Tag Archives: AppCompatActivity

Room Database from Google – A Simple Example

By | April 5, 2018

Lets talk about the Room Persistent Library from Google. The Room persistence library provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow fluent database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite. The library helps you create a cache of your app’s data on a device that’s running your app. This cache, which serves as your… Read More »

Data Binding in Android – Using Observables (BaseObservable) to Update UI automatically

By | January 20, 2017

In the last example, you may have got an idea of what DataBinding is. If not please check my tutorial here… Simple DataBinding in Android Example. Updating Objects using Observables. In the last tutorial you may have noticed, if you update the object which is data binded, the change is not reflected in the UI… Read More »

How to call Android function from JavaScript?

By | January 10, 2017

Check the Video below to see what we are going to do… If the web page you plan to load in your WebView use JavaScript, you must enable JavaScript for your WebView. Once JavaScript is enabled, you can also create interfaces between your application code and your JavaScript code. Enabling JavaScript JavaScript is disabled in… Read More »

Introduction to Android Canvas – Simple Example

By | December 17, 2016

The Canvas can be used to draw graphics in android. It provides methods to draw oval, rectangle, picture, text, line etc. The Paint class is used with canvas to draw objects. It holds the information of color and style. In this example, we will draw some 2D Shapes. We will create class that extends View… Read More »

onRequestPermissionsResult not called on Fragments in Android

By | October 12, 2016

This is a common mistake that people make when coding for marshmallow. When in AppCompatActivity, you should use ActivityCompat.requestPermissions; When in android.support.v4.app.Fragment, you should use simply requestPermissions (this is an instance method of android.support.v4.app.Fragment) If you call ActivityCompat.requestPermissions in a fragment, the onRequestPermissionsResult callback is called on the activity and not the fragment. If you… Read More »