android

Android - Lifecycle and saving an Instance State questions

So within my application is a form for creating a new user, with relevant details and information about the user. There's no problems there, it's just what happens when the user leaves the activity without pressing the confirm button. Here's what I want to do: If the user presses the back button, attempt to save all the data to the d...

Android SDK on Mac OSX - where to install?

This question was asked by Prembo back in February, but nobody answered. Maybe now someone has a recommendation? Thanks. ...

Cannot run Android application on emulator/device - activity doesn't exist?

When trying to run my application on the emulator I get an error from the activitymanager: ActivityManager: Error type 3 My activity exists, is listed in the manifest (in fact, its the MAIN launcher activity). Anyone know what this error means? ...

How to get debugging statements for Android in Eclipse

I've read the lame documentation, and checked other answers. I'd like my Android app to print some debug statements in the logcat window of Eclispe. If I use the isLoggable method on the various types of debug levels on the Log class, I find that WARN and INFO are returning true. Log.w, and Log.i do not produce any output. Does anyon...

Android - iphone style tabhost

Is it possible to style the Android Tabhost to look like that of the iPhone? If not, is there any open source code that can show how to create Bottom Tabs for Andoid ? ...

Android : How change focus on form with out user action ?

Hello, I've a form with 2 fields, after First login, i store the Mail in SharedPreferences and i restore when user start app again, But how to set focus on Pass Field ? it's not very nice to see that mail is fill but focus is still on mail field. Thanks <EditText android:id="@+id/Email" android:text="" android:layout_width="fill_p...

Problem with Android Layout

I'm having a very hard time getting the 2 buttons in the 2nd child linearlayout to display as I want them to... I want them centered, on the same row but they appear left-aligned and on the same row. Can anyone help me with this? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/andro...

Android lifecycle problem

Hi, I have an SMS broadcast receiver in my application with a static boolean value to make the receiver active or not. public class SmsListener extends BroadcastReceiver { public static boolean activated = false; @Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) if (activated){ //...

Are Large iPhone Ping Times Indicative of Application Latency?

I am contemplating creating a realtime app where an iPod Touch/iPhone/iPad talks to a server-side component (which produces MIDI, and sends it onward within the host). When I ping my iPod Touch on Wifi I get huge latency (and a enormous variance, too): 64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=38.616 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.3...

AutoCompleteTextView onItemClick item position or id using HashMap

Hello, I am new to Android development and I ran into a problem which I find difficult to solve. I am trying to figure out how to use an AutoCompleteTextView widget properly. I want to create a AutoCompleteTextView, using XML data from a web service. I managed to get it to work, but I am defenitely not pleased with the output. I woul...

Returning a variable in a public void...

Hello, I'm abit new to programming Android App's, however I have come across a problem, I can't find a way to make global variables -unlike other coding like php or VB.NET, are global variables possible? If not can someone find a way (and if possible implement the way into the code I will provide below) to get a value from the variable '...

setResult does not work when BACK button pressed.

I am trying to setResult after the BACK button was pressed. I call in onDestroy Intent data = new Intent(); setResult(RESULT_OK, data) But when it comes to onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) the resultCode is 0 (RESULT_CANCELED) and data is 'null'. So, how can I pass result from activity terminated by...

Android multi-touch support

Hi, I wonder if is the Android multi-touch support reliable? I've read it suffers from some problems. I also wonder, how can I define custom multi-touch gestures? Like: 3 fingers rotate or 3 fingers stay static and fourth is moving. I've come across some resources (Gestures or MotionEvent on developer.android.com) but nothing states it...

gravity="fill_vertical" vs. layout_height="fill_parent" in Android

Why does gravity offer a "fill_vertical" option? How is this any different from setting layout_height "fill_parent"? What if I choose a fixed layout_height and "fill_vertical" for gravity? Won't this contradict? ...

What characters allowed in file names on Android?

What special characters are allowed for file names on Android? ~!@#$%^&*()_+/\., Also, can I save file with Unicode name? ...

Possible to programmatically open a Spinner in Android app?

If you have a handle to a Spinner object in an Android activity, can you programmatically pop open the spinner options - thereby forcing the user to choose an option even though they did not click on the spinner themselves? ...

Focusable EditText inside ListView

I've spent about 6 hours on this so far, and been hitting nothing but roadblocks. The general premise is that there is some row in a ListView (whether it's generated by the adapter, or added as a header view) that contains an EditText widget and a Button. All I want to do is be able to use the jogball/arrows, to navigate the selector t...

Displaying music list

Hi, I am trying to display the music list that is retrieved from the website. I have posted a question here... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2672478/problem-in-displaying-list-using-array-adapters. I have also been answered. Thanks to Mr. Janusz... Since i m poor in english i couldnt understand way to do it. So, it will be helpfu...

aapt not found when building new Android app in NetBeans

I just installed NetBeans and the Android SDK following the instructions here. I am running Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). NetBeans is 6.7.1. The Android SDK is version 7. When I try to compile a new project it gives me the following error: Execute failed: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/home/oz/android-sdk/platforms/android-7/tools/a...

Long key press handling in android 1.5

Hi, I want to handle key press and long key press for the key code KEYCODE_BACK(back button). can any one suggest me how to do this in android 1.5(API level 3). Here is the code. public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) { if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) { if(event.getRepeatCount()==0) { ...