[android-developers] More traditional Android menu

2011-11-14 Thread alexb
Somehow I feel that Android menus do not look good and are not convenient for both users and developers. Here I placed my humble attempt to improve this feature: http://solutionsinhand.com/android/MenuDialogDemo.zip MenuDialog class is flexible to be used for both main and context menus. --

[android-developers] Re: transferring information from one application to another

2011-11-14 Thread alexb
Read documentation about ContentProvider. On Nov 12, 9:19 am, Narendra Singh Rathore nsr.curi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I used intent for switching from one application to another by the following code: Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN); PackageManager manager =

[android-developers] Re: More traditional Android menu

2011-11-15 Thread alexb
menu as a list, each item can have an icon and there can be a picture for the whole menu, like a logo. You may want to take a look here: http://solutionsinhand.com/android/MenuDialogSnapshot.png On Nov 14, 12:05 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:11 PM, alexb alexboot

[android-developers] Re: org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connection to http://127.0.0.1:8080 refused

2011-11-16 Thread alexb
First, 127.0.0.1 is not valid on the device. Second, check that your app has uses-permission android:name=android.permission.INTERNET / On Nov 16, 1:38 am, indra indra4...@gmail.com wrote: I am  trying to call  a servlet from andorid application but when i call the servlet i get the connection

[android-developers] Re: ContentProvider Memory Leak

2011-12-21 Thread alexb
Why not storing the files on sdcard and passing only the names? On Dec 19, 7:01 pm, Ankur Avlani ankuravl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All , I am developing an application in WebView.  We serve android sd card images (average 3 MB per image) using ContentProvider in web view.  Please see the

[android-developers] Mysterious crash with Android Monkey

2011-12-22 Thread alexb
I am testing my app with Android Monkey and after a while it crashes. Does anyone have a clue? Here is the log excerpt: . W/WindowManager( 1103): Failed looking up window W/WindowManager( 1103): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Requested window null does not exist W/WindowManager( 1103):

[android-developers] Re: Mysterious crash with Android Monkey

2011-12-22 Thread alexb
:58 am, alexb alexboot...@gmail.com wrote: I am testing my app with Android Monkey and after a while it crashes. Does anyone have a clue? Here is the log excerpt: . W/WindowManager( 1103): Failed looking up window W/WindowManager( 1103): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Requested window

[android-developers] debugging on Kindle Fire, sdcard access

2011-12-22 Thread alexb
Has anyone tried this? Here is the problem: once you connect Kindle Fire to PC via USB, you can access sdcard from PC only. As this is the way to debug on Kindle, my app has no read/write access in this mode thus effectively disabling debugging. Without USB it seems working fine. My several

[android-developers] i get an error when i try and launch my apk file saying there is a problem passing the package

2012-03-08 Thread alexb
I built an application in eclipse for testing purposes it works in the emulator without any problems. I then copied the project named listviews from my workspace to a dropbox folder. I then went onto my phone went to the drop-box went to the bin directory and found the listviews.apk file. I then