Google Play Services 7.3

Google Play Services 7.3 brings a ton of great new features to help you BUILD BETTER APPS! This update brings the ability to connect multiple wearables simultaneously to a single phone.

There are also some great new updates to Google Fit, including nutrition types, and to Location.

Older YouTube apps is no longer be supported

If you see this video in your YouTube app’s video feeds, your device is affected. (Note: If the video appears unexpectedly in a web browser, it means that website is using an outdated method to access YouTube videos.)

As Google upgrade the YouTube Data API to bring more features, the old version will be begin shutting down on April 20, 2015. This will result in the current YouTube app not working on certain device models from 2012 and older.

https://youtube.com/devicesupport

Using VideoView to play mp4, with MediaController enable/disable

Example to play mp4 on SDCard/ExternalStorage using android.widget.VideoView. You can also enable/disable the MediaController, contains the buttons like "Play/Pause", "Rewind", "Fast Forward" and a progress slider, by calling VideoView.setMediaController().

With the MediaController set, tap on the video (or the VideoView) to display the controller.


Example code:

package com.example.androidvideoview;

import java.io.File;

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.widget.CompoundButton;
import android.widget.CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener;
import android.widget.MediaController;
import android.widget.Toast;
import android.widget.ToggleButton;
import android.widget.VideoView;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Environment;

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
 
 ToggleButton enableMediaController;
 VideoView myVideoView;

 @Override
 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
  
  enableMediaController = (ToggleButton)findViewById(R.id.enableMediaController);
  myVideoView = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.myvideoview);
  myVideoView.setVideoPath(getViewSrc());
  myVideoView.requestFocus();
  myVideoView.start();
  
  setMediaController();
  
  enableMediaController.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new OnCheckedChangeListener(){

   @Override
   public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton buttonView,
     boolean isChecked) {
    setMediaController();
   }});
 }
 
 private void setMediaController(){
  if(enableMediaController.isChecked()){
   myVideoView.setMediaController(new MediaController(this));
  }else{
   myVideoView.setMediaController(null);
  }
 }

 private String getViewSrc(){
  File extStorageDirectory = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
  String s = extStorageDirectory.getAbsolutePath() + "/test.mp4";
  Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, s, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
  return s;
 }
}

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context="com.example.androidvideoview.MainActivity" >

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="android-coding.blogspot.com"
        android:textSize="24dp"
        android:textStyle="bold" />

    <ToggleButton
        android:id="@+id/enableMediaController"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textOn="Disable MediaController"
        android:textOff="Enable MediaController"
        android:checked="true"/>
    <VideoView
        android:id="@+id/myvideoview"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</LinearLayout>

To play the file in SD Card, <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/> is needed in AndroidManifest.xml, otherwise "Can't play this video".

Android coding example to Set fontFamily

Android 4.1 adds several more variants of the Roboto font style for a total of 10 variants, and they're all usable by apps. Your apps now have access to the full set of both light and condensed variants. - http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.1.html

Example:

MainActivity.java

package com.example.androidfront;

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.CheckBox;
import android.widget.CompoundButton;
import android.widget.CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Spinner;
import android.graphics.Typeface;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
 
 String typeFaceName[] = {
  "sans-serif",
  "sans-serif-light",
  "sans-serif-condensed",
  "sans-serif-thin",
  "sans-serif-medium"};

 CheckBox checkBold, checkItalic;
 Spinner selTypeFace;
 EditText editArea;
 
 @Override
 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
  
  editArea = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editarea);
  
  checkBold = (CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.boldsel);
  checkBold.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new OnCheckedChangeListener(){

   @Override
   public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton buttonView,
     boolean isChecked) {
    updateFonts();
   }});
  
  checkItalic = (CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.italicsel);
  checkItalic.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new OnCheckedChangeListener(){

   @Override
   public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton buttonView,
     boolean isChecked) {
    updateFonts();
   }});
  
  selTypeFace = (Spinner)findViewById(R.id.typefacesel);
  ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = 
   new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, 
    android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, typeFaceName);
  adapter.setDropDownViewResource(
    android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
  selTypeFace.setAdapter(adapter);
  selTypeFace.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener(){

   @Override
   public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
     int position, long id) {
    updateFonts();
   }

   @Override
   public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {}});

 }
 
 private void updateFonts(){

  int tfSel = selTypeFace.getSelectedItemPosition();
  String selTypeFaceName = typeFaceName[tfSel];
  
  int style;
  
  if(!checkBold.isChecked() && !checkItalic.isChecked()){
   style = Typeface.NORMAL;
  }else if(checkBold.isChecked() && !checkItalic.isChecked()){
   style = Typeface.BOLD;
  }else if(!checkBold.isChecked() && checkItalic.isChecked()){
   style = Typeface.ITALIC;
  }else{
   style = Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC;
  }
  
  Typeface tf = Typeface.create(selTypeFaceName, style);
  editArea.setTypeface(tf);

 }

}

activity_main.xml

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context="com.example.androidfront.MainActivity"
    android:orientation="vertical" >
    
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="android-coding.blogspot.com"
        android:textSize="24dp"
        android:textStyle="bold" />
    
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="horizontal" >
        
        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:orientation="vertical" >
            
            <TextView
                android:fontFamily="sans-serif"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="@string/test"/>
            <TextView
                android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="@string/test"/>
            <TextView
                android:fontFamily="sans-serif-condensed"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="@string/test"/>
            <TextView
                android:fontFamily="sans-serif-thin"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="@string/test"/>
            <TextView
                android:fontFamily="sans-serif-medium"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="@string/test"/>
            
        </LinearLayout>
        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:orientation="vertical" >
            
            <Spinner
                android:id="@+id/typefacesel"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
            <CheckBox 
                android:id="@+id/boldsel"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="BOLD"/>
            <CheckBox 
                android:id="@+id/italicsel"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="ITALIC"/>
            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/editarea"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:singleLine="false"
                android:gravity="top"
                android:background="#E0E0E0"/>
        </LinearLayout>
        
        
    </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

string resources of "test" is needed, read HERE.

Example to set fonts for Android

How to set fonts (Typeface and style) on Android using xml and programmatically.

package com.example.androidfront;

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.CheckBox;
import android.widget.CompoundButton;
import android.widget.CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Spinner;
import android.graphics.Typeface;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
 
 String typeFaceName[] = {
  "DEFAULT",
  "DEFAULT_BOLD",
  "MONOSPACE",
  "SANS_SERIF",
  "SERIF"};
 
 Typeface typeFace[] = {
   Typeface.DEFAULT,
   Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD,
   Typeface.MONOSPACE,
   Typeface.SANS_SERIF,
   Typeface.SERIF};

 CheckBox checkBold, checkItalic;
 Spinner selTypeFace;
 EditText editArea;
 
 @Override
 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
  
  editArea = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editarea);
  
  checkBold = (CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.boldsel);
  checkBold.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new OnCheckedChangeListener(){

   @Override
   public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton buttonView,
     boolean isChecked) {
    updateFonts();
   }});
  
  checkItalic = (CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.italicsel);
  checkItalic.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new OnCheckedChangeListener(){

   @Override
   public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton buttonView,
     boolean isChecked) {
    updateFonts();
   }});
  
  selTypeFace = (Spinner)findViewById(R.id.typefacesel);
  ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = 
   new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, 
    android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, typeFaceName);
  adapter.setDropDownViewResource(
    android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
  selTypeFace.setAdapter(adapter);
  selTypeFace.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener(){

   @Override
   public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
     int position, long id) {
    updateFonts();
   }

   @Override
   public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {}});

 }
 
 private void updateFonts(){
  int tfSel = selTypeFace.getSelectedItemPosition();
  Typeface tf = typeFace[tfSel];
  editArea.setTypeface(tf);
  
  int style;
  
  if(!checkBold.isChecked() && !checkItalic.isChecked()){
   style = Typeface.NORMAL;
  }else if(checkBold.isChecked() && !checkItalic.isChecked()){
   style = Typeface.BOLD;
  }else if(!checkBold.isChecked() && checkItalic.isChecked()){
   style = Typeface.ITALIC;
  }else{
   style = Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC;
  }

  editArea.setTypeface(tf, style);
 }

}

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context="com.example.androidfront.MainActivity"
    android:orientation="vertical" >
    
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="android-coding.blogspot.com"
        android:textSize="24dp"
        android:textStyle="bold" />
    
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="horizontal" >
        
        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:orientation="vertical" >
            
            <TextView
                android:typeface="normal"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="@string/test"/>
            <TextView
                android:typeface="monospace"
                android:textStyle="bold"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="@string/test"/>
            <TextView
                android:typeface="sans"
                android:textStyle="italic"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="@string/test"/>
            <TextView
                android:typeface="serif"
                android:textStyle="bold|italic"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="@string/test"/>
            
        </LinearLayout>
        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:orientation="vertical" >
            
            <Spinner
                android:id="@+id/typefacesel"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
            <CheckBox 
                android:id="@+id/boldsel"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="BOLD"/>
            <CheckBox 
                android:id="@+id/italicsel"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="ITALIC"/>
            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/editarea"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:singleLine="false"
                android:gravity="top"
                android:background="#E0E0E0"/>
        </LinearLayout>
        
        
    </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Add <string name="test"> in /res/values/strings.xml.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>

    <string name="app_name">AndroidFront</string>
    <string name="hello_world">Hello world!</string>
    <string name="action_settings">Settings</string>
    <string name="test">ABCDEfghijKLMNOpqrstUVWXYz1234567890</string>
</resources>

Get number of available cores and cpu info

The method Runtime.availableProcessors() returns the number of processor cores available to the VM.

And the /proc/cpuinfo hold infoprmation about the CPU, you can read it as text file.

Example:

package com.example.androidcpuinfo;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

 TextView cores, cpuinfo;
 
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        cores = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.cores);
        cpuinfo = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.cpuinfo);
        
        Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
        int availableProcessors = runtime.availableProcessors();
        cores.setText("You have " + availableProcessors + " availableProcessors");
        
        //Read text file "/proc/cpuinfo"
        String file_cpuinfo = "/proc/cpuinfo";
        String info = "";
        try {
   FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(file_cpuinfo);
   BufferedReader bufferReader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);

   String line;
         try {
    while((line = bufferReader.readLine()) != null)
    {
     info += line + "\n";
    }
    cpuinfo.setText(info);
   } catch (IOException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
   }
         
  } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
   // TODO Auto-generated catch block
   e.printStackTrace();
  }
    }

}

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context="com.example.androidcpuinfo.MainActivity" >

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="android-coding.blogspot.com"
        android:textSize="24dp"
        android:textStyle="bold" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/cores"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textSize="20dp"
        android:textStyle="italic" />

    <ScrollView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/cpuinfo"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
    </ScrollView>

</LinearLayout>

Create mirror bitmap using Matrix

package com.example.androidmirrorimage;

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.graphics.Matrix;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.ImageView;

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

 ImageView image1, image2;

 @Override
 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
  image1 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.image1);
  image2 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.image2);

  Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),
    R.drawable.ic_launcher);
  
  image1.setImageBitmap(bm);
  image2.setImageBitmap(getMirrorBitmap(bm));

 }

 private Bitmap getMirrorBitmap(Bitmap src) {

  Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
  matrix.preScale(1, -1);
  Bitmap result = Bitmap.createBitmap(
    src, 0, 0, src.getWidth(), src.getHeight(), matrix, false);
  return result;
 }
}

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context="com.example.androidmirrorimage.MainActivity" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/title"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="android-coding.blogspot.com"
        android:textSize="28dp"
        android:textStyle="bold" />

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/image1"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="1" />

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/image2"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="1" />

</LinearLayout>