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In the last days I tried to publish ChangeLog Lib as aar (Android Archive) to Maven Central . First of all, I am a newbie in Gradle and Maven.I always used repo as a final user, so there could be better solutions. My first step was to find an approved repository . I decided to use the Sonatype OSS Repository , which is an approved repository provided by Sonatype. 1. Register your project at Sonatype It is easy. You can use the official guide . You have to follow the 2nd and 3th section. In this way you can create your user, and your project. When you create your project, pay attention to groupId . It is very important. Here you can find a some tips about it. If you don't own a domain, you can choose a groupId that reflects your project hosting, something like com.github.gabrielemariotti. You can't use it immediately; Sonatype have to prepare repo and normally it takes 1-2 business days. Then you can write your gradle scripts to upload aar file. 2. Grad...

In the last weeks I tried to collect my code and build a Card library. I wanted something that could realize many types of Card (not all, of course), with some built-in features without having to rewrite each time a lot of code. I am still developing but a first version is presentable Card Library provides a custom tag CardView to display a UI Card. It provides different parts as a Header, a Thumbnail, a Shadow, a MainContentArea where you can inflate your custom layout You can customize the global layout as you like You can have some built-in features as OnClickListener, OnSwipeListener , OnLongClickListener CardHeader` provides an overflow button with a PopupMenuListener, a button to expand/collapse an area, or a customizable button with its listener. CardThumbnail` load a Bitmap with a resource ID or with a URL using `LRUCache` and an `AsyncTask` Create a `Card` is is pretty simple. First, you need an XML layout that will display the `Card`. Th...

If you search a simple code to expand and collpse a View with an animation you'll find a lot of example. Almost all of the examples extend Animation class. Instead I would like to use an Animator and its listeners. Where I come from they say I'm discovering the hot water. I know, but it might be useful to someone. Here you can see a short video: The code is very simple: We'll use two LinearLayout . .... ..... ..... In our Activity we simply add a OnClickListener to our Header View. public class MainActivity extends Activity { LinearLayout mLinearLayout; LinearLayout mLinearLayoutHeader; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); mLinearLayout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.expandable); //set visibility to GONE mLinearLayout.setVisibili...