On the Motorola Bravo, at the left bottom of a MapView, there is an ugly orange square rather than the google logo. I notice this not only on my app, but on say, Yelp -- see screen shot:
Has anyone else seen this, and is there a workaround? I don't know if it happens on other motorola phones, but I'm guessing it does because there is another, similar problem with a missing image on google maps, which is easy enough to solve and documented elsewhere as being on Droid phones as well.
Here is what i found out, hope it helps at least a bit.
I have a Motorola Milestone (it is the EU version of the Droid as you probably know) with vodafone branded rom (so no ported custom rom) and do not have this 'bug' at all.
Here are some screens of Google Maps and Yelp...
so I do not have this problem at all but that does not mean other Milestone users do not have it. Maybe it is because of a missing image in one of the operators firmware files - when they customize their roms, they may delete some google-specific images and then forget to replace them with their own images (or put an ugly orange png at this place).
So I'm afraid I can't help any further, but at least i could show that this is not necessarily a motorola problem but maybe a provider problem?!
you could have written that you already posted this to motorola developers forum so i would have saved the time to look at this resource ;) click
edit: i found a post at modaco forum where a user describes the orange square as a bug in a custom rom --> the post. this is on acer liquid.
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I am noticing strange blue markings when I visit certain webpages on Samsung galaxy note 10.1 is running android 4.1.2. This is only happening on one website and not the other. I have attached screenshots of both. I think it could be due to certain CSS or JS. Not sure what is is. Please help.
http://i.stack.imgur.com/rxPFO.png
http://i.stack.imgur.com/25cNO.png
It looks like you may have an advertising blocker running. Could there be a banner add that should be showing where those blue images are?
My app runs with many devices but 2 users have send me simular images as below.
As far as I know the behaviour is only seen on Android 4.2.2 (Samsung S4).
On the full HD screen there seem to be 3 compressed tiles of 160x600 pixels.
I have tried an AVD with full HD screen but that fails to start.
On 4.03 devices I don't see this. I don't use tiles.
Does anybody have a hint what or where this goes wrong ?
This looks like a possible bug in the Android platform on Samsung's S4 devices with that particular Android version. My experience tells me that it's a very real possibility. It could also be that you do something wrong in your app that only causes actual problems on that version (and maybe even only on that device), but there is no indication of that from what you tell. Android 4.2.2 should be backwards compatible with 4.0.3, so in general it should work on the later version too, of course.
I would advice you (or anyone in the same situation) to try it out on other devices with the same Android version if possible. Also, double check that you're not violating anything in the Android API documentation.
Please add more info about what you're doing and how if you need more detailed answers. I guess you've probably found a solution or workaround by now, but still adding my answer here.
Galaxy Note 10.1 supports running multiple applications on single screen basically splitting it in half. This is only available for a limited set of samsung apps. I couldn't find any SDK or API to support that in my application, is there any way to simulate that?
This is what I am talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBii6rp5YNg
I've got some information from a Sammy related guy.
I don't know detail.
But he told that it supported by manifest file's category.
There is no special API.
I think you can find method through analyzing decompiled manifest files.
Actually this is a story of the Galaxy Note 2's multiview.
But I guess Galaxy Note 10.1's technology and this are same.
Following link talk about having a button always on top of all views:
Creating a system overlay window (always on top)
May be this would help you in getting footing view for your app.
Before I ask the question let me state that I have attempted to google for this using several key words but haven't had much luck.
I am after a list of "Device Layout Configs" for the eclipse graphical layout editor. A list of popular phones, such as the Samsung Galaxy range and HTC's various desire phones is the sort of thing that I am after.
If anyone is able to point me in the right direction I would be very grateful.
Thanks,
James
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Here's a list of 'device layout configs' (Emulator Settings) for each density bucket:
http://blog.blundellapps.com/emulator-settings-for-each-android-density/
It's a start. Further reading is my list of popular devices by density bucket:
http://blog.blundellapps.com/list-of-android-devices-with-pixel-density-buckets/
I need to make a screencast of an app to present to a client, but need it to look better than the ugly red phone or the various other incarnations of the emulator. Is there a way to swap out that image?
Also would be great to get rid of the keyboard that displays next to it and make the window borders go way (since I have to capture it full screen on a mac, unfortunately, I can't crop it tight).
When you create an AVD, you can specify a different skin to use. Besides the ones available by default, there are also a bunch on the web for various devices. You can search for "[phone name] emulator skin" to find a variety, but here are a couple of examples:
Nexus One
Nexus S
The Motorola MOTODEV site (http://developer.motorola.com/docstools/tools/) has addons for nearly every one of our released phones. Registration is required. Most of the addons are full system images, which should work or you could extract out the skin for your own uses. There is a "skin only" addon for the upcoming XOOM tablet that uses Gingerbread for the runtime.
Good luck