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Set custom font on android – from assets

April 22, 2013

android custom font, android fonts, assets, custom fonts, fonts

Among other nice things that Android has, we can also load custom fonts. To do that we need to get a font file with the desired font. There are some sites where you can find open source fonts like this…

ExpandableListView, how to hide indicator

March 10, 2013

Laura Suciu

ExpandableListView, indicator

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If you use an ExpandableListView and want to hide the group indicator (that arrow that appears on the left) you need to put this in your xml file where the ExpandableListView is created: android:groupIndicator="@null" Below is a complete example of…

Android get image of a view and save it

February 10, 2013

Laura Suciu

Bitmap, ImageView, print View image, save view, View

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Here is how one can save an image of a view on the device. Sometimes you need to get the image from an ImageView or simply a complex ViewGroup and save it on the device or do something with it..…

Android Add Views into a ViewGroup Dynamically

February 10, 2013

Laura Suciu

android, inflate, inflate view, LinearLayout, ListView, ScrollView, TextView, ViewGroup

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As Android developer you will surely need someday to add views dynamically, instead of creating a ListView. I will show you in this tutorial how to do this 🙂 1. Create a new project and call your activity “MyActivity” 2. Go…

AES CB encryption in Android using key and salt

February 7, 2013

Catalin Prata

AES CB, android, Base64, decryption, encryption, salt, secret key

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Here is a simple example of AES CB encryption in android using key and salt. I am not expert in encryption but I found how to do this pretty hard and I thought that maybe it will help somebody else…

SQLite Query For Dates Equals To Today

February 5, 2013

Laura Suciu

android, database, date, date query, query, SQLite

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Let’s start with an example: We have a table called StartDate with some dates stored into it as long (milliseconds) like in the image below: To understand better which date represents each record I will write below their dates: 1. Tuesday,…

Android Stop Edit Text From Gaining Focus When Activity Starts

January 26, 2013

Laura Suciu

EditText, focus, keyboard focus, soft keyboard

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In this tutorial I will show you how to make the edit text not gaining focus when the activity starts. Sometimes this auto-focus can be annoying because the keyboard shows up even if we do not want to write something…

Android change indeterminate progress bar(wheel) color

November 25, 2012

Catalin Prata

color, indeterminate ProgressBar, ProgressBar

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There are times when you want to add a progress bar(wheel type) on a white background and you notice that on some phones the progress bar has white color and is not visible… The issue can be fixed if you…

Android How To Disable A CheckBox

October 31, 2012

Laura Suciu

CheckBox, disable

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If you want your CheckBox to be unselectable then you have to do this: checkBox.setEnabled(false); And that’s all. Your checkbox will not be selectable 🙂