Android: Prevent cut-copy-paste popup to be displayed
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…
Android: Send SMS to Emulator
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…
Android Get Application Context
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…
Android ExpandableListView Add Footer Dynamically
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…
First Steps In Learning Android
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…
Android Add Views into a ViewGroup Dynamically
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…
AES CB encryption in Android using key and salt
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…
SQLite Query For Dates Equals To Today
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…
Android Custom Title Bar (IOS style)
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…
