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android data entry

Ask for input on your Android phone

When you ask for user input on Android, the dialog that your user sees looks
something like this example, which asks your user to confirm or change the
web address and port for your server.

The input dialog has
a title. A space for data
entry, when tapped,
bring ups the “soft”
There’s some keyboard.
additional descriptive
text (or message).

A “Cancel” button
An “OK” button lets you change your
confirms the entry. mind.

A single Android call creates this interface for you using the
dialogGetInput() method:

title = 'Which server should I use?'
message = "Please confirm the server address/name to use for your athlete's timing data:"
data = 'http://192.168.1.33:8080'
resp = app.dialogGetInput(title, message, data).result

Pressing the Ok button sets resp to the data entered into the input area. The result of your
user’s interaction
Pressing the Cancel button sets resp to None, which is Python’s internal with the dialog is
null-value.
assigned to “resp”.

Let’s create some Android data-entry dialogs.

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