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How to get user location

February 17, 2014

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…

Android: Prevent cut-copy-paste popup to be displayed

October 5, 2013

Laura Suciu

android, copy, copy paste popup, EditText, paste, soft keyboard

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If you ever need to disable the popup for cut-copy-paste when you long tap a text from an edit text you can do this by using the code below: yourEditText.setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback(new Callback() { public boolean onPrepareActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) { return…

Android Get Application Context

April 27, 2013

Laura Suciu

activity context, android, android application, application context, Context

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When we are inside an Activity, and we need the application context we can use getApplicationContext() method. But what if we are not inside an Activity and we need the application context? Well, I will explain in this tutorial how…

Set custom font on android – from assets

April 22, 2013

Catalin Prata

android custom font, android fonts, assets, custom fonts, fonts

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Among other nice things that Android has, we can also load custom fonts. To do that we need to get a font file with the desired font. There are some sites where you can find open source fonts like this…

Android Get A Faster Emulator

March 30, 2013

Laura Suciu

android emulator, ARM, emulator, faster emulator, Google APIs, HAXM driver

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The native emulator is very slow in Android. But, you can make a faster emulator using Intel Atom x86, but only if your computer has an Intel processor. Now, you have to follow some steps in order to use the…

ExpandableListView, how to hide indicator

March 10, 2013

Laura Suciu

ExpandableListView, indicator

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If you use an ExpandableListView and want to hide the group indicator (that arrow that appears on the left) you need to put this in your xml file where the ExpandableListView is created: android:groupIndicator="@null" Below is a complete example of…

Android get image of a view and save it

February 10, 2013

Laura Suciu

Bitmap, ImageView, print View image, save view, View

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Here is how one can save an image of a view on the device. Sometimes you need to get the image from an ImageView or simply a complex ViewGroup and save it on the device or do something with it..…

Android Add Views into a ViewGroup Dynamically

February 10, 2013

Laura Suciu

android, inflate, inflate view, LinearLayout, ListView, ScrollView, TextView, ViewGroup

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As Android developer you will surely need someday to add views dynamically, instead of creating a ListView. I will show you in this tutorial how to do this 🙂 1. Create a new project and call your activity “MyActivity” 2. Go…