Showing posts with label action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label action. Show all posts

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Monday, February 2, 2015

Upgrading Tools Tutorial for Action Chip Android Tablet Pc

Firmware Upgrade Tool for
 ACTION CHIPSET
 (ATM7021+ATM7029+ATM7039) 
 , CPU,BOXCHIP,MAIN CHIP  for Android Tablet PC

Read Article about Actions_Semiconductor

Before flashing,upgrading tablet pc must match your Tablet PC firmware and download the complete (.img) file which will use to flash your android tablet with the help of Action tablet flashing tool.

Here is complete tutorial to flash Action Chip based Android Tablets . 

Download Flashing Tool for ACTION CHIPSET  
Action Tablet Product Tool 1.02-02(Developer Edition)




Extract and Run MSI file 


This Software is in chinese. Click next to continue . 



Click {"下一步(N)" } button to Continue if you want to change the location then you can change the directory .



Click Next , the dialogue box might appear . Select 1st option to continue , if not then select 2nd option.

When installation Complete click finish button to close the dialog box.



Go to directory folder where you have extract the software.




Select Mainapp 




After Opening MainApp you will have the complete view of Action Tablet tool . Please read carefully and  follow the following steps to replace the files with the matched one.
marked 1 to 5 in the picture in red box to make the following comments . 
Click to select the "Recovery" file in the firmware folder
Click to select the "Fat_Misc" file in the firmware folder
Click to select the "System" file in the firmware folder
Click to select the "apk.img" file in the firmware folder
Click to select a file whose suffix name is "FW" in the firmware folder.





Now its time to connect you Android tablet pc with Computer. Here is little method how to put your tablet in recovery mode from where computer will recognize it and make it ready for Firmware Restore or upgrade. 
Turn off your Android Tablet . Hold down Volume (+ UP) button for few seconds and insert usb cable in Tablet . Computer will inform you "usb device found " . 
Manually install drivers by opening ---->Right click on my computer---->Properties--->Unknown device.
Right click on unknown device and install drivers.  

After installing device will be shown in PC properties. click confirm to start uploading drivers to PC.



When device is connected pop up window will be open and tell you 1 usb device is detected. 
 





When you see the above software condition on your computer you are ready to upload tablet firmware.
Now click on download to upgrade . 



After click on download button as shown in picture wait for 5 minute to complete the upgrade process. 



When following picture show up its mean you are Done.  

 Things to Remember before flashing Android Tablet
Charge Tablet PC battery more than 60%. Power failure during installing / upgrading android tablet may result in dead tablet. 
Upgrade process take some time depend on device . Do not panic just sit relax. 


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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Android beginner tutorial Part 50 Options menu icons Action bar

In this tutorial we will learn how to add icons and use Action bar.

As I mentioned before, an Action bar is something Google invented and plants to replace the old Options menu with. Still the menu remains as long as there is a Menu button on the device. In this part I will show you how to add icons to menu items that are displayed in the old Icon Menu that appears in the bottom of the screen, or in the Action Bar on devices running newer versions of Android. The icons are not displayed in the List-like menu though.

The MainActivity.java class remains like this the whole time today:

package com.kircode.codeforfood_test;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;

public class MainActivity extends Activity{

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu);
return true;
}

}

We will be working in activity_main.xml, which is located in res/menu/ directory.

Add 3 items here, give them unique ids and titles. Set their icons using the "icon" attribute. Im using the two snowflake pictures I have in my drawable-hdpi folder. Icons can also be added with code using setIcon() method, but right now Im doing it using XML.

The showAsAction attribute can be set to multiple values and to some combination of the available values. The values are "never", "ifRoom", "withText", "always", "collaspeActionView". You can use more than one of the keyboards like this: "ifRoom|withText".

The "ifRoom" keyboard indicates that the button will be displayed only if theres space available. The "withText" keyboard tells android to display the text of the button if available (if there is room for that). The "collapseActionView" keyword adds a button that displays a drop-down menu with all the rest of the buttons that are not displayed.

Lets add "withText" to all 3 buttons, "always" to the first button and "ifRoom" to the second and third one.

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

<item
android:id="@+id/menu_one"
android:orderInCategory="1"
android:showAsAction="always|withText"
android:icon="@drawable/snowflake"
android:title="Button one"/>

<item
android:id="@+id/menu_two"
android:orderInCategory="2"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
android:icon="@drawable/snowflake2"
android:title="Button two"/>

<item
android:id="@+id/menu_three"
android:orderInCategory="3"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
android:icon="@drawable/snowflake"
android:title="Button three"/>

</menu>

On an Android device I have that runs Android 2.3, all the icons are displayed in the classic Options menu in the bottom part of the screen.

This is how the application looks on Android 4 phone:



And this is the same application on a tablet:



As you can see, the phone could only fit 2 icons without text, while the tablet is wide enough to display all 3 icon with their text labels.

Lets try putting "collapseActionView" for the second and third items:

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

<item
android:id="@+id/menu_one"
android:orderInCategory="1"
android:showAsAction="always|withText"
android:icon="@drawable/snowflake"
android:title="Button one"/>

<item
android:id="@+id/menu_two"
android:orderInCategory="2"
android:showAsAction="collapseActionView"
android:icon="@drawable/snowflake2"
android:title="Button two"/>

<item
android:id="@+id/menu_three"
android:orderInCategory="3"
android:showAsAction="collapseActionView"
android:icon="@drawable/snowflake"
android:title="Button three"/>

</menu>

The tablet now displays a button like this, which spawns a dropdown menu when it is touched:

IMG HERE

The phone, however, does not display such a thing. But the dropdown menu can be called out by pressing the Menu item on the device.

This way, we made sure all the buttons are displayed on all devices, even though in different ways.

Thanks for reading!
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