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GSON & Realm String array

May 29, 2015

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…

Android Custom Edit Text Cursor Not Visible

May 29, 2015

Laura Suciu

android, cursor, Custom EditText, EditText, invisible cursor

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Story I created a new simple project with a custom edit text without any logic (it just extends EditText). The code is the following: CustomEditText.java package com.example.customedittextcursor; import android.content.Context; import android.util.AttributeSet; import android.widget.EditText; /** * @author Diana Prața * Date: 5/29/2015.…

Android onActivityResult not called from fragment

May 27, 2015

Laura Suciu

android, Fragment, onActivityResult

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Today I had an issue with onActivityResult() method which was not called inside a fragment. My first impulse was to move the method inside the activity that hosts the fragment, and that’s what I actually did. So, I ran my app…

Google Play Games API + Playground

May 2, 2015

Catalin Prata

API, play services, play store, Playground

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The Problem… So I wanted to reset my score on one of my google play games here(QuickAZ) and for that I could use Google Play Games API if the user was registered as a tester in the play console. In order to…

Android Back Directly To Root Activity

April 8, 2015

Laura Suciu

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Awhile ago I had to fix a back flow navigation between activities. I had 4 activities A -> B -> C -> D and If I pressed the back button from Activity D I wanted to go back to A. And if…

Android Debugging is not working

February 28, 2015

Laura Suciu

android, breakpoints, debug, proguard

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PROBLEM You add breakpoints and you cannot debug your code. CAUSE The problem might be that you have ProGuard enabled in the gradle file. buildTypes { release { minifyEnabled true } 1234 <span…

Genymotion Get Google Play Services

February 21, 2015

Laura Suciu

genymotion, genymotion get Google Play

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If you need Google Play Services, you must know that Genymotion doesn’t have Google Play by default, at least for the moment. So you have to download a zip file containing it from here. For Android 5.1 Download from here For Android…

Load localized strings at runtime

January 15, 2015

Catalin Prata

attributes, locale, localization, SharedPreferences, strings, TextView, translate, translations, xml

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Here is a possible solution if you want to load localized text resources on a TextView in Android. Problem: You may need to extend your app flexibility to be able to load localized texts at runtime from a web server…

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…