Is there a way to launch a dialog (say, the dialog I show to users the first time they launch the app) from a preferences entry? I don't see any examples doing this in the API Demos, nor have I seen it out in the wild. I do see a class called DialogPreference, but this doesn't seem to be what I want.
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New Android developer here - I'm hoping this is simple.
I want to create a "row-based" prefs dialog, like you see in most standard apps. You know, black background, fading-line separators, bigger/bold label text for each entry, smaller description text, perhaps a checkbox/down arrow.
Is there a standard object in the Android API for this? If not, how do people usually create these?
I am facing a strange problem. I have 2 activities.The Second activity having the theme.Dialog (set in manifest). when I launched the second activity from first activity via startActivityforResult(). The Second activity is not Visible.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI would like to be able to close the editpreference dialog (as shown here http://twitpic.com/18ttdp) by pressing the 'Done' button on the keyboard. Currently, pressing 'Done' just dismisses the keyboard but leaves the dialog. In other parts of my application I use code similar to the following to intercept the 'Done' key press and execute actions in my activity:
text.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
@Override public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event)
if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE) {
//do stuff here return true;
} return false;
} } );
However, I am unsure of how to do achieve this same effect in my preference activity or layout XML.
I am using a PreferenceActivity to let the user set some values. I am feeding it the xml file with the defined preferences.
I have set all the android:defaultValue="" for them.
When I start my application, I need the preferences, or if they are not set yet manually, I want the default values:
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However, when android:defaultValue="true" I still get false. So, it looks like the defaultValues set in the XML are not used anywhere but when initializing the preferences-screen.
I don't want to hardcode the default values in the getBoolean() method. So, is there a way get the default-values with only defining these in 1 place?
My application is used on multiple platforms so it saves it preferences to a file (rather than to the standard Android SharedPreferences).
Is there any easy of reusing the PreferenceActivity to save preferences to a file or is it a case of creating a whole new activity to do the job? If the latter is the case is there a layout I can use that will make the activity look like the normal preferences screen? PreferenceActivity uses com.android.internal.R.layout.preference_list_content but this doesn't appear to be available to apps for reuse.
My android application has two kinds of preferences:
1) I have user preferences defined in res/xml/preferences.xml so that users can manage their preferences with a PreferenceActivity.
2) I'd like to define another file for global configuration preferences of my app.
What is the best way to manage my app config preferences? Should I create another XML file with config values or should I specify those config values in strings.xml? What is the best practice for managing config preferences?
I have a dialog with edittext for input. when i click yes button on dialog, it will validate the input and then close dialog. However, if the input is wrong, i want to remain in the same dialog. every time no matter what input it is, the dialog always automatically close when i click button. How can i disable this. By the way, i use PositiveButton and NegativeButton for the button on dialog
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to add a simple preferences file in a new Android project (New -> Android XML File), but it doesn't appear to be working correctly.
There is no root element to choose from when I select the Preference type layout. If I press Finish, it doesn't do anything. See screenshot below.
I am having a problem about repeating Login dialog (an AlertDialog) and progress dialog, coordinating with http thread. I suppose repetitive Login dialog (if fail, continue) handling should be common and straightforward. I guess my approach must be wrong somewhere. I already spent 2 days on this and am desperate. So please help. User starts the app, the main activity starts.Show a login dialog (generated by the main thread, i.e. from on Create. The main thread then starts a wait_thread, which will wait for http to return data and check the data and decide what to do.After user input username/password and press login, a progress dialog starts.The progress dialog starts an http_thread to talk to the server and get replies. Once done, it will notify the waiting thread.If the user type in the right username password first time, the code works fine.But it always fail for 2nd time Login, i.e. When first login fail(wrong username/ password),the wait_thread will generate 2nd Login dialog to let user repeat the login process. But after user hit the login on this 2nd Login dialog, the system always crashes.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to make a custom Dialog,because i donot like it"s style,i want get a rounded rectangle rather than rectangle . i know to implement it by theme in Manifest.xml . for example :the code
at activity write:
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My question is how to implement this Similar result by extends dialog or alertDialog.
I'm trying to get my list view to open up an alert dialog to display information when a person clicks on a selection. I have been trying several different things on the Google Developers website that have to do with this but have yet to come up with a result. Here is my code. package table.periodic;
import android.app.Activity; import android.app.AlertDialog; import android.app.Dialog; import android.content.Context; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.View; import android.widget.AdapterView; import android.widget.ArrayAdapter; import android.widget.ImageView; import android.widget.ListView; import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;...........
how to create an Alert dialog in a dialog? is it possible to create? My requirement is to show mulitple dialogs simultaneously. I tried creating with the following code snippet onClick of a Button in the first Dialog and got an "BadToken" exception from WindowManager: "Unable to add window -- token null is not for an application"
AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(getContext()); builder.setTitle("Test Title"); builder.setOnCancelListener(new Dialog.OnCancelListener() { public void onCancel(DialogInterface dialog) { dismiss(); } });
I have a really weird problem, which I am unable to debug so far. thing is. my app needs to download something to work. So in the beginning of the onCreate() method, I check if that something is already downloaded. If not, I pop a dialog up asking the user to download it.My dialog is shown and I am clicking, so aManager.install() is called. I am passing the context because that aManager.install() pops up a ProgressDialog to show downloading progress and spawns a new thread in which everything is downloaded. So obviously before creating my dialog I make a Handler to receive the response from that aManager.install(). And the response MAY vary, because for example the internet connection isn't available (Exception raised and catched and listener called with different code).Now, when that happens (Exception) I would like to call another dialog saying "something went wrong, would you like to retry?" so another call to showDialog(DIALOG_REINSTALL) (this time with another code).thing is the showDialog() gets called (I can verify this by logging) but the dialogs doesn't show up. Instead my application JUST HANGS Does someone have a clue why it's doing this? No exception raised, absolutely nothing from logcat, I can't tell WHERE it's hanging...just see that the method is called and the dialog should be displayed.
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data from facebook. Now hen ever i click on "fconnect" button to log in into facebook i am getting following dialog box. so is it possible to replace this dialog box with following to make it simple ?
Is there a way to use ListAdapter in preferences screen ? or i must use only chekboxpreference, textpreferences, etc....
View 1 Replies View RelatedCan any body know how we can use the preference & widgets together .
I want to use preferences to show like a list & want to show buttons at the bottom of similar screen?
How I can access and modify the system preferences (the options you see on system 'Settings' application)?
Cheersss, Armond
I would like to give users a choice of starting one of three different activities by choosing from three mutually choices. And I would like to provide users these choices as Preferences. If I use CheckboxPreference, user can select more than choices. Something like "RadioGroupPreference" would be good but it is not available from SDK. Can mutually exclusive preferences be implemented? Pointers or suggestions are greater appreciated.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to give an option to users to be able to change the theme to the light one. I can't find any command or anything for this. I know I can set this in the Manifest file but this is not what I'm looking for.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm having this problem with one of my apps where some people are reporting that their preferences are not being saved when they close and resume the app. The preferences theyre talking about happen to be actual Preferences (i.e. the built-in preferences manager for an activity). They say they're not doing anything special, just exiting the app and going back to it. Does anyone know why the prefs wouldn't be saved for only this select few people? I'm at a complete loss.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI'm having a hard time trying to understand how the preferences activity works. Right now I have an activity for my preferences using a XML layout that has this:
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The thing is that everything I do in the preferences are saved. I can reboot the emulator and I can access the preferences. I want to know how can I access this key from another activity on my application.
This is my activity:
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In a preferences screen in my application which is build by extending the PreferenceActivity i need to change background on the window itself and on the PreferenceCategory. How i can do it via Themes/Styles ? Which attributes i need to define ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI downloaded launcherpro, and there is no application icon with the rest of my apps. I wanted to fix my screens and stuff, but I cannot find the preferences for the app. I cant even find the app on my phone. It changed my home screens from 7 to 3. Is there only a way to get to the preferences by purchasing LauncherProPlus?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to make a somewhat advanced settings Activity (one that has a RadioGroup in one of the cells). The layout xml file contains the following:
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I'm trying to remove a preference from the screen so it isn't visible if the user is using an SDK greater than 2.2. I've found several answers saying that getPreferenceScreen().removePreference(thePreference) will work, but I'm getting FALSE returned every time I try it. Am I using it in the wrong place?
Any clue from my code?
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I want to know how we can use shared pref in different application.
View 5 Replies View RelatedDoes Android provide smth. like that OR do I have to check every time during start of my app "Oh, am I freshly installed? Do I have to initialize the Shared Preferences now?"
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a user preference in my app, which gets ued by different activity. I would like to know the best way to utilize those preferences between different activities in my App.
I have this idea to create a shared preference object from the main activity and from there send intents to the different activities to take actions. would it work?.. or just keep calling getsharedpreferences() from every activity?
I've just created some preferences using the PreferenceScreen XML following the Earthquake example from Wrox's "Professional Android Development" book.
Using the emulator, how do I accept the preferences?
If I use the back button I return a Activity.RESULT_CANCELED. So which key returns the Activity.RESULT_OK code?