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notes from a decade in the trenches of real-world webdev

If you’re using an ImageView and vertical gaps appear – as if the container had top and bottom padding – you can use the following line to remove the gapping:

Despite the boards being full of people insisting it’s impossible, you can center a row of floated elements even with fluid (unknown) width. The process is: 1. Wrap the container in an element with:

While API 3.0 has a setAlpha method, most of us are still targeting 2.x since penetration for anything over 2.2 is pretty slim. ImageViews and Drawables already have setAlpha methods, and TextViews ca...