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Share image Intent

July 6, 2014

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 chose whatever app he likes to share the photo. Intent…

Android Gradle & Manifest merge

April 10, 2014

Catalin Prata

Gradle, Manifest, manifest merge, module

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[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 If you started using Android Studio and implicitly Gradle, or…

Android Canvas Issue Starting API Level 14

April 8, 2014

Laura Suciu

android, android_canvas, canvas, graphics, render

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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 use an animation which simulates an explosion. So, I tested…

Run code on main/UI thread on android

April 6, 2014

Catalin Prata

Handler, main thread, runOnUIThread, threads, UI thread

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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 a web service call. If you run the code from…

Android Nexus 5 USB Driver

April 1, 2014

Laura Suciu

driver, drivers, nexus

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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 did I have? Well, I did some research on the…

Android Studio: Cannot install from SDK Manager:”Access is denied.”

March 30, 2014

Laura Suciu

Android Studio, SDK Manager

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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 computer) So I found out that the solution is to…

Android Studio Gradle 0.9 error: Unable to load class ‘com.android.builder.testing.api.DeviceProvider’

March 30, 2014

Laura Suciu

Android Studio, Gradle

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I had to re-install my windows, therefore I had to re-install all my programs too, including Android Studio 🙂 So, after I had re-installed Android Studio, I kept getting a Gradle error: ” Unable to load class ‘com.android.builder.testing.api.DeviceProvider'”. After I googled it…

How to get user location

February 17, 2014

Catalin Prata

coordinates, gps, user location

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Nowadays, knowing the location is very important for applications. Even if you want to develop a simple application that returns the coordinates, or you develop different kind of apps that need location and you need to know what is the…

Android maps v2 generate SH-1 key (MAC OS)

October 9, 2013

Laura Suciu

google maps v2, google v2 maps debug, googleV2 key

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There are two keys that you can do with this, one the debug and the second for the release key. Basically is the same thing just that the debug key is already made for us and it is used when…