Xamarin how to solve accessibility content labeling problem? - android

When i upload a relese to Google Play Console, after internal testing y have a warning (Accessibility => Content labeling) associated to this component.
<ImageButton .../>
Here the recomendation is use android:contentDescription
Then i add xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
and:
<ImageButton android:contentDescription="bla bla" .../>
But i get an error: The property contentDescription was not found in type ImageButton.
I try to use xct:SemanticEffect.Description and i have not compiler error but in Google Play Console i still see the warning.
More Information:
Full component code:
<ImageButton BackgroundColor="Transparent" Margin="5" xct:SemanticEffect.Description="abrir menú" Clicked="OnBackButtonClicked" >
<ImageButton.Source>
<FontImageSource FontFamily="FAL" Glyph="" Color="{StaticResource Gray3}" Size="25"/>
</ImageButton.Source>
</ImageButton>
Google Play Console - Pre-launch report details - Accesibility tab
Content labeling warning for this component

As already pointed out, you cannot add android:contentDescription="bla bla" directly to the ImageButton one is from the Android platform, the latter is on the Xamarin.Forms level.
If you use the Xamarin Community Toolkit and apply the SemanticEffect.Description="bla bla" that should translate into the contentDescription on Android. If that is not the case, I would be curious to know what the exact warning is that you get after applying it.

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Algolia Android initial search is really slow

I recently implemented Algolia on my app successfully just like the examples.
But the initial search takes about 5 to 7 seconds and I couldn't find a way to make it faster after checking the whole library code and documentation. After the initial search, search becomes very fast.
There is nothing unusual in my implementation but maybe you can see something that I don't. The following code is from the activity where I initialize Algolia:
Searcher searcher = new Searcher(ALGOLIA_APP_ID, ALGOLIA_SEARCH_API_KEY, ALGOLIA_INDEX_NAME);
searcher.setQuery(new Query("word").setExactOnSingleWordQuery(Query.ExactOnSingleWordQuery.ATTRIBUTE));
searcher.addNumericRefinement(new NumericRefinement("CountryId", NumericRefinement.OPERATOR_EQ, 1));
InstantSearch helper = new InstantSearch(this, searcher);
helper.setSearchOnEmptyString(false);
helper.search();
And this is the related xml layout:
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingBottom="6dp"
android:paddingRight="10dp"
android:paddingLeft="1dp"
android:paddingTop="6dp">
<com.algolia.instantsearch.ui.views.SearchBox
android:id="#+id/searchBox"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:queryHint="#string/search_text_hint"
algolia:searchIcon="#drawable/icn_search_big"
algolia:closeIcon="#drawable/icn_clear_filled_big"
android:queryBackground="#drawable/sarch_query_shape"
android:background="#drawable/search_shape"
algolia:autofocus="true"
algolia:submitButtonEnabled="false" />
</FrameLayout>`
<com.algolia.instantsearch.ui.views.Hits
android:id="#+id/hits"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
algolia:autoHideKeyboard="true"
algolia:hitsPerPage="6"
android:layout_below="#+id/searchBarParentLayout"
algolia:infiniteScroll="false"
algolia:itemLayout="#layout/search_item_algolia_row"/>
Do you have any idea what can be the issue here?
I'm glad that the issue disappeared when you switched to another wifi.
For future readers that may encounter network issues with InstantSearch Android:
First of all, build and run one of our demo applications
If you see no problem running the example application, you can try using a proxy like Charles to investigate what's happening between your app and the network
If your problem persists when running the examples, or if you are following the documentation, send an email to support#algolia.com describing the issue with a sample of your code!

InMobi SDK in Android Studio shows error for IMBanner

I am integrating Inmobi SDK for ads in my android application. I have setup my inmobi account and have the application id from there. Below is the XML is use to setup the ad
<com.inmobi.monetization.IMBanner
android:layout_width="320dp"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:id="#+id/banner"
adSize="15"
appId="xxxxxxxxxx"
/>
And of course i have replaced the XXXXX with my application id from the property in my Inmobi account. The first problem i observed was that appId is not being identified as a valid attribute.
Secondly if i try and do a findViewById in my activity I always get a null reference back.
What am i missing in the implementation here?
This was a very silly mistake. In Android Studio there were multiple layout files for the same activity and I was adding the AdView only to one of them.

MigLayout for design android Forms

I am on a project. My instructor has told me to use MigLayout to design the forms in android. I am finding it difficult to find proper examples and while Using Eclipse for development its showing errors that android perfix is required to use the attributes.
please help me with some examples..
code that i pasted from the source site,mig4android.
<com.saynomoo.mig4android.MigLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
layout_constraints="wrap 4, debug 1"
column_constraints="[]15[75px]25[min]25[]"
row_constraints="[]15"
>
<TextView android:text="label1" component_constraints="skip"/>
<TextView android:text="label2" />
<TextView android:text="label3" component_constraints="wrap"/>
<TextView android:text="label4" />
<TextView android:text="label5" component_constraints="wmin 30"/>
<TextView android:text="label6" component_constraints="wmin 30"/>
<TextView android:text="label7" component_constraints="wmin 30"/>
</com.saynomoo.mig4android.MigLayout>
The component_constraints gave the error
This error means you forget to add android word before any attribute in xml file.
For example-
id="#+id/my_location"
You need to write android before id like below.
android:id="#+id/my_location"
Your code is perfect. But "skip" in component_constraints appears to be ignored. I had to manually add place holder to the layout to "fill in" empty spots. I tried "skip 1" and that also had no impact.
For more information see following link.
Skip as a constraint is not working

Android Google Maps API v2 - NoSuchFieldError

I am working on a project using Google Maps v2 for Android and I am getting a NoSuchFieldError while instantiating the Google map fragment on a rooted HTC Desire HD.
Afaik, the issue should not be caused by Google Play Services not being installed on the device (event though they are and other applications using Google Maps v2 are working).
I have tried making a check to see if Google Play Services library is installed on the device (by calling GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable) prior to setting the Activity's content view.
Furthermore, the application runs on other Android phones and the map fragment is successfully inflated.
At the moment I suspect that this issue is caused by my Android project setup in Eclipse, as the Google Play Services library project seems not to be included along with my project during packaging or deployment.
Has anyone had and solved this issue with Google Maps working only on some devices and throwing a NoSuchFieldError exception on others? If so, what can I do to solve this?
If you need more information such as project setup and/or code, please leave a comment.
Thank you!
This is the stack trace report from ACRA in JSON format:
{ CUSTOM_DATA: '',
STACK_TRACE: 'java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: com.google.android.gms.R$string.common_google_play_services_unsupported_text\n\tat com.google.android.gms.common.GooglePlayServicesUtil.b(Unknown Source)\n\tat com.google.android.gms.internal.bb.a(Unknown Source)\n\tat com.google.android.gms.internal.bb.onCreateView(Unknown Source)\n\tat com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment.onCreateView(Unknown Source)\n\tat android.support.v4.app.Fragment.performCreateView(Fragment.java:1460)\n\tat android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:884)\n\tat android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:1066)\n\tat android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.addFragment(FragmentManager.java:1168)\n\tat android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.onCreateView(FragmentActivity.java:280)\n\tat android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java)\n\tat android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java)\n\tat android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java)\n\tat android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java)\n\tat android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java)\n\tat com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java)\n\tat android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java)\n\tat ro.myapp.app.activities.MapActivity.onCreate(MapActivity.java:62)\n\tat android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java)\n\tat android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java)\n\tat android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java)\n\tat android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java)\n\tat android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java)\n\tat android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java)\n\tat android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java)\n\tat android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java)\n\tat android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java)\n\tat java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)\n\tat java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)\n\tat com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java)\n\tat com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java)\n\tat dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)\n',
PHONE_MODEL: 'HTC Desire HD',
ANDROID_VERSION: '4.0.4' }
This is my onCreate method throwing the exception:
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
checkForPlayServices();
setContentView(R.layout.activity_map);
mapFragment = (SupportMapFragment)getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map);
map = mapFragment.getMap();
map.setMyLocationEnabled(true);
map.setInfoWindowAdapter(this);
map.setOnInfoWindowClickListener(this);
}
Contents of activity_map.xml layout:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MapActivity" >
<ro.myapp.app.views.actionbar.ActionbarMap
android:id="#+id/actionBar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/myapp_actionbar_height" />
<fragment
android:id="#+id/map"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_below="#id/actionBar"
class="com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment" />
</RelativeLayout>
java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: com.google.android.gms.R$string.common_google_play_services_unsupported_text
says exactly what is the problem.
In values/strings.xml there is no
<string name="common_google_play_services_unsupported_text">...</string>
defined.
I see this value defined in my google-play-services_lib/res, so you may want to check if you correctly added this library project to your workspace. Seems like you have forgot to update strings.xml when updating library.
Ok so I changed my answer I found out there is a way to find out if there is anything overriding your libs.... You are using the Location Objects somewhere so add this bit of code and debug it when running one of those devices..... The location object should be in your location listener.
location.getClass().getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation() ;

How to get Google's example code working for AdMob 4.1.0 using an Android device

I want to use xml to add a banner ad to my app. To understand how to do this, I read through the Google AdMob Ads Android Banner XML tutorial. There's even example code. However, the example project doesn't display ads on my device (a Motorola xt720). I get nothing relevant in LogCat.
If I go to project settings and remove the 4.0.4 jar and add the 4.1.0 jar that I downloaded with Android SDK and AVD Manager (downloaded "Google Admob Ads Sdk package, revision 2" and the file is android-sdk-linux_86/extras/google/admob_ads_sdk/GoogleAdMobAdsSdk-4.1.0.jar), then I get this in LogCat.
ERROR/Ads(4486): AdView missing
required XML attribute "adSize".
INFO/Ads(4486): To get test ads on
this device, call
adRequest.addTestDevice("00000000000000000000000000000000");
I make that change:
AdRequest adRequest = new AdRequest();
adRequest.addTestDevice("00000000000000000000000000000000");
adView.loadAd(adRequest);
And now I get this:
ERROR/Ads(5018): AdView missing required XML attribute "adSize".
WARN/Ads(5018): Invalid unknown request error: Cannot determine request type. Is your ad unit id correct?
INFO/Ads(5018): onFailedToReceiveAd(Invalid Google Ad request.)
If I edit main.xml to fix the ads:adUnitId to be the value I have in my admob account, I still get the same error. As you can see, I am setting my adSize:
<com.google.ads.AdView
android:id="#+id/adView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
ads:adUnitId="000000000000000"
ads:adSize="BANNER" />
So in summary:
I fixed the library version
I added my test device
I set my ads:adUnitId
But I still get AdView missing required XML attribute "adSize"
What am I doing wrong?
There are some changes to the way Admob works in version 4.1.0
There's a discussion on Google Groups about this issue and how they haven't updated the documentation.
Google employee Tim posted:
1) Remove attrs.xml (or if you need it for your own custom attributes, remove the parts related to AdViews).
2) Change the namespace in your layout from xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.your.packagename" to xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
Once you have made those two changes (along with the other changes you already made), you should now see an ad.

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