android-4.0-ice-cream-sandwich

It might be me, but when I calculate minimum app widget sizes according to the formula given on the android page I don't get the right widget widths; The formula is as follows : width(n) = (70 x n) - 30 When I want to have a 5x1 widget, the correct width would be (5 * 70) - 30 = 320dp. However when testing this on a motorola Xoom it resolves to being a 4x1 widget. I've tested different values and 400dp seems good for 5x1 on the motorola xoom with Honeycomb, but then I'd test it on a regular Galaxy Tab with Gingerbread and then it resolves to a 6x1 (like one would expect). So two questions here

I'm trying to access a server so I can receive a JSON String. But apparently in Ice Cream Sandwich you can't do network operations in the main thread, but the AsyncTask class is confusing me and not working. Here's what I have so far: //up in main code Void blah = null; URI uri = "kubie.dyndns-home.com/R2Bar2/ingredients.php"; new DownloadFilesTask().execute(uri , blah, blah); private class DownloadFilesTask extends AsyncTask<URI, Void, Void> { protected Void doInBackground(URI... uri) { HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(); String json = ""; int duration = Toast.LENGTH_SHORT; try {

I would like to launch (or go back) from an application to the launcher app drawer with the tiled app icons, not to the desktop. Intent intent = new Intent("android.intent.action.MAIN"); intent.setComponent(new ComponentName("com.android.launcher","com.android.launcher2.Launcher")); intent.addCategory("android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"); startActivity(intent); This code "launches" the desktop. I would like to reach the app icons . How can I achieve that? The Manifest of Launcher doesn't seem to give any activity for this? Gregoire As pointed out by aneal, you can't call this view as it's not

I encountered the following problem. When any bitmap is loaded from resources by an application running on Ice Cream Sandwich, it will likely be rendered incorrectly as if it has been decoded to the format, which differs from the current window format, with no dither applied. However, both, the decoding format and window format have been explicitly set: BitmapFactory.Options opts = new BitmapFactory.Options(); opts.inPreferredConfig = Bitmap.Config.RGBA_8888; and getWindow().setFormat(PixelFormat.RGBA_8888); getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DITHER); Here are screenshots of

I'm doing my first Android app, and wanted to get straight into the ICS API. I have so far created an app using an ActionBar, with swipeable tabs using Viewpager and Fragments. I do however experience some errors that I keep returning to. Depending on how I implement it, it always keep going back to an "Type mismatch" error: "cannot convert from android.support.v4.app.Fragment to android.app.Fragment". I have tried removing all import references to either, and this error appears when I only use android.support.v4.app.Fragment in TabListener, FragmentActivity and my two Fragments. The error