ActionBar dissapears although I'm using a scrollView

ActionBar dissapears when I click EditText although I'm using a ScrollView. This behavior appears after an orienation change when I click the EditText view.

Solution :
Seems that I need to add also  adjustResize on my manifest :
            android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"

    //TODO

    further investigate that behavior

Add Views programmatically

Example of adding two Buttons in a RelativeLayout :

1) Instantiate the RelativeLayout
2) Instantiate the Buttons.
3) Create the LayoutParams for each Buttons.
4) Add Views to their parent. That's the RelativeLayout.

One key point here. The LayoutParams for the child Views must the same type as that of their parent. So in our case both Buttons  LayoutParams have to be RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.

Let's see how this applies to code :

RelativeLayout layout = new RelativeLayout(this); // Instantiate the parent

b3 = new Button(this); b3.setId(1);
b3.setText("Relative Button 3");

b4 = new Button(this); b4.setId(2);
b4.setText("Relative Button 4");

RelativeLayout.LayoutParams b3_lp = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(
                   LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);


RelativeLayout.LayoutParams b4_lp = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(
                  LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
b4_lp.addRule(RelativeLayout.RIGHT_OF, b3.getId());

layout.addView(b3, b3_lp);
layout.addView(b4, b4_lp);

setContentView(layout);


The result is :

Notice the addRule() which sets the Button b4 to the right of the b3.
To achieve that we have to set Id's for our Buttons so we can refer to the view that acts as an anchor.

Send JSON unicode data to server with POST request

HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url); // Address ( url )
HttpResponse response;

JSONObject json = new JSONObject();

json.put("passwd", param1);
json.put("comment", param2);

                        // String Entity to UTF-8
StringEntity se = new StringEntity(json.toString(), "UTF-8");
se.setContentType(new BasicHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, "application/json"));

httppost.getParams().setParameter("json", json);
httppost.setEntity(se);

response = httpclient.execute(httppost);

Root access with ES File Explorer

Open ES File Explore, go to settings  scroll down to Home Directory and change it to "/".

Now you have access to the entire file system.

You can read more here

ActionBarSherlock configuration

1.
I'm creating a custom Theme, let's call it TestABS with parent the HOLO Theme ( in our case Sherlock ).
So now in my styles.xml I add the line :
<style name="Theme.TestABS" parent="@style/Theme.Sherlock"></style> 

2.
Later I'll edit Manifest file like this :

<activity
      android:name=".MainActivity"
      android:label="@string/app_name"
      android:theme="@style/Theme.TestABS"
      android:logo="@drawable/ad_logo">

3.
When Activity starts, the system adds ActionBar and the overflow menu by calling onCreateOptionsMenu().
This method inflates an XML resource which defines the menu items. This files is in the folder /res/menu. In those items on the XML file I have to add the android:showAsAction keyword, so now the items will appear as Action Items in my ActionBar and not Options Menu.

So a simple item should be like :

    <item
        android:id="@+id/menu_settings"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
        android:title="Text Here" />



This works as long as I have an ActionBar in my Activity( When do I have an ActionBar ? When I add   android:theme="@style/Theme.HOLO" in my manifest file for android 3.0 and greater. For lower versions I need Theme.Sherlock . In both cases I can declare mine custom theme like I did above with TestABS ).


Links :
1) Adding ActionBarSherlock to your Project
2) Adding Items to the ActionBar 
3) The Overflow menu ( As a rule of thumb you should always use ifRoom, if you want the icon to be part of your action bar and you should use never if you want the item to always be part of the overflow menu. )

java.io.IOException: Unable to open sync connection

Mess a lot with the code and now the error i get is :

java.io.IOException: Unable to open sync connection!

as u can check @ stackoverflow the answer is to enable/disable the usb-debugging


Some other tips that may can help u is to reboot your device, unplug it from the PC and plug it again.