android-3.0-honeycomb

In Android 3.0, when you select some text for example, the ActionBar switches to a ContextMenu-like mode, which enables you to do actions with the selected text: copy/share/etc, and a "Done" button appears on the left side to enable the user to leave this mode. How can I switch the ActionBar into this mode in my app (with my menu items of course)? I just couldn't find this in the docs. CommonsWare Yeah, I couldn't find it either -- I had to ask at Google I|O. Use startActionMode() . Here is one of their samples that demonstrates it. I need to do more work in this area myself. Jeff Axelrod To

I have a searchView in the ActionBar. I want to dismiss the keyboard when the user is done with input. I have the following queryTextListener on the searchView final SearchView.OnQueryTextListener queryTextListener = new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() { @Override public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) { // Do something return true; } @Override public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) { showProgress(); // Do stuff, make async call getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN); return true; } }; Based on similar questions, the following

I have problems converting a input stream from web into bitmap. Problem occurs only when input image type is .BMP (bitmap). In that case: bitmapFactory.decodeStream returns null . Any hints how to fix this problem or where should I continue my debugging? Platform: Android (Honeycomb) URLConnection conn = url.openConnection(); conn.connect(); inputStream = conn.getInputStream(); bufferedInputStream = new BufferedInputStream(inputStream); bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(bufferedInputStream); Thank you @Amir for point out the log. Discovered a line: decoder->decode returned false This seems to

In my application I am using the Action Bar with a custom SearchView in it. I want to use some custom code when the user hits the enter button in the search field. But I cant find a way to catch the moment the user hits the enter button in the SearchView. Now I tried several ways to capture the search action but I cant seem to find it. My button is defined like this: <item android:id="@+id/action_bar_search" android:title="Search" android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_search" android:showAsAction="always" android:actionViewClass="-package-.CustomSearchView" /> With this belongs the CustomSearchView

I find myself curious why the setLargeIcon method on Notification.Builder only accepts a Bitmap, with no overload to provide a resource id. Perhaps it was done for performance reasons, but it seems odd as setSmallIcon does accept a res drawable id. Notification.Builder builder = new Notification.Builder(application); // .... builder.setLargeIcon(iconBitmap); // Requires a Bitmap builder.setSmallIcon(iconResId); // Requires a drawable resource ID Notification notification = builder.getNotification(); Sadly the bitmap provided is not scaled in the notification, so the Bitmap needs to be provided

I use Cursors extensively in my app, to load and occasionally write information from and to a database. I have seen that Honeycomb and the Compatibility Package have new Loader classes designed to help with loading data in a "good" way. Essentially, are these new classes (in particular CursorLoader ) considerably better than previous methods of managing data? What is the benefit of a CursorLoader over managed Cursors for example? And I use a ContentProvider to deal with data, which obviously takes Uris but how does this mesh with the initLoader() method? Must I set up each of my Fragments to

I have a service which connects to other devices wirelessly. When the service is enabled, I have an ongoing notification which states it is enabled. After the service is enabled, the user then connects to another device. At this point, I would like to update my ongoing notification to state the name of the device which has been connected to. This is easy enough to do by calling startForeground(ONGOING_NOTIFICATION, notification) again with the updated information; however this flashes the notification on the bar each time it is called. What I would really like is the notification to quietly

I'm trying to pass data from one activity to another via Intent.putExtras like this: private ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> mGroups = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>(); private ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> mUsers = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>(); ... Bundle data = new Bundle(); data.putInt("mode", mode); data.putSerializable("groups", (Serializable) mGroups); data.putSerializable("users", (Serializable) mUsers); data.putInt("current_class", mCurrentClassId); data.putInt("current_user", mCurrentUserId); Intent intent = new Intent(ctx, ChildActivity.class); intent