Solutions

image, image share, share, upload image

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

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

android, android_canvas, canvas, graphics, render

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

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

driver, drivers, nexus

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

Android Studio, SDK Manager

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

Android Studio, Gradle

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