Re: [android-developers] Picking a contact in a PreferenceActivity

2011-02-16 Thread Mattias Svala
On Wednesday, February 16, 2011 2:18:35 AM UTC+1, TreKing wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Mattias Svala theb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a way to select a contact from the phones list of contacts in a PreferenceActivity. What is the best way to approach this? Best

Re: [android-developers] Picking a contact in a PreferenceActivity

2011-02-16 Thread Mattias Svala
On Wednesday, February 16, 2011 10:04:09 AM UTC+1, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: Storing the value is your preference's responsibility. Typically, you have something like this in your preference: public void setValue(int value) { mValue = value; persistInt(value); }

[android-developers] Picking a contact in a PreferenceActivity

2011-02-14 Thread Mattias Svala
Hello! I'm looking for a way to select a contact from the phones list of contacts in a PreferenceActivity. What is the best way to approach this? Do you know of some project that has implemented a this in some way. Or do I need to subclass Preference myself? :.:: mattias -- You received

[android-developers] Why is onUpdate() called for my widgets even though I have a configuration activity?

2011-02-11 Thread Mattias Svala
As far as I can tell, if I have defined a configuration activity for my widget then onUpdate should not be called when it is first created. It would be the configuration activity's responsibility to perform the initial configuration of the widget. Why is it then that I still get calls to

Re: [android-developers] Why is onUpdate() called for my widgets even though I have a configuration activity?

2011-02-11 Thread Mattias Svala
returns. The widget ID still being there even if you cancel the config activity is also a bug on some versions of Android. I documented my workaround for the second bug here: http://kmansoft.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/per-widget-options-stale-widgets/ -- Kostya 11.02.2011 17:59, Mattias Svala

[android-developers] Creating an image programmatically

2011-02-10 Thread Mattias Svala
Hello! I want to create an image programmatically that I will later use in an ImageView. I was thinking that I can use BitmapDrawable to do this. Something like this perhaps? Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(100, 100, Bitmap.Config.RGB_565); BitmapDrawable drawable = new

Re: [android-developers] Creating an image programmatically

2011-02-10 Thread Mattias Svala
On Thursday, February 10, 2011 5:21:17 PM UTC+1, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Mattias Svala theb...@gmail.com wrote: I want to create an image programmatically that I will later use in an ImageView. Why not just draw it on-screen? Why create

[android-developers] Predefined styles

2011-02-08 Thread Mattias Svala
Hello! I'm trying to figure out what style the text under the application shortcuts in the launcher uses. Is it a different style for each phone model or is there some style I cen reuse to get the same looking text in a widget? :.:: mattias -- You received this message because you are

Re: [android-developers] Predefined styles

2011-02-08 Thread Mattias Svala
On Tuesday, February 8, 2011 1:14:37 PM UTC+1, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: You can find it in the source for Launcher2, and can get pretty close with a TextView that has a round-rect shape drawable as the background (the actual source uses a custom subclass of TextView, which you can't do with

[android-developers] Custom view in an App Widget

2011-02-04 Thread Mattias Svala
Hello! Am I correct in assuming that I can't use a custom view (a specialisation of View) in an App Widget? This guide: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html seems to suggest that this is the case. :.:: mattias -- You received this message because you are

[android-developers] ListAdapter design advice

2011-01-20 Thread Mattias Svala
Hello! I want to write a ListAdapter to serve data from a database that look like this: CREATE TABLE notes (_id integer primary key, content text); CREATE TABLE tags (_id integer primary key, name text, pos integer

[android-developers] Re: Inflating views in a ListAdapter

2011-01-19 Thread Mattias Svala
On Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:54:26 AM UTC+1, Mattias Svala wrote: I guess that this means that addView is not supported int the parent object sent to getView(). I just want to double check that I'm not supposed to try to attach my views to the parent ViewGroup in this case

[android-developers] Isolated database tests

2011-01-19 Thread Mattias Svala
Hello! I would like to be able to write tests for my database code and have them run without touching the database that my actual application uses. It would be OK for the database tests to start with an empty or non existing database each time the tests are run. Is this possible? I would

Re: [android-developers] What to check into source control?

2011-01-18 Thread Mattias Svala
Ah, that's correct. The bin/ folder is a mistake in my example, I did not check that in. So it you check in every thing apart from bin/ and gen/, how do you get the project to build cleanly right after it is imported into Eclipse? :.:: mattias -- You received this message because you are

Re: [android-developers] What to check into source control?

2011-01-18 Thread Mattias Svala
list. -- Kostya 2011/1/18 Mattias Svala theb...@gmail.com Ah, that's correct. The bin/ folder is a mistake in my example, I did not check that in. So it you check in every thing apart from bin/ and gen/, how do you get the project to build cleanly right after it is imported into Eclipse

Re: [android-developers] What to check into source control?

2011-01-18 Thread Mattias Svala
On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 9:46:20 AM UTC+1, Webnet Android wrote: On 18 January 2011 09:26, Mattias Svala theb...@gmail.com wrote: If that is the best we can do, then I think the build system is a bit broken. Anyone else have other tricks? The only thing that is permanently broken

Re: [android-developers] What to check into source control?

2011-01-18 Thread Mattias Svala
On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 2:33:53 PM UTC+1, TreKing wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Mattias Svala theb...@gmail.com wrote: I see what you are saying. Just trying to stir the nest to see if some other interesting solution pops up. :-) Honestly, how frequently are you importing

Re: [android-developers] What to check into source control?

2011-01-18 Thread Mattias Svala
On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:16:42 PM UTC+1, TreKing wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Mattias Svala theb...@gmail.com wrote: The point is that I want it to be as easy as possible to download my project and start hacking on it. Oh, you're distributing your project for others

[android-developers] What to check into source control?

2011-01-17 Thread Mattias Svala
Hello! I have a question about what parts of an Eclipse Android project to check into source control. This is what i checked in, thinking that the gen/ folder would not be needed since the contents of it is generated as part of the build process. SimpleNotes/ |-- AndroidManifest.xml |-- bin

[android-developers] Document databases on Android

2011-01-14 Thread Mattias Svala
Hello! I have been trying to find some document database that can run on an android phone. No luck so far. I don't need any fancy replicating functionality, just the ability to store json documents and query them. Something like a MongoDB Light, if there was such a thing. Has anyone on this

[android-developers] Inflating views in a ListAdapter

2011-01-13 Thread Mattias Svala
Hello! I'm trying to write my own custom ListAdapter. In getView() I want to inflate the views from an XML file. To do this I have the following code: public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) { LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(ctx);

[android-developers] Re: IsolatedContext and AndroidTestCase.getContext()

2011-01-10 Thread Mattias Svala
I have just started out developing Android applications, so the only reason for me using AndroidTestCase is me being clueless about the other test case classes. The test I'm writing in this case is for testing some sqlite code. I could not find any test case class during my initial

[android-developers] IsolatedContext and AndroidTestCase.getContext()

2011-01-09 Thread Mattias Svala
Hello! I'm writing some tests to test my database code. Can someone here explain if there would be a difference writing those tests using the context I get from AndroidTestCase.getContext() or using an IsolatedContext. Speaking of IsolatedContext, what is the easiest way to create one if I