Padding strings in Kotlin for calendar weeks
val calendarWeek = 3 val calendarWeekString = calendarWeek.toString().padStart(2, ‘0’)
Clean Personal Finance
The Grades I’ve stolen this concept from the Clean Code Developer initiative. https://clean-code-developer.de/en/die-grade/ The main idea is that you don’t try every financial advice all at once but organize it into different stages from easy to hard.
My all time favorite books
This is a list of my favorite books. I’ve sorted them in the order of much I feel influenced by them and how they impacted my life. Atomic Habits – James Clear If there was one and only one book I could take with me on a lonely island this would be the one. It…
Getting Location Info in Android
Manifest <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION” /> Activity public static final int REQUEST_CODE = 123; LocationManager mLocationManager; LocationListener mLocationListener; @Override protected void onResume(){ super.onResume(); getCurrentLocation(); } private void getCurrentLocation() { Log.d(“Clima”, “getWeatherForCurrentLocation”); mLocationManager = (LocationManager) getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE); mLocationListener = new LocationListener() { @Override public void onLocationChanged(Location location) { Log.d(“Clima”, “onLocationChanged”); String longitude = String.valueOf(location.getLongitude()); String latitude = String.valueOf(location.getLatitude());…
Passing data between AndroidActivities
Sending data private void openVideoActivity(String video) { Intent newActivity = new Intent(this, PlayerActivity.class); newActivity.putExtra(“videoId”, video); startActivity(newActivity); } Retrieving data final String videoID = getIntent().getExtras().getString(“videoID”); In Kotlin it looks like this: val intent = Intent(this, NewActivity::class.java).apply { putExtra(“EXTRA_MESSAGE”, “Test 123”) } startActivity(intent) Retrieving val message = intent.getStringExtra(“EXTRA_MESSAGE”) Further Reading Passing data between fragments using SafeArgs…
Python variable length arguments
Ever wondered what these *varargs or *kwargs in python functions parameter mean? Let me explain! varargs varargs is short for variable arguments. It is declared like this: def print_person_varargs(name, *vargs): pass You can pass as many arguments as you like. In this case we pass two after the first positional argument ‘name:’ print_person_varargs(“Jörn”, 40, “Emskirchen”)…
Introduction to the Julia programming language
Installation You can download the installer at https://julialang.org/ On Windows you have to set the path manually, e.g. C:\Julia-1.3.1\bin Let’s fire up a command line and type: julia You will be greeted with a nice little ascii art and the prompt. If You want to close the prompt You can use CTRL + D
Android Services
Service Manager $ adb shell service list shell@g3:/ $ service list Found 132 services: 0 AtCmdFwd: [com.qualcomm.atfwd.IAtCmdFwd] 1 lge.apdu: [com.lge.smartcard.internal.apdu.uicc.IUiccAccess] 2 telecom: [com.android.internal.telecom.ITelecomService] 3 phone: [com.android.internal.telephony.ITelephony]
Android Spinner
Spinner spinner = findViewById(R.id.currency_spinner); // Create an ArrayAdapter using the String array and a spinner layout ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this, R.array.spinner_values, R.layout.spinner_item); // Specify the layout to use when the list of choices appears adapter.setDropDownViewResource(R.layout.spinner_dropdown_item); // Apply the adapter to the spinner spinner.setAdapter(adapter); spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() { @Override public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position,…
Switch between activities
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { private Button mAddButton; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); mAddButton = findViewById(R.id.addButton); mAddButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { openAddActivity(); } }); } public void openAddActivity(){ Intent intent = new Intent(this, Main2Activity.class); startActivity(intent); }