Add your Android Studio project to BitBucket

So, I had this Android Studio project in svn, and I wanted to migrate it to Bitbucket. I’m using Ubuntu 13.10 and Android Studio 0.5.4.

Bitbucket currently has this awesome free plan for private projects up to 5 users, which is a great deal for starting up.

So, first things first:

0: register to Bitbucket
1: create the empty project repo in BitBucket, give it the name of your Android project
2: in your terminal, move to the root directory of the project you want to move to git.
2a: in my case, I deleted all svn directories and files, because I don’t want git to index also those files
3: $ git init
4: $ git add .
5: $ git commit -m "initial commit"

These steps created the local git repository. Now let’s load all into the remote Bitbucket repository:

6: git remote add origin https://<username>@bitbucket.org/<username>/<projectname>.git
7: git push -u origin
8: git push -u tags

Now the project have been uploaded.

Open your local project in Android Studio, go File -> Settings… -> Version Control, specify “git” as Project version control.

If you come from svn, remember to click “Commit and push”, not only “Commit” to upload your changes.

Android assets folder in AS 0.4.2

The “assets” folder doesn’t exist in the project tree created by Android Studio wizard, anyway it is already declared in the <app>.iml file:

<configuration>
    ...
    <option name="ASSETS_FOLDER_RELATIVE_PATH" value="/src/main/assets" />
</configuration>

Therefore you just need to create the “assets” folder under src/main/

Adapting projects to Android Studio 0.3

Android Studio 0.3 requires Gradle 1.8. Make sure that:

in the project module’s build.gradle the following line points to gradle 0.6.+
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.6.+'
In the gradle-wrapper.properties, the next line points to gradle 1.8:
distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.8-all.zip

That’s pretty much it.

Storing currency in a SQlite database

Use BigDecimal to represent currency and money.

BigDecimal b = new BigDecimal();
String s = b.toPlainString();

Then when you pull it from the database you can create a new BigDecimal.

BigDecimal c = new BigDecimal(String s)

Fat fonts on Swing related applications

After installing Wine on Ubuntu 13.10, i got bold fonts all over Android Studio 0.3.

Looks like there’s already a bug opened about this in Launchpad.

Removing fonts-unfonts-core worked.