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Postby plusminus » Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:17 pm

Hello Jesmiatka,

Jesmiatka wrote:I see you implemented your own keyboards in your application. Can I ask why? Do you think touchscreen phones (w/o keyboard) don't get the ability to type text in Android with a standard integrated keyboard or something?


Yes I know, but:
a.) Up to now there is no such functionality (sw-keyboard) within Android :(
b.) I though that some phones could have relatively small hw-keys and when you have docked your device to you car front window hw-keys are probably harder to press than using the touch-screen.
c.) The Screens looked so damn empty without :lol:

Thx for the feedback :)

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Postby Jesmiatka » Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:20 pm

plusminus wrote:b.) I though that some phones could have relatively small hw-keys and when you have docked your device to you car front window hw-keys are probably harder to press than using the touch-screen.
c.) The Screens looked so damn empty without :lol:


b) is actually a real good point!
and c) made me laugh a little ;-)

but I reckon you application is gonna be good, looks like you know what your doing ;-)

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Postby plusminus » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:59 am

And another one.

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I'll add some "POI"-Search(Points of Interest) soon.

Unfortunately the new SDK is making a few problems with Bundles :(
:arrow: http://groups.google.com/group/android- ... 44518075d9

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Postby res » Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:50 pm

Is that human image (yellow body, white head) the same one as used on google maps? How did you find the image, I have no idea what to look for when trying to locate it.
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Postby plusminus » Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:09 am

Hello res,

i found it on the net, altered the color, shortened one pixel added shadow, transparency and the X below.
Image is attached. :)

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Postby plusminus » Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:53 pm

Its getting hot in here...
The mock-gps data is no following the planned route ;) :!:
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Anyone knows whether I can release any sources or previews when I plan to submit to the Android Challenge :?:

All the numbers (km and time) are static, expect the to be live ~tomorrow.

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Postby agent00 » Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:45 pm

Hi plusminus,

Can you tell me how you done the two zoom buttons. Is it an overlay ? Is it clickable ? I'm very interessed to know how you made this !!!

thanks,

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Postby plusminus » Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:38 pm

Hello agent00,

that are two ImageViews (clickable, just standard setOnClickListener-procedure) over the MapView.
The over is accomplished using a RelativeLayout:

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  2. <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  3.         android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  4.         android:layout_height="fill_parent">
  5.         <view class="com.google.android.maps.MapView"
  6.                 android:id="@+id/map_map"
  7.                 android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  8.                 android:layout_height="fill_parent"/>
  9.         <ImageView
  10.                 android:id="@+id/iv_map_zoomin"
  11.                 android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
  12.                 android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
  13.                 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  14.                 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  15.                 android:src="@drawable/plus_32"/>
  16.         <ImageView
  17.                 android:id="@+id/iv_map_zoomout"
  18.                 android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
  19.                 android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
  20.                 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  21.                 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  22.                 android:src="@drawable/minus_32"/>
  23. </RelativeLayout>
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May I know what kind of Application you are doing :?:

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Postby res » Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:53 am

plusminus wrote:Anyone knows whether I can release any sources or previews when I plan to submit to the Android Challenge :?:


Nothing stopping you but I'd be wary of people possibly copying your idea. Instead of posting it all together maybe break it down into tiny tut's?
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Postby agent00 » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:37 am

Thanks for the information.

plusminus wrote:May I know what kind of Application you are doing :?:


I will submit a short description in the "promote your application" forum soon. I can already tell you it's a msn like with some usefull functionnality using gps (and map view of course) ... but not a gps application ;)
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Postby plusminus » Sun Mar 02, 2008 2:05 pm

Hey guys,

I created a short screencast of todays results:
Filesize: 2,3 MBytes :!:
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Any feedback appreciated :)

[Edit]
Screencast updated :!:

Many improvements :)
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Postby gsheep » Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:27 pm

Looks good! Loving all the icons.
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Postby plusminus » Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:36 pm

Hey guys,

updated :D

Filesize: 4 MBytes :!:
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Damn I start feeling a bit proud :roll:

Any feedback appreciated :)

What would you like more/less or bigger/smaller ...

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Postby res » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:15 pm

Looks good, although when the user goes off track and a new route is re-calculated it kept suggesting a similar route many times in a row which looked awkward, it was towards the end of the demo. Maybe if the same route is suggested to pop-up a message informing them to turn-around?

Any future ideas for the project?
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Postby plusminus » Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:24 pm

res wrote:Looks good, although when the user goes off track and a new route is re-calculated it kept suggesting a similar route many times in a row which looked awkward, it was towards the end of the demo. Maybe if the same route is suggested to pop-up a message informing them to turn-around?

Any future ideas for the project?


Thanks for the response :) ,

the time until the route gets re-calculated is variable. So I can make it long enough to make a Text2Speech API say "Turn around if possible".
Also the the screencast runs 'fast-forwarded', at ~ 100-300 meters per second (just that it gets not boring), what is the speed of a jet ;)

So its hard to say how it will feel in a real world test.

(Basically I do not like "please turn around"-messages, because when you miss a turn, there is probably not even a chance to turn around...)

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