Android Tutorial & Lessons 4: More XML and reference background

[Frans421421]

I connected my Android phone to my PC but........... How can I run my app on my phone?

[AndroidNewbCoder]

Hello, thanks for these videos, I don't have a base in XML but you have explained things very well, I am close to an expert in it over one night! Android is very sophisticated and I am not sure how to use their even handler/listener, do you go through this in a later video?

[fouledout443]

Dude your awesome!! Thanks for the videos man!

[lonlytheonly]

When I select text or move from 1 line to other, my text changes, dont know what is happening :(

[Junkeeman84]

i think you meant java script and not javascript

[waluhkuning]

@waluhkuning i answer my own question, YESS!!.. it has affect!! :)

[waluhkuning]

is picture size affect? i mean i try to ref the background with my pic but it always error, it say "Must start with #"

[gustavboll1]

how do i make a comment in xml

[jipll0000]

I am getting this error in front of the first text view:

Multiple annotations found at this line: - The value of attribute "android:background" associated with an element type "LinearLayout" must not contain the '<' character.

And it won't let me run it, please help, thanks in advance.

[erikhesen]

I get this message when I try to apply the "new" script (button)

"attribute is missing the android namespace prefix"

How do I solve this problem? thanks in advance

[talhah321]

i like it but when ever i try to do text it does error

[Brazid]

how do u make it so when you start typing it fills automatically what can be typed in ??

[kakaofuglen1]

btw GREAT tutorials (:

[kakaofuglen1]

I don't quite understand. In your first videos you asked us to put our Paint picture in the mdpi not the hdpi, and you also told us to save and .png file, and now your picture is .jpg

[djadamr]

hi,

eclipse isnt showing any of the commands as i type, so im pretty lost right now. couldn't find anything in help or settings :(

[djchristian82]

Pretty nice!! ; )

[Hack4realz]

Love these tuts! thank you for your time!

But I hate when you click to save! ctrl+s is so much faster :) I have saved countless hours hot keying ctrl

[RandyRobert36]

Awesome stuff! You explained this perfectly! Keep it up!

[Taco7712]

LMAO I spell android wrong and almost pulled my hair out..

[ziGGie007100]

Thanks for the tutorials they are wonderful thanks.x

[alabader741]

Thanks .

[yakatie123]

when i take 'run as' => 'android application' ther come a window with 'your project contains error(s), pleas fix them before running your application' can you help me??

[Ktascoe]

how do you assign a task to your button? Such as having that button answer a question

[JanseyYT]

Blow your nose! It is very irritating.

[electronicsnow1]

Hi! Just wondering why my emulator has a charging sign, signal bars, and the time on the top and yours doesnt? Am I doing something wrong? How do I take it off?

[flyfishireland]

Travis,

Thanks for the tutorials at 52 probably the oldest here. Following you since injury finished my work. Thanks again.

[2bSurfing]

Thanks 4 the lessons you have put a lot of your time into them. I'm just getting started and they have been a big help

[PedSet]

please help i try to create a new android project and then...

com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.in­ternal.project.AndroidManifest­Helper] Unable to read C:\android-sdk-windows\samples­\android-8\AndroidManifest.xml­: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\android-sdk-windows\samples­\android-8\AndroidManifest.xml (The system cannot find the file specified)

[CornboyzAndroid]

@PedSet try downloading/installing the java JRE. Also I would suggest following the my other series on mybringback

[subjugator7]

@CornboyzAndroid

Please Help!

I'm using Win7 64bit with Eclipse Helios 3.6.2. I got Everything setup as you have showed. I'm able to load the Emulator and emulator shows default information.

When I try to build after adding background using run as-> Android Application then 1) console shows no errors 2) Emulator will open with the default settings. It will not load background(app). It happens with other example apps as well. Any ideas why? Thanks

[greatcabby]

At 2:32, when I hit Enter, it doesn't bring up the context menu.

At 7:22, when I try to add the background, it pops up the context menu with only two options and no background option. The two are comments or XSL processing instruction. I proceeded to type everything you had but the entire line of text is black, not like the other lines which are gray. So I think it's not taking it. Any suggestions?

[weedhornjosh]

how to make a button ---> type button xD u made my day

[kazam324]

dude you should be a university professor ... you teach a lot better than them .. keep it up :D

[akshayaradhya]

For all those who are wondering how that pop-up apperars (between 2:08 and 2:40)

you first need to type android: and then give a 3 seconds pause then choose textStyle(or whatever you want) then put an = sign wand wait for 2 mores seconds

Vote to keep it on top.

[JanOlMajti]

When you add jpg file dont do project - clean! Just press F5 to refresh

[bistnenutte]

whats the diff between this and html?? just curious

[MyDollar1]

Amazing tutorial, i successfully completed the application, hopefully i would do the same for my website...Thanks once again

[Catarouxx]

what key are you using to bring up the quick commands?

[robwillful]

Here's a solution to a problem some of you might be having: When you reference the picture in your resource folder, don't include the extension. So here it would be "@drawable/cornboyz_background­" No .jpg at the end. 

[uidsea]

That window doesn't pop up every time I enter text.

[dinesh1051]

Get over all those damn tutorials that kill your time. Here comes a series of comprehensively packed tutorials which are a developer's delight. These tutorials are "invincible" and he is the undisputed king of android tutorials. We bow down in respect to you sir.

[TwizzWTFisWrong]

Just a quick question! Why did you change from PNG to JPG for your background image? I know the differences in between the formats but did the PNG image create any problems as a background?

Thx for a really good tutorial man! Subscribed right away :)

[TheiWokcLan]

How do you get the option menu when you typed android: ????

[FFWDEntertainment]

You seriously are the mu fuckin man for putting out a solid series like this for free. Keep donating to this man ppl

[microzee]

hey man love the video tutorials! ok i have a problem too though. i cant run the emulator. i go to the avd manager click the emulator i want to use, and click start. it pops up a dialog in eclipse loading project or something, but the emulator screen thing you showed never pops up. it just has a grey box saying loading in project, then the emulator doesnt pop up. i went to the android sdk folder, then tools, then emulator.exe and it says cannont find freeaddrinfo in ws2_32.dll. that may be prob?

[CornboyzAndroid]

hey can you send me your project, Right click>Export...> Go into the gen folder, and click file archive and then send it to cornboyzandroid@gmail.com

[1983Jamar]

I named it ha.jpg and keep getting this error error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at 'background' with value '@drawable/ha.jpg'). But it showis up in my res file.

[JaredCC00]

@1983Jamar did you ever find the solution to this error? Can't find anything in the comments.

[gordo4584]

Great Videos! I can seem to test my app in the emulator though... I've set it up as virtual device and can "start" it from that same menu where it is defined... It will load and have android on it. BUT when I go to Run As there is nothing there, it just says '(none applicable)' ... Any ideas?

[1983Jamar]

hey evertime i try to reference my pic. i lose my r.java file

[CornboyzAndroid]

@1983Jamar you probably have your image (or a different resource) misnamed. What I mean by that, is that if you have your image named Mypicture.jpg it will delete your project, but if you change it to mypicture.jpg and clean the project it should rebuild your R.java. So just make sure all your resources are lowercase and you dont have any crazy symbols or spaces, etc. hope that helps

[siliconsurf]

why don't you just the damn graphical layout tool instead of all this manual xml typing?

[siliconsurf]

put on your vador helmet

[HussainAlmuflahi]

No homo.. But i Love you mann... iv been looking for some1 to teach me

[MrChrisfranko]

jesus christ blow your fuckin nose or something.

[Blitzz117]

Why do i get the wrong in the myMain.java.

It stands R can not be resolved as an variable

[MyRsIrl]

Subbed.

[shane9b3]

Great tutorial so far