Android Programming Tutorials

Media @Override public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) { if (item.getItemId()==R.id.prefs) { startActivity(new Inte ...

Media Clicking on it will bring up our "helpcast" video clip, though you will need to tap on the top portion of the screen to ge ...

Media Further Reading........................................................................................ Instruction on how ...

TUTORIAL 24 Browsing Some Posts In this tutorial, we will support clicking on links found in status updates, popping those up in ...

Browsing Some Posts All of the click-able items show up in blue underlined text, and when clicked they pop up the appropriate a ...

Browsing Some Posts package apt.tutorial.two; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Intent; import android.os.Bund ...

Browsing Some Posts To get to HelpCast, let us add a Button to the HelpPage layout and wire it up so, when clicked, the Button l ...

Browsing Some Posts private View.OnClickListener onCast=new View.OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v) { startActivity ...

Browsing Some Posts Experiment with adding images or CSS stylesheets to the help page. Support the notion of the help being upd ...

TUTORIAL 25 High-Priced Help In this tutorial, we will extend our help system to embed user details, such as their identi.ca scr ...

High-Priced Help Step #2: Create the Alarm BroadcastReceiver................................. Next, we need to create a Java obj ...

High-Priced Help "customHelp"); browser.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/help.html"); Button cast=(Button)findViewById(R.id.helpca ...

High-Priced Help If you do all of that, then rebuild and reinstall the application, the Patchy help page should show your identi ...

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TUTORIAL 26 Now Your Friends Seem Animated Most of the time, we are reading status updates, not updating our own status. Hence, ...

Now Your Friends Seem Animated menu...though we will need to do a little work to toggle the menu item from "show" to "hide" mode ...

Now Your Friends Seem Animated private View statusRow=null; ...and initialize it somewhere late in onCreate(): statusRow=findVie ...

Now Your Friends Seem Animated statusItem.setTitle("Show Status Entry"); } return(super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu)); } Here, we ...

Now Your Friends Seem Animated @Override public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) { if (item.getItemId()==R.id.prefs) ...