Change the android actionbar title and icon

This is very simple to accomplish

If you want to change it in code, call:

setTitle("My new title");
getActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.my_icon);

And set the values to whatever you please.

Or, in the Android manifest XML file:

<activity android:name=".MyActivity" 
       android:icon="@drawable/my_icon" 
       android:label="My new title" />

To enable the back button in your app use:

 getActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
 getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

The code should all be placed in your onCreate so that the label/icon changing is transparent to the user, but in reality it can be called anywhere during the activity’s lifecycle.

References :
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14483393/how-do-i-change-the-android-actionbar-title-and-icon

ActionBar with Custom View Example in Android

custom_actionbar.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="50dp"
    android:background="@drawable/black_pattern" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/title_text"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerInParent="true"
        android:textAllCaps="true"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
        android:textColor="#fff"
        android:textStyle="bold" />

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageView1"
        android:layout_width="35dp"
        android:layout_height="35dp"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:layout_marginLeft="8dp"
        android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher" />

    <ImageButton
        android:id="@+id/imageButton"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:layout_marginRight="8dp"
        android:background="@null"
        android:src="@android:drawable/ic_menu_rotate" />

</RelativeLayout>

Activity Class (MainActivity.java)

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

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

		ActionBar mActionBar = getActionBar();
		mActionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);
		mActionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
		LayoutInflater mInflater = LayoutInflater.from(this);

		View mCustomView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.custom_actionbar, null);
		TextView mTitleTextView = (TextView) mCustomView.findViewById(R.id.title_text);
		mTitleTextView.setText("My Own Title");

		ImageButton imageButton = (ImageButton) mCustomView
				.findViewById(R.id.imageButton);
		imageButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

			@Override
			public void onClick(View view) {
				Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Refresh Clicked!",
						Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
			}
		});

		mActionBar.setCustomView(mCustomView);
		mActionBar.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
	}

}

References :
http://stacktips.com/tutorials/android/actionbar-with-custom-view-example-in-android

Show a Dialog using DialogFragment in Xamarin Android

Let us first define the layout for your fragment. In this example, I have used two TextViews and Button. My layout looks as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:padding="10dp">
    <TextView
        android:text="Lorem ipsum"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/textView1" />
    <TextView
        android:text="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit...."
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/textView2"
        android:layout_marginTop="10dp" />
    <Button
        android:text="Close"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/CloseButton"
        android:layout_marginTop="10dp" />
</LinearLayout>

Now let us inflate the layout from OnCreateView() method. My DialogFragment class looks as follows:

public class DialogFragment1 : DialogFragment
	{
		public static DialogFragment1 NewInstance(Bundle bundle){
			DialogFragment1 fragment = new DialogFragment1 ();
			fragment.Arguments = bundle;
			return fragment;
		}

		public override View OnCreateView (LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState)
		{
			// Use this to return your custom view for this Fragment
			View view =  inflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.DialogFragment1Layout, container, false);
			Button button = view.FindViewById<Button> (Resource.Id.CloseButton);
			button.Click += delegate {
				Dismiss();
				Toast.MakeText(Activity ,"Dialog fragment dismissed!" , ToastLength.Short).Show();
			};

			return view;
		}
	}

We are pretty much done!. Add the following code snippet in your Activity to instantiate and display the dialog:

FragmentTransaction ft = FragmentManager.BeginTransaction();
//Remove fragment else it will crash as it is already added to backstack
Fragment prev = FragmentManager.FindFragmentByTag("dialog");
if (prev != null) {
	ft.Remove(prev);
}

ft.AddToBackStack(null);

// Create and show the dialog.
DialogFragment1 newFragment = DialogFragment1.NewInstance(null);

//Add fragment
newFragment.Show(ft, "dialog");

References :
http://javatechig.com/xamarin/alertdialog-and-dialogfragment-example-in-xamarin-android

Show a Dialog using AlertDialog in Xamarin Android

//set alert for executing the task
AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder (this);
alert.SetTitle ("Confirm delete");
alert.SetMessage ("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.");
alert.SetPositiveButton ("Delete", (senderAlert, args) => {
	Toast.MakeText(this ,"Deleted!" , ToastLength.Short).Show();
});

alert.SetNegativeButton ("Cancel", (senderAlert, args) => {
	Toast.MakeText(this ,"Cancelled!" , ToastLength.Short).Show();
});

Dialog dialog = alert.Create();
dialog.Show();

References :
http://javatechig.com/xamarin/alertdialog-and-dialogfragment-example-in-xamarin-android

Android Exception : Only the original thread that created a view hierarchy can touch its views

 private void startingUp() {
    Thread timer = new Thread() { //new thread         
        public void run() {
            Boolean b = true;
            try {
                do {
                    counter++;
                    title();
                    sleep(1000);

                    runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {  
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                        title.clearComposingText();
                    }
                });


                }
                while (b == true);
            } catch (IntruptedException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            finally {
            }
        };
    };
    timer.start();
}

References :
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14978052/only-the-original-thread-that-created-a-view-hierarchy-can-touch-its-views-on-a

Install Android SDK on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1 libbz2-1.0:i386
sudo gedit /etc/profile

add :

#AndroidDev PATH
export PATH=${PATH}:/opt/android-sdk-linux/tools
export PATH=${PATH}:/opt/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools

at the end run the following command to refresh profile or restart your system

. /etc/profile

Or
add this to ~/.bashrc :

export ANDROID_HOME=/<installation location>/android-sdk-linux
export PATH=${PATH}:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

References
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AndroidSDK
https://developer.android.com/studio/install.html