Android :: Want To Change Background Of Activity
Jun 23, 2010How to change background of activity and background of the application name at the top of your activity?
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Android :: Background Activity For Map Started Again When Orientation Change
Apr 6, 2010i've developed an android app that's fetches an xml file and displays this data via several markers on the map. This works fine so far. The problem right now is that when i switch the orientation of the phone (portrait->landscape or vice versa) the markers disappear for a small moment, the xml processing is started again and then they reappear. Is there a way to prevent this re-loading of the file? It only takes about 2-3 seconds.
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Jan 10, 2010I created an application which enables the user to set whether he wants to receive notification while the application runs in background mode. If the notifications are enabled an activity should be started (the dialog should appear on the screen).
I tried to enabled it the following way:
CODE:...........
This is the method from main activity. When onPause() is executed isRunningInBackground is set true.
When I tried to debug it when the main application was running in the background the line
startActivity(intent) had no effect (the activity didn't appear).
Does anyone know how to midify the logic in order to start an activity from the main activity when the main activity is running in the background (after onPause() is called)?
Android :: Does Change Background Will Change Padding Of Linear Layout
May 21, 2010I have the following linear layout. What I don't understand is if I set the background to another image, the padding information are reset. Is there a way to prevent this?
<LinearLayout android:id="@+id/aPanel"
android:orientation="horizontal" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:background="@drawable/bkground"
android:paddingLeft="15dp" android:paddingRight="15dp">
<!-- some children here -->
</LinearLayout>
I see the position of the children get shifted when I change the backround drawable of the linearlayout 'aPanel'.
Android :: Change Background After Orientation Change
Jun 8, 2010I have an image set as my background and when it is vertical, the image looks fine. However, when the orentation is changed, the image get streched out. If there a way that I can change the image based on the orentation of the device?
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Jan 21, 2010When views with different type have same id and screen orientation changes,
either java.lang.ClassCastException: android.view.AbsSavedState$1 or java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Wrong state class -- expecting View State will occur. (depends on the view's order)
Because View.dispatchRestoreInstanceState() checks id only.
You may wonder why anyone would make views with different type to have same id.
But it can happen when you use tab activity.
Imagine you have tab activity with two children activity.
Tab1 is ListActivity and Tab2 is ExpandableListActivity.
Both activity have id of "@android:id/list" but the type of view is different.
This means we cannot use ListActivity & ExpandableListActivit at the same in one tab activity.
Android :: Change Intent Bundle Data Before Activity Recreated After Orientation Change
Jul 30, 2009I have a notification that starts my activity and passes a messages using the intent's putExtra() function. The message is then displayed to the user in the activity's onCreate function. When the application is restarted due to a orientation change, the message is shown again as it is still in the intent's bundled data.
How can I remove the extra data?
I tried the following:
Bundle bundle = getIntent().getExtras();
if (bundle.getBoolean("showMessage")) {
// ... show message that is in bundle.getString("message")
// remove message
bundle.remove("showMessage");
}
But the message will still be shown after the orientation changed, seems like the intent used is not the one I changed, but the original one. The only workaround I found is to save the showMessage additionally in onSaveInstanceState(). Is there another way? Or is this the way to go?
Android :: Activity In Background ?
Nov 19, 2010Is there a way to 'preload' a user interfaces but to not display it until I am ready?
I have a service which has a receiver to listen for action_screen_on to occur. When that occurs, I would like to load an activity. However, as it is now, it takes about 1 second to load. I would like to preload the layout in advance so that when the screen is turned on the layout loads as soon as possible.
Android :: Activity Background Becoming Black
Nov 19, 2010i have set the background of an activity with a green gradient png image.This working fine almost always but some times during navigating to an activity its background is becoming black! i am not able to reproduce it with any specific operation, also not getting how to debug or fix it.
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Apr 17, 2010"Note that when you write an activity, you can make it stop or continue running when it is moved to the background (see onStop() in Activity Lifecycle). For activities that download data from the network, it's recommended to let them continue downloading so the user can multi-task." As far as I was aware I had to create a service if I wanted to have a background activity such as a media player, internet download, or processing of data in files on the SD card continue when the activity was no longer in the foreground.I went and reread the onStop information on the "Activity Lifecycle" page, which was referred to. But I didn't find any mention of how an activity might continue to run in the background after onStop was called.
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Aug 5, 2010I need a way for my Activity to known that it's going into the background, and not when it's getting killed. I thought about hooking at onStop(), but onStop() is called for both cases. In other words, is there a way to tell if when my Activity is moving into the background and not getting killed?
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Jul 14, 2010Has anyone any idea on how to solve the generic problems related to starting a task in background from an activity and when the task is finished posting the result to the activity that created ? (the activity might get destroyed in the meantime due to a orientation change ,or receiving a call , or might be in the process of destroying and recreation)
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Aug 4, 2010Is it possible to start an Activity in the background? I need such an Activity that can operate in the background and spawn other Activities as needed in response to user commands issued to my Home Screen widget.
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Jul 22, 2010Using theme or ImageView ?
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Jan 31, 2010When i launch Activity A, the screen goes black, then dark-gray. Then A launches B, and the screen goes black and dark-gray again. Is there a way to set the default background color to black? Activity A has no screen, its just a stub that calls B.
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Apr 22, 2010My use case is writing an overlay controller activity for a landscape camera preview. I followed the instructions from a couple of tutorials for writing a transparent theme.When I start this activity from my root activity, the layout gets drawn correctly, but the background stays black. I tried to use @android:style/Theme.Translucent instead, but this Theme inherits the orientation from the calling activity (landscape) and thats not what I want.The application holding the camera preview is set to landscape view as it does not display the preview correctly in portrait orientation. (see old google bug report)What I wanted to do was to put an independent activity for user interaction interface in front of the camera surface holder (this activity should be set to 'portrait', or even better to 'sensor')
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Sep 9, 2010I'm not very familiar with the android SDK yet. I have an application (game), which is developed mainly using the NDK, and uses egl to render. i have an activity which handles the egl swapbuffer and runs the games native main loop, pretty straight forward I guess.
Now I have made another activity which host a TableLayout containing an EditText as well as a button (simply for text-input later used by the game). I spawn this activity from my main activity using startActivityForResult. The small problem I'm having now is that I can't manage to make this "popup" activity to have a background, so my paused game will reside in the background, with the various widgets just overlaid. This is not very pretty in my opinion, and I would like to at least have a solid background color for my spawned activity while it's active. I *could* just simply go into some state in the games main loop which clears the gl-screen just before I spawn the new activity. But I don't like this solution and it's a tad more work then I'm prepared to put in just at this time in the project. I'm pretty sure there is some simple way to just set a background color somehow, I just can't find *any* way to do it, I've looked around in the SDK resources and tried to search for any hints towards this, but i'm just not familiar enough with the java SDK to find what i'm looking for.
On a side note I would also like to be able to center the EditText widget as well as the button on the screen once the Activity is active, I haven't looked very deeply into it yet, but from a quick glance of the documentation I couldn't really find any suitable positioning methods in the tablelayout class. But as I said, haven't looked very hard. Can probably solve that one easy, but i'm just throwing this in as well :)
Android :: Make Activity To Background With Out Finishing?
Jan 11, 2010How can i make an activity go to background without calling its finish() method and return to the Parent activity that started this .I tried so much but it really dint help.So if you guys could help i would be very thankful.
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Sep 15, 2010I have next problem, I have got parent activity and few sub- activities, if app goes to the background by pressed HOME button for long time, all children will be killed, and my app restart from parent activity.
For example: A1 - parent, A2,A3,A4 - sub-activities. A1-->A2-- >A3(top), from A3 I go to the background (HOME). wait 30-40 min and
Android :: Get Background Color Of Activity In Java?
Sep 7, 2010How can I get background color and text color (default for child views) of an Activity in Java?
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Sep 12, 2010I am a bit confused on creating an image which will be acting as a background for my activities. So, in short, my aim is that my application should be able to fit the different screen sizes. Therefore, what size in pixel should my three images be to be able to fill the screen of the device in ldpi, mdpi and hdpi?
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Oct 12, 2010My goal is to develop a GUI application on top of a background image with buttons in specific places on the image. The first step is to display the background.
The image can be displayed with resources and is described in several FAQs including this one:
how-to-add-background-image-to-activity
It compiles and runs without errors, but the background is black. Here is the main.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/rootRL" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="@drawable/background">
</RelativeLayout>
The image has been in png, 9.png, and jpg format with basenames of 'main' and 'background'. It builds but does not display. Making clean and recompiling does not help.
This behavior occurs on both the emulator and on hardware -- an Atmel AT91SAM9M10-G45-EK. The SDK version is 2.0.1.
Android :: Start Activity From Service - Running In Background
Nov 13, 2009I want to develop a application that continuously running in background as service. And after that if i press any numeric key, it should start an application.
I have developed a service which is running continuously. Is it possible in Android?
Android :: Bring Activity To Front From Background Service?
Mar 17, 2010I am aware my issue is against the philosophy of Android, but I have no choice, this application will run on a embedded car gps and I need to bring an activity to prevent from car accident, for example, when it's happen around the user. I have to put other activity on the back and bring my alert pop up without user manipulation like notification on the front. Is there a way to bring manually an activity to the front, by resuming it like when you click on the android task switcher?
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Mar 18, 2010I am trying to create a simple Android application that has a ActivityList of information, when the application starts, I plan to start a Service that will be constantly calculating the data (it will be changing) and I want the ActivityList to be in sync with the data that the service is calculating for the life of the app. How can I set up my Activity to be listening to the Service? Is this the best way to approach this problem? For example, if you imagine a list of stock prices - the data would be being changed regularly and need to be in sync with the (in my case) Service that is calculating/fetching the data constantly.
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Jul 27, 20091)Which is better for developing a game.
a)Using XML layouts
b)Using Custom layouts with Surface view
2) while making a custom view using Surface view... do we need to have a secondary thread to implement the surfaceholder.callback()......
My code below does not show the activity in grey background as i have coded... do i need to use the unlockcanvas and all ,,but i havent used the secondary thread
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Android :: Bring Activity In Background To Front Via Notification
Aug 5, 2010I create an application which displays the notification when the service starts. If an user navigates to HOME screen (without exiting the application), the user could still go back to the previous application by pressing on the notification icon. This is very similar case as the track recording service in Google application "My Track".
I want the existing activity as Single Top activity since it has associated service running. However when my application tries to bring the existing activity to front via notification, the existing activity's onDestroy has been called which causes problem. How can I skip this onDestroy method? Here is my current codes:
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Android :: Broadcast Message Leave Activity In Background
Oct 31, 2010My app's main activity listens to a broadcast message. When it receives the message it brings the activity to the front. I want to update the activity if it is in the front, so the user is playing with it, but otherwise I do not want to bring the activity to the front. How should I do it? Is there a flag for invoking the intent, or what?
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Apr 28, 2010What happens on Activity.finish() with an AsyncTask still running in background?
Does it just pop the Activity off the Activity Stack, but wait to destroy the Activity object until the AsyncTask fully completes (since the AsyncTask is an inner class of my Activity)?
Also, would it act any differently if the AsyncTask were a public, non-inner class that held no references to the instance of the Activity?
Android :: Set The Background Color Of New Activity After Clicking Tabs?
May 28, 2010I am switching activities on tab clicks and successful at this. But, in one of my Activity class I am doing the following:
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I want to change the background of this layout only and I want tabs to their as it is. But with the currentandroid:layout_height="fill_parent"in main.xml my background is overwriting the tabs which means I am unable to see tabs. and If I makeandroid:layout_height="wrap_content"` I cannot see any change taking and tabs are still their.