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MrSnowflake · by **MrSnowflake** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:05 pm

Sorry, crashes here too! Never seen that exception before, normally I find some app from the package com.DeepFrozen.android

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pskink · by **pskink** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 6:01 pm

MrSnowflake wrote:Sorry, crashes here too! Never seen that exception before, normally I find some app from the package com.DeepFrozen.android :D.

heck!

i verifid that it comes from GridView that is a child of left Panel (Applications).

after removing that Panel it works fine... it makes me nuts...

you have sdk 1.0? mine is 1.1.

MrSnowflake · by **MrSnowflake** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:03 pm

pskink · by **pskink** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:45 pm

MrSnowflake wrote:Sorry, crashes here too! Never seen that exception before, normally I find some app from the package com.DeepFrozen.android :D.

ok found it.

but i think it can be droid's bug :(

consider the simplest layout:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
>
 
        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation="horizontal"
            android:id="@+id/layout0"
        >
                <Button
                    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:id="@+id/child0"
                />
        </LinearLayout>
 
        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation="horizontal"
            android:id="@+id/layout1"
        >
                <ListView
                    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:id="@+id/child0"
                />
        </LinearLayout>
 
</LinearLayout>
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here we heve two horizontal layouts. each has one child with id: child0
its OK, we can acces them by layout0.findViewById(child0) and layout1.findViewById(child0)

but... it crashes the same way my Home

if you change child0 to child1 everything seems to be working...

really, really weird

did i miss something?

MrSnowflake · by **MrSnowflake** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:01 pm

I guess not, post a bug report and see what happens! It's a pretty shady error, so I guess not many people have seen it before.

pskink · by **pskink** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:51 pm

MrSnowflake wrote:I guess not, post a bug report and see what happens! It's a pretty shady error, so I guess not many people have seen it before.

i posted that problem on android-developers ggroup

Romain Guy answered they fixed it in Cupcake ;)

see http://groups.google.com/group/android- ... e0553f92a1

pskink · by **pskink** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:12 am

added support for orientation change.

btw: when i override View.onSave/onRestoreInstanceState do i really have to create my own class extending BaseSavedState with so ugly CREATOR???

cannot it be done in some more smart way?

or can i use Activity.onSave/onRestoreInstanceState for that purpose which has more handy Bundle for storing data?

pskink · by **pskink** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:32 pm

hi,

added basic support for wallpapers.

i really like Wallpaper_Beach (night beach)

also optimized a bit painting

MrSnowflake · by **MrSnowflake** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:27 pm

pskink wrote:added support for orientation change.

btw: when i override View.onSave/onRestoreInstanceState do i really have to create my own class extending BaseSavedState with so ugly CREATOR???

cannot it be done in some more smart way?

or can i use Activity.onSave/onRestoreInstanceState for that purpose which has more handy Bundle for storing data?

If you implement the View stuff it will save when you reuse the Views in another project.

pskink · by **pskink** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:42 pm

MrSnowflake wrote:If you implement the View stuff it will save when you reuse the Views in another project.

yes, i know, i know...

but the concept with that odd CREATORS is imho somhow overcomplicated...

even if it has to support inheritance it should be easier...

pskink · by **pskink** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:51 am

hi,

added page thumbnails when scrolling longer than one second

it shows all pages thumbnails, current window frame and target page, try it out!

pskink · by **pskink** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:54 pm

hi,

added basic support for custom widgets!.

source contains 2 projects: SkinkHome & SkinkHomeWidgets (3 sample widgets)

i didn't yet check how resources suffer when embedding several activities: will do it in spare time :D

pskink · by **pskink** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:42 am

pskink wrote:hi,

added basic support for custom widgets!.

source contains 2 projects: SkinkHome & SkinkHomeWidgets (3 sample widgets)

i didn't yet check how resources suffer when embedding several activities: will do it in spare time :D

fyi,

added UI support for adding/moving/deleting custom widgets.

when on some custom widgets page (one of three) perform long press to pop-up dialog with actions.

any comment about this UI welcome

when it comes to creating custom widgets they are like normal activities: everything what is needed by Home application is Manifest file. e.g.:

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<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      package="org.skink.homewidgets"
      android:versionCode="1"
      android:versionName="1.0.1"
      android:sharedUserId="org.skink.home">
    <application android:icon="@drawable/skink" android:label="@string/app_name">
            <activity android:name=".SampleTestActivity" android:label="Test Widget">
                <intent-filter>
                                <action android:name="org.skink.home.intent.WIDGET"></action>
                        </intent-filter>
                        <meta-data android:name="cellWidth" android:value="3" />
                        <meta-data android:name="cellHeight" android:value="1" />
                </activity>
            <activity android:name=".SampleSendActivity" android:label="Sender Widget" android:icon="@drawable/send">
                <intent-filter>
                                <action android:name="org.skink.home.intent.WIDGET"></action>
                        </intent-filter>
                        <meta-data android:name="cellWidth" android:value="1" />
                        <meta-data android:name="cellHeight" android:value="1" />
            </activity>
            <activity android:name=".SampleReceiveActivity" android:label="Receiver Widget" android:icon="@drawable/recv">
                <intent-filter>
                                <action android:name="org.skink.home.intent.WIDGET"></action>
                        </intent-filter>
                        <meta-data android:name="cellWidth" android:value="2" />
                        <meta-data android:name="cellHeight" android:value="1" />
            </activity>
    </application>
</manifest> 
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important parts are:

android:sharedUserId="org.skink.home" in manifest tag

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        <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="org.skink.home.intent.WIDGET"></action>
        </intent-filter>
        <meta-data android:name="cellWidth" android:value="3" />
        <meta-data android:name="cellHeight" android:value="1" />
 
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in each activity tag. intent filters describes actions that will be queried by Home app and two mete-datas define widgets
width and height in cells

MrSnowflake · by **MrSnowflake** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 3:26 pm

Looks great (and thanks for the PM, notifying me, I was stuck in wait()

, and I had exams and a lot of work for school...

).

I decided not to investigate the resource difference between webview and activities, because I read somewhere (it was in a post about the live folders) that the cupcake home had basic support for widgets, so implementing a system for widgets ourself seems pretty wastefull when Google does release it's own widget support. I just wish they released already, so you could to implement the Google Widget system, which would be sweetness

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pskink · by **pskink** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 3:44 pm

MrSnowflake wrote:Looks great (and thanks for the PM, notifying me, I was stuck in wait() :D, and I had exams and a lot of work for school... :( ).

I decided not to investigate the resource difference between webview and activities, because I read somewhere (it was in a post about the live folders) that the cupcake home had basic support for widgets, so implementing a system for widgets ourself seems pretty wastefull when Google does release it's own widget support. I just wish they released already, so you could to implement the Google Widget system, which would be sweetness :).

i hope they will release their widgets as normal activities launched by localActivityManager just i did (i think its the most obvious solution) so it won't be difficult to integrate with them...

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