I wonder if I could save a value (in my program its an index) so I could call it back when the program launches back again (even if the program destroyed) and the user could start from where finish.
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Each time I switch the orientation of the device, onStop() and onDestroy() are called. They are also called when I close the Avtivity (dismiss()), and when I press 'back' key. In onStop() or onDestroy() methods : how can I know how I can here ? I'd like to run some code when I close the Activity (back button), but not if I change screen orientation
View 7 Replies View RelatedThere are some process manage application that allows user stop any running aplication by a button pressing. I want to know, in these situations, the onStop and onDestroy methods will always get executed?
View 6 Replies View Relatedi`ve got some problems with finish() method. I expect what after calling on my Activity finish() method onStop and onDestroy must be triggered(or am wrong??), in majority of examples they are, but Scenario: - reboot phone - launch activity - invoke finish() onPause is triggered but afterwards they are no calls to onStop() and onDestroy()I`ve noticed, that those calls are triggered after launching any other activity.
View 7 Replies View RelatedThe OpenAPI program enables developers to access Sony Ericsson's APIs and content from the company and content partners and build rich features and capabilities into their own applications.
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Is there a way to select a different program to launch when i put my droid into the OEM car mount ? i would much rather have it launch Daily road Voyages instead of the google car app.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have become very frustrated with my new Moment, but am very ready to accept it as User Error. Help!
1. I have read the owner's manual and it states that when I hook my USB to my computer, it will recognize it (my Macbook Pro does not acknowledge it). Of course I don't see the icon on the notification bar that looks like USB either. I can get my computer to recognize my device via bluetooth, but then it refuses to connect it. Is there a program I can use that will recognize it (ie. like when I hook up my iPod touch via iTunes, it becomes a recognized device in a list, something like that?) I read several threads on here about USB and tried removing, reformatting (which auto mounts it according to user's manual) taking out battery, etc, but no avail.
2. Is there any way to set an alarm to something other than annoying alarm type sounds? I loved on my Instinct I could do any ring tone... I used the Appalarm that lets you pick which app to launch, but found it unreliable. (Set to Pandora, decided to freeze on launch, can't have that for a wake up alarm, don't think work would understand!)
3. Is there a way to have GPS enable for specific program launches (ie. when I use google maps or sprint nav) but not be always on or always off? I used battery widget for management but when I manually turn it off, if I get into a search for a location, I'll have to back out, re-enable it then re-start my search. (I'm spoiled with my Microsoft Live Search... verbal search and turn by turn directions spoken... Super safe when driving).
4. When I want to take a photograph, I'll hold down the button.. about 15 seconds later the camera (maybe) loads. Sometimes it won't load this way so I go into the menu and load the camera that way. Then, when I go to take a picture, it focuses in and out repeatedly, then a camera icon on the upper right corner of the screen gets a little green dot in the circle and it makes a bip bip noise. It won't take the picture if I use the camera button on the top (side) of the phone but it *will* take the picture if I press this camera icon on the screen. Of course this is completely awkward! What gives? There is nothing in the owner's manual about this green dot! It shows a red dot in place of the camera icon for a camcorder recording, but this is totally different.
5. The only references to a folder in my user's manual is how to add a folder to the desktop. Well, now that I have my nice empty folder, I'd like to add, say, all my games to it so I have a games folder.. (is this possible)? I'm not sure how to add anything, I tried add and it just puts stuff on the screen behind it. I'm not sure how to add and modify contents to this.
I feel like I've taken steps backwards with this phone. It has a lot of amazing features (Locale, wow; KeyRing, amazing; ShopSavvy, fun), but the stuff I need the most like calendar, photos, and navigation, are the ones that I seem to have to take the most extra steps with or have issues with. Maybe I should've just gotten the Instinct HD.. laugh. My two year old Instinct I still think was way ahead of its time, and the quality of the camera seems way better, of course the HD will blow it out of the water. I just really love the idea of Android. I just feel like everything takes a lot of extra steps. Where are my shortcuts!!I hope you can help!! Tell me what I'm doing wrong or am I just having a bad experience?
The docs say "The onStart() and onStop() methods can be called multiple times, as the activity alternates between being visible and hidden to the user"When I press the back button an it will go back to the previous activity which totally covers the old one.What is going on here?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen user presses BACK key, my activity's onDestroy is called and then it is killed. Is there a way (by overridding Activity.onKeyDown??) to simply put the activity into background without killing it? I want the BACK key to act like the HOME key (which doesn't kill my app), except I want to show the activity immediately below my activity.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have an application with a single Activity implemented as a singleton (in the AndroidManifest). It implements a Listener I wrote. When the application is first run the Listener works fine. When I use the "home" button to minimize it, then open it again it's still fine.
But when I press the back button then run it again from the application icon, the Listener doesn't work fully. The code runs and the Listening methods are called as usual but none of the UI elements that are listening update. It requires a restart of the phone to get the listener working again after this point.
I know the "back" button doesn't really close the application, per se. But resetting the phone sure does! Is there a way to use the onDestroy() or similar method to call a function that actually closes the application? I'm asking because restarting the phone is the only way to get the listener back so I was hoping I could do that programmatic ally.
For example, my progress bar is a member variable of my Activity, but onCreate() I do "progressBar = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.progress_bar);" Is this perhaps creating a separate instance of it or something?
I want to use GPS service for better accuracy in my program, but want the location only once in every couple of hours. To get GPS location the GPS had to be started already manually through Settings->Location Security->Use GPS Satellites. But the problem is GPS continuously running whether I need the location or not and drains the battery quickly. My question is what is the equivalent API for the checkbox selection of,
View 2 Replies View RelatedLast time i downloaded this program, but deleted it, i wanted to use it again.
View 1 Replies View Relatedrecovering deleted photos. I deleted my pictures in my camera file. is there a way to get them back without buying a program.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there a program, native or download, that will back up the phone, settings, options, apps, etc.? For people familiar with BlackBerry, I am looking for something like Desktop Manager.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an activity that contains several user editable items (an EditText field, RatingBar, etc). I'd like to prompt the user if the back/home button is pressed and changes have been made that have not yet been saved. After reading through the android documentation, it seems like this piece of code should go in the onPause method. I've tried putting an AlertDialog in the onPause however the dialog gets shown and then immediately tears down because nothing is there to block the pause from completing.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am seeing an issue where when I hit the "back" button, I get the onPause call, but it isn't followed by onStop and on Destroy. On most phones, I see this, but on one particular phone (Droid-X),
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have noticed while working in the emulator that whenever i get out of my app via any method other than pressing the back button, my toggle button (if pressed) will have its state saved and return to that state when i return to the app. im guessing its because its value gets saved in a bundle and reloaded when i return. when i leave the app via the back button, this does not happen and the toggle is always off when i return. is there any way to get the value of the toggle back if the user leaves via the back button, without having to save the value in a db table? alternatively, if my apps notification is in the status bar, i can be confident that the toggle should always be selected, so if there is no way to save the state, is there a way to find out if my apps notification is currently being displayed? then it would be easy to just set the toggle each time via a quick check of the status bar.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a mediaplayer object inside an activity that plays from mp3 files situated in the res/raw folder. The MediaPlayer.create(Context context, int resid) method is used to create and return a mediaPlayer object to play this track. What I have noticed is that when the activity is obscured by another activity and hence the "onStop()" method is called , the music continues to play. Can anyone explain why this occurs? I though that onStop would essentially freeze any actions taking place by objects associated with the activity, except for services etc
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need be able to tell if Activity.onStop() was called because my application is moving to a new activity, or if it was closed because the user pressed the "Home" key or hit the back button from the bottom of the activity stack.The reason is because I need to know when it is appropriate to shut off music that is playing in my application (A game). There is nothing more annoying than hitting home and having something playing music in the background.However, Activity.OnStop() is called for each activity change, and I don't want to suspend music when moving between multiple activities in my app. I just can't find a way to differentiate between going home and going to a internal activity.Am I perhaps hooking into the wrong events?
View 3 Replies View RelatedOn Damage Control and i was wondering if theres a good screencap tool. Any suggestions? And also, is there a program to back up all contacts to the SD card WITH their contact icons?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have two activities. One loads all rows from a database, and the other saves to the database. When I have the second save in onStop and the first repull the data in onResume, they do it out of order (the first resumes and then the second saves). I managed to fix this by putting the saving data in onPause, but why was this happening? Was this the cleanest way to do it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIn the Android Application Fundamentals it says that after the call to the onStart()-method of the activity lifecycle either the callback method Resume() or onStop() is called. In case of an "normal" Start of an activity the system calls onCreate(), onStart(), onResume().But does somebody know an example where onStart() - onStop() are executed one after another?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just went through the hassle of factory resetting to see if it will help my post-froyo battery drain. The one thing I could not figure out was how to back-up/restore my internet bookmarks. Does anyone know how to do this? Not mentioned in the manual or froyo guide.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm saving the state of my activities for orientation change support, it works well. Sometimes I have a dialog open though and need to save its state as well. My dialog's onStop() method doesn't seem to get called when I change orientation. Where would get notified inside the Dialog that we're being destroyed, so I can save its state?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have an application that is silencing the ringer while it is open, then when it closes it unsilences it. Currently I am doing these two things in OnStart and OnStop. The only problem (and it's a big one) is that when a phone call comes in, it stops my application (calling OnStop), then rings at its normal volume. Is there any way to get around this? I tried using onCreate and onDestroy, but I want to restore the original volume setting as soon as the program is closed, which onDestroy doesn't seem to do. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscribe@ googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm having this strange issue where upon exiting a subactivity that is translucent (android:theme="@android: style/Theme.Translucent" ) the onStop() method doesn't appear to be called. have a TimerTask that runs and is supposed to be terminated when the subactivity ends in the onStop() method, but I'm instead left with an orphaned thread running in the background. It go particularly bad when I ran the subactivity several times. When I revert to no theme, the onStop() method is called and the activity behaves properly. Is there something I missed about how Translucent activities'lifecycles differ from standard activities?
View 4 Replies View RelatedJust like the title says, Is there a simple line of code I could add to onStop()that will simply stop any gps activity currently going on with my application?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a problem with the activity lifecycle specifically on Nexus One (2.1 running on emulator works fine). If I just create a simple empty Activity with no special launchModes that logs the calls on the onStart and onStop methods, this is what I see: - launch app: onStart called; - home button: onStop NOT called; - launch app: onStart NOT called; - home button: onStop NOT called: and so on. Sometimes if I press the back button then the onStop is not called, but the when i launch the activity again the onStart is called and right after the onStop is called. Similar results with different launchModes. What is going on? Can anyone confirm this?
i found an android issue for the problem here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6094 and a similar thread here http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa.
Is there a way to save text messages to the SD card? Any other way to back them up? I saw the backup app that saves them in gmail, but I was looking for alternatives.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to play a video when the main activity launches from the appicon.
Application.onCreate() is not always called and Activity.onResume/ onCreate is called to many times (e.g. when user goes back from child activity).
How can I do this?