The Friend Finder - MapActivity using GPS - Part: II / II

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:33 pm

Hello crayder,

crayder wrote:Wau )))
May be you are cheating? I think you are not a student - you are a teacher! ))))))
Thank you for very good explanation!

I am a student @ 3[sup]rd[/sup] semester

But I like the teaching/tutorial stuff... :roll:

[Edit]
I started writing a book about learning android.(Just the introduction yet ^^, because of my exams) Probably will be open/free and downloadable as pdf, already while I'm writing it.
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Best Regards,
plusminus

crayder · by **crayder** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:14 pm

By the way... Are you planning (or may be I missed such examples here) to write smth about service organizing? I mean operations that require time (network interaction) and as a result special architecture. It would be interesting to learn...

P.S. How are your exams? ))

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:29 pm

Hello crayder,

paller wrote 3(?) articles about Services. You'll find them under "Advanced Tutorials".

Exams were fine up to now, A+ with 2 of 4 already

Regards,
plusminus

bholaday · by **bholaday** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:40 pm

Hi,

I've adapted the source a bit for m5, but my friends don't show up on the map. I get a real-time view of myself driving around San Fran and a distance between my friends and I, but they dont show up on the map view.

Any idea why?

-Blake

chintan153 · by **chintan153** » Thu May 08, 2008 3:29 am

the M5 emulator does nto have "Notes" field in it. So i could not use the People.Notes to get the location information for the person. Can you tell me a workaround for this problem?
I created a custom Notes field in the Contacts based on previous post, but I am not getting how to use the Notes field that i created or any other custom field to get the location information.

Thanks in advance

buster · by **buster** » Thu May 08, 2008 3:15 pm

oh, just posted the exact same problem in the part I -> http://www.anddev.org/viewtopic.php?p=7829#7829
(can be deleted/merged/moved i guess)

zsimplicityz · by **zsimplicityz** » Tue May 13, 2008 7:24 am

I've error running on my m5 .
Is there anyway I can make it run ?

Apart from that , how do I download a map to android so as to make full use of it on my next project .
Thanks for all the help , really need all of them as I just started learning about android with basic java skills .

zsimplicityz · by **zsimplicityz** » Fri May 16, 2008 4:41 am

any help to my previous post ?

need help badly !

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Fri May 16, 2008 11:53 am

Providing the actual error would push the solving-process further.

Are you talking of caching the map-tiles :?:

The MapView currently does not do that (only during the lifetime of the particular MapView, but not when it is destroyed once).

Regards,
plusminus

zsimplicityz · by **zsimplicityz** » Mon May 19, 2008 6:36 am

I tried using another computer to run your application .
However I can't even start as the Andriod Manifest.xml is missing . Download the full source code from e thread but still , sigh

it doesn't work .
How can i resolve it ?
Ive also paste a screenshot to my prob .

P.s I tried importing by creating a new project , however there's much more error than I expect .

So what should I do now guru , didn't want to take things on my own hand for now .

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Fri May 23, 2008 9:07 am

Hello zsimplicityz,

I just checked it, the [font=Courier New]AndroidManifest.xml[/font] is included in the project. Maybe try importing the project instead of creating a new one with existing resources.

The last option is to create a clean project and copy all the source-files by hand

Regards,
plusminus

zsimplicityz · by **zsimplicityz** » Mon May 26, 2008 3:01 am

under FriendFinderMap.java ,

line 117

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canvas.drawText(getString(R.string.map_overlay_own_name),
 
                                                        myScreenCoords[0] +9, myScreenCoords[1], paint);
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and especially from line 246 to 249

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public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
 
                boolean supRetVal = super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
 
                menu.add(0, 0, getString(R.string.map_menu_zoom_in));                       // Line   246
 
                menu.add(0, 1, getString(R.string.map_menu_zoom_out));                 // Line   247
 
                menu.add(0, 2, getString(R.string.map_menu_toggle_street_satellite));   // Line   248
 
                menu.add(0, 3, getString(R.string.map_menu_back_to_list));            // Line   249
 
                return supRetVal;
 
        }
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need sum help over at here .

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Tue May 27, 2008 9:27 pm

Hello zsimplicityz,

the things you mentioned are simple String-Resources which are placed under "[font=Lucida Console]/res/values/mystringfile.xml[/font]"

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 
<resources>
 
    <string name="main_title">FriendFinder - anddev.org</string>
 
    <string name="main_menu_open_map">Open visual FriendTracker</string>
 
    <string name="main_list_format">$name ($distance km)</string>
 
    <string name="main_list_geo_not_set">not set</string>
 
    <string name="map_title">FriendFinder - anddev.org</string>
 
    <string name="map_menu_zoom_in">Zoom in (Key: I)</string>
 
    <string name="map_menu_zoom_out">Zoom out (Key: O)</string>
 
    <string name="map_menu_back_to_list">Back to list</string>
 
    <string name="map_menu_toggle_street_satellite">Toggle View: Street / Satellite (Key: T)</string>
 
    <string name="map_overlay_own_name">Me</string>
 
</resources>
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Anyway this file is also included in the file you downloaded :arrow:

http://www.anddev.org/the_friend_...t87.html

Regards,
plusminus

zsimplicityz · by **zsimplicityz** » Thu May 29, 2008 3:39 am

Under FriendFinder @ line 252 , ive got this error .

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        if(this.getListAdapter() != null)
 
                        beforeIndex = this.getSelectionRowID();
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Missing method , didn't want to edit as im afraid i mite screw things up .

pls advice thanks .

and lastly , do i need to connect to a Database or something ?

java.padawan · by **java.padawan** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:10 pm

venkat wrote:Sorry, my attachment is here...

This is just an apikey problem.

http://www.androidph.com/2008/10/androi ... iewer.html

The Friend Finder - MapActivity using GPS - Part: II / II

Friends Dont Show Up

problem using the tutorial with M5 sdk

How to run on my m5 version

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