Category: studio
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Language Injections in Android Studio / IntelliJ IDEA 💉
Android Studio is a powerful IDE with a multitude of features that I’ll probably never discover. However, when I do discover a feature of the IDE that I’ve been dreaming about, I get irrationally excited about it (and often times write a blog post such as this one). One feature that really piqued my interest…
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Getting Started with the Motion Editor in Android Studio 4.0
Android Studio 4.0 has been released in the stable channel! 🥳 What does this mean for us? Well, the new Motion Editor is in Android Studio 4.0 and if you are someone who prefers to use the stable version of tooling, this is probably your first look at the Motion Editor. In this blog post,…
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AsyncAndroid: Getting Started with MotionLayout
Wow, what a weird time to be alive, huh? I’m writing this on Day 29 of the lockdown in South Africa due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I’m not sure I have the right words to address the current situation, nor the expertise to talk about it. However, I am good at talking about Android and…
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42MB to display account information?! Use the Android APK Analyzer to reduce your APK size!
After looking around at a few Android applications, I realised that there are many developers who don’t know about a great tool in Android Studio — the Android APK Analyzer. I cringe when I go to download a basic application (most of these apps are really simple) and the download size is over 40MB. Whenever…
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How to create a group of File Templates in Android Studio – Part 3
Update – 24 May 2021: The solution described in this blog post is now outdated – yay! See the official solution from IntelliJ. This works in Android Studio Artic Fox and above – https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/templates-with-multiple-files.html For historical purposes – I’ve left the original post below. ————————– In the previous two posts, we looked at creating custom…
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How to create your own Live Templates in Android Studio/IntelliJ – Part 2
In the last post we looked at how to create a File Template in Android Studio. In this post we will look at Live Templates and how to make your own. Live templates are “frequently-used or custom code constructs that you can insert into your source code file quickly, efficiently and accurately.”
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How to make your own File Templates in Android Studio – Part 1
I have recently discovered something which is currently making my life easier at the moment: Custom file templates. What is a file template? A file template is a source file that already contains some code to get you started. In this example, we are going to look at creating a file template for a RecyclerView adapter implementation which is…