I'm at the beginning of writing an AddWidget for the home-screens. From what I understand, these can only utilize RemoteViews ran by the home-process and not your own. Which means we won't be getting any callbacks, such as onDraw. Is there a way you can get knowledge of how often and for how long a widget is visible? The RemoteView API seems very simplistic, what am I missing?
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I have a layout that is three linear layouts. The top has some icons and the middle has a tabhost. Each tabhost has a list inside it. The bottom linearlayout has two buttons that should stay at the bottom on the screen at all times. The problem is when a list in the tabhost gets too long, it displays over the buttons. I tried to find some way to get the buttons to bedisplayed over the list but have failed so far.
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I'm going to create widget which needs to update its content every minute (it shows time-related data).
However, there is no need to update widget if it is currently invisible, which means:
screen is turned off
another app is running
widget is placed on another (invisible) home screen tab
What is the best way to update only visible widget every minute - without waking up device nor doing unnecessary computations? After widget becomes visible, small lag before update is acceptable.
It would appear on a G1 (with the latest software update) that onUpdate () runs even when the widget is not visible. Is there a way of sensing that the widget is or is not visible or is otherwise in foreground? That is, running the code below shows a logcat message at whatever interval the Widget is scheduled to update, whether it's in foreground or not, whether even the screen is dim or otherwise in deep sleep. It would seem onUpdate should only be scheduled to run when the Widget is in the foreground or visible. Is this a defect in the G1, or is there some other API call to detect if the Widget is visible?
public class HomeScreenWidget extends AppWidgetProvider { ...
When i ran my old application in 1.6 i noticed that the progress bar was not showing up on the screen.When i analyzed it further i found the issue.The progress bar is getting activated but its not visible since my background color is also white.When i changed the background color i was able to see the progress bar.Is there no other way to make the progress bar visible other than changing the background color..Shouldn't the progress bar be visible under all background colors??
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a Android with Lee Droid Froyo. Also is the standard messaging app along with Handcent SMS app. The first issue is that after I receive messages for a period of time (week or so) messages start coming in as MMS messages instead of SMS from a 5556 number, not the person who sent the SMS. I check the details and it states the incoming message is "SMS Message", however both stock message and handcent app handle and label as a MMS message from user 5556 but the message in the MMS is blank. When the messages arrive they are visible in the locked screen messages widget then disappear after entering the program to view them. I had the "delete old messages" unchecked and had a SMS message limit of 200. I have since checked the "delete old messages" and increased to 300 the SMS message limit but still have the same issue.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently upgraded my Android app to support multiple resolutions. Previously, my Android.manifest file had a line:
To support multiple density and resolution devices, I changed this to:
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I then added a couple of new directories, like drawable-hdpi-v4 and drawable-long-hdpi-v4 that includes the high-res versions of the graphics. That's about it.
Ever since releasing this update, there have been a decent number of users complaining about various problems:
the app icon doesn't appear (I did not create a high res version of the icon)
the home screen widget no longer works, even if they delete and re-add it (this code did not change with the update). I've had a user send me their error log, which shows:
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There is one questionable section in my existing widget code that may be relevant:
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And perhaps most troublesome: the sqlite database is no longer accessible/writeable for some users so their data is no longer available. I did add the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission to the manifest. This is only happening to certain users and it tends to be HTC Eris users. In that error log I see things such as:
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It's as if the update has caused a new process and it can't access the old process's data, or something.
Does anyone know how to handle widget's "Long Click" event on home screen? I want to implement: long click one widget on home screen then one menu will be popup.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI uploaded my app to the market last night, and after an hour or so it showed 107 installs, 88 active, 2 comments. It still says that (12+ hours later), even though when I click comments there are 10+. How often do the statistics update? Is there any way to update them manually?
View 1 Replies View RelatedDoes Google provide any data on the devices a published application installed on? I am prioritizing a fix for HTC specific issue (use of proprietary intent). Knowing share of HTC phones of the install base.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there any statistic/research study on the no. of users who root their phones?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for an app or widget that will give me a breakup of each category of application running on my phone.I own a Samsung Galaxy S running Android OS v2.1. (The phone itself has a stock "Settings -> About Phone -> Battery use" report, but that is rudimentary and doesn't report all types of usages.) If this question has already been answered, I'd be grateful for a link (couldn't find one by searching the forum).
View 2 Replies View RelatedOn the Market web page, I can see how many copies of my apps have been installed. But, this only shows the current total. If I want to see historical trends, I need to check the page daily and record the numbers myself -- an annoyance at best. Is this info available anywhere on the Market site? If not, has anyone written a screen-scraping utility (or equivalent) that can harvest the data into a spreadsheet?
View 18 Replies View RelatedLast week I published our first app to the Market, which is a game targeted to users in The Netherlands. Now that the G1 has been available over here for a couple of days, we have received feedback from several of our users. When I look at the developers console in the market however, the download count still shows 0.
Also on the device it is listed as <50. When looking around in the Market, I see that all applications targeted to The Netherlands are listed as having <50 downloads, even an application that received a lot of publicity. Have other developers noticed the same?
Is there an app that can show me call usage statistics for the phone? Particularly, I'm trying to figure out how many minutes I've spent talking to a particular person. Sure, I could go through and add up every single call I've made to them in my call log, but is there some app that does that for me?
View 3 Replies View RelatedAre there any apps out there for football coaches to take games stats such as down, distance, yards gained, hash, ODK, Play type, etc? I have a MyTouch and this kind of app would help me take stats on Friday nights.
View 1 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know of a direct api that allows access to CPU usage statistics for different applications/tasks running inside android? All I can find is data available by accessing a file "/proc/stat" but this seems a little cumbersome. ActivityManager holds data about processes/tasks etc but no CPU usage stats.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI am having trouble finding class or API in android documentation which can help me get battery usage statistics per application. I have read PowerManager class and BatteryManager but they are of no use .Though I can find applications like PowerTutor that do give you battery usage statistics per application, so I think its technically possible?
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy Android Market listing console (developer console) has not updatet applicaiton statistics for several days. Does it hurt my popularity ratings that my statistics are not updated? When will this be fixed?
View 4 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone else have their download statistics stalled? Mines are showing the same number since the 17th. The apps are published and are visible from the market's client, so I hope it's (another) temporal problem from the Market.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI don't understand it. Yesterday I had 860 downloads and today I have 400. Why? How can the number of downloads decrease? How can I find the real numbers?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for an app that will act as a scorecard and also be able to track stats such as fairways hit, greens in regulation, up & downs, sand saves, etc. Added bonus if it will calculate my handicap. Anyone out there have any favorites? Paid apps are okay. GPS distances are not a priority for me.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a listview populated by a text file hosted on my website that is parsed and made into separate list items. Each list item sends the user to a new activity to view more information on that item. My question is - how do I go about tracking the following data about my application..
# of views of the whole listview
# of unique views of the listview
# of times each list item is clicked
# of unique clicks of each list item
Would like to know, from someone who has tried it, if changing an Application's title in the Developer Console has any affect on the applications Ratings or Number of download statistics. In other words, will I lose anything?
My impression is no, but I don't recall if documentation says that explicitly or if its just implied. Would like to know from someone who has tried it. I don't want to experiment with my app.
Steps to change Title. Go to Developer Console->click link for the app->Look for Listing Details-> Change the Title ->click Save
This thread along with the other is being created for the purpose of merging all battery threads into three. It will keep the forum clean and will also serve as a one stop information collective.This particular [Battery] thread is for Statistics and Reports on battery life and usage. It is only for factual claims and not to make things up and give false information. Please try to back up your claims using pictures or applications from the market. Let's keep things civilized.
View 49 Replies View RelatedI've been searching all over this forum as well as the internet on how people are using their HERO and the battery performance they're getting out of it. I've seen answers from 9 hrs with heavy usage to 36 hours with minimual usage. That's about all the detail I've been able to find. (Maybe I'm just not good at searching?)With that, I decided to do a little tracking of my own. I logged my usage and battery performance over a 27 hour period and thought I'd share it with the community. Not sure if this is even helpful but maybe it'll provide some sort of baseline for others to compare against.I recorded the battery level in % based on the stock battery meter, the time I recorded the battery level and any activity that occured between the current time and the previous time recording. For example, between 7:00AM and 10:19AM the battery dropped by 10% and I had received 2 emails, 2 calendar reminders went off and I had surfed the web for about 10 minutes.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy battery usage shows 96% camera, 2% cell standby, and 2% phone idle in the last 8 hours since I last charged the phone.I haven't used the camera since Saturday (2 days ago) and it isn't running when I click on the application or running services.Also find it weird that there is no usage for the Android O/S.I am not rooted or leaked and am on 2.1 with the first update but not the second update yet and camera is stock. Any idea what is up and how to fix it?Battery life appears to be around normal with 40% left (usually get 10-12 hours).
View 5 Replies View RelatedI found all my apps install decreased. One of my app install decrease from 13898 to 12251.
View 14 Replies View RelatedWe published an interesting article on what screen resolutions, CPU and RAM are most popular by the users. Background:
On October 12 TweetDeck published statistics for Android devices and OS versions gathered from their users. They collected the information about more than 35 thousands Android devices which run their twitter client. You can see their extremely interesting statistics here: http://blog.tweetdeck.com/android-ecosystem. We decided to continue their investigations and fulfill the statistics with some data regarding screen resolution, memory and CPU timing of the devices listed. We gathered detailed information about top 50 devices with the highest number of users. We get the information about mobile devices from
http://pdadb.net.
You can see the details below:
Screen resolution breakdown
The table and chart below shows the share of each resolution based on user number. In the chart labels you can see three lines: screen resolution, number of users who use this resolution and the percent of this resolution. You can see that the most of devices has 480X800 and 480X854 screen resolution and only 16% has 320X240. Other resolutions are insignificant.
Android Screen Resolution Breakdown:
Resolution User #
480 x 800 18585
480 x 854 9235
320 x 480 5373
240 x 320 837
960 x 480 99
Total 34129
CPU Breakdown
Most devices have 1GHz processor however there are still 30% of them with 500-600MHz.
Android CPU Breakdown
CPU (MHz) User #
1000 23025
600 5731
528 4422
800 885
720 66
Total 34129
RAM Breakdown
Ram size has much more varieties than CPU and Screen resolution. It varies from 192 Mb for T-Mobile G1 to 576 Mb for HTC Desire. There are also some models with no information about RAM size (marked blank).
Android RAM Breakdown
RAM (MHz) User #
512 15346
256 5924
576 5152
288 3178
384 2547
326 1259
192 521
448 103
(blank) 99
Total 34129
Conclusion
This statistics is limited by the data provided by TweetDeck and may not reflect the whole market. However it is rather completed to represent the situation on the US market. It may be used by Android application developers or mobile web site designers. We used it to plan the most possible configuration for future Android projects by Enterra, Inc. Finally I'd like to thank TweetDeck Team for sharing their statistics. It's really useful.
I want to get the overall CPU usage on Android, similar to what Windows' Task Manager does. I can parse the output of the top program included in Android, but if there is a API call that does the same thing, it would be better.
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