[android-developers] Who/what is the user

2012-03-28 Thread Bob Plantz
I am just starting to learn Android programming (but have 50 years of programming experience). In the developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html I see The Android operating system is a multi-user Linux system in which each application is a different user. So this says that an

Re: [android-developers] Who/what is the user

2012-03-28 Thread Bob Plantz
On 3/28/2012 8:37 AM, Mark Murphy wrote: 99% of the time, it is referring to a human user. The only times user will be a Linux user account should be fairly obvious, because it will be in the context of Linux user accounts or application user IDs. Thank you, Mark, that's very helpful. Having

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Project development cost

2012-03-22 Thread Bob Plantz
On 3/22/2012 3:24 AM, Daniel Drozdzewski wrote: Recommendation2: Consider offers other than $x/hr, as those give the vendor incentive to be late. Divide the project into handful of stages, and pay for each completed stage, where both sides agree on 'completeness criteria'. It will encourage the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Project development cost

2012-03-21 Thread Bob Plantz
Recommendation: Take the bid just before the one that says $n/hr with the ending of MY choice. :-) On 3/21/2012 10:00 AM, Nadeem Hasan wrote: I will do it for $85/hr with no extra charge for any ending of your choice. Don't you love competition. -- -- You received this message because you

Re: [android-developers] Re: Eclipse packages and package explorer

2012-03-18 Thread Bob Plantz
On 3/18/2012 11:17 AM, g...@deanblakely.com wrote: I don't have any problem Java - I read a comparison doc and it's on a par with C#. I'm not looking forward to JavaScript being the new world standard language though. Gary We survived Y2K in a world of COBOL. I'm sure we can get along with

Re: [android-developers] Installation 64-bit Windows 7 [SOLVED]

2012-03-17 Thread Bob Plantz
Thanks to the help posted here, I finally solved the problem by running Eclipse as administrator and installing the SDK that way. As pointed out, this means I have to run as administrator to do updates, etc. Similar to using sudo in my Ubuntu. --Bob -- You received this message because you

[android-developers] Installation 64-bit Windows 7

2012-03-16 Thread Bob Plantz
I'm running 64-bit Windows 7. I installed Eclipse Indigo in C:\Program Files. When I start installer_r16-windows.exe it wants to put my sdk in C: \Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk. That is, in the 32-bit Program Files folder. I suspect it does not matter, but I'm inclined to put the sdk

Re: [android-developers] Installation 64-bit Windows 7

2012-03-16 Thread Bob Plantz
it. --Bob On 3/16/2012 10:59 AM, Jayne Cobb wrote: Bob, I did that with my install and the only downside is running the updater as administrator for permission issues. If I did it again, I would install it to a subfolder in my share folder. Frank On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Bob Plantz rgpla