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    App Inventor Problem with MediaPlayer.create() when recreating with same files after mediaPlayer.release()

    I have a simple media player app that works fine for a while (like each song will play about 50 times) and then starts to crash on almost all the media files (a few still work but lag really bad; there is no lag until the errors). These errors continue even after stopping the activity and...
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    How do you set text and trigger onItemClick() of an autoCompleteTextView?

    autoCompleteTextViewFreqFunction.setText(function); autoCompleteTextViewFreqFunction.performCompletion(); This successfully selects the text I want. The problem is, I have some code that needs to be run after an item is selected and I am unsure how to go about it. I can call code...
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    TextInputLayout text is overwriting TextInputEditText text

    The first one is fine. What could be wrong? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"...
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    Android's unusable Toolbar documentation

    I am using https://developer.android.com/training/appbar/actions. How do I add the menu items to the toolbar?!?!?!?!?!?! Who wrote this unusable documentation? I even had to ghetto rig how to add the toolbar because setSupportActionBar() didn't even work. I ended up adding the toolbar to a...
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    Simplest way to implement spreadsheet-like GUI?

    I am trying to create a GUI that looks kind of like this: _____________ _|___|___|_|_|__ _|___|___|_|_|__ Each rectangle is a unique clickable View. Needs to scroll horizontally and vertically. Need to add or remove rows and columns at any position. Columns need to be the same width. I have...