Re: [android-developers] Forum very slow

2012-11-05 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2012-11-05 20:49, Mark Murphy wrote: On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 2:11 PM, lbendlin l...@bendlin.us wrote: Love the russian text. You may not want to rely on Google Translate that much, unless you were aiming for chuckles. Well, the announcement tomorrow is calling for better translations of

Re: [android-developers] Re: The package name of your apk is the same as the package name of another developer's application. Choose a new package name.

2012-10-09 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2012-10-09 21:08, Mark Murphy wrote: Reputedly, there is some process by which you can get the Play Store folk to transfer an app between accounts, though I am not seeing a mention of how to do that in the Play Store docs. [...] On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:03 PM, John Merlino stoici...@aol.com

Re: [android-developers] How can I put different resources for different dpi on ICS with the same sw800dp smallest width?

2012-09-12 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi, Sorry to bump in late to this discussion, but I've noticed something related to this that you may want to be aware of: One of our customers insist that we use only EXACTLY the graphic elements that their design, but for some reason we got the latest images in GIF format rather than PNG.

[android-developers] Emulator hardware keyboard mapping table?

2012-07-15 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi all, Now that the emulator seemingly supports using the computer's physical keyboard in a more generic way, I have experimented a bit to try to get it to fully work. Specifically, I'd like to enter the åäöÅÄÖ characters without having to longpress A or O to get the popup menu and some

Re: [android-developers] Music notation application

2012-05-08 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi Simon, On 2012-05-08 15:43, Simon Giddings wrote: I am researching the writing of a simple music notation program which will permit simple actions such as * Display * Transposition * Annotation * etc My first hurdle is how to display the music. Cool, I've written a fairly simple

Re: [android-developers] play sound file

2012-04-29 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2012-04-28 17:51, Mai Al-Ammar wrote: I install the new program every time but it still the old file. This my be related to what I have noted: Apparently there is some kind of optimization going on when deploying iteratively from Eclipse - adding files will work as expected, but removing

[android-developers] Subtle String() bug seems likely

2012-02-28 Thread Jonas Petersson
Dear Experts, It appears that we've found what I suspect is some kind of optimization in Android that actually turns into a pretty nasty memory leak (BTW this is under 2.2 since that is the project target): Short version: The docs for JSONTokener claims:

Re: [android-developers] Re: GPS Location

2011-10-23 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2011-10-23 07:53, John Coryat wrote: GPS doesn't require an internet connection but it does require receiving a very weak signal from a number of GPS satellites. That usually means a view of the sky. Although I agree that it doesn't REQUIRE an internet connection, I must say that all my

Re: [android-developers] Re: SDK 4, if I select WXGA resolution, emulator doesn't start.

2011-10-20 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi all, On 2011-10-19 19:43, sblantipodi wrote: is there someone else who have this problem and is not using a snapshot? personally I was be able to start in WXGA resolution only the first time. I have not had time to properly experiment with this, but I've created a few ICS images with and

Re: [android-developers] Re: SDK 4, if I select WXGA resolution, emulator doesn't start.

2011-10-20 Thread Jonas Petersson
For the record: Adding this to my ICS.avd/config.ini solved my problem: hw.webcam.count = 0 Best / Jonas On 2011-10-20 08:57, Jonas Petersson wrote: Hi all, On 2011-10-19 19:43, sblantipodi wrote: is there someone else who have this problem and is not using

Re: [android-developers] Handling gestures in AppWidget

2011-10-18 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2011-10-18 19:51, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: Not with stock Android, but it depends on the launcher. I've also looked into this as several users of my Zap's Gestures launcher app have requested this features and I can confirm this. The responses I've had (including from Google's own coders)

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android -- the forgotten real fragmentation

2011-08-03 Thread Jonas Petersson
My few cents: I'm not saying Zsolt is wrong, but from my experience of (somewhat optimistically) moving raw SQLite databases produced by various versions of my Inventory app between various devices from 1.6 to 3.2 I've not encountered any problems at all, nor have any of my 25000+ users

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to make an alarm live even when the application which set it is killed?

2011-07-31 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2011-07-31 15:27, Mark Murphy wrote: On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Ali Chouseinali.chous...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for the information Mark, that's very helpful. Apparently simulation the OS behavior is not straightforward in this case. Other than waiting for the OS to do its

Re: [android-developers] Re: Mac or PC for development

2011-05-31 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2011-05-31 02:52, Doug wrote: On May 30, 1:24 am, Raghav Soodraghavs...@gmail.com wrote: I am currently using a PC running Ubuntu 11.04. Money is not a problem so I think I'll get a Macbook Pro and dual boot OS X and Ubuntu 11.04 on it. How are you going to dual boot with Linux on a

Re: [android-developers] Permission issues

2011-05-31 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2011-05-31 18:30, Chris Stratton wrote: [...] But since this is not a rooted device, I can not access my data/data/ com.acme/databases to open my db file. Write a backup feature in your app that copies the (closed) database to external storage, then download from there.

Re: [android-developers] Re: JSON OR SOAP ?

2011-05-30 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2011-05-30 09:47, Zsolt Vasvari wrote: JSON is not a replacement for SOAP. JSON is more of a replacement for XML. Agreed as such, but I'd still say that for MOST cases I've seen, JSON will do what you need. SOAP is the opposite of lean in my experience, so if you have the choice if

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Developer's Chat

2011-05-30 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2011-05-30 14:13, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: I rememeber reading that this list is moderated for new users and it takes a few days to be able to post (if that's the case, it's a good question why there is stil spam here). If you keep an eye on the sending date of messages (and the flow) it is

Re: [android-developers] Re: JSON OR SOAP ?

2011-05-30 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2011-05-30 15:16, DanH wrote: SOAP has high-level functions that JSON doesn't (over and above the simple protocol level differences). Not really necessary for simple database queries and the like, but useful for more sophisticated stuff. (Disclaimer -- I've never actually used SOAP -- it's

Re: [android-developers] Cannot enable Bluetooth

2011-05-29 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi Khan, On 2011-05-29 12:22, khanh_qhi™ wrote: I'm creating an simple chatter appllication on Android via Bluetooth. I use *mBluetoothAdapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();* but,*mBluetoothAdapter = null, *so I don't know how to eable *BluetoothAdapter*? Tried this?

Re: [android-developers] Cannot enable Bluetooth

2011-05-29 Thread Jonas Petersson
someone instruct me to enable this? At the bottom of the page I sent earlier is a link to a demo app: http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/BluetoothChat/index.html Good luck / Jonas On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Jonas Petersson jonas.peters...@xms.se

Re: [android-developers] restart device from code

2011-04-13 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2011-04-13 13:12, Károly Holczhauser wrote: Is there any chance to restart the hole device from code ?! Try this: new AlertDialog.Builder(this) .setMessage(Dear user, could you please restart?) .show(); Anything else would be a bad idea even if it was possible.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Amazon Appmarket is now open!

2011-03-25 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2011-03-25 15:43, Brill Pappin wrote: ... and a single point for cracking. I should not have rebuild for every market! Exactly my sentiment. I don't mind having a bit of code that determines currentMarket() at runtime and execute slightly different code, but I don't want to build it

Re: [android-developers] PHP Support or not

2011-03-23 Thread Jonas Petersson
Not that I've tried it, but you may want to check this out: http://www.phpforandroid.net/ / Jonas On 2011-03-23 20:01, Chris Stewart wrote: Android runs native code written in the Java language. If you want to build web-based apps for Android (and all mobile in that

Re: [android-developers] Re: Amazon Appmarket is now open!

2011-03-22 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2011-03-22 14:42, niko20 wrote: Well crap, my apps' description is entirely missing for some reason. Well that's the Amazon experience I've been having all along with this thing...really feels half assed pretty much always... Well, one of my apps was refused since I had a reference to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install % drop again?

2011-03-17 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2011-03-17 01:46, Zsolt Vasvari wrote: I don't know. Does a lower power phone means Android 2.1?? I don't think so as I don't believe that the hardware requirements have really changed much from 1.5 to even 2.3. Theoretically: Not really In reality: Yes - at least where I live. Sure,

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install % drop again?

2011-03-17 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2011-03-17 10:46, Albert wrote: Have anyone seen the peak of 17th February?? That might have been done to balance out the drop of the 1st December? Well I have a fair sized bump (about 15%) on 17-19th of Feb for my app that is popular in the US (65% users), but on my more Sweden specific

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install % drop again?

2011-03-16 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2011-03-16 23:45, Zsolt Vasvari wrote: I also have 2 versions, a free and a paid version. The free version is showing that 1.5 + 1.6 = 7.4% vs. 2.4% for the paid version. While I am no statistician, I believe this cannot be right. Well, examining the stats for my own apps, I see a fair

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install % drop again?

2011-03-15 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi all, On 2011-03-15 13:48, TreKing wrote: [] Seriously. The graphs says one install count, the total on the main page says another. Well, I had a brief look at this and I suspect you should think of this similar to how you review the Android version statistics. My interpretation is

Re: [android-developers] Re: Install % drop again?

2011-03-15 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 2011-03-15 14:52, Zsolt Vasvari wrote: In fact, I'm pretty sure the statistics page install count has *NO* relation to whether it was actually downloaded from Market - just that it was installed on that particular phone during some kind of update request. Really? My understanding was that

[android-developers] 3.0 dialog with WebView inside FrameLayout doesn't resize

2011-02-23 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi all (in particular 3.0 devs), I just noticed an inconvenience under HoneyComb, and thought I'd share it with you for thoughts. I may have been pushing the limits but in the past I've successfully got the following to work as expected on all platforms from 1.5 and up: // Trimmed code for

Re: [android-developers] 3.0 dialog with WebView inside FrameLayout doesn't resize

2011-02-23 Thread Jonas Petersson
22:57, Jonas Petersson skrev: Hi all (in particular 3.0 devs), I just noticed an inconvenience under HoneyComb, and thought I'd share it with you for thoughts. I may have been pushing the limits but in the past I've successfully got the following to work as expected on all platforms from 1.5

Re: [android-developers] AlertDialog

2011-02-22 Thread Jonas Petersson
2011-02-22 14:51, Mark Murphy skrev: I had forgotten about that, sorry. However, have you tried that with BACK, particularly since 2.0? Um, isn't onCancelListener() what you are after. Works fine for me.

Re: [android-developers] Picking a contact in a PreferenceActivity

2011-02-16 Thread Jonas Petersson
2011-02-16 09:43, Mattias Svala skrev: On Wednesday, February 16, 2011 2:18:35 AM UTC+1, TreKing wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Mattias Svala theb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a way to select a contact from the phones list of contacts in a

Re: [android-developers] Picking a contact in a PreferenceActivity

2011-02-16 Thread Jonas Petersson
2011-02-16 15:20, Kostya Vasilyev skrev: 16.02.2011 16:53, Mattias Svala пишет: [...] Which would suggest that I need to sublclass Preference in order to create a contact picking preference. I'd implement a self-contained Preference subclass, but maybe that's just me. 100% agree. If you go

Re: [android-developers] capturing Home key event at application level

2011-02-15 Thread Jonas Petersson
2011-02-15 12:21, Kostya Vasilyev skrev: [...] Perhaps this (garbage collection on background applications) actually does happen but just isn't documented, then freeing memory before going into the background is a useful thing. Well, I have not double checked for a while now, but the

Re: [android-developers] capturing Home key event at application level

2011-02-15 Thread Jonas Petersson
2011-02-15 12:58, Kostya Vasilyev skrev: 15.02.2011 14:41, Jonas Petersson пишет: Well, I have not double checked for a while now, but the onLowMemory() method of my service was certainly called now and then (even though my service wasn't doing anything at all at the time) last I traced

Re: [android-developers] Re: supports-screens question

2011-01-23 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 01/23/2011 03:08 PM, kernelpanic wrote: thanks - I found several other sites that disagree with the manufacturer's site and state 320x480 as well. The app was tested and works fine (according to a few other users) on a Samsung Transform which is 320x455, so not sure why the claim that it

Re: [android-developers] Re: supports-screens question

2011-01-23 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 01/24/2011 08:31 AM, Zsolt Vasvari wrote: On Jan 23, 10:46 pm, Kostya Vasilyevkmans...@gmail.com wrote: Getting a little futher OT - I sometimes get comments from users of custom firmware, in fact, at this point, issues are typically caused by Frankenstein-like firmware (kernel from here,

Re: [android-developers] Re: BOOT_COMPLETED not being heard

2011-01-16 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 01/16/2011 12:21 PM, Zsolt Vasvari wrote: I agree. A smart user wouldn't complain in the first place about not having the Move to SD card option for a 1MB app. Opinion: It would be nice if the Move to SD card-function could detect that the application requests for instance BOOT_COMPLETED

Re: [android-developers] Re: column '_id' does not exist

2010-12-03 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 12/03/2010 09:04 AM, pramod.deore wrote: When I tried this as [...] Cursor c = sampleDB.rawQuery(SELECT RoomID as _id FROM +ROOM_TABLE_NAME, null); [...] new String[] {RoomID}, [...] java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: column

Re: [android-developers] Re: column '_id' does not exist

2010-12-02 Thread Jonas Petersson
Um, you might try something like select RoomID as _id ... Best / Jonas On 12/03/2010 08:40 AM, Kumar Bibek wrote: You cannot in this case. This is a mandatory requirement. pramod.deoredeore.pramo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bibek, Thanks for reply. But my table RoomTable

Re: [android-developers] Re: Market expanding to technically non-compliant devices?

2010-12-01 Thread Jonas Petersson
I'll have to stand in Dianne's side in this case. As some of you may have noted a while back I took the time to ensure one of my apps was Google TV ready as in fully working without a touch screen. For everything except the map it took a whole of two lines of code per Activity and in the map

Re: [android-developers] Re: Google Add-On Maps for 1.5 and higher

2010-11-27 Thread Jonas Petersson
19, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Jonas Petersson jonas.peters...@xms.se mailto:jonas.peters...@xms.se wrote: Hi Dianne, Dianne Hackborn wrote: As of 2.0 I believe there is an additional attribute on uses-library that lets you specify that it is optional. This sounds like

Re: [android-developers] Android Market Console Pagination

2010-11-24 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi Pants, On 11/24/2010 09:16 PM, Mr Pants wrote: It seems that some changes have been introduced for the Market Console to paginate if there are 8 apps. This however appears to be broken as page 2 only ever has 1 app, and page 3+ is always empty. Anyone else having the same problem? I'd

Re: [android-developers] Anyone seeing mysterious application crashes lately?

2010-11-22 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi Kostya, On 11/22/2010 09:00 PM, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: I've am seeing some pretty mysterious crash reports in the Market Console lately. [...] I am wondering if anyone else is seeing strange errors like these, and whether they can be caused by devices that have really low-quality firmware,

Re: [android-developers] Adapting for GoogleTV: Trackball/D-pad selection with onTap() in MapView strangeness - working example?

2010-11-21 Thread Jonas Petersson
it gives the result I expected from onTap(). Advice on improvements appreciated. Best / Jonas On 11/20/2010 10:36 PM, Jonas Petersson wrote: Dear experts, I recently decided to try out making my app tentatively GoogleTV ready by ensuring a user can do everything without ever

[android-developers] Adapting for GoogleTV: Trackball/D-pad selection with onTap() in MapView strangeness - working example?

2010-11-20 Thread Jonas Petersson
Dear experts, I recently decided to try out making my app tentatively GoogleTV ready by ensuring a user can do everything without ever entering Touch mode. For most stuff it is pretty straight forward, but I'm scratching my head at MapView/ItemizedOverlay: The docs appear to indicate that

Re: [android-developers] how do i create a donate menu button

2010-10-31 Thread Jonas Petersson
An alternative to this is to do my trick: Just create your own donation app and link to it on Market - no need for any permission, just: startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(market://details?id=se.petersson.freebeer))); Best / Jonas On 10/30/2010 05:27 PM,

Re: [android-developers] Results from Alert Dialog inline

2010-10-10 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 10/10/2010 03:18 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 9:12 AM, ecforuecforus...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to get alert dialog results inline (like you can with most dialogs)? Some platforms offer dialogs that block code execution in situ, others do not. Android does not.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is anyone's active install % dropping like a rock lately?

2010-09-10 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 09/10/2010 08:10 AM, metal mikey wrote: My hypothesis is that since instructions came out as to how to setup the emulator with Android Marketplace, spammers/weirdos have used tons of gmail accounts to download Apps then uninstall them with the intent of throwing stats off. I have not clue

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is anyone's active install % dropping like a rock lately?

2010-09-10 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 09/10/2010 09:51 PM, Peter Sinnott wrote: [...] In short, market place goes nuts and forgets the app is installed. User has app but never gets updates and possibly is removed from active installs. Well, I've seen several more confusing things related to Market installs and upgrades in the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is there a way to request permissions from a user as you need them?

2010-08-29 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 08/29/2010 03:05 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: [ Problems with permissions using Evernote as an example ] What I'd like to see is: 4. Evernote makes READ_CONTACTS optional. Users see that READ_CONTACTS is optional, and those who are concerned about it can go toggle it off. Evernote adds an if()

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is there a way to request permissions from a user as you need them?

2010-08-29 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 08/29/2010 03:23 PM, Mark Carter wrote: On 29 August 2010 15:05, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com mailto:mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: 3. Move READ_CONTACTS into some sort of plug-in/add-on APK, [...] Maybe have some generic READ_CONTACTS app (as opposed to each dev making their

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is there a way to request permissions from a user as you need them?

2010-08-29 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 08/29/2010 09:14 PM, Dianne Hackborn wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Jonas Petersson jonas.peters...@xms.se mailto:jonas.peters...@xms.se wrote: I've been pondering this too for my apps, what I'd like to see is something that just could call pick contact and the result would

Re: [android-developers] Re: Is there a way to request permissions from a user as you need them?

2010-08-29 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 08/29/2010 09:27 PM, Dianne Hackborn wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Jonas Petersson jonas.peters...@xms.se mailto:jonas.peters...@xms.se wrote: On 08/29/2010 03:05 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: [ Problems with permissions using Evernote as an example ] http://code.google.com

Re: [android-developers] Re: Reverse C2DM

2010-08-20 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 08/20/2010 12:42 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: There is nothing built into Android or offered by Google that meets this description. IMHO, this is highly dependent on interpretation. On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:02 AM, noob_boyacharya@gmail.com wrote: I am wondering if its possible to have

Re: [android-developers] Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-19 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 08/19/2010 10:28 PM, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: The limit is even more restrictive if you consider other languages. Russian tends to need more words and characters than English, and that's just how this language is, not because I am having difficulties with it :) German or Scandinavian

Re: [android-developers] Re: Does all Android Devices support Map API

2010-08-09 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 08/09/2010 03:39 AM, Nithin wrote: Are you saying this X3 was ever actually properly released? It is my understanding that X3 (aka Rachael) was only every used internally and by the time it was actually released it was called X10. I am not sure about that. Anyway I have X3 as well as X10.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Does all Android Devices support Map API

2010-08-08 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi again Nithin, Sorry, for the somewhat late response On 08/07/2010 07:36 AM, Nithin wrote: Sony's first release (X3) have lot of bugs. [...] So, X3 have lot of bugs and your application won't work properly in X3. Maybe because of that your application is rejected. I am not sure any other

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Abusive developers...

2010-08-06 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 08/06/2010 04:51 PM, TreKing wrote: On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Alessandro Pellizzari a...@amiran.it mailto:a...@amiran.it wrote: If I want to write a useful free or open source app without ads, I am blocked by the cost. Um ... you're already blocked by the cost ... Follow along

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Abusive developers...

2010-08-06 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 08/06/2010 08:15 PM, samspade79 wrote: On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:07 PM, samspade79samspad...@gmail.com wrote: Firstly, someone said a real developer cannot do more than a few apps. Please quote whomever said this, I'm not seeing it in the thread. You're right I must have been dreaming. I

Re: [android-developers] Re: Does all Android Devices support Map API

2010-08-05 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi Nithin, On 08/05/2010 08:19 AM, Nithin wrote: Sony Xperia first release don't have google Map API, now they updated google Map API in X10 Could you clarify what you mean? My app Prisjakt uses the map API and was demoed by internal Sony Ericsson people in this demo from Nov 19 last year:

Re: [android-developers] Re: My Eclipse 3.5 always lag and have to force close - why?

2010-08-04 Thread Jonas Petersson
I'll have to explicitly 100% agree with Bob here: Until around mid May I was using the previous model MacBookPro with 4GB dual core (and Ubuntu) for my Android development and after a fair amount of tweaking I could barely run Eclipse for a week. After switching to the new MacBookPro with

Re: [android-developers] Re: My Eclipse 3.5 always lag and have to force close - why?

2010-08-04 Thread Jonas Petersson
I may be kicking in open doors here, but have you tried this old stuff? http://www.luisdelarosa.com/2005/04/03/how-to-get-better-memory-settings-for-eclipse-on-mac-os-x/ For me (Ubuntu - see previous post for details) this worked fairly OK on my old 4GB system: eclipse -Xmx150m This

Re: [android-developers] Re: My Eclipse 3.5 always lag and have to force close - why?

2010-08-04 Thread Jonas Petersson
Ah, I think I can relate to that statement: for 95+% of the XML editing I referred to I used Eclipse itself, but like Kostya I stayed mostly in the XML view, only an occasional glance at the graphical layout since (at least for my cases) I decided the visual layout could not really be trusted.

Re: [android-developers] Re: My Eclipse 3.5 always lag and have to force close - why?

2010-08-04 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 08/04/2010 05:00 PM, Kaj Bjurman wrote: I think it was stated previously in this thread. The problem isn't Eclipse. The problem is the Android plugin. I would agree on that one, I use Eclipse for Flex and although there are other kinds of issues there, the Andorid plugins appears to be the

Re: [android-developers] how to detect if a phone is running HTC sense UI

2010-08-03 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 08/03/2010 06:31 PM, Dianne Hackborn wrote: I would really like to know why people want to know they are running with Sense UI. Is it just for notifications? Are there other things? We really don't want apps to be dealing with this stuff. Personally, I would very much like to agree.

Re: [android-developers] Is there a way to remove some permissions of already compiled apps?

2010-08-02 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi Martin, On 08/02/2010 02:05 PM, Martin wrote: There are so many apps in the market and I don't trust all of them. Is there a way to remove some permissions of the already compiled apk? I think the closest thing to what you are after is my enhancement request from about 6 months ago.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Compiling and obfuscating by command line...

2010-07-30 Thread Jonas Petersson
Well, how about going native? (NDK) That should be somewhat more challenging than decompiling java. Good luck / Jonas On 07/30/2010 04:11 PM, sblantipodi wrote: Ok, thanks for the suggestions, any other idea? :) On Jul 30, 2:59 pm, DanHdanhi...@ieee.org wrote: Just say no to

Re: [android-developers] Re: App Inventor to Market

2010-07-17 Thread Jonas Petersson
Privet Kostya, On 07/17/2010 08:09 AM, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: Time spent and number of launches are poor metrics for app quality. Maybe it makes some sense for games. Well, quality is not at all what I was after, popularity more so. There certainly are apps that automatically start a service

Re: [android-developers] Re: App Inventor to Market

2010-07-17 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 07/17/2010 10:48 AM, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: When compared to alternative applications for the same task Right, but how do you come up with alternative applications, given the variety of apps?[...] Yeah, it's hardly trivial, but hey, this is Google - if anyone can find relations in

Re: [android-developers] Re: App Inventor to Market

2010-07-17 Thread Jonas Petersson
Kostya, On 07/17/2010 11:36 AM, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: Still think it would work well for games / social apps, but for productivity apps it can actually be the opposite of what's intended. Consider two productivity apps, one of which helps get the same work done in half the time. Which one of

Re: [android-developers] Hide an app from the user

2010-07-16 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 07/16/2010 04:42 PM, Cleverson wrote: I'm trying to develop an application that should not be visible to the user. I mean an app that can't be visible at the Manage Apps screen (Settings – Applications – Manage applications) and also whose services couldn't either be visible at the Running

Re: [android-developers] Re: Seems Android Market statistics go wrong again

2010-07-16 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 07/16/2010 11:06 PM, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) wrote: Our app Radar Now! dropped from 611,000 to 562,000 - quite a bit! However, when compared to our own internal counts, they are much more in line now. We count each individual registration of an Android ID as one install, which should

Re: [android-developers] Re: App Inventor to Market

2010-07-16 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 07/16/2010 05:35 PM, String wrote: On 16 July, 16:14, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)cor...@gmail.com wrote: (Pardon the continued hijack) Likewise. ;^) +1 From my analysis, the key metric in market position is acceleration, not total downloads, comments or anything else. I

Re: [android-developers] Re: GPS accuracy reliability

2010-07-15 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi jgostylo, On 07/15/2010 07:01 AM, jgostylo wrote: All of this and people have only sort of answered my question. I understand that the answer may just be I don't really know what it would do and I understand that really isn't an answer people post on the forum because it does not fill the

Re: [android-developers] How to startup one application programmatically from other application

2010-07-15 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 07/15/2010 09:05 AM, Jeruliu wrote: Say I have app A, in app A i want to set a schedule to startup the app B and C at specific time? Is it possible to do that? if yes how? Are you sure your user will appreciate this? You can for instance use the AlarmManager and then just fire a suitable

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to startup one application programmatically from other application

2010-07-15 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 07/15/2010 10:24 AM, Jeruliu wrote: I should made it more clear, i intent to let user specific the time to fire the chosen app. Which approach is better? notification or call intent from AlarmManger? In my humble opinion, a notification is usually better (incoming phone calls are an

Re: [android-developers] hello

2010-07-15 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 07/15/2010 10:40 AM, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: Google groups doesn't send a posted message back to sender. So you kind of have to go on faith :) Um, for me - subscribed on a non-gmail address (although I still forward it there for good measure) - the mails I send to the list certainly come

Re: [android-developers] Re: App Inventor to Market

2010-07-15 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 07/16/2010 12:25 AM, Wayne Wenthin wrote: This is not entirely correct. I have an app rated at 3.5 + stars and there are tons of crapware above me because I have less downloads. (and probably because I'm not ripping off disney either but that was in another thread) I would tend to agree

Re: [android-developers] Re: App Inventor to Market

2010-07-15 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 07/16/2010 01:31 AM, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) wrote: One thing that mitigates the occasional unhappy and misinformed user is time. Once your app has been on the market for a while, those comments won't affect your overall rating nor your position in the popularity rankings. All you have

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android market hiding apps with bluetooth permissions from Android 1.5 and 1.6

2010-07-14 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 07/14/2010 10:54 AM, Joe wrote: I can see why Google wouldn't want to complicate the permissions for a user. I am not suggesting they let the user choose which permissions to allow. An obvious issue with doing that is that users could break your app by crippling the permissions, and then

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android market hiding apps with bluetooth permissions from Android 1.5 and 1.6

2010-07-14 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 07/14/2010 09:41 PM, Dianne Hackborn wrote: [...] At any rate, the correct thing for an app developer to do is explicitly state which features they care about, and you can there use android:required=false to tell Market not to filter your app based on it. Let's see, to summarize the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android market hiding apps with bluetooth permissions from Android 1.5 and 1.6

2010-07-14 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 07/15/2010 12:37 AM, Dianne Hackborn wrote: We are not having optional permissions any time soon. Oh well, at least I know now what to tell those who keep nagging me about it. And no, these are not the same thing, permissions are about security and the other tags are about

[android-developers] Is it possible to make an alias resource for a whole translation?

2010-07-14 Thread Jonas Petersson
Dear clever Android coders, I'm in the process of making one of my applications more localization aware, and basically I know how I *CAN* make it work, but it seems somewhat suboptimal. What I'm after is really to make an alias from one values-xxx/strings.xml to another values-yyy/strings.xml

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android market hiding apps with bluetooth permissions from Android 1.5 and 1.6

2010-07-13 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 07/13/2010 09:05 PM, DonFrench wrote: [Joe's app ] So Bluetooth is not necessary to benefit from using your app but those whose phones support it can reap the additional Bluetooth benefits that you so thoughtfully added, is that it?. Since your app is still valuable even without Bluetooth

Re: [android-developers] multitouch for a piano

2010-07-04 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi Kwan Jake, On 07/04/2010 04:36 PM, Kwan Cheng wrote: You can't android only tracks two touch points a time On Jul 3, 2010 1:10 PM, ArcDroid wrote: Hi does anyone have good way to impliment multi touch for a piano, thanks Jake To my understanding, Android from 2.x and up as such may in

Re: [android-developers] Clockwise landscape orientation

2010-06-21 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 06/21/2010 01:21 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: 2010/6/21 Vytautas Šaltenisvytau...@unity3d.com: Apparently, since Froyo it's possible to display app in clockwise landscape orientation (e.g. as demoed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4YazuITS1o). However, I can't find anything related in the

Re: [android-developers] nasty phone freeze bug in Android 2.1-update1 showing up in multiple cases on Nexus One and Droid

2010-05-07 Thread Jonas Petersson
Robert Green wrote: I mentioned this earlier but no one seemed to know anything about this. [...] W/SharedBufferStack(29487): waitForCondition(LockCondition) timed out (identity=1310, status=0). CPU may be pegged. trying again. [...] I've also seen this happen once before to RenderScript, so

Re: [android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-05-04 Thread Jonas Petersson
Trygve Aaberge wrote: FedEx may not have any information. I called them on Friday, and they couldn't find a package, but I got it today. So don't get your hopes down if you call FedEx, and they don't see a package for you. I absolutely agree. I called FedEx and gave them all information I

Re: [android-developers] Problem with characters å äöÅÄÖ

2010-05-04 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi jw, jw wrote: I'm developing an application for Swedish users, when the user is able to input some string, sometimes containing 拍皱漩. But when I run .getText().toString() on my EditText object,I get really strange characters like 枚 and 盲. That's just normal UTF-8 encoding examined as

Re: [android-developers] Problem with characters å äöÅÄÖ

2010-05-04 Thread Jonas Petersson
Jonas Petersson wrote: jw wrote: I'm developing an application for Swedish users, when the user is able to input some string, sometimes containing 拍皱漩. But when I run .getText().toString() on my EditText object,I get really strange characters like 枚 and 盲. That's just normal UTF-8 encoding

Re: [android-developers] Re: Problem with characters åäöÅÄÖ

2010-05-04 Thread Jonas Petersson
jw wrote: Well, then how do I do that? I've been trying different approaches but I can't seem to get the text as a string with äåö. Do you now how I can do that? (I should add that this thing with encodings isn't my specialty). It all depends on what you intend to do with the string. In a

Re: [android-developers] Re: Problem with characters åäöÅÄÖ

2010-05-04 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi again Jonas (?), jw wrote: Well, all I want to is to send the string forward in an xml string. The flow is like this: User fills in a couple of forms (EditText) and presses a button. The values is added into an xml string and posted. The thing is when I print the values in the Log cat, it

Re: [android-developers] Re: CPU pegged in AudioTrack triggers reboot

2010-04-28 Thread Jonas Petersson
ani wrote: obtainBuffer timed out (is the CPU pegged?) This happens because the audioflinger thread has not read the data from the driver and did not signal the lock causing this logs to come. This happens because your driver is having some bug not because of android framework. Well, the app

[android-developers] CPU pegged in AudioTrack triggers reboot

2010-04-27 Thread Jonas Petersson
Dear experts - including Nikolay, Last week Chander Pechetty mentioned bug 6478 in a different thread and as it seemed to cause the same issues I experience now and then, I've tried to capture the logs and today I succeeded. The symptoms are that while playing Bebbled the phone somtimes

Re: [android-developers] Random complete loss of database on Droid only

2010-04-22 Thread Jonas Petersson
(long)time(!C); // ;-) EboMike wrote: Several Droid users have reported that my app's entire database just destroys itself randomly after a few days or so. This seems to be specific to the Droid. I'm at a loss. I have no real clue to offer, but I can say that my Milestone (which is pretty

Re: [android-developers] Some users are not finding our app in Android Market

2010-04-07 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi, roundhill wrote: Some users are reporting that they can't find our app (WordPress for Android) in Android Market. We have it enabled for all devices and locations with copy protection turned off. One user reported that he is from Sweden (see comments at

Re: [android-developers] Re: Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers

2010-03-27 Thread Jonas Petersson
Hi Tao, Tao wrote: Droid, Bloomington, IN. [...] If I plugin the usb cable and boot the phone without battery, it works perfectly. If I put the battery back in and the usb cable, the phone starts for about 2 minutes(I can see the droid logo and locking screen) and then reboot automatically.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Application Crashing OutOfMemory .Restructuring Help Needed

2010-03-23 Thread Jonas Petersson
Jim Blackler wrote: i need to show a List of around 8000 to 1 elements at the same time on the UI OK that's mad. How can the user reasonably navigate that many entries in a single list? Search and pagination are your friends here. I would tend to agree, however for my Prisjakt

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