Monthly Archives: June 2017

How to send Send form-urlencoded parameters in post request android volley?

By | June 30, 2017

We have to override the getBodyContentType() method in volley to enable “form-urlencoded parameters” in POST request using Volley. Here is how the code will look like. If you are not familiar with Volley, Checkout my post here on volley. It will give you a perfect picture on what Volley can do. Code – Method 1… Read More »

How to enable the default animation on a RecyclerView when an item is added or deleted?

By | June 25, 2017

You may be knowing that RecyclerView is part of the material design, so it will have the built in animations when you add an element or remove and element. In today’s article, I will show you how to how to do this in a simple way. RecyclerView will perform a relevant animation if any of… Read More »

Bottom Navigation Demo in Android

By | June 15, 2017

To get started with this, you need the latest version (version 25) of Android SDK & tools (including SDK tools, build-tools, platform-tools, support repository). Gradle Add the design support library First step is to add the design support library to your app-level build.gradle file. Example is as shown below: Layout Add the BottomNavigationView to your… Read More »

What are weak references? How it can be used to avoid memory leaks?

By | June 1, 2017

Weak reference objects, which do not prevent their referents from being made finalizable, finalized, and then reclaimed. Weak references are most often used to implement canonicalizing mappings. Suppose that the garbage collector determines at a certain point in time that an object is weakly reachable. At that time it will atomically clear all weak references… Read More »

Android Speech to Text Tutorial

By | June 1, 2017

Android comes with a built in feature for Speech to Text. This is really helpful when you want to provide navigation in your app through voice commands. When you say something in the app, your voice will be streamed to the server and the server will convert it to text and send back. You can… Read More »