android-xml

Loading XML data to array "gives up" if XML is too big

I have in many cases successfully loaded up data into an array from the strings.xml. However an app I'm writing now has a very large amount of data in the XML, much larger than I've had in the past for a single array. When I run the app in the emulator, the intent happens, I see my app's home page, but after a few seconds it just close...

Android: Making landscape view without layout-land?

I just want to group 4 buttons like this... Portrait mode: [1][2] [3][4] Landscape mode: [1][2][3][4] I dont want to hardcopy my Portrait mode xml-File and put it into the "layout-land" folder for this minor difference. Then, I have to modify two file when implementing new stuff. Isnt that achievable through wraping it up intell...

Android / Styling a Button: Background also behind Drawable left and Drawable right

I am styling a Button whose width can change in the program through different Content. I got the png files from the designer like this: [Left Border] [Background (just a strip with the gradient)] [Right Border] I thought I'm fine with assigning the Properties of the Button like this: Background: Background.png Drawable left: LeftBor...

Android button with different background colors

Hi, i want to change the background-color of a button using a selector-xml-file. My approach is basically the one from the example at the bottom this page: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/color-list-resource.html i have a res/color/button_text.xml which looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <selec...

Android: Do I just have one shot per property through the use of themes? Is there nothing like CSS in Android?

Here they write: To apply a style definition as a theme, you must apply the style to an Activity or application in the Android manifest. When you do so, every View within the Activity or application will apply each property that it supports. For example, if you apply the CodeFont style from the previous examples to an Acti...

Android: My XML with a selector is not well-formed while styling a button?

I just tried this example. I saved that code in res/color/hover.xml but I always get this error message and Eclipse won't compile my project with this xml. What am I doing wrong? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"&gt; <item android:state_pressed="true" an...

How to catch exceptions caused by a malformed layout-xml file?

public class MyActivity extends Activity { /** Called when the activity is first created. */ @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); //R.layout.main has an illegal element (e.g. no layout_height attribute) //But no e...

EditText alignment, within a LinearLayout that has a 9 Patch background image.

<LinearLayout android:id="@+id/LinearLayout03" android:background="@drawable/ninepatch" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="55dip" android:layout_weight="1"> <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/LinearLayout02" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"> <EditText android:id="@+id/EditText...

Android - XML Syntax For Strings

In my XML values strings code, I have a string with some text that I want to have only a few of the words in color. I also want to have a new line for some of the text. I can do things like: < b> my bold text < /b> and that works (leading space added for this post). I try to tag the text with color but no color shows up and there a...

Android: Best XML Parsing Library?

I have to parse some complex xml files inside my Android application. Is there any good library for doing that like there is TouchXMl for iPhone? S ...

how do i display android text views like html would floating divs

so I have three text view elements within a relative layout container. @+id/name,@+id/message,@+id/time the @+id/message is positioned by layout to right of @+id/name and @+id/time is to the right of @+id/message, it renders fine as long as the three elements dont take up the width of the screen but when it does it bunches up the last e...

How to set different Layouts in 1 XML file in Android

Hi friends i have set my layout thru TabLayout within LinearLayout but still my button in the end couldn't be set properly as TabLayout divides all the fields in number of columns so can anyone help how to set 2 Layouts in one XML file means all the fields in TabLayout and remaining both Login and Register buttons in Linear Layout ore so...

Android: XML Layout problems

Hello, I've been trying to create a RelativeLayout with a header, body (list) and footer. I want the header to be above everything (aligned to top), the body (list) to be under the header (when scrolling) and the footer (aligned to bottom) to be above the body (list) - only when it's visible. I've managed to do so PERFECTLY when it com...