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

What?
A reference to what size an image background should be set to for various screen sizes.

Why?
A background image I was using was unedited at 1600x2133 (364kb) and was not displaying on smaller devices. Configuring drawables for each layout seemed to be the only solution.

res/drawable-ldpi      240x320
res/drawable-mdpi      320x480
res/drawable-hdpi      480x800
res/drawable-xhdpi     640x960
res/drawable-xxhdpi    960x1440
res/drawable-xxxhdpi   // for launcher only 640dpi
res/drawable-tvdpi     1.33*mdpi // not needed as mdpi or hdpi is used

What?
A quick article on a function to allow the user to take a photo using their built-in camera or to choose an existing photo from their gallery.

Why?
I wanted both options to be available to the user and for it to replace a displayed image in an ImageView.

How?

What?
A quick article on how to replace the return key on a soft keyboard (software based) on a touch-device.

Why?
I have an editText where a user can enter any text value but if they typed a return character, the app would crash because it didn't understand the data. I tried replacing the new lines but just stopping the return key or trying to catch it is an obsolete method.

How?

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

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

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