In this article we will learn using the searchView widget using V7 support library and resolving the most common errors while using the searchView widget.Most common and confusing error that I think people face is- 1.NullPointer Error in searchView We will get into it later but first let us look at the things we need …
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BaseGameUtils cannot be Resolved Error occurs due to mismatch in your app’s Build tools version and BaseGameUtils project’s build tools version. It can be easily fixed. There are other ways to do this I am going with this one here-First of all copy the whole BaseGameUtils folder from the original location to the libs folder …
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I was finally comfortable developing for android with eclipse but then Google rolled out the stable version of Android studio and ended support for eclipse so I had to switch to android studio and I was introduced to the world of Gradle. Yes, it was and still is frustrating for me to use gradle but …
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Using bundle will create negligible difference in your application. Using a bundle is slightly more manageable and clear. When you are using a putExtra, you are using a bundle anyway, you can see here that Intent store data passed through putExtra internally as Bundle- public Intent putExtra(String name, String value) { if (mExtras == null) { mExtras …
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You might have come across a favorite button in any dictionary app or android’s own contacts app. Today we will be learning how to create a favorite button with identical functionality to those apps. I did this using a toggle button. I used a toggle button as i wanted to use the setChecked() method of toggle button. …
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If you want to add a single tag, then you can simply do this-setTag(1, object1); Or setTage(object1);where 1 is the key, you can also do this without a key for just one tag and then use it like –button.getTag(1); or button.getTag() if you haven’t set a key.NOTE- The method above will not work with multiple …
Android provides selectors that help you change the button styles depending on various states like, pressed, normal, disabled.You can easily customize button in android using selectors. Here I will demonstrate how you can do that. 1. First make a layout with a button. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?><LinearLayout xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” android:layout_width=”fill_parent” android:layout_height=”fill_parent” android:orientation=”vertical” > <Button android:id=”@+id/imgBtnSelector” android:layout_width=”wrap_content” …
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I played around with the properties of buttons in XML and figured a way to write over the background image of a button properly. This is pretty simple, but you will have to adjust the padding to place the text in desired position over the image. The ideal way to customize you button are using …
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