To add a custom typeface to your app, the preferred way is to use Downloadable Fonts. To support legacy devices, use Pixplicity Letterpress.

A simple wrap of an AlertDialog into a Fragment.

Note that this doesn’t just check if the TextView has ellipsizing enabled, it actually checks if the size of the TextView is too short for the full text to appear.

On shared views, set android:transitionName="@string/transition_detail" in both first and second activity. Then launch the second activity like this:

These are the three steps to show the Material Design circular animation when launching an Activity. Make sure to only use this animation when it makes sense - it is meant to make it clear to the user that a button results in the screen being opened.

Important: make mMediaPlayer a field, because otherwise the garbage collector will clean up the mediaplayer while the sound is still playing, causing it to be cut off!

Reading and writing files from/to private storage. Using a Context you can access the methods

These are instructions to support and test simple deeplinking, without Firebase or the Navigation Components.

Loads a bitmap from a file, and applies the rotation that is specified in the EXIF data of the file.

Note: requires android.Manifest.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE in the manifest.

Add a file file_paths.xml to the resources directory res/xml/ in order to grant access to the correct folders:

All the methods below need the location permission:

Tiny snippet for reducing compatibility clutter.

It’s date formatting string time! This is the table you need for all simple date formatting in Java/Kotlin.

Adds several features over the regular AndroidJUnitRunner: