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AlertDialog with TextView - can't use textView.setText method

I'm trying to draw a parabola with delay, using custom view. So far I've learned that I need to use #Override onDraw method, but 1. I can't make my parabola discrete and 2. I don't know how to program it so the shape is created step-by-step (with delay).
I also need to draw it after click of a button, so that is another complication for me. Right now I'm trying to draw a simple line step-by-step but this snippet don't work:
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
super.onDraw(canvas);
canvas.drawPath(path, paint);
int x1 = 10;
int x2 = 100;
int y1 = 10;
int y2 = 100;
int diff = x2-x1;
for (int i = 0; i<diff; i++){
canvas.drawLine(x1, y1, x1+1, y1+1, paint);
x1++;
y1++;
try {
Thread.sleep(100);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

I can give you some tricks but please finish it your self.
You have to use a timer to refresh your component, if use this, it will refresh "onDraw" each 100ms.
private Handler handler = new Handler();
private Runnable AlarmRunnable = new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
handler.postDelayed(this, 100);
invalidate();
}
};
define global variables instead of local.
int cc = 0;
int x1 = 10;
int x2 = 100;
int y1 = 10;
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
super.onDraw(canvas);
if (cc++ > 100) // STOP HANDLER AFTER COUNTER GETS DONE
handler.removeCallbacks(AlarmRunnable);
System.out.println("CC:" + cc);
Paint paint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
paint.setStrokeWidth(lineWidth);
paint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
for (int i = 0; i<cc; i++){
canvas.drawLine(x1, y1, x1 + 1, y1 + 1, paint);
x1++;
y1++;
}
}
start handeler in Constructor
public YOURCOMPONENT(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
handler.post(AlarmRunnable);
....
}

Rendering a Discrete Parabola
As for drawing a discrete parabola, you should draw points (or circles with a radius size of your choice, but centered at the points) along the different x and y coordinates with a larger step size.
For example, you can draw a parabola from x=-1 to x=1 with a step size of 1 by drawing at the following (x, y) points: (-1, 0), (0, 4), (1, 0).
You should make sure that the way you scale your x-axis on your graph, is in a way that there is greater than 1 pixel distance between the points to make it look discrete.
Animated onDraw
Regardless of whether your drawing logic within onDraw is correct or not, you are running a long operation with Thread.sleep() on a UI callback, which is bad practice.
Since you are drawing the whole parabola within one call of onDraw, I would assume the whole image is rendered at once rather than animated.
Looking at a similar question, you should create another thread that is in charge of a rendering loop for your custom view, to create an animation where you draw each frame.

How to draw drawable on canvas custom view in android

I'm working on audio recording app.During recording i'm using visualizer like normal audio recording apps.But on specific time a want to draw a drawable on canvas visualizer(that is custom class extend View class).
Like this white drawable dot.
Here is my Custom view class.
public class VisualizerView extends View {
private static final int LINE_WIDTH = 1; // width of visualizer lines
private static final int LINE_SCALE = 75; // scales visualizer lines
private List<VisuallizerItem> visuallizerItems; // amplitudes for line lengths
private int width; // width of this View
private int height; // height of this View
private Paint linePaint; // specifies line drawing characteristics
//Boolean isImage=false;
// constructor
public VisualizerView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs); // call superclass constructor
linePaint = new Paint(); // create Paint for lines
linePaint.setColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.visualizerColor)); // set color to green
linePaint.setStrokeWidth(LINE_WIDTH); // set stroke width
}
// called when the dimensions of the View change
#Override
protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) {
width = w; // new width of this View
height = h; // new height of this View
visuallizerItems = new ArrayList<VisuallizerItem>();
}
// clear all amplitudes to prepare for a new visualization
public void clear() {
visuallizerItems.clear();
}
// add the given amplitude to the amplitudes ArrayList
public void addAmplitude(VisuallizerItem visuallizerItem) {
// isImage=false;
visuallizerItems.add(visuallizerItem); // add newest to the amplitudes ArrayList
// if the power lines completely fill the VisualizerView
if (visuallizerItems.size() * LINE_WIDTH >= width) {
visuallizerItems.remove(0); // remove oldest power value
}
}
public void addAmplitudeImage(VisuallizerItem visuallizerItem) {
//isImage=true;
visuallizerItems.add(visuallizerItem); // add newest to the amplitudes ArrayList
// if the power lines completely fill the VisualizerView
if (visuallizerItems.size() * LINE_WIDTH >= width) {
visuallizerItems.remove(0); // remove oldest power value
}
}
// draw the visualizer with scaled lines representing the amplitudes
#Override
public void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
int middle = height / 2; // get the middle of the View
float curX = 0; // start curX at zero
// for each item in the amplitudes ArrayList
for (VisuallizerItem power : visuallizerItems) {
if (power.isImage == -100) {
float scaledHeight = power.amplitude / LINE_SCALE; // scale the power
curX += LINE_WIDTH; // increase X by LINE_WIDTH
// draw a line representing this item in the amplitudes ArrayList
canvas.drawLine(curX, middle + scaledHeight / 2, curX, middle
- scaledHeight / 2, linePaint);
} else {//**Here i'm trying to draw mark on canvas**
power.isImage = -100;
//TODO draw attachment image here
Paint p = new Paint();
Bitmap b = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.yellow);
p.setColor(Color.RED);
canvas.drawBitmap(b, visuallizerItems.size(), middle, p);
}
}
}
}
This code add white mark once but remove it when onDraw calls again.
actually i want to draw a mark on canvas like above white dot.
Don't know why it remove it.Please help me
Thanks in advance

Translucent gradient status bar on Android Lollipop presented in Material Design

I would like to make something like this
for Android 5.0 and above?
How can I implement this? I can not found any solution on StackOverFlow or on android developer site.
I suggested that I can make status bar transparent and draw gradient drawable under status bar. But there are few problems.
First problem is that usual gradient from shape drawable doesn't support Material Design spec http://www.google.com/design/spec/style/imagery.html
Second problem is that I can not fit map fragment to windows via android:fitsSystemWindows="true".

Formula that gives approximately same plot as shown on the site of Material Design is:
y = 3/(4*(x+0.5)) - 0.5
I've tried several ways to draw hyperboloid gradient via Canvas and found the fastest solution.
public class HyperbolaGradientDrawable extends Drawable {
private static final int ALPHA_DEFAULT = (int) (0.6f * 255);
private int mAlpha = ALPHA_DEFAULT;
private int mColor;
private Rect mBmpRect = new Rect();
private int[] mColors = new int[0];
private Bitmap mBmp;
#Override
public void draw(Canvas canvas) {
Rect bounds = getBounds();
if (mColors.length != bounds.height()) {
int alpha;
float y, alphaRelative;
mColors = new int[bounds.height()];
for (int i = 0; i < bounds.height(); i++) {
y = ((float) i) / bounds.height();
// this function gives approximately 0.5 of the bearing alpha at 3/10ths closed to the darker end
alphaRelative = 3 / (4 * (y + 0.5f)) - 0.5f;
alpha = (int) (alphaRelative * mAlpha);
mColors[i] = alpha << 24 | mColor;
}
mBmp = Bitmap.createBitmap(mColors, 1, bounds.height(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
mBmpRect.set(0, 0, 1, bounds.height());
}
canvas.drawBitmap(mBmp, mBmpRect, bounds, null);
}
public void setColor(int color) {
// remove alpha chanel
mColor = color & 0x00FFFFFF;
}
#Override
public void setAlpha(int alpha) {
mAlpha = alpha;
}
#Override
public void setColorFilter(ColorFilter colorFilter) {
}
#Override
public int getOpacity() {
return PixelFormat.TRANSLUCENT;
}
}
I know that Google recommend to do not create new objects in draw method, but it works faster than drawing line by line through Canvas.
You can look at comparison of several ways in demo project

Android Imagebutton was cutoff after rotate

I want to create a customized ViewGroup which contains some ImageButtons rotated around one circle button.
Every ambient ImageButton was added to my viewgroup has the same layout position, which is on top and horizontal-center of viewgroup. After that, I will rotate each of them with specific angle, target is to create a ring around center button:
public class CustomeView extends ViewGroup {
private List<ArcButton> mArcButtons = new ArrayList<ArcButton>();
protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) {
// ...
mArcBtnBound = new RectF(0, 0, (mInnerRadius + mThickness), mThickness);
mArcBtnBound.offsetTo(
getPaddingLeft() + (mInnerRadius + mThickness) / 2,
getPaddingTop());
for(ArcButton arcBtn: mArcButtons) {
arcBtn.layout(
(int)mArcBtnBound.left,
(int)mArcBtnBound.top,
(int)mArcBtnBound.right,
(int)mArcBtnBound.bottom);
}
}
}
mInnerRadius is radius of center circle button, mThickness is height of ambient button in viewgroup. Adding an ambient ImageButton:
ArcButton btn = new ArcButton(getContext());
btn.setBackgroundResource(bkgResId);
btn.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_launcher);
addView(btn);
btn.rotateTo(10, (mThickness + mInnerRadius) / 2, (mThickness + mInnerRadius));
I was reimplement draw() method of ImageButton class to rotate image view along with background, and provide a public method rotateTo.
public class ArcButton extends ImageButton {
private float mRotation;
private PointF mPivot;
#Override
public void draw(Canvas canvas) {
canvas.save();
canvas.rotate(mRotation, mPivot.x, mPivot.y);
super.draw(canvas);
canvas.restore();
}
public void rotateTo(float rotation, float pivotX, float pivotY) {
mPivot.x = pivotX;
mPivot.y = pivotY;
mRotation = rotation;
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 11) {
this.setPivotX(pivotX);
this.setPivotY(pivotY);
this.setRotation(rotation);
} else {
draw(new Canvas());
}
}
}
As you can see the above screenshot, problem is my Imagebutton was cutoff. I tried to use RotateAnimation, it made rotated buttons were not cutoff but didnt receive touch event too. Android version on testing is 2.2. Can you help me to fix this?
Any other suggestions to rotate ambient buttons effectively are highly appreciated. Thank you so much!

Android create a triangle based on user input

I have an xml layout that has 3 input boxes and a 'generate' button.
When the user puts in there values there I'd like to draw a triangle underneath it
I know how to create a new view and go to it, but I'm not sure how to draw it on the same view being that I'm working with an xml view.
Below is a screenshot of what I want to do.
Thank you
http://i.stack.imgur.com/9oBJV.png

You could create a custom view class.
class Triangle extends View {
private int vertexA, vertexB, vertexC;
public Triangle(Context ctx){
this(ctx,null);
}
public Triangle(Context ctx, AttributeSet attrs){
this(ctx,attrs,0);
}
public Triangle(Context ctx, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle){
super(ctx,attrs,defStyle);
}
public void setSides(int a, int b, int c){
this.vertexA = a;
this.vertexB = b;
this.vertexC = c;
this.invalidate();
}
#Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
// Try for a width based on our minimum
int minw = getPaddingLeft() + getPaddingRight() + getSuggestedMinimumWidth();
int w = resolveSizeAndState(minw, widthMeasureSpec, 1);
// Whatever the width ends up being, ask for a height that would let the triangle
// get as big as it can
int minh = MeasureSpec.getSize(w) - (int)mTextWidth + getPaddingBottom() + getPaddingTop();
int h = resolveSizeAndState(MeasureSpec.getSize(w) - (int)mTextWidth, heightMeasureSpec, 0);
setMeasuredDimension(w, h);
}
#Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
super.onDraw(canvas);
Paint paint = new Paint();
Path path = new Path();
paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL);
paint.setColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
c.drawPaint(paint);
// start the path at the "origin"
path.MoveTo(10,10); // origin
// add a line for side A
path.lineTo(10,this.vertexA);
// add a line for side B
path.lineTo(this.vertexB,10);
// close the path to draw the hypotenuse
path.close();
paint.setStrokeWidth(3);
paint.setPathEffect(null);
paint.setColor(Color.BLACK);
paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
c.drawPath(path, paint);
}
}
Note that I've hard coded the origin (the bottom left corner - the right angle) and only drawn 2 sides, since the hypotenuse is drawn by the closed path (this saves doing any extra maths). You'll want to play with onMeasure and scale your triangle as you need. Something like this:
path.lineTo(10, this.vertexA * yScale);
path.lineTo(this.vertexB * xScale ,10);
You're activity should check that the 3 values do indeed represent the sides of a right angled triangle, then call setSides(). I've added all 3 sides, although we are only using a and b. You could remove c if you prefer.
Please note that this is not copy/paste code. You will need to adapt it but it should give you a head start. Good luck.

Just put your custom view into the layout below the button. The exact xml to use depends on the type of your top level view container (which is probably a RelativeLayout).
To make it invisible at first you can set its visibility to INVISIBLE. When it should appear set the visibility to VISIBLE.