Android :: Modifying The User Interface
Apr 29, 2009
I am looking for some answers from some of the experts here. I have a project in mind that I want to start. It is about using HTC's Touch HD phone as a device in a museum with rich media/video about the art and the artists on it. Besides the videos and animation, I also want to show some content from a web browser. Now my biggestest issue. I do not want that the museum guest who pick up the phone for the tour get to see the standard Android user interface. Is there a way to develop a new user interface that would start up directly once the phone is turned on? It should then automatically start the app with the museum infos. Later I may want to add some GPS functions and even sms and photo taking, etc....
What do you think, how flexible is Android to allow that?
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Sep 29, 2009
In Android, how can I replace the user interface of an emulator by my own interface? I would like to start my own interface immediately as the emulator gets started and that the user can't use the original interface but the original interface is on the background.
Update:
Now my code looks like this...
As I run the program, Eclipse displays
ActivityManager: Warning: Activity not started, its current task has been brought to the front. Does anyone knows why?
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Jun 7, 2014
Is there a place where I could find open source examples of User Interfaces for android apps. Like a project containing custom buttons, isons, sound effect, a nice layout with multiple blank activities that serves as a skin for your app. Strangely I didn't find anything like this whereas there are plenty of themes.
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Nov 17, 2010
I need that my user interface haves 3 sections
NORTH SECTION: four textviews with info about a user MIDDLE SECTION: a googlemap view with the position of the user SOUTH SECTION: a textview with time of last position, and a button to actualice the position (retrieving it from a database)
is this possible? i can't find any information about that on google or android developers guide...
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Apr 13, 2010
I wonder how you can make an advanced Android User interface where you can add for example a drag drop and more graphics options? is that by using OpenGl ?!
this is example of UI in iPhone Apps.
example 1
example 2
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Sep 1, 2010
My phone should be delivered shortly, and I'm trying to decide what user interface I want to use. I'm new to Android and this is also my first smart phone. Can someone tell me what the advantages and disadvantages of these two user interfaces are?
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Nov 12, 2010
We are developing a software suite that heavily involves user interaction. We'd like to have a nice touch-based user interface, very similar to that of Android. Are there any libraries or other ways to easily build and use such user interfaces for own applications. We mainly develop in C++, but things in Python or Java or even something web-based..
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Dec 14, 2012
we are looking for the BEST or the industry standard tool for designing visualization for mobile! We have a very complex social network site that we want to design for mobile and in the past created our visualizations/user interface for PC in photoshop and dreamweaver than presented to our coders to build. We struggled to repeat this successful approach for mobile and are now looking for the most effective methods or tools.
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Jun 22, 2013
I Have a Galaxy note, and I wanna change the User Interface of my phone. How do I do that? I mean the way everything looks( musics, buttons, settings, everything.) I dont if I am doing the right thing, but I downloaded some PSD files of interfaces I really liked, but I dont know what to do next.
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Sep 9, 2009
As far as I understand, Android and the Galaxy touch screen is not meant to be calibrated; at least, there does not seem to be a user interface for doing so (this is also true of the tilt and compass sensors, and yet various apps include their own calibration methods.)
The trouble is that I frequently --perhaps 40% of the time-- hit the key to the right of the one I meant to type. That is, I get an "M" instead of an "N", a "Z" when I intended to shift into uppercase, and so on. One might argue that I just need to get used to this teensy keyboard, but I might argue that a good user interface should get used to me. Is there anything that can be done?
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Sep 22, 2010
I have a EditText in android in which i want the user to enter the text and checks for the condition "BYE"
Code sample..
How can i make user to enter the text?The UI should wait for the text to be entered(something like we have InputStreamReader in java applications).
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Jul 11, 2009
So I have the basics down... I can create a UI with the XML, I can show it and change the screen to another UI (another XML file) but how do I add to the UI?
Hard to explain...
Say I have a header (just 2 textviews) that will remain at the top and below that is a search box and button (main.xml). The user searches and I have it display the search UI (search.xml). This UI will have the same header (2 textviews) and below it will have several textviews each one containing a search result... Kinda like if you search for an app in the market. There's no way of telling how many results would be returned so I figured I would have to create each textview on the fly within the .java file. I'm not sure how to do this. Most likely would require a loop of some sort, but whats the syntax to create a new textview and display it right below the one above it? I'm working with linear here so I would assume just creating a new textview it will by default go to the next one down which is what I want.
Also, say I have 30 results... How do I get those to scroll but leave the 2 textview header in place? Would I create a ScrollView and put the new TextViews in that?
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Sep 11, 2010
In an Android application I am writing, the styling for my various TextView elements is defined in an xml resource. I would like enable the user to change certain styles such as android:typeface using a PreferenceActivity. Is there a way to modify a style resource programmatically such that all associated widgets will update correctly? If not, must I manually select all widgets by id and change their styling?
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Nov 3, 2010
I am writing an application that will run on 2.0 and above. Now, I am thinking of adding the Data backup feature to the application. Is there anyway to modify the manifest file to include the metadata only if the phone is using Froyo(2.2). Ideally, i would like to avoid creating a separate application for just Froyo.
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Oct 6, 2009
Have a question regarding RotateAnimation. If I do not set the property FillAfter to true then the image in my view, that I use RotateAnimation to animate, returns to the initial position after the animation is done. My problem is that when I set fillafter to true when I later set the image on my imageview to another image than the one I animated some kind of transformation is applied to that image also.
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May 31, 2009
What I want to do, is to make a software to resolve the following Android issue:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1215
2009/5/31 kankunb...@gmail.com <kankunb...@gmail.com>
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May 25, 2014
I have tried to modifying and app for android so I can install the same app 2 times but I failed. I want to change the name of the app in the files and repack it so I can install it?
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Feb 19, 2010
I'm primarily working on the Android SDK on windows, but would like to modify/tweak some functionality in the application framework.I have a separate ubuntu box where I downloaded the android source code, built it using "make" as well as "make sdk". I have a few questions in mind. Is it possible to import the binaries that I built on the ubuntu box into the android windows SDK? If so, what are the (proper) steps in doing so.For example, say I modified some functionality in the Activity.java file, then built it on ubuntu. I want to be able to make use of my modifications and continue my app development on my Windows SDK. Can I somehow import the framework binaries built from this step over to my windows SDK and continue my development from there? If so, what are the binaries I need and what are the steps to import them?
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Mar 23, 2010
I need to load an audio resource and play it, but I also need to be able to modify some parameters (like the volume, or the playback rate) while the audio is being played. For example, I might want to play a 10 seconds audio stream, and change the volume only after 3 seconds. Is there a way to do it? I've been experimenting a little with AudioTrack without results.
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Apr 17, 2010
On my widget I'm having a button and a textView. When clicking that button some data is registered and I want the TextView to be updated. However I can't get to the TextView instance from within my Activity it seems.
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Oct 14, 2010
I have a rooted desire, but I have a troublesome app that won't update and I can't delete. I have seen others who have had the same problem, and a solution is to rename the app .apk.old and then redownload it, but I can't find a decent app to do this. I do have superuser permissions.
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Aug 2, 2010
This question actually has two parts.
The first part:
I've been developing my first app for a couple of weeks now. I have 5 screens and everything seems well. However, I'm considering changing the app's navigation to a TabView.
I haven't delved much into it, but I'm hoping someone can save me a little bit of time. It seems that people don't generally place Activities inside each tab. They simply point the tab content to a View. This is where my major setbacks are. 1) I already have Activity classes full of code and 2) I can't quickly guess how the structure of an app using TabView looks. For example, where do I put the handler code for clicking a button on a View? Does it all just get dumped into the TabView Activity somehow?
What I would like is if you could please give me a quick synopsis of what I'm looking at doing, answers to any questions you think I may have, and point me toward some resources for creating TabView applications. A quick Google search really just shows me how to create a TabView Activity and add a couple tabs to it. The code doesn't go any deeper. For example, say I have a layout xml to show in one of my tab's content pane, where does the code go for clicking a button I have in that layout?
The second part:
I've added a TabActivity to wrap the Activities I currently have in. At the moment I have Activities populating the content of my tabs (though ultimately I'd like to do this in the most efficient fashion, which doesn't seem to be having Activities be tab content). I've noticed something rather annoying. My MAIN Activity is an Activity I wrote for my user to log in to their account. After logging in, they are taken to my Tab Activity. Here is what happens:
When I am on my Tab Activity and I "minimize" the app by clicking the Home button and then launch it again, I don't get taken back to the Tab Activity. I get taken to my log in Activity. Why? I don't have the launchMode of my Tab Activity set to singleInstance... or is it singleInstance by default? How can I make the app re-launch showing the Tab Activity (ideally by setting some parameter, assuming I'm doing something wrong, and not having to save this data off somewhere and reading it and programmatically telling it what to go to)?
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Nov 3, 2010
I have a ListView, displaying some items, containing an ImageView filled with a standard image at first and a line of text.
What I wanna do is downloading one thumb after another with an AsyncTask and step for step change the standard image with the downloaded one. How to realise this?
The ListView contents are managed by an enhanced ArrayAdapter.
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Sep 14, 2010
I've read up quite a bit on the exception thrown while using BaseAdapter, but i can't seem to find an alternative solution: Make sure the content of your adapter is not modified from a background thread. What i want to achieve is to keep a copy of a message queue in memory, and use this message queue to populate the BaseAdapter for my ListView. The reason im doing this is that the message queue will keep getting messages from a socket even when the ListView is not currently present (for example a chat window).
The problem comes when i have the Activity with the ListView in foreground, BaseAdapter binded to the message queue's data, and a message comes in the socket. Adding the new message into the queue will throw the exception mentioned above. Unless i pre-populate my BaseAdapter with the message queue (as in the BaseAdapter having its own message queue) and updating both of them when a new message come in, i can't really find a way around this issue. I don't really want to double up the effort on keeping those 2 queues up-to-date like this, surely there is a better way of doing this? Send broadcasts around doesn't work either because of the potential delay in the adapter serving a scroll and the notifyDataSetChanged call is made.
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Nov 15, 2010
I'm developing a mobile web browser application for Android which supports complex script rendering of Indic scripts.
For this, I used a currently available open source web browser for Android (which is licensed under GPLv3) & modified its code to support complex script rendering.
Now the code of the browser is from that open source app & the code of the complex script rendering part is from me.
My question is, Can I publish this application in a different name under the same license? (i.e. If the name of the open sourse app is "ABC Browser", can I publish the modified app which is able to support complex script rendering in a different name such as "XYZ Browser" under GPLv3 license?)
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Jun 10, 2009
Anyone help me to modify the layout params of a child in a ListView in Android.Please give some code snippets if you can.
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Oct 26, 2009
I want to modified the init.rc file to import a new configuration file by adding the following lines in the init.rc file import /data/myconfig/conf/init.rc trigger system And the file at /data/myconfig/conf/init.rc contains on system export TRIAL_EXPORT /trial/export/to/be/replaced The problem is that I cannot get the new export (TRIAL_EXPORT)to working. When I issue the command echo $TRIAL_EXPORT on the adb shell I do not get anything. Can somebody point out what is wrong in here?
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Aug 21, 2012
GSM Galaxy Nexus - Maguro
Latest GM 10 Nightly
Is it possible to modify the folder grid width within android. For example, by default if I have 3 apps within a folder it will be displayed within the folder in a 2x2 grid with the top two spots and the bottom left occupied with an app. Instead I would like to modify it to be a 3x1 horizontal grid.
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Sep 28, 2013
I have a HUAWEI Y300-0100, and it comes with a funny feature: every time it can't connect to WIFI a popup message appears saying that if you switch to data plan charges may apply.
I am constantly switching between WIFI/no-WIFI zones so that message really bothered me, and I searched a way to disable it.
Presumably, the only way to do that is by modifying a system file called "build.prop". I already had my phone rooted so doing so wasn't very hard.I used Jota+ to change a setting from "true" to "false" (ro.config.hw******), and saved the file in the root of the SD card. Then, with ES File Explorer, I renamed the "build.prop" in /system to "build.prop.bak" and copied there the "build.prop" I previously saved in the SD root.All seemed to be fine, except that after rebooting my phone it could not get past the HUAWEI logo.
Android recovery mode seems to work, but I don't know how to use a lot of its options nor I want to do a Factory Reset if there's a better alternative.Is there a way to modify system files before booting Android? I really would like to try to delete the "build.prop" file and rename the "build.prop.bak" back to "build.prop".
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Feb 6, 2009
How to add more shortcuts in home screen? -- I want to do this by modifying config file rather than draging an app and dropping it on home screen. Namely, I want to know which config file contains these shortcuts.
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