I am working on an application to sync contacts which are large in number. The syncing takes place in a background thread with user being able to browse through the rest of the application. I am displaying the sync status in the notification bar suing the progress bar. The problem I am facing is that there are instances when the activi...
I want to do some calculating after touch-Event on my widget. Is there a possibility to do this without starting an activity? My problem is that i have to register an onClickPendingIntent to the touch-action.... There is an annoying visual response with my solution: screen flashes to black and reappears to homescreen. this is in the wi...
Total noob here. Just installed eclipse and SDK. I was instructed to "To update your PATH variable to include the Android tools directory, right-click Computer and choose Properties. In Vista, you also need to click Advanced System Settings. You continue by clicking the Advanced tab of the System Properties dialog and clicking the Envir...
I have an app which contains 4 activities. The splash activity/screen is the first. It either connects to a service and starts activity 2 or times out after 8 seconds and starts activity 3. When launching the app in debug from the emulator, it does start the splash activity OK but it's not forced to the front - the Home screen is still ...
i am new to android. i want sample program how to use intent ...
EDIT 2: I did solve my problem, but i don't know how:S I was moving my code snippets a bit around, a suddenly it worked. Must have done something in the wrong order, but its weird, checked it many times. Thanks for you help, and sorry I can't post an answer ;) Hi. I have a list view which I'm trying to refresh to update it self when i...
Hi. I have an application that runs only once. But after finishing (finish()), it remains in the history of applications (last opened) and can be opened again. (Long press on the Home button). How do I remove my application from this history? I ask because everything I found, it's a flag in the manifest - 'noHistory'. But it works with ...
Hi, i am working on making bluetooth application which makes use of bluetooth api. i am able to do it for version 2.0 or above but many newer Api of 2.0 are not supported in 1.6 So any help on what could be the solution. BluetoothAdapter is available in 2.0 bt not 1.6 , so any alternate way of implementing it? same with Bluetoothdevi...
I keep getting this when trying to start a new project ERROR: Unable to open class file C:\Users\Levi\Desktop\Android\workspace\Droid1\gen\com\androidbook\droid1\R.java: No such file or directory I tried changing preferences to alter build path to project, but it still wouldnt work,,, Is subfolder on desktop a bad place to install Ec...
Hi, i am trying to display 10 images from SqliteDatabase in a ListView. but i am not getting the output. please help me. sory for my english. Thanks in advance. ...
Hello guys, can anybody help me about how to change the contents of spinner on run time in android. any help will be appreciative. thanks a lot ...
Hello I'm creating an own Phone.apk on the InCallScreen.java file, i need to now how to access the actual Dialing Number (the Number that will be on the call)...any ideas? ...
What is the layout inflater used for in an Android application? ...
Hai, I have latitude and longitude of two places. Can i calculate the distance between them in android.? Regards Aneesh ...
Hai all ... If any free synchronization tool available for sync android local db with mysql or sqlserver? Plz help me to find this.. ...
hi, I have built the android source code, and i am trying to launch the emulator using the command: emulator -kernel <path>/kernel/common/arch/arm/boot/zImage The emulator start up but hangs after a while showing a blank screen. I tried to analyse the logcat, it is telling: setreuid() failed. errno: 2, and then telling: I/Zygote ( ...
Hi, i would get outgoing call duration a call, I thought to get when the persone to the other side answer my call, but with PhoneStateListener we can get the state of a call, but PhoneStateListener changes state to CALL_STATE_OFFHOOK immediately when the outgoing call starts and not when the person to other side answers, so i can't get t...
There is no error in Web service But there is an error Error:org.ksoap2.Soapfault=null pls help ...
Hello In my android application i would like to give a facility to the user such that if the user long press on a word then a page will be opened wherein the user can type something and save,which will be later reflected when the user again browse through that page. I know that i can save it in a file.But the user can click on how many ...
If I draw a round rect shape by code I can use setShadowLayer to get a shadow drawn for the shape. Is there an equivalent when defining shapes in XML? The following example draws a round rect background to a shape. What would I need to add to get a shadow added to the shape? Is it even possible using XML? shape_test.xml <?xml version=...