I have a splash screen/loading screen that has .setVisibility() to GONE right after the draw call of my large bitmap is completed. The problem is the splash screen takes a bit to popup which i believe is due to the main activity booting up and doing CPU intensive applications on first run. Is there a way to get my splash screen displayed...
Basically, i have purchased HTC Hero (Android sdk 1.5) , but i just got the notification of "System software update" and i agreed to update the sdk to 2.1-update1 . I was developing application for android sdk 1.5 successfully, but now i have created a Hello world application for the Android sdk 2.1 and then when i am trying to run it o...
as an end user, can I surpress sms alerts in the notification bar on android 2.1 (alert - but not show the first line of text)? Is there a phone setting? Or an app out there that allows this choice? ...
I've been using the ContactsContract api for some time now and I've come across two "columns" listed in the API page for ContactsContract.Contacts that do not appear to actually be assessable. The values are (under the columns heading): "NAME_RAW_CONTACT_ID" and "DISPLAY_NAME_PRIMARY" By my reading of the API these two values would see...
Hello all. I'm working on an app that will (hopefully) be taking advantage of Android's gestures (as described here: http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/gestures.html) Before I dive in though, I'm trying to find out if gestures can take the direction they were drawn into account. Unfortunately I haven't found this informat...
Its been around 2 years since Android's first release and already there are 6 to 7 Android releases, unlike Windows mobile. And I found between 2.1 and 2.2 there are lots of changes. The way to call my local services, and other methods have been deprecated etc.. So how stable is Android 2.2. Are we gonna have more frequent release? Deve...
Hi i am dispalying some data by using sqlite .when i click on one button data come from database. It takes some time. At that time the screen is black .At that time I want to display the rotating spinner before the data dispaly.For this purpose give me some suggestions.Thanks in advance ...
Hi, When I install my application onto a device or emulator it appears multiple times in the apps menu, in my case I get 4 icons showing my application name. It seems that each icon is representing an activity, and since my application contains 3 tabs(with activities) the first 3 icons on my menu go to a particular activity, and the 4t...
I've created a simple application and put it onto my device. I use a file browser to locate the APK, it installs successful and I can run it OK (when clicking "run" after install completes) However, if I then exit the application, I'm unable to see a launcher for it on my apps menu (where I would expect it, like other apps I've created...