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Hi Jerrell, I run on the same error. Can you plea...

2012-02-15T09:30:09.779Z

Hi Jerrell,

I run on the same error. Can you please drop your code here? I would like to know where exactly you've added the try-catch block.

@Reto: Of course an official fix would be much better ;-)

Thanks a lot, JC

The location finding code works quite fine. Just h...

2012-02-15T09:17:37.116Z

The location finding code works quite fine. Just having trouble with GingerbreadLastLocationFinder... Sometimes the class crashes on location update as a receiver has not been registered.

This does not happen always. Normally the location update works perfects. Any idea what can be the reason for these occasionally crashes?

Seems to be the same issue Jerrell has posted Jul 27, 2011.

Thanks, JC

Hi Reto, I've just (finally) added data backu...

2012-02-11T00:14:27.360Z

Hi Reto,

I've just (finally) added data backup to my application and it works perfectly on 1 device: settings are restored after re-installing the app.

But I was surprised the data saved from 1 device (running Android 2.3) doesn't show up on another device (running Android 4.0) after a first install the app.

Here are the logs:
D/PackageManager(203): New package installed in /data/app/my.android.app-1.apk
V/BackupManagerService(203): restoreAtInstall pkg=my.android.app token=1
D/BackupManagerService(203): MSG_RUN_RESTORE observer=null
D/BackupManagerService(203): initiateOneRestore packageName=@pm@
V/BackupServiceBinder(203): doRestore() invoked
V/BackupManagerService(203): No next package, finishing restore
I/BackupManagerService(203): Restore complete.

Does that mean that when the user gets a new device (running a newer version of Android), the settings from the old device are not restored on the new device?

What Google use to backup my WiFi settings, wallpaper and all the other settings that get restored when I get a new device?

Thanks

Hi Reto, I'm having all sorts of trouble taki...

2011-07-29T17:35:19.344+01:00

Hi Reto,

I'm having all sorts of trouble taking my reads off the main UI thread. I asked you about this in the Office Hours and you mentioned I should be doing it.

I've asked a question in the developers mailing list and was hoping you could take a look:
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/t/15c1c334cf6832a2

If you could point me in the right direction that would be great.

Cheers,
Julius.

Hi, I'm having all sorts of trouble using an ...

2011-07-29T17:32:58.120+01:00

Hi,

I'm having all sorts of trouble using an AsyncTask to perform all my database reads. I talked to you in the Office Hours and you mentioned I should be doing this (I specifically asked about reads).

I see I should be using CursorLoader, but I can't find any documentation on how to do this against a SQLiteDatabase (ie. not a ContentProvider).

I've put a question up on the developers mailing list so others can benefit from any answer to this question.
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/t/15c1c334cf6832a2

I reckon you're the person when it comes to this stuff. If you could take a look and point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate it.

Cheers,
Julius.

I implemented your logic into my app but it seems ...

2011-07-28T03:48:21.616+01:00

I implemented your logic into my app but it seems that the onReceive() method of the singleUpdateReceiver in GingerbreadLastLocationFinder class is called twice. On the second attempt to unregister the receiver I get an IllegalArgumentException because the receiver was already unregistered the first time. Now I know I can wrap the call or the contents of the method in a try-catch block to get around this issue but it just seems a little disconcerting that this is happening. The code itself seems pretty basic so I'm at a loss for why this is happening.

@Casey Borders Though its certainly not perfect, ...

2011-07-27T13:20:45.844+01:00

@Casey Borders

Though its certainly not perfect, there is a workaround:

http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_frm/thread/b705bbd72d28d000/df84933c3a460c71

How can I auto-magically switch my api-key from de...

2011-07-24T15:15:24.792+01:00

How can I auto-magically switch my api-key from debug to release?

Is there a trick to do that??

thanks
-cellurl

Thanks!

2011-07-13T14:32:19.020+01:00

Thanks!

Thanks for writing useful blogs about android. see...

2011-07-09T21:20:18.730+01:00

Thanks for writing useful blogs about android. seems like there is no inbuilt way of drawing charts in Android. Any comments about which third party library you would suggest? I would not want to use google charts API since that will require network connection.

@Robert Massaioli: The article sais, that u shoul...

2011-07-01T13:16:31.878+01:00

@Robert Massaioli:

The article sais, that u should not backup application variables or other data that change often and more importantly may not work anymore in later versions..

anything that is user relevant, like settings or gamesaves should be backed.. but not in the form of "deep code data structures" but as clearly defined and all version compatible data..

I love these articles! Can you fix typo, AsyncTask...

2011-07-01T00:30:33.388+01:00

I love these articles!
Can you fix typo, AsyncTask needs "Void" parameters, not "void".
Thanks!

Do you know if there are plans to support maps in ...

2011-06-30T17:21:47.476+01:00

Do you know if there are plans to support maps in fragments? I can't move my app to 3.x until that works.

What about using Loader with ArrayAdapters? Probab...

2011-06-30T08:09:07.631+01:00

What about using Loader with ArrayAdapters? Probably I should use ArrayList instead of Cursor and AsyncTaskLoader instead of CursorLoader. What do you think?

Thanks for the article. It was really helpful.

I was wondering exactly what data should we backup...

2011-06-29T00:13:17.891+01:00

I was wondering exactly what data should we backup. If I had a game, should I use the backup manager to backup which levels the user has completed? Because your article seems to say No, that I should not backup game state: "This should only be user specified preferences - it's poor practice to backup instance or state variables."

Great article, thank you. PS: I had to write this...

2011-06-28T23:01:00.964+01:00

Great article, thank you.

PS: I had to write this post in portrait on my android (sgs2@2.3.3) because the text field would not be placed correctly in the remaining space on top of the landscape keyboard ;-)