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Android Vector Icon – Add a border

I’m wondering if it may be possible to add a white border to a Android Vector Icon (xml format). I’ve tried to overlap a bigger version of the icon itself, but the result it’s not as I was expecting (as you can see in the attached images). Is there a way to modify the xml to enlarge a bit th…

Force Java Android Socket to Send Data Immediately

As a hobby project, I’m writing an android voip client. When writing voice data to the socket (Vars.mediaSocket), many times, the data isn’t immediately sent out over the wifi but just stalls and then all at once it will send 20 seconds worth of voice. Then it will stall again and wait for 30 seco…

Preload multiple images with Glide

We are trying to preload images into cache memory to load them later (the images are located in the Asset folder of the application) What we tried: The issue: Images are cached only when we are trying to load/display them: They have to be loaded in memory before so that they appear faster. We also tried to us…

Dagger 2: Injecting user inputted parameter into object

Say I have a class Util that takes in a object – an instance of class Validator. Since I want to avoid instantiating the Validator class within Util, I pass it in via a constructor: I have a module that provides the Validator instance: and an instance of the Util class: I have a component wired up that …

Can I run an android app on pc without emulator?

Suppose I wanted to build a PC application but instead of that I’d make an Android app which does not access mobile only APIs. Can I run something like that on my PC? Do that by like running dalvik vm on a pc and then running the app in that? Is there another way to run an app on PC

Android Multiline Toolbar Title

I have a Toolbar that when in landscape mode isn’t as wide as usual, but it has more height than usual and for that reason I want to set the title to be multiline (2 lines to be precise) when it is in landscape. I have tried some things where I put a TextView inside of the Toolbar, but when