Android project based on the Uber app in Rob Percival's Udemy Android Programming course.

Built with Android Studio 1.5 on OS X 10.11.

Build configuration versions:

• Compile SDK Version 23
• Build Tools Version 23.0.2
• Minimum SDK version 19
• Target SDK Version 23

To build, create debug.properties and release.properties files in this directory. Both properties files should contain API secrets for Parse and Google Maps:

parse_app_id=...
parse_client_key=...
google_maps_key=...

If you do a new build (rename package or application, you will need new keys). See https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android-api/signup

To get the google_maps_key value, you enter the package name (com.gnatware.amber) that is in the AndroidManifest.xml file, and the SHA-1 fingerprint obtained from running the keytool command-line script.

Use Google icons from https://design.google.com/icons/ Download drawable-anydpi-v21 xml files from https://github.com/google/material-design-icons/blob/master/ Change fillColor attributes from black (#FF000000) to white (#FFFFFFFF).

Floating action button Interior icon: 24 x 24dp Floating action button circle: 56 x 56dp

Mini floating action button Interior icon: 24 x 24dp Floating action button circle: 40 x 40dp

The floating action button can transform into a toolbar upon press or appear from a toolbar that transforms into the floating action button upon scroll. The toolbar can contain related actions, text and search fields, or any other items that would be useful at hand.

Example of FAB animations here: https://github.com/Learn2Crack/android-fab-animations More FAB info here: https://guides.codepath.com/android/floating-action-buttons

Open a Terminal window. Then telnet to port 5554 and use "geo fix" command. NOTE: "geo fix" parameters are longitude first, latitude second!

$ telnet localhost 5554
...
OK
geo fix -122.547926 37.905996
OK

After adding the Parse login logic (with its dependency on Twitter and Facebook APIs), got the dreaded message

Unable to execute dex: method ID not in [0, 0xffff]: 65536

when clicking on "Run 'app'" in the Android Studio Run menu. This is because there's a hard-coded limit of 65536 methods in a single "dex" file that is built for the application. To get past this limitation, you can build multiple "dex" files. First I nstalled the dexcount Gradle plugin to see how badly our app is doing. Edited this in the app's build.gradle:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.getkeepsafe.dexcount:dexcount-gradle-plugin:0.4.0'
    }
}

apply plugin: 'com.getkeepsafe.dexcount'

Then extended the main application class from MultiDexApplication, and finally added this to the app's build.gradle:

android {
    defaultConfig {
    multiDexEnabled true
    }
}

Now after clicking on "Run 'app'", got this report that verifies that we're 2593 methods over the limit, but at least it builds again:

Total methods in app-debug.apk: 68128
Total fields in app-debug.apk:  37786
Methods remaining in app-debug.apk: -2593
Fields remaining in app-debug.apk:  27749

But when the app was to be installed in the emulator, got this:

Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_DEXOPT]

Removing the app and re-installing fixed the bug.

Build > Clean Project Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > [Find and Uninstall your App] Restarting the emulator from the Android SDK and AVD Manager and selecting the option Wipe User Data.

DEVICE SHELL COMMAND: pm uninstall com.gnatware.amber DEVICE SHELL COMMAND: pm install -r "/data/local/tmp/com.gnatware.amber"

In RiderMapActivity: I/AppCompatDelegate: The Activity's LayoutInflater already has a Factory installed so we can not install AppCompat's

Fragments being loaded on top of each other: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14810348/android-fragment-replace-doesnt-replace-content-puts-it-on-top