Permissions Add these two permissions in the Android Manifest Read SMS from Inbox Reading SMS from inbox is not a big task, but your user needs to allow it if you app is running on Marhmallow or more. if you app is below marshmallow, then you wont need it. But here we will write one… Read More »
What is ButterKnife? Its a kind of view injection in Activities or Fragments using Annotations. Butterknife can be used to 1. Bind Views 2. Bind Clicks 3. Can be used with resources like strings, colors, Dimens, Drawables etc. Below are the annotations available AnnotationDescription @BindView Binds view object. TextView, Button, Spinner or any view object… Read More »
The click on a button or View is usually called when the user clicks on it. But how can we call it programatically. Here is a simple example yes “performClick()”, this is how to call click programatically.
Here is a simple way to check if your app in running in Foreground or Background
Here are some git commands that you will normally use in a git version controlled project repository. Commit For Commiting all modified files use git commit -am”Message” Status For checking the status of the git repository use git status Log For getting the information about the Git checkins use… git log To Print in a… Read More »
StringBuffer StringBuffer is mutable means one can change the value of the object . The object created through StringBuffer is stored in the heap. StringBuffer has the same methods as the StringBuilder , but each method in StringBuffer is synchronized that is StringBuffer is thread safe.Due to this it does not allow two threads to… Read More »
Using Otto Event Bus to Communicate b/w Activity and Fragment. Otto Event Bus is an Android Library that helps developers to communicate between Android Activity and Fragment and vice-versa. Lets see a simple implementation of this. Here I will pass a simple string from Activity to Fragment and Vice-versa. Gradle Layout Activity layout Fragment Layout… Read More »
Here is a simple example in which we will download a font from google and set it to our textview. View the Demo here Layout Here is our layout. The Edittext is a autocomplete textview where we will load the font names to download. The font names are stored in values.xml Lets see the layout.… Read More »
Android’s Backup service allows you to persist the data in a Google cloud storage. Android does this with the help of a BackUpAgent in the SDK. If we want to backup the data, then extend the BackupAgent. Lets see how we can do this. Benefits Reduce user frustration Increase login-rate. Reduce support calls Minimize user… Read More »
Android helps us to schedule jobs in an efficient way. Android has a built in Job scheduler for this. Lets see how this is done. Before that lets see what google has to say about Job Scheduling. These are the normal tasks an application does : Updating network resources. Downloading information. Updating background tasks. Scheduling… Read More »
For API above 19 For API from 11 to 18 For API below 11 Check this post to show the image selected from gallery in an imageview.
Special characters can be included in string literals using the following escape sequences: The following example shows how to use a few string literals: Swift 4 Escape sequence Meaning \0 Null Character \\ \character \b Backspace \f Form feed \n Newline \r Carriage return \t Horizontal tab \v Vertical tab \’ Single Quote \” Double… Read More »
We all know that Android only allows primitives types like int, float to be stored in preferences. But we can change this with the help of GSON. If you want to know more about GSON, you can refer my post here… Using GSON in Android – Simple Demo Now, In this demo, I will show… Read More »
To retrieve a count of the characters in a string, call the global countElements function and pass in a string as the function’s sole parameter: prints “sampleString has 32 characters” Note : Different Unicode characters and different representations of the same Unicode character can require different amounts of memory to store. Because of this, characters… Read More »
Swift 4 is a type-safe language which means if a part of your code expects a String, you can’t pass it an Int by mistake. As Swift 4 is type-safe, it performs type-checks when compiling your code and flags any mismatched types as errors. Playground execution failed: error: :6:6: error: cannot assign to ‘let’ value… Read More »
Dear Friends, In Today’s post I will show you how to convert a simple hex color string to UIColor in Swift 3. Code
Dear Friends, Today I will show you how to create a simple alert with two buttons and how to write a callback for each button. The code is simple. Its written for Swift 3. Send your comments to coderzheaven@gmail.com
Life is good and everything will be ok, Kotlin is here… In this article we will check how we can start with Kotlin for Android. Make sure you won’t overwrite your old Android Studio when you install the new version. Method 1 : Pre-requisites First you have to download Android Studio Beta 3.0 from here.… Read More »
What are Deep Links? Let’s understand this with the help of a situation. If you happened to click a link on a webpage and suddenly it opens an application inside you phone or opens a dialog asking you to choose an application to handle this click. Yes, this is called deep linking. You can read… Read More »
Here are some plugins that are really handy for developers to speed up their development. 1. ADBWIFI This plugin helps you to debug your app over Wi-Fi. Check out my previous blog post on how to do this without any plugin. 2. DTO generator This plugin is useful when you want to generate corresponding POJO… Read More »
Here is a simple ulility function to convert a hex color string to UIColor in iOS in Swift 3.
There is often a settings page when we make our app and most of the people end up making it using their own UI. But interestingly Android provides API specific for building preferences using your own values. Check the below UI for my settings Lets see how that is done. Using Preference Headers Preference Headers… Read More »
Even with good hardware configuration for the system, we often end up with slow gradle build process in Android Studio. So here I will discuss some steps to Speed up Android Gradle build. 1. Stay Up to Date Make sure you have the latest Android Studio and have the latest build tools updated. 2. Create… Read More »
We will see the different ways to get the battery percentage in Android. Method 1 Register a Broadcast Receiver Receive like this Method 2 Method 3 Note : Make sure you unregister the receiver when you don’t need.
Steps Enable usb debugging and Connect the device to dev system with USB cable. Type “adb tcpip 5555” in Terminal/Command prompt. (Here we are opening a port in device to connect from development system.) Disconnect the phone and check the ip address of phone from network settings Type “adb connect :5555” Now the phone will… Read More »