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Android Lollipop Navigation Drawer Animation Support

December 16, 2014

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,…

Android: How To Change Hint’s Size

November 29, 2014

Laura Suciu

android, EditText, hint, 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( "" + getString(R.string.hint) + "")); 1234 myEditText.setHint(Html.fromHtml(""+ getString(R.string.hint)+ "")); Also, you can set the size in the string resource file…

Android Chronometer Timer

October 28, 2014

Laura Suciu

android, chronometer, elapsed time, resume, start, timer

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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…

Android Canvas Issue Starting API Level 14

April 8, 2014

Laura Suciu

android, android_canvas, canvas, graphics, render

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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…

Android and Java sockets – simple messenger

December 30, 2013

Catalin Prata

android, client, connection, java, messenger, server, socket, sockets, source code, tcp

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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…

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

October 5, 2013

Laura Suciu

android, copy, copy paste popup, EditText, paste, soft keyboard

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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…

Android: Send SMS to Emulator

August 10, 2013

Laura Suciu

android, emulator, emulator capabilities, send sms, sms, telnet

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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…

Android Get Application Context

April 27, 2013

Laura Suciu

activity context, android, android application, application context, Context

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When we are inside an Activity, and we need the application context we can use getApplicationContext() 1 getApplicationContext() method. But what if we are not inside an Activity and we need the application context? Well, I will explain in this…

Android ExpandableListView Add Footer Dynamically

April 6, 2013

Laura Suciu

android, ExpandableListView, footer, ListView

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Hi, recently I ran into a problem with footer view on an ExpandableListView. I wanted to add a footer view only when I would have needed it. I tried many ways to achieve this, but the only way that worked,…