Android :: Preference Change Notifying Main Activity

Nov 13, 2009

I think I've missed something in how Android is supposed to work! I have the main Activity with a menu option that opens the preferences screen. What I need is a way for any changes that were made to be communicated back to the main Activity as soon as the preference is activated. At the moment the only way I could get it working is by using the intent data that gets sent back when the prefs activity closes but this isn't really enough. The reason why it needs to be instantaneous is that one of the preferences is a 'Clear cache' button, so I would like the data to be deleted when the user requests it and no later!

Android :: Preference change notifying main Activity


Android :: How To Return From Preference Screen To Main Activity?

Oct 14, 2010

I have one main activity and one preference Activity. On my first activity I call menu and go on preference Activity by calling startActivityForResult. Code...

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Android : How Can I Change Main / Launch Activity?

Jul 13, 2010

I think I already know the answer to this, but I just wanted to confirm (I think no horrible ramifications)...

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Android :: Recent Apps Change In 2.2 / Brings Main Activity To Foreground

Jul 24, 2010

The recent apps display seems to function quite differently from earlier versions on 2.2. Try the following for instance: 1) Open an app 2) Click on something that takes you to another activity in the same app 3) Press the home button 4) Press and hold the home button to get the recent list of apps - select the app you chose in step 1 5) You'll be taken to whatever activity in that app is specified as the main/launcher Activity, rather than the Activity on top of the stack (as it was previously) It makes it appear to the user that the application has exited when the home screen button was pressed. I don't have my app set to clear history on launch or anything like that, and I can replicate it on the emulator and with any app on my device (Contacts, Gmail, Engadget etc) Anyone else notice this? Anyone know any reason for the changes? I must admit I quite dislike the new method.

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Android :: Way Of Loading Data / Notifying An Activity?

Oct 8, 2009

I just tried a stupid approach and it crashed my app... Basically I have an activity that has three tabs (containing three activities). Each of the tabs gets its input from an xml file downloaded off the net. Everything is fine but when I start my app, it has download the xml file and there's a "wait" time for this.I managed to get around this by adding a splash screen. It looks beautiful but the problem is when I click on the second tab, it still has to get the list off the net, so it looks ugly now... It waits before displaying the list. So what I did was design an AsyncTask that just downloads the xml file. In my main activity, I spawn two tasks initially and send the URL and Intent as parameters. And inside the activities that start inside the tabs, I use a wait(). Inside the AsyncTask, after it is done with the download, I notify the Intent using notify(). This crashed! Of course, I didn't expect it to work but just wanted to try :) Writing it so that I can either get a feedback as to why this failed or to prevent others from wasting their time on this...Now, I am sure many face the problem of a "wait" time inside the tabs. How do I solve this? I am thinking of either dimming the screen and then displaying a series of toasts or display a progress indicator inside the tabs or pre-fetching the xml files... I don't have a clue on how these can be achieved.

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Android :: Change Main Launcher Activity Doesn't "take"

Apr 6, 2009

After a long time with one Activity being my app's entry point, I just changed the manifest to point to a different activity to be the entry point. But the G1 is doggedly trying to load the old activity - even after uninstall, install, reboot, etc. and acore throws a security exception. Code...

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Android :: Open Dialogue Activity Without Opening Main Activity Behind It

Jul 19, 2010

Im writing a program that offers a quick reply dialog upon receipt of an SMS.

However, I am getting an unexpected result. When I receieve an SMS, the appropriate dialog activity comes up displaying the correct phone number and message, however there is a second activity behind it that is the 'default' activity in my program (it is what opens when i launch my application)

I do not want this second activity to come up. The quick reply activity should come up by itself over top of whatever the user was doing before.

The 'floating' activity:

CODE:.........

The call to the activity inside an onReceive()

CODE:..............

The Manifest:

CODE:.................

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Android :: Passing Arguments From Loading Activity To Main Activity

May 16, 2010

I'm writing an application that starts with a loading activity. In the loading activity the app requests html from web and parses the html, then it sends the parsing result to the main activity. The main activity has several tabs, and contents of these tabs are based on the result of parsing.For example, the result of parsing is a list of strings ["apple", "banana", "orange"], and I need to pass this list to main activity, so that the main activity can create three tabs named after three fruits.I would like to know if there is any way to pass a list of strings among activities, BTW, is it the common way of do this?

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Android :: Start Activity When Main Activity Is Running In Background

Jan 10, 2010

I created an application which enables the user to set whether he wants to receive notification while the application runs in background mode. If the notifications are enabled an activity should be started (the dialog should appear on the screen).

I tried to enabled it the following way:

CODE:...........

This is the method from main activity. When onPause() is executed isRunningInBackground is set true.
When I tried to debug it when the main application was running in the background the line

startActivity(intent) had no effect (the activity didn't appear).

Does anyone know how to midify the logic in order to start an activity from the main activity when the main activity is running in the background (after onPause() is called)?

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Android :: Starting Second Activity From Main Activity On Button Click

Dec 4, 2009

Need an example of how to create/start a new activity from the main activity. I have a button click event on the main layout. Originally I just used setContentView(R.layout.secondactivity); which brings up the layout but I don't think that is correct since the secondactivity class is not instantiated at this point yet. I have looked for such an example and can not find one.

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Android :: App Widget Configure Activity Opens Main Activity

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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Android :: Main Activity To Browser Activity Error

Nov 7, 2010

I have a main activity, then i call a new activity intent from this. Lets call this SecondActivity. Then from my secont activity i call a browser intent. Then my browser intent call my second activity's onNewIntent method.Evereything work fine, but when i click on "back" button on my phone on my second activity, i will not going to my main activity, but the browsers activity, why?

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Android :: Mangled Preference Activity

Sep 24, 2009

I have pretty unassuming preferences screen based on Preference Activity. (You can see it in DroidIn app) I'm having some problems with it that I think have to do with redrawing the screen after updates. Here are the symptoms: 1. OnPreferenceChangeListener#onPreferenceChange if I change summary of the preference by doing Preference#setSummary the new value is painted over the old one creating unsightly effect 2. My preferences screen is large enough that user has to scroll. While scrolling, the whole screen get all messed up, again it looks like view is redrawn (when scrolled) without erasing the background first.

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Android :: Leaked Window In Preference Activity

Jan 30, 2009

I've created a set of preference screens building on the tuts on androidguys. My preference XML contains nested PreferenceScreens. The below doesn't occur in the root screen, only once clicking to a child PreferenceScreen. Once in that PreferenceScreen, even before selecting an EditPreference, if I change orientation (i.e. flick the G1 keyboard out) I get an error: 01-30 09:33:54.080: ERROR/WindowManager(1261): android.view.WindowLeaked: that was originally added here.I have previously overcome this in other activities by utilising the onPause etc methods with custom dialogs I use. How can I prevent this in the PreferenceActivity? What am I missing?

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Android :: Preference Activity And AppWidgetId Relation

Jul 4, 2010

i'm using PreferenceActivity class to configure my widget. PreferenceActivity class automatically saves user preferences, so in widget update service i can call context.getSharedPreferences() and i obtain user preferences.Problem is follow: if you have many widget of same type, how PreferenceActivity class saves prefs? how i can load appWidgetId specific prefs from sharedPreferences?

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Android :: Preference Activity / Multiple Preferences

Nov 4, 2010

Is it possible to use the PreferenceActivity and PreferenceScreen to manage multiple instances of preferences fro a single app? It seems that they store preferences as "default" preferences only. I would like to use a PreferenceScreen as my configure activity for an AppWidget, but I need to be able to store distinct preferences for each widget.

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Android :: How To Add Fixed View To Preference Activity?

Jul 13, 2010

It occur some problems to develop U/I. there is a PreferenceActivity that was aleady developped and is typecally like 'Settings' of android. by the way, the customer is requiring to change U/I like IPhone.Requirements are

1.application title-bar using ImageView(or TextView) positions to top

2. remove ContextMenu, alternativly static menu buttons positon to bottom.

3. PreferenceActivity is able to scroll and title-bar & menu buttons are fixed each positions.

just all. but It's very difficult to add & fix two views in Preference Activity.

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Android :: Preference Activity And Theme Not Applying

Apr 11, 2010

I have a problem in the Preferences Activity, in the main preferences the theme shows ok, but if I get to a sub preference, the theme gets messy, it is not white as it should, it is all dark, and the font is black so you can't see much, and when I start clicking on any items they will get sometimes white as they should but revert to black soon after. This is only happens on 2.1, in both the real device and emulator. Tested on the emulator running 1.6 and it was working correctly.

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Android :: Displaying ProgressDialog Within A Preference Activity

Aug 1, 2010

I've got a quite interesting issue when I try to display a ProgressDialog (the simple, spinner type) within a onPreferenceChange listener.The ProgressDialog shows up, but not until the method (sleep in this case) has finished. What am I doing wrong?

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Android :: Launching Browser In Preference Activity

Jan 11, 2010

I want to List Item in Preference activity. and I want to launch a Browser with a URL which can change dynamically, When I click on that Item. Can anyone let me know how can i Achieve?

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Android :: Accessing Shared Preference Outside Of Activity

Jul 9, 2010

I need to access the shared preference in a background service instead of activity on phone boot up.But getSharedPreferences function is define in the activity, so how can i access the data without creating the activity?

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Android :: Save Configuration Value As Integer In Preference Activity?

Sep 16, 2010

Is there a way how I can tell the Preference Activity that value should be saved as integer? So far my all values are saved as strings... I can limit input to integers via XML easy:

<EditTextPreference android:key="SomeKey" android:numeric="integer" />

but it is still saved as string and later trying to getInt("SomeKey") on preferences object I always get java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String.

Is there a way that EditTextPreference value would be saved not as string? Or maybe I should use some other type of Preference for numeric input?

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Android :: How To Change SMS Preference / Setting?

Jul 14, 2010

In my application i m trying to change default android SMS Setting through programming. But i haven't find any document to how to change Messages Setting in android. I have seen package android.provider.Settings but in this package i haven't find any setting regarding SMS.

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Android :: Progress Dialog Unable To Add Window In Preference Activity

Jun 17, 2010

I encounter a problem with a ProgressDialog in a PreferencesActivity in my application.What I want to do is pop up a ProgressDialog after the user has changed his username or password during the check on the remote server. In the onSharedPreferenceChanged() I call the ProgressDialog.show() method. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes not at all.

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Android :: Is It Possible To Change Background Color Of Preference?

Feb 16, 2010

Does anybody know how to change the background color of Preference But this doesn't work.I searched these by using google, but couldn't find any right answer.Also, I couldn't find any way to change other layouts. (e.g. text color, size and style of preference title or summary)Is there no way to customize the layout of Preferences?It'll be great if somebody can help me out.

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Android :: How To Change Preference Text Color?

Apr 22, 2010

In my app i am facing a problem & not getting a desired solution from anywhere. in my preference screen there are 4 check boxes and 2 list views. i have changed the background color white by using the following code...

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Android :: Need To Change Background Color Of Preference

Aug 23, 2010

I have a PreferenceCategory, xml file and I have defined all preferences in it, I call this from class that extends Preference Activity. I am unable to set the background of my settings screen , this screen is displayed with help of xml file shown below. Please see that I have already defined the android:background="#041A37", still the screen remains default color :black. Although I have set android:background="#041A37" in every file, the background doesn't turn into navy blue, or any other color for that matter. It remains default color, black. How to change the background color. Please let me know any pointers / hints , if you had faced same issue let me know what changes you made to set the background color. Code...

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Android :: How To Reschedule Alarm Manager On Preference Change?

May 25, 2010

I have an Android Service. When a phone boots up, a broadcast receiver receives a notification and it schedules the service to run repeatedly at a gap of X minutes. Henceforth After every X minutes another broadcast receiver gets those notifications and kicks the service off, which does it's job and quits. So far so good. Now I want those X minutes to be configurable. I have a perf.xml similar to what is given at the link below. This XML captures all my preferences along with that of service timer. http://android-journey.blogspot.com/2010/01/for-almost-any-application-we-need-to.html Now when user changes preferences; how can I reschedule the alarm? Is there a way I can set a listener on preferences change? I have used only XML files to speficy preferences screen. Code...

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Android :: Public Class Preference Extends Activity - Null Pointer Exception

Jun 19, 2010

My app crashes with a null pointer exception on the code below. I have an xml preference file under res/xml/defaults.xml
public class Preference extends Activity {
public Preference() {
} public String getPreference(String key)
{ //it still crashes here
SharedPreferences settings = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this.getApplicationContext());
String result = settings.getString(key, null); return result;
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Android :: Shared Preference Listener Being Called Multiple Times When I Change A Pref

May 31, 2010

I've written an app with 3 tabs. Each tab has the same list view with different data sources. I have setup SharedPreferences in the tabhost activity, but I put my onSharedPreferenceChangeListener method in my listactivity. When I change a preference, my listener gets called and it updates my database. This is all working. However, if I change the data in tab 1, it calls my listener once. If I change the data for tab 2 it calls it twice and if I change the data in tab 3 it calls it three times. Any idea why it works this way? I guess I could setup my shared prefs in my listactivity and that might avoid the issue, but I'm curious why my listener is called multiple times if it's in a different tab.

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