[android-beginners] Resizing ImageView

2009-09-11 Thread BGH
I have to say creating layouts in Android would have to be the most frustrating experience in all my years of programming. I dread it every time I create a new Android app. I simply want to have four images laid out horizontally across the screen. All four images are the same size and have the

[android-beginners] Google calendar API still not available?

2009-08-17 Thread BGH
I am thinking of writing a widget that would create a calendar entry in the users calendar. From what I have been reading it isn't possible to use the phone's login authentication with the gdata APIs (which aren't even designed to be used with Android anyway). I don't want to ask the user for

[android-beginners] Overlay multiple textviews???

2009-07-25 Thread BGH
I want to create a textview with an LCD font. But it order for it to have the authentic LCD effect it needs to have the highlighted parts of the letters black and still have the the underlying parts of the characters visible but not turned on. Is there any way I can create a textview, set it to

[android-beginners] FileOutputStream - file not found???

2009-06-30 Thread BGH
I'm need to package a pre-populated database with my app so I am using the method mentioned a few times on here of releasing in the assets folder and then copying it to the databases folder at runtime. Specifically I am using this tutorial.

[android-beginners] Button setShadowLayer

2009-06-30 Thread BGH
I want to display a shadow behind the text on a button. My understanding is that I can simply do button.setShadowLayer(3,3,3,android.R.color.black); but this does nothing and the text on the button looks the same as it did before. Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong?

[android-beginners] Change activity being displayed in a tab

2009-06-11 Thread BGH
My app starts with a tab activity that sets up activities for each of it's four tabs like so public class MyApp extends TabActivity { @Override public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) { super.onCreate(icicle); TabHost host = getTabHost(); host.addTab(host.newTabSpec(one)

[android-beginners] AlertDialog setDapter

2009-06-01 Thread BGH
I am trying to use setAdapter to populate a dialog list. My array adapter is getting populated with the correct values and is assigned to the alert dialog with setAdapter fine. The dialog knows that it should be displaying 3 value and shows a list with 3 values. However the list displayed in the

[android-beginners] Re: AlertDialog setDapter

2009-06-01 Thread BGH
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[android-beginners] Can't use File Explorer in DDMS on device

2009-05-20 Thread BGH
Whenever I try and view the file explorer in DDMS for my dev phone it just comes up blank. It doesn't matter whether I use the Eclipse plugin or the stand alone program, I get the same result. The file explorer window is completely empty. It works fine for the emulator. Logcat is spitting out

[android-beginners] Want to display a rapidly changing graph. Can someone explain the API demo please?

2009-05-18 Thread BGH
I want to display rapidly changing data from the accelerometer as a graph in my app. Very similar to the way it is done in the API demo OS - sensors. However I've looked over that code and I am just not getting anywhere. I was hoping someone could just go over the code in the demo and add some

[android-beginners] Re: How to I use touch screen to draw a straight line

2009-05-07 Thread BGH
Something I've wanted to know is if he does as you say and makes the custom view static or it's own java file, how does he access the x and y variables to know where to draw the line? On Apr 15, 4:39 pm, Raphael r...@android.com wrote: Note that if you want you can use your custom view directly

[android-beginners] Re: Notification intent executing wrong intent on click

2009-05-04 Thread BGH
Well it would seem my problem has already been discussed here http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/e61ec1e8d88ea94d/1fe953564bd11609?#1fe953564bd11609 and here