Does Android have a "best practices" guideline on creating & populating the db/tables programmatically vs. deploying a .db file in assets?
What are the pros/cons of both approaches?
I have a db with big long strings in several columns, and about 50 rows, so writing the insert statements alone would take quite some space. It seems a waste.
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I want to create an XML file to Store my Application Settings into. ( I can't use SharedPrefs because i want that Settings file later to be accessed by Some other Code.)
I can easily create an XML with java's code and store it in File too. but in Android I can create xml with the same java code but can't save it into the file coz they have removed the package javax.xml.transform from SDK.
I am Attaching the Java code here...
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I am trying to create a database with two tables. Employees and Computers. A spinner with employee names fill properly when I don't try create and do anything with the second table...
The code to create is:
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Is there somehting I am doing wrong during the creating, as the rest of the code (to read data) is exactly the same...
Does anyone of you know how to create dynamic Tablelayouts? On my Emulator Android just shows nothing.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to create a calculator that has specific functions. So for example if someone wants picture 1,5,7,9 and each photo has a number associated with it, it will deduct from a predefined total number. Once the predefined number is reached, it cannot exceed it. I downloaded Eclipse, ran emulators and have done the hello world. I don't know where to go from here. How to create tables that associate each photo with a numerical value.
View 1 Replies View RelatedCan any one give the code to read and write to a file in the Android assets folder.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI copied song.mp3 to my project's assets directory and wrote this code:
private MediaPlayer mp;
Uri uri = Uri.parse("file:///android_asset/song.mp3");
mp=MediaPlayer.create(this, uri);
After running the create statement, the variable mp is null.
when I run this code, it starts playing all the audio files in the assets directory, in alphabetical order instead of just playing the audio file I requested. What am I doing wrong? Is there a better way to play audio files from the assets directory?Is there a difference between keeping audio files in the assets directory and keeping them in the res/raw directory? Besides the fact that they don't get ids if they are in the assets directory. If I move the audio files to the res/raw folder then I have a problem with reusing MediaPlayers because there is no id parameter for setDataSource(). I can't find a good guideline for handling this kind of problem.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow can you read GZIP file in Android located in the "ASSETS" (or resources/raw) folder?
I have tried the following code, but my stream size is always 1.
GZIPInputStream fIn = new GZIPInputStream(mContext.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.myfilegz));
int size = fIn.available();
For some reason the size is always 1. But if Idon't GZIP the file, it works fine.
Using Android 1.5
Question: How do you programmatically distinguish between directories and regular files in the assets folder?
When using AssetManager to access files in the assets folder, it seems impossible to determine if a file is in fact a file or a directory. You get the list of files from the list method and then open the file using the open method. I thought perhaps using the openFd method to get the asset file descriptor (and then subsequently requesting the normal file descriptor) would provide me some information. But requesting the file descriptor for a directory results in an IOException (which makes sense since what would it mean for a directory to have a file descriptor...?).
Currently I'm relying on that IOException (resulting from attemptng to open a directory in the assets folder) in order to determine if a file is in fact a directory. (Opening a regular file works just fine). This seems like a bad idea. Any other suggestions to distinguish between a file and a directory?
My app has .txt files in subdirectories in the assets folder. It reads those .txt files and puts them in a textview. It's working great and no problems.
Should I be concerned about the files in the assets folder getting deleted by the user or missing. If this ever could happen, my app would get an error because the file would not be there when it tried to read it into the stream.
Is there a need for me to check the existence of an asset file before I read it or does the asset manager take care of it all? I also was wondering if there's a chance that a user would or could delete and asset file.
Like I say, everything works fine without me inserting code to check for file existence. I just wondered if people use the .exists() statement every time they go to read in a stream from assets.
How to read data from the assets folder sqlite database file with .sqlite extension in my Android application?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm new in Java/Android programming, so please have patience with me.
I try to play a mp3 which is locate und the assets folder. I know there is another way with the /res/raw/ folder, but use the assets-folder because later I'll try to access the file by String.
This code works to play a mp3-file:
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Now the problem: In the same assets-folder is another mp3 file stored. Though I specify the name of the mp3 to use it take the one which comes first in alphabet. E.g. the other file is named "music.mp3" it plays this one. Renaming it to "worldmusic.mp3" it will play "song.mp3". Rerename "worldmusic.mp3" back to "music.mp3" it will take this mp3 again. Another test: Renaming "song.mp3" to something other so the application can find whats specify by the code above will result that no song is played. So this means the songname have to exist, although it take arbitrary the song first in alphabet.
I'm testing with the AVD emulator of eclipse. But I think the behaviour would be the same on a real device.
I have a .gif file inside the assets folder like this assets/Files/android.gif. when I try to open the file it throws an exception at the second line.
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so is it that I'm trying to open an image file despite that the same code works if I try to open a text file?
I guess many people already read this article:
Using your own SQLite database in Android applications: http://www.reigndesign.com/blog/using-your-own-sqlite-database-in-android-applications/comment-page-2/#comment-12368
However it's keep bringing IOException at
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I'am trying to use a large DB file. It's as big as >8MB. I built it using sqlite3 in Mac OS X, inserted UTF-8 encoded strings (for I am using Korean), added android_meta table with ko_KR as locale, as instructed above.
However, When I debug, it keeps showing IOException at
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I suspect it's caused by trying to read a big file. If not, I have no clue why.
I tested the same code using much smaller text file, and it worked fine.
Can anyone help me out on this? I've searched many places, but no place gave me the clear answer, or good solution. Good meaning efficient or easy.
I will try use BufferedInput(Output)Stream, but if the simpler one cannot work, I don't think this will work either.
Can anyone explain the fundamental limits in file input/output in Android, and the right way around it, possibly?
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I'm trying to create table row and place 3 elements: EditText - EditText - ImageButton as following:................
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I want to launch an Activity with a webView as its content from current Activity. This new activity needs to be transparent and webview should be in the center. I looked around the web but only solutions I found were using style xmls. I want to do it using pure code i.e. no xml declarations. if anybody has come across this then please shed some light.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI know how to create Open/WEP/PSK/PSK2 configuration programmatically.
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But how do I create one for '802.1x EAP'?
Looking into the source code at:
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Seems to do the work but 'config.eap' is not accessable from my application.
Is there a way to configure EAP types or is it not possible?
Is it possible to programmatically create and/or destroy AppWidgets?
View 7 Replies View RelatedIs there a way i can create a view and add some textviews into it ? programmatically ? any sample code?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI need some help with the following scenario, as I am so used to make all of my layouts with XML, but now I have a situation where that won't work.
I am working on the second version of my app that delivers news, in the comments section I used to use a listview to display user comments, but it doesn't work that great for comments that could be anywhere from 5 to 500+ characters long. So I want to create a whole bunch of TextViews in a scrollview and stack them below each other.
My best guess was this, although it is definitely wrong because it only shows one comment. I assume I have to use some kind of LayoutParams and so I've looked into it but am still not sure how exactly to use them.
I'm all new to Android and I'm trying to create a spinner programmatically and feeding it with data from an array, but Eclipse gives me a warning that I can't handle.
Here's what I got:
This ArrayList holds the elements that should be in the spinner (gets filled from a file later on):
ArrayList<String> spinnerArray = new ArrayList<String>();
This is code ...
Now the second line (ArrayAdapter...) gives me a warning in Eclipse saying "ArrayAdapter is a raw type... References to generic type ArrayAdapter<T> should be parameterized", I have no idea how to fix this (or what that means in the first place :) ).
It's just a warning and the App seems to run alright, but I'd still like to understand what's wrong and fix it.
How to create a folder in main screen programmatically?
View 5 Replies View RelatedIn ApiDemo, there is a progressBar demo. It creates a horizontal progress bar with a xml.
<ProgressBar android:id="@+id/progress_horizontal" style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal" android:layout_width="200dip" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:max="100" android:progress="50" android:secondaryProgress="75" />
But how to create one programmatically? If just new ProgressBar(fContext), it is Default ProgressBar style.
I have an xml layout that will display a grid made up of textviews within tablerows. The textview names are cell00, cell01, etc. At runtime, my program will determine which cell needs to be changed.
Is there a way get format a name so that it can be passed to the findViewById method at runtime? For example, if cell00 is needed, how can I generate the parm in this code?
TextView currcell = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.cell00)
Something like "cell"+00 doesn't compile because the findViewById method doesn't accept a String type. I don't want have every textview name in the grid hardcoded in the program - there must be a better way.
public class SamActivity extends Activity
{
private Paint mPaint;
private MaskFilter mEmboss;
private MaskFilter mBlur;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
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This is my code.In this i draw a line over the image.Now i want to know how to create button programatically?
How can I programmatically install an apk file ?
I've foud that the PackageManager.installPackage(...) method was used to do that, but is no longer supported (http://developer.android.com/ sdk/api_diff/4/changes/android.content.pm.PackageManager.html)
i am downloading files from web server programatically. after download is complete, i checked the file.the size ,extension and all other parameters are correct but i when i try to play that file in media player it is showing that it is corrupt.
byte[] b = null; InputStream in = null; b = new byte[Integer.parseInt(size)]; // size of the file. in = OpenHttpConnection(URL); in.read(b); in.close();
File folder = new File("/sdcard", "folder");
boolean check = folder.mkdirs();
Log.d("HttpDownload", "check " + check);
File myFile = new File("/sdcard/folder/" + name);
myFile.createNewFile();
OutputStream filoutputStream = new FileOutputStream(myFile);
filoutputStream.write(b);
filoutputStream.flush();
filoutputStream.close();
I was wondering if it were possible to dynamically create an XML layout file to be displayed to the user. The idea would be to be able to retrieve a layout file from a central server, which could display this dynamic, server driven GUI.
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