Solutions for different problems, might not contain code
Let’s start with an example: We have a table called StartDate with some dates stored into it as long (milliseconds) like in the image below: To understand better which date represents each record I will write below their dates: 1. Tuesday, February 5, 2013 8:10:17 PM GMT 2. Friday, February 1, 2013 8:10:17 PM GMT 3. Wednesday, February […]
In this tutorial I will show you how to make the edit text not gaining focus when the activity starts. Sometimes this auto-focus can be annoying because the keyboard shows up even if we do not want to write something into our edit text. But let’s see what should be done in order to get
There are times when you want to add a progress bar(wheel type) on a white background and you notice that on some phones the progress bar has white color and is not visible… The issue can be fixed if you apply a color to your progress bar drawable. Here is how you can do it:
If you want your CheckBox to be unselectable then you have to do this: checkBox.setEnabled(false); And that’s all. Your checkbox will not be selectable :)
In this tutorial I will show you how to make a request to an URL. This tutorial might help you also, if you encountered the “Blank Page” problem (I have encountered this issue when I was trying to make a request to a secure http (“https”)). 1. Create a new project and call your java class(the
Usually I use the following code to convert a Http response content to String:  BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent())); StringBuilder responseBuilder = new StringBuilder(); String line = “”; while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) { responseBuilder.append(line); } in.close(); Log.e(“WS RESPONSE”, responseBuilder.toString()); It is not a bad idea but I found over the internet that
In this tutorial I will present you how to hide the android soft keyboard and how to show it too. You might need to hide the keyboard, if, for example, you will have to put a limit of characters that can be introduced into the EditText and want to hide the keyboard when  the number
Once I had this problem: I had an ExapandableListView with groups and children. When I wanted to expand a group the list was scrolling to the end every time. After a little search I’ve figured it out what the problem was. In my xml file where my ExpandableListView was created, I had this attribute: android:transcriptMode=”alwaysScroll”
You surely want to keep the screen of your phone ON and you don’t know how to do this, otherwise you wouldn’t be on our blog :P  But, you are on the right place, because in this tutorial I will show you how to keep the screen on programatically. 1. Create a new project and call
For my project I had to add a feature where the user should use two fingers and tap with both of them at the same time in order to show view. Â this behaviour is not very common on Android but I had to implement it anyway. So after I did some research, Â and tried multiple
To load html data from a String into a WebView, you can use the following method: yourWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL(“x-data://base”, stringToLoadInWebView, “text/html”, “UTF-8”, null); Note that the UTF-8 charset might be different for your data so change it accordingly..
Because the Android default title bar doesn’t look too great, I thought to make a tutorial with a custom title bar that looks like the one from IOS. I do not recommend to use the design from IOS, but maybe someday you will need to make a title bar which looks like the IOS one
In this tutorial I will show you how to use Broadcast Receiver and how to use Parcelable too. To do this, we will create an ExpandableList which will have parents and children(they will contain only their names). The children will be an arrayList of strings and because we want to pass this array with an
How to add image to an email intent in Android: // build a email sending intent Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND); emailIntent.setType(“image/png”); // set the email subject emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, “email subject”); // set the email image path for the attachment emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse(“file://” + mEmailImagePath)); // set the body of the email emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, “some text message”);
