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Genymotion Get Google Play Services

February 21, 2015

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…

Load localized strings at runtime

January 15, 2015

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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…

How to unzip Gzipped InputStream

January 11, 2015

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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…

Print Android signing key SHA in code

January 2, 2015

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If you ever want to get the Android SHA (1/256), MD5 or the signing key used to sign your app for example you can use the following snippet. Important! Be…

Make Genymotion point to localhost

January 2, 2015

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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.…

Add links to a TextView in Android

December 29, 2014

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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…

Android ShareActionProvider Change Text Color

December 20, 2014

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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…

Android: How To Change Hint’s Size

November 29, 2014

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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…

Android Chronometer Timer

October 28, 2014

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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.…

Solutions

Genymotion Get Google Play Services

Load localized strings at runtime

How to unzip Gzipped InputStream

Print Android signing key SHA in code

Make Genymotion point to localhost

Add links to a TextView in Android

Android ShareActionProvider Change Text Color

Android: How To Change Hint’s Size

Android Chronometer Timer

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