Android :: Mobile Software Design Process
Jun 18, 2010I am not able to get an idea of how to do the "Design Process for a Mobile Platform". Can anyone give a little description of how to do the same.
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Android :: Design Considerations - Sync Process And Using Service
Sep 29, 2010I'm designing an android app which will need to do the following steps:
1. User pushes a button or otherwise indicates to "sync data".
2. Sync process will use rest web services to move data to and from the server.
3. The data will be stored locally in a sqlite database.
4. The sync process should provide status updates/messages to the UI
5. The user should not be allowed to wander off to other parts of the application and do more work during the sync process.
The first time the sync process runs, it may take 10-20 minutes. After the initial sync, less data will be transferred and stored and I expect the process to take 1-2 minutes or less. I've been doing a lot of reading about android's AsychTask and various examples of using a Service. But I don't fully understand the design considerations and trade-offs of choosing one design over the other. I currently have my demo project stubbed out using an AsychTask. After watching (most of) Developing Android REST client applications:
http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/developing-RESTful-and...
I'm left confused the design patterns described here feel overly complex, perhaps because I just "don't get it" yet.
Android :: Theme Design And Development For Mobile Phones?
Sep 15, 2010Looking out for theme development for various Mobile Devices & Platform:
Nokia and Sony have official Themes Creators/Preview and Manual. look for others also.
LG,HTC,Blackberry, Android,iPhones,Windows Mobile etc.
Android :: Practices To Design Webservices For Mobile (particularly Droid) Apps?
Oct 13, 2010What are the best practices to design webservices for mobile (particularly Android) apps?
Personally I'm focused on using JSON (and not XML) and I try to make it the less verbose I can. But I'm probably missing a lot of things.
Android :: GUI Design - Mockup Design Tool For Android Application
Nov 23, 2010I am going to develop an Android Application but before developing it i needs to have MockUp for the Android Application,so is there any way to design MockUp/GUI Design tool for the Android Application?
I know about DroidDraw tool , but i think it is not the exact way to prepare Mockup for the android application.
I have already referred this SO Question , but overthere i just found all the tools for the I-Phone only. So please feel free to share with me if you have/found any !
Android :: DDMS Not Listing Process - Via Command Line To Attach Process To Debug
May 21, 2010Sometimes the DDMS in the Eclipse not listing the process.
To do the debug in this condition,
1) Is their any way force the DDMS to list the process?
2) Any command to attach the process from the command line?
Android :: Remote Service Process Persists - I.e. Won't Disappear From Process Table
Feb 21, 2009At a certain point in my program, when I'm completely done with my service, my activity executes unbindService() and stopService() -- yet the process persists. I can tell that it persists because I run "ps" in "adb -e shell":
CODE:.............
"adb logcat", I can show you the sequence of events:
ACTIVITY: context.unbindService(serviceConnection);
SERVICE: onUnbind();
ACTIVITY: stopService(serviceIntent); & returns true!
SERVICE: onDestroy();
First, my activity calls unbindService(serviceConnection). According to the documentation, unbindService() will "Disconnect from an application service. You will no longer receive calls as the service is restarted, and the service is now allowed to stop at any time." So that is fine, and it is happening.
Appropriately, we see the onUnbind() call happen on the service side. According to the documentation, onUnbind() is called when "all clients have disconnected from a particular interface published by the service." So this confirms the correct service connection is being passed, and that the service is responding accordingly.
Next, my activity calls stopService(serviceIntent), and returns true. According to the documentation, stopService() does the following: "If there is a service matching the given Intent that is already running, then it is stopped and true is returned; else false is returned." Again, this is happening and returning true.
In response, the service's onDestroy() method is called. According to the documentation, onDestroy() is "Called by the system to notify a Service that it is no longer used and is being removed. The service should clean up any resources it holds (threads, registered receivers, etc) at this point. Upon return, there will be no more calls in to this Service object and it is effectively dead."
At this point I expect the process to disappear from the process table. Yet it remains indefinitely. But why?
Also, the process is so persistent that I can bind to it again, and I see that it is the same exact process responding because the PID (process ID) is the same!
LG Ally :: Process' Won't Open - Pop-up - The Process Com.android Phone Has Stopped Unexpectedly
Nov 24, 2010So, I decided to give Tridents ROM a try about 10-minutes ago.
I used ROM Manager, backed-up my old ROM, then downloaded Velocity 0.2.
Now, my phone will do nothing, it turns on and shows the red Droid eye, then when it's time to go to the home screen I get pop-up after pop-up saying that "The process com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
I have no way of getting on my phone at all, what can I do?
Motorola Droid :: Update App - Message Process Android Media Process Stopped Unexpectedly
Nov 12, 2010I Just installed a new theme (Live Wire) for my Lithium Mod Rom. Don't know if there is a connection, but when I need to update an app, I get the message something like "process android media process stopped unexpectedly" and it will not allow the update. Everything else works well. I have turned it off for awhile, and have done a battery pull.
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May 11, 2010Every 5 minutes this error pops up "Sorry! the process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectdly. please try again." It doesnt actually close anything. It pops up even when im not in an app. So it's more annoying than anything.
View 3 Replies View RelatedSony Ericsson Xperia X10 : Phonebook Not Working - Message Appears The Process Android.process.acore Has Stopped Unepectedly
Jul 30, 2010I'm using Xperia x10 mini. Whenever I try to add a contact to my phonebook, before clicking save this message appears: "The process android.process.acore has stopped unepectedly. Please try again." And I have no other choice but to click "force close"... Another thing is, even though my contacts' names appears in the messages in my inbox, when I click on the phonebook icon, the phonebook is empty...
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Feb 1, 2010Are the processes in android asynchronous? If they are asynchronous then how can we conclude when the activity or process is finished or completed its execution.
View 2 Replies View RelatedSamsung Fascinate :: Random Process Com.google.process.gapps Has Stopped Unexpectedly
Sep 11, 2010So since I got the phone on Thursday, at random, I'll get these popup crash messages, that say "The process com.google.process.gapps has stopped unexpectedly" it has a "Force Close" button, which doesn't seem to change anything other than to acknowlege the message.It will happen at random, sometimes while I'm on the home screen, or sending a text message, but more recently, as I was trying to manage & link contacts. When I searched for this message it seemed to be related to people using Gmail, but I always get this message when I'm doing other things and not even touching my Gmail account.
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Sep 19, 2009I bought a new phone, but I can not run it.
I get the following information: "Sorry! The process com.google.process.gaps has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again".
Samsung Moment :: Getting Process Com.google.process.gapps Stoped Unexpectedly
Apr 17, 2010I've searched around the forums (here and SDX forums) and although it seems the few people that had this issue were able to solve it, my case seems a bit different.
It's different because of the people I've read solving the issue, it was a problem with something they changed / removed with gmail / gmail storage or talk / talk storage. And when they cleared the cache or re-installed the problem went away. Also, it seemed that the same people had a problem with downloading from the market...
Neither of the above apply to me, but yet I'm still getting this FC error all the time!
I was helping a friend with their CL14 Moment out of the box...and went from stock 1.5 CL14 to 2.1 DD03 w/Joey recovery to EclairDD10 and v5 root. I then did the streaming media fix, and then the private app (build.prop) fix (all previously done with my phone no problems). I did all of these update right in a row, and after my last re-boot the FC error (process com.google.process.gapps has stoped unexpectedly) started showing up and won't go away.
The only .apk / odex files I removed were the preloaded Sprint apps
Does anybody have any other ideas on how I can get this FC error to stop? I've tried clearing the cache / data for all the mail / talk apps, rebooted, cleared dalvik cache...
Samsung Fascinate :: Process Com.google.process.gapps Stooped Working
Sep 17, 2010Keep getting this message "The process com.google.process.gapps has stooped working unexpectedly. Any thoughts on what this is and how to resolve?
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Aug 25, 2010Is there a way to craft a daemon process as to make it "unlistable" to a process viewer?
OR
is there a way to dynamically change a process name?
I'd like to design a security application without having to modify the firmware, if possible (yes I know about "security through obscurity"...).
Android :: Looking For A Design Tip / Advice / Doc
Aug 2, 2010I'm kind of new to android development.I have read from many sources that findViewById() is a "costly" operation. I'm making an application that deals with 5 TextViews to provide different kinds of information (distance, duration, title, description, etc) from a database. I'm using listeners to catch touch/click events and feedbacks a handler. The main function of the handler is to received a "position" in the Cursor where the new information needs to be displayed. I mentioned earlier that findViewById() is a "costly" operation. So, I don't call this method in the handler. Doing so, it will retrieve every time the Views when user touchs/clicks some widget. Is it right to populate the Activity with private members of the Views/Layout it displays? I mean, I don't like it. I don't know why, but seems that I'm populating too much the activity. I'm aware of the android:onClick xml attribute, but in my case I also use long click listeners. So, a piece of onCreate() looks like: And all of those are private members, wihout mention the "cursor.getColumnIndex()" for each. I thought on implementing Handler.Callback and set on the Hanlder.Callback constructor implementer a View array or a View list or something, but I also need this objects later to set other listeners and setups. Is this right? I cannot think another way, as I need the reference to the object, and also the Cursor reference that the handler will move to the "position" provided and update the correspondent View. I will really appreciate either an advice or a useful link/info/doc to read in what concern in this kind of designs. What I do not like is that It looks like imperative programming filling the Activity with "global" variables.
View 6 Replies View RelatedAndroid :: APN Design - Access Pointer - MMS
May 13, 2009in Android code, It is a very strange concept to define the APN type (APN_TYPE_MMS). The reason are: 1) APN only is an access pointer, it haven't any special attribute for MMS or other things. 2) Only Application care the APN name, since different APN will provide different service from operator. for example, operation may provide Email/MMS/GPS/.... service on different APN. 3) Android only define one type APN_TYPE_MMS, this will limit other top application usage. Any one can answer me why Android design this way? If google have strong reason for such design, I hope add other user defined type like APN_TYPE_USER1 APN_TYPE_USER2 then top application can set his property to use its APN other than APN_TYPE_MMS
View 2 Replies View RelatedAndroid :: How To Design A Floating Keyboard
Oct 13, 2010I am a developer and recently completed the implementation of my keyboard MessagEase. It's available on the Market (with its very- different features, making it quite unlike QWERTY).
This keyboard works fine as a replacement of the standard keyboard on an Android Phone. But for a An Android Tablet, it would work best if it's implemented as a floating, movable keyboard.
(the footprint of this keyboard is mostly dependable on the size of a human's finger; it remains the same even if the tablet's display is much larger than a phone's. Therefore it'll take a relatively smaller area on a tablet.)
If I use the current SDK hooks, it will have to take a significant portion of the screen, defeating the purpose.
Android :: Activity Design Advice
Mar 3, 2010I have a service running that grabs the users attention with a notification. What i would like to happen when the user clicks on the notification is for it to launch a dialog box. The "proper" thing to do is to launch an activity in this way, so is there a way to get an activity to launch with out filling the screen? So it looks like a dialog box?
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Sep 1, 2010I'm more than happy coding apps.I am, however, rubbish at icon design.I'm sure I'm not the only one for whom this is a problem and yet all android devs need to create a launcher icon.Does anyone have any good tips on knocking up simple but effective launcher icons?
View 5 Replies View RelatedAndroid :: Using 3d Packages For Icon Design
Nov 3, 2010if this is a silly question, am sorry about that. I was wondering if its possible to design android icons using a 3d modelling package like blender? i know i have to stick to the guidelines documented already, but was just wondering if anyone had come across or done something similar? Its that little part of the icons(launchers) being able to have a slight perspective and looking through the requirements to design icons it seems i might be a lot faster using a 3d modelling package and then following part of the icons template guide(based from my requirement though!).
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Aug 29, 2010how to use the IMF to design a soft keyboard. Please point me to some resources that will help me understand how to do it from the ground up. Something other than the SDK sample
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Sep 18, 2010I designed an app for htc desire.The background image used for the app looks good in ecipse layout, when installed in phone it is stretched.
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Jan 5, 2010I need to design a board UI using android platform. I was planning to take one image as board and moving the required images over the board. How do I achieve the same? I need to find the coordinates for image and need to move the required images to specifies coordinates. Is there any andorid API for this?
View 2 Replies View RelatedAndroid :: Example / Code To Set Page For App Design?
Oct 8, 2009Is anyone aware of an example or sample code that shows how to make a settings page (like what you get from hitting settings)? Many apps seem to have them but I'm not sure what type of list they are using.
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Oct 7, 2010Taking into account JIT and non-JIT devices, what would be most efficient on Android for returning multiple values from functions: an array like this: Code...
View 6 Replies View RelatedAndroid :: Need Source / Links To Implements A Design?
Jul 21, 2010Referring http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/developing-RESTful-android-apps.html. Can any body provide source/links which implements such a design?
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Aug 30, 2010I have a general Android design question around data access. I have a number of activities in my application that need to access a SQLite database. In order to wrap up all data access logic in one place I have created a DatbaseHandler class that takes care of all data access logic. This class takes care of building up where clauses, calling the database and interrogating the resulting cursor to retrieve the query results and return them to the caller. The purpose of this class is to wrap all data access code in one place so that it can be easily managed and maintained as opposed to having data access logic scattered across all activities. Each activity that needs access to the database creates an instance of this DatabaseHandler class and passes it a reference of android.content.Context. The DatabaseHandler class then uses this Context object to call an underlying content provider as follows context_i.getContentResolver().query(...).
My data access logic (cursor handling logic to be specific) is not in the activity and so I cannot manage the cursors life cycle, therefore there is likely to be memory leaks.
My questions are as follows -
How can I (if its even possible) manage the cursors life cycle from outside an Activity? Should each activity even be creating an instance of this data handler class and passing an instance of Context to it? Perhaps my design approach is wrong and I should expose these data access functions as static methods that take an instance of the calling activity as a parameter. That way I could perform managed queries and let the activity take care of managing the cursors life cycle?