I have a simple form containing TstringGrid with 2 columns, a TStringColumn and TCheckColumn added. I have seen many examples of saving the contents to file if the cells contain text or numbers. I have not seen any examples of saving with a TCheckColumn. I am assuming that I must check each CheckColumn cell, determine its state and assign a value that can be saved to file. Or maybe there is a more elegant way to do this.
As for sorting - again many examples using strings or numbers but none with TCheckColumn. I have HeaderClick enabled. On the TStringColumn I would like to sort Alphabetically - On the TCheckColumn - I would like checked items at the top of the column.
I am using Delphi 10.2.1 and will compile for Android.
Without saying you shouldn't start from here - I will just answer the specific questioN;
To keep it simple, I would:
Save: iterate through the rows and take the state of the checkboxes and prefix the string item with BoolToStr(theCheckValue)+':'+theContents of the string.
Then save the stringList.
To Load:
load into the stringList and then iterate and break the string apart using pos on the ':' and StrToBool the left portion, setting the checked item based on this.
Not got an IDE up, so haven't tested, but that would be my approach as a bit of a hack.
I need to work with a persistent String Array (n Rows, 1 column).
* On first running the app, the String Array needs to be created empty.
* On subsequent app executions the Array will be populated from a File and the contents need to be available throughout the rest of the app.
* As the app is executed, the Array needs to be able to 'grow' in row count
* As the app is executed, the Array rows need to be able to grow in length
* The user will have the option to Clear the Array of previous entries.
* At the end, the String Array contents will be written back to a File.
I find a lot of references to Putting and Getting from an existing SharedPreferences String[] but, in the newness of my Android development, I am struggling with how to proceed.
EDIT Follows...
The data itself suggests using an Array
Example:
MAIN ST. F55 63 KY08:57 12142015--------KY11:24 12142015345TMH KY13:57 12142015
MAIN ST. F56 WYE123 IN08:57 12142015--------KY11:24 12142015--------KY13:57 12142015
1ST ST. F57 --------KY08:57 12142015--------KY11:24 12142015789FPF KY13:57 12142015
1ST ST. F58 456FPF KY08:57 12142015998FPF KY11:24 12142015--------KY13:57 12142015
1ST ST. F59 789TTM KY08:57 12142015--------KY11:24 121420151234DG KY13:57 12142015
I first need to have this data in a File
Then in one GUI I check for the existence of the file.
If one exists, fine
If none exists, I create one.
Then, in subsequent GUI's, I must check for the existence of parameters
If they do not already exist, add them to the existing data lines.
If they already exist, notify the user
And so on and on.
Then when all of the current 'pass' data has been collected via multiple, separate GUI's, I have to write out the whole data-set into the file.
My reason for thinking that I need a SharedPreference approach is the need to find and check data from GUI to GUI as the user progresses through the app.
If that 'belief' is wrong, I am open to better approach suggestions.
EDIT 2 follows....
On further study of web references, I am beginning to think that perhaps the best approach for this data and how the data needs to change might be to use a SQLite approach. Any ideas about this?
Any assistance/suggestions you might have would be greatly appreciated.
i would discourage you from using sharedpreferences for anything else than preferences. means things that change rarely - really rarely and are really lightweight. do not put much data in there. less is better. the data structures underlying sharedpreferences are not a database.
another note. it is not a string list, but it would be a string set. sets are not necessarily ordered, nor do they necessarily keep their order. means - it is not rows. its a collection of strings that can come back in any fun order (usually there is some, but that depends on the implementation which i do not know)
now you could go and make your own list, your own data structure, save it into a string and read it out, use json to do exactly that or something similar, or better - use a database, which would exactly do that.
http://developer.android.com/training/basics/data-storage/databases.html
explains it, but as you'll see its something that might take some time.
now dont get me wrong, but i have to warn you about the following approach. it is valid, but has many problems and is far from thread safe. it will not be a problem as long as you only open it from the ui thread and do not keep anything in memory to cache - if you do it will create lots of problems.
your problem of adding a line and clearing can be solved by using a file. just a simple file
look here
http://developer.android.com/training/basics/data-storage/files.html#WriteInternalStorage
the change is to append when writing:
openFileOutput("filename", Context.MODE_APPEND);
see the context mode? now you can basically just write one line and append every time.
if you wanna clear the file, just deleteFile("filename")
this is as said not threadsafe, but can be a viable option if used carefully.
Please follow this step to achieve what you want with sharedPreference
create the class Parent for SharePreference
Create your empty Array
Convert Your empty array to String and put it on SharedPreference
to call your empty array from sharedPreference
Call your sharedPreference using your key
Convert the String to array
You get your array from the sharePreference
Hope it helps, and maybe this link will help you :
http://www.androidhive.info/2012/08/android-session-management-using-shared-preferences/
You can use my open-source library called prefser, which solves this problem and uses SharedPreferences and Gson under the hood. It's basically wrapper for default Android mechanism.
You can use it in the following way:
Prefser prefser = new Prefser(context); // create Prefser object
prefser.put("key", Arrays.asList("one", "two", "three")); // save array of Strings
String[] value = prefser.get("key", String[].class, new String[]{}); // read array of Strings
For more information check repository of the project, tests and README.md file.
Link: https://github.com/pwittchen/prefser
Please note, SharedPreferences have some limitations and shouldn't be used for storing large amount of data. If you expect a lot of data, consider using SQLite database or another type of database (e.g. with NoSQL or similar approach if you strive for simplicity).
OK, based on the data, how it needs to be manipulated and the pros and cons of using a SharedPreferences approach, I have decided to go with a SQLite approach.
With that approach I should be able to readily check:
* if the necessary table exists (if not create it)
* if the necessary Field1 + Field2 exists (if not create a new record)
* and I will be able to modify the record's Field3 contents as needed
Then when the user's actions are complete I can convert the SQLite table 'records' into strings and write them out as a File and then either DROP or PURGE the associated SQLite table (until needed next time).
I sincerely appreciate all of your suggestions.
Thank you.
So I am currently making an app to work with and learn more about JSON (using GSON) and decided to go with a reddit browsing app. I am currently able to get the JSON data by using "http://www.reddit.com/.json" and this will get me the JSON for the first 25 posts. I am trying to get the information for the next posts by using
"http://www.reddit.com/.json?count=25&after=" + name_of_last_post
which name_of_last_post is the name field from my GSON for the last post. This however just brings up the first page's posts again with their numbering starting at 25, I get that the numbering starts at 25 because count is set to 25. What I am asking is what is the format of the string I can create to get that next set of JSON items. you can try this your self by going to reddit.com/.json and taking that into a json editor and formatting it nicely than going to the next page of reddit and adding .json before the ?count=25&after=, you will see that the text following after= does not seem to appear on the first JSON file anywhere. If there are any parts of this question that are still unclear please leave a comment and I will check in on it later. Thanks and have a great day.
There are a couple of fields that you can use in order to fetch the next page on JSON.
You could either retrieve the 'name' of the last post, or instead of parsing the whole block, you can retrieve the last couple of fields from the JSON that reddit gives you. There are a couple of fields that you can easily use to navigate pages forwards and backwards, they're conveniently called 'after' and 'before'
Having that value, you can mount your URL with it, which in this case is http://www.reddit.com/.json?count=25&after=t3_3gi42o
This will get you a new JSON, with different 'after' and 'before' fields, pictured below:
I came here (SO) a few days ago to research how to get the min and max from a collection in Android and found a solution to the effect of the following (sorry haven't got a link to the actual answer I used):
Max = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.Max);
Collections.sort(list);
Max.setText(String.format("%.2f", Collections.max(list)));
My question is do I actually need to sort the list before pulling the min/max value? I have tried running the code without sorting the list and it seems to work OK. I am just worried because the answer I used definitely sorted the list first so I assume there must be a reason, I just don't know what it is!
In addition #BobbyDigital's answer who corectly points out the th method iterates over the complete list, I would just like to mention that the result of using the max function might depend on the type of the list elements. If you see the doc , it says that
Returns the maximum element of the given collection, according to the natural ordering of its elements.
If you see Why does Collections.max() not return actual max value for a Collection of String? question, the person used a list of Strings. On extracting max using the abve number he did not get the max number as it was returning the value that's the largest lexicographically. So, just to mention his code:
ArrayList<String> dirNo = new ArrayList<String>();
dirNo.add("1");
dirNo.add("2");
dirNo.add("3");
dirNo.add("4");
dirNo.add("5");
dirNo.add("6");
dirNo.add("7");
dirNo.add("8");
dirNo.add("9");
dirNo.add("10");
dirNo.add("11");
System.out.println("max : " + Integer.parseInt(Collections.max(dirNo))
+ "");
The above code gave 9 as the answer. So be careful while using it. You mgiht want to convert everything to Integer etc based on your needs.
P.S: The example is from the question mentioned and the answer is inspired from this answer by NPE on same question.
No it doesn't have to be sorted. The method iterates over the entire collection.
See the Java docs for the method!
I'm programming an Android app that shows data from MySQL database via ListView with some sorting:
1) Items that are closer to android phone by GPS are shown firstly
If there are 2 or more items with equal distance, second sorting parameter applies - time.
2) Items that are closer in time are showm firstly.
Here is a scheme of the process that I guess to implement:
My idea is to get all needed rows into Array, then make some PHP manipulations with it and then pull sorted Array to the phone.
(as shown on the image above)
So please advice me what will be the proper way?
Maybe there is easier method for this functionality?
Or maybe I should do all the sortings exactly in the Android app when programming ListView, getting only standard "SELECT *" array from the database? Then, is there an opportunity to create a ListView with sorting based on calculated values?