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Unlike interfaces, which can be described as contracts for implementation, abstract classes act as contracts for extension. An abstract class cannot be instantiated, it must be extended and the resulting class (or derived class) can then be instantiated. Abstract classes are used to provide generi...

The Range and Repeat static methods on Enumerable can be used to generate simple sequences. Range Enumerable.Range() generates a sequence of integers given a starting value and a count. // Generate a collection containing the numbers 1-100 ([1, 2, 3, ..., 98, 99, 100]) var range = Enumerable.Ran...

The Skip method returns a collection excluding a number of items from the beginning of the source collection. The number of items excluded is the number given as an argument. If there are less items in the collection than specified in the argument then an empty collection is returned. The Take meth...

All six methods return a single value of the sequence type, and can be called with or without a predicate. Depending on the number of elements that match the predicate or, if no predicate is supplied, the number of elements in the source sequence, they behave as follows: First() Returns the fir...

Event declaration: public event EventHandler<EventArgsT> EventName; Event handler declaration: public void HandlerName(object sender, EventArgsT args) { /* Handler logic */ } Subscribing to the event: Dynamically: EventName += HandlerName; Through the Designer: Click the Events...

Event declaration: public event EventHandler<EventArgsType> EventName; Event handler declaration using lambda operator => and subscribing to the event: EventName += (obj, eventArgs) => { /* Handler logic */ }; Event handler declaration using delegate anonymous method syntax: Eve...

Events can be of any delegate type, not just EventHandler and EventHandler<T>. For example: //Declaring an event public event Action<Param1Type, Param2Type, ...> EventName; This is used similarly to standard EventHandler events: //Adding a named event handler public void HandlerNa...

The following program: class Program { static void Method(params Object[] objects) { System.Console.WriteLine(objects.Length); } static void Method(Object a, Object b) { System.Console.WriteLine("two"); } static void Main(string[] a...

Snippet public class BugReport : INotifyPropertyChanged { public string Title { ... } public BugStatus Status { ... } } ... private void BugReport_PropertyChanged(object sender, PropertyChangedEventArgs e) { var bugReport = (BugReport)sender; switch (e.PropertyName) ...

Declaration of an interface using the interface keyword: public interface Animal { String getSound(); // Interface methods are public by default } Override Annotation @Override public String getSound() { // Code goes here... } This forces the compiler to check that we are overri...

We can create an ArrayList (following the List interface): List aListOfFruits = new ArrayList(); Java SE 5 List<String> aListOfFruits = new ArrayList<String>(); Java SE 7 List<String> aListOfFruits = new ArrayList<>(); Now, use the method add to add a String: ...

android:layout_gravity android:layout_gravity is used to set the position of an element in its parent (e.g. a child View inside a Layout). Supported by LinearLayout and FrameLayout android:gravity android:gravity is used to set the position of content inside an element (e.g. a text insid...

Dependencies can be added for a specific product flavor, similar to how they can be added for specific build configurations. For this example, assume that we have already defined two product flavors called free and paid (more on defining flavors here). We can then add the AdMob dependency for the ...

Basic cases int[] numbers1 = new int[3]; // Array for 3 int values, default value is 0 int[] numbers2 = { 1, 2, 3 }; // Array literal of 3 int values int[] numbers3 = new int[] { 1, 2, 3 }; // Array of 3 int values initialized int[][] numbers4 = { { 1, 2...

An interface can extend another interface via the extends keyword. public interface BasicResourceService { Resource getResource(); } public interface ExtendedResourceService extends BasicResourceService { void updateResource(Resource resource); } Now a class implementing ExtendedR...

First example reimplemented in Kotlin and using RxJava for cleaner interaction. import android.view.LayoutInflater import android.view.View import android.view.ViewGroup import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView import rx.subjects.PublishSubject public class SampleAdapter(private val ite...

Gradle (Module:app) Configuration android { .... dataBinding { enabled = true } } Data model public class Item { public String name; public String description; public Item(String name, String description) { this.name = name; this.descr...

If your model has private methods, the databinding library still allows you to access them in your view without using the full name of the method. Data model public class Item { private String name; public String getName() { return name; } } Layout XML <?xml versi...

You can as well access other interface methods from within your default method. public interface Summable { int getA(); int getB(); default int calculateSum() { return getA() + getB(); } } public class Sum implements Summable { @Override public int get...

Java SE 7 Java 7 introduced the Diamond1 to remove some boiler-plate around generic class instantiation. With Java 7+ you can write: List<String> list = new LinkedList<>(); Where you had to write in previous versions, this: List<String> list = new LinkedList<String>()...