i am fairly new to android programming and usually find my answers to my problems by searching, but this one i just cant and its very confusing.
The code itself doesn't show any signs of problems, well i do get 2 java exception breakpoints but i dont know how to fix those as they are "unknown"but when i run it on the emulator it says the application has stopped unexpectedly force close. I try to debug it but i dont know how to do it that well. any way here are the codes btw the app is just a test all it to do is have buttons that take me to other "pages" and back. I would appreciate any help.
Main java file
package com.simbestia.original;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
public class original extends Activity implements View.OnClickListener {
Button button1, button2;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
button1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.pagetwo);
button2 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.main);
button1.setOnClickListener(this);
button2.setOnClickListener(this);
}
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
switch (v.getId()) {
case R.id.pagetwo:
setContentView(R.layout.pagetwo);
break;
case R.id.main:
setContentView(R.layout.main);
break;
}
}
}
Main xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/hello"
/>
<Button android:text="pagetwo" android:id="#+id/pagetwo" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"></Button>
</LinearLayout>
Well here is what i change the code to this one is just one button but it works with multiple and i made a class for every page...
package com.simbestia.test;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
public class main extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
Button mainmenu = (Button) findViewById(R.id.mainmenu);
mainmenu.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View view) {
Intent myIntent = new Intent(view.getContext(), mainmenu.class);
startActivityForResult(myIntent, 0);
}
});
}
}
Works how i wanted to so its all good i guess ty again
In the command line/terminal, use ./adb logcat to see, in real time, warnings, erros and such from your device, while you run your app. That should help you a lot.
Note: Don't forget to be in the right folder... <android-sdk-version>/platform-tools, that's where the ADB is.
You should learn to debug your own application. Starting with a break point right in the first line of your onCreate() method.
You can also take a look here: http://www.droidnova.com/debugging-in-android-using-eclipse,541.html
Another possibility is to add a log call in the first line of your onCreate() so you can see where the log of your app starts...
edit:
The way you want to switch the layout is wrong. Try layout switcher or start a new activity for your new layout. calling setContentView more than once is basically just wrong...
Some things to check: make sure your code source folder is the same as your package name (com.simbestia.original) ; make sure it builds (without errors) before you try and run it and make sure that your manifest file has its package attribute set to your package name (com.simbestia.original).
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I'm trying to develop a game app. At the gameover screen, I want to have a button that goes back to the start when you click it. But the problem is, it doesn't work. I really don't know why it doesn't work, I have tried everything but can't find the problem. Can someone help me?
import android.content.Intent;
import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;
public class GameOver extends AppCompatActivity {
MediaPlayer gameoversound;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.gameover);
Button weiter_button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.weiter);
weiter_button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) { goToMainActivity(); }
});
}
private void goToMainActivity() {
Intent back = new Intent( this, MainActivity.class);
startActivity(back);
}
}
Change this to GameOver.this
You don't have to cast widgets explicitly anymore, except for some special cases. It has been this way for a while.
If the game is over, you'd best insert a finish(); after launching the main Activity. You don't want users to be able to go back to the gameover screen by pressing the back button.
Set up FLAGS for your Intents. This comes in handy because if you didn't finish(); some Activity it remains in the stack, so it will be launching that one, but then you might want a new one. This will cause issues in navigation.
Add/ check your onBackPressed() methods for the 2 Activities.
Furthermore, specify that you are overriding the method
#Override
public void onClick(View view)
{
}
In the XML, <Button> tag, add
android:clickable=true
android:focusable=true
This question already has answers here:
How to start new activity on button click
(28 answers)
Closed 6 years ago.
So far from all the tutorials I've looked at, most only get to the point of "Button Was Clicked" I need my second activity button to open a new activity.
I named this class, fifth_layout.xml
<Button
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Amazon"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/amazon"
android:drawableStart="#drawable/amazon"
android:layout_weight="0.07"
tools:ignore="HardcodedText"
android:id="#+id/button10"
android:textSize="35sp" />
After that in my FifthActivity.java I have
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
public class FifthActivity extends Activity {
Button button;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.fifth_layout);
Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button10);
button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View view) {
}
});
}
}
I just need the button to be able to open a new blank activity. But when i click the button nothing happens? I just need a new activity. i feel like the code is correct i just need help on what i might be doing wrong.
You have to use intent to open a new Activity. Assuming you want to open an activity called SixthActivity from your FifthActivity.
You should use this:
public class FifthActivity extends Activity {
Button button;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.fifth_layout);
Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button10);
button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View view) {
Intent intent = new Intent(FifthActivity.this,SixthActivity.java);
FifthActivity.this.startActivity(intent);
}
});
}
}
Hope this helps,
Regards.
Your onClickListener does nothing, of course nothing happens.
Create a new Activity (let's say you name it NewActivity, add it to the AndroidManifest.xml and add the following code you your existing activity:
button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View view) {
final Intent intent = new Intent(FifthActivity.this, NewActivity.class);
startActivity(intent);
}
});
I have a very strong feeling you're kind of lost in Android Development. I strongly suggest you follow Udacity's Android Development course.
Alright, so you have the single activity with its layout, right?
What your asking is "how do I launch another activity with another layout?"
To do this, we'll use an "intent" (think of an intent as how the activities talk to eachother, they get passed back and forth)
To create the intent and start, you'll need these couple lines:
Intent intent = new Intent(this, Target.class);
startActivity(intent);
Which should work within your onClick.
If you created the activity within Android Studio with File>New>Activity, this should have put the activity in your AndroidManifest.xml already, otherwise you'll need to add it yourself.
I know that this has been asked many, many times before, but how do I make my button play a sound when it's pressed?
this is my button's code:
<Button
android:id="#+id/c1"
android:layout_width="250dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginTop="45dp"
android:background="#drawable/button_selector" />
and here is my MainActivity.java:
package com.example.appname;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}
}
what do I have to add to make my button play a sound? If it helps I'm using Eclipse.
EDIT
I don't really know what I'm doing when it comes to this, so if you could please show me what to add to my code that would be great.
You could use an OnClickListener. Here is the developer section detailing how to do it.
You need to implement the onClick method once you assign the OnClickListener to your button. Here is the section about buttons, the code here will get you started.
For playing the sound, I recommend a MediaPlayer You can set your MediaPlayer to start (playing) in the onClick method.
first of all you have to understand events generated by views in android ,in your case button click event, you have to use OnClickListener
and youre code look like
public class MainActivity extends Activity implements
OnClickListener{
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
Button btnPlaySound = (Button) findViewById(R.id.c1);
btnPlaySound.setOnclickListener(this);
}
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
switch (v.getId()) {
case R.id.view_id:
break;
default:
break;
}
}
}
I have 2 classes for an Android project.
The first class is the Activity and the second class is just a OnClickListener which implements the interface.
If I run the project on my phone I always get an runtime error.
Also I got the message:
The specified activity does not exist! Getting the launcher activity.
Here are my two classes
SendActivity
package kops.sms;
//import android.R;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.widget.Button;
public class SendActivity extends Activity {
Button buttonSend= (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonSend);
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_send);
buttonSend.setOnClickListener(new ButtonListener());
}
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.send, menu);
return true;
}
}
and the ButtonListener
package kops.sms;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
public class ButtonListener implements OnClickListener {
#Override
public void onClick(View v)
{
}
}
I don´t know what is wrong...
I look forward to your replies! :)
You cannot call findViewById() until after you call setContentView(). Please move:
Button buttonSend= (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonSend);
to after:
setContentView(R.layout.activity_send);
and before:
buttonSend.setOnClickListener(new ButtonListener());
Also, in the future, please use LogCat (e.g., in the DDMS perspective in Eclipse) to examine the Java stack trace associated with your crashes. You would have been told about your NullPointerException, and that may have helped you to fix your problem.
Be sure that your Activity is declared in your manifest. Also, change your onCreate()
public class SendActivity extends Activity {
Button buttonSend;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_send);
buttonSend = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonSend);
buttonSend.setOnClickListener(new ButtonListener());
}
You can't call a View such as a Button before you call setContentView() as it exists in your Layout and you haven't inflated your Layout until you call setContentViewe().
If these don't fix your problem then please post Logcat
Edit
Unless I missed it, you need to have all of your Activitys in your manifest. Something like:
<activity
android:name="your.package.name.SendActivity"
// activity attributes such as config changes, lable, etc...
</activity>
Logcat
Logcat output can be one of the most important pieces to determining a crash. It lists what the error was and a line number with activity where the problem occurred. If using Eclipse,
Window-->Show View-->Other-->Android-->Logcat
If you copy/paste the Logcat using coding brackets, it makes getting help much easier. You can also set filters for the logs so you don't get every single message and it is much more manageable. For example, I have a filter with: Filter Name: Runtime, by Log Tag: AndroidRuntime, by Log Level: error. This gives me only error messages for runtime errors/crashes. These filters are on the left side of the logcat view. Hope this helps
I am rather new to Android programming in general and am having particular difficulty with the xml/java UI shuffle... I have a layout which I would like to use as the view displayed when a custom, view class is instantiated in the activity class. This much works fine by simply calling
setContentView(R.layout.mylayout) ;
in the activity or from the custom view class through a handle to the activity. The trouble comes when I wish to interact with the widgets on the layout-- I've tried getting a handle on the buttons with
myButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.mybuttonid);
and separately with
Button myButton = new Button(contextHandle);
myButton = (Button) findViewById(R.layout.mybuttonid);
but in both cases whenever I try to call any methods from the assumed myButton object I get a NullPointerException in the logcat report; evidently myButton is not properly instantiated in either case given above. What is the proper way to instantiate components of a view in a case like this that combines xml and java so that they can call methods dynamically?
thanks,
CCJ
EDIT: Thanks all for the replies, but I think up to 8/1/2011 the advice has been mostly targeted at an implementation wherein the widgets are to be instantiated in the activity class; I wish to instantiate widgets from an xml layout in a custom view class-- a class completely separate from the activity class which extends View and implements its own OnClickListener interface. Below is my code:
MyActivity Class:
package com.ccg.myactivity;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.RadioButton;
public class MyActivity extends Activity implements OnClickListener {
private boolean touched = false;
private RadioButton myRB;
private Button runB;
private CustomView myView;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.mainlayout);
myRB = (RadioButton) findViewById(R.id.testrb);
runB = (Button) findViewById(R.id.goButton);
//set onClick listeners for activity class
runB.setOnClickListener(this);
}
public void onResume(){
super.onResume();
}
public void onClick(View v) {
// do something when the button is clicked
if (myRB.isChecked()){
setContentView(R.layout.mylayout);
myView = new CustomView(this,this); //passing in activity and context
//handles to custom View class
//myView.getAnotherB().setOnClickListener(this); //commented out as we
//don't want to register the custom view's button with the Activty class's
//OnClickListener; instead it should be registered with the custom View class's own
//OnClickListener implementation.
}
else{
Log.d("me","alt click");
}
}
}
CustomView Class:
package com.ccg.myactivity;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.*;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
public class CustomView extends View implements OnClickListener{
private Button anotherB;
private Context contextHandle;
private Activity actHandle;
public CustomView(Context context, Activity act) {
super(context);
contextHandle = context;
actHandle = act;
//anotherB = new Button(contextHandle); //this shouldn't be necessary for
//instantiation from XML widget
initCustomView();
}
public void initCustomView(){
anotherB = (Button) findViewById(R.id.nextbutton);
anotherB.setOnClickListener(this);
}
public Button getAnotherB(){
return anotherB;
}
#Override
public void onClick(View arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
Log.d("me", "Got the custom click!");
}
}
mainlayout.xml from which the default view is made:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/widget474"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical">
<RadioGroup android:id="#+id/widget30" android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_x="2dip" android:layout_y="57dip" android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<RadioButton android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="#+id/testrb"
android:textSize="15sp" android:text="Run" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:textColor="#ffff99ff"></RadioButton>
</RadioGroup>
<Button android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:text="#string/RUN"
android:id="#+id/goButton" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_x="222dip" android:layout_y="110dip"></Button>
</LinearLayout>
mylayout.xml from which the custom view's layout is created:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/widget0"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical">
<Button android:id="#+id/nextbutton" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:text="work!!!"
>
</Button>
</LinearLayout>
okay, if anybody can explain why any method calls from the button object anotherB (anotherB.setOnClickListener(this) above, but also the simpler anotherB.bringToFront()) cause a force close and a nullpointerexception in logcat with the above implementation I would be most appreciative. thanks!
CCJ
I would declare your button outside of onCreate without the contextHandle parameter... The context will be imbedded in your button upon instantiation (as I understand it).
try:
class YOUR_CLASS {
Button myButton;
onCreate() {
myButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.WHATEVER_YOU_CALLED_IT_IN_XML);
then you can set an onClickListener or other abilities (you can google that, its easy)
myButton.setOnClickListener(myOnClickListener);
myButton.setText("click me!");
}
}
This sometimes happens to me when the import isn't correct. Sometimes Eclipse will fill in the import as:
import android.R;
of course, this will never find your ID. You should either not have an import, or have something like
import com.myco.mytestapp.R;
If you do that, then the first way of doing it is correct:
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.mylayout);
Button b = (Button) findViewById(R.id.mybutton);
}
Okay, thanks to some advice from the android developers google group I think I've found the answer to at least the most pressing concern (the NPE and force close):
I needed to override onFinishInflate in my custom View class; it is at that point that my XML layout child views (like anotherB) are truly instantiated. The class now looks like this
package com.ccg.myactivity;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.*;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
public class CustomView extends View implements OnClickListener{
private Button anotherB;
private Context contextHandle;
private Activity actHandle;
public CustomView(Context context, Activity act) {
super(context);
contextHandle = context;
actHandle = act;
//anotherB = new Button(contextHandle); //this shouldn't be necessary for
//instantiation from XML widget
initCustomView();
}
public void initCustomView(){
anotherB = (Button) findViewById(R.id.nextbutton);
anotherB.setOnClickListener(this);
}
public Button getAnotherB(){
return anotherB;
}
#Override
public void onFinishInflate(){
anotherB.setOnClickListener(this); //it seems any addressing of child
//views of the layout [the widgets] need to be made after the
//framework calls this method.
}
#Override
public void onClick(View arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
Log.d("me", "Got the custom click!");
}
}
Now it pulls up the layout properly and does not throw an NPE. Of course, the onClickListener callback still isn't working right (the message 'Got the custom click!' never appears in logcat), but that's another issue...
thanks all
CCJ
Okay, finally had some time to revisit this issue and I believe I've found the answer:
First, before the xml layout or its components can be addressed they need to be inflated. I knew this, but I wasn't sure when exactly they were inflated. It turns out that setContextView (and probably addContextView) trigger xml inflations. In order to have completely modular activity/view classes, I needed to do something like the following:
Activity Class--
package com.ai.ultimap;
import com.ai.ultimap.views.HomeView;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams;
public class UltiMapActivity extends Activity {
private View hv;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
hv = new HomeView(this);
}
}
Custom View Class-
package com.ai.ultimap.views;
import com.ai.ultimap.R;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.*;
import android.widget.*;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
public class HomeView extends View implements OnClickListener{
private RadioButton twodRB;
private RadioButton threedRB;
private TextView locTV;
private EditText editlocET;
public HomeView(Activity hAct) {
super(hAct);
//THE FOLLOWING LINE INFLATES-- IT (or another function which calls xml inflation)
//MUST COME BEFORE ANY JAVA ADDRESSING OF WIDGETS IN
//THE XML LAYOUT
//Also note that even though you could invoke findViewById from a class extending
//View, in this case you must use hAct.findViewById. I believe this is due to the
//fact that the activity referenced by hAct is the object responsible for inflating
//the xml and thus the widgets need to be instantiated from it.
hAct.setContentView(R.layout.ultimap);
twodRB = (RadioButton) hAct.findViewById(R.id.twodRBV);
threedRB = (RadioButton) hAct.findViewById(R.id.threedRBV);
locTV = (TextView) hAct.findViewById(R.id.locationTV);
editlocET = (EditText) hAct.findViewById(R.id.locationETV);
//After instantiation however they can be freely accessed from java in
//non-activity classes, which is the point; see the next line...
twodRB.setOnClickListener(this);
}
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
locTV.setText("yo");
}
}
This code works properly to load up the pre-defined xml view ultimap.xml and then address the widgets dynamically from Java (completely outside the activity class), changing the text of the location text view from 'Location' to 'yo' when the twodRB radiobutton is clicked!
Hope this helps some googlers :)
-CCJ