Solutions

Atom, gzip, HttpURLConnection, InputStream, RSS

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

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

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…

Make Genymotion point to localhost

January 2, 2015

genymotion, ip, local, localhost, port, webservice

I had a lot of fights with this and I think it’s better to write down the solution so I won’t waste my time looking again on google/stackoverflow for it. Maybe this will help you too! Problem You might have…

Add links to a TextView in Android

December 29, 2014

html, Html.fromHtml, Linkify, links, TextView

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 ShareActionProvider Change Text Color

December 20, 2014

android, ShareActionProvider, text color

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I think I spent 2 days in order to find a way of changing the text color of the ShareActionProvider. There are some posts on the internet but none worked for me. So I started to try myself each and every…

Android: How To Change Hint’s Size

November 29, 2014

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) + "")); Also, you can set the size in the string resource file where is the string…

Android Chronometer Timer

October 28, 2014

android, chronometer, elapsed time, resume, start, timer

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Hi, in this tutorial I will show you and I will try to explain how to introduce timer in your app, how to pause it and how to resume it. First you need to know that we will have to…

ListView Empty Message

September 25, 2014