**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Feb 25 02:59:57 2009
Feb 25 03:01:09 <mfisch> rsteckler: hows your app selling?
Feb 25 03:01:24 <rsteckler> meh.  I'm making about 4 cents/hour
Feb 25 03:01:38 <mfisch> as good as my adsense does then ;)
Feb 25 03:01:39 <WiiR0cKz> rsteckler which app?
Feb 25 03:01:47 <rsteckler> WiiR0cKz:  mybuzzdroid
Feb 25 03:01:56 <rsteckler> an awesome, useful app.
Feb 25 03:02:07 <rsteckler> that I don't think people understand enough to want to buy.
Feb 25 03:02:11 <rsteckler> Or maybe I'm just deluded.
Feb 25 03:02:12 <WiiR0cKz> anymore updates coming soon?
Feb 25 03:02:42 <rsteckler> Undecided.  Not sure how much effort I want to spend on it opposed to my next endeavor
Feb 25 03:03:27 <WiiR0cKz> which is? :P
Feb 25 03:03:35 <rsteckler> secret so far  =)
Feb 25 03:03:44 <rsteckler> I'll let you know when it's a little further along.
Feb 25 03:11:00 <_avatar> exit
Feb 25 03:11:06 <_avatar> bah. sorry.
Feb 25 03:15:02 <AakashPatel> who knows a good place to learn java from scratch
Feb 25 03:17:35 <_avatar> AakashPatel: http://www.mindviewinc.com/Books/, grab "Thinking in Java, 3rd Edition"
Feb 25 03:17:51 <_avatar> i'm sure it's not the best java book, but it's pretty good, and free
Feb 25 03:24:13 <rsteckler> There's something wrong with the drawable decoder, methinks
Feb 25 03:24:31 <rsteckler> I have plenty of heap left (12MB) and it's failing on a 1.5meg allocation
Feb 25 03:26:47 <squalus> his c++ book is good but *really* exhaustive
Feb 25 03:27:47 <MikHel> Anyone knows about HostnameVerifier usage in android?
Feb 25 03:29:59 <BenEss> Hey, if I want a full screen view for a game's main menu (not drawn by a thread) how should I proceed? Should I subclass View or SurfaceView?
Feb 25 03:30:13 <BenEss> Is surface view just for drawing from a separate thread?
Feb 25 03:36:13 <rsteckler> you can just turn off the title and use params to specify full screen
Feb 25 03:36:23 <rsteckler> in a regular activity
Feb 25 03:36:40 <rsteckler> 		this.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
Feb 25 03:36:40 <rsteckler> 		this.getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
Feb 25 03:39:26 <BenEss> Yeah but I have other views that I want to display one at a time
Feb 25 03:39:53 <BenEss> i want to implement my own OnDraw() in this view
Feb 25 03:40:30 <rsteckler> Create a custom view, do your onDraw, and in your fullscreen activity, setContentView(myCustomView);
Feb 25 03:41:53 <BenEss> and itthe view will automatically be the right size?
Feb 25 03:43:15 <rsteckler> The view's dimensions will be the size of the full sceren activity
Feb 25 03:44:13 <Urakagi> Can I have the very first Class to access setting of screen brightness?
Feb 25 04:11:24 <rsteckler> Well, I fixed my memory problem.  I wasn't closing a bufferedinputstream.  My apologies to Google for implying that their code had a bug/leak.  I'll duly flog myself later.
Feb 25 04:11:54 <romainguy> rsteckler: no worry, everybody does that and they're (almost) always wrong :p
Feb 25 04:12:24 * MikHel is having nightmares with HTTPS access... :(
Feb 25 04:17:16 <rsteckler> IT just occurred to me that the OS is Android and the hardware is Dream.  Coincidence?  Or a reference to the book?
Feb 25 04:19:41 <MikHel> rsteckler: Technically the OS is Linux, not Android. I think Android is an environment.
Feb 25 04:19:56 <rsteckler> Sure - Framework.
Feb 25 04:20:13 <rsteckler> I was playing fast and loose with my vocabulairzationability
Feb 25 04:20:20 <MikHel> :)
Feb 25 04:20:24 <jasta> its official, i like git now :)
Feb 25 04:21:17 <rsteckler> I haven't tried git.  I've been using bazaar, though - and love it
Feb 25 04:21:26 <rsteckler> way better than the perforce crap we use at work...
Feb 25 04:21:32 <jasta> rsteckler: i think it's a coincidence.  now, if the next device is called "electric sheep", then i think we'll know what's up :)
Feb 25 04:43:11 <MikHel> Anybody has any experience doing https connections?
Feb 25 04:45:18 <rsteckler> what's the problem?  I'm doing http connections...
Feb 25 04:45:32 <MikHel> Well it's httpS...
Feb 25 04:46:05 <MikHel> I try to connect to a site which is hosted by a company whose SSL certificate does not match the name of the website.
Feb 25 04:46:29 <MikHel> Then I get an exception and I have been strugling for 3h looking for a way to solve it.
Feb 25 04:46:43 <rsteckler> I think you need to pass in params that say to accept invalid certs.
Feb 25 04:46:58 <MikHel> All I find on the web is either not up to date or uses bits of apache that are not on android.
Feb 25 04:47:03 <MikHel> rsteckler: How?
Feb 25 04:47:18 <MikHel> I would love to simply do that. So far all my attempts have failed.
Feb 25 04:51:33 <MikHel> The apache doc does not work at http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/sslguide.html does not work because "Protocol" is not implemented...
Feb 25 04:52:05 <MikHel> It's VERY FRUSTRATING!
Feb 25 04:54:01 <romainguy> Android does not come with HttpClient 3 but 4
Feb 25 04:54:13 <romainguy> so look at the docs for HttpClient 4
Feb 25 04:54:44 <MikHel> romainguy: OK that's something I was not aware. I am new to the whole apache thing.... So how is it done in HttpClient 4?
Feb 25 04:55:21 <romainguy> no idea, read the docs
Feb 25 04:59:09 <MikHel> Well I have no clue where the doc is. The javadoc is useless. No tutorial, no outline of how things are done :(
Feb 25 05:01:35 <romainguy> http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/httpclient/apidocs/index.html
Feb 25 05:11:21 <MikHel> romainguy: That's a javadoc that's not even complete in its links... No way to find out how to install another HostnameVerifier.
Feb 25 05:11:55 <romainguy> well too bad then
Feb 25 05:11:58 <MikHel> That's all I need to find out but have not find a single up to date example.
Feb 25 05:12:01 <romainguy> go ask questions on their forums
Feb 25 05:12:28 <MikHel> I probably should
Feb 25 06:18:16 <MikHel> romainguy: I solved the problem.
Feb 25 13:50:21 <marklar> Has anyone else had the developer console and Google checkout report different numbers?
Feb 25 13:50:41 <marklar> Mine have been off since my second sale
Feb 25 13:59:50 <Tachyon-Away> argh .. help. I'm trying to just draw simple shapes in the background of my main linear view..
Feb 25 14:00:11 <DJTachyon> any pointers?
Feb 25 14:00:30 <marklar> DJTachyon: surface view and a paint object?
Feb 25 14:01:15 <marklar> iirc a surface view will draw underneath any other views that  are declared below it in the xml
Feb 25 14:01:38 <DJTachyon> no just a simple shapedrawable
Feb 25 14:01:40 <DJTachyon> or something
Feb 25 14:02:14 <marklar> not really sure, that is one way to do it though
Feb 25 14:02:25 <marklar> Paint objects can draw simple shapes relatively easily
Feb 25 14:03:02 <DJTachyon> yeah, i guess im getting confused between drawables and views
Feb 25 14:03:22 <DJTachyon> im trying to get the background of my main layout and add an onDraw to it
Feb 25 14:03:33 <marklar> I'd use surface view then
Feb 25 14:03:53 <DJTachyon> isn't surfaceview a bit overkill for some rectangles?
Feb 25 14:03:56 <marklar> I used it to create an animated background for a menu in an app
Feb 25 14:04:04 <marklar> maybe, I just don't know anything else to suggest :)
Feb 25 14:04:08 <DJTachyon> hehe
Feb 25 14:04:09 <marklar> and it wasn't very difficult
Feb 25 14:06:22 <DJTachyon> so far this is as simple as i can get:
Feb 25 14:06:23 <DJTachyon> http://pastebin.com/m7e662b75
Feb 25 14:06:34 <DJTachyon> but that blows away the xml obviously
Feb 25 14:07:06 <marklar> yeah, that is simpler
Feb 25 14:07:11 <DJTachyon> i basically want to set that view as the backgrounddrawable to the main layout
Feb 25 14:07:44 <marklar> don't know how it works, the reason I mentioned surface view is cause android will take care of composing it for you
Feb 25 14:07:55 <DJTachyon> hmm
Feb 25 14:07:57 <marklar> don't know how that works with a custom view like that
Feb 25 14:08:12 <DJTachyon> got some example code?
Feb 25 14:08:24 <marklar> at home, I'm at work right now
Feb 25 14:08:34 <marklar> I used the lunar lander sample to start
Feb 25 14:08:52 <DJTachyon> im at work but logged into home
Feb 25 14:09:17 <marklar> yeah I'm trying to keep work and android as separated as possible
Feb 25 14:09:56 <DJTachyon> well thats technically using a custom view as well
Feb 25 14:10:37 <marklar> yup it is, but I believe surfaceview takes care of some of the stuff that you want for you
Feb 25 14:10:47 <marklar> I honestly am just trying to give ideas, I don't really know
Feb 25 14:10:53 <DJTachyon> thanks anyway
Feb 25 14:11:05 <marklar> haha np
Feb 25 14:15:12 <DJTachyon> hmmm i need to change the color of the rects at high speed though
Feb 25 14:41:07 <DJTachyon> sweet got it working
Feb 25 14:41:18 <DJTachyon> well i gave in and used the custom view for now
Feb 25 14:49:08 <marklar> nice, it works though?
Feb 25 14:57:32 <DJTachyon> yeah
Feb 25 16:05:31 <polter> hi, I was wondering if someone knows of a good step-by-step guide for installing the SDK on OpenSUSE? I can't figure it out :S
Feb 25 16:09:57 <marklar> polter: have you followed the guide at developer.android.com?
Feb 25 16:10:36 <marklar> polter: http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.1_r1/installing.html
Feb 25 16:11:14 <DJTachyon> is it just me or does the orientation sensor just conver the accelerometer sensor into degrees?
Feb 25 16:13:17 <DJTachyon> im trying to detect when the phone is being waved left or right
Feb 25 16:42:49 <zhobbs> why does Exception.getMessage() through a NullPointerException sometimes? " java.lang.NullPointerException: println needs a message"
Feb 25 16:47:54 <romainguy> zhobbs: it's not getMessage() that throws the NPE, it's your print
Feb 25 16:48:05 <romainguy> getMessage() returns null sometimes
Feb 25 16:51:53 <digitalspaghetti> is there any way to discover why a thread keeps dying without any exception?
Feb 25 16:57:26 <KNY> digitalspaghetti, pastebin your code?
Feb 25 17:00:58 <digitalspaghetti> http://paste.ifies.org/384
Feb 25 17:02:00 <digitalspaghetti> mehh, i forgot to output the throwable :|
Feb 25 17:02:27 <KNY> digitalspaghetti, heh, does that fix your problem?
Feb 25 17:06:51 <digitalspaghetti> well, yes and no :)
Feb 25 17:07:06 <digitalspaghetti> it at least leads me to where my code is breaking
Feb 25 17:14:22 <vol> digitalspaghetti: is it returning from run, throwing an exception, what
Feb 25 17:14:32 <vol> oh, throwing something, nvm :>
Feb 25 17:14:40 <vol> you could always try catching that exception and setting a breakpoint
Feb 25 17:18:53 <digitalspaghetti> thats working fina again, the problem is now some object related stuff.  I have a class called Image that is a paramter of Channel, and when i parse the XML it seems to do two passes, so it sets the URL then overites it
Feb 25 17:18:58 <digitalspaghetti> so i always get null :|
Feb 25 17:29:58 <zhobbs> romainguy: hmm, so if I do Log.d(TAG, "Something " + e.getMessage()) it should be fine right?
Feb 25 17:33:07 <joakime> is there SVG support built in somewhere?  or is that left up to the individual developers to implement?
Feb 25 17:34:11 <jbq> No SVG support currently in Android.
Feb 25 17:35:45 <joakime> jbq, that "currently" is intriguing. does that hint that it is at least being investigated for a future android os release?
Feb 25 17:36:44 <jbq> yes, it's being investigated. Magic 8-ball says "code is too big to fit on existing devices".
Feb 25 17:36:57 <joakime> heh.
Feb 25 17:41:22 <magegu> hi
Feb 25 17:41:48 <tauno_> I should use Batik in my app - it's only ~12MB (:
Feb 25 17:42:00 <tauno_> "only"
Feb 25 17:42:49 <magegu> i've a problem with my layout
Feb 25 17:43:02 <magegu> I'm using tabhost/mapactivity workaround
Feb 25 17:43:58 <magegu> in my layout http://pastie.org/399888 i'm using another layout that should display a list and a edittext, the edittextbox is displayed on every tab, it should be displayed only on one
Feb 25 17:44:34 <joakime> magegu, i once saw a svg2java codebase that converts a specific svg drawing to a java source code that just performs a set of swing drawing primitives identical to the drawing.
Feb 25 17:44:54 <joakime> i have to find that again.
Feb 25 17:45:08 <romainguy__> joakime: -swing+Java2D
Feb 25 17:45:22 <joakime> romainguy, true, true. java2d.
Feb 25 17:45:37 <joakime> i'm stuck in swing land right now. i have swing on the brain. ;-)
Feb 25 17:45:47 <romainguy__> I miss Swing :)
Feb 25 17:50:51 <magegu> joakime: did'nt get the connection between your svg2java and my problem :)
Feb 25 17:51:19 <joakime> magegu, delayed response to your earlier comment. it unfortunately mingled itself into another chain of thought. my bad.
Feb 25 17:52:40 <magegu> ;-) np .. any suggestions for my prob :)
Feb 25 17:52:44 <magegu> ?
Feb 25 17:52:47 <BenEss> Is it normal that I get "Process com.android.phone is not responding" messages in the emulator? When I "wait" everything seems to be fine.
Feb 25 17:53:45 <BenEss> this usually happens after loading the emulator
Feb 25 17:54:28 <joakime> BenEss, i get that too, doesn't seem to harm anything.   I just leave the emulator up and running after that.
Feb 25 17:56:55 <BenEss> So its not my app that is causing it? It wont do that on the device?
Feb 25 18:17:52 <michel_> BenEss: It is not.
Feb 25 18:18:08 <michel_> It is I think simply that the emulator comes on in screen saver mode.
Feb 25 18:18:25 <michel_> So your app does not get really started until you get it awaken
Feb 25 18:18:34 <BenEss> ok thanks
Feb 25 18:18:51 <michel_> What I do is to press the menu button twice as soon as it is done with the full boot.
Feb 25 18:29:45 <fknecht> Anyone got an idea what software/property could "break" the accelerometer? Works after wipe, but I have way to many apps and data on there...
Feb 25 18:32:42 <zhobbs> I hope not....
Feb 25 18:53:12 <fknecht> ok, deleting dalvik-cache seemed to fix it. or it was renaming the /data/misc/akmd_set.txt file (was recreated)
Feb 25 18:53:27 <fknecht> don't know what the file is for, but renamed it anyway ;-)
Feb 25 19:26:15 <magegu_> hey - where and how do I declare  an activity in the android manifest  .. .i'm getting a ActivityNotFoundException
Feb 25 19:28:59 <marklar> magegu_: http://code.google.com/android/devel/bblocks-manifest.html
Feb 25 19:29:18 <marklar> you need to specify a new <activity>
Feb 25 19:34:32 <jrf> Hi
Feb 25 19:34:42 <jrf> how can I install OpenGL ES libraries for Eclipse?
Feb 25 19:35:29 <jelg1> I have trouble building the sdk  (make sdk)
Feb 25 19:35:44 <jelg1> com.sun.tools.javac.code.Symbol$CompletionFailure: class file for sun.util.resources.OpenListResourceBundle not found
Feb 25 19:36:21 <jrf> how can I install OpenGL ES libraries for Eclipse?
Feb 25 19:37:41 <jelg1> have installed sun-java6-jdk
Feb 25 19:37:47 <jrf> yes
Feb 25 19:37:48 <ctate> jrf: you asked that already a few minutes ago.  if nobody answers, it's a good bet that nobody knows.
Feb 25 19:38:26 <jrf> but where I can get the libraries? I tried khronos site but I don't see to download
Feb 25 19:40:23 <jelg1> hmmm.. seems I have both java5 and java6 installed..
Feb 25 20:45:45 <herriojr> so, I'm trying to set my my selector when a list item has focus to a color, but it sets the whole list as the color, can someone tell me what is wrong with this: http://pastebin.ca/1347161
Feb 25 20:48:35 <romainguy___> know bug
Feb 25 20:48:41 <romainguy___> like I already said several times here
Feb 25 20:48:48 <romainguy___> fixed in cupcake
Feb 25 20:48:51 <romainguy___> use a 9patch instead
Feb 25 20:49:13 <herriojr> ok, I'll look at what a 9patch is
Feb 25 20:49:19 <herriojr> sorry, never seen you say it was a known bug
Feb 25 20:58:51 <jasta> SanMehat: *poke*
Feb 25 21:07:37 <Juanjo-sfe> hi
Feb 25 21:08:03 <Juanjo-sfe> hi
Feb 25 21:08:52 <z2z> all: is there any api to access the market?
Feb 25 21:09:13 <Juanjo-sfe> can I draw a text on a BitmapDrawable?
Feb 25 21:10:12 <jasta> z2z: through intents there is some, yes.
Feb 25 21:11:52 <z2z> jasta: excellent. do you know the class i need to look at?
Feb 25 21:15:08 <SanMehat> jasta: hi
Feb 25 21:17:57 <jasta> SanMehat: hey, can you help me understand why in order to build a different device you need to replace the kernel project?  is there no flexibility to have multiple target devices in a build tree which depends on different kernel trees?
Feb 25 21:19:14 <herriojr> romainguy: you'll get to see what I've been working on if you watch what's coming out at DEMO this Sunday
Feb 25 21:20:18 <SanMehat> jasta: eh?
Feb 25 21:20:39 <SanMehat> jasta: what is this 'kernel project' mumbo-jumbo you're speaking of?
Feb 25 21:21:00 <jasta> SanMehat: for your instructions to build for the dream, you replace the kernel/ project in repo with the one satisfied by kernel/msm instead of kernel/common
Feb 25 21:21:19 <Juanjo-sfe> nobody have idea?
Feb 25 21:21:21 <jasta> what if i wanted to have multiple kernels in a single build tree, and multiple potential TARGET_DEVICEs would use them?
Feb 25 21:21:24 <SanMehat> jasta: right.. because kernel/common doesn't include msm support
Feb 25 21:21:25 <herriojr> romainguy: and one thing you might like about it is it cannot be done on the iPhone (unless you're Apple)
Feb 25 21:21:39 <SanMehat> jasta: um.. well I just build my kernels outside of the tree
Feb 25 21:21:54 <SanMehat> ie: i dont have a kernel/ directory
Feb 25 21:22:21 <jasta> ok, so that is possible to integrate nicely then?  i guess vendor/htc/dream by default does just hardcode a prebuilt kernel
Feb 25 21:22:25 <jasta> and i can do the same for my purposes
Feb 25 21:22:29 <SanMehat> yeah thats what i do
Feb 25 21:22:38 <SanMehat> build  and push it to vendor/htc/dream/kernel
Feb 25 21:22:41 <SanMehat> vendor/htc/draem/wlan.ko
Feb 25 21:22:43 <jasta> thanks
Feb 25 21:22:44 <SanMehat> and call it done
Feb 25 21:22:54 <SanMehat> werd.
Feb 25 21:25:21 <jasta> how did i get the job of being build meister? :)
Feb 25 21:25:23 <jasta> yargh :)
Feb 25 21:30:44 <SanMehat> haha
Feb 25 21:36:09 <Juanjo-sfe> how the hell I can get a drawable with text on it?!
Feb 25 21:36:49 <vol> draw it :>
Feb 25 21:38:05 <Juanjo-sfe> vol, how? wich class.methdo let me do it?
Feb 25 21:38:24 <Juanjo-sfe> the text some times will be "1"
Feb 25 21:38:26 <jasta> Juanjo-sfe: i'm sensing that your design is all wrong buddy :)
Feb 25 21:38:28 <Juanjo-sfe> sometimes "2"
Feb 25 21:38:40 <Juanjo-sfe> jasta
Feb 25 21:38:43 <Juanjo-sfe> why?
Feb 25 21:39:02 <jasta> take a look at the StatusBarService in the source tree...
Feb 25 21:39:03 <jasta> specifically
Feb 25 21:39:53 <jasta> StatusBarIcon
Feb 25 21:40:04 <jasta> it's the code which handles drawing little numbers next to the status bar icons when necessary
Feb 25 21:40:19 <jasta> it does not "write text to a drawable", as your design insists.  this is a strange way to approach the problem.
Feb 25 21:40:55 <jasta> instead, it's just using a layout which has both a TextView and an ImageView
Feb 25 21:42:02 <Juanjo-sfe> jasta, url?
Feb 25 21:42:36 <jasta> you can find it, i'm sure.
Feb 25 21:43:13 <Juanjo-sfe> jasta: is the way i used to do it in pygame
Feb 25 21:44:30 <jasta> are you trying to draw text directly to a canvas?  there should be plenty of open source examples you can find of this as well.
Feb 25 21:44:46 <KNY> when I rotate the screen and my app gets torn down and rebuilt, how much gets torn down? does it go all the way to onDestroy()/onCreate()?
Feb 25 21:44:47 <jasta> anyway, be resourceful and stop harrassing us :)
Feb 25 21:44:49 <Juanjo-sfe> jasta, i saw that was posible
Feb 25 21:45:07 <Juanjo-sfe> i actually wanna generate an image, with text, pass it to the method where canvas in accesible
Feb 25 21:45:11 <Juanjo-sfe> and then draw it
Feb 25 21:45:19 <herriojr> KNY: yes
Feb 25 21:45:28 <KNY> herriojr, dang. thanks
Feb 25 21:45:53 <herriojr> KNY: but if there is data you need to store, you need to put it in a parcel
Feb 25 21:46:19 <KNY> herriojr, no, I have an HTTPClient instance that's giving me trouble
Feb 25 21:46:20 <herriojr> KNY: so there is stuff in the bundle that is passed into onCreate()
Feb 25 21:46:47 <herriojr> KNY: the browser seems to get around it some way, maybe you can check that out if their browser is open source
Feb 25 21:47:10 <KNY> herriojr, it is. I'll see what I can find, thanks
Feb 25 21:58:48 <Juanjo-sfe> Paint.setColor(int color) ?
Feb 25 21:58:53 <Juanjo-sfe> where do I get colors?
Feb 25 21:58:58 <Juanjo-sfe> from R?
Feb 25 21:59:07 <romainguy___> not necessarily
Feb 25 21:59:08 <Juanjo-sfe> are there int constants in other place?
Feb 25 21:59:10 <romainguy___> just pass the color
Feb 25 21:59:17 <romainguy___> 0xffff0000 for red, etc.
Feb 25 21:59:22 <Juanjo-sfe> ho
Feb 25 21:59:25 <Juanjo-sfe> thanks
Feb 25 21:59:33 <Juanjo-sfe> arent constants?
Feb 25 22:00:04 <romainguy___> look at the color class
Feb 25 22:00:14 <romainguy___> but you don't really need constants
Feb 25 22:02:40 <Juanjo-sfe> ok
Feb 25 22:02:43 <Juanjo-sfe> uff
Feb 25 22:02:56 <Juanjo-sfe> this is getting hard (use canvas.drawText)
Feb 25 22:03:10 <Juanjo-sfe> to draw dynamic text in a game like app
Feb 25 22:04:08 <KNY> herriojr, I think that's all wrapped up in WebView
Feb 25 22:04:13 * KNY digs further
Feb 25 22:07:29 <romainguy___> Juanjo-sfe: hard??
Feb 25 22:08:24 <Juanjo-sfe> romainguy___,  yes
Feb 25 22:08:35 <Juanjo-sfe> define a Paint, put ir color, aling..
Feb 25 22:08:46 <romainguy___> ok...
Feb 25 22:09:06 <Juanjo-sfe> maybe i am just flat
Feb 25 22:09:18 <Juanjo-sfe> I am new to java also :(
Feb 25 22:09:26 <Juanjo-sfe> How can I get a String from a int?
Feb 25 22:09:38 <romainguy___> String.valueOf()
Feb 25 22:09:42 <romainguy___> read the javadocs :)
Feb 25 22:10:00 <Juanjo-sfe> faunded
Feb 25 22:10:02 <Juanjo-sfe> valudOf
Feb 25 22:10:52 <KNY> Juanjo-sfe, have you gone through a) the tutorials and b) the sample code?
Feb 25 22:11:04 <KNY> I highly recommend you check out the LunarLander example
Feb 25 22:11:30 <Juanjo-sfe> KNY yes
Feb 25 22:11:41 <Juanjo-sfe> yes, I strip it
Feb 25 22:11:50 <KNY> Juanjo-sfe, and you're still having trouble setting colors?
Feb 25 22:11:51 <Juanjo-sfe> but it does not work with text
Feb 25 22:12:14 <Juanjo-sfe> KNY i didnt look in deep colors there
Feb 25 22:12:53 <Juanjo-sfe> i remember it (lunar) get colors from R
Feb 25 22:14:06 <g1bb> integer.toString() will work too
Feb 25 22:14:21 <KNY> g1bb, not for an int
Feb 25 22:14:22 <g1bb> i'm not lagging.. really
Feb 25 22:14:27 <g1bb> oh int sorry
Feb 25 22:17:35 <magegu_> hi guys im still trying to solve a layout problem, a AutoCompleteTextView that shoul only be displayed in one tab (in my TabHost) is displayed on every tab
Feb 25 22:17:47 <magegu_> thats my layout: http://pastie.org/399888
Feb 25 22:26:17 <Juanjo-sfe> does Paint have to haave a special flag set to be use to draw text on a canvas
Feb 25 22:26:18 <Juanjo-sfe> ?
Feb 25 22:27:52 <romainguy___> no
Feb 25 22:29:35 <joakime> Juanjo-sfe, you could have paint set badly for text to show up (alpha set wrong, fill or stroke color matches background, or just stroke set with a teeny width that doesn't show up), or the text location (x,y) you are attempting to write to is outside of the visible area.
Feb 25 22:30:51 <Juanjo-sfe> 		this.paint = new Paint(Paint.LINEAR_TEXT_FLAG);
Feb 25 22:30:51 <Juanjo-sfe> 		this.paint.setColor(0x00000000);
Feb 25 22:30:51 <Juanjo-sfe> 		this.paint.setTextSize(10);
Feb 25 22:30:51 <Juanjo-sfe> 		this.paint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER);
Feb 25 22:31:32 <Juanjo-sfe> and
Feb 25 22:31:50 <Juanjo-sfe> canvas.drawText(String.valueOf(die.getValue()), x, y, paint);
Feb 25 22:34:31 <romainguy___> er
Feb 25 22:34:34 <romainguy___> the color you're using
Feb 25 22:34:37 <romainguy___> it's fully transparent
Feb 25 22:34:50 <joakime> Juanjo-sfe, check this code out - http://developer.android.com/guide/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/graphics/TextAlign.html
Feb 25 22:35:09 <Juanjo-sfe> thanks joakime
Feb 25 22:37:25 <joakime> Juanjo-sfe, and fix your color specification. (like romainguy__ recommends) - follow the references guide at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/resources-i18n.html#colorvals or the Color API doc at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Color.html
Feb 25 22:37:52 <joakime> Juanjo-sfe, if you pay attention to those docs, you'll understand why, and have plenty of _good_ color examples.
Feb 25 22:43:07 <Juanjo-sfe> joakime, ok I am getting some text drawn now
Feb 25 22:43:13 <Juanjo-sfe> I was missing the font
Feb 25 22:46:39 <digitalspaghetti> romainguy___: you there?
Feb 25 22:47:01 <romainguy___> yeah
Feb 25 22:47:57 <digitalspaghetti> i'm trying your layout technique on a list view i have
Feb 25 22:48:05 <digitalspaghetti> it's a list of podcasts with a image, title and description
Feb 25 22:48:14 <digitalspaghetti> but it looks like this: http://img.waffleimages.com/a604855b5b88b82107d2069e2ac284ef780d3aa7/device.png :(
Feb 25 22:48:30 <digitalspaghetti> http://paste.ifies.org/385 is my XML
Feb 25 22:48:46 <digitalspaghetti> any idea what could be causing this?
Feb 25 23:51:50 <magegu_> hi, i'm using a mapactivity, and the map itself works, but i cannot zoom in etc
Feb 25 23:52:01 <magegu_> can somene maybe have a look at my code? http://pastie.org/400385
Feb 25 23:55:08 <marklar> magegu_: is that homework?
Feb 25 23:55:40 <magegu_> markklar: sort of :) y ?
Feb 25 23:55:47 <SanMehat> hahaha
Feb 25 23:55:52 <marklar> just curious, my german is a little rusty
Feb 25 23:56:03 <marklar> also I think you should do it on your own :)
Feb 25 23:56:13 <SanMehat> oh just help him
Feb 25 23:56:19 <magegu_> wait!
Feb 25 23:56:19 <SanMehat> :)
Feb 25 23:56:21 <marklar> SanMehat: I think you can help better :)
Feb 25 23:56:29 <magegu_> its not homework .. i'll have to write a paperthing about a project in android
Feb 25 23:56:34 <SanMehat> marklar: don't be such a party-pooper
Feb 25 23:56:39 <magegu_> so the current problem is not homework :)
Feb 25 23:56:40 <marklar> I can't help it!
Feb 25 23:56:57 <marklar> SanMehat: its what I do :(
Feb 25 23:57:12 <SanMehat> marklar: you must be a lot of fun to hang around with :|
Feb 25 23:57:26 <marklar> like a barrel of monkeys
Feb 25 23:57:26 <SanMehat> marklar: perhaps today you should start afresh and turn over a new leaf :)
Feb 25 23:57:37 <SanMehat> start by helping magegu_ :)
Feb 25 23:57:40 <marklar> lol
Feb 25 23:57:48 <marklar> I'll think about it :)
Feb 25 23:57:55 <magegu_> hehe please :)
Feb 25 23:58:11 <marklar> magegu_: to be honest I don't know the answer
Feb 25 23:58:16 <marklar> haven't touched maps yet
Feb 25 23:58:25 <magegu_> ok :)
Feb 25 23:58:55 <magegu_> but you might want to help me with anther layout problem :)
Feb 26 00:00:18 <magegu_> so this is my main layout .. its the only layout file I've http://pastie.org/400391
Feb 26 00:01:00 <magegu_> it seems to be really big, i don't know if i should organise my views i a more convenient way
Feb 26 00:01:23 <magegu_> *in
Feb 26 00:01:41 <marklar> magegu_: thats really a preference, only you can decide that
Feb 26 00:01:54 <marklar> what does the app need?
Feb 26 00:02:46 <marklar> I can tell you that I've used layouts that were much 'bigger' than that
Feb 26 00:03:08 <magegu_> okay .. I'll keep that one for now
Feb 26 00:03:27 <herriojr> magegu: my layout code is huge compared to that
Feb 26 00:03:32 <herriojr> in certain instances
Feb 26 00:03:58 <magegu_> fair enough ..
Feb 26 00:04:29 <magegu_> i had to use some sort of workaround to be able to use a mapview in a tabhost
Feb 26 00:05:13 <magegu_> but now its working ... but my problem now is, that  TextView  (text="ah?")  is displayed in every tab .. does anyone have a suggestion?
Feb 26 00:18:43 <magegu_> haha ok guys i think i ve a solution, why my maps are not working
Feb 26 00:19:02 <magegu_> in my xml i'm using com.google.android.maps.MapView
Feb 26 00:20:01 <magegu_> an in only used myMapView = (MapView) findViewById(R.id.maps1); in my activity, but the activity was never started
Feb 26 00:41:26 <jasta> romainguy___: have you noticed that you can't see local variables when attaching to the system_process?
Feb 26 00:41:50 <romainguy___> it's not about the system process
Feb 26 00:41:58 <romainguy___> it's a bug in the dalvik debug bridge
Feb 26 00:42:01 <romainguy___> well
Feb 26 00:42:02 <romainguy___> no
Feb 26 00:42:10 <romainguy___> in the dalvik debug code generation thingie
Feb 26 00:42:11 <romainguy___> anyway
Feb 26 00:42:17 <romainguy___> identified and fixed in cupcake
Feb 26 00:42:21 <romainguy___> but it's very recent
Feb 26 00:42:23 <romainguy___> so not public yet
Feb 26 00:43:31 <jasta> oh, lame :)
Feb 26 00:43:38 <jasta> would be very helpful, as i am using cupcake :)
Feb 26 00:57:36 <viju85> hey i have a doubt regarding listView.
Feb 26 00:57:43 <viju85> can i ask the doubt?
Feb 26 01:01:22 <khert> you may
Feb 26 01:01:37 <jasta> doubts arent questions though, so you may not ask what is not a question.
Feb 26 01:02:00 <khert> fear not, for we shall ignore you in either case
Feb 26 01:02:05 <jasta> heehe
Feb 26 01:02:42 <viju85> I am developing an application which requires every screen to be a ListView. I want to know how to move from one ListView to another when i click on the item in the listView?
Feb 26 01:04:12 <jasta> a screen in Android is an Activity.  Use Activities.
Feb 26 01:04:24 <jasta> and then use Intents to move between Activities.  This is not a listview question.
Feb 26 01:06:47 <viju85> thanks
Feb 26 01:07:27 <viju85> So if i want to move from one activity to another activity i use Intents. OK. But what if i want to use some of my variables and values from the first activity to the second?
Feb 26 01:07:31 <viju85> how do i do that?
Feb 26 01:07:55 <jasta> start with the hello world tutorials.  move out from there.
Feb 26 01:08:25 <jasta> you're asking extremely basic questions.  so basic that they are boring to discuss ;)
Feb 26 01:08:36 <viju85> i went thru the hello world tutorial
Feb 26 01:08:39 <viju85> i am very sorry
Feb 26 01:08:46 <viju85> i am stuck on this for a week.
Feb 26 01:09:01 <viju85> please guide me. i have completeted the entire application in j2me.
Feb 26 01:10:26 <viju85> otherwise could you tell me where to read abt these intents and moving from one screen to another passing the variables and values from various activities?
Feb 26 01:10:35 <marklar> viju85: Intents and activities can do what you want, go look at developer.android.com
Feb 26 01:10:45 <marklar> Both of them have good documentation
Feb 26 02:05:26 <KNY> if I have a static inner class on my activity, would it get torn down when the screen orientation changes?
Feb 26 02:14:39 <pjz> howdy. Anyone know if events in an ACTION_MOVE MotionEvent history are added to the end of the history or pushed to the front?
Feb 26 02:14:58 <pjz> like is .getHistoricalX(0) the oldest or the newest event?
Feb 26 02:18:15 <KNY> pjz, I would assume it's the oldest one since it's less expensive to append than to adjust all the IDs when unshifting
Feb 26 02:18:18 <KNY> but what do I know?
Feb 26 02:18:27 <KNY> pjz, just debug through it I guess
Feb 26 02:57:11 <viju85> hey how do i call a contact from my app in android?
Feb 26 02:57:28 <viju85> i.setData(People.CONTENT_URI.addId(phoneId)) is throwing an error.
Feb 26 02:57:29 <KNY> Intents
Feb 26 02:57:56 <KNY> it's documented on openintents.org (as well as the android site, I believe)
Feb 26 02:59:27 <Neerhaj> try setData(ContentUris.withAppendedId(Phones.CONTENT_URI, phoneId));
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