Kick-starts Android application development.

I'm in the process of adapting my existing code to work with IgnitedAsyncTask (you deprecated android-fu already?) and I'm running into a potential design issue in that most of my asyncTasks are involved in some form of ProgressDialog or AlertDialog, which is tied to the Context object and likely should not survive a reconfiguration.

Is there value in developing a ProgressDialog-like and/or AlertDialog-like object "in the style" of IgnitedAsyncTask that supports .connect() and .disconnect(), recreating the "real" dialog object as-needed (and hooking all the events into itself) ? Or is there a better way to look at this issue that I'm not seeing?

This is not a request for development or a pull request (yet), just a query as to whether this is a good direction to go in, as an issue on a project that seems to deal with these issues as one of its central purposes.

I noticed there was some code in RemoteImageLoaderJob which purported to deal with servers which fail to send a Content-Length header, but it didn't work properly. This patch fixes that.

Thanks so much!

I'm using the RemoteImageView in a ListView. It works fine for one list but for another it gives the following error in Logcat.

12-28 14:25:44.843: E/AndroidRuntime(2617): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 12-28 14:25:44.843: E/AndroidRuntime(2617): java.lang.NullPointerException 12-28 14:25:44.843: E/AndroidRuntime(2617): at com.github.ignition.support.images.remote.RemoteImageLoaderHandler.handleImageLoaded(RemoteImageLoaderHandler.java:73) 12-28 14:25:44.843: E/AndroidRuntime(2617): at com.github.ignition.core.widgets.RemoteImageView$DefaultImageLoaderHandler.handleImageLoaded(RemoteImageView.java:228) 12-28 14:25:44.843: E/AndroidRuntime(2617): at com.github.ignition.support.images.remote.RemoteImageLoaderHandler.handleImageLoadedMessage(RemoteImageLoaderHandler.java:52) 12-28 14:25:44.843: E/AndroidRuntime(2617): at com.github.ignition.support.images.remote.RemoteImageLoaderHandler.handleMessage(RemoteImageLoaderHandler.java:45) 12-28 14:25:44.843: E/AndroidRuntime(2617): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 12-28 14:25:44.843: E/AndroidRuntime(2617): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) 12-28 14:25:44.843: E/AndroidRuntime(2617): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3687) 12-28 14:25:44.843: E/AndroidRuntime(2617): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 12-28 14:25:44.843: E/AndroidRuntime(2617): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507) 12-28 14:25:44.843: E/AndroidRuntime(2617): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:842) 12-28 14:25:44.843: E/AndroidRuntime(2617): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:600) 12-28 14:25:44.843: E/AndroidRuntime(2617): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

NOTE: the actual line number for the exception in RemoteImageLoaderHandler.java is 71. I added lines to see where the exact problem was.

It seems that a null Bitmap is passed to the RemoteImageLoaderHandler and because I get the RemoteImageView from a findViewById(), I don't have an errorDrawable so the NullPointerException is passed.

I believe the problem is initiated at line 51 in RemoteImageHandler.java

Bitmap bitmap = data.getParcelable(BITMAP_EXTRA);

Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Any ideas ?

I can't get any web image to load, not even progress spinner showed up (i only see the spinner for brief moment when doing quick scroll), no errordrawable showed up either. I think there is internal issues here. Can you enlighten me on how to fix this.

gallery_layout:

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:paddingBottom="4dp"
    android:paddingLeft="8dp"
    android:paddingRight="8dp"
    android:paddingTop="4dp" >

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:paddingBottom="5dp"
        android:paddingLeft="8dp"
        android:paddingTop="5dp"
        android:text="Foods around here:"
        android:textSize="16dp" />

    <com.devsmart.android.ui.HorizontalListView 
        android:id="@+id/gallery_list"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="400dp" />

 </LinearLayout>

gallery_listentry:

    <com.github.ignition.core.widgets.RemoteImageView
        android:id="@+id/img"
        android:layout_width="400dp"
        android:layout_height="280dp"
        android:background="@color/dark_brown"
        android:padding="2dp"
        ignition:progressDrawable="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        ignition:autoLoad="false"
        ignition:errorDrawable="@drawable/icon"
        ignition:defaultDrawable="@drawable/place_snacks"
        android:scaleType="fitXY"/>

package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.BaseAdapter;
import android.widget.TextView;

import com.devsmart.android.ui.HorizontialListView;
import com.github.ignition.core;

public class HorizontalListViewDemo extends Activity {

@Override  
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {  
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);  

    setContentView(R.layout.gallery_layout);  

    HorizontialListView listview = (HorizontialListView) findViewById(R.id.gallery_list);  
    listview.setAdapter(mAdapter);  

}  

private static String[] url = new String[]{ "http://www.google.com.sg/logos/2012/vday12-res.png",  
    "http://www.google.com.sg/logos/2012/vday12-res.png",  
    "http://www.google.com.sg/logos/2012/vday12-res.png" };   

private BaseAdapter mAdapter = new BaseAdapter() {  

    @Override  
    public int getCount() {  
        return url.length;  
    }  

    @Override  
    public Object getItem(int position) {  
        return null;  
    }  

    @Override  
    public long getItemId(int position) {  
        return 0;  
    }  

    @Override  
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {  
        View retval = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.gallery_listentry, null);  
        RemoteImageView img = (RemoteImageView) retval.findViewById(R.id.img);  
        img.setImageUrl(url[position]);
        img.loadImage();

        return retval;  
    }  

};  

}

Since I do have your undivided attention. I'm using RemoteImageView in a ListView. Most of the items are loaded over the web but I want to show a couple from a local resource.

Is there a way to specify this ?

It would be really awesome if I could just specify this as a URL from my adapter. I asked a question on StackOverflow. but none of the responses worked for me: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9296999/android-reference-resource-drawable-as-a-url

I am getting 3 "Cookie Rejected" errors during the build test (Building ignition-location-tests 0.1-SNAPSHOT)...this doesn't seem to effect the final result because I am getting a clear SUCCESS summary, but I do think it's strange. Should I post the full error messages here?

I am running Windows 7 with Android SDK v. 4.0.3 (API 15).

Failed to execute goal com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2:android-maven-plugin:3.0.2:generation-sources (default-generate-sources) on project ignition-core: Execution default-generate-sources of goal com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2:android-maven-plugin:3.0.2:generate-sources failed: Invalid SDK: Platform/API level 4 not available. This command should give you all you need: C:/Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\tools\android update sdk --no-ui --obsolete --force

Why do you I need to install obsolete version of the Android SDK just to get ignition to work?

Classes within ignition-support (e.g., AbstractCache) are dependent upon Guava (AKA Google Collections library). This should be documented/communicated.

I'm trying to use ignition-core as a library for my Android app. I tried following instructions, and got as far as gradle eclipse, and having the .project files imported into eclipse from /ignition/ignition-core, but it seems that the Android project does not find the classes, despite having it added as a project requirement in the build path settings.

I looked deeper at your project struction, and realised that ignition-core-lib is an android app project of which I believe I should be including, and in there, lies a build.gradle too. I am however unable to use that gradle build path. Perhaps it would be better if clearer instructions could be posted on this? Thanks!

PS: There are some dead links in the readme too. Cheers! PS: Nice work btw.

This is reproducible with versions 0.1 to 0.3-SNAPSHOT.

Using Android Studio Preview 130 and Gradle.

When I include ignition-core as a dependency as a dependency: dependencies { compile 'com.github.ignition:ignition-core:0.1@apklib' }

Gradle: Execution failed for task ':App:packageDebug'.

Duplicate files copied in APK AndroidManifest.xml File 1: /home/user/github/android/AppProject/App/build/libs/App-debug.ap_ File 2: /home/user/github/android/AppProject/App/build/libs/App-debug.ap_

Extracting ignition-core-0.2.apklib shows an AndroidManifest.xml:

Does ignition-core-0.1.apklib need the AndroidManifest.xml? I am assuming the Android Gradle plugin is trying to flatten the jars into an apk.

Thanks

Current limitation: the RemoteImageLoaderTextViewAdapter class supports the download of only one image, ideally it should support downloading up to 4 since a TextView can have up to 4 different CompoundDrawables. If one sets more than one CompoundDrawable for a TextView, the same drawable will be used.

@mttkay given this is an open source project, shouldn't the releases be pushed to maven central or sonatype oss instead of qype's nexus repo?

Right now I have an issue given qype's repo is down (not sure if decommissioned) and we can fetch the latest releases or snapshots.

On a typical implementation with just a few items to fit in the screen, the shouldRequestNextPage() returns true always, resulting in repeated calls to the network fetch function I have. This is supposedly making another issue that, all items in the list are disabled, (possibly because a network fetch is always there in progress)

When trying to consume a large entity via IgnitedHttpResponseImpl it seems like the replacement of the original entity by a BufferedHttpEntity in its implementation seems to allocate memory for the the entire length of the entity you're trying to download.

So say you have a 100MB file for instance, it will try to allocate that much memory to fetch the InputStream of the HttpEntity (which by the name - buffered - you'd expect it to stream the contents via an internal buffer or sorts rather than cache the entire stream).

Do you guys have any suggestions to overcoming this issue given AbstractHttpClient seems to call entity.consumeContent() right after the initialization of the response by IgnitedHttpRequestBase.handleResponse()?