I'm having a hard time figuring out the best way to pass simple values from onPause and onResume in the Android activity lifecycle. I understand how to use get and put extra bundles for activity to activity data, but does that work for passing data between the same activity? Should i used SharedPreferences?
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Is there something like an application global onPause() and onResume()?
My main activity listens for GPS fixes, which I want to continue working when switching to another screen/activity. Therefor I cannot unregister my LocationListener in the activity's onPause(). However I still want to unregister my GPS listener when switching to another application (so save battery) and turning it back on when returning to my application, regardless what screen/activity the user is currently in. Any ideas?
I have a small test application I am working on which has a timer that updates a textview to countdown from 100 to 0. That works fine, but now I am trying to pause the application if the user presses the back button on the phone and then restart the timer from where they left off when they reopen the app.
From the Log.v() prints I see that the _timer_time_remaining variable has the correct number of seconds stored when onPause is called, but it is set back to 0 when onResume starts. Why does the variable get reset? I thought that the application would continue to run in the background with the same values. Am I missing something? This is all declared in a class that extends Activity.
How do I delete SharedPreferences data for my application?
I'm creating an application that uses a lot of web services to sync data. For testing purposes I need to wipe out some SharedPreferences values when I restart the app.
I've always been a fan of V Cast music ID before I recently switched to my Droid X. It was one of my favorite features. I was able to find it in the Verizon apps, as well as Shazam and SoundHound in the Droid Apps. However, both Shazam and Soundhound, no matter how many times I try, say they didn't receive any music or failed to identify a song, and V Cast SongID just stays on the "Listening" screen until I have to close the app. The songs I've tried are relevantly popular songs so I know they're not too unique for the databases. I've placed my phone in every possible way up to my speakers but no such luck. Is this a common problem? Could it be leaning towards a phone issue and not an app issue with three apps all failing to carry out their function. I'm not going to pay for a full version until I get it worked out.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI have created a simple game for Android; I want to prevent users from sending the game to the background by pressing the home or back buttons accidentally. I planned on using a dialog to confirm the user's action. What I want is similar to what Sirius does with their app, if you need an illustration.
I tried adding this action to an overridden onPause(), but the activity vanishes right after the dialog is displayed, so I don't think I'm going about this the right way. How can I fix this?
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View 15 Replies View RelatedI tried the following from an activity:
@Override public void onPause() { super.onPause();
postDelayed(new Runnable() { public void run() { mTextView.setText("I am paused!"); }, 10000); }
The activity, while in the background, still executes the runnable. Is this incorrect? Should we absolutely call removeCallback() from our onPause() handler to ensure that no postDelayed() runnables execute if we get paused? Or is it necessary to do this only in onDestroy()?
I have a webview and when I do some java-script processing on it. I click on a link to play a video, after the video finishes in full screen. I want to return to my webpage in the same state I left it before clicking to play the video. How can I do it? Any snippets?
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View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm not sure why onPause() is not called in the following scenario.
Here's my activity:
CODE:.......................
My android application is consists of 20+ activities. I want to perform some task when application is in background (not an specific activity) and want to perform some other task when application is resumed. How to do this? I couldn't find onPause() and onResume() methods in Application class.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a ListPreference with the entries and entryValues correctly set. When I go in the prefernces activity and change the value it successfully works (I added a Toast to output the value after changing the option to test). But when I do the following to compare it, it always executes the else statment when I change it everytime, even like above when I changed the ListPreference and the value was "bluesky" it still failed to execute the correct if statement. Here's the code I use to check the value of the ListPreference in the onResume():
SharedPreferences prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this)
String backgroundPref = prefs.getString("backgroundPref", "");
if(backgroundPref == "bluesky"){
mainLayout.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.bluesky);
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Blue Sky", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}else if(backgroundPref == "sky"){
mainLayout.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.sky);
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Sky", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}else{
mainLayout.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.sunsetscene);
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Sunset Scene", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
The Toasts are there so I can double check which statement gets executed, and it always seems to be the else one. Am I having a bad day and getting something wrong?
I've been using code like: activity.finish(); activity.startActivity(new Intent(activity, activity.getClass()));
in two places: onResume(), and in an onClick() method of an AlertDialog. I'm getting the desired results when the code is called from onClick(), but I get mysterious null pointer exceptions while the runtime is trying to execute my onPause(). Is calling finish() from within one of the Activity lifecycle callbacks always a bad idea?
This code makes me nervous even though it works in the onClick(). After I call activity.finish(), I would think activity is in a questionable state by the time activity.startActivity() is invoked. Seems like an invitation to race conditions.
My use case is setting UI preferences (e.g. a different layout) in a PreferenceActivity. When I return to the main activity's onResume(), I check for preference changes and if a new layout is requested, I use the code snippet above.
There's already been some discussion of this, in various lists and blogs. I finally got an AnimationDrawable to work, but I cannot start it from onResume. I can start it from a timer that onResume starts, or an onClickHandler.
I've poked around the source a bit and I can't figure out, specifically, what state the view has to be in, in order for the background AnimationDrawable to start.
Can anyone enlighten me?
I have an application where I navigate from Activity A to Activity B and back to A and then B. I want to resume the activity B (which has a Bundle passed to it ) from Activity A. The documentation says that OnSaveInstance() is called only when the activity is killed, so how do i use OnPause which does not have the Bundle to resume the activity B.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI have two activities. One loads all rows from a database, and the other saves to the database. When I have the second save in onStop and the first repull the data in onResume, they do it out of order (the first resumes and then the second saves). I managed to fix this by putting the saving data in onPause, but why was this happening? Was this the cleanest way to do it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a TabActivity with 3 tabs, each tab started an activity and I realise when a tab is clicked onResume is call. If I have onCreate, when app start it will launch onCreate and then onResume immediately.So, I can just get ride of onCreate in this case?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to know what es the best place in an Activity to bind to a service? I saw examples doing it in onResume() and also in onCreate(). I was asking myself if it is not a problem putting it into onCreate(), cause in onPause() i will do a unbind to the service, so i dont get a serviceConnectionLeak, if i leave the activity. Now if i press the Home-Button and then switching to the HomeScreen, the Activity will unbind from the service, when i go back to the Activity from the Taskmanager, then onCreate() will not be called and if the Code is trying to access a function from the service i will get a null-pointer exception. If i bind and unbind only in onResume() and onPause() i dont have this problem.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have documented cases of an activity's onResume method getting called HOURS after the G1 is - well, not asleep, since a WakeLock is in use, but "idle" with the screen off (indeed, it had been off in one case for 6+ hours).
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to save text from 2 edittexts(et1,et2) and selection from 3 spinners(spinnerm,spinner and spinner2) onPause and setting them back onResume.
Text from edittexts is saved correctly, only spinner selection don't work as desired.
My code:....................
I created a TextView and put an url to it, using setText(Html.fromHtml("");. Its opening the web page in the built-in browser and when I press back, its coming back to the application.
I don't want to come back to the application, so in activity's onResume(), I call finish(). Its exiting at the first time. But when I open the application again, its throwing some exception.
Any other way to close the application, other than this way.
My problem is using SharedPreferences. I just created a <PreferenceScreen> which holds inside a <ListPreference> with an array of 5 different values. Very simple! The array of values are different numbers: 1, 2, 5, 10 and 30.Every time I change the setting, the application remembers that and I can see the setting I chose when I access the preferences once again (as an user). Now, in the code, when I retrieve the setting using the key (e.g. getString("delay", default_delay);), I always get the default value, it seems that the SharedPreferences does not find my setting. Can anybody help? I have read about SharedPreferences.getEditor().commit(), but that should be used only when changing settings from the code, not from the UI preferences.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm just wondering, if there is a limit on amount of data I can store in SharedPreferences. ( and if yes, what limit).
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The first is the login.
If I login correctly, I pass to the second activity, and I want download a stream (like twitter), but I cannot keep the session.
I saved user & pass in sharedpreferences, how can i keep the session through all activities?
Now that we can Examining sqlite3 Databases from a Remote Shell, is it possible to examine SharedPreferences from adb shell? Since it would be much more convenient to examine and manipulate SharedPreferences from command line when debugging. Or put in another way, in what files SharedPreferences are saved, and how to view and modify these files?
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