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Add links to a TextView in Android

December 29, 2014

html, Html.fromHtml, Linkify, links, TextView

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(…

Android Lollipop Navigation Drawer Animation Support

December 16, 2014

Laura Suciu

android, animation, navigation drawer

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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,…

Android Chronometer Timer

October 28, 2014

Laura Suciu

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

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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…

ListView Empty Message

September 25, 2014

Laura Suciu

1

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…

Add CardView to Android OS versions below L ()

August 11, 2014

Catalin Prata

android L, CardView, Gradle, Manifest, widget

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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…

Android: RecyclerView Tutorial

July 23, 2014

Laura Suciu

Adapter, android L, ListView, RecyclerView

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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…

Android Add AdMob With Google Play Services

July 5, 2014

Laura Suciu

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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…

Android Google Maps Api v2

June 25, 2014

Laura Suciu

5

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.…

How to get user location

February 17, 2014

Catalin Prata

coordinates, gps, user location

1

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…