AppCompat v21.+’s Theme.AppCompat extends Theme.Base.AppCompat which extends Theme.Platform.AppCompat which extends android:Theme.Material on 21+ devices (i.e. Android 5.0 Lollipop) so you only need to extend Theme.AppCompat to use Material theme if you are using the AppCompat v21 (or above) library.
First add compile ‘com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.0’ to the dependancies section of your build.gradle file.
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The new Android Studio based on the Community Edition of IntelliJ was released yesterday at Google IO. This replaces the ADT Bundle based on Eclipse released last year. It bring a new set of features and tools to make it easier to develop great Android apps. This video provides a walk through of the new features: […]
Google vs. Samsung UI design. Those two screenshots pretty much sum it up. Via JR Raphael
Not long ago I was talking with a iOS developer friend of mine who told me that he had looked into Android development, but the installation process was confusing. To get started on developing for Android you had to separately download and install the Android SDK, Eclipse IDE and the ADT. By comparison Xcode the […]
Google has hidden the developer options in Android 4.2 Jelly Bean upwards (Kit Kat, Lollipop and Marshmallow). This is to ensure that regular users of Android devices don’t accidentally enable options that may impact the user experience that are only intended for developers testing apps. Here’s how to enable developer options in 4.2: Go to […]
Upon installation, the Android SDK generates a “debug” signing certificate for you in a keystore called debug.keystore. A debug certificate is only valid for 365 days after which it generates a “Debug Certificate expired” error. To generate a new one you must delete the existing debug.keystore file. Its location is platform dependent. Delete your debug certificate […]