Android-Tips

Adb

• Prevent ADB logcat window to open automatically every time you launch your app:

  • Open: Run > Edit Configurations...
  • Select Miscellaneous tab
  • Untick Show logcat automatically

  

Android Studio

• Ctrl + Shift + I over a method to show its implementation in a modal window

  

Dev

• If you need to reference your App Package Name from your AndroidManifest.xml you can use: ${applicationId}

  For example

<meta-data
    android:name="com.mixpanel.android.MPConfig.ResourcePackageName"
    android:value="${applicationId}" />

• One-line drawable tint using in XML using data binding

  Inspired by +Lisa Wray tip[1] to customise fonts using DataBinding I started exploring this lib yesterday.
  Here there is an easy way to tint Drawables using DataBinding[2] and DrawableCompat[3]

@BindingAdapter("bind:colorTint")
public static void setColorTint(ImageView view, @ColorRes int color) {
    DrawableCompat.setTint(view.getDrawable(), color);
}

In XML it looks like:

<ImageView
    style="@style/circle"
    android:src="@drawable/circle"
    app:colorTint="@{item.color}"/>

I feel we have only started scratching the surface of DataBinding power. Definitively check it out. It is a game changer.

[1] Custom Fonts tip
[2] DataBinding
[3] DrawableCompat

Tips

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