hebrew support on google android/
why there is no hebrew support on android ? it will be more nice using the phone with full hebrew support! tnx ,yossef. ...
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Getting started with a VOIP app for iOS or Android?
I'd like to create an app for iOS that does VOIP, presumably by interacting with a website. I can start with Android too. Does anyone know of any tutorials, suggestions or libraries that would be of any use. (The app would need to be rewritten for BB and android eventually, too.) EDIT: Bonus: What is SIP? ...
Activity events on startActivity
Is there any event triggered on an activity when I call startActivity("activity_id", myIntent); If the Activity exists already. I pass a parameter to the activity via i.putExtra("someID", someSerializableObject ); and would like to call a method to refresh a WebView. Right now, the call on startActivity brings the activity in...
Android: Problem fitting a table of ImageButtons within the screen.
Hi all, I am trying to create a table of 7 rows and 7 columns of ImageButtons - buttons with image resource added from the drawable folder. The problem is I can only see the first button and the rest go off screen. How do I scale the image or the buttons so all 49 can be viewed on screen? The following is the main.xml file. Any help woul...
Get Android Google Analytics referrer tag
We're planning to use Google Analytics to track ad click-through referrals, through the Android Market, to our application. According to the Google Documentation the referrer tag comes through via an intent, and is automatically recorded by the Google Analytics library. That's great, but we need to extract that referral tag for our own...
drawRoundRect not showing rounded corners or nothing at all
Hello, The following code snippet draws a red rectangle: RectF rectangle = new RectF(50, 100, 100, 50); Paint paint = new Paint(); paint.setColor(Color.RED); canvas.drawRoundRect(rectangle, 0, 0, paint); However if i change rx and ry both to a positive value, say 5, than nothing is shown. Any ideas? ...
How can I draw a path on a road on Google maps using the Android API?
I am trying to draw/highlight certain roads on a Google map through the Android API. I have seen examples where you can draw lines programatically, but I am looking for a way to draw, e.g., a red line from point A on a road to point B on the same road, possibly a different road. Anyone know where to look or what to look into? Thanks ...
Problem with getLastNonConfigurationInstance() - Seems to only ever return null
public class XPBN extends Activity{ private Map _map; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){ super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); final Map data = (Map)getLastNonConfigurationInstance(); if (data == null) { Toast.makeText(this, "New Map", Toast.LE...
Android - Options for pulling data from a website? (HTML)
I was wondering what the best approach is on Android to retrieve information from a HTML page hosted on the internet? For example I'd like to be able to get the text from the following page at the start of each day: http://www.met.ie/forecasts/sea-area.asp I have been downloading and parsing XML files but I have never tried to parse i...
android design considerations: AsynchTask vs Service (IntentService?)
I'm designing an android app which will need to do the following steps: user pushes a button or otherwise indicates to "synch data". synch process will use REST web services to move data to and from the server. the data will be stored locally in a sqlite database. the synch process should provide status updates/messages to the UI the ...
Creating a list of URL's
Hi, I have a app with a list of urls, I can create a class that will link to the urls and open the link within the browser, trouble is I have more than 100 urls and I dont think it would be practical to create a class for each of those urls. So I want to create a class that will get the correct url based on the users selection from a l...
Android HTTPPOST not working
I am using the following code to try to send a POST to a web service StringBuffer helloReq = new StringBuffer(); helloReq.append("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>"); helloReq.append("<soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns:soap12...
How to detect if a widget is on/off screen?
I'm writing a customized view similar to Grid which will be used to hold a large amount of images. I'm using ImageButton to display the images, and I only want to load images onto the buttons once they are on the screen (and just display a static background image when they are not). The reason for it is that I'm fetching images from some...
Recycling views in a listview, worth it?
When overriding the baseadapter on an android listview, you have to implement this method public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent). The convertview is the view that was previously pushed off the list when scrolling, and it's given so that you can reuse that view instead of creating a new view. My question is...
How can I use jar libraries in Android compiled with packages that Android doesn't have
I need to import a couple of jars that where compiled under the full implementation of java. I know that Android doesn't use all the packages that java has to offer. My question is: Is it possible to import them without creating errors? Is there a tool that can convert jars to android jars? if so, can some examples be provided. Any help ...
Getting the Listview default clicked color, depending on the Device
Hello all, In my android application, I use a listview and some linear layout on wich the user can click. Of course, I had to set the background of my LinearLayout to a xml file where the stated pressed, selected are defined: myView.setBackgroundDrawable( getDrawable(android.R.drawable.list_selector_background)); So no problem I s...
Writing python (or any other SL4A) in android
Can someone point me to a tutorial on using the android scripting enviornment? I've seen plenty of tutorials on how to write python code using the android API especially from http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/wiki/Tutorials. But none of what I've seen gives a good example of how this all works inside android or how to call you...
Android MapView is not loading
Hello. Im having problems with the MapView because its not loading the map. I've been reading around, and find many people with the same issue. I checked all the possible issues and it seems that everything is ok :P On the Manifest, the is inside the tag I have the before the tag In the emulator the 3G is working properly since i ...
Tab Widget and Listview combo
Howdy, I am trying to combine the TabWidget and ListView Tutorials. Also I added a couple of buttons with no functions right now. Each tab is supposed to be a ListView (for right now). I run the app and it launches as just a ListView and no tabs. Here is the main.xml used in TabaWidget.java: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <L...
Android Webview Question
I am dynamically serving an image from my server, and attempting to display it in an img tag on an Android phone. This works perfectly in the normal Android browser, but when I try it in my app's Webview I just get a question mark. Running Android 2.1.1 on a Nexus One ...