Solutions for different problems, might not contain code
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 of ways to do this, I chose to create a custom build config parameter and…
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 Firebase or Maps, then you can also get it from AndroidStudio. Follow the steps below…
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 overlapped by the tabs, so it was not fully visible. This is how my xml…
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 mention that it happened on Windows. I googled it and found different answers but none…
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
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apply plugin: 'com.android.application' android { compileSdkVersion 23 buildToolsVersion "23.0.3" defaultConfig { applicationId "com.example.diana.buildvariants" minSdkVersion 15 targetSdkVersion 23 versionCode 1 versionName "1.0" testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner" } buildTypes { release { minifyEnabled false proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro' } qa { applicationIdSuffix ".qa" // signingConfigs as debug key needed. Otherwise, the app won't run and it will ask // you to sign the apk signingConfig signingConfigs.debug } } productFlavors { free { applicationId "com.example.myapp.free" versionName "1.0-free" minSdkVersion 23 } paid { applicationId "com.example.myapp.paid" versionName "1.0-paid" } } } dependencies { paidCompile 'com.android.support:design:23.4.0' compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar']) compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.4.0' compile 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.0-alpha3' testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12' androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2' androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test:runner:0.5' androidTestCompile 'com.android.support:support-annotations:23.4.0' } |
By build type <buildTypeName>Compile>
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apply plugin: 'com.android.application' android { compileSdkVersion 23 buildToolsVersion "23.0.3" defaultConfig { applicationId "com.example.diana.buildvariants" minSdkVersion 15 targetSdkVersion 23 versionCode 1 versionName "1.0" testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner" } buildTypes { release { minifyEnabled false proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro' } qa { applicationIdSuffix ".qa" // signingConfigs as debug key needed. Otherwise, the app won't run and it will ask // you to sign the apk signingConfig signingConfigs.debug } } productFlavors { free { applicationId "com.example.myapp.free" versionName "1.0-free" minSdkVersion 23 } paid { applicationId "com.example.myapp.paid" versionName "1.0-paid" } } } dependencies { qaCompile 'com.android.support:design:23.4.0' compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar']) compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.4.0' compile 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.0-alpha3' testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12' androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2' androidTestCompile 'com.android.support.test:runner:0.5' androidTestCompile 'com.android.support:support-annotations:23.4.0' } |
By both flavor and build type <flavorName><BuildTypeName>Compile. In this case…
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Error:Execution failed for task ':Application:transformClassesWithDexForMyFlavorName'. > com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command '/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_79.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java'' finished with non-zero exit value 2 |
I had this error after updating the project to the latest Build Tools 23.0.0. After spending some hours on google to find a solution without any success, I tried to deactivate the Instant Run option from Preferences. And when I ran the app, it worked! This is not really a solution, but if you…
If you need to use a "list" divider, but you need it on a vertical LinearLayout instead of a List you can do this by using some attributes on the LinearLayout. It's not very straightforward as you maybe expected, but it's not very difficult either. Before starting, you have to know the 2 major things this…
You might know about Realm, a fancy and practical storage option that one can use on Android. Realm is quite fast and it is really easy to work with but recently I had to parse some data from the webservice and I wanted to use GSON, the Android Json parser library. All works well if…