Android :: OOS : How Do You Use Google Groups ?
Oct 5, 2010
Android developer is the only part of my life on google groups and call me thick but I can not for the life of me understand how it works ! I have the hardest time following a thread I'm participating in because I can simply not find it back when I look for it, even using the search engine at the top ! I'm not receiving email alerts to warn me when somenone answers in it. In my profile tab, there is a summary of my last messages ... Which lags by 2 weeks !! Sometimes message I sent never appear there at all. I'm subscribed to a "Gay Pictures" group I'm pretty sure I never applied to.
View 6 Replies
May 19, 2010
I use google groups alot to keep in touch with my stock market contacts. is there a frontend for google groups?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Sep 30, 2010
I'm looking for a widget or an app that would allow me to browse and post on google groups; with a group manager and browser and with customizable notifications.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Aug 20, 2010
I am using the Samsung Galaxy S. I have sync working and all my Goggle contacts are listed in my phone. But they all appear in one group, called Google. I have my Google contacts in groups, and had hoped that the sync would bring down the group hierarchy. But it did not. However my phone is aware of the Goggle groups, because if I try to create a group in the phone with the same name as a Goggle group, my phone raises an error saying that the group exists. But I have no visibility to my Goggle groups on the phone. I only see a "Google" group. Is it possible to see my Google groups in the phone? If so, how?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jun 12, 2009
I posted a detailed comment about typos in Android documentation several hours ago. My post is nowhere to be seen. Why did Google Groups hose my post? Maybe Google doesn't care that their Android documentation contains typos.
View 6 Replies
View Related
Apr 29, 2010
In my other android devices there was a setting to have only my grouped Google contacts sync with the phone. The problem I'm encountering is that I have thousands of Google contacts from anyone who has ever sent me an email and I don't want them in my phone contacts. Same thing goes for facebook. I only want the phone to pull Facebook data for those contact already downloaded from Google.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Nov 15, 2010
I have searched but I wanted to ask specific to DX to make sure I wasn't missing something simple. Google Contact Groups don't appear in my contacts on the DX regardless of sync. One of the group names I created did transfer over and Organization name.
I cannot sort the contracts by group on my phone. I either have all or none. Did I do something wrong (most likely yes, this was much easier in the BB world)? Am I missing a step, this appears to be a problem on all Android OS. So do I need an app to fix this?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Sep 11, 2010
How come the groups tab of Contacts on this phone ignores your google groups completely? That makes the contacts pretty much useless to me. I have over 700 contacts and they're all grouped nice and neatly, but that doesn't seem to matter. Any way to merge the phone groups with the google accounts groups?
View 6 Replies
View Related
Jul 13, 2010
This is for people who use GPS a lot. Before I would create groups just for my texting, but Navigation works great too. Took a wine trip to Santa Barbara. Had a few places (hotel, boat cruise, wineries, Santa Barbara Mission, some restaurants, that taco stand Julia Child made famous, etc.), and just created a contact for each. No inputting on phone or using voice, it's already done.Had concert @ Hollywood Bowl. They have shuttle service at some offsite locations like the LA Zoo or in Studio City. I just create a group called Concerts, and copy and paste address from website.Meeting friend at bar never been to? Already have a Group called Bars. Just copy and paste address, and your done.I have groups for everything. Family, San Francisco, San Diego friends, Hotels, Bars, sporting venues, whatever. I cross link whenever I can, Just hit People and slide over to Groups. The whole goal for me is just to hit buttons, and not have to input anything when I'm on run. Use it like AppBrain. So much easier to manage everything from Google contacts page. Just copy and paste eveything.Best part is, can delete or add anytime.Also saves me battery since doing stuff on computer, and everything is synced automatically.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Sep 8, 2010
I'm sure this first question has been answered, but I haven't been able to find it. I have a Vibrant and a Mac Book with OS 10.6.4. When I plug in my phone and mount the SD card, nothing happens. I've learned elsewhere that this seems to be a problem with this phone and Macs and I've enabled USB debugging. That works, but for me it is not a proper workaround. Has this problem been fixed? Is there some update for either my phone or my computer I can install that would make it work like it should? Also, a question about my contacts. Like most, Gmail saves every person I email in my contacts. This is fine because on Gmail.com they're separated into "my contacts" and "other contacts". On my G1 I was able to only have "my contacts" in my contacts, but on my Vibrant it just threw everyone in there. I was able to get around it by saying only show contacts with numbers, but that's not exactly what I want either. Is there a way to tell the vibrant to only show certain groups of your google contacts?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jun 23, 2010
Is there a way to do groups in a listview? Like I have a list of certain states, each state has its own sublist. I'd sort of like to replicate the HTML optgroup/option setup where you have a parent group then child groups. Is there a way to do this built in or would I have to do something tricky with a custom view for Parent elements then switch the view back to the child element style.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Apr 9, 2010
I dont know if there is anything out there, I have got groups set up containing up to 20 people but when I try to forward a message it says that I can only send to 10 maximum. Is there any way around this?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Nov 24, 2010
New to android and really like it. However, seems like the maintenance of contacts is a common source of confusion. I have contacts from my Gmail displayed. I have a created a group of contacts that I have been able to add contacts to. However, not all contacts are available to be added to this group.
Under the general contacts page, all the contacts are there (including many imported from gmail that I don't care for since every email that has ever been used seems to be saved). When I go to edit the group and add a contact, not all the contacts are displayed as available to add. I have gone into my gmail contact list and made sure that the contact I want to add is listed under the "my contacts" heading.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Oct 28, 2008
I cannot figure out how to send an e-mail to an entire groups as with the web interface.For example, if I have a group called "Group 1" that has 10 Contacts in it, I want to type "Group 1" in the "To:" field and e-mail all 10 contacts.
View 5 Replies
View Related
Mar 12, 2010
Is there an app or something that will allow me to view the contacts that i have in set groups. I have a group for family and works and mates, is there a way to view a list of all my work contacts on my htc hero?
Also if possible i would like to be able to send a text to all the people in a certain group. Any ideas?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jun 30, 2010
I'm looking for a way to do two slightly different things:
1) I want to be able to assign different ringtones to different groups on the phone (ie based on the groups assigned within the Google contacts database).
2) I really need to be able to set the phone on silent overnight for everything (calls, emails, sms messages) EXCEPT for calls from people in a VIP list who I want to be able to wake me up.
I've been able to do this on "dumb" phones for the last 10 years! Can anyone restore my faith in this thing's smartness?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Nov 15, 2009
I know there are many apps that let you upload pics and text to your personal profile on facebook....but I've been looking and I cant find a way to do that with facebook groups. Im the admin of a facebook group and so far I have not found a way to update the group page.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Oct 16, 2009
Is there an app that will allow me to make groups for my contact list? something nice and easy with tabs or something. Just need groups nothing else special. And free since Canada still doesn't do paid apps.
View 10 Replies
View Related
Aug 26, 2009
I was thinking, wouldn't it be great if all the android reference documentation was in the pages section of this Google Group, i.e. stick everything in here:
http://developer.android.com/reference/packages.html
In here: [url]
View 8 Replies
View Related
May 4, 2010
I have looked around a couple forums trying to find an app or process that will allow me a way to select a particular group of contacts as a favorites widget. It would be great if I could have my work contacts as one widget on one screen and my personal favorites on another. I also tried to put the work group into the favorites widget without success. I am one of those people that has several different "scenes" customized depending on where i am and what I'm doing. The current widget just doesn't work for what I need. Does anyone have any suggestions? I have used the bettercut app to make shortcuts to individual contacts, but that is not really what I'm looking for.
View 6 Replies
View Related
Feb 26, 2010
Problem 1.
I have this class:
public class ContactGroups {
// Form an array specifying which columns to return.
String[] projection = new String[] { Contacts.Groups._ID,
Contacts.Groups._COUNT, Contacts.Groups.NAME, Contacts.Groups.NOTES };
public Cursor getList(Activity act) {
Uri contacts = Contacts.Groups.CONTENT_URI;
// using the debugger code kills here
Cursor managedCursor = act.managedQuery(contacts, projection,
null, null, null );
return managedCursor;
} public ArrayList<String> getColumnData(Cursor cur) { ArrayList<String> aa = new ArrayList<String>();
if (cur.moveToFirst()) { String name;
String notes;
int nameColumn = cur.getColumnIndex(Contacts.Groups.NAME);
int notesColumn = cur.getColumnIndex(Contacts.Groups.NOTES);
do {
// Get the field values name = cur.getString(nameColumn);
notes = cur.getString(notesColumn);
aa.add(name);
// Do something with the values. } while (cur.moveToNext())
} return aa;
} }
I am calling this as:
ContactGroups mGrp= new ContactGroups();
final ArrayAdapter<String> aa;
aa = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,mGrp.getColumnData(mGrp.getList(this)));
myListView.setAdapter(aa);
And having:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS"></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS"></uses-permission>
I get a Source not found error and a Logcat error
ERROR/DatabaseUtils(617): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid column _count
Problem 2.
Where do I create manually contact groups?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Sep 21, 2010
I just can't seem to have my gmail groups appear on my Fascinate. I mean they don't even show up. I can alter my contacts in gmail and that shows up on my phone but any group I create will not show up.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Nov 12, 2010
In my app I have nice ExpandableListView. I would like sometime, depending of situation, to expand some or all groups. I would also like to be able to remove/hide groups, expand all and basically have (visually) ExpandableListView without groups. I looked at all available methods for ExpandableListView and couldn't find any that would do what I want to do.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Feb 23, 2010
My app (first written for Android 1.6) reads groups and contacts but I have so far only been able to write code for 2.0 that compiles but I have never executed. Since the Contacts API and particularly the way groups work has changed substantially in ways that I haven't quite been able to find out I need to try it on a phone to see how it now works.So is there any way at all I can test contact groups in the emulator? I have looked all over for help on this and all I have been able to glean is that I cannot get groups into the emulator unless I create them in a Google (or other, Exchange?) account then sync with it. However I cannot seem to sync/open an account from my emulator - and this I have read may be impossible as you can only do it from a phone with a valid IMEI.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Nov 20, 2009
Whenever I try to change my Edit Sync Groups from All to My Contacts only, I get a force close of acore.Has anyone else experienced or heard about this? Any solutions? I have an HTC Magic running 1.5.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Aug 4, 2009
Is it true that if you have a ViewGroup, say a RadioGroup, you can't align items outside the group to ones inside the group (using toRightOf, alignTop, etc.) That is, does toRightOf, toLeftOf and the rest only work with views at the same hierarchy level? I was trying to label some vertical radio buttons today and find I can only align to the RadioGroup and not the buttons inside the group.
If I remove the RadioGroup, then I can align things OK. There are lots of workarounds, of course, so I'm not stuck. Just thought I'd ask and document. And, BTW, where is the hot sh*t resource editor for Android so I can bang out screens quickly like the iphone guys, using a visual interface designer that knows all these silly interactions? The tools I've seen so far have been toys.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Aug 8, 2009
I am looking for a good phone book app that would allow quick access to all of my contacts sorted by groups. All i want is a contact list with group name tabs at the top or something like that. But no... not a single app can do this. Come of them support groups, others dont, but all of them make you jump through hoops to change them on the fly.
So far I have tried:
The Original Android Contacts
Phonebook
aContacts
Contact Blast
Star Contacts
View 15 Replies
View Related
Jun 7, 2010
When I create a contact on the phone and assign a group, there are TWO 'friends' and TWO 'family' groups. All the contacts I setup from my GMail account show up in one 'friends' or one 'family' group. The duplicate groups are both empty. I went to an area where I can delete groups but the empty 'friends' and 'family' groups cannot be deleted. However, it looks like the groups I setup at GMail (where all my contacts are in) CAN be deleted. I'd rather not delete those groups because then those contacts will probably no longer be in a group, and the GMail/GContacts distinction will probably be lost. The reason this is annoying is because when I create a new friend contact from the phone I don't know which 'friends' group to add it to. Has anyone else noticed this? Checking my GContacts only shows one 'friends' group and one 'family 'group', but the way.
View 1 Replies
View Related
Aug 19, 2009
Although my phone happily syncs contact groups I have added, it doesn't sync any of the default groups already available like family and coworkers. I've got around the problem by creating new groups and using those instead.
View 6 Replies
View Related
Feb 24, 2010
I want to send mass text messages to about 5 people in my phone at once. How do I group them?
View 8 Replies
View Related
