Checkboxes are a fairly common UI method across all platforms, and their common look makes them immedately reckognizable for what they are and what they do. But there are time when you might want to use the functionality of a checkbox, but give them a custom look. Android makes that easy, but this is another case where the common suggestions found online are close to the right answer, but not quite there. I’ll show you here:

It is the little things that are most frustrating. I was reorganizing a layout, it has a normal and xlarge version. After a bit of reorganizing the xml, updating relative layout references, and creating string resources for all the text fields: Force Close.

Most of us know by now how to hide the notification bar, it is one of the first things that needs to be done when creating a game or and imersive app. There are 2 popular solutions to this, but buth behave slightly differently and 1 little fix could can make your app behave better.