In my android application I want to create a custom type of IM that should be editable via standard contacts editing application. There are several built-it IMs that user can select from: Aim, Windows Live, Yahoo, etc. I want to add "My Very Best IM" to the list, so that user can pick it quickly without the need to enter the "custom" text and value by hand. Any ideas on how to do this?
You cannot add this functionality to the inbuilt contacts app.
In other words, you cannot tell that this app should show up in that list.
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I have a question that I am struggling to find the answer to. What I am looking to do is create an app that will show a different template depending on the user that signs in.
For example, two users A and B. When A logs in I am hoping for them to see a tabbed template that will have features x,y and z but when B logs in I am hoping they will see a simple activity with feature c.
Ideally there will be a point of contact for the admin that will allow them manage the different templates and who sees which ones.
Is this something that can be achieved at all or is it a waste of time?
Can you please tell me exactly how you wanna show templates to the user like in listview or something else.
Secondly the thing which you want is achievable this has to be done from the server end suppose if you are showing your template in a listview so server will send you data accordingly like if user A logs in the db will give you value of the templates which your admin wants to show to your user and later you can open the templates according to the listview item selected .
Happy Coding .
On my iPad, when i touch and hold a specific word in, for example, a PDF document, the word gets highlighted and I get three options, Copy, Search, Define. Choosing the Define option brings up the English definition of the highlighted word in what seems like a built-in dictionary. Is it possible to add this type of functionality to my app using a standard TextView without having to create an entire Dictionary database? Does Android already have one?
There's nothing like that built in. You may be able to find a third party library, but most likely you'd need to build your own from scratch.
On a call android searches your contact list and shows the contact name if available, and if the number is an anonymous caller it just shows the number.
Now I want the call system to check a specific source (an XML file or a database file) after ending up searching in contact list and if the number is found in the source then show the name from the source.
Is it totally possible to add such thing to a built-in android function? If yes, could you please give me a clue to start from?
If you make a custom dialer app, sure. A special way to add it to any existing dialer app, not really.
Hm, I guess you could do similar like 2gis dialer App. They just open custom dialog over the default dialer. See left screen for example
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Is there a way to load an app specific custom dictionary for android keyboard auto-complete to show to the users? My app uses a few hundred words only and any input other than these words is going to be useless.
I want to just load the word list used in my app and override the default android (or swype/swiftkey dictionaries if they are installed), without the hassle of implementing a full blown keyboard.
I have seen a couple of similar questions like here, but nothing that answers my question. Android IME again requires you to write a keyboard.
I think that make SQLite database in your application in your android application and load this data in the autocomplete and when the user entered the text then check that whether the word he entered lies in that database or not. If yes, then keep this in that textbox otherwise make text of that textbox empty i.e "". Hope that this will work for you....
I am new to android and have been teaching myself how to create apps through the android developers website. My app itself is like a recipe book. It lets me add my favourite recipes to a database so therefore where ever I am I am able to see what ingredients and the method for creating my favourite dishes. The list is getting rather long now so I was wondering if there was a way to search through a list like you do for contacts in your phone book. This would make things a lot easier for me.
Thanks in advance
You can actually integrate the Android search box (the one that pops up when you hit the "search" hardware key) into your application, so it searches your data. There's a page on Using the Android Search Dialog in the Android Developer Guide.
Also for user convenience and habbits to use search button you can override onSearchRequested method and do anything you want, show additional layout etc...