android

Filtering The ListView(containing contact name and phone number)

I want to filter the ListView which containing both contact name and phone number... how do i filter the list.....please provide me the code(mainly for the filtering code) ...

TabWidget buttons

Is it possible to display tab buttons at bottom, rather than top? I need to port an application, which was originally designed on iPhone, where the default "tab" buttons are at the bottom. ...

How do I programmatically launch a specific application in Android?

I want to launch a specif application. I know how to do Intents but I want to avoid the selection menu if there are multiple apps that can handle the intent, i want to go directly to a particular app. Hope this makes sense. ...

ProgressDialog working in thread on android [solved]

Hello guys. I have a little problem, I hope U can help me;) Trouble is, that ProgressDialog show only after loading run(), but I need to show it on start and showing it while loading some data. I put: "dialog = ProgressDialog.show(CategoriesListActivity.this,"Working...","Loading data", true);" in method run(), but the same. I print in ...

need server client connection code in android application

hi, i am new to android and need simple http connection codes for client server(local server in the network) communication in android application.the connection starts when the application is started and if there is any update in the server it should be notified on the client and the server response must be based on the client request. p...

Rendering a square

Hey guys, The following is giving me triangles not squares, anyone know why?? //Defining as... addcube(2,-2, 1, -1, 10); addcube(float lx, float hx, float ly, float hy, floathz){ final float array1[] = new float[] { //Front face lx, ly, hz, lx, hy, hz, hx, ...

How to create ListView disabled item labels for sections of list items?

I have a customized Cursor based adapter for my ListView. Each Cursor has a few columns of data, sorted by the priority column. I know you can create a disabled list item to act as a sort of header, like in the Market app (the little green labels). What I would like to do is display a header for each group of items with a different pr...

custom ondraw method not called !

<LinearLayout android:id="@+id/svLL" android:orientation="horizontal" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"> <ScrollView android:id="@+id/sv" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"&gt; ...

Can one specify the fontType in android styles xml?

I am following an example project "Sky" by Jeff Sharkey using styles in my layout. It is working out quite well, however, I cannot determine how to specify the font type-face using the styles. Without this, I will have to apply the font explicitly to every TextView, EditView, etc., whereas I want to control where and when it is applied...

Error calling method on NPObject! in Android 2.2

I'm using addJavascriptInterface within my Android application to allow JavaScript to invoke functions I've created in my native Java application. This worked well in Android 2.1, however in Android 2.2 I receive the error message "Error calling method on NPObject!" When I instrument the method call the internals of the native method a...

Null Pointer Exception when assigned a View to an Activity?

Hi there I have built an activity to handle gestures in my Android game and want it to respond to a gesture anywhere on the screen but I am getting this error on the Log: 07-27 13:55:07.268: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(751): java.lang.NullPointerException 07-27 13:55:07.268: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(751): at android.app.Activity.findViewById(...

Android Emulator Stuck Equals (=) Phantom Keypress

For some reason, and only on my Dell Vostro 1000 laptop, the Android emulator keeps thinking I have the = key pressed and continually emits a string of "=====" equal signs. This happens no matter what I'm doing in the emulator. It responds to my manual keypresses as well, interspersing them. It happens no matter which version of the A...

How to Get Rid if Intermediary Page in Searchable Dictionary-Like App

Hi to all! I am working on a search app and since I am a beginner, I decided to start from the searchable dictionary sample, which is quite similar to what I'm trying to achieve. Got it to work, but I have a problem: the sample loads a blank page initially, telling the user to press on the search button to start performing a search. Onc...

How to code ContactsContract so that it runs in 2.2 and doesn't crash 1.5?

I have the following piece of code in my Android application that looks up a contacts ID, I have just changed the target from 1.5 to 2.2 but with a min SDK of 3 (1.5) so that I can use the ContactsContract Uri in 2.2 and the People Uri in 1.5. However the code leads to the following error when run on 1.5 devices: 07-27 15:02:53.382: WA...

How to read text file in Android ?

Hello Guys, I am saving details in out.txt file which has created a text file in data/data/new.android/files/out.txt. I am able to append information to the text, however, I am unable to read this file. I used the following procedures to read the file : File file = new File( activity.getDir("data", Context.MODE_WORLD_READABLE), "new/a...

Building Froyo fails - make: *** [.../classes.dex] Killed

Hi, I am attempting to build Google's Android v2.2 (Froyo) from source on an Asus A3E laptop (512MB ram) running Ubuntu Netbook 10.04. I have followed the instructions on http://source.android.com/source/download.html and set java to version 5 with using: sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-1.5.0-sun java -version gives me: 1.5.0_01...

Android TabHost Content Overrides

Hi, In my application i'm using tab activity with two tabspec. I set content for each tabSpec. After viewing the tab1 & changed to tab2. The contains overrides, that is both the tab contents are display at a time. tab1 content at bottom & tab2 content in top. when i'm changing from tab2 to tab1, the tab2 content is at bottom & tab1 conte...

Link up UI elements to data in complicated link item?

How can I link like the Checkbox and larger TextView to external data? Should I use a SimpleCursorAdapter? Or create my own adapter? Should it extend ArrayAdapter or BaseAdapter? My list item UI: ...

At the time of button click open another one application?

I have a two application. ApplicationA and ApplicationB .From the ApplicationA I have to open the ApplicationB.At the same time i need to send some detail to ApplicationB .How to do this? ...

How can I notify another application that my application has failed?

In my application, I start an activity, that is in another application (Eclipse project) the following way: Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.setAction(game.getLaunch()); intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP); startActivityForResult(intent, game.getId()); If this second application is finished, I call: MySecondApplicati...