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Apr 23, 2010How do I declare an Android UI element using XML?

How do I declare an Android UI element using XML?
In my thread I create an inner activity 'B' at one point in order to launch another activity for result. I need to declare this in my Android manifest file but can not work out what the name of it is as the standard ".B" does not work as it says that activity does not exist. How can I declare this activity?
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Now we got to the question if it's possible to get the actual position of an ListElement.
Example: You drag the list up and down, and now you want to konw which element is on the center of the screen?
I have a preferences.xml that looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<EditTextPreference android:name="Sample" android:enabled="true"
android:persistent="true" android:summary="Sample" android:defaultValue="3.0"
android:title="Sample" android:key="sample" /> </PreferenceScreen>
When I do sp.getString("sample", "3.0"), it works fine and returns a string, but it shouldn't be a string, it should be a float. Running sp.getFloat("sample", 3.0f) throws a ClassCastException because it is a string. What should I put in the XML so that the preference is stored as a float?
I have a doubt
For using Phone contact we have to set permission in manifest file
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS" />
My doubt is where(in which file) it is written in Contact Application that you have to set these permissions. because i want to make a sample application and i want if anyone want to get data from my application, have to get some permission.
Please let me know that where we plan which permission has to get by other application to get data from a application.
How is declare global variable in android...some link send me...am searched various post..but am not clear about dis concept...send me valuable link..
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My application contain 4 activities and I want to add the search dialog only on 3 of them while only one of them (ProductsActivity) will be the default context.
unfortunately while I activate the search I keep getting the following error:
"Key android.app.default_searchable expected String but value was a java.lang.Integer. The default value was returned." code...
A few days ago I was struggling to find a way to use custom intents for my alarms. Although I got clear answer that I have to customize the Intents based on some unique ID eg. setAction() still have some problems.This can happen more than once for a contact. And when the second message is generated, the notification is raised well (message is fine there) but the intent when the user actions the notification it uses old data, so previous message is passed and not the brand new message.So someway the intent is caching and reusing previous extras. How can I make it unique per contact and per action?
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i tried this, but the "URL"s are marked as errors
Code:
URL url = new URL("URL.goes.here.com");
URL cannot be resolved to a type, is what eclipse tells me
I have a little doubt, I spend data from Activity A to B with a bundle in the intent.Where I should declare the keys? In Activity A or B? Only to avoid confusion, I'm talking about the string that defines the data that will be set in the Bundle.Ex: public static final String KEY = "MyKey";
I declare always in the Activity A, but I think that if I could let all the keys in a file would be better, like keys.java or something like that.Obviously, this is nothing that is generating errors, just a doubt about convention, a thing that I consider very important in software development.
I'm using hierarchyviewer to look through a widget that I'm using. (TimePicker).
Now I can see that TimePicker contains id/decrement, id/increment and id/timepicker_input.
How do I get a reference to id/timepicker_input for example?
Tried my_picker.findViewWithTag("decrement"); but that returns null.
I would like to know whether there is a way to insert/inject a <string> element defined in an XML file into another <string> element, doing that just with XML.
For example I could have:
<string name="author">Francesco</string>`
and I am looking for something like:
<string name="about_application">Author: @string/author</string>`
so that getString(R.string.about_application) would result in "Author: Francesco".
I know that I could combine the two elements in Java code using String.format(string, formatArgs)like for example:
<string name="author">Francesco</string>
<string name="about_application">Author: %1$s</string>`
and then in code use
String.format(getString(R.string.about_application), getString(R.string.author))
but I would like to do it in XML directly. Can anyone suggest me a way to do it?
I'm sure there's a simple answer to this, but...Why can't I nest another view type within a View element? In my layout file I try:
CODE:...
And this gives me a ClassCastException. Why?
I have an ArrayAdapter in my activity, and when a certain event occur, I'd like to make a specific element flash, or have it highlighted in some way for a couple of seconds. Is there a way to do that?
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In the application I am working on now I came up with the following problem. I have list view which is displaying items with images in most cases it will be different image for different items (thumbnails about 60x60 pixels). So the problem is how can I handle image processing for the view. For know I have the following variants:
1. I can cache all bitmaps and when I try to display view I get bitmap from cache synchronously and display it. The problem is that 60x60=3600x4=14kb per bitmap which is waste of resources.
2. When I need to display view I can register event to some thread to decode the associated bitmap which will decode it in background and than to update gui. This sounds good for me the scrolling is still smooth because all image processing is done in background. Updating list view is bit jerky for now I am doing it view notifyDataSetChanged which is updating all visible views although I can update thumbnail for a single item.
So question one is is there better way the update single listview element than calling notifyDataSetChanged.
I am getting a parsing error and I do not know why (I am new to programing). Because of this error, R.java disappears and I end up having more errors. Hopefully someone can help me out. Here is where the error comes from: list.xml. Code...
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm loading a URL into a WebView and I'm having difficulty setting the "scale" of the web-page. Specifically, the web-page is too big (800x600) for the screen, so my thought is to use "setInitialScale(50)" to reduce the size. Here is some sample code that doesn't work (i.e. the web-page doesn't scale to 50%)
WebView wv = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webview);
wv.loadUrl("http://www.example.com/android/symptom");
wv.setInitialScale(50);
I also tried switching the order of the function calls but I get the same result¦i.e.,
WebView wv = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webview); wv.setInitialScale(50); wv.loadUrl("http://www.example.com/android/symptom");
As an alternative, I have tried to use the "zoomOut()" function like this:
WebView wv = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webview);
wv.loadUrl("http://www.example.com/android/symptom"); wv.zoomOut();
This approach works for a split second, and then the image reverts to its original size.
Here is my content view:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ android"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"> <WebView android:id="@+id/webview"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" /> </LinearLayout>
I have created a custom component and i want it to be singleton in my application and i want all actvities my application to have this custom component which is singleton.
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For example I want the user of my app to be able to enter a value within my program that will change android:layout_marginTop="blabla" to whatever I want. It doesn't specifically have to be that property, I want to be able to change any property of any element. Is there a way to do this?
Is there a way to lookup the line number that a given element is at in an xml file via the w3c dom api?
My use case for this is that we have 30,000+ maps in kml/xml format. I wrote a unit test that iterates over each file found on the hard drive (about 17GB worth) and tests that it is parseable by our application. When it fails I throw an exception that contains the element instance that was considered "invalid". In order for our mapping department (nobody here knows how to program) to easily track down the typo we would like to log the line number of the element that caused the exception.
Can anybody suggest a way to do this? Please note we are using the W3C dom api included in the Android 1.6 SDK.
I am facing a strange an issue that should simple to solve I suppose. I wonder how can I automatically scroll to see an element in a list view. Let's say I know that I want to see the element view number 6 in my list view, how do I scroll my list to see this element ?
I look at the API but without any success, just a word on where to look.
Can someone please tell me how to change tab by clicking on element INSIDE the tab? I already tried it with global data.
Now when I'm trying to change tab in my ListActivity tab by clicking on one of the items it doesn't do anything and stays on the ListActivity tab. Perhaps I shouldn't use onResume() here. Basically I want to go to first tab when I click on one of the items in the list. Please help!
I'm trying to get the ListView by using the findViewById function, yet I'm unsure what I am trying to find or what to put. R.id.list does not work.
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