What happened to my layout editor?
There you are, happily creating your layout files in the Eclipse plug-in’s layout editor. Dragging and dropping is a breeze. But then one day, you open a layout XML file and boom! No UI! All you see is the XML tree with all the nodes and attributes. What happened?
What grammar?
My OC side was alarmed when suddenly, my Problems view in Eclipse was filled with warnings on my XML files. Each of my XML files had a warning with it, and that little yellow exclamation mark on the side:
TextView and MaxLines
I have a TextView (who doesn’t?) and I want to adjust its height automatically, depending on the length of the text it will contain. Should be easy. It was, but it took me a couple of minutes to figure it out.
Missing hierarchyviewer in SDK 7
If you have SDK version 7, you are most probably missing the hierarchyviewer
from your /tools
folder. To check your SDK version, launch the SDK manager UI from your installation path, usually C:\android-sdk-windows
, then click About.
More plurals: decimal values
In my previous post, I showed you how to set string plurals. If you noticed, the methods to get the plurals strings only accept int
s. What if (like me) you want to display a decimal value? I am getting my raw value from a progress bar with a range of 1-10, with 0.1 increments.
String Pluralization
Last week, I discovered Android’s support for plural strings by accident. And a good accident it was since I am working on an app that will display a float to the user. I used to display:
Importing existing Android projects to Eclipse
When trying to import an existing Android project to Eclipse, I always encounter the error: The method *XXXXX* must override a superclass method
.
It’s so fluffyyyyyyyyy!!!
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Quick string resource formatting
Sooner or later, you would want to display a message to your user with dynamic content. This may be the number of results, the user’s name, etc.
A test, a test
I was thinking of starting a quick-tips style blog for software development (mostly for myself, since I tend to forget stuff a lot recently).