Ionic Sip #001

Hello guys! Today I’m going to show you how to create your own Ionicons with the brand new Ionic 4. If you’ve been coding Ionic for quite a long time, chances are you’ve already needed to create your own custom Icons — I’ve done that myself and it’s quite a pain. Good news is how easily this can be done now, so get your poison and come along!

1- Get an SVG file:

In order to create your own Ionicon, you have to use an SVG file with the image you want.

2- Place your SVG into…

Android Sip #003

Hello guys! Today I’m going to show you how to share simple text to other apps, like email or whatsapp. This isn’t actually new stuff but I thought it a good idea to have it revisited. That being said, get your poison and come along!

1- Create the sharing function:

private void share(){     String string = “Place here” + “the text you want.”;     Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);     intent.setType(“text/plain”);     intent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, string);     startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent,”Share via”));}

First you create a string with the text you want to share. Then, you create an Intent, set the type and the text…

iOS Sip #002

Hello guys, what’s up! Today I want to show you a very cool swift function: Filter. If you — just like me — have been coding around since the first days of internet, it’s big the chance that you still do something like:

let strArray = [“swift”, “ruby”, “java”, “php”]var filtered = [String]()for item in strArray {    if item == “swift” {        filtered.append(item)    }}print(filtered) //[‘swift’]

Though that works just fine, if you use Filter your life might get waaaay better, look:

let strArray = [“swift”, “ruby”, “java”, “php”]var filtered = strArray.filter{ $0 == “java”}print(filtered) //["java"]

Not to mention the code above is much more elegant, isn’t it? And that’s all folks! Thanks for reading, see you next coffee break.

Mobile Café #003 — iOS: How to create beautiful Alert Views

iOS Sip #001

Hello guys! Today I’m going to show you one of my favorite cocoa pods which is SCLAlertView. As you might have realized, it is a lib to create beautiful alert views with much less work than usual. In fact, all you need is a few lines of code. So, get your poison and come along!

1- Open your pod file and add:

pod ‘SCLAlertView’

*if you don’t know how to use cocoapods, check out this nice tutorial by Ray Wenderlich.

2- Import SCLAlertView in your view…

Android Sip #002

Hello guys! Today I’m going to show you how to check internet connection by pinging a website. It is important to mention that this method is good because sometimes you actually do have a NETWORK connection, but not an INTERNET connection, like when you are at Starbucks and have no code to use their wifi. That being said, get your poison and come along!

1- Paste the following code in your Activity:

public boolean isConnected() throws InterruptedException, IOException {String command = "ping -c 1 google.com";return (Runtime.getRuntime().exec (command).waitFor() == 0);}

The chunk of code above…

-Android Sip-

Hello guys! Today I’m going to show you how to compile “.jar” libraries with Gradle. Get your poison and come along!

1- Copy and paste your “.jar” file within the libs folder, which is placed in the “app” directory.

2- Open the module build.gradle file (also placed in the “app” directory).

3- Paste the following code within the “dependencies” section:

implementation fileTree(dir: ‘libs’, include: [‘*.jar’])

4- Sync Gradle.

And that’s all! Now you should be able to import the classes from your brand new library!

Thanks for reading, see you next coffee break!