Posts by Catalin Prata

Android Parse JSON file from Assets

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

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 and not android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView! Setup We need to import the recycler view from AndroidX. The build.gradle…

Android Squared CardView

Recently, I had to add a perfect square CardView and I wanted to achieve this without hardcoding its width and height. I happily discovered the power of ConstraintLayout and this is how I managed to create a perfect square which should work on every dimension. In my project I created a RecyclerView with 2 columns,…