I made a working navigation drawer like it’s shown in the tutorial on the developer.android.com website. But now, I want to use one Navigation Drawer, i created in the NavigationDrawer.class for multiple Activities in my Application. My question is, if anyone here can make a little Tutorial, which explains, how to use one Navigation drawer … Read more
I currently have an Activity that when it gets displayed a Notification will also get displayed in the Notification bar. This is so that when the User presses home and the Activity gets pushed to the background they can get back to the Activity via the Notification. The problem arises when a User presses the … Read more
I’m trying to display a text using the code below. The problem is that the text is not centered horizontally. When I set the coordinates for drawText, it sets the bottom of the text at this position. I would like the text to be drawn so that the text is centered also horizontally. This is … Read more
I am using Window w = getWindow(); w.setTitle(“My title”); to change title of my current Activity but it does not seem to work. Can anyone guide me on how to change this? 18 Answers 18
Is it a good practice to reload an Activity in Android? What would be the best way to do it? this.finish and then this.startActivity with the activity Intent? 18 Answers 18
I have an activity that is using the Theme.Dialog style such that it is a floating window over another activity. However, when I click outside the dialog window (on the background activity), the dialog closes. How can I stop this behaviour? 20 Answers 20
I’m writing my first Android application and trying to get my head around communication between services and activities. I have a Service that will run in the background and do some gps and time based logging. I will have an Activity that will be used to start and stop the Service. So first, I need … Read more
I’ve successfully implemented onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() for my main Activity to save and restore certain critical components across screen orientation changes. But it seems, my custom views are being re-created from scratch when the orientation changes. This makes sense, although in my case it’s inconvenient because the custom view in question is an X/Y plot and the … Read more
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I have an Activity named whereActity which has child dialogs as well. Now, I want to display this activity as a dialog for another activity. How can I do that? 10 Answers 10
