What does rooting do for the User? So far I have had N1, X10 and Hero, I should be getting the milestone soon, Ive heard about rooting but never looked into it, what does it do? Should I do it?
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I have a EditText in android in which i want the user to enter the text and checks for the condition "BYE"
Code sample..
How can i make user to enter the text?The UI should wait for the text to be entered(something like we have InputStreamReader in java applications).
I used the the Lagfix app to "root" my captivate. so i'm wondering what's the difference between doing it this way vs. doing it through a computer or some other way? Also, how can install non-market apps now? Well I know how, but what's the easiest way to do it? is the an app market I can get?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI rooted me Droid X. I want to know if I can move the files:
busybox
su
Superuser.apk
To somewhere else other then at /sdcard? If so, where can I put them so everything till works?
I have had this same problem happen twice to me on 2 different phones on 2 different Verizon accounts!
The password screen locks and when it asks for the user name and password it states invalid user name / password!
Is this a known problem since when I called and talked to both Verizon and HTC the only thing they could tell me was to do a hard reset and they weren't aware of this problem?
I'm trying to develop an application that should not be visible to the user. I mean an app that can't be visible at the Manage Apps screen (Settings - Applications - Manage applications) and also whose services couldn't either be visible at the Running Services screen (Settings - Applications - Running services)I know I'm trying to fight against Android's nature of being open and give control to the user. But I want, somehow, to cheat the system and pretend the app does not run and even does not exist. Is that possible?
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhat are the privileges of two apps with same id? I thought that two apps with the same id can communicate with implicit intents without the need for intent filters to be advised.I created two test apps for this reason but it failed.
View 2 Replies View RelatedKindly provide me the Android code to get the User-Agent from the Android mobile device like in J2me where we can get System information about the mobile device using the J2me API.
Also , is there any list of Rdf or useragent string/ xml for the different Android devices available in the market.
I have an EditText that shows time. After user clicks the EditText I want to show a TimePickerDialog, so I set a View.OnClickListener to my EditText. But the OnClickListener is behaving wierdly - I touch the EditText and then software keyboard appears (which I don't want). When I touch again, OnClickListener.onClick() is finally called and the dialog appears.What should I do if I want the dialog to appear immediately?
View 4 Replies View RelatedNew to the fourms, just got myself a HTC Desire, and well impressed with it. wot i am looking for as an app that o2 have for the iphon2 (boo) weehre iut shows you your txtx and mins and data allowance, but for vodafone instead?
View 1 Replies View RelatedAnyone know how to check the user's country? I'm looking for a way that's faster than using GPS and reverse geocoding. (I need the country where the phone is registered, not their current location, in any case.) Is there any constant in the settings?
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen a user logs in to my online android application, I want to store a cookie on the user's phone so that he doesn't have to log in to the application on subsequent visits from the same phone.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to start my application when phone start and after that i do not want that user can know that my application is running. Is there any way i can do it ? In phone when we press home screen for some times it display all running application.I do not want my application to display in that list.Is there any way to do it
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am developing a webpage which requires the user location for loading some data. The web page is mainly intended for android users. I need to find the geo location of the user when the user opens that page? How can I do that?
View 2 Replies View RelatedAre there any USB functions for Android devices (all user devices, not rooted)? I'm curious because I might want to make an app that puts things through USB
View 1 Replies View RelatedI managed to get oauth token and Token secret from google, after the user login and grant access to the web site. after that I want the user's ID, first name, last name, and other available information about login user's.How can I achieve it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'd like to revisit a topic that was previously posted, but never resolved. http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa."Neither user 10002 nor current process has android.permission.SET_PREFERRED_APPLICATIONS" I'm running into the same problem as the original poster. Currently my development is blocked until this problem is resolved. What is causing this problem and how do I resolve it? If you need more information about the application I'm writing, I'm happy to provide it.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI want to provide an easy way for my users to follow my app's Twitter account.Is this possible using the Intents system?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI've just got my G1 today, and after getting it up and running have been browsing the Android Market. Are there any apps that you would recommend to a new user? Any that I simply shouldn't miss?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI want to create an application for Android that enables me to get the geolocation of a user. This has to be made as a client-server app and for the server side I'm using OpenFire. For getting the user's location I would have to use XEP-0080, right? And SmackAPI also? I'm completely new to XMPP and Smack, so if anyone could get me a few pointers or maybe examples or any kind of documentation about this I'd be very grateful.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for a way to determine user identity so I can globally track game scores off phone.IMEI provides identity of the phone - not effective if phone is on- traded or upgraded by individual. USIM provides identity of phone carrier subscriber - assumes device is phone, and currently has a SIM card.I'd like to be able to provide continuity as a user upgrades to a new device. And I dislike being forced to create an account on each global scoring system, so I don't want to force that on my users. And my end user experience with OpenFeint leaves me disinclined to use it.It doesn't need to be bullet proof. But it does need to be hassle free for my users.Is there any other identifier on an Android device that I can use to link data more cleanly with the current owner? And how would I get hold of that identifier? I'm thinking something like the user's Google account .. or similar
View 12 Replies View RelatedI'm starting to dip my toes into LocationManager. I've created a service which tracks GPS location (interval is more than 60000ms) and updates my application with user location so they can find stuff nearby. As I understand it, users can go into their preferences and disable GPS for a particular application. I would essentially like to offer my users two modes.
1) GPS. 2) If GPS can not pull, device does not have a GPS chip, or GPS is turned off for my app, I would like to allow them to type in their zip code (or maybe switch to cell tower lookup).
The bold text is what I'm interested in. How can I tell if the device does not have GPS? How can I tell if the user has disabled GPS for my application?
Side question: My service gets launched from my 2nd Activity. I call stopService in the onDestroy method of this Activity. If I back up to my 1st Activity and the 2nd Activity is destroyed, I still notice the GPS icon on my phone running. Is stopping the service sufficient? Or do I need to stop the LocationManager in the onDestroy of the service?
I want a countdowntimer to halt on a menu and also when the user goes from that menu to another activity. When the user comes back from that activity or when the menu is closed, the timer should still halt. However when the user went to the home screen and clicks on the icon again, I want the timer to restart. So my question is, is there a way to detect if the user has just opened your application, or if the user comes back from another activity or menu?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am trying to have 2 applications which can access each other's data.I have a two test applications which I am experimenting with.I set the 'Shared user id' for each to 'com.gabysoft.sharedfiles'.However, when I sign the first app and try and install it, I get the error:
11-05 16:50:33.422: ERROR/PackageManager(61): Package com.gabysoft.sharedfiles1 has no signatures that match those in shared user com.gabysoft.sharedfiles; ignoring!
Clearly, I am not signing it correctly (I am using Eclipse's "Export signed application package" function).How do I properly sign the .apk file so that I don't have this problem?
I am looking for some answers from some of the experts here. I have a project in mind that I want to start. It is about using HTC's Touch HD phone as a device in a museum with rich media/video about the art and the artists on it. Besides the videos and animation, I also want to show some content from a web browser. Now my biggestest issue. I do not want that the museum guest who pick up the phone for the tour get to see the standard Android user interface. Is there a way to develop a new user interface that would start up directly once the phone is turned on? It should then automatically start the app with the museum infos. Later I may want to add some GPS functions and even sms and photo taking, etc....
What do you think, how flexible is Android to allow that?
Assuming one uses Android without inputting a Google account details, is there any sort of user tracking, data collection or privacy violation going on in the system that you are aware of?
View 47 Replies View RelatedSuppose I have a text file in /data folder, is there any way I can display the textfile to user through an app?
View 4 Replies View RelatedIn my App, first it shows a splash screen. after that another activity, then my main activity must be show. this is my design plan. the second activity(i.e before main activity) must be show for the first time user of the app. if he/she closes the app.splash screen will redirect to main activity automatically. how to do this ? Any Idea? i am developing my app for android phones.
View 3 Replies View RelatedCan i ask how to get http_user_agent real device?
When i use WebView, i can get the real value like this: [HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla/5.0(Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-gb; LG-P500 Build/FRF91) AppleWebKit/533.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1
But when i use Apache connection, the result is different like this: [HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Apache-HttpClient/UNAVAILABLE(java 1.4).
Is there a way to get the User Agent of the Browser on the android device pro grammatically from within an app ?
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