[android-developers] Real-Time Task under Android

[Tim A.]

Hey guys,

it is possible to create under Android a real time task?
I need a high performance timer which runs every 20 ms (without pause).
Background of my use case: I need a job for my audio play back handler 
which puts received audio data to the audio buffer.

I used the 'ScheduledExecutorService' for this stuff. 
It works, but only for the use, if my App is in foreground, if my App is in 
background, it doesn't work (time increased from OS from 20 to 60 ms). 

Here is my code: 

@Override
 public void run()
 {
Process.setThreadPriority(Process.THREAD_PRIORITY_URGENT_AUDIO);
ScheduledExecutorService playHandler = Executors.
newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor();
playHandler.scheduleAtFixedRate(myRunnable, 0, 20, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS
);
 }

 Output (App in Foreground):
09-22 11:04:14.815: I/System.out(1176): xxx time: 20
09-22 11:04:14.835: I/System.out(1176): xxx time: 20
09-22 11:04:14.855: I/System.out(1176): xxx time: 20
09-22 11:04:14.875: I/System.out(1176): xxx time: 20
09-22 11:04:14.895: I/System.out(1176): xxx time: 20
09-22 11:04:14.916: I/System.out(1176): xxx time: 20


Output (App in Background)
09-22 11:04:21.677: I/System.out(1176): xxx time: 0
09-22 11:04:21.677: I/System.out(1176): xxx time: 0
09-22 11:04:21.735: I/System.out(1176): xxx time: 58
09-22 11:04:21.735: I/System.out(1176): xxx time: 0
09-22 11:04:21.735: I/System.out(1176): xxx time: 0
09-22 11:04:21.795: I/System.out(1176): xxx time: 60
09-22 11:04:21.795: I/System.out(1176): xxx time: 0
09-22 11:04:21.795: I/System.out(1176): xxx time: 0
09-22 11:04:21.853: I/System.out(1176): xxx time: 58

I've tested it also with a Timer and a manual builded endless loop and 
Thread.sleep(), 
but all of these tests doesn't work well for me. 

Some ideas? Or is that not possible under Android?

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[android-developers] Use Webview for code reuse or rewrite to leverage Mapview

[Tim McClure]

We have a sophisticated browser-based google map application.  We want to 
make the same functionality available in an Android app.  We are using 
Nativescript to develop our app.  I was wondering it I should use webview 
to reuse the logic we already working in the browser application or rewrite 
it to use the native android map view component?

Tim 

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[android-developers] BLE scan changes in play-services-location v10.0.1

[Tim Castelijns]

In the release notes for play-services-location 
 v10.0.1 it says

Improvements to Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) scans.


What are these improvements?


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[android-developers] Custom VideoView Class

[Tim Ouellette]

The VideoView class is an implementation of MediaPlayer and a 
SubtitleController that simplifies video play back.  I have a requirement 
to implement Closed Captioning (dynamically) from the Subtitle stream. 
 However when I look at the source for the ViewView object they import 
classes such as "import android.media.SubtitleController;".  when I attempt 
import  that class and other the class cannot be resolved.  I opened up the 
Android.jar that is part of the 22 Framework and the classes referenced are 
not present under android.media.  Where should I find these classes?  Am I 
going about this in the wrong manor?

Additionally I would like to reduce the buffering in the MediaPlayer to a 
minimal amount, all users of my application are directly attached to the 
LAN, hardwired at 1Gbps.  With a known amount of jitter in the packet 
stream I am confident that I can reduce the amount of buffering with 
minimal to no distortion.  Where can I adjust this threshold?

Thank you,

Tim

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[android-developers] Will hire SF Bay Area consult on Android Studio testing, esp. AVD

[Tim McFadden]

Hi folks,

I'm disabled now and can't work 8 hour days. I can write apps, but AVD is 
so broken I can't test and I don't have the time to take it apart and fix 
it.
My questions on this site are ignored.
=> So, I would be happy pay an EXPERIENCED Android Studio developer for a 
knowledge transfer for $$.

1) At an hourly rate, ideally at my home in Daly City, minimum 1 hour, the 
expert will show me how to test using Android Studio AVD or some other 
supported way of testing.
Something is wrong with the expert if it takes more than an hour for me to 
learn how to use AVD, I have years of software experience and a double 
degree in math and physics.
If there are more interesting things to learn, I will pay the hourly rate 
for more time.

2) I'm NOT paying someone to figure this out. I'm paying only an 
experienced user to immediately show me what to do. 
The experienced user will have nothing to figure out. 

I'm ready to fork over $$.

Thanks,
Tim McFadden

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[android-developers] Please help old, disabled programmer - AVD only shows older apps and not the app I'm trying to debug - its' a BUG

[Tim McFadden]

When I start running my app with AVD, I use the AVD screen to select apps, 
then the available apps are displayed, but not the app I'm running.
Obvious bug - I can't test.
Please help an old disabled programmer, I don't have the 8 hours a day 
anymore to take this thing apart and fix it.

Tx,
Tim McFadden

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[android-developers] References for when you want to code outside

[Tim Span]

Hi all,

I know I can't be the only one who sees a nice sunny day and thinks, "I 
would love to code outside today". That being said, my local parks don't 
have WiFi connection and I'm sure most local parks don't. So what are some 
resources you take with you if you decide to code without internet? For 
example, if I got stuck on an exception in my code in Android Studio I 
would usually browse the internet until I find a solution. I recently 
picked up this book  which is more of a .pdf 
file. So I assume that this tool will help me out some but I am sure a lot 
of the more professional developers have some neat tools they use.

Please feel free to reply with any information that could pertain to this!

Thanks,
Timmy

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[android-developers] References for when you want to code outside

[Tim Span]

Thanks gjs, I didn't even think about that! 

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[android-developers] Re: Getting started with Android SDK--where is the "android" program referenced in the README located?

[Tim McFadden]

Hi,

This is probably not an "android" problem. In Linux, you need to have a 
path to the executable or run the program from the directory of the 
executable.
./android will work if you're in the directory with the executable. 
Please type 

env

to display your environment variables, including "PATH"
The android executable must be in the list of links in the PATH list. 
Sorry, you'll have to learn some Linux to go any further.
Tx,
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[android-developers] Androd Studio - Why doesn't the app I'm testing appear in the list of apps on the AVD screen?

[Tim McFadden]

When I run an app with AVD, I open AVD, then go into the apps screen. I 
can't test, because the app I'm running doesn't appear on the screen with 
the other apps.
Older apps appear on the screen, hence I can't test. Obvious bug. How can I 
use the AVD?

Tx,
tim

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[android-developers] Android for Pi device tree configuration

[Tim Hurst]

I have an Adafruit Kippah that I have hooked up a to a 7" touchscreen 
display and my Raspberry Pi 2. When I first used the Kippah I had to make 
some device tree changes on the Raspbian OS in order for the display to 
function. Now that I have put the Android Lollipop build on my Pi I am 
trying to make the necessary device tree updates in order to get the 
display functioning again. Unfortunately, i have not been able to get this 
right. Attached is the changes that were made in the Raspbian device tree 
and the Android device tree .dtd  file. Any help would be much appreciated. 
Thanks!

-Tim

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[android-developers] Charts with Native and HTML5 Android Apps

[Tim]

 

The latest release of the MobiForms Developer mobile app development tool 
version 8.0 now supports the creation of Native or HTML5 offline apps with 
chart report objects including Bar Charts, Line Charts, Pie Charts and 
Dials.  This release is underpinned by the JFreeChart/AFreeChart Java and 
RGraph Javascript libraries. 

With MobiForms you can create a range of business apps for just about any 
mobile device including Android, iPhone, iPad, iPod, Windows Mobile and 
Tablet.

The new graphical report objects are driven by lists of data or by dynamic 
SQL queries linked to a local offline mobile database or a remote back 
office database in real-time or near real-time via the MobiForms Sync 
Server. Supported back office databases include Oracle, SQL Server, Access, 
Sybase, IBM DB2, SQLite, HSQLDB, Firebird and MySQL.

The reporting features include:

   - Build professional dashboards and reports with a mixture of objects on 
   one screen including bar charts, line charts, pie charts and dials. 
   - Comma separated strings or dynamic SQL queries for labels and data. 
   - Variable X axis text angle. 
   - Variable X axis position - bottom, centre or top depending on whether 
   values are all positive, mixed or negative. 
   - Optional shading of a dial area with green for safe using a starting 
   percentage. 
   - Optional shading of a dial area with red for danger using a starting 
   percentage. 
   - Connect to a range of industry standard databases in real-time or 
   almost real-time. 
   - Connect to a range of ERP and financial systems such as Oracle Apps, 
   SAP, Navision, Dynamics etc. 
   - Supported on a large range of mobile devices running in Native or 
   HTML5 mode.

Unlike most competing products, MobiForms offers a total solution for a 
once off licence fee without any of the traditional constraints.

For more information about the MobiForms Developer please go to: 
*http://www.mobiforms.com* http://www.mobiforms.com/.

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[android-developers] [Q][Dev]****Facebook Home****How to implement a screen locker just like fb home

[Tim Cho]

Halo

How does the Facebook Home work? 

I wanna achieve a screen locker app with some futures(showing picture etc.)

That locker must appare before the system [pattern or password]locker.

How can i do that? Any tips~

Thanks 

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[android-developers] Re: Alternative SQLite

[Tim]

Dear Sagar,

Could I suggest you have a look at the MobiForms Developer. MobiForms is a 
rapid application development tool for Android apps and includes an 
embedded HSQLDB database engine.  HSQLDB is very similar to SQLite and will 
run on a range of desktop and mobile platforms. With MobiForms most 
programming is driven by lists and drag and drop.  MobiForms is ideal for 
creating database oriented business applications.  MobiForms will run with 
a range of databases including Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL. MobiForms also 
supports the creation of apps for Android smartphones and tablets, Windows 
Mobile and Apple iOS iPhone, iPad and iPod.

For more information please go to http://www.mobiforms.com

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms

On Tuesday, 19 February 2013 14:14:02 UTC, Sagar Rout wrote:

 Hello friends,

 is there any solution for the alternative of SQlite database so that we 
 can drag and drop and the coding just like .NET 
 so that easy to learn. is it ?
 please



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[android-developers] Re: Play store - reviews disappear

[Tim]

yes, but just 1 on 2 apps

Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 12:59:21 UTC+1 schrieb Giuseppe:

 We are experiencing some review deletion from our play store.
 Anybody here is having the same problem?




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[android-developers] Re: java.lang.NullPointerException encountered while running Android Pre Compiler.

[Tim Bocek]

Sorry to resurrect this topic, but I am hitting this and none of the above 
solutions appear to work:
-Already running Eclipse 3.7 (installed as part of the android sdk package, 
so I assume everything is compatable)
-No resource filters in place
-I don't have anything in my project regarding proguard so I don't see how 
that can be the issue.

I have one project checked out from google code svn, which depends on the 
ActionBarSherlock library.  I have already tried creating a new workspace 
and checking everything back out, but that doesn't fix anything.

Help!

Log file follows:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.resources 4 2 2012-12-29 12:05:04.726
!MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: 
org.eclipse.core.resources.
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
at 
com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.build.builders.PreCompilerBuilder.build(PreCompilerBuilder.java:673)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$2.run(BuildManager.java:728)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:199)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:239)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$1.run(BuildManager.java:292)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:295)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuildLoop(BuildManager.java:351)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.build(BuildManager.java:374)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.AutoBuildJob.doBuild(AutoBuildJob.java:143)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.AutoBuildJob.run(AutoBuildJob.java:241)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:53)

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.resources 4 2 2012-12-29 12:05:28.993
!MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: 
org.eclipse.core.resources.
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
at 
com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.build.builders.PreCompilerBuilder.build(PreCompilerBuilder.java:673)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$2.run(BuildManager.java:728)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:199)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:239)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$1.run(BuildManager.java:292)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:295)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuildLoop(BuildManager.java:351)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.build(BuildManager.java:374)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.buildInternal(Workspace.java:513)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.build(Workspace.java:422)
at 
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.util.CoreUtility$BuildJob.run(CoreUtility.java:162)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:53)

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.resources 4 75 2012-12-29 12:05:31.782
!MESSAGE Errors occurred during the build.
!SUBENTRY 1 com.android.ide.eclipse.adt 4 75 2012-12-29 12:05:31.782
!MESSAGE Errors running builder 'Android Pre Compiler' on project 
'DungeonSketch'.
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
at 
com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.build.builders.PreCompilerBuilder.build(PreCompilerBuilder.java:673)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$2.run(BuildManager.java:728)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:199)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:239)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$1.run(BuildManager.java:292)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:295)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuildLoop(BuildManager.java:351)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.build(BuildManager.java:374)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.buildInternal(Workspace.java:513)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.build(Workspace.java:422)
at 
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.util.CoreUtility$BuildJob.run(CoreUtility.java:162)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:53)





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[android-developers] Re: Java knowledge

[Tim]

Sadhna,

There are many alternatives to developing Android apps that do not require 
any Java knowledge for example the MobiForms Developer.  MobiForms replaces 
the need to download and configure GB of Eclipse and the Android SDK.  No 
knowledge of Java is required with most programming done using drop down 
lists and drag and drop.   MobiForms is ideal for creating database 
oriented business apps.  Local or remote database connectivity is offered 
including remote support for Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

MobiForms also supports the creation of apps for Windows Mobile and Apple 
iPhone, iPad and iPod.  For more information go to http://www.mobiforms.com

Kind regards

Tim @ MobiForms

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[android-developers] Re: android SQLite

[Tim]

Dear Nageswararao,

Could I suggest you have a look at the MobiForms Advanced Edition mobile 
development suite for Android?  The MAE includes the MobiForms Developer 
and the MobiForms Sync Server.  The MobiForms Developer is especially 
designed for creating database oriented mobile business apps.  MobiForms 
totally replaces Eclipse, the Android SDK and the need to learn Java. 
 MobiForms dramatically accelerates the development process with most 
programming done with drag and drop or selectable lists of tables and 
columns.  Behind the scenes MobiForms automatically takes care of resultset 
and database cursor management.  MobiForms supports direct JDBC connection 
to a range of remote databases including Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

The addition of the MobiForms Sync Server enables any MobiForms app to run 
offline as well and supports bi-directional online synchronisation when 
connectivity is available. The MSS provides the means to define the 
synchonisation and offline buffering rules to Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, 
Sybase, DB2, Access, SQLite, HSQLDB and Firebird. 
 
The MobiForms tools will run on Windows, Linux and Apple Mac, and supports 
the creation of mobile apps for Android smartphone and tablet, Apple 
iPhone, iPad and iPod, and Windows Mobile.  For more information go to: 
http://www.mobiforms.com

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms

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Re: [android-developers] Re: How to Sync Database Data to a Desktop Application without internet connection..

[Tim]

Aadi,

I suggest you have a look at the MobiForms Advanced Edition mobile 
development tools for Android.  The MobiForms Advanced Edition includes the 
MobiForms Developer and the MobiForms Sync Server.  The MobiForms Developer 
is designed to replace Eclipse, the Android SDK and the need to learn and 
program in Java.  Most programming is done by drag and drop.  MobiForms was 
especially designed for the creation of mobile database oriented apps.  On 
the device you install the MobiForms mobile client which includes an 
embedded HSQLDB database.  HSQLDB is very similar to SQLite and supports 
full SQL plus MobiForms will automatically create a seed mobile database.

The MobiForms Sync Server is designed to sit on your PC or database server 
and acts as the middle man managing bi-directional synchronisation from any 
number of Android devices to most back office databases including Oracle, 
SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, Sybase, SQLite, HSQLDB and Firebird.  The MSS does 
not use cumbersome layers of web services but direct JDBC connectivity.

For more information go to: http://www.mobiforms.com

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms

On Saturday, 13 October 2012 08:09:25 UTC+1, Aadi Rockzz wrote:

 Is There any Other Option is there to Sync Data from Android App to 
 Desktop Database other-than Using Web-Service?? 



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[android-developers] Re: Google has received a subpoena seeking information related to Android applications

[Tim in Boulder]

On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 2:54:30 PM UTC-6, Ian wrote:

 Did those who received this email ever made DMCA copyright infringement 
 notices to websites hosting/linking their apps illegaly?
 I did, several times. And now we've got this email; it may be related.


I've sent DMCA notices, and I got the email, but I'm not sure how the two 
could be related. I didn't sent the DMCA notices to Google, after all, but 
to quasi-legal hosting sites (that often follow the letter of the law by 
taking down the content in question at the link you report, but not 
actually deleting all copies of it). Well...unless the FBI seized the 
servers of one or more of those sites, and found records of those DMCA 
notices? Or they could have otherwise subpoenaed the email records.

Tim

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Re: [android-developers] AbsListView and AbsSpinner design intention versus documentation

[Tim]

On Tuesday, 20 July 2010 07:01:22 UTC+1, Romain Guy wrote:

 AbsListView and AbsSpinner are designed to be extended within the
 framework. They could also be extended in 3rd party apps but we did
 not expose all the necessary protected fields and methods on purpose.
 We want to be very careful in how we expose such APIs so as to not get
 stuff for future extensions and internal changes. Our current
 recommendation is you simply copy/paste the code you need inside your
 app.


 Can we get a two-years-later update? Any plans to expose these APIs yet? 
According to this stackoverflow question, simply copy/pasting the code is 
actually a rabbit hole of dependencies, which I'd rather not explore:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9637759/is-it-possible-to-extend-abslistview-to-make-new-listview-implementations

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[android-developers] Issues with AVD on Macbook Pro Retina

[Tim]

When I start AVD with SDK8 on my new Macbook Pro, i realize the emulator runs 
at the upper-left corner of the window. I haven't seen that before and I 
suspect there will be some coordinate issues. Then as the emulator loaded up, I 
can't click on icons or buttons. It responded to a click on the google search 
field, but it might be a click on the entire emulator area that triggered it, 
not a click on a button or the field itself. 
What I'm trying to say is that it seems like I need to learn how to configure 
avd for higher resolution screens so it doesn't malfunction like this(i tried 
specifying the resolution with 800 x 600 etc, but it didn't work), does anyone 
have any tips on this?

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[android-developers] Re: AERC library: questions

[Tim Bray]

It’s 8 months later, but I just ran across this.  I bet the problem was 
that you haven’t given your app the INTERNET permission.

On Sunday, January 8, 2012 1:47:53 PM UTC-8, John Goche wrote:


 Hello,

 I am trying to follow the code from

 http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/09/29/AERC

 I have obtained the library with:

 $ git clone http://code.google.com/p/aerc/

 but I cannot make out what the difference is between the following two 
 variables:

 App.ROOT_URI
 App.ROOT_URI and App.SECRET_URI

 These are java.net.URL instances but I cannot figure out why they would 
 have to differ in value.

 After adding the following   uses-permission 
 android:name=android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS /
   uses-permission android:name=android.permission.USE_CREDENTIALS / 
 and fixing the code
 that uses the library I get the following error message:

 Checkin failed: Authentication failed:
 Authentication failed: No network connection

 but my wi-fi is on and working. I did see the screen prompting me to use 
 my account credentials the first
 time but not thereafter.

 Any ideas why it is failing?


 package com.foo.appenginetest;

 import java.net.URL;

 import android.accounts.Account;
 import android.accounts.AccountManager;
 import android.app.Activity;
 import android.app.IntentService;
 import android.content.Intent;
 import android.os.AsyncTask;
 import android.os.Bundle;
 import android.widget.TextView;

 class App {
   
   static URL ROOT_URI = null;
   static URL SECRET_URI = null;
   
 }

 public class AppEngineTestActivity extends Activity {

   private Activity activity;
   private Activity mActivity;

   public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
 super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
 
 try {
 App.SECRET_URI = App.ROOT_URI = new URL(http://hellodata.appspot.com
 );
 } catch (Exception e) {}
 setContentView(R.layout.main);
 mActivity = activity = this;
 (new Worker()).execute();
   }
   
   private class Worker extends AsyncTaskVoid, Void, Response {
 
 AppEngineClient client;

 protected Response doInBackground(Void... params) {
   AccountManager manager = AccountManager.get(activity);
   Account[] accounts = manager.getAccountsByType(com.google);
   client = new AppEngineClient(App.ROOT_URI, accounts[0], activity);
   return client.get(App.SECRET_URI, null);
 }

 protected void onPostExecute(Response response) {
   TextView text = (TextView) activity.findViewById(R.id.text);
   if (response == null)
 text.setText(Checkin failed:  + client.errorMessage());
   else if ((response.status / 100) != 2)
 text.setText(Checkin failed:  + new String(response.body));
   else
 text.setText(The secret is:  + new String(response.body));
 }
 
   }

   class PrepareUpload extends AsyncTaskVoid, Void, String { 
 
 URL APP_URI = App.ROOT_URI;
 String mErrorMessage = null;
 // ... 
 @Override 
 protected String doInBackground(Void... params) { 
   
   AccountManager manager = AccountManager.get(activity);
   Account[] accounts = manager.getAccountsByType(com.google);
   Account account = accounts[0];
  
   // ... 
   Authenticator authent = 
 Authenticator.appEngineAuthenticator(mActivity, account, APP_URI); 
   String authToken = authent.token(); 
   if (authToken == null) 
 mErrorMessage = authent.errorMessage(); 
   return authToken;
   
 }
 
 @Override
 protected void onPostExecute(String authToken) {
   // ...
   if (authToken != null) {
 Intent intent = new Intent(mActivity, UploadService.class);
 intent.putExtra(authtoken, authToken); startService(intent); 
   }
 }
   }
   
   public class UploadService extends IntentService {
 
 public UploadService() {
   
   super(null);
   
 }
 
 URL APP_URI = App.ROOT_URI;
 
 // ... 
 @Override 
 protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) { 
   String authToken = intent.getStringExtra(authtoken);
   AppEngineClient client = new AppEngineClient(APP_URI, authToken, 
 this);
   // ...
 }
 private void transmit(String body, AppEngineClient client, URL target) 
 {
   //Response response = client.post(target, null, body.toByteArray());
   Response response = client.post(target, null, body.getBytes());
   if (response == null) error(client.errorMessage());
   if ((response.status / 100) != 2) 
 error(getString(R.string.upload_failed) + response.status);
 }
 
 private void error(String foo) { System.out.println(foo); }
   }
   
 }

 App.ROOT_URI


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Re: [android-developers] The purpose of resource name mipmap?!

[Tim]

On 15/02/2011 10:33, Gary Wang wrote:
 Dear all,

 I found the following resource folders are existing in Honeycomb-
 version Borwser apk.

 mipmap-hdpi
 mipmap-mdpi

 The meaning of mipmap resource is not listed in its SDK's
 documentation.

I also discovered this being used in the stock MMS (SMS) app. It appears to 
be an old way of providing prescaled images for different resolutions, 
before they added support for drawable-hdpi, drawable-mdpi and so on. There 
is some information about it here: 
http://source-android.frandroid.com/frameworks/base/graphics/java/android/graphics/drawable/MipmapDrawable.java


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[android-developers] Add Camera Bar Code Reader Support to Android and Apple iOS Apps

[Tim]

The latest version of the innovative mobile development tool MobiForms 6.04 
now offers support for Android and Apple iOS camera bar code reader 
integration with one simple scan command. MobiForms is now integrated with 
a range of multi-format 1D and 2D bar code image processing libraries. 
MobiForms now supports most bar code formats including UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, 
EAN-13, Code 39, Code 93, Code 128, ITF, RSS-14 and QR Codes. This feature 
is ideal for adding bar code scanning to logistics, field service and 
consumer mobile apps.


MobiForms also includes standard Android camera photo and GPS integration. 
MobiForms now makes it possible for novice or experienced programmers alike 
to quickly create any kind of mobile business app for Android smartphones 
and tablets. Additionally, the same app can be run on other platforms such 
as Windows Mobile and Apple iOS for iPhone, iPad and iPod.

The MobiForms Developer can be used standalone or with the MobiForms Sync 
Server as part of the MobiForms Advanced Edition. The MobiForms Sync Server 
enables bi-directional data replication, synchronisation and offline 
buffering between just about any master back office database server or ERP 
package (such as Oracle Apps, SAP, Navision, Dynamics etc.), and any 
MobiForms mobile client running on Google Android or a host of other mobile 
platforms such as Windows Mobile and Apple iOS. Supported back office 
database servers include Oracle, SQL Server, Access, Sybase, IBM DB2, 
SQLite, HSQLDB, MySQL and Firebird.

MobiForms offers all the tools in one box for the creation and deployment 
of any type of mobile application - from surveys to field service, from 
signature capture to bar coding.

Unlike most competing products, MobiForms offers a total solution for a 
once off licence fee. The licence includes an unlimited number of MobiForms 
clients running on Tablet PC, Pocket PC, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, 
Windows Smartphone, Google Android and Apple iOS iPhone, iPad and iPod. For 
Apple iOS devices there is a token device registration fee.

The MobiForms Developer or the MobiForms Advanced Edition can be downloaded 
from the MobiForms web site at: 
http://www.mobiforms.comhttp://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emobiforms%2Ecomurlhash=KGYD_t=tracking_anet

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[android-developers] Game development car acceleration sound

[Tim]

Hey all,
It is no problem for me to play constant engine sounds but have someone 
of you an idea how I can manage accelerations sounds (i.e. car)? 
I have no idea how I can create those.


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[android-developers] Changing Views

[Tim]

I'm using different views within the same activity as my menu for an app 
I'm working on. I was wondering if there was a way to move freely between 
the views as needed, especially when overriding the back button. I've tried 
ViewSwitcher and ViewFlipper and neither of them work (or I just don't 
understand how to get them to work like I want).

Is there a way to do this, or will I be forced to transition to multiple 
activities? A *goto* call would work, but it doesn't look like it's 
implemented. Thank you.

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[android-developers] MobiForms Mobile Developer Tool Now Supports Android Camera Bar Code Reader Integration

[Tim]

The latest version of the innovative mobile development tool MobiForms
6.03 now offers support for Android camera bar code reader integration
with one simple scan command. MobiForms is now integrated with the
ZXing open-source, multi-format 1D and 2D bar code image processing
library. The bar code image library supports most bar code formats
including UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, EAN-13, Code 39, Code 93, Code 128,
ITF, RSS-14 and QR Codes. This feature is ideal for adding bar code
scanning to logistics, field service and consumer mobile apps.

MobiForms also includes standard Android camera photo and GPS
integration. MobiForms now makes it possible for novice or experienced
programmers alike to quickly create any kind of mobile business app
for Android smartphones and tablets. Additionally, the same app can be
run on other platforms such as Windows Mobile and Apple iOS for
iPhone, iPad and iPod.

The MobiForms Developer can be used standalone or with the MobiForms
Sync Server as part of the MobiForms Advanced Edition. The MobiForms
Sync Server enables bi-directional data replication, synchronisation
and offline buffering between just about any master back office
database server or ERP package (such as Oracle Apps, SAP, Navision,
Dynamics etc.), and any MobiForms mobile client running on Google
Android or a host of other mobile platforms such as Windows Mobile and
Apple iOS. Supported back office database servers include Oracle, SQL
Server, Access, Sybase, IBM DB2, SQLite, HSQLDB, MySQL and Firebird.

MobiForms offers all the tools in one box for the creation and
deployment of any type of mobile application - from surveys to field
service, from signature capture to bar coding.

Unlike most competing products, MobiForms offers a total solution for
a once off licence fee. The licence includes an unlimited number of
MobiForms clients running on Tablet PC, Pocket PC, Windows CE, Windows
Mobile, Windows Smartphone, Google Android and Apple iOS iPhone, iPad
and iPod. For Apple iOS devices there is a token device registration
fee.

The MobiForms Developer or the MobiForms Advanced Edition can be
downloaded from the MobiForms web site at: http://www.mobiforms.com

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[android-developers] Will we ever be allowed to make custom widget pickers?

[Tim]

...or at least have something slightly nicer than the simple list in
gingerbread.

Currently there is no way to avoid using the built in widget selection
UI (the list of widgets you get in gingerbread when you add a widget).
This kind of sucks because it means you can't have anything like the
ICS launcher's widget page.

Are there any plans to ever fix this? I'd bet on no since it isn't a
problem for Google (since their launcher is included with the system
and can do what it likes). Here are some ways you could fix this
without compromising security:

1. Add an optional Are you sure you wish to add widgetname?
activity, so you can at least have a custom-picker-with-confirmation.
2. Have something like flashblock, so you have to click the widgets
before they are shown. (I don't know if there is a way to send
synthetic clicks though?)
3. Just allow the damn permission and call it Access any of your data
from any of your apps. or something scary sounding. After all, isn't
the point of the permission system that you *can* do dangerous things?
The original justification for denying custom widget pickers is:

 Widgets can expose a lot of private data of all types, so it is not safe
 to allow an application to arbitrarily bind to them without the user 
 implicitly approving

Well in that case, why are apps allowed the read SD card permission?
That can expose a lot of private data of all types...

Sorry for the slightly-ranting-ness. I'm just annoyed that this makes
it impossible for my to have the stock ICS launcher on ICS. Mostly I'm
annoyed at Samsung. They suck.

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[android-developers] Re: Any API to send FAX from Android Application?

[Tim Rubel]

Did you find any documentation?  I too would like to know how to make this 
possible.


On Wednesday, November 18, 2009 3:58:27 AM UTC-6, Moon Technolabs wrote:

 Anybody knows any way to send FAX from Android Application ??


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[android-developers] Re: MS SQL connection

[Tim]

Dear Anand,

There is no need to write layers of convoluted middleware using PHP,
SOAP or REST.  Android supports full JDBC connectivity to remote
databases.  There are many free JDBC drivers such as JTDS that can be
embedded in your Android app to enable direct access to a remote SQL
Server database.  You then use the SQL Server's native listener
service rather than creating an extra one yourself and communicate in
simple SQL from your app back to SQL Server.

This is exactly what we do with our MobiForms Developer tool for
creating mobile database apps.  The MobiForms Developer is a rapid
application development tool which dramatically speeds up the
development of mobile database apps automating database cursor and
resultset management.  For offline apps we also offer the MobiForms
Sync Server where you can create an app with an embedded mobile
database synchronising when comms permit to just about any remote
database including SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle etc.

For more information go to: http://www.mobiforms.com

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms

On Jan 30, 1:21 pm, anand jh jhanan...@gmail.com wrote:
 I need to develop a android application in that I want to access MS
 SQL from my android application.Can some help as by giveing some
 code.Advance thanks

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[android-developers] Bluetooth and Kindle Fire...

[Tim]

I have a little Bluetooth app (based on BluetoothChat sample code)
that works fine on a couple of devices, but I thought I'd test on
Kindle Fire (which does not have Bluetooth) to make sure I got
Bluetooth is not available error. But no - the call to
BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter(), which should return null returns
with an adapter (and call to mBluetoothAdapter.getState() returns
STATE_OFF

Since my code does not see any error, it then proceeds to try to turn
on Bluetooth on the Fire using startActivityForResult(enableIntent,
REQUEST_ENABLE_BT); but this just hangs the app.

Perhaps the Fire thinks it has Bluetooth hardware but then can't
actually enable it? Anyone know how I can better detect this situation
to keep my app from hanging?

As an aside, running this code on an emulator does detect and show
Bluetooth is not available error.

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[android-developers] Re:Hello

[Tim Panton]

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[android-developers] [In-app Billing] Need clarification on Android Market application version requirements in supporting In-app Billing

[Tim Guo]

I am confused by one statement in Google’s official document:

*“If your device is running Android 3.0, in-app billing requires version 
5.0.12 (or higher) of the MyApps application. 
If your device is running any other version of Android, in-app billing 
requires version 2.3.4 (or higher) of the Android Market application.“*

We are wondering if it means:

   1. Devices running Android 3.0 (Exclude 3.1 and 3.2, only 3.0 whose SDK 
   version is 11) requires MyApps application version = 5.0.12
   2. Devices running other versions of Android (Include 1.x, 2.x, 3.1, 3.2 
   and 4.x) requires Android Market application version = 2.3.4

Or:

   1. Devices running Android 3.0 (Include 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2, whose SDK 
   versions are 11, 12 and 13) requires MyApps application version = 5.0.12
   2. Devices running other versions of Android (Include 1.x, 2.x and 4.x) 
   requires Android Market application version = 2.3.4


Could someone please help clarify my confusion?

Thanks,
Tim

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[android-developers] [Urgent] [In-app Billing] Need clarification on Anroid Market application version requirements in supporting In-app Billing

[Tim Guo]

I am confused with the statement in In-app Billing Overview:

*If your device is running Android 3.0, in-app billing requires version 
5.0.12 (or higher) of the MyApps application. If your device is running any 
other version of Android, in-app billing requires version 2.3.4 (or higher) 
of the Android Market application.

*I am wondering if it means:

   1. Devices running Android 3.0 (Not include 3.1, 3.2, only 3.0 with SDK 
   version 11) need *5.0.12 (or higher) of the MyApp **application;*
   2. Devices running other version of Android (1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x except 
   3.0) need *2.3.4 (or higher) of the **Android Market application.*

*
*Thanks!*
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[android-developers] PPTP Bug

[Tim Brewer]

I work as IT manager at an office where the management is trying to go
green. This includes mobile devices, of which they want to standardize
on a Droid tablet. However, their tablets are unable to connect via
VPN.

The VPN is a PPTP tunnel. It forces encryption to be used. Only when
encryption was turned off does the VPN initiate. But I refuse to leave
my VPN on a clear password authentication.

Can you PLEASE fix the MPPE implementation so management gets off my
back?  Thanks.

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[android-developers] Item could not be found in app billing issue

[Tim Lang]

Hello,

I'm trying to test in-app billing of some virtual goods on my
application.  The test items work fine, but when I try to test with
the actual in-game items, the Marketplace tells me:

Error:  The item you were attempting to purchase could not be found.

logcat gives me:


CheckoutPurchase.setError: type=NETWORK_OR_SERVER, code=-1,
message=The item you were attempting to purchase could not be found.


All the items are added into the project on the marketplace.
The application is signed
I've created a test user account (only by adding the email address in
the profile settings)

What else am I doing wrong?

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 On Sunday, September 11, 2011 1:44:54 AM UTC-4, mwllace wrote:

 Im using  and intent to invoke the default dialer and automatically
 call  phone number stored in my application. Everything works fine,
 but the number is visible in the default dialer UI. I need to display
 something else in place of the number like My Special Number.

 That should not be permitted - if an application without permission to dial
 the phone uses an intent to do so, the user needs to know what number they
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[android-developers] Re: relative layout - landscape - editText stretches

[Tim Casson-Smith]

Please ignore this as I have since posted the same question onto
Stackoverflow

thanks

TCS

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:37 PM, TCS tim.casson.sm...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi

  I have been working on my first app in Android and have study
 various beginners books on the subject. At the moment the first app is
 purely for my use to make sure that I understand the language before I
 step into the realms of uploading to the market.

  My current issue that I have is that my landscape main.xml behaves
 differently when run through the emulator to when I run it on my phone
 (samsung Galaxy S2). Now I know that the screen on my phone is larger
 that the emulator but I would have thought that the settings in my
 main.xml would stop the edittext from stretching too much.

 Here is my main.xml from my layout-land folder and it is my
 Player2_name edit text object that stretches :

 ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
 RelativeLayout xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/
 android
android:orientation=vertical
android:layout_width=fill_parent
android:layout_height=fill_parent
android:background=#006400


 EditText
android:id=@+id/Player1_name
android:layout_width=150dp

android:layout_height=wrap_content
android:layout_alignParentLeft=true
android:layout_alignParentTop=true
android:text=Player 1
 /

 EditText
android:id=@+id/Player2_name

android:layout_alignParentRight=true
android:layout_alignParentTop=true

android:layout_height=wrap_content
android:layout_width=200dp
android:text=Player 2

 /
 RadioButton
 android:id=@+id/Players1_turn
 android:layout_below=@+id/Player1_name

 android:layout_width=150dp
 android:layout_height=35dp
 android:text=turn?
 android:textSize=15px

  /
 RadioButton
 android:id=@+id/Players2_turn
 android:layout_below=@+id/Player2_name
 android:layout_toRightOf=@+id/Players1_turn
 android:layout_alignLeft=@+id/Player2_name
 android:layout_alignTop=@+id/Players1_turn
 android:layout_width=150dp
 android:layout_height=35dp
 android:text=turn?
 android:textSize=15px

 /
 TextView
 android:id=@+id/Player1_score
 android:layout_below=@+id/Players1_turn
 android:layout_alignLeft=@+id/Player1_score
 android:text=Score :
 android:layout_width=fill_parent
 android:layout_height=wrap_content
 /
 TextView
 android:id=@+id/Player2_score
 android:layout_below=@+id/Players2_turn
 android:layout_alignLeft=@+id/Players2_turn
 android:layout_alignTop=@+id/Player1_score
 android:text=Score :
 android:layout_width=fill_parent
 android:layout_height=wrap_content
 /
 ImageButton
  android:background=@drawable/red_ball
  android:id=@+id/redball
  android:layout_width=65dp
  android:layout_height=65dp
  android:layout_below=@+id/Player1_score

 /

 ImageButton
  android:background=@drawable/black_ball
  android:id=@+id/blackball
  android:layout_width=65dp
  android:layout_height=65dp
  android:layout_toRightOf=@+id/redball
  android:layout_alignTop=@+id/redball

 /

 ImageButton
  android:background=@drawable/green_ball
  android:id=@+id/greenball
  android:layout_width=65dp
  android:layout_height=65dp
  android:layout_toRightOf=@+id/blackball
  android:layout_alignTop=@+id/blackball
 /

 ImageButton
  android:background=@drawable/cue_ball
  android:id=@+id/cueball
  android:layout_width=65dp
  android:layout_height=65dp
  android:layout_toRightOf=@+id/greenball
  android:layout_alignTop=@+id/greenball
 /
 ImageButton
  android:background=@drawable/blue_ball
  android:id=@+id/blueball
  android:layout_width=65dp
  android:layout_height=65dp
  android:layout_below=@+id/redball
  android:layout_alignLeft=@+id/redball
 /
 ImageButton
  android:background=@drawable/pink_ball
  android:id=@+id/pinkball
  android:layout_width=65dp
  android:layout_height=65dp
  android:layout_toRightOf=@+id/blueball
  android:layout_alignTop=@+id/blueball
 /
 ImageButton
  android:background=@drawable/yellow_ball
  android:id=@+id/yellowball
  android:layout_width=65dp
  android:layout_height=65dp
  android:layout_toRightOf=@+id/pinkball
  android:layout_alignTop=@+id/pinkball
 /
 ImageButton
  android:background=@drawable/brown_ball
  android:id=@+id/brownball
  android:layout_width=65dp
  android:layout_height=65dp
  android:layout_toRightOf=@+id/yellowball
  android:layout_alignTop=@+id/yellowball
 /
 CheckBox
 android:id=@+id/Foul
 android:layout_below=@+id/blueball
 android:layout_width=100dp
 android:layout_height=wrap_content
 android:text=Foul
 /
 CheckBox
 android:id=@+id/Sound_on_off
 android:layout_toRightOf=@+id/Foul
 android:layout_width=fill_parent
 android:layout_alignTop=@+id/Foul
 android:layout_height=50dp
 android:text=Sound Effect
 /


 /RelativeLayout

 Any ideas?

 Cheers

 TCS

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[android-developers] Re: How to know SoundPool play completed?

[Tim]

yes, unless hacker the Soundpool to post msg from native when
audiotrack wrote complete ...

On Jul 22, 2:13 am, Leigh McRae leigh.mc...@lonedwarfgames.com
wrote:
 I don't think there is anything.  Best solution is to measure the sound
 clip duration (likely off line) and then poll or make a timer.

 Leigh

 On 7/20/2011 6:08 AM, Tim wrote:







  Guys,

  Just want to got callback after SoundPool played a sound. But
  unfortunately, I found the SoundPool.play() is asynchronized ... and
  no oncomplete listener like mediaplayer ... Any good idea?

  -- Tim

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[android-developers] Re: How to know SoundPool play completed?

[Tim]

because I need to audio out one by one without interrupt and mixing.

On Jul 22, 2:46 am, Matt mattpmi...@gmail.com wrote:
 Just out of curiosity, what are you wanting to do? I am currently
 researching freeze issues that have to do with the SoundPool. Seems
 like it's got some memory issues.

 On Jul 20, 5:08 am, Tim tim.ka...@gmail.com wrote:







  Guys,

  Just want to got callback after SoundPool played a sound. But
  unfortunately, I found the SoundPool.play() is asynchronized ... and
  no oncomplete listener like mediaplayer ... Any good idea?

  -- Tim

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[android-developers] How to know SoundPool play completed?

[Tim]

Guys,

Just want to got callback after SoundPool played a sound. But
unfortunately, I found the SoundPool.play() is asynchronized ... and
no oncomplete listener like mediaplayer ... Any good idea?

-- Tim

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[android-developers] Google license verification

[Tim in Boulder]

I've got the LVL code up and running in my app, and with my small
number of purchases I've already seen what appears to be one false
response from the Google licensing server.

I was under the impression that I'd just need to cover cases where the
server request would FAIL several times (servers down, internet
connection poor, etc.) before returning LICENSED or NOT_LICENSED. Do I
also need to ignore a few NOT_LICENSED responses as occasionally
spurious? Or do I need to look more carefully at my application logic?

An early customer (luckily someone I know) bought the game, and it
initially worked, but then had to factory reset his phone. After the
reinstall, it's failing the LVL check. Is this a known issue? Or is
this likely my bug?

Tim

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[android-developers] How r things

[Tim Jowers]

Do I need to come by.  What else remains to be done.
Tim

On Thursday, June 16, 2011, Glenn Boothe gl...@webstationinc.com wrote:
 No problem at all.


 Thanks,

 GB

 -Original Message-
 From: Tim Jowers [mailto:timjow...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 10:24 AM
 To: Glenn Boothe
 Subject: Cannot be in this am

 Glenn, sorry I got backed up here. I will shoot fpr this aftwrnoon. My hpurs 
 are.a little over 32. Fell bad about my mixed up schedule but glad we got.it 
 done. And pleasure meeting you and your team.

 Timjowers



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[android-developers] Bug Report - Navigation lock out

[Tim]

If you're in navigation normally, if you turn the screen off it does
not lock. The screen can be turned on to go directly back to the
active navigation without entering pattern/password/PIN. But when
navigation is active and I got a calendar notification, the next time
the screen went off it locked and my pattern/password/PIN had to be
entered.

I'm using android 2.2.2 kernel 2.6.32.9 on an LG Optimus S on Sprint.

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[android-developers] Re: Develop apps on-the-fly?

[Tim]

Another approach without using Eclipse, the Android SDK or learning
Java is MobiForms. MobiForms was the world's first rapid application
development tool designed for creating Android apps. Most programming
is done with drag and drop or using the simplified MobiScript built-in
language for app logic and navigation.

MobiForms is particularly good for creating business database
orientated apps as it supports connection to a range of industry
standard databases including SQL Server, Access, Oracle and MySQL.
Additionally, the MobiForms Sync Server supports offline database
buffering and online bi-directional synchronisation for partially
connected apps.

Many MobiForms customers have created apps to run against SAP, Oracle
Apps, Navision or Dynamics. MobiForms also supports Android camera and
GPS data integration.

For more information have a look at our web site at: http://www.mobiforms.com.

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms

On May 9, 11:21 pm, keksinen keskinen.o...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hey there,

 I'm wondering whether I should move to developing android apps. As I
 know next to nothing on android, I'd like to know if there is a way to
 do the developing on an actual android device, or whether I'd be
 necessary to get a SDK on an external machine as it seems to be done.
 So again: is it possible or in any case convenient to do app
 developing on android itself?

 Cheers

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[android-developers] Re: Integrating Android clients (Native Java and AIR) with Java and .NET backends

[Tim]

I have to agree that integration with back office systems using
various web services can be very difficult.  But in many cases using a
web service to connect to for an example a back office database is a
rather long winded approach, when the Android SDK includes full
database JDBC support.  In fact our rapid application developer tool
MobiForms (see www.mobiforms.com) supports JDBC connectivity to a
range of back office database and is ideal for database orientated
apps.  We have many customers connecting from Android straight back to
ERP and financial packages like SAP, Oracle Apps, Navision and
Dynamics.

On Apr 21, 10:03 pm, mcoderkat cokathl...@gmail.com wrote:
 Developers creating Android applications that connect to Java or .NET
 services can face significant integration challenges given the
 fragmentation of the Android OS. We have remoting and messaging APIs
 that will help ease your integration effort and would like to invite
 you to visit our blog and view the associated video. Some of the
 topics covered include:

 1) Android talking to both Java and .NET via RTMPT
 2) Android using pub/sub with JMS, NMS and ActiveMQ
 3) Android exchanging data with Adobe AIR/Flex clients
 4) How to use RTMP shared objects in Android apps
 5) How to use code generation to assist with building Android apps
 6) Cross platform communication between multiple client types and
 servers

 Here is the link to that article and 
 video:http://blog.themidnightcoders.com/index.php/2011/04/15/developing-and...

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[android-developers] Re: ImageView setColorFilter, what to do for a bitmap?

[Tim Jones]

You can create a new scratch bitmap with a copy of the data and then blt it 
back onto the target bitmap like so:

Paint p = new Paint();

 p.setColorFilter(customColorFilter);
 Canvas c = new Canvas(target);
c.drawColor(Color.BLACK);
c.drawBitmap(scratchBitmap, 0, 0, p);

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[android-developers] Re: How to connect mysql with android

[Tim]

Android does indeed support direct connectivity to most databases
including MySQL.  Android is fully JDBC compliant and all you need to
do is find and embed the correct JDBC driver inside your Android app.
Most JDBC drivers are covered by GPL.  The remaining problem then is
to encode the necessary database result set logic.  JDBC is totally
secure if sufficient thought is given to database settings and router
filters.  JDBC avoids the need for additional cumbersome layers of
SOAP or REST services.

The above is fine for simple database access, however, you may find
that using a rapid application development tool such as our MobiForms
Developer may be more effective.  MobiForms is particularly designed
for the creation of database orientated mobile apps.  Most programming
is done by drag and drop and by the selection of tables and columns in
a true relational database approach.  MobiForms supports direct access
to a range of industry standard databases such as Oracle, SQL Server
and MySQL.

For disconnected apps or where wireless connectivity can not be
guaranteed the MobiForms Sync Server is available.  This provides
offline bi-directional database buffering and online synchronisation
for true store and forward apps.

Typical apps created using MobiForms include bar coding, field
service, marketing, signature capture, stock control and surveys.
Often these are directly connected to back office systems such as
Microsoft Navision/Dynamics, Oracle Apps and SAP etc.

For more information take a look at: http://wwwmobiforms.com

On Feb 1, 4:18 am, noorul nooru...@gmail.com wrote:
 Basic steps for connecting Mysql with Android sdk

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[android-developers] Http Access Control Support in 1.6

[Tim Lind]

Hi

I'm trying to get a web page to work on android 1.6. I need cross
origin ajax requests to work. The phone and emulator is sending the
post header, but doesn't seem to send a body. There are no http access
control headers in the request.

I'd like to know whether 1.6 supports cross origin requests?


Thanks
Tim

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[android-developers] Re: Drawing on a canvas like normal VS OpenGl

[Tim]

On Jan 8, 4:34 am, brian purgert brianpurge...@gmail.com wrote:
 So I was just wondering is openGL better in terms of making a 2dgame. does
 it render faster then if I were to draw on a Canvas

I would definitely go with OpenGL. I've not used the canvas, but I
seriously doubt it is as fast, and definitely isn't as flexible. It
may be easier to use though if your game is simple (e.g. I would use
it for something like a board game).

Also, using OpenGL will let you easily port your game to other OSes
(except WP7).

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[android-developers] Re: I'm wanting to start doing a lot with the Android platform, help

[Tim]

Dear Tyler

There are other options to the heavy learning curve of Java for
Android.  For novice or expert programmers alike there are alternative
approaches such as rapid application development tools - for example
our MobiForms Developer.

The MobiForms Developer offers one compact tool to replace the need to
download and learn Eclipse, the Android SDK, Java and XML. With
MobiForms an app that would traditionally take days to create can be
created in minutes with most programming done with drag and drop.
MobiForms is ideal for creating database orientated business apps and
supports direct connection to most industry standard databases like
Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server.

For partially connected apps we also offer the MobiForms Sync Server
which enables offline database buffering and automatic online
synchronisation when comms allow.  This mode supports indirect
connection to just about any kind of back office database including
Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, Access, Sybase, DB2 and SQLite.

For more information have a look at http://www.mobiforms.com.

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms

On Jan 5, 5:31 am, Tyler Carroll thaica...@gmail.com wrote:
 I love Linux and Google and everything open source and of course this
 platform. I'm currently completely new to programming I've done next to
 nothing with Python (Is that even a good starting language? for someone
 interested in Android) All feedback on what I should do to start with
 getting started on this are majorly appreciated so thanks in advance.

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[android-developers] How to use a homescreen widget button to shutdown a service?

[Tim]

I have a button whose WidgetProvider kicks off a service with a
PendingIntent. That works just fine. How do I similarly attach an
event handler to the button so that when it is pressed a second time,
it shuts the service down? Is there an appropriate pattern to follow
for something like this?

Thanks.

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[android-developers] Re: layout editor in 2.3 SDK sucks! Sorry but it does.

[Tim H.]

Preview 2 is much improved - being able to drag views up and down the
list (and into child layouts) is great, no need for the up/down button
now. Again, can still use some work, but it's getting back to the
point where I am comfortable using drag and drop, but able to do
things manually now.

Here's some frustrating things I would like to get see fixed, which
may relate to the tools or integration with Ecliipse:

* Refactoring
If I rename something, all references to it should be updated

* Other Properties in the right-click menu

I could take off the stinking property window completely, if all
custom properties (like references or resources) could be picked from
here - this is already done for things like layout_width (Other...) -
resource references/properties could be done the same way, (Select
Resource..)

* Property state

If you move from one view to the other, you get pushed back to the top
of the property window. Especially if I am editing a property that
every one of the views I click on has, this should not happen... my
property window should stay focused on the same property for the new
view. It does this *some* times, but the times it doesn't is
frustrating

* Resource Chooser (for String Properties)

Very frustrating when you have any more than about 100+ strings, say
using them for tags, and you need to select one from this - it loads
the list of resources and resets back to the top of the list - every
time. You can either try to scroll down the list and quickly click
your item, or wait for the whole list to load, reset to the top, then
scroll down to your item - this is a lot of wasted time. I could just
manually type the string (@string/whatever), but I'd prefer to pick
from a (quicker) list.

* Simultaneous Viewing of MultiRes Layouts
I'd really like to see a way to view multiple layouts simultaneously
(i.e. compare my HVGA and WVGA side by side)

* Merging Layout Changes

Even more, I'd like to see a way to make it much easier to work with
multi-res layouts. Currently, if I add a view to one layout, I have to
add it to all layouts that it will apply to. For example:

I have customized version of:

res/layout/main.xml
res/layout-land/main.xml
res/layout-large/main.xml
res/layout-ldpi/main.xml

If I want to add a view, assuming it would be added to all layouts, I
have to either add it once for each version of my view, and set all
the properties each time - or (try to) copy and paste it to each
layout, although copy and paste needs a lot of improvements still.

* Deprecated/Newer Feature Warnings
As developers, we want to make things compatible for as long as
possible, so it would be helpful if the tools pointed out if we are
using things that may not work prior to x.x - such as new properties
that are added/removed/etc. We do get warnings for deprecated
properties (in the property window), but that is about it.


There's the top of my wishlist.. I wish I was more experienced and had
time to help with creating and fixing the tools.. but I'd rather be
using them and building better applications, then trying to help
improve them.

I recommend others that want to see the Tools improved use the links
provided:

* Bug Report
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/entry?template=Tools%20bug%20report

*Feature Request
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/entry?template=Tools%20feature%20request

Thanks again for all the work you put into these things...

-Tim

On Dec 27, 4:16 pm, fala70 fal...@gmail.com wrote:
 I hope soon, this version is very unusable.

 On 13 Dic, 09:03, Xavier Ducrohet x...@android.com wrote:

  there's no doc at the moment as it's very much a work in progress.
  That first version is quite rough, I'll admit (but has a few more
  features than the previous one).

  We're hoping to release updates very frequently.
  Xav

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   The new Layout Editor is also giving me problems.  I'm trying to add a
   Linear Layout as the child of another linear layout and then add a
   textview and button.  I'm having a hard time doing that with the new
   editor.  I miss the big + and - along with the arrow keys to move
   views up and down.  Is there any documentation on the new editor

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[android-developers] Re: AES in Gingerbread

[Tim]

I have exactly the same problem. How did you handle this Steve?

On Dec 11, 5:30 am, Steve Hugg hun...@fasterlight.com wrote:
 More debugging on this issue...

 I am using this method to generate keys from a passphrase:

                 KeyGenerator kgen = KeyGenerator.getInstance(AES, BC);
                 SecureRandom sr = SecureRandom.getInstance(SHA1PRNG, 
 Crypto);
                 sr.setSeed(seed);
                 kgen.init(128, sr);
                 SecretKey skey = kgen.generateKey();
                 byte[] raw = skey.getEncoded();

 This results in a different key for a given passphrase on 2.3 than it
 does on 1.5-2.2.

 Froyo returns this information for KeyGenerator and SecureRandom
 objects:

 AES BC version 1.34
 SHA1PRNG Crypto version 1.0

 Gingerbread returns:

 AES BC version 1.45
 SHA1PRNG Crypto version 1.0

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[android-developers] Re: layout editor in 2.3 SDK sucks! Sorry but it does.

[Tim H.]

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

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 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!

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[android-developers] Re: layout editor in 2.3 SDK sucks! Sorry but it does.

[Tim H.]

Button android:text=@+id/Button02 android:id=@+id/Button02
android:layout_width=wrap_content
android:layout_height=wrap_content/Button
/LinearLayout
/RelativeLayout





  On Dec 12, 3:51 pm, Bob Kerns r...@acm.org wrote:
  I thought I had this issue. But it turned out to be that I didn't know
  how to use the new RelativeLayout functionality.

  You can't just drop the new view anywhere, you have to drop it onto
  the specific locations that indicate what relationship the new view
  should have to what's there. Including the initial content view, which
  you need to relate to the parent.

  It's really quite slick, guiding you toward a correct-by-
  construction approach that really helps you get relative layouts
  right without thinking much about it. But it's baffling at first.

  On Dec 12, 12:19 pm, Tim H. timho...@gmail.com wrote:

   - After deleting some views, suddenly I can no longer add new views

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[android-developers] Re: layout editor in 2.3 SDK sucks! Sorry but it does.

[Tim H.]

You say nothing was changed? I have an issue where I can no longer
right click and add views or layouts from the Outline window - and the
add, move up/down buttons have been removed. Is this a bug - or was
this intentional?

The current drag-and-drop method makes it practically impossible for
me to design layouts - especially if trying to keep layouts compatible
with 1.5. I am extremely happy that work is being put into the
designer - it desperately needs it - but in its current state, I have
a lot of issues:

- Properties are apparently not saved at every state, I see old values
randomly pop up (such as Text was empty, then it returns to @+id/
Button01)
- After deleting some views, suddenly I can no longer add new views

If the new drag and drop method is available, but I am not forced to
use it, great.. otherwise, I'm totally frustrated.

Thanks,
Tim

On Dec 11, 9:57 pm, Xavier Ducrohet x...@android.com wrote:
 the only thing we changed is not forcing the display of the property
 view which was very annoying.

 just display it again as mentioned in another message and it'll be there.

 The right click menu is just a quick shortcut to properties that are
 just enums/flags.



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  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!

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[android-developers] Re: layout editor in 2.3 SDK sucks! Sorry but it does.

[Tim H.]

I do understand how the new system works..

Re: no longer being able to add views - I know that it has to be at
specific locations, but when there is only a single RelativeLayout
present, I should be able to add a button via alignParentLeft/Right/
Top/Bottom - it would not allow me to do that until I closed out and
re-opened it.

My problems are:

a) For layouts to work in 1.5, you have to put them in a specific
order - To do this correctly, I can no longer move views up or down, I
have to manually edit the xml - the new drag-and-drop seems to prevent
you from making a mistake in this regard, but doesn't allow it to be
corrected (i.e. you get a Red box with the X across it)
b) The drag-and-drop method is very align-happy in RelativeLayout -
many times I have to go and remove alignments that it added
automatically - it reminds of of something akin to FrontPage creating
HTML.. throwing on properties that may or may not be necessary :)
c) The new system makes it difficult if not impossible to align one
layout with another - for example, try to add two Linear Layouts
inside a RelativeLayout, one below the other.
d) Even with 'Display extra margins' turned on, it is sometimes
difficult to drag new views into an empty layout - particularly when
there is a number of other views nearby. This was not difficult
before, when I could just right-click and add a view to the empty
layout

There are improvements for sure, like I said, I'm ecstatic that they
are working to make it easier, but as bad as the old method was, I
find myself having more difficulties now than before.. maybe I just
need more time to get used to it.

On Dec 12, 3:51 pm, Bob Kerns r...@acm.org wrote:
 I thought I had this issue. But it turned out to be that I didn't know
 how to use the new RelativeLayout functionality.

 You can't just drop the new view anywhere, you have to drop it onto
 the specific locations that indicate what relationship the new view
 should have to what's there. Including the initial content view, which
 you need to relate to the parent.

 It's really quite slick, guiding you toward a correct-by-
 construction approach that really helps you get relative layouts
 right without thinking much about it. But it's baffling at first.

 On Dec 12, 12:19 pm, Tim H. timho...@gmail.com wrote:

  - After deleting some views, suddenly I can no longer add new views

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[android-developers] Re: One process, two live Application objects?

[Tim in Boulder]

On Oct 31, 12:17 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote:
 On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote:

  On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com
  wrote:
   As far as using Application to clean up statics -- this simply doesn't
   really make sense, for the reasons above.  For a legacy application with
   statics that can't be re-used again in the same process, your only choice
  is
   probably to just self-kill your process when the user leave the game.
  Wait, what? I was under the distinct impression we should not be
  killing processes this way.

 You should not be, but if you have a bunch of legacy code that can't cleanly
 work without doing so...  well, sometimes you need to compromise.  This does
 have other negative consequences, so nobody writing Android applications
 should do this.

 Games, though, games are sometimes so special.

Yes, and those special games sometimes rely on existing libraries that
a developer can't control. I just was made aware of this thread by
Mark; thanks for clarifying that what I'm doing is valid, if
undesirable. I can detect a restart when it happens (as I've described
on the NDK list), but the problem is that the client library has a lot
of state in a singleton and resetting it without breaking it might
be ... complex.

Honestly I'd rather find a way to fix the underlying static reset
issue(s), but I don't want to throw a lot of hours at it without
approval (being paid by the hour). And a kill of the app in onStop()
makes the problem go away; in onDestroy() it would be too late, since
the next instance has (typically) already been created by then. I may
spend a few hours to see if I can find any other relevant statics that
need cleaning up, but more than that and I'd need the client to tell
me they really care whether it's being done the right way.

On the plus side, it runs great on Android, and the client's happy.
Sometime in December there will be another popular iPhone game
released on Android, if all goes well, and it will be my first Android
release (of many, I hope!). :)

Tim

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[android-developers] Re: How register weekly alarm?

[Tim]

Thanks Mark.
I am using INTERVAL_DAYwith setRepeating(...,long interval,...).
Still, any workaround/solution for weekly alarm?

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 On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Tim tim.ka...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi Guys,

  AlarmManager.setRepeating() can be set with interval. But the max
  available interval is daily - INTERVAL_DAY. So, how to set weekly/
  monthly/yearly interval?

 INTERVAL_DAY is used with setRepeatingInexact().

 setRepeating() takes a number of milliseconds. I am not aware of any
 upper limit on the value. That being said, AFAIK, it is not designed
 for long intervals (e.g., yearly).

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[android-developers] Re: How register weekly alarm?

[Tim]

Mark,

I found a pieces of codes in Android, as below:
//
com.android.server.BackupManagerService.startBackupAlarmsLocked(long)
mAlarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, when,
BACKUP_INTERVAL + random.nextInt(FUZZ_MILLIS),
mRunBackupIntent);
// where BACKUP_INTERVAL is declared as
private static final long BACKUP_INTERVAL =
AlarmManager.INTERVAL_HOUR;

So, I just wonder, why 7*INTERVAL_DAY not work as weekly but daily?
Is INTERVAL_DAY the max interval can be set on setRepeating()?



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 On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Tim tim.ka...@gmail.com wrote:
  Thanks Mark.
  I am using INTERVAL_DAYwith setRepeating(...,long interval,...).

 INTERVAL_DAY is used with setRepeatingInexact(). The value happens to
 be correct for use with setRepeating(), though.

  Still, any workaround/solution for weekly alarm?

 If it is not working for you, then wake up every day and see if a week
 has passed. Or, use set() to schedule an alarm for a week from now,
 and have that alarm call set() to schedule another alarm a week in the
 future.

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[android-developers] Re: How register weekly alarm?

[Tim]

I have a mistake. Actually, weekly alarm works with interval set to
7*INTERVAL_DAY.

The question changed to how make monthly/yearly alarm?

Thanks!

On Oct 26, 2:12 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote:
 On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Tim tim.ka...@gmail.com wrote:
  Thanks Mark.
  I am using INTERVAL_DAYwith setRepeating(...,long interval,...).

 INTERVAL_DAY is used with setRepeatingInexact(). The value happens to
 be correct for use with setRepeating(), though.

  Still, any workaround/solution for weekly alarm?

 If it is not working for you, then wake up every day and see if a week
 has passed. Or, use set() to schedule an alarm for a week from now,
 and have that alarm call set() to schedule another alarm a week in the
 future.

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[android-developers] How register weekly alarm?

[Tim]

Hi Guys,

AlarmManager.setRepeating() can be set with interval. But the max
available interval is daily - INTERVAL_DAY. So, how to set weekly/
monthly/yearly interval?

BTW, I have tried 7*INTERVAL_DAY, it still worked as daily ...

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[android-developers] Re: Adaptive streaming - any plans for Android implementation?

[Tim T]

I'm looking for an answer for this as well. Please post if you find
anything.
Thx!

On Sep 27, 11:39 pm, Chister Nordvik cnord...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am working on a iPhone/Android project where we stream H.264 video
 from live events.

 This works great with adaptivestreamingon the iPhone but the Android
 devices doesn't offer this so we have to decide on which stream to
 offer the user. When the user sits in a carstreamingthe event the
 connection quality is very different over time and therefore the video
 is having problems if we offer too high quality.

 Is adaptivestreamingplanned for a future Android release?

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_bit_rate#Apple_HTTP_Adaptive_St...

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[android-developers] Re: eclipse HELIOS (3.6) Code Assist very slow

[Tim S]

ECLIPSE is a streaming pile of dung, imho. I use helios because it
doesn't crash nearly a often as galileo.


On Oct 19, 1:24 am, JonFHancock jonfhanc...@gmail.com wrote:
 Yeah.  I find myself wondering why I am using it instead of Galileo.

 The *only* thing I like about it is the interface for installing new
 plugins.

 Maybe I'll just switch back...

 On Oct 18, 4:36 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote:



  Helios is a steaming pile of dunk, IMHO.

  On Oct 18, 2:30 pm, JonFHancock jonfhanc...@gmail.com wrote:

   Thank you an infinite number of times!

   I was going out of my way to not allow assists in cases where I knew
   it would be slow.

   On Oct 16, 12:06 pm, SChaser crotalistig...@gmail.com wrote:

If you are using the JEE edition of HELIOS, the assists can be speeded
up by turning off JAX-WS assist in the edit/advanced preference
(Window-Preferences-Java-Editor-Content Assist-Advanced.

It also appears that the assists cycle through a list of suggestion
sources, starting with a different one each time, which would explain
why the assists are not always slow.

Seehttps://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=317979-Hidequoted text 
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[android-developers] ImageView scaling/layout problem

[Tim S]

I have a view where I'm trying to show images the largest possible
size they can be.  So I have the ImageView set to fill_parent for both
width and height with a scaleType of fitCenter.  However, I have a
caption area (currently a LinearLayout) that I'd like to align with
the bottom of the actual image.  The problem is, if the image has more
of a landscape orientation, the bottom of the image won't go all the
way to the bottom of the ImageView so my caption ends up way below the
image.  Is there any easy way to accomplish this?

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[android-developers] Re: Can I Access Oracle Database Directly From my Android application

[Tim]

Dear Goutham,

I would like to reassure you that it is technically possible and it is
practically workable to directly connect to an Oracle database from
Android.

As long as you have a mind to secure the connection.  On an internal
network with Wi-Fi that is fine with WEP etc.  With GPRS/3G it is best
to make sure you use a SIM with a private corporate APN, or a device
with a static IP address or from a known range so that you can nail
down your internet router/gateway.

Keep it simple - there is no need to build multiple and convoluted
layers of middleware like REST services.

For the nay sayers:- Android contains and supports all standard JDBC
connectivity.  There are a range of commercial and free desktop
database JDBC drivers (which contain no GUI references and so work
quite happily with Android) that you can embed within your
application.

In fact this is what we have done with our MobiForms mobile rapid
application development tool to enable the MobiForms client to connect
directly to remote databases.  For offline support we also offer the
MobiForms Sync Server which allows data to be buffered in an Android
HSQLDB database and then synchronised back via the remote MobiForms
Sync Server to any database capable of JDBC connectivity such as
Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL etc.

The other advantages of our MobiForms Developer is that you do not
have to use Eclipse, the Android SDK or write your own SQL cursors and
result sets.  For more information have a look at our web site:
http://www.mobiforms.com.

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms

Goutham P N wrote:
 Hi Everyone,

 I'm new to the android application development. I found some packages
 java.sql and javax.sql packages in the API of android while going
 through it. My doubt is can I access the Oracle Database directly
 using drivers. So what type of driver is used to connect.

 Please any one reply me.

 Thanks  Regards.

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[android-developers] ImageView adjustViewBounds not doing what I think it should?

[Tim S]

I want to scale and display images which are dynamically loaded to a
certain maximum size.  The way I'm doing this is to set the
layout_width and layout_height of my ImageView to the maximum
dimensions and setting the scaleType to fitCenter.

But here's the problem.  This is inside a RelativeLayout and I want to
show text directly under the image.  In portrait mode, the text is way
at the bottom (because of the height I have set).  So I want the
ImageView to scale down to the actual visible image size which is what
it would seem like adjustViewBounds=true should do.

Am I wrong in this assumption?  Or is there a better way to do what
I'm trying to do?  Because I've been unsuccessful to this point!

Thanks,
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[android-developers] Re: ImageView adjustViewBounds not doing what I think it should?

[Tim S]

Hmm, well I could've sworn I tried this before but I seem to have
fixed it.  All the parents of my ImageView are set to wrap_content and
this is how I have my ImageView:

ImageView android:id=@+id/image_view
android:layout_width=wrap_content
android:layout_height=wrap_content android:maxWidth=900px
android:maxHeight=369px android:scaleType=fitCenter
android:adjustViewBounds=true
android:layout_centerInParent=true /

But now I have a different problem.  We have a semi-transparent
overlay over the bottom of the image that shows the caption and photo
credits.  I'm doing this with a LinearLayout that's a sibling of the
ImageView above (both are children of a RelativeLayout).  Here's how
that's declared:

LinearLayout android:id=@+id/caption_area
android:layout_width=wrap_content
android:layout_height=wrap_content
android:background=#4100 android:layout_alignBottom=@id/
image_view
android:layout_alignLeft=@id/image_view
android:layout_alignRight=@id/image_view
android:orientation=vertical android:visibility=gone
android:gravity=center_vertical android:padding=8px
android:minWidth=300px
TextView android:id=@+id/caption
android:layout_width=wrap_content
android:layout_height=wrap_content 
android:textColor=#
android:textSize=12px android:textStyle=bold
android:visibility=gone /
TextView android:id=@+id/credit
android:layout_width=wrap_content
android:layout_height=wrap_content 
android:textColor=#
android:textSize=11px android:textStyle=italic
android:visibility=gone /
/LinearLayout

As you can see, it's set to alignLeft and alignRight of my ImageView
so it takes up the full width.  However, in a few rare cases we have
very skinny images and the caption area ends up looking very
squished.  That's why I added the minWidth of 300px but it doesn't
seem to respect it.  Obviously I'm trying to tell Android to just
magically figure out which one takes precedence but I can't think of
another way to do it.  So to sum up, I'd like my overlay to be the
same width as the image, unless it's less than 300px.  In that case,
just keep it 300px.  Is something like this possible?


On Oct 12, 5:35 pm, Tim S t...@schmidthole.com wrote:
 I want to scale and display images which are dynamically loaded to a
 certain maximum size.  The way I'm doing this is to set the
 layout_width and layout_height of my ImageView to the maximum
 dimensions and setting the scaleType to fitCenter.

 But here's the problem.  This is inside a RelativeLayout and I want to
 show text directly under the image.  In portrait mode, the text is way
 at the bottom (because of the height I have set).  So I want the
 ImageView to scale down to the actual visible image size which is what
 it would seem like adjustViewBounds=true should do.

 Am I wrong in this assumption?  Or is there a better way to do what
 I'm trying to do?  Because I've been unsuccessful to this point!

 Thanks,
 tim

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[android-developers] How to pause game on pop-ups.

[Tim Wright]

Dear All,

I am working on an application and I want to be able to detect when a
pop-up (e.g Charger notification, task switcher or the dialog that
pops up when you hold the power button) is obscuring the game so that
I can bring up the pause menu. These notifications do not produce an
onPause event. Does anyone know the correct way to do this? I know
it can be done by detecting the focus loss from the surfaceview,
however views can be added and removed I was wondering if there is a
better way of doing this than adding a focus handler to each one and
trying to keep track.
Thanks in advance,

Tim

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[android-developers] Re: TextView height not collapsing

[Tim S]

Duh, I missed that somehow.  Thanks!


On Oct 6, 9:00 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Tim S taschmidt1...@gmail.com wrote:
  How exactly do you get them to go away without removing them altogether?

 http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#GONE

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[android-developers] Re: Moderators: Where did my post go?

[Tim S]

I've found that they can be VERY slow at times. I had a post that it
took them a week to finally get around to approving!


On Oct 8, 3:39 am, Jonas Schwertfeger jschwertfe...@gmail.com wrote:
 24 hours ago I posted a message with the subject
 View.computeScroll(): How to implement it correctly?. It was never
 published. Where did it go?

 Thanks,
 -Jonas

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[android-developers] Problem with Android WebView-based browsers accessing protected resources through Oracle Access Manager (OAM)

[Tim]

We have a website that makes use of OAM for single sign on (form-based
authentication). When we submit credentials to WebGate / Access Server
the authorization succeeds, however after the authentication is
performed, the form action (as configured in the Authentication Scheme
- with passthrough:no) returns a server error instead of redirecting
to the originally requested URL.

If we use Mini Opera, we are able to get authenticated and forwarded
properly.

This problem happens on numerous Android phones (versions ranging from
1.5-2.2), as well as the Emulator provided with the SDK.

This is proving to be a real problem as the default browser on Android
phones is not able to get access to our sites(and this is the only
browser that is having this problem).

I have created a WebView-based custom browser with the hope of seeing
a client-side error and tried trapping every possible errornone
show up

I have tried to trace all of the http requests and found only a single
difference in the requests... the http header for Connection:keep-
alive is not sent by the Android WebView.

I have provided some tracing info below...

Has anyone run into this problem? Has anyone solved this?
Any insight to this issue would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Tim

Request RAW Data-

 - POST
   http: // MYSERVER/security/ATLAFunction HTTP/1.1 Host:
10.84.32.71:br
   Accept-Encoding: gzipbr
   Accept-Language: en-USbr
Cookie:ObSSOCookie=loggedoutcontinuebr
   Accept-Charset: utf-8, iso-8859-1,utf-16, *;q=0.7br
Referer:http: //MYSERVER/tpf/login.htmlbr
   User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-us; sdk Build/
FRF42) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/
533.1br
   Origin: http: // MYSERVERbr
   Accept:application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/
plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5br
   Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedbr
   Content-Length: 27br
uname=auserpwd=appas

Raw Response Data -

 - HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily
   Unavailablebr Date: Tue, 05 Oct
   2010 14:26:12 GMTbr Set-Cookie:
   ObSSOCookie=II%2F4n5pFreT6B6hOAumv6pI6CZh6l04VhyXHrCzuRUT5hDEHMK
%2FJCX659uyCkxgIyJ8ywB3BKrHxorsCwZwivpn91t9Mu
%2FCKT7PrY23S518xoBeOam26tr%2B0pSfCbo
%2FZXLmFIxjHFOPHPGxi5tHrOlUroXXA9Fe0GZz3SbJLMgAkCw0euuAVewOHKIjoDh8MwAdGtL4lo
%2BmHhk5kB316iFJ4Aljr7cQYpAp1r%2BVGD9FbLkYl4ekY5hrlNfwYS
%2BVjnR0uSIFjc0toiKkGN33z7%2FiElh2Ue2iWQrpCRcgFpxE%3D;
   httponly; path=/;br Cache-Control:
   no-cachebr Pragma: no-cachebr
   Content-Length: 312br Connection:
   closebr Content-Type: text/html;
   charset=iso-8859-1br

   lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC
   -//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//ENgt;br
   lt;htmlgt;lt;headgt;br
   lt;titlegt;503 Service Temporarily
   Unavailablelt;/titlegt;br
   lt;/headgt;lt;bodygt;br
   lt;h1gt;Service Temporarily
   Unavailablelt;/h1gt;br
   lt;pgt;Sorry!The server is
   currently unable to handle the
   requestbr due to a temporary
   overloading or maintenance of the
   server.lt;/pgt;br
   lt;/bodygt;lt;/htmlgt;br

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[android-developers] TextView height not collapsing

[Tim S]

I have TextViews in a View that are dynamically populated.  But even
when there's no text in them they still seem to take up space,
specifically height, even though the TextView and the parent have
layout_height set to wrap_content.  Coming from HTML land, I would
expect them to collapse.  Even if I set them to invisible, they still
take up room.  I've tried a LinearLayout and a RelativeLayout.  How
exactly do you get them to go away without removing them altogether?

Thanks,
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[android-developers] Re: New to Developing, Need Insight

[Tim]

To get started really quickly with Android you do not need to learn
Java, download 100s MB software and spend hours configuring and
learning the Android SDK!!!

Instead have a look at our MobiForms Developer tool. MobiForms was the
world's first rapid application development tool designed for
specifically for Google Android smartphones.  Additionally, the same
app will run on other platforms like Windows Mobile without
reconfiguration.

In one compact solution MobiForms replaces the need to download,
configure and learn diverse tools such as Eclipse, the Android SDK,
Droid Draw, Java or XML etc.

With MobiForms apps that would traditionally take hours or days can be
created in minutes using the mainly drag and drop MobiForms
development and deployment environment.

MobiForms is ideal for creating professional business database apps.
MobiForms can connect directly to a host of industry standard
databases such as Oracle and SQL Server (using a secure Wi-Fi network
or phone network with a private APN) or for partially disconnected
apps using the MobiForms Sync Server for offline buffering and online
synchronisation.

MobiForms is a proven technology used by hundreds of customers all
over the world to create field service, inspection, stock control and
CRM apps etc.

We have just released MobiForms 5.03 now with native Google Android
support for the camera and GPS integration.  Ideal for ideal for
adding photos to inspection reports and location capture to field
service or lone worker apps.

For more information please go to: http://www.mobiforms.com.

Se-An-1 wrote:
 I'm a fairly new to developing.  Really new.  Actually, I'm taking my
 first class in-school this year on how to program for Windows. However
 I'm only 4 weeks into it so I know only the very basics.  Variables,
 Primitives and a few other things. But that's a separate story (but
 still helps you understand where I come from).

 Anyways, I finally got Eclipse and the SDK working together and I have
 been going through some of the tutorials on developing for Androids.
 I think I'm mostly lost because I barely understand any of the
 concepts told.  I do have some questions though that may help me if
 answered.

 1. Since this is open source, can I find XML that has already been
 created and just tweak a few settings to fit my needs?  Can these just
 be found on the Android Developer site?
 2. How am I supposed to find the code I'm looking for?  I understand
 there is packages and classes but it is overwhelming on how much there
 is and where to go when I get an error.
 3. I feel like the tutorials teach me nothing because all I'm really
 doing is pasting code that they already made.  Is this really the best
 way to learn?
 4. I'm thinking of making an app like the Car Dock but with my own
 shortcuts.  Can you create shortcuts to other apps using XML?

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[android-developers] Re: Better Dev Tools

[Tim]

Dear Keith,

Our MobiForms mobile development tool is the answer to your
prayers!!!

MobiForms was the world's first rapid application development tool
designed for specifically for Google Android smartphones.
Additionally, the same app will run on other platforms like Windows
Mobile without reconfiguration.

In one compact solution MobiForms replaces the need to download,
configure and learn 100s MB of diverse tools such as Eclipse, the
Android SDK, Droid Draw, Java or XML etc.

MobiForms removes the need to learn low level code such as Java or C.
With MobiForms apps that would traditionally take hours or days can be
created in minutes using the mainly drag and drop MobiForms
development and delpoyment environment.

MobiForms is ideal for creating professional business database apps.
MobiForms can connect directly to a host of industry standard
databases such as Oracle and SQL Server (using a secure Wi-Fi network
or phone network with a private APN) or for partially disconnected
apps using the MobiForms Sync Server for offline buffering and online
synchronisation.

MobiForms is a proven technology used by hundreds of customers all
over the world to create field service, inspection, stock control and
CRM apps etc.

We have just released MobiForms 5.03 now with native Google Android
support for the camera and GPS integration.  Ideal for ideal for
adding photos to inspection reports and location capture to field
service or lone worker apps.

For more information please go to: http://www.mobiforms.com.

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms

KPK wrote:
 Hello Google:

 I'm sure I'm not the first one to say this, but for goodness sakes, we
 need a very good Android UI builder plugin for Eclipse or whatever
 other java tools developers are using (I use Eclipse).

 A nice toolbox docked on the side where I can drag and drop controls
 to the screen/form and then allow me to set the properties in the prop
 inspector and then create events, etc.  I've got ideas for some
 business applications and I HATE having to deal with main.xml.
 Droid Draw is okay, but it is a far cry from having a good UI plugin.

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[android-developers] Re: database difficulties

[Tim]

Dear Damien,

You may be interested in looking at our MobiForms Developer.
MobiForms is a rapid mobile application development tool ideal for
creating professional business database apps.

MobiForms can connect directly to a host of industry standard
databases such as Oracle and SQL Server (using a secure Wi-Fi network
or phone network with a private APN) or for partially disconnected
apps using the MobiForms Sync Server for offline buffering and online
synchronisation.

MobiForms is a proven technology used by hundreds of customers all
over the world to create field service, inspection, stock control and
CRM apps etc.

MobiForms was the world's first rapid application development tool
designed for specifically for Google Android smartphones.
Additionally, the same app will run on other platforms like Windows
Mobile without reconfiguration.

In one compact solution MobiForms replaces the need to download,
configure and learn 100s MB of diverse tools such as Eclipse, the
Android SDK, Droid Draw, Java or XML etc.

We have just released MobiForms 5.03 now with native Google Android
support for the camera and GPS integration.  Ideal for ideal for
adding photos to inspection reports and location capture to field
service or lone worker apps.

For more information please go to: http://www.mobiforms.com.

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms


Damien wrote:
 Hi All,
 I am just starting with Android development.  I am looking to port one
 of my iPhone apps to Android as a project to get going.  I have an
 exiting database that I would like to use.  So I have subclassed
 SQLiteOpenHelper and I open the database for writing then close it
 this should create the database, then I copy the database I have from
 my assts directory over the freshly created database file.

 It turns out my directory /data/data/com.mycompany.MyApplication/
 databases does not exist.  Ok so I try to crate it with File.mkdirs()
 and it laughs at me and does not create the directory.

 If anyone has had an issue like this I would love to hear how it was
 solved.  The phone I am using is a HTC Desire running Android 2.1
 update 1.

 Regards
 Damien

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[android-developers] Re: communication to oracle

[Tim]

The Android framework supports full standard database JDBC
connectivity to databases such as Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

A direct connection to a remote database is perfectly stable, secure,
usable and technically possible particularly if the Android device is
connecting via a secure wi-fi network or a GPRS/3G network where the
SIM is part of a private APN.

Our MobiForms Developer rapid application development tool for example
supports the creation of apps that can directly connect to a multitude
of back office databases via JDBC - including Oracle.

The complementary MobiForms Sync Server also supports bi-directional
data replication, synchronisation and offline buffering between just
about any back office database or ERP package (such as Oracle Apps,
SAP, Navision, Dynamics etc.), and Google Android or others such as
Windows Mobile. Supported back office databases include Oracle, SQL
Server, Access, Sybase, IBM DB2, SQLite, HSQLDB and MySQL.

For more information have a look at http://www.mobiforms.com.

Gold wrote:
 Hi..

How to implement communication with oracle...!






 Thanks in advance,
 Gold

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[android-developers] Search function in Contact, Android 2.2

[Tim]

Hi guys:

 Here is a question, why Google do not support the sign search in
the Contact Module? I found that Google filter all the signs by a
static function called lettersAndDigitsOnly(String name) in the
packages\providers\ContactsProvider\src\com\android\providers\contacts
\NameNormalizer.java

So my question is whether i can remove this limitation and open
this function? Is there any side-problems that will be occurred after
i modified.


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[android-developers] Re: Getting started with Android

[Tim]

If you want to get started developing Android apps really quickly you
may wish to consider rapid application development tools such as our
MobiForms Developer.  MobiForms replaces the need to download 100s MB
of files and learn Eclipse, the Android SDK, Java and XML.

MobiForms is ideal for creating database orientated business apps.
MobiForms was the world's first rapid application development tool for
Google Android.  Additionally MobiForms apps will run on other
platforms like Windows Mobile without any reconfiguration.

With MobiForms apps that would traditionally take hours or days to
create can be developed in minutes using mainly drag and drop
programming rather than labourious low level Java or C programming.

For more information see our web site at: http://www.mobiforms.com.

sdoyl...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Google produces a lot of hits on getting started with Android development but 
 I
 was wondering if there is any generally accepted material as being one of if 
 not
 the best in getting started with Android?

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[android-developers] Re: New Developer

[Tim]

Dear Thomas,

If you want to get started developing Android apps really quickly you
may wish to consider rapid application development tools such as our
MobiForms Developer.  MobiForms replaces the need to download 100s MB
of files and learn Eclipse, the Android SDK, Java and XML.

MobiForms is ideal for creating database orientated business apps.
MobiForms was the world's first rapid application development tool for
Google Android.  Additionally MobiForms apps will run on other
platforms like Windows Mobile without any reconfiguration.

With MobiForms apps that would traditionally take hours or days to
create can be developed in minutes using mainly drag and drop
programming rather than labourious low level Java or C programming.

For more information see our web site at: http://www.mobiforms.com.

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms

Thomas Creech wrote:
 Hey Guys,

   I'm a new developer, and I was wondering if I could get some advise
 from you guys. What do I need to do to get myself established in the Android
 Developer Community and what things do can I research so that I can learn
 how to start developing. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks you guys,
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[android-developers] Re: Best resource to get started with Android development.

[Tim]

Dear David,

If you want to get started developing Android apps really quickly you
may wish to consider rapid application development tools such as our
MobiForms Developer.  MobiForms replaces the need to download 100s MB
of files and learn Eclipse, the Android SDK, Java and XML.

MobiForms is ideal for creating database orientated business apps.
MobiForms was the world's first rapid application development tool for
Google Android.  Additionally MobiForms apps will run on other
platforms like Windows Mobile without any reconfiguration.

With MobiForms apps that would traditionally take hours or days to
create can be developed in minutes using mainly drag and drop
programming rather than labourious low level Java or C programming.

For more information see our web site at: http://www.mobiforms.com.

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms

David Smith wrote:
 Hi, I'm looking for something to get up and running quickly with Android
 development. Perhaps a great tutorial covering the basics. I see a lot of
 posts on getting started but the ones I have looked over so far aren't
 great. What do people here recommend?

 Thanks!

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[android-developers] Re: remote db connection

[Tim]

DanH is incorrect in his assertion that There is no remote DB
paradigm in Android.

The Android framework supports full standard database JDBC
connectivity to databases such as Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

A direct connection to a remote database is perfectly secure, usable
and technically possible particularly if the Android device is
connecting via a secure wi-fi network or a GPRS/3G network where the
SIM is part of a private APN.

Android also supports many technical solutions to supporting offline
connectivity that does not just involve REST and web services.

Our MobiForms Developer rapid application development tool for example
supports the creation of apps that can directly connect to a multitude
of back office databases via JDBC.

The complementary MobiForms Sync Server also supports bi-directional
data replication, synchronisation and offline buffering between just
about any back office database or ERP package (such as Oracle Apps,
SAP, Navision, Dynamics etc.), and Google Android or others such as
Windows Mobile. Supported back office databases include Oracle, SQL
Server, Access, Sybase, IBM DB2, SQLite, HSQLDB and MySQL.

For more information have a look at http://www.mobiforms.com.

vineeshkc wrote:
 pls give me remote db connection code

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[android-developers] Re: Best way to store restaurant data

[Tim]

Dear Dominic,

If you are new to Android you might want to have a look at our
MobiForms rapid application development tool as an alternative to
creating Android database apps by hand.  With MobiForms an app that
would traditionally take hours or days to program can be created in
minutes.

The MobiForms Developer replaces the need to download 100's MB of
files and learn Eclipse, the Android SDK, Java, XML and SQL.

With MobiForms all the database cursor and record management is done
automatically behind the scenes, leaving you with the selection of the
appropriate table columns, high level business logic/navigation and
the GUI look and feel.

We have also just released the MobiForms Sync Server for Android.
This supports bi-directional data replication, synchronisation and
offline buffering with just about any master back office database
server.

For more information go to: http://www.mobiforms.com.

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms

Dominic wrote:
 I want to have a list of restaurants with information such as
 addresses and phone numbers in my app. I also want to be able to edit
 this information after the app is published. What is the standard way
 for doing this? Would I need to use a SQLite database?

 Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks.

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[android-developers] Re: New to Android Programming

[Tim]

Dear Dave,

If you are new to Android and the complexities of Java, you may wish
to consider another approach to Android development such as our
MobiForms rapid application development tool.

MobiForms replaces the need to download 100's MB of files, configure
Eclipse, learn the Android SDK, Java and XML.

MobiForms is ideal for novice or expert programmers alike you do not
want to spend hours learning a low level language like Java. MobiForms
offers one compact tool for development and deployment with most
programming done with drag and drop.

MobiForms is the world's first rapid application development tool
designed for Google Android smartphones. Additionally MobiForms apps
will run on other platforms such as Windows Mobile without any
changes.

MobiForms is ideal for creating database orientated business apps.
Apps that would traditionally take hours or days to create can be
generated in minutes with MobiForms.

For more information please have a look at http://www.mobiforms.com

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms

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[android-developers] Re: connecting mysql database

[Tim]

I think it is rather presumptuous of some commentators to suggest one
approach is either right or wrong.  The real world is never this black
or white.

A direct connection to a remote database is perfectly secure, usable
and technically possible particularly if the Android device is
connecting via a secure wi-fi network or a GPRS/3G network where the
SIM is part of a private APN.  Unlike J2ME for example, the Android
framework supports full database JDBC connectivity.

Android also supports many technical solutions to supporting offline
connectivity that does not just involve REST and web services.

Our MobiForms Developer rapid application development tool for example
supports the creation of apps that can directly connect to a multitude
of back office databases via JDBC.  We do not currently support MySQL
in this direct mode, but this is a licensing issue rather than a
technical issue.

The complementary MobiForms Sync Server also supports bi-directional
data replication, synchronisation and offline buffering between just
about any back office database or ERP package (such as Oracle Apps,
SAP, Navision, Dynamics etc.), and Google Android or others such as
Windows Mobile.  Supported back office databases include Oracle, SQL
Server, Access, Sybase, IBM DB2, SQLite, HSQLDB and MySQL

For more information go to: http://www.mobiforms.com.

crajesh wrote:
 Hi All,

   I am new in android. I want to know to connect the mysql database.

 Please give your opinion and give also examples on how to use any of
 the solutions.

 Thanks everyone in Advance.

 C.Rajesh

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[android-developers] Re: connect to sql server

[Tim]

Dear Ameni,

You may wish to have a look at the MobiForms Sync Server for Google
Android.

The MobiForms Sync Server enables bi-directional data replication,
synchronisation and offline buffering between SQL Server and any
MobiForms mobile client running on Google Android.

MobiForms takes care of all the complex database cursor and record set
management behind the scenes.

The MobiForms Sync Server is part of the MobiForms Advanced Edition.
MobiForms is the world's first rapid application development tool
designed for Google Android.  With MobiForms mobile apps that would
normally take days to create can be created in minutes with most
programming done with just drag and drop.

For more information have a look at our web site: http://www.mobiforms.com.

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms

khalfaoui ameni wrote:
 hello everyone,
 i want to connect to sql server from android but i can't find how...
  I can't seem to find any information on connecting to a SQL Server DB
 to retrieve  add
 data. i find that i must use web service but i don't see how write it
 and how read my sql server database

 please help me.

 Ameni

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[android-developers] Re: Challenges moving to the Android platform ?

[Tim]

Dear Michal,

The biggest challenge in moving to Android is the large amount of
diverse and often confusing components you need to download, configue
and learn including Eclipse, the Android SDK, Google's specific
flavour of Java and XML.

However, there is another approach which suits some people.  Have a
look at our MobiForms rapid application development tool.

MobiForms is the world's first rapid application development tool
designed for Google Android smartphones. Additionally MobiForms apps
will run on other platforms such as Windows Mobile without any
changes.

With MobiForms there is no need to download and learn Eclipse, the
Android SDK, Java or XML. MobiForms offers one compact tool for
development and deployment with most programming done with drag and
drop.

MobiForms is ideal for creating database orientated business apps.
Apps that would traditionally take hours or days to write can be
created in minutes with MobiForms.

For more information please have a look at http://www.mobiforms.com

You may also be interested to learn that we have recently added Google
Android support for our MobiForms Sync Server. This enables online
synchronisation and offline database buffering for apps where
connectivity may not be guaranteed such as for Field Service, Surveys
and Risk Assessments.

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms

michal.g...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am interested in understanding what are the biggest challenges for a
 JavaME developer moving to the Android platform ?

 Any insights are appreciated.

 Thanks,
 Michal

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[android-developers] Re: Problem in SimpleDateFormat MMM return month number

[Tim Su]

I had one of my users perform the following tests. They have an HTC
Desire running Froyo and have the locale set to French.

new SimpleDateFormat(, d ).format(new Date())
new SimpleDateFormat(, d , Locale.FRENCH).format(new Date())
new SimpleDateFormat(, d , Locale.getDefault()).format(new
Date())
new SimpleDateFormat(, d ,
getResources().getConfiguration().locale).format(new Date())

Each time, the return string is the same: 7, 7 8

Both Locale.getDefault() and the configuration locale are set to
French (France) (fr_FR)

Pretty busted, if you ask me... does anyone know of a workaround that
doesn't involve manually sticking days/weekdays into strings.xml?

On Aug 6, 5:08 am, DanH danhi...@ieee.org wrote:
 Right.  What I was suggesting was to try setting locale in order to
 test the hypothesis that lack of a locale is causing the symptoms, vs,
 eg, something broken in the date formatter logic.  And it would
 provide a circumvention for those who need one.

 On Aug 6, 4:37 am, { Devdroid } webnet.andr...@gmail.com wrote:



  On 5 August 2010 14:53, DanH danhi...@ieee.org wrote:

   Has anyone tried doing Locale.setDefault to circumvent thisproblem?

  Theproblemis when you do not care what locale are set and simply
  want to use system-wide, not any particular one.
  Calling setDefault is same like passing locale to SimpleDateFormater
  constructor - you need to either specify locale or read system
  settings and pass that in hope it works. Since this is like blind fix
  it may or may not work but you still do not know what the culprit is.

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[android-developers] Re: Biggner Android Developer

[Tim]

Dear Muhammad,

There is an easier way!!!  If you want to master Android really fast
then I suggest you have a look at rapid development tools such as our
MobiForms Developer.

MobiForms is the world's first rapid application development tool
designed for Android and is also cross platform compatible with other
environments such as Windows Mobile and Symbian.  MobiForms is ideal
for creating data intensive business apps.

With MobiForms there is no need to download 100's MB of files and
learn Java, XML, Eclipse or the Android SDK.  Instead MobiForms offers
one compact development and deployment environment with most
programming done just by drag and drop.

For more information have a look at the MobiForms web site at:
http://www.mobiforms.com

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms

Muhammad wrote:
 Dear ALL,

 I have window based machine.I want to learn Android Development.
 I have read tutorial.

 i have installed eclipse-jee-helios-win32-x86_64 .but i have not found Android
 Plug in.
 so can anybody tell which version of Eclipse i need to start Android 
 Development
 Environment?

 Just tell me Eclipse verison.. after that i will download Android SDK.



 Muhammad Bilal Ilyas
 Software Engineer

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[android-developers] Start an activity without creating a new one.

[Tim]

In a broadcast receiver I want to do the following:

1. See if MyActivity is alive somewhere.
2. If it is, bring it to the foreground.
3. Otherwise, start a new MyActivity.

Is this possible?

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[android-developers] Re: Start an activity without creating a new one.

[Tim]

On Jul 31, 5:26 pm, Adriano B. Godinho adri...@godinho.eng.br
wrote:
 Hi,

 You can declare your activity with singleTask launch mode.

  activity android:name=.YourActivity
                   android:label=@string/app_name
                   android:launchMode=singleTask/

 More 
 details:http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#lmodes

Fantastic, thanks! :-)

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[android-developers] Re: Code Coverage with EMMA or Ant

[Tim Su]

EclEmma won't work, it requires your application to run in a Java JVM
on your local machine. I've gotten EMMA to work in Android, it's
indeed very hackish (required checking out the entire source for the
Android project and adapting the tools provided for testing Android's
built in applications). I'd also love a way to kick off a coverage
session from Eclipse.

On Jul 26, 7:14 am, Joseph Earl joseph.w.e...@gmail.com wrote:
 Would EclEmma do? Code coverage tool for Eclipse based on 
 EMMA:http://www.eclemma.org/

 On Jun 24, 12:52 am, sirvalerius sirvaleriu...@gmail.com wrote:



  hi guys i'm tryng to do some testing in my android application,

  I've set-up my project in eclipse and I can successfully run my code.
  I've alredy written some JUnit test cases, now I'm tryng to generate a
  code coverage report. However it seems that there are different ways
  to accomplish this and the documantation is not very clear.

  Can someone tell me what's the best solution considering that I've all
  my code in eclipse?
  What steps do I need to take to get the reports.

  (I've seen some posts about EMMA but the whole thing seems hackish and
  I'm not sure how it works when with eclipse, i.e. when the project is
  rebuilt).

  Thank you in advice,

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[android-developers] Re: newbie

[Tim]

Dear Wayne,

Rather than downloading 100's MB of files, learning Eclipse, the
Android SDK, Java and XML. You may wish to consider another approach
to Android development such as our MobiForms rapid application
development tool.

MobiForms is ideal for novice or expert programmers alike you do not
want to spend hours learning a low level language like Java.
MobiForms offers one compact tool for development and deployment with
most programming done with drag and drop.

MobiForms is the world's first rapid application development tool
designed for Google Android smartphones. Additionally MobiForms apps
will run on other platforms such as Windows Mobile without any
changes.

MobiForms is ideal for creating database orientated business apps.
Apps that would traditionally take hours or days to create can be
generated in minutes with MobiForms.

For more information please have a look at http://www.mobiforms.com

You may be interested to learn that we have also recently added Google
Android support for our MobiForms Sync Server. This enables online
synchronisation and offline database buffering for apps where
connectivity may not be guaranteed such as for Field Service, Surveys
and Risk Assessments.

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms

Wayne Roberts wrote:
 Hi all,
 Could you gimme some pointers on the best way for a noob to learn howto
 write for the android platform?

 Wayne

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[android-developers] shouldOverrideUrlLoading not always triggered?

[Tim]

I'm using WebView in an attempt to provide a custom browser for a
particular website.

I'm confused about when shouldOverrideUrlLoading is called.  It seems
like when a web page sets location.href via javascript I do not get
the chance to override this?

Also perhaps when a new page is set via a form submission?  Overall
I'm unclear on the exact details of the function.

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[android-developers] Re: hi

[Tim]

Dear Raineesh,

You may wish to consider another approach to Android development such
as our MobiForms rapid application development tool.

MobiForms is the world's first rapid application development tool
designed for Google Android smartphones. Additionally MobiForms apps
will run on other platforms such as Windows Mobile without any
changes.

With MobiForms there is no need to download and learn Eclipse, the
Android SDK, Java or XML. MobiForms offers one compact tool for
development and deployment with most programming done with drag and
drop.

MobiForms is ideal for creating database orientated business apps.
Apps that would traditionally take hours or days to create can be
generated in minutes with MobiForms.

For more information please have a look at http://www.mobiforms.com

You may be interested to learn that we have also recently added Google
Android support for our MobiForms Sync Server. This enables online
synchronisation and offline database buffering for apps where
connectivity may not be guaranteed such as for Field Service, Surveys
and Risk Assessments.

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms

Raineesh Pereira wrote:
 Need some good stuff to learn Android... Am a new Android Developer...

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[android-developers] Re: how do you guys feel about the develop tools?

[Tim]

Dear Bill,

There is another way without using Eclipse of the Android SDK!!! Have
a look at our MobiForms rapid application development tool.

MobiForms is the world's first rapid application development tool
designed for Google Android smartphones. Additionally MobiForms apps
will run on other platforms such as Windows Mobile without any
changes.

With MobiForms there is no need to download and learn Eclipse, the
Android SDK, Java or XML. MobiForms offers one compact tool for
development and deployment with most programming done with drag and
drop.

MobiForms is ideal for creating database orientated business apps.
Apps that would traditionally take hours or days to write can be
created in minutes with MobiForms.

For more information please have a look at http://www.mobiforms.com

You may also be interested to learn that we have recently added Google
Android support for our MobiForms Sync Server. This enables online
synchronisation and offline database buffering for apps where
connectivity may not be guaranteed such as for Field Service, Surveys
and Risk Assessments.

Kind regards,

Tim @ MobiForms

billconan wrote:
 hello guys,

 i really like android and hope that it can surpass iphone in the near
 future. I like it, because it's open.

 But i really don't like the develop tools of android. it is so slow
 and buggy.

 Specifically, I don't like these two things:
 Eclipse
 Android emulator.

 Sometimes, the debugger tool cannot show the log.
 Eclipse cannot install apk if the there is a apk with the same name
 running.
 occasionally Eclipse fails to pack the resource files correctly.
 .
 I can write a long problem list of these two.

 everyone can tell the difference by simply playing xcode and iphone
 sdk for awhile. one click on the build and run in xcode, the iphone
 simulator pops up immediately. and the xcode debugging tools are so
 easy to use.

 develop tools are so important, even more important than the platform
 itself, if not as equal important.
 I think the android team should pay more attention to that, say,
 improve the emulator performance and provide some other default ide
 other that eclipse. (the QT creator looks good)

 in addition, android should be more c++ friendly, because then
 millions of c++ projects can be easily ported to android.


 eclipse is just so so terrible

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[android-developers] Re: App Inventor to Market

[Tim]

Have you considered looking at other options to the App Inventor such
as our commercially proven MobiForms Developer - particularly for
database orientated apps?

At MobiForms we released the world's first rapid application
development tool for Google Android smartphones nearly a year ago now.
MobiForms is designed for novice and expert programmers alike.
Additionally, apps developed for Android will also run on a range of
other devices such as Windows Mobile without any additional work.
This will never be possible with the Google App Inventor.

We have just released our MobiForms Advanced Edition with Google
Android support. This enables the creation of true offline store and
forward apps with offline buffering and online synchronisation. This
caters for situations in the real world where comms may be
interrupted, but with this solution no data is lost. Ideal for
creating business apps for field service, surveys, risk assessments
etc.

MobiForms offers one compact, easy, development and deployment
solution.  MobiForms totally replaces the need to learn Eclipse, the
Android SDK, Java or XML.  For more information have a look at our web
site: http://www.mobiforms.com


Nicolas wrote:
 Hi there,

 I have created an app with the app inventor and now I would like to
 upload the application to the android market. When I try this, I get
 the error Upload a valid APK.

 Anybody any idea how I can get around this?

 Cheers,
 Nico

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[android-developers] Re: How can I pass my custom object to onSaveInstanceState?

[Tim]

If you want to keep it around medium term or time frame, less than
permanent but
longer longer than the life of a particular activity, you can hold
onto it on an
Application class object.  That will stick around as long as the
application is
loaded and you can easily get to it from any of your activities.

Tim

On Jul 3, 1:32 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote:
 On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 1:28 PM, jul juj...@gmail.com wrote:
  I created a RestaurantList class to hold my data (a list of some
  Restaurant objects created to get some json data using gson). How can
  I pass an instance of that class to onSaveInstanceState to be able to
  restore my data when needed?

 You shouldn't pass an instance of that class to onSaveInstanceState().
 Your data model is not part of your instance state.

 If you are trying to deal with orientation changes, return your
 RestaurantList in onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() and get it back
 in onCreate() via getLastNonConfigurationInstance().

 Otherwise (or perhaps even if orientation is your issue), move that
 data out of the activity into a database, or in a pinch a Java object
 mediated by a service (so it will stick around despite activities
 coming and going).

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