I need to add a res/drawable-nodpi folder to my Eclipse ADT project. My project originally contained drawable, drawable-hdpi, drawable- ldpi, layout, etc subfolders, but no drawable-nodpi. How do I add this to the automatic resource build process? I tried to manually create the subfolder and copy files to it, but those resources are not being auto-generated. How do I make Eclipse utilize the new resources subfolder?
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When I create a subfolder in the layout folder, and drag an xml file to it, the generated R file doesn't seem to show the subfolder. a) is there a way to change that b) is the file and file structure still picked up by SVN and c) so, if I do it that way, can I still just refer to the object using layout?
View 2 Replies View RelatedThe last couple of weeks, my app is very slow compiling changes when the resources are modified in the project. Doesn't matter if it's strings or layout. Sometimes it takes as long as 30 seconds for the changes to apply. Compiling just the .java files are as fast as ever.
I used to have slowdowns after I having Eclipse open for the whole day, but restarting Eclipse always fixed that. Not this time. All my Eclipse and Android software is up-to-date. Has anyone experience this or have any suggestion as to what could be causing this and a fix? It's really cutting into my productivity.
When I am developing for Android and repeatedly running and/or debugging an Android app in the emulator then about every two hours or so I get an Out-of-memory exception, occasionally also an out-of - resources- or out-of-GWT-handles exception. At that point one can only stop and restart eclipse. Apparently the ADK must be doing something wrong, because I have been developing with Eclipse now for 5+ years and I normally never see this. ADT is a really the exception here. Is there any setting or patch that helps top avoid this? I have already given it more heap space (750M) to stretch the time between these hickups a bit, but that approach isn't really sustainable.
This is using Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) and the Android SDK r06 running a FroYo AVD.
I just had the odd case that my Android project for some reason would not properly rebuild in Eclipse (v3.5/Galileo). Occasionally that happen and so I did the usual Project => Clean... as I always do in such cases. But this time I now have the odd effect that almost all files show bugs, and looking closer it's that the compiler can't find the R-file (which is indeed missing from the gen subtree). How do I force eclipse to rebuild that file?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have 2 android applications that share 95% of their resources, layouts, strings etc. only a few jpg's are different.
How can I share resources between the different Eclipse Android projects, so as to avoid resource duplication ?
I have notices following:
If I have a project with minimum files in res folder, the project saves quickly, compiles quickly and launches quickly. But if I have a lot of resources, my project is saving, compiling and launching during relatively long period of time. This is really frustrating if you do some minor UI updates, and you have always wait Eclipse to generate R file etc.
Need to get email rules based subfolders to autosync in Eris Droid. I figured out how to manually sync, and I have also learned about Touchdown. The question is, should I buy Touchdown or do we think there will be an update soon to provide this functionality within ActiveSync on Droid?
View 1 Replies View Relateddoes anyone use the subfolders function? it doesnt make sense that the subfolders are not listed with the notes in a parent folder (like on "my computer" on pc's). am i missing something? i cant figure out how to get the subfolders to appear with the notes in a given folder.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a major issue that my first android phone (Samsung Galaxy S). It does not support auto synching of Exchange email sub folders. This is a show stopper for me (see earlier posting):
http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/77734-outlook-subfolder-alerting-when-exchange-syncd.html
There has to be other apps that work well wih this and will not degrate my overall android experiance.
I looked at Dataviz Roadsynch - however latest release slated in market place. I've heard about touchdown but hoping for more feedback. What other options do I have?
In my Android project, I want to loop through the entire collection of Drawable resources. Normally, you can only retrieve a specific resource via its ID using something like:
InputStream is = Resources.getSystem().openRawResource(resourceId)
However, I want to get all Drawable resources where I won't know their ID's beforehand. Is there a collection I can loop through or perhaps a way to get the list of resource ID's given the resources in my project?
Or, is there a way for me in Java to extract all property values from the R.drawable static class?
My Exchange profile has subfolders, incoming mail is moved automatically with rules to these subfolders. I am getting an alert for mail arriving in my 'Inbox' but not my subfolders. I can manually access my subfolders and see the mail but I am not alerted with mail arriving to my subfolders.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI want to get started with an Android application but can't download the plug-in.
Anyone know where else I can get this?
I can't seem to get anything back from https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/ - even accessing from a browser just gives a 404.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI currently have a few classes that are called by an activity (some statically) in which I want to use a string resource. I tried: Resources.getSystem().getString(R.string.mystring), but am getting an error. It seems as though you can only use this within an activity.
Is there anyway to use a project resource in a standard (non Activity) class without having to pass the resource object from the activity calling the class?
I have an app with 2 Activities and an IntentService all which need to access the same SQLite Database table. What's an appropriate pattern to use?
Should I create a ContentProvider that manages access to the database, ie opening/closing, querying, updating etc. And have the 3 clients all access the DB via the ContentProvider?
Or is it OK for each client to access the DB directly? This is the approach I have now and it seems to be working, but I need to close my cursor and the DB after executing every statement or I start generating stacktraces in the log about unclosed DB resources. But closing the DB after each statement seems wasteful and I suspect that this approach will always be susceptible to the stacktraces because there is always the potential for collisions between either of the Activities and the IntentService.
I haven't been able to find any good resources that show DB usage in full. It always snippets that miss out the *obvious* piece such as when should the resources be closed etc.
Anyone was able to play a video included in the .apk? I'm able to play this video from the SD card but not when it's a resource.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm thinking at putting a .txt file in res/drawable or in res/layout to have it in the apk when the application is packed, and then after install to open and read from it to perform some tasks . Can this be done ? If yes please let me know how can I access the file ,as I don't know it's path .
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'd like to use the RandomAccessFile class to access a file that ships with my application. However, that class only accepts a String which is the path to the file. If I place my file somewhere like the assets directory, how do I construct a path to that file? I know I can use the getAssets methods to read up resources, but those only return InputStreams which cannot be seeked.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm developing an Android app for which we will be selling separate content in the Android Market. Since Android lacks an in-app purchasing model as iOS has, I have come to understand that this is the ideal way of selling additional content (but NOT functionality) for Android apps.
So the question is, how do I actually load raw resources from other Android apps, assuming that I know the exact name of the resource, app ID, etc.?
Is it possible to share resources across APK's? For example, can application A (in APK A) load an icon or layout view from application B (in APK B)?
View 3 Replies View RelatedThe question boils down to whether phone manufacturers are required to keep resources that are available in SDK intact. Say, will android.R.drawable.ic_menu_preferences be the same file on any phone?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIn J2ME, I've do this like that:
getClass().getResourceAsStream("/raw_resources.dat");
But in android, I always get null on this, why?
For example code...
How can I get the resource by its name?
Without using R.raw.yuri = (int)
Need some advice from you experts out there. I've just started with Android programming and while I finally got what I want my "Hello World" to do, I feel as if I'm bludgening my way through rather than grasping concepts. I created three EditText boxes. Below those I created three Spinners. Pick a number in the Spinner and it will show up in the corresponding EditText box. Spinner 1 correlates to EditText 1, Spinner 2 to EditText 2 and Spinner 3 to EditText 3. I had a hell of a time getting this to work. I do have some cleaning up to do. Is there a better way to pass or reference resources around various classes?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a long series of graphics -- icon1_0.png, icon1_1.png, icon1_2.png..., icon12_0.png, icon12_1.png, icon12_2.png -- and I'd like to package them with my android application. Ideally I think I should be able to load them as resources but the resource id's are set up as java identifiers. Of course, java identifiers can't be assembled at runtime. I have to ask for R.drawable.icon12_00 so I cannot set up a loop
for(int icon=0;icon<12;icon++)
for(int frame=0;frame<3;frame++)
//syntax error obviously
BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable."icon" + icon + "_" + frame + ".png");
So is there any way to get resources by their names? Better yet, is there a canonical way outside the resource system to pack data files into an android application package so that I can get at them? I'm thinking about reflection but that doesn't seem like the right solution to me.
I was able to play around with the resource on a different apk and get them using createPackageContext as you suggested.
Here is an example of the code:
CODE:............
This works well. now i am trying to get ALL the drawables (or all the layouts) in this package. i tried a multitude of ways including reflection and AssetManager but was unsuccessful. any tips here? just to be clear i can not use R.drawable.icon as this is a different context.
I understand that the system may kill the activity without calling onDestroy(). Say I have a MediaPlayer that runs even when it's not visible, I would be releasing the player in onDestroy() method.Now, if the system decides to kill the activity after calling onPause() and never called onDestroy(), what does it mean for my MediaPlayer? Is it ever released? This is bigger problem for Camera since I think it requires to be released for other activities to use it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have created a subclass of Activity, 'CustomActivity', that overrides the onCreateOptionsMenu and onOptionsItemSelected methods. In a couple of other applications I have extended this subclass to provider a common menu for each activity. Is it still possible to access the resources from this Subclass? By default it uses the resources from the current activity (Strings, xml layout etc.).
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'd like to access resources from other packages installed. Is there any better practice than using getResources() combined with createPackageContext()? Another question is how to use resources from other packages in methods like Notification(int icon, CharSequence tickerText, long when), where 1st argument is just resource id?
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