verizon's off the list now to buy some time... On Oct 27, 5:19 am, JP joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com wrote: You

[android-developers] Re: Google: please change your release process

2009-10-27 Thread JP
OBE = overcome by events... Meant to say that the release of 2.0 has made some of the discussion irrelevant. On Oct 27, 10:06 am, Disconnect dc.disconn...@gmail.com wrote: OBE? On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:03 PM, JP joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com wrote: OK, this is one: http

[android-developers] Re: Android 2.0

2009-10-27 Thread JP
Sorry if we hurt your feelings, but if you can't take the heat, then this indeed might not be for you. Outside of that I agree with Disconnect. We all like to think we're done in one step but the reality is a different one. From what I can gather, the Android team has lost the community by

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