QuickActions like the Twitter app

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I want to add Pattern 6: QuickActions from android's blog to my app.

Any code snippet?

Anyone try to do it already?

Should this work on android 1.5?

I would also be very interested into a snippet. – Toni Menzel Jun 02 '10 at 13:04 — Toni Menzel, Jun 02 '10 at 13:04
+1 A snippet will help me greatly – ZelluX Jun 02 '10 at 13:06 — ZelluX, Jun 02 '10 at 13:06

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 24 '10 at 19:08

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I just found this question right after I posted my own question/answer. Here's the code I developed for this. http://code.google.com/p/simple-quickactions/

answered Jun 24 '10 at 19:08

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score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 18 '12 at 08:17

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I also have been searching for this and found someone through the wave of the Google IO session who has implemented such thing.

He posted the code on GitHub. I just tested it, and it works just great!

You'll also need some ressources from the project (drawables, styles..).

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answered Jul 14 '10 at 07:17

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I am trying to utilize some of the code from the link that you posted above within my application and am finding it difficult to understand how to do this. Any ideas how to implement the QuickActionWindow and QuickActionItem with other code? – taraloca Aug 09 '10 at 17:03
Take a look at http://github.com/ruqqq/WorldHeritageSite/blob/master/src/sg/ruqqq/WHSFinder/WHSListActivity.java Lines 123-204. It is really easy to use... – Hameno Aug 10 '10 at 14:47

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 03 '10 at 08:15

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Look at line 1310 of ContactsListActivity.java from the Contacts application. It's the code that creates the intent for the contact shortcuts on the home screen that launch the quick actions intent for a contact.

This won't work before eclair.

answered Jun 03 '10 at 08:15

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score 5 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 18 '12 at 06:45

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Until the official Twitter app is open sourced by Google, you may want to take a look at this implementation:

It's really easy to use and works great.

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answered Sep 01 '10 at 14:58

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 18 '12 at 06:41

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That app is going to be open sourced at some point so you may want to wait until then. But it could be done with a Dialog with a custom background drawable, and using Window.LayoutParams to position the dialog.

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answered Jun 02 '10 at 13:21

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QuickActions like the Twitter app

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