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Signing key SHA1 fingerprints within AndroidStudio

December 27, 2016

androidstudio, key, MD5, sha1, signing, signing key

Did you know you can get the signing SHA1 and MD5 fingerprints within AndroidStudio? If you need the SHA1 or MD5 fingerprints of your Android debug/release key/certificate for a new API or framework that you want to integrate in your project like…

Android About ConstraintLayout

June 20, 2016

Laura Suciu

anchor, android, autoconnect, baseline, ConstraintLayout, constraints, inference

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DID YOU KNOW about ConstraintLayout? Definition ConstraintLayout is a new type of layout introduced by Android, similar to RelativeLayout but more flexible, and it is used to position UI elements relative to other UI elements by using constraints. A constraint represent…

Android ApplicationId vs PackageName

June 17, 2016

Laura Suciu

android, ApplicatioId vs PackageName, ApplicationId, package, packageName

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You might wonder what is the difference between package name we have in AndroidManifest.xml file and ApplicationId we see in build.gradle. They seem to be the same thing, but actually they are 2 different things. So if you didn’t know…

Did you know about Percent Support Library

September 29, 2015

Laura Suciu

android, percent, percentage, PercentFrameLayout, PercentRelativeLayout

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Yes, we can finally get rid of hardcoded values or nested layouts used in order to take advantage of layout_weight. Definition Percent Support Library is a new library introduced by Google, used to set the width, height and margins for a…

Did you know about CoordinatorLayout?

June 20, 2015

Laura Suciu

ActionBar, android, App Bar, CoordinatorLayout, FloatingActionButton, FrameLayout, Toolbar

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Definition CoordinatorLayout is a more advanced FrameLayout, that now, with all these new changes with Material Design, it was introduced in the DesignLibrary, in order to provide help and more control over touch events between child views. Usage It is mainly used…