Formatting and Styling Yes, see the following from String Resources: Formatting and Styling If you need to format your strings using String.format(String, Object…), then you can do so by putting your format arguments in the string resource. For example, with the following resource: <string name=”welcome_messages”>Hello, %1$s! You have %2$d new messages.</string> In this example, the … Read more
Follow this tutorial for creating SHA1 fingerprint for Google Map v2 For Debug mode: keytool -list -v -keystore ~/.android/debug.keystore -alias androiddebugkey -storepass android -keypass android for Release mode: keytool -list -v -keystore {keystore_name} -alias {alias_name} example: keytool -list -v -keystore C:\Users\MG\Desktop\test.jks -alias test On windows, when keytool command is not found, Go to your installed … Read more
I wrote this answer back in ’09 when Android was relatively new, and there were many not well established areas in Android development. I have added a long addendum at the bottom of this post, addressing some criticism, and detailing a philosophical disagreement I have with the use of Singletons rather than subclassing Application. Read … Read more
This is only a temporary workaround and not a real fix. After having this happen to me and not being pleased with the current responses I went to work trying to figure it out from the AOSP source. I have found a REAL solution. Explanation First off, a bit of (simplified) background on how Android … Read more
The way to accept license agreements from the command line has changed. You can use the SDK manager which is located at: $ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/tools/bin e.g on linux: cd ~/Library/Android/sdk/tools/bin/ Run the sdkmanager as follows: ./sdkmanager –licenses e.g on Windows: cd /d “%ANDROID_SDK_ROOT%/tools/bin” Run the sdkmanager as follows: sdkmanager –licenses And accept the licenses you did not … Read more
Note this solution will not let the user wait more: the delay of the splash screen depends on the start up time of the application. When you open any android app you will get by default a some what black screen with the title and icon of the app on top, you can change that … Read more
None of these suggestions worked for me, because Android was appending a sequence number to the package name to produce the final APK file name. On more recent versions of Android (Oreo and Pie), an unpredictable random string is appended. The following sequence of commands is what worked for me on a non-rooted device: 1) … Read more
Google has released ADT v23.0.2. This solved many problems of previous ADT version 23. Step-by-step: Menu Help → Install New Software… For “Work with”, select the Android source https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse Tick ADT v23.0 for installation, then click “Next” Eclipse will show “Install Remediation Page” since there is conflict with previous version. (If it does not, see … Read more
You CAN do this with gradle. I’ve made a demo project showing how. The trick is to use gradle’s ability to merge multiple resource folders, and set the res folder as well as the nested subfolders in the sourceSets block. The quirk is that you can’t declare a container resource folder before you declare that … Read more
1: Define layout_bg.xml in drawables: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <shape xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android”> <solid android:color=”#FFFFFF”/> <stroke android:width=”3dp” android:color=”#B1BCBE” /> <corners android:radius=”10dp”/> <padding android:left=”0dp” android:top=”0dp” android:right=”0dp” android:bottom=”0dp” /> </shape> 2: Add layout_bg.xml as background to your layout android:background=”@drawable/layout_bg”