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android cts test information

i want to know details of cts test of android. ...

Lazy Load images on Listview in android(Beginner Level)?

Hi all, I am working on the listview with the custom adapter. I want to load the images and text view on it. The images are load from the internet urls. I just want to show the images which are visible list item to hte user. I refered the Shelves opensource project example from romainguy, but its to complicated to understand the code. ...

Section Indexer Overlay is not updating as the adapter's data changes

Hi All, I have implemented Section Indexer for an Adapter class which extends BaseAdapter. Now for the first launch Section Indexer is showing an overlay correctly. But when the contents of the list gets updated the Section Overlay does not get updated and gives ArrayOutOfBoundException. For one fix what i did is i made listview.setFast...

What options I have to show a sentence parts with different color?

I have a longer sentence >200 characters. I need to show on the screen having parts of them in different color, like highlighting search results, each with different color. The text should auto wrap with screen width, and have no break sections between parts. I meant with this that I can put sections on a new line. They will have to cont...

how to create startup application in android?

I am new to android. I need to create an auto startup application. That application will control the files( if we open a image file from Gallery (or) mail attachments, on that time our application give a alert dialog to the user). Please guide to how to create an auto startup application to control all the file format in the android emul...

How do I revert from FRF50 back to ERE27?

I got all excited with the leaked froyo update.zip that hit the net a few days ago, and installed it on my phone. Since then I've had many issues, the big one being ADB not discovering my phone. I'd like to revert my phone back, but can't find a signed update.zip on the nets that will do it. Does anyone know how I can revert my N1 fro...

How can i Preview my Photo taken from the camera?

i have Activated the android camera taken photo , but how do i preview the image in image View? i have used the below code..... public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) { if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK && requestCode == 0) { Uri uri = data.getData(); ImageView image = new ...

Incremental Timer

I'm currently using a Timer and TimerTask to perform some work every 30 seconds. My problem is that after each time I do this work I want to increment the interval time of the Timer. So for example it starts off with 30 seconds between the timer firing but I want to add 10 seconds to the interval then so that the next time the Timer ta...

Custom Buttons in Android: How to get border/edge/frame when I read the background from xml?

Hi, Using Android Shapes in xml I have defined a gradient which I use as the background for a button. This all works nice, but there's no edge surrounding the button. I would like it to look similar to the normal Android button but I need more flexibility to control the color and look. The shape is defined as follows: <?xml version="1...

Getting specific values with regex

I need to knowingly isolate each row of the vCard and get its value. For instance, I want to get "5555" from X-CUSTOMFIELD. So far, my thoughts are: "X-CUSTOMFIELD;\\d+" I have been looking at some tutorials and I am a little confused with what function to use? What would my regex above return? Would it give me the whole line or ju...

Masked Input Using EditText Widget in Android

Is there a way I can specify an input mask to the EditText control in Android? I want be able to specify something like ### - ## - #### for a Social Security Number. This will cause any invalid input to be rejected automatically (example, I type alphabetical characters instead of numeric digits). I realize that I can add an OnKeyListen...

Android SeekBar thumb gets clipped/cut off

Re-worded question: When using a custom thumb drawable with a SeekBar view, the thumb drawable is clipped at the left and right edges of the view. hi created a custom music player.But when i play the song the player head appears cut off at both sides.I haven't written any code to modify its default positon.Have no idea how to do. http:...

How to view the available text file in the sdcard in android ?

I have an image and text files in the (SDCard) android emulator. Emulator shows the image files in the gallery. How and where can we view the available text file in the android emulator? ...

Android 2.2 AVD: no Quick Search Box?

I have recently updated my Android SDK to include support for Android 2.2 (API level 8). The app that I'm building integrates with the Quick Search Box (QSB) home screen widget, which I can't seem to find in this version (using both vanilla 2.2 and the Google APIs version). I was kind of excited when they announced that they have improve...

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError while running JUnit test in Netbeans

I am building an Android hello world application in Netbeans. It's building properly and I am able to run in the emulator also. But when creating and running the Junit test I get a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError. How can I fix this problem? ...

Reading Images only from Camera

I wanted to read images only from the Camera folder of the device. Since the folder might be different for different devices, how can I write a simple application for it). So far I have written the following code, which does read from Camera folder, but it also reads from other places on sdcard as well. Cursor childCursor = managedQuery...

Regarding IllegalStateExceptions, MediaPlayer, failed prepares and State codes

Hi, I have been struggling quite a lot with our beloved MediaPlayer class... Specifically I want to simply play sounds from some Files... I am getting two specific types of errors actually, and not continuesly but it seems like random... Sometimes 10 files are played rigth away with no errors, then the MediPlayer seems to stop accepting...

Web scraping advice/help with java for android app!

Hey there, I've heard about web scraping software that can take data from a webpage. i'm building an android app and I want to take information from this site www.menupages.ie All I need is the names of the restaurants, and typing them in myself would be very tedious. Can someone tell me how i'd go about doing this in eclipse, what m...

Remove focus from the current activity

Hi, How would i remove the focus from an activity which has just being installed/started, so the user's focus will remine on the previouse one? (while the new activity remine in the stack and will work in the background) the prob is that when i start this new background activity, until i wont press back or home, the ui is stuck. an...

Error running helloworldtest from the tutorial

I'm getting the following error whenever I try to run a test. I have also tried to load some of the samples and test them, but I get the same error. This is generated following the tutorials found here Thanks for any help java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resolve activity for: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN flg=0x1000000...