android-xml

I am not able to parse my XML here.It returns "Item" only. My AndroidActivity cannot be shown as it is very big that's why i have only shown the part which is responsible for parsing. My XML Looks like this : <MyResource> <Item>First</Item> <Item>Second</Item> </MyResource> My ActivityClass method: public class ShowItems extends Activity{ ListView lv; ListAdapter adapter; static final String KEY_RESOURCE = "MyResource"; // parent node static final String KEY_ITEM = "Item"; ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> mylist = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>(); String[] from={KEY_ITEM }; int[] to=

UPDATE - my working solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21233824/902172 I am trying to implement the layout below: I guess GridLayout is suitable for my needs but after 2 hours of struggle I couldn't create even a similar layout.. The layout is resizing itself wrongly , it exceeds the screen of the phone and it also does not span the specified rows and columns. Here I selected a button so you can see how it exceeds the boundaries: and here is the associated xml code: https://gist.github.com/2834492 I have reached a similar layout with nested linearlayouts but it's not possible to properly

As I was following an old tutorial ( Créez des applications pour Android -> openclassroom ) I got stuck on this deprecated method addPreferencesFromResource(int id) from the PreferenceActivity class. So my question is : What is the new way of creating Preferences in Android ? WannaGetHigh I found this post ( What to use instead of “addPreferencesFromResource” in a PreferenceActivity? ) that help me understand that you have to go through a PreferenceFragment in order to do it. In the following explanation I use your.package. just to show that you have to put the package name. Everybody has its

I've read the documentation about Fragments in the Android Developer Guide and I've seen that sometimes they specify the class to instantiate with the Fragment tag attribute android:name and sometime they use the class: attribute: <fragment android:name="com.example.news.ArticleReaderFragment" android:id="@+id/viewer" android:layout_weight="2" android:layout_width="0dp" android:layout_height="match_parent" /> <fragment class="com.example.android.apis.app.FragmentLayout$TitlesFragment" android:id="@+id/titles" android:layout_weight="1" android:layout_width="0px" android:layout_height="match