Android : Switch A Whole Application To Alternative Styles.xml Files At Run Time?
Jul 22, 2010
My app has a styles.xml file with various visual constants defined.
I'd like my users to be able to switch the entire app to an alternative visual theme. I'd like to provide an alternative styles2.xml file and switch at runtime (via the Settings).
Is this possible, and how? I suspect the style names' appearance in the generated R class does not bode well.
If it's not possible, what's my next best option?
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Aug 22, 2010
Is there some way to have Eclipse NOT present the Android Device Chooser dialog every time I run the Android application I'm developing? I'm using a running Android device, not an AVD. There's got to be some place I can set my default device to be the Android device so that I don't have to double-click on the device entry in the ADC dialog everytime.
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Aug 6, 2009
Ive just got the G2 on a tmobile contract and am looking for applications to allow me to view word documents on my device. Ive seen DataViz's Documents to Go which Dataviz say are in the android market but on searching the android market im coming up with a blank i.e. its saying no app by that name can be found. Can anyone help or suggest an alternative to viewing word andor other MS files.
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Jul 28, 2010
Any good alternative to titanium backup for next time? I hate having to go and click "install" then "done". Pain in the ass. I know theirs a few out their but what'll y'all do in this situation?
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Aug 12, 2010
Whilst browsing in here and on the web for ways to save battery life, I came across an app for turning on and off WiFi, backlight, bluetooth etc. It had a totally different layout to Quick Settings. The screen appeared to have about 12 square buttons, for quick on/off functionality of the usual stuff. WiFi, bluetooth etc. One of the buttons near the bottom right corner was 2G/3G. Does anyone know which app this may be, from my super description? I like the simple one screen does all layout, which was easy to understand. Can't remember if it was from a link in here, or from another site.
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Apr 28, 2010
I'm building an alternative Home application (a replacement of the standard launcher).There's something I don't know how to make: how do you register your application so that it is called when the user click on the Home hard button ?
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Aug 15, 2010
I use spotify on on my desktop and i am looking for something similar for my mobile. I just cant justify paying 10 per month for spotify premium. If the had funded one was available for mobiles i would happily use it. Any one know any alternative aps or services i can get?
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Sep 10, 2010
Just wanted to know if anyone could point me in the direction of a decent Android version of this application.
I know you can kinda mimic it's functionality a little bit by simply using the built in calendar, but the idea of an integrated timetable, previous grades, grade calculator, assignment deadlines (a to do list essentially) and all the other stuff it's got look really nice. The nice thing about it is that it's all in one application I think. I've had a look around but so far haven't found anything... any ideas?
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Jan 21, 2010
I have the default HTC Hero photo gallery and was wondering if there are any apps that have been made that are a bit more fancy than the standard Hero gallery.
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Oct 12, 2010
I hate how slow the Gallery3D system app is. It's been slow on both my Motorola Droid & HTC Incredible running various ROMS, including stock. It's ridiculous, actually. The HTC Gallery is great by the way it organized photos and is easier to use, but isn't an option for an AOSP ROM [afaik]. Does anyone have a recommendation as to what my other options could be? Thanks, and please don't flame.
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Feb 25, 2010
wanted to add a menu option in native email app in android . I have used intent filters but i am not successful in achieving it. Actuaaly i want to a menu option to the native mail application in Android.. so that my activity / app can be launced on clicking that option. This feature has been successfully achieved in Blackberry and even in android for gallery application. On android i have achieved it by using intent filters.
<activity android:name=".DisplayAlternativeMenu"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar">
<intent-filter android:label="My Activity">[code]....
This basically display an menu item"My Activity" when u press share in Gallery. and clicking on that launches my activity .But unfortunately it didn't work for Email Application. Looks like the pair of action & mimetype i am specifying is not correct. which action & which mimetype should be used. Also if there are any permission required,what are they?
My aim is to add an alternative menu while pressing menu in Compose Email(When a mail is composed) of the native email application
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Aug 25, 2009
at the moment I am thinking about a new app and need some information to decide whether to develop on Android or an alternative OS. I am particularly interested in "time to first screen", "boot-up time", "time to first Audio" and "app-start" (can be any from the android market or even one of the pre-installed ones) time? Does anyone know a source or perhaps measured those numbers?
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Apr 4, 2010
I had my htc hero for a while and I still can't find the IM application that it should come with. It is under manage applications but I can't find the actual application. Is there an alternative application that uses SMS for AIM?
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Mar 20, 2010
I can't seem to import contacts from my sim card all in one go. I can only see options to import one at a time (from my sim card that is). Is there an alternative, useful app for this or an alternative contacts app other than the default one that came with my Galaxy?
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Apr 21, 2010
Can you set the scenes to automatically switch depending on time of day on the phone? I'd definitely use them if at 8am Mon-Fri the scene switched to Work. At 6pm Mon-Thur it would be nice for it to switch to the default home screen. 6pm Fri I'd like it to switch to the Play scene. Is this a capability or do you have to change them manually via menu system?
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Sep 1, 2010
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Oct 23, 2013
I recently bought a used, but in good condition Optimus V. Not a great phone, but it does what I need. However, in the past couple days I've found that when the phone does its auto-timeout, it takes up to ten seconds for it to switch back on. By that I mean that when I press the power button just to get to the passcode screen (not to turn the whole thing on), it takes much longer than it did when I first got it.
I've uninstalled recent apps, but it's done nothing. What to do?
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Mar 16, 2010
Current iphone 3gs user here. I'm thinking about picking up the N1 and selling the iPhone because of my general dislike for all things Apple, however, I tried out the Droid last year for 30 days and went back to my iPhone. I'm wondering if things have changed significantly in the Android world since then. I'm particularly interested in Android alternatives or flavors of the following iPhone applications:
kindle (kindle reader)
audible (audiobooks)
Jaadu RDP (remote desktop) <-- this one is a deal breaker for me
picasa photo application (uploading and administering albums)
dropbox
OrbI know this existed a few months ago but the implementation was awful. Has it improved?
Skype
Copy and Paste
I'd also be interested to know if the copy/paste functionality has improved at all. When I had my Droid, copy and pasting from the body of an email was almost impossible. You needed to hold down one of the tiny droid keyboard buttons and drag your finger across the screen to highlight the text. At that point if you highlighted the wrong text you were S.O.L because it immediately copied the text as soon as you raised your finger from the screen. Please, please, please, tell me this has been improved! I'd love to get away from my iPhone so that I can delete iTunes forever.
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Aug 3, 2010
How would you implement different color themes in your app?All I can see now is plain set color onCreate every activity and control.Also, how would you store different color schemes in xml? Just an entries of with different names?
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Oct 21, 2010
I'm writing an application and would like to have some files extracted from the .apk during _installation_ time, as the files can be quite large and extracting them from the .apk during the first run results in a noticeable slowdown which I would prefer to avoid.
After lots of experimentation, I have found one way to make this work, but I'm unsure about the "long-term" ramifications of this approach, specifically: will this actually work in android-9 and later?
The approach is to name the files I want extracted at installation time as "lib*.so", and place them into the appropriate lib/ABI folder within the apk file, e.g. the .apk contains:
lib/armeabi/libMyLargeFile.dat.so and at installation time this is (nicely) installed as:
$APPDIR/lib/libMyLargeFile.dat.so
My concern is that 'libMyLargeFile.dat.so' is NOT an ELF shared library. This approach only works because PackageManagerService only checks for files matching the `lib/ABI/lib*.so` pattern (which is followed) and does not check the contents of the extracted file.
This approach works for Android 1.6 through Android 2.2. I'm wondering if this will continue to work in the future, or if I need to investigate an alternate mechanism.
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Feb 4, 2009
Here is the problem, I am building an application and have multiple images that need to switch when the user touches the screen, doesn't matter where the users touches. The press the screen and the images switch randomly. I purchased the ebook "Professional Android Application Development" and have torn though it. I am stumped. I'm thoroughly confused at this point. Any ideas on where I can go or how I can accomplish this?
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Jul 23, 2010
I'm tired of Apple's shenannigins. Their iOS4 has made my 3g basically unusable. It drops calls all the time and the music has started to stutter at occasions. I'm quite interested in Android phones and I am wondering if a new bunch of Android phones are coming out soon to counter the iPhone 4 release. If they are, then I would be interested in waiting so that I get a product at the beginning of it's cycle (instead of end/middle like the curent 'droids are in). I live in Alaska, so my choices are limited. I can get another phone that works with ATT, or I can get a phone that works with one of the local smaller carriers which are GCI (GSM) or ACS Alaska (CDMA and uses Verizon networks when I am in the states). A quick look at ATTs offerings didn't produce any phones worth mentioning (and I'd like to be rid of ATT if I could find an excuse) and both of the other networks offer $99 heros though I would be up to buying a different phone (nexus 1, etc.) if they are trually worth it.It seems like the iPhone 4 is the phone to beat right now and I can't help but think that there are new sweet Android phones coming soon (like this fall) though I haven't been able to find any info about them. Are there usually phone releases in the Fall/Christmas season? If so, is it worth waiting for them, or is the Hero (or Nexus, Droid. ect.) good enough for the next 2 years?
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Sep 24, 2010
Is there an app to switch off the phone at automatic times? I.e, turns off at midnight so no calls in the night, but switches on before the alarm goes off? I'm fairly sure the alarm doesn't currently go off if the phones off, some of my previous phones have been forced on by the alarm.
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Nov 18, 2009
Now that the update is out how do we switch back to the stock message notifications? I have deleted the other app but when I get a text message my phone no longer alerts me.
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Oct 11, 2010
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Nov 4, 2010
an away-message app called Siesta Text. (this msg ain't spam by the way! i'm truly psyched on the thing). anyhow, this thing sends auto-replies to anyone who calls or sends you texts (if you have it on). my buddy at AOL said he was using a similar one for a while, but Siesta was way cleaner + easier. also, apparently the fact that you can program them to repeat for up to a year is a big deal (?)
i just switched from iPhone to Droid and downloaded it yesterday. have had it for exactly 1 day and it's literally changing my life. anyhow, thought anyone who's interested in saving time (and not feeling the burden of having to respond immediately to everyone) would enjoy it. also, by the looks of their site, they ain't got one for iPhone, so screw you again Apple! again, i JUST joined this board and am probably way late to the party, but check it out!
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Sep 25, 2010
In my android application I would like to get Time since when the app is opened. Initially what I tried was getting the time when the app is loaded from the server and then taking the difference with the current time from the device. But by doing that if the user changes the time then I will not be getting the actual time. Its not possible to hit the server again for the same. Is there any way to achieve this in android?
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Jan 16, 2010
I need to have gps running all the time in my application, but I donīt know if it is better throw it like a thread inside of the activity or if I should creat a Service and then in the Service, throw the thread
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Oct 12, 2012
When I do a restore, I'm able to copy files from my PC to phone, but the time/date of file is lost. The files on phone show the current date. I've tried copying via WiFi and USB with the same result. How to preserve the time/data info of file?
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Jan 20, 2009
I want to start the application after particular interval time. How this could be possible. Can some one give me some clue ? Which permission i will have to use ? I hope some one will give me reply as early as possible ?
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