Android :: Want Activity State Without Override Each Methods
Nov 22, 2010I want see the state of my activity (Pause Stop Resume etc etc) without override each methods like this: Code...
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Android :: Methods Of Intents Activity?
Jan 8, 2010I have two applications A and B (in different packages,but it doesn't matter).Application B is an sms application that i have made and contains one activity.This activity has a method called sendSMS(String number,String text).I want to call this method from application A and send an SMS without opening the activity(the GUI) of application B but just send an SMS in the background by calling just the method of the activity.Any ideas?
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Jun 29, 2010I currently have an Activity that when it gets displayed a Notification will also get displayed in the Notification bar.
This is so that when the User presses home and the Activity gets pushed to the background they can get back to the Activity via the Notification.
The problem arises when a User presses the back button, my Activity gets destroyed but the Notification remains as I want the user to be able to press back but still be able to get to the Activity via the Notification. But when a USER tries this I get Null Pointers as its trying to start a new activity rather than bringing back the old one.
So essentially I want the Back button to act the exact same as the Home button and here is how I have tried so far:
CODE:.........
However the above code still seems to allow my Activity to be destroyed, How can I stop my Activity from being destroyed when the back button is pressed?
Android :: Want Call Methods Of A Activity From Service
Apr 27, 2009Is it possible to call methods of a Activity from service. I am running a thread from a service and i listening to some external event from that thread. I am not able to call methods from that thread. Is there any way to call methods from a thread.
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Aug 25, 2009I have a click listener:
private OnClickListener onMyListener = new OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
myMethod();
} };
And my Method:
private String myMethod() {
TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.TextView1);
return (String) tv.getText();
}
When it calls this method, at tv.getText() it breaks in the debugger.
With this in the stack --
ViewRoot.handleMessage(Message) line: 1571
ViewRoot(Handler).dispatchMessage(Message) line: 99
Looper.loop() line: 123
ActivityThread.main(String[]) line: 3948
Method.invokeNative(Object, Object[],
Class, Class[], Class, int, boolean)
line: not available [native method] Method.invoke(Object, Object...) line: 521 ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run() line: 782 ZygoteInit.main(String[]) line: 540 NativeStart.main(String[]) line: not available [native method]
Android :: How To Have Shared Menu In Each (List) Activity Without Re-writing The Overridden Methods
Jan 5, 2010I know that Android provides some useful methods to be overridden in order to define a menu:
CODE:..............................
I would like to have this menu shared by each Activity and ListActivity of my Android application. This is for having a standard menu in each (List) Activity that lets the user jump to every part of the application within a click.
Right now, the easiest way to achieve this is to copy-and-paste both methods in every (List) Activity of the application. I don't like this redundancy of code written.
Is sub-classing a reasonable choice? I've already seen that sub-classing one of my ListActivity does not work very well (threads that retrieve objects from a database are giving problems). Are there other ways to share a menu though Activities?
Android :: Android - Override The Back Button So Doesn't Finish - Activity
Jun 29, 2010I currently have an Activity that when it gets displayed a Notification will also get displayed in the Notification bar.
This is so that when the User presses home and the Activity gets pushed to the background they can get back to the Activity via the Notification.
The problem arises when a User presses the back button, my Activity gets destroyed but the Notification remains as I want the user to be able to press back but still be able to get to the Activity via the Notification. But when a USER tries this I get Null Pointers as its trying to start a new activity rather than bringing back the old one.
So essentially I want the Back button to act the exact same as the Home button and here is how I have tried so far:
CODE:..........
However the above code still seems to allow my Activity to be destroyed, How can I stop my Activity from being destroyed when the back button is pressed?
Android :: Launching Activity At Its Current State
May 17, 2010I am trying to make a task switcher and i succed in it. My only problem is that when I launch activities, they are relaunched as they were new activities ( for instance, I am writing an email, i press home and go into my activity,launch email, and then the app launch the email bout goes back at the inbox and the email is lost) So that's not true multitasking.
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Aug 18, 2010I have one query. In Home Application the timer is running and if any ANR or Alert or Notify come then this home activity would go in Pause state but timer is running and visible. How it is happening. Can anybody explain me how this work.
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Jun 14, 2010Suppose i have a program that' s currently in a PAUSED state. Then the user launches another activity. In this second one, i want to find if the first one is in paused state or not because, if its paused, i want to recover it.
Is there a way to find if a specific activity is in pause state or not?
Android :: How To Save State Of An Activity On An ActivityUnitTestCase
Jan 22, 2009In an ActivityUnitTestCase I'm trying to do:
CODE:...............
But on the save state call I get this trace:
CODE:.................................
Going through the ApplicationContext source code I've found this (http://tinyurl.com/d8qsyc):
CODE:...................
It seems the problem is that the activity token is not set. But here I'm puzzled, I don't know where to go next. Any ideas on how to fix it or workaround it are appreciated. I want to test that my application is saving its state correctly.
Android :: Correct Way To Save State Of An Activity?
Jul 1, 2010I have an Activity, which contains a bunch of check boxes and a submit button.
When the submit button is clicked, the activity will exit (finish() will be called). Before the activity exits, I want to save the states of the check boxes in the activity, so when the activity starts again, the check boxes can stay in their previous states. What's the correct way to save these states? Should I use SharedPreference.
Android :: Maintaining State Of Activity On Orientation Change
May 6, 2010I m currently working on landscape mode for android app in which i want to know how to maintain the state of the activity and views displayed on orientation change i.e from portrait mode to landscape mode ?
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Jul 24, 2010I would like my Activity to be informed when the SD card is removed, since it relies on files from the SD card (to keep apk size down) but for compatibility reasons is not targeted at Froyo. I'd like to close the application when the SD card is removed/mounted (giving the user a dialog message to inform them of course) so that I don't get IOExceptions etc (I'd quite like to not have to check everytime I load a file to see if the external storage is available, I already do a check on application launch). There doesn't seem to be any attribute in the manifest for this (like configChanges) that I can find.
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Apr 27, 2010I've got an android app that pulls a random 20 questions (rows) as a cursor from a SQLite DB and loops through all the questions to ask the user all 20 questions.
Is there some way to save the cursor's state/location when the activity is paused or stopped so that when the activity resumes the cursor is restored and in the same position as it was when the activity was paused/stopped?
Android :: Phone Won't Save Current State Of An Activity / Way To Do
Nov 17, 2010I am trying to save some values in the onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) method of my activty by following the example here: How do I save an Android application's state?
But it doesnt seem to load it from the Oncreate(). the bundle object is always null but whenever i call another activity, it does indeed go into the onSaveInstanceState method to save my values.
Now i read that question i just posted and someone noted how they could not get it to work in an emulator? unfortunately that is all im working on. On an emulator and cant test the app on the device as i have no device available to me right now And the web services i am interacting with are in a local VM on my work machine that cannot be accesses remotely at the moment.
My question is, is it true that saved bundles dont work on emulators? I also noticed how when i do dismiss or bring up a new activity , the activity calles onPause and then onStop. when i bring back the same activty, it goes straight to onCreate?
now according to the docs here http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#actlife That is correct in terms of what the lifecycle diagram shows but if you read below that diagram on the onStop() section it says the next step it goes into is either onRestart() or onDestroy()? no mention of onCreate? Type on the docs?
Anyways here is my onSaveInstanceState() and onCreate() both in the same activity: code...
Android :: Possible To Get Music Player State For An Activity / A Service?
Aug 20, 2009I wonder if it's possible to get music player state, like which is the current music playing, title, author and so on ? Better, is it possible for an activity (or a service) to be notified on music state changements (start playing, pause, etc.)
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Mar 14, 2010I'm looking into writing simple graphics code in Android and I've noticed some synchronized() blocks. What is the reasoning behind this and how do I know when I should be "synchronizing" my code?
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Oct 24, 2009I am having an issue related to home key . when i press home key all current activity gets hidden. but when i press the executable it again starts from the fisrt screen . I have overidden all methods nsaveInstaceState opPause onStop onResume
but there are still issues what is the right way to handle those conditions. When i am pressing home button i am storing the widgets state in database and when i again click the exectable i am checking the database state and starting the new Intent as saved when user presses the home button .Is it the right way to do that as i am facing the problem when user does the same and again presses the back button , there is already on intent available in stack of activity .
Android :: Retain Application / Activity State Correct Approach?
Dec 22, 2009I just read from internet to maintain the state of my application by overriding the onKeyDown function as given below. And set the launch mode of my activity as singleInstance. And it is working perfectly. Just want to know if it is correct approach. And how it is different from onSaveInstanceState.
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Aug 31, 2010I just started working on android(beginner). I'm stuck in the activity state complexity. I created two activitys(activity1 and activity2). wen i move from the activity1 to 2 and then back to activity1 using a button(back of activity)the values(states) of the views are not restored. here is the code...
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May 6, 2009Whenever I press the home button when Im in the root task of my application and when I click on the icon of my app again the state of my task (activity) is retained, but when i press the back button on the emulator and when I open my application its state is not retained. I want the state to be retained in both the scenarios.
In the mnifest I have given the below entries,
android:alwaysRetainTaskState="true" for the root activity
android:launchMode="singleTask" for the application
Android :: Confusion With Activity Stack And Restoring State / Whats Wrong?
Jan 11, 2010I have a start activity page for my game (which is the root activity for my app) that just lists "Play", "Help", and "About" TextViews on the screen. Each TextView has a click listener which start the appropriate Activity for each. The GameActivity (started with explicit intent from clicking "Play") has onSaveInstanceState implemented to save state of the game. Its onCreate checks for non- null Bundle to restore this state. My problem is this:
1. Turn on Phone/Emulator 2. start my game with icon in launcher 3. Start page is displayed 4. click "Play" to start my GameActivity 5. play game for a few seconds 6. click home 7. state is saved (proven with debugger calling onSaveInstanceState) 8. start my game with the icon in launcher 9. start page is displayed
I was under the impression that by clicking the app icon from the launcher that my existing task activity stack would be restored with my GameActivity being on top and its onCreate being called for me to restore the state I saved. Instead I am getting a brand new instance of my start page. Also, if I long press home and choose my running game icon, then my game comes back exactly as I left it. However, this apparently is NOT using my onCreate restore state logic as onCreate is never called.
All of the documentation seems to say that the entire stack of activities will be restored when clicking the application icon from the launcher, but I just get a fresh instance. What might I be doing wrong?
Recovery State Of First Activity Launched?
Jan 15, 2010I have an application that launch a thread when a ToggleButton is pressed, but if I press the home button, a new activity is started (I can return to the first activity if I press the back button), but I want to recovery the first activity launched state, which have the reference of the initial thread.
This is my code:
org.test.test.java:
////////////////////////////////////////
package org.test;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.ToggleButton;
[code]....
Android :: Activity - Sometimes - Throws Wrong State Class Exception When Being Resumed After Kill
Nov 24, 2009I'm testing how my app behaves when killed by the OS due to low memory conditions. I always have three activities on the stack, like: A B C (then C launches maps or some other heavy process)
when my app is killed, and I return to it, C starts itself up again ok. When I hit the back button to go to B, I [sometimes] get an exception thrown which I can't trace. Output is below. I don't know where to go from here. I've only seen one other post mentioning this exception, but it was related to a reproducable error when rotating the device. This only happens sometimes.
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Android :: Prevent Activity From Saving State When User Selects Back Button
May 2, 2010I have an Activity with a list that is bound to a ListAdapter reading data into a ArrayList from a database. All is well when the data is first loaded. While the Activity is open and the list is being displayed it is possible and likely that the data in the database will be updated by a service but the list does not reflect the changes because the ArrayList does not know about the changes. If the Activity is no longer in the foreground as would be the case if the user goes to the home screen and then is brought back to the foreground I would like for the Activity to not display what it did prior but rather reload the data using the ListAdapter the view is bound to. I think something needs to call finish() but I am not sure what.
This is what I have in the Activity.
CODE:.......................
Development : Calling Activity Get Destroyed / Remain In Pause State?
Mar 19, 2009When another activity is started from main activity, The main activity get destroyed and created when returned back from second Activity main activity remains in pause state till second activity finish (), on Sart or on Resume from when returned back from second activity? which one these case does happen in And roid application?
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