Derek Cram

Many people asked for a widget to display local time in widget:
http://www.lysesoft.com/products/worldwidetime/index.html

Have fun.

AndExplorer 1.0BETA3 provides official Intent to allow any third application to browe and selet a file.
Here is a sample code:

int PICK_REQUEST_CODE = 0; Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_PICK); Uri startDir = Uri.fromFile(new File("/sdcard")); // Files and directories ! intent.setDataAndType(startDir, "vnd.android.cursor.dir/lysesoft.andexplorer.file"); // Title intent.putExtra("explorer_title", "Select a file"); // Optional colors intent.putExtra("browser_title_background_color", "440000AA"); intent.putExtra("browser_title_foreground_color", "FFFFFFFF"); intent.putExtra("browser_list_background_color", "00000066"); // Optional font scale intent.putExtra("browser_list_fontscale", "120%"); // Optional 0=simple list, 1 = list with filename and size, 2 = list with filename, size and date. intent.putExtra("browser_list_layout", "2"); startActivityForResult(intent, PICK_REQUEST_CODE);

protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent intent) { if (requestCode == PICK_REQUEST_CODE) { if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) { Uri uri = intent.getData(); String type = intent.getType(); LogHelper.i(TAG,"Pick completed: "+ uri + " "+type); if (uri != null) { String path = uri.toString(); if (path.toLowerCase().startsWith("file://")) { // Selected file/directory path is below path = (new File(URI.create(path))).getAbsolutePath(); } } } else LogHelper.i(TAG,"Back from pick with cancel status"); } }

AndExplorer home:
http://www.lysesoft.com/products/andexplorer/index.html

Hi all,

If you need a tool to transfer files and folders (recursively) through FTP, SFTP orFTPS then try AndFTP:
APK: http://www.lysesoft.com/products/andftp/AndFTP.apk
Homepage: http://www.lysesoft.com/products/andftp/index.html

Cheers.

Hi Ed,

Do you detail and give example of the Android service/activity lifecycle in your book ?
I find the "singleTop", "singleTask" very confusing in Android. I still don't understand how to have 2 activities in background and put them on front when needed instead of create a new instance.

Cheers.

You can do HTTP and FTP communication. However, as far as I know you cannot have incoming socket to Android device. For FTP it means that you cannot use Active mode.
Only passive mode can work. We've a FTP client that will show that socket communication works: http://www.lysesoft.com/products/andftp/index.html