Laura Suciu, Author at My Android Solutions

Laura Suciu

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Android Build Types and Flavors

June 16, 2016

android, build types, build variants, build.gradle, product flavors

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

android, error, transformClassesWithDexFor

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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 12 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…

Android @IntDef Annotation Example

October 31, 2015

Laura Suciu

@intdef annotation, @Retention annotation, android, annotation, enum, intdef

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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

android, percent, percentage, PercentFrameLayout, PercentRelativeLayout

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

android, android horizontal divider, divider, LinearLayout, padding

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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

android, android add tabs using tablayout, android how to add tabs, AppBarLayout, CoordinatorLayout, enterAlways, Fragment, layout_scrollFlags, TabLayout, TabListener, tabMode, tabs, Toolbar, ViewPager

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

android, countdown, progress, ProgressBar, timer

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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

android, change, change floating action button color, color, design library, fab, floating action button, material design

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

ActionBar, android, App Bar, CoordinatorLayout, FloatingActionButton, FrameLayout, Toolbar

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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…

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