I need 2 ways of showing vertical label in Android:
Horizontal label turned 90 degrees counterclockwise (letters on the side)
Horizontal label with letters one under the other (like a store sign)
Do I need to develop custom widgets for both cases (one case), can I make TextView to render that way, and what would be a good way to do something like that if I need to go completely custom?
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I have a Gridview, include hundred of items (thumbnail images). I set a multi-select mode, in this mode, user just need to swipe his finger to start selecting multiple items (this case, gridview can not be scrolled). And in a normal touch, Gridview still can vertically scroll for user to see other thumbnails and continue selecting.
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Still in beta at this point
Very different launcher in a lot of ways.
Has left to right scrolling in the app drawer instead of vertical.
Has 2 main dock spaces for icons but if you swipe up on the app drawer instead of pressing it you will see what he calls the dock bar which has space for 6 more dock spots.
Tons of customization options.
There are several different ways of definition the ID. What is the difference? android:id="@id/android:list" android:id="@+id/android:list" android:id="@+id/confirm"
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm releasing my first app soon, and this is the first time I'm doing any of this on my own. Looking into the future of it, there are features I plan to implement within the coming months. But looking at me adding features, I realize I would be altering the original source, so if someone finds a bug, I need to either wait, or completely undo everything to fix it. What are some options for managing my source code and stuff?
View 4 Replies View RelatedAK Notepad does this nice little thing where, on displaying the file list, it "unravels" rapidly down the screen. Are they hacking that incredibly manually, or are there simple OS calls to make lists display in various ways?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for ways to back up the database of my app on an Android phone. I know that SQLite databases are just files, so I'd expect to be able to just copy the file to SD-card if one is available.However, I'm unsure as to how I'd prepare my database/activity for backup/restore.
When starting, my main activity reads the entries from one table in the database and displays them in a ListView. As shown in the API's "Notes" sample, I have a cursor that is automatically notified about changes to that table (ListView is automatically updated when I add/remove/update records in the table).When I copy the database file to SD-card, I should not have a problem. But what if the user wants to restore a database file? I can't just copy the file back to the data folder, can I (EDIT: ... while a view displays data from the database and thus maybe holds an open connection)?
What would be "best practice" when implementing backup/restore? One approach I've considered is:Open a special "restore" activity that holds no open database connections
Call finish() for the main activity to remove it and close database connections Copy back the database file Open a new "instance" of the main activity all finish() for the "restore" activity,....Would that be the way to go? Thanks for any advice!
I've gad the same issue on both the stock messaging app and chomp. Pictures that I attach to send to someone come up sideways, but only ones shot vertically, I.e. in portrait mode. What's up with this? Can this be adjusted?
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow many ways we can develop application for Android platform.The only one way that i know is through Java.Somewhere i read that other than Java like Python , Rails and Native C are also used to develop android application.Please help me if anybody knows it, in terms of how these languages are used to create application with any tutorials ,documents or books.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm a new Android developer and I just released a free, open source tipping calculator app called Tippy Tipper.I created this app to get myself familiar with Android and to hopefully provide a good example app for other new developers to look at.Now that I've overcome the challenges of learning how to program, test and release my Android app, I've come across a new challenge: marketing!What are some good ways to promote my app to the Android community? Can anyone with some experience talk about how they did this successfully with their own app?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to get the application label in different languages according to locale? For example, I can get the application label "Settings" of package com.android.settings in English, "Ajustes" in Spanish.
View 4 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?
By default the label of a RadioButton in on the right of the checkMarck. Is there a way to put the text on the left?
View 2 Replies View RelatedSuppose that you create a HelloWorld application under Eclipse. Then in res/values/strings.xml the following entry is created: <string name="app_name">Hello, Android</string> Now, when you launch the HelloWorld application you see the label "Hello, Android" on top of the screen. I want to hide this label. What is the way of doing this?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a map with many overlayitems on it, they look all the same (simple bubble), When the user clicks on one overlayitem a detailpopup is shown. I would like to draw a numbering every overlayitem - but how could i accomplish this? I tried to extend overlayitem and overwrite the draw method (but now, everthing get a shadow also the number). What it is the best way to do this?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a free app that has 64% of ratings at 5 starts, but still has 9% of ratings at only 1 start, some of them even said that my app is an "useless garbage", so I think maybe I need to leave a reply to those users to explain something or answer their questions. So are there any ways that we could do such thing?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI want to do optimization of my android application.
Can anyone please tell what are different ways to optimize code and performance in android?
I gone through one tool i.e. Zipalign: an Easy Optimization.
Any other tools available?
I have an application I am currently working on for a client which is suffering from a particularly hard to debug problem. Every so often, the device screen will go blank, not just while running my application, but entirely. If I press the home button, for instance, it's still blank. This happens fairly rarely ( I myself have only seen it once or twice in a couple of months, and unfortunately couldn't gather log information immediately when it happened. What log info I was able to gather seemed to show that the phone continued to run properly - I was still seeing events in the log file - the screen was just blank ). So far, this has only been observed while running on Motorola Milestones ( this may or may not be coincidence - it's hard to tell given the infrequency of occurance ). Has anyone else observed anything similar? Any suggestions as to possible causes/ways of debugging?
View 3 Replies View Relatedim using a tutorial from the book hello android and i have come across said error, any help would be great as its for a uni project, files are below...........
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I want to give my application launcher icon (the one that is displayed on the startscreen!) a different, shorter caption. It seems the launcher takes its label from the mainfest section about the main activity's label, as here:
<activity android:name="MainActivity" android:label="@string/app_short_name">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
I already changed the original reference to my app's name @string/app_name to a different, shorter string resource here. BUT - big BUT: this also of course changes this activity's default title! And I did not want that to happen, there's enough space for a long application name! Setting the long title again in onCreate using the setTitle(int) method does no good either, because the short name will be visible to the user for a short time, but long enough to notice!
And - please don't answer my question by refering to a custom titlebar... I do not want to go that long way, just because of a stupid string title! It's a pain to draw a custom title bar for so little effect! Is there no easy way to just give the launcher a different string to display?
how can i change value of a Activity label in AndroidManifest.xml file through the code in java. welcome your response.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen I'm reading my Gmail with the HTC EVO and I go to "Change Labels. My label list only shows 15 or so characters. Since I have nested labels (Google IMAP enabled) that is not nearly enough and it is impossible to read the last part of my Label. Which makes it hard to assign labels. Is there any way while changing a label to see more of the label name?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an Android app with 3 tabs in a TabHost (text labels, no images). I set up the tabs like so:
intent = new Intent().setClass(this, AnnouncementsActivity.class);
spec = tabHost.newTabSpec("news").setIndicator("News").setContent(intent);
tabHost.addTab(spec);
I start up a background thread to fetch announcements from my server and I want to update the text label on the tab to tell the user how many new announcements there are. For example, I want to change the text on the Tab to "News (3)". How can I access and change the text label on the tab?
Is it possible to add a little bit of space between a RadioButton and the label while still using Android's built-in components? By default the text looks a little scrunched.
<RadioButton android:id="@+id/rb1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="My Text"/>
I've tried a couple of things:
Specifying margin and padding seem to add space around the entire element (button and text, together). That makes sense, but doesn't do what I need.
Creating a custom drawable via XML specifying images for the checked and unchecked states, then adding a few extra pixels to the right side of each image. This should work, but now you are stepping outside the default UI. (Not the end of the world, but not ideal)
Add extra whitespace to the beginning of each label. Android seems to trim a leading space character, as in " My String", but specifying unicode U+00A0, as in "u00A0My String" does the trick. This works, but it seems kinda dirty.
Any better solutions?
When we create a new activity, in the Android.manifest file, we can set some text for the activity's label. It looks like:
<activity class="MyActivity" android:label="Some text here!">
Is there anyway to access that programatically and change it during runtime? Regards Dileep
I am trying to make an icon with a label, just like the ones used on the home screen. Currently I use a TextView with a top drawable as specified in the code below: The problem is that I would like the background to only be around the text and not around the drawable too. How can I achieve that? Code...
View 2 Replies View RelatedThe name of my Android app is 14 characters long with no spaces, as such, the full name is not visible on the home screen when displayed under the launcher icon.I want to use an alternate name for displaying under the launcher icon, so I can break up the name into two strings separated by a space - so that the words should wrap.How can this be done?
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