Laura Suciu, Author at My Android Solutions

Android: How To Change Hint’s Size

November 29, 2014

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…

Android Chronometer Timer

October 28, 2014

Laura Suciu

android, chronometer, elapsed time, resume, start, timer

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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…

ListView Empty Message

September 25, 2014

Laura Suciu

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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…

Android: RecyclerView Tutorial

July 23, 2014

Laura Suciu

Adapter, android L, ListView, RecyclerView

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Hi, 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…

Errors after update to Android Studio 0.8

July 9, 2014

Laura Suciu

Android Studio, appcompat-v7, Gradle

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I have just updated my Android Studio to Android Studio 0.8.2. But, after the update I kept getting these 3 errors while I was trying to run my project: 1. First error Error:Execution failed for task > java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-studio\sdk\tools\proguard\proguard-android-optimize.txt…

Android Add AdMob With Google Play Services

July 5, 2014

Laura Suciu

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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…

Android Emulator Alternatives: Genymotion

June 28, 2014

Laura Suciu

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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…

Android Google Maps Api v2

June 25, 2014

Laura Suciu

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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.…

Android Canvas Issue Starting API Level 14

April 8, 2014

Laura Suciu

android, android_canvas, canvas, graphics, render

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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. In this application I use an animation which simulates an explosion. So, I tested…

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