In Android emulators are very slow. It takes a lot of time to boot, to develop, to test. I am pretty sure everyone searched at least once for ways of improving their emulator’s speed, or for alternatives. I did. And not once, but many times. And now I discovered Genymotion. I must say that it’s […]
I finally decided to make a new post about the latest way of integrating Google Maps in Android applications. Please note that Google Maps Api v1 is now deprecated and supported by Google any more, so this is deprecated too. So you have to do some preliminary steps first. What tools did I use? Android
If you ever worked with Xcode then you must know the power of “#pragma mark” macro. You could just define regions of code using that and sometimes it helps when you have classes that can get a bit big or if you just want to have a nice structure of your class. Well you can do
[Deprecated] This post is now deprecated, the Manifest Merger has changed since my first post. You can find more about this on the android developers site. Manifest file & Gradle If you started using Android Studio and implicitly Gradle, or you just started using Gradle with other IDEs (like Intellij for example), then maybe you
Recently I had to change the target SDK on one of my applications, but by doing that, I ran into some problems with the Android Canvas. In this application I use an animation which simulates an explosion. So, I tested my app and I noticed that everything was working OK, until I changed the target
To clear the Fragments back stack of a FragmentManager, you could iterate through all back stack items and call popBackStack() but there is also a more elegant solution. Please see below: // in my case I get the support fragment manager, it should work with the native one too FragmentManager fragmentManager = getSupportFragmentManager(); // this
Android’s UI components are not thread safe so one may need to update Views or other UI components from a secondary thread when returning from an asynchronous database query or a web service call. If you run the code from a secondary thread you might see that the code crashes almost on each try. Below
Recently I had to install the driver for Nexus 5, but I completely forgot how to do that so I decided to write a post about this. So what problems did I have? Well, I did some research on the internet (again) and found the steps to install, but for some reason my Nexus 5
On Android Studio I noticed that if I try to install the android sdk files I get an error like in the image below: (I have Windows 8 on my computer) So I found out that the solution is to open the Android Studio as Administrator from where it is installed. In my case Android
I had to re-install my windows, therefore I had to re-install all my programs too, including Android Studio :) So, after I had re-installed Android Studio, I kept getting a Gradle error: ” Unable to load class ‘com.android.builder.testing.api.DeviceProvider’”. After I googled it I found the solution here. It seems that we have to delete gradle’s cache.
Nowadays, knowing the location is very important for applications. Even if you want to develop a simple application that returns the coordinates, or you develop different kind of apps that need location and you need to know what is the location of the use,r this tutorial might help you. In order to get your current
Inspired by a post from stackoverflow, I made a simple XML State List generator :), you simply need to fill the inputs with your corresponding drawable names and then press Generate button. For more details regarding android StateList XML please check the official documentation. Android state list generator version 2 is here: New in android state list generator
Hello all, as you requested in the previous TCP server-client tutorials, I made a new tutorial on how to create multiple client connections to a single server. I posted the projects on GitHub here for you so I will post here only the main classes and functionality that I consider important to walk through. You
There are two keys that you can do with this, one the debug and the second for the release key. Basically is the same thing just that the debug key is already made for us and it is used when you run the app from your IDE .. So to generate the SH-1 key you
