Is there a particular flag that we can use to prevent apps showing up in marketplace which require the phone to have a camera flash /LED? Typical apps are ones which make the phone act like a torchlight in dark. I have seen a tag which prevents apps requiring autofocus in a camera from appearing in the marketplace. Just looking to ...
I have a CheckedTextView which allows the user to check multiple items. I want the user to only select up to 10 items and then prevent them from checking any more items once 10 has been reached. The problem is that im not able to uncheck the 11th item once its been selected. Ive tried TextView.setChecked(false) but nothing seems to happe...
Hello, I would like to program an application for Android that when installed would add an item to the context menu that pops up when you long-press on a call record in the call log tab in the built-in contacts program. Is this possible? If so, any links that could point me in the right direction for the required code to add my option ...
My open-source Android application uses this in an SQL query: String.format("%f", someDoubleValue); Unfortunately, in some languages the coma is "," instead of "." and the SQL engine does not like it. What is the best way to convert a double to a SQL-friendly string on Android? ...
The views are not cached in a ViewFlipper. Is there a way wherein we can get an image of the view and show it to user so that he sees the Ui as we see on Home scrren(when we swipe the previous view also moves along and when we lift our finger, only then the next view is shown completely.) What I want to do is that when the user starts m...
I have developed a GPS application in java.But the gps get inactive after some hour and the symbol of GPS is not shown on the screen.Now the lat long which my application fetched is old. I have to run my app and gps enabled until application is not closed explicitly. How i can do this??? Is anyone has an idea about this... Please help ....
I am trying to draw an animation. To do so I have extended View and overridden the onDraw() method. What I would expect is that each time onDraw() is called the canvas would be in the state that I left it in and I could choose to clear it or just draw over parts of it (This is how it worked when I used a SurfaceView) but each time the ...
I'm working on an application that needs to get the source of a web page from a link, and then parse the html from that page. Could you give me some examples, or starting points where to look to start writing such an app? ...
I'm trying to find the standard Android image used in Android 1.6 for an SMS action. The one that can be seen under contact details that looks like a postcard. I noticed that there was a standard image "sys_action_sms" which looked like a chat bubble in Android 1.0, but apparently that was removed at some point. ...
I want to send video files from the Android via network to server. How can I serialize video files in Android? ...
I have a TableLayout which is in a ScrollView, so I get vertical scroll. But when the columns exceed the screen with, I want the horizontal scroll also. How can I do this? Please help. Thanks, Farha ...
Which permission needs my application to get access to the location of the user on Android? ...
In my Android app, I have a LinearLayout View that contains other views. The LinearLayout is clickable, but when it is clicked, it does not flash orange like it should. How can I get it to flash? ...
I try to send gps longitude and latitude to the android emulator with eclipse, but the values seem to never be set. Instead the onStatusChanged method of my listener is called. Edit I send those values through the emulator controls in the ddms view in eclipse. If I send data via telnet I get the correct data shown and the onLocationChan...
I have Activity A with android:launchMode="singleTop" in the manifest. If I go to Activity B, C and D there I have menu shortcuts to return to my applications root activity (A). The code looks like this: Intent myIntent = new Intent(getBaseContext(), MainActivity.class); startActivity(myIntent); However, instead of returning to the...
I want to run automated tests with location on the android emulator. I can setup coordinates via Telnet, but that means starting up a console and manually configuring the emulator before running my junit tests. Is there a possibility to preconfigure the emulator with a KML file or something like that to ensure that there are always co...
Is it possible to activate the network location provider on the android emulator? Maybe with a fake cellid? ...
I tried to construct SlidingDrawer widget programmatically, but had no luck. The JavaDoc says the constructor needs "AttributeSet attrs" parameter, which is "a specified set of attributes defined in XML". I provided my own implementation of AttributeSet interface, with all the attributes mentioned in JavaDoc, but got a weird ClassCastEx...
I am porting a Python application to Android and, at some point, this application has to communicate with a Web Service, sending it compressed data. In order to do that it uses the next method: def stuff(self, data): "Convert into UTF-8 and compress." return zlib.compress(simplejson.dumps(data)) I am using the next method to ...
Hi Any one please help me to solve my camera preview issue. am using a nexus one am setting the camera parameters to 640,480. but its showing force close error my code is as follows public class CameraPreview extends Activity { private Preview mPreview; public static ProgressDialog pdDetail; @Override protected void...