Google Labs will be rolling out something called Google App Inventor (for Android). CNet says: "To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's beh...
I want to be able to display a certain youtube channel's videos and allow the user to select one of their videos to watch. Do I have to do this manually (parse the source code of the webpage to get each individual video link and then display them) or can I use the youtube api? If anyone has done this, example code or tutorials would be ...
I'm developing an HTML / Javascript application meant to run on an Android device running Froyo (2.2). Assuming I don't need multitouch functionality, will the emulator's browser be a reliable means of debugging HTML, CSS and Javascript? Or is it possible that I would work out all the bugs in the emulator but find the actual device handl...
I am trying to put a background image and draw on top of that screen. I assumed activity will have a on draw method, but it does not have. it seems i need to use surfaceview. Can I put a surfaceview on top of the image view and make it transparent ? any example/tutorial i can refer to ? ...
One particular activity uses a gallery view and many images that are displayed when one item in the gallery view is clicked. When you scroll through the gallery, the scrolling is very smooth ONLY if one certain image is commented out (even if 40+ images/textviews are displayed). We've tried changing the resolution of that image, changing...
I have an application that uses the mapview-overlay-manager code to draw map markers on a MapView using the LazyLoadManager from a web api. As I drag the map, the markers load/unload as expected. On the tap of a marker I inflate a balloon.xml file and use it to show a balloon above the marker. This is where the problem is. It works, bu...
I am nearly done with my first android app and there's still a bit more work to do but I want to get feedback from users about what they like/hate/bugs to fix, etc. I plan on making the app free with ads. Now I have been testing my app on my phone (HTC Magic) and plan on doing some simple testing on the emulator using different configura...
I would like to add one video to the main screen of my application but I want to user to be able to do other things in the app meanwhile. Think about some video animation or flash movie for some website that you can watch the video and look on other things in the website. lets say I have buttons and more things in the same screen and I ...
Hi, In my tablet whenever i select the checkbox option for cell phone tethering iam observing below line in my Eclipse logcat 07-09 07:28:18.279: INFO/ActivityManager(940): Starting activity: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cmp=com.android.settings/.tether.Tether } I want to use this one in my application.Is it possible to u...
I am trying to make an application that can simulate a fight of two characters and I need to update some TextViews of their hp as it goes down. This is currently happening while two threads are running. Their hp is a global variable and since views can only be modified in the main thread, I have a while loop running while the threads are...
Naming Android mime-types/Uris: The sample notepad application uses: "vnd.android.cursor.dir/vnd.google.note" "vnd.android.cursor.item/vnd.google.note" Let's say I want create my own application with three datatypes that should be stored in the database, how should I name my uris? Should all content uris start with vnd.android.cursor....
The Android git tree provides a set of XML files describing the public API, e.g. base.git/api, e.g. base.git/api/7.xml (which contains the public API for Android 2.1). Does anybody know how this file is generated? I would imagine that it uses some tool to process the android.jar file into an XML file (likely using java.lang.reflect). ...
I have question about the Java threads. Here is my scenario: I have a thread calling a method that could take while. The thread keeps itself on that method until I get the result. If I send another request to that method in the same way, now there are two threads running (provided the first did not return the result yet). But I want t...
Apparently, I can specify source folders using the source.dir property in build.properties - but what if I want to specify multiple source folders ? The comments below are from the build.xml file generated by the Android SDK tools: <!-- The build.properties file can be created by you and is never touched by the 'android' tool. Thi...
How to send and receive the values to the webservices in Android? .I am very new to android.Give some ideas to me... ...
I am new to android development, and not very good at programming in general but, I am working on a tab layout that has a listview per tab. Each tab has it's own java file. I am currently trying to add a context menu that when clicked (not long clicked) on an item in my listview, will bring up a menu so I can choose an option. Right no...
What's the best way to link to an Android Market app without knowing who will get the link (Android user/non-Android user) and from where (desktop/mobile)? For iPhone I use the itunes.apple.com app links. They show a complete description of the app, and if you have iTunes installed, either on the desktop or on your mobile, it allows you...
Hi, Can you please tell me how can I use android's icon expander_ic_maximized? I find that in frameworks/base/core/res/res/drawable-hdpi/expanderic_minimized.9.png Here is my layout xml file: <ImageView android:id="@+id/icon" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="@drawable/ex...
Hi Folks, I want create a Circle layout. my views are all should in the order circle. Which layout i have to prefer and How? The Focus of the Layout should clockwise circle. Share your ideas please? Thanks, Edit: I can do this view is the update for my question by comments. Is there any example for that to do?Please Share Your thoug...
Just curious. I am already a Java android guy but am interested in the new app inventor beta for android. I was wondering what "real" developers are thinking. A lot of people want to develop an android app but don't really have programming skills. Seems like a lot of apps could be written with app inventor - not sure since I haven't t...