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Android Get Application Context

April 27, 2013

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…

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,…

First Steps In Learning Android

March 30, 2013

Laura Suciu

android, first project, Hello World, learn Android, startup

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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”…

Android Add Views into a ViewGroup Dynamically

February 10, 2013

Laura Suciu

android, inflate, inflate view, LinearLayout, ListView, ScrollView, TextView, ViewGroup

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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…

AES CB encryption in Android using key and salt

February 7, 2013

Catalin Prata

AES CB, android, Base64, decryption, encryption, salt, secret key

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Here is a simple example of AES CB encryption in android using key and salt. I am not expert in encryption but I found how to do this pretty hard and I thought that maybe it will help somebody else…

SQLite Query For Dates Equals To Today

February 5, 2013

Laura Suciu

android, database, date, date query, query, SQLite

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Let’s start with an example: We have a table called StartDate with some dates stored into it as long (milliseconds) like in the image below: To understand better which date represents each record I will write below their dates: 1. Tuesday,…

Android Custom Title Bar (IOS style)

August 18, 2012

Laura Suciu

android, custom title bar, title bar

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Because the Android default title bar doesn’t look too great, I thought to make a tutorial with a custom title bar that looks like the one from IOS. I do not recommend to use the design from IOS, but maybe…

Android Broadcast Receiver Example with Parcelable

August 12, 2012

Laura Suciu

android, BroadcastReceiver, ExpandableListView, Intent, Parcelable

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In this tutorial I will show you how to use Broadcast Receiver and how to use Parcelable too. To do this, we will create an ExpandableList which will have parents and children(they will contain only their names). The children will…