Laura Suciu, Author at My Android Solutions

Android Studio Tip #3 – Open Class At Specific Line

March 7, 2015

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…

Android Debugging is not working

February 28, 2015

Laura Suciu

android, breakpoints, debug, proguard

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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…

Genymotion Get Google Play Services

February 21, 2015

Laura Suciu

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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…

Android Studio Tip #2 – Extract Instance Variable

January 30, 2015

Laura Suciu

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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:…

Android Studio Tip #1 – Extract Constants

January 23, 2015

Laura Suciu

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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…

Android Floating Action Button (FAB) Tutorial

January 1, 2015

Laura Suciu

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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…

Android ShareActionProvider Change Text Color

December 20, 2014

Laura Suciu

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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…

Android Lollipop Navigation Drawer Animation Support

December 16, 2014

Laura Suciu

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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,…

Android: How To Change Hint’s Size

November 29, 2014

Laura Suciu

android, EditText, hint, size

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If you need to set a smaller hint for your edit text, you can set the hint this way: myEditText.setHint(Html.fromHtml( "" + getString(R.string.hint) + "")); Also, you can set the size in the string resource file where is the string…

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