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<scale xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:duration="1000"
    android:fromXScale="1"
    android:fromYScale="1"
    android:pivotX="50%"
    android:pivotY="50%"
    android:repeatCount="1"
    android:repeatMode="reverse"
    android:toXScale="0.5"
    android:toYScale="0.5" />

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The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

So you're curious in learning this new thing called Reactive Programming, particularly its variant comprising of Rx, Bacon.js, RAC, and others.

Learning it is hard, even harder by the lack of good material. When I started, I tried looking for tutorials. I found only a handful of practical guides, but they just scratched the surface and never tackled the challenge of building the whole architecture around it. Library documentations often don't help when you're trying to understand some function. I mean, honestly, look at this:

Rx.Observable.prototype.flatMapLatest(selector, [thisArg])

Projects each element of an observable sequence into a new sequence of observable sequences by incorporating the element's index and then transforms an observable sequence of observable sequences into an observable sequence producing values only from the most recent observable sequence.

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RxJava

• RxJava: Reactive Extensions for the JVM
• Ben Christensen - "Functional Reactive Programming with RxJava"
• The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

Functional (Reactive) Programming

• What is Functional Reactive Programming?

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/*
 * Copyright (C) 2011 The Android Open Source Project
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

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import android.content.Context;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.View;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

public class EmptyRecyclerView extends RecyclerView {
  @Nullable View emptyView;

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How to create custom button styles using Android's AppCompat-v7:21

Introduction

AppCompat is an Android support library to provide backwards-compatible functionality for Material design patterns. It currently comes bundled with a set of styles in the Theme.AppCompat and Widget.AppCompat namespaces. However, there is a critical component missing which I would have thought essential to provide the a default from which we could inherit our styles: Widget.AppCompat.Button. Sure, there's Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionButton, but that doesn't actually inherit from Widget.ActionButton, which does not inherit from Widget.Button, so we might get some unexpected behavior using that as our base button style, mainly because Widget.ActionButton strictly belongs in the ActionBar.

So, if we want to have a decently normal default button style related to AppCompat, we need to make it ourselves. Let's start by digging into the Android SDK to see how it's doing default styles.

Digging In

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import retrofit.Callback;
import retrofit.RetrofitError;
import retrofit.client.Response;

/**
 * Retrofit callback Wrapper class for handle the rest client web service
 * reponse.
 * 
 * @author CreoleStudios

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    /**
     * Unescapes a string that contains standard Java escape sequences.
     * <ul>
     * <li><strong>&#92;b &#92;f &#92;n &#92;r &#92;t &#92;" &#92;'</strong> :
     * BS, FF, NL, CR, TAB, double and single quote.</li>
     * <li><strong>&#92;X &#92;XX &#92;XXX</strong> : Octal character
     * specification (0 - 377, 0x00 - 0xFF).</li>
     * <li><strong>&#92;uXXXX</strong> : Hexadecimal based Unicode character.</li>
     * </ul>

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public class AnimatedActivity extends Activity
{
  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
  {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    //opening transition animations
    overridePendingTransition(R.anim.activity_open_translate,R.anim.activity_close_scale);
  }

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Nav flow is: A => B => C => A with results from C
If you're using fragments please note that "onActivityResult" will be called according to where "startActivityForResult" is called (method "startActivityForResult" is available in both, activity and fragment)

ActivityA
   startActivityForResult(intentB, 22);

ActivityB
   intentC.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_FORWARD_RESULT);
   startActivity(intentC);
   finish();