[Deprecated] This post is now deprecated, the Manifest Merger has changed since my first post. You can find more about this on the android developers site. Manifest file & Gradle If you started using Android Studio and implicitly Gradle, or you just started using Gradle with other IDEs (like Intellij for example), then maybe you […]
Recently I had to change the target SDK on one of my applications, but by doing that, I ran into some problems with the Android Canvas. Â In this application I use an animation which simulates an explosion. So, I tested my app and I noticed that everything was working OK, until I changed the target
To clear the Fragments back stack of a FragmentManager, you could iterate through all back stack items and call popBackStack() but there is also a more elegant solution. Please see below: // in my case I get the support fragment manager, it should work with the native one too FragmentManager fragmentManager = getSupportFragmentManager(); // this
Android’s UI components are not thread safe so one may need to update Views or other UI components from a secondary thread when returning from an asynchronous database query or a web service call. Â If you run the code from a secondary thread you might see that the code crashes almost on each try. Below
Recently I had to install the driver for Nexus 5, Â but I completely forgot how to do that so I decided to write a post about this. Â So what problems did I have? Well, I did some research on the internet (again) and found the steps to install, but for some reason my Nexus 5
