Switching tabs in Chrome browser. Useful keyboard shortcuts to quickly switching tabs in Chrome browser. There are different ways to switch tabs using keyboard shortcuts on Windows Chrome browser like: To switch to the next tab: Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDown To switch to the previous tab: Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUp To switch to a specific tab: Ctrl+1 […]
Default Validation EditText I found a good article here on how to use the default feature of EditText to show the error. While writing the validation on EditText on a button click event or TextChanged event instead of showing alert dialog if you want to show error we can use the default feature of EditText as EditText […]
We can edit commit message, If you happen to recognize that you missed to mention any important info in a commit message, while committing a code change you may edit commit message. As below Open the staging view or commit dialog again and specify that the current commit shall “amend” the previous commit in the […]
Applying Dialog Style to Activity Generally when we set Activity theme as dialog style, <activity android:label=”@string/app_name” android:name=”.DialogActivity” android:theme=”@android:style/Theme.Dialog” /> <activity/> its just display at the center of the screen, with specific width and height set in the XML Layout file or as per the Content. as shown below. At times you may want to display […]
Quotes by Famous personalities Here are some of the Quotes by Famous personalities Believing everybody is dangerous; believing nobody is very dangerous – ABRAHAM LINCOLN If you start judging people you will be having no time to love them – MOTHER TERESA In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can […]
Validate a URL / Website To validate URL/ Website name entered in a EditText, this following works fine… private boolean isValidUrl(String url) { Pattern p = Patterns.WEB_URL; Matcher m = p.matcher(url.toLowerCase()); if(m.matches()) return true; else return false; } URL should be in lowercase to validate correctly. Here is ref link. Hope this helps somebody… Cheers…
At times you may need to set Space between columns and rows for in GridView. Set following attributes of GridView To set space between rows android:verticalSpacing=”2dp” To set space between columns android:horizontalSpacing=”2dp” Sample screeshot.. Cheers.. You may be also interested in Simple Weekview calendar implemented using GridView ScrollView auto scroll to show content in app […]
DatePickerDialog While working with DatePickerDialog, I see an issue when setting a date and click done button. Its calling onDateSet method two times. here is a simple solution for it. DatePicker parameter object has a method called isShown(). Place method statements in the if condition of isShown(), which avoids calling onDateSet method statements two times. @Override […]
Show Spinner Dropdown items To show Spinner dropdown items, when click on a button, as shown in image below spinnerView.performClick(); ex: btnView.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { spinnerView.performClick(); } }); Hope it helps somebody Cheers …
Hi Guys, When you have a layout at bottom of the screen, below a ScrollView/ListView. If you have EditText to edit data, when Softkeyboard pops up, the bottom layout moves up along with SoftKeyboard. And at times, it’s not require the bottom layout to moves up with Soft Keyboard. To handle this, you just need […]