Android :: How To Ensure None Of Views Focused When Activity Opens?
Oct 5, 2010
My application opens in Activity A1. None of the views in A1 are focused at startup, until I use the arrow keys to navigate through the views. A button press in A1 launches activity A2. When A2 opens, the first Button in A2 is focused by default. I do not want this happen. What I want is when A2 opens, none of the buttons are focused until arrow keys are used to naviagte through them(just like it is in A1).
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Nov 9, 2010
If I have a layout with lots of EditText views in a LinearLayout and the user focuses the third one down and flips out the keyboard to start typing, the entire layout is destroyed and recreated through the activity lifecycle. When everything is done, however, the third EditText is given focus again and the user never knows that anything happened and types away.
I am creating a similar layout, but due to the nature of my data, I have to dynamically create the list of EditTexts, mixed with some other views. The default layout has one EditText at the top, a ScrollView with a LinearLayout child (which will be filled with EditTexts later), and some action buttons at the bottom. I fill the LinearLayout with all the EditText fields I need (based on extras passed via intent).
This part works quite well, but the way the activty handles Runtime Configuration changes is broken now (from a UI perspective). Now if the user focuses the third EditText (which was dynamically created via new EditText()) and flips out the keyboard, the layout is destroyed and recreated, but focus is always given to the permanent EditText at the top of the screen.
Is there something I need to do when adding my dynamic views to make sure they can keep focus through orientation changes? is there a way I can work around the issue and force focus to be given to the last view that had it before the change?
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Nov 9, 2010
I have an activity with an EditText on top and a ScrollView with a LinearLayout inside it. The LinearLayout is populated in the onCreate method with a set of dynamic views based on an object passed with the initiating Intent. This is typically a set of EditTexts. The result is a list of EditTexts each corresponding to a different piece of data (and the dataset being edited is quite variable, so the list needs to be created dynamically like this).
The problem is, when one of these views has focus, and the orientation changes (say the user flips out the keyboard to type), the focus snaps to the EditText at the very top of the Activity. This is certainly undesired behavior as the user didn't intend to type in the top EditText when he/she flipped out the keyboard.
How can I dynamically create my list of views like this and not have this undesirable focus changing behavior?
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Jan 10, 2010
I hav an app that is like a relational database. There is a main app activity that users manage things with. There is also a widget that will display important info and add data to the database. When the widget is clicked, a configure class displays a way for the user to edit data. When the configure activity is done, the widget is updated and instead of going back to the home screen, the apps main activity is started. I can't find where the main activity is being called from. Wouldn't I have to create an intent and start Activity() to get this behavior? When done updating, I want the home screen and not my app.
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Oct 2, 2009
I open an Activity which has a number of elements... some TextViews, some Buttons, and an EditText. For some reason, when the activity starts, the EditText is focused by default, which causes the keypad to appear hiding the screen. I only want this EditText to be in focus if the user clicks into it. How can I ensure that this View isn't in focus when the activity starts? I've tried calling requestFocus() on one of the buttons, but it hasn't changed anything. Ideally, I don't want anything in focus at all.
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Jan 25, 2010
Is there any way to query a root view of an activity for all of its child views even before the root view or its children have been inflated? I guess what I'm looking for is whether a view knows ahead of time what children it will have before it gets inflated, and can I get that list in some way. Bizarre I realize, but I think it will help me with some unconventional automation testing I'm working on. I haven't found anything in the API like this.
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Jul 24, 2009
This is an intermittent bug in one of my apps. I don't expect anyone to solve it immediately, but I'd appreciate any thoughts on how to start debugging!So, my app lets users edit an item (in the EditPage activity). When they press the Back key, the desired behaviour is that it saves their edits and returns them to the home page (the HomeList activity). The code for this is below. It works fine. Except.The bug is this. Some users report that sometimes when they reopen the application after a pause, they are seeing *not* the home page, where they left the application - but the previous edit activity. Crucially, they are also seeing the edit activity without their saved edits - effectively losing their most recent edits.I've been able to reproduce this myself. It only happens after the application hasn't been opened for a while. If I save something, minimize the application and reopen it straight away, it shows the HomeList activity just fine, and the edits have all been saved. But if I save something, leave it for a couple of hours and then reopen it, it shows the previous EditPage activity, without the saved edits (i.e. in the state that the EditPage activity was previously launched).
Any ideas, anyone? I had wondered whether it was due to the Back button being used to return the user to the HomeList activity - maybe Android thinks that the Back button means that the HomeList is not the most "recent" activity, instead the EditPage is. I'd like to carry on using the Back button if possible, though. And in particular, I'm puzzled why it only happens after the app has been idle for an hour or so, and not immediately? Is it something to do with Android's memory management?
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May 26, 2010
In my app, I want a functionality to create calendar event. I open "new calendar event" activity like this:
CODE:.................
It works perfectly on stock Android. On HTC Sense, I have only one issue - end time is not set correctly, it's always one hour after begin time.
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Oct 19, 2010
am not too experienced in android and i am just using the TabActivity, so please bear with me. i keep seeing post about not using activites in Tabhost but views. and am not sure which is which and if thats the reason of my latest headache? i have a code with 4 tabs like this:
// Category TabActivity class
tab.setContent(new Intent(this, Mylist.class));
tab1.setContent(new Intent(this, Mylist.class));
tab2.setContent(new Intent(this, Mylist.class));
and each tab is showing the result of a method in the Mylist Activity.is that using an activity in a tab or displaying a view? whats the difference?.i have a context menu on an item selected in the Mylist Activity which updates the list. how can i reflect the changes in the list back to the tab in other to display that particular method in the Mylist class, that was set as the tabs content. obviously this will change if i updated or deleted an item from the list when the tab is shown. i think its possible with onResume(), but don't know what to call there or is there any better way?in the Mylist class, i have tried this little piece of code to restart the TabActivity:myAdapter.deleteItem(id);
fillData(); //
Intent refereshCategory = new Intent(this, Category.class);
startActivity(refereshCategory);
its restarting the activity after the item have been deleted, but how can i only show the tab whose view was in focus when it restarts and i don't want fillData() method to be shown as it does not have to do with the tabs. i hope i made myself clear enough
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Nov 10, 2010
When i enter to a activity with a scrollview layout and textedit's they get focus and android keyboard opens.how i can avoid it? when i was using linearlayout and relativelayout without scrollview layout, this doesn't happens.
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Jun 21, 2010
I have a very simple listview going on. The list just consists of strings, when you click the string it opens a new activity blah blah. Here's the problem, I enabled settextfilter and while it did filter the list, when you click the result, it always performs the action of the string located at zero, and not the one it is supposed to.
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Aug 3, 2010
If an Activity is a singleton in practice, I think I can gain some efficiency by declaring appropriate members "static", with zero risk. Yes?
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Jul 13, 2009
I have the instance to my activity, and I want to get all the views that are in this activity. I need to add a listener to each view, for any activity. That means I can't user findViewById. Is there any way to do this? I was hoping for a activity.getViews() or something, but it doesn't exist.
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Jul 10, 2010
Is there a way to get every view that is inside my activity? I have over 200 views including buttons, and images, so i want to be able to access them by using a loop.
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Aug 6, 2009
i have created some xml layout: 1- toplayout.xml 2- botlayout.cml 3- middlelayout.xml now i can only set one view as in setContentView(R.layout.toplayout); please advise how can i show all three views in my activity?
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Feb 10, 2010
I simply want to create a ListView above this webview (covering it up...but sitll allowing the webview to run). I could toggle the views on and off.
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Oct 28, 2010
I am new to android.I have a list view in one activity. Displaying data in it... I want to use another activity as a tab-bar for 1st activity which allow user to switch to other activity... Is there any way so that 2 different views can be displayed in 1 activity. And then how can i start a new activity inside this activity. Like when user click on any button in tab-bar the corresponding activity should be start but we should not Re-initiate tab-bar view...
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Jan 6, 2010
I have a simple ListView and on that ListView I have placed a number of custom defined Views. The CustomView has ImageView and two TextViews.
The CustomView also has a "stateful drawable" as background, so that the background image (a 9-patch) changes if you press the Row in the ListView. When pressing the Row, the background image changes to a Red-ish thing.
The problem is that when the background changes from the default greyish, all the Views in the CustomView (ImageView and TextViews) still have their greyish background and thus creates very ugly greay boxes on top of the now redish background.
What is the best way to solve that problem? I hoped that such things were handled automatically (as it is done in for example .NET), but I was wrong it seems.
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Apr 15, 2009
I have custom view and once some action occur in it (say touch/key event) I'd like to call some code in my activity. My question is if broadcasts (intent filters/broadcast receivers) are good communication mechanism for such thing? If not, what is normal/android preferred way to do it?
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Apr 19, 2009
Is it possible to add a view dynamically that overlaps other views in the layout. I have Linear Layout defined for the activity. As part of the Layout I have a custom View. The content changes dynamically and sizes appropriately based on the content size, with fill_parent for width and wrap_content for height. But what I want is, dynamically take over the full screen and then based on a click go back to the normal mode. Is there a mode to display a view where - in it can overlap all other views in the layout?
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Aug 3, 2010
I want to get the size of a view that is in my activity but I am not able to get that information in any of the activity lifecycle callbacks (onCreate, onStart, onResume). I'm assuming this is because the views have not been drawn yet. At what point are views drawn and is there a callback I can put my code so I can get the size of the view?
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Nov 7, 2010
Basically what I am trying to accomplish is I want a canvas I can pass bitmaps to, to be displayed on the screen with the rest of my view objects (buttons, textviews, etc).
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Jul 21, 2009
I have an activity called A, and on the selection of menu item 0, it spawns service B, which starts a runnable C in a new thread. I have a TextView in activity A, which I want to access in thread C.
I've tried making the TextView a public static field, but that generates the following error:...........................
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Nov 16, 2010
I am implementing a music player application in Android. My play list selection screen is implemented as a tab selector widget which contains a ListActivity inside each of the tabs: Artist, Albums, Songs.
I want to update the ListView in each of the ListActivity when I delete an item from any of the lists.
i.e. When I long press an item in the Artists list a context menu is drawn with "Delete Artist"
And it should delete all the songs from this artist in the Songs ListView, delete all the albums by this artist in the Albums ListView, and finally delete the entry for the artist in the Artist ListView.
Each of the ListActivity has its own fillData() method, which updates the ListView when the button in the context menu is pressed.
How can I call the fillData() method of the Albums ListActivity after I update the ListView inside of the Artists ListActivity?
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Feb 28, 2010
I want to populate a table, defined in layout xml file through the programmatic way. I have define Table with a single row defining its header, with all the attributes set. Now i want to know a way so that i can just replicate that header row in the table with new content.
I tried using inflator inflate(int,view) method, but at runtime it showed up with error.
Here is the XML code for the layout file defining the table
CODE:.................
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Mar 6, 2010
I have the following XML code:.................
The idea is to change the views, whenever I press one of the radio buttons. When I press a button the first time everything works out fine, but the second time I press a button, I get an IllegalStateException, and I can't quite see why I'm getting this.
Also, the Activity seems to set all my global variables to null, which is why I have to create them every time I switch from portrait to landscape or vice versa. So I would like to know if there is a way I can save my views in the Bundle, or any other way in which I can permanently save my views, so I don't have to add or create them every time, I flip the phone. And whenever I flip the phone, it seems that it rereads the main XML file, causing the RadioGroup to be set to 2D even if the 3D button is checked. This is because I've said the 2D button to be checked from when the app is first created, but I would like to also save the state of that RadioGroup.
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Aug 16, 2010
Are there design guidelines to help decide if an application with multiple views should be designed with multiple activities or just one activity and control the back button itself.
I've tried both. My most complex applications using one activity per screen. However, now that I'm successfully written an app with just one activity and handling the back button myself, I don't see any compelling reason to use multiple activities. The one activity application is much simpler and more straightforward.
What advantages of multiple activities am I missing?
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Jun 16, 2010
How do you align views relative to the "middle" part of another view? I think it is best explained with a pic of the UI I'm trying to create in android.
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Jul 31, 2010
I have a listActivity which I use ArrayAdapter insider it. When user scrolls the scroll ball, one listitem would be focused. How can I know itemlist is highlighted?
It looks simple to me at first, however, it takes several days and still can't find answer.
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Oct 15, 2009
I have this custom layout:
- LinearLayout
- FrameLayout
- ImageView
- TextView
This layout reacts to click events (using LinearLayout.setOnClickListener()) and is made focusable using android:focusable="true" in the layout XML file. This all works fine if you're using the touchscreen, but I'm thinking about users who don't use the touchscreen that much and prefer navigation keys or maybe even don't have a touchscreen. These users won't be able to see when that ViewGroup is focused (although it can be focused using the keyboard).
My question is: how can I make a change in that layout when it is focused (I need to change the android:background of the ImageView)? I suppose I could use LinearLayout.setOnFocusChangeListener(), but I'm thinking maybe there's a better way, using just XML files.
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