In Android we decided that we want to implement a unit test performance monitor. The reason for it is that sometimes some unit tests would execute in more than 1 second and it was all because we would use the Schedulers.trampoline() RxJava scheduler instead of the TestScheduler which is part of the RX package.
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Android Notification White Square Icon
We have all seen the white square at the top type of a notification in the notification bar.
Continue reading “Android Notification White Square Icon”Android Studio Live Templates
I was really wondering how I can remove repetitive tasks from Android Studio by assigning shortcuts or tags and I found that IntelliJ has Live Templates which I bet that little programmers use. So as an example I wanted when I type the word “tag” within a class the following to be autocompleted:
Continue reading “Android Studio Live Templates”Android adb server version (32) doesn’t match this client (Genymotion)
Probably you have seen this type of error when using Genymotion as the Android emulator on which you test your device. This is how the error looks like:
adb server version (32) doesn’t match this client (35); killing…
error: could not install *smartsocket* listener: Address already in use
ADB server didn’t ACK
* failed to start daemon *
There is one simple thing that worked for me. I opened the Settings menu of Genymotion, then ADB tab and selected: Use custom android SDK tools and I set the path to the tools. By default Genymotion uses its built-in tools. After that killing all working emulators and starting them again makes everything work.
Hope I have helped!
Card.io issue not supporting Samsung S5 and other devices
card.io 5.4.2
Card.io is a card recognition SDK used by PayPal which allows you to easily scan your own credit/debit cards and get information about them in the code.
Problem
Using card.io from the source and not from Maven requires you to have the latest Android NDK with which the project will be built. But compiling it with the latest NDK introduces a bug which prevents the library from supporting several phones like Samsung S5, Honor 7 and others.
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Sometimes, when I mock a method in Mockito, I used anyString instead of any and I get into a mess and my test fails. Why?
given(mUserRepo.getUser(anyString(). any())).willReturn(new User());
And what will happen if
mUserRepo.getUser(null);
UserRepo is called with null? Well, the matcher doesn’t work and the test fails. anyString() does not work with null values. If you pass null to a mocked service then use any() as a matcher.
Context in Android Databinding XML files
It is so easy guys, just don’t forget that DataBinding creates a field called context which you can access by default in your XML file. So you can write something like this:
<data>
<variable name="name" type="String"/>
</data>
<layout>
<TextView
app:text="@{StringUtils.format(context, name)}" />
</layout>
And it will be just fine. You have the context from the parent view. Check it HERE.
Gaps between layout components in Android
There is a very simple solution in Android if you want to have space between components. You can always set margins but you can also use the Space class. You can use it like this:
<Space android:layout_width="1dp" android:layout_height="30dp"/>
Retrofit – Authorization & Expiring Tokens
Situation is like this:
- You got an AccessToken and RefreshToken (AT and RT for now on)
- Every API call needs to contain the AT
- When the AT expires you need to refresh it using your RT
How to download older version of Google Play Services?
In the new version of the Google Play Services library there is a lot of new code for the material design which really made my app huge and it crossed the border of 65 536 methods.
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