I have two questions: 1: How can my application know Default sorting order used for sorting native "Android Device Contacts"? Inside "Contacts" -> "Settings" in android, we have "List by" and "Di...

I have made an App (in android 2.3.6) that runs automatically at boot and doesn't allow users any use of the phone except for my app. To make this work I have changed the default launcher with my a...

Added ActionBarCompat + NavDrawer to my project, running on 4.3 device is smooth, on 2.3 device I get the following exception: 09-08 15:09:15.229: E/AndroidRuntime(2964): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 09-...

I've been working on Android (v2.3) for a couple of weeks now, and I've stumbled upon some problems with the Unimag Card Swiper from IDTECH. The unit comes with a scarce documentation and the demo...

I have an issue with Android's webkit browser Items in select-multiple disappear when they are selected I couldn't find any solution on the web, neither nobody talking about this issue I made th...

I am new to Android development and bought a cheap Huawei Sonic (U8650 apparently) so I could test my first attempts at making an app on an actual device. However, whenever I try to use 'adb logca...

Background This is an app I am writing to familiarize myself with some of the APIs, it serves no real purpose other than to demonstrate some functionality in Android. I have a Service that is runni...

For some reason, using "GCMRegistrar.register(this, SENDER_ID);" works on 4.0 + devices. However, it stuck at the following message without getting anymore GCM notification from Google. "Registeri...

I have a relative simple App that was already in the Play-Store of Google. Now I've made an Update of this App. One Point of this Update was that I include the ZBar-Scanner. The Rest of the chang...

How can I turn off the screen in the android emulator? I am using android 2.3.3 version

I've found a few questions on this subject here but their answers do not seem to apply being that my project is referencing the library that contains the class. Here's my code: package com.demo.a...

I'm receiving reports about crash in Android 2.3 when displaying notification. The stacktrace I have is: android.app.RemoteServiceException: Bad notification posted from package com.megadevs.hubi:...

Seems like Samsung disabled their overscroll (probably due to an Apple suit). I have an implementation of a view that extends ScrollView and overrides protected boolean overScrollBy(int deltaX,...

I'm making my own search view for Android 2.3. I have. LinearLayout (Horizontal) AutoCompleteTextView ImageButton I added the button and AutoCompleteTextView to LinearLayout. I want to put a ...

I'm developing an application for mobiles and tables using Android 2.3. In my application, I want the user able to modify device's date, time values. I know that it is not possible via android app...

Now I can get it the app to start playing audio over A2DP and successfully switch to SCO, however when I try to switch back it plays over my phone's speaker instead. @Override public void onCreate...

It might be me, but when I calculate minimum app widget sizes according to the formula given on the android page I don't get the right widget widths; The formula is as follows: width(n) = (70 x...

I am writing a project that uses LruCache, which is included in the android-support-v4.jar compat library. When running on devices with JB, the code works fine, but when I run it on my Droid X with...

What actual launchers are open-source? I need launcher for 2.3+, but not launcher-plus or ADW, because they are not supported already. Stock ICS+ launcher is not compilable for 2.3.

I am going to develop Android application which needs to read x,y,z coordinates of phone on 3D space. I would like to write a simple code and test on the device.. I am using ginger bread on both ...

I know that this question has been answered many times, but I still can't get it to work on Android 2.2 nor 2.3. I am developing an app which is composed of tabs. One of those tabs loads the mobil...

I have an activity that will grab a pojo from the extras, like so : @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main...

When (in Gingerbread, 2.3.x) I hit “Clear Data” button in Menu => Manage Apps => App, “Force Close” button also becomes disabled. Does it mean that “Clear Data” also kills the app? Also, I noticed...

I will start with an example... If you go to Settings > Applications > Manage applications, a new screen will open with a list of the installed applications: if you click on any application of the ...

I am trying to create an EditText on top of an andengine game to act as an ingame chatbox. The method I am using works fine on Android 2.2.1 IDEOS 2, Emulator Android 2.1, Emulator Android 2.2, Emu...