Laura Suciu, Author at My Android Solutions

Android Show HTML Bulleted List from strings.xml

November 27, 2017

If you search on the internet about how to show a bulleted list from strings.xml using HTML tags, most of the answers will say that you should use a WebView, or to use the bullet symbol directly, or other alternatives.…

Android Activity launchMode

November 15, 2017

Laura Suciu

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In Android you can specify activity launchMode. You can do this either from AndroidManifest.xml file, either using intents with flags. Some of the flags produce the same effects like those from AndroidManifest.xml, but there are some flags that can be…

Android Add Game Leaderboard

November 2, 2017

Laura Suciu

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In order to display leaderboards from your game you will have to set up your project and to be signed in. Below you will learn how to do this. Project Setup Download the Android samples from https://github.com/playgameservices/android-basic-samples Import BaseGameUtils into your project…

Android ViewPager Tutorial

October 20, 2017

Laura Suciu

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In Android, if you need to swipe from right to left or vice-versa in order to see different data, you can use a ViewPager. In order to use it, you have to implement a PagerAdapter which will generate the pages…

Android ViewPager Cube Animation

October 9, 2017

Laura Suciu

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After trying some libraries in order to make a cube animation for my viewPager, I realized that is pretty easy to do this. Android provides an interface called ViewPager.PageTransformer and you just have to implement its method transformPage(). Below is…

Android – HTML in textView

September 29, 2017

Laura Suciu

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Display HTML format First we will present below what are the supported tags for a textView and what are not supported. You can skip this section if you are already familiar with these or you want to jump directly into…

Kotlin – How to pass function as parameter

September 21, 2017

Laura Suciu

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Recently, I’ve noticed that there are a few different ways to pass a function as parameter. In this post I will use 2 functions: sum and divide. We have to declare the sum function, in such way that it can…

Functions in Kotlin

September 20, 2017

Laura Suciu

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In this post I will talk about 5 cool things that functions can do in Kotlin, better than methods in Java. 1. Forget about overloaded methods In Java, when you need the same method to have 1 parameter in…

Anonymous Functions and Lambdas – Kotlin

July 7, 2017

Laura Suciu

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Note! This is a post for beginners in Kotlin language. What are lambdas and anonymous functions? In order to define them let’s see what is a function literal. Function literal Function literal is a function that was not declared, but was passed…

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