Author name: Catalin Prata

Born in Alba Iulia, a beautiful city from Romania. I like hiking and everything related with electronics and IT . Eager to learn and enhance my knowledge in programming languages. My main specialization is on Mobile Applications development (Android and iOS).

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Add image to email intent in Android

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How to add image to an email intent in Android: // build a email sending intent Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND); emailIntent.setType(“image/png”); // set the email subject emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, “email subject”); // set the email image path for the attachment emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse(“file://” + mEmailImagePath)); // set the body of the email emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, “some text message”);

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Android simple splash screen

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Hi, I have seen that many android starters have problems in implementing their own splash screen in Android (as I had once).UPDATE: As Rafael noticed me, there is also an improvement to be made on the splash screen and this is when the user presses the back button on the splash screen, we should avoid

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Android SSL self signed certificate pass by

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This is not my work, I have just found the solution some time ago on the internetUsing the class below you can pass by the ssl certificate error that Android may throw when you are trying to connect to a self signed certified server:First the EasySSLSocketFactory class : import java.io.IOException; import java.net.Socket; import java.net.UnknownHostException; import java.security.KeyManagementException; import

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Run Android Lint from command line

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Not many of us use android Lint tool to scan the projects for possible performance or best practices tips. Eclipse has the Lint tool included into adt plugin so Eclipse users can take advantages of this. Ok but what about developers that use intellij IDEA or other IDE for android projects? The answer is simple,

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Android: Scrolling to the bottom of a ScrollView

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Iv’e had a lot of trouble scrolling a ScrollView all the way to the bottom in android and I finally got the way to do it ! Here is the code: scrollView.post(new Runnable() { public void run() { scrollView.fullScroll(View.FOCUS_DOWN); } }); Hope it helps somebody !

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Android How To Make an AlertDialog

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To make an AlertDialog you have to write this code: AlertDialog.Builder alertDelete = new AlertDialog.Builder(ListsActivity.this); //HERE YOU WILL WRITE THE MESSAGE YOU WANT alertDelete.setMessage(R.string.delete_confirm); //HERE IS THE POSITIVE BUTTON. YOU HAVE TO SET THE BUTTON NAME AND A CLICK LISTENER alertDelete.setPositiveButton(getString(R.string.yes),new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(DialogInterface dialogInterface, int i) { //YOUR ACTION } });

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Android How To Make Google Maps Application

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NOTE: DEPRECATED. You should use Google Maps Android API V2 Sometimes in our applications we have to add new features like Maps. So in today’s tutorial I will show you how to create a map for your application and what you need in order to create it. Firts of all you have to run the

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How to import an Intellij project in android after you reinstalled your Intellij

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If it happened to reinstall your Intelij and you don’t remember how to import your android projects maybe this post will help you, even a little at least. So, lets begin. Step 1: Press CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+S and the Project Structure window will open. On the left click on the project and then press the new button

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How to make a background button selector in XML?

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Step 1: Create an XML in the drawable folder and name it selected_item.xml (or any another name you want but to be suggestive). The code in this xml will be: <shape android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” shape=”rectangle”> <solid color=”#80000000″></solid> </shape> The color=”#80000000″ is transparent black. Step 2: Create an XML again, in the drawable folder an name it not_selected.xml. The code

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