I'm currently in the research phase of my dissertation project. My project is a ticket booking system for a mobile device and I have chosen to target Android. I anticipate the need for a client/server architecture with a central server, and so am currently looking at how Android could communicate with such a server. The server would gr...
I'm trying to port an app from Eclipse to IntelliJ. The app builds fine but it fails to run properly. Here's a partial stack trace I receive: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(957): java.io.IOException: Resource not found: "org/joda/time/tz/data/ZoneInfoMap" ClassLoader: dalvik.system.PathClassLoader@43761190 at org.joda.time....
I'm specifically interested in how portable it is between various phones. We have an application with some computation heavy code we'd like to share between Android and iPhone. If we could write it in C, we'd have a single code-base, but if the NDK only supports a subset of the processors that phone manufacturers are creating, or if we h...
I have a res/layout/main.xml including these elements and others: <some.package.MyCustomView android:id="@+id/foo" (some other params) /> <TextView android:id="@+id/boring" (some other params) /> In my Activity's onCreate, I do this: setContentView(R.layout.main); (TextView) boring = findViewById(R.id.boring); // ...find other elemen...
Is there any API that will give me those 6 neighborhood cell ids on Android, or shall I try to send AT commands to the Android modem. If someone could explain that to me I would be very grateful. ...
This is a question I've now had for a few different apps I've built, and I have yet to be satisified with any of the solutions I've come up with. I thought I'd put it out there to the community to see other solutions there might be. Let's say you have an Activity that downloads a complex tree of data (in this case via json, but it coul...
I'm not sure which is these is appropriate for my current application. I need to switch wallpaper on a given, but user changeable, interval. I've been using a BroadcastReceiver to check every minute, but then I saw this question. Is there any particular advantage to one method over another? Right now I've got to keep a service aliv...
Ive looked into the APIDemos and they have an example of the gallery where they show just text, the code however just uses a Cursor , however I want to use a String array. how would i go about doing this? This is the code for the example in API Demos: Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(People.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, nu...
I'm working in with the Android SDK 2.0 / Galileo / ADT 0.9.4 (latest to date). Against Android 1.5 API layer. If I go to the layout editor and add an AutoCompleteTextView the screen immediately gives me a NullPointerException. Does anyone have a documented workaround for this problem? I can't seem to find one. This is obviously a bug...
I installed ADT plugin to Eclipse 3.5. But at Window->Preferences Android node is not shown. ...
I'm currently rendering HTML input in a TextView like so: tv.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href='test'>test</a>")); The HTML being displayed is provided to me via an external resource, so I cannot change things around as I will, but I can, of course, do some regex tampering with the HTML, to change the href value, say, to something else. ...
Does Java pass by reference or value to C when using JNI ( more specifically Android NDK) ...
How would I go about adding clickable links inside a ListView? ...
Is there a way to use setType() and supply multiple broad types (like images and video)? I'm using an ACTION_GET_CONTENT. It seems to be working with just comma-separated types. ...
I am able to deploy my application but for some reason, I am not able to get the icon to display in the pull up menu on the Home page of the OS. Does anyone know what I can do to solve this? By the way, the application shows up in "Manage Applications" but does not show up as an icon for some reason. Through Eclipse, I am able to start ...
Hi, I have a TextView. I want it to ellipsize if longer than its available width. This does not work unless the input string has no spaces... can anyone provide an example of this working? I've tried different combinations of: singleLine="true" maxLines="1" scrollHorizontally="false" none of these have any effect. Again, if I supply...
Hi, I am having a hard time in DDMS "Push a file onto device" I have an old database file that I like to replace with a new file that I created using sql studio. If anybody have any idea on how to do this please let me know, thanks tj ...
Okay, so I've got this TableLayout, and its full of data - with all of the rows added programmatically. I've got the TableLayout inside of a HorizontalScrollView, which in turn is inside a ScrollView - this gives me scrolling both horizontally and vertically. What I'm trying to do now is add a header row to it that will not scroll. I've ...
Hi, I got a pattern (.png image 4x4px) and have to fill the layout with it. Does anyone know how to do it? If I simply select the drawable as a background the image is streched but it has to be repeated along the x and y axis. ...
In an Activity, I have some snippet of code that fires off a Message: Message m = _handler.obtainMessage( UPDATE_PROGRESS ); Bundle bundle = new Bundle(); bundle.putInt( BUNDLE_KEY, 50 ); m.setData( bundle ); Log.d( LOG_TAG, "value " + bundle.getInt( BUNDLE_KEY, 0 ) ); // prints 50 Log.d( ...