Author: Mike Dalisay

  • Android Intents Tutorial to Share Your Social Media Links

    The following Android intents tutorial will help increase your app’s Facebook likes or twitter followers. Almost every app has their own social media accounts or links that you can like, follow, +1, or even send an email to. There’s always an app that can connect you to that product or service. Now, from that app, […]

  • Android AutocompleteTextView with Custom Adapter Example

    Before this Android AutocompleteTextView with custom adapter example, we made the code on Android AutocompleteTextView with suggestions from SQLite database, that’s really fine and useful, but here’s another problem: What if you want to customize the appearance of the drop-down suggestions? This is where the custom ArrayAdapter will come to the scene. Using this post, […]

  • Android AutocompleteTextView with Database Data as Suggestions

    Our code example for today is about a very useful Android widget called AutocompleteTextView. Specifically, we’ll code an Android AutocompleteTextView with database data as drop-down suggestions. If you’re not yet familiar with AutocompleteTextView, this widget looks like an EditText but shows completion suggestions automatically while the user is typing. The list of suggestions is displayed […]

  • Simple Android JSON Parser Example Code with URL and Logcat Output

    Today I’m going to share an Android JSON Parser example code to parse a JSON string from a URL. This code is really useful because nowadays, JSON string is being used by most APIs like Facebook graph API and Google Maps. You should use JSON in your projects instead of XML because it is lightweight, […]

  • Fixing Android EditText Lag

    Lately I encountered this annoying android EditText lag, each time I try to type a character, it makes me wait for around 1 to 3 seconds before I can type the next character! Now that’s horrible. EditText is not useful. Keyboard looks broken. If you have the same issue, I have a good news for […]

  • Android ViewHolder Pattern Example

    Now we are going to code the smooth scrolling of our Android ListView. In the previous post, we tried to understand how the ListView with adapter works. This time, it will be all about performance. I did this a separate post because Android ListView is difficult to understand at times. What I have in mind […]

  • Fixed: Android Dependencies – Missing facebooksdk.jar

    Recently I was working with the Facebook SDK for Android and found the error:     Android     Dependencies     –     Missing     facebooksdk.jar. My project was unable to run and the eclipse console or logcat does not give a clear description of the error. But it can be seen […]

  • Android ListView with Adapter Example

    How android ListView with adapter works is not so clear to me until I read this awesome article with code examples of Lucas Rocha: Performance Tips for Android’s ListView. In relation to that, I was inspired again to make a post about android ListView with Adapter, but this one is much more simple than the […]