I am new to Android and this is my first question here so please go easy on me.
Is it possible to check some condition inside onCreate() of an Activity and display an AlertDialog?
I am creating an AlertDialog anonymously in Oncreate() and calling show on that instance but the AlertDialog is never displayed.
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I was wondering if there is a way to show a widget that I have created inside an activity. I have a weather widget and I also have an app I am working on that I would like to include weather reports in. Is there a way I can just re-use the widget code and make it show inside the weather activity?
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I have this code...
But this line doesn't work:
extraData.putInt(Constants.GAME_ID, this.gameId);
I can't get access to this.gameId.
How can I fix this?
Why can't I use the Context of a Service to display an AlertDialog ?
I can do it with Toast!
I am trying to display menu options while showing an AlertDialog i.e. when MENU key is pressed, it should show whatever options that have been created. I read the following in the Dev Guide at....................
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have issue with displaying AlertDialog from Service. I am able to display custom layout window using Toast or using WindowManager(TYPE_SYSTEM_ALERT or TYPE_SYSTEM_OVERLAY). But, I do not want to use custom layout, I prefer to use nice AlertDialog GUI directly.
Scenario:
Running Service. No active Activity present. On some external event, Service sends Notification
When user press Notification, Service is informed via PendingIntent and AlertDialog should be displayed (created with AlertDialog.Builder(this))
Error: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(1063): Caused by: android.view.WindowManager$BadTokenException: Unable to add window -- token null is not for an application. Searching for the answer lead me to impression that I am trying something that is currently not possible (Android 2.2). Or maybe it is.
When I try to set the Alert using ArrayAdaptor to display a set of items, the list is displayed but the items' characters are invisible. If the item is selected, then the characters are visible. Scratching
my head on why. Appreciate any advice.
Below is the code and the screenshot from the emulator.
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In the included LVL sample app, the license check is triggered during onCreate. This means that when I click "Buy App" to launch the market, then immediately hit the back button to return to the app, the dialog is gone and another check isn't performed, leaving me with a perfectly usable app (at least until the activity is killed and the process starts over again).Would triggering the license check during onResume() be bad form, even though it would fix this issue? Is there a better solution?
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startActivity(new Intent(Parent.this, Child.class)); And on the child, I have this code on the onCreate function (the if contains more than just true, of course): public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); if (true) { AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this); builder.setPositiveButton("OK", null); builder.setTitle("Error"); builder.setMessage("Connection error, please try later.") .show(); finishActivity(0); return;}}
Why is the activity not closing? I get the alert box, but then I have to tap the "back" button to go back.
I understand that Android Activities have specific lifecycles and that onCreate should be overridden and used for initialization, but what exactly happens in the constructor? Are there any cases when you could/should override the Activity constructor as well, or should you never touch it?
I'm assuming that the constructor should never be used because references to Activities aren't cleaned up entirely (thus hampering the garbage collector) and that onDestroy is there for that purpose. Is this correct?
I know that network activity and expensive operations should not be done on the ui thread, but what about database activity?
I have an activity that, when started, I query an sqlite database and dynamically populate rows in a tablelayout with an inflator. I do this all in the oncreate() method. Should this be done in a separate thread?
I am trying to create a small pop-up in my Android application to let the user choose from one of many items, ala a ListView. I am hoping to make it show up as a translucent box that overlays on the screen, as opposed to completely occupying it like Activities usually do. One technique for doing this that I've heard is possible is to launch an Activity in an AlertDialog box. This would be perfect - it's the ideal size and has a lot of the mechanical properties I'm looking for, but I'm totally unable to find any more specifics of this technique. Is this possible? And if not, what is the preferred way of accomplishing something like this?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI was trying to make an anonymous class to upload a file to a server.
I wanted to make that easily reusable much like some kind of component.
Everything works fine but as a final touch i wanted to add a function to check if internet connection is available.
Problem is, the call to the connectivity manager needs the Context :
ConnectivityManager connec = (ConnectivityManager) getSystemService (Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
Since i'm in an anonymous class and I've read that it's not a good idea to pass the whole context to classes, I wondered about two things :
1 - Is there another way to check internet connection without the Context ? 2 - Why in Android internals make it necessary to have the context just to check if the device is connected to internet ?
Android will call onCreate() of my activity whenever it is launched.
In the onCreate() of my activity can I tell what intent launches my activity?
As you can see, I first create a webview. Then, I want it to immediately disappear. Then, I want the Listview to come up. But the problem is, I can't do Listview if I don't do ListActivity but then I can't do Activity. Code...
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Which onCreate gets executed first? The child's or parent's?
There is a particular variable I am setting in the Child activity's onCreate method, and right now, it looks like it takes a while to get to the Child activity's onCreate, and so the methods in the Parent are reporting an empty variable. Whereas when I make the Parent sleep for a while, it reports the correct variable.
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So, basically, even after the Parent starts the Child, it still returns "Parent Value", but when I have the thread sleep, it return "Child Value".
I have a need to capture some user input when an activity opens for the first time. I'm hoping to give the user a list of options to select from, which will be pulled in dynamically. I'll then store the selected value locally for future use. I'm not finding a way to do what I'm after and was wondering if anyone has run into this before and how they solved it.
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I am encountering an exception in the onCreate method of an activity.
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The onCreate method is as below.
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The layout view XML is as below.
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I've already changed the ID of the ExpandableListView to "list". But it is not effective.
I launch my TestWebView activity. After my web page is loaded, I put the app in the background by pressing the Home key. Then I bring the TestWebActivity back to the foreground. Unexpectedly, TestWebView's onCreate() is called when I bring the activity to the foreground. But onDestroy is never called. This same thing happens every time I tested. It appears the old TestWebView was not completely killed so there are possibly duplicate web clients running.
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I want to show my next activity withing my previous activity layout "LinearLyout". But it is not working. Can any one help? I put my last activity layout reference to a global class in an static variable. My code...
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View 4 Replies View RelatedThe order is:
A: startActivityForResult( B ) B: <dostuff>, call finish() A: onCreate <---- what's this all about A: onActivityResult
This happens for a tiny minority of users. I havn't been able to reproduce or find any common elements. A is the launch activity.
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It seems when screen orientation changes, the activity's onCreate() method is called. In my onCreate() method, I have an AlertDialog which pops up when the activity is called. The problem is when I switch the screen sideways, the popup is displayed again. How can I avoid this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to figure out what is the best way to go about creating dialogs. I can either create my own Dialog class (which, to me, is more clean and organized), or I can use AlertDialog.Builder (which would be done inline, and funky looking)... What are the positivies and negatives of either implementation?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI use sdk 1.5 version and same to my handphone, my handphone is use G1. Now i test my application on my handphone. When i push on keyboard, i found system will destroy current activity(execute onDestroy() method) and execute onCreate() method again. So i will all current status and all datas. I don't wish this happen, how to block system execute onDestroy() and onCreate() when i open and close keyboard?
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It displays &qoute;abc&qoute; after running application.
I have tried decoding into " and then assigning it to TextView but it always convert " to &qoute;
I need to made an activity (without layout) that on start check if a service is running. if it is true it starts Activity2, if it false it starts Activity1.
I tried with this code:
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Enter code here
But when I check, in the onCreate method, if serviceConnect!=null I receive sometime a NullPointerExcption.
I tried also to insert the operation in the method onCreate in an Async Task:
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In my android app I call the voice recognition in my onCreate method of my startup activity. I have made it a preference to start up with the voice control or not. However, the app takes about 5-7 seconds to load when voice recognition is on. When it is off, the app starts almost instantly. Below is sample code, I have added Free_Form, max_results 1, and a custom prompt to mine.Why would calling the normal android speech recognition take sooo long to load in my OnCreate method?
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