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How to show banner ads in fragment Revmob?

I would like to show banners in a fragment instead of an activity, how can I do this?
My Fragment:
Variables:
RevMob revmob;
Activity currentActivity;
Functions:
My Code:
public void startRevMobSession(){
currentActivity = this;
revmob = RevMob.startWithListener(currentActivity, new RevMobAdsListener() {
#Override public void onRevMobSessionStarted() {loadBanner();}
#Override public void onRevMobSessionNotStarted(String message) {}});
}
public void loadBanner() {
revmob.showBanner(currentActivity, Gravity.BOTTOM, null, new RevMobAdsListener() {
#Override public void onRevMobAdReceived() {}
#Override public void onRevMobAdNotReceived(String message) {}
#Override public void onRevMobAdDismissed() {}
#Override public void onRevMobAdClicked() {}
#Override public void onRevMobAdDisplayed() {}});
}
onCreate:
startRevMobSession();
It's working when I'm using it in an activity, but I would like to use it in a fragment. How can I do so?

In a fragment you should do:
currentActivity = getActivity();
instead of
currentActivity = this;
That's the only difference, it should all work properly then.

Android vungle event listener

I'm having a problem with vungle, I want the dialog fragment to appear after the video ad ends, my code looks good and there is no errors, the video starts and ends but my dialog fragment never appears, here is my code:
private final EventListener vungleListener = new EventListener(){
#Override
public void onVideoView(boolean isCompletedView, int watchedMillis, int videoDurationMillis) {
if (isCompletedView){
frag.show(fm, "");
}
}
#Override
public void onAdStart() {
// Called before playing an ad
}
#Override
public void onAdEnd(boolean wasCallToActionClicked) {
}
#Override
public void onAdPlayableChanged(boolean isAdPlayable) {
}
#Override
public void onAdUnavailable(String reason) {
}
};

According to Vungle the method onVideoView is deprecated and the method onAdEnd should be used instead. You should try moving the fragment being shown to onAdEnd like below:
#Override
public void onAdEnd(boolean wasCallToActionClicked) {
frag.show(fm, "");
}

EventBus does not register event on new activity

I have implemented an otto bus example. It works fine, but ONLY on the second time I visit the activity.
For example, when I load the app and hit the secret message button I am taken to the activity but the toast does not show. Then I hit the back button to return to the MainActivity and hit the show secret message button again and when I am taken to the secret message activity the toast is displayed. I realize it works the second time because I have created a leak by not unregistering the event.
Is there something I am missing about the logic?
MainActivity:
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
Button buttonSecretMessage;
Intent intentToMessage;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
intentToMessage = new Intent(MainActivity.this, SecretMessageActivity.class);
buttonSecretMessage = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonSecretMessage);
buttonSecretMessage.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
EventBus.getInstance().post(new MakeMySecretMessageEvent());
startActivity(intentToMessage);
}
});
}
}
Secret Message Activity:
public class SecretMessageActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_secret_message);
}
#Subscribe
public void getMySecretMessage(MakeMySecretMessageEvent event){
Toast.makeText(this, event.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
#Override
protected void onStart(){
super.onStart();
EventBus.getInstance().register(this);
}
#Override
protected void onStop() {
super.onStop();
//EventBus.getInstance().unregister(this);
}
}
MakeMySecretMessageEvent:
public class MakeMySecretMessageEvent {
public MakeMySecretMessageEvent() {
}
public String getMessage() {
String message = "YOU ARE AWESOME!";
return message;
}
}
EventBus:
public final class EventBus extends Bus{
private static final EventBus Bus = new EventBus();
public static Bus getInstance() {
return Bus;
}
private EventBus() {
}
}

You can send sticky event using EventBus library. It allows you to send events to component which is not created yet.
You`ll find more info here.

Here EventBus has applied in wrong scenario, when you can simply send data via intent or bundle. Which is more reliable in communication with one activity with another. You will never ever receive event on first click, as event fire is instant and your activity creation will take some time accordingly.
So try to use bundle or intent to setup communication b/w to activity one after another.

Thanks to contributors I now have a better understanding of the activity life cycle and how it fits in with event bus. That is you cannot send an event from the MainActivity to its children, but the other way around instead. Below reflects how to implement an otto event bus to pass a simple object from an activity back to the main activity. Hopefully someone else can find this useful :) And if this can be improved upon please comment. Thanks.
Main Activity:
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
Button buttonSecretMessage;
Intent intentToMessage;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
EventBus.getInstance().register(this);
intentToMessage = new Intent(MainActivity.this, SecretMessageActivity.class);
buttonSecretMessage = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonSecretMessage);
buttonSecretMessage.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
startActivity(intentToMessage);
}
});
}
public MakeMySecretMessageEvent event;
#Subscribe
public void getMySecretMessage(MakeMySecretMessageEvent event) {
Toast.makeText(this, event.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
protected void onStop() {
super.onStop();
if(event != null ){
EventBus.getInstance().unregister(this);
}
}
}
SecretMessageActivity (this is where the secret message is created)
public class SecretMessageActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
Button buttonClickToMeToSeeMessage;
Intent intentToMain;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_secret_message);
intentToMain = new Intent(SecretMessageActivity.this, MainActivity.class);
buttonClickToMeToSeeMessage = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonClickToMeToSeeMessage);
buttonClickToMeToSeeMessage.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
MakeMySecretMessageEvent makeMySecretMessageEvent = new MakeMySecretMessageEvent();
EventBus.getInstance().post(makeMySecretMessageEvent);
startActivity(intentToMain);
}
});
}
}
MakeMySecretMessageEvent
public class MakeMySecretMessageEvent {
public MakeMySecretMessageEvent() {
}
public String getMessage() {
String message = "YOU ARE AWESOME!";
return message;
}
}
EventBus:
public final class EventBus extends Bus{
private static final EventBus Bus = new EventBus();
public static Bus getInstance() {
return Bus;
}
private EventBus() {
}
}

Android AsyncTask re-runs when activity is opened

In my App the user has to login.
They open the app on the login page
They enter email/password and hit login
A LoadingScreenActivity is opened that has a swirly circle and is running an AsyncTask that goes to my database and retrieves all the users info
After the AsyncTask is completed it starts an intent to launch MainPageActivity.
There are two problems with this at the moment:
If the user logs in and then goes to the home screen while the app loads the MainPageActivity will open as soon as it is ready (on top of the existing home page) even though the app has been minimised
If the user logs in and then goes to the home screen while the app loads and then returns to the loading screen the AsyncTask will complete twice over
For problem 1. At the moment my onPostExecute() method in LoadingScreenActivity looks like this:
#Override
public void onPostExecute() {
//open the main page
Intent mainPage = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), MainPageActivity.class);
mainPage.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
mainPage.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK );
startActivity(mainPage);
}
Is there a way I could detect in this method if the main page activity should be opened yet?
For problem 2. I've hit a complete road block on this, is there a way to detect if the activity has simply been re opened rather than started for the first time? I'd really appreciate any tips on this, I'm quite new to android so I'm not even convinced an Async task is the way to go with this.
Thanks for your time
LoadingScreenActivity.java
public class LoadingScreenActivity extends Activity implements TaskFragment.TaskCallbacks {
private static final String TAG_TASK_FRAGMENT = "task_fragment";
private TaskFragment mTaskFragment;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
FragmentManager fm = getFragmentManager();
mTaskFragment = (TaskFragment) fm.findFragmentByTag(TAG_TASK_FRAGMENT);
// If the Fragment is non-null, then it is currently being
// retained across a configuration change.
if (mTaskFragment == null) {
mTaskFragment = new TaskFragment();
fm.beginTransaction().add(mTaskFragment, TAG_TASK_FRAGMENT).commit();
}
setContentView(R.layout.loading_screen);
ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
actionBar.hide();
TextView title = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.loading_title);
TextView progress = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.loading_progress);
title.setText(R.string.app_name);
progress.setText("Loading your info");
}
#Override
public Context onPreExecute() {
return getApplicationContext();
}
#Override
public void onProgressUpdate(int percent) {
}
#Override
public void onCancelled() {
Intent login = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), LoginActivity.class);
login.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
startActivity(login);
finish();
}
#Override
public void onPostExecute() {
//open the main page
Intent mainPage = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), MainPageActivity.class);
mainPage.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
mainPage.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK );
startActivity(mainPage);
}
}
and TaskFragment.java
public class TaskFragment extends Fragment {
static interface TaskCallbacks {
Context onPreExecute();
void onProgressUpdate(int percent);
void onCancelled();
void onPostExecute();
}
private TaskCallbacks mCallbacks;
private DummyTask mTask;
#Override
public void onAttach(Activity activity) {
super.onAttach(activity);
mCallbacks = (TaskCallbacks) activity;
}
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
// Retain this fragment across configuration changes.
setRetainInstance(true);
// Create and execute the background task.
mTask = new DummyTask();
mTask.execute();
}
#Override
public void onDetach() {
super.onDetach();
mCallbacks = null;
}
private class DummyTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Integer, Void> {
Context context;
boolean running = true;
#Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
if (mCallbacks != null) {
context = mCallbacks.onPreExecute();
}
}
#Override
protected Void doInBackground(Void... ignore) {
//Get the current thread's token
synchronized (this)
{
if(running){
DatabaseHandler dbHandler = new DatabaseHandler(context);
dbHandler.populateSQLiteDatabase();
}
}
return null;
}
#Override
protected void onProgressUpdate(Integer... percent) {
if (mCallbacks != null) {
mCallbacks.onProgressUpdate(percent[0]);
}
}
#Override
protected void onCancelled() {
if (mCallbacks != null) {
mCallbacks.onCancelled();
}
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(Void ignore) {
if (mCallbacks != null) {
mCallbacks.onPostExecute();
}
}
}
}

in your activity in the manifest just add android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"
and in the activity implement this
#Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
};

I'm afraid, i don't really understand your first problem.
About the second one, there are a couple of ways depending on your minimum API level. Starting from API 14 you may register ActivityLifecycle Callbacks inside an Android Application. To do this, i would recommend:
Inherit Android application with a custom one
Replace the Android application in your manifest
inside your custom application register itself as activity lifecycle listener
inside the abstract methods you get the instance of the currently applying activity (may safe object.name() in a String)
depending on your handling you may safe a boolean value or whatever to identify the behaviour
methods inside your custom application are accessible by casting (MyCustomApplication)getApplication()
Heres a snippet:
package com.example.preferencestest;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.Application;
import android.app.Application.ActivityLifecycleCallbacks;
import android.os.Bundle;
public class MyCustomApplication extends Application implements ActivityLifecycleCallbacks {
private String storedActivity;
private Boolean doOrNot = false;
public MyCustomApplication() {}
public Boolean getDoOrNot() { return doOrNot;}
public void setDoOrNot(Boolean doOrNot) { this.doOrNot = doOrNot; }
#Override
public void onCreate() {
super.onCreate();
registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks(this);
}
// these two are the most important ones since they will be fired everytime
#Override
public void onActivityResumed(Activity activity) {
if (activity.getClass().getName().equals(storedActivity)) {
doOrNot = true;
}
}
#Override
public void onActivityPaused(Activity activity) {
storedActivity = activity.getClass().getName();
}
#Override
public void onActivityCreated(Activity activity, Bundle savedInstanceState) { }
#Override
public void onActivityStarted(Activity activity) { }
#Override
public void onActivityStopped(Activity activity) { }
#Override
public void onActivitySaveInstanceState(Activity activity, Bundle outState) { }
#Override
public void onActivityDestroyed(Activity activity) { }
}
inside your Manifest you MUST declare this new Applicationclass like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.example.preferencestest"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >
<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="16"
android:targetSdkVersion="21" />
<application
android:name="com.example.preferencestest.MyCustomApplication"
{...}
Then inside your Activity you may do this:
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
Boolean whatToDo = ((MyCustomApplication)getApplication()).getDoOrNot();
}
Using onConfigurationChanged has a couple of disadvantages. There are a couple of actions (placing device in dock, turning display and so on) which restart the Activity. You should rather save the current state of the Activity with
#Override
protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
}
#Override
protected void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle state) {
super.onRestoreInstanceState(state);
}

Scringo: openChat function doesn't work

I am using the library scringo on Android. "openChat" function doesn't seem to be working. It does absolutely nothing. Here is my code.
I read through their API:
http://www.scringo.com/docs/api/android/
openChat function should open the 1-on-1 chat with the other user. But that doesnt happen. Nothing happens. All the other functions are working fine.
It doesn't even log any errors or warning.
public class MainActivity extends Activity implements OnClickListener {
private Scringo scringo;
private Activity mainactivity;
private Button button;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
mainactivity = this;
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button);
button.setOnClickListener(this);
Scringo.setAppId("MY-APP-ID");
Scringo.setDebugMode(true);
scringo = new Scringo(this);
scringo.init();
scringo.addSidebar();
Scringo.loginWithEmail("a#testapp.com", "hi", new ScringoSignUpListener(){
#Override
public void onError(String arg0) {
}
#Override
public void onSuccess(String arg0) {
Log.w("user",Scringo.getUserId());
}
});
}
#Override
public void onClick(View arg0) {
//I am using the ID of another user.
//This does not work. Nothing happens. No error or warning either.
Scringo.openChat(this, "Qk8vJs4fRE");
//This works fine.
//Scringo.openChatRooms(this);
}
}

You should call the openChat after getting the user:
Scringo.getUserByScringoId("SOME_ID...", new ScringoGetUserListener() {
#Override
public void gotUser(ScringoUser user) {
Scringo.openChat(MainActivity.this, "SOME_ID...");
}
});