Android :: Common Component Externalization
Jan 8, 2010
I am a game developer and have developed a nice global high scores module. The source code is in two different games of mine and anytime I make changes I carefully copy and paste the java files from one project to the other. As I increase the sophistication of this module, the copying and pasting can take a day or two to make sure I get it right. Now I am finishing up my third game and want to add the high scores module, but copying and pasting this in three separate projects seems absurd and will take up much of my time! Is there any way to externalize this module?
Unfortunately, the module makes reference to R for strings, layouts and other resources. It also uses common Android functions and resources from the Android library. Almost anything would be easier than the method I am using now--so any and all suggestions are welcome!
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Jun 20, 2010
I have Activity A and Activity B. I want to access a method in Activity A from Activity B. This is my method:
Activity A extends activity{
public void save(){
} }
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Jul 2, 2010
I have an Android application composed by several Activities. Most of them need to check whether an active network is available or not:
public boolean isNetworkAvailable() {
ConnectivityManager cm = (ConnectivityManager)
getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager)
getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
...
}
I would like to move that code to a helper class in order to avoid the need to write that code in every Activity, but calls to getSystemService are only allowed from an Activity. The other alternative is to move that code to a parent activity use inheritance but:
Every activity already extends from android.app.Activity
Some of my activities already extend from a common my.package.BaseActivity
(Activity <- BaseActivity <- XXXActivity)
What do you recommend in this case? Is there any other alternative?
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May 7, 2010
I have a set of common code (including .java files and resources), which I have to use for two similar applications with different package names (for different vendors). How can I maintain two packages which share the common code without making two copies of the common source?
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Jan 30, 2010
I am Working on develop an application .In my application I want to Put application header as it look like "Android Market Application". I need help on following issues.
1)How to put all header same for all activities in the application.
2)How to put the common header like in android market application.
3)How to put a common footer for all activities in application.
If possible send source code for my understanding.
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Apr 15, 2010
I'm trying to use some common formatting for a number of different labels, all with different text. From http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/02/android-layout-tricks-, it seems as though I should be able to do something like the following:
<include android:text="@string/description" layout="@layout/label"/>
Where, in label.xml, I have:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
<!-- more detailed formatting to come later --> />
For some reason, the text of the label is showing up empty when I do this. But I can successfully add an ID in this fashion, and then change the text of the label in my application code. For example:
<include android:id="@+id/description_label" layout="@layout/label"/>
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Oct 1, 2009
What are the most easy mistakes to make that can be performance sinks on Android?
The documentation mentions "some floating point operations" can be "on the order of milliseconds" - has someone tested this?
For the sake of discussion, let's assume its running on a G1/similar device.
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Aug 31, 2009
I have done some cusomtizations on general user interface behavior. I would put those features into my applications. Therefore, I package my source code as a jar and add this external library to my applications.
As my cusomtization include some inflation of xml files, I put those resource in my package. However, when I finished compiled my application and ran it, it reports error. It seems cannot locate the xml file in the jar. (My debugger stop while inflate the xml file). Do I miss any step to use my jar file?
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May 24, 2010
I have a TabHost with 4-5 tabs. I want to have a similar bottom for all the tabs. Is there any way we can add a bottom to all the tabs? Or do I need to place the xml code in every layout file.
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Apr 9, 2009
Is there a way to launch a viewer for common file types like TXT, DOC, XLS, PDF from within an app, like Gmail does. Maybe a Google Docs api to pass the file to GD and have it open in the browser?
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Sep 14, 2010
I'd like to bring out an Android app in the near future, so I was wondering how to support a couple of funcitonalities I have got used whilstdeveloping for J2ME and iPhone
first the versioning. With J2ME (using NetBeans as IDE) I had the option to auto-increment the softwwares version every time I compiled it. I was wondering if something like this is available for Eclipse and if so how to use it ? secondly a common code base. Is it possible to have a common code base for several projects ? For example I might have a game which actually uses the same code but needs different graphic resources. I'd hate to have a different project for every game/app and have to manually edit every project's source every time I want to submit a new code-change.
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Nov 6, 2010
I'm making out a few menus for my Android App and throughout there is a standard textview that is repeated 5 times, only changing the android:text tag each time, everything else is the same.There are a good number of properties on this and it feels very inefficient to be copy/pasting all these for each of the textviews.Is there a way I define the common properties just once and add them to each TextView element?
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Apr 14, 2010
I am currently moving from Xcode and iPhone development to Android with Eclipse. I want to have a shared code project so that I can store all the code to be shared across apps in one common library. However it would appear that the only android project available is for applications and not for code libs how can i achieve this?
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May 25, 2010
The application I am developing is in large parts a background-only Service BUT requires some settings that the user must add. Is there a way to integrate applications with the common Settings application/view/activity?
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Jun 2, 2009
I am working on developing several individual android applications. We had created common UI Layout View XMLs, classes and resources. I would like to share these common layout xml, classes and resources across all of my android applications. I dont want to duplicate them in my applications. Is there any easy way to do this?
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Jul 8, 2010
I find it amusing how many Senseless ROMS are popping up. The majority of all ROMS thus far are Senseless and I don't really get it. The main reason I sold my MotoDroid to get the HTC Incredible was for SenseUI and now everybody is wanting to ditch it. I need more Sense ROMs to play with and theres just nothing to choose from. SO I figured I would start a poll and see if I am the only one. So is it a Sense or Senseless ROM preference?
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Nov 1, 2010
So my phone spontaneously rebooted today:
http://androidforums.com/captivate-all-things-root/210476-brand-new-captivate-rebooted-today.html
Is there a common app that may be causing this? Only thing I thought of was either the app Battery Booster, which selectively shuts down running processes to conserve battery, or Lookout, which is an antivirus and back up. Any thoughts?
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Aug 12, 2013
I have a specific way I want to go about it. It will be video oriented and I need all the Droid default icons in png format for as many droid versions as possible. Im refering to basic app icons like those used for alarm, clock, internet, calendar, music, etc. I also need the samsung specific app icons in PNG format. I've gone through playstore and copied the PNGs for their app Icons. Its that manufacture default Icons and Samsung Icons that I can't find like "Polarise", "S Voice", "voice recorder"and the samsung specific "Music" App. a cache or archive of these types of Icons, or know where to get them?
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Aug 20, 2009
I am putting one spinner and one button using following code. Can some one tell me how can i put some space between it?
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Aug 31, 2010
Service Component is used to do some task which can be done without user interaction. But for that we have to run a thread in subclass of the Service. I think we can create a thread in Activity class itself then what is the use of Service component? Why don't we create another thread and write the non interacting code in this thread.
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Apr 30, 2010
I have almost completed my Android application so am considering ways of distributing the application. I have seen some applications on Market have free limited/locked version and separate Unlock Key/License Key which unlocks extra functionality. How is this done? Has anyone here done this? If so, how well does it work? I am thinking maybe this is better then having two versions of the same application (i.e Lite and Pro).
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Nov 18, 2010
I've created a custom component which works like a lock of a safe. customspinner - Project Hosting on Google Code on picture you see two different objects of my component.
If you need to create UI when user need to choose some element of a list, using this non standard component will be more intresting for user. And it is usefull - user can scroll and find a needed value very quickly.
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Jan 11, 2010
A component I have created works fine if I put it in the main project and reference it from any res/layout xml, but when I put it in a project on which the main project depends, I get a ClassNotFoundException in the xml.
Whilst after compiling the interface works fine, it is a pain in the * to design an interface without seeing what I am doing because of the error. Does anyone know how to solve it?
Stacktrace:
CODE:.........................
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Jul 9, 2010
I have created a simple class named Panel which extends the SurfaceView class and does some drawing in the onDraw method. When I use it from the code it works fine. For example this works as expected:
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(new Panel(this)); ....
However when I try adding this component from an xml layout the program crashes:
XML file (main.xml):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <org.anddev.Panel android:id="@+id/panel" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"/>
Code:
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);....
Error msg: Sorry!
The application Test (process org.anddev) has stopped unexpectedly. Pleas try again.
I can not figure out why the same class works when created in one way and doesn't work when created in another.
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Aug 2, 2010
I am trying to integrate VP8 video codec into PV opencore FW in Froyo & test at PV test application level. I have done the following steps, 1. Made a new folder for vp8 @ external/opencore/codecs_v2/omx/ omx_vp8. 2. Made appropriate modifications in the omx_baseclass, omx_common etc. 3. Modified the PV test app (external/opencore/codecs_v2/omx/ omx_testapp) for testing VP8. 4. included the VP8 source code to froyo. 5. Included new oscluuid for VP8 With these modifications, the build is fine. The shared libraries and binaries are creating properly. Also OMX-MasterInit is passing. But the application fails at OMX_GetHandle(). *pHandle is coming as zero. I am using the PV OMX core. I am just adding a new codec which is not supported by PV Opencore and test at PV test_app level.Can you please answer my below queries: 1. Do we need to change the pvplayer.cfg file? Bcoz i am using the PC omx_core itself. 2. Any other changes needs to be done for integrating a new component into Opencore? Please provide you valuable inputs. Let me know if need any additional informations.
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Jun 26, 2009
My company is in the process of evaluating if we can add support for Android to our product. I am currently working on porting our existing J2ME library to the Android framework and I have a question regarding our UI component. Right now, we have a custom menu that we allow our developers to bring up on the device. On J2ME, we simply have a single call that the developer makes to enter into the menu and then we handle the rest. On Android, it seems the best way to handle this is an Activity. But I have a few questions regarding this approach including is the really the best way to do something like this? Second, if it is, if there are multiple applications on the device that are using our library, are there going to be conflicts with them all having the same Activity embedded in them? Is it possible to create an Actvity at runtime and use it directly? Would there be any side effects of going about it this way?
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Feb 14, 2009
I am working on couple android applications which share a common component. The component has Activities, Service and own AndroidManifest.xml. After research, it seems there is no concept of run time share library among applications in Android. So I am looking for a way to linked the share component with other applications at compile time. Applications which will use the component can come from external, therefore I will only provided the compiled file. I would like to build the component into own apk or jar file, can external application include my jar/apk file into their package and be able to start my activity? Please share your experience and advice.
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May 27, 2010
I am looking for a calendar UI. Something like the Calendar UI of the Calendar Android Application but only with the view. (I know that's open source so I can extract the UI but it's a long process to remove all the staff unnecessary) Is there any open source Calendar UI project for android ?
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Mar 9, 2010
IN our current project, I need to make a UI describled as follows.
Basically it is a text input, it will display a string returned from server , such as "I like banana". The word "banana" will be in red color. When user clicks "banana", it will have a dropdown list shows "apple, orange, pear". User would be able to select one of them, like apple. So the text in that UI would be "I like apple".
How could I build such a UI component in Android.
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Nov 20, 2010
How do i do a if statement but i want like: else if not edittext.getText.toString.contains("hello") then doCode. and how do i setfocus on a component and remove the focus can not really figure that out.
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