The Android market seems to move so fast. Just wondering, what is considered the 'best' and most 'finished' Android phone on the market right now? And, also what is the most promising device in the wings?
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I am programming a game. I have a service for the background-music. When I press the home-button and leave my activities, the service still runs in background. How can I stop the service, when there is no more visible activity in my program and restart it, when the user goes back to my game (some activity of it)?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have a service, that requests another class, which launches an AsyncTask
Service->Weather Class->Execute Method->Asynctask->Execute
this is launched in the service by
new Weather(this).execute(); // the execute is a method of the class, not of the AsyncTask
how do I detect in Service that the AsyncTask finished so I can call stopSelf?
I have an Android Service that is started by my application and does some things in a threadPool using Executors.newCachedThreadPool()
Once it has finished doing it's work I would like the service to stopSelf(), how can I get the service to determine when it is no longer needed (ie, there are no more Threads executing) so that it can shut itself down automatically?
Im trying to show a ProgressDialog while the activity is loading. my problem is that although i completed all the work in the activity. it takes a long time for the activity to load, i suspect this is because i use
multiple views with multiple listviews with custom array adapters inside a viewflipper. it takes a long time for the UI to show.how would i go about checking that all the UI inside the activity finished loading? or is there a way to preload all the activity and the UI?
I have an activity which starts a service. In the service there is a network lookup in an AsyncTask. Results from the lookup are saved to a database.
The activity queries to database and shows the newest entries. But at the very first run the database is empty, so there is nothing to show. In this case I would like to show a progress dialog to the user while the network lookup is taking place. I would like to dismiss the progress dialog when the first lookup is finished.
Is there a way to access the progress dialog created in the activity from the service? Or how to do it?
I'm writing a bitmap editor and I'm trying to write an autosave feature. When onPause is called, I write the application state to an autosave file. As this takes between 0.1s and 1.5s, I've been advised this IO operation be performed in a background thread.
In the onCreate method of my activity, I check to see if the autosave file exists and, if it does, I open it.
Are there any scenarios I have to consider where the user can somehow leave the activity, the autosave thread starts and the user can return to the activity before the thread has finished? If so, how can I detect this and wait for the thread to finish before I check the state of the autosave file?
I was going to make it that, when the user backs out of my activity, they're asked to wait a second while the data is saved. This seems OK, but I can't do this when my activity is interrupted by something like a phone call.
Also, I'm a bit confused about how multiple versions of the same activity can be started as this makes dealing with autosaving more complex. Is there a way to make sure only one instance of my activity is allowed to run at a time?
I want to do something immediately after my application installed into the system. Is there such intent or hook to do this?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI use my hands free headphones that come with the desire to recieve/make calls whilst I am cycling.The only problem is that once the call has finished the screen comes back on, even when it is in my pocket.Meaning I end up pressing buttons, changing music tracks, opening apps and making calls.My iPhone used to just stay in "power save mode" with the screen off once a call had finished.
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View 7 Replies View RelatedI bought a new sony ericsson x10 mini the other day and it is a fantastic phone. It is running in the Android system which is really good. The only thing that I can not figure our is that when I open up an application I don't know how to close them so I am left with multiples of Apps open at the same time. This seem to run the battery down really fast, but I can't seem to find any where or anybody that knows how to close the apps when I am finishes.
View 1 Replies View Relateddied about 60% through. Now it won't charge on charger or computer but will stay powered up when plugged into either, sometimes. But only thing on the screen is Bootloader 30.1 in the top left. Code corrupt down the left a few lines below that, then below that it just flashes battery low cannot program. I try to power+camera+volume down and nothing i also try to home+power and nothing.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI love using swype: quick and efficient. But in some programs I use (e.g. Tasker / Jotro) the swype keyboard pops up when I click a text field (as it should), but if I'm done, sometimes it shows a "done" button on the swype keyboard itself (and when I click on that, the swype keyboard dissappears), but sometimes, there isn't a done key on the keyboard (only an enter key which gives a new line in the text field I'm editing) and I can't scroll in the program to the save/done button in the program itself to save what I just typed. Does someone know whether there is a quick way to get rid of the Swype keyboard after I finished typing?
My (frustrating workaround) is to go to Swype options, press back, and the swype keyboard is gone.
I am stage managing a show and have all of the sound cues on my Droid 4
The only problem is that I am using 'My Music' and when cue finishes (say a gunshot) the next begins (say a fog horn). This is very problematic
They all under the same album 'download'
I keep my phone near my head on my bed, since I use it as an alarm clock. Unfortunately the Vibrant is vibrating at the end of the charge cycle, which is distracting when I'm trying to fall asleep!
I can't find a setting to turn this off. I have haptic feedback turned off. I keep the phone in vibrate mode (ringer volume = vibrate).
- Should have been the OTA as far as I'm concerned
- Almost there, it'll surely be done by 31 March
- Problems in the first leak persist, this thing needs a lot more work
First of all this is minor Bug, but still - BUG! There is phone configuration description:
Phone: Xperia X10i
FW: android 2.1
patterns - default slider + unlock pattern
Bug description
1) When phone is locked, press home or power button.
2) move slider, to be able to draw pattern.
3) Start to draw pattern and wait till screen goes black (do not remove your finger). So your pattern is not finished and screen has gone black. Try to remember place of the finger.
4) Press home or power button again.
5) Finish unlock pattern from place you was, when screen turned black.
6) Your phone is unlocked!
So, if you did not finished your pattern and your screen have gone black you might think, that the phone locked, but this is not true. Your Phone can be Quite Easily unlocked in the Pocket.
Anyone else agree? Hands down, the best android phone on the market. Crazy specs, and everything seems to work well. The video chat apps are great, and android has a fairly large sized app catalog now - Although, in my opinion there are better apps for the iphone. So after talking to my buddy about it, he said something that really has me thinking. We were talking about how this is one of the, if not most, responsive android phones out there - but even still, there's a minor lag to it. It's a very slight delay, but it not only is it during swiping home screens but also follows into the app drawer and others. So anyways what he said was that this new (to us) technology is great, but it's still not as smooth as the old iPhone and he's right.
The latest and greatest android device still isn't running as smoothly as my old iPhone 3GS. Obviously it has to do with a number of things, but I just can't help be bothered by it. Another example is scrolling - Sometimes when scrolling I'll end up selecting and opening something. Doesn't make sense to me at all, maybe I have to relearn how to scroll? Anyways I don't know who of you are coming from an iPhone, but I just thought I'd share. This is my 3rd android handset (hero, moment) and I think the OS is good....but there need some kinks worked out. Hopefully everything is better on Froyo.
How do I get the Android market application on emulator? I dont have the actual device.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a weird question. I know its not the idea of AppMarkets, but is it somehow possible to get rid of the android market on a Android Phone. Customer wants to provide its own market, so that customers who buys their own sold phone (a new HTC with Customners Branding and User-Interface). They have several Apps to provide and will publish them via an App on this Phone initially installed.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow does this app market business work? Why are certain countries limited to what they can download from the app market? And how can i tell what market my phone is searching from?
View 8 Replies View Relatedis there a setting somewhere on the phone that controls how often the phone will check on the market for updates to apps you already have installed? If not, what is the default, as in how often does the phone check?
View 3 Replies View RelatedDid anybody got working checkout notification API for Android Market?
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View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm running the emulator using the dev phone system images of 1.6 to download paid apps from the market to use on my htc desire in sweden. Why? because the market for paid apps isn't available here. The apps in question aren't available on slideme etc either so this is my last resort. One problem arised: An app I downloaded works for 2.1 and desire, but when I download it from the market with the emulator with 1.6 I get an older "legacy" version of the app that isn't compatible with 2.1. Due to this I wonder if there is any hackie crackie crazy way of getting a 2.1 system image onto the emulator or in any other way fooling the android market app or whatever to download apps as if the emulator phone was 2.1?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI want to install android Market App on Emulator, so that i can browse and install various free apps on emulators.
View 2 Replies View RelatedOk I have asked in the google support forums but going by the open threads I doubt I will ever get a reply there, let alone a resolution.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am unable to download my app from the android market. Is it because of some settings I have to do while publishing? What is the reason that dev phone is unable to download the app? The same app is downloadable on other normal android phones. Please help this is really bugging me..
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm reporting by Tattoo users than my game World of Bombs author zeugame is not available on Tattoo + Android Market 1.6? I really don't have idea what's wrong with this configuration? Personally i've HTC magic + Android Market 1.6 and it rocks like for severals thousands registered account on the game. If some other Tattoo users could confirm please? And over all why it is not visible in the market and how to solve this? Need to contact Google?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm unable to access Android Market from the Cupcake build released by HTC for Dev1. Some rumors have it that this is an intentional block by Google to discourage users from upgrading to Cupcake. What is a developer to do in order to test Market applications on the new build?
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