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    Move Android Studio to D Drive

    I am having the same problem most people have: new computer comes with a small SSD C drive, most of which is dedicated to Windows 10, I need to move AS to D drive. I followed the instructions on this link and got the "hamcrest" error that many people seem to get...
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    Signature Error on Install app-release.apk

    I want to re-install version 1 of an app after some minor modifications. The original app-release.apk installed nicely with the .keystore that I generated for it. I took note of the password, the key-password and the alias After the modifications, I recompiled but left it at version1. Using the...
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    Apps Advice and Hi Level Questions on Asynctask, URLs etc

    I am trying to understand why it works and best approach. I have been either uploading or downloading from a cloud server using Asynctask and spelling out the url-link like this: protected void onPreExecute(){ String link="http://www.redacted.com/some.php"; } protected Void...
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    Apps Need Help with Login App Using XML/HttpURL/PHP/SQL

    I am trying to create a login app using email and a password using HttpURL. I am getting an email/password error back from the PHP I've created on the remote server. Here is the XML that gets the email/password variables, the work well: <EditText...
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    Apps Need Help with Login App Using XML/HttpURL/PHP/SQL

    I am trying to create a login app using email and a password using HttpURL. I am getting an email/password error back from the PHP I've created on the remote server. Here is the XML that gets the email/password variables, the work well: <EditText...
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    Apps Spurious Characters coming back from MySQL PHP

    My PHP script returns a dataset from an SQL query in mySQL. In Android, I instantiate a HttpURLConnection and do a GET. The BufferedReader returns the dataset to my Android with a lot of spurious characters. I don't quite know where to debug this, can some of the gurus here point me in the...
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    Apps Rumor Google Ditching Android Java for Fuchsia, C/C++ etc

    A lot of investments depending on Android+Java So begs the question, will Google abandon Android and Java for its own Fuchsia, Go, Rust and C/C++ ? Maybe I should put more emphasis on iOS, C/C++ starting today?
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    Apps Remove Title Bar?

    I am trying to reclaim the screen real estate taken up by the title bar. I looked up stack overflow and other sites, none of which work. A/S2.3 will not yield back the screen space. How do I reclaim the space?
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    Apps Android Emulator 26.0.3 Stopped Working

    Update 5/15/2017 =============== Where can I download Android Emulator 26.0.0? All my apps died after updating to 26.0.3 with a "cannot draw" as per previous mail
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    Apps Which version control tool for Android?

    I need to use version control, you know, the check-in check-out tool for developers. I understand github offers that. Can someone point me to documentation, where to start reading and researching? What is the most popular one, preferably easy to use :) ? Thanks.
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    Plug Laptop into Huawei Tablet BGO-DL09 Honor?

    This is the 1st time I have trouble getting Windows 7 to recognize an Android device. I want to install an app on the Huawei tablet running Android 6.0 for testing, usually, I just plug the Android device into my laptop and AVD would recognize it, in which case, I just run the app and it gets...
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    Apps How to count objects in content.xml ??

    Hi, I have dozens of EditText objects in my layout XML that I would like to clear with a button. I would like to revamp the old tedious java which basically does this: EditText edittext1=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1); edittext1.setText(""); As you can imagine, it gets repetitive...
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    Apps Re-install A/Studio2.2 from Archive?

    I screwed up by accidentally clicking the update to version 2.3, as a result nothing works anymore, neither old working apps (worked well) nor new ones (working). Where can I download and install version 2.2.1? It was working well for me. I also need the AVDs that went with it. Nothing works...
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    Apps Rollback from A/S 2.3 to 2.2 ?

    I accidentally clicked and upgraded my A/S to 2.3 ( I was doing well) As a result EVERYTHING crashed and I mean EVRYTHING. I don't have time to debug and make it work with 2.3 What is the least time consuming and easiest way to roll back to 2.2 ??? I usually use my Micro philosophy, always...
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    Best and Toughest Tablet for Money?

    I am looking for a few tablets for testing. The tablets will see rough treatment and exposed to environment, wet and salty kind. Would appreciate any feedback.