My Android Solutions

android, Android Studio, productivity

Android Studio and productivity One interesting feature that Android Studio and IntelliJ IDEA have is the Productivity Guide panel. It helps you see how much of the productivity tools that are available and you are using. You can see here…

Logs – how to filter them in Android Studio

January 5, 2022

Catalin Prata

android, androidlogs, logs

I’ve stumbled across a lot of logs noise in Android Studio throughout the time and it can be a pain when you need to debug a crash or just read some important logs of your app when your device/emulator prints…

Load instrumentation test local files

August 5, 2021

kazydroid

androidtest, instrumentation, logs, tests

Sometimes you might need to add setup files (json/xml/.properties/etc.) to your instrumentation tests (androidTest) and load them in your tests. One way to do that is to add them to the assets directory. Add the assets directory to your src/androidTest…

Print Android instrumentation tests logs in the terminal/console

August 2, 2021

Catalin Prata

While debugging some Android instrumentation tests that were ran using ‘adb shell am instrument', I needed to print some logs into the terminal/console to inspect the flow and resolve some issues. One would think that you could simply use Log.i/e/d…

Android Parse JSON file from Assets

July 25, 2019

Snippets, Solutions

GSON, JSON, parse

If you ever wondered how to read and parse a simple JSON file stored in the assets directory of your Android project, here is a way to do it.

Android Simple Section RecylerView

July 18, 2019

android, RecyclerView, section, sectioned recyclerView, simple sectioned RecyclerView

Tutorial

In this tutorial I will create a simple Sectioned RecyclerView that will show 2 sections and a few items in each section and how to move an item from one section to another. Note: For RecyclerView I used AndroidX imports…

Android Bottom Border Line

April 11, 2019

Solutions

The simplest way to add a bottom border line to a view is this one. If you search on Google and StackOverflow you will find many ways to do this, but they seemed overly complex compared to this one. So…

Xamarin Forms: ActivityIndicator Size

March 28, 2019

Xamarin Forms

ActivityIndicator, Reduce size, scale, xamarin forms