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Live Templates in Android Studio – Useful tool for Android Developers
Intro Live Templates are a compose-related tool added to Android Studio that allows you to enter code snippets for fast insertion by...
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Oct 5, 20221 min read
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Parsing XML RSS Feed for Android using prof18/RSS-Parser
Parsing XML response from RSS feed in Android have always been a bit complicated. All this issues are combiend in very good library...
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Feb 21, 20222 min read
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Application identification utilities for Android
Here is some helper util functions to retrieve some Application identification programmatically, like name, version, play store url and...
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Jan 7, 20222 min read
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How to implement long press action on RecyclerView items using interface
Intro This post is part three of our RecyclerView exercises series and in it, we will show you how to replace the on-click action with a...
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Dec 13, 20211 min read
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Calculate DisplayCutout Android
From API 29 or Android 10, Android introduced a feature for Display cutouts on the screen (for camera for example). JavaScript private...
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Nov 27, 20211 min read
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How to read values from logcat in Android Studio Programmatically?
I was stuck with a log values from one library that I was using in a project. The values that the library was producing were printed in...
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May 31, 20211 min read
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How to update an item in RecyclerView – Android
Intro In this post we will demonstrate how to update an item in your RecyclerView. Updating an item in RecyclerView is useful when you...
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Apr 24, 20213 min read
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How to change the background on clicked item in RecyclerView
You may come across a situation when you need to mark visually the item that the user clicked in your RecyclerView. In our user scenario...
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Apr 18, 20213 min read
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Android – Useful Utility Classes
While working on android apps we use a number of utility classes to encapsulate certain logic that we need on multiple places in the...
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Apr 14, 20214 min read
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Android – Extended Floating Action Button
Extended floating action buttons are used for a special type of promoted action. They are distinguished by an icon and a text floating...
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Jan 14, 20212 min read
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How to draw some of the most used shape drawables in Android
Intro According to the Android documentation a drawable resource is a general concept for a graphic that can be drawn to the screen and...
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Jan 2, 20213 min read
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Android – View Binding
View binding is a feature that allows you to more easily write code that interacts with views. Once view binding is enabled in a module,...
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Jan 1, 20211 min read
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Android quick tips: The easiest way to create style for your layout elements (TextView, EditText, et
In this post we will show you the easiest and quickest way to create style for your layout elements. This android quick tip could be very...
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Oct 25, 20201 min read
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How to detect if String is HTML or not in Android?
This is helper class with regular expression built in to detect if some string have HTML body or not. Java public final class HTMLHelper {...
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Oct 21, 20201 min read
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How to add color images as icons in your navigation drawer menu in Android
Intro In this post we will demonstrate how to add color images as icons in your navigation drawer menu in Android. If you need help...
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Jul 1, 20202 min read
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Get screen sizes of the Android Device
A way of getting screen sizes of the device in pixels and density independent pixels (dp) Get screen width in pixels: Java: private int...
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May 19, 20202 min read
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How to change the color of menu item and text in Bottom navigation bar in Android
In our last post we showed you how to create a bottom navigation bar in Android using BottomNavigationView. BottomNavigationView. But how...
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Apr 14, 20201 min read
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Our first Android App – Formula 1 Latest News is on Google Play Store
We are proud to present to you our first major application that is live on Google Play store. It is about Formula 1 news, events, racing...
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Mar 17, 20201 min read
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How to dynamically add resources from inside the APK in Android
In a situation where you are getting a response from an API, but there are some additional data (images, descriptions, etc.) that are...
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Feb 28, 20202 min read
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Read lines from text file in Android
In this example will be shown how to parse text file in to data objects and use the data where needed. The example is separated in two...
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Feb 27, 20204 min read
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