[android-developers] How to approach designing a clound sync adapter?
I'm trying to sync my users database data to a remote service such as Amazon services. I want it to behave similarly to gmail IMAP servers. I'm not sure how I go about creating a sync adapter that keeps track of user modified data and modifications made from other devices sync to the same account. All this time I'm thinking there has to be an easy way. I just don't want to re-invent the wheel if something already exists... :( Thanks for any tips you might have! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Clearning Activity's intent data randomly comes back, why?
Don't modify that Intent. It is maintained for you by the system, and the original Intent will be restored whenever the activity is restarted. This is interesting... My activity currently runs as singleTop and I get new intents via onNewIntent(). From what you posted it seems that regardless, the original intent might be restored by the system when the activity is restarted? Please advice how I can resolve the issue. As of now setIntent(new Intent()) seems to be the way to go... Will I still run over issues using that? How can I tell the system to let it go... :P -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: Clearning Activity's intent data randomly comes back, why?
@Dianne, I'm sorry but I'm a little confused. What I'm understanding is that there is no way to clear the intent of an activity from the system. It can be cleared temporarily by using setIntent(..) but if the activity was to be restarted the previous intent used to open the activity will be used when the activity restarts, correct? If that's the case how do you recommend doing this correctly? I want to follow the best programing standard for Android and well you seem to be the one that is 100% actively involved on Android... :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Clearning Activity's intent data randomly comes back, why?
I have a media application which starts playback when the intent is sent to the player activity with the following intent extras; data path to the music and type mime/audio format. I pick up the intent data at the player activity execute to start playback and I remove the passed extras from the intent to avoid having the same request going again after flipping the screen or the activity being brought back to the foreground. This is how I process an intent: final String data = getIntent().getDataString(); final String type = getIntent().getType(); // start playback requestPlay( data, type ); // remove intents because they are needed only once per call! this.getIntent().setDataAndType(Uri.parse(), ); this.getIntent().removeExtra(data); this.getIntent().removeExtra(type); The issue I'm having is that randomly and rarely, I will open the application and when it resumes at the player activity, the intent will contain the previous extra data and start playing... This is annoying to me and well my users... Anyone have any ideas what's the best way to clear the intents data? Some reason the ActivityManager might be keeping this data stored...? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Clearning Activity's intent data randomly comes back, why?
Thanks for your reply. I'll give it a try and see if that helps resolve the issue... -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] SmaliHook.java found on my hacked application.
First, this is not a post to talk about how much pirating apps sucks etc...
I just want to post what I found hackers using to unlock my application from
using the Licensing Tools provided by Android. Anyone have any clues how to
prevent this particular hack? Anyone familiar with this particular hack?
Please find attached the recovered file found when I decompiled hacked
version of my application.
Thanks!
-Moto
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http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=enimport android.app.Activity;
import android.content.pm.PackageInfo;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager.NameNotFoundException;
import android.content.pm.Signature;
import android.util.Log;
import java.io.File;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
public class SmaliHook extends Activity
{
public static int checkSignatures()
{
return 0;
}
public static int checkSignatures(String paramString1, String paramString2)
{
return 0;
}
public static int getApplicationEnabledSetting(PackageManager paramPackageManager, String paramString)
{
try
{
int i = paramPackageManager.getApplicationEnabledSetting(paramString);
int j = i;
if (j == 2)
j = 0;
k = j;
return k;
}
catch (IllegalArgumentException localIllegalArgumentException)
{
while (true)
int k = 0;
}
}
public static String getInstallerPackageName(String paramString)
{
return com.google.android.feedback;
}
public static PackageInfo getPackageInfo(PackageManager paramPackageManager, String paramString, int paramInt)
throws PackageManager.NameNotFoundException
{
try
{
PackageInfo localPackageInfo1 = paramPackageManager.getPackageInfo(paramString, paramInt);
localPackageInfo2 = localPackageInfo1;
if ((paramInt 0x40) == 64)
{
Signature[] arrayOfSignature1 = spoofSignatures();
Signature[] arrayOfSignature2 = localPackageInfo2.signatures;
Signature localSignature = arrayOfSignature1[0];
arrayOfSignature2[0] = localSignature;
}
return localPackageInfo2;
}
catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException localNameNotFoundException)
{
while (true)
PackageInfo localPackageInfo2 = paramPackageManager.getPackageInfo(com.application.packagename.here, paramInt);
}
}
public static Object invokeHook(Method paramMethod, Object paramObject, Object[] paramArrayOfObject)
throws IllegalArgumentException, IllegalAccessException, InvocationTargetException, SecurityException, NoSuchMethodException, InstantiationException, ClassNotFoundException, PackageManager.NameNotFoundException
{
String str1 = paramObject.getClass().getName();
String str2 = paramMethod.getName();
String str3 = smali hook - class: + str1 + method: + str2;
int i = Log.d(lohan, str3);
Object localObject1;
if ((str1.equals(android.app.ContextImpl$ApplicationPackageManager)) || (str1.equals(android.app.ApplicationContext$ApplicationPackageManager)) || (str1.equals(android.content.pm.PackageManager)) || (str1.contains(ApplicationPackageManager)))
if (str2.equals(getInstallerPackageName))
localObject1 = getInstallerPackageName((String)paramArrayOfObject[0]);
while (true)
{
return localObject1;
if (str2.equals(getPackageInfo))
{
int j = ((Integer)paramArrayOfObject[1]).intValue();
if (str1.equals(android.content.pm.PackageManager))
{
PackageManager localPackageManager1 = (PackageManager)paramObject;
String str4 = (String)paramArrayOfObject[0];
localObject1 = getPackageInfo(localPackageManager1, str4, j);
continue;
}
try
{
Object localObject2 = paramMethod.invoke(paramObject, paramArrayOfObject);
localObject3 = localObject2;
if ((j 0x40) == 64)
{
Signature[] arrayOfSignature1 = spoofSignatures();
Signature[] arrayOfSignature2 = ((PackageInfo)localObject3).signatures;
Signature localSignature = arrayOfSignature1[0];
arrayOfSignature2[0] = localSignature;
}
localObject1 = localObject3;
}
catch (Exception localException)
{
while (true)
{
Object[] arrayOfObject = new Object[1];
arrayOfObject[0] = %!AppPackage;
Object localObject3 = paramMethod.invoke(paramObject, arrayOfObject);
}
}
}
if (str2.equals(getApplicationEnabledSetting))
{
PackageManager
Re: [android-developers] SmaliHook.java found on my hacked application.
Hi Jostya, Yes, my app is obfuscated and the signature was my signature... It seemed like it doesn't matter if the application is obfuscated. It seems to be a simple hack that was fast! It only took a few hours after release of my application... Incredible... I guess I'm gonna have to get creative... -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] How to bring Activity to top of stack and reset it?
I'm trying to keep my activity calling flow simple for the user. Always one instance of the activity on the history stack. So using flag FLAG_ACTIVITY_REORDER_TO_FRONThttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#FLAG_ACTIVITY_REORDER_TO_FRONT, is perfect! but there is a slight issue. The activity is brought to the front but the onCreate() is not called if Activity is already started. Makes sense, but I want the behavior to be that it calls onCreate(). Thanks for the help! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] How to bring Activity to top of stack and reset it?
Yes, exactly I understand the behavior. What I'm trying to figure out is what other flags can I use such that the activity can be removed from the history stack brought to the top. When brought to the top it should be reset so that it calls the onCreate(). I just keep trying things and well not that good with these flags :( -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] How to bring Activity to top of stack and reset it?
Not sure you understand the question or I don't understand the process so please let me explain what I think it's happening. Using flag FLAG_ACTIVITY_REORDER_TO_FRONT brings the activities to the front. If already is somewhere in the history stack than it will be brought to the front and if not it will be created and than put at front of the history stack. This behavior allows keeping the history stack clean so the user doesn't press back and continue to see repeated activities left and right like so many apps on the Android Market. THATS WHAT I WANT TO AVOID! Thinking on that behavior I wanted to find out if I could somehow have identical behavior but having the activity be restarted as it's brought to the front. That is like saying that red is not blue, and you want to know how to make red be blue, because you always want blue. I'm sorry but this question is nothing like red is not blue.. etc... Please take the time to read and help, and not try to degrade the developer! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] How to bring Activity to top of stack and reset it?
Thanks Kumar for your help. I do understand the activity lifecycle and see your point. I guess I need to take two steps back and think this over... As you suggested to just do the work onResume() I tried getting the passed intent extras but I guess they are not sent to the activity if it's only being brought to the top of the history stack... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: How to bring Activity to top of stack and reset it?
@Kostya and Streets Of Boston Thanks guys that is actually exactly what I was looking for! That's great!! :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: How to bring Activity to top of stack and reset it?
Yep! using android:launchMode=singleTop with implementing the onNewIntent() worked perfect! I assume this also helps the application be a lot faster, responsive, and lot less GC. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] How to bring Activity to top of stack and reset it?
Thanks Dianne for your reply. I'm currently using android:launchMode=singleTop and have implemented the onNewIntent(). With that I'm also using the flag FLAG_ACTIVITY_REORDER_TO_FRONThttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#FLAG_ACTIVITY_REORDER_TO_FRONT This behavior is perfect for what I was trying to do. If you don't recommend this please do let me know! Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: How to bring Activity to top of stack and reset it?
Thanks man that's exactly what I ended doing! :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] How to gracefully terminate a remote service process?
Currently I believe I'm doing a ok job managing my application's remote service. When I'm done using it I can see the onDestroy() called, perfect... Now the issue is I can see the remote process still hanging around, via DDMS or via phone's running processes. Users see this and think I'm doing stuff on the background etc... blaming my app and than asking for an exit button... Truth is they don't need an exit button! So my question: How to gracefully terminate a remote service process? I could get the PID and kill it but something tells me this might not be the nice way to do this since the service might be restarted again... Any help would be greatly apreciated! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] How to gracefully terminate a remote service process?
I guess my knowledge on the subject was not far off... I guess I was being mislead by all these task killers and users complaining... They just assume a visible process is hogging CPU and memory. Well it could on applications that aren't managing things properly. Thanks for your reply -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] How to gracefully terminate a remote service process?
I kept telling my users I don't want to place an exit button cause it's pointless! If you program the application properly there is no need for an exit button on many type of applications such as mine, a media playback application. I explain users and some understand while other don't... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Small, Normal, Large and xlarge. How to handle application?
Thanks! I'll look over that blog. -Moto On Dec 18, 10:41 am, pk Lam newbal...@gmail.com wrote: have a look at the following blog post, you might get some idea:http://blog.alsutton.com/2010/12/07/android-tablet-phone-uis-in-one-a... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] How to creating Launcher home screen behavior on my app?
I would like to have my application follow accurately my finger swipe across the screen to move to the next screen/layout. I would like to have the same interaction as one has with the home screen by sliding your finger across to move from one screens to another with that bounce feedback. I currently have something that catches swipe events and using animation to slide to the next screen/layout. This is not the behavior I want. I want it to feel smooth and that follows the finger. Any ideas how I could approach at creating such feature? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] java.net.SocketException after HTC 4G latest update...
The latest update of the HTC 4G has broken my application. Internally I set a socket port listening for some internal messages and it's dieing with the following error: *ERROR/HTTPDataSource(64): HTTP request failed w/ http status 404* What's my code doing: mServerSocket = new ServerSocket(0); mServerSocket.accept(); The accept seems to get killed without ever giving me a Socket. Any ideas why this might be happening? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: java.net.SocketException after HTC 4G latest update...
Oops the actual error is: *12-19 13:42:06.939: WARN/System.err(1198): java.net.SocketException: Interrupted system call 12-19 13:42:06.949: WARN/System.err(1198): at org.apache.harmony.luni.platform.OSNetworkSystem.acceptSocketImpl(Native Method) 12-19 13:42:06.949: WARN/System.err(1198): at org.apache.harmony.luni.platform.OSNetworkSystem.accept(OSNetworkSystem.java:69) 12-19 13:42:06.949: WARN/System.err(1198): at org.apache.harmony.luni.net.PlainSocketImpl.accept(PlainSocketImpl.java:126) 12-19 13:42:06.949: WARN/System.err(1198): at java.net.ServerSocket.implAccept(ServerSocket.java:281) 12-19 13:42:06.949: WARN/System.err(1198): at java.net.ServerSocket.accept(ServerSocket.java:165)* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: java.net.SocketException after HTC 4G latest update...
Something important to note about this is that when connected to WiFi this issue does not happen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: java.net.SocketException after HTC 4G latest update...
Yes, I have internet access... I can even connect to an URL and fetch a file via code without any issues. This just seems like a weird HTC typical fragmentation issue... :( In the past there was an issue with RTSP servers and WIFI. It would only work when WiFi radio was enabled... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Small, Normal, Large and xlarge. How to handle application?
Currently I'm used to developing on a small screen and now tablets and TV are coming slowly but surly to the market... Now the dilemma is not all apps look great magnified on a larger screen. The larger screens allows us to combine different activities into one since they fit and make sense sometimes. The issue is when you combine activities your existing app for cellphones become a mess trying to support the new layout... How can we manage smartly these new options? Here are my thoughts about splitting my app in two: 1. Implement large/xlarge layouts on my existing application. Con: Brings new complexities to existing activity code. Pro: I'll have the popularity numbers, downloads, rating, etc... 2. Create a brand new application for the large/xlarge screen sizes. Con: No popularity numbers, downloads, ratings... etc... Pro: A chance to start up fresh and create everything optimized for these screens. What are the issues/questions I have about providing all screen sizes support into one app: 1. Making the app one nice juicy app that supports it all will be huge and unnecessary waste of space for cellphones. Unless at installation all different folders needed for larger screen dimensions are excluded from installation. 2. How to open the correct activities for the correct screen sizes? For example I would like to open MainActivityNormalScreen when phone is running on a normal screen. Or MainActivityLargeScreen when running on a device with large screen. I know I can code some helper classes and such but things become a little tricky and messy. What are your thoughts in respect to this subject? Would you try to keep the app as one to support all these different screen sizes? Or split them? -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: layout editor in 2.3 SDK sucks! Sorry but it does.
I believe the new layout has improved but where did the layout move up or down go? I used to be able to select a view under Outline and using little up/down arrows move the view around On Dec 17, 3:32 pm, Tim H. timho...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Xavier, r9 is much improved! I am still seeing some glitches, such as if you drag something onto a supposedly invalid area, it still makes changes and/or makes the view disappear! What I would love to see make the next version is correcting references to alignments when a view is renamed, i.e. if I rename a view that is in a RelativeLayout, other views that refer to that view are also corrected. This would be a godsend! Thanks, Tim On Dec 15, 7:47 pm, Xavier Ducrohet x...@android.com wrote: Hey everyone, we just released a preview of ADT 9.0.0 that fixes some of the issues you all have. Seehttp://tools.android.com/download. Make sure you know this is dev version, not a final, fully-tested, public release. Hope this helps. Xav On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:24 PM, XanXa xanxamob...@gmail.com wrote: 1. I have moved a TextView with Style into a linearLayout and the TextView loosed the style. 2. When I try to use an empty LinearLayout I can't add any child (I have to put Layout width and heigth). 3. It's so difficult put the view where you want using only the editor and always modify the rest of views. 4. The ctrl+z work bad and strange, sometimes do things I didn't. I didn't like the up and down arrows and neither the + and - buttons but they made their job, Why not keep them until the drag is ready?. Finally I think I'll going to use the XML editor for a while. Nevertheless, I know the old editor was awfull and slow to use and we needed a new Layout Editor powerfull and easier to use. We must work hard to make this new Android Layout Editor more stable and usable. (Sorry about my English) On 13 dic, 16:35, Julie Andrews julieonli...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 8:41 PM, niko20 nikolatesl...@yahoo.com wrote: Ok, the new layout editor is fancier and all but no more properties window? I have to right click to set properties now? And many times the right click menu does not function correctly either, like it will be missing sub menus, etc. I want my properties list back! -niko -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2Bunsubs cr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Juliehttp://www.sirsainfo.in/http://thttp://tradinglogically.blogspot.comhttp://tradinglogically.blogspot.comhttp://vikitionary.blogspot.comhttp://gandhi-the-man-of-millenium.blo... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Xavier Ducrohet Android SDK Tech Lead Google Inc. Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Bluetooth status broadcasts. Why some intents aren't being catch?
This thread disappeared from the forum... :( I was able to find it via email only... Anyone can provide some insight about what I'm trying to do? Thanks! -Moto On Dec 14, 3:31 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: I'm currently trying to work with bluetooth and I'm having trouble getting some of the broadcasts. I have currently android.permission.BLUETOOTH permission set and the following intent filters for my BroadcastReceiver. intent-filter action android:name=android.bluetooth.device.action.ACL_CONNECTED / action android:name=android.bluetooth.device.action.ACL_DISCONNECTED / action android:name=android.bluetooth.device.action.ACL_DISCONNECT_REQUESTED / action android:name=android.bluetooth.device.action.BOND_STATE_CHANGED / /intent-filter I'm currently only getting: android.bluetooth.device.action.ACL_CONNECTED android.bluetooth.device.action.ACL_DISCONNECTED Why aren't the other two being sent? Specially android.bluetooth.device.action.BOND_STATE_CHANGED? I find that the call disconnected is very slow at being called. I need it to be immediate since I have music playing in the background and I want it to be stopped before sound comes out of the phones speakers... Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Bluetooth status broadcasts. Why some intents aren't being catch?
I'm currently trying to work with bluetooth and I'm having trouble getting some of the broadcasts. I have currently android.permission.BLUETOOTH permission set and the following intent filters for my BroadcastReceiver. intent-filter action android:name=android.bluetooth.device.action.ACL_CONNECTED / action android:name=android.bluetooth.device.action.ACL_DISCONNECTED / action android:name=android.bluetooth.device.action.ACL_DISCONNECT_REQUESTED / action android:name=android.bluetooth.device.action.BOND_STATE_CHANGED / /intent-filter I'm currently only getting: android.bluetooth.device.action.ACL_CONNECTED android.bluetooth.device.action.ACL_DISCONNECTED Why aren't the other two being sent? Specially android.bluetooth.device.action.BOND_STATE_CHANGED? I find that the call disconnected is very slow at being called. I need it to be immediate since I have music playing in the background and I want it to be stopped before sound comes out of the phones speakers... Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Best way to provide access to a Service?
I find my self over and over re-writing my service in my app. I essentially want to provide control over my service easily for things such as home widgets or other apps. What are the things my service supports: Incoming: -start playback -stop playback -toggle playback -start special features Outgoing: -metadata -media playback status -special features reporting status -playback time (every second) Questions: What are the things I should look for when deciding to implement an aidl interface versus calling the service using Intents? Should I use Broadcasts to report the service status and information as opposed to aidl? Sorry if my questions aren't making sense... Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Best way to provide access to a Service?
Thanks Mark for your reply. It does help clear up a couple doubts I had... About service outbound data, I'm not sure if updating the widget right from the service would work for me... I believe this will tie my service to the widget and that's kind of what I want to avoid. I want it to be an independent service no strings attached... :) But I guess at least some will have to be... Now for communicating with an activity I'm seeing two issues. 1. What if the service is controlled only by intents and the service dies... The activity using this service would have no clue that it died unless I'm bound to it... 2. I would have to provide a service intent to burst service status broadcast so that the activity can be updated with the latest information of the running service. This would work, but is this method recommended? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Using cache or sdcard as a temporary buffer. Good idea?
I'm currently trying to create a buffer for my application which needs to be big! I mean at least 1MB but most likely to be 4MB. Now definitely bad idea to actually allocate this much on a byte array in memory. So the options are put all the data in a file. So question is where do I place this temp file? Option 1: Store to sdcard. Might be slow and not such a good idea for continuous read/writes? Option 2: Store to in the apps cache. I read somewhere this is fast for read/ writes. But also read before issues cleaning up the cache after use? I guess I should as if I be able to create a file in cache and discard it when I don't need it? Any tips/look outs from using this methods would be greatly appreciated! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Using cache or sdcard as a temporary buffer. Good idea?
Oops! Well... But also read before issues cleaning up the cache after use? What? Typed too fast! I actually meant to say that I read somewhere that other users had issues clearing the cache... Also, seen users complaining about apps that had caches that were taking way too much space which = bad rating... So I'm trying to be a little cautious when using the cache... As you can tell I haven't worked yet with the phones cache area so I hope it's as easy as create a new file use it now delete it Cache=0MB :)... across different Android versions On Nov 19, 11:53 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: But also read before issues cleaning up the cache after use? What? I guess I should as if I be able to create a file in cache and discard it when I don't need it? Yes, you can create files in the cache directory and delete it as necessary. The docs also state that the system may wipe this data if it sees fit to get more disk space, but don't count on that. - TreKing http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Should I use synchronized for a boolean variable
I would think that if the child thread does not modify the flag, just
gets the flags value, you do not need to synchronize the use of this
flag, assuming your child thread is a bit relaxed about the
possibility of miss the if(flag) call once on the loop. But, if the
child and parent could modify the flag state you should sync the set
and get calls...
-Moto
On Oct 18, 5:50 am, Daniel Drozdzewski daniel.drozdzew...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:21 AM, xeagle xeagle...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I use a boolean variable flag both in main and child thread. This
flag is used to notify child thread to exit. I only use simple
operation, e.g., flag=false, if (flag) {}. As I know, in java,
get and set a boolean variable is atomic. So synchronized is not
needed for variable flag, declaring flag as volatile is enough.
Is this still true in Android?
It is. Android follows JLS' Memory Model, hence volatile will behave
exactly as it does in 'normal' JVMs.
Please mind that in the second statement you mention if (flag) {},
you should not modify the flag beyond the if part of the statement.
There are plenty helpers in *java.util.concurrent.atomic* that will
help you achieve further atomicity without the use of locks and perils
of *volatile*
:http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/concurrent/atomic/pa...
Daniel
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[android-developers] Re: Stolen app on market
Oh man... I was actually thinking this could happen to me any time soon and now that it happen to you I'm even more worried! I guess I'm gonna have to invest some money for protecting my application :( it already insanely pirated... And yes I have originally wanted to go with Amazon! I bet they got a better solution to spam pirates and all that... -Moto On Oct 13, 8:35 am, JP joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 13, 4:51 am, Edmund Higgins ehiggins...@gmail.com wrote: I would rather have controlled quality in my market than chaotic crap! O well who wouldn't agree. It'll be interesting to see if Amazon can come up with compelling terms to attract a sufficient critical mass of quality apps, offer decent discoverability, presentation with customer appeal, easy payment, in app payment - short, offer all that's missing in Android Market to emphasize monetization for devs that put in the effort. If these guys take off, they might be able to stick Android Market with the crap. It's a longshot though. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Obfuscating parts of an application. Wise or not?
Sorry second post wasn't worded properly. Yes, I was asking obfuscating one jar, rather than the entire application. If that's a good approach and if that's safe to do. That's why the second post, if using a jar on an application if it could be easily extracted. Cause if you could there is no point in obfuscating the jar, since it could be extracted and reused by some other app. -Moto On Oct 5, 8:25 pm, DanH danhi...@ieee.org wrote: Though I'll admit that his second post makes no sense in that context. On Oct 5, 7:20 pm, Lance Nanek lna...@gmail.com wrote: Why would you think a JAR provides any obfuscation at all? I open them as ZIP files all the time. Not to mention that Android doesn't even run Java bytecode. Any JAR you put in your project's classpath is just a source for Java bytecode that gets converted to Dalvik bytecode and put into a file in the APK when you build your project. On Oct 5, 11:26 am, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a bit scared about obfuscating my application completely. I'm afraid to run into issues where I can't figure out a bug because lines and function names wont match. Please correct me if I'm wrong... I thought maybe the simplest way to protect important parts of my code is to create a jar of the important files. I know and understand that jars are good only for classes and no xmls or other Android dependent parts. I believe it would be simple this way since I would not have to worry about obfuscating too much and breaking my project. Also, could be helpful for distributing to clients a library which they can't decompile. In terms of obfuscating jars maybe I could do the same to the Market Licensing code to protect my paid application from pirating? What are your thoughts on my approach? Maybe bad idea? What experiences have you had with obfuscating your application? Is it not as bad as I think? Thanks, -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: The ultimate, killer Android Marketplace replacement
Supporting subscription options for some type of apps, not all, wouldn't be a bad idea. -Moto On Oct 6, 10:56 am, Bret Foreman bret.fore...@gmail.com wrote: This can't be solved by single-carrier efforts. A piecemeal solution will be no good at all for developers. There needs to be a single entity where developers can place their apps and from which they can collect their payments. That entity needs to cut deals with all the major carriers, who in turn present the apps for sale to their customers and manage the monthly billing and remittances back to the developers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: CPU usage stats
I know it's not the same using an actual phone than an emulator, but on the emulator there is an option I believe that shows CPU status... -Moto On Oct 6, 9:58 am, askPrins askpr...@gmail.com wrote: As a developer I would say it is VERY important to measure how efficient your implementation (code) is. CPU usage (which can sucks the battery) and memory usage etc are very important issues specially for developers. On Sep 8, 8:18 pm, Frank Weiss fewe...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Andy a...@fendley.com wrote: Hi all, Thanks for the input and I think these comments answer my question. Maybe it would be an idea to allow an SDK api to access these stats as they, in my view for applications, can be very useful due to the heavy multitasking nature of android? I suppose the question is for whom would this be useful? How many developers are going to need to do this with the SDK? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Testing licensing on emulator.
Read the Android Licensing tutorial they cover what you need to do: http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/licensing.html#acct-signin -Moto On Oct 6, 2:22 am, MB manoj.bi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am testing lvl using the sample application (after changing package name and uploading the apk). But it always returns 'Licensed' on the emulator even though I've set the test response to 'Not Licensed'. The following thread indicates that LVL cannot be tested with draft applications and will always return 'Licensed'. So how does one test LVL on the emulator? I am sure something as basic as this must be supported. But I am unable to figure out how to do it. I would really appreciate any pointers regarding this. I've wasted quite a bit of time on this poring over the licensing doc and other threads. http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... Thanks, --MB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Obfuscating parts of an application. Wise or not?
I'm a bit scared about obfuscating my application completely. I'm afraid to run into issues where I can't figure out a bug because lines and function names wont match. Please correct me if I'm wrong... I thought maybe the simplest way to protect important parts of my code is to create a jar of the important files. I know and understand that jars are good only for classes and no xmls or other Android dependent parts. I believe it would be simple this way since I would not have to worry about obfuscating too much and breaking my project. Also, could be helpful for distributing to clients a library which they can't decompile. In terms of obfuscating jars maybe I could do the same to the Market Licensing code to protect my paid application from pirating? What are your thoughts on my approach? Maybe bad idea? What experiences have you had with obfuscating your application? Is it not as bad as I think? Thanks, -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Obfuscating parts of an application. Wise or not?
Can used jar files be easily extracted from an application by others? I guess that would be my only concern doing this... On Oct 5, 11:26 am, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a bit scared about obfuscating my application completely. I'm afraid to run into issues where I can't figure out a bug because lines and function names wont match. Please correct me if I'm wrong... I thought maybe the simplest way to protect important parts of my code is to create a jar of the important files. I know and understand that jars are good only for classes and no xmls or other Android dependent parts. I believe it would be simple this way since I would not have to worry about obfuscating too much and breaking my project. Also, could be helpful for distributing to clients a library which they can't decompile. In terms of obfuscating jars maybe I could do the same to the Market Licensing code to protect my paid application from pirating? What are your thoughts on my approach? Maybe bad idea? What experiences have you had with obfuscating your application? Is it not as bad as I think? Thanks, -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: CRC32 checksum use in order to secure Android LVL Applications
You do a CRC32 over the actual application file, *.apk. Open the file and get the byte stream. Now it's tricky to do that and than hardcore the CRC32 number in your app because it will change the value of the app computed CRC32 value. That is why he suggested to store it in a remote server... For example: CRC value of the apk = 0xABCDABCD You would store that on your server 0xABCDABCD and use it to make sure nothing was changed inside the app... -Moto On Sep 28, 2:30 am, Asker mallorc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Following the examples given by Johns Trevor in order to secure Android LVL Applications (http://android-developers.blogspot.com/ 2010/09/securing-android-lvl-applications.html), I've been stucked on one only particular issue. Indeed, here is the matter: The most obvious mechanism is to use a lightweight hash function, such as CRC32, and build a hash of your application’s code. You can then compare this checksum with a known good value. You can find the path of your application’s files by calling context.GetApplicationInfo() — just be sure not to compute a checksum of the file that contains your checksum! (Consider storing this information on a third-party server.) Howether, I can't find what I must use in my code to detect an unwanted modification inside it. java.util.zip.CRC32 crc32 = new java.util.zip.CRC32(); crc32.update(whatPutInHere); I've tried many method related to context.GetApplicationInfo() but no one seems to deliver something that change as soon as the code is modified. Has someone already succeed on CRC32 checksum implementation? Regards. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: CRC32 checksum use in order to secure Android LVL Applications
Might want to read about CRCs... to understand how it works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check On Oct 1, 3:04 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: You do a CRC32 over the actual application file, *.apk. Open the file and get the byte stream. Now it's tricky to do that and than hardcore the CRC32 number in your app because it will change the value of the app computed CRC32 value. That is why he suggested to store it in a remote server... For example: CRC value of the apk = 0xABCDABCD You would store that on your server 0xABCDABCD and use it to make sure nothing was changed inside the app... -Moto On Sep 28, 2:30 am, Asker mallorc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Following the examples given by Johns Trevor in order to secure Android LVL Applications (http://android-developers.blogspot.com/ 2010/09/securing-android-lvl-applications.html), I've been stucked on one only particular issue. Indeed, here is the matter: The most obvious mechanism is to use a lightweight hash function, such as CRC32, and build a hash of your application’s code. You can then compare this checksum with a known good value. You can find the path of your application’s files by calling context.GetApplicationInfo() — just be sure not to compute a checksum of the file that contains your checksum! (Consider storing this information on a third-party server.) Howether, I can't find what I must use in my code to detect an unwanted modification inside it. java.util.zip.CRC32 crc32 = new java.util.zip.CRC32(); crc32.update(whatPutInHere); I've tried many method related to context.GetApplicationInfo() but no one seems to deliver something that change as soon as the code is modified. Has someone already succeed on CRC32 checksum implementation? Regards. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: How to transfer application ownership from one Developer account to another?
I'm sure you can't do that... But I could be wrong... -Moto On Oct 1, 12:18 pm, peter yellowwin...@gmail.com wrote: Hello fellow developers, My company is a Hong Kong based company and my app has been hosted by my good friend in America under his Android Market account. Now that Google announced support of selling app in my region, I want to move the app back so to avoid more hassle to him for tax reporting etc. Do you know a formal way either: - Check the existing Google Checkout account from one country to another, or - To move the app ownership from one Android Developer account to another. Is this possible? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] How to store app data to gmail account? Is it possible?
I'm looking for the best way to allow users to sync their data to their gmail account. The idea is to be able to access the same data via my other applications for computers, phones, etc... I need it to be a free service... The data is a list of items that contains a title tied to a playlist. Anyone know of a particular Google lab allowing such data? Or other cloud services? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: How to store app data to gmail account? Is it possible?
Well hopefully some people in this forum can help :) I found something that could potentially work BUT... You can't update data, you must first delete than upload again, and that can be tricky... http://code.google.com/apis/storage/docs/overview.html On Sep 29, 5:13 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for the best way to allow users to sync their data to their gmail account. The idea is to be able to access the same data via my other applications for computers, phones, etc... I need it to be a free service... The data is a list of items that contains a title tied to a playlist. Anyone know of a particular Google lab allowing such data? Or other cloud services? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: How to store app data to gmail account? Is it possible?
As you can tell I'm new to this area... I guess the main idea is to sync my applications database to the cloud, and I would like to use the users gmail account to store it. On Sep 29, 5:25 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: Well hopefully some people in this forum can help :) I found something that could potentially work BUT... You can't update data, you must first delete than upload again, and that can be tricky... http://code.google.com/apis/storage/docs/overview.html On Sep 29, 5:13 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for the best way to allow users to sync their data to their gmail account. The idea is to be able to access the same data via my other applications for computers, phones, etc... I need it to be a free service... The data is a list of items that contains a title tied to a playlist. Anyone know of a particular Google lab allowing such data? Or other cloud services? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: New countries for paid apps! Maybe Ireland will be included??
Yeah.. I got it alsobut I really hope they are doing something to reduce the impact of Spam Apps at the same time. I really do hope that that issue gets resolved soon! But not sure if it will during this type of update... My very simple idea to reduce the impact Spam Apps have on the market would be to only allow an app to show up in the Just In category 3 times a year, and never less than 2 months apart. That should be enough for legit developers, and Spam Apps would very quickly stop dominating the Just In list. I don't think 3 times a year is a solution and I would definitely not like it to be like that... I believe that the current available solutionon the Market works perfect BUT... The issue is mostly that spammers put a trillion of the same applications on the Market... So that takes away from us the beauty of the Just In feature... :( -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: How to reverse ListView scrolling behavior?
Guys, I appreciate your concern but come on, really? You have no idea what I'm trying to do here. This behavior is not intended for regular phone usage. I'm experimenting with different behaviors. I really apreciate if you would help me out and not jump into conclussions :) Thanks! -Moto On Sep 17, 5:08 am, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.com wrote: The most important tip anyone can give you is GIVE UP! It is a bad idea, since it would put your pseudo-ListView at odds with the entire rest of the Android UI. On Sep 16, 7:07 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: I have been trying now for a few hours to reverse the scrolling of behavior of the ListView. Essentially when scrolling down with my finger I want the list to scroll up! :) Any tips? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: How to reverse ListView scrolling behavior?
I really don't care if it's user friendly or not! Can you just give up that discussion? I asked a questions if anyone else had done this or had some pointers to try to do this. Its none of your business how I would like to use this feature. And just to make you feel better you can rest assure it will not end up being used were users would expect a listview to behave like a list view! :) So please let's not argue about how user friendly the concept is or is not... I just need tips on how to achieve this... Thanks, -Moto On Sep 17, 7:49 am, Kumar Bibek coomar@gmail.com wrote: It's not the way a touch phone user would expect the scrolling to happen. So, as far as I am concerned, it's not user friendly. -Kumar Bibekhttp://techdroid.kbeanie.com On Sep 17, 4:39 pm, amjath sharief amjathsharief.techsa...@gmail.com wrote: Any feature which is user friendly should be there in any device, whether its desktop or mobile that shouldn't matter. Hence just comment if the feature requested by Moto is user friendly or not. If the answer is yes, then that should be there, how weired someone feels. If the answer is no, then just mention your reasons for saying why its not user friendly. thats it. On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: Guys, I appreciate your concern but come on, really? You have no idea what I'm trying to do here. This behavior is not intended for regular phone usage. I'm experimenting with different behaviors. I really apreciate if you would help me out and not jump into conclussions :) Thanks! -Moto On Sep 17, 5:08 am, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.com wrote: The most important tip anyone can give you is GIVE UP! It is a bad idea, since it would put your pseudo-ListView at odds with the entire rest of the Android UI. On Sep 16, 7:07 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: I have been trying now for a few hours to reverse the scrolling of behavior of the ListView. Essentially when scrolling down with my finger I want the list to scroll up! :) Any tips? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: How to reverse ListView scrolling behavior?
If it makes everyone HAPPY! I'm essentially doing a small study on user interface behavior. I'm trying to test different behaviors of the UI in particular cases. One would be while driving. FYI, you shouldn't be using your phone while driving... In the case of an inverted ListView scrolling behavior, I trying to see how it feels to scroll when I have my hand extended out to the car craddle holding the phone. Here is what I'm trying to test, and I like to actually test not just jump into a conclusion, ohh no this is not UI friendly... ;) *On a ListView usually more content is located below so you need to scroll down which means you must move your finger up. Making this motion of moving the finger up can be very difficult when you are extending your arm. Also, if the air is a bit humid. By inverting the list it might be better to scroll the content by moving your finger down than up! ***REMEMBER THIS IS A CASE STUDY*** @TreKing Thanks for at least hinting on a path. I have been trying to intercept the touch events and trying to invert them but it's not really working... I'll continue to test and try to see if I can post some code of what I'm doing. -Moto On Sep 17, 12:48 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:44 AM, DanH danhi...@ieee.org wrote: In a particular context normal scroll behavior was (almost) universally judged by users as backwards, even though a few screens later the situation was reversed. What context? If this is clearly explained so the rest of us dumb folk understand, it would be easier to climb down off the high horses. - TreKing http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: How to reverse ListView scrolling behavior?
@Kostya Sounds like a good idea I'll give that a go. @Kumar Bibek I understand that there are a lot of other users on this forum that just post questions asking for others to do their homework or solve their problem magically... I believe my question was clear and to the point... Event if said on my original post, I can't disclose why I'm doing this I think still I would have been told the same by users like you... It is truly not the type of help I was expecting... I'm doing this investigation and it's all about trying things not just listening to one person... That's how new things, innovative things happen, not usually by doing what everybody is doing ;) On Sep 17, 1:29 pm, DanH danhi...@ieee.org wrote: Yes, regarding the transparent overlay trick, I did that in buckets on the application to which I refer. On Sep 17, 12:14 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:04 PM, DanH danhi...@ieee.org wrote: In this particular context there was a simulated scroll wheel superimposed over the edge of the scroll list (for reasons having to do with the dynamics of the controls). For some reason this changed the user's perception of the control completely. That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying. And the OP certainly has a right (and perhaps legal obligation) to not disclose the particulars of his application, in addition to simply not wanting to hear even more of You shouldn't be doing it that way. Certainly - but again, lots of posts come through here where it's *usually* the case that the poster is doing something for the wrong reasons. Clarifying the purpose helps a lot. On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: I'm essentially doing a small study on user interface behavior. I think that alone would have sufficed to assure people you knew what you were doing. =) Good luck with your study. On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.comwrote: If this is just for testing, you could put a transparent view on top of the ListView, handle events there, and call scrolling methods in the ListView. Clever! OP, try that. - TreKing http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: appbucket: all apps for $9.99 per year, are we just going to watch?
I think there is a big difference here. Charging for pirated material and offering it for free. Yes, pirated apps sucks but this is even worse! Makes me so mad that these users are actually charging for my work!! This is a new level of piracy that might be easier to track and target right? The credit card payments have to go to some legal account right? I totally prefer my app pirated FOR FREE! Than some freaking looser making money out of my hard work... On Sep 17, 4:28 pm, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.com wrote: I certainly care, but I find myself as an individual or even as a part of this community to be underpowered to fight this. I tend to look at it as I did with the RIAA fighting every individual pirating music. The RIAA spent a decade or more, and ridiculous sums of money, to fight in the legal system to stop people from downloading music illegally. Sure, they won some high profile cases and shut down some of those very highly visible hubs. But they didn't stop piracy completely. What really changed things was when Apple came along and made buying music effortless and affordable with iTunes. Jumping through the hoops of trying to pirate music just isn't worth the hassle now that you can buy your favorite song for $0.99 without even thinking about it. I think the combination of these things needs to be brought to our fight. Maybe if Google was making the act of buying these apps effortless (better payment system, available worldwide) while at the same time shutting down these major hubs, we'd have similar results as we've seen over the last decade with the music industry. To some extent, there's not a lot we as individuals can do. Google needs to step up and protect our rights and their market by throwing their weight behind it in a courtroom. Until that happens, all we have are our own methods of copy protection which have proven to be rather insufficient. -- Chris Stewarthttp://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) cor...@gmail.com wrote: True, but the second and third options could set you up for a lawsuit. That would be rich. A pirate suing for such a thing... They would have to reveal who they really are and that would probably open themselves up for more trouble than it would be worth. -John Coryat -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: When is a right time to start placing ads in app (share your experience)
My case we started with a paid and free version. The free was very limited and had no ads. After a few months we thought ads was a good way to make more money and to not piss people off we opened up a lot of features on the free, almost all! I believe because we did that we had a very nice turn out of happy users. :) I think the main idea for us was: Provide a free application that contains just about almost all features enabled with ads and if the user doesn't like ads we give them the choice to buy the app and support our work :) -Moto On Sep 16, 3:31 pm, Michael A. michael.aki...@gmail.com wrote: From the beginning. What's the point of waiting? If people won't accept to download your app with ads in it, they are certainly not going to take kindly to your placing ads in it later. In addition, you really need to consider carefully how you place the ads (i.e., to avoid having them too close to buttons, etc. - there is nothing more annoying to a user than to accidentally click on an ad and get dumped out of your app) as well as where (title screen only? loading screen? etc). Ideally you want the ads to fit into the app without being disturbing - not be something that is tacked on afterwards. How much revenue it makes depends entirely on your app, how it is used, and what kind of users you have (younger users are much more likely to click on ads than elder users, for instance). There is really no magical formula. In principle, it is all about volume, though. Make a great app that many, many thousands of users download and use every day, and you will generate revenue. Regards, Michael A. On Sep 16, 3:08 pm, Kman91 kabira...@gmail.com wrote: I have just recently released my free app into the market and was wondering when is a good time to start placing ads in the app? Should I put it straight from the beginning? I'm thinking maybe when the downloads gets to 5000 but these are numbers I'm pulling out of thin air so I would love for some of you guys to share your experience with placing ads in your app. When did you place ads in your app? What kind of revenue was/is it making? And any tips for someone that has no idea where to start? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Can't find my posts :(
I have had this problem a couple times where I post something and I can never find it again... One time I lucked out because my post was still open on my other computers browser... Anyone have this issues? I'm a bit frustrated... :( -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] How to reverse ListView scrolling behavior?
I have been trying now for a few hours to reverse the scrolling of behavior of the ListView. Essentially when scrolling down with my finger I want the list to scroll up! :) Any tips? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: appbucket: all apps for $9.99 per year, are we just going to watch?
I'm so bothered by this! It's incredibly crazzy! My tracking shows that 300% of my daily new users are not purchased! Its really crazzy Im gonna have to invest in a better copy protection methods :( -Moto On Sep 16, 8:59 pm, mot12 martin.hu...@gmail.com wrote: I had thought more people would chime in on this. Do developers really not care? On Android, I am really surprised about two things as a developer (and I don't know how it is on other platforms): 1) Piracy and criminal reselling are much more of an issue than I expected. And developers seem to adopt an attitude that this is just part of life. I strongly disagree. This makes Android less interesting for developers who try to make a living with creating apps (and don't tell me that it is unreasonable to try to make a living like that). 2) Users are cheap (maybe goes together with point 1). I have a free version of my main app (an alarm clock with all kind of bells and whistles) that doesn't ring on Wednesdays. I actually had one user comment that he changes the clock every Tuesday to Thursday so he tricks my app into ringing anyways. He rather does that every week than pay $2. To him, it is a sport to find a way not to pay me and he feels good about having succeeded in that. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Opening control to my app to other developers
Hello! I'm looking for some good design pattern for allowing users to have access to parts of my application. Essentially my app plays music. I want to allow other apps, widgets, livewallpapers, etc.. to receive currently playing information, current playback time, and allow them to toggle playback and control volume. I want to create a very simple and easy to use API on which developers can use for their apps... My approach would be to provide now playing track information etc by broadcasting this information to registered Broadcast receivers. And for the controls possibly allowing my Service to receive intents to control playback. Few Questions: 1. How bad is it in regards to performance/battery life to broadcast the current playback time? This would happen every 1 second. 2. Is it recommended to provide access to start the Service via an Intent? I guess I would just need to make sure that the service terminates it self when not needed...? 3. Can I tell when a broadcast receiver has been registered? I guess the issue would be that the user might need to populate the widget with information even if the service hasn't broadcaster yet the new track... I hope I somewhat make sense if not please ask I'll try to explain better :) Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Active Installs Dropping Like Crazy but Total Downloads Increasing Steadily!
I'm getting a little concerned about the issue. I know for a fact that my application is doing very well from analytic... But the active installs are dropping daily by a lot! While my total downloads are growing steadily as they always have! I'm worried cause I know that active installs affect an applications popularity and mine is going to be dumped all the way to the bottom if this continues So what's causing this issue? Two theories: 1. I recently allowed to install to SD card. 2. Android Market is broken? Anyone seeing this issues? -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Active Installs Dropping Like Crazy but Total Downloads Increasing Steadily!
Yeah... seeing results drop like that are very discouraging when you work so hard on an app... But I feel much better that it's not only me... Cause it hurts to see those really low numbers... -Moto On Aug 26, 10:22 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: I'm worried cause I know that active installs affect an applications popularity and mine is going to be dumped all the way to the bottom if this continues Have you noticed a change in your position as a result? I have not and my stats too are dropping steadily and appear to have picked up after an update over the weekend. So what's causing this issue? Two theories: 1. I recently allowed to install to SD card. I don't allow this, still seeing the problem. 2. Android Market is broken? Not necessarily broken, but it's doing something. Anyone seeing this issues? Indeed. There's already a thread going on the issue titled Is anyone's active install % dropping like a rock lately? Appears to be a common problem so I wouldn't worry too much about it (which I know is easier said than done as you watch that percentage plummet). - TreKing http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] How to catch this browser intent?
Hello,
I'm trying to handle the content not supported by the browser but for
some reason I can't get my app to catch this intent... What do I
need? Here is what the browser spits on the logcat:
Intent {
act=android.intent.action.VIEW
cat=[android.intent.category.BROWSABLE]
dat=http://listen.di.fm/public3/oldschoolhouse.pls
cmp=com.android.browser/.BrowserActivity }
I have:
activity android:name=.myAppr
intent-filter
action
android:name=android.intent.action.VIEW /
category
android:name=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER /
category
android:name=android.intent.category.DEFAULT /
category
android:name=android.intent.category.BROWSABLE /
data android:pathPattern=*.pls/
/intent-filter
Thanks!
-Moto!
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[android-developers] Re: How to catch this browser intent?
for some reason it doesn't resolve the mime type? On other cases I
specify the mimetype and I can catch it but with this particular case
I can't :(
Raw Logcat message:
08-23 20:29:17.609: INFO/ActivityManager(995): Starting activity:
Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW
cat=[android.intent.category.BROWSABLE] dat=http://listen.di.fm/
public3/liquiddnb.pls cmp=com.android.browser/.BrowserActivity }
On Aug 23, 8:12 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to handle the content not supported by the browser but for
some reason I can't get my app to catch this intent... What do I
need? Here is what the browser spits on the logcat:
Intent {
act=android.intent.action.VIEW
cat=[android.intent.category.BROWSABLE]
dat=http://listen.di.fm/public3/oldschoolhouse.pls
cmp=com.android.browser/.BrowserActivity }
I have:
activity android:name=.myAppr
intent-filter
action
android:name=android.intent.action.VIEW /
category
android:name=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER /
category
android:name=android.intent.category.DEFAULT /
category
android:name=android.intent.category.BROWSABLE /
data android:pathPattern=*.pls/
/intent-filter
Thanks!
-Moto!
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[android-developers] Re: How to catch this browser intent?
I have also tried the following intent-filter data catch:
data android:host=*
android:pathPattern=.*\\.pls
android:scheme=http /
On Aug 23, 8:30 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote:
for some reason it doesn't resolve the mime type? On other cases I
specify the mimetype and I can catch it but with this particular case
I can't :(
Raw Logcat message:
08-23 20:29:17.609: INFO/ActivityManager(995): Starting activity:
Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW
cat=[android.intent.category.BROWSABLE] dat=http://listen.di.fm/
public3/liquiddnb.pls cmp=com.android.browser/.BrowserActivity }
On Aug 23, 8:12 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to handle the content not supported by the browser but for
some reason I can't get my app to catch this intent... What do I
need? Here is what the browser spits on the logcat:
Intent {
act=android.intent.action.VIEW
cat=[android.intent.category.BROWSABLE]
dat=http://listen.di.fm/public3/oldschoolhouse.pls
cmp=com.android.browser/.BrowserActivity }
I have:
activity android:name=.myAppr
intent-filter
action
android:name=android.intent.action.VIEW /
category
android:name=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER /
category
android:name=android.intent.category.DEFAULT /
category
android:name=android.intent.category.BROWSABLE /
data android:pathPattern=*.pls/
/intent-filter
Thanks!
-Moto!
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[android-developers] Re: How to catch this browser intent?
Well as fast as I posted I resolved the issue! :P Thanks forum..
jejeje..
On Aug 23, 8:34 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote:
I have also tried the following intent-filter data catch:
data android:host=*
android:pathPattern=.*\\.pls
android:scheme=http /
On Aug 23, 8:30 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote:
for some reason it doesn't resolve the mime type? On other cases I
specify the mimetype and I can catch it but with this particular case
I can't :(
Raw Logcat message:
08-23 20:29:17.609: INFO/ActivityManager(995): Starting activity:
Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW
cat=[android.intent.category.BROWSABLE] dat=http://listen.di.fm/
public3/liquiddnb.pls cmp=com.android.browser/.BrowserActivity }
On Aug 23, 8:12 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to handle the content not supported by the browser but for
some reason I can't get my app to catch this intent... What do I
need? Here is what the browser spits on the logcat:
Intent {
act=android.intent.action.VIEW
cat=[android.intent.category.BROWSABLE]
dat=http://listen.di.fm/public3/oldschoolhouse.pls
cmp=com.android.browser/.BrowserActivity }
I have:
activity android:name=.myAppr
intent-filter
action
android:name=android.intent.action.VIEW /
category
android:name=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER /
category
android:name=android.intent.category.DEFAULT /
category
android:name=android.intent.category.BROWSABLE /
data android:pathPattern=*.pls/
/intent-filter
Thanks!
-Moto!
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[android-developers] Re: LVL found to be easy to crack
Well it saved me a load on car insurance! :P It was good while it lasted! let the race begin! But being serious this kind of sucks... :( Poor market sells plus pirating not nice On Aug 23, 9:21 pm, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) cor...@gmail.com wrote: We all knew this was going to be a problem. It's inherent in the platform. That said, the steps required to fix an app so it will run are way more complicated than they used to be with just forward locking. The script kiddies will be dissuaded from trying to unlock hundreds or even thousands of apps to the point that it will become unprofitable for them to do so. It may appear to be a simple scan and replace as shown in the article but for a complex app with lots of code, it will be a lot more difficult and subject to errors. I can see an easy way to thwart an automated patch. Just put about a dozen fake functions in your app with that code. They don't have to do anything but sit there. You could even put in a test to see if the app was patched and cause it to fail or do something evil without a lot of fuss. That way the pirates would not only have to look but would have to analyze logic, something that's going to be beyond even the best pirates. The thing that makes these pirates able to function is to be able to simply steal the app, load it on their site and sell it. If each one requires a manual effort to patch, they will quickly lose interest. There may be some that will continue to do this but the numbers will drop precipitately. -John Coryat -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Any Interview Question
I agree I generally don't like to see packed resumes with so much bs... :P In any case assuming you are proficient in Android they will probably ask: Q: Can you start an activity via a Broadcast Intent? A: try it out... Prbl many things in regards to Intents... how to use them... etc... That's on of the big things in Android... Services, Activities what are their differences... Read the whole Android.com site! :P -Moto On Aug 22, 12:28 am, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Vinay Julme vinayju...@gmail.com wrote: I just love that you follow this: Don't demoralizes the kid. Immediately with this: and Yo kid Rajesh have you heard something called Google? OP: I think what they're trying to say is if you need people to send you questions about something that is a new technology for you, you may not be quite ready to be interviewing for the position. Besides that, Vinay's advice is quite sound. Good luck. - TreKing http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Share library
I use the share options available by Android devices. Most apps such as facebook or other twitter apps support the share intent. You can actually see the intent call on the logcat if you do a share on a picture Intent shareIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND); shareIntent.setType(text/plain); Moto On Aug 22, 10:53 am, samspade79 samspad...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mark, What I mean is, rather than writing code that talks to Facebook, Twitter, etc, I wonder if anyone had already released this as a library I can use. I tried googling but share xxx brings up unrelated stuff. On Aug 22, 10:16 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 5:10 AM, samspade79 samspad...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know of a library that will give me the share functionality for pictures? Ie, how in many apps now you are given the option of sharing a page or image with facebook, twitter, email, sms, etc. I am not quite certain what you mean by your question. If you are looking to determine what services allow you to share, construct an ACTION_SEND Intent that describes what you want to share and use PackageManager and queryIntentActivities() to find out details of who all supports that action. If you are looking to determine what applications *request* ACTION_SEND Intents, I don't think there's a way to do that sort of reverse lookup. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.1 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: enable/dissable fullscreen for lifetime of the app?
Ahh! nice! For some reason I was expecting an actual proxy port! :P
So your method looks really good but it's just about the same thing if
I create a CustomActivity class extends Activity and overwrite the
methods I need to do special things such as checking user pref. I
guess both ways can be clean I'm guessing ether way will have the
same performance...
Thanks again!
-Moto
On Aug 20, 5:21 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote:
Mmm Activity proxy class? I kind of understand the concept but I'm
not following well... you have a simple example?
class ActivityProxy
{
mActivity = null;
public ActivityProxy(Activity activity)
{
mActivity = activity;
}
// Do whatever every Activity should do in onCreate
public void onCreate()
{
if (Prefs.runFullScreen)
mActivity-setFullScreen();
}
}
public MyActivity1 : Activity
{
ActivityProxy proxy = new ActivityProxy(this);
protected void onCreate()
{
proxy-onCreate(); // Now all common code is abstracted here.
...
}
}
public MyActivity2 : Activity
{
ActivityProxy proxy = new ActivityProxy(this);
protected void onCreate()
{
proxy-onCreate(); // Now all common code is abstracted here.
...
}
}
So your proxy does all the work that you want other Activities the ability
to do, but it's centralized and encapsulated. The tradeoff, of course, being
you need an instance in each Activity. But this is really no different than
the alternative of overriding a base and then overriding all the required
methods.
This may not be worth it in your simple case, but once your app grows and
you have tons of common code you can't put in a base class, it proves its
worth.
-
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transit tracking app for Android-powered devices
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[android-developers] Re: enable/dissable fullscreen for lifetime of the app?
@TreKing Perfect I understand why to use your method since java in a way limits us from multiple extends :) Thanks man great help! @Dianne Thanks for that information now I know not to spend much time figuring out if I can set the full screen setting for the lifetime of the app... It's always good to understand the core so I don't fight the current :) Thanks all I'm all set! :) -Moto! On Aug 21, 4:54 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Kantesh kantesh@gmail.com wrote: this may help u.. try it out..i am not sure..:) getApplicationContext().setTheme(android.R.style.Theme_NoTitleBar_Fullscreen); No this won't do anything you want. The application context is global to the process, but not associated with a UI state, so you can't do UI from it. Also it is just global to the process, so once your process is killed, whatever you did to it is lost. You'll just need to check a setting in each onCreate() and set your window's full-screen flag as desired based on it. You can just write a little function that takes an activity and does this, and put it in the onCreate() of each of your app's activities. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: enable/dissable fullscreen for lifetime of the app?
@Kantesh thanks for the tip... I do have fullscreen deal working but setting a theme seems like an interesting option, but still I have to make that call every time an activity starts right? What's the lifetime of setting a theme? Activity lifetime from onCreate to onDestroy? or app lifetime? @TreKing Mmm Activity proxy class? I kind of understand the concept but I'm not following well... you have a simple example? Thanks guys... -Moto On Aug 20, 1:34 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: One way to do it would be to have a custom Activity class that does these checks and all my activities can just implement it? would that be slow is it recommended? It wouldn't be slow (at least it shouldn't be), but would only work if you only ever extend Activity. If you use ListActivity, MapActivity, etc, this would not work. An option is to make an Activity proxy class that takes a reference to an Activity and then forwards calls on to it as necessary. Then each of your Activities has a proxy and forwards calls to it and let's the proxy do the common work. A little more verbose since you need to inject it in every Activity, but a decent tradeoff given how Android is designed. On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Kantesh kantesh@gmail.com wrote: this may help u.. try it out..i am not sure..:) getApplicationContext().setTheme(android.R.style.Theme_NoTitleBar_Fullscreen); OP would still have to check each time to see if the user had the setting. - TreKing http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] enable/dissable fullscreen for lifetime of the app?
Currently my application allows the user to set the application to run in full screen. I than check in every activity at onCreate() if the user has set to make the app run in full screen. Is there a better way to do this? I have many other settings that I do and I find this method a little bad in terms of code design. Is there a way to set full screen for the lifetime of app or until I set it back to not full screen? One way to do it would be to have a custom Activity class that does these checks and all my activities can just implement it? would that be slow is it recommended? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Why doesn't fillparent work for a child view group inside ScrollView?
Thanks Rommain! that was exactly what I needed! Good thing your still around to help us out! :) -Moto! On Aug 12, 12:02 am, Romain Guy romain...@android.com wrote: fill_parent means always be as big as your parent, which makes no sense in a ScrollView. What you want is android:fillViewport=true on the ScrollView/ tag. On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: I want the view group to extend with the ScrollView if the content of the group is smaller than the display area of the ScrollView. How can I have the ScrollView child extend to fill the parent if it's smaller than the parent? ScrollView android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=fill_parent LinearLayout android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=fill_parent !-- Some content -- /LinearLayout /ScrollView Thanks, -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer romain...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Why doesn't fillparent work for a child view group inside ScrollView?
I want the view group to extend with the ScrollView if the content of the group is smaller than the display area of the ScrollView. How can I have the ScrollView child extend to fill the parent if it's smaller than the parent? ScrollView android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=fill_parent LinearLayout android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=fill_parent !-- Some content -- /LinearLayout /ScrollView Thanks, -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: How to correctly organize layouts for different screen type?
Thanks Mark! I really thought it was a smart idea but now that you put it that way I guess it is smarter to create a dynamic layout for small, normal and large... So at the end of the day this would be the specific layout structure: res/layout-small res/layout-normal res/layout-large Thanks, -Moto! On Aug 9, 4:08 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: Currently I have only 2 layouts that need special attention. The key word there is currently. My questions... What is the best way to properly handle screens resolution/sizes/types? http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.htmlhttp://www.androidguys.com/2010/02/16/handling-multiple-screen-sizes-...http://www.androidguys.com/2010/02/18/handling-multiple-screen-sizes-...http://www.androidguys.com/2010/02/23/handling-multiple-screen-sizes-...http://www.androidguys.com/2010/03/01/handling-multiple-screen-sizes-...http://www.androidguys.com/2010/03/02/handling-multiple-screen-sizes-... I thought I would create the following resource folders: res/layout res/layout-800x480 res/layout-854x480 The first directory is OK. Does anyone know if this is the best way to handle specific layouts for specific screens? Doing it by resolution size? You really really really really really really do not want to handle specific layouts for specific screens. Redesign your UI to be more fluid, and handle broad categories of screen sizes (e.g., small vs. normal vs. large). -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to *Advanced* Android Development_ Version 1.9 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: How safe is emailing a signed App apk?
When ever I get requests from china or korea to localize they always ask for strings.xml. That is all they need... So I suggest if you haven't start putting al your strings in an strings.xml file :) First time sucks but there after is good practice :) -Moto On Aug 10, 2:47 pm, Rootko roo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. For .apk localization it is only necessary to send the xml files with the strings (in case you don't have the strings hard-coded, which you must not have). Anything other than that would be suspicious to me... So I think there is no sense in sending the whole .apk. Rudo On Aug 10, 11:20 am, Droid rod...@gmail.com wrote: I have an email wanting to localise an APK. But I have to email him/ her a signed APK. Is that safe, I mean can they access my merchant account or something horrible like that if they get my key store? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Help understanding ANR trace?
$WebCoreThread.run(WebViewCore.java: 621) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1096) FlurryAgent prio=5 tid=7 WAIT | group=main sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=N obj=0x44984420 self=0x24e2d8 | sysTid=5172 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=2371648 | schedstat=( 55450440 114135741 111 ) at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method) - waiting on 0x44984568 (a android.os.MessageQueue) at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:288) at android.os.MessageQueue.next(MessageQueue.java:146) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:110) at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:60) Binder Thread #2 prio=5 tid=6 NATIVE | group=main sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=N obj=0x4497f3c0 self=0x13d128 | sysTid=5171 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=1172920 | schedstat=( 236358659 331481927 749 ) at dalvik.system.NativeStart.run(Native Method) Binder Thread #1 prio=5 tid=5 NATIVE | group=main sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=N obj=0x4497a8f8 self=0x11e7f8 | sysTid=5170 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=1175528 | schedstat=( 229827891 316406235 750 ) at dalvik.system.NativeStart.run(Native Method) Compiler daemon prio=5 tid=4 VMWAIT | group=system sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=N obj=0x449782a0 self=0x11f3a8 | sysTid=5169 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=1176424 | schedstat=( 2052520764 981689442 13107 ) at dalvik.system.NativeStart.run(Native Method) Signal Catcher daemon prio=5 tid=3 RUNNABLE | group=system sCount=0 dsCount=0 s=N obj=0x449781e8 self=0x11f5e8 | sysTid=5168 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=1177000 | schedstat=( 1281740 13519287 7 ) at dalvik.system.NativeStart.run(Native Method) HeapWorker daemon prio=5 tid=2 VMWAIT | group=system sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=N obj=0x4335c948 self=0x121eb8 | sysTid=5167 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=1204896 | schedstat=( 242462156 215270991 269 ) at dalvik.system.NativeStart.run(Native Method) Thanks, -Moto! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] How to correctly organize layouts for different screen type?
I just got a hold of an HTC Evo and well my app really looked bad... : ( What a shame my part... But the app looked great on another device I got Xperia X10. The differences: Evo: 480x800 X10: 480x854 Currently I have only 2 layouts that need special attention. My questions... What is the best way to properly handle screens resolution/sizes/types? I thought I would create the following resource folders: res/layout res/layout-800x480 res/layout-854x480 Does anyone know if this is the best way to handle specific layouts for specific screens? Doing it by resolution size? I read over and over this but still a bit confused... What do you guys do in general? http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html Thanks, Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Android Market Abusive developers...
I currently have an application that does something useful. I'm currently overwhelmed by the amount of MATURE wallpaper apps being submitted BY ONE DEVELOPER! Particularly ASIAN developers! It's not just one developer doing this but way too many! The nature of these repeated apps are they contain mature content even when previewing the app screen shots and they contain two pictures. Here is a small list of a few developers ruining the Android Market! Dev: background Number of apps in the market: 11 email: ldcr0...@gmail.com Dev: maike.TT Number of apps in the market: +50 email: zaytmd...@gmail.com Dev: Creature Apps Number of apps in the market: +50 email: creaturea...@gmail.com So the thing is yeah they have a right to put apps in the market, but I guess the solution is or create a MATURE category or enforce them to put it on the Entertainment category or a new wallpaper category. -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Android Market Abusive developers...
Yes, well exactly that I'm worried about the Just In view. I want
to upload my application and give users the chance to find out about
my application that way at least once in a while. But now it's a joke
to look there it pure spam! No longer interested my self to look at
the Just In since it garbage!
I feel bad for the new developers trying to get their work
discovered. It seems that Just In is a good way to get recognized
and I know you can only be there if you run updates every month or
something...
Maybe starting a petition to this issue would help? Not sure but I
really care about my application and more importantly the Android
Market!
-Moto
On Aug 4, 12:54 pm, { Devdroid } webnet.andr...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 August 2010 17:30, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote:
I currently have an application that does something useful. I'm
currently overwhelmed by the amount of MATURE wallpaper apps being
submitted BY ONE DEVELOPER! Particularly ASIAN developers! It's not
just one developer doing this but way too many! The nature of these
repeated apps are they contain mature content even when previewing
the app screen shots and they contain two pictures.
Android Market is one big garbage. Flooded with crap like that one you
mentioned, thousands of useles app uploaded by developers who only
target at one thing - earning from ads. The Market does not look
maintained at all - tons of spam comments (mostly by pirate sites)
remains there forever. Market application is far from being useful -
users are quite annoyed (politely speaking) trying to check if there's
any new app available - the Just in category is pure joke with this
flood of junk. There's no way to filter out by keyword nor publisher.
Lately there're signals Google noticed that (at least a bit) and
removed crap from couple of most active spammers, but this look like
one time action to me as of now - I saw one of them back under new
names (multiaccounts) and email addresses. But apps are the same,
same icons etc...
So we can only hope that once Google become profitable company one
day, they hire more people to clean this mess.Finger crossed as it's
high time really.
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[android-developers] HTC EVO RTSP issues... Anyone experience issues in this area?
I'm currently getting issues with the RTSP client of the HTC EVO running Android 2.2. The purpose of this post is to know if anyone has issues in that area or if there is known bug on this... Just to know it's not only me... :P Thanks! -Moto! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: HTC EVO RTSP issues... Anyone experience issues in this area?
So yeah MediaPlayer RTRSP for the HTC EVO is not as good... :( On Aug 3, 10:44 pm, r01carlsonr overvoltag...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like you aren't alone... http://forum.androidcentral.com/htc-evo-4g/26814-htc-streaming-media-... http://groups.google.com/group/testtubeandroid/browse_thread/thread/d... On Aug 3, 7:53 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: I'm currently getting issues with the RTSP client of the HTC EVO running Android 2.2. The purpose of this post is to know if anyone has issues in that area or if there is known bug on this... Just to know it's not only me... :P Thanks! -Moto! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: onCreate, onStop..... super.onCreate, super.onStop... called before code or after?
Thanks for the replies guys!
Well Satya you have a point to call super before any code at
onCreate()... but MB also has a point :) when calling onDestroy...
onStop calling super at the end...
I guess since it's not really enforced I'm not sure it really
matters? I tried both ways and it works but I'm afraid to maybe get
some memory leaks or things that are not apparent now but can cause
harm or unexpected issues on some users...
Mark, not calling super at onCreate will lead to a crash... :)
I got maybe a little more insight on this but still no definite
answer... maybe is not much of a big deal? :P
On Aug 1, 1:50 am, MB manoj.bi...@gmail.com wrote:
By this logic, super.onStop and super.onDestroy would need to be
called after the implementation of the more specific class.
On Jul 31, 7:50 pm, Satya Komatineni satya.komatin...@gmail.com
wrote:
Probably there are exceptions to every rule.
In this particular instance I would probably have the base class
complete its work before I do the work of the derived. May be a poor
parallel, but if I am constructing a multi-story house, I would want
to finish the base floors and move on to the upper floors.
Another thought is, a derived class comes later in conception than the
base class. So a derived class can anticipate what a base class does
on the otherhand baseclass designers would not have known what the
derived class would have done.
In case of a constructor, the compiler will tell you that you have to
call the super first.
However if I know that I am not altering the state of the base class,
such as logging a message, I could put that method either before or
after.
Also if you want the behavior of the base class to be a default one
after you have exhausted your options such as attending to menus, then
you want to call the base super last.
In the particular case of onCreate, as it resembles construction, I
go with calling the super first.
Hope this reflection helps
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On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote:
This might be a simple question but I'm seeing the super call at the
end of the overwritten function and also at the start of the
function. What is recommended? any differences on this?
I feel very beginner with this question... :P
i.e.
�...@override
protected void onCreate)
{
super.onCreate();
// some code
}
or
�...@override
protected void onCreate()
{
// some code
super.onCreate();
}
-Moto
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[android-developers] Using a new generated Keystone for existing app. Any possible outcomes?
Hi, I currently have my application signed using a keystone key I generated. Could I use a new keystone to sign my application for the next update? Any issues that could arise if I use a different keystone? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Using a new generated Keystone for existing app. Any possible outcomes?
keystone = keystore :P On Jul 31, 6:24 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I currently have my application signed using a keystone key I generated. Could I use a new keystone to sign my application for the next update? Any issues that could arise if I use a different keystone? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Using a new generated Keystone for existing app. Any possible outcomes?
Oops never mind :( You can't do that... http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/app-signing.html Application upgrade – As you release updates to your application, you will want to continue to sign the updates with the same certificate or set of certificates, if you want users to upgrade seamlessly to the new version. When the system is installing an update to an application, it compares the certificate(s) in the new version with those in the existing version. If the certificates match exactly, including both the certificate data and order, then the system allows the update. If you sign the new version without using matching certificates, you will also need to assign a different package name to the application — in this case, the user installs the new version as a completely new application. On Jul 31, 6:26 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: keystone = keystore :P On Jul 31, 6:24 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I currently have my application signed using a keystone key I generated. Could I use a new keystone to sign my application for the next update? Any issues that could arise if I use a different keystone? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] onCreate, onStop..... super.onCreate, super.onStop... called before code or after?
This might be a simple question but I'm seeing the super call at the
end of the overwritten function and also at the start of the
function. What is recommended? any differences on this?
I feel very beginner with this question... :P
i.e.
@Override
protected void onCreate)
{
super.onCreate();
// some code
}
or
@Override
protected void onCreate()
{
// some code
super.onCreate();
}
-Moto
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[android-developers] Re: Using SharedPreferences.editor from OnSharedPreferenceChange listener
I believe that when you edit the preferences and you do a commit() it
will trigger to call the registered OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener.
I haven't tried using that but that's what it seems from reading the
APIs:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/SharedPreferences.Editor.html
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On Jul 28, 3:16 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:41 AM, { Devdroid } webnet.andr...@gmail.comwrote:
Is there a way to notify preferences that some values has changed (i.e. in
OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener) so the prefs shall be re-read?
Notify what preferences? What's the prefs that shall be re-read?
How can I dynamically modify preferences values from within preferences
activity?
The same way you do it anywhere
else:http://developer.android.com/reference/android/preference/PreferenceM...)
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[android-developers] What are the supported formats over RTSP for the MediaPlayer?
Does anyone know what formats are supported by the MediaPlayer via RTSP? Would it be the same formats available as suggested by the phone manufactures and Android site? Thanks, -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: ListView and a button inside the list item... How to process long presses?
Hey guys thanks for the feedback. @greg yeah implementing a LongClick on the ListView is what I'm doing it's just not getting triggered cause I have buttons on my ListView items... :P @Mikey well I guess I'll just go the hardcore way :P Cause I was thinking this could be an easy solution but I guess not.. :P Here I go... Any other tips greatly appreciated... -Jona On Jul 21, 2:54 am, metal mikey coref...@gmail.com wrote: Typically one doesn't longclick a button, rather one would simply click a button... I've implemented buttons within childViews and groupViews in an ExpandableList (similar, but more hardcore than your situation ;), so it definitely can be done...how'd I do this? Well I don't have the code at hand, as I recall it took some adjusting of focussable and clickable properties in the various views that made up the list, the groupViews, and the childViews. If/when you get it working using the lead I've provided, would be great if you can document the solution properly in this thread! On Jul 21, 12:51 pm, greg sep...@eduneer.com wrote: implements ListView.OnItemLongClickListener On Jul 20, 10:20 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I got a ListView item that contains a button inside. Currently the long press of a ListView item does not get processed. I thought that by setting the Button.setLongClickable(false) would allow the long press to be passed along to the ListView item and it's not happening... Any help on this? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: ListView and a button inside the list item... How to process long presses?
Hey guys, Well it turns out that in order to allow the ListView to handle the long presses you need to attach a LongClick listener to any button you are listening for click events and return false so that the long press can be propagated down to the parent... -Moto On Jul 21, 2:54 am, metal mikey coref...@gmail.com wrote: Typically one doesn't longclick a button, rather one would simply click a button... I've implemented buttons within childViews and groupViews in an ExpandableList (similar, but more hardcore than your situation ;), so it definitely can be done...how'd I do this? Well I don't have the code at hand, as I recall it took some adjusting of focussable and clickable properties in the various views that made up the list, the groupViews, and the childViews. If/when you get it working using the lead I've provided, would be great if you can document the solution properly in this thread! On Jul 21, 12:51 pm, greg sep...@eduneer.com wrote: implements ListView.OnItemLongClickListener On Jul 20, 10:20 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I got a ListView item that contains a button inside. Currently the long press of a ListView item does not get processed. I thought that by setting the Button.setLongClickable(false) would allow the long press to be passed along to the ListView item and it's not happening... Any help on this? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: ListView and a button inside the list item... How to process long presses?
Well a little more than that... you just need to propagate the long press down to the parent it seems... On Jul 23, 12:12 am, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, Well it turns out that in order to allow the ListView to handle the long presses you need to attach a LongClick listener to any button you are listening for click events and return false so that the long press can be propagated down to the parent... -Moto On Jul 21, 2:54 am, metal mikey coref...@gmail.com wrote: Typically one doesn't longclick a button, rather one would simply click a button... I've implemented buttons within childViews and groupViews in an ExpandableList (similar, but more hardcore than your situation ;), so it definitely can be done...how'd I do this? Well I don't have the code at hand, as I recall it took some adjusting of focussable and clickable properties in the various views that made up the list, the groupViews, and the childViews. If/when you get it working using the lead I've provided, would be great if you can document the solution properly in this thread! On Jul 21, 12:51 pm, greg sep...@eduneer.com wrote: implements ListView.OnItemLongClickListener On Jul 20, 10:20 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I got a ListView item that contains a button inside. Currently the long press of a ListView item does not get processed. I thought that by setting the Button.setLongClickable(false) would allow the long press to be passed along to the ListView item and it's not happening... Any help on this? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] ListView and a button inside the list item... How to process long presses?
Hi all! I got a ListView item that contains a button inside. Currently the long press of a ListView item does not get processed. I thought that by setting the Button.setLongClickable(false) would allow the long press to be passed along to the ListView item and it's not happening... Any help on this? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] How to update the app's icon LAUNCH activity after an app update?
I'm currently running into an issue that makes sense but I'm not too sure how to resolve it... Here is the scenario: App v1 icon LAUNCH is set to ActivityMain from the manifest file App v2 icon LAUNCH is set to ActivityAll from the manifest file and ActivityMain no longer exists After updating to App v2 the app icon fails to launch the application saying it doesn't exist! After a restart of the phone things work. So how can I refresh the applications package or better the launch icon and shortcut icons so that my users don't experience this after an upgrade of my newest app version? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: How to update the app's icon LAUNCH activity after an app update?
I'm wondering if I can just add an extra intent filter to the new LAUNCH activity and maybe the launch icon will be able to trigger the new activity... I'm not home now so I can't give it a try :P Thanks Mark for your help! On Jul 14, 1:49 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: I'm currently running into an issue that makes sense but I'm not too sure how to resolve it... Here is the scenario: App v1 icon LAUNCH is set to ActivityMain from the manifest file App v2 icon LAUNCH is set to ActivityAll from the manifest file and ActivityMain no longer exists After updating to App v2 the app icon fails to launch the application saying it doesn't exist! Correct. The launcher, shortcuts, and everything will continue to point to the original activity. The launcher will be fixed on the next reboot, as you have discovered. Users will have to re-create any shortcuts they made, or anything else they tied into your application (e.g., Locale profile to start your activity under certain conditions). So how can I refresh the applications package or better the launch icon and shortcut icons so that my users don't experience this after an upgrade of my newest app version? Do not change your start activity. If needed, have ActivityMain call startActivity() on ActivityAll and then finish(). -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to *Advanced* Android Development_ Version 1.9 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] RTCP BYE packets not supported by the Android Media Framework?
Hello, I'm currently running into issues where the MediaPlayer fails to complete or terminate after a RTCP BYE packet is sent. The issue is that when the RTSP server is completed serving a file MediaPlayer continues ticking it's clock as if it was playing but with no sound until after just about 1min it completes. The question is: Is RTCP BYE packet supported at all by the Android Media Framework? Any information on this matter is appreciated. -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: CursorAdapter notifyDataSetChanged doesn't work? What am I doing wrong?
So from what I understand when I modify my database table and I want the changes to show requery is the way to do it? I'm still a little confused about notifyDataSetChanged() when that would be useful... @Android Dev, I don't see any function setNotifyOnChange(..)? Thanks for the help guys! -Moto On Jul 2, 4:47 am, Android Development indodr...@gmail.com wrote: I think for getting this callback, you need to call setNotifyOnChange(true). On 7/2/10, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: But not sure if design wise is good? Why doesn't notifyDataSetChanged() work? what's the difference on what I just did? requery() reloads the Cursor's data. notifyDataSetChanged() tells an Adapter's listeners that its data has changed. requery() on a Cursor will cause an attached CursorAdapter to call notifyDataSetChanged(), after having loaded in the new data. Calling notifyDataSetChanged() yourself, without actually having changed the data set, will not work. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training...At Your Office:http://commonsware.com/training -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: CursorAdapter notifyDataSetChanged doesn't work? What am I doing wrong?
Ahh just after I posted I think it clicked! So notifyDataSetChanged() seems to be more useful for ListViews adapters that aren't database driven... Such as array of data. The requery is exactly what it says it requeries the data it updates it... Thanks guys! :) On Jul 3, 10:23 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: So from what I understand when I modify my database table and I want the changes to show requery is the way to do it? I'm still a little confused about notifyDataSetChanged() when that would be useful... @Android Dev, I don't see any function setNotifyOnChange(..)? Thanks for the help guys! -Moto On Jul 2, 4:47 am, Android Development indodr...@gmail.com wrote: I think for getting this callback, you need to call setNotifyOnChange(true). On 7/2/10, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: But not sure if design wise is good? Why doesn't notifyDataSetChanged() work? what's the difference on what I just did? requery() reloads the Cursor's data. notifyDataSetChanged() tells an Adapter's listeners that its data has changed. requery() on a Cursor will cause an attached CursorAdapter to call notifyDataSetChanged(), after having loaded in the new data. Calling notifyDataSetChanged() yourself, without actually having changed the data set, will not work. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training...At Your Office:http://commonsware.com/training -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: How to remove a HeaderView from a ListView?
Thx! sounds good! I'll than just go try to implement another method of adding a header view :) I'll take a look at your sample! -Moto On Jul 2, 2:54 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: How can I remove the Header from a ListView? If you are using addHeaderView(), you can't. I don't even think calling setAdapter() again will necessarily get rid of it. So, don't use addHeaderView(). Rather, create your own adapter that blends your main roster of Views with your header. While my MergeAdapter will not handle your specific case, you can use it to see the concept of blending multiple row sources: http://github.com/commonsguy/cwac-merge -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training...At Your Office:http://commonsware.com/training -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] CursorAdapter notifyDataSetChanged doesn't work? What am I doing wrong?
Hi I'm trying to clean up some code and now I'm determined to get this seemless ListView updating working... I want my ListView to be updated when I call notifyDataSetChanged() but nothing happens... I'm also passing the autoRequery flag to true when creating my CursorAdapter. Cursor c = FavoritesHandler.getCategoryFavorites(getSQLiteInstance(), category); m_favoriteAdapter.changeCursor(c); startManagingCursor(c); Any help is greatly appreciated! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: CursorAdapter notifyDataSetChanged doesn't work? What am I doing wrong?
Let me add that for the first time now I can update the ListView by doing the following call: m_favoriteAdapter.getCursor().requery(); But not sure if design wise is good? Why doesn't notifyDataSetChanged() work? what's the difference on what I just did? Thanks! On Jul 1, 10:40 pm, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm trying to clean up some code and now I'm determined to get this seemless ListView updating working... I want my ListView to be updated when I call notifyDataSetChanged() but nothing happens... I'm also passing the autoRequery flag to true when creating my CursorAdapter. Cursor c = FavoritesHandler.getCategoryFavorites(getSQLiteInstance(), category); m_favoriteAdapter.changeCursor(c); startManagingCursor(c); Any help is greatly appreciated! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] How to remove a HeaderView from a ListView?
How can I remove the Header from a ListView? I tried setting the view's visibility to GONE but that just leaves me a blank area... Is there a way to be able to disable the header and than enable it again? Thanks! -Moto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
