android-xml

Is there a way to link inherit class to xml file. I am trying to connect extended class to widget in the xml file. Is it possible ? Thanks in advance. You must have noticed that all the nodes that we specify in the layout XMLs are actually either View classes(for e.g: TextView, EditView) or view containers/layout managers(e.g: LinearLayout, RelativeLayout etc.). Android allows you to create custom views and containers by extending the View class and one of the layout managers, respectively. You can then choose to inflate such views directly from code or specify them as nodes in your layout

Update I was able to fix this, The problem was dialogs and related could be initiated from broadcast receiver but not recommended, as the activity running ends before the view. Trying to implement overlay like fb messenger, truecaller etc. public class IncomingCall extends BroadcastReceiver { private Context pcontext; private static final String TAG = "CustomBroadcastReceiver"; TelephonyManager telephony; CustomPhoneStateListener customPhoneListener ; @Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) { pcontext = context; Bundle extras = intent.getExtras(); if (extras != null) {

Is it possible to reference an enum value when supplying style parameters? For example, we can do: <!-- layouts.xml --> <TextView android:text="@string/str" /> <!-- values.xml --> <item type="string" name="str">hi</item> This works fine with strings, integers, dimensions and so on but I need to reference an enum value - for example the visibility attribute. I'm looking for something like: <!-- layouts.xml --> <TextView android:visibility="@????/viz" /> <!-- values.xml --> <item type="?????" name="viz">gone</item> visibility is only an example - it could be any other enum based attribute. The

As titled, I cannot seem to be able to dim the background of the custom dialog box I have made. Countless solutions online mention the last 3 lines of code in the first snippet below, this has made no impact on the UI of the dialog box. See the following code: Dialog dialog = new Dialog(MainActivity.this); dialog.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); dialog.setContentView(R.layout.dialog); TextView textView = (TextView) dialog.findViewById(R.id.textView); textView.setText("Custom Text Example"); dialog.show(); WindowManager.LayoutParams layoutParams = dialog.getWindow().getAttributes(

Hello Im trying to parse an plist file that contains array of dict's. Im trying to do this using xmlwise . The content of the plistfile is here So far I only have this in my activity and im getting the content of the plistfile, but how to parse the content into an arraylist? Map<String, Object> properties = null; try { InputStream inputStream = getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.first_5); BufferedReader br = null; try { br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream)); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); String line; while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) { sb.append(line); }