What's the proper way for other people to reuse my Activities? Should they hard code the intent actions in their app or is it customary to provide them with a jar file enumerating my app's intent actions? Is there a less tightly-coupled way to lookup the intent actions?
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My app has a single entry activity called "Main". In "Main" I call one of three other activities A, B, or C (based on a preference) and then immediately exit/finish"Main" so that only A, B, or C are active.I also have a permanent notification in the notification bar that users can pull down (at any time) to conveniently restart my App (calls intent with "Main" component).The problem is that if my app is already running and users pull down the notification and restart, I get A or B or C running on top of the previous activity (also A, or B, or C). How can I avoid this (i.e. reuse the activity on top of the stack)?I've tried Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_* and nothing seems to work. I've tried launchModel in the Manifest and it also didn't seem to work.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to implement a menu in the footer of an app, similar to i.e. the Engadget app. As I understand, getting a standard TabLayout to work in this way is not trivial (if at all possible?).
As I see quite a few apps using this interface paradigm, I would assume there is a clever way of doing it. Currently, I'm defining the layout by adding an include line at the end of every layout. This works fine as far as rendering is concerned, but I have to add the onClickListeners to each activity. can we define clickListener through XML?
To sum up my question: What is the best way to implement a shared footer navigation accross several Activities?
How can I reuse code AND resources in several applications? I have a fairly large code base (including resources) that I want to reuse i several applications. How can I do that?
I did try to use the Android Library concept (http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/eclipse-adt.html#libraryProject) but never got it to work in Android 1.x
I'm amazed by the lack of information on the subject. It seems like Google has aimed Android development at pet projects and not real development. Variant handling should have been solved ages ago.
I've been asked to make an app that has a list with items looking similar to this snapshot from Hero: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaxxdotorg/3640222441/in/set-72157619952...Is there a way to reuse this in any way or do I have to re-design it from scratch?
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View 9 Replies View RelatedI have read the Android UI trick 2 on Android developers, which tells people how to include a layout in another layout file multiple times, and give these included layouts different id. However, the sample here is overwriting the layout id, not the id of the views IN this layout. For example, if the workspace_screen.xml looks like this: And I include it three times in another layout file. Do I end up with three TextViews with id firstText, and another three with secondText? Isn't there an id collision? And how do I find the secondText TextView in the third included layout with findViewById? What should I input in the findViewById method?
View 1 Replies View RelatedAt the moment I am trying to evaluate if it is possible to reuse the android contact search in a 3rd party application.
I got the problem that I have to implement a contact list/picker including a filtering possibility for the contacts list. That means that the standard android picker opened by an intent does not help me. So I decided to implement the list/picker on my own which is not that difficult. But I need to be able to offer the android search dialog in my own implementation as well.
So is it possible to reuse the standard contact search mechanism in an own application? (the contact search available e.g. in the default contact list) Or do I have to implement this one on my own?
how to call BarCodeScanner, and return the value to a field.so now, i have a toast that says "successful scan" and then i want to pass the result to a new activity. when i comment out my intent, everything works (minus the passing of data/switching of screen, obviously) but when i run my project as is, it FC's no errors reported by eclipse in code or xml. any insights?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an Android code base which uses APIs with settings to get different data for several apps. All apps use the same code base but with one or two design tweaks. So how do I re-use the main code base without having to copy the whole Android project each time?
iPhone uses multiple targets in the same project which works well. If android cant do this do I need to compile binaries of the code base in one project and then import into each new app project? If so how? I'm using Eclipse and am an intermediate Java developer.
Does android reuse views during a orientation change? I have a progress bar in my activity. I set the progress to 50%, and then do an orientation change. But for some reason, the progress bar maintain 50% after the orientation. I have call setprogress(0) in the onCreate() of my activity. And I have put 'printf' in anywhere I call setProgress(), i don't still don't understand why the progress bar maintains 50% everytime I do an orientation change?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an Activity which is an OpenGL view. I also have an xml layout to use for preferences. Until now, to show the preference menu, I just brought it to front by setContentView(). And the same to get back to the OpenGL view. But is this a case where I should give the preference menu its own Activity? I guess this would make a few things much easier. For example, the back button would just work, opposed to now where I have to code it or it will just exits the application.And if this is a good idea, how do I pass data both ways? I have a class that store all preferences. Can I send it to the Activity and back again? Or is the best way to store the preferences in a sqlite database and then use it for passing data?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have read 'http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/notepad/notepad-ex2.html', specifically step 4 ahow can I return a different result to the 'calling activity', in this example, it always return ACTIVITY_CREATE. What if the 'activity being launcher' has a 'okay' and a 'cancel' button. How can the 'calling activity' knows which button user presses in the 'activity being launcher'.
View 3 Replies View RelatedRight now I have 2 activities (A+B) and what I would like is for only 1 of them ever to be on the stack (If A shows B, I want the back button from B to go to the home screen not A). Is their a good way of doing this with activities Or should I change my app to be a bunch of views?
View 5 Replies View RelatedIn my project ,I need get all the name of the activities ,not only my own application, but also the third party application , and how can I get?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have an application with three tabs. Through various interactions with the items in the tabs I end up launching other activities. The client has reviewed this and would like the activities launched "within" the tabs, so the tabs remain visible and if the user clicks the tab it goes back to the original activity defined in the setContent function. Is this possible and how would I go about this from other activities? (ie the child activities, not the one that defines the TabHost and has access to call setContent)?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a very simple game that consists of only one activity, and I want to add a title screen.If the title screen is another activity, what changes do I need to make to my manifest file to make the title screen open first?The gameplay activity is called Leeder, and the title screen activity is called LeederTitleScreen.
View 1 Replies View Relatedwhen click the grid item, i want to show a progressbar between the time of next Activity shown. then the second activity has a custom listview. there also i want to show a progressbar. how to do that?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need to have two activities in an Android app that can be switched between each other with UI persistence.I would like the changes made in step 2 to be visible in step 4.I have tried using the singleInstance activity tag on Activity B to no avail. I would also prefer a more elegant solution than simply writing all object properties to a file or SQLite table.It seems that this behaviour must be easily achievable given that Android does it automatically for calls to onBackPressed() where the parent Activity's UI is saved.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to create multiple tabs, each with a different Activity. The only downside is i'm using a custom layout file thus my class extends an Activity rather than a TabActivity. While trying to run, it fails and suggests calling TabHost.Setup(ActivityGroupManager agm)
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am working on an Android app that has multiple screens the user will need to navigate between and I am curious what the best practices are when switching between those screens. I am torn between creating a new Activity for each screen and simply changing the view (setContentView(R.layout.whatever)). The screens all share at least some variable values so I'm leaning toward changing views and using class level variables, but I'm worried a single activity could become very large and confusing with logic for multiple screens in a single file. I'd like to keep the code clean and separated, but I also don't want to be passing several variables around between views if that isn't needed.Being new to Android development, I'm hoping some more experienced members of the community could share their thoughts and let me know how best to handle it
View 2 Replies View Relatedi identified problem in changing one activity using tab, in on tab activity i am adding data to sqlite in other tab activity i am displaying them using listview(array adapter)but when i come back to add data and after adding new item to sqlite the newly added records are not updated in listview.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to transfer data between activities without using "extars"? I need to access MyOwnObject in Atctivity 1 from Activity2 Possible with using static fields?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am trying to display a list of all activities (i.e., icon and label) on the phone in a ListView. Here is my code to get the activities:
CODE:..........
However, when I display the list, many of the activities' icons weren't found. I tried both of the following to get the icons to no avail:
resolve.activityInfo.getIconResource() resolve.activityInfo.icon
What's the proper way to do this?
In my application, I don't want the activity to restart when user changes his mobile's orientation or when he opens his physical keyboard.So, I have to assign the following XML attribute to all my activities in the manifest file.Is it possible to assign the same XML attribute value to all activities ? Or should I copy the attribute in all the <activity> tags of the manifest?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI hear that "some Activities never display UIs" according to http://code.google.com/android/devel/building-blocks.html. My question: is this true? I have yet to find a way to make an Activity without a UI. Documentation suggests an Activity can be non-visual.For example, Activity.getWindow() returns the "current window, or null if the activity is not visual."When would an Activity have a null Window?
View 2 Replies View RelatedLet's assume i got two activities "Main" and "Sub" Activity "Main" is forced into portrait orientation using setRequestedOrientation At some later point "Main" runs "Sub" using startActivityForResult.Somehow "Sub" also starts in portrait orientation while i would expect the call to setRequestedOrientation only to affect the calling activity.How do i get "Sub" to respect the system orientation while keeping "Main" locked in Portrait?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have two activities,A ,B A will start activity B When I press "back"button in B, I want to close A also But how can I close A here?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI design a rotate animation when activity 1 ends, and then start activity 2.but this code will not saw the animation totally, that's means, the animation will pop up a second then soon activity2 start! but I need the animation play over, then the activity 2 start.so how I do for that requestion? I almost use the thread&handler to do, but it wasn't work.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a tabbed applicationen setup. I like to keep the tabs visible at all times and work with its subactivites as 'more or less' standalone application threads.Within one or more of these tab subactivities, I'd like to start its own sub-activity, which should not hide the root tabs.Whatever I've found will call ctx.startActivity() which works, but will hide the tabs by using the full screen.Is there a way to limit the sub actitivies to a parent activities bounds, and keep (in my case) the rot Tabs visible? Where shall I look?
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