Android :: Keeping References To Inflated Custom Views
Apr 26, 2010
While researching how to create custom compound views in Android, I have come across this pattern a lot (example comes from the Jteam blog)I mostly understand how this is working, except for the part where inflate() is called. The documentation says that this method returns a View object, but in this example the author does not store the result anywhere. After inflation, how is the new View created fromt eh XML associated with this class? I thought about assigning it to "this", but that seems very wrong.
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Jun 12, 2010
I have made a Custom Component in XML, consisting of a button with an imageview stacked on top of it:
<myapp.widget.ClearableCaptionedButton
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<Button
android:id="@+id/ccbutton_button"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center_vertical|left"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:background="@android:drawable/edit_text"/>
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/ccbutton_clear"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginRight="5dip"
android:layout_alignRight="@id/ccbutton_button"
android:layout_alignTop="@id/ccbutton_button"
android:layout_alignBottom="@id/ccbutton_button"/>
</myapp.widget.ClearableCaptionedButton>
Extract of java source code:
public class ClearableCaptionedButton extends RelativeLayout implements OnClickListener {
...
public ClearableCaptionedButton(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) { super(context, attrs);
// some stuff that works fine
} ..
protected void onFinishInflate() { super.onFinishInflate();
mButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.ccbutton_button);
mClear = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.ccbutton_clear);
mButton.setText(""); // error here: mButton == null
}
My problem is similar to this one. When I try to find the views inside the custom compound, findViewById returns null. But, as you can see, i already added super(context, attrs); to the constructor. I am using the custom component directly in xml layout, like this:
<LinearLayout>
<!-- some stuff -->
<myapp.widget.ClearableCaptionedButton
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:caption="to"/>
</LinearLayout>
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Nov 24, 2010
I am working on a system on which currently Linux kernel and microwindows windowing system is running. Code of current Linux system drivers is available to me. I want to port android on it, just as a hobby project.
can you please tell me what all understanding of linux-kernel is required to port it?
Please give me references (Books, Tutorials) to build-up understandings.
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Aug 16, 2010
im having a problem getting a custom view that i created on the xml layout file. i have a class named DrawingLayout which extends FrameLayout. it is found in the package Drawing
as stated on this page http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/custom-components.html i used the following decleration in xml
<Drawing.DrawingLayout ... />
but whenever i run the program with that decleration i get a runtime exception error on SetContentView( ... )
is there something im not doing well? If you need any more details please tell me because i cant seem to figure this one out.
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Nov 10, 2010
Is it possible to nest one custom views within another Custom view?
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Aug 13, 2009
*I have used three custom views... playpanel works fine.. but drawHeaderpanel does not workk..*
public class MainPanel extends Activity { @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);...................
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Aug 30, 2009
Does anybody knows if (and how ) I can write a custom view/widget and then use it in resources in layout defintions?
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Oct 2, 2010
I am parsing the url to display the contents in it, my requirement i have to display the each content in separate textviews.
For Instance: Let us assume the contents in that url are FootBall, Carom , chess, VolleyBall and so on . I want to display FootBall as a individual textview similarly others. so i cannot declare the textviews in xml what i usually do.
CODE:................
So i planned to create textview via java code
This is my parsing code which parse the url contents and store the result in a string array namely san_tagname; depending upon the length of this variable i want to create number of textviews.
CODE:..................
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Jun 12, 2009
I created a custom SurfaceView called CaptureView and tried to add it into main.xml file.The application seems to work fine but if I switch from main.xml tab to Layout in Eclipse the text NullPointerException appears instead of layout preview.Does anyone know how this issue could be solved?
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May 31, 2010
I have a set of custom views that I would like to add to a LinearLayout object. However, the first object I add to the layout (I do this dynamically, during runtime) has a OnMeasure method that tries to get as much space as possible resulting in that it get's all the space LinearLayout object. This is correct behavior, but when I then add more objects following that I want the allocated area for the first object to decrease so the others will fit. As it is now, each following object will get zero space, and hence won't be visible.
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Dec 22, 2009
I have a requirement to create a control similar to UITabBar in iPhone, which is to be present on every activity of my application. UITabBar essentially is a battery of buttons exhibiting a TAB like behavior: every button maps to an activity. I have two solutions for this: 1. In the layout XML for every activity, I insert a <LinearLayout><Button/><Button/><Button/></LinearLayout> element. And then have a common listener class that will handle the button clicks. So, every activity will have an instance of this listener. 2. To create a custom Widget extending LinearLayout class, put all the buttons as its static members and let it handle the button clicks. Include this custom control in every screen.
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May 14, 2009
Is it possible to clone a view. If no, how to support clone of a view in custom views. If yes.. which api should we use. clone method seems to be protected for view.
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Mar 11, 2010
I am developing a small app for Android. I am creating my own view.
I am planning to design the layout to be:
<LinearLayout>
<MyView>
<Button><Button>
</LinearLayout>
But when I run my program, my custom view will cover the whole screen. Is there anyway to avoid this?
I have already tried to add android:layout_width, layout_height to be wrap_content, fill_partent, but no luck.
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Jan 6, 2010
I have a simple ListView and on that ListView I have placed a number of custom defined Views. The CustomView has ImageView and two TextViews.
The CustomView also has a "stateful drawable" as background, so that the background image (a 9-patch) changes if you press the Row in the ListView. When pressing the Row, the background image changes to a Red-ish thing.
The problem is that when the background changes from the default greyish, all the Views in the CustomView (ImageView and TextViews) still have their greyish background and thus creates very ugly greay boxes on top of the now redish background.
What is the best way to solve that problem? I hoped that such things were handled automatically (as it is done in for example .NET), but I was wrong it seems.
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Jan 20, 2010
I have an activity defined as:
CODE:...................
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Aug 22, 2010
I've successfully implemented onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() for my main activity to save and restore certain critical components across screen orientation changes.
But it seems, my custom views are being re-created from scratch when the orientation changes. This makes sense, although in my case it's inconvenient because the custom view in question is an X/Y plot and the plotted points are stored in the custom view.
Is there a crafty way to implement something similar to onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() for a custom view, or do I need to just implement methods in the custom view which allow me to get and set its "state"?
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Aug 27, 2010
Why aren't menus inflated automatically for you in Android, the way an Activity's layout is?
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May 3, 2009
I've got ~200 png files in the /res/drawable folder, mostly interface and sprite sheet stuff. They're all indexed pngs, and weigh in at a grand total of a bit over 400kb.
When I run aapt to package them into the apk, their filesize nearly doubles. Opening the apk up with 7zip and extracting the drawables confirms it: 790kb.
Does anyone have any idea why this would be happening? I thought the packaging process was meant to compress the pngs, not inflate them!
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Oct 1, 2010
I have an audio player toolbar activity that has a corresponding layout file.
I need this player to show up at the bottom of another activity. I use a ViewStub and inflate the audio toolbar's layout file in the stub.
How do I access the buttons, etc on this inflated view and how do I set their behavior?
The docs on ViewStub did not mention anything about this (or maybe I totally overlooked something).
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Mar 21, 2010
I have built my interface by using ViewStubs, which I inflate during onCreate.
But later in my app, I want to change the View completely, by loading different View into the same place. How do I achieve that?
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Nov 16, 2010
I am implementing a music player application in Android. My play list selection screen is implemented as a tab selector widget which contains a ListActivity inside each of the tabs: Artist, Albums, Songs.
I want to update the ListView in each of the ListActivity when I delete an item from any of the lists.
i.e. When I long press an item in the Artists list a context menu is drawn with "Delete Artist"
And it should delete all the songs from this artist in the Songs ListView, delete all the albums by this artist in the Albums ListView, and finally delete the entry for the artist in the Artist ListView.
Each of the ListActivity has its own fillData() method, which updates the ListView when the button in the context menu is pressed.
How can I call the fillData() method of the Albums ListActivity after I update the ListView inside of the Artists ListActivity?
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Feb 28, 2010
I want to populate a table, defined in layout xml file through the programmatic way. I have define Table with a single row defining its header, with all the attributes set. Now i want to know a way so that i can just replicate that header row in the table with new content.
I tried using inflator inflate(int,view) method, but at runtime it showed up with error.
Here is the XML code for the layout file defining the table
CODE:.................
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Aug 6, 2009
I created a layout xml file that contains an extended textview. What I want is to draw the textview in a bitmap. What do I have to do after inflating the view so that I can use the draw method on the my canvas?
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I am trying to inflate an ImageView that scales a Drawable that I can display in a GalleryView. My code to inflate the view seems to work fine, except that the attributes of the ImageView are not applied.Specifically, the inflated ImageView does not have the width/height that I set for it via the android:layout params in XML.Can someone show me what I'm doing wrong?I want to set the width/height of the image in dp, so that it is the correct size across multiple screen dpis and support Android 1.5+.
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Apr 2, 2009
I have an activity which extends TabActivity and implements TabContentFactory. For simplicity's sake I'll limit the problem to 1 tab.
In onCreate() I do this:
CODE:..........
In createTabContent:
CODE:...........
So far, so great. I get the tab, the layout is displayed.
I also have a button in the layout, so I do:
CODE:.............
And then I subscribe to it's click event:
CODE:..........
Now, here's the problem. I click the button and nothing happens. I can for example execute the following code from elsewhere:
CODE:.............
And the button will get disabled, but when I tap it (in its *enabled* state) - nothing happens.
If I'm not, could it be that I have another tab, where the another inflated copy of the same layout is displayed? However, in this layout's button's OnClickListener nothing happens as well.
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I have the following XML code:.................
The idea is to change the views, whenever I press one of the radio buttons. When I press a button the first time everything works out fine, but the second time I press a button, I get an IllegalStateException, and I can't quite see why I'm getting this.
Also, the Activity seems to set all my global variables to null, which is why I have to create them every time I switch from portrait to landscape or vice versa. So I would like to know if there is a way I can save my views in the Bundle, or any other way in which I can permanently save my views, so I don't have to add or create them every time, I flip the phone. And whenever I flip the phone, it seems that it rereads the main XML file, causing the RadioGroup to be set to 2D even if the 3D button is checked. This is because I've said the 2D button to be checked from when the app is first created, but I would like to also save the state of that RadioGroup.
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How do you align views relative to the "middle" part of another view? I think it is best explained with a pic of the UI I'm trying to create in android.
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Im using an inflater inside an adapter for my listview. I need to add in a different button depending in the state of the data for each row, so Im thinking I need to do this programmatically, but how do I make sure its inserted into the correct place inside the layout?
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Apr 20, 2010
I have a static Preferences class that hold some application preferences and stuff like that. Is it ok to store reference to ApplicationContext there? I need that reference so i can get cache folder and stuff like that in classes that don't inherit Activity.
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There's a bug in my network code so that when the server's not available the Android client tries over and over to connect. On 1.5 (emulator) this results, within a minute, in an "Excessive JNI global references" error where the leaked object is a small (20 byte) boolean array. The same code on emulated 2.1 runs for as long as my patience lasts. Is there any possibility the leak is in my code and not an Android bug that's been fixed since 1.5?
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