Setting the background color on a android TextView

urlTextView.setBackgroundColor(this.getResources().getColor(R.color.error));

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<color name="error">#a8206c</color>

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Extract value from string using regex in java

So suppose you want to extract values from a string based on a certain regex pattern. The thing that i didn't know was that I needed to use () around the data I wanted to capture.

	import java.util.regex.*
	Pattern p = Pattern.compile("(.*)/post/(.*)");
	def str = "http://home.com/post/56"
	Matcher m = p.matcher(str);
	if (m.find()) {
	println m.group(1);
	println m.group(2);
	}

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Output

http://home.com
56

I dedicate this post to all laymen out there, who get confused with coding and stuff

Listen for text changes on EditText

Assume you want to enable a button only if some changes have been made to a form. You can do this by using android.text.TextWatcher
Simply create a new instance of TextWatcher and implement the required methods
There you have it. For more info checkout http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/TextWatcher.html

	import android.text.TextWatcher;
	private void addEditTextChangeListeners() {
	TextWatcher textListener = new TextWatcher() {
	public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i2, int i3) {}
	public void onTextChanged(CharSequence charSequence, int i, int i2, int i3) {}
	public void afterTextChanged(Editable editable) {
	saveButton.setEnabled(editable.length() > 0);
	}
	};
	url.addTextChangedListener(textListener);
	}

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The magic of grep and sed and xargs

You want to get all files that have a certain string

grep -rl "ToMatch" <folder>

You then want to replace that string with another string

grep -rl "ToMatch" | xargs sed -i s/ToMatch/Replaced/g

The xargs command passes the values from "grep -rl "ToMatch" <folder>" to the sed command as arguments

For more info on how to use xargs look at http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?xargs

Delete values from a map through a loop

So you woke up today and you want to delete values from a map, as you loop through the map (For whatever reason). So you right this is groovy

Code

	def m = [a:'aa', b:'bb']
	def kset = m.keySet()
	kset.each{
	m.remove(it)
	}
	println m

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Output

[a,b,c]

Wrong !!!!
You actually get a ConcurrentModificationException.... hahaha :D <- This is me laughing at you. So you need to

	kset.each{ tempKset << it }
	tempKset.each{
	m.remove(it)
	}

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Java String.equals versus == [duplicate]

String.equals("some string") checks the contents of the string
"==" checks if the object references are identical

View Logs of CRON jobs

grep CRON /var/log/syslog