You know, it's like they had some sort of executive meeting when 3.0 first
came out.
Gentlemen, we're on the cusp of rolling out an exciting new version of
Android. This will revolutionize the product and give a magnificent new
user experience. Johnson, what new ways have you and the boys in
On Friday, December 16, 2011 at 3:51:58 PM UTC-8, Dianne Hackborn wrote:
You can definitely go fullscreen and have an action bar, you just need to
make a theme for this.
That said... really, why? Please don't. It is freaking annoying when
applications hide the status bar for no good
I want to give users the option of changing the look of my app. I
found a way to do that via setTheme(), but I also found a post by
Diane Hackborn that says:
But you really really should be setting this in the manifest. The system
uses this information to improve how it launches your activity
There are occasionally glitches in the android market paid app
download process.
There *were* occasional glitches in the market. Now they're
continuous.
My customers can't download the app and they've been trying for a week
and nothing we've tried from either end helps.
Try asking your
Normally cancelling the order and making a new one will solve it.
One customer has reported that this works. Thank you!
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I'm having the same issue -- several complaints about being able to
buy, but not download an app. Complaints are on Droid X and
Incredible.
Does cancelling and re-ordering help?
I can tell you that rebooting the phone, making sure you're logged in
to Google Talk, or even updating the app on the
This issues *my* customers are seeing is that they can see the app on
the market, they can buy it, than can get billed for it, but they
can't download it. Needless to say, they're not happy.
The app is a simple calculator. The only permissions is uses are
vibrate and write to sd card. It was
On May 16, 2:29 pm, Simone simone.russ...@gmail.com wrote:
It worked! How comes turning off that lets me find it?
I've never heard of an Acer Liquid before. I'm guessing that neither
has the Android Market.
Part of the way copy protection works is by only allowing approved
devices to access
Another example of someone trying to do this was in this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/d36983a8159f303b/
Everybody just says use getIdentifier(), but nobody says what
arguments you might pass it in order to return a styleable.
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As a continuation of the thread in
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/390e8188cedd66a6,
I'm still trying to figure out how a custom widget can use
getIdentifier() to read attributes.
As an example, I have a widget class called CustomWidget. It has
attributes
Intriguing. I was wondering if maybe you could add a blurb to your
web site explaining in simple terms how it works. E.g. when the API
is called, it communicates with the Android Market to verify your key;
once verified, the verification code is remembered so that no further
calls to the market
Found my paid app on their site. This is hardly a new issue; why are
they still in business?
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If you check your logcat messages, you'll probably get your answer,
but I'll tell you here anyway:
You're not allowed to replace an application with another that has a
conflicting signature. It's an obvious safety feature.
So uninstall your old version and then install the new version.
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On Apr 8, 6:59 pm, Guess Who, You Probably have my Number
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I did. But I am know internet genius. Just me and a friend trying to
make a quick buck a while ago. Never thought it would actually work!
made a couple hundred. Called it quits. Working on other projects. My
Certainly they're not acting in good faith. Trying to game the system
at the very least. I'll bet this violates Google's terms and
conditions. I think I'd complain.
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It's only a suggestion, but my view is that that Google have just
saved the chosen ones $500+, so even if you think you're time is worth
$100 an hour it might be worth putting in 5 hours of community
service as a way of showing Google that these kind of actions are
much appreciated and that
My app, Bebbled, has 600k+ downloads, 4.5 rating, and I'm in the EU, but
did not get an e-mail.
If you think you qualify, fill out the form anyway. Can't hurt.
That's a really good idea. BTW. (Bebbled is a great game, although I
eventually got stuck.)
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1. If I get a Droid, will anyone be willing and interested to switch
it with me for a Nexus One? One unopened box for another unopened box?
I'm amused. Not one person here has said they want the Droid. Me
included; I'd much prefer a GSM phone to one that would be locked to
Verizon for
If your app is talking to a server anyway, why not authenticate on
that channel too?
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I don't think the Android API lets you do what you want. I wound up
writing my own gridbox layout widget which I use in several of my
apps. It's similar to the old Java gridbag layout and HTML tables.
It does everything I need. Unfortunately, it's not generic enough for
me to publish yet.
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And yet, here it is a month later and the site is still up. Why
doesn't someone DMCA them and their provider too.
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On Jan 13, 9:18 am, sdphil phil.pellouch...@gmail.com wrote:
hey mark - when you say copy protect onAndroidMarketcauses more
problems than it solves, can you describe what you mean?
Case in point: HTC recently pushed an update for the Eris that was
incompatible with the Google Market. All
Now with that out of the way you can contact the owner of the site and ask
them to remove your app. If they don't comply you probably will need to
lawyer up to get any satisfaction and in the end you will probably not be
able to collect. All you get is a lawyer bill.
That's what the DMCA
On Jan 3, 11:13 am, Wayne Wenthin wa...@fuligin.com wrote:
android:singleLine=true
Ahh, perfect. I thought that attribute was only for TextView; it's
not documented in the EditTextPreference page, but I guess I should
have tried it anyway. Thank you very much.
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On Jan 8, 8:12 am, Edward Falk ed.f...@gmail.com wrote:
it's
not documented in the EditTextPreference page
Ooor, I could have read the opening paragraph instead of skipping
straight to the list of XML attributes. Duh.
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No official conventions exist as far as I know. It would be very anti-
social to store your files in the sd card root because of the clutter
it would cause (and I'm surprised that there are apps that do it). If
you're confident that your application's name will be unique, you
could just create
I have an EditTextPreference item in my Preference activity. I would
like the enter key signal ok rather than enter a newline. Is this
do-able via the preferences.xml file or some resources file?
In fact, ideally, I'd like to replace the enter symbol in the soft
keyboard with Done.
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Can I ask why you're keeping a connection open for 15 minutes? That
must be killing the battery.
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On Nov 28, 5:16 pm, sleith raysle...@gmail.com wrote:
any one know the code to block app so cannot be launched? .
thx
Why would you want to do this? It sounds like you want to take
control away from the user. If the user doesn't want an app launched,
they can, you know, just not launch it.
Reusable classes cannot use the R.* notation to reference resources.
You can either:
-- Accept resource IDs as parameters, the way much of the Android SDK is
set up. That way, the calling application controls the name of the
resource. You just get an opaque integer identifying the
I'm having the exact same problem. Is there an equivalent to xmlns
for styles?
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I found one approach that works: drop the qualifier trskb
item name=my_attrsome_value/item
It solved the problem for me. I don't know how the system would
handle a namespace collision though.
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Oh, and more importantly, the Android market should have a tool that
allows developers to get a list of devices that their application
won't be shown for, and why.
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Wait, so people are reporting problems with the CAMERA permission?
Let me guess, if you need that permission, then the app isn't shown to
phones that don't have cameras?
What if the app *can* use the camera, but doesn't *need* to use the
camera. What if it runs just fine on devices without
I don't know if someone else mentioned this, but I want to stress that
99% of developers do NOT need a dev phone. If you just want to write
android apps in Java and run them, any phone will do this. Dev phones
are for if you want to do OS-level development. I'd much prefer a
phone that can
Other opinions?
I agree absolutely.
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OK, how about this related issue?
I wrote a utility class that I want to use in multiple products.
org.efalk.gridbox.GridBox = my utility class
org.efalk.rpncalc.RpnCalc = product that I want to use Gridbox
The Gridbox class looks like:
package org.efalk.gridbox;
...
private void
I typically use this Makefile. Customize as necessary. If you use
Windows you're on your own.
app=RpnCalc
bindir=bin/rpncalc
release: build.xml ${bindir}
ant release
mv ${bindir}/${app}-unsigned.apk ./${app}.apk
jarsigner -keystore ~/.android/keystore ${app}.apk efalk
IMHO, you do not want a dev phone if you can avoid it. They let you
install your own os on the phone, but most developers don't need to
install their own os. Dev phones can't download applications that are
protected by drm.
I'd just get any working android from eBay.
IIRC, Button is a subclass of TextView, so whatever works with
TextView should work with button. If you define the button text with
resources, then the usual font, br /, and other tags should work
just fine. Haven't tried it myself, though.
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This came up a year ago, but nobody replied to the original author, so
I'm wondering if anybody found a work-around.
In a nutshell: Setting android:Theme.Light in the manifest produces
tabs that are unreadable. The tabs are such a light color that they
almost disappear against the background,
On Apr 20, 6:58 am, jarkman jark...@gmail.com wrote:
We actually maintain two separate codebases for our pro and light
products ...
Yuck. I was afraid that would be the answer. I don't know what Sun
was thinking when they decided to have no pre-processor for Java.
I'll try the if
Yes, I'll probably do it that way if I can't find another way.
Problem is that I also want to remove a lot of code from a case()
statement, remove a lot of functions that won't be called, and remove
a lot of resources. Are we sure that the Java compiler will actually
remove the dead code?
I
What is the best way to release two versions of an application? E.g.
a free version with limited features, and a paid version with the full
feature set.
#ifdef would be the ideal way to do this, but Java doesn't support it.
Could I do something like:
try {
import
On Mar 23, 12:27 pm, Lucius Fox lucius.fo...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you please tell me where I can the layout xml file for theAlertDialog?
I try to do a 'grep for 'alert1' in all the files in the source tree,
it does not return anything.
I believe it's
I didn't think it was a dumb question. The emulator could, you know,
emulate it. In fact, that would be a useful feature to have.
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I encountered the same issue with a new Sim card I bought from the T-
Mobile store. In a couple weeks, it started returning the correct
phone number, but it initially returned null. I modified my software
to allow the user to enter the phone number if I couldn't find it from
the telephony
I wrote those concerns to Google and I sent an email to the EFF. The
bottom line is that for my application to be restored on the android
market, I have to send a DMCA counter-notification. And then the
Tetris Company can sue and take the case to Court.
Yes, this is how the DMCA works. I
On Mar 20, 7:38 am, gsmd gsm...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd suggest to check out the sources from git search for .pngs
there. At least, that's what I did.
That's a very bad idea. If they're not part of the documented API,
they could very easily go away again on the next os release. Using
Are the activities all in the same application? Same task? It seems
to me that you could just store the data in a static variable
accessible by all of the activities. Am I missing something?
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
...
static MyDataStructure dataStruct = null;
...
On Mar 12, 5:03 pm, Romain Guy romain...@google.com wrote:
AbsoluteLayout is deprecated in Cupcake.
Why? And what do we use in its place?
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Doesn't particularly need to be in the data field, I just thought that
it was an obvious place put put, you know, data.
I've actually seen examples of apps that put the result in the Action
field. (C.f. app/SendResult.java in the sdk)
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Every app I download that doesn't let me press back to get out of it has a
special little black spot in my heart.
Agreed.
The web browser comes to mind. It's a huge hassle to exit it.
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Hi all; I took a bare-bones hello world application and added these
four menu items in onCreateOptionsMenu():
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|Start |
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|Find
By grid, do you mean the grid of applications shown to you in the
application launcher? If so, I believe you remove the category
android:name=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER/ tag from the intent
filter of your app.
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You want AlarmManager. It allows you to create an Intent object and
have it broadcast at a later time. Then you write a broadcast
receiver, service, or other object to receive the intent and wake up.
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I'm going to guess that the only thing installed on your phone is
compiled bytecode. There *might* be a way to fetch it back out of the
phone with adb, but you'd still have to de-compile the byte code back
to Java. Frankly, I think you'd be better off just reconstructing
your work.
From: Anil anil.r...@gmail.com
for example: for error dialogs, confirm dialogs, progress...
I looked in the res/drawable in the android.jar but couldn't see
thumbnails to determine what they look like.
thanks,
Bump
Any options other than looking at res/drawable in android.jar? I
prefer
If I understand correctly, the magnetic field detectors in the phone
return a 3-d answer (an xyz vector towards the north magnetic pole).
The phone's built-in software takes that information, and combines it
with the information provided by the accelerometers in order to return
the correct answer
Hi all; I searched the group, but found nothing on the subject.
Here's what I'm seeing:
I have a remote service. If I enable the location provider from my
onCreate() entry point:
public void onCreate() {
super.onCreate();
locationManager =
(LocationManager)
In your manifest, add this attribute to your Activity tag:
android:configChanges=keyboardHidden
http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/R.attr.html#configChanges
and override the onConfigurationChanged() method in your Activity
The android won't accept unsigned applications, although self-signed
certificates are acceptable. The Eclipse/SDK will automatically sign
apps for you with a temporary debugging certificate, but you'll want
your own permanent certificate before you release. The debug cert
expires after one
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