If you need to set a smaller hint for your edit text, you can set the hint this way: myEditText.setHint(Html.fromHtml( “<small><small><small>” + getString(R.string.hint) + “</small></small></small>”)); Also, you can set the size in the string resource file where is the string for the hint. <string name=”edit_text_hint”><font size=”15″>My hint string</font></string> and in the xml file just set […]
Hi, in this tutorial I will show you and I will try to explain how to introduce timer in your app, how to pause it and how to resume it. First you need to know that we will have to use the Chronometer class which is after all a TextView. Yes, that’s true, Chronometer class
If you ever need to get the version of the OS on which your app runs, you can try this out: android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT And you can use it against(for more check this out): android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.[BASE-KITKAT] Finally you end up with something like: if(android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT == android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB){ // do whatever you want here }
When I first needed to set a message on a ListView that was empty, I tried different methods, but none of them worked, except the one that I will describe in this tutorial. So let’s start. When you want to show a message to the user when the ListView is empty, you have to keep
You might notice the new CardView widget on Android L preview presentation. The view can be used to display text or images and has a nice shadow. You can add that view into your project even if you don’t have the minimum API level to “L”… to do that, follow the steps below: 1. Edit your gradle.build
Hi, in today’s tutorial I will show you how to create a list with the newest widget presented at Google I/O 2014, RecyclerView. Also I will show how to add click and long click events within adapter. WHAT’S DIFFERENT? is a more advanced and flexible version of ListView it forces the implementation of ViewHolder pattern
I have just updated my Android Studio to Android Studio 0.8.2. But, after the update I kept getting these 3 errors while I was trying to run my project: 1. First error Error:Execution failed for task > java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-studio\sdk\tools\proguard\proguard-android-optimize.txt (The system cannot find the path specified) 2. Second error (this happened only after the
Whenever you need to share an image from the external storage you can use the startActivity method and an Intent to do that. Doing so, the user will be able to chose whatever app he likes to share the photo. Intent share = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND); share.setType(“image/png”); share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse(“file:///”+imagePath)); startActivity(Intent.createChooser(share, “Share Image”)); If you don’t append the
You might want to also check AdMob with Firebase Tutorial Now we can integrate ads from AdMob using Google Play Services. There are some changes in the way ads must be implemented now, so this why I decided to make a tutorial about it and to explain how we have to add ads to our projects. So let’s
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
