Andrew Watson creativedrewy

The Problem

It turns out trying to find information about how to style an Android checkbox is actually quite challenging. Searching reveals a smattering of blog posts and Statck Overflow articles that don't really solve the problem. Here's what I was trying to do:

Change the default unchecked "open box" color on a checkbox
Change the default checked box color on a checkbox
Use in an API leve 18 Android app

It turns out the solution is relatively simple.

Summary: Android has issues if you have identically named menu resources in a library and consuming app project.

I recently discovered something to look out for if you are attempting to work with Activity toolbar/actionbar menus inside of a library. In my case, here is what I was doing:

Working with an activity inside of a library project.
Attempting to inflate a menu resource in the library Activity that was contained inside of the library project.
Open the library activity (actually an extended version of the activity) from the consuming Android app.

When I ran my consuming app activity, I was not seeing changes reflected to the menu in my app. This was really, really confusing.

Update 10-28-2016: Update to the discussion of the request fields.

The Problem:

When using the Google Drive Java Client Library to list a user's photos and videos in your app, the thumbnailLink property is empty.

The Solution:

As far as I can tell, there is literally no good documentation on the solution for this. However, with the help of a co-worker and the REST API operations, I've gotten the solution.

https://microlink.io/docs/sdk/getting-started/overview

Microlink

Looks like a really cool library to automatically preview links in your React app.

	package com.myproject.myapp.myviews

	import android.content.Context
	import android.util.AttributeSet
	import android.view.MotionEvent
	import android.widget.DatePicker

	/**
	* Extended DatePicker to allow for year-selection scrolling within a scrollview
	*/

	fun <A> chain(vararg funcs: (A) -> Unit): (A) -> Unit {
	return fun(a: A) {
	funcs.forEach { it(a) }
	}
	}

	fun logThenDoSomething() {
	chain({ Log.v("TAG", "Log this first, yo!")}, ::functionInMyClass)
	}

	/**
	* Combine two objects into a Pair
	*/
	infix fun <A, B> A.pairTo(that: B): Pair<A, B> = Pair(this, that)

	/**
	* Combine three objects into a Triple (by way of one Pair and a new value)
	*/
	infix fun <A, B, C> Pair<A, B>.tripleTo(that: C) = Triple(first, second, that)

	/**
	* Execute a lambda with two verified non-null values
	*/
	inline fun <T : Any, U : Any, W : Any> Pair<T?, U?>.bothNotNull(block: (one: T, two: U) -> W) {
	first?.let { one ->
	second?.let { two ->
	block(one, two)
	}
	}
	}

	class BlockCommentDetector : Detector(), Detector.UastScanner {
	companion object {
	val ISSUE: Issue = Issue.create(
	"BlockComment",
	"BLOCK comment found, cannot continue build.",
	"Please resolve all BLOCK commented code before merging.",
	Category.CORRECTNESS,
	6,
	Severity.ERROR,
	Implementation(BlockCommentDetector::class.java, Scope.JAVA_FILE_SCOPE)

	alias ls='ls -l'
	alias weather='curl wttr.in/SanFrancisco?n'
	alias nuget="mono /usr/local/bin/nuget.exe"

	export CLICOLOR=1
	export LSCOLORS=ExFxBxDxCxegedabagacad
	export JAVA_HOME="/Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home"
	export PATH=$PATH:/Users/<user>/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools
	export PATH=$PATH:/Users/<user>/Library/Android/sdk/emulator
	export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin