Using ProgressDialog in Android Activity

In situations when need to wait some operation it is good practice to notify user that operation is in progress. For this cases in Android present several classes which can help with this. One of them I am going to demonstrate. I will show how to use ProgressDialog class for showing progress dialog. I will . . . →Read More:Using ProgressDialog in Android Activity

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Hiding the title bar in Android

There is possibility to hide your title bar in application. It is very easy and I am going to show how you can do it. There are 2 ways,one from code other from AndroidManifest.xml file. I will show both solutions.

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IntelliJ IDEA goes in open-source

This news present in every news portal and in every blogs. Yes IDEA now is in open-source. There are 2 versions Community Edition and Ultimate Edition.

Editions comparison page here.

Really bad that Android support will be only in Ultimate Edition.

Also JetBrains promote their IntelliJ Platform.

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Using FileFilter in Java

What need to do when you want to filter files by extensions in directory?

There are 2 ways:

implement FileFilter or FilenameFilter.

I am going to show how to do this with FileFilter.

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Passing data between activities in Android

In Android is simple to run one activity from other. But what if you need to send data to the new activity. You can use several ways,for example DB,preferences,file system or just use Bundle. Last one is very useful in practice and I will show how to do this.

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Checking if SDCard is mounted in Android

Sometimes need to use SDCard for retrieving or saving some data. For that need to know if SDCard exists in the phone.

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NetBeans team updated documentation about using GWT in NetBeans

Today I found that NetBeans team updated documentation about how to use Google Web Toolkit in NetBeans. I found this tutorial very useful. Introduction to the Google Web Toolkit Framework

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Thinking in Java 4-th edition Book Recommendation

I have a rule. If I want to learn something new I always read article in style “Hello,World”,after that I read one book and last one I read documentation.

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Using Android Virtual Devices (AVD's)

What is the AVD? AVD is an emulator instance with specific configurations.

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Sorting directories and files in Java

Several days ago we modified looks of our file manager in Wallpaper Changer application. In first version we used simple sort without Comparator or Comparable interfaces.

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A sample text widget

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