[android-developers] Is it possible to require a gamepad on Android TV, but not on other devices?

2015-07-21 Thread Jon Colverson
Hello. I'm getting ready to release a game that's compatible with both touchscreen devices and Android TV devices. On Android TV, the gameplay isn't suitable for control with just a dpad, so I'd like to add uses-feature android:name=android.hardware.GAMEPAD / to my manifest so that buyers can

[android-developers] Re: Is it possible to require a gamepad on Android TV, but not on other devices?

2015-07-21 Thread Jon Colverson
UTC+1, Jon Colverson wrote: Hello. I'm getting ready to release a game that's compatible with both touchscreen devices and Android TV devices. On Android TV, the gameplay isn't suitable for control with just a dpad, so I'd like to add uses-feature android:name=android.hardware.GAMEPAD

[android-developers] VideoView playback fails on 2.0.1? MediaPlayer warnings in logcat

2009-12-15 Thread Jon Colverson
Hello all. I'm testing an app on the 2.0.1 emulator and video playback is not working correctly. The VideoView is just showing a white rectangle, although the audio is playing fine. I tested one of the video files in the Gallery app and it showed the same results (white rectangle with sound). A

[android-developers] Re: Multitouch support in Android 2.0

2009-10-27 Thread Jon Colverson
This is very exciting stuff! I have a couple of questions about how multitouch support interacts with old devices and old apps: Is there a way to query the device to see if it supports multitouch? Is there anything would prevent me from getting this working via reflection without increasing

[android-developers] Re: Multitouch support in Android 2.0

2009-10-27 Thread Jon Colverson
On Oct 27, 9:29 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Jon Colverson jjc1...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to query the device to see if it supports multitouch? Not currently. Is there anything would prevent me from getting this working via

[android-developers] Re: SurfaceDestroyed and Game Thread Problem

2009-07-19 Thread Jon Colverson
On Jul 20, 4:06 am, Warren warrenba...@gmail.com wrote: I am having trouble with the order of function callbacks in a game. I create and start a game thread in the onCreate() of my activity.  In the onPause() of the activity, I pause the thread. And in surfaceDestroyed() I stop the thread

[android-developers] Re: Howto detect media actions

2009-07-12 Thread Jon Colverson
On Jul 2, 12:47 am, JayBird jayje...@gmail.com wrote: intent-filter action android:name=android.intent.action.ACTION_MEDIA_BAD_REMOVAL / action android:name=android.intent.action.ACTION_MEDIA_MEDIA_CHECKING / ... After doing this, I'm still not

[android-developers] Re: ListView divider - which drawable?

2009-06-30 Thread Jon Colverson
On Jul 1, 2:53 am, gsmd gsm...@gmail.com wrote: Which drawable does the default ListView use as a divider? TIA. ?android:attr/listDivider in a view with layout_height of 1dp. -- Jon --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to

[android-developers] Re: how to use jarsigner

2009-05-10 Thread Jon Colverson
On May 10, 2:09 pm, Nox v.beh...@googlemail.com wrote: If I tap this command in the command line:  jarsigner -verbose -keystore my-release-key.keystore PhoneTester.apk alias_name then I have to enter the password but then there appears this error message: jarsigner error

[android-developers] Re: Urgent! can't update apps in market. No error message

2009-05-09 Thread Jon Colverson
On May 7, 7:19 pm, android app codefan3...@gmail.com wrote: On my own device, I can uninstall the previous version and install the new version even signed with a different key. As you say, you have to _uninstall_ the old version first, so your users would have to do that as well. Does anyone

[android-developers] Re: How Do I Compile in Release Mode?

2009-05-05 Thread Jon Colverson
On May 5, 1:38 am, hivebrain hivebr...@gmail.com wrote: I am following the instructions on code signing on the Android Developer site, and it mentions that if you specify that you want to compile in Debug mode, it automatically signs the resulting file with a debug key.  It also says that if

[android-developers] Re: SurfaceFlinger and permitions

2009-05-01 Thread Jon Colverson
On Apr 30, 2:09 pm, Guian guiandou...@gmail.com wrote: The error is a little bit different since I moved from OpenGL ES 1.1 to OpenGL ES 1.0, but still here on the GPU surface request : E/SurfaceFlinger(   65): HW3D_REVOKE_GPU failed (Invalid argument), mFD=146, base=0x499f8000 but only on

[android-developers] Re: Basic HTTP authentication

2009-04-29 Thread Jon Colverson
On Apr 29, 6:06 pm, Wouter wouterg...@gmail.com wrote: I cannot access my page! How can I do this? Can you post your code? -- Jon --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post

[android-developers] Re: cupcake 1.5 r1 surfaceCreated is not called!!!

2009-04-28 Thread Jon Colverson
On Apr 28, 12:56 pm, ad avra...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is that surfaceCreated is not called :                 SurfaceHolder mSurfaceHolder = getHolder();                 mSurfaceHolder.addCallback(this);                 setFocusable(true);                 waitForScreen(); - here I

[android-developers] Re: Basic HTTP authentication

2009-04-28 Thread Jon Colverson
On Apr 28, 11:26 pm, Wouter wouterg...@gmail.com wrote: How can i do the authentication? i have tried with a authscope and BasicCredentialsProvider but i think i am not doing it good! I think this is all you need: DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();

[android-developers] Re: Layout question - how to replicate what the iPhone does...

2009-04-27 Thread Jon Colverson
On Apr 27, 10:01 pm, Anna PS annapowellsm...@googlemail.com wrote: How would I even start to create a home screen that looks like this in Android? Essentially I need clickable areas with text and icons. Buttons can't have images attached, nor can they be greyed out. Yes, they can have images:

[android-developers] Re: opengl display issue when using g.getHolder().setFormat(PixelFormat.RGBA_8888);

2009-04-25 Thread Jon Colverson
On Apr 25, 9:54 pm, William william.caine...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, so I wanted to create a transparent activity where I draw some cubes on the screen.  Well I initially was developing with the default settings where   g.getHolder().setFormat(PixelFormat.RGBA_); my view in a real narrow

[android-developers] Re: Shutdown notification?

2009-04-21 Thread Jon Colverson
On Mar 25, 2:26 pm, Cyril Jaquier cyril.jaqu...@jaqpot.net wrote: I would like to perform a task just before the phone is shut down. I thought that Application#onTerminate would be called but that does not seem to be the case. Is there a broadcast intent when the phone is going to shutdown?

[android-developers] Re: Building different versions of an app -- best practice?

2009-04-21 Thread Jon Colverson
On Apr 20, 1:23 pm, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.com wrote: But isn't the real problem that you would need a totally different package name to upload it to the Android Market? I'd love to hear if anyone has an elegant solution for this. Mine is very ugly: I have one manifest file for my

[android-developers] Re: User input in an AppWidget?

2009-04-16 Thread Jon Colverson
On Apr 16, 6:47 am, Jeff Sharkey jshar...@android.com wrote: The major reason for this is we don't have a good way of identifying how that text should be sent back across a PendingIntent.  To solve this from the framework side, one approach would to add the text to the extras bundle with the

[android-developers] User input in an AppWidget?

2009-04-15 Thread Jon Colverson
Hello. I've been looking at the new 1.5_pre SDK today, and the new AppWidget API in particular. I was hoping to write a widget for posting to Twitter as part of my nanoTweeter app. The interface I had in mind would look very similar to the Google Search widget, with an EditText and a submit

[android-developers] Re: finish() not killing Activity

2009-04-12 Thread Jon Colverson
On Apr 12, 1:07 pm, Todd Sjolander guyfantas...@gmail.com wrote: hardware back button.  In the emulator, it takes two presses of the back button in order to close Activity C and come back to B.  On a G1, it takes 3 or 4 presses. When you're testing, do you clear the activity history (by going

[android-developers] Re: Unable to download app on the dev phone from the android market...

2009-04-12 Thread Jon Colverson
On Apr 13, 4:02 am, havexz bali.param...@gmail.com wrote: I am unable to download my app from the android market. Is it because of some settings I have to do while publishing? What is the reason that dev phone is unable to download the app? The same app is downloadable on other normal android

[android-developers] Re: How to display a horizontal bar

2009-03-31 Thread Jon Colverson
On Mar 31, 11:25 am, Jiang webs...@yahoo.cn wrote: I want to display a horizontal bar in the view, just like the separator of ListView, in other words, the left/right of the bar is fading This is how it's done in the Contacts app: View android:layout_width=fill_parent

[android-developers] Re: DDMS not listing applications

2009-03-26 Thread Jon Colverson
On Mar 26, 5:33 pm, Ivan Soto ivanso...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody knows what could be the cause that it's not listing applications? It works fine on the emulator but not on my G1. DDMS only shows applications that are marked as debuggable in their manifests on the G1, whereas it shows all

[android-developers] Re: Touch screen slowdown

2009-03-26 Thread Jon Colverson
On Mar 26, 1:29 pm, Jonathan Fisher jonathan.fis...@runestone- games.com wrote: I am having a problem with the touch screen in that whenever the screen is   touched, it causes significant slowdown because of the large number of   callbacks that are being made.  I have read in this group about

[android-developers] Re: Is there a large efficiency difference between Canvas.drawBitmap or OpenGL?

2009-03-17 Thread Jon Colverson
On Mar 17, 7:27 pm, William william.caine...@gmail.com wrote: Do I have to convert all that to GL textures or can I keep all the bitmap work and convert the final image to a texture to be drawn to the GL surface.  If I have to convert it all to the textures and draw to the textures, will

[android-developers] Re: Is there a large efficiency difference between Canvas.drawBitmap or OpenGL?

2009-03-15 Thread Jon Colverson
On Mar 11, 3:31 pm, William william.caine...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a large efficiency difference between Canvas.drawBitmap or OpenGL.  I am drawing using Canvas.drawBitmap and running slowing FPS, would openGL speed that up a lot you think? In short, yes. I was initially trying to use

[android-developers] Re: Using the word Android in a market developer name

2009-03-15 Thread Jon Colverson
On Mar 12, 12:50 am, Hayden hayden.stew...@gmail.com wrote: Is it against Google's rules to use the word Android in a developer name?  I'm leaning towards no.  While it is the name of the OS, Google didn't invent the word. It is a registered trademark though. We're allowed to use it under the

[android-developers] Re: png + opengl

2009-03-15 Thread Jon Colverson
On Mar 14, 2:10 pm, borghild.hedda borghild.he...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to draw a png image and then to run opengl operations on it with android? What do you mean by run opengl operations on it? You can certainly use a PNG bitmap as a background and then do 3D stuff on top of it. --

[android-developers] Re: Current Percentage of Refunds on Android Market?

2009-03-13 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 23, 2:13 am, Jon Colverson jjc1...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 23, 1:04 am, Shane Isbell shane.isb...@gmail.com wrote: What kind of current percentage of refunds are developers typically seeing on the market? More than a 5%? For my $0.99 game (which does not have a free demo version

[android-developers] Re: access parent's protected variable when extend a android class!

2009-03-10 Thread Jon Colverson
On Mar 10, 8:48 am, jusun...@gmail.com jusun...@gmail.com wrote: the result log mean that I can't accessed the protected variable mInLayout from outside package. I think I can access a parent's protected variable when extending class in Object oriented programming theory. am I wrong? and is

[android-developers] Does this group need renaming?

2009-03-07 Thread Jon Colverson
Hello. I notice that there's been a bit of controversy in the last couple of days about off-topic posting on this list. As the list home page says, it is intended to be a place to Discuss developing Android applications using the Android framework. While I find the talk about the Market and

[android-developers] Re: how to connect to pc through wifi directly

2009-03-06 Thread Jon Colverson
On Mar 6, 6:51 am, Lei poohd...@gmail.com wrote: I want to know how to connect G1 to pc directly through wifi. The pc has a wireless network card. I know how to connect between 2 pcs. But I need to set up the ip address of them. Since I can not do that on android, I've no idea. And it seems

[android-developers] Re: OpenGL ES problem: Trouble loading a bitmap texture (comes out blue)

2009-03-04 Thread Jon Colverson
I don't understand why you're trying to copy the texture from a Bitmap into an IntBuffer before setting it. Why not use GLUtils.texImage2D to load the Bitmap directly? -- Jon --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[android-developers] Re: Diplay a Euro sign for the currency

2009-03-04 Thread Jon Colverson
On Mar 3, 9:34 am, arjanDOTTYbroerATgmailDOTTYcom arjan.br...@gmail.com wrote: Then when i use the DecimalFormat.getCurrencyInstance(new Local(nl- NL)) or DecimalFormat.getCurrencyInstance(Local.GERMAN) it should use the euro sign. The formatted has a strange block character though. German is

[android-developers] Re: Dev Phone and RC33 update

2009-03-03 Thread Jon Colverson
On Mar 3, 5:57 am, John Gruenenfelder jo...@as.arizona.edu wrote: However, I plan to purchase an ADP1 very soon.  My plan has always been to have this be my primary device.  Like many of the other hobbyists here on the list, I can little afford two devices.  I was very much hoping that the

[android-developers] Re: How to avoid my background thread been killed ??

2009-03-02 Thread Jon Colverson
On Mar 2, 4:47 am, Ashrotronics 030440...@163.com wrote: First thanks for your response.Ye,I start my new Thread from my activity, But the new thread does sth very important,and it should never be killed by the System as long as my activity is alive ,Any way i can get the message when the

[android-developers] Re: Assuming Developers are Pirates

2009-03-02 Thread Jon Colverson
On Mar 2, 6:27 am, Luke Hutchison luke.hu...@gmail.com wrote: Does Google have any plans to support security based on phone number, Android ID, gmail address or similar?  (Do developers get a list of these details for all paid-up users, for example? -- I think not, currently?)  If that sort

[android-developers] Re: Problems with background activities or partial locks or something completely altogether?!

2009-03-02 Thread Jon Colverson
On Mar 2, 9:42 am, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.com wrote: So how does that work? Here's how nanoTweeter works (slightly abbreviated): The alarm BroadcastReceiver's onReceive() acquires a WakeLock and stores it in a static field so that the Service can access it later. It then starts a

[android-developers] Re: Problems with background activities or partial locks or something completely altogether?!

2009-03-02 Thread Jon Colverson
On Mar 2, 8:11 pm, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.com wrote: And why do you use startService instead of binding to it, get the interface, calls something, and get rid of the binding? I was under the impression that startService would be for something that runs in the background like playing

[android-developers] Re: Dev Phone and RC33 update

2009-03-01 Thread Jon Colverson
On Mar 1, 9:17 am, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: I think we're going to have to agree to disagree. As I see it you're not willing to factor in the difficulty level in cracking the system and implementing a generic method as a differentiating factor between the protection methods,

[android-developers] Re: Problems with background activities or partial locks or something completely altogether?!

2009-03-01 Thread Jon Colverson
I don't think it's valid to start a Thread in a BroadcastReceiver. The system doesn't know anything about that thread, so it wouldn't know that it's supposed to keep the process hosting it around. My app nanoTweeter does similar background polling and I acquire the WakeLock in the

[android-developers] Re: How to avoid my background thread been killed ??

2009-03-01 Thread Jon Colverson
On Mar 2, 3:32 am, Ashrotronics 030440...@163.com wrote:    As is mentioned above,What i'm trying is to protect a sub- thread,and keep it going on as long as the App that starts it is still alive.In other words,If the system need more resources,Let it kill both the App main thread and the

[android-developers] Re: Dev Phone and RC33 update

2009-02-28 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 28, 7:06 am, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: This isn't neccessarily about encrypting applications, in fact the system at AndAppStore[1] doesn't rely on encrypting the application, it purely relies on using an encrypted piece of data which thae application uses to determine

[android-developers] Re: Dev Phone and RC33 update

2009-02-28 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 28, 6:09 pm, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: If you're talking about modifying the binary to remove the license checking, Yes, that's what I was getting at. I didn't want to simply say it because talking about ways of circumventing DRM is legally shaky ground. well, if someone

[android-developers] Re: Dev Phone and RC33 update

2009-02-28 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 28, 6:46 pm, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: method), and, as far as I'm aware, there isn't a method circulating which can be applied to any and every protected application to get a protection free copy by following a simple set of instructions (if there is I'd  welcome

[android-developers] Re: Dev Phone and RC33 update

2009-02-27 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 27, 5:58 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: It would make more sense to not rely on forward-locking for copyright-related restrictions. It all boils down to finding time to implement it. All DRM is breakable. I would strongly urge you not to invest any developer time in

[android-developers] Re: Dev Phone and RC33 update

2009-02-27 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 27, 10:12 pm, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: DRM tends to be based on Cryptography and yes, all cryptography is breakable NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO! Cryptography is intended to be used for, and effective at, transmitting a message secretly between two parties (A - B) without a

[android-developers] Re: SoundPool working correctly yet?

2009-02-26 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 26, 8:22 am, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.com wrote: Other have had success with SoundPool by setting the maxStreams to a large value. This avoids the most egregious deadlock issue, although there are other issues that may result in ANR's depending on your use case. It also requires

[android-developers] Re: Launching Market to Specific App from Dialog

2009-02-26 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 26, 2:09 am, Steve Ingram steveing...@gmail.com wrote: 1. How can I test this using the Emulator or Browser (I don't have a phone)? You can't. It only works when the Market app is installed and AFAIK no one has figured out how to get it onto the emulator. 2. Can someone provide me

[android-developers] Re: OpenGL: how to use gluUnProject on Android?

2009-02-26 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 25, 1:10 am, focuser linto...@gmail.com wrote: My question is how to get those matrices?  I tried gl.glGetIntegerv (GL11.GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX_FLOAT_AS_INT_BITS_OES, model, 0); and ((GL11) gl).glGetFloatv(GL11.GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX, modelf, 0); but the first one returns an array of zeros,

[android-developers] Re: SoundPool working correctly yet?

2009-02-26 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 26, 6:04 pm, clark clarkd...@gmail.com wrote: SoundPoolhas been reliable for me, and I've not had any reports of crashes. What are you using for the maxStreams constructor argument? I originally started out by using 20 for the maxStreams argument, although I only have two wav files

[android-developers] Re: Where can i see the Android applications and its price

2009-02-26 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 26, 7:06 pm, kamaraj subramanian itkama...@gmail.com wrote: But i dont have G1 Phone. Is that possible to see what are the applications available in market and how much cost it. ( through any website ) There is an unofficial Market browser here: http://www.cyrket.com/ -- Jon

[android-developers] Re: Dev Phone and RC33 update

2009-02-26 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 26, 10:17 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: I'd say that the current design would make this hard, but I have no visibility over what the future plans might be. I think the decision to restrict copy-protected apps on the ADP1 is very unfortunate. It's trivial to break the

[android-developers] Re: Can I pull a paid app from the Android Market?

2009-02-26 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 26, 10:29 pm, Mattaku Betsujin mattaku.betsu...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder about that too. If I purchased an app, and then delete it due to lack of space, I suppose I can come back later and reinstall it for free. But if the publisher pulls the app, I will be out of luck? From the

[android-developers] Re: paid app update problem

2009-02-26 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 26, 8:05 pm, sagesmith sagesm...@gmail.com wrote: If this is a market issue we are f*#%ed. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=3649cbfff80c65behl=en -- Jon --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[android-developers] Re: A big OpenGL speed issue + my code contribution to other OpenGL beginners

2009-02-25 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 25, 11:39 am, quakeboy prasna...@gmail.com wrote: More info:- I tested by rendering on the touch event only.. frame rate drops only when u touch and drag and here I have just tested by tapping and releasing gently on the emulator and on the device As I said before, this is a very

[android-developers] Re: SoundPool working correctly yet?

2009-02-25 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 25, 5:11 am, clark clarkd...@gmail.com wrote: I've recently started working with the SoundPool class in SDK 1.1R1, and noticed that my app deadlocks from time to time, or sounds are not loaded. SoundPool has been reliable for me, and I've not had any reports of crashes. What are you

[android-developers] Re: Uninstalling Trial app when installing Paid app

2009-02-25 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 25, 6:18 pm, Jay-andro jayan...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to detect upon install or first use, if another app (in this case, the trial version of the same app from the same developer with the same key but different package name) is still installed? If yes, then the next question

[android-developers] Re: OPEN Gl application

2009-02-24 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 24, 2:51 pm, Honest honestsucc...@gmail.com wrote: I have one application which is based on OPEN GL in java. Now i want to make same application in android then i just need to port this code to android or i will have to make whole android application from scratch. Any suggestion will

[android-developers] Re: remote service process persists (i.e. won't disappear from process table)

2009-02-24 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 22, 12:13 am, Alex B alexba...@gmail.com wrote: At this point I expect the process to disappear from the process table. Yet it remains indefinitely. But why? Also, the process is so persistent that I can bind to it again, and I see that it is the same exact process responding because

[android-developers] Re: TERRIBLE BUG IN MARKET APPLICATION (was Re: Paid apps related questions discussion list?)

2009-02-23 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 23, 11:33 pm, Stoyan Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: Or at least say *anything* [...] We have a We're looking into it over on the Market Help forum: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=3649cbfff80c65behl=en -- Jon

[android-developers] Re: Linking Directly To An App In The Market?

2009-02-23 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 24, 5:26 am, Peter Sankauskas pas...@gmail.com wrote: I have been researching the same thing and have not yet found an answer. Has anyone else discovered how to write a link that goes to an app in the android market? If you do a link like this:

[android-developers] Re: Why can't my update be installed by users?

2009-02-22 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 22, 7:27 am, Yan Shi shiyansu...@gmail.com wrote: I did an app called Hello Yahoo and today I made an update. But users said it can't be installed because the package is not signed correctly. And after that the old version can't even be uninstalled because the device thinks it is

[android-developers] Re: Paid apps related questions discussion list?

2009-02-22 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 22, 8:37 am, ellipsoidmob...@googlemail.com ellipsoidmob...@googlemail.com wrote: I've had a couple of cancellations but I have no idea why!! Does anyone know a way for UK developers to see the feedback that users have given their applications? You can read your feedback on the

[android-developers] Re: Signing an application on Linux

2009-02-22 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 22, 8:42 am, Nox v.beh...@googlemail.com wrote: I've tried it with Linux and Windows, but I don't know how to sign it!!! I have exported it to my desktop but what do I have to do now?! All these instructions I've read aren't working! And if can't sign it I can't publish it!!! Follow

[android-developers] Re: Can't see comments in my app?

2009-02-22 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 21, 8:12 pm, g1bb corymgibb...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, 100% correct. I just turned off protection andCyrket updated immediately. I mentioned this to Jay (saurik) at Cyrket, and now he's updated it so that it shows protected apps too. -- Jon

[android-developers] Re: Customers Unable to Download Upgrades

2009-02-22 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 22, 8:27 pm, Stoyan Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: Ask the users to reinstall. This always works - for hanging downloads, hanging installs, crashes on startup. I don't know if a re-install equals uninstall, cancel, install though - because if it does, you might quickly start

[android-developers] Re: Current Percentage of Refunds on Android Market?

2009-02-22 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 23, 1:04 am, Shane Isbell shane.isb...@gmail.com wrote: What kind of current percentage of refunds are developers typically seeing on the market? More than a 5%? For my $0.99 game (which does not have a free demo version available yet), the current refund rate for orders that are passed

[android-developers] Re: Signing an application on Linux

2009-02-21 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 21, 11:50 am, Nox v.beh...@googlemail.com wrote: Can anyone sign my application for me? I could send it to you and you sign it and send it to me back. It would really be best if you worked out how to do it for yourself. Which part of the instructions is giving you trouble? -- Jon

[android-developers] Re: Market for paid Apps - Identifying customers

2009-02-21 Thread Jon Colverson
On Jan 20, 9:54 pm, deepdr...@googlemail.com deepdr...@googlemail.com wrote: Once the market opens for paid apps - will we developers be able to see email addresses of paying customers? Or, will there be some other way to identify legit purchases, so, if we receive support requests via email,

[android-developers] Re: Paid apps related questions discussion list?

2009-02-21 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 21, 3:24 pm, Stoyan Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a dedicated list for developers who have paid apps in Android Market? It would be best if that list has at least 1 *Google* (not Android, i.e. I don't need it to be technically savvy) employee able to give sensible

[android-developers] Re: UK developers listing currency?

2009-02-20 Thread Jon Colverson
Ok. Let's see if we can de-FUDify this thread with some facts: Yes, the Market only allows UK sellers to list in GBP. Apparently the Market shows the end user an estimated conversion in their local currency, but I don't know if it shows that on the listing itself, or only on the checkout page

[android-developers] Re: When will Android support Multiple PDP?

2009-02-20 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 20, 9:13 am, David Hu vistoda...@gmail.com wrote:     More specifically, as I know, Symbian 7.0s higher support Multiple PDP, that's mean you can create multiple, for example, GPRS context use it simultaniously(such as MMS WAP Inet context)... Does Android support this feature? If

[android-developers] Re: When will Android support Multiple PDP?

2009-02-20 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 20, 9:06 pm, David Hu vistoda...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Jon. It seems the same, but why I can't open this pagehttp://source.android.com/roadmap, which always report can't find the server?  Is it public acess?  Would you please tell me when and which release will support this

[android-developers] Re: Google Checkout - Any way to manage customer relation / Checkout also putting multiple holds on txns.

2009-02-20 Thread Jon Colverson
The multiple holds are described on the Checkout help here: https://checkout.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=105940 (You might want to forward that to your users.) I presume the reason for doing it is so that Google can combine multiple purchases from a user into one charge on their

[android-developers] Re: How to tame CPU usage?

2009-02-19 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 19, 8:21 am, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, now the guesstimeasurement I do is that I look at the time the background is yellow. This time is very brief, when the background thread is not running and went to 4 seconds when the background thread is running and half of

[android-developers] Re: Remove time field of notification shown in the expanded status bar

2009-02-19 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 19, 4:13 am, elvisw elvise...@gmail.com wrote:     The notification in the expanded status bar has time field.     How can I set the time invisible or remove it?? If you use a RemoteView then you can put whatever you want in the notification:

[android-developers] Re: Touch *extremely* expensive performance-wise

2009-02-19 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 19, 7:00 am, Zombies and Robots caecus...@gmail.com wrote: I've been trying to follow everything you guys have been talking about, but I must admit that after trying several ways of implementing what you suggest, I still haven't been able to achieve any positive results.  Could one of

[android-developers] Re: backgroung setting in OpenGLES

2009-02-19 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 19, 1:29 pm, and.pradeep and.prad...@gmail.com wrote:     I am writting opengl app using GLSurgfaceView given in API demos. I create a rectangle and added texture but then drawframe in renderer is called in a loop i,e it is redrawing it even if there is no changes. so what should i do

[android-developers] Re: How to tame CPU usage?

2009-02-19 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 19, 1:36 pm, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, how to proceed from here? Do you know how the actual locking mechanism works? It seems (http://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html) that they use page level locking. I assume the list adapter's getCount() uses all records, so

[android-developers] Re: Paid applications - are they downloadable now? By Al Sutton

2009-02-19 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 19, 7:59 pm, Stoyan Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hang on, how did you find out that they will be available today? Where did you hear it from, or you're guessing by Google's mid next week estimate? JBQ's message earlier in this thread would be an odd thing to say if they aren't

[android-developers] Re: Paid applications - are they downloadable now? By Al Sutton

2009-02-19 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 19, 9:03 pm, Stoyan Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: It is the message below? Actually, it's really mid-week on the US west coast, it's thursday morning (before people start to work) on a 4-day week (monday was a holiday) Yes. I figure he wouldn't bother pointing out that the

[android-developers] Re: Help! Market ratings for my app have disappeared!

2009-02-18 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 18, 7:14 am, Teo teomina...@gmail.com wrote: Has this happened to anyone else? I now have a 0 star rating with 0 people having rated it... This happened to my listings on the Developer Console last night, but the listings on the phone still showed the correct ratings. Now it's back to

[android-developers] Re: opengl es texture created from bitmap is all white?

2009-02-18 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 18, 6:03 am, Rye ryeterr...@gmail.com wrote: mOverlay = Bitmap.createBitmap((int)mWidth, (int)mHeight, ... c.drawCircle(160, 240, 10, p); Are mWidth and mHeight powers of two? Non-power of two textures are supported on the emulator but not on the accelerated GL driver on the Dream (G1

[android-developers] Re: A thread useful for whole community - Reply with all working OpenGL ES Extension functions

2009-02-18 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 18, 4:38 pm, shaun shashepp...@gmail.com wrote: Basically, the following calls failed (gl was already type casted to GL11):     -gl.glGetString(GL11.GL_EXTENSIONS)     -gl.glBufferData(GL11.GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 4 * squareFX.length, vertexBufferData, GL11.GL_STATIC_DRAW); The first one is

[android-developers] Re: Android Market broken? Can't see the new release of my app in the Android Market?!

2009-02-17 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 17, 6:06 pm, kolby kolbys...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a discussion group for market related problems? http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=38bb8135ba96af2ehl=en -- Jon --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

[android-developers] Re: A safer way of using SoundPool?

2009-02-16 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 16, 6:25 am, Marco Nelissen marc...@android.com wrote: Why do you say it's not a public API? SoundPool is undocumented because it is not ready as a public API and is subject to change. http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/6c360f2d0662be0a -- Jon

[android-developers] Re: 2d background image on a 3d OpenGL game

2009-02-16 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 16, 12:57 pm, quakeboy prasna...@gmail.com wrote: but still my speed drops when I draw the background as a textured quad. and I am not able to get the drawtexfOES to work. @Jon Can you please help me by posting a sample code of what parameters to pass to 1. glTexParameterfv 2.

[android-developers] Re: Need some help at testing an Android game

2009-02-15 Thread Jon Colverson
I ran it a few times on my G1 and I got: min: 15, 8, 15 max: 44, 44, 47 avg: 25, 24, 27 The animation is fairly smooth, but there is a brief delay (~100ms) every few seconds caused by garbage collection. On the G1 screen it often looks like there are two bullets in a row when there is only

[android-developers] Re: transparent textures...

2009-02-15 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 15, 2:23 pm, petunio juanjosegilmen...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi all I am using opengl for drawing 3d stuff, but so far I've been unable to use transparent textures... You need at least: gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_BLEND); and probably also: gl.glBlendFunc(GL10.GL_SRC_ALPHA,

[android-developers] Re: Android Market broken? Can't see the new release of my app in the Android Market?!

2009-02-15 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 15, 8:10 pm, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.com wrote: And it's back to the old version of the description and the new version of the SW (1.3.0). Not sure what to do I just checked one of my app descriptions that I updated yesterday (nanoTweeter), and it's back to the old version,

[android-developers] Re: Idea for non-US/UK developers with paid apps (was Setup Merchant Account link now available)

2009-02-14 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 14, 4:21 pm, Al Sutton a...@funkyandroid.com wrote: The first step is, of course, Google saying that they won't shut down the agents account as soon as they list someone elses app I don't see why Google would have a problem with this, as long as the agent is willing to accept legal

[android-developers] Re: 2d background image on a 3d OpenGL game

2009-02-13 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 13, 8:21 am, Stoyan Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: Jon, search my posts (I have a few on this list) for touch screen - Dianne explained pretty well why touch slows the game, and a workaround for that. In short, you need to put your main thread to sleep after you handle a touch

[android-developers] Re: Touch *extremely* expensive performance-wise

2009-02-13 Thread Jon Colverson
On Jan 11, 2:25 am, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Fwiw, you should generally avoid trying to directly control scheduling.  Let the kernel schedule the threads as needed; the only issue you had here was that your main thread was using as much CPU as it could get, since it was

[android-developers] Re: 2d background image on a 3d OpenGL game

2009-02-12 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 12, 2:50 pm, quakeboy prasna...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think OpenGL ES 1.0 is so incapable that it can't give me atleast 25-30 fps with just 12 triangles which you one 256x256 texture and one 64x64 textures (used by 5 quads) My game does a very similar amount of drawing and I get ~60

[android-developers] Re: IP support?

2009-02-12 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 11, 7:46 pm, jski jchludzin...@gmail.com wrote: How does Android provide support for traditional TCP or UDP sockets? Is there a wireless IP protocol using just the cell phone?  If so, how does this work?  Or, do I need an 802.11 chipset in the handset (assuming this isn't standard)?  

[android-developers] Re: directory of self-written programms

2009-02-12 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 12, 1:35 pm, mechatronicsStudent filipp.mich...@googlemail.com wrote: I´ve written a programm helloWorld.apk and installed it with adb install on the phone. Were can I find this programm now in the file system? And how can I get this programm starting just by typing helloWorld in the

[android-developers] Re: 2d background image on a 3d OpenGL game

2009-02-12 Thread Jon Colverson
On Feb 13, 5:06 am, quakeboy prasna...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you very much for your reply. I checked out the extension, I did not know I can add other extensions except the ones in GL10Ext.. I read the jsr239 docs and found how to load it too.. Thanks a lot once again. I didn't need to do

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