Docs say: The visible lifetime of an activity happens between a call to onStart() until a corresponding call to onStop(). Also in this one you can see: The onStart() call makes the activity visi...

I am having a problem with setting the onStart method in my app. It always has a strikethrough, saying "This method was deprecated in API level 5. I need onStart, not onStartCommand. How can I res...

I'm using a ViewPager together with a FragmentStatePagerAdapter, and I would like to launch an animation in a fragment when this fragment is visible and only when it is visible. The problem is that...

I succeed to create an animation at the start of my CustomViewPager which act like a Carousel. So here, my items came from the left and goes to the right in 3 seconds. The thing is it's just a tran...

I'm still new to Android programming, so this question is rather basic. I see lots of code samples on the Internet where UI components, like a TextView, are being initialised and accessed in the on...

I'm trying to implement time out notification. Here is what I want to do. If app goes to the background mood, after 5 minutes it should warn the user that app will be signed out. After this notific...

after trying my brand new service on android i get this: i guess is something related to the manifest file and permissions, the service is started after the last activity, to update data on server...

I am trying to convert a console app to a Windows service. I am trying to have the onstart method of the service call a method in my class but I can;t seem to get it to work. I'm not sure I am doin...

I am writing an app for android (2.1 > 3.1) and I would like to use the familiar practice of using the app Icon in Honeycomb apps to go up to the home activity, however, when I run the activity on ...

I've been trying to get this to work for the last week or so and still have no idea what the problem is. it works on android 2.1 but not on 4.1. ive got this string in a service that check fo...

I'm just starting to get my feet wet learning the technical details of Azure, so apologies if this is a silly question. If I create a cloud service project in visual studio and add a webrole for a...

I have a windows service and I've written the code to run the task within the OnStart() event: protected override void OnStart(string[] args) { this.DoTask(); } private void DoTask() { Task...

I have an app with 3 activities. I have the main activity. This calls the second activity, which then calls the third activity. I want return to the main activity without entering the onCreate. T...

I am getting into windows services and looking over some tutorials, but they are all very dumbed down. They usually involve printing something out in the overridden OnStart method. That sounds like...

Possible Duplicate: Android Activity Life Cycle - difference between onPause() and OnStop() I was wondering - what is the difference between onCreate() and onStart() methods? I think...

Should you get data via a cursor and fill in the data on the screen, such as setting the window title, in onStart() or onResume()? onStart() would seem the logical place because after onStart() th...