android

make default application in android?

If more than one application supports to open a specified file format. I need to make my application as a default application from my code.How it possible to make it default from the code?? Can anyone help me? ...

how to fire an activity from a given activity object

I have saved an object of an activity in a variable. Now i exit from this activity. Then i want that i can use the object of the activity to restart the same activity. Is it possible to launch an intent of this object of the activity ...

smooth gradient on different devices

Hi all, In my app i have gradient as drawable which i am using as background and i wan't it to make it look as smooth as possible. After googling and trying by myself i came up with the following. On nexus one if you call only setDither(true) your gradient is still banding so you have to set PixelFormat like this Window.setFormat(PixelF...

How to get the index of particular view OR ViewGroup which is added to the ViewGroup(layout).

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientat...

Android WebView LongPress does not fire when using Built in Zoom Controls?

Does anyone know why the WebView onLongClick method doesnt fiew when the built in zoom controls are used, webView.setBuiltInZoomControls(true). API level 7 ...

onPostExecute on cancelled AsyncTask

Does onPostExecute execute if the AsyncTask has been cancelled? If it does execute, is it safe to say that I should always ask if the task has been cancelled (isCancelled) at the start of onPostExecute, before doing anything else? ...

EditText movement on Keyboard popup

Hi all, I have a LinearLayout that contains many views stacked vertically. However, at the bottom, I have an EditText. Desired Result:- When the keyboard popps up upon clicking the EditText, ONLY the EditText scrolls up while the rest of the screen remains static as it is. Is this possible? If yes how? ...

image animation in android

hi i have to repeat my image sequence i am using thread and AnimationDrawable.. but it is not working continuously . i don't want to stop this animation until next activity is not started through button click event . ` public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);{ ` final ImageView sp...

Problem with MultiAutoCompleteTextView Drop Down

Hi all, I've an MultiAutoCompleteTextView in my app with a dynamic list. That is to say when user write letters, I call host to do a list with the words that begins with the letters written. The Completion work fine when there is an answer but when the host give me an empty list It doesn't. When I have no answer I would like to write "...

Implementing Gesture Recognition In An Android App

I am adding gesture recognition to my app. I have added the view as described in the Android Developers Gestures article but when it comes to adding: mLibrary = GestureLibraries.fromRawResource(this, R.raw.gestures); if(!mLibrary.load()){ finish(); } where do I put this in my code, do I have to create a new class for it, or can I h...

Android flip image animation

I want to flip image in android through translate animation. eg:- suppose i have one card. when translate animation starts it shows the card into the new position. now here the card should flip? from backside to front. how can i do that.? ...

Android, GridView and onTouchListener

Hello, My application have three pages (three tabs) and I want to switch beetween two gridviews by moving finger horizontaly. The touch code works fine but I can't click anymore on the grid items! I use the method onItemClickListener (onClickListener don't works on Gridview) but the grid item is not clicked. Thanks for your help! The co...

When to use an aidl based service?

Under what circumstances would using AIDL to define a service interface be the correct decision (rather than just creating an extension to the service class)? ...

Using progress bar ends up in not populating list view

I am using a progress bar in android, so that till my data is loaded, user is getting a proper feedback of what is going on. the code for the bar is below: final ProgressDialog myProgressDialog; myProgressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(ListingPage.this,"Please Wait", "Loading Date", true); new Thread() { public void run() { try{...

Can SAX use a local resource XML file?

All of the android examples for XmlPullParser pull from a local resource file, and all of the SAX examples pull the XML from a URL. I've been told SAX is faster, so I'm trying to use that to pull data from a local resource file (res/xml/thefile.xml) The example code I'm working off of is here. So in that example, the code I want to chan...

Sharing code between applications

I want to create a "main" service/application which will provide different functionalities to other applications. According to android docs I can use elements from an application/ service in other. "A central feature of Android is that one application can make use of elements of other applications (provided those applications permit it)...

New contacts created using ContactsContract do not appear in Contacts app

Hi all, I'm using the following piece of codes to create a new contact. It follow closely the ContactManager example provided by Android. The problem is, the created contacts do not appear in the Contacts app that shipped with Android. Nevertheless, when I load all the contacts from the phonebook, I can see the newly created contacts....

How do you make an EditText whose original text can only be fully changed?

In the Google Maps app, there's a unique EditText that I'd like to reproduce. If you click "menu" then go to "directions", the "start point" field should begin with "My Location" as the text. The interesting part of this field is its behavior - you cannot edit "My Location" without completely deleting it first. I have a few places whe...

Sequence of method calls while creating custom components

Hi, I was wondering in what order the following methods - onDraw(), onMeasure(), onSizeChanged() - are called automatically when we create a custom component. Not sure if this question makes sense ... I've just been kinda confused as to what the methods are supposed to do exactly. Thanks for the help in advance. Cheers. ...

variable height list view

i need to write a variable height listview. also i need it for display purpose. column numbers are constant. also i need backgrouund of some cells in different color. so, how to achive this ? should i go listview way or do some custom drawing on a scrollview ? some snippets would help me. ...