Official Android thread

[Fry]

@Willybeen

If i had an idea for an application, how difficult is it to code? or whats the range to have a coder do it…

Id imagine it will be huge, but lets say a game like angry birds?

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Anyway…

Liberty ROM 1.5 dropped yesterday for the Droid X and Droid 2. I was really pleased with 1.0 so I’ll be loading this later today.

[ProgRocker]

@IanK

Hmm I read there wasn’t an app out for screen cap, Eff im a NEWB

Most of them only work on rooted phones from what I’ve found.

[IanK]

@ProgRocker

Most of them only work on rooted phones from what I’ve found.

Lies. I went to the market, got a free app and it works great.

[Tunerfreak]

i flashed peter alfanso’s new gingerbread rom the other day for the original droid and then flashed an overclocked kernel to 1ghz…its like a brand new phone. It is almost as snappy as the nexus s that i tried, battery seems to be lasting a little bit longer too

[Z28pr0jekt]

I have liberty 1.5 with my launcher pro plus. If you guys have read this thread I posted my batter life before I rooted and did all of this. My battery life is SUBSTANTIALLY worse with liberty over the stock ROM.

I’m lucky if I can go 24 hrs on one charge now whereas I was going 50-72 hours on a charge before.

If I simply leave my phone unplugged and idle over night I will lose at least 20% battery. If I charge to 100% and use it for a mere 10 minutes texting or whatnot it will drop 10%

[Tunerfreak]

@Willybeen

^download a screen shot app from the market… there are a ton.

If i had an idea for an application, how difficult is it to code? or whats the range to have a coder do it…

Id imagine it will be huge, but lets say a game like angry birds? and then lets say a search engine type of tool? 500? 5000? 50,000? etc etc.

Clearly I’ve done zero research… just have some ideas bouncing around in my head.

depends on how complex you want things, obviously a game is going to be harder. If you wanted to do a simple google search you simply have to do this…

EditText box = (EditText)findViewById(r.id.EditText1);
String searchable = box.getText().toString();

Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_WEB_SEARCH);
i.putExtra(SearchManager.QUERY, searchable);
startActivity(i);

if you know java all you have to do is read through the API’s

i am in the process of making an app

[Fry]

@Z28pr0jekt

I have liberty 1.5 with my launcher pro plus. If you guys have read this thread I posted my batter life before I rooted and did all of this. My battery life is SUBSTANTIALLY worse with liberty over the stock ROM.

I’m lucky if I can go 24 hrs on one charge now whereas I was going 50-72 hours on a charge before.

If I simply leave my phone unplugged and idle over night I will lose at least 20% battery. If I charge to 100% and use it for a mere 10 minutes texting or whatnot it will drop 10%

I was running liberty 1.0 and liked it so when 1.5 came out I jumped to it immediately. My phone was unbelievable unstable. I went straight back to stock.

This just showed up for me from ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170558820740&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Took about a month to arrive, but $10 bucks shipped for two more batteries and a stand-alone battery charger can’t be beat. The batteries have the Motorola part number but no Motorola logo. They seem to work fine.

[ProgRocker]

I’ve been running the Zeam launcher on my Droid 2.2 (not rooted) and it is a LOT faster. I went very minimalistic, and only went with one home screen. Only the icons I needed.

[Gl1]

@Fry

I was running liberty 1.0 and liked it so when 1.5 came out I jumped to it immediately. My phone was unbelievable unstable. I went straight back to stock.

This just showed up for me from ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170558820740&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Took about a month to arrive, but $10 bucks shipped for two more batteries and a stand-alone battery charger can’t be beat. The batteries have the Motorola part number but no Motorola logo. They seem to work fine.

What phone do you have? it’s running great on my droidX

[Fry]

It’s an X. I’ll let it be for now. I’ve got no lag and good battery life right now running a clean wipe of stock 340 and with launcher pro it’s a lot more user friendly than stock or Liberty.

[Z28pr0jekt]

Yea I think I’m going to do a clean wipe and go back to stock (is the stock rom still in the phone to load it?) and hope my battery goes back to how it was. I was fine before unrooted with launcherpro but wanted to see what the hype was about.

I think I’d be fine rooted with stock so I can just take off the bloatware

[Fry]

What the crap?! I thought android fixed that bug where it would send a text to the wrong person. Thankfully it wasn’t a big deal, but that definitely just happened to me. I’m using Handcent so maybe that’s the problem, but still what the fuck?

[boardjnky4]

I think that issue was only fixed in gingerbread

also, I think the issue is likely in the underlying sms architecture

[Fry]

Uggh. Every day I get more and more tempted to go back to blackberry. Mostly I just get bored and want to play with a new toy, but shit like this is just unacceptable.

[Gl1]

I have a problem where when a few people call me or text me it says it’s coming from this guy in my gmail address book even though i don’t even have a phone number for him… anyone got any ideas why?

[ProgRocker]

@Gl@re

I have a problem where when a few people call me or text me it says it’s coming from this guy in my gmail address book even though i don’t even have a phone number for him… anyone got any ideas why?

Is his contact info synced with facebook?

[Gl1]

nope I’m not friends with him on facebook.

[ProgRocker]

@Gl@re

nope I’m not friends with him on facebook.

Just for poops and grins, I’m assuming you already checked your contacts in Gmail (webpage)? Does it show up in the call logs as that person? Do the actual people sending the texts and phone calls have an email attributed to them?

[Tunerfreak]

@boardjnky4

I think that issue was only fixed in gingerbread

also, I think the issue is likely in the underlying sms architecture

it was also fixed in 2.2.2, nexus 1 is the only phone to have that to my knowledge

[Gl1]

@ProgRocker

Just for poops and grins, I’m assuming you already checked your contacts in Gmail (webpage)? Does it show up in the call logs as that person? Do the actual people sending the texts and phone calls have an email attributed to them?

no it doesn’t show up in call logs, and once i open the text it says the right name. and the people who aren’t coming up right have no emails attributed to them.