Questions tagged [android-gui]

The system through which people interact with a computer. UI stands for User Interface

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Programmatically Created Android ProgressBar (Circle) Invisible On Xoom (Works Everywhere Else!)

The Problem I'm having a weird issue that I can't figure out and need some other eyes to look at. I have dynamically created a ProgressBar view and it works on a variety of devices and AVDs except for my Motorola Xoom. Screenshots All screenshots…
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Custom view in Dialog Preference

How can I set a customize the style in extended DialogPreference ? public class AboutDialog extends DialogPreference { public AboutDialog(Context oContext, AttributeSet attrs) { super(oContext,attrs); //there is no such…
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a bug with eclipse android's graphical layout editor?

I'm surely not the first one noticed the problem below: when using the graphical layout to drug some views into the layout preview, then trying to make some changes directly on the xml file - the lines messing around in strange annoying way. only…
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Limit the size of the textview horizontally

I have this text view
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confusion about drawable-hdpi,drawable-mdpi,drawable-ldpi and drawable

I am on one really big project that was started sins the time of android 1.5. This project evolved as android was evolving and at this point supports 2.3 and above. Now I got this problem I have a lot of drawables in…
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Order of evaluation with relative layouts, best practices and parsing of relative-layout

I read this " It used to be that Android would use a single pass to process RelativeLayout-defined rules. That meant you could not reference a widget (e.g., via android:layout_above) until it had been declared in the XML. This made defining some…
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Android: android:layout_width=wrap_content but not less than X dp?

Is it possible to define GUI element width as android:layout_width="wrap_content" but somehow define minimal width of Xdp?
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Material design - What is the correct size for icon in listview?

What is the correct size for icon in listview to follow material design guidelines ?
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ViewPagerIndicator: TabPagerIndicator not visible

im struggeling with the viewpagerindicator right now. When i use TitlePageIndicator, everything works fine. But when i try to use the TabPageIndicator I cant see it. It does not appear in the hierarchieview. I tried a lot of things like implement…
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Styling a whole layout

I have a layout that I use for rows in a ListView. In some places, I need to show the layout in a 'light' style and in some places 'dark'. How can I accomplish this using Android styles, themes, etc? I understand the concept of styles, but it seems…
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Android Levelable Semitransparent ImageButton with leveling transparency

I need to create a semi-transparent ImageButton but I haven't find a valid way to do this. How to set a SemiTransparent look and feel with a settable transparency level? Any suggestion?
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Add a caption to a WheelView

I'm using the WheelView( http://code.google.com/p/android-wheel/ ) to let users input a number of a certain unit (e.g. kg). I'd like to display the unit of the current value next to it like it is shown in this picture. Sadly, the WheelView doesn't…
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How to prevent the soft keyboard from displaying, or at least evict it once it does?

My app has an EditText that, when I click in it to enter text in the Emulator, brings up a soft keyboard. I don't want this confounded thing to begin with, but then, like the visiting loud-mouthed uncle in the plaid pants, doesn't want to go away,…
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Bad rendering of images (after touch on the screen)

I have one activity with many elements on it, when is first started it looks good and the images with gradients look prefect. for example this image But after I touch the screen these images are changed badly, and they look ugly, I think this…
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Set background to an listview

I want to set an background to my listview that have different size (depending the appearance of softkeyboard). My list view is in between the editboxes and I want my editboxes always to be visible (means I do not want to use adjustPan). My problem…
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