android-3.0-honeycomb
Loaders in Android Honeycomb
Dianne Hackborn replied on the bug tracker and referred us to the static library implementation. CursorLoader is doing forceLoad() which is why it is working. See my attached class for a class which handles this for you in most simple cases at the bug tracker: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=14944
Connect USB device to Android Emulator?
The Android emulator is based on QEMU. Even if the emulator version is so ancient, there appears to be support for passing USB devices from the host. It does not seem to be available for ARM devices though, the emulated ARM machine does not have a USB controller. (I have already tried enabling all USB … Read more
Tap outside Android dialog to dismiss it?
dialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(true) Sets whether this dialog is canceled when touched outside the window’s bounds.
Handling the missing MENU button in new versions of Android (3.x and up)
Let me share another scenario where Menu Button becomes critical even though it is not a game. I have app implement its own tool bars which behave to some extent like ActionBar. Well I did that coz my app was released with 1.5 sdk. At that time there is no such concept. And to accomodate … Read more