Can someone tell if why when starting an activity with startActivity(intent) , calling getParent() in onCreate() of the new created activity returns a nul ?
Also how could I obtain the parent of an activity created in such a way ? Can a reference of the activity below the current activity in the activity stack be obtained ?
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I have a main screen with buttons to launch other subactivities. I have to press back button each time to go back to the main screen of my application. How do I finish a child activity and automatically return from the caller?
View 5 Replies View RelatedAs we know, startActivityForResult() used to get a result for a task from parent activity. Here when we click the setResult(). It returns the result to the parent Activity.
Child Activity means it should maintain the persistent state. That is when the users clicks a button on the child activity. It do not finishes that activity and show the Parent Activity. And again i may go to the child activity from parent activity. If the child does not exists it starts a new child activity else it should show the existing child activity with persistent content.
Simply said, my parent Activity starts a new Child Activity. Now both Activities should be alive. How to call the Parent Activity without finishing the child Activity(in other words, How to BringtoFront the parent Activity)? For this scenario,
you can not use startActivity(). Because it creates a new Activity Instance. Not Existing Parent Activity
you can not use startActivityForResult(). Because it finishes the child Activity Instance.
My child activity X is called from Parent activity P through startActivity(intent). I want to close P when X called its finish() method. I override a method finishFromChild(Activity child) in P and called finish() in it. But this functions (finishFromChild(Activity child)) is not being called after X finish() Is it a known bug or I am missing some thing? I googled and also searched the groups but no help.
An alternative could be... using StartActivityForResult() and a "fake" onActivityResult, where I can finish the parent activity, but this way is quite bad, i think...
I prefer the first one, if it would work....
Any idea why this doesn't create an activity that looks like a popup instead of an activity that completely fills the screen?
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I assumed that I only needed to set the layout height and layout width to something other than "fill_parent", but it still shows up as a black screen that completely fills the screen.
Ultimately, I simply want to create a popup, but I do not want to use an AlertDialog. Is this possible?
I have a parent activity, and a child activity that extends the parent activity. When the parent starts the child activity,
Which onCreate gets executed first? The child's or parent's?
There is a particular variable I am setting in the Child activity's onCreate method, and right now, it looks like it takes a while to get to the Child activity's onCreate, and so the methods in the Parent are reporting an empty variable. Whereas when I make the Parent sleep for a while, it reports the correct variable.
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So, basically, even after the Parent starts the Child, it still returns "Parent Value", but when I have the thread sleep, it return "Child Value".
When we want to pass data from an activity to a sub activity we use the is there any event handler that handles this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to open new child activity in the parent LinearLayout. Just similar like Tabs.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy application supports twitter and needs to open browser for OAuth. When the user clicks the Share on Twitter button, the main activity will create another subactivity (TwitterActivity) to handle twitter authentication issues. Here is a flow graph showing how activities are invoked currently. Main is short for MainActivity and Twit for Twitter Activity. startActivity() OAuth intent OAuth callback finish()Main ---------------> Twit ------------> Browser --------------> Twit --------> Browser As you may notice, after the TwitterActivity calls finish() to stop, it will now return back to MainActivity, but Browser instead. How can I make it return back to MainActivity?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI wish to re-use the Contacts application in a way to enable the user to pick a contact and return it to the parent activity (my application's activity).
For achieving this, I want to inquire about the kind of Intent that will be needed to launch the contacts application.
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT, ?); startActivityForResult(.....);
What should be the second argument here ?
In the deprecated Contacts API, I could use the following snippet, but not sure about ContactsContract:
Intent i= new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT,People.CONTENT_URI); startActivityForResult(i, reqCode);
I want to do some cleanup in a view when the activity is being destroyed. Is there any way to get a callback in the View when the activity is being destroyed? I tried using onDetachedFromWindow, but I'm not sure whether it is correct thing to do.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIn one of my Activities I have a ListView that displays a list of locations. For each list item I want a little arrow icon that points in the direction of the corresponding location. I implemented this icon by extending ImageView. This custom View has a listener that reacts to changes of the device's orientation by rotating the icon image accordingly. I register the listener in the onAttachedToWindow() method and unregister it in onDetachedFromWindow(). This kind of works but the problem is that onDetachedFromWindow() sometimes gets called only a long time after the containing Activity has paused. Also, the whole layout overall seems a little hacky. So my question is: Is there a proper way to unregister the listeners or would you implement this in a completely different way to begin with?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there an exception in the lifetime rules for a parent activity that's in the background after invoking startActivityForResult()? From my understanding, in low memory scenarios, the background activities are killed before the foreground. Does this rule still apply even if the background activity started the foreground one for the purpose of obtaining some result?
In this case, I think it would make sense for the foreground child activity to get killed first or to equalize the lifetime of the parent and child.
I basically have three activities X, Y, Z and I want only one instance of each but I want control over the navigation and I can't do that by putting all three activities in one task because of the stack structure.
Here is a scenario, from X I launch Y given a certain "id" which correspondence to specific data in the DB, Y inflates and populates it's views, then I go back to X and launch Y again with a different "id" in the intent, I don't want the overhead of launching the activity and inflating the views again, anyone know how to do this?
I tried using singleInstance, but the problem is that I can't send the result code back to an activity in a different task.
The order is:
A: startActivityForResult( B ) B: <dostuff>, call finish() A: onCreate <---- what's this all about A: onActivityResult
This happens for a tiny minority of users. I havn't been able to reproduce or find any common elements. A is the launch activity.
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I wish to have a single class which all of my Activity classes extend. I have ListActivities, Activities, MapActivities, TabActivities, etc in my App.
I have many of these different activities in my app, ~12 activities. I want each of them to have the methods which are in the parent class.
Right now, i have created 4 parent activity classes which are extended from a certain activity depending on their type(ListActivity, Activity, MapActivity, TabActivity)
I am creating a lot of redundant code - each of the 4 parent activities has almost identical code, in exception for what class activity it extends.
Here is an example that may clarify what my problem is:
I have an Activity: MenuScreen which extends BaseListActivity BaseListActivity extends ListActivity BaseListActivity contains methods and fields which i want all my activities to have access to I have another Activity: HomeScreen which extends BaseActivity BaseActivity extends Activity BaseActivity contains the same methods and fields which are in my other Base[<type>]Activity classes(such as BaseListActivity)
These methods/fields are copy-pasted to all my Base[<type>]Activity, and seems awfully redundant to me.
Can i create a master activity class which all types of Activity classes can use as its parent? if not, am i stuck with copy and pasting this code and feeling gross/dirty about it?
I'm using the phone's camera in an Android app to take a photo. I'm using Intents to use the built-in camera application.It works fine and the camera is brought up. I can take a photo and the phone presents me with three options: Cancel, Retake, OK. The first two work, pressing cancel returns the user to the app, but pressing OK and nothing happens. Apparently onActivityResult isn't being called, and the camera just stays on the screen. Nothing in the debugger either.Running the app on a Nexus One with Android 2.2.1. Same problem on the emulator running Android 2.0.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI have two activities: a MainListActivity, and a DetailViewActivity. DetailViewActivity is set with android:launchMode="singleTop".
When clicking an item in the "main list" activity, it launches the "detail view" activity via:
startActivityForResult(detailIntent, REQUEST_CODE_DETAIL);
If I then call setResult(RESULT_OK, resultData); and finish(); from within the Detail activity, that resultData is received by the "main list" activity's onActivityResult(..) method correctly.
However, if I implement a "see previous"/"see next" type of navigation within the Detail activity, and implement it using singleTop, that result no longer gets sent back to the initial activity:
Intent nextItemIntent = this.createIntent(nextId);
nextItemIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_FORWARD_RESULT);
startActivity(nextItemIntent);
// at this point, my DetailActivity's onNewIntent() method is called, and the new data is loaded properly
But from here, when I call setResult(..) and finish(), my MainList activity never receives the new/updated result. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
I create a local file in my activity like this: How can I pass the URI of this file to another Activity? And do I need to set any permission (file permission, manifest permission) to allow other Activity to use that file?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have an application, which (for the sake of simplicity) has two types of activities - Overview and DetailView. The Overview activity shows a list of steps and allows the user to start a DetailView activity corresponding to the step chosen.
In the DetailView activity, the user can start another Overview, which shows different steps than the ones in the parent of the current DetailView.
In the Overview, DetailView is started by using startActivityForResult (). In the DetailView, when the user decides to start a second Overview, I call setResult () and finish () and then start the new Overview. In this scenario, onActivityResult () and finishFromChild () do not fire. Instead, they fire when the parent finishes (?).
Code from Overview:
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Code from DetailView:
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I have tried to freeze orientation: setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);
But thought screen stays in portrait orientation, the activity is still recreated.
I'm using an intent-filter on URLs for my activity:
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the launchMode attribute is set to "singleTop", but it looks like a new activity is created every time I click a matching url. I thought that if the activity is already alive somewhere, it would simply be brought to the front of my activity stack?
I tried this on the emulator/device, same behavior, a new activity instance is always created.
I am checking to see if my app has a network connection Whenever I rotate my screen between landscape and portrait this method returns false. It makes me wonder if Network connections are getting killed during the rotation?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to apply an animation to a view in my Android app after my activity is created. To do this, I need to determine the current size of the view, and then set up an animation to scale from the current size to the new size. This part must be done at runtime, since the view scales to different sizes depending on input from the user. My layout is defined in XML. This seems like an easy task, and there are lots of SO questions regarding this though none which solved my problem, obviously. So perhaps I am missing something obvious. I get a handle to my view by: ImageView myView = (ImageView)getWindow().findViewById(R.id.MyViewID);
This works fine, but when calling getWidth(), getHeight(), getMeasuredWidth(), getLayoutParams().width, etc., they all return 0. I have also tried manually calling measure() on the view followed by a call to getMeasuredWidth(), but that has no effect. I have tried calling these methods and inspecting the object in the debugger in my activity's onCreate() and in onPostCreate(). How can I figure out the exact dimensions of this view at runtime?
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 am launching the VideoCamera activity from my main activity but not able to get a callback to read the file created.
Does anyone have an example on how to do this?
This is what I have:
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I want to create a normal AlertDialog. I used the example provided by the android dev docs. I just changed the DIALOG_PAUSED_ID to DIALOG_DELETEDB. If I execute my code and press the button which in return should create the dialog, I get the following error log:............
View 1 Replies View Relatedfirst of all: yes, I read all the other threads on this topic. And not only those from this site... (you see, i'm a little frustrated) Most of them come with the advice to use "android:id" instead of just "id" in the xml file. I did. From others, i learned, that View.findViewById works different than Activity.findViewById. I handled that, too.
in my location_layout.xml i use
<FrameLayout .... >
<some.package.MyCustomView ... />
<LinearLayout ... >
<TextView ...
android:id="@+id/txtLat" />.................
At some points while running my android application, I need to create a directory on the sd card, for a small number of users this fails and I can't figure out the reason for it... (I've found similar problems caused by the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission missing, it's there and it works for almost all users so I don't think this is reason) When mkdirs returns false I crash the program and log the following java.io.File properties, starting at the directory I want to create, then recursive printing properties of the parent directory and so on...
/sdcard/MyDirectory/Dir1/Dir2 (exists: false, canWrite: false, isDirectory: false, isFile: false);
/sdcard/MyDirectory/Dir1 (exists: true, canWrite: true, isDirectory: true, isFile: false);
/sdcard/MyDirectory (exists: true, canWrite: true, isDirectory: true, isFile: false);
/sdcard (exists: true, canWrite: true, isDirectory: true, isFile: false);
/ (exists: true, canWrite: false, isDirectory: true, isFile: false);
The strange thing is that the parent directory is writable (canWrite=true), I can't print the execute file permission but from what I've read, write is what you need when creating directories... What I've looked at so far is the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission, if the sd card is full and if the sdcard is mounted read only:...........................