Hello +-
thx for your tut , I write the code not copy paste, it runs without errors . But there is something I wonder is that when i type some words in the edit text, and press ok button, what would happen ? In my emulator, it happened nothing, just the cursor stay flashing without any other changes. should it start the browser, and search the content i type in the edittext from your website? because of low configuration of my computer?

Hi there, nice post here.
I want to to a different aproach. I want to hav a xml with some components, buttons, inpu/edit Text etc, and then call them as I want. For instance, I want to build a dynamical generated GUi, so I receive a file parse it and call the R.layout file, but only some component. I want to call each component, maybe I have on or to that aren't called and then set the text size, etc.
After that I must set the contentView.
But then I cannot do it with more than one component. How do I do this?

Set a contentview that is empty? Is there any place where I can read about implementing UI components without the xml? I'll be glad for an awnser, cause it is driving me a little bit nuts.

beeshop, here is a small bit of code, from google android page, about your query

http://code.google.com/android/intro/he ... #upgrading

Great tutorial. Thanks.

I just used the same XML layout on the latest version emulator, but the layout does not appear correctly. See the attached screenshot. The view items appear to be overlapping. What am I doing wrong?

This is what my XML looks like:

Hello anddeveloper,

thats (very probably) because the xml-definitions changed since I made this tutorial:

where it was before:


it has to be


The reason why it was overlapping was the following. In this xml-view:

We have the following line:

which refers to an ID that was not correctly defined for the above reason.

If theres still an issue after this, let me know.

Best Regards,
plusminus

Thanks! That was exactly the problem.

Hello,

I am new to this board and Android. Probably, I am missing something obvious but I cannot seem to make the "XML Layouting" application compile as it appears that "showAlert" is no longer supported causing an error in

showAlert("Error", 0, "Couldn't find the 'keyword_entry'"
+ "EditView in main.xml", "Damn it... OK", false);

What am I overlooking?

Thanks.

Alex

use AlertDialog class, example here

tinytut_-_displaying_a_messagebox-t54-s15.html

Hi I have a problem that I hope you can help me with, I will post my code:

Code: Select all

package anritsu.futuretechnologies.connectivity;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;

public class Connectivity extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
        super.onCreate(icicle);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
   
        Button backbutton1 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button_back1);
        Button button1 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
       
        button1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
        {
            public void onClick(View viewParam)
            {
               setContentView(R.layout.menupoint1);
            }
       
        });
       
       
        backbutton1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
        {
            public void onClick(View viewParam)
            {
               setContentView(R.layout.main);
            }
        });
       
                     
    }
}

Now the problem is that I get no errors, but when I try to run it I get an error in the emulator that the activity closed unexpectedly.

This only happens when I try to have two buttons working from the buttonname.setOnClickListener

If I remove one of them and just have one button used it works fine... I don't see what's wrong since I get no errors. Is it because it's under the same oncreate or something? You have it the same way in yours, but perhaps it's because they load a new xml layout file each when they are pushed?

I have main.xml and a menupoint1.xml, the idea is that pressing a button in the main.xml will take the user to the menupoint1.xml layout, and with a back button in menupoint1.xml it should take the user back to main.xml, basically I am just trying to get my head around getting buttons to work.

Or perhaps the error is in the (View viewParam), I am not that sharp with java yet and this might refer to a parameter in the main.xml and when the listener tries to listen on a button that's in a different layout file it messes up?

Anyway, if you could like really cut it out in paper for me, I would be very appreciative.

Thnx plusminus,
Gr8 work. u dont know how happy i am because i was looking for an Android GUI tutorial (XML)

You can make an easy GUI with this application, and then generate it into an .XML file.
Get It Here.

just to let people know,

A statement is used in this tutorial -

android:layout_toRight="@+id/....."

The command has since been changed to -

android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/......"

Great tut

Hi,
I have a problem. Android is not accepting this line.
android:background="@drawable/blue"
It says---> ERROR Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at 'background' with value '@drawable/
blue').

Please tell me the reason why it is so.

randheer wrote::(
Hi,
I have a problem. Android is not accepting this line.
android:background="@drawable/blue"
It says---> ERROR Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at 'background' with value '@drawable/
blue').

Please tell me the reason why it is so.

Well, do you have a file called "blue" within /res/drawable? For instance, I wanted to use a picture of my girlfriend as the background (just out of curiosity's sake in learning), so I went about it this way:

Right-click within the Package Explorer frame and select "Import" and then "File System" from "General". In the "From Directory" area, either type or browse to the folder that contains your file (in my case, "tootoo.jpg"). In the right pane of the import dialogue, browse and check off the file to import. In the "Into Folder" area, click "Browse" and target /res/drawable. There should be only legal characters in the filename (a-z, A-Z, and 0-9. No funny punctuation or spaces). Click finish and the file should now have been imported into /res/drawable and can now be found with

However, if you were just trying to make the background blue (as I understand it from your post), the simpler way to do that would be:
The background value is set as #rgb using standard hex values (which is to say, 0-f). Using this, you can mix to create any color.

Hope this helped out, good luck.