Creating Custom Dialog from Layout File

In this post, I will show how to create a custom dialog using xml layout file.

First you have to create a xml layout file. After creating layout file than you have to open activity in which you want to display dialog. Here, layout file contains a button "OK" as an example.

In the activity, declare the Dialog and than create a method as below:

private Dialog myDialog;

private void showDialog() { 

myDialog = new Dialog(this,R.style.wideDialogStyle);

myDialog.setCancelable(false);

myDialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(false);

myDialog.getWindow().setLayout(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,

    ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);

myDialog.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

myDialog.setContentView(R.layout.log_in);

myDialog.show(); 

// Set up the Button

okBtn = (Button) myDialog.findViewById(R.id.ok_btn); okBtn.setOnClickListener(okBtnListener); 

} 

//This is the onClickListener() for OK button of the Dialog
private Button.OnClickListener okBtnListener = new Button.OnClickListener() { 
@Override 
public void onClick(View v) { 

myDialog.dismiss();

} 

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Check SIM card availability in Android.

 

Sometimes, It is necessary to check the availability of Network service in Android. Here is the code.

TelephonyManager telephonyManager= (TelephonyManager) getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);

int simState = telephonyManager.getSimState();

switch (simState) {

    case TelephonyManager.SIM_STATE_ABSENT:

       Toast.makeText(context, "SIM Card Not Available., Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

       break;

     case TelephonyManager.SIM_STATE_READY:

       Toast.makeText(context, "SIM Card Available.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

}

Viewpager/Fragment Tabs Adapter

While working with Viewpager which contains multiple Tabs and each tab is a fragment, it is necessary to have an adapter which decides which fragment should be called when user taps on a specific viewpager tab. For this you have to specify a list of fragments which is passed to adapter then this adapter is set to the viewpager. Here is the method to add and returns an ArrayList of type Fragment.

    
    public ArrayList<Fragment> defaultFragmentList(){

         

        ArrayList<Fragment> fragmentsList = new ArrayList<Fragment>();

         

        fragmentsList.add(new FirstFragment());

        fragmentsList.add(new SecondFragment());

        fragmentsList.add(new ThirdFragment());

         

        return fragmentsList;

    }

After having an arraylist of fragments type we have to pass this list to tabs adapter. Here is the method which takes the fragments arraylist and pass it to adapter.This adapter is set to the viewpager as below:



    public void populateFragments(ArrayList<Fragment> fragmentsList){

         

        mAdapter = new TabsPagerAdapter(this, getSupportFragmentManager(), fragmentsList);   

        viewPager.setAdapter(mAdapter);       

    }

In the onCreate method of the main activity, we call the above methods as:

populateFragments(defaultFragmentList());

Now, here is the complete code of TabsPagerAdapter class. 

import java.util.ArrayList;

import android.content.Context;

import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;

import android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager;

import android.support.v4.app.FragmentPagerAdapter;

public class TabsPagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {

    final int TABs=3;

    Context context;

    FragmentManager mFragmentManager;

    ArrayList<Fragment> mFragmentsList;

    public TabsPagerAdapter(Context mContext, FragmentManager fm, ArrayList<Fragment> fragmentsList) {

        super(fm);

        
        context=mContext; 

        mFragmentsList = fragmentsList;     

        mFragmentManager=fm;

    }

    @Override

    public Fragment getItem(int index) {

    

         Fragment fragment =null;                   

         switch (index) {         

         case 0:

             // FirstFragment

             fragment = mFragmentsList.get(0);

             break;

         case 1:   

             // SecondFragment

             fragment = mFragmentsList.get(1);

              break;

         case 2:

             // ThirdFragment

             fragment = mFragmentsList.get(2);

              break;

         }       

         return fragment;                        

    }       

    @Override

    public int getCount() {

         

        // get item count - equal to number of tabs

        return TABs;

    } 

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Calling an Activity from Service

To call an activity from service class through intent, write the code as below:


Intent intent=new Intent(UpdateWidgetService.this, Main.class);
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
startActivity(intent);

where

"UpdateWidgetService" is the service class from where you are calling activity.
"Main" is the name of activity class.

Android Custom Push Notifications

Custom Push Notifications 

In Android Push Notifications, it often happens that the a complete message/text is not visible. For small message/text it is ok but in case of longer message/text it is necessary to show complete message/text on a single push notification. It can be easily done by creating custom push notification in android. By using custom notification it does not matter how longer message/text you want to display on a single notification.

For custom push notification, first you need to create a custom layout. Here is sample layout which you can use or create your own custom layout for push notification. Then you can use this custom layout for notification.

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
      xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="100dp"
      android:gravity="center_vertical"
      android:background="#f0f0f0">
    <ImageView
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/image"
        android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:contentDescription="icon" />
    <LinearLayout
        android:gravity="center_vertical"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/image"
        android:orientation="vertical">
          <TextView
            android:text="TextView" 
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:textSize="14sp"        
            android:id="@+id/title"
            android:textColor="#3D3A34"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"/> 
          <TextView
            android:gravity="center_vertical"
            android:text="TextView" 
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:textSize="12sp"
            android:id="@+id/text"
            android:textColor="#3D3A34"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"
            android:singleLine="false"
            android:maxLines="8"/>              
    </LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

Save this layout with "custom_notification.xml". This layout will be used in GCMIntentService Class.
After creating custom layout, create a method in GCMIntentService class as given below:

    private static void generateCustomNotification(Context context,
            String message, String title) {
               
        try{            
           
  int icon = R.drawable.applogo; // this is the icon which you can set for notification, I set applogo as icon.
            long when = System.currentTimeMillis();
            RemoteViews contentView = new RemoteViews("com.yourpackname", R.layout.custom_notification);// custom_notification.xml layout used here

            contentView.setImageViewResource(R.id.image,icon);
            contentView.setTextViewText(R.id.title,  title); // title of push notification
            contentView.setTextViewText(R.id.text,  message); //// message/text of push notification

            NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager)
                    context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
            Notification notification = new Notification(icon, message, when);
          
            Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(context, YourActivity.class); //YourActivity will be activity of your project where you want to redirect user when he/she taps on push notification.
            notificationIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
            // set intent so it does not start a new activity 
            notificationIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP |
                    Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_BROUGHT_TO_FRONT);
            PendingIntent intent =PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0, notificationIntent, Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
            notification.contentIntent = intent ;
            notification.flags |= Notification.FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL;
            notification.flags |= Notification.FLAG_SHOW_LIGHTS;
            notification.defaults |= Notification.DEFAULT_VIBRATE; //Whenever a push notification receives, phone vibrates. For this, you need Vibrate permission in Manifest file. Otherwise, app crashes.
            notification.defaults |= Notification.DEFAULT_LIGHTS;
            notification.contentView = contentView;
            notificationManager.notify(counter, notification); //static int counter = 0; this counter will be used if you send multiple push notifications so each notification displays as separate notification.
            counter ++;
        }catch (Exception e) {
           
        }
    }



That's all about Custom push notification. 


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