[android-developers] Re: Mediastore Thumbnails not generated until Gallery app is launched ?

2009-10-08 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hello, thanks for this, I have been also browsing the Camera app code which hosts the Gallery and considering to hack something in order to achieve an additional goal. In my view of thumbnails management, the thumbnail generation itself should be handled by the system. I don't think Android

[android-developers] Re: Mediastore Thumbnails not generated until Gallery app is launched ?

2009-10-08 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Great ! - can we ask for a roadmap ? - Thanks On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Marco Nelissen marc...@android.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Kevin Gaudin kevin.gau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, thanks for this, I have been also browsing the Camera app code which hosts

[android-developers] Open source devs, read this... someone might try to make money with your project

2010-08-09 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hi, I am the developer of the GPL application EmailAlbum (http:// emailalbum.googlecode.com) and the library ACRA (http:// acra.googlecode.com) which allows application to send crash reports to google docs spreadsheets. For a few weeks, my ACRA spreadsheet for EmailAlbum has been receiving a few

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

2010-04-22 Thread Kevin Gaudin
They might be upgrading all our European phones to FroYo... *time to sleep... sweet dreams...* On 22 avr, 10:56, mscwd01 mscw...@gmail.com wrote: I received the usual response from Google today saying there were issues which are now resolved. Again, I was given the your phone should arrive in

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

2010-04-23 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Having them SAY that they sent the devices doesn't mean they DID... if something bigger needs to be hidden this is just a partial lie. What I understood is that they sent all the devices... to their logistic partner. This partner may still have the ability to package/update devices before sending

[android-developers] Re: How many Android phones have touchscreens?

2010-04-23 Thread Kevin Gaudin
My HTC Magic has been slowly losing it's touch-screen sensitivity after an accidental... chocolate absorbtion. Now, having been forced to use an 1.6 android phone with only D-Pad, I can assure you that there are some issues : - The PIN input can't be used without a touch screen : the digits never

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

2010-04-29 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Nexus One received in France ! No FroYo but a french power adapter :) Sent by Brightpoint from netherland via France Express. THANK YOU GOOGLE On 29 avr, 07:36, Jompe71 jonas.ahnl...@bostream.nu wrote: -The only way to get a free phone from Apple is to go and get a drink with Gray

[android-developers] Re: Feedback Experiment active in the developer console

2010-05-01 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hello, It disappeared on my account too. While they're fixing all the details of official crash reporting, you might have a look at this project: http://acra.googlecode.com It sends crash reports to a Google Doc form so you don't need any server on your side and get notified of new crashes by

[android-developers] Droid requires specific permission to read GMail attachments ???

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hello, My application, called EmailAlbum, deals with sending and receiveing e- mail attachments (basically archive files). The app runs successfully on most android 1.5+ devices with GMail app installed (including my brand new Nexus One), and now I receive crash reports on opening GMail

[android-developers] Re: Droid requires specific permission to read GMail attachments ???

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Thank you for your answer. I understand that the GMail app is not part of the SDK and that it can be more secure to inform the user that an app will be able to read it's mail attachments... But it's quite surprising to learn about this new permission requirement in a crash-report for one

[android-developers] Re: Droid requires specific permission to read GMail attachments ???

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Gaudin
I just declared a default view intent-filter for archive mime-types... and this is GMail which is calling my Activity, providing a content:// Uri to the attachment. When I try to open that attachment, I am now asked for a permission... this is quite odd. My code is called the same way by any

[android-developers] Re: Droid requires specific permission to read GMail attachments ???

2010-05-03 Thread Kevin Gaudin
And NOW, I am forced to include that exotic private READ_GMAIL permission to my Manifest. Kevin On 4 mai, 00:43, Kevin Gaudin kevin.gau...@gmail.com wrote: I just declared a default view intent-filter for archive mime-types... and this is GMail which is calling my Activity, providing a content

[android-developers] Crash Reports - ACRA new stable version

2010-12-27 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hi, fellow Android applications developers, Here is an update on the ACRA project. (See http://acra.googlecode.com) For those of you who would not know ACRA, this is an open source library under Apache license allowing your application to send crash reports to a Google Spreadsheet. Works on all

[android-developers] Re: Crash Reports - ACRA new stable version

2010-12-27 Thread Kevin Gaudin
wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Kevin Gaudin kevin.gau...@gmail.com wrote: All comments and new ideas about ACRA are welcome ! You have one ACRA feature that, IMHO, is huge: the ability to post the errors somewhere other than a Google Spreadsheet via the formUri parameter. However

[android-developers] Crash Reports - new version of ACRA available for tests

2010-11-19 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hello Android Devs ! Here comes a new major version of ACRA. For those who do not know ACRA (Application Crash Reports for Android), this is an opensource (Apache licence) library allowing your application to send crash reports to a simple Google Docs spreadsheet. You should go to the project

[android-developers] Application Crash Reporting made easy - needs testers

2010-05-17 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hello, I would like to introduce you to a library called ACRA (Application Crash Reporting for Android). http://acra.googlecode.com The goal of this library is to provide android applications developers with a tool to let their applications send them crash reports the easiest possible way. One

[android-developers] Re: Application Crash Reporting made easy - needs testers

2010-05-17 Thread Kevin Gaudin
It is and will stay published as an open source project under Apache license. So you are free to use it in any app, free or not, open source or not. Please test it and let us know your feedback/issues ! ;-) Kevin On 17 mai, 22:18, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.com wrote: On May 17, 8:39 

[android-developers] Re: Application Crash Reporting made easy - needs testers

2010-05-19 Thread Kevin Gaudin
://code.google.com/p/acra/wiki/ACRAHowTo2 Kevin On 18 mai, 02:57, Kevin Gaudin kevin.gau...@gmail.com wrote: It is and will stay published as an open source project under Apache license. So you are free to use it in any app, free or not, open source or not. Please test it and let us know your feedback

[android-developers] Re: Feedback Experiment active in the developer console

2010-05-19 Thread Kevin Gaudin
mai, 09:32, Kevin Gaudin kevin.gau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, It disappeared on my account too. While they're fixing all the details of official crash reporting, you might have a look at this project:http://acra.googlecode.com It sends crash reports to a Google Doc form so you don't

[android-developers] Re: Feedback Experiment active in the developer console

2010-05-19 Thread Kevin Gaudin
In France. On May 19, 3:58 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Kevin Gaudin kevin.gau...@gmail.comwrote: I know of two devices (including mine) where the report button has appeared. Where, exactly

[android-developers] Re: Feedback Experiment active in the developer console

2010-05-19 Thread Kevin Gaudin
And the button appeared in the Force Close dialog. Kevin On May 19, 3:58 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Kevin Gaudin kevin.gau...@gmail.comwrote: I know of two devices (including mine) where the report button has appeared. Where, exactly

[android-developers] Re: Feedback Experiment active in the developer console

2010-05-20 Thread Kevin Gaudin
, nor am I on a plan where I would be receiving updates from the carrier.  Curious... On May 19, 10:10 pm, Kevin Gaudin kevin.gau...@gmail.com wrote: And the button appeared in the Force Close dialog. Kevin On May 19, 3:58 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010

[android-developers] Re: Application Crash Reporting made easy - needs testers

2010-05-20 Thread Kevin Gaudin
crashes on foo-phone-1-star- comments. :) I'm eager to take a look into the sources as well, they should be available by google code subversion access, isn't it? If you need any specific feedback, help or similar, please let me know! Cheers, Tobias On 19 Mai, 07:59, Kevin Gaudin kevin.gau

[android-developers] Re: Application Crash Reporting made easy - needs testers

2010-05-20 Thread Kevin Gaudin
to the user?  Is there a way to send a silent report? Or will the user get notified event though we are in a try catch? Thank you! Justin On May 20, 8:35 am, Kevin Gaudin kevin.gau...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Tobias for using the lib ! All the sources are available on GoogleCode's

[android-developers] Re: Multiple Window support on Android?

2010-05-21 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Android's windows implementation is not what you would expect when coming from desktop application development. If you need multiple rendering view, you'll have to manage them in only one android windows, displaying your rendering in Views rendered in a Layout. Kevin On May 21, 8:11 am, Karthik

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Developer Console Bugs feature

2010-05-21 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hello, The reporting feature has been enabled on some 2.1 devices. First, a number of Droids, and now some Nexus Ones (mine for example, and I know another one in France where I live, since the 19th of May). I don't know how this activation is done, I didn't do anything special to activate it,

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Developer Console Bugs feature

2010-05-21 Thread Kevin Gaudin
, Kevin Gaudin kevin.gau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, The reporting feature has been enabled on some 2.1 devices. First, a number of Droids, and now some Nexus Ones (mine for example, and I know another one in France where I live, since the 19th of May). I don't know how this activation

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Developer Console Bugs feature

2010-05-21 Thread Kevin Gaudin
On the preview offered by the reporting feature, there is an installed by field (or something similar) containing a package name which is com.google.android.feedback. There might be a system test on this value to send reports only for applications installed via the market. Kevin On Fri, May 21,

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Developer Console Bugs feature

2010-05-21 Thread Kevin Gaudin
The ability for bug reporting has been added to AOSP 1 year ago : https://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=commit;h=f5b9c72022f574417862e064cc0fdd8ea2d846dc Now I have some serious things to test to detect the availability of error reporting. :-) Kevin On May 21, 12:45 

Re: [android-developers] Re: Application Crash Reporting made easy - needs testers

2010-05-21 Thread Kevin Gaudin
! Justin On May 20, 6:46 pm, Kevin Gaudin kevin.gau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Justin, handleException() handles your caught exceptions exactly the same way uncaught exceptions are handled, so if you configured ACRA to notify the user when an error occurs, you will issue a notification

Re: [android-developers] Re: Application Crash Reporting made easy - needs testers

2010-05-24 Thread Kevin Gaudin
that already have a main Activity class defined? It's really the extends org.* bit that's throwing it off, since classes can only extend from one other class... Thanks— Garen On May 17, 9:39 am, Kevin Gaudin kevin.gau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I would like to introduce you to a library

Re: [android-developers] Re: Application Crash Reporting made easy - needs testers

2010-05-24 Thread Kevin Gaudin
...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reply Kevin, I guess my feedback would be to add an option within your API to send a silent report. :) Thanks again! Justin On May 20, 6:46 pm, Kevin Gaudin kevin.gau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Justin, handleException() handles your caught exceptions

[android-developers] Re: Crash dumps - Market vs Homegrown

2010-06-24 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hi Paul, I'm one of the ACRA devs. If your application class extends android.app.Application directly, all you have to do is to make it extend org.acra.CrashReportingApplication instead and add ACRA's overrides to your code. If you extend another third-party Application subclass, there would be

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

2010-06-25 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hi Romain, Is there a list somewhere of devices with 24Mb per process ? Is there a way to adjust this in the emulator ? Is there an API method allowing to know the total memory available for the process ? I'm writing a pictures manipulating app, and handling hires pics is hard with only 16Mb.

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

2010-06-25 Thread Kevin Gaudin
usally will stream the image through a InputStream onto disk. You can then read the image via BitmapFactory and set a inSampleSize to retrieve it. BR, Seb, starting up a WIKI for android memory issues.. On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Kevin Gaudin kevin.gau...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Romain

Re: [android-developers] Re: Photoshop.com Mobile editor now available as an Intent

2010-03-15 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Thanks for the tip, my storePicture() function was based on some code that I had read in the android camera app... and I wasn't really happy with it so I will sure modify this soon. Thanks again ! On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:54 PM, webmonkey webmonke...@gmail.com wrote: For your storePicture

[android-developers] Crash Reports - ACRA v4 beta started

2011-05-15 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hi all, I had promised it months ago... and it's finally here! I published one week ago the first beta release of ACRA v4. It finally is a v4, because there have been so many changes since ACRA 3.1 that a simple 3.2 version was just not realistic enough! The archive can be downloaded here:

[android-developers] ACRA crash reports library - upgrade required !

2011-04-26 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hi all, I just published a hot bugfix release of ACRAhttps://groups.google.com/d/msg/acra-discuss/zORUPurwZ0M/8CqaAgkVmVAJ as users reported that reports were not posted anymore since monday. This is due to a change in the way GoogleDocs handles Forms posting, now requiring the usage of

[android-developers] Re: READ_LOGS permission is not granted to 3rd party applications in Jelly Bean (api 16)

2012-08-15 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hi everyone, I'm the main developer of ACRA and just read this topic after receiving messages from devs who could not get their logcat anymore on JB devices. Until now, ACRA was checking that the READ_LOGS permission was granted before exec-ing logcat and retrieving DropBoxManager events.

[android-developers] Re: ACRA

2012-08-30 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Yes, it does. This is an open source library, so you can have a look at the source code. There is even a search engine: https://code.google.com/p/acra/source/search?q=setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandlerorigq=setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandlerbtnG=Search+Trunk If you need help regarding ACRA,

[android-developers] ACRA 4.3 Release Candidate

2012-09-01 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hi, A new ACRA version is coming and is now at the Release Candidate stage after 2 weeks of Beta: http://code.google.com/p/acra/downloads/detail?name=acra-4.3.0RC.zip It is planned to be promoted stable on the 8th of September. ACRA is a free, simple, flexible and open source library enabling

[android-developers] ACRA 4.3.0 is now the official stable version.

2012-09-07 Thread Kevin Gaudin
After 15 months of great service and more than 11700 downloads, it's time for v4.2.3 to bow out and live a new life among the deprecated releases. If you did not follow the beta phase, here's what's new in ACRA 4.3.0: * cleaned, more stable code base, reducing reports duplicates (thanks to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Invoking ACRA from within the application

2012-09-11 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hi, ACRA related questions can be best answered on the acra-discuss group. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/acra-discuss Here's what you are looking for: https://code.google.com/p/acra/wiki/AdvancedUsage#Sending_reports_for_caught_exceptions_or_for_unexpected_applicat Kevin

[android-developers] Re: UncaughtExceptionHandler

2012-09-11 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hi, This is a great answer ;-) For your information, the code which terminates the application was taken from the original android default UncaughtExceptionHandler source code. Kevin http://acra.ch On Monday, September 10, 2012 9:43:16 PM UTC+2, Lew wrote: bob wrote: Not sure if this is

[android-developers] Crash Reports - ACRA v4 is now stable

2011-07-02 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hi ! I’m really pleased to let you know that ACRA v4 is now declared stable! As usual, a quick reminder for those of you who don’t know ACRA yet: ACRA ( http://acra.googlecode.com) is an opensource library (apache license = free to use in any app) allowing your applications to send detailed

Re: [android-developers] Debugging beta apps

2013-02-22 Thread Kevin Gaudin
-development between maintaining ACRA, adding features to Acralyzer and finding some way to improve its deployment. This is a personnal open source project, any help is welcome to make the tool fit the android developers community needs. Kevin Gaudin ACRA/Acralyzer creator On Tuesday, February 19, 2013