My Android Solutions

In Android, if you need to swipe from right to left or vice-versa in order to see different data, you can use a ViewPager. In order to use it, you have to implement a PagerAdapter which will generate the pages…

Android ViewPager Cube Animation

October 9, 2017

Tutorial

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After trying some libraries in order to make a cube animation for my viewPager, I realized that is pretty easy to do this. Android provides an interface called ViewPager.PageTransformer and you just have to implement its method transformPage(). Below is…

Android – HTML in textView

September 29, 2017

Articles, Solutions

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Display HTML format First we will present below what are the supported tags for a textView and what are not supported. You can skip this section if you are already familiar with these or you want to jump directly into…

Kotlin – How to pass function as parameter

September 21, 2017

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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

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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

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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

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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