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Extending from Two Activities (sort of) 3 Jan 2013 | 08:03 pm
There are generally very few reasons to need to mimic multiple inheritance of activities. One example that *may* find use of this sort of thing is a situation where a library that has a base activity ...
Passing Toast Message to a New Activity 31 Dec 2011 | 11:25 am
Greetings readers. I have implemented a “very basic” messaging system within one of my applications. An example use case is as follows: 1. User arrives at an activity. 2. The activity realizes that ...
Are you an unemployed Junior Java Type? 8 Oct 2011 | 06:50 pm
I chanced upon this thread that might help to lift your spirits: http://lnkd.in/a5Y9tV It’s about looking for your first job. Cheers, Randall
Using Shared Preferences Explained 15 Jul 2011 | 05:09 am
This post explains further the example code on the Android Developer site: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html I am trying to dumb this down as best as I can, so some us...
Protecting Your Android Application 9 Jul 2011 | 03:39 am
I was just thinking to myself, I need to make my published apps more secure. I found this post enlightening and a good start. It’s from the guy that wrote Android Wireless Application Development and ...
Custom Spinner Style 2 Jul 2011 | 02:35 am
I’ll have to do this later on, so this post is just a “bookmark”. It seems to be the better one that I found on the subject. http://www.mokasocial.com/2011/03/easily-create-a-default-custom-styled-sp...
Button Hit Area for Custom Graphics 2 Jul 2011 | 02:13 am
I decided to create an “irregularly shaped” and small arrow image to be used as a button. The problem was, when I set it as a background image, the hit area only reported when the actual image was bei...
Drop Shadow LinearLayout 29 Jun 2011 | 09:23 pm
I thought I would share this quick tip I just cooked up. To create a drop shadow below a layout component, you can add a “view” of the same width immediately below that component and set the backgroun...
Calling Activity for Result 10 Jun 2011 | 02:40 am
I was going to write one up but this site did the work as well as I could have: See the tutorial here It’s really a relatively simple problem with a relatively simple solution. Like I prefer to do in...
Passing Data With an Intent 27 May 2011 | 01:47 pm
This is the code to pass data from one activity to another through an Intent. This is the code used to create and pass data into an Intent. And this is how you catch that data from the receiving act...
