[android-developers] Unable to instantiate activity - transferred from Vista to Mac now my projects won't build

2009-06-06 Thread madcoder
I transferred my development from Windows to Mac. I have the latest version of Eclipse, and the 1.5 r2 SDK. I have successfully ran a sample Hello world app to make sure it all fits together properly. I then imported my library projects (called MyLib) that holds many reusable classes of mine.

[android-developers] Help with dialog builder and resource problem please

2009-03-20 Thread madcoder
I'm trying to build an alert dialog with a builder. The code is from the svn here: http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/source/browse/trunk/DivideAndConquer/src/com/google/android/divideandconquer/Eula.java?r=93 There is also a web site with description of how to use the code here:

[android-developers] Re: How to achieve iPhone like transition effect between screens?

2009-03-20 Thread madcoder
Hopefully the final cupcake release will have smoother transitions than presently available. If not, I'll have to wait until the hardware can handle it. On Mar 20, 6:31 pm, mobilekid mobilek...@googlemail.com wrote: You can work out your own solution with animations and playing with the

[android-developers] Re: Please enable SVG Support in the Android Webkit Browser

2009-03-20 Thread madcoder
I would love to SVG implemented at the graphics API level. Any possibility of it coming to Android in the future? On Mar 20, 6:54 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: it would be great to get scalable open Vectors in the browser. Fromhttp://webkit.org/projects/svg/index.html:

[android-developers] power manager and wake lock

2009-03-19 Thread madcoder
In the example here: It shows: PowerManager pm = (PowerManager) getSystemService (Context.POWER_SERVICE); PowerManager.WakeLock wl = pm.newWakeLock (PowerManager.SCREEN_DIM_WAKE_LOCK, My Tag); wl.acquire(); ..screen will stay on during this section.. wl.release(); Once the wake lock is

[android-developers] Re: Recording Audio

2009-03-12 Thread madcoder
Nice solution, thanks for sharing! On Mar 12, 1:36 pm, benmccann benjamin.j.mcc...@gmail.com wrote: Finally got it figured out:http://www.benmccann.com/dev-blog/android-audio-recording-tutorial/ On Mar 9, 11:37 am, benmccann benjamin.j.mcc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still feeling

[android-developers] Re: Merchant account signup down?

2009-03-12 Thread madcoder
Wait for it. That's all. I couldn't get my account verified, and had to send emails to support for a few weeks to get it all straight, but in the end, to Google's credit, they worked it all out. On Mar 12, 10:02 am, jsdf jasons...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, 24 hours later, it is still

[android-developers] Re: (OT) Is the combination of Android Market and Google Checkout a joke?

2009-03-05 Thread madcoder
these products as consumables in the same way you do. On Mar 2, 11:41 pm, madcoder paperga...@gmail.com wrote: I believe there should be demos and full apps in the market. It shouldn't be too hard to do. If the user downloads the lite version then buys the regular version, there should be a 1

[android-developers] Re: (OT) Is the combination of Android Market and Google Checkout a joke?

2009-03-02 Thread madcoder
I'm really not looking forward to making any real money on Android, at least not for some time to come. Once I finish my US Weekly within an hour, can I get a refund? Exactly. What about watching a movie that cost you $7.50? Do you get a refund every time after watching it? What about going

[android-developers] Re: Android presentation backgrounds

2009-02-26 Thread madcoder
If you're not releasing the presentation content, and just using it for a private demonstration in your company, you might do this: Google Image Search google android wallpaper Otherwise Google has some wallpapers (about three, I think) on their website available for download.

[android-developers] Re: When do I need a new Activity?

2009-02-26 Thread madcoder
I didn't like the 'activity' concept when I first started using Android. However, it's grown on me well.Activities themselves are their own encapsulated parts of the application and makes debugging much easier. It is a pain at first to figure out how to destroy/ recreate activities, but

[android-developers] Re: How to Thump? Name of Haptic Trigger.

2009-02-26 Thread madcoder
I believe your on to something here. The Labyrinth Lite version doesn't ask for permission for vibrate, only internet access and system tools - prevent sleep. So where is the vibration coming from? Also, it seems the harder the ball hits, the stronger the (mini-)vibration. I would like to

[android-developers] Re: Long click on Button

2009-02-26 Thread madcoder
You could use a timer to incrementally increase the number. I don't know if there is a method for this already. Shouldn't be too hard to do. On Feb 26, 4:06 pm, Manfred manfred.fettin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I want, that when the user clicks on a button, a textfield with a number will

[android-developers] How to use Media Player in a library class?

2009-02-24 Thread madcoder
I have successfully implemented the Media Player for my apps, but when I tried to use some of the callback methods I ran into a problem. What I'm trying to do is use Media Player in a reusable (library) class. This MediaPlayer is created by passing the Activity Context to it's constructor. I

[android-developers] Re: How many projects are being canned because of Market TCs

2009-02-19 Thread madcoder
Good luck with Google getting to your problem real quick-like. I was all on board with Android 110%. I've invested months of coding time to learn the OS. I've made several apps just waiting to be released. Now I can't even create a merchant account. I asked why and after several days, still

[android-developers] Re: (simple?) problem with table layout

2009-01-31 Thread madcoder
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[android-developers] (simple?) problem with table layout

2009-01-30 Thread madcoder
I want to create a table layout so I don't have to use absolute values. I have 2 TableRow's in my TableLayout, and each row has 4 buttons, all the same width. The problem I'm having is with the last button on the first row. the button is as tall as two buttons combined. I can make a button

[android-developers] Re: Apple Granted Multitouch Patent

2009-01-28 Thread madcoder
In my opinion, the patent is worthless. Multi-touch has been in use long before the iphone started using it. A good example of this is www.jazzmutant.com I hope Android will have multi-touch in a future update because of this. On Jan 28, 4:08 am, technick techn...@gmail.com wrote: The US

[android-developers] Re: Apple Granted Multitouch Patent

2009-01-28 Thread madcoder
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[android-developers] Re: Are you localizing an app? Do you want to be?

2009-01-18 Thread madcoder
I'm curious how this will impact me and others like me who are English- speakers but staying in a foreign country. I live in Thailand, and I often deal with many 'localization' problems. For example, when I log onto Google groups, it references the http://groups.google.co.th/, and all the menus

[android-developers] Re: How to catch global events?

2009-01-15 Thread madcoder
Nothing quite like giving full internet access permission, then having a special service like this running in the background... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to

[android-developers] Re: debuggerd committing suicide to free the zombie?

2009-01-15 Thread madcoder
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[android-developers] Re: How to stop the device from sleeping

2009-01-12 Thread madcoder
Try this: PowerManager pm = (PowerManager) this.getSystemService (Context.POWER_SERVICE); WakeLock wl = pm.newWakeLock(PowerManager.SCREEN_DIM_WAKE_LOCK, My Tag); wl.acquire(); when you are done with wake lock, wl.release(); Alternatively, you can use this if you have only one activity:

[android-developers] Re: Concern about application file size for publishing due to Media files

2009-01-09 Thread madcoder
Stoyan Damov wrote: Re .mp3s, you surely can't expect the device to play a 48KHz .mp3 w/ a 320kbps bitrate so you can safely drop the quality to say 32KHz @ 128kbps and the user wouldn't notice it for sure. What is the audio limitations of the android platform/G1? How do you know that

[android-developers] Re: Slide Views ( like Google Scoreboard app )

2009-01-08 Thread madcoder
Wow, really good stuff. I see the ViewFlipper methods allow for setting which child view to display, as well as adding and removing views. Very nice. Falcon4ever, if you check out the example at androidguys, above, scroll down and they show how to add views in code. Mark, I got your book, and

[android-developers] Re: Slide Views ( like Google Scoreboard app )

2009-01-07 Thread madcoder
I would LOVE to see an example of this... On Jan 8, 4:55 am, loty lev.pert...@gmail.com wrote: One easy way to implement it is with ViewFlipper. You can add in and out animations and create your views on the fly On Jan 7, 12:52 pm, Al alcapw...@googlemail.com wrote: I'd like to know this

[android-developers] Re: Market paid-for apps

2009-01-01 Thread madcoder
I'm an American living in Thailand, and I want to sell to the US, UK, etc. I plan on having multiple languages (when it's fully supported). It would make sense for Google to allow people outside of a country list apps for a different country. But I don't know if Google will allow this or not.