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Android Frequently Asked Questions
The Android-related questions that get asked repeatedly, gathered together in one place. What does a new developer always ask at some point? What are the most common questions when someone is ...
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Using SwiftUI MapReader to position Views over map
I'm trying to use SwiftUI to make a ZStack containing a Map (with a MapKit map view), and a Circle view that is placed on top of it. The Circle's pixel position should be to the pixel position on the ...
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How to announce page context ("Page X of Y") in HorizontalPager in Jetpack Compose with a11y?
I am building a custom selector component in Jetpack Compose. It consists of a HorizontalPager where each page contains a LazyVerticalGrid of selectable items (acting like Radio Buttons).
The problem: ...
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Flutter NearPay SDK fails to connect to terminal with "user not found" error in sandbox
I’m integrating NearPay SDK into a Flutter application to process NFC payments on an iMin POS device and print receipts using an iMin printer.
Environment
Flutter: 3.35.5
Android: minSdkVersion 26
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How to prevent C function in iOS app from being stripped when uploaded to TestFlight?
I have a iOS library that exposes a C function. This function is marked with default visibility and used via attribute tags to prevent the compiler/linker from stripping it
#ifdef __cplusplus
#define ...
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Is it possible to change the app name to match the selected app icon (like Signal) in Expo?
I'm working on an Expo app that supports multiple app icons (e.g. Notes, Weather icons).
Is it possible to also change the app name to match the selected icon so the label updates together with the ...
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Smooth horizontal autoscroll while dragging near edges (keep item under finger)
I have a SwiftUI horizontal editor (multiple "canvases" laid out side‐by‐side in a ScrollView). When the user drags a selected object and reaches the left/right edge of the visible area, I want the ...
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Android Instrumentation test : Run button icon is not appearing for custom buildType & classes not getting resolved
I'm trying to run instrumentation tests but
Classes are not getting resolved, getting Cannot find declaration to go to
Run button icon is not appearing for @Test functions so not able to run tests
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Can't capture every emittion from StateFlow when testing with Turbine
I'm trying to test my viewmodels that exposes a public StateFlow via stateIn operator:
class HomeViewModel @Inject constructor(...) : ViewModel() {
private val _uiState: MutableStateFlow<State&...
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How to create a programmatic list of lists
My code loops through rows in SQLite and builds text views / image views to add to linear layouts and displays on screen. My users add fabric manually so each entry would be very different across ...
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Look up RecyclerView. It's a way to efficiently do scrollable repeated layouts.
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Using Actor is always the best practice in Swift Concurrency world?
I'm generally holding a Task variable to use cancel for an efficiency in somewhere. (and also calling cancel before setting the Task to avoid making duplicate asynchronous job.)
class Test {
private ...
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I don’t think you are overthinking this. This is precisely the sort of thought process you should go through if your type has any mutable state, IMHO. Actor isolation is the simplest way to mitigate ...
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What is the most memory-efficient UI artefact to display a "Critical Out of Memory (OOM)" alert in Android?
I am looking for a way to display a "Critical Memory" warning to the user when application reaches "Out of Memory' (OOM) state.
When app reaches the OOM state, the Java heap is ...
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You don't. When you go OOM, except in very specific circumstances there's no way to know what allocation failed, and thus no way to know if you can continue and work correctly at all. The correct ...
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How to find out if a URI is a MediaStore URI
When using ContentResolver.query() on Android to find out the display name of a content URI, I need to use different projections depending on whether the URI is a document or a MediaStore URI. When ...
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I do not think there is a reliable way to determine if a Uri is from whatever the device manufacturer is using to implement MediaStore. So, if DocumentsContract.isDocumentUri() returns false, query ...
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How do you create video feeds with poster in Kotlin Multiplatform?
I’m developing a Kotlin Multiplatform application using Compose Multiplatform. I’m consuming an API that returns a list of images and videos, and for each video I want to display a static poster image ...
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"This feels like a hack" -- we cannot comment on that code, as it is not in your post. Off the cuff, it does not feel like a hack, so you might want to both post that code and explain why ...
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How can I close/hide the Android soft keyboard programmatically?
I have an EditText and a Button in my layout.
After writing in the edit field and clicking on the Button, I want to hide the virtual keyboard when touching outside the keyboard. Can someone provide a ...
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Why is the Android emulator so slow? How can we speed up the Android emulator?
I have got a 2.67 GHz Celeron processor, and 1.21 GB of RAM on a x86 Windows XP Professional machine.
My understanding is that the Android Emulator should start fairly quickly on such a machine, but ...
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What is the difference between px, dip, dp, and sp?
What is the difference between the units of measure
px, dip, dp, and sp?
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How can I stop EditText from gaining focus when an activity starts in Android?
I have an Activity in Android, with two elements:
EditText
ListView
When my Activity starts, the EditText immediately has the input focus (flashing cursor). I don't want any control to have input ...
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How can I fix 'android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException'?
I got an error while running my Android project for RssReader.
Code:
URL url = new URL(urlToRssFeed);
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
SAXParser parser = factory....
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Using SwiftData with SwiftUI
One thing we iOS developers should rejoice about is the development of SwiftData, at least if you are coding for a very new project and can forget about iOS versions below 17.
We finally have an ...
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