These puzzles are inexact and many puzzle statements have more than one possible fitting answer.

The goal however is to find out the story as the host has it in mind.
Critical thinking and reading, logical thinking, as well as lateral thinking may all be required to solve a situation puzzle. The term lateral thinking was coined by Edward De Bono to denote a creative problem-solving style that involves looking at the given situation from unexpected angles, and is typically necessary to the solution of situation puzzles. The term lateral thinking puzzle has been popularised for this type of puzzle by Paul Sloane who has written many books of such puzzles. This term is also used in the MindTrap series of board games, which contain a large number of situation puzzles.

Source: Wikipedia

This game in particular

How to play Situation Puzzle

The main idea behind this game is to find out what others think. A person has a situation in mind. Others ask him questions about that situation.
He can answer only with YES, NO, IRRELEVANT. After some questions the asking persons found the solution. During the solving process a hint may be also provided, but it will costs more points than a ususal question.

1. Solving situationsNavigate to All situations screen. Select a situation. See it’s details and start asking questions.You can select from your old questions or create a new one.

   You can ask how many question do you want, but you will receive the answer when the situation creator respond.

   Keep in mind that on the other end is also a person not a computer so give him time to answer your questions.

   When do you think you know the solution put your description as a question, and if you are right the creator may mark your question as a solution and you will be rewarded with 100 points.

2. Creating situationsNavigate to My Situations screen. Push the Create situation button, add details to the situations and publish it.Every field is mandatory and has a maximum characters length.

   Tips: Use a clear, short name that a person can have a clue about the situation.

   Try to create a description with as many details as the persons need but do not be too obvious.

   Think of a hint that will help the persons understand better the situation.

   When write the hint have in mind that it costs as 10 questions, so you must give a little help but not too much.

   When answer to questins have in mind the solution you enter and keep a straight line.

   When somebody ask a question that is the solution of your situations mark it as solution and do not answer with YES.
   Only when you as a creator mark a question as solution the other person receive its points.

3. ScoringEvery question you ask costs 1 point.
   Every time you want to see the hint costs 10 points.
   When a situation is solved you will receive 100 points.

   Keep in mind that you lose points with every question and you will be rewarded only when the creator mark one of your question as a solution.

Have fun!

Some screenshots:

1. Create your app on Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/developers/createapp.php
2. Download Facebook SDK : http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/mobile
   
3. Add Facebook SDK to your Android application
4. Copy Application ID from Facebook
5. Insert into your app Facebook controls as : LoginButton
6. Insert extra code into your app
   1. /*
   2.  
   3.     <strong>public static final String APP_ID = "158312160885675";</strong>
   4.  
   5.     private LoginButton mLoginButton;
   6.     private Facebook mFacebook;
   7.     private AsyncFacebookRunner mAsyncRunner;
   8.  
   9.     /** Called when the activity is first created. */
   10.     @Override
   11.     public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
   12.         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
   13.  
   14.         setContentView(R.layout.main);
   15.         mLoginButton = (LoginButton) findViewById(R.id.login);
   16.  
   17.         mFacebook = new Facebook(APP_ID);
   18.         mAsyncRunner = new AsyncFacebookRunner(mFacebook);
   19.  
   20.         SessionStore.restore(mFacebook, this);
   21.         SessionEvents.addAuthListener(new SampleAuthListener());
   22.         SessionEvents.addLogoutListener(new SampleLogoutListener());
   23.         mLoginButton.init(this, mFacebook);
   24.     }
   25.  
   26.     <strong>@Override
   27.     protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode,
   28.                                     Intent data) {
   29.         mFacebook.authorizeCallback(requestCode, resultCode, data);
   30.     }
   31.  
   32.     public class SampleAuthListener implements AuthListener {
   33.  
   34.         public void onAuthSucceed() {
   35.                 Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "AuthSucceed!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
   36.         }
   37.  
   38.         public void onAuthFail(String error) {
   39.                 Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "AuthFail : " + error, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
   40.         }
   41.     }
   42.  
   43.     public class SampleLogoutListener implements LogoutListener {
   44.         public void onLogoutBegin() {
   45.                 Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "LogoutBegin", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
   46.         }
   47.  
   48.         public void onLogoutFinish() {
   49.                 Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "LogoutFinish", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
   50.         }
   51.     }
   52.     }
   53.  
   54. }</strong>

7. Generate hash key for singleSignOn

   keytool -exportcert -alias [alias] -keystore [keystore] | openssl sha1 -binary | openssl enc -a -e

   For Windows users : you must install Cygwin and run command in the cygwin shell or use a linux VM. The result from Windows command will not work

8. Put your hash key on Facebook application page – mobile tab
   
9. Run your app

Current version knows : Europa FM, Radio Guerrilla, Kiss FM, Rock FM, Magic FM, Radio ZU si posibilitatea de a adauga o adresa custom.

After you learned Latin and Cyrillic alphabets and numerals you can create your custom levels.
You can download new levels and play them. The score will be recorded as number of successful gesture performed. The time is also important so the faster the better.

With La Vuelta you can see Tour de Spain in detail directly on your Android device.

• see overall standings,
• stage results,
• stage details,
• teams
• riders.

Not live during the race, but after every stages results will be updated via internet.

Hope the size it has does not create problems. I embedded in the application the images about stages : map, profil and last km.

Please comment if you want more features.

La Vuelta Main screen

Stages map

Stage profil

• listen to Europa FM Radio from online streaming servers
• receive via internet auto traffic information
• send via internet auto traffic information
• read Europa FM tweets
• read news from Europa FM via Twitter

Version : 1.0

Release date : 30.08.2010

Main screen

Radio screen

Info Traffic screen

I dig into the problem, search on the internet and didn’t found a solution. This morning I’ve created step by step a fresh new app only to test AdMob publisher code and ID and it works fine on emulator with :

After step by step testing I found out that the problem was with a padding value that I have in my surrounding

Before (not working ) :

After ( the solution ) :

It must be set to ScrollView and has the following efect : when set to true, this attribute causes the scroll view’s child to expand to the height of the ScrollView if needed. When the child is taller than the ScrollView, the attribute has no effect.

Source : http://www.curious-creature.org/2010/08/15/scrollviews-handy-trick/

This can be a little annoying when you have some service that perform background work.

You can handle the back button action like this :

and let the user to decide what to do using an AlertDialog :

Starting with Api Level 5 there it is a specific function in Activity class that can pe override :

To enable this option at application level the developer should do some simple modifications.

1. Open manifest file ( AndroidManifest.xml ).
2. Add android:installLocation=”auto” as attributes to your root manifest element. Here you have 3 options :
   • internalOnly: Install the application on internal storage only. This will result in storage errors if the device runs low on internal storage.
   • preferExternal: The android system tries to install the application on external storage. If that is full, the application is installed on internal storage.
   • auto: Let the Android system decide the best install location for the application. The default system policy is to install the application on internal storage first. If the system is running low on storage, the application is then installed on external storage.
3. Change Project Build Target to Android 2.2
4. Keep android:minSdkVersion as low as you want. This new option will be available only on devices running Froyo (2.2)

References : http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/07/apps-on-sd-card-details.html