Laura Suciu, Author at My Android Solutions

Android Set Horizontal Divider to a Vertical LinearLayout

September 27, 2015

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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…

Android Countdown ProgressBar

July 4, 2015

Laura Suciu

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Recently I needed to make a progressBar to update its progress smoothly for a given period of time (I needed a countdown). So after some research on Google, I ended up using an ObjectAnimator in order to achieve this. For…

Android Floating Action Button (New Implementation)

June 25, 2015

Laura Suciu

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The previous tutorial about Floating Action Button implementation is now deprecated regarding that now, there is a support library from Android which makes the implementation of FAB more easier. You just have to add to dependencies the Design Library in your…

Did you know about CoordinatorLayout?

June 20, 2015

Laura Suciu

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Definition CoordinatorLayout is a more advanced FrameLayout, that now, with all these new changes with Material Design, it was introduced in the DesignLibrary, in order to provide help and more control over touch events between child views. Usage It is mainly used…

Android ExpandableList Move Item From Group to Another on Click

June 18, 2015

Laura Suciu

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I needed an expandable list that would let us move item from a group to another. So I wrote this simple tutorial. It’s nothing difficult to achieve on your own, but I wanted to add this code here in case someone…

Android Custom Edit Text Cursor Not Visible

May 29, 2015

Laura Suciu

android, cursor, Custom EditText, EditText, invisible cursor

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Story I created a new simple project with a custom edit text without any logic (it just extends EditText). The code is the following: CustomEditText.java package com.example.customedittextcursor; import android.content.Context; import android.util.AttributeSet; import android.widget.EditText; /** * @author Diana Prața * Date: 5/29/2015.…

Android onActivityResult not called from fragment

May 27, 2015

Laura Suciu

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Today I had an issue with onActivityResult() method which was not called inside a fragment. My first impulse was to move the method inside the activity that hosts the fragment, and that’s what I actually did. So, I ran my app…

Android: How to reset score from Google Play Games leaderboards

May 10, 2015

Laura Suciu

android, Game Services, Google Developer Console, Google Play Developer Console, leaderboards, OAuth 2.0, reset, score

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Recently I had to work with Leaderboards and scores for our new game QuickAZ. So while I was developing and testing the game, my scores were registered to Leaderboards, which was a good thing :D. RESET THE SCORE BEFORE PUBLISHING…

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