Laura Suciu, Author at My Android Solutions

Android About ConstraintLayout

June 20, 2016

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DID YOU KNOW about ConstraintLayout? Definition ConstraintLayout is a new type of layout introduced by Android, similar to RelativeLayout but more flexible, and it is used to position UI elements relative to other UI elements by using constraints. A constraint represent…

Android Free/Paid Versions Tutorial

June 18, 2016

Laura Suciu

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There are situations when you might decide that you need to create 2 versions for your application: a free one and a paid one. So, in this tutorial, which is just a simple example (we will just set different colors…

Android ApplicationId vs PackageName

June 17, 2016

Laura Suciu

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You might wonder what is the difference between package name we have in AndroidManifest.xml file and ApplicationId we see in build.gradle. They seem to be the same thing, but actually they are 2 different things. So if you didn’t know…

Android Build Types and Flavors

June 16, 2016

Laura Suciu

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In this tutorial we will talk about Build Types and Flavors, for what are they used, what is the difference between them and what they have in common. Build Types When you work on a project, at some point you…

Error:Execution failed for task ‘:Application:transformClassesWithDexFor

November 30, 2015

Laura Suciu

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Error:Execution failed for task ':Application:transformClassesWithDexForMyFlavorName'. > com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command '/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_79.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java'' finished with non-zero exit value 2 I had this error after updating the project to the latest Build Tools 23.0.0. After spending some hours on google to find…

Android @IntDef Annotation Example

October 31, 2015

Laura Suciu

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Android has some helpful annotations in the support library so, in this post, I will show you an example of how to use @IntDef annotation. You can use this annotation (or @StringDef annotation) instead of Enum. Steps 1. Add your constants 2. Add the @IntDef annotation…

Did you know about Percent Support Library

September 29, 2015

Laura Suciu

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Yes, we can finally get rid of hardcoded values or nested layouts used in order to take advantage of layout_weight. Definition Percent Support Library is a new library introduced by Google, used to set the width, height and margins for a…

Android Set Horizontal Divider to a Vertical LinearLayout

September 27, 2015

Laura Suciu

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If you need to use a “list” divider, but you need it on a vertical LinearLayout instead of a List you can do this by using some attributes on the LinearLayout. It’s not very straightforward as you maybe expected, but it’s…

Android: Add Tabs using TabLayout

July 19, 2015

Laura Suciu

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In this tutorial we will see how to add tabs to a project by using TabLayout together with ViewPager, and some other new views from the design library 🙂 Before starting I will make summary to present the main idea…

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