In Android 5.0 (Lollipop) the Navigation Drawer has a very nice animation, the drawer icon changes into a back arrow when the slider is opened and changes back to default icon when the slider is closed. So far so good, if you develop an app for devices running only Android 5.0. But what if you […]
If you need to set a smaller hint for your edit text, you can set the hint this way: myEditText.setHint(Html.fromHtml( “<small><small><small>” + getString(R.string.hint) + “</small></small></small>”)); Also, you can set the size in the string resource file where is the string for the hint. <string name=”edit_text_hint”><font size=”15″>My hint string</font></string> and in the xml file just set
Hi, in this tutorial I will show you and I will try to explain how to introduce timer in your app, how to pause it and how to resume it. First you need to know that we will have to use the Chronometer class which is after all a TextView. Yes, that’s true, Chronometer class
When I first needed to set a message on a ListView that was empty, I tried different methods, but none of them worked, except the one that I will describe in this tutorial. So let’s start. When you want to show a message to the user when the ListView is empty, you have to keep
Hi, Â in today’s tutorial I will show you how to create a list with the newest widget presented at Google I/O 2014, RecyclerView. Also I will show how to add click and long click events within adapter. WHAT’S DIFFERENT? is a more advanced and flexible version of ListView it forces the implementation of ViewHolder pattern
I have just updated my Android Studio to Android Studio 0.8.2. But, after the update I kept getting these 3Â errors while I was trying to run my project: 1. Â First error Error:Execution failed for task > java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-studio\sdk\tools\proguard\proguard-android-optimize.txt (The system cannot find the path specified) 2. Second error (this happened only after the
You might want to also check AdMob with Firebase Tutorial Now we can integrate ads from AdMob using Google Play Services. There are some changes in the way ads must be implemented now, so this why I decided to make a tutorial about it and to explain how we have to add ads to our projects. So let’s
In Android emulators are very slow. It takes a lot of time to boot, to develop, to test. I am pretty sure everyone searched at least once for ways of improving their emulator’s speed, or for alternatives. I did. And not once, but many times. And now I discovered Genymotion. I must say that it’s
I finally decided to make a new post about the latest way of integrating Google Maps in Android applications. Please note that Google Maps Api v1 is now deprecated and supported by Google any more, so this is deprecated too. So you have to do some preliminary steps first. What tools did I use? Android
Recently I had to change the target SDK on one of my applications, but by doing that, I ran into some problems with the Android Canvas. Â In this application I use an animation which simulates an explosion. So, I tested my app and I noticed that everything was working OK, until I changed the target
Recently I had to install the driver for Nexus 5, Â but I completely forgot how to do that so I decided to write a post about this. Â So what problems did I have? Well, I did some research on the internet (again) and found the steps to install, but for some reason my Nexus 5
On Android Studio I noticed that if I try to install the android sdk files I get an error like in the image below: (I have Windows 8 on my computer) So I found out that the solution is to open the Android Studio as Administrator from where it is installed. In my case Android
I had to re-install my windows, therefore I had to re-install all my programs too, including Android Studio :) So, after I had re-installed Android Studio, I kept getting a Gradle error: ” Unable to load class ‘com.android.builder.testing.api.DeviceProvider’”. After I googled it I found the solution here. It seems that we have to delete gradle’s cache.
There are two keys that you can do with this, one the debug and the second for the release key. Basically is the same thing just that the debug key is already made for us and it is used when you run the app from your IDE .. So to generate the SH-1 key you
