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Before the new gallery access in Android 4.4 (KitKat) I got my real path on the SD card with this method: public String getPath(Uri uri) { String[] projection = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA }; ...
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I'm trying to execute this command from the application emulator terminal (you can find it in google play) in this app i write su and press enter, so write: screenrecord --time-limit 10 /sdcard/...
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I was using the <input type="file"> on the android webview. I got it working thanks to this thread: File Upload in WebView But the accepted answer (or any other) no longer works with android 4....
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I have problems with the translucent actionbar/navbar in the new Android KitKat (4.4) and the windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize". Normaly, changing the InputMode to adjustResize, the app ...
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I have been working on an SMS application. Everything was smooth until yesterday, when I updated my Nexus 4 to Android 4.4, KitKat. Features such as marking an SMS as read/unread, and deleting all ...
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How to print already downloaded PDF using Android 4.4 printing framework? I viewed the developer documentation. but no luck. Any example would be helpful
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Android 4.4 introduced Host-based Card Emulation (HCE). As you know, all NFC cards come with a fixed card ID (NfcAdapter.EXTRA_ID). My office door access usually detects the NFC card ID for the ...
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I'm trying to use the new evaluateJavascript method in Android 4.4, but all I ever get back is a null result: webView1.evaluateJavascript("return \"test\";", new ValueCallback<String>() { @...
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java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: opening provider com.android.providers.media.MediaDocumentsProvider from ProcessRecord{430b1748 29271:com.x.x.x/u0a88} (pid=29271, uid=10088) requires ...
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How do I maintain the new Immersive Mode when my activities display a custom Dialog? I am using the code below to maintain the Immersive Mode in Dialogs, but with that solution, the NavBar appears ...
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I'm trying to hide the system Status Bar on an Android 4.4 device. This is for a kiosk-mode where my app will be the only app ever run on the device. The target device for now is a 2013 Nexus 7. The ...
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Background Android got a new API on Kitkat and Lollipop, to video capture the screen. You can do it either via the ADB tool or via code (starting from Lollipop). Ever since the new API was out, many ...
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In my application I store the path of image in my SQlite db for further use. The path that I get is content://com.android.providers.media.documents/document/image%3A71964 When I retrieve this path ...
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AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main Process: com.info.app, PID: 24503 java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to get provider com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider: java.lang....
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Code for sending sms that worked perfectly until Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) and stopped working since 4.4 (KitKat) I'm just preparing the text message for the user, but they need to choose the number ...
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So this video Android 4.4 SMS APIs from #DevBytes explains the recent changes to the SMS APIs in KitKat. They also provide a link with a sample project. https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/...
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My Android application (using native library) print this warning on Android 4.4: linker mylib.so has text relocations. This is wasting memory and is a security risk. Please fix. What is it and ...
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Iam having this strange issue in which the retrofit keeps throwing me "SSL handshake aborted: ssl=0x618d9c18: I/O error during system call, Connection reset by peer" in kitkat, whereas the same ...
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I made an android sms app in which I am sending and receiving sms as android messaging app does so. Now I have set my target to 4.4 (Android KitKat version) but Android KitKat has new "Default ...
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I've created a webview app which hosts a website within the app in the assets-directory. I want to update the website via an USBstick inserted in my tablets usbslot. I tried it first with the ....
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I've been working on an application which have a WebView in which a static page get loaded from the assets (Also using JavaScript). This WebView is not working in KitKat, it remains blank. I am aware ...
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Unlike previous versions, in 4.4, swiping app out of recent tasks permanently kills app along with its service(like force-stop) even though it's running background services. It shows 0 processes 1 ...
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I've updated my sdk to the latest version (android 4.4) and I started the emulator, but now it seems not possible to rotate the screen with CTRL+F11, the screen change but all the applications don't ...
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When I try my app with Android KitKat I have an error in PreferenceActivity. Subclasses of PreferenceActivity must override isValidFragment(String) to verify that the Fragment class is valid! com....
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I am trying to get location by using FusedLocationApi.getLastLocation and I've got the location permissions in the manifest file: <uses-permission android:name="android.permission....
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I'm trying to set the source of an img tag in my app based on the image chosen from the device image gallery using the PhoneGap/Cordova Camera Plugin. It has worked previously as intended on older ...
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How can I make the navigation bar transparent on Android 4.4.X and above? I have searched in the documentation, but found nothing about this.
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I know this question has been asked so many times and there are so many questions, answers and discussions available. But I don't know what to do and what not to do. I already referred to the links ...
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I want to auto-start android html5 video using android 4 ice cream sandwich browser. I tried many java-script functions and autobuffer autoplay tags of html5 video. But nothing worked. I start android ...
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Can I send SMS using no default SMS app on Android 4.4 Kitkat? It means, Can I send SMS without ability to write to SMS Provider? I confused about that on Android 4.4 Kitkat. I wonder I can just ...
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With the android kitkat 4.4.2 version is a new google policy implemented for writeaccess, which I do not understand so far. I read a lot about this issue with other apps. They get a "EACCES ...
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As more and more devices have KitKat, I'm trying to compile a list of devices support HCE. Does anyone have the list? Feel free to add comments to contribute to this list. Below is what I have so ...
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Problem: I am fetching image from gallery and after that cropped that image and its working perfect in all device. But it is giving me error while running in Nexus 7 kitkat since i have checked build ...
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I am making to delete particular sms of phone number task. when I am testing in motog or Android version 5.0's mobile. I can't delete particular number's sms. My code snippet is below. public void ...
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My Sms app does not save the sms to the device even though I already set it as the default messaging. I need to support android pre-kitkat so I did a bit researching and had 2 BroadcastReceiver that ...
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While updating my apps to Kitkat, I just wanted to give them a gorgeous look on KitKat using the Translucent property: Translucent system bars You can now make the system bars partially translucent ...
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This must be possible with 4.4, but I found no documentation on this yet - anyone knows how to make the status-bar / system-ui transparent/translucent ?
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We've just fallen foul of the new permissions that apply to writing files to sd cards (external storage) on Android 4.4 (EACCES Permission Denied) Prior to KitKat we set our writable folder like this:...
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How can we set proxy in Android webview programmatically on latest Kitkat release? This SO link WebView android proxy talks about version upto SDK version 18. But those solution no more works with ...
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I'm running Android 4.4.2 and I enabled the "Bluetooth HCI snoop log" as described here Sniffing/logging your own Android Bluetooth traffic After turning bluetooth on and off I rebooted the phone. I ...
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I am trying my hand on Storage Access Framework of android 4.4 I have developed a dummy app which fires an intent on start of the activity. Intent intent = new Intent(Intent....
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I've got an application that has two search suggestion providers that both extend SearchRecentSuggestionsProvider, and I've set it up correctly in the manifest file with the following Intent filter ...
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I used dialog theme for an Activity and it works fine on Android <= 4.3 but not on the latest KitKat 4.4. Here's a screenshot of the problem: Top of the layout is missing. You can see that the ...
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My application has a button to start default sms activity and it worked perfectly fine all android version except new one, Android 4.4(kitkat) Here is the code: public void onClick(View arg0) { ...
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Is there any documentation around Android 4.4 KitKat's (well specifically Nexus 5 for now) step detector and counter APIs? I tried to search a lot but did not find anything. I am planning to try my ...
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In Android 4.4 there seems to be a change in the code that causes list icons to be loaded using AsyncTasks. The result is that many of my users on Android 4.4 get RejectedExecutionException since the ...
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After upgrading Espresso to version 2 none of my unit tests will run on pre-lollipop devices. See the trace below: 15:07:07.627 [WARN] [org.gradle.api.Project] Tests on Samsung Galaxy S3 - 4.3 - API ...
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In trying to disable TLS 1.0, there are KitKat devices needing access to my API. I have tried overriding the default socket factory without success. I have tried converting to okhttp. Still not ...
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I'm using following code for hiding status bar with full screen purpose: void HideEverything(){ if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 16) { getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager....
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Please read my question introduction before reading the real question: In Android there are an internal storage and an external storage. Don't be confused, because the internal storage relates to ...
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