How to manage dividers in a PreferenceFragment?

AndroidX makes it simple, but I wish it was better documented. In XML To add/remove dividers between preferences in XML, use the following attributes: <androidx.preference.PreferenceScreen xmlns:app=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto”> <Preference … app:allowDividerAbove=”true/false” app:allowDividerBelow=”true/false” … /> </androidx.preference.PreferenceScreen> Note, a divider will only be shown between two preferences if the top divider has allowDividerBelow set to true and the bottom … Read more

How to filter ListView using getFilter() in BaseAdapter

i hope this example could help you in the Main_Activity EditText etSearch; BaseAdapterFilterable adapter; etSearch.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() { @Override public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) { // Listview name of the class Listview.this.adapter.getFilter().filter(s); } @Override public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub } … Read more

Android: Autocomplete TextView Similar To The Facebook App

First make your EditText into a MultiAutoCompleteTextView. A MultiAutoCompleteTextView allows you to replace certain parts of the text, for example text after ‘@’. The you can do something like this: final MultiAutoCompleteTextView inputEditText = (MultiAutoCompleteTextView) dialog.findViewById(R.id.MyEditText); String[] COUNTRIES = new String[] { “Belgium”, “France”, “Italy”, “Germany”, “Spain” }; ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line, COUNTRIES); … Read more

Navigation Drawer item background colour for selected item

To solve this problem: 1- You don’t need android:listSelector under your ListView. 2- Open (or Create) styles.xml under (res/values). <!– Base application theme. –> <style name=”AppTheme” parent=”Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar”> <!– Customize your theme here. –> <item name=”android:activatedBackgroundIndicator”>@drawable/drawer_list_selector</item> </style> 3- Under res/drawable folder create drawer_list_selector.xml file <selector xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android”> <item android:state_pressed=”true” android:drawable=”@drawable/light_gray_color” /> <item android:state_activated=”true” android:drawable=”@drawable/red_color” /> <item android:drawable=”@android:color/transparent” … Read more

Passing touch events to the parent view

Thank you everyone for answering the question. But I was able to figure it out in a much simpler manner. Since my ViewSwitcher wasn’t detecting the touch event, I intercepted the touch event, called the onTouchEvent() and returned false. Here: @Override public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) { onTouchEvent(ev); return false; } By overriding the onInterceptTouchEvent(), I … Read more