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I've been working through the Commonsware Android Programming Tutorials and in tutorial 5, extra credit 2, the challenge is to use multiple layouts for displaying rows in a ListView depending on the "type name" of the object (a Restaurant's "type" attribute, which is a String). As such, it suggests overriding getItemViewType and getViewTypeCount in a custom ArrayAdapter. In addition, the android docs and other online recipes or blog posts suggest the same. In this situation, following this recipe and overriding those two methods works fine but results in redundant logic based on inspecting the

In the earlier Android Programming Tutorial, page 192, we see an implementation of LunchList#onOptionsItemSelected . Within this implementation we see two Intent s passed to startActivity : one whose constructor is passed LunchList.this , the other whose constructor is passed this . What's the difference? See lines 78 - 91 here . Note how onOptionsItemSelected is not declared within an inner class. In Android/Java does the value of this change within the context of event handlers or function binding via reflection? Could both Intent instances be passed this ? In Java, this refers to the

UPDATE maybe changing the Bitmap size in the new Activity may fix the problem String myRef = this.getIntent().getStringExtra("filepath"); File imgFile = new File(myRef); Log.e("BeatEmUp", myRef); if(imgFile.exists()){ Bitmap myBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(imgFile.getAbsolutePath()); ImageView myImage = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imagepunch); myImage.setImageBitmap(myBitmap); } Something like this maybe? Bitmap scaled = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(bit, 200, 200, true); Or Maybe this is the best way below So far I have my app which is taking a picture and then using an Intent to carry the

There are information that it is impossible to use ViewPager within a Fragment in many sources like " The Busy Coders Guide for Android Developers " by Mark Murphy, or posts like this on SO. I'm confused because I don't have such a problem and I successfully use ViewPager within my Fragment . The only distinction is that I instantiate a ViewPager not in onCreateView() method but in onActivityCreated() . And everything works perfectly fine. So the question is - may be I just don't know something and this is not recommended for some reason to make UI instantiations in onActivityCreated() ? But