I am in the dawn of my Android programming adventure and have just become able to communicate between on-screen views. So the next step for me is to successfully pull text from a TextView (set by a Dialog) and use a Start Button to run a Timer based on the user selected Dialog (default to the current minute value of the clock).
Here is what you see on screen.
- A TextView that displays the selection from the Dialog.
- A Selector Button that launches the Dialog TimePicker Dialog and resets the Start Button.
- A Start Button that (should) read the TextView, disable itself, and begin a CountDownTimer based on a Long extracted from the TextView string.
- A debug TextView that displays to me what is actually seen by the system.
The entire activity consists of a single Java File with two Classes declared and of course an XML. Every time I click my start button, despite the Debug TextView showing that I properly extracted the Long value for the seconds the timer instantly completes. I can see from my debug TextView that when I select say.. 08:26, the pSecondsLeft=26 as it should.. but the timer still doesn't count down from 26. I can't see my mistake.
Here is the XML first.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:orientation="vertical">
<TextView android:id="@+id/timeDisplay"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:text="Time will appear here after being selected"
android:textSize="30sp"/>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<Button android:id="@+id/pickTime"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Change the time"/>
<Button android:id="@+id/startTimer"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Start the time"
/>
</LinearLayout>
<TextView android:id="@+id/timeRemaining"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:textSize="30sp"
android:text="Time Remaining"
/>
</LinearLayout>
And here is my Main Activity.
package com.stembo.android.botskooltimepickertutorial;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.Dialog;
import android.app.TimePickerDialog;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.CountDownTimer;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.TimePicker;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class TimePickerActivity extends Activity {
/** Private members of the class */
private TextView displayTime;
private Button pickTime;
private Button startTimer;
private TextView timeRemaining;
private int pMinutesLeft;
private int pSecondsLeft;
/** This integer will uniquely define the
* dialog to be used for displaying time picker.*/
static final int TIME_DIALOG_ID = 0;
/** Callback received when the user "picks" a time in the dialog */
private TimePickerDialog.OnTimeSetListener mTimeSetListener =
new TimePickerDialog.OnTimeSetListener() {
public void onTimeSet(TimePicker view, int minLeft, int secLeft) {
pMinutesLeft = minLeft;
pSecondsLeft = secLeft;
updateDisplay();
displayToast();
}
};
/** Updates the time in the TextView */
private void updateDisplay() {
displayTime.setText(
new StringBuilder()
.append(pad(pMinutesLeft)).append(":")
.append(pad(pSecondsLeft)));
}
/** Displays a notification when the time is updated */
private void displayToast() {
Toast.makeText(this, new StringBuilder().append("Time choosen is ")
.append(displayTime.getText()), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
/** Add padding to numbers less than ten */
private static String pad(int c) {
if (c >= 10)
return String.valueOf(c);
else
return "0" + String.valueOf(c);
}
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
/** Capture our View elements */
displayTime = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.timeDisplay);
pickTime = (Button) findViewById(R.id.pickTime);
startTimer = (Button) findViewById(R.id.startTimer);
timeRemaining = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.timeRemaining);
/** Listener for click event of the pick button */
pickTime.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
startTimer.setEnabled(true);
showDialog(TIME_DIALOG_ID);
}
});
/**Listener for click event of the start button */
startTimer.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){
public void onClick(View v){
startTimer.setEnabled(false);
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(displayTime.getText().toString(), ":");
while (st.hasMoreElements()){
st.nextElement();
long pSecondsTimer = Long.parseLong(st.nextToken());
}
timeRemaining.setText(displayTime.getText()+" Token="+ pSecondsLeft);
long oneSecondInterval = 1000;
MyCount counter = new MyCount(pSecondsLeft, oneSecondInterval);
counter.start();
}
});
/** Get the current time */
final Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
pMinutesLeft = cal.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
pSecondsLeft = cal.get(Calendar.MINUTE);
/** Display the current time in the TextView */
updateDisplay();
}
/** Create a new dialog for time picker */
@Override
protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) {
switch (id) {
case TIME_DIALOG_ID:
return new TimePickerDialog(this,
mTimeSetListener, pMinutesLeft, pSecondsLeft, true);
}
return null;
}
public class MyCount extends CountDownTimer {
public MyCount(long pSecondsLeft, long countDownInterval){
super(pSecondsLeft, countDownInterval);
}
@Override
public void onTick(long pSecondsTimer){
displayTime.setText("Time remaining: " + pSecondsLeft);
}
@Override
public void onFinish(){
displayTime.setText("Countdown Complete!");
}
}
}
Here is the Start Button code which I am having trouble with, its in the Main Activity but may be easier to see excluded.
/**Listener for click event of the start button */
startTimer.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){
public void onClick(View v){
startTimer.setEnabled(false);
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(displayTime.getText().toString(), ":");
while (st.hasMoreElements()){
st.nextElement();
long pSecondsTimer = Long.parseLong(st.nextToken());
}
timeRemaining.setText(displayTime.getText()+" Token="+ pSecondsLeft);
long oneSecondInterval = 1000;
MyCount counter = new MyCount(pSecondsLeft, oneSecondInterval);
counter.start();
}
});
