Figuring out how to pull the current flavor from gradle While working on an update for one of our games, I needed to figure out how to get the current flavor and use it in code. Since there are a lot of ways to do this, I chose to create a custom build config parameter and…
Did you know you can get the signing SHA1 and MD5 fingerprints within AndroidStudio? If you need the SHA1 or MD5 fingerprints of your Android debug/release key/certificate for a new API or framework that you want to integrate in your project like Firebase or Maps, then you can also get it from AndroidStudio. Follow the steps below…
The following snippet will help you generate a random number in Java that is between 2 numbers (min and max).
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static Random random = new Random(); /** * Min is inclusive and max is exclusive in this case **/ public static int randomBetween(int min, int max) { return random.nextInt(max - min) + min; } |
Please note that the min variable is inclusive in the results of this method while max is exclusive.
So if you ever need the screen width and height on Android, you can use the following snippet:
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/** * Returns the size of the screen in pixels (width and height) * * @return a Point that has the screen width stored in x and height in y */ public Point getScreenSize(Activity context) { Display display = context.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay(); Point size = new Point(); if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 13) { display.getSize(size); } else { //noinspection deprecation size.set(display.getWidth(), display.getHeight()); } return size; } |
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You might know about Realm, a fancy and practical storage option that one can use on Android. Realm is quite fast and it is really easy to work with but recently I had to parse some data from the webservice and I wanted to use GSON, the Android Json parser library. All works well if…
The Problem... So I wanted to reset my score on one of my google play games here(QuickAZ) and for that I could use Google Play Games API if the user was registered as a tester in the play console. In order to easily authenticate to the service and test the API I used Google's Playground. The only…
Here is a possible solution if you want to load localized text resources on a TextView in Android. Problem: You may need to extend your app flexibility to be able to load localized texts at runtime from a web server for example. That would be to be able to add new localizations (for new countries)…