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Android Custom Edit Text Cursor Not Visible

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Android onActivityResult not called from fragment

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

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Android: How to reset score from Google Play Games leaderboards

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Android Studio Tip #6 – Multiple Cursors

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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

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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

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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 Debugging is not working

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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

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Genymotion Get Google Play Services

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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

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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

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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

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Android Floating Action Button (FAB) Tutorial

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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

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Android ShareActionProvider Change Text Color

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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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