Android :: Changing Displayed State Of Views Based On Parent ViewGroup's State
Aug 11, 2010
I have a compound UI component built up from a ViewGroup containing a number of TextView, ImageView etc. components. Many of these have StateListDrawables as their images/backgrounds. Is there any way of making them select from this drawable based on the state of the parent ViewGroup rather than the component itself? Ideally I want to be able to change the visual state of all children of the ViewGroup (text colour, image etc) based on the state of the ViewGroup, preferably without having to hook up complex logical code. This seems like a fairly common sort of requirement, so I was hoping it would be straightforward in Android - am I going to be disappointed?
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Oct 9, 2010
I just upgraded my Sprint HTC Hero to the latest official firmware. I was looking for 2 apps if they exist:
1: I had a program on 1.5 that was called city caller ID and it displayed the city and state of incoming calls. When I upgraded to the newest software, I can't locate this software in the Android market. So I was wondering if anyone out there had any suggestions on Caller ID apps that work good?
2: In regards to the other app, I was wondering if they had something like the Blackberry does where when I have the phone plugged in and the screen times out, a clock would be on the screen instead of just the normal black screen?
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Feb 8, 2009
I'm a little confused by what I'm seeing with regards to phone state transitions via the PhoneStateListener. When I receive a call, this is what happens: (call comes in) RINGING -> IDLE (I pick up) OFFHOOK (I hang up) IDLE It's that first transition from RINGING to IDLE without any interaction from me (not ending the call, not answering the call) that confuses me. Do I really have to implement an idle counter to know that an incoming call has really ended? Seems like the reported phone state represents some sort of phone state that isn't the obvious one.Is this a bug or am I just not in tune with the paradigm here?
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Aug 3, 2010
I think this is a pretty simple question but I'm having trouble finding the answer out there.I'm developing an android application (currently developing against v1.5 API) and one of the activities use a ListView. I want to be able to set the properties of each List Item based on the state of an in memory object rather than the state of the view or list item.Here is a simple example....say I have a Person class who's public members are defined as follows. Code...
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Oct 28, 2010
I have a Service which tracks the location of the user. Currently, the Service boots when the application starts and stops when the application terminates. Unfortunately, if users keep the application in the background, the Service never stops and drains battery.
I would like the Service to stop when my application is not in the foreground. I was hoping the Application class would let me Override onPause and onResume handlers, but it does not have them.
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Aug 22, 2010
I've successfully implemented onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() for my main activity to save and restore certain critical components across screen orientation changes.
But it seems, my custom views are being re-created from scratch when the orientation changes. This makes sense, although in my case it's inconvenient because the custom view in question is an X/Y plot and the plotted points are stored in the custom view.
Is there a crafty way to implement something similar to onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() for a custom view, or do I need to just implement methods in the custom view which allow me to get and set its "state"?
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Apr 25, 2009
I have TabActivity that uses 2 other ListActivities for the tabs. Both underlying ListViews are set to CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE. When I run the following sequence of events, I get a strange result: 1) Setup one activity (tab) and its ListView using a CursorAdapter, including checking some items on the list 2) Reorient the screen (open the keyboard) 3) Setup the second activity (tab) and its ListView using a CursorAdapter, including checking some items on the list 4) Switch back to the first tab
At this point, I can see in Eclipse that although (of course) each ListView is a distinct object, the internal variable used to store the checked state of items, called mCheckStates, is the SAME OBJECT REFERENCE in each of the ListViews.
Clearly this is an issue, since the two views should not share the checked state of items between them.
If I skip step #2, this does not occur
Here is a bit more detail:
After Step 1: ListView1 is object reference @1, ListView1.mCheckStates is object reference @2
After Step 2: ListView1 is object reference @3, ListView1.mCheckStates is object reference @4 (the reorientation recreates the views)
After Step 3: ListView2 is object reference @5, ListView1.mCheckStates is object reference @2 <-- note the reuse of this reference from step #1, not sure how/why
After Step 4: ListView1 is object reference @3 (unchanged), ListView1.mCheckStates is object reference @2 (changed) <-- same as ListView2.mCheckStates
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May 13, 2010
I am having an application showing ListItems and Dialog boxes in it.. I want that when i change the orientation from Portrait to landscape mode, i need to maintain the state of the application .. I have seperate XMLs for landscape and portrait mode..
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Mar 29, 2010
I was wondering if it is possible to use a similar approach to change the style attribute of an element using the same (or similar) technique.Or, if that is not possible, how can the style attribute be changed during runtime (there is no such thing as button.setStyle(R.style.button)).
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Jun 22, 2009
I have a ListView with two types of custom views. It inflates "icon_row" view if a drawable exists or a "text_row" if not. I came up w/ custom views for icon_row & text_row & include them in their XML like so :
Both of icon_row, text_row have a root LinearLayout that seem to be redundant. The row layouts can be directly attached ListView. This may be a case for "merge".
To use merge, I need a ViewGroup in inflate & that ViewGroup should be my ListView.
My question is how to obtain a reference to the ListView w/o making the adapter as an inner class to the main activity.
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Feb 14, 2009
I have a few views and animations and I need to figure out a way to package them so I can use them throughout my app. I thought I should be able to use ViewGroup, however, things are getting a bit complicated as my animations need to repeat and to achieve that I have applied the technique with an AnimationListener posting to a Runnable when the animation stops so it plays again in a loop. Also they all have different startOffset values, and I'm not sure how a ViewGroup can handle that as well. What is the best practice for hadnling multiple views and animations?
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Aug 31, 2010
Can someone help me with my Syntax/Methodology? I would like to set up a bunch of different views in a viewgroup. My code fails at the addView method.
Unfortunately, I can't find jack for examples (which is how I learn) using the ViewGroup class online.code...
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Jan 29, 2010
How can I size a view based on the size of its parent layout. For example I have a relativelayout that fills the full screen, and I want a child view, say an imageview, to take up the whole height, and 1/2 the width? I've tried overriding all on onMeasu onLayout onSizeChanged etc and I couldn't get it working....
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Oct 27, 2009
Is it possible to know when the user unplugs a charger or headsets from the device so I can trigger something..
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Jan 6, 2010
I'm trying to get current service state of my phone. It can be easily fetched with get State() method of Service State when a on Service State Changed (Service State service State) callback is invoked: Code...
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Sep 1, 2010
can someone helpme out with how to save state of the app when the screen orientation is changed i read the development guide at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/runtime-changes.html#HandlingTheChange
But i dont know how to define the method collectMyLoadedData();
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Nov 3, 2009
I have an app that runs in the background indefinitely provided there is work to be done. I want the app to go to sleep if there is no work to be done and the user is idle. The second part has me stumped. On Windows Mobile I was able to poll the power state to determine user idleness. On BlackBerry I was able to poll the device idle time. However, there does not appear to be a way to determine user idleness on Android.
Instead of polling for user idleness directly, I thought I might be able to use the on/off state of the screen. There are 2 intents ACTION_SCREEN_OFF and ACTION_SCREEN_ON and I was able to setup a listener for these (BroadcastReceiver). The problem is that I do not know how to determine the current state of the screen at the time I register the listener, therefore I have to wait until the next screen on/off change to know anything. The docs speak of some intents that are "sticky" and thus will allow the current state to be determined, but the screen events do not appear to have that property. What am I to do?
In general, I find the lack of support for polling system state properties (e.g. screen state, power state, signal strength) in Android to be annoying. It's cool that one can listen for changes in system state rather than constantly polling for them, but one still needs to know the current state of the property at the time the listener is registered.
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Aug 24, 2010
I need to save some state when the user leaves my game during game play. Saving the state doesn't seem to be an issue, but I can't figure out how to restore it. The onCreate function isn't called when the Activity is resumed (only when it is first created), so I can't get my state back there. Logically, I would use onRestoreInstanceState, but it isn't being called.
CODE:..........
I see log output from onSaveInstanceState, onResume, onCreate, etc, but I never see a log message from onRestoreInstanceState and savedState is always null. Why isn't onRestoreInstanceState being called, and is there another way to get my state back?
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Feb 26, 2010
My business partner and I have a small disagreement, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to resolve it. First, I should say I started out his way, and switched after reviewing a lot of applications. The background is this -- we have an app, with some controls which can be locked. A lock/unlock icon is put next to the lockable controls. You can long-click the icon, and it brings up a context menu with several items, including the item for the lock state.Currently, it brings up a "Locked [X]" or "Locked [ ]" item -- that is, a menu item with a checkbox that can be checked or unchecked, and the lock state is changed accordingly.He would like me to change it to reflect the action being taken. I.e. the menu item would say "Lock" if it is currently unlocked, and "Unlock" if it is currently locked.It would be acting as a toggle in either case; the only difference is how it is presented to the user.
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Apr 24, 2009
At the moment I am trying to update my application to Android 1.5. In Android 1.1 I was able to detect the BT state with catching the following broadcasts: Code...
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Aug 30, 2010
I am writing an app where I get all the data from the rest call and display all the data in a custom component list(based on Linear Layout) which is added to a LinearLayout. I write this code in onCreate of the activity. The problem is when I switch activity using startActivity, and come back to the calling activity (using startActivity) then onCreate is called again. I see onPause, onStop called when I call other activity. Is there any way that I can save the application's state?
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Sep 10, 2009
There is know problem in all the Android phones. Go to Bluetooth Settings->Turn ON bluetooth->Click on bluetooth discovery->Then timer will start in summary->Long press on Bluetooth device discovery-> observe Bluetooth ON/OFF title start to toggle with Bluetooth Discovery toggle. I analyzed the issue. Blueooth ON/OFF is CheckBoxPreference. Bluetooth Discovery is also CheckBoxPreference which has dependency on Bluetooth ON/OFF. When we click on Bluetooth discovery then On thread will run at every second to update summary in Bluetooth Discovery preference. When we change the Bluetooth discovery to OFF then thread will be removed/ killed. When i press the Bluetooth discovery for long time when its already in ON State then still the thread will be updating the summary (remaining time from 120 to 00) till i press it. When i leave the Thread will stop. As it has dependency on Bluetooth ON/OFF, its making to the title invisible. But it should not happen. Solution: When i touch the Device Discovery i should kill the update summary thread then i guess, that problem will be solved. But in prefence i dont have any listener to know the pressed state. I hope somebody can give me solution.
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Jan 11, 2010
I understand how to save an application's state by using SharedPreferences, onSavedInstanceState() & onRestoreInstanceState(), etc as outlined in a similar post ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/151777/how-do-i-save-an-android-applications-state ), but how do I save the last activity?
To be more specific, my application starts up and goes to a login screen. Once a user logs in and navigates through several activities, lets say he or she leaves the app using the home button or in some other way. Next time the user starts the app, it will go back to the login screen and do a login again. Instead, I want the app to start up and go to the last activity that was on top of the stack when the user left the app in the previous session.
How is the last activity saved so that it can be restored on app startup?
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Feb 7, 2010
Yes, I can get sensor update events with SensorEventListener. But this approach has 2 drwwbacks:
1) For some sensors I have to wait for the state to update. For example, temperature may update after a minute!
2) In some cases I can get incorrect readings. For example, the phone lies on a flat surface and does not move. I receive first orientation update event after listener registration. When only a part of the orientation vector changes, other parts may be 0. And it is no way to determine, is it a true 0 degree azimuth or just an incomplete vector. If I move the phone a little, the correct non-zero azimuth appears.
To solve this problems it's possible to create a separate thread that constantly monitors sensors. After some time it will certainly contain true values. But I think that it is an overhead for such simple task.
Is it any other way to get current sensor data?
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Apr 9, 2010
If I was using an ImageButton with a selector for its background, is there a state I can change which will make it change its appearance? Right now I can get it to change images when pressed, but there seems to be no "highlighted" or "selected" or similar state which lets me toggle it's appearance at will.
Here's my XML, it only changes appearance when pressed.
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Jul 5, 2010
Which of the following is/are appropriate for saving the state of an Android application?
a. Activity.onFreeze()
b. Activity.onPause()
c. Activity.onStop()
d. Activity.onDestroy()
e. Activity.onFinish()
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Jul 15, 2010
I have searched through this and a few other sites for the answer, but I have been unable to find it. I am trying to save a boolean and an int using onSaveInstanceState and onRestoreInstanceState, but I can't seem to get it to work. It doesn't crash or anything, but it either isn't saving it or it isn't restoring it, or I am stupid and have no idea what I am doing.
Here is what I have for my activity, do I need to have it in my onCreate somewhere or something?
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I tried putting stuff in the onStop, but it crashes, which is why its empty, in case that matters, thanks in advance
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Jul 16, 2010
I am developing an android application in which,the first activity is that for Login. After successful authentication, user can see an activity with 4 Tabs. My problem is that when user taps on the home button,the application should terminate and when the user again starts my application, he should be able to see the Login screen again and after successful Login, user should be able to see the tab on which he was working before application terminated(i.e., save state for all the tabs).
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Aug 9, 2010
I've encountered a problem wile using my own subclass of android.app.Application. I have numerous activities in my application and I'm running a custom ROM which consumes quite a lot of memory. What happens is when I launch a third party activity (Camera) my Application is killed. My Application subclass stores vital data for the whole app so it can't work without it. android.app.Application doesn't have any methods for saving or restoring application state. Activity does have them but they are not suitable.
How to perform save/restore state on Application subclass?
UPDATE I've managed to do so by filling a Bundle obtained from onSaveInstanceState and restoring values in onCreate. But is there any better way?
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Aug 11, 2010
I wrote a code to record audio of call conversation using MediaRecorder.
how can i know whether a MediaRecorder is in running state or not, to stop the recording.
like
CODE:............
Above code is just an example.. If you do not understand my question, please tell me.. i will explain clearly with actual code..
What all i want to know is "In which state the MediaRecorder is?" -> recording/released/prepared/initial/etc..
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