Is there any way to get an app to run at startup? There is a volume control app (ladybug icon) that I use to keep my ringer volume always at vibrate. When I accidentally hit the volume rocker, the app returns the ringer to vibrate. However, I must remember to run the app when I restart the Droid. So, is there anyway to have it run when the Droid powers on? Or is that something that would have to involve rooting?
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Every time I start my phone it seems that every program in the app catalog starts up. Until I activate the Advanced Task Killer and shut them all down, the thing runs like a hog. I have quite a few programs installed, but I dont use them all all of the time. Why do they all start up and is there any way beside the ATK to stop them? Is there any way to modify the startup files?
View 4 Replies View RelatedOther than downloading a 3rd party application that auto-starts apps on boot, is there a way within the OS itself to autostart programs when the phone reboots? I have a few apps I use for work and would be nice if they autostarted on my Droid without having to launch each one independently.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow do I go about getting my app to play an mp3 (in my res) on startup? Or how how about if I wanted this to happen when a button is clicked?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've been modifying/editing parts of the Android platform, but have run into a problem when trying to test my edits. After making my changes to the platform source, I was able to successfully compile the source - thus creating system.img, ramdisk.img, and userdata.img. When I go to test this in the emulator, the emulator just hangs on the "ANDROID_" screen, with the underscore blinking, but never seems to load. Any suggestions? The command I used to run the emulator is as follows:
./emulator -system $HOME/android/platform/out/target/product/generic/system.img -ramdisk $HOME/android/platform/out/target/product/generic/ramdisk.img -data $HOME/android/platform/out/target/product/generic/userdata.img
I have Listpreferences in my app. They don't appear to be setting to their defaults right after installation - they appear to be null. I'm trying to figure out why my default preferences are not being set right after installation.
In my main code I have:
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Right after the above code executes, each variable contains "defValue" instead of the actual values I have assigned in my ListPreference below.
My preference xml file is called, "settings.xml". Here's what one of the ListPreferences there looks like:
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Here's what some of my strings.xml file looks like:
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When I go to menu, and then settings, I can see my defaults checked (radiobuttoned). Then when I go back from the settings menu to my main screen - all is well - for life! ...then each var above is assigned the proper default value.
This only happens when I first install my app on the phone. After I go to the settings screen once and then right out of it, the app is fine and accepts any setting changes.
By the way, as you can see, "List1" is the android:key within a file called settings.xml in my res/xml folder.
I am new to android. I need to create an auto startup application. That application will control the files( if we open a image file from Gallery (or) mail attachments, on that time our application give a alert dialog to the user). Please guide to how to create an auto startup application to control all the file format in the android emulator.
View 3 Replies View Related1) I have a Spinner with several options provided by an ArrayAdapter and have an onItemSelected listener on this Spinner. When selecting an item from the spinner, I want to display another view (list-view) but this method is unintentionally invoked upon initially displaying the view. The list-view is therefore displayed upon startup of the application. It is possible to add a spinner-on-item-select listener that won't fire upon initially displaying the view but only by the user selecting an item?
View 2 Replies View Relatedi would like to add some commands to be executed every time I run "adb shell" (for example "alias ls="ls -l""). is there a .bashrc or a .sh that i could add that to?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a need to create a background service that starts up during the system boot up, and keeps running until the device is powered down. There is no UI or Activity associated with this. I created a class extending the android Service class, and added the setttings to the AndroidManifest.xml file. When I launch this service in the emulator, I don't see this launched at all. I have overrided almost all the methods in the Service class to put log statements, but none of them shows up.
View 13 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to populate an activity menu at startup? For example, reading from say a feature database at startup and only display those features that are currently active in an activity menu?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have plenty of applications that I only use like once a month or even less. Yet, many are always on, for no reason. What are my options to make it so that they ONLY run when I need them? I saw that they are apps that constantly watch the processes and kill them every time they appear. That doesn't seem like a great approach, not very efficient. And What if I want to use the app?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a Nuvifone A50 (Garmin-asus), after wiping all data on the device, i can't accept areements, application is crashing and back to step 1.I'm SURE the phone is perfectly working exept this, so if i can bypass this, the phone will work. I tried restoring the .img file, same problem.
Pictures:
Step1 after starting the phone: screen.nicow .me/5lBhSuMUDu.jpg
Step2 screen.nicow .me/rpbOtMjVBI.jpg
Step3 screen.nicow .me/vEVrnJin1g.jpg
Step4 screen.nicow .me/TFQSv4cvVf.jpg
And after the force close, back to step 1.I can access the file system via USB, nothing more. I can also dial(and i can call).
I am struggling trying to have the soft keyboard appear in a search screen and from the looks of numerous pleas on various forums, I am not the only one. I have tried many variants, culling from the byzantine attempts of those others.
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService
(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.showSoftInput (query, 0);
(for 0, substitute InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED or InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT.)
The problem seems to be that showSoftInput doesn't work from onCreate. This is a very common need. Surely there is a reasonable solution to this problem, or is it botched here?
I am displaying some data in a ScrollView. On activity startup (method onCreate) I fill the ScrollView with data and want to scroll to the bottom. I tried to use:
getScrollView().fullScroll(ScrollView.FOCUS_DOWN).
This works when I make it as an action on button click but it doesn't work in the onCreate method. Is there any way how to scroll the ScrollView to the bottom on activity startup? That means the view is already scrolled to the bottom when first time displayed.
I am trying to change the screen size of the emulator and see on the site that they tell you what commands to use, but it doesnt' tell you HOW to do it. how I would change the screen size. I believe this occurs on startup. I have eclipse as well, but would rather just shell into it and change it whenever I want.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen I start the emulator with the command emulator -avd Android2.0 it comes up with Segmentation fault (core dumped) if i start it without sound it works emulator -no-audio -avd Android2.0. I'm using Fedora Core 12 64bit. If i run emulator -verbose -avd Android2.0
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why the emulator is getting a problem with sound? I'm trying to write an app that uses sound so really need to get this working but i'm stumped.
I succeeded in compiling emulator source code on msys. but it could not run on msys (winxp) when type "emulator", prompting words below: ./emulator This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. If type "emulator -verbose", following information shows: $ emulator -verbose This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. If type "emulator -debug", window shows android emulator usage like below:
$ emulator -debug unknown option '-debug' Android Emulator usage: emulator [options] [-qemu args] options: -system <dir> search system, ramdisk and userdata images in <dir> -kernel <file> use <file> as the emulated kernel -ramdisk <file> use <file> as the ramdisk image (default is <system>/ramdisk.img) -image <file> use <file> as the system image (default is <system>/system.img) -nand0 <file> obsolete, same as -image -data <file> use <file> as the working user data disk image ..............................................?
What is wrong with this code:-
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I want to make my app launched when the Android OS startup. I can make it, but when the Android OS startup, the screen lock is launched, how can I remove the screen lock launch so that I can get into my app directly? I am doing this in my embedded system.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm using a Drioid Eris version 2.1. When I turn on my phone it stays on the starting screen (the androids on skateboards) and won't go to the next one. I think it may have happened after I updated my SD Card Reader app because that's the only thing I can think of that caused this problem, thought it might be something else. How do I fix this?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have read on this forum that people find task managers make their phone slower and that there is a general concensious not to use them - can someone please explain this?Is there anyway I can choose what services are on the startup of the phone? there are a lot of services, most i dont know what they do, but some such as google talk, i will never ever use and want it completeley removed. trying to remove the application from the applications menu does not work.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've noticed that some users have not found my app's preferences sub menu, so I want to show that sub menu when the user first-time-ever starts the app.
Since onCreateOptionsMenu() would not have been called yet, how can I programmatically show such a sub menu?
BTW: openOptionsMenu() is not what I want because I want to open a sub menu. I suppose its part of the solution though. However, I get an exception when I call it:
Caused by: android.view.WindowManager$BadTokenException: Unable to add window -- token null is not valid; is your activity running? at android.view.ViewRoot.setView(ViewRoot.java:468) at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java: 177) at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java: 91) at android.view.Window$LocalWindowManager.addView(Window.java:424)
even though, at the same point in the code, I can successfully open new AlertDialogs.
I want to load default preferences on app startup (before the user hits my preferences screen). Is there a way to do this using possibly xml and the manifest?
View 2 Replies View RelatedThe api has a nice way to get a list of all installed applications: Code..
It doesn't start up the same Gallery as pressing your normal Gallery icon. Instead it starts up a list of all images and then when you pick one it just returns back to the program.
What I'm looking to do is start up the regular gallery app just like if someone pressed the Gallery icon on their home screen. Any ideas how to do that?
As u know, since android 1.6, there are not dirs on dirs like HVGA-L. Instead, there is only one dir like HVGA. That is, HVGA-P and HVGA-L are merged into one dir, HVGA. So, only HVGA can be selected and by default the emulator is started with portrait mode. Though I can press CTRL+F11/F12 to switch it to landscape mode, I do not like it. What I want is to start the emulator with default mode of landscape. Would anyone know how to do it?
View 3 Replies View RelatedCan we show the dialog when our application/activity startup?
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen I start my application initially, I get a black screen which stays for a few seconds before my main activity starts. In case of iphone an image with name default is displayed for that split second. I am not sure how to do the same in android. I tried as below in vain
<activity android:name=".Index" android:label="@string/app_name"
android:screenOrientation="portrait" android:theme="@drawable/defaultimage">
<intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter> </activity>
How can you specify which item gets the default focus on Activity startup? Using requestFocus programmatically does not work. On setContextView the first focusable item listed in the XML is given the default focus. When using RelativeLayout, the first item listed is not always the desired item or necessarily on top.
View 3 Replies View RelatedThis morning, we updated our app on AM; this was our first update since release of Android 1.1.
In testing, on the emulator and with the signed .apk installed on our handsets, everything appeared to be working fine; however, we uploaded to AM, selected the new CopyProtection option, and published. Wertago disappeared for about 30 minutes, and as soon as it reappeared, we downloaded, installed, and started. Immediately upon starting, we got a force close and were never able to get the app started at all.
We've seen some discussions about similar app behavior experienced by other developers, and there was mention of likely bugs in AM or in the Copy Protection scheme. Has this been confirmed by Google, is there any communication from them about a coming fix, or anything like that?
Here's a little detail about what we gather from the logcat output. Our app appears to fail upon attempting to open/create the database; the relevant line is:
tmpDatabase = instance.openOrCreateDatabase(SEARCH_DATABASE_NAME, Context.MODE_PRIVATE, null);
which throws the sqlite3_open_v2 error.