[android-beginners] Re: How to get child Activity?
This might work, but it would require me to duplicate functional methods from activity 2 into the main activity, which is undesirable. So far, sending and intent upon releasing long press is working just fine, and, although it adds some complexity to the code, it's by far the simplest solution. On Apr 16, 2:25 pm, Kitzy kitzyk...@gmail.com wrote: What if you left state b as part of activity 1? Then pressing button or releasing long-press would start activity 2 (with all of state a). Long pressing the button would inflate a view with state b (all inside activity 1) -Kitzy On Apr 16, 6:31 am, Rodrigo Chiossi xrodr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kitzy. If you just click the button, the second activity should start in a state A. if you longpress the button, the activity should start in a state B and go to state A upon releasing the button (In fact, upon releasing the screen, since the button does not exists in the second activity), so i can't start it after release. Your second suggestion is actually what I managed to do as a workaround: I broadcast an intent whenever the first activity receives an event and the second activity has already been started (I set a flag after starting). It's not a beautiful code, but it's the best solution so far... I know it would be easy just not to use this kind of interaction, but this is the key feature of the app. On Apr 16, 1:48 am, Kitzy kitzyk...@gmail.com wrote: What if you start your activity after release? Or use a broadcast receiver? Why do you need the new activity to know when you release? -Kitzy On Apr 15, 10:35 am, Rodrigo Chiossi xrodr...@gmail.com wrote: I have already tried 3 different approaches to the problem: The first was this one i described previously, which would be the ideal for my app. The second one, i created an ActivityGroup which was responsible for starting two activities and on LongClick event I was swaping the DecorViews of the activities. Still, the same problem happened: the ACTION_UP was being delivered to the wrong activity. My last approach was to create a single activity and call setContentView to swap between the two layouts, and still, the event was not delivered to the right view. I'm just wondering if there is a way for an Activity to request Input events... @Mark: you are right, i messed those approaches a little. I have the getParent only when I use an ActivityGroup. On Apr 15, 12:23 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Rodrigo Chiossi wrote: First, the user press a button on the main Activity. When the LongClick triggers, I start the second Activity wich also has a button which should be pressed when the activity starts and should only be released when the user takes his finger off the screen. Why are you using multiple activities? UI events are not designed to span multiple activities. In order to triggers the onTouch of the button in the second activity, i create a copy of the MotionEvent in the first activity and send it as an Intent Extra to the second activity which call it's own onTouch passing this MotionEvent as parameter. Ick. Oh, and btw, I call it a 'child' activity since it has a getParent() method which returns the main activity... Then you are not starting the child activity via startActivity(). -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 2.0 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow athttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow athttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow athttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
[android-beginners] Re: How to get child Activity?
Hi Kitzy. If you just click the button, the second activity should start in a state A. if you longpress the button, the activity should start in a state B and go to state A upon releasing the button (In fact, upon releasing the screen, since the button does not exists in the second activity), so i can't start it after release. Your second suggestion is actually what I managed to do as a workaround: I broadcast an intent whenever the first activity receives an event and the second activity has already been started (I set a flag after starting). It's not a beautiful code, but it's the best solution so far... I know it would be easy just not to use this kind of interaction, but this is the key feature of the app. On Apr 16, 1:48 am, Kitzy kitzyk...@gmail.com wrote: What if you start your activity after release? Or use a broadcast receiver? Why do you need the new activity to know when you release? -Kitzy On Apr 15, 10:35 am, Rodrigo Chiossi xrodr...@gmail.com wrote: I have already tried 3 different approaches to the problem: The first was this one i described previously, which would be the ideal for my app. The second one, i created an ActivityGroup which was responsible for starting two activities and on LongClick event I was swaping the DecorViews of the activities. Still, the same problem happened: the ACTION_UP was being delivered to the wrong activity. My last approach was to create a single activity and call setContentView to swap between the two layouts, and still, the event was not delivered to the right view. I'm just wondering if there is a way for an Activity to request Input events... @Mark: you are right, i messed those approaches a little. I have the getParent only when I use an ActivityGroup. On Apr 15, 12:23 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Rodrigo Chiossi wrote: First, the user press a button on the main Activity. When the LongClick triggers, I start the second Activity wich also has a button which should be pressed when the activity starts and should only be released when the user takes his finger off the screen. Why are you using multiple activities? UI events are not designed to span multiple activities. In order to triggers the onTouch of the button in the second activity, i create a copy of the MotionEvent in the first activity and send it as an Intent Extra to the second activity which call it's own onTouch passing this MotionEvent as parameter. Ick. Oh, and btw, I call it a 'child' activity since it has a getParent() method which returns the main activity... Then you are not starting the child activity via startActivity(). -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 2.0 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow athttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
[android-beginners] Re: How to get child Activity?
Thanks for the Answers, but none of them really seems like an option for me. Giving more details about what I am doing: First, the user press a button on the main Activity. When the LongClick triggers, I start the second Activity wich also has a button which should be pressed when the activity starts and should only be released when the user takes his finger off the screen. In order to triggers the onTouch of the button in the second activity, i create a copy of the MotionEvent in the first activity and send it as an Intent Extra to the second activity which call it's own onTouch passing this MotionEvent as parameter. The problem is: Even with the second Activity up and running, when the user takes his finger off the screen for the first time, the MotionEvent ACTION_UP is delivered to the main activity instead of the second one. I don know exactly why this happens, but I need to forward this event to the second activity in order to release the button. Oh, and btw, I call it a 'child' activity since it has a getParent() method which returns the main activity... On Apr 15, 5:56 am, Sebastián Treu sebastian.t...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Rodrigo Chiossi xrodr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there! I have a main Activity and I'm starting a child activity with startActivity(intent). I want to get the Activity Object created for the child. How can I do it? I don't know for what, as when you start the new child activity you are in it's context and the other is stopped. Although, If you want this, an ugly solution can be to have a Main class that extends Application and you implement a tree or a list or whatever you want of activities, and everytime you launch a new activity you add it to that tree, list or whatever. I don't know for what you will want to, but I think you can do that UGLY solution. Then, you add the Main class name to the xml manifest, and that class is instanciated before anything. You can access public methods with getApplication(). -- If you want freedom, compile the source. Get gentoo. Sebastián Treuhttp://labombiya.com.ar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.
[android-beginners] Re: How to get child Activity?
I have already tried 3 different approaches to the problem: The first was this one i described previously, which would be the ideal for my app. The second one, i created an ActivityGroup which was responsible for starting two activities and on LongClick event I was swaping the DecorViews of the activities. Still, the same problem happened: the ACTION_UP was being delivered to the wrong activity. My last approach was to create a single activity and call setContentView to swap between the two layouts, and still, the event was not delivered to the right view. I'm just wondering if there is a way for an Activity to request Input events... @Mark: you are right, i messed those approaches a little. I have the getParent only when I use an ActivityGroup. On Apr 15, 12:23 pm, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: Rodrigo Chiossi wrote: First, the user press a button on the main Activity. When the LongClick triggers, I start the second Activity wich also has a button which should be pressed when the activity starts and should only be released when the user takes his finger off the screen. Why are you using multiple activities? UI events are not designed to span multiple activities. In order to triggers the onTouch of the button in the second activity, i create a copy of the MotionEvent in the first activity and send it as an Intent Extra to the second activity which call it's own onTouch passing this MotionEvent as parameter. Ick. Oh, and btw, I call it a 'child' activity since it has a getParent() method which returns the main activity... Then you are not starting the child activity via startActivity(). -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 2.0 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.
[android-beginners] How to get child Activity?
Hi there! I have a main Activity and I'm starting a child activity with startActivity(intent). I want to get the Activity Object created for the child. How can I do it? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.
[android-beginners] Align ImageView to the right
Hi there! I'm new to android and I'm trying to create a simple layout, with a TextView aligned to the left and an ImageView aligned to the right, both in the same line. I've tried many approaches, but the Imageview never aligns to the right. Here is my latest attempt: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? TableLayout xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ android android:orientation=vertical android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=wrap_content TableRow TextView android:text=@string/label_dots android:id=@+id/TextView01 android:layout_width=wrap_content android:layout_height=fill_parent android:gravity=left/ ImageView android:id=@+id/ImageView01 android:layout_width=fill_parent android:layout_height=fill_parent android:src=@drawable/action_add android:gravity=right/ /TableRow /TableLayout It doesn't work on eclipse Layout preview and it doesn't work on my G1. Any ideas how to fix it? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject.
