Android ADB over wifi - Portable wifi device

Bored of connecting your Android device to ADB with traditional way wired/USB cable?

Here is the solution, connect your device to ADB over wifi & deploy your application for testing, how cool is that?

In order to make this successful you should 

There are two ways to connect,
1. Non-Rooted  Devices
2. Rooted Devices

For Non-Rooted Device

1. Connect your device to Computer

2. Once it is connected to ADB, 

Go to command prompt locate your Android sdk/platform-tools as shown below

3. Type the below command

adb tcpip 5555

adb connect 192.168.0.101:5555

Make sure you will replace your IP (Device IP) 

4. Remove USB cable 

Now your device is connected via wifi ADB. 

5. To revert back to USB

Just type 

adb usb

For Rooted-Device

1. Download apps

ADB wifi https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ryosoftware.adbw&hl=enor Wifi ADB https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ttxapps.wifiadb&hl=enon your device. 

2. Go to command prompt

locate your Android sdk/platform-tools as shown below

3. open your any of the ADB wifi app 

now type in command adb connect 192.168.2.77 (as shown in your device)

4. Now you will be able to see 

connected to 192.168.2.77:5555

5. Now if you check you in DDMS you will be able to see your device connected in Device tab.

Enjoy ADB over wifi :) 
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Sliding Activities like Gallery ImageView

Have you ever tried of combining all 4 or more activities(layouts)  into single activity?
If not here is a sample which uses Image Gallery to load activities. 
I have used total 5 layouts (1 main & other 4 for 4 different activity) 

• sliding_activity.xml
• layout_1.xml
• layout_2.xml
• layout_3.xml
• layout_4.xml

Also 5 classes (1 Main & 4 others)

• SlidingActivity.java
• layout_1.java
• layout_2.java
• layout_3.java
• layout_4.java

layout_1.java
Has a simple toast notifcation on click of a button



layout_2.java
Has a alert dialog to be opened on click of a button



layout_3.java
Has a image to be changed on click of a button 



layout_4.java
Has simple toast 



Java class code as follows

SlidingActivity.java

package com.rnd.slidingactivity;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.content.Context;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.view.LayoutInflater;

import android.view.View;

import android.view.ViewGroup;

import android.view.Window;

import android.widget.BaseAdapter;

import android.widget.Gallery;

import android.widget.LinearLayout;

public class SlidingActivity extends Activity {

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */

Gallery my_gallery;

Integer[] integer_layouts= 

{

R.layout.layout_1,

R.layout.layout_2,

R.layout.layout_3,

R.layout.layout_4

};

    @Override

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        

        requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

        

        setContentView(R.layout.sliding_activity);

        

        my_gallery = (Gallery)findViewById(R.id.my_gallery);

        my_gallery.setAdapter(new LayoutAdapter());

    }

    

    public class LayoutAdapter extends BaseAdapter {

   

        

        

        public int getCount() {

             

            return integer_layouts.length;

        }

        public View getView(int arg0, View convertView, ViewGroup arg2) {

         LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);

         View layoutViews = (LinearLayout)inflater.inflate(integer_layouts[arg0], null, false);

        

         layoutViews.setLayoutParams(new Gallery.LayoutParams(LinearLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LinearLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT)) ;

         

         if(arg0==0)

         {

          LayoutActivity1 la = new LayoutActivity1(SlidingActivity.this, layoutViews);

         }

         else if(arg0==1)

         {

          LayoutActivity2 la = new LayoutActivity2(SlidingActivity.this, layoutViews);

         }

         else if(arg0==2)

         {

          LayoutActivity3 la = new LayoutActivity3(SlidingActivity.this, layoutViews);

         }

         else if(arg0==3)

         {

          LayoutActivity4 la = new LayoutActivity4(SlidingActivity.this, layoutViews);

         }

           return layoutViews;

        }

        

        public Object getItem(int position) {

         // Do nothing

            return null;

        }

        

        public long getItemId(int position) {

         // Do nothing

            return position;

        }

    }

}


LayoutActivity1.java

package com.rnd.slidingactivity;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.content.Context;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.Button;

import android.widget.Toast;

public class LayoutActivity1 {

Context context;

View vw;

public LayoutActivity1(Activity act,View view)

{

context = act;

vw=view;

operations();

}

public void operations()

{

Button btn = (Button)vw.findViewById(R.id.btn_ll_1);

btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

public void onClick(View v) {

Toast.makeText(context, "You have clicked the second activity Control", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

}

});

}

}


LayoutActivity2.java

package com.rnd.slidingactivity;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.app.AlertDialog;

import android.app.Dialog;

import android.content.Context;

import android.content.DialogInterface;

import android.content.DialogInterface.OnClickListener;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.Button;

import android.widget.Toast;

public class LayoutActivity2 {

Context context;

View vw;

public LayoutActivity2(Activity act,View view)

{

context = act;

vw=view;

operations();

}

public void operations()

{

Button btn = (Button)vw.findViewById(R.id.btn_ll_2);

btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

public void onClick(View v) {

getAlert();

}

});

}

public void getAlert()

{

AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(context);

alert.setTitle("Layout 2");

alert.setMessage("Alert for 2nd layout");

alert.setPositiveButton("Ok",new OnClickListener() {

public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

}

});

alert.show();

}

}

LayoutActivity3.java

package com.rnd.slidingactivity;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.app.AlertDialog;

import android.app.Dialog;

import android.content.Context;

import android.content.DialogInterface;

import android.content.DialogInterface.OnClickListener;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.Button;

import android.widget.ImageView;

import android.widget.Toast;

public class LayoutActivity3 {

Context context;

View vw;

public LayoutActivity3(Activity act,View view)

{

context = act;

vw=view;

operations();

}

public void operations()

{

Button btn = (Button)vw.findViewById(R.id.btn_ll_3);

btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

public void onClick(View v) {

changeImage();

}

});

}

public void changeImage()

{

ImageView img = (ImageView)vw.findViewById(R.id.img_ll_3);

img.setImageResource(R.drawable.droid);

}

}

LayoutActivity4.java

package com.rnd.slidingactivity;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.app.AlertDialog;

import android.app.Dialog;

import android.content.Context;

import android.content.DialogInterface;

import android.content.DialogInterface.OnClickListener;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.Button;

import android.widget.ImageView;

import android.widget.Toast;

public class LayoutActivity4 {

Context context;

View vw;

public LayoutActivity4(Activity act,View view)

{

context = act;

vw=view;

operations();

}

public void operations()

{

Button btn = (Button)vw.findViewById(R.id.btn_ll_4);

btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

public void onClick(View v) {

Toast.makeText(context, "You are into Activity 4", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

}

});

}

}

Layouts 
sliding_activity.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:layout_width="fill_parent"

    android:layout_height="fill_parent"

    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <Gallery

        android:id="@+id/my_gallery"

        android:layout_width="match_parent"

        android:layout_height="match_parent" />

</LinearLayout>

layout_1.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:layout_width="fill_parent"

    android:layout_height="fill_parent"

    android:orientation="vertical" android:background="#222288" android:gravity="center">

    <LinearLayout

        android:id="@+id/linearLayout1"

        android:layout_width="fill_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:orientation="vertical"

        android:paddingBottom="50dp" >

        <TextView

            android:id="@+id/textView1"

            android:layout_width="match_parent"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:text="1st Layout"

            android:textSize="50dp"

            android:gravity="center"

            android:textColor="#ffffff"

            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

    </LinearLayout>

    <Button

        android:id="@+id/btn_ll_1"

        android:layout_width="match_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:text="Toast Notification" />

</LinearLayout>

layout_2.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:layout_width="fill_parent"

    android:layout_height="fill_parent"

    android:orientation="vertical" android:background="#228822" android:gravity="center">

    <LinearLayout

        android:id="@+id/linearLayout1"

        android:layout_width="fill_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:orientation="vertical"

        android:paddingBottom="50dp" >

        <TextView

            android:id="@+id/textView1"

            android:layout_width="match_parent"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:text="2nd Layout"

            android:textSize="50dp"

            android:textColor="#ffffff"

            android:gravity="center"

            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

    </LinearLayout>

    <Button

        android:id="@+id/btn_ll_2"

        android:layout_width="match_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:text="Alert Dialog" />

</LinearLayout>

layout_3.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:layout_width="fill_parent"

    android:layout_height="fill_parent"

    android:orientation="vertical" android:background="#881122" android:gravity="center">

    <LinearLayout

        android:id="@+id/linearLayout1"

        android:layout_width="fill_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:gravity="center"

        android:orientation="vertical"

        android:paddingBottom="50dp" >

        <TextView

            android:id="@+id/textView1"

            android:layout_width="match_parent"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:text="3rd Layout"

            android:textSize="50dp"

            android:textColor="#ffffff"

            android:gravity="center"

            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

        <ImageView

            android:id="@+id/img_ll_3"

            android:layout_width="wrap_content"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher" />

    </LinearLayout>

    <Button

        android:id="@+id/btn_ll_3"

        android:layout_width="match_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:text="Change Image" />

</LinearLayout>

layout_4.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:layout_width="fill_parent"

    android:layout_height="fill_parent"

    android:orientation="vertical" android:background="#311100" android:gravity="center">

    <LinearLayout

        android:id="@+id/linearLayout1"

        android:layout_width="fill_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:gravity="center"

        android:orientation="vertical"

        android:paddingBottom="50dp" >

        <TextView

            android:id="@+id/textView1"

            android:layout_width="match_parent"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:text="4th Layout"

            android:textSize="50dp"

            android:textColor="#ffffff"

            android:gravity="center"

            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

       

    </LinearLayout>

    <Button

        android:id="@+id/btn_ll_4"

        android:layout_width="match_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:text="Toast Notification" />

</LinearLayout>

Manifest file 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    package="com.rnd.slidingactivity"

    android:versionCode="1"

    android:versionName="1.0" >

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

    <application

        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"

        android:label="@string/app_name" >

        <activity

            android:label="@string/app_name"

            android:name=".SlidingActivity" >

            <intent-filter >

                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

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

            </intent-filter>

        </activity>

    </application>

</manifest>

Now enjoy your sliding activity like gallery imageview 

Android EditText to TextView conversion (UI only)

In order to make your EditText to function like Textview(look & feel) follow the below steps. 

Step 1: 
Assign ID to your EditText object
EditText edtText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.YourID);

Step 2: 
Disable the edtText

edtText.setEnabled(false);

Step 3:
Disable cursor

edtText.setCursorVisible(false);

Step 4: 
Set Key listner as null.

edtText.setKeyListener(null);

Step 5:
 Make background Transparent

edtText.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT); 

Now check your EditText