Laura Suciu, Author at My Android Solutions

Android – HTML in textView

September 29, 2017

bold, font, getText vs getString, html, Html.fromHtml, size, spanned, style, supported tags, TextView, unsupported tags

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

::, arguments, functions, how to pass a function as parameter, lambda, parameters, reference function

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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…

Introduction to Functions – Kotlin

July 3, 2017

Laura Suciu

functions, java, kotlin, method

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In this post, I will try to explain how to write functions in Kotlin by doing a parallel with Java. It’s not rocket science or anything special in this post, but this is the way I understand and remember better…

Kotlin – Hello world

June 28, 2017

Laura Suciu

Hello World, kotlin

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Introduction What is Kotlin? It is a new programming language built by JetBrains, and as you may already know, Google announced at Google I/O 2017, that they will now officially support this language. It is inspired by existing languages such…

Android Navigation View With Tabs

July 13, 2016

Laura Suciu

android, CoordinatorLayout, material design, navigation view, navigationView, TabLayout, tabs, Toolbar

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In this tutorial we will create a simple app which has a NavigationView, a Toolbar with Tabs and a simple list of items, that are displayed for each selected tab. Tools used: Android Studio 2.2 Preview 4 Android Emulator 5x…

Android: CoordinatorLayout RecyclerView First Item not visible

July 9, 2016

Laura Suciu

android, CoordinatorLayout, first item not visible, ListView, RecyclerView, Toolbar

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Problem I had to implement a Toolbar with tabs, together with CoordinatorLayout, and the content of each tab had to be a list of items, for which I used RecyclerView. But when I ran the app, the first item in the list was…

Android Studio can’t open Android Device Monitor

June 28, 2016

Laura Suciu

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Problem Recently I had this issue: my Android Device Monitor didn’t open and and an error log file was generated every time I was tring to open it, under Android – sdk – tools – lib – monitor-x86_64 – configuration. Also, I have to…

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