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How to cancel ProcessDialog from onPreExecute() method

I have no idea how to return from onPreExecute() when some condition happens. for instance: @Override protected void onPreExecute() { if(varCancel){ //Do not execute doInBackground() method } …
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Unable to set background image in android activity

I 'm trying to set background of my main activity in my application something like in this way:-
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How to create gradient at the top of the view

If you notice at the top of the View. There is a light gradient. How should I go about creating this ? e.g. Insert a view with a gradient background ? Use a top border of sorts ? Any help would be great !
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Scheduling background sync jobs in Android (API > 15)

We have a requirement to schedule periodic sync jobs for an Android Application. There is no hard schedule requirement but as long as the sync runs every 6-7 hours, it should be fine (provided there is network connectivity). We're using…
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what kind of background-service to use for background request and saving

i am currently trying to get code running as a background service. what this code does is: send request to server with current location of the user receive response parse response save into model (singleton) and this is set to happen in a 30 sec…
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how to change the background color of android phone screen

I am new in learning Android and so far I have been focused on functionality, but now I am starting to work with layouts. Issue:-- My app has a button and on its click, I send a sms to registered number.But as soon as the button is clicked I want…
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Creating a round ImageButton. Rounding a square image

Im trying to create a ImageButton with a image inside. I need the ImageButtons image to have round edges. But here comes the BUT... Instead of making the image smaller inside the button, to make it fit inside the element, I would like to have the…
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What is the best way to make background like this in XML?

I wan't to make background like this welcome screen of nexus in XML. What is the best way to do?
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Android is killing my service?

with a BroadCastReceiver, I execute a service at the smartphone boot: public class BootReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver{ @Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) { Intent startServiceIntent = new Intent(context,…
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Best way to set background into layout with the lowest memory

I am developing an Android app with many drawable resources so the heap memory is growing too much, maybe to >28MB. My app has 3 Activities switching each other when using, each of them has a different background and currently, I just simply set …
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Create an image from part of an image in Android?

I'm a computer science student and a beginning Android developer, learning on the job. My boss, a small business owner, paid another programmer to create an iOS app. Now he's paying me to create the Android version. He sent me the image assets…
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one Activity color is looking different,like yellowish shade In the whole app . Is there any idea why it looks like that?

Please give some suggestion . I don't know how to change this. I have given white color background #FFFFFF. But it looks like yellowish shade,not a perfect white. This is updated question check and let me give some suggestions. Thanks in advance. …
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Android: the bind value at index 1 is null error

I am developing an application in which i am running a background service as: startService(new Intent(getApplicationContext(), ContactService.class)); In Menifest: And the service code is as…
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String types not allowed (at 'background' with value )

I'm having trouble adding a image to my background, I saw a similar question earlier and none the answers helped me. Ive tried everything "@drawables/myimagename", "myimagename.png", and "myimagename" none of these things seem to work. I even tried…
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Using one style on several buttons with different background images

Hi I am trying to style several buttons in one menu with the same size and shadow, I found code here How to provide shadow to Button to help me do this but I want each button to have a different background image but as I am already calling this…
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