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Android Java: Remove first two entries from Google News feed in SimpleRssReader

: Joel Lipman; AndroidOS; 24 October 2014; Hits: 5385

What?
A quick article on how to remove the first two entries from a RSS feed produced by a bunch of java files collectively known as "SimpleRssReader.

Why?
The original file reads of a feed from PCWorld.com. I adapted this to read a google news rss feed and the first two entries are "<query> - Google News", everytime. This article documents what I did to fix it.

How?
Basic to some but I'm new to the game. I'm trying to remove the first two entries from a news feed from a Google News feed.

: Joel Lipman; AndroidOS; 20 October 2014; Hits: 2680

What?
If you're installing an app and it creates two icons:

Why?
I don't think I'll forget this one but I was stumped for a bit until I found it on the a forum: Stack Overflow: Android App Development.

How?
Basically don't have the following declared more than once in the AndroidManifest.xml

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<intent-filter>
     <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
     <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>

<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>

Category: AndroidOS :: Article: 587

MessageBox or AlertDialog in Android Java

: Joel Lipman; AndroidOS; 20 October 2014; Hits: 9122

What?
A quick article on how to display a OK/Cancel popup which I use as a message to the user for debug purposes.

Why?
It's similar to javascript's message box or confirm box, only Android let's you redesign the dialog. For my purposes I have used an XML as the layout.

How?
This displays a standard Ok/cancel message popup which you attach to some event

Basic Android App using Google Maps and Current Location

: Joel Lipman; AndroidOS; 10 October 2014; Hits: 77531

Applies to:

Android Studio (Beta) 0.8.6
Google Android Maps API

What?
I am writing an app for a tablet running Android and wanted to include a Google Map. The following exercise focuses solely on creating an app which opens Google Maps at your current location.

How?
I couldn't find any instructions using the tools I had (Android Studio) which is why I've written this article.

: Joel Lipman; Google; 08 January 2013; Hits: 8419

What?
So this is a quick article to get your Google Translation services working with your website.

Why?
At time of print, Google now charge for every 2,000,000 characters (2 million) every month.

Microsoft's Bing has added itself to the fray pretending to offer free services but in the small print, you will find they too charge the same price.

How?

: Joel Lipman; Google; 24 March 2010; Hits: 13814

Basically if you've just started using "incognito" mode with the Google Chrome web-browser, this article is just how to switch the quick launch shortcut (next to your start button). All the articles I googled were windows vista so I thought I'd share one for windows 7 here. I'm actually only saving you a click as you can just right-click on the google chrome icon and select "New Incognito Window". This is just how to set it by default (useful if you do online banking, shopping, etc).

: Joel Lipman; Google; 23 September 2009; Hits: 10684

Keyboard and mouse shortcuts are combinations of keyboard strokes and mouse clicks that you can use to perform specific actions. Knowing some of the Google Chrome shortcuts listed below can help save you time.

: Joel Lipman; Google; 23 September 2009; Hits: 6601

The jury's still out on this one. I have noticed a slight improvement in my page loads but will have to carry out proper tests on the weekend.

Instructions to a hard-coder

The Google Chrome Frame (or ChromiumBrowser) is quick to enable. Simply ask your webmaster to put the following meta tag in between the head tags of the page:

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