[android-developers] Advice Needed on Application Approach

2009-11-02 Thread Tabibito
Hi all, I'm a total newbie to Android (and to Java in general... mostly a PERL/ PHP guy here...), so forgive me if I use the wrong terminology to refer to things... I have been asked by my company to implement an application for Android that allows a user to enter a note at the end of every call.

[android-developers] Re: Advice Needed on Application Approach

2009-11-03 Thread Tabibito
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[android-developers] Re: Advice Needed on Application Approach

2009-11-03 Thread Tabibito
For some reason onCallStateChanged gets triggered with a state of CALL_STATE_IDLE on phone startup... perhaps because it is changing from undefined to CALL_STATE_IDLE? Does anyone know how to distinguish this scenario from a hangup? Is there a way to see the previous call state, i.e. the state

[android-developers] Re: Advice Needed on Application Approach

2009-11-04 Thread Tabibito
So does that mean there's no way to tell the difference between the phone starting up and calling onCallStateChanged, and the caller hanging up and calling onCallStateChanged? On Nov 3, 2:13 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Dianne Hackborn wrote: I'm not sure it is published in

[android-developers] Re: Advice Needed on Application Approach

2009-11-04 Thread Tabibito
What I mean is that I start the service when I receive a BOOT_COMPLETED message from the system. Immediately upon starting my service, onCallStateChanged() is called with a state of idle. No calls have come in, I haven't even touched the emulator... I'm assuming that it's happening because the

[android-developers] Adding Custom Data Types to Contacts

2009-12-15 Thread Tabibito
I find the documentation on custom data types for contacts very sparse and the only example I can find in the documentation doesn't seem to work. I am trying to add a custom field to all my contacts, called isBusiness, which will hold a true or false. I want to be able to add this field and set