I am developing an android application where I have a main-activity that contains a progress bar and a tabhost. the tabhost has 3 tabs.How do I from a tab-activity access the progress bar in the main activity? I want to be able to start and stop the progress bar when things changes inside each tab ativity.
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I know that the following code should show and hide a tiny circular progress bar with the following code in Android:
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The problem is that I am using a TabHost and I need to be able to do this from one of the "child" activities. Is there any way I can go about doing this?
I've implemented an onSaveInstanceState function in the main activity of my TabHost-based application. I need to save the state of various objects I am keeping in memory that I have all marked as serializable, as well as some basic int and string values. I have stepped through my application and watched it call the onSaveInstanceState function and presumably save everything without any manner of exception or problem. The issue is that my onCreate function is being called with a null Bundle value every time after I start the application again. I'm really at a loss and unsure why it would call the save but not pass anything into the create.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI've searched and I know it seems some people frown upon using activities within tabs, but moving past that...how would I restart a tabbed activity while still keeping the tabs visible? I have an activity in a tab, I use the menu to create a new activity to update the tab's activity displayed info, when I return from the menu activity I want the new information to be displayed in the tab's activity. I am using startActivityForResult() from the menu choice, but when I return and try to restart the activity...it wipes out the tabs above(I guess as expected, but I want to re-launch the refreshed activity within the tab).
Creating the tabs:
TabHost host = getTabHost();
Intent home_intent = new Intent(constants.HOME_ACTION,
null, this, homeTab.class);
Intent inbox_intent = new Intent(constants.INBOX_ACTION,
null, this, inboxTab.class);
Intent stats_intent = new Intent(constants.STATS_ACTION, null,
this, infoTab.class);
host.addTab(host.newTabSpec(constants.HOME_TAG)
.setIndicator(getText(R.string.home_label),
getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.icon))
.setContent(home_intent));
host.addTab(host.newTabSpec(constants.INBOX_TAG)
.setIndicator(getText(R.string.inbox_label),
getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.icon))
.setContent(inbox_intent));
host.addTab(host.newTabSpec(constants.STATS_TAG)
.setIndicator(getText(R.string.stats_label),
getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.icon)).setContent(
stats_intent));
Return from the menu activity in the tab's activity(updating database info): code...
I must be overlooking something because I am unable to get my TabHost to display in my Activity class.I am getting the dreaded force close when I try to run the app.It will work if I extend TabActivity, but I can't do that [details at the bottom] because once I move the code from my prototype project its going to be in a custom class that inherits from Activity.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have created a TabHost and in 1 of the tab, I have added the content using
mTabHost.addTab(mTabHost.newTabSpec("tab1")
.setIndicator(getString(R.string.dialerIconLabel),
getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.ic_tab_dialer))
.setContent(intent));
Is it possible for me to switch the content's activity programatically after I called 'addTab of TabHost'?
I have 3 classes in my example:
Class A, the main activity. Class A calls a startActivityForResult:
Intent intent = new Intent(this, ClassB.class);
startActivityForResult(intent, "STRING");
Class B, this class is a TabActivity:
Intent intent = new Intent(this, ClassC.class);
tabHost.addTab...
Class C, this class is a regular Activity:
Intent intent = this.getIntent();
intent.putExtra("SOMETHING", "EXTRAS");
this.setResult(RESULT_OK, intent);
finish();
onActivityResult is called in Class A, but the resultCode is RESULT_CANCELED instead of RESULT_OK and the returned intent is null. How do I return something from the Activity inside a TabHost?
I realize that the problem is that my Class C is actually running inside of Class B, and Class B is what is returning the RESULT_CANCELED back to Class A. I just don't know a work around yet.
Im writing a program that offers a quick reply dialog upon receipt of an SMS.
However, I am getting an unexpected result. When I receieve an SMS, the appropriate dialog activity comes up displaying the correct phone number and message, however there is a second activity behind it that is the 'default' activity in my program (it is what opens when i launch my application)
I do not want this second activity to come up. The quick reply activity should come up by itself over top of whatever the user was doing before.
The 'floating' activity:
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The call to the activity inside an onReceive()
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The Manifest:
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I'm writing an application that starts with a loading activity. In the loading activity the app requests html from web and parses the html, then it sends the parsing result to the main activity. The main activity has several tabs, and contents of these tabs are based on the result of parsing.For example, the result of parsing is a list of strings ["apple", "banana", "orange"], and I need to pass this list to main activity, so that the main activity can create three tabs named after three fruits.I would like to know if there is any way to pass a list of strings among activities, BTW, is it the common way of do this?
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I tried to enabled it the following way:
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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)?
Need an example of how to create/start a new activity from the main activity. I have a button click event on the main layout. Originally I just used setContentView(R.layout.secondactivity); which brings up the layout but I don't think that is correct since the secondactivity class is not instantiated at this point yet. I have looked for such an example and can not find one.
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In the reports tab the following code is used to launch the database...
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In the onCreate() method of the Review Tab - Where I wish to review reports - I try to access to the database through the call calling the return report method
this.reportDatabase = new ReportDatabase(this);
However this fails to work. In the android debugger highlights that the problem belongs with the context being provided to it. I realise that the report database has already been accessed by the report tab and wonder if this is causing the issue. I am new to programming android, the application is designed to report on flamingos in Africa, any help would be greatly appreciated!
Following the suggestion of Seva Alekseyev I have adapted as follows...
I have adapted my ReportDatabase as...
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using...
reportDatabase = ReportDatabase.open(this);
As the call in both the report and review tab. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work, the debugger stops on the same method. The full ReportDatabase.java file is here...
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This method returns a double array and probably shouldn't be this hacky...
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With the error stack being...
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I have a main activity, then i call a new activity intent from this. Lets call this SecondActivity. Then from my secont activity i call a browser intent. Then my browser intent call my second activity's onNewIntent method.Evereything work fine, but when i click on "back" button on my phone on my second activity, i will not going to my main activity, but the browsers activity, why?
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The Android Developers Hello Views Tab Layout example only details how to use separate Activities for each Tab.
I would like to use tabs to extend a screen of settings without scrolling, i.e. there are too many options for a single screen, so I'd like to split them over two tabs, but still handle them in the same Activity.
Each tab can refer to a separate layout file if that is how it needs to be done.
My first page contains 3 tabs. I want to retain all these 3 tabs through out my entire application. That means I want to see these 3 tabs in every view. For example : I have 3 views. First view is Main.class. It contains 3 tabs (Home tab, Favourite tab, settings tab). When I am clicking any one tab (Ex: Home Tab), it shows the contents of Home.class (a ListView) below these tabs. But when I am clicking the ListView view , it will go to another activity(SubListView.class), and I can't see the tabs in that activity. Only contents of that view will be displayed there. How can I show these header tabs in that view also?
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I'm kinda noob to android so please bear with me. I'm currently developing app which uses tabs. My question now is: how to store values of variables so I can access them on the other tabs? I want to create something similar to sessions in PHP where I can save variables on one page and access on the other.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have Activity based tabs i.e i have used TabActivity,tabhost etc Now when we switch between the tabs, for the 1st time the oncreate is called and then after the onResume methode is called I want to know what event/function, of the activity, is called when i click on the the tab which is already selected. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI have 4 Tabs in a TabHost...let them be A,B,C,D.... now each one is just an index page and clicking on any of them shows a different activity...
The problem is that i need to start another activity wen user selects something from the content displayed in the tab... The other activity should also be displayed in the parent tab itself... is it by any chance possible or i'll have to try some other way around?