Android Layout with Header Footer and scrollable Body content

<?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="fill_parent" >

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/header"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:padding="10dp" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/TextView01"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="header"
            android:textSize="40sp" >
        </TextView>
    </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/footer"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:padding="10dp" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/TextView02"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="footer"
            android:textSize="40sp" >
        </TextView>
    </LinearLayout>

    <ScrollView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_above="@id/footer"
        android:layout_below="@id/header" >

        <LinearLayout
            android:id="@+id/body"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation="vertical" >

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/edit1"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:padding="10dp" />

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/edit2"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:padding="10dp" />

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/edit3"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:padding="10dp" />

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/edit4"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:padding="10dp" />

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/edit5"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:padding="10dp" />

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/edit6"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:padding="10dp" />

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/edit7"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:padding="10dp" />

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/edit8"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:padding="10dp" />

            <Button
                android:id="@+id/btn"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="Submit" />
        </LinearLayout>
    </ScrollView>

</RelativeLayout>

Note : Add android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" to your activity in Android manifest.

If it does not work then add the following in the oncreate method of the activity

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(

                WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_PAN);

output:

 

 

 

Invalid Project Description Eclipse Error

This error is due to overlapping of workspaces
To fix this create seperate folder in workspace and import your project there it works well

Lock footer at bottom(Layout arrangement)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:fillViewport="true">

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <!-- HEADER -->
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical"
    />

    <!-- BODY -->
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dip"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:orientation="vertical"
    />

    <!-- FOOTER -->
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical"
    />
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView> 

Note:Design the layout in the above manner and you 

will not get footer when user clicks edit textbox in UI 

Badge Effect in Android

package com.example.badge;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        TextView tv1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
       
       
               
       
    }

  
}

activity_main.xml

<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/frameLayout1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="20dip"
        android:layout_height="20dip"
        android:layout_gravity="top|right"
        android:background="@drawable/circle"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:padding="2sp"
        android:text="5"
        android:textColor="@android:color/black"
        android:textStyle="bold" />

</FrameLayout>

Circle.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item>

    <shape android:shape="oval"  >
        <solid android:color="@android:color/black" />
    </shape>

</item><item
    android:bottom="1dp"
    android:left="1dp"
    android:right="1dp"
    android:top="1dp">

    <shape android:shape="oval" >
        <solid android:color="@android:color/darker_gray" />
    </shape>

</item>
</layer-list>

Output

 

links

best link for android timers

http://www.fampennings.nl/maarten/android/04timers/index.htm
orientation best link

Orientation Change
http://blog.andresteingress.com/2011/09/27/fighting-orientation-changes-in-android/

canvas below link

http://courses.coreservlets.com/Course-Materials/pdf/android/Android-Drawing-1.pdf


Mecurial url

http://mercurialeclipse.eclipselabs.org.codespot.com/hg.wiki/update_site/stable


ListView
http://androidfreakers.blogspot.in/2011/10/custom-listview-with-checkbox.html

Layouts Android

http://wptrafficanalyzer.in/blog/different-layouts-for-different-screen-sizes-in-android/

Footer problem

http://blogactivity.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/smart-headers-and-footers-in-scrollviews/

Badge icon

http://vardhan-justlikethat.blogspot.in/search/label/Android?updated-max=2011-12-09T04:00:00-08:00&max-results=20&start=15&by-date=false

Layout_Weight Tutorial

http://www.chess-ix.com/2012/01/17/the-use-of-layout_weight-with-android-layouts/


Splash-Screen in two forms
http://www.sherif.mobi/2012/09/how-to-create-splash-activity-best.html
Above link will tell how to start method or activity after some time say 30 min or 5 seconds etc

 Find Device Height and width
http://android-er.blogspot.in/2009/08/exercise-get-screen-resolution-using.html

  Multiple Choice Listview is in google site check when needed

 Open S/W to draw UML diagrams
http://dia-installer.de/download/index.html.en

  Mercurial S/W download link
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Download


Json Parsing Tutorial
http://www.androidhive.info/2012/01/android-json-parsing-tutorial/

Customised  views Tutorial 
http://www.jayway.com/2012/07/03/creating-custom-android-views-part-2-how-padding-works-and-how-to-draw-your-own-content/

BarChart and PieChart 
http://typicaljava.blogspot.in/2013/03/draw-bar-chart-in-android.html 

Array List Compare in java


 http://sanjaal.com/java/686/java-utilities/java-tool-to-compare-two-lists-and-spit-out-the-differences-working-example/

 Scrollview to listview
http://www.androidhub4you.com/2012/12/listview-into-scrollview-in-android.html 

SourceTree 
http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/download/ 

Android CustomView links 
http://devmaze.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/236/
http://www.infidian.com/2008/05/02/android-tutorial-42-passing-custom-variables-via-xml-resource-files/ 

 Adding badge using aliasing feature of activity
http://derivedcode.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/showing-badge-or-count-in-android-app-icon/ 

HomeButton Press[when we have 4 activities and we click home button when we are in forth activity then again when we launch app should start from first activity]
  
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5308088/kill-all-activities-when-home-key-is-pressed-android

 Java Tutorial
http://www.java2novice.com/java_exception_handling_examples/ 

 Singleton Java Interview Questions
 http://javarevisited.blogspot.sg/2011/03/10-interview-questions-on-singleton.html


convert list to CSV format
http://www.java2novice.com/java-collections-and-util/arraylist/list-to-csv/


Multi Threading
 http://javarevisited.blogspot.sg/2011/07/java-multi-threading-interview.html

Java Serialization
http://javarevisited.blogspot.sg/2011/04/top-10-java-serialization-interview.html




Android Battery
http://www.compiletimeerror.com/2013/05/android-battery-percentage-example.html#.Uu8qFRBqPIU
http://mihaifonoage.blogspot.sg/2010/02/getting-battery-level-in-android-using.html



JavaEnum Singleton
 http://javarevisited.blogspot.sg/2012/07/why-enum-singleton-are-better-in-java.html



Nice Tutorial on NDK
http://www.swig.org/Doc2.0/Android.html

Face Book Style slide menu android

http://www.oodlestechnologies.com/blogs/Facebook-Style-Slide-Menu-In-Android



Best link of how to Debug native code
http://visualgdb.com/tutorials/android/codebug/




Best link to start html5 apps using eclipse and phoneGap
http://cleancodedevelopment-qualityseal.blogspot.sg/2012/12/first-phonegap-app-with-android-using.html


Parsing of JSONData and Display in the listview
http://adblogcat.com/parse-json-data-from-a-web-server-and-display-on-listview/






Complete Java Course Tutorial best link  
https://www.udemy.com/java-tutorial/  

https://www.udemy.com/android-tutorial/

https://www.udemy.com/learn-android-development-from-scratch/

 

https://www.udemy.com/learn-android-programming-from-scratch-beta/


 Best link for GCM Client and Server
http://avilyne.com/?p=267 

How to use a ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor

http://codelatte.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/49/

Four ways of scheduling recurring task in android

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14376470/scheduling-recurring-task-in-android 

Best link on Java Annotations

http://www.java2novice.com/java-annotations/custom/ 

Best link on how to implement Google Play Services

 http://www.androiddesignpatterns.com/2013/01/google-play-services-setup.html


Best link for android interview questions
http://blog.icorethink.com/interviewque/android-interview-questions-and-answers/
http://ramsandroid4all.blogspot.in/2014/05/customizing-edittext.html

 

 Badge ICON similar to IOS in Android

http://vardhan-justlikethat.blogspot.de/2014/07/android-ios-style-badge-app-icon-for.html

My google site contains this sample project

Dynamically inflating the layout

http://www.mysamplecode.com/2011/10/android-dynamic-layout-using-xml-add.html 

 how to browse sqlite data in emulator

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/browse-sqlite-data-on-the-android-emulator/

 Best link for gallery with dots(page indicator)

http://www.myandroidsolutions.com/2012/04/21/android-gallery-with-dots-on-scroll/ 

 hashmap-single-key-multiple-values

http://www.skilledmonster.com/2013/10/21/hashmap-single-key-multiple-values-example/ 

Best link for custom Toggle Button

http://www.coderzheaven.com/2012/05/20/create-custom-toggle-button-android/ 

check google site too 

ANT Script Links

http://jeffreysambells.com/2013/02/14/build-your-android-apk-with-the-manifest-version-number

http://www.irasenthil.com/2013/01/android-how-to-version-command-line.html

http://www.programmingodyssey.com/2013/01/create-signed-build-of-android.html  

VS Communication with hardware

http://english.cxem.net/arduino/arduino5.php

http://digitalhacksblog.blogspot.de/2012/05/arduino-to-android-basic-bluetooth.html

http://digitalhacksblog.blogspot.de/2012/05/arduino-to-android-turning-led-on-and.html

http://www.intorobotics.com/how-to-develop-simple-bluetooth-android-application-to-control-a-robot-remote/  

Best link for android DB operations update happens based on the unique_id(auto inc) used in DB

http://chintankhetiya.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/sqlite-database-example/comment-page-1/#comment-614 

Check google site too

Best link on db information android

http://androidshortnotes.blogspot.in/2013/03/store-data-in-android.html

 

Best link on db information android

http://androidsolution4u.blogspot.in/2013/09/android-populate-listview-from-sqlite.html

Best link to check whether android device has BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy)support or not 

http://weimenglee.blogspot.in/2013/10/check-if-your-android-device-supports.html

Blog

http://www.compiletimeerror.com/search/label/Android%20Basics#.VIFpqmL0xQL

Avoid Out Of Memory Error BitMap

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15377186/decode-file-from-sdcard-android-to-avoid-out-of-memory-error-due-to-large-bitmap

http://www.php-intro.com/software-mac-xampp.php

Execute Robotium Test Cases in specific order

http://www.androiddevelopersolutions.com/2014/03/android-robotium-run-robotium-tests-in.html

Tab layout Material Design

http://www.androidhive.info/2015/09/android-material-design-working-with-tabs/

Espresso Links Android

http://evgenii.com/blog/testing-activity-in-android-studio-tutorial-part-3/

http://blog.sqisland.com/2015/04/espresso-custom-idling-resource.html

http://blog.novatec-gmbh.de/mobile-testing-espresso-framework/

https://androidresearch.wordpress.com/2015/04/04/an-introduction-to-espresso/

https://mayojava.github.io/android/android-ui-instrumentation-test-with-espresso/

Junit Parameterized Test

http://www.java2s.com/Tutorials/Java/JUnit/0140__JUnit_Parameterized_Test.htm

Jenkins

http://www.everybodytests.com/2015/04/jenkins-devices-androidjunitrunner.html

https://www.cloudbees.com/sites/default/files/2014-0625-Berlin-Christopher_Orr-Build_Test_Deploy_w-Android.pdf

Best Java and Android Blogs

https://mindorks.com/blogs

https://javaradar.blogspot.in/2017/03/class-variable-vs-instance-variable-in.html

http://wiki.workassis.com/android-how-to-set-a-ripple-effect/

Android native scripting

http://docs.nativescript.org/tutorial/chapter-1

https://docs.nativescript.org/angular/integration-with-existing-ios-and-android-apps/extend-existing-android-app-with-ns-angular2.html

BestLinks forCalendar Apps

https://github.com/luvyouso/CalendarGoogle2016

https://github.com/khacpv/Calendar-Day-View/blob/master/README.md

https://github.com/AnilMH/Android-WeekView-Demo

Drag n Drop

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16990247/drag-and-drop-persistent-location

Drag n Drop in GridView

https://blahti.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/drag-drop-for-android-gridview/

Constrained Drop and Drag

https://github.com/rfreedman/android-constrained-drag-and-drop-view

Service and handler for long running asks

http://gradlewhy.ghost.io/a-service-and-a-handler-for-long-tasks/

MVC and MVP and MVVM

http://www.tothenew.com/blog/androidmvc-mvp-mvvm/

RxJava Android Learning
https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/getting-started-with-rxjava-20-for-android--cms-28345
https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/reactive-programming-operators-in-rxjava-20--cms-28396?_ga=2.197046314.723429276.1502526034-1015877821.1497434847
https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/rxjava-for-android-apps-introducing-rxbinding-and-rxlifecycle--cms-28565?_ga=2.125428746.1281241990.1512099718-1264555618.1502875086

Ios Learning Links

http://vardhan-justlikethat.blogspot.in/
Life cycle of android and ioshttp://vardhan-justlikethat.blogspot.in/search/label/Objective-C
www.ramsandroid4all.blogspot.com http://vardhan-justlikethat.blogspot.in/2012/05/learn-objective-c-for-java-developers.html#comment-form
http://vardhan-justlikethat.blogspot.in/search?q=delegate

Good Blogs

https://www.androidhive.info/2018/03/android-recaptcha-safetynet/

https://proandroiddev.com/offline-apps-its-easier-than-you-think-9ff97701a73f
https://kevalpatel2106.wordpress.com/libraries/
https://github.com/yigit/android-priority-jobqueue
https://medium.com/@kevalpatel2106/code-your-next-android-app-using-rxjava-d1db30ac9fcc
http://kevalpatel2106.com/
http://kevalpatel2106.com/

Good links these are during the POC which I was working for FCM registration , IAP and Uploading image to IAP



https://spring.io/guides/gs/rest-service/#scratch


https://dzone.com/articles/build-rest-web-service-using-spring


https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android-from-scratch-using-rest-apis--cms-27117


https://androidjson.com/capture-image-camera-upload-server/
https://www.callicoder.com/spring-boot-file-upload-download-rest-api-example/
http://zetcode.com/springboot/uploadfile/
https://www.mkyong.com/spring-mvc/spring-mvc-file-upload-example/
https://www.mkyong.com/spring-boot/spring-boot-file-upload-example-ajax-and-rest/




https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37516589/send-push-notifications-from-server-with-fcm
https://medium.com/@srinuraop/sending-messages-from-app-server-to-clients-using-fcm-b2a471fc3e33
https://www.zoftino.com/sending-device-specific-push-notification-message-using-firebase-cloud-messaging

https://www.myflashlabs.com/send-fcm-messages-server/

https://dzone.com/articles/spring-boot-restful-web-service-complete-example

https://www.callicoder.com/spring-boot-file-upload-download-rest-api-example/

https://www.17od.com/2010/02/18/multipart-form-upload-on-android/

https://learnwithmehere.blogspot.com/2015/10/is-multipart-request-complicated-think.html

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35839130/send-file-and-parameters-to-server-with-httpurlconnection-in-android-api-23

https://demonuts.com/upload-image-to-server-in-android-using-multipart-volley/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11766878/sending-files-using-post-with-httpurlconnection