My application after an update needs to fill its ContentProvider with some data found on the server. I found that starting a service from the ContentProvider.onCreate() method works but I'm not sure if it is a good idea or if it works randomly. I don't know the initialization of an application in android. Are the services always already...
I have a base view in XML. <RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/RelativeLayout01" android:layout_width="fill_parent" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_height="wrap_content"><TextView android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:text="Family" android:id="@+id/Fam...
Hi All I am developing a telephony tests on Android, I passed to work with Eclair. I wish to know how can I work with sim card from code. I write tests that testing a sim card on our platform I has a code that use to work on cap cake and has many errors when transfered to Donut/Eclair. Some apis missing etc. Please help me I would ...
I know how to use handlers to update UI elements such as progress bars toasts etc. The problem I am having is when the context goes away such as the user pressing the back button or the Activity finishing for some reason. This causes my application to crash often. I tried using getApplicationContext() (Thinking that this would be avai...
Anyone have idea of parsing the ical calendar file with ical4j API for android app using eclipse as development environment. I have added ical4j API, to my project, but getting some errors related to API. ...
Hello developers, i just wanna know is it possible to display the Calendar in the month view using the api available. i am searching for while dint find anything to display the calendar in the Month view . kindly help and let me know is this possible using android sdk1.5 or 1.6 or even 2.0. If not what would be the procedure to genera...
I'm trying to generate a notification which vibrates the phone and plays a sound when the screen is off (cpu turned off). According to the Log messages, the notification is being sent, but the phone doesn't vibrate or play the sound until I turn the screen on again. I tried holding a 2 second temporary wakelock (PowerManager.PARTIAL_WAKE...
Running XP sp3 when i click SDK Setup.exe command line promt comes up and goes away fast and nothing else happens is there a fix for this ? ...
I have a GridView, using a custom adapter (myAdapter extends BaseAdapter), where each item in the grid holds an ImageButton. getView() is working fine. However, from elsewhere in my code, how can I update the image (setImageResource) for one particular item in the grid based on its position in the GridView? So far, I've added this to m...
Yes, I can get sensor update events with SensorEventListener. But this approach has 2 drwwbacks: 1) For some sensors I have to wait for the state to update. For example, temperature may update after a minute! 2) In some cases I can get incorrect readings. For example, the phone lies on a flat surface and does not move. I receive first ...
Hello there, i'm creating an activity which needs to upload an image to a webservice using their api. I found that if i use UrlEncodedFormEntity and send the image data through that. the webservice doesn't receive that. ( at least it will not be able to read that .) In fact if i add some vars to send with the image data ( like name of ...
hi guys im having problems with implementing the double tap. Well i implemented the ongestureListener and i had the gesturedetector, but im not sure wheres the problem here is my code: public class home extends TabActivity implements OnGestureListener { /** Called when the activity is first created. */ private EditText queryText;...
How can I change background color of ListView items on a pair-item basis. When I use android:backgroundColor in the ListView item layout I can achieve this, however the list selector is no longer visible. I can make the selector visible again by setting drawSelectorOnTop to true but then the selector overlays the whole item. Any ideas h...
I am trying to create an Android service that causes a specific home screen page to open when the Droid is placed in the Car Dock instead of having it open the Car Home application. I cannot find any reference to how to specify a home screen page other than the center page that always gets displayed when pressing the Home button by using...
I am trying to parse the ical file with ical4j, i have added ical4j jar file to project but have problem in adding iCal4j dependencies in addition to the iCal4j library. As specified in http://wiki.modularity.net.au/ical4j/index.php?title=FAQ Any idea how can I do this? In addition to this, can anyone provide with ical file parse exa...
If I were a translucent activity invoked by an intent and come to the top of activities stack, is there a method to know who is immediately underneath me? get its componentname etc. ...
I have this code: public class Home extends Activity{ @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); //... //at some point I have s.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(new OnSeekBarChangeListener(){ @Override public ...
The project I'm working on requires me to write lots of repetitive code. For example, if I want to load a image file called "logo.png" in my code, I would write something like this: Bitmap logoImage; ... // Init logoImage = load("logo.png") ... // Usage logoImage.draw(0, 0); .. // Cleanup logoImage.release(); Having to write this co...
I'm working on a Java Android game. Games here generally need to use memory pools to avoid garbage collection. For the sake of argument, say I have the following classes: // Enemy in the game class Enemy { int x; int y; abstract void update(); } // Enemy that just bounces around class Roamer extends Enemy { int direction; ... } // Enem...
I'm having some issues with the old "Cannot make a static reference to a non-static method" error in my Android program. I am creating a sand falling game (similar to the Powder Game) and I created a class called Control to create a Control Bar at the bottom of the screen with a slider for brush size (that works fine) and a button to pop...