Hi i have HTC dev phone with Firmware 1.6 now i want to downgrade to 1.5. i follow steps which are given in this link http://androidandme.com/2009/10/beginners/guides/how-to-manually-install-the-official-t-mobile-android-1-6-on-your-g1/ but not get any result any one have solution for it than share here to downgrade Android os versio...
I'm a new Android developer and I just released a free, open source tipping calculator app called Tippy Tipper. I created this app to get myself familiar with Android and to hopefully provide a good example app for other new developers to look at. Now that I've overcome the challenges of learning how to program, test and release my And...
Sorry for being impatient.. but cant find the offline docs for android. Can someone just gimme a link ? Thanks in advance :) ...
(I am coming from an iPhone experience) When we create an iPhone app, Apple gives us a http URL that we can put on web pages that when clicked will open iTunes and give the user a chance to buy on their desktop. As Android has no "iTunes" Windows/Mac application on the desktop, what do I link to on my Web pages/email marketing so that ...
Hello, Firstly I must say I'm green as grass in opengl subject. I'm writing simple 2-d game for android using opengl-es. I use GL11Ext.glDrawTexfOES() to draw the textures (just like in one sample code named 'sprite-method-test'), and gl.glColor4f to color them (and set transparency). But I'm completely helpless if I need apply some bri...
Hey there, I'm looking to be able to open up a new view or activity when I click on an item in my ListView. Currently I have a list of restaurants, and when i click on a particular restaurant I want it to open up another screen that will show its address, google map etc. What I need help with is knowing how to set click events on the ...
Has anyone else noticed behavior specific to the HTC Incredible that might result in an app keeping the device awake and busy? I've received reports that my app is responsible for keeping the device awake and draining the battery, but only from HTC Incredible users. My app responds to a number of Intents that might be related. It has a...
Greetings, I'm trying to write a clock widget that displays Epoch time and I need it to update every second. Currently I'm doing this using a Service that uses a Handler: public class EpochService extends Service { private static final String TAG = "EpochService"; // the time private static long mTime; // ui components privat...
I am receiving an inflation error when pressing the Menu button and adding a menu item in the onCreateOptionsMenu method. I've included some of the error below. The code is as follows, and works if I try it on its own and not as part of my activity as a whole. I don't think it's feasible to paste in the whole of my activity here (I have...
I'm new to both java and the android so I apologize if I'm missing something obvious. I'm trying to allow a user to stay logged in to an application. What is the best way to do this? Can anybody point me to a tutorial? I've searched the web and can't seem to find anything. Thanks! ...
Hi i have an mysql database with some sports results in it. I want to write an android application to display these data on mobile phones. I´ve searched on the internet for this issue and i think it is not possible to have a direct connection between the mysql database and the android application. (Is this right?) So my question is th...
I have a ListView in Android that needs to have the ability to be manually reordered. An example would be within Android's Music Player application, when you can change the order of tracks in a playlist. I know how to programmatically change the order of a ListView, but not how to do it in regards to a touch and slide approach that can b...
For my app, Transdroid, I am connecting to remote servers via HTTP and optionally securely via HTTPS. For these HTTPS connections with the HttpClient I am using a custom SSL socket factory implementation to make sure self-signed certificates are working. Basically, I accept everything and ignore every checking of any certificate. This h...
I'm using OpenGL to render a game view in my android application. The game is turn based and I wish to add some buttons to the interface. I'd prefer to use standard Android widgets, structured in an XML-generated layout (or, if I have to, a hardcoded layout) and put the OpenGL view in its own window as part of that layout. So in regards...
Hi everyone, I am trying to access a Webservice with kSOAP2 on an Android Phone. I think the connection is being established, but the server won't answer my request since I'm not providing a SOAP Action Header which seems to be required in SOAP Version 1.1(please correct me if I'm wrong here) which I have to use since the server does not...
I have a TabLayout containing tabs as intents to activities. I want to set custom menu items for each tab, but the onCreateOptionsMenu version called is the Host's version. How can I make the menu items created by each activity on its own. ...
How can I check for GPS support in-App to add a feature for those with Location services enabled? My concern is, I know I'd have to specify the tag in the manifest to declare that the app uses location services, but I still want the app to function for those without. I just want to check and, if the service is available, use it; otherw...
Hi Is there a permission to allow one app to read the (private) data/data//files/... files of another application? If not, how do backup programs like MyBackup work? C ...
I uploaded an app onto the android market, but i found a bug in it and want to remove it for now. How can I do that? Solution as mentioned below: From the developer console, click the link for your app. Scroll to the bottom, there are 2 buttons - "Unpublish" and "Save". Click "Unpublish" ...
Is it possible to change the language of an app programmatically while still using Android resources? If not, is it possible to request a resource in an specific language? I would like to let the user change the language of the app from the app. ...