hello!

nice to see you here

i wanted to ask you a question last week but the time difference between spain and usa made it difficult :)

first, i'd like to congrat you for your book, it's very good

and now, my question

the SAX xml parser in the dalvik vm is different from the one in the java desktop

so in a app i'm trying to make

i have encountered a problem

I'm making an app that connects to google analytics and retrieve some info

and when obtaining some feeds (in xml) some nice exceptions arise

(btw, sorry for any language problem, english is not my native language)

specificly, in a line like this: AccountFeed accountFeed = analyticsService.getFeed(queryUrl, AccountFeed.class);

nice exception of method not found, getSchema(), in SAX parser class (don't remember exactly the class)

do you know any work around in android?

i mean... what can i do?

parse the xml feed from google manually?

yep, the problem is that the AnalyticsService class from the google data API uses sax, and specifically, that method not present in the dalvik api

would you say that my only chance is parse manually the xml?

that's going to be painful, there isn't anyone: they have released a library, but it collects data from the cells

must use it...

it's a kind of requirement

yep, I know, I know

yep, I know... :)

thanks, anyway

mmmm

google code is open source, isn't it?

ok, will try that

in an issue in code.google.com they say that there is some specific code for google data

in android 1.5

and they link to http://www.androidjavadoc.com/m5-rc15/index.html

alright

so all the classes in that javadoc probably are unavailable now, right?

well, thanks for the answers...

yes. i have a performance problem starting an activity from a widget

basically the scenario is. on click onto the widget i start my activity. this usually opens up instantly ( basically the activity is a listview)

however,if i do this sequence: click onto widget, ( activty starts) and then i press the home button, and then click again onto my widget, the activty with the listview takes 4 seconds or so to show up

it's using a contentprovider ( my own) to populate the listcursor

if i just start the activty from the launcher, it doesn't matter if i backed out via "back" or "home" button

no reason, really. we made the choice earlier. doesn't really have a benefit for us.

but it performs well usually

ok, i will try that out

oh one more. relativelayout. I am not getting centerVerical to work on 1.5. i concluded for now relativelayout is buggy in 1.5 and avoid, but am not 100% sure

it worked for me in 1.6 and higher. but it wouldn't center in 1.5 . trying to find the layout i used

argh. sorry i can't find the relative layout now i used. it was not a list view

i will revisit it, i replaced it with a linearlayout, since i couldn't figure it out how to fix it

i guess that's it for me. i will try to debug my activity and see if removing the contentprovider will solve my performance issue... thanks again for holding this chat

and i'll try the relative layout again , if i find it. maybe next time i have a small sample, if i still can't figure it out... :-) cu