Re: [android-developers] Re: Rendering Problem with GLSurfaceView

2012-01-21 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Could it be a missing modelview matrix? You're drawing everything at z of zero, and not specifying a model matrix. Maybe that means that the eye is sitting right where you're drawing. Try scrolling out a bit in the model and see if that helps. Also, if you're drawing in 2d, why are you

Re: [android-developers] best adnetwork

2012-01-20 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Try it and see? On 1/20/2012 9:25 PM, aru wrote: Hi guys, would you tell me the best adnetwork that exist on Android platform. currently I use Admob, but I feel their CPM is low, and I want to change to greystripe but I don't know it's gonna be going well or not. Thanks, Aru -- You received

Re: [android-developers] projects ideas for degree project

2012-01-20 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Definitely an Android topic. On 1/21/2012 2:12 AM, bint-e -hava wrote: hi can any one suggest ideas for degree final project its may not be big and new but accept able as final project . help would be highly appreciated thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: [android-developers] Copyright question: Can I remix a Final Fantasy song and use it in my game?

2012-01-19 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
On 1/20/2012 4:08 AM, hzakimoto wrote: For example, if I remix battle themes from Final Fantasy series and use it in my game. Will I get into copyright problem? I'd be more than happy to put some credit text like this in my game: Battle theme originally composed by Nobuo Uematsu, remixed by [my

Re: [android-developers] Re: Copyright question: Can I remix a Final Fantasy song and use it in my game?

2012-01-19 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
You're assuming that they didn't pay for the right to use that song. If you pay the copyright holder, you don't necessarily have to credit them. Whether or not you credit is up to the agreement you have with the copyright holder. Anyway, this is a question of law not Android, so it doesn't

Re: [android-developers] Re: Eclipse

2012-01-19 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Sometimes it's advisable to quote the mail you're responding to. I don't think anyone knows what you're talking about. Eclipse. Me too. Huh? On 1/20/2012 2:08 PM, Mrinal wrote: Hi I am facing a similar issue. Did you get any workaround ? Thanks mrinal -- You received this message because

Re: [android-developers] Loading textures in native code using only C++

2012-01-17 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
This is the wrong list for this kind of question. You should probably post on the NDK list instead. I have only done it the pure C++ way, and whether it was 'ok in terms of performance' is a bit too subjective to be answerable. I load my textures up front, so all the delay is behind a splash

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android fragmentation study

2012-01-14 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/androids-biggest-worry-fragmentation/8022 On 1/12/2012 4:26 PM, Dianne Hackborn wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Christopher Van Kirk christopher.vank...@gmail.com mailto:christopher.vank...@gmail.com wrote: Making software is a business. An investment

Re: [android-developers] Re: Giving away my book: Genius Android Marketing

2012-01-12 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Now you must write another book to tell us how to emulate your ingenius book marketing strategies! On 1/12/2012 3:36 AM, scp89 wrote: The contest is now over! The PDFs have been sent to the 3 winners - congrats to you guys! You can still pick up the ebook on Amazon here:

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android fragmentation study

2012-01-11 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Yeah, I would respectfully disagree with your assessment. Making software is a business. An investment. To reap maximum rewards on that investment the product has to have as much reach as possible, meaning the OP is absolutely on point about OS upgrades. Who is going to spend 10k, 100k, 1m,

Re: [android-developers] Re: Giving away my book: Genius Android Marketing

2012-01-10 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Genius marketing indeed. Count me in also. On 1/10/2012 8:19 PM, sell.bergstr wrote: congratulations to this plot to push your self-advertising post without putting hands to it. Really neat. Count me in, too -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [android-developers] Re: Giving away my book: Genius Android Marketing

2012-01-10 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
and has a nice honest frankness style. Some spelling errors here and there but that isnt a big deal. Good work. -niko20 On Jan 10, 6:42 am, Christopher Van Kirk christopher.vank...@gmail.com wrote: Genius marketing indeed. Count me in also. On 1/10/2012 8:19 PM, sell.bergstr wrote

Re: [android-developers] Re: Giving away my book: Genius Android Marketing

2012-01-10 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
That's hilarious. You got to hand it to him though, this silly contest of his is genius marketing, even if he has a checkered past. On 1/10/2012 11:21 PM, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: Interesting comments here: http://www.droid-life.com/2011/05/26/app-of-the-day-ghosttown/ 10 января 2012 г. 19:15

[android-developers] Eclipse indigo and 'stop process'

2012-01-09 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Hey all, Just upgraded to Eclipse Indigo for a new project, and while I was able to terminate a running app with Helios, with Indigo for some reason, I am unable to do so. I've installed the ARM native C++ debugger, but I don't think that's the culprit. Apart from that it's a vanilla

[android-developers] Pause button on logcat

2012-01-05 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Hey that new pause button on LogCat is a great idea with a lousy implementation. Love the ability to pause the logging, but it shouldn't change its state by itself! I'm constantly having to uncheck the damn thing because it turned itself on. -- You received this message because you are

Re: [android-developers] is this a bug

2012-01-05 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
ANDEV comedy hour On 1/6/2012 4:20 AM, John Davis wrote: Hello Treking, I am sorry if I made you feel that way. I was most certainly going in circles myself. Have a good one and thanks for the help. Smile John On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:16 PM, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [android-developers] Fwd: logo

2012-01-04 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
I think it needs little red spider veins around the outer edges to indicate lack of sleep. You posted this to the public list, friend. You probably didn't want to do that. On 1/5/2012 1:04 PM, gaurav gupta wrote: Hello Sir, Kindly chk this logo. -- Forwarded message --

Re: [android-developers] OpenGL ES Question

2011-12-26 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
No, you can't. You can only use OpenGL ES shaders with OpenGL ES. It's not that hard to port a shader between versions..but there are many versions of the Desktop OpenGL, so it'll take a bit of Googling to do it. On 12/27/2011 1:12 AM, bob wrote: Is there a google group like this for OpenGL

Re: [android-developers] OpenGL ES 2.0 weirdness - app works on Samsung Galaxy S2, but not Nexus One or HTC Desire

2011-12-25 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
There are many, many differences between devices when it comes to OpenGL ES 2.0 rendering. It's a profound problem, actually, because it more or less demands that you either buy each kind of device for testing (and there are 600+ devices), or buy graphics engine from someone else who

Re: [android-developers] Re: OpenGL ES 2.0 weirdness - app works on Samsung Galaxy S2, but not Nexus One or HTC Desire

2011-12-25 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
texture with type GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE. It runs a shader on the texture to perform a palette-shifting animation. The shader compiles without errors, even on the devices where the app doesn't work. On Dec 25, 8:47 pm, Christopher Van Kirk christopher.vank...@gmail.com wrote: There are many, many

Re: [android-developers] Re: The accelerometer reading looks odd

2011-12-23 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
using it in my phone... 在 2011-12-23 下午1:53,Christopher Van Kirk christopher.vank...@gmail.com mailto:christopher.vank...@gmail.com写道: Seems like your device is broken. On 12/23/2011 11:26 AM, Yang Bo wrote: Could anyone help on this ? Thanks 在

Re: [android-developers] ICS/Galaxy Nexus Can't Loop Audio without GAP

2011-12-22 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
With respect, this is not the only example of fragmentation in the Android ecosystem. On 12/23/2011 8:39 AM, csyperski wrote: ICS can't loop audio seamlessly with more than one core, when using MediaPlayer-setLooping(true). This is a major bug that is causing problems for my applications. I

Re: [android-developers] Re: The accelerometer reading looks odd

2011-12-22 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Seems like your device is broken. On 12/23/2011 11:26 AM, Yang Bo wrote: Could anyone help on this ? Thanks 在 2011-12-22 下午5:02,Yang Bo yangbo@gmail.com mailto:yangbo@gmail.com 写道: Hi, I am trying to read the device accelerometer when the phone is placed on a desk

Re: [android-developers] SoundPool

2011-12-21 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Is that a joke? On 12/22/2011 10:14 AM, bob wrote: Why would you use SoundPool for an Android game sound effects instead of MediaPlayer? -- 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] 500-600 Thousand Words Dict Search Speed

2011-12-21 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
I didn't get a second request, and if you check out the date, looks like you didn't either. That mail is 3 days old. On 12/22/2011 11:42 AM, Kristopher Micinski wrote: Wait, didn't we answer this already? Try a database first and profile it, if you can't use that, then use a Trie. kris On

Re: [android-developers] How to Implement button like this?

2011-12-21 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
I would start by sending your resume to Google. On 12/22/2011 2:43 PM, android developer wrote: googelsearch.png How to Implement button like this? -- 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] Re: Using queueEvent for OpenGL

2011-12-20 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Try GLSurfaceView. On 12/20/2011 5:32 PM, Alex Cohn wrote: On Thursday, August 18, 2011 10:46:11 AM UTC+3, Jeffrey wrote: public boolean onTouchEvent(final MotionEvent event) { queueEvent(new Runnable(){ public void run() {

Re: [android-developers] Re: find word in faster speed

2011-12-20 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Three points. 1) Building the searching functionality twice is far more expensive than building it once, no matter what approach you use. Be sure that the performance of the DB approach is acceptable before you go and build it that way. 2) It can be quite challenging to get decent

Re: [android-developers] Re: find word in faster speed

2011-12-19 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
A conventional database isn't going to do better than a Trie, I think. On 12/20/2011 2:46 PM, felix wrote: Thanks a lot! I think I'll give database a try!:) On 12月20日, 下午1时49分, Kristopher Micinski krismicin...@gmail.com wrote: OH! Very sorry! I didn't see the 500, thousand!!! Kris On

Re: [android-developers] Re: find word in faster speed

2011-12-19 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
. kris 2011/12/20 Christopher Van Kirk christopher.vank...@gmail.com: A conventional database isn't going to do better than a Trie, I think. On 12/20/2011 2:46 PM, felix wrote: Thanks a lot! I think I'll give database a try!:) On 12月20日, 下午1时49分, Kristopher Micinski krismicin...@gmail.com

Re: [android-developers] OpenGL ES 2 translation

2011-12-17 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
You can modify your vertices whatever way you like and upload them again, but that's going to be pretty slow. I would suggest to you that what you're claiming probably isn't true. Matrix translation does work. For whatever reason you're not using it in the right way which is why you're having

Re: [android-developers] Canvas.drawCircle() causes OpenGLRenderer to run out of memory

2011-12-15 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
How many times is 'a few'? On 12/15/2011 12:45 AM, Christopher Golden wrote: In the course of developing an Android application, I'm finding a need to draw several unfilled concentric circles centered on an arbitrary point, enough that some of them are only partly visible on the display.

Re: [android-developers] Questionable log message from OpenGL on Android

2011-12-14 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
As an aside, I've always wondered about the performance impact of all the logging that goes on. My Galaxy Tab spews out logs like it's in a research lab, and it's a slow as molasses at times. On 12/14/2011 11:56 PM, btschumy wrote: I've recently started debugging an OpenGL-based app on

Re: [android-developers] Having a free and paid app, or just use LVL to determine if current app should have reduced functionality

2011-12-14 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Apparently LVL isn't so hot at identifying licensed versus not licensed. There have been various complaints about it not working well in the forums over the past year. On 12/15/2011 8:22 AM, James Black wrote: Hello, I currently have two applications that I am preparing to make available,

Re: [android-developers] Want to join this group

2011-12-08 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Watch out for the trolls. They're savage. On 12/8/2011 2:09 PM, Mukesh Srivastav wrote: You are Welcome Mr.Rathore. -- Warm Regards, *Mukesh Kumar*, Android Consultant/Freelancer, India,Hyderabad On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Narendra Singh Rathore nsr.curi...@gmail.com

Re: [android-developers] Openfeint gives weird error

2011-12-07 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
They don't have a support forum? On 12/8/2011 12:00 AM, Raghav Sood wrote: Hi all, I am trying to integrate openfeint into my app. It repeatedly gives this error: 12-07 21:06:42.562: E/Openfeint(7667): Request:Error executing request '/webui/assets'. 12-07 21:06:42.562:

Re: [android-developers] Enabling extensions in GLES20 api

2011-12-07 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
You can do it with native code. I was able to get shader binary extension working yesterday by including gl2ext.h and throwing some defines in the code to turn it on. On 12/8/2011 1:31 AM, Tezar wrote: Hi, I am trying to get gles20 extension working but so far no luck. More specifically I am

Re: [android-developers] Re: splash screen

2011-12-07 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Does this preserve your GL context? I thought GL context goes away when its parent activity does. On 12/8/2011 5:15 AM, Kristopher Micinski wrote: Not in another thread, that won't work as your UI code must run in the main thread. But just set your main activity to a loader that loads your

Re: [android-developers] Re: Bad implementation of GPS on Samsung Galaxy tabs?

2011-12-06 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
From personal experience, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is a bit of a mess. It wouldn't surprise me if this was a bug. On 12/7/2011 12:13 AM, Terry wrote: .. working as designed. I am not so sure. The following is taken from Class LocationManager: public void requestLocationUpdates (String provider,

[android-developers] Texture compression filtering in the market

2011-12-06 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
The docs say that the Android Market filters apks using the supports-gl-texture tag in the manifest. It goes on to say that absence of that tag is taken by the market to mean that ALL compression options are supported. How can one go about having two APKs, one supporting, say, ETC1 format,

Re: [android-developers] Re: Reverse Engineering .APK files

2011-12-06 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Unfortunately, the truth is that you're not trying to stop 10 people, you're trying to stop 1 person from making a version that thousands can install without paying. It only takes one to let the cat out of the bag. On 12/7/2011 1:15 PM, Kristopher Micinski wrote: How much does your app cost?

Re: [android-developers] Re: Reverse Engineering .APK files

2011-12-06 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
. On 12/7/2011 1:23 PM, Kristopher Micinski wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Christopher Van Kirk christopher.vank...@gmail.com mailto:christopher.vank...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, the truth is that you're not trying to stop 10 people, you're trying to stop 1 person from

Re: [android-developers] Re: Reverse Engineering .APK files

2011-12-06 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Why is sound related software so expensive? On 12/7/2011 1:28 PM, RLScott wrote: On Dec 7, 12:15 am, Kristopher Micinskikrismicin...@gmail.com wrote: How much does your app cost? $300. See TuneLab Piano Tuner for iPhone. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Reverse Engineering .APK files

2011-12-06 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
with. Paranoia seems rampant in the sound industry too. I guess it must have something to do with the RIAA. On 12/7/2011 1:43 PM, RLScott wrote: On Dec 7, 12:38 am, Christopher Van Kirk christopher.vank...@gmail.com wrote: Why is sound related software so expensive? On 12/7/2011 1:28 PM, RLScott

Re: [android-developers] Why doesn't layout_alignCenterInParent work?

2011-12-05 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
a copy/paste issue. :-) Try it with a GridView with fixed dimensions and see what happens. On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Christopher Van Kirk christopher.vank...@gmail.com wrote: I've tried several times now to use android:layout_alignCenterInParent to center a child in its parent RelativeLayout

Re: [android-developers] how to do imageview 3d animation with pinch and zoom?

2011-12-05 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
OpenGL? On 12/2/2011 6:04 PM, Hitendrasinh Gohil wrote: Hi, can anyone give me some idea how to pinch,zoom(i know but i want all three in one) and rotate image in 3d? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this

[android-developers] Why doesn't layout_alignCenterInParent work?

2011-12-04 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
I've tried several times now to use android:layout_alignCenterInParent to center a child in its parent RelativeLayout view, but it never seems to work. What's wrong with this code, and why doesn't it center the GridView in the outer RelativeView? ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?

Re: [android-developers] pausing games: dealing with Handler Messages timers

2011-12-02 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
GameDev.com is probably a better place to ask this question, as it's not really an 'android' question, per se. On 12/2/2011 11:32 PM, John Goche wrote: On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Miguel Morales therevolti...@gmail.com mailto:therevolti...@gmail.com wrote: Why are you using

Re: [android-developers] App taken down by fake DMCA, no response from Google

2011-12-01 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
This is going to be so much worse when they can shut down your bank account and internet as well. On 12/2/2011 6:02 AM, Christer Nordvik wrote: Our app FotMob, https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mobilefootie.wc2010, was taken down by a fake DMCA and has been down for 4 days. We have

Re: [android-developers] App taken down by fake DMCA, no response from Google

2011-12-01 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
There's a bill in congress right now that extends copyright protections in exactly that way. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/17/us-internet-piracy-bill-idUSTRE7AG0312017 On 12/2/2011 6:59 AM, Jim Graham wrote: On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 06:11:13AM +0800, Christopher Van Kirk wrote

Re: [android-developers] Re: App taken down by fake DMCA, no response from Google

2011-12-01 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
It's unfortunate, but they really don't have any other option. They've already been in trouble many times over copyright infringement concerns with their search and related businesses. One wrong move and their whole enterprise could be in trouble. So they take a hard line with copyright

Re: [android-developers] ARM DS-5

2011-11-30 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Isn't it just as easy to write this mail to ARM? On 12/1/2011 5:01 AM, SL wrote: What is the price of this software, anybody ? -- 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] game design question: multiple handlers

2011-11-30 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
If the callbacks share a common interface, you could accomplish that with an interface object. On 11/30/2011 8:32 PM, John Goche wrote: Thank you TreKing for your advice, But then in my handleMessage I would have to check with if (inst instance of Foo) inst.foocallback(); else if (inst

[android-developers] Market woes

2011-11-30 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
For some reason, the market won't accept the .apk I'm trying to upload. Here's what I did. Uploaded the .apk once and saved it. Didn't activate or publish. Uploaded a bunch of the ancillary files as well. Discovered that I'd missed something, so I recompiled the app, then deleted the apk in

Re: [android-developers] Market woes

2011-11-30 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
fixed that. Anyone published a new app recently? Confirmation that it's working for others would help me narrow down my problem. Cheers, Chris... On 11/30/2011 9:10 PM, TreKing wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Christopher Van Kirk christopher.vank...@gmail.com mailto:christopher.vank

Re: [android-developers] Market woes

2011-11-30 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
it. No problems to my best knowledge since. -- H On Dec 1, 2011, at 1:22 AM, Christopher Van Kirk wrote: Thanks for this. I was able to get everything uploaded. After publishing, however, inexplicably the app doesn't appear in the market. Googled it, turned protection off. Still no joy. I recall seeing

[android-developers] App testing service

2011-11-30 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Anyone got a line on a cheap Android app testing service? Cheers... -- 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

Re: [android-developers] promo graphic

2011-11-27 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
On 11/27/2011 5:24 PM, bob wrote: If you don't specify a promo graphic for the Android Market, will your product probably see far fewer downloads? Depends on the app. Without the promo graphic, you have no chance of making it to the leaderboard. If you don't make it to the leaderboard you'll

Re: [android-developers] Re: Galaxy Nexus can't go in USB Host mode, no mouse no usb stick.

2011-11-27 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
on record saying that ICS works as intended, and that the Nexus has issues that aren't inherent to the OS. Have you tried the Samsung support boards? You might have better luck there. On 11/27/2011 10:05 PM, sblantipodi wrote: Why? On Nov 27, 8:10 am, Christopher Van Kirk christopher.vank

[android-developers] Resource generator is too flaky...

2011-11-27 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Hi there. This one goes out to Google with nothing but the best of intentions: The resource compiler is just plain too fragile. I think you guys should put in some time to iron out the weirdness from it to save us developers from hours and hours tearing our remaining hair fighting with it.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Have an extra $800 lying around for a mobile ESRB rating? Didn't think so.

2011-11-27 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Binx, I don't know if you've noticed this, but generally there's an understanding in the industry that mobile titles don't yield the kind of numbers that desktop titles do. Have a look at the pricing for various third party tools and you'll find that they are asking far less money for their

Re: [android-developers] Re: Have an extra $800 lying around for a mobile ESRB rating? Didn't think so.

2011-11-27 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
I honestly think this is one of those cases where you have to just say 'we'll cross that bridge when we come to it,' and carry on doing something else. On 11/28/2011 4:20 AM, Latimerius wrote: Evidence or not, what he's talking about is likely to happen in some form. There are games for the

Re: [android-developers] Have an extra $800 lying around for a mobile ESRB rating? Didn't think so.

2011-11-26 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Can you please provide a link to the press release that has caused your apparent panic? On 11/26/2011 11:09 PM, Binxalot wrote: How are small developers to pay this fee upfront for the privilege of having their games appear in the marketplace? It's already clear Google only wants AAA titles

Re: [android-developers] Have an extra $800 lying around for a mobile ESRB rating? Didn't think so.

2011-11-26 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Once again, where's the evidence of this? The OP implied that Google has stipulated games will not make its front view without an ESRB rating, yet I find no evidence of a press release that says this. On 11/27/2011 6:50 AM, Jim Graham wrote: On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 03:57:38PM -0500,

Re: [android-developers] Re: Galaxy Nexus can't go in USB Host mode, no mouse no usb stick.

2011-11-26 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
to connect an usb stick or mouse to the phone. This is possible since a modder enabled a kernel options and now it works but a feature like this must be enabled by default without any modding needed. On Nov 23, 5:39 pm, Christopher Van Kirk christopher.vank...@gmail.com wrote: They explained

Re: [android-developers] Re: Galaxy Nexus can't go in USB Host mode, no mouse no usb stick.

2011-11-23 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
They explained this already. It's because the Galaxy Nexus has no SD card. On 11/24/2011 12:37 AM, sblantipodi wrote: who can explain me why galaxy nexus isn't able to go into u -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To

Re: [android-developers] OpenGL doesnt work- not even sample

2011-11-22 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Does the emulator work with OpenGL ES 2 now? When did that happen? On 11/23/2011 12:45 AM, Stephen Lee wrote: When my emulator (API 14.0) is running, I can go through API Demos and select BasicGLSurfaceView (OpenGLES2), the app runs and a triangle spins. When I load the project into Eclipse and

Re: [android-developers] OpenGL doesnt work- not even sample

2011-11-22 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Sorry, I'll solve your problem as well. The reason you're getting that error is that you've requested an EGL configuration that your device doesn't support for whatever reason, so the EGL configuration chooser factory is ending with no 'valid' configuration. That throws an exception that the

Re: [android-developers] boss is complaining

2011-11-14 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
So many snide and sarcastic responses spring to mind. On 11/15/2011 11:59 AM, bob wrote: I'm converting an iphone retina app to Android, and my boss is complaining because the web pages are too big: http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z449/m75214/ugh.jpg It's because Android has a lesser

Re: [android-developers] play swf file in android

2011-11-10 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Check out the news from yesterday. Whatever you're doing is already obsolete. On 11/10/2011 1:09 PM, Ratheesh Valamchuzhy wrote: i am trying to play an swf file in android emulator(2.3), but it is not playing , if any one know the reason plse help me ., here is my code package

Re: [android-developers] Audio library for Android .

2011-11-10 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
You can have a look at pdlib for Android, but I think you'll find that the audio layer of Android is quite immature at the moment. If you're intending to do anything visually that should be synchronized with the sound you can pretty much forget about it. On 11/11/2011 1:24 PM, J Handal wrote:

Re: [android-developers] How can we get the 2^21 bytes from a video file in android

2011-11-05 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Sounds like a homework assignment. On 11/5/2011 2:16 PM, Sanat Pandey wrote: I want to get first 2^21 bytes of a video file which is resided in sdcard, but I don't know how? Please suggest me the right solution regarding the same.\ Thanks in advance -- You received this message because you

Re: [android-developers] Application incompatible when trying to install on Galaxy 10.1

2011-11-05 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
There really aren't that many people using 1.6 anymore. The figure is 1.4% of the total population now. On 11/4/2011 6:32 PM, Jovish P wrote: In our application , we are showing details of customer such as phone number , email id , address. When he clicks on phone number we are initiating

Re: [android-developers] HTC SDK for windows XP - any advise ?

2011-11-05 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
On 11/6/2011 10:49 AM, SL@maxis wrote: I am planning to write an app on windows XP to access a smart phone's SMS/MMS messages (for my own use). I am thinking of buying a HTC. Any advise ? Thanks. Pay cash? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [android-developers] Overhead of creating many activities

2011-11-03 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Wouldn't simply setContentView(xxx) be much easier to manage, considering you don't want a history anyway? On 11/3/2011 5:35 PM, Mat Jones wrote: Hello, I am working on a security app which involves users storing passcodes, docs etc My app has around 10 activities representing screens

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to decompose apk files

2011-11-01 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
This sort of activity here is the reason Android will never be a viable platform for developers. On 11/1/2011 2:45 PM, Raziel23x wrote: There is a much easier way to do this Visit my website @ http://apkmultitool.com and download my tool from my download section and everything is strait

Re: [android-developers] images for multiple screen sizes/densities

2011-11-01 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
HTC desire has a 3.7 inch screen and a resolution of 480x800. Galaxy S 2 has a 4.3 inch screen and a resolution of 480x800. Dell Streak has a 5 inch screen and a resolution of 480x800. The resolution has little to do with the size of the screen. On 11/2/2011 4:10 AM, DanielleM wrote: Hello

Re: [android-developers] Re: Account suspended

2011-10-27 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
sites to Google displaying the images in the 'Images' section of its online search? On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Christopher Van Kirk christopher.vank...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that the answer is that they do not do any verification. What happens is that the original author

Re: [android-developers] Re: Account suspended

2011-10-26 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
I believe that the answer is that they do not do any verification. What happens is that the original author of the copyrighted content complains to them, then as part of the process of determining who is right, they suspend your account. This is all codified in the DMCA, which unfortunately

Re: [android-developers] ActionBar for Tablets, Stacked Menu for Phones?

2011-10-23 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
I would bite the bullet and find a way to make your app work with the action bar in place. Just resize your game to fit inside the rectangle it leaves behind. On 10/23/2011 9:39 PM, tobias wrote: Looking for some guidance on whether to use the ActionBar or not. The problem is that the

Re: [android-developers] Impossible to Create Write to or Read From Files in the SD Card

2011-10-23 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Go for a walk for an hour and try to think about something else. Then when you get back start again from first principles. On 10/24/2011 7:08 AM, melis wrote: Hi all, i really tried hard but couldn't achieve to create or any other file operations in Android. First thing i did was tp check the

Re: [android-developers] Custom Dialog Not Showing

2011-10-22 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Did you override the prepareDialog method as well? On 10/23/2011 1:30 AM, Alex Oh wrote: I've read the google docs on Dialogs and posts here and on Stack Overflow, but I just can't get my dialog to show. showDialog( DIALOG_CREATEPC ); // called elsewhere private Dialog addPCDialog() {

[android-developers] View visibility

2011-10-21 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
So, I'm trying to control the visibility of a view in my app with setVisibility, but it's not working. Here's what I do. The layout doesn't specify visibility, so it gets the default visibility of VISIBLE. The layout looks like this: FrameLayout { SurfaceView // background

Re: [android-developers] View visibility

2011-10-21 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
There are top and bottom panels that appear and disappear based on touch events, with a SurfaceView underneath for playing back a streaming video. On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Christopher Van Kirk christopher.vank...@gmail.com wrote: So, I'm trying to control the visibility of a view in my app

Re: [android-developers] View visibility

2011-10-21 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
app that worked the last time I tried it: https://github.com/commonsguy/vidtry There are top and bottom panels that appear and disappear based on touch events, with a SurfaceView underneath for playing back a streaming video. On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Christopher Van Kirk christopher.vank

Re: [android-developers] Re: Connection refused - rest web service

2011-10-19 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Did you try navigating to that URL from a browser? I did. There's nothing there. On 10/20/2011 12:17 PM, Studio LFP wrote: A connection refused error seems like there is just something off on your connection path. Have you confirmed that you are aiming the device at the correct IP and port?

[android-developers] SDK 14 update failing

2011-10-19 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
I'm having a lot of trouble getting SDK 14 to install properly. Has anyone seen this error before? I'm updating an SDK installation on a Win7 machine, as administrator, into c:\android-sdk. It keeps failing to overwrite the SDK manager, and then Eclipse later complains that I've got the wrong

Re: [android-developers] Someone have code examples of a cube with different textures on each face? (OpenGL ES 1)

2011-10-18 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Draw each face separately. On 10/18/2011 4:03 PM, saex wrote: I need to understand how to put different textures on each face of a cube (OpenGL ES 1). But i can't find examples of how to do it Atm i found an example of how to paint the same texture on all the faces of the cube, but i dont need

Re: [android-developers] Time/CountDownTimer: Wrong millis returned for date/time - HELP PLEASE!!

2011-10-16 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Possibly a signed/unsigned problem. Try using an unsigned long. On 10/17/2011 4:55 AM, Larry/MavrickProductions wrote: I am writing a program for my kids to count down to Christmas. I have been playing with android programming for a year, read books, look online for help, but this one is

Re: [android-developers] Can't respond to user comments

2011-10-15 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Just put a disclaimer in your product description. On 10/16/2011 9:43 AM, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: It might (probably less than it seems now), and yes, you can't respond and can't figure out who it was. If the comment is factually untrue, you can contact Google and ask for it to be removed,

Re: [android-developers] normals

2011-10-13 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
On 10/14/2011 2:50 AM, bob wrote: Is there any way to specify normals in OpenGL on Android 1.6? I want to do shading, but I don't want to abandon the 1.6ers. . Bind the normals to an array whose elements match your vertices, then use glAttribArray to load them. Or you can use a buffer.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Soft Home Button Makes Games Suck on Android

2011-10-13 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
You can. It's very simple to apply a uniform rotation to your models. It would be strange for the user though, I think. A better approach is simply to capture the button event and handle it yourself. On 10/14/2011 8:43 AM, Darren K wrote: Here's a weird idea... if you need controls at the

Re: [android-developers] SQLite slow

2011-10-12 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
You haven't provided enough information to help you. The question you need to ask is why is it slow? Are you opening and closing the connection many time? Too many records? Complex joins? Inefficient query? Lack of indexing? Unintentionally cartesianing? Only once you have established that

[android-developers] Google AdMob, Navigation and Galaxy S2

2011-10-12 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Has anyone come across this yet? On my SGS2, every minute or so my app cycles through its onPause/onResume states, and I see the following line come up in the log right in the middle of it: 10-13 04:36:02.270: INFO/ActivityManager(2707): Starting: Intent { flg=0x1000

Re: [android-developers] Re: SQLite concurrency

2011-10-11 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
It would be odd to add a close method to a system that wasn't needed for some reason. On 10/11/2011 8:28 PM, Zsolt Vasvari wrote: No, I am not worried about the database not closed. I don't think it can lead to data corruption. On Oct 11, 6:55 pm, Mark Murphymmur...@commonsware.com wrote:

Re: [android-developers] How to store cookies in an application for future use?

2011-10-11 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Isn't the point of cookies that all this sort of work is done for you? If not, then perhaps you should consider storing (and accessing) the data in an alternative way. On 10/11/2011 10:46 PM, Shruthi Varma wrote: Hi All, In my application, I get all the cookies from the post requests with

Re: [android-developers] HorizontalListView inside a VerticalListView

2011-10-11 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
My guess is that the reason you're seeing that effect is that your vertical list view comes before the horizontal one in the touch event sink chain. I think that once a touch event handler returns true no further processing on that event happens. Try making your primary view horizontal, and

Re: [android-developers] How to store cookies in an application for future use?

2011-10-11 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Hmm. Still sounds a bit dodgy. One wonders why this guy's use case necessitates him building a new browser, and whether a well placed intent would achieve his goal with a lot less effort. On 10/11/2011 11:21 PM, Daniel Drozdzewski wrote: On 11 October 2011 16:06, Christopher Van Kirk

Re: [android-developers] Re: OpenGL lockups in 2.2

2011-10-11 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
It's insane to throw away months of work. Are you seeing this behavior in other 2 or 3d games running on that device? If so, it's probably a device fault that you simply can't get around, and should just be ignored. There are other devices in the world that, in theory, it should work on. In

Re: [android-developers] Avoiding POT rule for Opengl Textures: Overlapp a transparent POT bitmap with non POT bitmap?

2011-10-08 Thread Christopher Van Kirk
Have you consulted with the KETTLE on this? On 10/7/2011 6:37 PM, saex wrote: i need to load non POT bitmaps into my opengl es app for android. What i need is to overlap my non POT bitmap into another bitmap with POT size. I need to overlap the non POT bitmap in the center of the POT bitmap.

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