Did you know that you can open a class at a specific line? This is very useful if you do code reviews and you want to open a specific class to a specific line. Well, Android Studio let us to achieve this by using: To search for a file press: CTRL + SHIFT + N ( […]
PROBLEM You add breakpoints and you cannot debug your code. CAUSE The problem might be that you have ProGuard enabled in the gradle file. buildTypes { release { minifyEnabled true } SOLUTION So if you set minifyEnabled to FALSE, your debugging should start working. If this is not the issue, then you can try restart AndroidStudio
If you need Google Play Services, you must know that Genymotion doesn’t have Google Play by default, at least for the moment. So you have to download a zip file containing it from here. For Android 5.1 Download from here For Android 5.0 Download from here For Android 4.4.4 Download from here For Android 4.3 Download from
You might need to “convert” a local variable into an instance variable. Well, you can do this very easy with Android Studio. So, in order to extract an instance variable (field) you can do this by using the following shortcut: CTRL + ALT + F (on Windows) or Cmd + ALT + F (on Mac OS)
If you have hardcoded strings that should be extracted into constants, you can do that in at least 2 ways: the hard way the EASY way The hard way is to write yourself the constant and then replace it in the entire code where the string is used. And the EASY way is to use the power
Here is a possible solution if you want to load localized text resources on a TextView in Android. Problem: You may need to extend your app flexibility to be able to load localized texts at runtime from a web server for example. That would be to be able to add new localizations (for new countries)
If you are working with HttpURLConnection on Android then you might encounter strange InputStream outputs like when you have a strange character encoding even though on the server side everything seems ok. A problem I was encountered lately was when I needed to parse a RSS/Atom feed on Android. I was getting the following error:
If you ever want to get the Android SHA (1/256), MD5 or the signing key used to sign your app for example you can use the following snippet. Important! Be aware that you should not print that in a production environment as it might leak sensitive data API 28> (Kotlin) Deprecated (Java) And the converter
I had a lot of fights with this and I think it’s better to write down the solution so I won’t waste my time looking again on google/stackoverflow for it. Maybe this will help you too! Problem You might have a local webservice or something on your machine that needs to be accessed from a
TUTORIAL DEPRECATED Use this tutorial instead: Floating Action Button New In this tutorial I will show you how to add a Floating Action Button aka FAB, for pre Lollipop versions and for Lollipop. For pre versions it will be just a simple round button with shadow and click effect, but for Android 5.0 we will use
Maybe you need to add links to a TextView on Android but you don’t want to use Linkify for some reasons and you also want that link to be opened when the user taps it. Here is a simple solution: yourTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml( “Text with a ” + “<a href=\”http://www.myandroidsolutions.com/\”>link to My Android Solutions</a> “)); // this is
I think I spent 2 days in order to find a way of changing the text color of the ShareActionProvider. There are some posts on the internet but none worked for me. So I started to try myself each and every item attribute from @style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar. After a while I found the items I was looking for: <item name=”textAppearanceLargePopupMenu”>
In Android 5.0 (Lollipop) the Navigation Drawer has a very nice animation, the drawer icon changes into a back arrow when the slider is opened and changes back to default icon when the slider is closed. So far so good, if you develop an app for devices running only Android 5.0. But what if you
