A WebView lets you pull a web page and display it in your Android app. It doesn’t take long to implement an Android WebView. Read on. I’ll show you how. AndroidManifest.xml First, open your manifest file to add this permission for INTERNET:
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The web page won’t be loaded into your app without this permission. […]
We’re not going to use ViewOverlay here. We’ll use Dialog instead. The overlay does not show on button click. What I did was let the overlay appear when the activity is loaded. First, create the XML file for the contents of that dialog overlay. \app\src\main\res\layout\popup_content.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="vertical" android:background="#78000000" android:padding="@dimen/activity_margin" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent"> <TextView android:textColor="#ffffff" android:text="This is your dialog with transparent background." android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" /> <Button android:id="@+id/btn_close_overlay" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:background="@color/colorPrimary" android:textColor="#ffffff" android:text="Dismiss"/> </LinearLayout> |
Then add the following code into your activity’s Java […]
This will probably be one of the Android code snippets that I will need to go back to from time to time. I’m sharing the codes we need to show an Android confirm dialog to prompt the user to click “yes” or “no”, or in my case, “OK” or “Cancel”. The following code for Android […]
You’ve seen how some popular websites let you register or login via Facebook — Pinterest, Vimeo, Lifehacker, and many more. In this blog post, I’ll show you the very basic setup of the Facebook login button for your website. It is up to you to enhance the functions of your registration system. Note: There are […]
This short tutorial is based on my own installation of Laravel 5 on XAMPP that is running on Windows 7. In this Laravel 5 tutorial, you will need: Composer – click here for installation instructions command prompt Internet connection XAMPP There have been major changes in the following: New Folder Structure, Contracts, Route Cache, Route […]
Today my task at work is to install a WHMCS Theme from whmcsthemes.com. WHMCS Themes has this theme installation instruction video, but I find it a bit difficult to follow cos I have to pause from time to time. So I took down notes in Notepad. And in case there are people searching for these, […]
I think this is my first ever blog entry about gadgets. lol. I’m not really into gadgets but I ran into a problem last night, so I thought I’d post the solution here. ’twas a troublesome night and morning for me. Since last night I was trying to export / copy all O2 Xda Atom […]
I’ve been using Skype to communicate with some colleagues and my boss, for my part time job as web developer & graphic designer. There’s one thing that often annoyed me, regarding the Skype window. When I am busy working and have a lot of windows open, and want to minimize Skype to the system tray, […]
I wonder if this post would still get hits from search engine result pages. So many other web pages feature this fix for IE 5.5 and IE 6 web browser, that the Catzie.net Blog’s entry might just show up on the… 10th page or so. lol. Anyways, I’m still posting this, in case there are […]
So you have a guitar that’s out of tune but don’t feel like buying a tuner? You have a tuner but it’s not working? It’s not with you? Or simply bored? You can put it to the right tune manually, even without the piano! All you need is a sharp hearing and this simple tutorial. […]