If you want “listen” to the text changes from an EditText you have to use the TextWatcher. Bellow I will show you an example of TextWatcher: //first, we create an EditText EditText answer = new EditText(this); //second, we create the TextWatcher TextWatcher textWatcher = new TextWatcher() { @Override public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int […]
If you want to detect when a key from soft keyboard is pressed, like Done key, you can use the following code: mEditText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.edit); mEditText.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() { @Override public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) { //verifies what key is pressed, in our case verifies if the DONE key is pressed if (actionId
This is not my work, I have just found the solution some time ago on the internetUsing the class below you can pass by the ssl certificate error that Android may throw when you are trying to connect to a self signed certified server:First the EasySSLSocketFactory class : import java.io.IOException; import java.net.Socket; import java.net.UnknownHostException; import java.security.KeyManagementException; import
If you want to select data from Database and you want to ignore the case of letters you should use COLLATE NOCASE in your query: “SELECT * FROMÂ myDataBaseName WHERE some_column= some_value COLLATE NOCASE” It’s not exactly an android issue but you might need some day in your android projects, so I hope it helps
In this tutorial I will show you how to create an Android Gallery and how to create dots or little circles when you scroll the images. So let’s start: 1. First you have to create a new project. 2. After the project is created go to res -> drawable and put your images in the
Not many of us use android Lint tool to scan the projects for possible performance or best practices tips. Eclipse has the Lint tool included into adt plugin so Eclipse users can take advantages of this. Ok but what about developers that use intellij IDEA or other IDE for android projects? The answer is simple,
We’ve already explained how to make an application with a map here. So, now we will try to put markers or pins (or however are they called) on the map, by knowing the Latitude and Longitude, in case you will ever need it and someday you will :) . So lets start: 1. After you
I will start with an example. Let’s assume that we want the user to change the date format of your application. For this you must have a class that extends PreferenceActivity, but first you have to create an XML file like this: 1. Make a directory in res called “xml” 2. In the xml directory
If you want to make a custom title in a class that extends PreferenceActivity you must put requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE); BEFORE super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); Otherwise you will get a Force Close
If you encounter this problem: “CheckBoxPreference is not allowed here” or other preference tag and your xml file is all red is because you create the xml in res/layout and you must create it in res/xml. So you have to make a new directory in res called “xml” and this is where your preferences xml
