meta-data.doc

Android Manifest – meta-data For all of you who have been programming for this platform you will know that an essential file is the manifest.xml. Here we define important parameters of the application. An example of this is the permissions. A very interesting tag and the reason for this post is the? meta-data …. ?. We can define Strings, ints, floats, booleans, system resources, etc. Let’s see how to define it: 1 2 ...... 3 meta-data?android:name .imagenandroid:resource @drawable/my_image/ 4 meta-data?android:name .booleanandroid:value true/ 5 meta-data?android:name .stringandroid:value Some string/ 6 meta-data?android:name android:value 1/ 7 Note the diference between?resource y value?for the type of data we need. Once defined in the file manifest.xml we need a way to read it at runtime. Here is a class were you can see this. 01 import?android.content.Context; 02 import?android.content.pm.ApplicationInfo; 03 import?android.content.pm.PackageManager; 04 import?android.content.pm.PackageManager.NameNotFoundException; 05 import?android.os.Bundle; 06 07 /** 08 * 09 * @author Rodrigo N. Carreras 10 * @email rodrigo@ 11 */ 12 public?class?ManifestData 13 ? 14 private?static?Object readKey Context context, String keyName 15 try? 16 ApplicationInfo appi context.getPackageManager .getApplicationInfo 17 context.getPackageName , PackageManager.GET_META_DATA ; 18 19 Bundle bundle appi.metaData; 20 Object value bundle.get keyName ; 21 ? 22 return?value; 23 catch? NameNotFoundException ex 24 return?null; 25 26 27 28 29 public?static?String getString Context context, String keyName 30 return? String readKey keyName, context ; 31 32 33 public?static?int?getInt Context context, String keyName 34 return? Integer readKey keyName, context ; 35 36 37 public?static?Boolean getBoolean Context context, String keyName 38 return? Boolean readKey keyName, context ; 39 40 41 public?static?Object get Context context, String keyN