[android-beginners] How to set a TextView to look like the home screen icon text

Hi all, On the Android Home screen, the label set in the manifest on the application appears under the icon with a gray background. Does anyone know how to style a TextView or some other View Widget to look like the text showing under an application icon? I would like to know. Thanks and regard

[android-beginners] How to redraw the list in ExpandableListViewActivity

Hi there, Here is the situation. In a TabbedView, one of three tabs is an ExpandableListViewActivity. My application is using SQL Lite to store the data bound to the ExpandableListView. When I change the SQL Lite data in another activity, I need to refresh the ExpandableListView and show the ne

[android-beginners] SQL Lite question, can you insert negative numbers

Hello,Can I get an (Android) example for getting signed numbers into a SQL Lite database? I've been trying many silly things that generate syntax errors so I thought I could put out the question. Note that I searched and searched the groups and (surprisingly) found no history. Thanks and regards,

[android-beginners] Star-styling a checkbox in the res/values/styles file

Hello there, In my xml layout, I have set the star style on a CheckBox. style="?android:attr/starStyle" It looks great. Now I want to setup a custom style for my CheckBox to use the star style as well as other settings (text size, padding) across activity layouts. How do I get the star attribute

[android-beginners] CheckBox enabled/disabled reality check

Hello, I want to switch a button out of my UI in favor of a CheckBox object. However, the enable = false parameter in my layout does not seem to have any effect on a CheckBox! My plan is to code the CheckBox to be enabled when certain other objects are valid. With a button object, the grayness a

[android-beginners] install Android app from Gmail

Hey there, hi there, ho there...Is there a way to make Android open and install an apk file as an attachment sent in a Gmail message? This is a nice, signed apk file that installs to the phone correctly from Eclipse or the command line. I'm just checking to see if this is working for somebody som

[android-beginners] Spinner's default selection, select nothing

Hi all, Do you know any way to turn off the default select that happens with Spinner creation? Although I could set a blank entry or put a selection prompt string at the top or bottom of my Spinner display array, I would prefer to skip any default selection and listen only for a selection done dir

[android-beginners] LED Alerts

Hello good people, Has anybody got an LED notification from the notification manager working? I tried using a custom setup as well as using the DEFAULT_LIGHTS setting but I see nothing in the emulator nor on the device. The log shows the method is executing the code inside my if. Here's some cod

[android-beginners] Layout component width measure returns zero from onCreate

Hi there, Can a layout expert offer insight here? I have an animation in a lovely LinearLayout ViewGroup object that I get into Java from the XML using findViewById. It's working great most of the time. However, my first call to the animate function at the end of onCreate measures the width of t