android-widget

Android - Set focus to a button widget programmatically onCreate of the activity.

Hi Folks, Is it possible to set a focus to a button widget which lies somewhere down in my layout. onCreate of the activity my control/focus should be on that button programmatically. Regards, Vinayak ...

onUpdate not being called in widget, even though I see the android.appwidget.action.APPWIDGET_UPDATE intent in onreceive

I'm working with the emulator using the debugger and I've noticed that onUpdate is not getting called. When I add the widget to the emulator homescreen I see my breakpoint being hit in the onReceive method. The onReceive method does get the android.appwidget.action.APPWIDGET_UPDATE intent. However, the onUpdate function never gets cal...

Android: Hide child dividers in ExpandableListView

Hi! I need to completely remove dividers from ExpandableListView. As for parent items it's a setDividerHeight method where I can pass a zero value. But there's no similar method for child divider. Is there any way to hide it? ...

Why is AppWidgetProvider created each time I add an app widget?

Hello guys'n'girls :) I'm slighty puzzled about how android's AppWidget machinery works. I reimplemented the AppWidgetProvider's constructor like this: public class MyProvider extends AppWidgetProvider { public MyProvider() { Log.d("TEST", "Creating...") } public void onUpdate(..., int[] appWidgetIds) { // updati...

How to fix "process is bad" error for an Android Widget?

I have developed an Android Widget, and it was working fine. I added some extra functionality and pushed an update through the Android Market. Now people are complaining that it doesn't work anymore. The error I see in the logs is: 07-14 10:33:44.016: WARN/ActivityManager(78): Unable to launch app ... for broadcast Intent { act=androi...

Resize android datepicker control.

How can one resize the initial size of android datepicker control to be smaller or bigger. Is there only way to reimplement it? ...

How TO: obtain the list of names from the phonebook to be used in a list view?

This might be a really simple answer but I cant seem to come up with an answer for it, I'm aiming for android 2.1. Any help would be great :-) ...

Android button tap slop region

In android, when I press and hold in a button, then move the pointer outside the button, the button un-highlights. But I have to move it significantly outside the button; just a few pixels isn't enough. And the slop seems to be wider than it is tall. What are the values of the slop dimensions? Where can I find them? ...

When is it necessary to use single-top launchMode in an android widget or application?

I just got burned by a widget. I could see the cause of the problem, but I could not determine why or its solution. My widget was issuing a search (SearchManager) and the activity launched a search dialog, but when it called-back to my widget, it created another reference to the widget (i.e., the thread-id was the same, but the widget-...

How to pass a image object to another activity

Hi i am new to the android programming.i am working on a image viewer application through which we can view the images(these images i hav already stored in an array).firstly i am using a grid view to view my images in a grid form.later if the user clicks a particular image then that image alone shall be visible.for that we need to handl...

Gridview Tutorial problems

Hey guys thanks for reading! I'm trying to get into android development and I'm going through the tutorials, however I'm really stuck on the HelloGridView tutorial and I'm surrounded by apple developers, so have nobody with any android experience to ask! I've attempted to do the HelloGridView tutorial and I get 17 Errors but cant see w...

How to add an Android widget to my app?

I want to put the Android's Analog Clock in my app, is there a way? --update Studying android developers page. It says that "App Widgets are miniature application views that can be embedded in other applications (such as the Home screen)" so, looks like there is a way. --update Still nothing, read all details of the abov...

Accessing Layout Items from inside Widget AppWidgetProvider

I am starting to go insane trying to figure this out. It seems like it should be very easy, I'm starting to wonder if it's possible. What I am trying to do is create a home screen widget, that only contains an ImageButton. When it is pressed, the idea is to change some setting (like the wi-fi toggle) and then change the Buttons image. ...

Android Gallery Adapter with MultiTouch? Custom Gallery or Custom ImageView?

Hello, I would like to recreate the same type of app as Gallery3D but simpler: without the 3D animations and basically only keep GridView and Gallery widgets. I would also like to enable multi-touch zooming-dragging-scolling on the selected image and that's where I am struggling. I looked online for simple tutorials and I also looked at...

How to position item of ListView?

Hello, I have a ListView with number of items. I'd like to place the item being clicked in the top of the screen. i am trying to use requestChildRectangleOnScreen of ListView that seems to do the job, however I cannot figure out how to properly specify the rectangle param. Any suggestion and/or code sample will be really helpful Thanks...

How to remove tab from TabHost

In a TabHost widget, I can create a new tab with its content (Intent) using TabHost.addTab(TabHost.TabSpec tabSpec). We can remove all tabs we created by calling clearAllTabs(), but I can't figure out how to remove the tab or just replace the content (Intent) inside the tab with new Intent. so what I need something like removeTab(int i...

Frequently updating widgets (more frequently than what updatePeriodMillis allows)

I want a widget showing a countdown for a user initiated tracking of a bus departure. I want to update the widget every minute or so, from when the user initiates the tracking to when the bus has departed (i.e. the time runs out). This widget needs to be updated more frequently than what updatePeriodMillis allows, which is every 30 seco...

android getting a contacts nickname

Anyone have any luck querying for a contacts nickname given a phone number or contacts name? Thanks http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Nickname.html ...

how to manage activities in android

hi friends i identified problem in changing one activity using tab, in on tab activity i am adding data to sqlite in other tab activity i am displaying them using listview(array adapter) but when i come back to add data and after adding new item to sqlite the newly added records are not updated in listview plz forward u r valuable sug...

Authentication on your Android App

Hi I am developing an Android App where I require a user to authenticate his session before using the app. One way is to store a user name and password by asking him to register on the app and then use that to authenticate him. But i was looking to do something else, maybe use an OpenId account to authenticate or Opensoial or somethi...