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As your activity begins to stop, the system calls onSaveInstanceState() so your activity can save state information with a collection of key-value pairs. The default implementation of this method automatically saves information about the state of the activity's view hierarchy, such as the text in an...

Fragments also have a onSaveInstanceState() method which is called when their state needs to be saved: public class MySimpleFragment extends Fragment { private int someStateValue; private final String SOME_VALUE_KEY = "someValueToSave"; // Fires when a configuration ch...

In many cases, we can avoid problems when an Activity is re-created by simply using fragments. If your views and state are within a fragment, we can easily have the fragment be retained when the activity is re-created: public class RetainedFragment extends Fragment { // data object we want to ...

If you want to lock the screen orientation change of any screen (activity) of your android application you just need to set the android:screenOrientation property of an <activity> within the AndroidManifest.xml: <activity android:name="com.techblogon.screenorientationexample.Main...

If your application doesn't need to update resources during a specific configuration change and you have a performance limitation that requires you to avoid the activity restart, then you can declare that your activity handles the configuration change itself, which prevents the system from restartin...

- (UIImage *)getSnapshot { UIScreen *screen = [UIScreen mainScreen]; CGRect bounds = [self.view bounds]; UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(bounds.size, false, screen.scale); CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext(); CGContextSetInterpolationQuality(context, kCGInterpola...

The CAEmitterLayer class provides a particle emitter system for Core Animation. The particles are defined by instances of CAEmitterCell. The particles are drawn above the layer’s background color and border. var emitter = CAEmitterLayer() emitter.emitterPosition = CGPoin...

For example we will create view that contains emitter layer and animates particles. import QuartzCore class ConfettiView: UIView { // main emitter layer var emitter: CAEmitterLayer! // array of color to emit var colors: [UIColor]! // intensity of appearance var ...

Demonstrate how to embed a lua interpreter in C code, expose a C-defined function to Lua script, evaluate a Lua script, call a C-defined function from Lua, and call a Lua-defined function from C (the host). In this example, we want the mood to be set by a Lua script. Here is mood.lua: -- Get versi...

To setup a WebRTC-based communication system, you need three main components: A WebRTC signaling server To establish a WebRTC connections, peers need to contact a signaling server, which then provides the address information the peers require to set up a peer-to-peer connection. Signaling serv...

Validation attributes can be used to easily configure model validation. public class MyModel { public int id { get; set; } //sets the FirstName to be required, and no longer than 100 characters [Required] [StringLength(100)] public string FirstName { get; set; } } Th...

You can create your own queue using dispatch_queue_create Objective-C dispatch_queue_t queue = dispatch_queue_create("com.example.myqueue", DISPATCH_QUEUE_SERIAL); Swift // Before Swift 3 let queue = dispatch_queue_create("com.example.myqueue", DISPATCH_QUEUE_SERIAL) // ...

Basics There are a number of different transforms you can do on a layer, but the basic ones are translate (move) scale rotate To do transforms on a CALayer, you set the layer's transform property to a CATransform3D type. For example, to translate a layer, you would do something like this:...

CALayer property animations are enabled by default. When this is undesirable, they can be disabled as follows. Swift CATransaction.begin() CATransaction.setDisableActions(true) // change layer properties that you don't want to animate CATransaction.commit() Objective-C [CATransaction be...

You can test that a function throws an exception with the built-in unittest through two different methods. Using a context manager def division_function(dividend, divisor): return dividend / divisor class MyTestCase(unittest.TestCase): def test_using_context_manager(self): ...

Xposed is a framework that allows you to hook method calls of other apps. When you do a modification by decompiling an APK, you can insert/change commands directly wherever you want. However, you will need to recompile/sign the APK afterwards and you can only distribute the whole package. With Xpose...

In an iOS app, your user interface can take on one of a few different general shapes and sizes. These are defined using size classes, which are available through a view or view controller's trait collection. Apple defines two size classes: regular and compact. Each of these size classes are availab...

Making an app adaptive – that is, responding to size class changes by changing your layout – often involves lots of help from the Auto Layout system. One of the primary ways apps become adaptive is by updating the active Auto Layout constraints when a view's size class changes. For example, conside...

A key piece of adaptivity in a modern iOS app is supporting multitasking on iPad. By default, apps created in Xcode 7 and newer will be configured to support multitasking: they'll have a LaunchScreen.storyboard file that uses Auto Layout. The easiest way for existing apps to opt in to multitasking ...

void alertDialogDemo() { // get alert_dialog.xml view LayoutInflater li = LayoutInflater.from(getApplicationContext()); View promptsView = li.inflate(R.layout.alert_dialog, null); AlertDialog.Builder alertDialogBuilder = new AlertDialog.Builder( ...