[android-developers] Re: Starting Google Maps at pre-specified location

2010-01-19 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I am doing: new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(geo:0,0?q= + address)) On Jan 20, 3:04 am, Brion Emde brione2...@gmail.com wrote: Take a look at the Google Map Intents in this document. It is possible to construct location string and business search strings, as well as location based

[android-developers] Dialog sizing question

2010-01-19 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I have a pop-up dialog with a handful of views. When I test it on a high-res, medium density screen (480x800x160dpi), the dialog is very small, about half of the available screen width. I define the layout as such: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? LinearLayout

[android-developers] Re: iPhone to Android: Creating good Android Interfaces

2010-01-20 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
There's also no documentation around the toolbar that native Android apps use at the bottom of forms (e.g., New Contact has Done / Revert, Compose Email has Send / Save As Draft / Discard.  Is this toolbar a standard control? No, but it's not exactly hard to do. For example:

[android-developers] Re: How to increase FPS (now ~20, desired ~40-50)

2010-01-20 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I was previously involved with game emulator development. No way that the speed of the emulator for a 500+ Mhz processor will be faster on a 2GHz computer than the real device. It doesn't matter if it's dual-core or not -- processor emulation is pretty much single threaded. On Jan 21, 2:15 am,

[android-developers] Re: How to increase FPS (now ~20, desired ~40-50)

2010-01-20 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
if you must, use width 1. You gotta be kidding here -- are you saying that the Android compiler won't do this for you automatically? Even compilers 20 years ago could so such basic optimizations. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

[android-developers] Re: New AChartEngine release

2010-01-21 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Hi there, looks very cool. I don't see the license for this library? Is there one? Thanks! On Jan 21, 5:38 pm, Dan Dromereschi dandromeres...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, We are proud to announce a new release for the AChartEngine charting library. You can download it

[android-developers] Re: Two onCreate (and onDestroy) invocations on orientation chage

2010-01-22 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
On the emulator, once in a while (1 in 10 times maybe), you get two onCreate's fired on screen rotation. The 2nd one has no proper saved instance data. This is not an issue, since it's just the emulator. Testing on Nexus One: During normal orientation change, I cannot cause two onCreate

[android-developers] Re: Two onCreate (and onDestroy) invocations on orientation chage

2010-01-23 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
/android; Spinner android:id=@+id/spinner android:layout_width=wrap_content android:layout_height=wrap_content/ /merge On Jan 23, 6:56 am, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: On the emulator, once in a while (1 in 10 times maybe), you get two onCreate's fired on screen rotation.  The 2nd one

[android-developers] Re: Two onCreate (and onDestroy) invocations on orientation chage

2010-01-23 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Defect 6223 created. On Jan 23, 5:28 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: I know it's rude to reply to myself, but I create a very simple demo of this problem.  This seems to effect Spinners, but not TextViews. I am not sure how to upload the .apk, but just e-mail me for it. I tested

[android-developers] Re: Orientation change crash in tab activity with list activity.

2010-01-25 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
The crash shouldn't happen regardless. There are a bunch of problems when the orientation changes, I created two bugs reports recently. I wouldn't hold my breath for a quick fix. Obviously, the orientation change behavior hasn't been tested very well. On Jan 26, 12:12 pm, NoraBora

[android-developers] Re: How can I enable assert statement on Android?

2010-01-27 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
He's asking about the assert keyword. And no, I don't believe that works, but would love to be proven wrong. On Jan 28, 12:19 am, Brion Emde brione2...@gmail.com wrote: Did you look at that link? That is the class that let's you do assertions. If you try: Assert.assertEquals(yes, no); // you

[android-developers] Re: Orientation Change effect on Spinner control

2010-01-27 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I created a bug report for this exact same issue a few days ago. Please star it if it's important to you: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6223 On Jan 27, 6:43 pm, navlrac carl.vansch...@gmail.com wrote: Did anyone figure this out? I have the same issue. Additionally, I have a

[android-developers] Re: Comparing dates in a sqlite database

2010-01-27 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I just store a long, as returned from getTime() On Jan 28, 1:10 pm, Frank Weiss fewe...@gmail.com wrote: Another option for not-too-large databases is ISO-8601, like 20100127T134900Z, or just 20100127, etc. It's designed to sort and compare as simple strings. Downside is it takes more space in

[android-developers] Re: Comparing dates in a sqlite database

2010-01-27 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
calendar.getTimeInMillis(); } } On Jan 28, 3:16 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: I just store a long, as returned from getTime() On Jan 28, 1:10 pm, Frank Weiss fewe...@gmail.com wrote: Another option for not-too-large databases is ISO-8601, like 20100127T134900Z, or just 20100127, etc

[android-developers] Re: Comparing dates in a sqlite database

2010-01-28 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
it then use a Date object to format the output, small fast :) On Jan 27, 11:20 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I take that back I define my columns as DATETIME and then use the following static class (feel free to use it as you wish) to convert 'long' values

[android-developers] Re: EditText - maximum width

2010-01-28 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
It helps reading the documentation, but here's your answer: addFilter(view, new InputFilter.LengthFilter(maxLength)); On Jan 29, 7:00 am, android beginner android.beginne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I need to have an EditText with maximum width for 4 characters. I do not want set

[android-developers] Problem sending a file via Bluetooth

2010-01-29 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Hello, been pulling my hair out on this one: I have a ContentProvider that I use to send a file via Intent.createChooser(). If I pick eMail or GMail as the app to send vith, it's working fine, but if I pick Bluetooth, it fails with Unknown file, Failure reason: Storage issue Sending an image

[android-developers] Re: Problem sending a file via Bluetooth

2010-02-02 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Nobody has any idea? On Jan 30, 1:47 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, been pulling my hair out on this one: I have a ContentProvider that I use to send a file via Intent.createChooser(). If I pick eMail or GMail as the app to send vith, it's working fine, but if I

[android-developers] Re: What does the prefix 'm' stand for ?

2010-02-23 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
There is an option in Eclipse to force the use of 'this.' for members. I have that option set and don't use the prefix. On Feb 23, 12:39 am, Bob Kerns r...@acm.org wrote: I'm not fond of 'this.member'. It seems to combine the worst of both worlds -- an optional prefix that may or may not be

[android-developers] Restoring focus to ListView

2010-01-14 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
, but neither of these methods work. I am using API Level 7 in the Emulator. Can anyone help? Thanks, Zsolt Vasvari -- 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

[android-developers] Re: Restoring focus to ListView

2010-01-14 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: I have a ListView in a ListActivity that starts another Activity when a list item is clicked.  The 2nd Activity is a Theme.Dialog, but I don't think that matters for this purpose. I would like the visible focus restored to the ListView when I close

[android-developers] Re: Restoring focus to ListView

2010-01-15 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
at 10:33 PM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: I have a ListView in a ListActivity that starts another Activity when a list item is clicked.  The 2nd Activity is a Theme.Dialog, but I don't think that matters for this purpose. I would like the visible focus restored to the ListView

[android-developers] Re: sending around 1000 messages in batch using SMS API

2010-01-15 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Not if you are coding a spamming app. On Jan 16, 6:20 am, Michael boggess coda5...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a better alternative to sending a thousand sms  messages? On Jan 14, 1:42 pm, Hasanat Kazmi hasanatka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have G1. I write python scripts using ASE. I

[android-developers] Re: ListView touch mode click on child views

2010-01-15 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Have you tried setting focusable=true on the entire View the makes up the list item? On Jan 15, 6:07 am, Xavier j...@jxl.me wrote: Hello, This is driving me nuts. I have a ListView that uses an extended ArrayAdapterT. Each row cell.xml contains a RelativeLayout and within a few TextViews and

[android-developers] Re: List of bugs on the issue which should be marked as resolved

2010-08-05 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
The Nexus One touch bug is NOT fixed. It still happens and so is the touch screen freezing until the phone is turned off and back again. On Aug 5, 7:17 am, Gaz Davidson garethdavid...@gmail.com wrote: There's tons of bugs on the tracker which have already been fixed in 2.2 or earlier, but have

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Abusive developers...

2010-08-05 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Spam is not an issue, but the fact that legitamate apps with high ratings and many users appear AFTER the spam crap with barely a handful of downloads is a HUGE issue, IMO. I am to the point where I am close to giving up developing for the platform. On Aug 6, 5:58 am, Gene R.

[android-developers] Re: eclipse HELIOS (3.6) Code Assist very slow

2010-08-06 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
This happens with me also, only sometimes. I don't know if this is Helios or the Android stuff, but developing with Helios has more nagging issues than Galileo has. On Aug 6, 10:00 pm, Evan Ruff evan.r...@gmail.com wrote: After upgrading to Helios, my code assist is dog slow as well. I am

[android-developers] Re: How does Android handle Simplified vs. Traditional Chinese localization?

2010-08-06 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Couple of issues: - In Hong Kong, most people speak Cantonese, while in Hong Kong, they speak Mandarin. Even though they both use Traditional Chinese characters, they won't understand each other's writing. You need two sets of localization to support both. - Singapore is a bad example as no

[android-developers] Fixing warning in the project

2010-08-12 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Trying to clean my project of all warnings. I have two left: The first one is in the generated R.java; a bogus semicolon after the stylable class. Not much I can do about it. The second one is in AndroidManifest.xml: Attribute minSdkVersion (3) is lower than the project target API level (8) I

[android-developers] Re: Google browser certificate issue

2010-08-13 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Yes, you are probably right. This happens to me all the time in Singapore, or at least used to. I don't remember seeing it for the past month or so. On Aug 12, 11:44 pm, MB manoj.bi...@gmail.com wrote: My guess is that the date/time on Mathew's device is wrong.  Digital certificates have an

[android-developers] Re: Is anyone's active install % dropping like a rock lately?

2010-08-16 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I noticed the same thing. Let me share a few stats for my app. The active rate from 40% to a 32%, but at the same time the overall rating has gone up a little bit, from about 4.22 to 4.33 as shown by AppBrain, so the overall rating is more 5 stars than 4. There isn't a single bad comment

[android-developers] Re: Sharing data between (tab) activities

2010-08-16 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
The best way to share data between tabs is to NOT use activities. I am not sure what the API people were on (but I want some of it) when they thought tabbed activities should make it into the final API. On Aug 15, 4:29 pm, Filip Havlicek havlicek.fi...@gmail.com wrote: I went the database way

[android-developers] Re: Best way to swap activities

2010-08-16 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I think the built-in activity stack and flags are quite good for simple app logic, but if you have a complicated app, I'd suggest just use startActivity() and finish() on all your activities and manage the app flow yourself. This is what I do and it gives you more control over what's going on and

[android-developers] Re: convert .dex file to java back to .dex

2010-08-18 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Good luck getting help on that... On Aug 13, 1:57 pm, kevinjirbo ke...@jirbo.com wrote: I need to decompile a .dex file back into java to edit it and recompile it back into .dex. I then need to put all the files back into the .apk format. How would I do this? Thanks for helping. -- You

[android-developers] Re: Which Eclipse?

2010-08-19 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
There are so many stability problems with Helios, it's not even funny. Please do yourself a favor and use Galileo. On Aug 19, 3:25 am, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote:   There were discussions on the list regarding the interactive layout editor not working. The official site also

[android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-19 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I would have loved to have been the fly on the wall in the meeting where it was discussed that 320 characters are not enough and 330 is too much... On Aug 19, 5:09 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Natalie Hooper nataliehoo...@virginmedia.com wrote:

[android-developers] Exception in the bowels of Contact Manager?

2010-08-20 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Hello, got the error below reported to me when reading a Contact. I am clueless as to what the problem. The same code works almost every time as I've only had this one report and I've never seen it happen during testing. The query I am exectuing is simply:

[android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-20 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
This has been a good discussion. As an experiment, I just changed my description from a feature list to a clever blurb. Will report back if my sales/downloads have gone up or down. My app is in a category where I would think that features matter and people look for them. So I am guessing that

[android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-21 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Every seller of products and services on planet Earth has access to the most dizzying array of marketing tools in human history Could you elaborate, especially on the free ones? I have no marketing budget. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

[android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-21 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Thanks, Mark, very good advice. I understand about the e-mail sig, but I don't want to do that on here -- as I am truly on here only to learn and, rarely, answer questions. On Aug 21, 3:03 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv

[android-developers] Re: Must pass Context to other classes?

2010-08-22 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Yes. The more you find that you are doing this, the more you have over-engineered your object model, IMHO. I don't know, I would actually argue the opposite. IMHO, any object that doesn't need a Context or one of its super or subclasses, is not really targeting the Android platform. The

[android-developers] Re: Why is android build times so slow...

2010-08-25 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Will this be changed? Once you reach a certain size, the build time because unberable. For my app, it takes about 30 seconds to do a resource compilation on a fast Dell Studio XPS 16 laptop. I think there is a magic size as it was working fine one day and then it became slow the next, so it

[android-developers] Why is DialogPreference abstract?

2010-08-25 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
If I want to use a DialogPreference to show a pop-up dialog, for example, for a license agreement, I have to derive from DialogPreference: public class LicensePreference extends DialogPreference { public LicensePreference(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) { super(context, attrs);

[android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-27 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
So in the week that I changed my 325 characters from a feature list to a catchy blurb, my sales have doubled. So I believe in this theory that feature list don't sell. On Aug 20, 7:14 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: This has been a good discussion. As an experiment, I just changed

[android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-27 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Answers below: * Put some context around doubled.  From 1 to 2, 100 to 200, 1,000 to 2,000? From about 7-8 to about 15-16. The app is $7. So it went from probably not worth doing it to a nice chunk of pocket change. * How many cancels are in these numbers?  I've got to believe that with a

[android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-27 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Yeah, I don't know if I'd be willing to claim this entire theory is validated based on 8 more sales in one week for one app  ... 8 a day, for a week. But it the perecntage that matters. And today it's up to 19 so far. (21 - 2 cancelations) I hope you don't mind me linking, the old one is

[android-developers] Re: Is there a way to request permissions from a user as you need them?

2010-08-28 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Let me try this from an end-user perspective. Obviously, the whole permission feature was designed by a developer and, IMO, it's not a very good system in a usuability sense. As an end user, I only care one and ONLY one permission: INTERNET. I only look for that one permission and the rest is

[android-developers] Re: Android Market, google checkout minimal sum to be collected before payment.

2010-08-28 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
http://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=25400 No, you get a single payment every work day. If you don't like that schedule, because who wouldn't like 22 small deposits a month, you are out of luck. On Aug 28, 8:09 am, sblantipodi perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org wrote: no

[android-developers] Re: App breaks for some users after they update from the Market

2010-08-28 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I would bet any money that this is very clearly going to be a race condition somewhere. Your code using a static Map and the user symptoms are a dead giveaway. I think the install/reinstall and clearing the user data are red herrings. The app might work again for the user if they just ran it

[android-developers] Re: Is there a way to request permissions from a user as you need them?

2010-08-29 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Dianne, Sorry but you are wrong.  When my wife got her Droid and started installing apps, she quickly came to me asking about a game she was installing that said it would read her contact data.  She knew what that meant, and wasn't happy about it, and decided not to install the app. If my

[android-developers] Re: Android Market, google checkout minimal sum to be collected before payment.

2010-08-29 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
in just until you get the deposit? Or... maybe there is a way to disable/renable the account without removing it, so you don't have to set it up every time? My apps are free so I don't have the problem, but it seems there should be some way to do it. Brad On 28/08/2010 7:17 AM, Zsolt Vasvari

[android-developers] Re: Is there a way to request permissions from a user as you need them?

2010-08-29 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
On a somewhat related note, I decided I would try to integrate the Bump functionality into my app -- some users asked for ways to exchange transactions between phones in the family, and this seemed pretty good. But then I opened the docs and here it what it says: Add uses-permission

[android-developers] Re: App breaks for some users after they update from the Market

2010-08-30 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I don't know. Every email I've gotten and all comments in the crash reports indicate it's a consistent crash occurring 100% of the time (and in the exact same location based on the ever-growing report count for the same stack trace). Clearing the data (or uninstalling / re-installing which

[android-developers] Re: Piracy Breakdown by Country

2010-08-30 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
In my app, which has an about 3% piracy rate (Pirate == Person who uninstall is 20 mins). None of whom are from Australia, even though I have about 10 Australian paid users. So by your stat, I'd expect to see 9 of those guys (gals) to be pirates. -- You received this message because you are

[android-developers] Re: App breaks for some users after they update from the Market

2010-08-30 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
:16 AM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: I think what's happening then is that some kind of race condition corrupts your app data, after which the crash will occur every time. But the main activity that starts up and loads the user data each and every time does not crash, and the point

[android-developers] Re: App breaks for some users after they update from the Market

2010-08-30 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I am glad you solved it. How do you have your warning levels set? I have mine set to the highest possible on everything and a removed line might have been caught via unused/unitiliazed varaibles. On Aug 30, 6:49 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: PROBLEM SOLVED! Conclusion: I'm an idiot

[android-developers] Re: Piracy Breakdown by Country

2010-08-31 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Back to the main topic, the data does not show that piracy is indeed a significant problem, but shows that many non-paying users are using your app. The big question is would they have paid for your had they not been able to get hold of the pirate version. That's a very difficult question to

[android-developers] Re: layout_gravity

2010-08-31 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Honestly, I haven't met a person who really understands it well. It always seems to be a trial and error process. Layout_gravity seems especially troublesome. Where you swear it should work after the reading the docs and thinking about it, it does not. But it sometimes does. Go figure. On

[android-developers] Re: Is there a way to request permissions from a user as you need them?

2010-08-31 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I think another feature would be fantastic is combine a domain white list with Google's already existing site safety warning database. That way user would feel more comfortable with trusting apps accessing certain websites. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[android-developers] Re: App breaks for some users after they update from the Market

2010-08-31 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Me too! Probably the defaults, but I have no warnings (except the required minSDK warning) and it wouldn't have been caught anyway. The line that got removed was a simple static helper function that used the current context to delete all files in the cache directory. Removing it had no effect

[android-developers] Re: layout_gravity

2010-08-31 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
and more as it often can be used to replace several nested layouts of other types. -- Kostya 31.08.2010 14:05, Zsolt Vasvari пишет: Honestly, I haven't met a person who really understands it well.  It always seems to be a trial and error process.  Layout_gravity seems especially

[android-developers] Re: layout_gravity

2010-09-01 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I believe that layout_gravity (for LinearLayout) probably only has an effect if it specifies a direction that is orthogonal to the orientation of the layout. Ie if the LinearLayout orientation is horizontal then the only acceptable layout_gravity options fors its children are top, bottom etc

[android-developers] Galaxy Tablet and Android Market

2010-09-02 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Frankly, I was really surprised to see the Engadget video of the Samsung Galaxy Tablet having Android Market on it. I thought Google wasn't licensing it to non-phone devices, but more importantly, this tablet uses a new resolution 1024x600, whcih is a very much larger than any other Android

[android-developers] Re: Galaxy Tablet and Android Market

2010-09-02 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
your app to see how it looks. On Sep 2, 6:24 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: I thought Google wasn't licensing it to non-phone devices, but more importantly, this tablet uses a new resolution 1024x600

[android-developers] Re: Galaxy Tablet and Android Market

2010-09-02 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
On Sep 2, 7:46 am, Sam samuel.law...@gmail.com wrote: Yes you can create a custom 1024x600 AVD to run on the emulator. I have and yes it works. Do you have a keyboard and the buttons, too? I don't, so I cannot do anything that requires any button presses. -- You received this message

[android-developers] Re: Galaxy Tablet and Android Market

2010-09-03 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Thanks, Sam. My app is perfect for tablets and certainly want to support them. This brings up another question, what makes a tablet a tablet? Can I assume that all devices 5 screen size is a tablet? The default orientation is landscape? In other words, what should I use the determining factor

[android-developers] Group of views as buttonn

2010-09-03 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Before I go down the difficult path of merging some button and relative layout code, I wanted to ask if there was an easy way to group a set of controls as a focusable, clickable button? My educated guess is no... I have 3 text labels of various attributes (font size) which I would like to put

[android-developers] Re: Group of views as buttonn

2010-09-03 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Ok, thanks to the both of you. On Sep 3, 10:40 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Lance Nanek lna...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen it done for fixed size buttons entirely in XML just by using FrameLayout, which overlaps all its children. Inside the

[android-developers] Re: Develop Games

2010-09-08 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Who said this forum was moderated. No way that it is. On Sep 7, 4:39 pm, Haroon Khalid ghett...@gmail.com wrote: how do fucking emails like this get approved by moderators? dude give up on Android and slap yourself in the face.On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:54 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com

[android-developers] Re: Android App Licensing Mechanism Still Easy to Break!!

2010-09-08 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
The artcile is 2 weeks old and it's been extensively discussed here. Maybe changing your nickname should be in order. On Sep 5, 6:30 am, mastermind rinees...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Guys... Just came over this news...and thought of sharing with you people According to Android Police,

[android-developers] Re: Best practise for storing app. Configuration

2010-04-09 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I wouldn't try to optimize my code by storing stuff in static variables unless you have proof that it's causing a performace issue. I have a PrefUtil class very similar to yours, but it just retrieves the SharedPreferences object every time. On Apr 10, 5:56 am, Bob Kerns r...@acm.org wrote:

[android-developers] Re: Database insertion timings

2010-04-12 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
No, database writing is extremely slow especially with many indecies. In my app, I am getting maybe 10 insers a seconds into a table with 20 columns and 15 indecies. As my app is probably 99.9% reads, I didn't try optimizing the writes too much, not sure if it's even possible. On Apr 13, 12:33 

[android-developers] Could anyone with an HTC Desire/Droid help me

2010-04-19 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
is called anMoney. It's supposed to crash right at the beginning. Just start the app, click menu and New Book and try creating a book. Your help is greatly appreciated. Zsolt Vasvari -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post

[android-developers] Re: Could anyone with an HTC Desire/Droid help me

2010-04-20 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Thanks, Bob. I believer I fixed this now. So much for not testing on a virgin device. On Apr 20, 10:56 am, BobG bobgard...@aol.com wrote: menu-newbook-forceclose on google devphone2 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To

[android-developers] Re: Lengthy question(s) on 2D graphics optimization

2010-04-24 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Can I suggest you to look at the source code of this game? http://code.google.com/p/replicaisland/ It's a great little 2d side scroller with well structured and optimized code -- a lot to be learned from it. I am in no way affilitaed with that project, just came across it. On Apr 24, 7:21 am,

[android-developers] Re: Finally, I published my Android/GAE based MMO War Game

2010-04-26 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
When you unistall the game in Android Market, you have the option to mark it as spammy and give a reason why. Instead of complaining on here, perhaphs being a bit more proactive could be helpful. On Apr 27, 4:29 am, Mike michaeldouglaskra...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Robert.  I really hope

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

2010-05-01 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I still have the spinning Loading image in its place I've had for the last couple of days. On May 1, 2:34 pm, Kumar Bibek coomar@gmail.com wrote: removed now... On May 1, 10:16 am, Dan Sherman impact...@gmail.com wrote: * waves hand * You saw nothing On Sat, May 1, 2010 at

[android-developers] Re: Something wrong here, didn't expect com.commonsware.android.rotation.two to be resumed

2010-05-03 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Yes, this message is always displayed in my app as well. Just ignore it. On May 3, 10:49 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Adrian Vintu wrote: Hi Mark, Thank you for your answer. Please let me (us) know if you have a solution for this. The solution appears to be: ignore

[android-developers] Re: Porting MAME on Android?

2010-05-05 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I used to be on the MAME team, you should ask there, not here. But all I can say, good luck... On May 5, 2:44 pm, javame_android su...@softwebsolutions.com wrote: Hi, I will like to know how can one port MAME on Android? MAME is a Multi Arcade Machine Emulator and it does support ROM based

[android-developers] Re: Android paid apps in Ireland

2010-06-25 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
How can you check if the user's country allows paid apps or not? (Other than the obvious: maintain my own list) On Jun 26, 1:06 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 3:37 AM, skooter500 skooter...@gmail.com wrote: 1. When will the Android paid app marketplace be

[android-developers] Re: Dialog is leaked on orientation change

2010-06-26 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I don't use managed dialogs at all -- not only don't they work in certain cases (like in a TabActivity), I think the whole system of having to maintain global dialog ids is a pain. In my very large app, I ended up with a DialogIds global enum, which I hated. I still have the same issue with

[android-developers] Re: Dialog is leaked on orientation change

2010-06-29 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
with different execution paths. Not to mention, basic functionality, like Managed Dialogs still not working properly under certain circumstances in SDK level 8. On Jun 30, 1:39 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote:  Here's

[android-developers] Re: Is automatic calling possible with android?

2010-06-29 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Thank god. On Jun 30, 4:47 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Smarth Behl smarthb...@gmail.com wrote: 2. Makes a call to this number and plays the selected sound file OR the entered message using Text to speech. You cannot play audio into the

[android-developers] Re: Eclipse NullPointerException when editing strings.xml

2010-06-29 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Just edit the XML directly (click on the tab on the bottom). It's much easier and faster than mocking around with the GUI editor which gives error messages like you are seeing in a seemingly random fashion. On Jun 28, 8:05 pm, stenlik petr.maza...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, I am using Eclipse

[android-developers] Re: What are the advantages of an Android Developers Device?

2010-06-29 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Wow, Apple must really feel threatened if they have to send people to an Android development forum to try to scare people away from Android. Amazing. On Jun 29, 2:22 am, iC and iC++ mahd...@gmail.com wrote: Do not waste you time with android. It is a mass media hype driven by google spending

[android-developers] Re: 2.2 SDK refresh

2010-07-09 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I couldn't figure out why I couldn't see the search widget after updating the SDK and restarting the AVD. Finally I figured out thay I needed to recreate the AVD or at least blow away the userdata-qemu.img file. On Jul 9, 3:39 am, Xavier Ducrohet x...@android.com wrote: Developers, We've

[android-developers] Re: problems with the old and new Contact API

2010-07-13 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
What you are trying to do is probably much more sophisticated than what most people are doing with Contacts, so I wouldn't expect much help. If I were in your situation, I'd download the source to the Contact app and the Contact provider and see what they are doing. Debugging this with the

[android-developers] Re: Fixing a performance issue on a financial calculator program

2010-07-13 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
In my app, in a generic report viewer, I just draw the lines on a Canvas. It's very fast and lightweight. If you send me an e-mail, I can send you my code. On Jul 14, 2:02 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Connie Walsh connie.walshc...@gmail.com

[android-developers] Re: Fixing a performance issue on a financial calculator program

2010-07-14 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
? Connie On Jul 13, 8:50 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: In my app, in a generic report viewer, I just draw the lines on a Canvas.  It's very fast and lightweight.   If you send me an e-mail, I can send you my code. On Jul 14, 2:02 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com

[android-developers] Re: Why doesn't this discussion list function properly on Android phones?

2010-07-14 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Same thing here. Very annoying and it's kind of embarassing that it's not working. On Jul 15, 2:52 am, DonFrench dcfre...@gmail.com wrote: A little off topic, but it is about Android phones and this discussion list, so here goes.  If you receive emails from this list in digest form and try to

[android-developers] Re: Why doesn't this discussion list function properly on Android phones?

2010-07-14 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
On a related issue, if you click the link to view the thread and then go back to the e-mail, the scroll position is not saved in GMail and you are back to the top of the long e-mail. Since clicking on topics won't jump to that point in the e-mail, this all makes it impossible to read this forum

[android-developers] Re: opening calendar event from Froyo

2010-07-14 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
The Calendar stuff changed for 2.2. Since the source is now available, I'd just go and see what has changed. On Jul 14, 12:16 am, frusso fabrizio.ru...@gmail.com wrote: Hi at all, I have written an application (not an usual application but a liveFolder) that get all calendars and for each

[android-developers] Re: Why doesn't this discussion list function properly on Android phones?

2010-07-15 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
So that this is a GMail bug, is there hope for GMail be updated before another OS build is released? I guess I am trying to understand the release cycle of GMail and the other preinstalled Google apps. On Jul 15, 5:28 pm, jamesc jame...@gmail.com wrote: It's a known

[android-developers] Re: App Inventor to Market

2010-07-16 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Feel your pain, my app has an average rating of 4.28 with 3000+ downloads and 1300+ installs and it still appears way way low after all kinds of total crap. On Jul 16, 6:25 am, Wayne Wenthin wa...@fuligin.com wrote: This is not entirely correct.   I have an app rated at 3.5 + stars and there

[android-developers] Re: App Inventor to Market

2010-07-16 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
I was looking at the Top apps in the category, not a particlar search, when I made my comment. Basically, my app appears to be better in every visible category (download, # of ratings and * rating) than probably 200 apps above it. On Jul 17, 1:16 am, Nathan nathan.d.mel...@gmail.com wrote: On

[android-developers] Re: App Inventor to Market

2010-07-16 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
What's considered a good install percentage for a free app? Mine has always been 35-40%. I would have guessed that's fairly good for a try- it-if-I-like-it app. On Jul 17, 8:45 am, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) cor...@gmail.com wrote: It's what you can't see that's probably affecting your

[android-developers] Re: Seems Android Market statistics go wrong again

2010-07-16 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Same for me. The paid version of my app shows 8% fewer downloads than Google Checkout is showing purchases. Sure, I had some refunds, but those should still be counted in the downloads, just not in the active installs, right? Or am I wrong there? Even if I subtract the cancelled orders, the

[android-developers] Re: Best way to logout each time the application/task goes to background

2010-07-16 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
1) This is not the best option, at least not without option 2, as the user can still leave without having the opportunity to log out, for example to answer a call. 2) I do this, it's a bit of a pain as I need to check the timeout in every activity, and I have at least a couple of dozens. So it's

[android-developers] Re: Max number of entries per table for SQLiteDatabase Content Provider

2010-07-16 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
That is certainly not the case. My app has many thousands of rows of data. On Jul 15, 4:42 am, wnafee wna...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have an application that has a Content Provider with an SQLiteDatabase. I noticed that my tables don't get any new row entries inserted after i reach index

[android-developers] Re: App Inventor to Market

2010-07-17 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
That's a very high percentage compared to mine, obviously. But I since cannot see your apps here in Singapore, I can't even say what they do, so what I will say may or may not apply to you: for simpler apps, a high rating probably ensures that you will keep the app (favorite comment It does what

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