You might know about Realm, a fancy and practical storage option that one can use on Android. Realm is quite fast and it is really easy to work with but recently I had to parse some data from the webservice and I wanted to use GSON, the Android Json parser library. All works well if…
Today I had an issue with onActivityResult() method which was not called inside a fragment. My first impulse was to move the method inside the activity that hosts the fragment, and that's what I actually did. So, I ran my app in debug mode and when I saw that the breakpoint stopped in the onActivityResult method from…
The Problem... So I wanted to reset my score on one of my google play games here(QuickAZ) and for that I could use Google Play Games API if the user was registered as a tester in the play console. In order to easily authenticate to the service and test the API I used Google's Playground. The only…
Awhile ago I had to fix a back flow navigation between activities. I had 4 activities A -> B -> C -> D and If I pressed the back button from Activity D I wanted to go back to A. And if I was in Activity C and the back button was pressed I needed to go…
I have heard before about this "ability" of Android Studio of having multiple cursors active at the same time, but I haven't found it very useful until today. You can see what I am talking about in the gif below: Press ALT + SHIFT and left click on the mouse and select the position of…
When you want to write a for statement most of you guys (or at least me :P) start to write character by character "for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++)". Well Android Studio makes this easier for us and we can avoid writing that much by using a combination of 2 keys: CTRL…
Sometimes, (in fact, many times :P) you have to negate boolean expressions, and in order to do that, you write the expression and after that you go back to the beginning to add "!", am I right? :D Well, you can avoid doing this, by pressing the "!" instead of Enter when you use autocomplete. Just…