ADW things
Still in beta at this point
Very different launcher in a lot of ways.
Has left to right scrolling in the app drawer instead of vertical.
Has 2 main dock spaces for icons but if you swipe up on the app drawer instead of pressing it you will see what he calls the dock bar which has space for 6 more dock spots.
Tons of customization options.
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There are several different ways of definition the ID. What is the difference? android:id="@id/android:list" android:id="@+id/android:list" android:id="@+id/confirm"
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm releasing my first app soon, and this is the first time I'm doing any of this on my own. Looking into the future of it, there are features I plan to implement within the coming months. But looking at me adding features, I realize I would be altering the original source, so if someone finds a bug, I need to either wait, or completely undo everything to fix it. What are some options for managing my source code and stuff?
View 4 Replies View RelatedAK Notepad does this nice little thing where, on displaying the file list, it "unravels" rapidly down the screen. Are they hacking that incredibly manually, or are there simple OS calls to make lists display in various ways?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for ways to back up the database of my app on an Android phone. I know that SQLite databases are just files, so I'd expect to be able to just copy the file to SD-card if one is available.However, I'm unsure as to how I'd prepare my database/activity for backup/restore.
When starting, my main activity reads the entries from one table in the database and displays them in a ListView. As shown in the API's "Notes" sample, I have a cursor that is automatically notified about changes to that table (ListView is automatically updated when I add/remove/update records in the table).When I copy the database file to SD-card, I should not have a problem. But what if the user wants to restore a database file? I can't just copy the file back to the data folder, can I (EDIT: ... while a view displays data from the database and thus maybe holds an open connection)?
What would be "best practice" when implementing backup/restore? One approach I've considered is:Open a special "restore" activity that holds no open database connections
Call finish() for the main activity to remove it and close database connections Copy back the database file Open a new "instance" of the main activity all finish() for the "restore" activity,....Would that be the way to go? Thanks for any advice!
I need 2 ways of showing vertical label in Android:
Horizontal label turned 90 degrees counterclockwise (letters on the side)
Horizontal label with letters one under the other (like a store sign)
Do I need to develop custom widgets for both cases (one case), can I make TextView to render that way, and what would be a good way to do something like that if I need to go completely custom?
I've gad the same issue on both the stock messaging app and chomp. Pictures that I attach to send to someone come up sideways, but only ones shot vertically, I.e. in portrait mode. What's up with this? Can this be adjusted?
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow many ways we can develop application for Android platform.The only one way that i know is through Java.Somewhere i read that other than Java like Python , Rails and Native C are also used to develop android application.Please help me if anybody knows it, in terms of how these languages are used to create application with any tutorials ,documents or books.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm a new Android developer and I just released a free, open source tipping calculator app called Tippy Tipper.I created this app to get myself familiar with Android and to hopefully provide a good example app for other new developers to look at.Now that I've overcome the challenges of learning how to program, test and release my Android app, I've come across a new challenge: marketing!What are some good ways to promote my app to the Android community? Can anyone with some experience talk about how they did this successfully with their own app?
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy application has an IntentService which runs periodically to download data from a remote server. The download task is run inside an AsyncTask which has reference to Application context only.
The data downloaded is for entire application and is displayed across four different activities. When the download completes(AsyncTask completes) the service is notified of the same. Now, the service needs to notify appropriate activity to update its view. The service is not aware of which Activity of what application is in foreground.
How do I make that connection? How does the service pass a message to the activity in foreground that new data is available and it should update its views?
I have a free app that has 64% of ratings at 5 starts, but still has 9% of ratings at only 1 start, some of them even said that my app is an "useless garbage", so I think maybe I need to leave a reply to those users to explain something or answer their questions. So are there any ways that we could do such thing?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI want to do optimization of my android application.
Can anyone please tell what are different ways to optimize code and performance in android?
I gone through one tool i.e. Zipalign: an Easy Optimization.
Any other tools available?
I have an application I am currently working on for a client which is suffering from a particularly hard to debug problem. Every so often, the device screen will go blank, not just while running my application, but entirely. If I press the home button, for instance, it's still blank. This happens fairly rarely ( I myself have only seen it once or twice in a couple of months, and unfortunately couldn't gather log information immediately when it happened. What log info I was able to gather seemed to show that the phone continued to run properly - I was still seeing events in the log file - the screen was just blank ). So far, this has only been observed while running on Motorola Milestones ( this may or may not be coincidence - it's hard to tell given the infrequency of occurance ). Has anyone else observed anything similar? Any suggestions as to possible causes/ways of debugging?
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to look up the user phone number other than TelephonyManager? In my G1, this returns null: // get your phone number TelephonyManager telephonyManager = (TelephonyManager) getSystem Service (Context. TELEPHONY_SERVICE); String tel = telephonyManager.getLine1Number(); Log.i("Telephone Number ==> ", tel+" <=="); Is there any other way of getting user's own phone number? take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://linkedin.com /in/tellibitz http://androidrocks.googlecode.com - Android Consulting. Emo Philips <http://www.brainyquote.com /quotes/authors/e/emo_philips.html> - "A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing."
View 7 Replies View RelatedI've been working at adding music, and installed iSync to pull playlists and tracks from iTunes (other computer software is not an option as the wife LOVES iTunes and her iPod.)Than being said, the iSync program is easy-to-use and nice, but I'm finding that the EVO's music app is taking its own sweet time to recognize the tracks from the SD card.I can wait, but my fear is that it will need to do this each time I launch the app? Is this the case, or is it a one-time thing?Any suggestions on other ways to manage music and playlists on the EVO?
View 4 Replies View Relatedwhen I click on launcher it does not show displayed activity log for launcher, it shows it way before during boot up stage. why is this happening?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIf there is anyway of stopping the screen from rotating both ways? I only want it to rotate one way, like it used to on 2.1
View 12 Replies View RelatedJust recently flashed the newest Liquidsmooth custom rom on my Samsung galaxy s3 running sasktel carrier (sgh-i747m) and I noticed that the browser doesn't work and a lot of apps were missing. When I press browser it won't open and when I try to buy nova prime off the nova launcher it won't open either. What are some ways to install the play store app etc. And use the browser app? I've been having a lot of problems with custom rlms.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've been using LP for about a week (it's great BTW!) and this just started to happen so it could have something to do with the latest update. I've set LP at the default launcher and everything works great. However, if I ever long press the "home" button, go to an application, then press "home" again I get the popup asking me which launcher I want to use. I check the "set as default" box then select LP and everything is good again. It all works until I long press home the next time, then the remembered default is gone and I get the prompt again. I've tried rebooting, clearing defaults, etc.
View 32 Replies View RelatedAnybody use Linpack? Linpack for Android GreeneComputing
Trying to figure out how to maximize my score. Is it worth it?
Whats the best may to manage performance?
I've used all sorts of task killers & start up monitors.
Any Suggestions or comments?
I am developing an android app. I would like to know are there any tips/ways to optimize the app before posting it on Google play. Is it necessary for me to do this or the Android OS will take care of these? So far I've used simple tools like zip align, layout opt, 9 patch etc..
Also are there any tools I can test my app using automation like monkey testing.
I haven't really been into the whole rooting thing, I need some advice. I don't know what the benefits of rooting my phone are, I have a HTC Hero from sprint. Any info that is provided will truly help me. I know that there are many ways to root but some of them don't work well and so on ect.
View 15 Replies View RelatedI've found differences in the behaviour of notifications on different ROMs, notably in the stock Jellybean ROM for my i9100 a notification will:
1. Mute all other sounds
2. Play the notification sound
3. Unmute other sounds
Whereas when I have AOKP installed the sounds both play at once, as in no muting occurs and the sound is overlayed.
Besides clearing the media storage, what are the ways to force a rescan? My rescan service seems to have stopped and everything in the gallery is blank. I tried some third party rescan but all fail. GT-N7000
View 1 Replies View RelatedThere are several ways to terminate an app or to "clear cache". What are the differences between them?
Here are some I have been using without deeper understanding:
- Long press middle button and swiping out one app
- App manager: Clear cache, clear data, force stop
- Restart phone
- Use task manager app to kill app in question
Just got my first android phone, the eris! I'm really excited, if anyone could help me out with some tips please do! are there ways i can watch my data usage, since i have a limited amount?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI am trying to write an Android app to connect to an existing web service. I'm pretty new to web services in general, other than what I've done with this first web services (written with JSPs, Struts 1.x, and JAVA). This web service is connected to a document storage database. The user would first login to the service, then using search parameters (document title, type, etc.) the user would be displayed a list of possibly relevant documents. The user would choose a specific document from that list, and the service would then stream the entire document (pdf file) to the user for viewing.What methods are available to Android where I can make a request given some specific parameters, and be able to parse a response?The only thing I know of is HTTP, but my project leader (I'm a summer intern) is hinting that there are others available. I'm not sure where to start looking.
View 4 Replies View RelatedHave similar threads >(URL>...)I am looking for an alternative to GO launcher.I have not upgraded my GO launcher since 3.11 due to bloatware.I would like to ask is there any launcher that allows custom sorting of apps inside the folder?For e.g i have created a folder called Games in the app drawer and would like to custom the games sort them instead alphabetical order.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just updated my launcher pro beta.. it is now version 18..according to settings applications.so now when i press home it just goes to my original launcher and doesn't even prompt me as to what i want my default to be.i have a milestone and i'm rooted! but help. i hate the stock launcher!
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have ADW launcher & Launcher pro installed but i can't seem to find them in the apps menu. If i push home it used to show all three launchers( adw,LP & sense) but now my home button only shows my scenes.
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