When I started using git, it peeved me that there is no auto-complete. More so when you have to manually do a git add manually.

When using Google Play’s Location Services and you want to change the frequency of the updates, make sure to do these in order:

So we want to use the SeekBar. We want the minimum value to be 10 and the maximum value to be 100, and it should increment by 10.

Always using if(myString != null && myString.length() > 0)? Use !TextUtils.isEmpty(myString) instead.

This post builds on the previous post for ABS + VPI.

I have always thought that you would need root access to pull an SQLite file from a non-rooted Android device. Turns out I thought wrong! Here’s how you do it:

$ adb -d shell
$ run-as your.package.name
$ cat /data/data/your.package.name/databases/yourdatabasename  >/sdcard/yourdatabasename

Last week, I was exploring connectivity monitoring and came up with a small app for demo. The app listens for connectivity changes and sends a notification to the user informing them of the change.

EDIT (20121227): I made a new post on changing the tab selector underline.
EDIT (20121014): I received feedback from the comments that rotating the device will cause the tab contents to revert to the default text. In essence, the adapter “loses” the contents of the tabs. I have corrected this in the example below as well as in github.
EDIT (20120905): The full sample source code is now in github.

Note to self: to save the contents of Logcat to a text file:

My current project at work uses git, and I have always been a CVS/SVN baby so I’m still trying to find my way around it. Today I wanted to clone a remote branch to my local computer. This remote branch also has submodules, so I want to get those too.