gmane.comp.handhelds.android.devel

Plugin interface to Google Play Game Services against TOS?

8DashP — 2013-05-19T06:08:58

Hi All,

I use the Shiva3d game engine to develop android games. I like the look of 
the new Game Services for leaderboards etc, and was thinking of writing a 
generic Shiva plugin so others could easily add Game Services to their 
Shiva code, which uses a high level LUA type language, instead of having to 
dive into the nuts and bolts of SDK integration..

However, looking at the TOS when I signed up, I see this comment :-

"You will not sublicense an API for use by a third party. Consequently, you 
will not create an API Client that functions substantially the same as the 
APIs and offer it for use by third parties."

Now I'm not sure whether creating a Shiva plugin for use by others, which 
would enhance the Shiva code with Game Services functionality, but not 
bypass any of the Google developer registration requirements, is considered 
sublicensing the API? There seems to be no direct Google support contact 
that I can find to ask this type of question.

Does anyone know how to contact Google to ask this directly, or have any 
advice as to whether it would be allowed or not?

Thanks.
Russell.

Re: HowTo compile and run the LVL sample app without uploading to Android Market.

Hal Harrison — 2013-05-19T03:27:32

Now, May 2013, I always get LVL response NOT_MARKET_MANAGED from my example 
application which worked fine in June, 2011.

In summary, Now you have to additionally:
1. Declare your test app to Google Play (to get its key). 
2. Build a release version containing that key. 
3. Upload (but don't publish) a release version.
Therefore, my original title should change to "HowTo get the LVL example to 
work (note: you do have to upload)"

Cause: Between 2011 and 2013 the Google-generated BASE_64 key changed from 
account specific to application specific. (I missed the bulletin about the 
change, but the current requirement is clearly documented multiple times at 
http://developer.android.com/google/play/licensing/index.html. However, I 
don't understand why "Table 1." on the subpage 
.../licensing/setting-up.html still says "Can the Publisher account check 
license before upload? YES.")

SOLUTION, modify Steps 3. 4. 5. and 6. above as follows:
In Steps 3. and 4. Change "example" in package name and path to something 
else. apk.-s containing "example" and perhaps other such words may not 
upload to a Google Play Console.

Replace old Step 5. with: Add LVLsample with whatever new title you like to 
your Google Play Console. Once you get the "Store listing" page, goto 
"Services and API's" page for your public key. (LVL uses an asymmetric key 
encryption scheme, keeping the private keys to itself.) This new app and 
its key is only for LVLsample testing. Your real application requires 
another "Add new application" with its own new key. That is, from now on 
your Console will have an unpublished LVLsample hanging around--useful for 
continued testing during later development.

Old 6. becomes 6(a).

6(b) Build a draft Release version of the LVLsample (a "-debug.apk" won't 
upload) containing its key and upload it to Google Play. Wait long enough 
(a few hours?) for Google to digest your upload.

Also:    Be sure "airplane mode" under "Networks" is off.

With these changes I get all eight test responses as before. The request on 
my original post stands, "Please offer simplifications, corrections, 
comments."
Hal Harrison.

Re: Get context of PopupMenu like ContextMenu

Kostya Vasilyev — 2013-05-18T23:00:30

You should be able to associate the group position, or group object using
"final" variables and/or view tags...

Something like:

getGroup() ...
{

final int groupPosFinal = groupPos;
    imageView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View view) {
     ...use groupPosFinal here ...
    }
};

or

imageView.setOnClickListener(...
    public void onClick(View view) {
        GroupDataObject obj = view.getTag();
    }
}
imageView.setTag(groupDataObject);

Get context of PopupMenu like ContextMenu

Etienne — 2013-05-18T21:14:28


So my ExpandableListView has group rows that are defined like :

*group_row.xml*

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >

    <TextView
        android:id="< at >+id/GroupName"
        style="< at >style/ListViewRowStyle"
        android:paddingLeft="40dp"
        android:textSize="18sp" >
    </TextView>

    <ImageView
        android:id="< at >+id/Menu"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
        android:contentDescription="< at >string/default_content_description_text"
        android:src="< at >drawable/ic_menu_moreoverflow_normal_holo_light" >
    </ImageView>
</RelativeLayout> 

When you click on the TextView it will expand or collapse depending on 
whether or not the child rows are currently displayed. I have attached an 
OnClickListener to the ImageView in the group row. When this ImageView is 
clicked I launch a PopupMenu like the images below :

[image: enter image description here]

[image: enter image description here]

Once the PopupMenu is displayed and one of the actions is clicked, I would 
like to perform an action on all children of the group. The problem is that 
I cannot determine the row in which the ImageView was clicked.

The only way I have figured out how to apply an action to all children is 
with a ContextMenu like the image below :

[image: enter image description here]

I want to avoid using a ContextMenu because a LongClick on a group row may 
not be obvious for a user to figure out that it would bring up some actions 
to perform on the children rows. I think the more obvious design is to 
anchor a PopupMenu to an ImageView (in my case a menu icon) and have the 
action be applied to the children rows of that group. How can I get this 
functionality with a PopupMenu ?

Re: Get context of PopupMenu like ContextMenu

Etienne — 2013-05-18T21:15:15

This was originally posted HERE 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16621070/get-context-of-popupmenu-like-contextmenu

Re: Android Studio bug tracer

Xavier Ducrohet — 2013-05-18T21:00:09

Please use this template:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/entry?template=Android%20Studio%20bug


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:08 AM, TreKing <trekingapp< at >gmail.com> wrote:

Re: apkbuilder was deleted, how to replace it?

Xavier Ducrohet — 2013-05-18T20:54:39

apkbuilder has been deprecated for a very long time. There is no new
command to replace it.

I'll have to see if we can put it back but as we are moving away from Ant
to Gradle, we may not be able to keep this.

Note that the only thing that this does is packaging files together in a
zip file (with .apk extension). You could do it all manually.


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <
felipemonteiro.carvalho< at >gmail.com> wrote:

Re: Re: Error installing Android Studio Preview version

jtoolsdev — 2013-05-18T20:15:02

Yes I saw the reply to yourself however the posts on Google+ mentioned that 
the Oracle version needed to be installed.  Also the Android developer site 
has been ambivalent about upgrading Ubuntu probably due to Unity.  I have 
looked at other versions. 

On Saturday, May 18, 2013 8:17:46 AM UTC-7, Matt Kevins wrote:

Re: What is wow factor about android studio in compare to Eclipse.

Piren — 2013-05-18T18:48:54

Regarding the sources on eclipse, there's a plugin for that:
http://code.google.com/p/adt-addons/

On Thursday, May 16, 2013 6:18:21 PM UTC+3, MagouyaWare wrote:

What is .apk file repackaging?

Ishan Sharma — 2013-05-18T17:16:00

Hello!

I am a research student working on Android Security. I have been reading 
some research papers related to android malwares and all the research 
papers mention that most of the malware is developed by "repackaging" a 
benign binary. There have also been research papers to detect repackaged 
applications. Could someone please tell me what is .apk file repackaging 
(binary repackaging). Also how can I repackage .apk files? Since they are 
binary files any modification done to them could break the application.

Any links etc. which explain how to perform .apk file repackaging will also 
be very good.


Thanks

Android Studio Preview and Maven

Rutton — 2013-05-18T16:29:28

          Hello,

I have an Android App using Maven and use Android Studio Preview. Compared 
to the normal Intellij Community 12, there is an additional panel in the 
Project-Structure->Module-> <One Maven Module> -> Facet 'Android' -> Maven, 
that says: "Import following options from pom.xml" with checkboxes for 
Manifest file path, Resources directory path, Assets directory path and 
Native libs directory path. 

Does someone know what there is to do to use this feature or how it 
actually works?

Re: Re: Error installing Android Studio Preview version

Matt Kevins — 2013-05-18T15:17:46

I'm not sure you saw my reply to myself.. but I did get it working on 
Ubuntu 12.10. I didn't realize that I didn't have OpenJDK installed. I had 
thought I did because the JRE package name had the letters "JDK" (OpenJDK). 
Once I installed the actual OpenJDK from the repos, Android Studio 
installed and worked, despite the warning message about using the OpenJDK 
in place of Oracle's.

As a side note, I am 12.10 Ubuntu Studio (which uses XFCE instead of 
Unity). I highly recommend it if you don't like the direction that they're 
going with Unity.

On Friday, May 17, 2013 3:31:23 PM UTC-4, jtoolsdev wrote:

Re: Re: App not compatible on Samsung GT-P3110

bob — 2013-05-18T15:10:16

I added this line to the manifest:

<uses-feature
    android:name="android.hardware.telephony"
    android:required="false" />

As far as I can tell, it made no difference.  It still claims its not 
compatible with all tablets on Google Play.

Thanks.


On Saturday, May 18, 2013 12:41:23 AM UTC-5, MagouyaWare wrote:

Re: Using App Cache - Without Trying to

Piren — 2013-05-18T15:05:49

Regarding the I/O - Until you verify it, it's all conjuncture :) 
 
Regarding caching the DB - A lot of system do cache portions of the DB, 
some DB systems are actually memory based.... so nothing special there, it 
all depands on the purpose of the database.. not all of them are for 
storage purposes.. i just never checked if SQLite on android attempts to 
cache anything... though considering how slow it is from my experiance, i 
guess it only caches queries, not data. 
 

On Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:58:13 PM UTC+3, Nathan wrote:

Re: Database Versions

Piren — 2013-05-18T14:57:01

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8133597/android-upgrading-db-version-and-adding-new-table

On Saturday, May 18, 2013 6:06:26 AM UTC+3, Gerson Novais wrote:

Re: Share Dialog

Jefferson Delgado Pérez — 2013-05-18T13:02:09

Hi,

Thanks for the replies.

Finally I decided to leave it as it was.



Bye

El viernes, 10 de mayo de 2013 10:59:54 UTC+1, Jefferson Delgado Pérez 
escribió:

Fwd: design splash screen using phonegap

ashwini vandanapu — 2013-05-18T12:19:00

Hello Developers,


         I want to create a splash screen, that should contain two
images(logo and name) using phoneGap. How to do it, if any one know please
suggest to me and help me out of this problem.



Thanks&Regards,
Ashwini V.

Re: Re: PACKAGE_ADDED, PACKAGE_REMOVED and PACKAGE_REPLACED...

3c — 2013-05-18T12:14:42

Hello Diana,

I need to know when my app is updated, because now on JB it is 
forced-stopped which prevents services to continue to do what user wants 
them to do. However I don't want app to be started for every app update 
taking place!

So you suggest to filter on package name, however there is no documentation 
on this, nor do you explain how to do it. It's been 4 years now, so do I 
get it right it's not actually possible!?

Please advise.

On Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:58:37 PM UTC+1, Dianne Hackborn wrote:

design splash screen using phonegap

ashwini vandanapu — 2013-05-18T11:54:00

Hello Developers,


         I want to create a splash screen, that should contain two
images(logo and name) using phoneGap. How to do it, if any one know please
suggest to me and help me out of this problem.



Thanks&Regards,
Ashwini V.

Re: Get APK Signature Date and Time

Nikolay Elenkov — 2013-05-18T10:21:33

JAR/APK signatures can be timestamped, but it's not very common, and I
don't think anyone does it on Android. If your APKs have been timestamped,
you an parse the CMS structure and extract timestamping data.

You can also parse the APK as a JAR file (which it is) and use
JarEntry.getTime()
on, say, classes.dex. This will be close enough, but don't rely on it for
anything important.

Re:

Ibrahim Sada — 2013-05-18T09:15:01

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6726404/changing-expandable-listview-default-icons


On 18 May 2013 14:38, Sadhna Upadhyay <sadhna.braahmam< at >gmail.com> wrote: