I'm working through the 'notepad' tutorial given in the developer's guide: http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/notepad/index.html For some reason, even when i'm using their solution files, the context menu does not come up with i 'click and hold' on a list entry. The class extends ListActivity, and calls "registerForContextMen...
I am creating lists in my android app and would like to capture the text of the list item that is clicked but I want to do it in a seperate function so I only have to write the code once. And I want to be able to compare the string to another sting. What is the best way to do this? ...
Hello all, First of all I'm a newbie when it comes to Android programming. So if this question is totally stupid please delete it ASAP :-). Question: I'm going to draw a grid of 10x10 PNG images. Each image is 32x32 px. All of the images are unique. I'm thinking that the easiest way seems to be to put each image in an ImageView. If...
I have a layout problem which I can't fix. I've looked through many posts on here, and mine seems to be unique enough to post a question. I've created a custom Dialog which programmatically creates a 3 row table. The top and bottom rows have text, while the middle row contains a ScrollView, which contains a LinearLayout. That LinearLayo...
What is the best way to implement action bar like twitter sample UI Pattern. Twitter for Android: A closer look at Android’s evolving UI patterns Pattern 4: Action Bar http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/twitter-for-android-closer-look-at.html ...
i am developing an application for android and would like for my users to be able to post some information from my application to their twitter feed. i know how to make this work by building a VIEW intent and forwarding the user to the android built-in web browser (thanks to stack overflow!) However, now that there is an official Twitter...
Hi, I am new to Android and have been working on an app that needs to get all of the user's contact's phone numbers. Apparently the code I have does not work with the 2.1 SDK. So far here is the code I am using: String[] projection = new String[] { Phone.NUMBER }; Cursor c = managedQuery( Phone.CONTENT_URI, projection, null, null, n...
Hello, for an application I need to place some objects at the exact position that I want to have them and therefore I need to use AbsoluteLayout this time. I want to add buttons dynamically exactly like in the following XML - but during runtime. <AbsoluteLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:lay...
I am trying to display all the images stored in SD card in a Gallery View. I have tried using the content provider (android.provider.MediaStore.images.Media class), but seem to be getting stuck at a point. Not sure if this is the way to go about it. Here is my code so far: String[] colsNeeded = new String[]{Media._ID, Media....
I've been trying to create an android-application the last couple of weeks, and mostly everything has worked out great, but there is one thing that I was wondering about, and that is pluginability trough the use of intents. What I'm trying to create is basically a comic-reader. As of the version I use now, I open the application and get...
I am trying to load a webpage into a sample webview that I created: public class HelloWebview extends Activity { /** Called when the activity is first created. */ @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); WebView web...
When I record videos in low-light conditions on my Motorola Droid results are poor... very dark images. On my old phone, an LG Dare, recording in low light works better thanks to a brightness adjustment in the video recorder which can be set manually... Android does not have a similar brightness adjustment when recording video. Does anyo...
Hi guys, im developing an Android application for twitter that will sync data coming from the people you follow. The problem is that: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/friends.json provides me the last 100 persons ive followed and i wanted to display only 20 for each 'page'. I believe that the 'cursor' parameter doesnt do what i nee...
I know how to get the API level, android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT, but there are also several revisions of each level release, e.g. for 2.1 there's rev 1 and 2. How do I determine the revision of a build? The reason i'd like to know this is that I have a workaround for a bug in Android 2.1 (and 2.2), and this workaround will break the m...
My logcat window in Eclipse only displays the first few lines of the StackTrace for each exception. This means that I often can't see where an exception occured. Is there any way to change this setting? ...
NOTE: Must work on Android 1.5 - ContactsContract does not Simple enough question. I need to know the best way to get the same list of contacts that show up when a user presses the Contacts button. You would think something like this would work: //For Contacts Intent pickIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, People.CONTENT_URI); th...
My Android app has a couple input-lines made to receive numbers, it's a calc app. I just updated my Nexus One to Android 2.2 and now my apps input-lines don't respond like the way they should. When I touch the input-line, the Android keyboard used to pop-up just enough to kind of 'lift' the input-line above the keyboard - into the user...
How to open a text file in android.I am using android 1.5 emulator and eclipse ide.I try to push files to the device emulator.In Eclipse ide android file explorer has the text file and image files in the sdcard.In the Emulator Image files are in the Gallery.How can i see the text file in the android emulator. ...
hi, i am a beginner with Android. I want to learn more about this new revolution. Kindly help me with links that will help me learn creating applications for Android. Please share if you have some simple source-code sites with you. Also show me a forum having high activity with Android users... thank you ! ...
I have downloaded the android source code (1.5 Gb and appx. 5 Gb after extracting).My intention is to compile this. 1) Do i need a toolchain for arm ..if yes which one will be suitable. 2) to run simulator and to be able to debug on workstation do i need to have any specific PC -linux toolchain . ...