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Ability to to sort tabular data by columns is a handy option for the users to have. In this tutorial, we are going to implement a recyclerview and add capability to sort its items by columns. First step is to…
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ObjectBox is a NoSQL database. According to the performance benchmark here, it is much faster than SQLite database. In this tutorial, we are going to demonstrate how to integrate ObjectBox database in Android application by developing a simple app that…
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Exoplayer is an Android application level media player developed by google for playing audio, video both locally and over the internet. Unlike the MediaPlayer API it is highly customizable. Minimum supported version for Exoplayer is Android 4.1 (API level 16)….
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Using crash reporting tools is a great way to unearth the hidden bugs that are causing crashes. This tutorial will demonstrate an easy to use crash reporting tool ACRA (Application Crash Reports for Android) to send crash logs when crash…
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Retrofit is a popular REST client for Android and Java developed by Square. Using Retrofit one can easily retrieve and upload data via REST based web services. In most of the cases, data are sent through data model class. Sometimes…
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In EditText one can easily add hint by setting a string into the hint property but there is no such a way to add hints in Spinner. In this tutorial we are going to see how to add hint text…
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In some situations we might need to use different resources for different themes for the same view. This tutorial demonstrates how to set different image, string and color resources for the same view in different themes. Let’s say, the app…
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It is a very common task that android applications have to request and recieve from web service where data are in JSON format. Here the task is implemented using a very simple method that takes the web service url and…
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In one of my android projects I had to show the memory information of SD card. There was no built-in method to get the SD card directory. The method getExternalStorageDirectory() of the class android.os.Environment has very little chance of returning…
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Let’s say, you are developing an Android application that will be using a finger print scanner and it will be connected with the android device through OTG cable. In this situation you can not use USB debugging option as you…
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