I am writing my own ContentProvider for my own application. And there is a ListView with a CursorAdapter pulling data from my Content Provider. My question is when there is a data change in my ContentProvider, how can I notify my CursorAdatper to requery the data and then have the ListView updated?
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I'm trying to clean up some code and now I'm determined to get this seemless ListView updating working...
I want my ListView to be updated when I call notifyDataSetChanged() but nothing happens... I'm also passing the autoRequery flag to true when creating my CursorAdapter.
Cursor c = FavoritesHandler.getCategoryFavorites(getSQLiteInstance(), category); m_favoriteAdapter.changeCursor(c); startManagingCursor(c);
Does the CursorAdapter run on a background thread and posts updates via the UI looper thread? If not what is the best pattern to load data asynchronously from a ContentProvider?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI was using some of the code from DeskClock and found that when I tried to modify the CursorAdapter that newView was getting called for each item. (I actually wanted to add a divider and it seems like adding the dividers separately is better than adding them into a single listView)
If I have 3 items I get the following behavior:
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I would've expected newView/bindView to be called once per cursor item. But, that doesn't seem to be the case. This was kind of a problem for me because I wanted to select the appropriate view depending on the cursor data, but since bindView could be called before newView that doesn't work.
Is this some odd recycler behavior (or somehow normal/expected)? Or is there something broken with the code (I removed everything except the ListView and it's still doing this)? I'm not quite sure why you would try to bind views that haven't been created, and why newView gets called on the first item twice.
If someone has an easy way of adding dividers to ListViews I'd love to know. I was going to try to dig through the contacts example to see how they did it there if not.
In case anyone's wondering MergeAdapter was neat to mess around with and try (I'll use it in some other situations). But, I did just end up writing a single adapter that handles multiple views. It computes the type of each item (which is small), stores it in a map, initializes it at adapter creation, and updates it in notifyDataSetChanged.
Then you just need to have getViewTypeCount() return the number of possible views. And getItemViewType to return the type from the map (which is 0 based, so 0-getViewTypeCount()). If you can compute your type from the position you don't need the map, but doing this on the fly wasn't possible so I just pre/recompute when needed.
I have a list view with 2 buttons on each row. I am using a cursoradpater to populate the list. I am also using the view holder pattern on newview() bindview().
My questions are: where do i put the clicklisteners for the buttons knowing that the action for the button is different from the action of the list item itself? Do i keep the onListItemClick ?
I am building a custom listview used to list contacts from the contact cursor into a list with two text view for the phone number and name of the contact as well as a place for the images. I am getting a nullpoint error when i try to setText for my TextView Even though i checked the variable to see if they contained a string I have no ideas whats wrong with it. Code...
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Do you have some code examples of such solutions?
I have a cursor adapter and the logcat is filled with above errors, as soon as I click on a view. I am already releasing the CursorAdapter's cursor in onDestroy().Is there any way to get information about when the cursor was opened?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a CursorAdapter attached to a ListView, the ListView contains checkboxes for every row. When I check/uncheck a checkbox in a row it will update it to a 0 or 1 in the database (This is working fine) I also have another checkbox in the same Activity that when pressed will disable all the checkboxes in the ListView [ setEnabled(false) ].
The problem is that when I press this checkbox the ListView checkboxes return to their initial state when I started the activity. It does not matter the number of checkboxes I changed during the activity.
However, if I press the back button and then re-enter the activity all modifications are saved because the Cursor is refreshed. I am calling notifyDataSetChanged() at the end of the the methods that disables all the checkboxes.
I also tried this for every checkbox in the ListView but it did not work (was unable to check a checkbox) Any ideas?
I have a ListView backed by a custom adapter based on a CursorAdapter.The cursor I give it is based on a list of Notes in the database (each note is a DB row).Everything works just fine until I delete a note from the database. I'm not sure how to properly update the cursor/adapter/listview to display the new data.I've read conflicting posts on using adapter.notifyDataSetChanged() vs cursor.requery() to refresh the UI, but neither of them seems to work in this case.The only way I've been able to refresh it is by creating a new cursor from a new query and calling adapter.changeCursor(newCursor).Could someone demonstrate the proper way to update the backing data and then the UI (with psuedocode if possible).
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a listactivity as a startup screen in my application. Which is displaying database records using custom cursor adapter. On create I set the filterable flag - getListView().setTextFilterEnabled(true)
My cursoradapter overrides runQueryOnBackgroundThread which runs corresponding query. The problem is that after typing some text and hitting enter, runQueryOnBackgroundThread never gets called. However, when the item click in the same view launches another activity(detail view of the record) and I come back to the original list activity, hitting back button, then text filtering works just fine. I don't call setTextFilterEnabled anywhere except during the initialization process and I can't really find any other API affecting this behavior, so any guesses why text filtering doesn't work initially, but all of the sudden starts working when I come back to the list activity from child activity?
I'm crating tab view using this tutorial: Link<http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-tabwidge...>. Now I need to reload tab content data when user view that tab. is there any way to notify ListAdapter ?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedMy application has an IntentService which runs periodically to download data from a remote server. The download task is run inside an AsyncTask which has reference to Application context only. The data downloaded is for entire application and is displayed across four different activities. When the download completes(AsyncTask completes) the service is notified of the same. Now, the service needs to notify appropriate activity to update its view. The service is not aware of which Activity of what application is in foreground.
How do I make that connection? How does the service pass a message to the activity in foreground that new data is available and it should update its views?
We are developing a ContentProvider which is supposed to serve for specified packages. So we want to get the caller package name. Is there any way to achieve that?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI currently register a content observer on the following URI "content://sms/" to listen out for incoming and outgoing messages being sent.
This seems to work ok and I have also tried deleting from the sms database but I can only delete an entire thread from the following URI "content://sms/conversations/"
Here is the code I use for that
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However I want to be able to get the recipricant and the message text from the SMS Content Provider, can anyone tell me how to do this?
And also how to delete one message instead of an entire thread?
I have a ContentProvider which is declared in the Manifest, when is it really created ? When the application is launched but before launching the first activity ? When the first query/update/insert is done ? When ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to add an extra field to the phonebook on android. The field contains a new contact method and when clicked it should start my own application/intent. I have created my own content provider that stores the information. I want to add this contentProvider to the phonebook in the same way organizations and email are added to the phone book. So how do i do this? I tried adding a new contact method but the field KIND needs an integer input which seems to be predefined to some specific methods (EMAIL, IM, ADDRESS etc)
So do i need to add a new type of KIND or can I link my contentProvider to the phone book so that it shows up as an extra field in the phone book?
All the example codes, tutorials or video I see, there is always one ContentProvider per SQL Table with the SQLiteOpenHelper extension defined as a private static class... Is it some sort of standard design...to have one ContentProvider per SQL Table? Or I can define one generic ContentProvider and use its instance for ever update? Is there some issue with that? Could anyone please help as my application has like 5-6 tables.
View 12 Replies View RelatedMaybe it's an easy question, but I've tried to understand why all the content providers seem not to close the DB that they use. In the NotePadProvider example (in other providers is similar), it's used a Helper to manage the DB (that extends of SQLiteOpenHelper).
This helper has a method to close the DB (http://developer.android.com/ reference/android/database/sqlite/SQLiteOpenHelper.html#close%28%29), but in all the providers that I have seen (even in the example), this method is never used.
For example, in the query method of the NotPadProvider we use the helper to open a DB
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The mOpenHelper is create in the "onCreate()" method, but there is no reference to a mOpenHelper.close() in all the provider (maybe because there is no "close()" method in ContentProvider).
Do we need to close the SQLiteOpenHelper object? When we use it inside a ContentProvider, where is the right place to close it?
I have a custom class, which represents my data-structure. This custom class is in a normal Java-library, which is included in both projects. I have one Project with a ContentProvider which provides this data to Activities of other Projects. And an other Project with an Activity, where I want to handle this data in objects of this custom class.
How can I get this data to the Activity? The Cursor [1] only supports primitive Types.
[1] http://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/Cursor.html
I have a ListActivity that uses a CursorAdapter to fill the rows in the view. I wrote a database helper class that gives me back results for common queries I make for my app, and it uses an SQLiteOpenHelper implementation I wrote to open the database. I use the open helper to open the database and get a cursor to pass to my CursorAdapter.
Here's a code snippet:
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The problem I'm having, that I didn't have before I implemented the open helper (before I just opened the database directly without a helper), is when I click on an item, which takes me to another activity, and then go back to this activity. When it initializes everything is fine, and my list is populated fine, but when I go back from the activity that follows, the list is empty and in the LogCat I see "Invalid statement in fillWindow()".
It appears from a few post I've seen that the reason is, when I requery the cursor, the database is closed. But I'm not closing it! I'm scratching my head on this one.
I have an activity, it needs to response to a broadcast event.Since an activity can not be a broadcast receiver at the same time,I made a broadcast receiver.My question is: how can I notify the activity from the broadcast receiver?I believe this is a common situation, so is there a design pattern for this?
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I want to be get notified when the phone screen goes to sleep Help with a sample code.