Update View at runtime in Android

Question

The example is pretty straightforward: i want to let the user know about what the app is doing by just showing a text (canvas.drawText()). Then, my first message appears, bu

Answer 1

i suppose that your view is an extended view and you call onDraw for drawing the view, so, maybe the view isn´t 'refresh' their state, so try this

onCreate(Bundle bundle) {
    setContentView(splash); // splash is the view class

    loadResources();
    splash.setText("this");
    splash.invalidate();
    boundWebService();
    splash.setText("that"):
    splash.invalidate();
    etc();
    splash.setText("so on");
    splash.invalidate();
}