Hi, I've just started looking at doing some basic mobile web development on the android and an writing a test script to investigate the touch events. I've run the following code in the android emulator, and the touchend event never gets fired. Can anyone tell me why ? I've tried in three versions of the emulator (1.6, 2.1 and 2.2) and...
I have some messages being passed back from my server through php. The problem is that the messages are in English and if the user is using another language they will still get the message in English. So I had an idea that maybe instead of passing back the message I would instead pass the String resource Id from the android app, that w...
How to add icons to the android context menu? ...
Hi all, I need to handle orientation changes in my Android application. For this purpose I decided to use OrientationEventListener convenience class. But his callback method is given somewhat strange behavior. My application starts in the portrait mode and then eventually switches to the lanscape one. I have some custom code executin...
Hi. Can someone please tell me how can I easily display every record from sqllite in ListActivity tab? I'm kinda confused with this. Do I have to create db from my helper class in TabActivity or ListActivity or both? My db helper class is as follow: package tabs.app; import android.content.ContentValues; import android.content.Context;...
1.Is it possible to NOT use Google Maps in Android? 2. Can we use Navteq maps? 3. What will it take to write such an application? 4. Do we have to come up with our own version of MapView? Pointers and links that can answer these questions and help me get started on 4. are welcome. Thanks. ...
What I have done is I have taken the class-files from my eclipse project and run them trough an optimizer/obfuscator. So I now have optimized class-files that I want to get in the form of an apk so I can sign and publish it. However, I am lost on how to do this. I guess I cant just copy them into the bin-folder of my eclipse-project, bec...
I want to remove the phone tab from android contacts application. How can i do this? Also how can i rotate the focus on contacts different tabs means when focus reaches on the last last tab of contact when pressing keyboard it should focus on first tab. ...
Hi Guys, I know this question has been asked in similar forms before, but I found no real answer about the following issue: On my Nexus One there's a widget to toggle on/off several things on my phone like wlan, bluetooth, gps,.. Why does this widget has access to the GPS, without forwarding me to the settings screen? And how can I u...
I have this below code access the ListView item value into string and display it in alert? ListView shot = getListView(); shot.setOnItemClickListener(this); public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2,long arg3) { String S = arg1.getContext().toString(); AlertDialog.Builder alertbox = new AlertDialog.Build...
Hello everyone! I encounter this problem when displaying text on SurfaceView, some chars can climb up on others, code is here: private static void fakeDraw(Canvas c) { Paint mPaint = new Paint(); int color = 0xff000000; mPaint.setColor(color); mPaint.setStrokeWidth(2); mPaint.setStyle(Style.FILL); mPaint.setAnti...
Hi I am new to android. I need to know the needed jar file's to add the calendar event from my application and where to download that ? ...
Hi, I'm currently working on a very simple aplication, and I intended to make it change the visual aspect depending on the screen size. The application just has 6 buttons like this: I'm using the AbsoluteLayout, and changing the x and y of the buttons with the methods offsetLeftAndRight and offsetTopAndBottom. I'm not changing the l...
I want to display external image like: "http://abc.com/image.jpg" in my android phone application. can any one guide me how to achieve this? ...
Hi Guys, i have a following ListActivity: public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); // Get Strings from res/strings.xml String items[] = { getString(R.string.mainMenu_1), getString(R.string.mainMenu_2), getString(R.string.mainMenu_3), getString(R.string.mai...
Hello, i have written an application that needs to process outgoing calls. Everything works fine, the application has already a few hundred downloads, but now i get feedback from people who would like to download it, yet cannot find it. I have done some tests and have found that the permission "PROCESS_OUTGOING_CALLS" seems to be res...
I am trying to create one custom button which is circular and when i click that button i want that button FOCUS and COLOR change and i don't know how to do exactly so any one can help me or show me that code how to do? ...
Is there any way I can load a class based on what version of the OS the phone is running? For example: I made an app which requires 1.6+ Android. Is there a way for me to load one class or the other based on what OS the phone is running? I'm asking this specifically for contacts. The database was changed from 1.6 to 2.0 and the old versi...
On pressing menu button , I have 2 options : Add & more. On click of more i have 3 options : Organize ,Export & Exit On click of Organize i want other 5 options. On click of more i get my submenu. But i want other 5 options on click of organize.How do i proceed??? My code in parts is as follows : XML file-------------------------------...
Hi! I'm trying to control soft keyboard using this: ((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)) .hideSoftInputFromInputMethod(filterText.getWindowToken(), 0); ((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)) .showSoftInput(filterText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICI...