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Android: How to reset score from Google Play Games leaderboards

Laura Prata / May 10, 2015 / 10 Comments

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android, Game Services, Google Developer Console, Google Play Developer Console, leaderboards, OAuth 2.0, reset, score

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Google Play Games API + Playground

Catalin Prata / May 2, 2015 / 4 Comments

The Problem… So I wanted to reset my score on one of my google play games here(QuickAZ) and for that I could use Google Play Games API if the user was registered as a tester in the play console. In order to easily authenticate to the service and test the API I used Google’s Playground. The only

API, play services, play store, Playground

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Load localized strings at runtime

Catalin Prata / January 15, 2015 / 2 Comments

Here is a possible solution if you want to load localized text resources on a TextView in Android. Problem: You may need to extend your app flexibility to be able to load localized texts at runtime from a web server for example. That would be to be able to add new localizations (for new countries)

attributes, locale, localization, SharedPreferences, strings, TextView, translate, translations, xml

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Make Genymotion point to localhost

Catalin Prata / January 2, 2015 / Leave a Comment

I had a lot of fights with this and I think it’s better to write down the solution so I won’t waste my time looking again on google/stackoverflow for it. Maybe this will help you too! Problem You might have a local webservice or something on your machine that needs to be accessed from a

genymotion, ip, local, localhost, port, webservice

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Android Floating Action Button (FAB) Tutorial

Laura Prata / January 1, 2015 / 26 Comments

TUTORIAL DEPRECATED Use this tutorial instead: Floating Action Button New In this tutorial I will show you how to add a Floating Action Button aka FAB, for pre Lollipop versions and for Lollipop. For pre versions it will be just a simple round button with shadow and click effect, but for Android 5.0 we will use

fab, floating action button, floating action button example, pre lollipop, tutorial

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Add links to a TextView in Android

Catalin Prata / December 29, 2014 / Leave a Comment

Maybe you need to add links to a TextView on Android but you don’t want to use Linkify for some reasons and you also want that link to be opened when the user taps it. Here is a simple solution: yourTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml( “Text with a ” + “<a href=\”http://www.myandroidsolutions.com/\”>link to My Android Solutions</a> “)); // this is

html, Html.fromHtml, Linkify, links, TextView

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Android Lollipop Navigation Drawer Animation Support

Laura Prata / December 16, 2014 / 26 Comments

In Android 5.0 (Lollipop) the Navigation Drawer has a very nice animation, the drawer icon changes into a back arrow when the slider is opened and changes back to default icon when the slider is closed. So far so good, if you develop an app for devices running only Android 5.0. But what if you

android, animation, navigation drawer

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Android Chronometer Timer

Laura Prata / October 28, 2014 / 3 Comments

Hi, in this tutorial I will show you and I will try to explain how to introduce timer in your app, how to pause it and how to resume it. First you need to know that we will have to use the Chronometer class which is after all a TextView. Yes, that’s true, Chronometer class

android, chronometer, elapsed time, resume, start, timer

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ListView Empty Message

Laura Prata / September 25, 2014 / 1 Comment

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 in this tutorial. So let’s start. When you want to show a message to the user when the ListView is empty, you have to keep

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Add CardView to Android OS versions below L ()

Catalin Prata / August 11, 2014 / Leave a Comment

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 that view into your project even if you don’t have the minimum API level to “L”… to do that, follow the steps below: 1. Edit your gradle.build

android L, CardView, Gradle, Manifest, widget

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Android: RecyclerView Tutorial

Laura Prata / July 23, 2014 / 16 Comments

Hi, in today’s tutorial I will show you how to create a list with the newest widget presented at Google I/O 2014, RecyclerView. Also I will show how to add click and long click events within adapter. WHAT’S DIFFERENT? is a more advanced and flexible version of ListView it forces the implementation of ViewHolder pattern

Adapter, android L, ListView, RecyclerView

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Android Add AdMob With Google Play Services

Laura Prata / July 5, 2014 / 50 Comments

You might want to also check AdMob with Firebase Tutorial Now we can integrate ads from AdMob using Google Play Services. There are some changes in the way ads must be implemented now, so this why I decided to make a tutorial about it and to explain how we have to add ads to our projects. So let’s

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Android Google Maps Api v2

Laura Prata / June 25, 2014 / 5 Comments

I finally decided to make a new post about the latest way of integrating Google Maps in Android applications. Please note that Google Maps Api v1 is now deprecated and supported by Google any more, so this is deprecated too. So you have to do some preliminary steps first. What tools did I use? Android

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How to get user location

Catalin Prata / February 17, 2014 / 1 Comment

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 location of the use,r this tutorial might help you. In order to get your current

coordinates, gps, user location

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