android

getView() for ArrayAdapter is slow

When a user selects a ListViewItem, I am changing that row's background image. This seems to happen very slowly. I'm not sure why? OnItemClickListener listView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() { @Override public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> a, View v, int position, long id) { /...

update Android provider.Settings.System value

it seen i can't write to settings in LG-P500 (Android 2.2). This is my code: android.provider.Settings.System.putInt(getContentResolver(), android.provider.Settings.System.AUTO_TIME, 1); Value to specify if the user prefers the date, time and time zone to be automatically fetched from the network (NITZ). 1=yes, 0=no It work fine in my...

Android TOUCH_MOVE event not firing in avd or device

In fact, only the touch_down event will fire. Basically, I'm trying to implement a drag feature in my app so I need the touch_move event. I have a method that writes out the touch events to the LogCat in Eclipse but the touch_down is the only event that shows up. not even touch_up shows up. I have this problem when I debug on the device ...

how to implement contact like A to Z list items viewer

Hi, In android there is A to Z selector on right side of the contacts. one can just select on of the alphabet and only those contacts will be displayed which are starting with that selected alphabet. I want to implement such kind of list.. !! Any idea ?? ...

How to bind to a Service from another service on Android

Dear All, Please show me how to bind to a Service from another Service on Android. If you have an image to show how to do. Please give me. Thanks & Best regards, Dai Son P.S Sorry for my bad english (English is not my mother language). ...

In the oncreate() of my activity can I tell what intent launches my activity?

Android will call onCreate() of my activity whenever it is launched. In the onCreate() of my activity can I tell what intent launches my activity? Thank you. ...

Image Resource aren't rotated in Landscape with Android

Hi all this one surely is a simple one but I haven't made sense of is yet. I'm working on an app in opengl es on android everything goes well except when I load the textures. I manage to open load and create all the textures without any problem, but the image displays itself rotated of 90. it looks as if the application does not cons...

Customize springboard in Android?

Hi, How can the home screen be customized? and also how can the springboard layout be customized? I want to make an application which makes a clone of users current theme and allows user to customize content that he wants to view such as phonebook, pics and etc. ...

localize android application where data coming from server.

Hi.. i have an application where it displays a list of items in ListView. These items(strings) are coming from the server which are stored in english language. I want to display these English characters in Chinese language in my application. Is it default if the user selects Chinese lang for their device or should i have to do some...

How to set footer in android

How to set footer in android on each page I have used: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:background="@color/mcolor" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_gravity="fill"> <ImageButton ...

Android tablelayout question

Hello. I have the following tablelayout: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <TableLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:stretchColumns="1"> <TableRow> <TextView android:layout_width="fill_...

Inconsistent Handler behavior.

I am using a handler inside my service to display notifications at a certain time using the Handler.postDelayed method. My application runs fine on the emulator just as expected satisfying all cases. But when I installed the same on my HTC Wildfire, it simply doesn't happen as anticipated. Notifications are displayed at a random manner a...

Is there a way to show the scrollbar of ListView all the time??

Hi All, Is there a way to ALWAYS show the vertical scroll bar of the ListView ??? Kindly reply asap ...

How to get latitude/longitude based on entered address in android?

I wanna draw a route on the basis of the entered source & destination address. I need to get lat/log on the basis of address to draw a map in android. So how can i get lat/log on the basis of entered address. Geocoder geoCoder = new Geocoder( getBaseContext(), Locale.getDefault()); try { List<Address> addresses = geoCoder.getFrom...

Does it possible to create two "setOnItemSelectedListeners" on Spinner ?

Hello everyone, I have a problem about onItemSelected method of Spinner. There is no problem if I only have one Spinner. I can set a listener on that. I have a DB stored in sqlite. There is a table in which a column field contains date with year-month-date format. Then I created two Spinner views. One for month, and other for year. My p...

Android Service Distribution

I have developed an android service. Any android app can use it's API's to get some kind of news updates from this service. I want to distribute this service so that any android app on the phone can use this service. My questions here are : When some android application try to use its API on the phone and suppose that service is not av...

How to position the TextView from code?

Hi All, Is it possible to place the TextView in some position which i calculate within my code. I have the x and y position with me (which i get after the calculation) and i just want to place the TextView in that position. How can i implement it? Please Help. Thanks, Sen ...

Scrolling Image View with time Duration in Android

Hi, I am building an application in which the front page of the app should have a animated imageview. There are about 5-6 images and it should be scrolling either from left to right, the direction doesnt matters but it should scroll anyway. I tried searching from the net but i found only bring the pic set relevant to time and they seem...

Android google maps showing greed lines

I have one google maps application it does not show the maps it only shows the lines It does not show the mapview,and i also have the internet Connection And it also genrate the following error 09-30 12:01:12.934: WARN/Resources(587): Converting to string: TypedValue{t=0x12/d=0x0 a=2 r=0x7f050002} 09-30 1...

Android: converting sql data before presenting it in ListView

Hi I'm having my first stumbling steps with android and are trying to modify an existing notepad example from Android dev. I have a database with an existing column named CREATED_DATE (of the note) but the data for that column is presented as System.currentTimeMillis(). This is all good and probably in line with conventions since it's cr...