My Android Solutions

Kotlin – How to pass function as parameter

September 21, 2017

::, arguments, functions, how to pass a function as parameter, lambda, parameters, reference function

Recently, I’ve noticed that there are a few different ways to pass a function as parameter. In this post I will use 2 functions: sum and divide. We have to declare the sum function, in such way that it can…

Functions in Kotlin

September 20, 2017

Laura Suciu

Kotlin

anonymous, anonymous functions, functions, high-order functions, kotlin, lambda functions, local function

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In this post I will talk about 5 cool things that functions can do in Kotlin, better than methods in Java. 1. Forget about overloaded methods In Java, when you need the same method to have 1 parameter in…

Anonymous Functions and Lambdas – Kotlin

July 7, 2017

Laura Suciu

Kotlin

anonymous functions, lambdas, pass lambda to a function

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Note! This is a post for beginners in Kotlin language. What are lambdas and anonymous functions? In order to define them let’s see what is a function literal. Function literal Function literal is a function that was not declared, but was passed…

Introduction to Functions – Kotlin

July 3, 2017

Laura Suciu

Kotlin

functions, java, kotlin, method

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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…