Honeycomb 3.1 / Mono for Android persist 'LightsOut' - android

I developed my app using Mono for Android. I have the latest version 4.0.3. My AndroidManifest.xml specifies:
<uses-sdk android:targetSdkVersion="11" android:minSdkVersion="8" />
The app runs on tablets, so in Honeycomb I need to hide the status bar at the bottom of the screen. This is how I do that (with a simple extension method):
internal static void LightsOut(this View view)
{
try
{
IntPtr view_setSystemUiVisibility = JNIEnv.GetMethodID(view.Class.Handle, "setSystemUiVisibility", "(I)V");
JNIEnv.CallVoidMethod(view.Handle, view_setSystemUiVisibility, new JValue(1));
}
catch
{ }
}
I call this on every view that I instantiate. On my Motorola Xoom, running 3.0.1, this works great.
On my Samsung Galaxy Tab running 3.1, it works; but the status bar comes back after some short period of time. In the Android Log I see that LightsOn() is getting called...
How can I prevent the status bar from coming back in 3.1? I saw this event:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.OnSystemUiVisibilityChangeListener.html
And thought I could use it to hide the status bar, if it comes back. But I don't see how I can subscribe to it (it doesn't show in Intellisense).

Does something specific happen before the status bar comes back, or is it solely time related? A quick search of the ICS source suggests that the status bar status will be reset when the top App Window changes. Are you calling StartActivity() or moving to another app when you see this behavior?
The View.OnSystemUiVisibilityChangeListener interface has been bound as the View.IOnSystemUiVisibilityChangeListener interface and through the View.SystemUiVisibilityChange event. However, both of these mechanisms require that your $(TargetFrameworkVersion) target Android v3.1 or later, which would set your //uses-sdk/#android:minSdkVersion attribute to 12, and is thus something you (presumably) don't want to do.
I see two plausible solutions here:
Figure out why LightsOn() is being invoked and try to work around it (call LightsOut() within every Activity.OnCreate() method?).
Provide two versions of your app, one with a minSdkVersion of 8, and one of (at least) 12, and then use Multiple APK Support to include both in your program. The device will then run the appropriate package, permitting access to the View.SystemUiVisibilityChange event.

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Activity Background change dynamic

I have just started developing an android weather app and I was wondering how to change activity background automatically. For example, in daytime it should show day time or in the night it should show night photos.
This is the app of Sony which has a feature (mentioned above)
Check the screenshots.
Okay Credit goes to SteD;so for you check this(beginner's guide)
Follow this
//set an ID for Relative Layout in content_main.xml(Android Studio)
RelativeLayout rlayout=(RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.rlayout);
if(something){Drawable drawble=getResource().getDrawable(R.drawable.your_image);rlayout.setBackgroundDrawable(drawable);}
//If it works,destroy the upvote
The only automatic way is the newly released (Day/Night theme for android app)
For finer control you check the condition yourself and call the normal Java methods, like this:
if(something) {
getWindow()
.setBackgroundDrawable(ContextCompat.getDrawable(this, R.drawable.image));
}
of if you don't care about the newly introduced context themed styling, you just call the deprecated method (which will keep working without issues for all the foreseeable future)
if(something) {
getWindow()
.setBackgroundDrawable(
getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.image));
}

What is the expected startup experience for a Progressive Web Application?

Testing a Progressive Web Application.
When I start the app in airplane mode, I get an unexpected startup/splash experience (Android/Chrome).
Launch from Home Screen Experience
I see a white screen, followed by a brief flash of the "offline dinosaur" before the app successfully starts and all is well. The startup time is longer than I expected, especially after testing with Chrome Devtools on a laptop, where startup is near instant.
Since it is a little tricky to debug where this time is being spent (especially in the “service-worker-not-running” case), it would be helpful to have some baseline knowledge:
Launch from Browser Experience
Just a brief flash of the "offline dinosaur" before the app successfully starts. Starts much faster.
Questions
What is the expected startup time and experience on Android/Chrome?
Is the experience described above just the current state of things (11/2015)?
Is there any way to specify the startup (splash) experience for Chrome? (I'm aware of background color and 144x144 icon in app manifest for splash, but for Opera only)
First time PWA for me, so any information on this would be helpful.
My platform:
Samsung GS 5,
Android 5.0,
Chrome 46.0.2490.76
The reason for the existence of the splash screen is because on mobile it can take over a second to start the render process so we paint something (the background colour and icons) util you have a first paint generated by your app.
If you are seeing a white screen on startup it might be because you added to the homescreen prior to Chrome landing (46) the splash screen feature. Some things to lookout for:
Ensure your manifest has a short_name and name
Ensure your start_url is in the same scope as a SW that is registered on the page
Have good icons in the manifest ideally > 192px
Set background_color in the manifest to the color of your background on the page (ideally.) This will ensure that the splash screen is the expected colour of your site.
You shouldn't see the offline dinosaur at all, even when you are in aeroplane mode. Airhorner should represent the ideal experience: Blue splash screen with an icon that morphs into the display of the app.
re: Icons - I recommend actually 192px icon or higher.
Regarding the offline-dino flash:
I was using sw-toolbox and performing asynchronous work to setup route handlers at worker startup. This caused an offline dino flash when the application was offline and starting up.
To avoid that, set a sw-toolbox default handler that waits for the asynchronous route handler setup to complete.
var toolbox = require('sw-toolbox');
var setupPromise = someAsyncHandlerSetup()
.then(function () {
// make default handler temporary, allows other fetch handlers (like sw-precache, for example)
toolbox.router.default = null;
});
// until the async handler setup is done, provide a default handler
// to avoid an offline-dino flash when starting up while offline.
toolbox.router.default = function defaultHandler (request) {
return setupPromise.then(function () {
var handler = toolbox.router.match(request);
if (handler) {
return handler(request);
}
throw new Error('default handler could not handle ' + request.url);
});
};

Android Wear BoxInsetLayout isRound always returns false

I'm building an Android Wear app and trying to implement BoxInsetLayout for round screens. In my code, I want to detect if the device is round or not, so I'm using BoxInsetLayout's isRound() function, but it always returns false, even on the Moto 360.
Anyone know if there's a way to programmatically tell if the device is round?
The problem may be caused by calling isRound() at the wrong time. The round-ness is determined by the WindowInsets being delivered to the BoxInsetLayout. If you call isRound() very early before the insets have been delivered, you will get the wrong answer.
So if you have a "box" object which is the BoxInsetLayout, you would do this:
box.setOnApplyWindowInsetsListener(new View.OnApplyWindowInsetsListener() {
#Override
public WindowInsets onApplyWindowInsets(View view, WindowInsets windowInsets) {
// Need to also call the original insets since we have overridden the original
// https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.OnApplyWindowInsetsListener.html
box.onApplyWindowInsets(windowInsets);
// You can make calls to detect isRound() here!
// Return the insets so the BoxInsetLayout still works properly
return windowInsets;
}
});
Can you please send us the code related to the BoxInsetLayout that you are using?
According to Wayne answer on G+ it is a bug, for now we know what causes it, how to avoid it but only if user is aware of that, but fix for it is not released (yet).
https://plus.google.com/108847189842978537754/posts/5YiYb14i7ss
Quoting as post might be deleted/changed:
The problem is triggered by the watch switching languages when pairing with a phone after a factory reset. You can avoid the issue by
selecting the same language on the wearable as you are using on the
phone, so that no change occurs afterwards when the devices are
paired.
Instructions to fix the problem:
Factory reset the Moto 360.
When the wearable restarts, it will ask what language you would like to use. Select the same language that you are using on the phone
(do not select the default of English)
On the phone, start the Android Wear companion app, and select from the overflow menu the option "Pair with a new wearable".
Pair the phone with the Moto 360.
EDIT:
Using setOnApplyWindowInsetsListener (suggested by Wayne) I created small class that simplify using it a bit. https://github.com/tajchert/ShapeWear
Just copy ShapeWear.java class, and subscribe to screen shape detection event setOnShapeChangeListener() or call method ShapeWear.isRound() (can throw error is shape is not yet determined) or ShapeWear. getShape() - which can result in ShapeWear.SHAPE_UNSURE in same situation.

SlidingMenu and ViewPager with API13 (Honeycomb)

I´m experiencing a weird problem with SlidingMenu Library and ViewPager when they are running on devices with Android 3.2 (Honeycomb).
The problem appears when we "toggle" the SlidingMenu to show the Menu that is hidden on the left of the app. When we do this, both ContentView and BehingContentView stops responding to touch events.
Thinking that this was a problem related to my application, I downloaded the last version of ABS and SlidingMenu library and configured a new project using the built-in example that comes with the SlidingMenu and, for my surprise, the same behavior occurred with the ViewPager example.
These are the steps that I did:
Configure an Emulator using API Level 13 and 7" WSVGA (Tablet);
Download ABS and SlidingMenu from GIT;
Setup a new Project, using the compatibility library android-support-v41 (Also tested with android-support-v4);
Solved the problem 'getSupportActionBar() is undefined' as described here: https://github.com/jfeinstein10/SlidingMenu/issues/145;
Run the 'Example Application' and choose 'ViewPager' example;
Swipe pages to the right and to the left, without opening the menu;
Open the menu. See that the lists don´t scroll as expected;
Close the menu. See that the viewpager doesn´t responds to touch events anymore;
Notice that this behavior was reported only on Android 3.2 devices. We have the same application running on 2.x and on 4.x devices, without this problem.
Also, noticed that the Example Application that was downloaded from Google Play doesn´t have this problem.
Does anybody have any advice? Thanks a lot!
Edit 1
Tested on a real device, and confirmed the Behavior. Does anybody have an advice?
I had the same problem and fixed it by using the following work-around.
Replace these lines in SlidingMenu.java:
#TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB)
public void manageLayers(float percentOpen) {
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 11) return;
with:
#TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH)
public void manageLayers(float percentOpen) {
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 14) return;

pagechange method doesn't work on android 2

I have set up a small mobile application and during tests I have stumbled upon a problem with older versions of mobile devices running Android version 2. Please note that iPhones, iPads and newer versions of Android, namely 4.xx display the pages well. The problem is as follows:
When page is called directly from the link:
Home
it is properly displayed.
However, when there is a click handler on a link, like here:
$(document).on('click', '#lstAddrList li', function ()
{
var anchor = $(this).find('a');
sessionStorage.SiteAddr = anchor.attr('id');
changePage();
});
the list line (in this case) stays selected and nothing happens. It is ONLY after the calling page is refreshed directly from the browser when the called page is displayed. I have a feeling that older Androids do not properly handle changePage() method.
Will you have some ideas?

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