android

Start new activity from onClickListener

I have an EditText area that is not showing due to the keyboard covering it when the focus is on the EditText area. What I want to do is use a button to call an activity that will display a editable text area that overlays the main display and returns the value to the main activity which stores it in a separate class variable. I adde...

I-Jetty or Jetty

I have a web application to be hosted on android device. I am currently using the emulator available with android sdk. My application will serve both static as well as dynamic data. I am currently using jetty version 6.1.22. I wanted to ask what will be a better option to be used. 1. Jetty webserver with stripped off code. 2. I-Jetty. M...

Paste text on Android Emulator

Is there anyway to (copy)paste clipboard content to EditView on Android Emulator? (just for the sake for ease to development/test) ...

How to use separate thread to perform http requests

I have an application that is performing HTTP Requests (specifically calling the FogBugz API) when the user clicks certain buttons. Right now, I am just creating a service when the application starts, and then calling different methods in that service to complete requests. However, when I do this, there is the usual hang in the UI thread...

Extending Linenarlayout height.

I have problem in displaying content in Linearlayout,how to extend layout height.when large number layout used for displaying content.. ...

Android DatagramSocket not working correctly

public void Connect() throws Exception { InetAddress dest; dest = InetAddress.getByName("192.168.1.100"); DatagramSocket socket = new DatagramSocket(); socket.connect(new InetSocketAddress(15900)); byte[] message = "Oh Hai!".getBytes(); DatagramPacket packet = new DatagramPacket(message, message.length,dest,15900); socket.send(pac...

Android - To play audio at 1.4 times the normal speed

I need to play mp3 at 1.4 (or other) times the normal speed. How can I do that? Thank you! ...

Database Access in Android

I am creating an android app that is basically a listing of information on Mushrooms. I get this information from an sqlite database. I have a global singleton with a services class inside it in which I use to access my db. Almost every activity accesses the db. Is it better to leave my db open all the time or open and close it as I ...

Making Android game, key input registered weirdly on X10 Mini Pro

Hey, I've just started to learn Android development and ran into a problem. Controls in the game I'm making work on virtual device, but not on phone: I have an Xperia X10 Mini Pro I'm making a basic Pong game to learn droid software development The game works just fine on my Android virtual device, you can move the paddles up and down...

How does an .apk files get signed

This is not a question about how to sign an .apk file. I want to know what does signing actually means and how it is implemented. Inside the .apk file there is META-INF folder and inside that there are two files. First one is CERT.SF contains SHA1 hashes for various components and looks like this: Name: res/layout/main.xml SHA1-Digest...

Android JNI System.loadLibrary not needed?

Hey everyone, I need your help to add some insight into JNI on Android. I've been looking at the /libcore/x-net package in Android and notice that Apache Harmony is the default provider for SSL functionality (using OpenSSL). Everywhere I've found on the internet says that when you use JNI in Android you must load the native code by us...

Android & menu localization

I would like to change language (locale of application) programmatically. The main problem for me is updating menu labels. I tried the following method: @Override public boolean onMenuOpened(int featureId, Menu menu) { if (shouldChangeMenuLabels) { for (int i = 0; i < menu.size(); i++) { MenuItem menuItem = m...

How can I reload an Activity that exists within a TabView?

I have a Tabview with 3 tabs (each having their own activity). I have a tab that parses a RSS feed. How can I refresh this feed via a menu button? I tried doing the following but I lose the tabs above of course. Thanks! Intent UpdateFeedIntent = new Intent(classA.this, classA.class); startActivity(UpdateFeedIntent); finish(); ...

How to populate a ViewFlipper child View with a ListView??

Hi there, I am trying to set up a ViewFlipper that changes a SlidingDrawers content each time a button is pressed. So far every view I set up worked fine, but now I am trying to create a ListView (including single_choice_mode) within a child view of the ViewFlipper, but my attempt only let to a NullPointerException. As I only discovered...

Model for an AppWidgetProvider

I have a widget that shows some data fetched from the Internet. I may have multiple widgets visible on the screen, each displaying some data, partly the same as the other widgets. From time to time I re-fetch the data from the Internet and update the widget views. I've modeled this in an MVC style: I have a model which I can invoke a "...

Thread synchronization Java

Hello, I am working on Android App and unable to synchronize View with Hardware. Let me explain. 1) I mute and unmute microphone of Android based on random values (which are random sleeps) stored in array A, from within run method of Thread 1. 2) I draw blue pulses that reflects the mutes of microphone. This is done by independent Vi...

android set visibility of a button on timer

Hi, I have an app that shows a disclaimer at the beginning of the program. I want a button to remain invisible for a set amount of time, and then become visible. I set up a thread that sleeps for 5 seconds, and then tries to make the button visible. However ,I get this error when I execute my code: 08-02 21:34:07.868: ERROR/AndroidRunti...

Reading android MANIFEST.MF file

Is there a way to read META-INF\MANIFEST.MF file of the currently running application using Android API? I want to read SHA1 for classes.dex file and use it as an encrpytion key to one of my assets. I cannot use the signature for .apk file because everytime I create a new apk I need to re-encrpyte my asset and put in to apk file which...

How to change the positioning of a progress dialog?

I'm developing an android app and need to know how to change the positioning of a progress dialog. I need it to be positioned at the bottom of the screen instead of at the center like it is by default. ...

Custom View not appearing

Here is the XML for the layout in which I want my custom view to appear. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/widget273" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:rs="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.boo...