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Android Squared CardView

May 25, 2019

android, CardView, ConstraintLayout, square

Recently, I had to add a perfect square CardView and I wanted to achieve this without hardcoding its width and height. I happily discovered the power of ConstraintLayout and this is how I managed to create a perfect square which…

Android Bottom Border Line

April 11, 2019

Laura Suciu

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The simplest way to add a bottom border line to a view is this one. If you search on Google and StackOverflow you will find many ways to do this, but they seemed overly complex compared to this one. So…

Android Show HTML Bulleted List from strings.xml

November 27, 2017

Laura Suciu

android, bulleted list, strings.xml

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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.…

Android – HTML in textView

September 29, 2017

Laura Suciu

bold, font, getText vs getString, html, Html.fromHtml, size, spanned, style, supported tags, TextView, unsupported tags

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Display HTML format First we will present below what are the supported tags for a textView and what are not supported. You can skip this section if you are already familiar with these or you want to jump directly into…

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…

Signing key SHA1 fingerprints within AndroidStudio

December 27, 2016

Catalin Prata

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

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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: CoordinatorLayout RecyclerView First Item not visible

July 9, 2016

Laura Suciu

android, CoordinatorLayout, first item not visible, ListView, RecyclerView, Toolbar

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Problem I had to implement a Toolbar with tabs, together with CoordinatorLayout, and the content of each tab had to be a list of items, for which I used RecyclerView. But when I ran the app, the first item in the list was…

Android Studio can’t open Android Device Monitor

June 28, 2016

Laura Suciu

android device monitor, can't open device monitor

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Problem Recently I had this issue: my Android Device Monitor didn’t open and and an error log file was generated every time I was tring to open it, under Android – sdk – tools – lib – monitor-x86_64 – configuration. Also, I have to…

Android Gradle Dependencies by Flavors

June 20, 2016

Laura Suciu

android, build types, dependencies, dependencies by build type, dependencies by flavors, flavors, Gradle

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In a previous post about Gradle Flavors and Build Types, we mentioned that we can set different dependencies inside dependencies{} block by flavors, by build type or both combined. Below we will see an example for each situation. By flavors <flavorName>Compile apply…