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Android – How to stretch video to fill complete screen

Posted on January 8, 2016
/Under Android, Tips
/With 3 Comments

Recently I was playing with VideoView of Android SDK and my video was not displaying on the complete screen. It was varying device to device leaving some blank screen around depending upon the screen resolution of those devices. By default, Android will scale the video to fit the VideoView but…continue reading →

How to manually dismiss the keypad in Android

Posted on August 8, 2015
/Under Android, Tips
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If you want to dismiss the keypad manually through code, you can do that with the following methods Method 1: @Override public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) { View view = getCurrentFocus(); boolean ret = super.dispatchTouchEvent(event); if (view instanceof EditText) { View w = getCurrentFocus(); int scrcoords[] = new int[2]; w.getLocationOnScreen(scrcoords); float…continue reading →

How to open only default camera without showing chooser in Android

Posted on August 8, 2015
/Under Android, Tips
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In some cases you might want to open only default camera of the device without showing chooser of 3rd party camera applications. You can try following code, its working perfectly fine in my case. PackageManager packageManager = context.getPackageManager(); List<ApplicationInfo> list = packageManager .getInstalledApplications(PackageManager.GET_UNINSTALLED_PACKAGES); for (int n = 0; n <…continue reading →

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