What is considered "best practice" when executing queries on a SQLite db within an Android app? Is it safe to run inserts, deletes and select queries from an AsyncTask's doInBackground ? Or should I use the UI Thread ? I suppose that db queries can be "heavy" and should not use the UI thread as it can lock up the app - resulting in an A...
Suppose I only had the regular J2SE http libraries but wanted to write a client for comet, say in Android etc, but not limited to that, i.e. not using a WebView. Since there's no browser I'm assuming you'd have to open the long term connections yourself ... is this feasible? ...
Hi All, I am writing and publishing my apps on android and would like to provide help document (manual) to users of my apps. I've seen apps open up external web pages as their help, or use html view to open local html documents. Are these the ways we are supposed to deliver manual to our users? ...
I know you can change buttons background by creating a simple XML file, like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" > <item android:state_window_focused="false" android:state_enabled="true" android:drawable="@drawable/button_normal" ...
I have this code to show a dialog with singlechoice(radio) options. AlertDialog ad = new AlertDialog.Builder(this) .setCancelable(false) .setIcon(R.drawable.alert_dialog_icon) .setTitle(R.string.choose_one) .setSingleChoiceItems(seq, pos,null) .setPositiveButton( R.string.ok, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() { public void onClic...
Hi everyone, I am working on an App which let's a user answer sets of questions from a questionnaire. The questionnaire will be created and published on a web-server. The Android client periodically queries the web-server to check if new questionnaires are available. Each item from the questionnaire will be displayed in its own Activit...
I have used all the Standard Network related code for Getting Images of about 45KB to 75KB but all are failing these methods work fine for Files of about 3-5KB size of Images. How can I achieve Downloading Image of 45 - 75KB for displaying them on an ImageView in Android for my Network Operations the Things I have used are final URL ur...
Hi. We're implementing a program for Android phones that plays audio streamed from the internet. Here's approximately what we do: Download a custom encrypted format. Decrypt to get chunks of regular MP3 data. Decode MP3 data to raw PCM data in a memory buffer. Pipe the raw PCM data to an AudioTrack Our target devices so far are Dro...
Specifically I want to change the text and background colors. Is it possible to change the colors of the 'animated progress wheel' too? Can I use a theme to do this? Can anyone point me to an example theme I can look at? ...
I am wondering if Android's ContentResolver supports using SQL functions over the columns when you query a ContentProvider. Such as SQLite3 date functions, to get a specific date format, or datediff? What do you know about this? ...
I have similar question like this one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2079074/update-layout-with-the-animation Basically: I have one vertical LinearLayout View with edittext, button and then list. I'd like to hide exittext after pressing button to make more space for list (button will go up). On second press edittext should be visib...
I'm working with a ListView, trying to get the convertView / referenceHolder optimisation to work properly but it's giving me trouble. (This is the system where you store the R.id.xxx pointers in as a tag for each View to avoid having to call findViewById). I have a ListView populated with simple rows of an ImageView and some text, but t...
Hi, I want to install a Bluetooth Application over my G1 device in linux environment.Please any Body provide me the procedure for this ? Whenever i am installing the application following error was thrown:- adb install /home/parveen/workspace/BluetoothChat/bin/BluetoothChat.apk 337 KB/s (28084 bytes in 0.081s) pkg: /da...
Hi In an android app I am using a tabview for an app and one of the tabs shows a webview. But the page is blank until the web page loads. how would one show a progress bar until the page loads. It cannot be in the title bar because that is hidden by the tabhost ...
Hello Stackoverflow, I'm looking to find out how to stop an activity instead of resuming upon the click of the item on the notification list. Any ideas? Thanks! ...
The thing is this, in Android 1.5 and 1.6 we had the Icon Design Guidelines. In this guide there are specifications for application icons. Every application should conform to this. However, in recent Android versions (2.0 and 2.1) icons have changed from the old to this new flat 2D style. Every icon in Nexus One has this style, so not ev...
Right now I'm using Eclipse for Android development, but my computer is kind of old and I like responsive development environments. I've tried using VIM, Emacs and TextMate but I'm missing every feature in the Eclipse Android plugin: Auto generate R class Check for errors & warnings on code Auto completion Deploy to device or emulator...
Data being pulled from a local DB, then mapped using a cursor. Custom Adapter displays data similar to a ListView. As items are added/deleted from the DB, the adapter is supposed to refresh. The solution attempted below crashes the application at launch. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, -D @Override public View getView(int posi...
One of my apps has an "opening screen" (basically a menu) that has an EditText followed by several Buttons. The problem is that several of my users are reporting that when they open the app it's automatically popping up the on-screen keyboard without them even touching the EditText. As far as I can tell, all of these users are using the ...
Where to get streaming (live) video and audio from camera example for Android? Suppose I want to create some live video streaming service app so I'll have some cool server at the back end. And I know how to do that part. Suppose I have some stand alone app for PCs now I want to go on to mobile devices. So I want to see some sample app g...