Hello

Just wanted to start out with... You rock man!

How are ya?

Agreed! Very nice info

Wish T-Mobile would update the myTouch - i am still 1.6

Still on 1.5 on my Hero

Yeah I feel at times that their upgrade area is out of touch as well

So, I just purchased this subscription a few days ago and must say amazing- i am new to mobile dev and excited to learn

I am new as well, Mark is a great guy!

I have been trying to get my head around the general workflow and have all the tools installed successfully etc

Is it ok to ask some questions here? On specifics and general?

:) sweet

(I wont hog today)

Anyway, I work as a 3d designer and want to create an app to showcase my work in a gallery situation

So, I am looking for best practice to set up this environment

I am getting familiar with the main.xml

and main java file

So what or how would you suggest moving forward?

oh ya... primarily i think it would be cool to have a nice splash scrn. Then a menu of say 9 small preview images where when one is clicked fills the screen and then have the option to use as wallpaper

I like the sound of that

correct png files

ok

ok...

hmm... sounds like i need to read the book :)

ok.. so from the 3 books I need to really start with that one?

I do have a question for you too Mark when you get a minute. (Still same soundboard app)

go ahead!

I can wait, I hogged him all last chat lol

no... go ahead i am getting the first book pulled up

heheh ok, feel free to jump in any time though

well, i learn best by seeing full code and then look at specifics later

if that makes sense

kinda hard for me as i come from a very visual bkg in design and imagery to now code and syntax with no mercy

:)

k

Cool, just when I started learning things they have to go change lol

Ok, I have the whole long click save file thing working now thanks to you!

My problem now is that phones don't give you the option to make items ringtones

I can't figure what I need to do.. assuming something with an intent in the manifest file but can't quite find something to confirm that

I saw that... soooooo much code I was confused a bit

It was impressive looking, I will tell ya that

That part I did... and I thought that was a mistake

Now it shows up as media to play instead of a ringtone lol

I found

and thought it would fix things

but that just made it scan the sdcard and place it as a musical file instead hehe

yeah, that was what I was able to find as well.

Seems like my "it must be simple since there are so many" soundboard app is more difficult than I thought

Hmmm, I did read about setting it as default.. maybe I should remember current default, make this choice default, and then return the original to default and see if that lets it make it to the list of choices then

ok I will take any clues I Can get... this is the final step until this app is done

I had also found this http://androidforums.com/android-developer…

which ended up circling back around to the mediascanner and confusing me again

Here may be a stupid question.. but looking at the tutorials 'A Simple Form' the main.xml is pretty straight forward. So every button, text view etc. needs to also be referenced in the java main file?

ok.. so when the primary java loads the main.xml i only really have to worry about anything that may need changing dynamically?

and again sorry for the basic ?'s

so for instance the EditText android:id="@+id/addr" would be referenced in the java?

ah... ok!

I can download the code from the site for the tuts can't I?

ok.. well It sound like i will dig in with the first book and reference the tuts so maybe I can ask more intelligent ?'s :)

do i need to download each individually or is there one complete zip i am missing?

Cool! Thanks got it

3 megs

Ok, without you having used it before I am guessing you could probably eyeball this and tell me how it is best used or if it will do what I think it might...

I am glad i did not waste my money at the bookstore on some other dev books! Yours seems so much more intuitive .. Thank you

http://developer.android.com/reference/and… the getRingtone (@Vibes35: Just being able to talk to someone makes it so much more of a value!)

well, along with this open chat and all this is great!

exactly

sorry, @Mark M. The getRingtone part may be what I need possibly...I think

I just don't know for sure how to call it.

ok

sigh

here is the kicker though

I made this and on Android 2.0 it works right now with no other work

on my Hero it mocks me and says there is no ringtone around

Thank you both! I have to run but look forward to learning more :)

Have a good one Vibes

heheh I am good with that

I hear ya

Ok lets toss this aside a sec

Can you think of some other app that would be a nice little learning thing that uses items from the book, but isn't necessarily something you have in the book as an example

Something that I can just try to make using things I can learn from the book (that isn't a soundboard lol)

well.. something simple hopefully

Well that is something I have been thinking about forever... closest I came up with is an app to mark all of the emails read but I don't know if we can tie into the native email app, and creating a whole new mail app is probably so far beyond me I haven't even looked into it

hehehe

nice

thought about that too, there are two websites I thought about

Oh wow

so he made an Android version?

very impressive

I saw http://api.outside.in/ and thought about that, would have to figure out to do some XML work though

But what I REALLY want is to make an app for this radio station I listen to

did you make something for them?

(The radio station I like streams in .apx format though and of course there is no media player in Android that works for it)

essentially comes in a windows media format

sorry... asx

http://www.yeshome.com/TPage883.aspx has a page which shows the different links depending on phone OS's... none of which work with Android sadly

I need to figure out a way to duplicate the stream as something else possibly

it didn't when I tried... maybe I typed it wrong though at the time

If I can make that work I would have some fun making an app for them

getting to use tabbed view for a purpose hehe

yeah.. Heroes is coming on :)

Thanks again for the chat man.

Have a good week!

Thanks