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26 Nov 2013

Create a flexible link to open Google Play or your own App from web browser in Android

Today I learnt a completely new thing as the title says it all, so I want to note it here for later uses.
So how to do?

In manifest.xml:
        <activity 
            android:label="@string/activity_label"
            android:name="com.your.package.ActivityName">
            <intent-filter>
                 <data
                      android:host="your-domain-or-whatever.com"
                      android:scheme="your-own-scheme" />
                 <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
                 <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
                 <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity> 

And your link should look like:
<a href="intent://your-domain-or-whatever.com/?param1=value1&amp;param2=value2#Intent;scheme=your-own-scheme;package=com.your.app.package;end">OPEN APP OR GOOGLE PLAY</a>

The last thing is catching parameters in your com.your.package.ActivityName. In onCreate of the Activity:
 @Override
 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  setContentView(R.layout.your_activity_layout);
  Uri mUri = getIntent().getData();
  String value1 = mUri.getQueryParameter("param1");
  String value2 = mUri.getQueryParameter("param2");
 }


That's all, bye xD!
P/S: Oh yeah, I just found this one too: https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/intents, check it out!

21 Jul 2013

Fancier Vim

Wow, it's been a while I haven't blogged anything, I know!

I have just been busy with learning Japanese, it's a hard language to learn, but it's even harder when I need to learn it under pressure...
Well, that does suck, but at least I'm still alive :)

Lately, I tried to get used to Vim and I think I fell in love with it. And today, I spent my whole precious Saturday to get to know it more, and this is a result:



Basically, above result is just combination of:
It's not really cool yet, but it's late now, I need to sleep and continue learning Japanese tomorrow :(

Not really cool yet, but it's late now, I need to sleep :D
さようなら!

6 Jun 2013

My Vim configuration

Recently, I got used to Vim, and it's really cooooooooool and it looks way so professional :D
I think I will keep it as my favorite text editors ;)

Anyway, I would like to save and share my Vim configuration here and it will be updated as  soon as I found something new ;)


Copy following configuration into your ~/.vimrc or ~/.exrc (well, I'm really not sure which one will be loaded by Vim :D)

"[Basic]
syntax on                               "turn syntax on
set number                              "show line number
set autoindent                          "turn auto indent on
set tabstop=4                           "set tab = 4 spaces
set shiftwidth=4                        "set tab when use > or < = 4 spaces
set colorcolumn=81                      "show margin line
set cursorline                          "hightlight current line

"[OmniCompletion]
autocmd FileType python set omnifunc=pythoncomplete#Complete
autocmd FileType javascript set omnifunc=javascriptcomplete#CompleteJS
autocmd FileType html set omnifunc=htmlcomplete#CompleteTags
autocmd FileType css set omnifunc=csscomplete#CompleteCSS
autocmd FileType xml set omnifunc=xmlcomplete#CompleteTags
autocmd FileType php set omnifunc=phpcomplete#CompletePHP
autocmd FileType c set omnifunc=ccomplete#Complete
autocmd FileType perl set omnifunc=perlcomplete#Complete
"change ^x^o to ^space
inoremap   pumvisible() \|\| &omnifunc == '' ?
\ "\C-n>" :
\ "\C-x>\C-o>=pumvisible() ?" .
\ "\"\\c-n>\\c-p>\\c-n>\" :" .
\ "\" \\bs>\\C-n>\"\"
imap  

17 Apr 2013

Some useful GIT commands

View unpushed commits
git log --branches --not --remotes

Make git command line colorful
git config --global --add color.ui true 

28 Feb 2013

Create simple infinite carousel in Android with ViewPager

At first I thought it's easy, someone must have implemented it already, but after searching for it on Google, I got no luck, nobody has done and shared it on the Net, so I decided to make it myself.

I read some posts like:

So I implemented it as you can see in below video:

 


The main idea is:
  • Use ViewPager as the main view with pages are Fragment, then use ViewPager.setPageMargin(int) to set margin as a negative number, so the next and previous pages of the selected page will be showed up.
  • Override the layout which is the root view of Fragments to create scale animation.
  • Make a little hack in FragmentPagerAdapter so we can fling infinitely to both directions of the ViewPager.

For more information, you guys can get the source code here: https://github.com/mrleolink/SimpleInfiniteCarousel. I tried to comment as much as possible in source code, so I hope you understand my idea.

By the way, I don't think it's the best solution to implement the carousel pattern, so if you have any idea or there's something you don't understand about what I code, just drop me a line :)

24 Feb 2013

[SmartSVN] How to host files on Google Code (javascript, css, html, ...) and get a permanent, non-redirecting and bandwidth-generous hotlink

Hell yeah, finally I've found a "safe" place to put my stuffs for my site (like html, javascript, css... files), it's Google Code :D

Well, first of all, I just want to let you know I got the know-how from this site: http://www.ubuntudz.com/2010/10/how-to-host-files-on-google-javascript.html, and I recommend you to read it before start with this post.

Currently, I'm using Windows 8 and already have SmartSVN installed, that means I don't have SVN command. It took me a while to figure out how to change mime-type before commit by SmartSVN, so I would like to note it here just in case I forget how to do it :D
OK, let's go :)


Step1: Add your file to stage



Step 2: Right click on the file -> Properties -> Edit Properties...


Step3: Choose existed property (svn:eol-style) -> click Edit -> Edit like the following screenshot (remember to change "Curren Value" to: text/css for ".css" file, text/html for ".htm" and ".html" files, text/javascript for ".js" files...


Step4: OK -> OK -> Commit file.

21 Dec 2012

[Windows 8] Input method still remains after removing it?

Well, I've upgraded to Windows 8 recently, I tried to install Vietnamese input language method, but then I didn't feel like familiar to it, so I decided to remove it, well, everything was okay at that point.
After that, when I was working, I noticed that there's still Vietnamese input language method when I click on "ENG" button on task bar, that's weird, right? Afterwards, I searched and tried many ways (I even asked on a big forum: http://superuser.com/questions/522696/how-can-i-remove-an-input-method-completely-in-windows-8) to remove it but couldn't help... until this post:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-desktop/language-setting-question-display-lang-input-lang/4a057ad5-2965-4257-bc0f-5e1ab1411a63


Summary:
- Just add Vietnamese (or the language which you want to remove), then remove it again!

Hope it can help you out :)


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[UPDATE -20130612]
 ---------------------
 
Oh yeah, as I commented below, the above solution doesn't work, but today, finally, I got rid of it.
Actually, I almost surrendered and I have been having to stand it until today. I was starting learning Japanese, so I added Japanese Input Method to Language Bar and I got 3 entries English, Vietnamese, Japanese. The problem is using Windows+Space to switch between those 3 entries is really annoying, so I had to work my ass off on this problem once more time. And lucky me, I found this thread:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-desktop/remove-english-us-keyboard/16f81314-8c4f-4315-baf0-c6518449d8ae

After reading it, I took a look at my startup programs and did some "trial and error", logging in/out several times. Finally, I found out that "Unikey"  (a Vietnamese Input Method software that I was using) is the root cause of the problem, whenever it's started, it adds a Vietnamese entry to Language Bar - that sucks!

Well, I had been using Unikey for years, but at that time, I had to give it up! But then fortunately, after googling, I found another app which can do the same awesome job but DOES'T add anything to Language Bar, and it's:

http://www.trankynam.com/gotv/

I had been using that app on my Android phone, but didn't know it's also available on many other platforms, of course, includes Windows.

So... finally, after a very long time, my problem is solved completely xD

And one more thing, just a thought... that guy, TranKyNam is awesome indeed, he has a few other apps than gotv that I haven't had chances to try, but they looks cool also. I will definitely remember his name xD