Android :: Widget Layout - Small Size Of Contents?
Sep 9, 2010
I am trying to make a widget to show on the home screen(s). My problem is lets say I set my icon to 30x30 when I load the widget on the screen the Icon is the correct size but the layout itself takes up a lot more space than what is actually needed. This means that I can't really place my widget next to other icons on the screen. Its like the bounding box is 3 times bigger than the content that fills it.
Here is my XML
[CODE]
I have tried wrap_content and other width/height settings but nothing seems to reduce the "Box" around my widget content. I clicked on my ATK widget and started to drag it around on my HTC Aria and it shows the bounding box around the widget and that one is the same size of the content inside same with all the other widgets on my screens.
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May 19, 2010
I have a layout which specifies sizes of widgets in relative dimension, for example:
CODE:..............
Immediately after onCreate, I want to know how much is the height of the ImageView. How to do that?
If I call getHeight() in onCreate, I get 0.
I have also tried imageView.postDelayed, it works on 2.1 emulator but fails on 1.5 emulator (I got 0, too).
Finally, I tried to create a Handler, and then I call handler.postDelayed with 10 ms delay. It works in both 2.1 and 1.5 emulator, but failed when I start the program in eclipse debugger (So, I conclude that using the delay doesn't guarantee that the getting of the height happens after the imageview is layout-ted.)
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Dec 26, 2009
This is my first post. I've had a Moto Droid since day one, and I just love it. It is without a doubt better than any phone that I've had over the years, and that includes the iPhone, BB, etc.
However, there are 2 things that I don't understand - Font size and a spell checker. It is imposiible to read the small font size in emails or text messages.
1. Why has there not been an app to either change the font size or be able to zoom in? Picasy has incorporated multi-touch for zooming, so I've to assume that its doable! Why not have the same in an email client.
2. Why is there not an email client out there that allows for spell checking? There are many such apps for the BB! I am a terrible speller.
I am not complaining, I just want to understand the limitations from a developers prospective, as I am sure these isuues will eventually be addressed.
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Mar 9, 2010
I've got a problem in saving a picture in a full size after capturing it using ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE intent the picture become very small , its resolution is 27X44.
I'm using 1.5 android emulator, this is the code:
CODE:................
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Jan 27, 2010
My application works fine on G1/Hero and emulators, but on Milestone text size is tiny. I have list box and text items are very small on Milestone device. What can be the cause of this?
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Sep 4, 2009
I added -scale 0.2 to the Default emulator option under eclipse and launched the emulator.After that I got a really small window. I then removed the -scale 0.2 but the emulator window remains small.I can start the emulator from command line and i get the normal size, but not with eclipse.Any help would be appreciated.
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Apr 30, 2009
I need to somehow get a drawable of the contents of a Layout, once I get that "drawable" I want to set it as a background on an empty layout. How can I go about doing this?
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Mar 24, 2010
I've got a horizontal Linear Layout that contains a variable number of child Linear Layouts. Right now, the children will just run off the screen if there are too many of them. How would I make the parent layout wrap the children on multiple lines? If this is not possible, should I be using a different layout as the parent?
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Jun 2, 2010
My app uses a custom View that does a lot of text drawing.To ensure my text is always readable I've been using the result of calling getTextSize() on a newly-created Paint() instance as the minimum size. Docs say calling 'new Paint()' sets attributes like text size to default values.One of my European users just got a Motorola Milestone phone and reports that some text is unreadably small.I believe I've duplicated this using the WVGA854 skin in a 2.1 emulator.Run in that emulator my app's smallest TextViews look fine, but the text I'm drawing myself using Paint instances where I haven't changed the text size from the default is too small. I confirmed this by commenting out all setTextSize() calls in my View subclass: the text becomes too small to read comfortably.
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Dec 6, 2009
I am trying to detect if the screen size is normal, large or small. I am using
Configuration conf =view.getResources().getConfiguration();
(conf.screenLayout&Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_MASK) == Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_NORMAL
When testing with the emulator this works for screen sizes normal and small, but large (480x800 & 480x854) returns that it is normal...
I have found very little information on using the configuration to detect the group, has anyone got any experience with this?
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Jan 21, 2010
Anyone have any idea of how to remove the number of characters and number of text messages box which is seen when typing a text message? It's in the upper corner of the text message field. I have the eris from Verizon.
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Sep 17, 2010
I've been reading this forum for about a few days now.made the switch to a Samsung Vibrant for T-mobile, coming from an iphone 3GS.Enjoying the phone! anyways, are any of you Samsung Vibrant owners receiving fairly small mms photos?if so, do you guys know why this is occurring?Does anyone know how to resolve this issue enabling larger mms photos to come through(receive)? thanks guys!
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Oct 31, 2010
I'm using the FontFitTextView that was posted in this other thread, but it isn't working exactly right for me. The measureText() call is returning a number that is obviously too small to display the string. When it runs through to find a font size that will allow the text to fit, the font size it settles on is still too big. I feel like there is some other kind of padding or margin or some other invisible that is contributing the math that makes up the width which is causing the discrepancy.For example I want to set the text of my FontFitTextView to be "10,000.25".The width of my FontFitTextView is 96 pixels, with 8px padding on both sides, so my available width is 80 pixels. The call to measureText() says that the text "10,000.25" is 64 pixels wide. This means that the current font size should be small enough to display the entire string. However, when the string is actually drawn on the TextView the last 2 characters are chopped off and all I see is "10,000." instead of "10,000.25"
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Nov 6, 2009
I am having real issues reading anything. The icons are really small for as large as the screen is as well as some text thought the phone. Every phone I have ever owned had at least a small,large,larger even the yucky Storm I got out of I could pick larger text (point size). Anyone know if this was left out or how to fix? I dont want to have to whip out my glasses to see notifications, see icons, read
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Dec 14, 2010
I uploaded a couple of pics I had taken with my Evo on Androidforums and when I did I notice everyones pics in the thread were allot bigger than my pics.I had the 5.3 widescreen turned on and they told me to take it off. I did and tried taking new pics and seeing the results. The pictures did come out a a bit bigger but when I tried resizing them in photobucket the quality would be effected which makes no sense since 8m is goog enough to make a huge poster whith amazing quality.
There was also people with much bigger pics than the ones I had resized and made as big as photobucket let me and they were perfect high quality while mine which were smaller were loosing quality.
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Jul 26, 2010
Does anyone know of any decent apps put there that can optimize photos / pictures.
Specifically i am looking for something that can compress a photo / picture to a small enough size that it can be emailed / MMS'd.
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Jul 19, 2010
Does anyone know of a widget that will display the contents of the inbox on the home screen? So that, without opening gmail I can glance at the phone and see the 3-5 most recent messages, sender and subject? I have looked all over the market and can't find anything like this.
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Oct 6, 2010
I am trying to reverse engineer an existing android app and understand how a particular UI is constructed. I've found that I can rename the apk to zip and view some of the compiled source. The res/layout directory is populated with all the xml files that define the UI, but while they do have the xml extension, they are not in XML format. Is there anyway to convert these files back to text based markup?
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Jul 28, 2010
Is it just me or does the call screen (what displays when there is an incoming/active/ended call) look like crap? Ugly colors, minimal layout, contact picture too small, etc... So many other features on the phone are so polished, it just seems odd that the call screen would look so unfinished - it's almost looks like a development placeholder that they never got around to updating.
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Apr 27, 2013
Any widget that can be set to show the contents of a folder? Basically to save opening my file manager to access my frequently visited folder(s).
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Sep 13, 2010
I using launcher pro and trying to go with a minimalistic looking setup. I have battstat and digital clock running on my front page and I would like a nice weather widget. I have seen some on other peoples screens but can't seem to find the right one. I tried beautiful Widgets but had too much going on. Basically what I want is a small weather widget that fits in the corner of the screen with a transparent background? Any suggestions?
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Sep 18, 2010
I have the following layout defined: code...
now i want to get the height of the RelativeLayout (i want to specify the height of its children programatically) code...
but the size returned is 0. How do I get the size of the RelativeLayout (it's mostly pseudocode above, but both layout have a height/width of "fill_parent" in the xml)
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Apr 21, 2010
How do I change the size of the controls placed in a layout? (by any method) I tried to change the height of an EditBox ->setHeight(10); doesn't seem to work.
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Aug 12, 2009
I want to place three button on the bottom of screen. I place these button in a linear layout and sets its gravity bottom. Currently these button wrap according to their labels so have different widths. But I want these button equi size. Means all three button should have same width (without using fixed widths).
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Nov 11, 2010
I am trying to develop an app for which I want multiple screen support. I have read the Android article on Best practices for Multiple Screen Support. As per the article we have to follow 3 important things:
1. Mention support for different screen sizes (large, medium and small) and any density in AndroidManifest.xml.
2. Place images of 3 dpi's (120, 160, 240) in 3 folders res/ldpi, res/ mdpi and res/hdpi.
3. In layout's the dimension should be mentioned in "dip" units. Then Android will take care of the scaling on its own.
I have implemented all these points in my project. The images are picked up correctly from the appropriate folders. But the arrangements of the controls in not same. e.g. I ran the app on three emulators 1. Resolution 240*320 dpi 120. 2. Resolution 240*320 dpi 160. 3. Resolution 240*320 dpi 240. (All the emulator have same resolution but different density). The problem is the position of the controls is not same on all the three emulator. As per my understanding if the android:layout_marginLeft and android:layout_marginTop are mentioned in "dip" then this problem should not occur. As the density of the emulator increases the controls get placed more towards the right. Is it necessary that I provide layouts for all combinations of dimensions and density i.e. in layout-small, layout-large, layout- medium, layout-long,layout-notlong?
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Oct 5, 2010
Every time that I want to do a Layout, I'm getting a black layout preview then I can drop stuff on it, that's ok, but how can I change the size of that blank surface (xml). The question came because I set a folder layout-large and then when I add a new layout.xml to that folder it came with the same size, as a layout-normal.
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May 12, 2009
I'd also like a way to change the default, if possible.
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May 18, 2009
I define once in my /xml/widget.xml the minwidth. but what can i do when I need to inflate different sizes from my widget layouts for 1 one my 3 widgets thats fine, but the last 2 widgets would just need one icon size, so they always need the width of 2 icons. also when I make minwidth smaller.. it fits with the other 2 widgets but the large widget come cutted.How to solve that. I cant believe to create a total new receiver and a new /xml/widget2.xml just for another size?!
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Jan 13, 2010
It seems so simple: I need a stopwatch widget, size 2x2. Just need it to be able to start and stop, laptimes would be a nice to have but no requirement. I don't need it to be very high resolution, seconds would be good enough (for my application, even minutes would suffice!). Any tips?
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Feb 24, 2012
I'm looking for a text widget that can access a text file that is located on my phone or dropbox and display the contents of the file. It should always update itself as soon as there is a change in the text file. Does an app like this exist and where can I find it?
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