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Starting from Android 4.2 Google removed possibility to keep screen on, while device in connected to USB. This is pretty strange decision, because lot of developers used this function during developing apps. There is a solution, I found for my case Tasker app   One thing is ( Read more... )

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Last time I needed to parse complicated xml tags and came to the solution, described in “Android: RSS reader with complicated xml“ This time, I used jSoup library and my solution became much more simple and accurate. public void getData(String keyword, ArrayList list) { String ( Read more... )

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Working on one project, I got an idea to create a custom posts calendar which will be updated by ajax call. First, I forked get_calendar() function. I copied the function to functions.php file and renamed to get_calendar_local(). I changed the view of the calendar and made it ( Read more... )

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Some time ago, I wrote about Android: How to make app on Google Play to support tablets. Recently, I found out, that latest devices are not supported for my apps. Samsung S4 and HTC One are among those devices. The reason is similar to the problem with tablets. Solution is the ( Read more... )

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It took me several hours to find the best way of detecting device slope on Android. You Activity should contain the following code: public class MyActivity extends Activity implements SensorEventListener { private SensorManager mSensorManager; private float xy_angle; private ( Read more... )

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Developing parsers for web app “Is it Kosher?“, I found pretty interesting way to parse the content of a html page. $ch = curl_init($content_url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, ‘Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google. ( Read more... )

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If you need to pass some data from TabHost to it’s child, you need to do the following: 1. Create public static child class variable and set it as current activity. public class HomeActivity extends ExpandableListActivity { public static HomeActivity s_HomeActivity; @Override ( Read more... )

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If you have several domains and you want all of them to direct to one site, then add the following two lines to your wp-config.php file: define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']); define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']); Answer to this issue I found in ( Read more... )

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It took several hours to find out how to add google Play services to my project in IDEA. Finally, I found a comment on StockOverflow - Create a file ~/android-sdk/extras/google/google_play_services/libproject/google-play-services_lib/src/dummy.java containing class dummy {}. - ( Read more... )

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Polylang is a very powerful tool to enable your WordPress site to be multilingual. The only problem, I met during development is not simple and clear way of copying of custom fields to new language posts versions. Answer was found here [resolved] polylang not syncing custom ( Read more... )