Android :: Spinner With A Complex Object
Aug 3, 2010
All the examples I have found assume that Spinner is given an array of String. I have a Spinner whose Adapter contains an Object more complex than a String. I want the capacity to display some parts of this object. a) during drop down b) when the item is selected. Nothing fancy, just some straight text, but I need ot whole object. If I override Adapter#getView, the View that super#getView returns is a TextView, so I could set that to be some relevant text value, but it feels kind of undocumented. I did try inflating a layout containing 2 TextViews and populating them, but UI became a bit screwed up. I'm not really sure what's ok to change here and what's not. Likewise, the above presumably applies to the drop down view, but I am also not sure how to render the selected item.
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Nov 29, 2009
I am currently working on a collision detection routine for an Android based game which is capable of handling complex concave curves in 2D. I use complex in this post to describe any non-trivial, arbitrary shape (beyond circles, squares, etc). My problem is that all of the various methods I have come across are either too simplistic to be realistic or too complex for a cell phone. At the moment I am favoring a tile-based scheme but I am having problems figuring out how to do this with convex curves that span several tiles and may have several line segments per tile. I gave some thought to representing the curves mathematically, with each tile being an interval of the function, but there will likely be points where the curve doubles-back on itself (think the big loop at the top of a pinball table that brings the ball all the way around the table and back the direction it came). My questions boil down to:
1. Does anyone know of a way of hit testing a given simple shape (e.g. a circle) against a concave series of line segments (shapes beyond circles can be figured out from there) beyond just a Boolean result?
2. What is the best way to represent large, complex shapes programatically? I am currently favoring an XML file describing my levels and the objects in them with shape/position/physics/etc. data to be parsed in during load time.
3. Is there an altogether better way of doing this beyond line segments?
The one saving grace in this conundrum is that I know the vast majority of the objects are stationary with, at most, three or four (usually one) dynamic objects moving around.
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Sep 7, 2009
When components like TextViews got focus we can focus them using highlighting the border of the component. Like that how can we highlight the border of a spinner object when it got focus? You can highlight borders of each and every item in the spinner at the time of selection. What I need is to highlight the border of spinner object when it got focus initially. I went through xml attributes and couldn't find matching one. Let me know if u have any clue to do this.
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Feb 16, 2010
Im pulling a list of product objects from a database call and I want to build a ListView of the data in my activity with a non-scrolling header and footer. Each row will consist of a product thumbnail, some data and a button arranged horizontally. I understand that using the ListView I can inflate each row using a separate layout. Most of the examples Ive seen using ListView just show a simple array of strings that fill the whole view of the activity, but most real-world examples will be more complex and I can't find any good examples that explain how all these pieces fit together. Does anyone have any pointers to sample code with a good explanation ?
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May 20, 2010
I use this code to generate a spinner in my app:
code:.........
On my device (Motorola Milestone) and in the emulator this looks like the standard gray spinner widget.
On of my colleagues uses a Motorola Backflip and on his device the Spinner is black. Now its very hard to read the font in the spinner.
What do I have to do to use my own view for the spinner? I don't mind to have the gray spinner on all devices, but it should always look the same on all devices.
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Jun 9, 2010
I have an xml layout file which contains a few widgets including a Spinner
I want to display a list of strings in the spinner, the list is generated at runtime as a result of a function so it can not be in arrays.xml.
I tried doing:
CODE:...........
But this crashes my application.
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Jan 25, 2010
I have a spinner 'aperture' set up with a list of numbers, and a spinner 'mode' with two options. When a button is pushed I need a calculation to run using various inputs, including the current selection from 'aperture' and a value derived from 'mode'. How do I call the value of a spinner so I can use it in a calculation?
Also, how do I use the spinner 'mode's selection to set this other value before implimenting it in the calculation? To be more specific, if the spinner is set to Small then the value I use in the calculation is 0.015, whereas if Large is selected I need to use 0.028
My other inputs are EditText views, so right now I am set up like this:
CODE:............
That is not the actual equation, it is just a test to make sure everything connects properly. How would I call the value of spinner 'aperture' and the Small/Large spinner 'mode'
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Jan 25, 2010
I have a spinner widget in my activity which lets users pick a list name.
Normally, the function of the spinner is to switch between lists but for a couple of instances, I swap out the selection change listener to perform a different function with the same list of options. Once the selection has been made, the old listener is restored and life goes on.
This is a bad and buggy arrangement. Instead, I would like to have a function that just takes a selection listener and some other parameters and shows a popup list that's populated by the same cursor (or and identical cursor) as the spinner, without using the spinner itself.
Is there any way I can do this?
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Jun 21, 2009
I am trying to populate a spinner depending on another spinner's selected item, my code is the following:
CODE:.................
what is intriguing me is that the first spinner onitemselection works perfectly ( I can see the values in LogCat) then when I change selection of the 2nd spinner I am gettging an error on this line: String selected= (String) s2.getSelectedItem(); So the compiler gets insisde then onItemSelected function of the 2nd spinner but throws an Handler exceltion on s2.getSelectedItem()
why? it works perfectly for the 1st spinner.
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Sep 9, 2009
I want to do some automated testcase with Instrumentation . Suggest that my AUT has 2 Activity. After clicking the button in ther first Activity, the second one will be shown with new content base on what we enter in the first Activity.) Instrumentation provides us the function called startActivitySync() and return the Activity object for processing. My question is how we can get the pointer of the second Activity after the it is shown by clicking the button on the first activity.?
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Jun 8, 2009
I would like to convert a Picture object to Bitmap object in memory, without writing data to disk.
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Sep 21, 2009
I have an Activity that running on system. I can get the Intent that is used to start the activity. But i don't know how to get the Activity object from the Intent object or something else. Can anyone tell me how to do this??? Note that, I don't use Instrumentation object.
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Jun 22, 2009
I am trying (as many are doing) to populate a 2nd spinner out of the first spinner selected item like this:..............
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Mar 7, 2010
I have a TabHost that requires indicators more complex than a simple string label (the tab itself, not the contents of the tab). There is no graphics involved, just font size and layout of text. The documentation suggests I may call the setIndicator method with a View instead of a CharSequence, but do not provide any pattern to follow. This almost works -- the tabs function but are not colored properly. I can probably use OnTabChangeListener to set their background color to white or black, but clearly this is wrong also -- the orange color transitions, etc. are lost. I just want the existing label behavior on text that's laid out. What pattern should I be following here?
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May 10, 2010
I made the connection between my service WCF and my app android. But i'm wondering if u have ideas about using complex types (classes created on the server side). should i implement the serialization process? or should i juts create the classes on my client side(android)
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Nov 29, 2009
I need to call a web service using ksoap2, I have been doing this successfully up till the point where I need to pass a more complex type to the web service.Does anybody have an example of passing a complex type to a webservice, preferably, only using SoapObject (the object in question is only Strings and dateTimes.
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Nov 6, 2010
I am working on some sort of record lookup for a database. My code allows to search for some kind of string within an index (of that database) and returns the database-position of the found thing . With this found position my program is then able to move to adjacent records from the database moving forward and backwards from the initial position in small steps. ListView seems to not work in this case, as ListView starts per default at ListAdapter position 0 and not at an arbitrary position in the (here virtual) list. The api-docs doesn't seem to specify some sort of "start somewhere else and follow during scrolling". At least I haven't found that. So what I thought of is to use a ScrollView. Unfortunately I don't have a real understanding of how that could be realized with a huge number of records (and not just a handfull like in the examples). So, my questions are: - Is it possible to start a ListView at some defined position (without reimplementing {Abs}ListView) - Or can someone provide an example on how to implement a more complex ScrollView.
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May 18, 2009
I have ListActivity to show a custom list. The adapter for this list is a complex layout only known for each row at runtime depending on data gathered in a previous activity. The question I have is simple. I know it takes 4-6 seconds to prepare the adapter for the rows that will be visible (first 10), however I would like to let the user know by means of the empty list functionality or otherwise. At present the ListActivity is launched via a button on a previous activity and when that button is clicked the new activity will not be loaded until the adapter is completed, and the user is stuck with the previous activity until this happens. Code...
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Oct 18, 2009
I am trying to pass a user defined object to another activity Bundle bundle = new Bundle(); bund.putSerializable("myData", myData); intent.putExtra("bundle", bundle); where myData class implements Serializable interface. I am getting following error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Parcelable encountered IOException writing serializable object how to pass complex objects between activities?
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Oct 20, 2009
I'd like to map an Array of "complex" data to a ListView. In a very simplified form my data model would look like something like this:
Code...
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Apr 28, 2010
I've made a complex layout that has the following structure:
CODE:........
Since Scrollview only supports one child, I've created a RelativeLayout to scroll several Views. Unfortunately, this doesn't work (no scrolling). Are there limitations to the kind of children used in Scrollview or am I doing anything wrong?
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Jul 30, 2009
How to handle a complex type object from webservice. Presently I am able to handle simple String messages. But if I am extracting some array of objects or String, then how to handle this.
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Feb 8, 2010
We want to add below update sql into our content provider:We found current update of content provider does not support it, which would not recognize the "column1" of "column1 + 1" as column name. So we have to add execSQL method into ContentProvider and I think it is dirt. So I wonder if anyone know how to do such thing with ContentProvider or any more elegant way to achieve it.
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Nov 18, 2010
I am trying to extend the "android.content.Intent" class by adding a private attribute of a custom class. My goal is to send complex objects from the main Activity to a background Service.
The extension itself is not a problem, the class gets compiled without any errors and the project runs. The only problem is that the BroadcastReceiver does not receive the modified Intent and the "onReceive" method gets never called.
It there any way to pass complex objects with the help of Intents?
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Jun 10, 2010
I have a graphic in Adobe Illustrator (lets say a cat) that I want to use in an Android application. I would like to have the user be able to change the color of the fur using a color picker. What can I save the graphic as (SVG?) to allow me to programatically control the color from with the android app? Do I have to have a separate image for each color of the cat?
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Jun 3, 2010
I'm new to opengl-es and I wonder how people are able to draw these much detailed OpenGL ES graphics, e.g. on Android OS. It's already hard to draw a single squre, because it's composed of triangles due to the reason that OpenGL ES obviously cannot draw anything else than triangles.
I thought about this approach:
Drawing and rendering an object in Blender.
Export it somehow as array of vertices and an array of colors
Copy this array of vertices into the Java code
Run the code
Or are there approaches to solve such problems in a better way? I do not think that people just "draw" their graphics as array of vertices in the code. I'm sure they draw them anywhere else and import it into the code.
If there is such a solution with Blender, I would be pleased to know how this is solved.
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Apr 30, 2010
This is a bit complicated to explain (and my first post), so bear with me please: I am currently trying to figure out the best way of saving my application's state in a bundle on the onSaveInstanceState event (working on a game). My application's state is based on a "world" class which contains various objects. Among these objects there is a creature object which contains bitmaps (Bitmap object)(allowing me to draw the various sprites of the creature when it's walking with more flexibility and accessibility).
Bit of creature constructor Java:
CODE:.................
After looking around for a few hours I found that serializing the world object (and all its sub-objects) was an acceptable way of saving it in the bundle. Unfortunately it appears that we can't serialize bitmaps and considering they're a part of my "creature" I can't seem to see a workaround.
Here come my questions: 1- Am I doing something fundamentally wrong? (not supposed to save bitmaps in objects? supposed to handle bitmaps in a separate class which I don't pass on the bundle and reload my bitmaps when restoring the application? ...) 2- Is there another way of passing my "world" object into my bundle (would using Parcelable work?)
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Nov 13, 2010
I am working android app, where i need a Listview which contain different types of view sets. They have to update dynamically. i.e , initially i have some list of views, with one header. Next when i click button i have to add new view set with different header. So can any one tell me . how to achieve this complex listview.
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Feb 9, 2010
I am working on a project for which I have formulated a fairly complex layout but I have no earthly idea how I could implement such a thing. Attached is an image of what I'd like it to look like, can anyone think of a way to generate such layout?
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Feb 18, 2009
I am trying to get a FileInputStream object on an image that the user selects from the picture gallery.
This is the android URI returned by android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.INTERNAL_CONTENT_URI content://media/external/images/media/3
When I try to construct a java URI object from this object, I get an IllegalArgumentException with the exception description Expected file scheme in URI: content://media/external/images/media/3 whereas the android URI shows the scheme as content
Never found a solution for the original question. But if you want the byte stream of an image in the pictures gallery, this piece of code will do that.
CODE:...................
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