set background color: Android

instead of #rrggbb you should be using hex values 0 to F for rr, gg and bb: e.g. Color.parseColor(“#000000”) or Color.parseColor(“#FFFFFF”) Source From documentation: public static int parseColor (String colorString): Parse the color string, and return the corresponding color-int. If the string cannot be parsed, throws an IllegalArgumentException exception. Supported formats are: #RRGGBB #AARRGGBB ‘red’, ‘blue’, ‘green’, ‘black’, ‘white’, ‘gray’, … Read more

StringFormat for Java Boolean Operator

‘b’ or ‘B’ general If the argument arg is null, then the result is “false”. If arg is a boolean or Boolean, then the result is the string returned by String.valueOf(arg). Otherwise, the result is “true”. java docs : http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Formatter.html#syntax

Fastest way to put contents of Set to a single String with words separated by a whitespace?

With commons/lang you can do this using StringUtils.join: You can’t really beat that for brevity. Update: Re-reading this answer, I would prefer the other answer regarding Guava’s Joiner now. In fact, these days I don’t go near apache commons. Another Update: Java 8 introduced the method String.join() While this isn’t as flexible as the Guava version, it’s handy when … Read more

hadoop No FileSystem for scheme: file

This is a typical case of the maven-assembly plugin breaking things. Why this happened to us Different JARs (hadoop-commons for LocalFileSystem, hadoop-hdfs for DistributedFileSystem) each contain a different file called org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem in their META-INFO/services directory. This file lists the canonical classnames of the filesystem implementations they want to declare (This is called a Service Provider Interface implemented via java.util.ServiceLoader, see org.apache.hadoop.FileSystem#loadFileSystems). When we use maven-assembly-plugin, it merges all our … Read more

Class Declarations for temperature program in Java

You need a Temperature class. I’m just guessing that you’ve added those methods to the TempProg considering the improper “constructor”. What you need is another class all together like so… The constructor should not return a value. It should look like… public Temperature(), or some variation depending on your specific requirements.

set background color: Android

instead of #rrggbb you should be using hex values 0 to F for rr, gg and bb: e.g. Color.parseColor(“#000000”) or Color.parseColor(“#FFFFFF”) Source From documentation: public static int parseColor (String colorString): Parse the color string, and return the corresponding color-int. If the string cannot be parsed, throws an IllegalArgumentException exception. Supported formats are: #RRGGBB #AARRGGBB ‘red’, … Read more