Android :: All Static’s Variables Retaining Values When Launching Again
Dec 1, 2009
I have been facing problems to manage statics variables used in my android application. If we exit the application against a particular event (touch or key event -which is must for my app), all the statics variables are retaining the values when I am launching it again. I am invoking Activity.finish() method for termination . I know there is a collection type class available called Bundle and we can use it to save the states of all the statics and get those back when again creating the same activity during relaunch, but it would be a hard task if we want to port some j2me applications to Android because of having thousands of statics variables. Is there any way to kill the application completely including all the statics variable used there?
I tried with System.exit(0) and it works well for Android G1 and G2 (tested in firmware 1.6). But in Android Robyn (prototype) the same causes a major defect ("Activity not responding" popup apears just after exit) and I came to know from android dev forum that calling System.exit(0) is not recommended for termination of an activity.
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Mar 19, 2010
In android, are using static variables a recommended practice?
E.g, implementing a Singleton pattern in Java, I usually do...
Also, when does this get cleaned up by the Android JVM?
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Jul 14, 2009
I just ran into a situation where it looks like a static variable reference is persisted across activity sessions. I didn't expect that because I thought that when an activity exits, it's de-referenced and garbage collected. I am wondering if anyone can shed some (more) light on when the VM eliminates object references for Activities and Services and in particular when static variables get reset to default values?
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Jun 17, 2010
I am using static Arrays and HashMaps to store some values in my AppWidgetProvider class. But they are becoming null when the process dies, so the widget does not work anymore. Are there any alternatives to using static members to store data for an AppWidgetProvider in Android?
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Dec 21, 2009
I have an application that is driven by a configuration XML: various app properties are loaded at the app start-time by parsing the XML and initializing static variables of some class. The data read from this XML drives different Activities of the application. Presently, I have called the "parsing and the properties-initialization" from the onCreate() of my Main Activity. I have a few questions as regards this case/approach: Should I invoke the app initialization method from the Application Object or is the current approach correct?
What advantages/disadvantages do/would we get/have if I choose to invoke it from the Application object? Do we really need a static class to store app properties? Or can we have all the properties as a static Collection variable in the application object? Parsing a XML(~200 nodes) at app load time might take some time (not sure how long tho); How can I avoid the dreaded ANRs? I am using a Pull Parser.
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Sep 15, 2010
Why should a static method in java accept only final or non final variables within its method, but not static?
For example I have the following method:
CODE:.................
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Jun 9, 2010
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.
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Oct 20, 2010
I have an application that get/send data from/to a remote DB on internet.
I need to get my application working in background mode, then i supose that i have to put all the send/get remote data in a service..... but.... How can this service change values of variables and UI textfields of my activities? i can't find any information about this, all the tutorials i am finding are of simple services that doesn't do something like that.
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Sep 7, 2010
Do static variables of an ApplicationContext subclass left untouched when the process is killed?
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Dec 28, 2009
I want to provide IP address to the code i have integrated in android source.(for using it while creating tcp sockets). Is there any way i can provide this ip address while launching emulator, or place it some where so my code can get it while emulator gets up. any pointers will be really helpful.
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Apr 15, 2010
I want to refer to a static Java variable in my styles.xml, is that possible? Here's a pseudo-xml example:
<style name="Artwork">
<item name="android:background">@drawable/border_{Constants.MY_COLOR}</item>
</style>
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Aug 31, 2010
I have used some static variable in my application, i want to clear static variable value when will i close my application.anybody know please give solution for that.
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Feb 1, 2010
I am using ganymade eclipse 3.4 IDE and android sdk for development . I am trying to store static database file with some values on it in sqlite format. how can i add this file into the IDE and fetch the data from that file and store it . give me the guidance to do the development.
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Mar 30, 2010
i want to display a msg to the user (msg box or Toast) when exception happend in a static SQLite Database class that i use. the problem is that i cant call a non static method in a static class , how can i handle this. this is the class
private static SQLiteDatabase getDatabase(Context aContext) {
and i want to add something like this in the class when exception happen but context generates the problem of reference to non static in static class.
Context context = getApplicationContext();
CharSequence text = "Hello toast!";
int duration = Toast.LENGTH_SHORT;
Toast toast = Toast.makeText(context, text, duration);
toast.show();
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Feb 7, 2010
I'm having some issues with the old "Cannot make a static reference to a non-static method" error in my Android program. I am creating a sand falling game (similar to the Powder Game) and I created a class called Control to create a Control Bar at the bottom of the screen with a slider for brush size (that works fine) and a button to pop up a Dialog to allow users to pick the selected element. However, when I call DemoActivity.showDialog(2) from my code, it gives the static reference to non-static error (DemoActivity is the main activity of my application). I also tried changing it to just Activity.showDialog(2), but I got exactly the same error!
Here's my code:
CODE:................
I fixed it by adding the following to my Control.java code:
CODE:..........
And then calling control.setActivity(this); from my onResume section of DemoActivity.java!
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Aug 31, 2010
I noticed that recently any photo uploads have the caption "Uploaded via Facebook Mobile" instead of "Uploaded via Facebook for Android". This changed sometime between May 10 and 15: Sometime between May 10 and 15 the Facebook Android app has c on Twitpic.Can anyone help me with this issue? and is anybody having the same problems as I'm having?
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May 26, 2010
I am modifying the source code here: http://thinkandroid.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/getting-response-body-of-httpresponse/
I get this error:
code:.............
This error is line 13 on the second box.
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Mar 18, 2013
I have Eclipse Juno and I'm working on an app with that.
The main activity will have a scrollable menu that takes you to all the other activities.
So the general structure/outline right now:[HIGH]Relative Layout ImageView (header logo type thing) ListView (the actual scrollable menu)[/HIGH]Here's the problem though... I can't find any simple list tutorials. I can easily make a single line list work but I need to make a two line list and one that is static, not dynamic and no examples are out there for that. It's like if you want to make a 2 line list, you can only learn how to do it in the most code-heavy ridiculous way possible.
Essentially what I am looking for with the list is this: Item one: Centred, bold, non selectable title (Resources)
- Item two-??: two line list items, click-able to a new activity, title of the section on first line, description on the second line.
- Item ??: Centred, bold, non selectable title (Tools)
- Item ??-??: two line list items, click-able to a new activity, title of the section on first line, description on the second line.
Nothing dynamic that is ever going to change, no super complex wonkey calculations, just to simply have the data set in stone (preferably via XML) and to call it into the list.
I experimented with some of the other list views and no matter what I did, I could get, via editing the resources and NOT using Java, more that one item on a single line but it wouldn't format it properly according to the layout I guess because I haven't got the ID correct or whatever I don't know.
I mean, all the examples I've seen for a 2 line list are extraordinarily over-coded and just bloated. I mean I have a website I am still working on in C#/ASP.net that has far more complex things in it with half the code that I've seen for the examples of the two line lists.
I tried on my own to figure it out (I am decent with C# and vaguely familiar with Java, self taught, and programming for some other systems like Python, again all self-taught), but like ALL coding references, they're organised by the actual code you implement (that you don't know) instead of by what you want it to do (so you have to search the whole code base to find something that you don't know what it's called but know what it does). >:C
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Oct 14, 2010
Phone Highlights: S-Off. Stock Froyo. Rooted. ClockworkMod installed.
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OK, it was my fault - I was stoopid.. I was having issues with Marketplace and then found that GTalk wasn't working and, well, one thing followed another and I blew away the GTalk APK. Stoopid I know, but it happens.
So given that finding another copy of GTalk 1.3 is proving rather hard, I think option 2 is to restore the stock Rom.
I have S-Off and Clockwork Mod and I rooted with 2.1.0 previously. I've got a recent Nanodroid backup (not recent enough to have the APK on it though - ) and continuous Titanium Backups all nestled neatly on my SD.
Now, bear in mind I've had several weeks of hell at work, my mind's not firing on all cylinders when it comes to me lil' Droid so you'll have to forgive me if this is a real silly question, but....
What steps do I need to follow to return back to my stock 2.2 rooted goodness after I've used ClockworkMod to do an image recovery? Can I assume that the recovery will just put stock Froyo back on? If so, do I need to do a Nanodroid restore afterwards and are there any steps I need to follow to become re-rooted once complete?
I should add that apart from a lack of Marketplace right now, the phone is otherwise perfectly happy and functional.
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Jun 5, 2010
Any idea how to remove APP2SD and partition off my droids sd, and get back to the rooted but stock SD size?
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Mar 9, 2009
I have been finding it convenient to extend Handler in many of my activities to handle messages specific to the activity. The handler sublass is an inner class of the activity and needs to access its state. I am wondering if there is any performance difference between making the handler subclass static and passing in the activity explicitly in its constructor or making the subclass an "instance class" and letting the vm worry about my accessing members of the containing activity.
The static approach:
CODE:.............................
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Apr 9, 2014
I want to ask where does the defaults values of memory min-free values of a Rom reside? I mean what file I would have to edit to edit those values?
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Mar 28, 2009
Can anyone hep me with how to make a (boolean) variable global in Android?
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Aug 12, 2010
I split my inner View class from my Main class into its own file. In my main class, I have the view set as an onTouchListener which records user movement into a matrix so it can translate and scale the view. After separating it everything works but im unsure how to pass the matrix to the View for onDraw to update. Any suggestions?
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Jun 6, 2010
Before I delve into it, I'm very new to Android and I have just started learning Java last month. I've hit bumps while trying to develop my first simple app. Most of these hurdles were jumped thanks to random tutorials online. MY CODE IS VERY MESSY. Any tips are appreciated.
The question above is quite broad, but this is what I want to do: It's a essentially a blood alcohol content calculator / drink keeper-tracker. Basic layout: http://i.imgur.com/JGuh7.jpg
The buttons along the bottom are just regular buttons, not ImageButtons (had problems with that) Here's some example code ..
It outputs the following to the text view: "Your BAC is -0.017". This is the Bac value for if StandardDrinks was still 0, so obviously there is some problem communicating between the classes.
The other elements of the formula (weight, time spent drinking, and the alcohol %'s and such) are variables because I will ultimately allow the user to change those values in the settings.
I've heard around the water cooler that global variables are not good programming style, but this is the closest I've come to getting it to work..
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Oct 12, 2010
How can I make a variable or object available to multiple activities or restarts of the same one.
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Feb 27, 2010
In android: I'm trying to take data from one activity/screen to another.
Let's say I'm adding two numbers. I layout my first screen (xml) with 2 EditText views, a couple labels, and an 'OK' button. Now, I want to add the numbers that I've input into the EditText views. Let's say I input 2 and 2 (2 + 2 = 4).
Now, when I hit the 'OK' button, I want a new screen/activity to appear and simply show me the answer (4). Do I use global vars to do this?
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Jul 3, 2010
I am starting to develop an Android App and have noticed the following behaviour in my test code (not yet designed the real app):
A thread that loops around doing Bluetooth IO accesses an instance variable that is declared in the enclosing class. That instance variable gets set to null by the GUI thread in the onBackPressed() method which also closes the Bluetooth socket which causes an exception in the IO thread (which is what I want).
The odd thing is that if I set the instance variable to null before I close the socket, the IO thread sees the null value, but if I close the socket first and then set the variable to null, the IO thread doesn't see the null value.
The instance variable is being used in a loop in the IO thread and it appears as if that variable is being cached while within the loop. So any changes to that variable by another thread are not visible. Is that possible? If so, is there a workaround to guarantee that the VM will read the value of the instance variable?
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Sep 20, 2010
I would like to use self defined Environment variables in my source code.
I use System.getenv() to do this and the code line looks like this. Log.d("MyTest","== MyEnv " + System.getenv("AP") + " ANDROID_ASSETS:" + System.getenv("ANDROID_ASSETS"));
Before I execute my code I define my AP variable with export: export AP="12345" and the this is my output of set command
ANDROID_ASSETS=/system/app
ANDROID_BOOTLOGO=1
ANDROID_DATA=/data
ANDROID_PROPERTY_WORKSPACE=9,32768
ANDROID_ROOT=/system
AP=12345
Then I execute my code and I get this line from logcat
D/MyTest( 5363): == MyEnv null ANDROID_ASSETS:/system/app
The value for my defined Environment variable is null. Any suggestions on why it didn't work?
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Nov 16, 2009
I'm building an Android application and would like to maintain a few environment variables that I can tweak depending on whether I'm in development mode or release mode. For example, I need to invoke a web service and the URL will be slightly different in either mode. I'd like to externalize this and other settings so I can change them easily based on my target deployment. Distinguishing development mode and release mode environment settings on Android. Are there any best practices or anything in the SDK to assist with this need?
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