Snippets Archives - My Android Solutions

Android Show HTML Bulleted List from strings.xml

November 27, 2017

If you search on the internet about how to show a bulleted list from strings.xml using HTML tags, most of the answers will say that you should use a WebView, or to use the bullet symbol directly, or other alternatives.…

How to get current flavor from gradle

January 4, 2017

Catalin Prata

build.gradle, buildconfig, flavor, Gradle

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Figuring out how to pull the current flavor from gradle While working on an update for one of our games, I needed to figure out how to get the current flavor and use it in code. Since there are a lot…

Generate random number between 2 numbers

December 13, 2016

Catalin Prata

max, min, random

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The following snippet will help you generate a random number in Java that is between 2 numbers (min and max). static Random random = new Random(); /** * Min is inclusive and max is exclusive in this case **/ public…

Get screen size

December 1, 2015

Catalin Prata

android get screen size, android screen size, display, height, screen, size, width

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So if you ever need to get screen size in width and height on Android, you can use the following snippet: /** * Returns the size of the screen in pixels (width and height) * * @return a Point that…

How to unzip Gzipped InputStream

January 11, 2015

Catalin Prata

Atom, gzip, HttpURLConnection, InputStream, RSS

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If you are working with HttpURLConnection on Android then you might encounter strange InputStream outputs like when you have a strange character encoding even though on the server side everything seems ok. A problem I was encountered lately was when…

Print signing key SHA in code

January 2, 2015

Catalin Prata

bytes, debug key, debugkey, hexa, MD5, security, SHA, sign, signing key

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If you ever want to get the SHA, MD5 or the signing key used to sign your app for example you can use the following snippet: private void printSHA() { try { // get the package info that contains the…

Add links to a TextView in Android

December 29, 2014

Catalin Prata

html, Html.fromHtml, Linkify, links, TextView

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Maybe you need to add links to a TextView on Android but you don’t want to use Linkify for some reasons and you also want that link to be opened when the user taps it. Here is a simple solution: yourTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(…

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) + "")); 1234 myEditText.setHint(Html.fromHtml(""+ getString(R.string.hint)+ "")); Also, you can set the size in the string resource file…

Get Android OS Version

October 6, 2014

Catalin Prata

android_version, build_version, honeycomb, version

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If you ever need to get the version of the OS on which your app runs, you can try this out: android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT 1 android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT And you can use it against(for more check this out): android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.[BASE-KITKAT] 1 android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.[BASE-KITKAT] Finally you…