LaughingOtter

Hi! Long time no post, mostly because I've had to put the mobile coding aside for my real job. Plus some home brewing. And lots of pinball. I have run into a problem. I am developing an application where an Excel spreadsheet (or tab-delimited text file) can be read in …

Hello! I've just nearly finished a mobile app for my company, and there are quite a number of Activities in it. I've also been advised (here, in fact!) to check out the possibility of using Fragments for the various screens. Fragments in this case sounds like the way it should …

Sure! Easiest way to convert a string into a number is just to add 0 to it! So: 09+0=9. I do this all the time when I know I have a string that is actually a number and want to use it as such. This also works in perl, too! …

Sounds like a job for embedded AJAX, which would read the file with your variables in it, then populate DIV containers on a relatively static HTML page. You wouldn't have to create the entire page each time, and could even have a 'loading' message or something else there until the …

Hi! I'm in charge of building a somewhat complicated app for the Android. I know enough Java to do this, but I have been running into a couple of snags as far as the mobile bit goes. The app opens on a standard login page, using the client's ID number/SSN …

Hello again! So, what I have so far is a partial app that accepts a username/password, does two-way server work to determine legitimacy, then if successful, slurps in an XML file that has all the data the app itself will need. One of the most important XML variables determines which …

Hi! Just joined up here learning about Android programming. I've been programming since 1980 (COBOL, Fortran IV, and some Apple II BASIC!) and try to keep up with the tech curves, though it ain't easy. These days I'm programming in PHP, perl, and Java. I also do raytracing with POV-Ray …

I guess I do, since masijade's and Cronless' answers were the right ones.