When programming for Android sometimes you have to use static methods. But when you try to acces you resources in a static method with getString(R.string.text) you'll get an error. Making it static doesn't works. Does anyone knows a good way around this because the resource files in Android are very helpfull for creating things in different languages or making changes to a text.
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i'm making a program that needs to set to a textview the content of a string stored in resource/string file
in my program i generate a string and i need to set the text using that string like a resource id. the problem is that the resouurce ids are integers.
something like:
test = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tvMyTV);
mystring = "test_a";
test.setText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.myst ring)));
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i obviously can't use R.string.mystring, i should use
test.setText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.test _a)));
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:.................
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();
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!
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.
My application crashes after I try to use the static Bitmap createBitmap method to get a mutable bitmap in order to fill it later with data.
If I only create one 1024x1024 the application works just fine, but when I try to load the same image more than once (first making my object null in each round) my application crashes on my third or fourth try.
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I'm working on an Android application that has several Activities. In it I have a class with several static methods. I would like to be able to call these methods from the different Activities. I'm using the static methods to load data from an xml file via a XmlResourceParser. To create a XmlResourceParser requires a call on the Application Context. So my question is, what is the best way to get a reference to the Application Context into the static methods? Have each Activity get it and pass it in? Store it somehow in a global variable?
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Every method I have tried says that it cannot be accessed from a static method. So how do I access preferences from a static method?
In my Android app, I need to call a non static java method from C/C++. But i get a blunt crash when i do it using GetMethodID/CallVoidMethod()1 methods.
I have done like this:
1. Register the method using GetMethodID() as follows (mine is a cpp file): jmethodID xyz = (env)->GetMethodID( cls, "showxyz", "()V");
2. And I call this method as follows: env->CallVoidMethod(cls, xyz);
3. In java, my showxyz() is defined this way(this basically enables a button which was disabled) void showxyz() {findViewById(R.id.btnPass).setEnabled(true);}
And this crashes.
But I have been using this method of calling Java funcs from C using a set of GetStaticMethodID/CallStaticVoidMethod()(for nonstatic methods) and that works always.
But in this case, I have to call a non-static method and i get a crash.
I'm having a big issue with a static HTTPS connection method. Every second request fails and HttpsUrlConnection.getResponseCode() returns -1. So every second call works well, returning data as expected.
It's the method of a static class I'm using in different corners of my application. I would guess there is anything I don't clean up correctly when the method returns the first time and that whatever causes a problem might get destroyed through a second call of the method. But I'm having a hard time finding any clues.
I'm currently using this class to talk to hosts with invalid SSL certificates. Not going to use this in the final version of the app, but right now I need to save money. ;)
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I've been trying to call a non-static method, located in my main application Class, from the Preferences Class. Because the method I call is not static, I instantiate the main class and then try to call the specific method I want but it's force closing.
Preferences.class (from where I call the method):
Preference sorted = (Preference) findPreference("sortPref");
sorted.setOnPreferenceChangeListener(new Preference.OnPreferenceChangeListener() {
public boolean onPreferenceChange(Preference preference, Object newValue) {
Object d = new Dmarks();
((Dmarks) d).queryBookmarks();
return true;
}});
the Dmarks.class method I call:
public void queryBookmarks() {
Toast.makeText(context, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
//context is not null and the Toast is working if I call it from Dmarks.class }
The Logcat:
E/AndroidRuntime(11718): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime(11718): java.lang.NullPointerException
E/AndroidRuntime(11718):
at android.content.ContextWrapper.getContentReso
lver(ContextWrapper.java:90)
E/AndroidRuntime(11718):
at android.app.Activity.managedQuery(Activity.ja
va:1520)
E/AndroidRuntime(11718):
at com.droidil.droidmarks.Dmarks.queryBookmarks(
Dmarks.java:101)
E/AndroidRuntime(11718):
at com.droidil.droidmarks.Preferences$2.onPrefer
enceChange(Preferences.java:47)
E/AndroidRuntime(11718):
at android.preference.Preference.callChangeListe
ner(Preference.java:756)
E/AndroidRuntime(11718):
at android.preference.ListPreference.onDialogClo
sed(ListPreference.java:219)
E/AndroidRuntime(11718):
at android.preference.DialogPreference.onDismiss
(DialogPreference.java:384)
E/AndroidRuntime(11718):
at android.app.Dialog$ListenersHandler.handleMes
sage(Dialog.java:1047)
E/AndroidRuntime(11718):
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.ja
va:99)
E/AndroidRuntime(11718):
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
E/AndroidRuntime(11718):
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThrea
d.java:4627)
E/AndroidRuntime(11718):
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native
Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(11718):
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:5
21)
E/AndroidRuntime(11718):
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndA
rgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
E/AndroidRuntime(11718):
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(Zygot
eInit.java:626)
E/AndroidRuntime(11718):
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
D/dalvikvm(11718): GC_FOR_MALLOC freed 4248 objects / 282248 bytes in 40ms
W/ActivityManager( 244): Force finishing activity com.droidil.droidmarks/.Preferences
I am having a static method .In the method when I decalare a variable , it was showing an error in eclipse saying that the variable should be decalared as final.
Can I know the reason for this , y should a variable in a static method be declared as final? I am writng an Android application where I should pass as an argument current Context of that application. So, when I pass the current context to the method and trying to copy it in a local variable , I am getting this error saying that the variable should be declared as final.
My method is like this:
CODE:.............
Error is showing at line where Context myctx=ctx; is declared and asking me to declare it as final.
I have class A, with methods foo and bar, that are implemented by A1 and A2. The functionality in both A1 and A2 is the same. In other words:
public class A {
public int foo() { return 0; };
public int bar() { return 1; };
} class A1 extends A {
public int AnotherFooFunction() { return foo();
} public int AnotherBarFunction() { return bar();
} } class A2 extends A {
public int AnotherFooFunction() { return foo();
} public int AnotherBarFunction() { return bar();
} }
Is it better to keep the code in this fashion, or to swap out those virtual methods as static methods? (In Java, everything non-final/non-private is considered virtual, right?) According to the Designing for Performance section in the Android Developer Docs, I should swap out these virtual methods for static ones. So the above becomes:
public class A {
public int foo() { return 0; };
public int bar() { return 1; };
} class A1 extends A {
public int AnotherFooFunction() { return A.foo();
} public int AnotherBarFunction() { return A.bar();
} class A2 extends A {
public int AnotherFooFunction() { return A.foo();
} public int AnotherBarFunction() { return A.bar();
} }
Is this how it "ought" to be? I fully realize that I may be misinterpreting this paragraph in the docs.
Im trying to make an activity that has a multiple choice dialog after you push a button. In there you select from a list of things. But these things are received from a web method before the dialog appears. So I create a string array after I receive them inside the onCreate to initialise it there with the correct size. But my dialog method then cant get the array because propably its out of its scope.
My code looks like this:
CODE:............
I cant initialise my array when the class starts because I dont know its size yet. This has to do something with the scopes of my variables and I am pretty confused
I have the following code but there is an error: "The method getSharedPreferences(String, int) is undefined for the type EventsData".
Does it mean I need to extend both SQLLiteOpenHelper and Activity?
CODE:.............
I'm trying to open database as follows :
CODE:...
This code works fine when I implement it in the Service class, but when I try to implement this in the onPostExecute eventhandler of the GeneraterThread class,implementing AsyncTask, I get the following error :
'The method openOrCreateDatabase(String, int, null) is undefined for the type GeneraterThread'
I'm a new android developper and I have problem with my database. In fact, I have done: private EditText name; private EditText number; private void saveState() {String name = name.getText().toString(); String number = number.getText().toString(); I have this message:" The method getText() is undefined for the type String"
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i.e.
First Acticity
what is Y?
answer y = 5
Second activity
User said Y = 5
what is X?
Third Activity
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Wonder why do I get this error?
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The main activity will have a scrollable menu that takes you to all the other activities.
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- 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.
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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.
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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
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:
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I have the localized strings file that is used in the Iphone app that I work on to port to Android. Are there any tools that go through the file taken from the xcode project and build the xml needed to use the strings in android? This tool should be easy to build but I appreciate any pointers to already working tools.
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