Solutions for different problems, might not contain code
ListView Empty Message
When I first needed to set a message on a ListView that was empty, I tried different methods, but none of them worked, except the one that I will describe…
Add CardView to Android OS versions below L ()
You might notice the new CardView widget on Android L preview presentation. The view can be used to display text or images and has a nice shadow. You can add…
Errors after update to Android Studio 0.8
I have just updated my Android Studio to Android Studio 0.8.2. But, after the update I kept getting these 3 errors while I was trying to run my project: 1. First…
Share image Intent
Whenever you need to share an image from the external storage you can use the startActivity method and an Intent to do that. Doing so, the user will be able to…
Android Gradle & Manifest merge
[Deprecated] This post is now deprecated, the Manifest Merger has changed since my first post. You can find more about this on the android developers site. Manifest file & Gradle…
Android Canvas Issue Starting API Level 14
Recently I had to change the target SDK on one of my applications, but by doing that, I ran into some problems with the Android Canvas. In this application I…
Run code on main/UI thread on android
Android’s UI components are not thread safe so one may need to update Views or other UI components from a secondary thread when returning from an asynchronous database query or…
Android Nexus 5 USB Driver
Recently I had to install the driver for Nexus 5, but I completely forgot how to do that so I decided to write a post about this. So what problems…
Android Studio: Cannot install from SDK Manager:”Access is denied.”
On Android Studio I noticed that if I try to install the android sdk files I get an error like in the image below: (I have Windows 8 on my…
