Earthquake Chapter 6

newbie123 · September 25th, 2012, 10:33 PM

Hi. I am having problem running earthquake example in Chapter 6 on the emulator. I got a blank screen with the title of the activity. Any suggestions?

newbie123 · September 26th, 2012, 02:01 AM

Problem solved. Must have typed something wrong...

xcopy · September 30th, 2012, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by newbie123

Problem solved. Must have typed something wrong...

I'm curious what you mistyped. I can't even get the downloaded code to run...

I'm stumped at this point...

pdevhecht · November 17th, 2012, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by xcopy

I'm curious what you mistyped. I can't even get the downloaded code to run...

I'm stumped at this point...

When I got the code for Earthquake it didn't work either. When I selected an AVD with 4.0.3 It worked fine.

My code is still crashing, but at least I got the sample working. It is somewhat frustrating that code that worked in 4.0.3 needs so many changes to work on 4.1.2. So far I have enjoyed this book the most so far.

The line of code that is blowing up is:

Code:

int responseCode = httpConnection.getResponseCode();

The sample plows right through this and works fine.

I will note that the sample code has differences when it comes to threads.

silver_man · December 17th, 2012, 04:24 AM

I just spent 3 hours getting this to work, and hopefully this summary of issues with the initial Chapter 6 Earthquake example will save others some time:

1. In your Earthquake.java file (or whatever you named your project -- the main class), make sure that you change "public class Earthquake extends Activity" to "public class Earthquake extends FragmentActivity". Also doesn't hurt to delete the menu stuff.

2. To make the project compatible back to API 8 (which you should do -- look at http://developer.android.com/about/d...rds/index.html), be sure to (1) import android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity in Earthquake.java, (2) import android.support.v4.app.ListFragment (not android.app.ListFragment) in EarthquakeListFragment.java and (3) make sure that android-support-v4.jar is in your libs folder (if not, right click on the top project folder and select Android Tools --> Add Support Library).

3. The download code for EarthquakeListFragment.java is not correct -- if you follow the code in the book it should be correct. In particular (1) handling as a background thread refreshEarthquakes() (see item 10 in the book on page 209), (2) handling as a background thread addNewQuake(quake) (see item 8 in the book on page 208-209), (3) adding a Handler (see item 8 in the book on page 207), and (4) making instance "quake" final (see item 8 in the book on page 208).

Good luck!

pdevhecht · December 17th, 2012, 10:11 AM

Thanks for your thoughtful response. I haven't been using the support libraries, but you make a point that it would then be compatible back to API 8. I'm not exactly sure why one wouldn't just use the support libs always, is there some kind of performance issue?

I'm now on Chapter 8, so I got it to work somehow!!!

perlongfiona · December 19th, 2012, 02:20 AM

Ok, congratulations !

Kees · January 21st, 2013, 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by newbie123

Hi. I am having problem running earthquake example in Chapter 6 on the emulator. I got a blank screen with the title of the activity. Any suggestions?

I experienced the same.
Check in logcat if you got this exception :

"android.view.ViewRoot$CalledFromWrongThreadExcept ion: Only the original thread that created a view hierarchy can touch its views"
If so, then it is likely due to calling aa.notifyDataSetChanged() in earthquakeListfragment.java from the thread that started refreshEarthquakes().
So also the code in the book with the thread does not work!!

I tried to call aa.notifyDataSetChanged() in the main thread, and delete aa.notifyDataSetChanged() from earthquakeListfragment.java, and invoked it with a button for instance.
Pressing the button (but first wait some seconds cause the procedure refresh_Earthquake is time consuming!) it filled the list with the earthquake entries.
For instance in earthquake.java's onCreate handler, (and also an extra button ListButton in main.xml) :

Code:

        button = (Button)findViewById(R.id.ListButton);
        button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
			
	        @Override
	        public void onClick(View v) {
		    FragmentManager fm = getFragmentManager();
		    EarthquakeListFragment earthquakeList = 
		          (EarthquakeListFragment)fm.findFragmentById(R.id.EarthquakeListFragment);
		    earthquakeList.aa.notifyDataSetChanged();
				
		}
	});

Good luck.