Laura Prata, Author at My Android Solutions

Android Custom Edit Text Cursor Not Visible

Laura Prata / May 29, 2015 / Leave a Comment

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android, cursor, Custom EditText, EditText, invisible cursor

Solutions

Android onActivityResult not called from fragment

Laura Prata / May 27, 2015 / 5 Comments

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 in debug mode and when I saw that the breakpoint stopped in the onActivityResult method from

android, Fragment, onActivityResult

Tutorial

Android: How to reset score from Google Play Games leaderboards

Laura Prata / May 10, 2015 / 10 Comments

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

Solutions

Android Back Directly To Root Activity

Laura Prata / April 8, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Awhile ago I had to fix a back flow navigation between activities. I had 4 activities A -> B -> C -> D and If I pressed the back button from Activity D I wanted to go back to A. And if I was in Activity C and the back button was pressed I needed to go

Android Studio Tip #6 – Multiple Cursors

Laura Prata / March 14, 2015 / 1 Comment

I have heard before about this “ability” of Android Studio of having multiple cursors active at the same time, but I haven’t found it very useful until today. You can see what I am talking about in the gif below: Press ALT + SHIFT and left click on the mouse and select the position of

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Android Studio Tip #5 – Autocomplete “for” statement

Laura Prata / March 12, 2015 / Leave a Comment

When you want to write a for statement most of you guys (or at least me :P) start to write character by character “for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++)”. Well Android Studio makes this easier for us and we can avoid writing that much by using a combination of 2 keys: CTRL

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Android Studio Tip #4 – Automatic Negation

Laura Prata / March 11, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Sometimes, (in fact, many times :P) you have to negate boolean expressions, and in order to do that, you write the expression and after that you go back to the beginning to add “!”, am I right? :D Well, you can avoid doing this, by pressing the “!” instead of Enter when you use autocomplete. Just

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Android Studio Tip #3 – Open Class At Specific Line

Laura Prata / March 7, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Did you know that you can open a class at a specific line? This is very useful if you do code reviews and you want to open a specific class to a specific line. Well, Android Studio let us to achieve this by using: To search for a file press: CTRL + SHIFT + N (

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Solutions

Android Debugging is not working

Laura Prata / February 28, 2015 / Leave a Comment

PROBLEM You add breakpoints and you cannot debug your code. CAUSE The problem might be that you have ProGuard enabled in the gradle file. buildTypes { release { minifyEnabled true } SOLUTION So if you set minifyEnabled to FALSE, your debugging should start working. If this is not the issue, then you can try restart AndroidStudio

android, breakpoints, debug, proguard

Solutions

Genymotion Get Google Play Services

Laura Prata / February 21, 2015 / 3 Comments

If you need Google Play Services, you must know that Genymotion doesn’t have Google Play by default, at least for the moment. So you have to download a zip file containing it from here. For Android 5.1 Download from here For Android 5.0 Download from here For Android 4.4.4 Download from here For Android 4.3 Download from

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Android Studio Tip #2 – Extract Instance Variable

Laura Prata / January 30, 2015 / 3 Comments

You might need to “convert” a local variable into an instance variable. Well, you can do this very easy with Android Studio. So, in order to extract an instance variable (field) you can do this by using the following shortcut: CTRL + ALT + F (on Windows) or Cmd + ALT + F (on Mac OS)

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Android Studio Tip #1 – Extract Constants

Laura Prata / January 23, 2015 / Leave a Comment

If you have hardcoded strings that should be extracted into constants, you can do that in at least 2 ways: the hard way the EASY way The hard way is to write yourself the constant and then replace it in the entire code where the string is used. And the EASY way is to use the power

Android Studio, android studio tips, extract constant, refactor, shortcut

Tutorial

Android Floating Action Button (FAB) Tutorial

Laura Prata / January 1, 2015 / 26 Comments

TUTORIAL DEPRECATED Use this tutorial instead: Floating Action Button New In this tutorial I will show you how to add a Floating Action Button aka FAB, for pre Lollipop versions and for Lollipop. For pre versions it will be just a simple round button with shadow and click effect, but for Android 5.0 we will use

fab, floating action button, floating action button example, pre lollipop, tutorial

Solutions

Android ShareActionProvider Change Text Color

Laura Prata / December 20, 2014 / 1 Comment

I think I spent 2 days in order to find a way of changing the text color of the ShareActionProvider. There are some posts on the internet but none worked for me. So I started to try myself each and every item attribute from @style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar. After a while I found the items I was looking for: <item name=”textAppearanceLargePopupMenu”>

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