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Android: How to reset score from Google Play Games leaderboards

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Android Debugging is not working

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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

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Android ShareActionProvider Change Text Color

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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”>

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Android Lollipop Navigation Drawer Animation Support

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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

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Android: How To Change Hint’s Size

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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

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Android Canvas Issue Starting API Level 14

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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

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Android and Java sockets – simple messenger

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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

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Android: Prevent cut-copy-paste popup to be displayed

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If you ever need to disable the popup for cut-copy-paste when you long tap a text from an edit text you can do this by using the code below: yourEditText.setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback(new Callback() { public boolean onPrepareActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) { return false; } public void onDestroyActionMode(ActionMode mode) { } public boolean onCreateActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {

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Android: Send SMS to Emulator

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The Android emulator has support for receiving text messages. You can send a SMS to an emulator by using the command line. So the first step is: 1. Be sure you have the Telnet Client feature on To enable the Telnet feature on windows you have to make the following steps: Go to Control Panel

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Android Get Application Context

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When we are inside an Activity, and we need the application context we can use getApplicationContext()  method. But what if we are not inside an Activity and we need the application context? Well, I will explain in this tutorial how you can get the context of the application outside an Activity. You have to create

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First Steps In Learning Android

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If you want to start learning Android, but you don’t know where to start, what you should install or what do you need to know, you need to read this tutorial :D. I will show you the first “baby steps” in Android development. In the first place you need to learn Java, but if you

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Android Add Views into a ViewGroup Dynamically

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As Android developer you will surely  need someday to add views dynamically, instead of creating a ListView. I will show you in this tutorial how to do this :) 1. Create a new project and call your activity “MyActivity” 2. Go to res – layout – main.xml and put the following code: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <ScrollView

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