I'm a new android user, but already a huge fan. I just have a problem finding certain apps, I would like contacts blast lite fx. but it isn't anywhere in my market, and when I try going from a link on a web page it is the same message - that it can't be find. What can I do? I would also like an app that could keep track on how much data I've downloaded, anyone knows such an app?
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Basically having massive trouble connecting my phone to my wireless. It just connects for about 5 seconds then goes back to disconnected and seen as I have been trying for 3 hours to fix it and have 2 hours till I go on holiday I have all but given up. Just wondering if there was a way I could download apps on the PC and transfer them to my phone?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIf I purchase an app with my current phone, and then I upgrade to a different phone in a few months, is there a way to take the apps with me? I have searched and can't find anything definitive. The ideal thing is if Google is storing my application history with my Google account somewhere, but I don't see where it would be.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've been developing applications for a long time now, but now I want to jump into Phone applications development. There are four main candidates:
Nokia's Symbian
Apple's iPhone
Google's Android
Microsoft Windows Mobile Phone
considering documentation, market, samples and availabilty of emulators, I'm not a millionaire so I can't buy it unless I know it would mean profits!
I don't have much preferences as for languages, but to stay within C# would be nice, however I've been thru Assembler for a long time, so it's hard to scare me.
My Droid 1 has officially died and I'm looking at purchasing a Droid X on eBay. When I get the new phone and sign in with my Google account do I have to repay for applications or will I be able to download for free?
View 1 Replies View RelatedOk here's my problem. I'm very new to the AndroidSDK. I've ran sdparted to convert my ext3 to ext4 and just tonight I learned how to open the emulator.I used the Android development site to learn how to do all this. I ran this: emulator -avd my_android1.6 -t 2 The emulator opened up but, it looks nothing like my phone nor does it have any of the apps that my Magic 32B has. This is my question. I'd like to be able to run an application that is currently installed on my phone on my computer to enter in a bunch of data into that application to use on my phone. It's much easier to type everything out on my computer than using the keyboard on my phone. Is this possible to do with the emulator and if I can how? I'm rooted and using Cyanogen 4.2.5.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a Droid X running 2.2. I'm trying to understand the advantages of storing apps on the SD Card vs Phone storage. Since the Droid X comes with 8GB of phone storage, I've got lots of room there.What would be some reasoning behind moving apps to the SD card? I see lots of people get excited when a favorite app adds SD card support, but why exactly? Maybe it's more of an advantage for phones with less phone storage? Also, how come in manage applications, it says that the app takes up way less space when it's on the SD Card? For example, I just installed Angry Birds and it put itself on the SD Card when it installed. It showed 1.83MB in size. When I moved it to the SD Card, it showed 14.06MB.
View 5 Replies View RelatedHow to buy a phone for testing applications, can anyone suggest. Other phones in market are way to expensive.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI am planning to purchase a DroidX on launch day and am switching from a BB Storm2. There are a few apps that I love on my Storm2 that I would like to have on the new phone. Wondering if you guys (and gals) can point me towards similar apps for the Android platform. 1. BerryBuzz - Customizes LED light for different notifications (I.E. can set light to Orange for SMS, Disco light for missed calls, etc.) 2. BerryWeather - Awesome weather app 3. Later Dude - Can set a reminder (calendar, task, call, e-mail, etc.) based on an incoming message/phone call 4. Pocket Informant - Great PIM app.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIf you are developing Android application, you will encounter such a id naming in xml files of view and layouts :
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="@+id/new_game"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_new_game"
android:title="@string/new_game" />
<item android:id="@+id/quit"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_quit"
android:title="@string/quit" />
</menu>
and I am really wondering why such naming is applied to ids. It is because of Linux? What kinda meaning this naming --@+id/...--has? When I am looking at android:icon attribute I can interpret that it means ic_new_game is located under drawable folder and @ means "located at" or I just assume that. But naming id attributes are kinda different because they also have + sign. Can somebody help me understand this convention?
I am trying to figure out some way to determine the current background on a phone and then set that background as my own in my application to create a seamless transition between my application and the phone. However I haven't been able to find any functions for this at Androids SDK site. Setting android:theme="@style/Theme.NoBackground" inside my Manifest almost does what I want, but it still has the icons in the background.
View 3 Replies View Relatedthere is any possible to implement .net applications in android phone.Can u please give me link to learn it.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIn my haste and excitement to try out my phone I downloaded loads of apps from Android Market and didn't really pay any attention to the warning screen that shows you which parts of your phone the app needs access to. Is there a way to check up on this after the app has been installed? What I would like to be able to do is go through each application and see what parts of the phone is needs access to and uninstall it if I feel that it shouldn't need access to various items.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI may need to reset my phone, but have paid for a few apps, obviously they will disappear, would I need to rebuy the same apps? or is it somehow logged that I have already bought them, thus wont need to buy again?
View 3 Replies View RelatedGetting the Moment soon, building a list of Apps, and was wondering what some cool Phone Lock Screen apps there are?
View 26 Replies View RelatedWith the purchased apps, what happens when you upgrade to a newer android phone? Are these apps bound to you by your google user or by phone? Is it maybe done through the cellular carrier?
View 4 Replies View RelatedSo many apps, particularly free ones, seem to get access to things on the phone they don't need. For instance why would a card game that isn't an online card game need access to phone's location? Should I be worried that less than scrupulous folk are putting apps out in the "market"?
View 1 Replies View RelatedPersonal info, Personal photos, viruses, stolen phone, etc. What applications if any do I need to keep me safe? The simpler the better.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI bought an Audubon Birds Field Guide app for my Droid X and installed it, in addition to a ton of other free apps. Unfortunately the Droid died and I got a new one from VZ. When I took the new DX to the VZ store to set it up the guy said I should be able to restore all the apps I had installed, including the one I bought, but none of them showed up on the phone. He was not really all that helpful and told me to contact Audubon about replacing the app. I just did that, but I am concerned that none of the apps I had already installed showed up on the new DX.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a widget that should launch the AlarmClock when its clicked. After searching for a result it seems to me that every phone can have its own AlarmClock-application, and that what I am trying to do isnt really possible? I have been using this for HTC Hero: i.setClassName("com.htc.android.worldclock", "com.htc. android. worldclock.WorldClockTabControl"); resolved = packageManager.resolveActivity(i, PackageManager .MATCH_DEFAULT_ONLY); And this if not HTC Hero: i.setClassName("com.android.alarmclock", "com.android .alarmclock.AlarmClock"); resolved = packageManager.resolveActivity(i, PackageManager. MATCH _DEFAULT _ONLY); This way I can check if the AlarmClock application is there. But now it seems that the Nexus One has yet another application. Does anyone know the component name and class for the Nexus AlarmClock? I can see that this will be a growing list of checks, so is there a better way?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI would like to launch some applications, like the Calculator, the alarm clock, the notepad, the calendar, the camcorder, the camera, the dialer, etc, from my application. Is there an easy way to do that? Is there any place with a list of what are the intent names to launch them?
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhy do so many of the applications say they prevent the phone from sleeping? Is this a problem if the applications are left open or a problem with the applications all of the time no mater if they are open or not?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI need to keep track of installed applications which are used most and least in android device. can anyone help me how to do this programmatically in android My question some thing like , I need to capture the event/Intent which will/may happen when the apllication is launched every time.(like BOOT_COMPLETED will be brodcasted when device booted).
View 2 Replies View RelatedWe know Google Android phone is best phone where we can use different application without paying anything and here again I come with 4 quality application review for you.
View 2 Replies View RelatedSo, after three long years with my Samsung Alias, which I bought before it was popular enough to get the fancy Alias brand name, I am upgrading to the Droid X. This is my first Android phone and so I am wondering about what the "essential" Android apps are. What finally sold me on switching to Android was the Endomondo sports tracking app. I was contemplating getting a smartphone and a Garmin Edge bike computer, but when I saw a post about Endomondo, I axed the plans on the Garmin and decided to pull the trigger on the DX. In case this helps people in their advice-giving, I am a cyclist racing in college right now, I have an almost unhealthy interest in everything gadgets/computers/video games (and I suspect I'm not the only forum member like this ), I love sports (hockey, lacrosse, football, basketball, baseball, cycling, wakeboarding, skiing, surfing, etc.), and I love movies and TV (especially Entourage and Californication). So, with all of that in mind, who's got some good apps that I simply must have once I get my shiny new piece of hardware?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've had my Hero for about 24 hours now but thinking about upgrading to the Evo but I want to know if I buy any apps and then switch to the evo do I need to download them and buy them all over again? If that's the case I will wait before buying any of them.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI want to know how to do method tracing for Android applications. I mean, a sequence of calls on each object, not a stack trace.
It's very similar to this question (Call trace in java), but on different platforms (jvm-PC vs dvm-Android). I have no control over the start arguments of dalvik, thus I cannot specify a java agent (or am I wrong here?). Is there another way to do method tracing?
I've watched many of the Google IO talks and one that I'm trying to reproduce is "Developing Android REST client applications"[1]. In this talk Virgil suggests you should not execute your RESTful queries inside a Thread/AsyncTask spawned from your Activity (which I had been doing), instead you should use a more complex architecture that uses a combination of a ContentProvider and a Service. From what I understood the reason for this design was so your data was more persistent between app restarts, and so your queries don't disappear if your Activity starts/stops (e.g on a screen rotation). I buy into both those reasons hence I'm trying to implement this. On the slides[2] page 45 We have an Activity calling a ContentProvider. Now the ContentProvider checks its local database, if the content is not there it sends an Intent to a service which fetches the content, inserts it into the ContentProvider, then the ContentProvider calls back to the Activity (with a ContentObserver) and the Activity can carry on. The question I have is how is this callback setup. The ContentProvider exposes simple methods, query, insert, update, delete which don't seem easy to adapt to a callback interface. It could be implemented by a Cursor which is designed to block, but that could be problematic as you don't' want to block your UI Thread. I'd appreciate if anyone could make this clearer to me, or show me some code. I'm hoping the Twitter app will be open sourced soon which apparently uses this architecture.
View 16 Replies View RelatedI need a way to make a list of all the apps on my phone and then take that list and transfer it to my computer so I can view it?
View 3 Replies View RelatedOn my 2nd Android phone now, as I've just upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy S from my previous HTC Hero. Love the Galaxy S to bits, but was wondering what I do about some of the old apps on my old phone? Like World War for example, is there anyway of continuing the account on the new phone? Or do I have to start a new game?
Also, the HTC had a really good weather widget where it used to auto update with weather about the location you were currently at. I think it was a HTC thing, as I can't find anything that does the same as this for the Samsung, you can only store certain locations.