android

[Android/java] Handle different Radio Buttons and Spinner together

Hi everybody, I need your help because i'm stuck in a problem! I have 4 radiobuttons that shows respectively 4 different images. Now i need to change those images after a selected spinner. I used this code but doesn't work properly because the listener takes only the first radio button and nothing else. Do you know how help me? I know th...

Do I have to use an animation to change an Android activity's view?

Everywhere I look online, it seems that I must use an animation to change views dynamically (like slide in, out). Do I have to do this, or can I simple just setContentView() on each new activity? Thanks! ...

Protecting An App For Market

I'm working on my first Android app, and am almost to the point where I can start thinking about putting it up on the market as a paid app. In the process of researching this step, I found out that it's basically trivial to break Google's copy protection scheme. I don't know how big of a problem this really is, or if we need to look int...

Open soft keyboard for ListAdapter item with contains a view with a string.

I have a ListAdapter with in this case contains a single item. That item produces a view that has an EditText. When the view get displayed I want to open the soft keyboard to allow the user to edit the field. I tried to call in the getView() function of the adapter: View edittext = view.findViewById(R.id.EditText01); edittext.requestF...

Using inputType on a TextView in a list item layout

Hi, I've made a ListActivity. I have an xml file that defines the layout for this Activity. I also have an xml file that defines the layout for an item in that list. This item layout has 3 TextViews inside of it. If I add the inputType="text" property to one of these TextViews, the onListItemClick handler no longer executes when I r...

Help with array in android

i get NullPointerException at the start of the for where am i going wrong? public void checkzone(Location loc) { X = new List<float[]>() { }; Y = new List<float[]>() { }; X.clear(); Y.clear(); float x = (float) loc.getLatitude(); float y = (float) loc.getLongitude(); float A1...

Rotate an image on the entire screen

I can't seem to rotate properly an image on the entire screen. The problem is that when the image rotates, you can see the background in some areas. I want the image to fill the screen also when it rotates. Here is the layout. I've tried different scale types without success. <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/a...

Launching intent from a class outside an activity

I've got two activities, one of them is called MyActivity. I want both of them to be able to use a function located in a class othat we may call MyClass. In MyClass, I try to use an intent to launch the activity AnotherActivity. Since the constructor takes a context as parameter, I simply tried to store a context from the activity in the...

onActivityResult() called prematurely

Hello, I start the activity (descendant of PreferenceActivity) from my worker activity as follows: @Override protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) { super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data); if (requestCode == 1458) loadInfo(); } void showSettingsDialog() { start...

Progress Dialog and orientation changed

Hi, I'm facing some problems with the progress dialogs. I use a managed progress dialog to show the user that an operation is being carried out with the following code written in the onCreateDialog(int id) function: case PROGRESS_DIALOG : { dialog = new ProgressDialog(this); ...

Is there any way to write to the clipboard from javascript, on the android browser?

Or am I going to have to write an app to do that?? ...

How can I store music on an android phone without allowing the user to be able to download it and use it?

Hello, I am working on an app that connects to a media providing site and downloads mp3 files to the user phone. I would like for the user to be unable to copy these files off the phone but only listen to them through my app. I am currently trying to encrypt the files using DES and encryption and decrypt and play the file in bits in th...

Android: How can I make a Drawable array?

How can I make an array that handles some of my images so that I can use it like this?: ImageView.setImageResource(image[1]); I hope I explained well... ...

Height of statusbar?

Hi, Is there a way to get the height of the statusbar + titlebar? Checking the dev forum shows the same question but no solution (that I could find). I know we can get it after the initial layout pass, but I'm looking to get it in onCreate() of my activity. Thanks ...

[android] Query the android Mediastore for Artist names of Music files.

I'm torn about how to implement this because Content Provider URI querys do not support the simple SQL "DISTINCT" query method to return a cursor to the Artists of the songs in the mediastore, removing any duplicate entries. I can query and get a cursor to all the artists, I'm just torn as to how to remove the dupes, or simply not show ...

Help Arranging TextView objects on screen in Android

Hi I'm using textview objects to hold labels such as Score, Level etc on my game screen but they don't seem to be displayed where I want them to be. I understand about view hierarchies (parents, children) and am using the gravity tags in the XML layout file but it doesnt seem to have any effect. Could someone just quickly provide a gu...

Sliding drawer with menu and functions...

Hi there, I am working on a video editing app and on my Wildfire the camera app uses a sliding drawer for image adjustments, but it doesn't only list the options (as icons) but when you tap an icon the actual functions or adjustments that you can make are also part of the sliding drawer (see image). I was wondering if I also could d...

Chaining activities inside a tab

Hi all Here's my problem: I've have an application with tabs. in each tab I have a list that list to an other list then to a screen with an image, clickable text etc. In one word I have Tasks inside tabs. Question Despite long seek among forum and tutorials I still can't figure witch is the best pactice to do that : switching activit...

How does getting the application reference from a service work in Android?

Hello all, I have a local Service running together with my application. I also have a class derrived from Application class. When the local service is created it gets and uses the Application instance using getApplication. Can the app itself be terminated while my service is still running and what happens if so? Would getApplication ...

How to enable 'Double Tab to unlock' feature in android

Hi, In android phone app, I use touch screen to dial a number. And then I place the phone next to my ear for the phone call. And android will show 'Double Tab to unlock' on screen to disable anything activated/touched. Can you please tell me how can I do that in my own application? Thank you. ...