[android-developers] See end user reviews without a G1?

2008-11-29 Thread Jompe71
I really would like to see the app reviews to be able to upgrade and improve the application. Is it possible without a G1 phone? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to

[android-developers] Re: Need Help animating Text

2008-11-29 Thread AndroidGeek
Hi Matt, You mean you want a ticker something like ticker used in stock exchanges (One directional). Or a ticker which scrolls left or right when the text ends both end respectively I am a J2ME professional and I have the logic how to achieve it in a canvas where I have all the information

[android-developers] APN Setting about MMS

2008-11-29 Thread JasonCheng
Can anyone help me? I always can't send MMS , already try A week for setting this. [APN] APN: Internet MMSC: http://mms MMSProxy: 10.1.1.2 MMSPort: 9201 MCC: 466 MNC: 97 [Error Log Like this] --- E/HttpUtils( 114): Host name may not be

[android-developers] Are there any requirements for game applications.

2008-11-29 Thread jlmari...@gmail.com
When developing an app are there any requirements for the game app (e.g. Splash screen content, game requirements, menu requirements, violence or mature content) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[android-developers] SMS entry

2008-11-29 Thread Kingorcus
I am trying to insert a new SMS entry in the Database using the undocumented SMS URI I am successful in accessing the sms table, but not the threads table anyone knows how to do it or what is the content name for the threads table (URI) thanks

[android-developers] How to connect to google base?

2008-11-29 Thread kingfu
Hi friends, I want to save data to google base, but I always failed to connect to google base. I found that Andriod has also java.net.* package, so I think I can use it just like the java.net package for PC, that's right? Could you please help me to investigate it? thanks a lot! the code

[android-developers] Bug / Feature ( Wifi only works if your SSID is broadcast )

2008-11-29 Thread Scotti
Is there a way to for Wifi to connect to a secure network when the SSID is not being broadcast? Perhapes add a button to the menu when you click on the network that says force connect or connect? Might be a fun project to write but it seems that the main system needs this functionality for folks

[android-developers] How to connect to google base?

2008-11-29 Thread kingfu
Hi all, I want to save data to google base, but I failed to connect to the google account client which is the first step that connect to google base. I found Andriod provides the same java.net package as PC platform's, so I use this java.net to connect to google base. The following is my code.

[android-developers] Re: Touch/mouse event processing in Android's browser

2008-11-29 Thread csvy
Has anyone made any progress on this? I skimmed through the Webkit source used in Android, but I couldn't find any non-standard events (although it is extraordinarily possible that I missed something). I really need to be able to get touch events and this seems like a huge omission... On Oct

[android-developers] how to get the listview item's default on-pressed drawable resource id

2008-11-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to get the listview item's default on-pressed drawable resource id? I mean the orange background image when the listview's item is pressed. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers

[android-developers] What is the difference between onOptionsItemSelected and onMenuItemSelected?

2008-11-29 Thread monkeypipi
Any difference? Thank you for your reply ^_^ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this

[android-developers] Re: Spinner background change - how?

2008-11-29 Thread Evgeny V
The same problem happens when I'm trying to change the Button backgroud. After that i'm loosing button behavior. Looks strange if I have inherit and implemet MyButton to provide so basic functionality like background color... Any ideas? Missing I something? Thanks, Evgeny On Fri, Nov 28,

[android-developers] Newbe question - Application folders, how to?

2008-11-29 Thread Anders Rundgren
In other operating systems you can typically define a folder and when clicked it opens a view with applications. I may be blind, but I don't see any of this using the emulator and SDK 1.0. Is the ApiDemos the only GUI-way you can create a suite of associated applications?

[android-developers] Re: Newbe question - Application folders, how to?

2008-11-29 Thread Romain Guy
Long press an empty space on Home (or click Menu Add) then choose Shortcut Folder. You can drop applications in the newly created folder. On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Anders Rundgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other operating systems you can typically define a folder and when clicked

[android-developers] Re: Console program with service without actuvity

2008-11-29 Thread freepine
You can invoke your app in adb shell after pushing the executables into the image. But as we are told again and again, android doesn't support native code development:) On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 6:51 PM, sal123 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Can anyone tell me if there is anyway to run

[android-developers] Re: Listening for dynamic buttons created by an adapter

2008-11-29 Thread for android
I have a strange problem. I am using an efficient list adapter with a list which has row with a text view and a button.Now on click of the button,I collapse that row and download a file,with a progress bar.(this has been done along the lines of the list collapsible adapter example of the api

[android-developers] Re: Android market and ADCII

2008-11-29 Thread Teo
Hi Juan, it's free and closed source for now. I plan to keep it this way until sometime next year, since i constantly add features to it based on user feedback. When the app skeleton will stabilize and all the features i planned for will be implemented, i'll open source it for sure :) Thanks,

[android-developers] submenu

2008-11-29 Thread jalandar
Hi I want to add submenu to menu item , I mean when i select menu item there should be submenu for that menu item. Is anybody have sample for this. regards jagtap --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[android-developers] Location API and JSR-179/OpenLAPI

2008-11-29 Thread Sam Halliday
Hi all, When Android was first announced, I offered to help out write any missing parts of the Location API and port over any code that was part of the OpenLAPI project (open source LGPL implementation of JSR-179). I never heard a response back at the time. I'm just checking now to find out the

[android-developers] Re: Location API and JSR-179/OpenLAPI

2008-11-29 Thread Sam Halliday
also, OpenLAPI is able to provide a JSR-179 API from an external bluetooth device, Google Earth XML file (excellent for development) or the LandmarkStore . Might be of use to you. On Nov 29, 12:55 pm, Sam Halliday [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, When Android was first announced, I offered to

[android-developers] Re: Long Press - a SubMenu popup - how implement that?

2008-11-29 Thread Guillaume Perrot
Activity.registerContextMenu(View); Then override onContextMenu methods. On Nov 29, 11:12 am, zLarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: help... On 11月29日, 下午2时02分, zLarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like android bundled contact applicaiton. When I long press a contact, then a sub menu pops up - to

[android-developers] Re: What is the difference between onOptionsItemSelected and onMenuItemSelected?

2008-11-29 Thread Guillaume Perrot
onMenuItemSelected comes from the Window.Callback class. onOptionsItemSelected is introduced by the Activity class (which implements Window.Callback) and is called by the implementation of onMenuItemSelected. So the difference is the abstracting level. Copied from doc: Default implementation of

[android-developers] Can I use DownloadProvider and PackageInstaller in my application?

2008-11-29 Thread Xiaoliang Ding
Hi, smart guys I want to implement a application whose one of requirements is download a package and install it. What i want to know is can i use DownloadProvider and PackageInstaller in my application? How can i use them ? Thanks Ding --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[android-developers] Re: How to call RIL?

2008-11-29 Thread Zigurd
Some information on telephony internals, PhoneApp, and communications between PhoneApp and the RIL can be found in an upcoming book published by O'Reilly called Android Application Development. It is available on the O'Reilly Roughcuts site in draft form: http://safari.oreilly.com/9780596156220

[android-developers] Re: How to call RIL?

2008-11-29 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Of course, if you go beyond the official SDK documentation, all bets are off once you start to consider what might happen with newer versions of the Android platform on the same devices, or on devices from a different manufacturer, or using a different chipset, or using a different protocol to

[android-developers] Re: Can I use DownloadProvider and PackageInstaller in my application?

2008-11-29 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
Unfortunately, the DownloadProvider is not currently available for non-system applications to use, and that's unlikely to change in the foreseeable future. Even more unfortunately, the current implementation of the DownloadProvider uses private APIs that prevent it from being recompiled on top of

[android-developers] Re: Can I use DownloadProvider and PackageInstaller in my application?

2008-11-29 Thread Xiaoliang Ding
Hi, Jean-Baptiste Queru Thanks a lot for your nice answers. You said DownloadProvider only can be used by system application. Mind you tell me which system application use DownloadProvider ? If the downloading functionality is really needed in my app, what should I do ? Even though

[android-developers] Re: Are there any requirements for game applications.

2008-11-29 Thread AndroidGeek
Hi, I am J2ME game and app. developer. Following are my views about your queries. -- Violence/Mature Content: I don't think splash it is a mandatory... But yeah... it depends on the service provider's choice like ATT never keeps any game showing nudity or any violence specially blood etc. --

[android-developers] Strange behavior with AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP and PowerManager.WakeLock

2008-11-29 Thread Noam Wolf
I have a BroadcastReceiver which acquires a lock onReceive. I use an alarm manager with AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP set to broadcast my intent. I have found that when the phone is locked (and asleep) it will not wake up sometimes, and when it does many times it will have a delay (up to 30 seconds

[android-developers] Re: AlarmManager not always waking device (using RTC_WAKEUP)

2008-11-29 Thread Noam Wolf
Hi Adam, Have you figured this out? I'm seeing something similar. Basically I acquired the lock at the start of the onReceive() in my receiver and release it when it's done doing it's work. I still dont' see the phone waking up correctly... On Nov 19, 12:56 am, Adam K [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[android-developers] Getting information from the Internet

2008-11-29 Thread Juan David Trujillo C.
Hi guys! I am creating a software application for the Android platform that requires getting information from the Internet (getting information from a specific Web page, at Facebook). Does anyone know how could this be done? Perhaps some reference code? Thanks in advance for all your help!

[android-developers] screen orientation question

2008-11-29 Thread joshbeck
Hello all, I am trying to determine exactly what happens when the screen orientation changes. (What I mean is, what happens to the lifecycle of an app when the user slides the screen out.) Reason: I show a dialog in my app. If the user slides the screen out, the app crashes with 'View not

[android-developers] Re: screen orientation question

2008-11-29 Thread Mark Murphy
joshbeck wrote: Hello all, I am trying to determine exactly what happens when the screen orientation changes. (What I mean is, what happens to the lifecycle of an app when the user slides the screen out.) Reason: I show a dialog in my app. If the user slides the screen out, the app

[android-developers] Re: Location API and JSR-179/OpenLAPI

2008-11-29 Thread Mark Murphy
Sam Halliday wrote: also, OpenLAPI is able to provide a JSR-179 API from an external bluetooth device, Google Earth XML file (excellent for development) or the LandmarkStore . Might be of use to you. On Nov 29, 12:55 pm, Sam Halliday [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, When Android was

[android-developers] Re: Long Press - a SubMenu popup - how implement that?

2008-11-29 Thread Mark Murphy
zLarry wrote: Like android bundled contact applicaiton. When I long press a contact, then a sub menu pops up - to let me 'edit','remove' ... how to implement that? I was confused for a long time! Use Menu#addSubMenu(). -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com Android

[android-developers] Re: Bug / Feature ( Wifi only works if your SSID is broadcast )

2008-11-29 Thread Dan Pou
I thought it worked by manually specifying a network (Add a Wi-Fi network). I was able to connect to my own network without SSID broadcast. If it is not being broadcast, and you don't know the SSID, you probably shouldn't be connecting. On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Scotti [EMAIL

[android-developers] Re: AutoCompleteTextView without keyboard input

2008-11-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL

[android-developers] Re: Word Document

2008-11-29 Thread Protocol-X
hello Humble, this is a developers page not a general forum. you can access google docs from the device via the web. as far as an app goes ythere is nothing as of yet but youd be better off going to a forum to ask ?ls like this. as far as the device being new and you not understanding how it

[android-developers] Re: contextmenu getselectedtestid

2008-11-29 Thread Protocol-X
this is my sample code @Override public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) { final AdapterView.AdapterContextMenuInfo acmi = (AdapterView.AdapterContextMenuInfo) item.getMenuInfo(); long clickedId = (long) acmi.id; switch (item.getItemId())

[android-developers] Re: Can I use DownloadProvider and PackageInstaller in my application?

2008-11-29 Thread Ralf
You might also want to check the Downloader sample code from apps-for-android: http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/source/browse/trunk/Samples/Downloader/README.txt R/ On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Xiaoliang Ding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Jean-Baptiste Queru Thanks a lot for

[android-developers] Re: Can I use DownloadProvider and PackageInstaller in my application?

2008-11-29 Thread Jean-Baptiste Queru
The applications that use DownloadProvider are the Browser, Gmail, Market, and the System Updater. LIke Ralf said, the easiest way would be to look at the Downloader sample code. You can also just write it from scratch from public classes, you can look for inspiration in the DownloadProvider's

[android-developers] Re: Android market and ADCII

2008-11-29 Thread Shane Isbell
Hi Teo, If you are going to open-source, better do it early. Disregarding the Google open-source way, once your app is stable and complete, there is little reason or motivation for people to make contributions to your project. Shane On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 4:27 AM, Teo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[android-developers] Re: SMS entry

2008-11-29 Thread Kingorcus
anyone ?? On Nov 28, 5:33 pm, Kingorcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to insert a new SMS entry in the Database using the undocumented SMS URI I am successful in accessing the sms table, but not the threads table anyone knows how to do it or what is the content name for the

[android-developers] Ringtone.isPlaying problem

2008-11-29 Thread Selmi
hi, i hope there is someone who has some experience with ringtones in short, i open RingtoneManager and i choose ringtone from it using: mRingtone=mRingtoneManager.getRingtone(position); mRingtone.play(); after some time i make following test: if(mRingtone!=null mRingtone.isPlaying()) {

[android-developers] Re: Allocation too large for this process

2008-11-29 Thread EboMike
Any ideas? I've created a little test app that's nothing more than a Gallery with an adapter that creates an ImageView and populates it through new BitmapDrawable(BitmapFactory.decodeFile(filename)), with always the same filename. Every time a new view is created, the data object size increases

[android-developers] Re: Need Help animating Text

2008-11-29 Thread Dejecting
aye, a One Directional ticker that repeats the same line of text until manually stopped, much like a stock ticker, is what I'm looking for. I'm new to Java and Android but I've been playing around with this quite a bit and displaying the text in static form is easy, I just can't get it animated.

[android-developers] Re: contextmenu getselectedtestid

2008-11-29 Thread Protocol-X
I figured it out kind of ... It seems since i was using the same method in moth the onItemSelected and the onContextItemSelected the onItemSelected was taking ownership of the method instead of listening to the onContextItemSelected... never encountered this issue before has anyone else? On Nov

[android-developers] Re: Keeping ListView rows clickable

2008-11-29 Thread Dave Orme
Thanks Mark, I've found that and some other threads now; that was just the nudge I needed to get going. Thanks! Dave On Nov 27, 5:50 pm, Mark Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to create a ListView with a custom row that remains tappable and long-tappable. Actually, what it appears

[android-developers] problems with MapActivity in 1.0_r1 eclipse 3.3.2

2008-11-29 Thread Clay
So I am having a strange behavior which I cannot explain and it only happens when I try to extend the MapActivity class. This is super simple stuff so I am bewildered why this is happening. The class is clearly there if you use the resources tab so I am curious why the Classloader fails to

[android-developers] Re: problems with MapActivity in 1.0_r1 eclipse 3.3.2

2008-11-29 Thread Clay
bummer I searched like crazy before posting but *just* found this post... http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/cb0169ab3a334671/42cd947c63f2eb48?lnk=gstq=MapActivity+ClassNotFoundException#42cd947c63f2eb48 now it works. thx.

[android-developers] Re: AutoCompleteTextView without keyboard input

2008-11-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Currently AutoCompleteTextView is driven by key input events, so the only way to get it to pop up its autocomplete list is to deliver key events to its onKeyDown() its funcs and let it perform the text insert and then the other magic it does. On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[android-developers] Re: AlarmManager not always waking device (using RTC_WAKEUP)

2008-11-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
You need to hold a wake lock the entire time you want to be running, from when onReceiveIntent() is called until you have done all of your work. On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Adam K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Dianne. Should I be holding a wakelock in the pendingintent receiver of the

[android-developers] Re: WindowManager$BadTokenException: Unable to add window -- token null is not for an application

2008-11-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
It would help if you would include the stack crawl of the error and such. One cause of this error may be trying to display an application window/dialog through a Context that is not an Activity. On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Ash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello super smart people, I've got a

[android-developers] Re: Java App UI / Engine C split query

2008-11-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
At this time native code is not supported in the SDK. On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Mungbeans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I have a large existing component alredy developed for another platform in C and I want to port it to Android what are the options? If I re-write the entire thing in

[android-developers] Re: For modular requirement

2008-11-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
A good way to do this is publish it as a service in another .apk, which you can query the package manager for and bind to. This isn't really a true plug-in though (a service is a global singleton in the system, and you'll nee to define a .aidl interface to it so it can run in another process).

[android-developers] Re: SpecialCharacters

2008-11-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
No. On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:24 PM, ena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can it be done using keyCharacterMap Class? On Nov 28, 10:41 am, Ernest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works well if define it in string.xml like string name=XXX \u1E00/string On 11月28日, 下午1时21分, Ernest [EMAIL

[android-developers] Re: How to automate emulator hardware keys.

2008-11-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Just send a key event with the appropriate key code. Note that you probably do not want to do this with, say, HOME, since that will leave your app and then you aren't going to be able to send any more events to the focus window. On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:15 PM, sush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[android-developers] Re: Screen orientation woes

2008-11-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Stoyan Damov [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Ralf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Stoyan Damov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also don't want my activity to get restarted when the screen orientation changes,

[android-developers] Re: FLAG_ONEWAY for asynchronous communication between services

2008-11-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 4:31 AM, nimbus83 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May you shortly explain how Android behave while many services are running in separate processes and communicating with each other? Each process currently has an overhead of about 2MB (generally there is ~20MB total available

[android-developers] Re: Possibility to access the Own Content Provider

2008-11-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Have you gone through the NotePad sample app? That shows you a complete working example of writing and using a content provider. On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:24 AM, yasmin afrose [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi Dianne, Thanks for your reply. ie, In OWNCONTENTPROVIDER manifest file, I've included

[android-developers] Re: How to implement a horizon scrollview?

2008-11-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
There isn't one in the framework. You can get the ScrollView source code and make your own version that scrolls horizontally. On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:27 PM, ilikeB2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi When i want to use a scroll view that can contain a table which has large width, I can not

[android-developers] Re: How to enable screen transition when launching Activity

2008-11-29 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Inter-activity transitions are not supported at this point, sorry. On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Tomei Ningen [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: This question was asked before