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Android Services

Service Manager $ adb shell service list shell@g3:/ $ service list Found 132 services: 0 AtCmdFwd: [com.qualcomm.atfwd.IAtCmdFwd] 1 lge.apdu: [com.lge.smartcard.internal.apdu.uicc.IUiccAccess] 2 telecom: [com.android.internal.telecom.ITelecomService] 3 phone: [com.android.internal.telephony.ITelephony]

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Android Spinner

Spinner spinner = findViewById(R.id.currency_spinner); // Create an ArrayAdapter using the String array and a spinner layout ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this, R.array.spinner_values, R.layout.spinner_item); // Specify the layout to use when the list of choices appears adapter.setDropDownViewResource(R.layout.spinner_dropdown_item); // Apply the adapter to the spinner spinner.setAdapter(adapter); spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() { @Override public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position,…

Switch between activities

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { private Button mAddButton; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); mAddButton = findViewById(R.id.addButton); mAddButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { openAddActivity(); } }); } public void openAddActivity(){ Intent intent = new Intent(this, Main2Activity.class); startActivity(intent); }

Android screen orientation

disable orientation change <activity android:name=”.MainActivity” android:screenOrientation=”portrait” tools:ignore=”LockedOrientationActivity”> Handling orientation state Saving instance state @Override public void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) { super.onSaveInstanceState(outState); outState.putInt(“ScoreKey”, mScore); outState.putInt(“IndexKey”, mIndex); } Retrieving instance state @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); if (savedInstanceState != null){ mScore = savedInstanceState.getInt(“ScoreKey”); mIndex = savedInstanceState.getInt(“IndexKey”); } else { mScore = 0; mIndex = 0;…

Android App Lifecycle

Code class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() { override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState) setContentView(R.layout.activity_main) Log.d(“LifecycleTest”, “onCreate”) } override fun onStart() { super.onStart() Log.d(“LifecycleTest”, “onStart”) } override fun onResume() { super.onResume() Log.d(“LifecycleTest”, “onResume”) } override fun onPause() { super.onPause() Log.d(“LifecycleTest”, “onPause”) } override fun onSaveInstanceState(outState: Bundle) { super.onSaveInstanceState(outState) Log.d(“LifecycleTest”, “onSaveInstanceState”) } override fun onRestoreInstanceState(savedInstanceState: Bundle) { Log.d(“LifecycleTest”,…

Android Enable USB-Debugging

goto Settings > General > About phone > Software information and tap “Build number” seven times until it says “You are now a developer”  Goto Settings > General > Developer options and enable USB Debugging Drop down the notifications menu and click on “Tap for more USB options”. Most likely, the main title will say…

Features and Permissions in Android

Features and Permissions A permission is something an app is allowed to do 🙂 E.g. using the camera, reading location or accessing your contacts. <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.CAMERA” /> <uses-feature android:name=”android.hardware.camera” android:required=”true” /> Internet Access If your app uses e.g. web-APIs you need internet access. This can be achieved by adding android.permission.INTERNET to your manifest. In this…