[android-developers] Singed App on Emulator

2009-02-19 Thread jtoolsdev
I have an app that is ready for release however after signing the app when I attempt to upload it to the emulator I get an INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE. I've searched and haven't found anything on this message. I also signed another copy using the debug key and it installed fine. Either

[android-developers] The GPS Shutdown Thing

2009-11-19 Thread jtoolsdev
I have two apps that take advantage of GPS. The recommendation of the SDK is for setting up the location listener is to set time at 6ms or 1 minute. My tests show if you use that number when exiting the app it may not shutdown GPS. Even using the call to stop location updates when onStop

[android-developers] Re: The GPS Shutdown Thing

2009-11-19 Thread jtoolsdev
 pm, Nathan nathan.d.mel...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 19, 12:09 pm, jtoolsdev brianjto...@gmail.com wrote: The recommendation of the SDK is for setting up the location listener is to set time at 6ms or 1 minute.   Really? Does Google Maps follow that guideline? My tests show if you

[android-developers] Please make NumberPicker a usable widget

2009-12-16 Thread jtoolsdev
I know I could use it and I think others have mentioned they would like to use it in their apps. Currently it is internal so we're not supposed to use it and we have to roll our own which is a pain (I've done it). Also why does DatePicker only have a 200 year range (1900-2100)? Even the date

[android-developers] NumberPicker based widgets function different in emulator than phone

2009-12-21 Thread jtoolsdev
TimePicker and DatePicker use NumberPicker which is an internal widget. On the emulator the EditText on the widget is focusable and you can type into it. On my phone, and HTC Eris, you cannot. Does this have something to do with the attributes (which I don't entirely understand) and HTC maybe

[android-developers] Re: NumberPicker based widgets function different in emulator than phone

2009-12-22 Thread jtoolsdev
On Dec 21, 12:04 pm, jtoolsdev brianjto...@gmail.com wrote: TimePicker and DatePicker use NumberPicker which is an internal widget.  On the emulator the EditText on the widget is focusable and you can type into it.  On my phone, and HTC Eris, you cannot.  Does this have something to do

[android-developers] Reusing ListView Custom Adapter

2009-12-30 Thread jtoolsdev
I have a ListView in my application that uses a Custom Adapter. It's uses TextViews where I am able to set the color. The Custom Adapter is based on examples in the ApiDemo and examples elsewhere. However in none of those examples did I find how to clear the adapter since the data for that

[android-developers] Re: Reusing ListView Custom Adapter

2009-12-31 Thread jtoolsdev
Thank's Mark. That's what I figured was happening but wanted to be sure. I saw your post yesterday (on another computer that didn't have this account set on it) but couldn't reply until today. I've been posting with this address since spring. I though the 24 hour thing only happened the first

[android-developers] Re: Handling large screens, such as tablets - still doesn't make sense to me

2010-09-14 Thread jtoolsdev
I happened to hear from Samsung about a particular app they were interested in having ready for the India release. The app was 1.5 compatible and interestingly the ImageView bitmap scaled fine even to WVGA 854x480 without any changes. Guess that's why I never heard from any users that it was

[android-developers] Re: When is android market opening to India??

2010-10-08 Thread jtoolsdev
India got paid apps on the 6th and I have since had orders from customers in India. On Oct 6, 10:51 pm, Kumar Bibek coomar@gmail.com wrote: All I can say is Wait and Watch :( On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Vijay Vikrant Balyan vijayvikran...@gmail.com wrote: Hello,      Does

[android-developers] Re: GLIBC 2.11 needed for emulator in SDK 2.3 !!!!

2010-12-07 Thread jtoolsdev
Same here on Ubuntu 9.10. Hoses any development until there is a solution. Looking at reported 2.3 errors popping developers may want to wait to update. On Dec 7, 6:56 am, Fred J fred.jea...@gmail.com wrote: Same error on (Mandriva release 2010) On 6 déc, 22:27, elpix1 elp...@gmail.com

[android-developers] Re: GLIBC 2.11 needed for emulator in SDK 2.3 !!!!

2010-12-07 Thread jtoolsdev
Found out the QA machines at Android were upgraded to Lucid so they didn't catch the glibc thing. They are hoping to issue a fix. On Dec 7, 2:22 pm, jtoolsdev brianjto...@gmail.com wrote: Same here on Ubuntu 9.10.  Hoses any development until there is a solution.  Looking at reported 2.3

[android-developers] Proguard problem after 2.3 update

2010-12-12 Thread jtoolsdev
I updated the android 2.3 and when I try to run the proguard builds that worked before am getting this: /add-proguard-release.xml:35: Problem: failed to create task or type proguard Cause: The name is undefined. Action: Check the spelling. Action: Check that any custom tasks/types have been

[android-developers] Re: Proguard problem after 2.3 update

2010-12-12 Thread jtoolsdev
of the error message I supplied was rather cryptic and related to Ganymede not Galileo. On Dec 12, 6:08 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: You cannot use your pre-2.3 files.  You basically need to renerate using android update/ On Dec 13, 9:26 am, jtoolsdev brianjto...@gmail.com wrote

[android-developers] Re: Proguard problem after 2.3 update

2010-12-13 Thread jtoolsdev
you need. no more mofiying build.xml, as it's built-in. As for Eclipse, proguard is there in release mode. This is when you export a release (signed / unsigned) app. default debug (incremental) builds are not run through proguard. Xav On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 7:13 PM, jtoolsdev brianjto

[android-developers] Re: Proguard problem after 2.3 update

2010-12-14 Thread jtoolsdev
environment. Next time I'll wait for revision 2 or higher. On Dec 13, 12:56 pm, jtoolsdev brianjto...@gmail.com wrote: And proguard.config=/path/to/proguard.cfg goes where?  In the build.xml?  local.properties?  There already seems to be a reference to it in the add-proguard-release.xml

[android-developers] Re: Proguard problem after 2.3 update

2010-12-14 Thread jtoolsdev
Got ant 1.8.1 running, didn't help. Bizarre. On Dec 14, 3:01 pm, jtoolsdev brianjto...@gmail.com wrote: For those following this Android sneaked in an instruction that to even use Proguard in Eclipse you need to modify the default.properties file with the proguard.config=proguard.cfg

[android-developers] Re: Proguard problem after 2.3 update

2010-12-14 Thread jtoolsdev
app on an emulator on another machine and the license worked there but that installation is 2.2. It would be nice to know what is causing that. On Dec 14, 3:01 pm, jtoolsdev brianjto...@gmail.com wrote: For those following this Android sneaked in an instruction that to even use Proguard

[android-developers] Re: Proguard problem after 2.3 update

2010-12-15 Thread jtoolsdev
to change the Ant preferences in Eclipse to point to your 1.8.1 installation? Also, did you have to add -ignorewarning to your proguard.cfg to get it to complete the Proguard phase? jb On Dec 14, 4:37 pm, jtoolsdev brianjto...@gmail.com wrote: Well, after updating ant and exporting

[android-developers] Re: LVL and 2.3 Emulator

2010-12-15 Thread jtoolsdev
Same here too. I even checked and the Market Licensing Source wasn't updated for 2.3 either which I thought might be the problem. Maybe someone will find some obscure note that we were all supposed to read for a setting we were supposed to do when upgrading to 2.3 but I certainly haven't found

[android-developers] Re: LVL and 2.3 Emulator

2010-12-15 Thread jtoolsdev
Today it worked when I ran an emulator in Eclipse from SDK and AVD manager. On Dec 15, 1:03 pm, jtoolsdev brianjto...@gmail.com wrote: Same here too.  I even checked and the Market Licensing Source wasn't updated for 2.3 either which I thought might be the problem.   Maybe someone will find

[android-developers] Re: LVL and 2.3 Emulator

2010-12-16 Thread jtoolsdev
Anybody think Google may have rushed the Gingerbread release? On Dec 16, 7:19 am, CedarF cedric.dar...@gmail.com wrote: Does not work for me too, starting or not from eclipse avd On 8 déc, 03:58, Nick nick1...@gmail.com wrote: I have LVL working with my app and am able to test it with the

[android-developers] Re: Proguard problem after 2.3 update

2010-12-21 Thread jtoolsdev
to default.properties I'm getting the same error: Problem: failed to create task or type proguard. Any ideas? On Dec 15, 4:30 pm, jtoolsdev brianjto...@gmail.com wrote: No I didn't do anything to Eclipse and looking at the Ant section it is pointing to the 1.7.1 version but maybe a different

[android-developers] Re: LVL and 2.3 Emulator

2010-12-21 Thread jtoolsdev
. On Dec 17, 8:50 am, Nick nick1...@gmail.com wrote: I still can't get it working. jstoolsdev, Did you change anything to get it to start working? On Dec 15, 8:55 pm, jtoolsdev brianjto...@gmail.com wrote: Today it worked when I ran an emulator in Eclipse from SDK and AVD manager. On Dec

[android-developers] Re: Proguard problem after 2.3 update

2010-12-22 Thread jtoolsdev
I disabled the Proguard build from Eclipse by commenting out the proguard.cfg reference in default.properties. Then did a Refresh from the project's menu so it would take effect. On Dec 22, 7:20 am, licorna lico...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to disable this functionality. I just want to

[android-developers] Re: Demo vs Paid and that 15 minutes of refund policy

2010-12-24 Thread jtoolsdev
I used the emulator, CamStudio and made a video demo of my products and created a channel on YouTube. That may work better than a demo version depending on what your product does. Now the only problem is after supplying the link to the video (which the Market has an entry for) is waiting for

[android-developers] Re: Android 2.3 SDK Emulator is very slow

2011-01-02 Thread jtoolsdev
My 4 core AMD 64-bit machine running Windows 7 loads a 2.2 AVD fast (haven't tried a 2.3 on it yet) and responds like an Android device. In fact I did video demos of my apps on it with the emulator and CamStudio. It will even play video files on the SD card image. I develop on an Ubuntu machine

[android-developers] Re: Making a video of your app running

2011-01-05 Thread jtoolsdev
If you have a fast enough PC then you can use CamStudio program to capture a demo on an emulator. Worked great and much better than a previous demo I did pointing a camera at a phone. Then using my editing program I zoomed in and out so the user could understand that the MENU button is for

[android-developers] Re: Comments lost in the developer console and market app

2011-01-06 Thread jtoolsdev
There are quite a few messages from developers on this over on the Andriod Market Technical Help section so it seems to be a widespread problem or Google burp. On Jan 6, 6:35 am, Alex Xin xinxi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I don't know why, but some of my app comments lost in the developer console.

[android-developers] Re: Not Able to Browse Internet and Google Map on Emulator

2011-01-06 Thread jtoolsdev
I had a similar problem yesterday using a Gingerbread emulator. I thought I was connected to the Internet but was not. Relaunched the emulator and was connected. So all you may need to do is relaunch the emulator. Probably if you wade through all the Logcat output you may be able to see where

[android-developers] Re: First attempt at LVL Licensing

2011-01-09 Thread jtoolsdev
I first tested with the Android LVL example app and had no problems. Inconsistent results might be due to other things such as newer SDK emulators seem to need faster machines to run on and whether they are getting a reliable Internet connection. I had a devil of a time getting a 2.3 emulator to

[android-developers] Re: Integrating Proguard using recently posted instructions

2010-10-16 Thread jtoolsdev
Hope you aren't still eating candy bars. However, Dan is not a tech writer and the article needs to be a bit more fleshed out. I was stumped similarly to you yesterday until I figured out that to actually obfuscate I had to point to the directory where the proguard jar file was located. This

[android-developers] Re: Adventures with LVL

2010-10-31 Thread jtoolsdev
I have only had one customer complain of a problem since I upgraded to LVL. And who knows why that is happening as they could have changed emails since the original purchase under the old system or part of the problem which seems to be going on with the Market these days. Also it was my

[android-developers] Re: device fingerprinting

2010-10-31 Thread jtoolsdev
Isn't LVL locked to the user's Google email? I thought that was the idea though they you can use device IDs as an option. Linked to the account it allows the user to install the app again if they get a different device. The ID option would be for a single device policy though they could stand

[android-developers] SQL Case Sensitivity between 2.1 and 2.2

2010-11-08 Thread jtoolsdev
Is there any reason why SQL became case sensitive with Froyo (2.2)? I was tracking down why I have an Error reported which doesn't occur on my 2.1 phone nor on earlier OS version emulation with SimpleCursorAdapter. My bad was that between two selectable databases that one had lower case fields

[android-developers] Re: SQL Case Sensitivity between 2.1 and 2.2

2010-11-08 Thread jtoolsdev
. On Nov 8, 3:39 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:48 PM, jtoolsdev brianjto...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any reason why SQL became case sensitive with Froyo (2.2)? It isn't, AFAIK. I was tracking down why I have an Error reported which doesn't occur on my

[android-developers] Re: Android Development Income Tax Question

2011-01-20 Thread jtoolsdev
I would recommend seeing a tax accountant because these things can get complicated and not doing the forms right can result in an invitation from the IRS. On Jan 20, 12:51 pm, vistaman azgol...@gmail.com wrote: Last year, I made about $1200 selling my apps on Market, including ads income.

[android-developers] Build.SERIAL deprecated?

2011-01-20 Thread jtoolsdev
I've been testing a device that doesn't return any Anroid ID or any kind of identifier short of MAC address but it does have a serial number which is also shown in the Setting device information. I not that android.os.Build.SERIAL is listed in the documentation but I don't find it when I try to

[android-developers] Re: Android Development Income Tax Question

2011-01-21 Thread jtoolsdev
I don't even like to do the tax worksheets my accountant sends me. So talk about eyes glazing over. But the first time I filed back in the last century as a self-employed person I got audited rather laughingly by the IRS who told me use an accountant because the deductions are tricky to take. I

[android-developers] Re: another problem with Galaxy Tab and fullscreen

2011-01-23 Thread jtoolsdev
A little off topic but Samsung still needs to release a skin for the Galaxy tablet that has the Google API in it. I think most if not all Galaxy tablets available have the API but the skin doesn't. On Jan 21, 5:47 am, guich guiha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm running our application on galaxy

[android-developers] LVL and new SDKs

2011-02-26 Thread jtoolsdev
I finally downloaded the 2.3.3 and 3.0 SDKs and like 2.3 LVL does not work with the emulators. Anyone else seeing this? A number of people reported seeing it with 2.3 and I've never seen a resolution to the problem. Is there something extra we have to do for these platforms? Kinda makes it

[android-developers] Re: LVL and new SDKs

2011-02-28 Thread jtoolsdev
Reports of this problem have been around for at least a couple months and it is still not fixed? From the log I can see that it appears to be a binding error and that was what was reported with the Gingerbread emulators. On Feb 26, 1:16 pm, mp6800 mport...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah the problem

[android-developers] Re: Experiences with Application Licensing?

2011-03-09 Thread jtoolsdev
Support for it is rather vague too. On my apps if I run monkey on the app without the licensing I can do 50,000 events and no crashes. The app with LVL crashes on one of those APN keystroke things. The LVL team needs to update the source to prevent that. I believe in using licensing if

[android-developers] Re: Experiences with Application Licensing?

2011-03-09 Thread jtoolsdev
for an order number. Good luck, -Kevin On Mar 9, 3:02 pm, jtoolsdev brianjto...@gmail.com wrote: Support for it is rather vague too.  On my apps if I run monkey on the app without the licensing I can do 50,000 events and no crashes.  The app with LVL crashes on one of those APN keystroke

[android-developers] Re: ANR keyDispatchingTimedOut on android/com.android.internal.app.RingtonePickerActivity

2011-03-13 Thread jtoolsdev
I've seen these when running monkey when with the version of my app that has market licensing. Monkey would stop and dump reporting a crash but nothing is showing on the emulator and the app continues to run just fine. What I've read but not dug into yet is that the thread needs to be set up

[android-developers] Re: SDCard installs - auto or preferExternal?

2011-05-05 Thread jtoolsdev
The manifest display in Eclipse defaults to auto. On a recent release I set it to preferExternal and there seemed to be some reports of difficulty. Problem is the docs say the same thing for both settings and that the user can move the installation. I don't have a device that is 2.2 or better

[android-developers] Re: AVD Emulator Opens Wrong Dpi

2011-05-12 Thread jtoolsdev
In the developer docs they mention to get the emulator to display properly you have to set the density to 160 not 240. I found that true when using WVGA emulators. On May 11, 6:55 am, canalrun canalr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have created an AVD virtual device representing the Samsung

[android-developers] Re: AVD Emulator Opens Wrong Dpi

2011-05-13 Thread jtoolsdev
this. Thanks. Barry. On May 12, 4:46 pm, jtoolsdev brianjto...@gmail.com wrote: In the developer docs they mention to get the emulator to display properly you have to set the density to 160 not 240.  I found that true when using WVGA emulators. On May 11, 6:55 am, canalrun canalr

[android-developers] Re: Career as an Andoid developer. Is there any point?

2011-05-25 Thread jtoolsdev
And it's probably a good idea to acknowledge that we have an Android gold rush going on at the moment so the market will be flooded with Android developers. And it will be difficult for those in the position of hiring to sort out who knows what they are doing and those who don't. As far as how

[android-developers] Re: Career as an Andoid developer. Is there any point?

2011-05-26 Thread jtoolsdev
Yes, it's definitely luck. If there were a formula we'd all be doing it. You have to be the right person with the right idea in the right place at the right time to have a big winner on the Market or in business in general. When SimCity came out on the Mac and I was finishing the Amiga version a

[android-developers] Re: Android emulator bottleneck

2011-05-31 Thread jtoolsdev
Ah, the emulator isn't running ARM code just the Dalvik engine. The problem has been addressed elsewhere by developer supprot that it is not possible to build an emulator so far that can take advantage of the graphics acceleration on your PC. On May 31, 12:25 pm, String

[android-developers] Re: Android emulator bottleneck

2011-06-01 Thread jtoolsdev
with not being able to use the graphics card acceleration on the PCs. Someone will probably figure that one out though. On May 31, 1:13 pm, Chris Stratton cs07...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 3:30:39 PM UTC-4, jtoolsdev wrote: Ah, the emulator isn't running ARM code just the Dalvik

[android-developers] Re: Amazon AppStore, are you earning something from there?

2011-06-04 Thread jtoolsdev
Most of my apps require the Google API and I was thinking of making some special editions that don't because Amazon sells a number of devices such as tablets that only come with the Android API. That might be a good use of Amazon store whereas if a device has licensed the Google API it should

[android-developers] Re: latitude and longitude

2011-06-14 Thread jtoolsdev
Depends on what you mean by easy. You can get the last known location without waiting using GPS but it if is out of date may return nothing. You can get the coarse location or the longitude and latitude of the cell tower quickly too. GPS to update and synchronize can take a while so it is good

[android-developers] Re: LVL does not work while testing

2011-04-07 Thread jtoolsdev
I assume you are using a Froyo (Android 2.2) emulator? It doesn't work with versions. What Google should have done with LVL is also to have included a couple example Policy source files for the developers to examine and get hints from. On Apr 6, 1:56 pm, ted t...@filigreeinc.com wrote: I

[android-developers] Re: LVL does not work while testing

2011-04-08 Thread jtoolsdev
That should have read It doesn't work with other versions. On Apr 7, 4:36 pm, jtoolsdev brianjto...@gmail.com wrote: I assume you are using a Froyo (Android 2.2) emulator?  It doesn't work with versions.  What Google should have done with LVL is also to have included a couple example Policy

[android-developers] Re: LVL Retry Count

2011-04-10 Thread jtoolsdev
They need to provide several example Policy source files for different setups. The default has some disadvantages. It always shows activating when the app was run rather than any cached policy. Some of my customers complained about it. Other developers have modified their policy file for more

[android-developers] Re: Emulator is crashing a lot

2011-04-11 Thread jtoolsdev
They would often take 3-4 retries on my 2.4 Ghz Ubuntu installation. So on Friday I built a 64-bit 3 core Ubuntu machine and now they all boot perfectly in 1 minute. Haven't run a 3.0 emulator on it yet. On Apr 11, 9:21 am, Andrew andrew.g.crich...@gmail.com wrote: I have also been experiencing

[android-developers] Re: Emulator is crashing a lot

2011-04-11 Thread jtoolsdev
The 3.0 Emulator came up fast too. Maps my splash screen right side up but the main screen is upside down. In fact the whole screen (icons, title bar are upside down). Been cruisin' looking for bug reports and comments on that. Though I would think my products would do better on a tablet in

[android-developers] Re: Running application in Portrait mode on HoneyComb

2011-04-15 Thread jtoolsdev
I'm seeing that too and there are other posts on the forum reporting it. It is either a bug or we need something extra in the layout declarations or manifest. But screens that size aren't really documented yet. My splash screen is fine and when I select the button to take me to the next one the

[android-developers] Re: New Proguard scheme breaks Log message removal

2012-08-27 Thread jtoolsdev
libraries. On Monday, April 23, 2012 12:33:17 PM UTC-7, jtoolsdev wrote: One of the techniques that I have been using to remove Log messages is to use: -assumenosideeffects class android.util.Log { public static int v(...); public static int i(...); public static int w

[android-developers] Re: BitmapFactory.decodeResource returning null sometimes for local resource

2011-09-29 Thread jtoolsdev
I got a null pointer when my PNG file was incorrectly saved. Since I was developing on Linux, I loaded it into GIMP and saved it back out and it loaded. So you might check using one of the image files supplied in the SDK. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[android-developers] Emulator and the requiresSmallestWidthDp declaration

2011-09-29 Thread jtoolsdev
If one has created a Android 3.2 virtual device with a 7 1024x600 screen and your app has android:requiresSmallestWidthDp=720 declared (for 10 or greater screens) shouldn't the emulator refuse to load the app? Currently it loads it. Or is this declaration only good for the Market? -- You

[android-developers] SDK 14: Libraries no longer showing in existing projects

2011-10-19 Thread jtoolsdev
Both SDK 14 and ADT 14 installed in Eclipse and my existing projects that depend on libraries are no longer showing. Instead I'm showing com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.LIBRARIES which was never included before. What's that about? My library is included in the build path however. Removing and

[android-developers] Re: Problem with ADT14

2011-10-20 Thread jtoolsdev
It's bit a number of developers: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20398 -- 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,

[android-developers] Re: Problem with ADT14

2011-10-20 Thread jtoolsdev
In the update notes they mention that the library build method has changed. Then they detail a little more on the link to what has changed. What they need is a blog article on what steps you need to update an old project to the new system. That's the problem developers are having. I kinda

[android-developers] SDK 14 Logcat doesn't work

2011-10-20 Thread jtoolsdev
The new LogCat doesn't show anything at all. Is there some undocumented voodoo one must do? There's nothing about any setting in the docs. I'm running Eclipse Helios on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers

[android-developers] Re: SDK 14 Logcat doesn't work

2011-10-20 Thread jtoolsdev
Works after I restarted Eclipse, but I don't think that should be necessary. -- 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

[android-developers] Re: Several issues after upgrading ADT to v14

2011-10-27 Thread jtoolsdev
Yes, lots of developers are having issues with r14. You might want to go to the issues board to see what ones they are including yours. Xavier also posted a link to an r14 issues article there and on a couple of other posts here. They were planning a migration article but it didn't make it

[android-developers] Re: Android Launch Error - Your project contains error(s) please fix before running your application

2011-11-03 Thread jtoolsdev
Look at the errors and the problems logs. They may provide a clue. Granted some build problems don't provide enough clues which indeed can be frustrating. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email

[android-developers] Re: No APK file or DEX files are created - with no warning or Error whatsoever

2011-11-07 Thread jtoolsdev
I also found that selecting Run As-Android Application would trigger a build if nothing else would. -- 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

[android-developers] Re: Obsoleting 1.5

2011-11-11 Thread jtoolsdev
One might wonder how many of those 1.5 devices listed in statistic are really still active? I have a smattering of those but my apps don't do anything currently that would cut them out anyway. I do have an different APK for 10 tablets where I can use a full layout with fragments rather than

Re: [android-developers] Re: Obsoleting 1.5

2011-11-12 Thread jtoolsdev
Because on a 7 the older tabbed system looks and works just fine. 10 and larger it is absurd so using the different layout worked. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Supporting Galaxy Note Issues Due To It Displaying Itself as a LARGE screen layout.

2012-03-15 Thread jtoolsdev
It would be nice to have a tool that we can confirm how these display qualifiers will show up on Play before we actually upload. Otherwise it could be trial and error. I recently had someone get the Honeycomb version I created for 10 and larger minimum 720p screens who has a 1024x600 7 and

[android-developers] Re: Problem stripping Log calls with ProGuard

2012-04-24 Thread jtoolsdev
BTW, this method no longer works with the new scheme of using Proguard. Anyone know why? On Wednesday, March 9, 2011 5:29:50 AM UTC-8, Marcin Orlowski wrote: Hi, I try to strip all log calls from release app using proguard (-assumenosideeffects) i noticed not all is removed. Some cases

[android-developers] Re: Android paid technical support

2011-11-26 Thread jtoolsdev
For users Google could do a lot better job about being in the face of new users to understand how the Market works. I occasionally get those if I get a new phone can I move your app on it emails which are NOT for the developer to actually answer. I point them to the Market Help and at the

[android-developers] Supports screens value for 7 3.2+ tablet

2012-01-09 Thread jtoolsdev
Currently I have an app that supports any size screen up to Android 3.0. For 3.0 and above I have a 10 version using fragments. Now customers are inquiring about 7 Honeycomb tablet support and the 10 version would be cropped on those and unusable. I have created a 3.2 version which uses the

[android-developers] Re: LVL and WIFI-only tablets

2011-06-19 Thread jtoolsdev
Tailor your LVL code to deal with it. You can let the app run but check the next time it is run with wifi available and then maybe stop checking altogether after a while. On Jun 18, 4:31 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: This has become an issue recently for me -- no doubt because of

[android-developers] Re: I am unable to play MP4, MPG or MOV file on Gingerbread emulator

2011-06-22 Thread jtoolsdev
You need to run the emulator on a fast machine to even get MP4 files to play. MPG and MOV are not supported. MP4 files play fine on my 64- bit multicore machines (Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04). On Jun 21, 10:00 pm, rinks24583 rinks24...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to play media file on

[android-developers] Re: Fragments

2011-07-01 Thread jtoolsdev
I would highly recommend the article on fragments here: http://www.developer.com/ws/create-flexible-android-uis-with-fragments.html It is lean and to the point. Google tends to overload their documentation and it becomes difficult to sort out the essentials. But you also might want to look at

[android-developers] Strange emulator behaviour after installing 3.1 rev 2

2011-07-11 Thread jtoolsdev
I updated to everything new which included Android 3.1 revision 2 and the latest 12.0 SDK tools and ADT Plugin up to date. If I resize a 3.0 or 3.1 emulator the display is screwed up as if it is hatched 16 color. The emulator display is correct if I don't set a resize. Anyone else seeing

[android-developers] Re: Strange emulator behaviour after installing 3.1 rev 2

2011-07-13 Thread jtoolsdev
Just a follow up but on the discussion group I was informed by Android support that it is a known issue with the new emulator. -- 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] DBAdapter crash when using DialogFragment

2011-07-28 Thread jtoolsdev
The same code that worked in an Activity when put into a DialogFragment for accessing a new instance of a DBAdapter crashes if the database doesn't exist or has no entries. It will work if there is at least one entry in the database and generates a NullPointerException. My workaround is

[android-developers] Re: DBAdapter crash when using DialogFragment

2011-07-30 Thread jtoolsdev
Follow up for those who might run into the same problem. The original code was just moved from an Activity into a DialogFragment modified for a fragment. Deep in the onCreateView code checked to see if the database existed or had any entries. If it didn't it popped up a Toast message that no

[android-developers] Re: Supporting Galaxy Note Issues Due To It Displaying Itself as a LARGE screen layout.

2012-01-20 Thread jtoolsdev
I have a similar problem with one of my apps where I created a special version (same app different APK) for 10 Honeycomb tablets. If a 7 Honeycomb tablet (1024x600) tries to run the app the screen will get cropped and if a 7 tablet with 1280x720 runs it the widgets will be difficult to use.

[android-developers] Re: Kindle Fire and Permissions

2012-02-02 Thread jtoolsdev
Does the app use the Google API instead of the Android API? The Kindle Fire only has the Android API so if you built with the Google API it won't run or even install on a Kindle Fire or other tablets and devices that have on the Android API. -- You received this message because you are

[android-developers] What to use for supports-screens so that only 10 screens an alternatate APK?

2012-03-08 Thread jtoolsdev
I have now had a report that someone with the 1024x600 Samsung 6200 got the APK intended for the 10 and larger size screens. With that APK the layout uses Fragments to put all the display elements on one page and on a 1024x600 screen the display gets cropped on the right and bottom. The

Re: [android-developers] What to use for supports-screens so that only 10 screens an alternatate APK?

2012-03-09 Thread jtoolsdev
. On Friday, March 9, 2012 5:33:41 AM UTC-8, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:28 PM, jtoolsdev brianjto...@gmail.com wrote: I have now had a report that someone with the 1024x600 Samsung 6200 got the APK intended for the 10 and larger size screens. I'd try

[android-developers] Re: What to use for supports-screens so that only 10 screens an alternatate APK?

2012-03-10 Thread jtoolsdev
, jtoolsdev wrote: I have now had a report that someone with the 1024x600 Samsung 6200 got the APK intended for the 10 and larger size screens. With that APK the layout uses Fragments to put all the display elements on one page and on a 1024x600 screen the display gets cropped on the right and bottom

Re: [android-developers] Re: What to use for supports-screens so that only 10 screens an alternatate APK?

2012-03-11 Thread jtoolsdev
to verify it? Is the particular user's device just large, without the extra? Have you tried to find out? Have you ruled out the possibility of custom firmware with bugs or an unnatural density setting? 11.03.2012 2:21 пользователь jtoolsdev написал: Problem is that you don't know whether

Re: [android-developers] Google Maps API Key no map shown in app

2011-08-04 Thread jtoolsdev
And if running the release key in an emulator or device the app will have to be signed. That might be the step skipped. -- 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] Yet Another IllegalStateException Weirdness

2011-08-04 Thread jtoolsdev
I'm getting this crash when I'm running my app with monkey. The crash is not seen when just running the app on the emulator nor on a device. This is a revision of an app I've had out for over a year and modified for tablets using the Google 3.0 API. java.lang.IllegalStateException: The

[android-developers] Re: Film Use of Android Device

2011-08-04 Thread jtoolsdev
I've used CamStudio to record demo videos on an emulator. I haven't tried it with a tablet image yet. It would require a fast machine (I'm running a 4 core 64-bit machine when I use CamStudio). It's free so you might give it a try to see if it fits your needs: http://camstudio.org/ --

[android-developers] IllegalStateException only happens with Monkey

2011-08-09 Thread jtoolsdev
I've been testing an Android 3.0 SDK 11 version of one of my apps. When testing with Monkey I occasionally get an IllegalStateException when my data form dialog closes and a ListView is refreshed. I cannot replicate this doing the same thing manually with the emulator nor on my tablet. And

[android-developers] Re: how to use common baseadapter class for all listviews?

2011-08-11 Thread jtoolsdev
There are some examples in the samples. But it depends how complicated your BaseAdapter becomes. There are some good posts on StackOverflow too about implementing them. You may want to look at custom adapter examples which are built with the BaseAdapter class. -- You received this

Re: [android-developers] Re: SDK Tools r12 causing aapt to fail

2011-08-16 Thread jtoolsdev
Then this blog article needs to be rewritten: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/04/customizing-action-bar.html Because it references style elements that don't work. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this

[android-developers] Preferences Activity leaves black region on exit

2011-08-18 Thread jtoolsdev
This is occurring with Honeycomb (Android 11) OS. On exit the left edge outside of a ListView in a Fragment is left black when exiting my Preference Activity. This strip runs the height of the ListView and overlaps into a little of the Fragments to the left. Any other dialog that is opened

[android-developers] Re: Preferences Activity leaves black region on exit

2011-08-19 Thread jtoolsdev
I may have stumbled into a system bug. I had a multi line TextView in the Fragment to the left of the Fragment with a ListView. When I replaced the TextView with a non-editable EditText instead the region filling with black went away. However the TextView label above the EditView if I touch

Re: [android-developers] How to long-press on emulator ?

2011-08-29 Thread jtoolsdev
Yup, just select whatever widget needs a long click and hold down the mouse button longer (as if it were a finger). -- 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

Re: [android-developers] Convert C++ command line tool to Android app?

2011-08-29 Thread jtoolsdev
Depends on how complicated your C/C++ code is. For me it was fairly easy to do a search/replace for some elements and change the function calls a little on a fairly complicated C++ library. Tangible Software makes commercial C++ to Java tool. I considered it for doing projects where a lot of

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