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Locate user of an Android device
I am new to oriented object paradigm and I work on Android using Java project for an internship.
I must be able to locate the user and some around buildings I read stuff about how to setup ...
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How to re-factor this code portion? [on hold]
I have to write a method which return a String based on density and width. First of all I have to check if the width in between 600 to 720 or above 720. And then if ...
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Using SQL to reorder items in a list view - is this efficient?
I'm writing an application for work that requires me to process a list of transactions. The list is small (5 records at the most) and I'm required to display that data in an android ...
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Custom grid view with different columns
I am developing a custom grid view with different columns.
EDIT: Here View Possibilities Mockup
Here is the full demo. You can directly use it, with Internet uses permission.
This works ...
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Create albums out of songs
I have made a method which returns a list of all songs on my device. Now I want to get a list of albums out of these songs.
What I basically do is go through every song I have in my list, check if ...
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Run different methods in background threads without duplication
In my Android app I have number of methods that should be executed in a background thread.
One of the methods looks like this
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Searching for songs on an Android application
In my application I need to search for some songs on my external storage card every now and then. On startup I read everything, however when it comes to new activities I thought I could just pass the ...
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Android global data
I have a huge list of song objects in my program and I need those objects in almost all activities. Well, at least a part of it up to everything.
So I created a class which looks pretty much like ...
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Touched events created in a for loop [closed]
All I want is a simple "yes/possible" or "no/and that's bad coding".
I have a card game I'm making and looking through your discard pile is a big part of it, so it's going to be constantly growing.
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BananaQuery - Android one-line query
I created this library just for fun. Since I was a bit tired to write 10 lines of code to execute a simple select query in Android, I created a way make it simple.
It's not so advanced and some ...
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Passing listener to customized extended View in Android
I extended NumberPicker with several methods needed in my application. When I came to defining a OnValueChangeListener this is ...
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A generic MVC ArrayAdapter class
Like everyone, I use ListViews in a lot of apps. And I pretty much always end up making a custom Adapter. Yet 90% of my custom adapters end up doing the same ...
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Sprite is Refreshing
I am using "AndEngine" and I would like to know if I am following the best practice when I want to refresh the entity.
Let say, I have 2 sprites and I want change them into 2 another sprites.
I ...
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Optimization of aStar in Java
I'm currently looking to optimize my aStar algorithm as my last run through took roughly a minute to generate one path. I've never had to optimize before as I've never run into performance issues, so ...
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Efficient and fast way to send data from Android to server
I have an app that will be sending images ranging from few KB to ~20MB and I need to write a code that will do that in the fastest and most efficient way. I currently have a code that does this, but I ...
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Unit conversion activities
Please review these activities which handle converting units in an Android app:
I would appreciate any guidance and advice on code refactoring and different design patterns or strategies that I ...
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ListView with a search filter
I have this piece of code I've been working on for quite some time. It's a ListView with a search filter. Inside each row, it contains a user Image, a User's name and how many friends they have in ...
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Improving equal spacing between elements in layout
I am trying to make a nice set of items, which are equally spaced from each other.
On example below, I set buttons between empty textview. Every button and text view has height = 0dip and weight=1. ...
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Generic HTTP using Android Asynctask
I have developed a generic HTTP functionality using Android Asynctask and Apache HTTP client. Please review the code and let me know if it is the right way of doing or there are other ways to achieve ...
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Reducing imageview buttons code
This code is very long, and you need a separate method. How can I implement it?
I have 6 (x2) imageview buttons and 6 edittext.
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Delete (Reverse Backspace) Button
I have built a delete button in Android, just like in Windows, which removes the string on the right hand side of the cursor (one by one). (Instead of the mainstream Backspace which removes the left ...
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Create and organize some classes (hierarchy)
I'm trying to figure out what is the best way to create some objects in my application. The application is already running, but I want to structure things well and clean.
These objects represents ...
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Callback on AlertDialog
I am using an AlertDialog in Android, asking the user for some input. I would like do run some code when the user has finished entering her input.
Since an ...
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Populating a ListView via a php script in Android app using AsyncTask
This class retrieves JSON data from a PHP script and uses the data to populate a ListView using AsyncTasks. Any ideas on how to improve it?
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Retaining and passing data between Activities [closed]
I'm making an Android app where users can create posts. This process of creating a new post can potentially be a few activities/screens, so I need a way to save and pass the data between the ...
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Parcelable Bitmap with the intention of uploading the bitmap
I could really use another set of eyes on this. No one else in the office has a lot of experience working with Android, so I'm on my own with this one.
The goal of this class is to encapsulate an ...
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How can I speed up my RSS feed Android App?
I have a problem with parsing RSS from a PHP page because the app is too slow.
This is my parsing code:
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Downloading a page in Android
I tried to create a class which downloads the html source from a link and saves it. I'm a newbie to all this Android stuff, even new to Java, but this is what I have so far.
It seems to work at ...
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Multiple background tasks
This is taken from my post at Stack Overflow here.
I need your help to review my code for improvement and best practice.
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Generic callback object, but I need the type parameter inside methods
Inside my android app, I currently have methods that look like below code. Since they all need a callback object that basically does the same thing and I would like to try to eliminate the duplicated ...
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First attempt at designing a 'ProfileActivity'
I designed this layout in Balsamiq for my ProfileActivityand I tried to replicate it. The screen on the left fits the correct proportions, whereas the screen on the ...
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Android Gradle script in multi-module project
I've a multi-module Android project build by gradle with the new android-plugin 0.10.+
All modules are mainly configured from the root project.
I've enable the new code coverage feature. The major ...
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Is this Android click handler using threads correctly?
I am implementing a thread like the following. Is my implementation correct?
It works well, but I need a check.
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Simulating Pendulum Motion in Android
Quite sometime back I had written an Android application which simulates the path of a pendulum. You can also have look at the complete discussion in my technical blog here.
Please review it and ...
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Implementation of Finite State machine in long running task in an Android service
In the below example I have tried to show how we can break a long running background task running in a service into different states of a state machine and notify the front end UI about each and every ...
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Tile map movement by touch
I am currently developing a game for Android. One of the things I am working on is moving the map by touch.
This is the code that handles getting speed, which is then added to the screens position ...
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Image handling class
Let me start by saying that I am very happy with this code. I want to share it with other people because I think they will find it helpful, but I want to make sure I did everything in good form ...
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Communicating with other fragments or to activity
Android documentation says:
Often you will want one Fragment to communicate with another, for example to change the content based on a user event. All Fragment-to-Fragment communication is done ...
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Holding a reference of the active Android Activity
I recently had to work in a tricky piece of work for a project I am working on. You can find its code on GitHub and I'd like to have a feedback about some specific parts of it.
The project is a ...
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Decrease Image downloading time with HttpURLConnection
This is piece of code is using to download images. Can somebody tell me how to optimize this code to decrease download time for each image?
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Simple application for finding local restaurants
I was asked to create a test APK file by a company HR when I applied for an Android developers job,
Specification:
The goal is to develop a simple application which finds the local
restaurants. ...
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Sound manager for Android
I created a singleton class for managing sound effects on Android. This class will only be instanced and loaded once at the beginning, and each activity will use the loaded songs.
I don't know either ...
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Animated ScrollView
I have this code which runs when an Async HTTP call is made on a HorizontalScrollView
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Gridview shuttering when scrolling
I have more than 1000 items in my GridView. When scrolling though, it appears to make the app 'shutter'. Each time I load images from Picasso GC, it increases.
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Latency problem for keyboard remoting from Android phone - follow on [closed]
This is a follow on question to these previous questions:
Both TCP and UDP implementations
Modified TCP-only solution
I'm writing a simple remote PC app (mouse-keyboard). Android is the client and ...
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A Scoring approach to Computer Opponents
This code is starting to be used within several of my projects, and therefore I thought it's time to get it reviewed.
Description
The most common application for this code is that there is a ...
