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    [GAME][QUIZ] [FREE] Breaking Bad - The Quiz! - An app I've built

    A quiz based on the popular TV show, Breaking Bad! Hopefully you guys like it, leave a review if you do! Over 500 questions so you will never get bored. Since the tv show is quite old it's safe to say that most people know a fair bit about it, so I made a Hard mode for those of us who...
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    Apps Creating a quiz app with levels? Is it possible without a game engine?

    I'm currently going about creating a quiz for Android. I've seen seem source code of other apps that use SQLite databases to hold questions etc but one thing they don't have is levels. I'm hoping I can have say 50 levels and one level unlocks the next until you get to level 50. Is that...
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    Apps Quick question: Is it worth removing AdMob test devices before releasing app?

    Didn't really want to start a new thread for what is a quick question but there's no real place to stick it. Do you think it's necessary to remove the test devices I've declared in my XML before releasing my app? I mean surely it only effects the devices I have listed..? So basically my...
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    Apps TimePicker and ScrollView not playing nice.

    Ok, so I have a XML layout with a TimePicker, few buttons and what not and a ScrollView because it's needed. When I run the app the app doesn't scroll. On top of that the TimePicker doesn't scroll either. Well it does but correctly. It takes 6/7 swipes to move from 6 to 7. When I remove the...
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    Apps Carrying out time calculations?

    Can anyone help guide me in the right direction? I want to be able to let a button do some time calculations for me. Basically I want the user to able to press the button and it will take the system time on their device and add numbers to it. This is the code I have so far: public...
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    [FREE][APP] F1 History.

    This is the first app I've released to Google Play so hopefully you lot like it. It's related to the world of Formula One and the history behind it. I've put a screenshot below but the just of it is that you can see every bit of data from every season. Play store link. Link also in my sig if...
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    Apps 5 Fragments - get back button to return to certain Fragment? It closes app at the moment.

    Hey all. I've set up a horizontal scrolling system to move between 5 different Fragments, at the moment pressing the back button on the phone/tablet will exit the app. This happens on all Fragments. Can anyone help in getting the back button to move to the first fragment. So Fragment 2, 3...
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    Apps Fragments for Horizontal scrolling, use onClicks to move to certain Fragments?

    Hopefully this is do-able. I've set up a horizontal scrolling system using FragmentPagerAdapter. Is there a way that I can click on an TextView/ImageView and then it'll take me to one of my Fragments? I want to improve the UI of my app by giving the user the option to scroll left and right...
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    Apps Implementing a slideview from tutorial. What am I doing wrong?

    Hey guys, First off, here is the tutorial I followed: Android User Interface Design: Horizontal View Paging The actual slideview works fine, moving left and right works just like swiping between homescreens of a launcher. However there are some issues. Mainly that the onClicks of my TextViews...
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    Apps Using a custom font (Roboto) in my application?

    I recently decided to remake my UI, I had text built into my ImageViews which I was advised against, so I have now gone with TextViews, however I would like to carry on using the Roboto font. Is it possible to do so? I have already added "Roboto-Light" to the assets/fonts folder but I'm looking...
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    Apps No standard menu button in 3.0+, how do I get access to it?

    Howdy all, bit of a problem. I made my app compatible with both pre and post 3.0. Before 3.0 most phones had menu buttons which led to settings or other menu options. Since 3.0+ the dev guide has depreciated the menu button so phones don't need it. ICS and JB don't use them. So how do I...
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    Apps How to properly use layout-large and layout-land. Do I even need to use them?

    Hey all, pretty basic question I presume but at the moment I have 5 layout folders. layout, layout-small, layout-normal, layout-medium and layout-large. My app is heavily image based. As a result I have created the proper images. mdpi, hdpi and xhdpi. I don't think I need to worry about ldpi...
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    Apps onPostExecute only showing last row of data in TextView? Pulled from server.

    Hey all, as the title says; I have data being pulled from a mySQL database on a remote server. I'm using AsyncTask to do this in the background. Anyway the issue comes when I try and display the data that has just been pulled. There are 24 rows and when I put set up the TextView it only displays...
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    Apps AsyncTask force close errors. HTTP request to MySQL database. Logcat inside.

    Evening all. As the title says, I'm trying to connect my app to a MySQL database to retrieve data. Obviously I have to do this in a new thread hence why I chose AsyncTask, something I'm new to. As you can see with my code below I have included Toasts to tell me if there are problems when...
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    Apps Widget & SharedPreferences

    Howdy all, I'm in the middle of building an app and I need some guidance on where to move next. (Screen shots below). At the moment I have a blank widget where a Preference Screen opens when the widget is placed. None of the preferences do anything yet which is where I'm stuck. What's the...
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    Apps Remove widget margins in Relative layout?

    Essentially as the title says. I've built a widget; where I want one corner to be right up against the edge of the screen. It's a horizontal widget and made using a relative layout. It's the right hand side margin that I want right up against the screen edge. I've already tried the following...
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    Root Sense weather animations for other ROMS?

    Probably been asked a million times but surely there is way to pull them and use them on another ROM? I don't mean pulling the .apk for it because i'm pretty sure you can't use it since it only works off sense drivers but what about finding the images/gifs (i presume they are .gifs) of the...
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    Help Sync phone contact to gmail?

    This is doing my head in, My dads just got a new Samsung Galaxy SII that he wants to stick his contacts onto from his old desire so i checked his contacts on the desire and they are all saved to the phone not gmail. Now i'm finding out that now they have been created as phone contacts they...
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    GO Launcher EX Notification - Custom icons?

    Hey, I've noticed that the GO Launcher EX Notification app only works on stock shortcuts for me. When I add a custom icon the notifications don't show up anymore. Is there anyway to get the notifications to be used with any icon i choose? This app is useless otherwise because the whole...
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    Help Stop phone from creating music albums?

    This is one thing that always annoys me when syncing music to various devices, im hoping it can be disabled. Just got a big enough SD card for my music. Used HTC Sync to sync it all up but it wants to create albums for every song. I have albums with only one song in it now. On my computer...
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    Help The LCD has cracked... Wonderful

    What a joke. Im so angry at the moment. Two days before i got on holiday as well. BRILLIANT:mad: Who will fix this? HTC? My network provider (T-mobile)? I stuck the phone on charge checked it a few minutes later and the bottom right hand side had cracked. The glass and everything works fine but...
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    Help Mobile network dead.

    As the title says really, with T-mobile and for the last two days i have had no mobile internet. I've tried through quick settings and through the settings menu and both light up the tick sign green and tell me it's on but i get no notification in the notification bar at the top. I've restarted...
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    Anyone know what app this is?

    Thought it would be cool to have a thread where people can post screenshots or details of an app they saw but don't know how to get it themselves. Since i couldn't find a thread already, thought i could create one and get stuck in. Saw this music app and thought it looked good, any chance...
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    Help Activesync constant notifications

    I recently switched from using POP3 to using the ActiveSync feature in the mail app for my @live.com email address. So i set it all up and its working fine, or so i thought. I've set the emails to be received by push. Turned on the mobile network and automatic syncing started, so i got a new...