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How to get currently running applications in android ?

Android Kotlin Tutorials
Use this code in your app’s `src/MainActivity.kt’ file. import android.app.ActivityManager import android.app.ActivityManager.RunningTaskInfo import android.content.Context import android.os.Bundle import android.widget.TextView import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity import java.util.* class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() { override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState) setContentView(R.layout.activity_main) title = "KotlinApp" val textView: TextView = findViewById(R.id.textView) val activityManager = getSystemService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE) as ActivityManager val recentTasks: List<RunningTaskInfo> = Objects.requireNonNull(activityManager).getRunningTasks(Int.MAX_VALUE) for (i in recentTasks.indices) { textView.text = "Application executed: ${recentTasks[i].

How do you animate the change of background color of a view on Android ?

Android Kotlin Tutorials
The idea is to use this code snippet. ColorDrawable[] colorDrawables = { new ColorDrawable(Color.RED), new ColorDrawable(Color.BLUE), new ColorDrawable(Color.GREEN) }; TransitionDrawable transitionDrawable = new TransitionDrawable(colorDrawables); textView.setBackground(transitionDrawable); transitionDrawable.startTransition(2000); In this code snippet, we created a list of colorDrawables, then feed them to the TransitionDrawable. And now we have an animating color change, so we pass it to the setBackground to get the animating colors in the background. Got the idea ?

How to change background color of selected item in listview in android ?

Android Tutorials Kotlin
The main idea is to use view.setBackgroundColor(getColor(R.color.colorAccent)) to the selected view (list item). Let’s see a complete example. use this xml code in res/layout/activity_main.xml. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:padding="8dp" tools:context=".MainActivity"> <ListView android:id="@+id/listView" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" /> </RelativeLayout> use this Kotlin code in src/MainActivity.kt. import android.os.Build import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity import android.os.Bundle import android.widget.ArrayAdapter import android.widget.ListView class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() { var operatingSystem: Array<String> = arrayOf("Android", "IPhone", "WindowsMobile", "Blackberry", "WebOS", "Ubuntu", "Windows7", "Max OS X") override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?

How to Change Listview Item Color in Android

Android Tutorials Kotlin
The idea is to create an a list item xml, and give it the design choices you want. If you want to change the list item color, use this xml code android:textColor="@android:color/holo_orange_dark". If you want to change the text to italic or bold, use this xml android:textStyle="italic|bold". And even if you want to change the font itself, you can by this font-family property in xml android:fontFamily="sans-serif-condensed". Now, you got the idea.