Re: [android-developers] Re: Nexus 7 has no menu button?

2012-09-19 Thread Keith Wiley
! On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 2:47:56 PM UTC-7, Fran wrote: What's your app? Is on Google play? On Sep 19, 2012 11:36 PM, Keith Wiley kbw...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Well, that's fair. I'm not denying the the current release is a little old and targets older SDKs. The app could

Re: [android-developers] Re: Nexus 7 has no menu button?

2012-09-19 Thread Keith Wiley
: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Keith Wiley kbw...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: I'll have to try to find a Nexus to test it on myself to be absolutely certain of the circumstances. Or, test it on an emulator where you have disabled support for the MENU button. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons

Re: [android-developers] Re: Nexus 7 has no menu button?

2012-09-19 Thread Keith Wiley
no menu button? What's your app? Is on Google play? On Sep 19, 2012 11:36 PM, Keith Wiley kbw...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Well, that's fair. I'm not denying the the current release is a little old and targets older SDKs. The app could certainly benefit from some sprucing up. However

Re: [android-developers] Re: Nexus 7 has no menu button?

2012-09-19 Thread Keith Wiley
: Why it needs permission to call phone numbers? I rather like to try it on my N7, but no with such permission, indeed. On Sep 19, 2012 11:53 PM, Keith Wiley kbw...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Shead Spreet Lite. I would also be curious about WildSpectra Mobile Lite. Since they are built

Re: [android-developers] Re: Nexus 7 has no menu button?

2012-09-19 Thread Keith Wiley
Thanks. On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:14:11 PM UTC-7, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Keith Wiley kbw...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Shead Spreet Lite. I would also be curious about WildSpectra Mobile Lite. Since they are built in very

Re: [android-developers] Re: Nexus 7 has no menu button?

2012-09-19 Thread Keith Wiley
, September 19, 2012 3:31:30 PM UTC-7, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Keith Wiley kbw...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: The ability to jump to the phone dialer was a specific user request (not even my idea) to enable users to tap phone numbers in spread

Re: [android-developers] Re: Nexus 7 has no menu button?

2012-09-19 Thread Keith Wiley
it. On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:09:30 PM UTC-7, Fran wrote: Why it needs permission to call phone numbers? I rather like to try it on my N7, but no with such permission, indeed. On Sep 19, 2012 11:53 PM, Keith Wiley kbw...@gmail.com wrote: Shead Spreet Lite. I would also be curious about

[android-developers] Market device-filtering question

2012-03-17 Thread Keith Wiley
I realize this question is more about the market than android code development, but by Google's own admission they have completely shut down the market forums coincident with the switch to Google Play, and my question *is* about how to properly configure an app for the market, so that's sort of a

[android-developers] Re: Market device-filtering question

2012-03-18 Thread Keith Wiley
/guide/topics/manifest/uses-feature-eleme... On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Keith Wiley kbwi...@gmail.com wrote: I realize this question is more about the market than android code development, but by Google's own admission they have completely shut down the market forums coincident

[android-developers] Re: Market device-filtering question

2012-03-18 Thread Keith Wiley
On Mar 18, 8:48 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Keith Wiley kbwi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for responding.  Here's my permission list:        uses-permission android:name=android.permission.INTERNET /        uses-permission android:name

[android-developers] Re: Market device-filtering question

2012-03-18 Thread Keith Wiley
Looks like this is the trick: uses-feature android:name=android.hardware.telephony android:required=false / ...plus a few related entries for location access, etc. Thanks again. Cheers! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To

[android-developers] Logcat is broken every time phone is unplugged

2012-01-14 Thread Keith Wiley
Every time the phone is unplugged from USB, the logcat is permanently corrupted in that the when the phone is reconnected, logcat does not reestablish. Restarting an app, either in debug or run mode produces zero logcat output after that point. Closing the logcat window view and reopening it has

[android-developers] Re: Logcat is broken every time phone is unplugged

2012-01-14 Thread Keith Wiley
mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: I haven't seen that on any of my devices. What's the phone? On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Keith Wiley kbwi...@gmail.com wrote: Every time the phone is unplugged from USB, the logcat is permanently corrupted in that the when the phone is reconnected

[android-developers] Re: Logcat is broken every time phone is unplugged

2012-01-14 Thread Keith Wiley
Hmmm, okay. I don't have one that fits the G1's connecter, but I'll consider the suggestion. Sigh. On Jan 14, 12:47 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Perhaps try a different micro USB cable. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

[android-developers] Run mode engages debug mode!

2012-01-18 Thread Keith Wiley
I have generally run in either run mode or debug mode depending on my needs, using the former if I want to see the app run considerably faster but still observe the logcat. All of a sudden, out of the blue, run mode starts in debug mode every time. I have to click the detach button to get it

[android-developers] Re: Logcat is broken every time phone is unplugged

2012-01-24 Thread Keith Wiley
The following appears in the Console window when I plug the usb cable into the phone. Any ideas? [2012-01-24 18:27:21 - Unexpected error while launching logcat. Try reselecting the device.] device not found com.android.ddmlib.AdbCommandRejectedException: device not found at

[android-developers] avds not visible

2012-03-10 Thread Keith Wiley
My app is built against the 3.0 SDK (which I think is the equivalent of android 11 or something like that, I can't keep these numbers straight) but the manifest specifies merely min sdk 3 and target sdk 4 (3 should be 1.6 if I recall correctly). I have a phone running 2.3.3. and I have various

[android-developers] Re: avds not visible

2012-03-10 Thread Keith Wiley
Whoops, like I said, the manifest specifies min 3 and target 4. That's OS 1.5 and 1.6 respectively. I suggest 3 was 1.6 earlier which is incorrect. -- 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] -audio coreaudio no longer works

2012-03-10 Thread Keith Wiley
I used to be able to simulate audio recording in the emulator by passing in -audio coreaudio. Something has changed though (I've undergone several SDK updates of course) and now my app doesn't get any audio. It initializes AudioRecord just fine but each call to mAudioRecord.read() leaves the

[android-developers] Re: -audio coreaudio no longer works

2012-03-10 Thread Keith Wiley
Sorry, I figured it out. I had to edit the AVD and explicitly add audio support to the parameters. I don't recall doing that before, but it made sense when I saw it. Head's up to anyone else having similar problems. Cheers! On Mar 10, 7:51 pm, Keith Wiley kbwi...@gmail.com wrote: I used

[android-developers] Custom contextual menu options don't appear

2011-08-07 Thread Keith Wiley
I am getting bug reports from a very small number of users (two so far) that my custom contextual menu options don't appear and are therefore unavailable. This is in an app that has been around for several years and has an installed customer base of around 130,000. I have only had two such bug

[android-developers] Re: Custom contextual menu options don't appear

2011-08-15 Thread Keith Wiley
I hate to do a bump, but this is a real error (two independent reports) and it definitely phone or model specific (1000s of people have never reported any such error even though it would be obvious to practically anyone who tried to use the app for more than a few minutes). I don't know what

[android-developers] Re: Custom contextual menu options don't appear

2011-08-15 Thread Keith Wiley
I see the other thread now. I'll pick it up from there. 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] Detect AdMob AdView tap?

2012-10-04 Thread Keith Wiley
I would like to detect (and then pass on through) AdMob clicks but I'm not sure how to do this. My efforts so far have not been entirely fruitful. Has anyone done this before? I overrode the AdView class and detected touch events in onInterceptEvent(), but only tap events actually trigger an

[android-developers] Does Android cache http-requested data?

2012-10-14 Thread Keith Wiley
Does Android cache http-requested data? I keep a small text file with various app-settings on my webserver. When my app launches, it sends an http request to my webserver to grab the text file and retrieve the settings. This enables me to update the settings of an app installed on a phone in

Re: [android-developers] Does Android cache http-requested data?

2012-10-14 Thread Keith Wiley
Thanks, I'll definitely look into that. I can see that it the cache value is set to true but I can't test whether turning it off fixes the problem right now. I'll try it later. That seems like a very strong possibility for this issue. Thanks again. -- You received this message because you

[android-developers] Re: Does Android cache http-requested data?

2012-10-14 Thread Keith Wiley
Thanks for the great feedback on this everyone! -- 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] Is the 'back' button still kosher?

2012-11-01 Thread Keith Wiley
My understanding is that modern Android best practice is to not use the system-level menu button or system-level options menu anymore since such buttons are frequently difficult to access or even absent on some devices. I have gutted all menu access from my app as a result (I admit, it is

Re: [android-developers] Is the 'back' button still kosher?

2012-11-02 Thread Keith Wiley
:41 AM, Keith Wiley kbw...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: My understanding is that modern Android best practice is to not use the system-level menu button or system-level options menu anymore since such buttons are frequently difficult to access or even absent on some devices. I have gutted

[android-developers] (Http)URLConnection.setUseCaches(false) isn't working

2012-11-02 Thread Keith Wiley
A few weeks ago I mentioned that I was experiencing unwanted http caching (I mentioned it here because I wasn't sure if the cause of the problem was the Android OS performing the caching in a way that didn't make sense to me). At the time, it was suggested that I experiment with getUseCaches()

[android-developers] Re: (Http)URLConnection.setUseCaches(false) isn't working

2012-11-02 Thread Keith Wiley
I guess one solution that seems to show promise is appending an unused randomized GET variable to the end of the URL. That seems pretty hackish though. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [android-developers] Is the 'back' button still kosher?

2012-11-02 Thread Keith Wiley
AM UTC-7, latimerius wrote: On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Mark Murphy mmu...@commonsware.comjavascript: wrote: On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Keith Wiley kbw...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: All right. I brought this up a few weeks ago on this list and some of the advice

[android-developers] Re: (Http)URLConnection.setUseCaches(false) isn't working

2012-11-02 Thread Keith Wiley
WiFi or your phone's data connection? I saw this strange issue with this Origami Iris game where it would somehow load a page from the cache if I used my MetroPCS connection. Didn't happen on Wifi though. Very weird. On Friday, November 2, 2012 1:27:38 AM UTC-5, Keith Wiley wrote

Re: [android-developers] Re: (Http)URLConnection.setUseCaches(false) isn't working

2012-11-02 Thread Keith Wiley
I haven't considered testing different kinds of connections...I figured the phone was responsible for the caching and the issue was unrelated to the connection...but I could test it. For that matter, it could be the fault of the particular phone (perhaps this phone caches http data without

[android-developers] Re: (Http)URLConnection.setUseCaches(false) isn't working

2012-11-03 Thread Keith Wiley
and/or response: Your android client app' request: If-None-Match: **, If-Modified-Since: **, If-Unmodified-Since: ** Your server's response: Cache-Control: *no-cache*, ETag: *x* On Friday, November 2, 2012 2:40:57 AM UTC-4, Keith Wiley wrote: I guess one solution that seems to show

[android-developers] ProGuard docs are inconsistent with the actual config files

2012-11-11 Thread Keith Wiley
I'm working off these instructions, which as you can see are a proper and formal component of the official Android dev docs: *http://developer.android.com/tools/help/proguard.html* (Side-note: that file has no date written on it and no applicable Android SDK version written on it; it is

[android-developers] You need to enter a valid Youtube address.

2012-11-18 Thread Keith Wiley
I realize this issue is not really about Android development, but ever since the Android Market Forum went away, I have not been sure where developers should discuss Google Play Store administration problems. If you know a better place than this group, please politely inform me, I would

[android-developers] Re: You need to enter a valid Youtube address.

2012-11-19 Thread Keith Wiley
Incidentally, I don't think the problem is my video. For example, I found another app on the market, not my app, which had a video. I attempted to attach the youtube URL to that video to my app (just to test of course) and I got the same error. Presumably, the URL format in my first post in

[android-developers] Re: You need to enter a valid Youtube address.

2012-11-19 Thread Keith Wiley
I also tried the youtube short URL, btw, i.e., http://youtu.be/XXX. http://youtu.be/KmBVrga0mGw -- 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

Re: [android-developers] You need to enter a valid Youtube address.

2012-11-19 Thread Keith Wiley
On Monday, November 19, 2012 3:13:32 AM UTC-8, TreKing wrote: Does this occur on both the old console and the new version they're working on? That's an excellent question. Unfortunately, I can't test it. When I revert to the old system I can't see the new app I am preparing at

Re: [android-developers] Re: You need to enter a valid Youtube address.

2012-11-19 Thread Keith Wiley
I couldn't get that to work. Did you add it using the old console system or the new one? On Monday, November 19, 2012 1:08:14 AM UTC-8, Ralph Bergmann wrote: Am 19.11.12 09:39, schrieb Keith Wiley: I also tried the youtube short URL, btw, i.e., http://youtu.be/XXX . http

Re: [android-developers] You need to enter a valid Youtube address.

2012-11-19 Thread Keith Wiley
On Monday, November 19, 2012 3:13:32 AM UTC-8, TreKing wrote: Does this occur on both the old console and the new version they're working on? God! That was a good suggestion, but it didn't work. I recreated my entire app in the old system (so now it is duplicated with an in-progress

[android-developers] Re: You need to enter a valid Youtube address.

2012-11-19 Thread Keith Wiley
So, I have sort of found the problem and solution. This is really really weird. If I type a youtube address into FireFox or click on a youtube clip in youtube to go to that video, it automatically forwards to https even if I start with http. If I copy/paste the https URL into the dev

[android-developers] Best approach for incorporating in-app purchase demo code into real project.

2012-11-30 Thread Keith Wiley
The 'Dungeons' demo code goes to some length to emphasize the security issues involved in implementing in-app purchases. One thing it makes some issue of is being careful about dropping the demo code into an existing project as opposed to reimplementing it from scratch (ugh). I'm using

[android-developers] Re: Best approach for incorporating in-app purchase demo code into real project.

2012-11-30 Thread Keith Wiley
*CodeDefender* - *ProGuard*. Sorry for the confusion. -- 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] How do other developers handle IAP refunds on unmanaged purchases?

2012-12-03 Thread Keith Wiley
I'm trying to design a policy for processing (or refusing) refunds for unmanaged in-app purchases. Refunds for managed purchases are quite simple in concept since the app can simply unflip the bit that the managed purchase corresponds to. If you granted access to higher levels, you can

[android-developers] Re: How do other developers handle IAP refunds on unmanaged purchases?

2012-12-03 Thread Keith Wiley
On Monday, December 3, 2012 12:45:33 PM UTC-8, Brill Pappin wrote: Tough one and something I'm about to get into myself. As a rule we simply give anyone a refund who asks, but in app, unmanaged purchased would be much tougher to handle. Sure, I always refund actual baseline app purchases

[android-developers] Re: How do other developers handle IAP refunds on unmanaged purchases?

2012-12-03 Thread Keith Wiley
Thanks! I really appreciate you sharing that with us. I suppose part of my problem is that I'm not sure what the refund experience is like from the user's end. I'm not even sure *how* an IAP refund is requested. Since I know it isn't supported proper through Google Play (as opposed to app

[android-developers] Re: When can every developer reply to reviews?

2012-12-04 Thread Keith Wiley
I'm a little confused. You posted your question on 11/29. As far as I could tell, this feature went into effect sometime around the end of November for me. I realize all the primo developers got this six months ago, but I assume that when it suddenly clicked on for me last week that it also

Re: [android-developers] Re: When can every developer reply to reviews?

2012-12-04 Thread Keith Wiley
On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 4:07:47 PM UTC-8, TreKing wrote: On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Keith Wiley kbw...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Hmm ... it might be better for my business if I don't get this feature ... :D Don't respond to comments: - Within an hour of first noticing

[android-developers] 2 really simple Google Wallet / in-app purchase questions

2012-12-13 Thread Keith Wiley
To test in-app purchases I need to create a second google account and add it as a test account through the dev console. I also have to attach a credit card to the account through Google Wallet so it can actually purchase my in-app items. Question: Google Wallet's webpage seems to have some

Re: [android-developers] 2 really simple Google Wallet / in-app purchase questions

2012-12-13 Thread Keith Wiley
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[android-developers] Testing in-app purchases is incompatible with monotonically increasing Android versions

2012-12-15 Thread Keith Wiley
I'm debugging in-app purchases. This requires me to create the app profile on the console and upload the apk (but not necessarily publish it). With an invited test gmail account, I can then test in-app purchases. The problem is, there is no way to upload changes to the app if I have to fix

Re: [android-developers] Testing in-app purchases is incompatible with monotonically increasing Android versions

2012-12-15 Thread Keith Wiley
need to increment but the versionName is the one the user sees and that one can be whatever you like afaik. On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Keith Wiley kbw...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: I'm debugging in-app purchases. This requires me to create the app profile on the console

Re: [android-developers] Testing in-app purchases is incompatible with monotonically increasing Android versions

2012-12-16 Thread Keith Wiley
Aaaah, I see now. Okay. 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] In-app purchase: Connection between merchant console and app?

2012-12-17 Thread Keith Wiley
The merchant console offers two ways to undo an order. You can cancel entire order or you can refund some money, that letter often being disabled or otherwise unavailable on recent purchases. When the developer/seller uses each of these options, what should be the corresponding signal back to

[android-developers] How to delete app in new console

2012-12-18 Thread Keith Wiley
In the old console, if you delete the last APK, the entire app goes away...for better or worse. However, in the new console there appears to be no way at all to delete an app. Is this correct? Is my console now littered with unintended apps that will persist forever? I have a version of

[android-developers] Re: How to delete app in new console

2012-12-19 Thread Keith Wiley
Where in the app manager is there a delete-app command? I honestly don't see it. -- 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

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to delete app in new console

2012-12-20 Thread Keith Wiley
I don't think we're having the same conversation here. I'm not talking about anything on the phone at all. I'm talking about the web console Android developers use to manage their apps in Google Play. I'm honestly surprised no one else has chimed in on this discussion. It seems like a

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to delete app in new console

2012-12-20 Thread Keith Wiley
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense I suppose. I haven't tried unpublishing a previously published app because I don't have a good candidate at the current time, but I do know that draft or otherwise as-yet unpublished apps offer no obvious method for removal...in stark contrast with the old

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to delete app in new console

2012-12-21 Thread Keith Wiley
it was published, but it is certainly different from the new console in this regard. On Friday, December 21, 2012 5:47:24 AM UTC-8, TreKing wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Keith Wiley kbw...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: .in stark contrast with the old console which could explicitly

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to delete app in new console

2012-12-22 Thread Keith Wiley
On Friday, December 21, 2012 6:02:10 PM UTC-8, TreKing wrote: It's also fantastic because the new app made in the new console doesn't appear in the old console, so you can't delete it that way. Womp womp. YEP! I've noticed that too. It defies rationalization. Sigh. -- You received

[android-developers] Did Google just kill MobFox?

2013-08-27 Thread Keith Wiley
I admit I haven't logged into my developer console in a few days, but when I did this morning I saw a message that there are new guidelines to agree to and that existing apps not in compliance might be removed 30 days hence (less than 30 since I missed a few days). Part of the new agreement

[android-developers] Re: Did Google just kill MobFox?

2013-08-27 Thread Keith Wiley
Fair enough. Thanks for the info. That leaves me rather confused though. What is the point of third party systems like MobFox? How do they work? Is their entire business model predicated on hoping confused developers such as myself will accidentally violate the Google TOS? That strikes me

[android-developers] Re: Did Google just kill MobFox?

2013-08-27 Thread Keith Wiley
WAIT. Oh man am I confused. I'm sorry. I use MobFox for my in-app ads (as opposed to whatever ad system Google supports, AdMob I believe), but my in-app purchases are processed using Google. Yeesh! In fact, IIRC, I coded up both MobFox and AdMob ads and can switch to use either, both, or

Re: [android-developers] Re: Did Google just kill MobFox?

2013-08-27 Thread Keith Wiley
Like I said in an earlier response, I was confusing in-app ads and in-app purchases. This entire thread (my original question) is essentially invalid. Please disregard. Sorry. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to

Re: [android-developers] Physical address is required for paid apps or in-app purchases

2014-09-19 Thread Keith Wiley
I didn't see it either. I think the description is that it will appear by the 30th, so presumably the settings page is going to change and have a physical address space in the next few weeks. After that, I guess anyone can look up where I live and come by and harass me at my home, so, that'll

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