android

OverlayItem hold more than title + snippet

Hey guys, I'm looking for a way to make Overlayitem hold more than just a title and snippet, e.g a link to a picture, a music file playing.. something like that. is this possible? ...

Android: how can i tell if the soft keyboard is showing or not?

Heres the dilemma: I am showing a screen with 3 input fields and 2 buttons inside of a tab(there are 3 tabs total, and they are on the bottom of the screen). the 2 buttons are set to the bottom left and right of the screen, right above the tabs. when i click on an input field, the tabs and buttons are all pushed up on top of the keyboa...

Avoiding duplicate resources in android project

I have some images in my drawable folder and they have landscape versions in drawable-land. However I want some of the landscape images to be shared, as it seems a waste to duplicate the file with a different name. Is it possible to make a sym link (shortcut) or something for one of the duplicated files to prevent wasting space Folder e...

pulling "Create" strings from SQLite3 databases

Is there a simple way to get the CREATE string from each of your tables in Android instead of redefining them in onCreate override. I am annoyed enough to just parse the whole thing for each table, but I am hoping there is an easier way I have not found yet. ...

Android VideoView Landscape Orientation Problem

I am pretty new to Android and mobile development in general. I am creating an Android application that plays a video using VideoView after a button is selected. The problem is when you rotate the phone the video restarts. I know its because the activity is destroyed and recreated when it is rotated. So I just locked the video player in ...

Can't install APK hosted my own apache server

I've exported an apk from eclipse. I am able to install it without any problem if I copy it to the phone's sd card. When trying to download via phone's (Galaxy S) browser I get: "Download unsuccessful". I have set mime type application/vnd.android.package-archive in the mime.types, restarted apache, still same result. Also tried : <a ...

How to Create Foooter ?

Hai All, Can Any One Help me to create Footer in Grid View For Android. Thanks in Advance, Tilsan ...

ActivityManager: Warning: Activity not started, its current task has been brought to the front

package supa.mack.doppler; import java.util.Set; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Intent; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.View; import android.widget.Button; import android.widget.TextView; import android.bluetooth.*; import android.widget.Toast; public class doppler_test extends Activity { TextView o...

Android's memory leak because of HttpClient

Hi there, sorry for my English. I'm developing an Android application, consisting in various activities and a service which is activated by "main" activity. The service checks every 3 seconds (this interval is arbitrary) about active network connections into mobile phone. If there's a connection to a PC inside my local network, I then m...

customize check box preference

Hello all, I am unable to customize my checkbox , although I have defined the background in the xml preference file, it doesn't pull the file. 1. I am trying to display custom images for checkbox and have defined the selector xml as "android_button.xml" which looks like : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <selector xmlns:andro...

Reusable component: toolbar like in astro app for Android

I really like the toolbar in Astro app for Android and I was wondering: Do you know if it is reusable component, is it open source, if yes - where to find it; if not - can you provide a link to similar open source component. ...

How to add text or button in gridview end in android

Hi friends i am using grid view for display images,so i want to add text or button ie "Next Images" gridview end,its like footer of grid view,anybody knows please give answer to me... Thanks all ...

using two or more activty on Android: code below, dont know whats the problem

package and.views; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Intent; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.Menu; import android.view.MenuItem; public class androidView extends Activity { /** Called when the activity is first created. */ @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { s...

How to properly license a Widget as opposed to an application?

Hello, I've been reading through the Android documentation for implementing application licensing. Seems somewhat straight forward but it looks as though the example code is tailored for a full fledged android application and not a widget. Is there an alternate way to implement application licensing for a widget app? Thanks. Brian www...

Android application lifecycle issue. Finish() is not stopping the activity.

Here's an explanation of what I am doing in my application and what the output from adb shell dumpsys activity is. I am starting at the FriendsActivity. Pressed the logout button, list of saved accounts now showing. Called using: Intent i = new Intent("com.company.app.common.ACCOUNTS"); ... put extras ... startActivityForResult(i, 2); ...

What does the parameter to Paint.setTextSize() represent?

I'm trying to write a resolution independent Android game. I have some text I want to render onto the canvas and use Paint.setTextSize(...) to set the size of the text. What does the parameter represent? The height of the letters in pixels? I'm not sure how to set this parameter based on the density or size of the screen either. I gener...

How To search for an address with MapView?

Hi, I am creating an app where i need to use map view and allow users to search for an address. However I do not need the full Maps app functionality. how can I perform a search like in The maps app ( where it auto completes the address) in my own MapVeiw? ...

unlisted android process

Is there a way to craft a daemon process as to make it "unlistable" to a process viewer? OR is there a way to dynamically change a process name? I'd like to design a security application without having to modify the firmware, if possible (yes I know about "security through obscurity"...). ...

Confused about how to approach a registration and polling of messages with Android

Dear stackies, what I need to do is auto-register device if not already done and then start polling messages with the credentials I received through this registration. Now, after I read quite a bit about services, threads, asynctasks and the AlarmManager I'm totally confused about how to handle this. :-s So, there are my two main task...

Android Services and Activities.

Hi, I have some questions about the Android service and activity lifecycles. Hope you guys can help me out. I have written an application that uses GPS location and stores them. It must monitor the GPS location updates constantly to work properly. Right now, it's all in one activity. So when you close the activity, you loose everything...