Hello all,
one of my app's users uses an good old Defy running 2.2 stock. Android compatibility with this old version is made up by the SDK's support library, so my app is running fine on an 2.2 emulator and other real devices user reported (e.g. HTC Wildfire S, 2.2).
In my app I am using an authenticator (Android account management) with an account creation activity, that is called by adding an account through Android's account management. This is the normal way every app uses to create accounts.
However, on the defy, the user cannot an account for my app. The Account type is selectable in the list, but nothing happens after tapping (or long/multi tapping) on this entry. This also happens for "Viber", the user reported.
Is this a known flaw in Defy's 2.2 stock? Do you have any ideas for a solution?
Maybe I can get a full logcat from the user's device soon.
Any help would be nice! Thanks!
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i have just set up an exchange email on my hero, however my company policy requires pin setup compulsory on my set.
I used to have lockpicker on my 2.1 but seems like that doesnt work on vanilla, is there another software that you guys can recommend?
TIA!!!
All Androids that our company supports install Touchdown.
It is a paid app but once we started using it we have no more issues with PIN issues.
Sync's everything including tasks which the stock app does not do.
Thank you.
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Does anyone know if lockpicker will be updated to support 2.2 or if another app is out that has the same features? I tried emailing the dev for lockpicker but he has gotten back to me about supporting 2.2. HTC droid incredible on froyo w/sense.
figured no point in starting new thread to ask the same question (i dont want to use touchdown)
Thanks
NM found this post xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7182615&postcount=88
I guess lockpicker or other same type of app won't be available for a little while
Check the thread in my signature. I have written an app which strips out the relevant parts of code in the stock email apk and the sense mail apk on froyo.
Hi all you clever developers and tweakers! I have been playing around with all the recent roms without sense and they are the ROMS I prefer. The reasons are quite self explanatory as u all know.
Any way I have been doing some digging and although Google say that android supports msEx its upto the manufacturer to build it. HTC have done a Sterling job with Sense as they have done gone the extra mile. Specifically functionality which incorporates remote wipe complex passwords etc...
Touchdown is an application that works and goes someway to bridge the Google gap but this does not integrate it self to the stock email and Calender apps.
So do we have anyone brave enough to tackle this by developing potentially a port of the mail client from sense to work on cm roms for example.
Look forward to your endeavours.
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Come on guys surly I am not the only one suffering from this issue!
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Any takers?
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Sense apps aren't just drop-in replacements for the stock Email apps. They require a SDK to be released from HTC which provides public APIs to use the Sense libs (which also have to be available at runtime). To date, HTC doesn't do or allow any of this for third party devs, so porting is impossible.
For what it's worth, the Email client included in CM has *much* more Exchange support than the Sense client does as-shipped. It supports everything you mentioned plus client certificates. You can even install the Email.apk included in CM on your DHD without rooting and while staying on HTC's official ROM. It's what I do and it works well (calendars and contacts are even accessible via the Sense apps). The only downside is that the Email client installed has a different look and feel than the Sense apps, but it's not such a big deal since it's usable and it's free (as opposed to Touchdown).
I've been in contact with HTC regarding their lack of support for client certificates while using ActiveSync and they've elevated my ticket from support to engineering since it's more of an RFE than a support request. Hopefully in the future either HTC will include client cert support in their own Sense client or Google will finally allow applications to access the central certificate store (see issue 11231). As of right now it seems HTC is hesitant to add functionality like this without Google taking the lead in their native Email app, so "star" the issue above if you want to have your voice heard by Google. Adding more comments is just noise, star it instead since that's what grabs Google's attention.
I use touchdown because of the ability to do a server search a feature that has been sorely lacking in even the HTC app. Does anyone know if this functionality is present in the CM version ?
Basically I can search my entire 15gb mailbox in 15seconds through a client server command.
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For now I have moved back to a sense rom. I have used the following link to sort and free myself off exchange restrictions and all is good for now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=655649&page=34
That was using a patched mail.apk.
I have been unable to use any email.apk on cm roms even the stock android email apps as it keeps saying the security features are not sufficient on this phone?
I tried to setup on s nexus s and that had the dame problem. Any further advice would b great.
In terms of searching I have just loaded all my messages on the phone now do don't have to worry about server searches.
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no active sync in CM7 RC1
I have EVO 4g, and using a SENSE ROM, I can connect to corporate email. Using CM6 or CM7 I am unable. I have tried using modified Email.apk to no avail. I have had to switch back to a SENSE ROM to sync with exchange because of this security issue.
Hi, I'm pretty new to development,
I was just wondering if any of you guys know a possible way for me to download my calendar events from the Google Calendar servers to my custom app?
it doesn't need to save anything to the servers, it just needs to download my upcoming events to my device
(ideally not requiring that it interferes with androids built in calendar)
Thanx in advanced!
(Developing in Eclipse by the way)
SmilerOnline said:
Hi, I'm pretty new to development,
I was just wondering if any of you guys know a possible way for me to download my calendar events from the Google Calendar servers to my custom app?
it doesn't need to save anything to the servers, it just needs to download my upcoming events to my device
(ideally not requiring that it interferes with androids built in calendar)
Thanx in advanced!
(Developing in Eclipse by the way)
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Same here..even I need the same info..how to access calendar events and show as a feed?
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You can look at the online google calendar API. That is the official answer from google. Also, there are some non standard, undocumented ways, but those are subject to change and depend on which version of Android you are running on.
This lack of an API is a huge gap IMHO.
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I used Google Calendar Sync Adapter apk and was able to sync my calendar to my tablet
You can always access the calendar.db in com.android.providers.calendar. It has a bunch of tables and is locally stored.
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With 4.2 it will be possible to add account on tablets, ok but someone know if It will be possible to set an account as "administrator" and other ones as "users" to avoid unwantend installation or modification? I'm not speaking about real admin (like the one that you can have with root), only admin as capable to install or unistall app from market.
Thankyou
rodem77 said:
With 4.2 it will be possible to add account on tablets, ok but someone know if It will be possible to set an account as "administrator" and other ones as "users" to avoid unwantend installation or modification? I'm not speaking about real admin (like the one that you can have with root), only admin as capable to install or unistall app from market.
Thankyou
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I have used jellybean roms with multiuser support, so I'm assuming this will be close to the same. The way it works is, the person initially signed into the tablet is the 'admin' in which can create accounts - no one else. The user also gets to choose which apps are available to any user that the 'admin' creates. Then, you can add a password to the main account, so any other user would have to know it in order to get into your 'account'. If settings is an app that you allow others to use, it will lack functionality for them so they cannot alter the tablet in a way that would effect other users. Hope that helps.
So, I originally got this root working under my regular, personal gmail account. Then I picked up a couple more nooks for a project I'm working on and realized, since I'm going to be handing these out to people to use, that having my personal gmail account on there wasn't the best approach.
New gmail account, and presto, I use that when setting up the new nooks. I added the new gmail to the original device too. So far so good. Now, how do I remove the original gmail account? Various googling has brought up a variety of ways to do this with a regular device, but those settings/options don't exist here.
Is there an app that will do this?
Also, since I'm only setting these up to run one particular app, that I load via ADB, it doesn't matter to me whether or not I retain Play market access.
Thanks
Anders
This would be very useful to know. I want to setup a new Nook for a friend and avoid going through the entire preparation and use my IMG to restore and then change gmail.
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