android-ui

Assuming, that a user has written some text into an EditText and thereafter touched somewhere else on the screen, which caused the cursor position to change: How can one determine the new cursor position? The simple version: myEditText.getSelectionStart(); If you want to react on an event you may try myEditText.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() { @Override public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent event) { // view is myEditText here } }); event allows to distinguish between presses and releases. EditText also has a setOnClickListener() that might be worth to look at. EDIT: I

I am converting my app to use the v4 compatibility package and fragments. I have done well so far, but I need to launch a DialogFragment from a preference click in a PreferenceActivity . Since there isn't a PreferenceFragment in the compatibility library, I'm stuck with using PreferenceActivity . Is it possible to get a reference to the fragment manager and call the DialogFragment or do I just have to continue using the old dialog if I need a dialog from a preference? Not without jumping through hoops. You could make a very simple activity with the sole purpose of launching the DialogFragment.

I'm trying to create a background drawable resource in XML that is translucent, but with a solid shadow. This is what I have so far: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <item> <shape android:shape="rectangle" > <padding android:top="-2dp" android:left="-2dp" android:right="2dp" android:bottom="2dp" /> <gradient android:startColor="@android:color/transparent" android:centerColor="#33333333" android:endColor="#aa666666" android:angle="90"/> </shape> </item> <!-- Background --> <item> <shape> <solid android:color="

It seems I cannot set ShapeDrawable as progressDrawable for Ratingbar. I tried the following but failed: <RatingBar android:id="@+id/ratingbar" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" android:numStars="5" android:stepSize="1.0" android:rating="3.0" style="@style/myRatingBar" /> myRatingbar style: <style name="myRatingBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.RatingBar"> <item name="android:progressDrawable">@drawable/ratingbar_full</item> <item name="android:indeterminateDrawable">@drawable/ratingbar_full</item> <item name=

I am developing an application in which i am struct at a point. As according to my application requirement i created horizontal scrollview in xml and then vertical scrollview in .java as : // Vertical Scroll view in Linear layout ScrollView scrollView = new ScrollView(this); scrollView.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT)); Then i created a table view programatically and added it in scrollview. I created multiline edit text and disable it because i want to set text in it run time and added this in table view as a row.. EditText editText = new

When the text is empty, we want to disable the button (which is how it's set on portrait mode) Any ideas? Edit: I don't think it's clear but I can enable/disable my own button.. But when using the landscape mode, when the keyboard pops up, the screen is covered by an android specific text area with it's own button (hence the imeOption) So I don't have a problem enabling/disabling the button I have.. It's this Android button that I want to disable when the text area is empty.. FunkTheMonk Add a TextChangedListener which will get called whenever the text inside the EditText gets changed. message

I did read new android material design guide but i am not able to find anything about how to create this UI widget(element). Apps like Gmail, S converter etc has updated their apps to support new material design. I have added screenshot of it. Here is the link to it. because of low points i can't put the picture. sorry about it Any suggestions on how shall i make it?? You are talking about the Floating Action Button. Bottom line is: there is no native "FAB" widget (at least for now), it is a custom layout that must be implemented. If you really want to fully implement a Material Design app, I