My Android Solutions

Introduction to Functions – Kotlin

July 3, 2017

In this post, I will try to explain how to write functions in Kotlin by doing a parallel with Java. It’s not rocket science or anything special in this post, but this is the way I understand and remember better…

Kotlin – Hello world

June 28, 2017

Introduction What is Kotlin? It is a new programming language built by JetBrains, and as you may already know, Google announced at Google I/O 2017, that they will now officially support this language. It is inspired by existing languages such…

How to get current flavor from gradle

January 4, 2017

Catalin Prata

Snippets, Solutions

build.gradle, buildconfig, flavor, Gradle

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Figuring out how to pull the current flavor from gradle While working on an update for one of our games, I needed to figure out how to get the current flavor and use it in code. Since there are a lot…

Signing key SHA1 fingerprints within AndroidStudio

December 27, 2016

Catalin Prata

Did You Know?, Solutions

androidstudio, key, MD5, sha1, signing, signing key

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Did you know you can get the signing SHA1 and MD5 fingerprints within AndroidStudio? If you need the SHA1 or MD5 fingerprints of your Android debug/release key/certificate for a new API or framework that you want to integrate in your project like…

Generate random number between 2 numbers

December 13, 2016

Catalin Prata

Snippets

max, min, random

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The following snippet will help you generate a random number in Java that is between 2 numbers (min and max). static Random random = new Random(); /** * Min is inclusive and max is exclusive in this case **/ public…

Android Navigation View With Tabs

July 13, 2016

Laura Suciu

Tutorial

android, CoordinatorLayout, material design, navigation view, navigationView, TabLayout, tabs, Toolbar

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In this tutorial we will create a simple app which has a NavigationView, a Toolbar with Tabs and a simple list of items, that are displayed for each selected tab. Tools used: Android Studio 2.2 Preview 4 Android Emulator 5x…

Android: CoordinatorLayout RecyclerView First Item not visible

July 9, 2016

Laura Suciu

Solutions

android, CoordinatorLayout, first item not visible, ListView, RecyclerView, Toolbar

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Problem I had to implement a Toolbar with tabs, together with CoordinatorLayout, and the content of each tab had to be a list of items, for which I used RecyclerView. But when I ran the app, the first item in the list was…

Android Studio can’t open Android Device Monitor

June 28, 2016

Laura Suciu

Solutions

android device monitor, can't open device monitor

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Problem Recently I had this issue: my Android Device Monitor didn’t open and and an error log file was generated every time I was tring to open it, under Android – sdk – tools – lib – monitor-x86_64 – configuration. Also, I have to…

Android AdMob With Firebase

June 21, 2016

Laura Suciu

Tutorial

admob, android, firebase, google-services.json

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About Firebase First of all, you have to know that using AdMob with Firebase is optional, at least for now, and you can still integrate AdMob by importing compile ‘com.google.android.gms:play-services’ (like in this tutorial). But even if it is optional, it is recommended, as…