My Android Solutions

Android Gradle Dependencies by Flavors

June 20, 2016

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In a previous post about Gradle Flavors and Build Types, we mentioned that we can set different dependencies inside dependencies{} block by flavors, by build type or both combined. Below we will see an example for each situation. By flavors <flavorName>Compile apply…

Android About ConstraintLayout

June 20, 2016

Laura Suciu

Did You Know?

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DID YOU KNOW about ConstraintLayout? Definition ConstraintLayout is a new type of layout introduced by Android, similar to RelativeLayout but more flexible, and it is used to position UI elements relative to other UI elements by using constraints. A constraint represent…

Android Free/Paid Versions Tutorial

June 18, 2016

Laura Suciu

Tutorial

android, flavors, free, free version, paid, paid version

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There are situations when you might decide that you need to create 2 versions for your application: a free one and a paid one. So, in this tutorial, which is just a simple example (we will just set different colors…

Android ApplicationId vs PackageName

June 17, 2016

Laura Suciu

Did You Know?

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You might wonder what is the difference between package name we have in AndroidManifest.xml file and ApplicationId we see in build.gradle. They seem to be the same thing, but actually they are 2 different things. So if you didn’t know…

Android Build Types and Flavors

June 16, 2016

Laura Suciu

Tutorial

android, build types, build variants, build.gradle, product flavors

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In this tutorial we will talk about Build Types and Flavors, for what are they used, what is the difference between them and what they have in common. Build Types When you work on a project, at some point you…

Get screen size

December 1, 2015

Catalin Prata

Snippets

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So if you ever need to get screen size in width and height on Android, you can use the following snippet: /** * Returns the size of the screen in pixels (width and height) * * @return a Point that…

Error:Execution failed for task ‘:Application:transformClassesWithDexFor

November 30, 2015

Laura Suciu

Solutions

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Error:Execution failed for task ':Application:transformClassesWithDexForMyFlavorName'. > com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command '/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_79.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java'' finished with non-zero exit value 2 12 Error:Execution failed for task ':Application:transformClassesWithDexForMyFlavorName'.> com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command '/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_79.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java'' finished with non-zero exit value 2 I had this error…

IntelliJ IDEA / Android Studio key shortcuts

November 1, 2015

Catalin Prata

Tools

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This is just a small productivity A4 poster with MacOS IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio key mapping that can be placed on your wall :). MacOS IntelliJ IDEA/AndroidStudio keyboard shortcuts

Android @IntDef Annotation Example

October 31, 2015

Laura Suciu

Tutorial

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Android has some helpful annotations in the support library so, in this post, I will show you an example of how to use @IntDef annotation. You can use this annotation (or @StringDef annotation) instead of Enum. Steps 1. Add your constants 2. Add the @IntDef annotation…