Android: Step by Step Hello World! [includes basic xmlparse and little gps]

Hi; after a while i m back! with a post including some android experiences. Before start I want to mention that I have been developing on csharp for a long time so I want to mention that these Java tools made me sick for a while to get use to and work with but now I am a good hello world programmer at android. As a system I use 64 bit Windows 7 (i hear you say what a shame for a developer ).

My Android development tools are Eclipse and Android SDK ofcourse.

Step 1: Make Environment Ready To Code:

First of all as s programmer who get used to code csharp on sharpdevelop I have alittle bit pain on preparing my development environment about eclipse but thanks to some web resources I start to get on well with it but still think eclipse can cause some pain in your stomach especially while you work with emulator.

The things you need:

• Eclipse Juno (in my case 64 bit http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/juno/SR1/eclipse-mobile-juno-SR1-win32-x86_64.zip)
• Android Sdk (from Eclipse http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/installing-adt.html)
• Also some AVD to emulate your code.

These things can seen really silly to you to explain but I writedown incase some folks need.

So as a recap to install android sdk from eclipse you should choose Android sdk manager and make sure that you installed

all necessary stuff:

 

 

In my case I install some things I need in this example with Android 4.2:

Yes after these painfull steps you have to arrenge your emulator again from Eclipse>Window>Android Device Manager you have

to create an emulator in my case it is ARM Android 4.2 device:

Now our development environment is ready for coding which is a little bit painfull for the first timers but also choosing the right

developmet target is also important, from porject>properties choose your build target as your emulator.

 

In my case: Emulator: Android 4.2 Build Target: Android 4.2

Step 2: Ready To Say Hello World!:

My application will be very very basic it will parse some xml,get our gps and show us these information on gui.

ManinActivity.js

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package com.example.h;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.StatusLine;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.text.format.DateUtils;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.TextView;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.location.Location;
import android.location.LocationListener;
import android.location.LocationManager;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {


 private static final Runnable Timer_Tick = null;
 private static final ImageView ImageView = null;
 private TextView textViewr=null;
 int i=0;
 @Override
 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
 super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
 setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);


 //****gps
 /* Use the LocationManager class to obtain GPS locations */
 LocationManager mlocManager = (LocationManager)getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);

LocationListener mlocListener = new MyLocationListener();
 mlocManager.requestLocationUpdates( LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 0, 0, mlocListener);

//***gps

 final Runnable updateTask = new Runnable() {
 public void run() {

 TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
 android.text.format.DateFormat df = new android.text.format.DateFormat();
 textView.setText(df.format("dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm", new java.util.Date()));


 textViewr = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView2);


 //******************************************WEATHER***********************************
 String imageUri=null;
 InputStream content = null;
 try {
 HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
 HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(new HttpGet("http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=1&locCode=MEA%7CTR%7CTU039%7CIZMIR%7C&quot;));
 XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
 content = response.getEntity().getContent();
 String expression = "//channel/item/description";

 InputSource inputSource = new InputSource(content);
 String id = null;
 try {
 id = (String) xpath.evaluate(expression, inputSource, XPathConstants.STRING);
 } catch (XPathExpressionException e) {
 // TODO Auto-generated catch block
 e.printStackTrace();
 }
 Log.i("Test", id);

 textViewr.setText(id.split("<img")[0]);

 imageUri=id.split("<img src=\"")[1].split(".gif")[0];
 imageUri=imageUri+".gif";
 // TextView textViewr23 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView3);
 //textViewr23.setText(imageUri);

 } catch (Exception e) {
 Log.i("[GET REQUEST]", "Network exception", e);

 }
 //******************************************WEATHER***********************************

 ImageView imgView =(ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView1);
 Drawable drawable = LoadImageFromWebOperations(imageUri);
 imgView.setImageDrawable(drawable);


 }

private Drawable LoadImageFromWebOperations(String url) {


 try{
 InputStream is = (InputStream) new URL(url).getContent();
 Drawable d = Drawable.createFromStream(is, "src name");
 return d;
 }catch (Exception e) {
 System.out.println("Exc="+e);
 return null;
 }
 }
 };

 //******************************************TIMER FOR CLOCK***********************************
 Timer timer = new Timer();
 timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask() {
 @Override
 public void run() {
 runOnUiThread(updateTask);
 }
 }, 1, 50000);
 //******************************************TIMER FOR CLOCK***********************************






 }

 /* Class My Location Listener */
 public class MyLocationListener implements LocationListener
 {

@Override
 public void onLocationChanged(Location loc)
 {

loc.getLatitude();
 loc.getLongitude();

String Text = "My current location is: " +
 "Latitud = " + loc.getLatitude() +
 "Longitud = " + loc.getLongitude();
 TextView textViewr23 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView3);
 textViewr23.setText(Text);
 Toast.makeText( getApplicationContext(), Text, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

 ImageView imgView =(ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView2);
 //http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?&zoom=13&size=600x300&maptype=roadmap&markers=color:blue%7Clabel:S%7C40.702147,-74.015794&sensor=false
 //http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?&zoom=13&size=600x300&maptype=roadmap&markers=color:blue%257Clabel:S%257C40.702147,-74.015794&sensor=false
 Drawable drawable = LoadImageFromWebOperations("http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?&zoom=13&size=300x300&maptype=roadmap&markers=color:blue%7Clabel:S%7C"+loc.getLatitude()+&quot;,"+loc.getLongitude()+"&sensor=false");
 imgView.setImageDrawable(drawable);
 }

private Drawable LoadImageFromWebOperations(String url) {
 try{
 InputStream is = (InputStream) new URL(url).getContent();
 Drawable d = Drawable.createFromStream(is, "src name");
 return d;
 }catch (Exception e) {
 System.out.println("Exc="+e);
 return null;
 }
 }

@Override
 public void onProviderDisabled(String provider)
 {
 Toast.makeText( getApplicationContext(), "Gps Disabled", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT ).show();
 }

@Override
 public void onProviderEnabled(String provider)
 {
 Toast.makeText( getApplicationContext(), "Gps Enabled", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
 }

@Override
 public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras)
 {

}
 }

 @Override
 public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
 // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
 getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu);
 return true;
 }

}
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AndroidManifest.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android&quot;
 package="com.example.h"
 android:versionCode="1"
 android:versionName="1.0" >


 <uses-sdk
 android:minSdkVersion="8"
 android:targetSdkVersion="8" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />

<application
 android:allowBackup="true"
 android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
 android:label="@string/app_name"
 android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

 <activity
 android:name="com.example.h.MainActivity"
 android:label="@string/app_name" >
 <intent-filter>
 <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
 </intent-filter>
 </activity>

 </application>

</manifest>
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Output:

As you see at output we get our location with Google Static Maps Api and also parse weather condition from a xml service. To emulate

GPS you have yo use “Emulator Control” as below.

 

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