Quick Tip: git Auto-complete

When I started using git, it peeved me that there is no auto-complete. More so when you have to manually do a git add manually.

Thank heavens I found this little gem. Making auto-complete work for git:

In terminal:

curl https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash -o ~/.git-completion.bash

And then you'd need to "activate" it in your .bash_profile:

if [ -f ~/.git-completion.bash ]; then
  . ~/.git-completion.bash
fi

Quick Tip: Updating the location update frequency

When using Google Play's Location Services and you want to change the frequency of the updates, make sure to do these in order:

stopLocationUpdates();
// This method should implement mLocationClient.removeLocationUpdates()

// Set the new frequency in your location client
updateLocationClient(frequency);

startLocationUpdates();
// This method should implement mLocationClient.requestLocationUpdates()
// which means it should check for isConnected() as well!

If you do not remove the updates before updating the frequency, it looks like the old frequency update is still active BUT a new one is started.

Setting up the SeekBar

So we want to use the SeekBar. We want the minimum value to be 10 and the maximum value to be 100, and it should increment by 10.

Thing is, SeekBar by default always starts at 0, and the increment is always an int. It is definitely possible to get what we want, but we need to do some simple math first.

Compute how many increments you will need from your minimum up to your maximum:

numberOfIncrements = maximum - minimum = 90

Then divide it by the amount of each increment we want:

seekBarMaximum = numberOfIncrements / 10 = 9

This means we should set up the SeekBar to have max = 9 and increment = 1. Then in our code, we have to figure out how to get the actual progress that we want.

SeekBar.OnSeekBarChangeListener mSeekbarListener = new OnSeekBarChangeListener() {
			
	@Override
	public void onStopTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) { /* Do nothing*/ }
			
	@Override
	public void onStartTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) { /* Do nothing*/ }
			
	@Override
	public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar seekBar, int progress, boolean fromUser) {
		mProgressDisplay.setText("Seekbar is at: " + getProgressToDisplay(progress));
	}
};


private String getProgressToDisplay(int progress) {

        // We are multiplying by 10 since it is our actual increment
	int actualProgress = (progress + 1) * 10;
	return String.valueOf(actualProgress);
}

Another example:

minimum = 1, maximum = 10, increment = 0.5
numberOfIncrements = 9
seekBarMaximum = 18

In this case, the contents of getProgressToDisplay() will change since the increment is not a whole number.

private String getProgressToDisplay(int progress) {
	float actualProgress = (progress + 1) - (progress * 0.5f);
	return String.valueOf(actualProgress);
}