My Android Solutions

Android Build Types and Flavors

June 16, 2016

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

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

android get screen size, android screen size, display, height, screen, size, width

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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

android, error, transformClassesWithDexFor

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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

android studio shortcuts, androidstudio, IntelliJ, key, key maps, shortcuts

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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

@intdef annotation, @Retention annotation, android, annotation, enum, intdef

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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…

Did you know about Percent Support Library

September 29, 2015

Laura Suciu

Did You Know?

android, percent, percentage, PercentFrameLayout, PercentRelativeLayout

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Yes, we can finally get rid of hardcoded values or nested layouts used in order to take advantage of layout_weight. Definition Percent Support Library is a new library introduced by Google, used to set the width, height and margins for a…

Android Set Horizontal Divider to a Vertical LinearLayout

September 27, 2015

Laura Suciu

Solutions, Tutorial

android, android horizontal divider, divider, LinearLayout, padding

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If you need to use a “list” divider, but you need it on a vertical LinearLayout instead of a List you can do this by using some attributes on the LinearLayout. It’s not very straightforward as you maybe expected, but it’s…

Android: Add Tabs using TabLayout

July 19, 2015

Laura Suciu

Tutorial

android, android add tabs using tablayout, android how to add tabs, AppBarLayout, CoordinatorLayout, enterAlways, Fragment, layout_scrollFlags, TabLayout, TabListener, tabMode, tabs, Toolbar, ViewPager

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In this tutorial we will see how to add tabs to a project by using TabLayout together with ViewPager, and some other new views from the design library 🙂 Before starting I will make summary to present the main idea…

Android Countdown ProgressBar

July 4, 2015

Laura Suciu

Tutorial

android, countdown, progress, ProgressBar, timer

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Recently I needed to make a progressBar to update its progress smoothly for a given period of time (I needed a countdown). So after some research on Google, I ended up using an ObjectAnimator in order to achieve this. For…