Clear apps from Android Market dashboard
A few of my apps were pulled by Google, and a few I unpublished myself, but my Android Market dashboard still has all these apps listed. Is there any way to remove them? ...
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Android LinearLayout with color resource: What am I doing wrong?
I followed this tutorial to create a color state list for a particular Android view. I just want it to highlight when clicked so the user knows why the screen just changed. When the view is rendered, I get the following error: org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: Binary XML file line #3: tag requires a 'drawable' attribute or child...
How to communicate back to a service from a broadcast receiver?
Hope someone can help me out here. I will try to be concise! I have a widget which starts a service. The service registers two broadcast receivers. I would like to send back intents from the receivers to the service, so that the service can react. I believe I read somewhere that 'starting' the service multiple times works, e.g. do th...
Usage of RequestFocus for EditText
What is the extra code that needs to be placed in order get back control back to setFocussed widget.I will be waiting for valuable reply. ...
What is blackberry's equivalent to Androids Looper?
Android has Looper, and iPhone has Run Loops. It seems like Blackberry would have a similar backed in facility to queue and run threads. Does anyone know if there is? ...
UpdateHandler, do a thing only when trigger is true, Android
Hi, I have a handler that receives a message on every location update, every 5 secs. From the location I can request the current city the user is moving in. Then I want to download some data once and only when city changes. How can I realize that? Handler myViewUpdateHandler = new Handler(){ public void handleMessage(Message msg) ...
Android Softkeyboard not showing up when form field is focused via JS.
So I'm using the jQuery plugin, RSV(real simple validation) because the client would like to use alert boxes as opposed to inline alerts for the form validation. This site is for mobile browsers. The problem I'm running into is that when there's an error, an alert dialogue comes up to tell the user about their offense. When the alert is ...
Updating images dynamically from URL with Android
So I have this program that grabs the RSS feed at http://www.muttville.org/mutts/feed and displays a list of the available dogs, basically filling out each item in a ListView with an image of the dog on the left, and the headline about the dog on the right. My application executes and grabs and parses the XML feed fine. onCreate, it sto...
Android API Level 8 App Install Location Feature
Does this feature allow you to upload an APK larger than 25MB? For example a 32MB apk? ...
auto-scrolling TextView in android to bring text into view
I have a TextView that I'm dynamically adding text to. in my main.xml file I have the properties set to make my max lines 19 and scrollbars vertical. in the .java file I am using textview.setMovementMethod(new ScrollingMovementMethod()); to allow for scrolling. The scrolling works great. As soon as 19 lines are taken up, and more lin...
Android API Version programmatically
Hi, I am trying to retrieve the current API Version of the device my Application is Running. Is there a way i can get that and Store it on a String. This needs to Work on 1.5 Version and Up. Examples would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. ...
Create a simple, simple, Game Engine
Hello! I'm on my way with my first game, all design and that stuff are done, just coding left. I have successfully watched tutorials around the world wide web with information about Graphics and how to create a successfully thread-synchronization within it. Like now I have a SurfaceView-class and a Thread-class. The thread-class have t...
Read data about an application from the android market
I've noticed lately that some app recommender programs seem to get data off the android market. I'm wondering how I could retrieve information, such as screen shots, description, developer, number of downloads, rating, etc... I've done many searches and I haven't found any solutions. It would be nice to be able to use that info to be ...
My widget drains battery on some phones
Hi, I have a widget that appears to drain the battery on some of my users phones but it works fine on my Nexus One (Froyo). Phones that has reported battery drain are HTC Legend, SE X10 and SE X10 mini. Anyone know if there is any known issues or something? // Johan ...
TextViews become single-line instead of multi-line when populated in a thread.
I have an Activity that retrieves information from a url. I have 2 textviews which are multi-line (txtTitle & txtContent). If I populate them without using thread, it displays as multi-line. However, when I use a thread, the text views become single-line. Is there anything I'm missing? Is the UI not completely ready when I tried putting...
What is the default drawable for pressing a list item
When the user presses a ListView item (android:state_pressed="true") it flashes a shade of yellow (or you can press and hold). What drawable is this? I've created my own selector because I want my own ListView item color , but I lose the pressed color. There's an Android doc about skinning buttons that references #ffff0000, but this p...
Light theme for AlertDialog?
Hi, I'm creating an AlertDialog. I'm using setView() to set a custom view. This enables the 'dark' theme on the dialog (grey background, and need white text). Is there a way to set the dialog to use the 'light' theme? It looks nicer (white background, dark text). Thanks ...
Android Bluetooth: IsConnected?
Is there a way to figure out if you are connected to a Bluetooth Device? I have my app connecting, sending/receiving just fine. However I need a way to see if I'm still connected say.. if I walk out of range and walk back into range. I noticed there isnt an isConnected function in the Bluetooth Socket, like there is in the TCP stuff....
Android Dialog - confused
I've been trying to get a handle on Dialogs. I read the android dev site info and a dozen bolg's. It seems there are several ways of doing it and I'm able to at least get a dialog with 3 buttons (not using a custom dialog with custom layout). If I set up the positive/negative/neutral actions with something like finish(), cancel() etc,...
How do I permit the android browser to download files of a particular extension?
I want to have the default android browser be able to download files of a particular file extension, .xyz, for example. Without installing Astro (or some other file manager), users will get the error "Cannot download. The content is not supported on this phone". Installing the Astro application allows the android browser to download any...