android

How to read data from a Google spreadsheet for an android app

Hi all, I have a public google spreadsheet with some data in tables. I'm developing an android app which I want it to read these tables and then make a listview with the fields on the spreadsheet. Which will be the best way to do that? Thanks! ...

Android OpenGL video capture

Does anyone knows some convinient method to capture video to file or stream from OpenGL app on Android device? For example, can we capture video from a view, opengl view? I just found out the following: 1) We can get frames using glReadPixels. (No video on this step?) 2) MediaRecorder can encode video, but how can we provide it our r...

ADB Driver for HTC Incredible

I am looking for the WinXP Pro SP 3 ADB driver for the HTC Incredible. Does anyone have a link to it? ...

Is there any Android browser reference/documentation?

Is there any Android browser reference/documentation for Web app developers? Something like Apple's Safari Web Content Guide would be fantastic. I am exploring options to make Android Web app more native-like, so any suggestions would be appreciated. ...

How to read serial number on a Samsung device (from within app / on the device)?

How to read the device serial number (not IMEI) of a Samsung Android phone (same value that you get when you call 'adb devices') but from within an app or from the device; not using PC/USB/adb. I found a solution for HTC and other devices, which is - to call getprop ro.serialno in a terminal as described here, http://groups.googl...

Android: Multithreading-Bluetooth SPP/RFCOMM-How to keep my BluetoothSocket and OutputStream active when changing Activities

I am pretty new to Android and very new to Multithreading. I am writing an android application that contains multiple activities that implement onClickListners which sends a Bluetooth message on button click to . I have successfully been able to connect and keep my BluetoothSocket and OutputStream open while in one activity. I do not do...

Keeping Open a Sqlite Cursor

In an Android app I developed, I open a cursor to a query with a fairly large result set (~1k rows) and I keep it open indefinitely. Is this an ok practice? If not, should I close the cursor in the onClose() handler and then re-open it in the onStart() handler? The app seems to run fine, however it sometimes randomly crashes after havin...

Eclipse Device Chooser cant find my Dell Streak

Im starting to develop for android and i would like to test my aplication in my Dell Streak, its running 1.6 and my OS is Windows 7. According to this link http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/eclipse-adt.html all that i need to do to deploy on my device is: Declare your application as debuggable in your manifest: i ready ha...

Is there an Android Emulator on OS X?

I want to develop an android application without having to purchase an android phone, 1) Is there an android emulator on the mac? the same as on windows? 2) is it better to develop on an android app on a pc, or a mac? same? ...

how to pass handler using intent

there are 2 activity A and Screen in A Activity , i made handler and want to pass it to screen activity Handler error_handler = new Handler() { public void handleMessage(Message msg) { }}; Intent loginButton_intent = new Intent(A.this, Screen.class); loginButton_intent.putExtra("URL", URL); loginButton_intent.putExtra("IP_Addres", dv...

open android market

Hi folks i have upload some apps in android market.now i want to show or redirect users to my other apps.they can easily see and download other apps.please how to open other apps or how to redirect my app in application if any sample code that is good for me Thanks in advance Aswan ...

New Android developer seeking guidance for structuring app

I am a new to developing for Android and have been reading up and researching in order to become more familiar with the platform. My programming knowledge is moderate I have experience with C++ and a fairly proficient with Actionscript 3.0. I picked up programming primary to work on game development but come from a more artistic/design ...

Android Logging - How to clear for better performance.

New to Android and just looked at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Log.html My question is regarding everything except debug. How do these Log entries get cleared such as Error so that they don't consume space? Also, Is there a way that the logfile can be queried so that it can be sent to a central web service or some...

How to make ProgressDialog non-stop loading circle when I am loading a list of photos ?

Hi, I am downloading an array of photos from the net and showing a ProgressDialog with a loading circle. But the loading circle will be lag / hang while the process is not finish. How to make the loading running smoothly? Thanks. ...

Android Blend Modes

I am looking for a way to add more advanced blend modes to my program (ones that I could define myself). How would you suggest going about this with Android? Setting pixels individually is too slow to be a viable solution. ...

Possibility of a Curved Gallery

Hi All, Is it possible to change the default arrangement of the Android Gallery? What i meant is can we make the Gallery in a curved path, where the images will be along the curved path and the same time it has all the properties of the Android gallery? If possible, please tell me your ideas. All ideas are welcome. Thanks & Regards, Se...

How to design a web api for mobile app usage?

We are building a mobile app, specifically an android app, and it needs to connect to the server to get data. It is not like twitter, we do not need to expose some kind of public apis. We just need to keep it simple and safe because user will exchange some private data with the server. My questions is mainly on authentication. Our serve...

Android Split string.

i have a string called CurrentString and is in the form of something like this "Fruit: they taste good". i would like to split up the CurrentString using the : as the delimiter.so that way the word "Fruit" will be split into its own string and "they taste good" will be another string.and then i would simply like to use SetText and 2 dif...

unique size of the framing rectangle in zxing QR code scanner

Hi, I am a beginner to android. I am building an application to work with QR code.i downloaded the source code for zxing1.5 from the link http://code.google.com/p/zxing/downloads/list. When i try to load application with different devices i found that the framing rectangle to be in various sizes in different place,unfit to the device....

How to resize view width and height dynamically?

I am adding two views to a linearlayout. When I click on the first view it has to occupy second views width also. How do I do that? ...