android

PhoneGap's vibrate() and beep() functions break in iPhone, Android emulators

I have a PhoneGap app that I'm testing on webOS, Android, and iPhone. I'm using physical devices as well as emulators (the ones that come with their respective SDKs, not the PhoneGap emulator). Part of the code uses the navigator.notification.vibrate() and navigator.notification.beep() functions. All the physical devices I'm using eith...

ANDROID: Line Break in XML formatting?

Hi. when editing a String in XML I need to add line breaks. And I wanted to ask what is the RIGHT form when programming for android? Because <br> works but ECLIPSE marks the area as problematic. If I check out suggestions Eclipse tells me that I shall add a end tag </br> - IF I add that the line break dissapears... So the one works but...

device.uuid undefined in PhoneGap on Android?

I'm writing a PhoneGap application that sends requests to a central database. It needs to be able to identify the unique devices that connect to it. PhoneGap's device.uuid property would seem to do the trick. On webOS and iPhone, I get back a unique string of alphanumeric characters, which will satisfy my need. However, the Android devi...

Android: TabHost How To: set new content in existing tabs upon menu button?

Hello stackoverflow, I recently started Android programming and was working on my first program which displays a historic text document, sectioned by tabs via TabHost. I have limited my program to one activity and merely used setContent in my TabSpec's to switch between different XML views. The document has both unedited and corrected...

Shared Cookies between WebView and HTTPClient?

An Android app I am building requires web authentication for users to make data calls. In Adobe AIR and later the iPhone, we did this by rendering a login page in a webview-equivalent page and setting a cookie when the user signs in. Subsequent data calls use the same Cookie Jar and so are seen as authenticated. In the Android version, ...

Fastest 2D frame rate possible with android NDK, my try included, better options available?

Fastest 2D frame rate possible with android NDK, my try included, better options available? I used the NDK and OpenGL ES 2.0 to display a frame as a texture on a GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP. This was done on a HTC Desire, same hardware as Nexus One. I tried to load multiple GL_RGBA textures and switch between the textures, because the normal fill...

Are there any Android YouTube Player Flags?

My goal is to launch a video in the YouTube player, and then return to my app. I realize I can't control what's going on in another app, BUT I'm wondering if the YouTube app supports any kind of flags or data set in the calling Intent that might support this functionality. Anyone aware of any? I cannot find any documentation on the You...

Determining if an Activity exists on the current device?

Is there a way to check and see if an Activity exists on your device? If I have a youtube video link I want to specify it open in the YouTube PlayerActivity. However, I don't want to crash if for some reason they don't have it. Is there a way to check and see if the activity exists? I don't think I can catch the runtime exception since ...

Authenticated MediaPlayer

Trying to stream a video from an external server. _mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer(); _mediaPlayer.setDataSource( this, Uri.parse( _uri ) ); Works fine for an openly accessible server, but throws an Exception when the server requires authentication. I've looked at the code inside setDataSource and haven't found any way to set a c...

Android develop LCD font

How to add additional font in android environment? I need to make a font like LCD with pale background numbers like this: http://www.androidfreeware.net/img2/gps_speedometer_android_1.png ...

How to use a regular expression and assign the result to variables in Android?

I have a string named s_Result which will be parsed from the Internet. The format may be "Distance: 2.8km (about 9 mins)", and there are 4 variables which are f_Distance, m_DistanceUnit, f_timeEst, m_timeEstUnit. My question is how to parse s_Result and assign 2.8, km, 9, mins into f_Distance, m_distanceUnit, f_timeEst and m_timeEstUnit...

OpenGL-ES Texture Atlas. t axis is inverted.

I'm mapping a texture from my texture atlas to a square on a cube. For some reason, the t axis is inverted with 0 being at the top and 1 being at the bottom. Any ideas why this is happening? Also, I have to specify the texture coordinates in clockwise order rather than counter-clockwise. I am using counter-clockwise windings. The vertic...

Android 2.2 and "Bad address family" on Socket Connect

I have a fairly simple game that works perfectly on every version now up through 2.1, but with the new 2.2 (Froyo) release I am unable to create a socket. I am using the mina package for nio, and get this exception: W/System.err( 263): java.net.SocketException: Bad address family W/System.err( 263): at org.apache.harmony.luni...

error in pulling trace file -sdcard

hi ,Can anybody help me out with traceview! I created sdcard and mounted it on my emulator , after closing my app , when i try to pull to copy the files (using command:adb pull /sdcard/calc.trace /tmp)i get this error:"remote object /sdcard/calc.trace does not exist".I am listin gdown the commands in sequence. 1)f:>mksdcard 1024 ./myimag...

Android : background thread

Team, I need to run a background thread in my application. Could you please share the best practices where to initiate the thread so that keeps running irrespective of the Activity is being shown and things to consider. The purpose of this background thread is to fire transactions from the Simulator to the server and get the response b...

Android Versions

I am confused ... In my application i set the target to be 2.1 and minimum sdk version is 4. I thought my application will run on all devices from 1.6 to 2.1 .... I have tested it on HTC magic running Android 1.6 and it is running fine. My client is testing it on Droid Eris running Android 2.0 but the application isn't working there. Wh...

How to force main Acivity to wait for subactivity in Android?

hi, I am calling a subactivity from main activity. This subactivity should take few numbers from user (i'm using Edit text control to achieve this), save them to static variable in another class and terminate. I want main activity to wait for subactivity but both are just running simultaneously. Even doing sth like that doesn't help: ...

how to set listviewadapter in android custom dialog?

hi, i am using following code to setlistview adapter but giving me error at last line public class MyCustomDialog extends Dialog { String[] items= {"lorem", "ipsum", "dolor", "sit", "amet", "consectetuer", "adipiscing", "elit", "morbi", "vel", "ligula", "vitae", "arcu", "aliquet", "mollis", "eti...

android touchevent for listActivity

Hi, I have created ListActivity of images i want touchevent just like onItemClickListner how can i do it? i'm not finding any onItemTochListener plz reply Thanks ...

How can Start develop Android Video Chat?

Hi Friends, Can Anybody guide me how can i start develop, Android 2 way video chat application. Please reply Thanks in Advance ...