From your Activity, just pass in this as the Context for your layout: Afterwards you will have a Context in the layout, but you will know it is actually your Activity and you can cast it so that you have what you need:
Is there a better way to implement this now with RecyclerView now? Yes. When you use a RecyclerView, you need to specify a LayoutManager that is responsible for laying out each item in the view. The LinearLayoutManager allows you to specify an orientation, just like a normal LinearLayout would. To create a horizontal list with … Read more
Instead of doing do It will inflate it with the given parent, but won’t attach it to the parent.
I get the Error when I switch via the portrait and the landscape mode. I’m using fragments. My xml is: If I switch via landscape and portrait mode everything works fine. But when I click on my fragment (and I can see my fragment) and then switch to the other mode I get the error. … Read more
Actually, Settings font size affects only sizes in sp. So all You need to do – define textSize in dp instead of sp, then settings won’t change text size in Your app. Here’s a link to the documentation: Dimensions However please note that the expected behavior is that the fonts in all apps respect the user’s preferences. There are many reasons a … Read more
In the manifest file Change:
#1 & #2 what are the purposes of using a fragment & what are the advantages and disadvantages of using fragments compared to using activities/views/layouts? Fragments are Android’s solution to creating reusable user interfaces. You can achieve some of the same things using activities and layouts (for example by using includes). However; fragments are wired … Read more
Go to styles.xml and change .DarkActionBar for .NoActionBar becomes if colors are irrelevant to your app, you can actually go for
The reason you are having this problem is because the activity you are trying to apply the dialog theme to is extending ActionBarActivity which requires the AppCompat theme to be applied. Update: Extending AppCompatActivity would also have this problem In this case, change the Java inheritance from ActionBarActivity to Activity and leave the dialog theme in the manifest as it is, a non Theme.AppCompat value The general … Read more
The reason you are having this problem is because the activity you are trying to apply the dialog theme to is extending ActionBarActivity which requires the AppCompat theme to be applied. Update: Extending AppCompatActivity would also have this problem In this case, change the Java inheritance from ActionBarActivity to Activity and leave the dialog theme in the manifest as it is, a non Theme.AppCompat value The general … Read more