I am developing a Music Player and I have a view flipper to control all the artist view, album view, so on and so forth. What I am doing now is that I have list view in each view of the view flipper. However, I do not want to put all my codes inside one activity but rather, to have different activities for each view. Is that possible to implement?
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I am using "ViewFlipper" for my application. This ViewFlipper includes 5 layouts. I am trying make it that can be changed from current layout to any layout. In other words, it can be changed Layout#1 -> Layout#5 or Layout#4 -> Layout#1 ..etc. How to make it? I used showNext() and showPrevious(). It is not better idea for my case. Can I use ViewSwither instead of this case?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need to take the Bitmap of all the Views in ViewFlipper. But it gives me the Bitmap of only the current content on the screen. Is there any way of getting Bitmap of all the Views in the ViewFlipper.
Or is there any other way around to get the Bitmap of all the Views. I have four views and need to load them at the same time and get their Bitmap so that I can resize it and later display with Gallery.
I hope to get a quick response this time around.
I have an application using ListView inside Tabs, and I'd like to switch to a separate View(data collection widget) on clicking an item in the List.I'm adding each List's row's children to a ViewFlipper and the items are added at runtime so there is no definite number of views. As such, i would want to navigate/switch to a particular View in the ViewFlipper.Any pointers?
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to switch views in a ViewFlipper just like on Home screen, where we have small dots at the bottom of the screen and on clicking on them we can switch views.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a 3 nested ViewFlippers which seem to be working ok except that when I change the screen orientation the view flip back to the first one of my views, giving the user the impression it went back a few steps.I am a bit stumped as to what to do and was hoping someone had some experience with this.
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 start a browser and from the browser,I start a video which occupies only a small part of the screen,say the bottom right corner.
Now the browser will be pushed to the 2nd position in the window order and Video will come to the first position. Is it possible that browser can have the control for active window and receive the key events though the video is the Top Most window.
I've got a activity showing the user a list of songs to play, and when he opens a song I launch an activity which embed a player.
My problem is that when i finish playing i call "this.finish()", but when the user reopen the player, the "onCreate" is launched and it seems that the GUI is building itself "again".
I've tried to not call "this.finish()" and call the Activity.startActivity on the father, but with this way, when I clic on the "back" button on the emulator, I get all the players playing in the same time (they still exist).
So my question, is there a way to make an activity "a singleton" or to freeze it to be retrieved later (It can't be able to retrieve it with "back" button) or a way to cache all the constructions so to not have to do it again ?
My situation is the following: I have written one MapActivity class that is able to display a set of places as well as single places. On startup, the application creates an instance of this MapActivity and displays multiple places. If the user clicks on a certain place, then a new Activity is launched that shows the details of the selected place. This activity has a menu item that allows the user to view the place on a map - this causes that a new instance of the MapActivity is created, except that now only this single place is displayed.
The problem now is that if the user navigates back to the first MapActivity (the one that shows multiple places) the tiles won't be loaded anymore + sometimes OutOfMemoryErrors are encountered. According to the Android JavaDocs, it is only possible to have one MapActivity per process. However, I don't want to define my MapActivity as a singleInstance/singleTask, since the user should always be able to navigate back to the first MapActivity that shows multiple places. I have seen that the Google Places app (which has come with Google Map 4.4) for Android uses multiple MapActivity instances. How is this possible?
Trying to understand the Android framework model. I have an application that needs to have several threads running. On thread gets GPS fixes, another picks up GPS fixes and pushes them to server, and yet another occasionally polls a server for dispatched orders. Some of these threads update status Views as well.
Since I am new to Android, the application framework model hasn't clicked for me. Where are these threads started? Right now I start the threads in the initial Activity, but if I understand it right, once that Activity goes invisible it is stopped. Furthermore, I have to track GPS and network statistics so that I can have a View which may (or may not) be the active View.
I am attempting to learn how to develop on the Android platform but do not quite understand the relationship between Activities and Views, because according to the documentation an Activity is almost always linked to a UI object that the user can interact with, but if this is the case where does the whole idea of Views come in?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have developed some apps for Android, and this questions stays always:
How should I structure my UI? Should I launch activity after activity and leave the phone to make the "back" button, or should I choose more optimized, but more complex to implement, way with switching manually Views and then manually doing the "Back" button functionality?
I've been programming in Android for two years now and just joined an Android project where they are using a TabActivity to host multiple Activities. It's unclear why this is better than rewriting the TabActivity to simply use Views instead.
TabActivity extends ActivityGroup which means TabActivity can host both Activities and Views. But what's the use of this capability? I was under the impression that Activities should be treated as individual screens of an application.
In short, what is an example use case where it's recommended that TabActivity should host multiple Activities rather than multiple Views?
I am using a TabActivity (Main) with 3 TabSpecs
I am using Intents for the content of the 3 Tabs
TabA, TabB, TabC for example.
All these tab activities use common data that is stored in SharedPreferences
In the Main TabActivity I have an options menu which has a refresh option.
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This refresh uses an AsyncTask (updateCommonDataFromWeb) to reload the common data from the web.
I need a way to tell the 3 tab activities to refresh their views and rebuild their content from the newly downloaded data.
When the tab activities are first created they load the data from SharedPreferences like so:
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I thought about making a common method on each of the tab activities
like.... reloadViewData()
I thought maybe I could use the activity manager from the Main TabActivity to get the activity of the current tab like so:
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Unfortunately i cant get this approach to work, whilst activity is the correct instance its an Activity instead of a TabA,TabB or TabC
Maybe i've completely taken the wrong approach to the whole thing.
I have also read alot about not using Activities for tab content instead using views.
However I dont know what view to use to replace my <RelativeLayout /> as i cant use my R.layout.* as views.
Are there design guidelines to help decide if an application with multiple views should be designed with multiple activities or just one activity and control the back button itself.
I've tried both. My most complex applications using one activity per screen. However, now that I'm successfully written an app with just one activity and handling the back button myself, I don't see any compelling reason to use multiple activities. The one activity application is much simpler and more straightforward.
What advantages of multiple activities am I missing?
I'm working on an application using xml layouts.
I wish to know which is better:
1. Use few activities and change its contentview
2. Use an activity for each 'view' needed
If both works, in which case which option would be better?
I have a simple ListView and on that ListView I have placed a number of custom defined Views. The CustomView has ImageView and two TextViews.
The CustomView also has a "stateful drawable" as background, so that the background image (a 9-patch) changes if you press the Row in the ListView. When pressing the Row, the background image changes to a Red-ish thing.
The problem is that when the background changes from the default greyish, all the Views in the CustomView (ImageView and TextViews) still have their greyish background and thus creates very ugly greay boxes on top of the now redish background.
What is the best way to solve that problem? I hoped that such things were handled automatically (as it is done in for example .NET), but I was wrong it seems.
I am implementing a music player application in Android. My play list selection screen is implemented as a tab selector widget which contains a ListActivity inside each of the tabs: Artist, Albums, Songs.
I want to update the ListView in each of the ListActivity when I delete an item from any of the lists.
i.e. When I long press an item in the Artists list a context menu is drawn with "Delete Artist"
And it should delete all the songs from this artist in the Songs ListView, delete all the albums by this artist in the Albums ListView, and finally delete the entry for the artist in the Artist ListView.
Each of the ListActivity has its own fillData() method, which updates the ListView when the button in the context menu is pressed.
How can I call the fillData() method of the Albums ListActivity after I update the ListView inside of the Artists ListActivity?
I want to populate a table, defined in layout xml file through the programmatic way. I have define Table with a single row defining its header, with all the attributes set. Now i want to know a way so that i can just replicate that header row in the table with new content.
I tried using inflator inflate(int,view) method, but at runtime it showed up with error.
Here is the XML code for the layout file defining the table
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I have the following XML code:.................
The idea is to change the views, whenever I press one of the radio buttons. When I press a button the first time everything works out fine, but the second time I press a button, I get an IllegalStateException, and I can't quite see why I'm getting this.
Also, the Activity seems to set all my global variables to null, which is why I have to create them every time I switch from portrait to landscape or vice versa. So I would like to know if there is a way I can save my views in the Bundle, or any other way in which I can permanently save my views, so I don't have to add or create them every time, I flip the phone. And whenever I flip the phone, it seems that it rereads the main XML file, causing the RadioGroup to be set to 2D even if the 3D button is checked. This is because I've said the 2D button to be checked from when the app is first created, but I would like to also save the state of that RadioGroup.
How do you align views relative to the "middle" part of another view? I think it is best explained with a pic of the UI I'm trying to create in android.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there any way to query a root view of an activity for all of its child views even before the root view or its children have been inflated? I guess what I'm looking for is whether a view knows ahead of time what children it will have before it gets inflated, and can I get that list in some way. Bizarre I realize, but I think it will help me with some unconventional automation testing I'm working on. I haven't found anything in the API like this.
View 1 Replies View RelatedLet's say I have a LinearLayout, and I want to add a View to it, in my program from the Java code. What method is used for this? I'm not asking how it's done in XML, which I do know, but rather, how can I do something along the lines of (One View).add(Another View) Like one can do in Swing.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a ViewFlipper with two ImageView widgets. I have set the in and out animation as android.R.anim.slide_in_left and android.R.anim.slide_out_right
Now when the two ImageViews have two different drawables, then the animation is sleek and smooth. But when I set the both the ImageViews to the same Drawable, the screen flickers. Why is this happening and how do I prevent it?
I am trying to create a widget which functions in a similar manner to the new Marketplace widget.The Marketplace widget fades between different views (each view being a sample Marketplace app with a TextView and an ImageView describing the Marketplace app).I would like to mimic this fading between different views behavior. Unfortunately, as is clearly stated in So, how can we mimic this fading behavior?
View 12 Replies View RelatedI am using gesture detector to catch "flings" and using a view flipper to change the screen when this happens. Some of my child views contain list views. The the gesture detector wont recognize a swipe if you swipe on the list view. But it will recognize it if it is onTop of TextView's or ImageView's. Is there a way to implement it so that it will recognize the swipes even if they are on top of another view that has a ClickListener?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to use a ViewFlipper and make it act like the home screen(The layout will move with your finger). Check out this for an example. I want to do this with a ViewFlipper that only contains two children so the opposite view should be shown on either side of the current view depending on which way the user moves their finger. This code works but only for 1 direction at a time. This is in onTouchEvent.
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Which ever of the bottom two lines I put last that direction will work correctly but the other will not.
Here is how I set the leftView and rightView:
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Is it going to be possible to set it up so that the same view is shown on both sides of the current view?
I have a ViewFlipper defined that contains 3 views...
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I also have a custom View defined within my Activity...
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Some how, I need these linked together so that the 'third_view' defined in the XML layout file needs to be a CompassView, or have a CompassView added to it.
What I can do is drop the 'third_view' from the layout and then add in the CompassView manually..
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But then I lose the ability to define other view controls within the layout file.
Can I add CompassView to 'third_view' declaratively?