android-widget

android listview button control

Hi, I have an android listview filled with items. Every item has a button. This is the template of the my listview. <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:paddingBottom="6dip" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" and...

list in android

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ClickableSpan on TextView in App Widget

I have created an App Widget for Android 1.5. It uses a TextView to present a number of individual Text Links using ClickableSpans. However, the onClick event handler on the ClickableSpan is never called, it appears that you can not select individual components on the widget just the whole widget. This approach works fine for a normal...

android : widget long press & movement handling in user activity.

hi, please suggest me a way to handle widget long press event & its movement in user defined home screen .i.e i have activity whose background handles the long click and then we can choose the approprait widget from the list ,but the problem is that i am not able to implement the long click on widget and its movement in my activity. for ...

Android: manifest targetSdkVersion change resulted in: icon not visible, widget no longer works, and cannot access data

I recently upgraded my Android app to support multiple resolutions. Previously, my Android.manifest file had a line: To support multiple density and resolution devices, I changed this to: <supports-screens android:smallScreens="false" android:normalScreens="true" android:largeScreens="true" android:anyDensity="true" /> <uses-sdk...

Associate an Activity with an item in XML ListViews in Android

I have a ListView that is populated using an XML file. However, I want each item, when clicked, to start a new Activity related to that item. I understand how to use OnItemClick to start a Toast that shows the selected item's text. However, since the ListView is populated from an XML there is not a specific Id for each item in the lis...

Horizontal "tab"ish scroll between views

I'm interested in creating a horizontal scroll view that "snaps" to the viewed item, so only one item is ever shown at a time. The user can touch-drag left/right and will see previous/next views, switching to it if there's enough velocity. This interaction is exactly like what the new weather/news widget that comes with the Nexus One doe...

Android seekbar widget: no vertical orientation?

I can't believe there is no way to change the orientation of the SeekBar widget. I've been perusing this widget's properties and I can't find anything that allows me to change its orientation to vertical. So, am I missing something obvious? Do I have to write my own implementation of a seekbar to have its thumb slide up/down instead of ...

android how to force the update of a widgetapp

I'll need to force the update of a widgetapp every time the user turn the screen on. Any idea or snippet ? Thanks ...

How do I set the intent of menu items defined in an Android menu xml file?

How do I set the intent of menu items defined in an Android menu xml file? For example I currently have... <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:name="Main Menu"> <item android:title="@string/resume_game" android:icon="@drawable/resume"></item> <item android:title="@string/play_golf" android:i...

Android RatingBar weirdness: Whenever I add a RatingBar to my layout, a bunch of the generated tags, (e.g., R.layout.selectgame) throw off errors as if they are undefined

Whenever I use a RatingBar view in my layout, I suddenly get all kinds of compile errors. I'm using Android 2.0, but I've also tried 2.0.1, and 2.1, without joy. I also get a message: Shader 'android.graphics.BitmapShader' is not supported in Layout Editor, and an odd warning which may or maynot be related: warning: Ignoring InnerClasses...

how to set a footer at top layer of the app in android?

i want set my footer at the top layer of my app. it should not have any shakes and moves while the activity navigation or showing up the keyboard. it should always settled in the bottom of the screen. how to do that? any ideas plz. ...

Top-most and Bottom-most Horizonal Divider does not show up in ListView

Hi, I am using a ListView. But the top-most and botom-most horizontal bar does not show up. Any idea why? I am using this: android:divider="@android:drawable/divider_horizontal_bright" ...

What's the best way to log an on going widget in handset?

I have a widget which mainly used to display date and month. However, after a few day the widget stop updating itself and must be replace in order for it to work again. Since I can't test its behavior in the emulator, I'd like to know if there's a best way to keep my application log separately and have it available to take a look later? ...

How to sense (or animate view on) change of selection in Gallery

I am looking to extend the Android Gallery view. How is it possible to sense a change in the selected item? I would have thought it could be done by extending one or both of the setSelection methods. Yet when I do so, and change selection by a tap or swipe or D-pad press, I do not find either of the setSelection methods being called. ...

Looping Gridview when the button is click

Hi all, I have create a girdview in dialog and in the girdview I added a check boxes, so that, the user can check/uncheck the gridview. And there is a button which send back the information about the check values to the server. My problem is I don't know how to loop the gridview. Is there a way to loop the girdview. Or is there other ...

how to add multiple widgets in one app?!!

Hello, I've just finished my Android widget. Now I need to have different sizes of this wiget for the user to choose from. for example I need a medium, small and large size widget. so when the user install the app and hold the the home screen then choose widget, in the widget menu I want him to see three widget with the same app name ...

How to add controls to a Tab Layout in Android?

Hi I am following this tutorial http://developer.android.com/intl/de/guide/tutorials/views/hello-tabwidget.html and have completed it. Now I would actually like to add you know some controls to these tabs like textboxes(text edit). How do I do this? I go to my mail.xml using eclipse as my ide and go to layout view and I now get a NullP...

Date and time picker in one view...

Hi guys, I wanted to know whether we can implement both date and time picker in one view... In iphone app you can pick both date and time through one view. But in android we have date picker and time picker seperately. So, is there any method by which i can get values of both date and time from one view??? ...

Assign width to half available screen width declaratively

Is it possible to assign a widget width to half the available screen width, and do it using declarative xml? thx patrick ...