Short source code examples

Android FAQ: How do I convert a list of strings (or a list of objects) to a single, combined string?

In Android, if you want to convert a list of strings to a String, I just saw this approach:

As a quick note Drupal programming note, here’s an example of how to write if/then/elseif/else in Drupal 8 Twig templates:

{% if node.getType == 'photo' %}
...
{% elseif node.getType in ['book', 'page'] %}
...
{% else %}
...
{% endif %}

While I’m in the neighborhood, here are a few more if conditions I’ve written recently:

When you need to reference a drawable image from an Android XML file, such as a layout or menu file, use this tag:

android:src="@drawable/myimage"

That assumes that you have a file named myimage.png in your res/drawable directories. As a more complete example, this shows how I reference an image named images_show.png in an Android menu item:

As a brief note today, I was recently looking for all Messages/iMessage files that are stored on my Mac, and I used this shell script to copy all of those files — many of which have the same name — into a directory named tmpdir, giving them all new names during the copy process:

count=1
for i in `cat myfiles`
do
    fname=`basename $i`
    cp $i tmpdir/${count}-${fname}
    count=`expr $count + 1`
done

Without much introduction or discussion, here’s a Scala example that shows how to read from one text file while simultaneously writing the uppercase version of the text to a second output file:

As a quick note, if you’re interested in using the IO monad described in this IO Monad for Cats article, here’s the source code for a complete Scala App based on that article:

This is a sample .gitignore file that I use for Scala SBT projects:

If you ever need to copy text (or a text file) from the MacOS Terminal to the Mac clipboard, I can confirm that the macOS pbcopy command works. It reads from STDIN and copies the text to the clipboard, so commands like these work:

$ echo "foo bar baz" | pbcopy

$ cat /etc/passwd | pbcopy

If you ever need to get the “cleaned” HTML as a String from the Java HTMLCleaner project, I hope this example will help:

Without any explanation, these are some of my working notes from my upcoming book on Scala and Functional Programming about a) for expressions, b) map, c) flatMap, d) Option, and e) nested flatMap and map calls.

These are equivalent (map and for)

this:

val y = x.map(_ * 2)

and this:

As a quick Scala note, the syntax to add multiple library dependencies with SBT is this:

libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
    "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-actor" % "2.1.1",
    "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-remote" % "2.1.1"
)

As a quick note, if you ever need to fill/populate a Scala list with the same element X number of times, one solution is to use the fill method that’s available to Scala sequences, like this:

scala> val x = List.fill(3)("foo")
x: List[String] = List(foo, foo, foo)

If you want to populate a list with different element values, another approach is to use the tabulate method:

I may explain this more in the future, but for now, here’s some source code for an example of how to use Quicklens in a Scala functional programming project.

Given some model/ADT definitions like this:

The source code below corresponds to an article I wrote titled, Android ActionBar example: How to create an options menu item.

If you need to dump the contents of an array to the Android Log (Logcat) output, I can confirm that this approach works, at least with simple arrays of integers and strings that know how to print themselves:

Log.i("MyAndroidClass", Arrays.toString(arr));

If you’re trying to print more complicated arrays of custom objects you’ll probably need to implement good toString methods on those objects, and then this technique should work.

As a quick note, if you need some examples of the syntax of how to write a Java method that returns a generic type, I hope these are helpful:

As a quick note, here’s the source code for a Java “approximately equal” function that I use in an Android application:

If you want to hide the Android ActionBar on an Activity, it looks like there are at least two approaches.

First, add the android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar" entry to the activity’s definition in AndroidManifest.xml:

<activity
    android:name=".PlayAGameActivity"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:screenOrientation="portrait"
    android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar" >
</activity>

A second approach is to add this code in the Activity (or Fragment) onCreate method:

Here’s a little snippet of Android code that I want to remember:

Without much discussion, here’s an Android ListView/ListFragment with its Back/Up/Home button enabled:

(That button used to be a Home button, but now it’s used for the Back/Up action.)

And here’s the source code for that ListView/ListFragment: