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How to override default navbar link colors of Bootstrap 5 to custom color

How much ever I tried to change the color of the navbar links in Bootstrap 5, it never did the change. To do the change, the following had to be done in the CSS stylesheet file. .nav-link { color: #dfb97c !important; } !important allows the default color given by Bootstrap 5 to be overridden by … Continue reading How to override default navbar link colors of Bootstrap 5 to custom color →

How to fix global nodemon node package install error on Linux

To install nodemon globally on Linux, below command:$ npm install -g nodemon <enter> will not work as it requires root privileges. If it is installed with :$ sudo npm install -g nodemon <enter> it will install on the local machine in the root folders. If we do not want to install it globally on our … Continue reading How to fix global nodemon node package install error on Linux →

How to fix issue if autocomplete or intellisense does not work in vscode for express.js

If the below line is used in the javascript code:const express = require(express); then autocomplete / intellisense will not work. It will not display the relevant methods as shown in the image below. This is the correct code to use:const express = require("express"); The quotation marks make the difference and the following image shows the … Continue reading How to fix issue if autocomplete or intellisense does not work in vscode for express.js →

How to install python3 on Linux

Install python3 $ sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-venv python3 <enter> Make an isolated environment$ mkdir environment <enter>$ cd environment <enter>$ python3 -m venv my_env <enter> where my_env is the isolated environment$ ls my_env <enter> to display the created folders Activate the isolated environment$ source ~/environment/my_env/bin/activate <enter> This will be the resulting prompt(my_env) patrick@rm01:~/environments$ Create a … Continue reading How to install python3 on Linux →

How to use addTextChangedListener to change values of other TextViews

At times, the value of one TextView is to be replicated into others as a user types the text. Below illustrates how that can be done. In class MainActivity, variable has been declared for the class as below: TextInputEditText[] array_yourinterest_rate = new TextInputEditText[12]; Within the onCreate method of MainActivity, addTextChangedListener was added to change the … Continue reading How to use addTextChangedListener to change values of other TextViews →

How to include other layout xml files in a layout file in Android

Sometimes some layout files can contain too many views making it difficult to manage the layout file later. To overcome this, Android has an <include> tag that allows the inclusion of other layout files into the main layout file (in below illustration, the activity_main.xml file). <include android:id="@+id/b_layout" layout="@layout/activity_main_part_b" /> The above include statement will add … Continue reading How to include other layout xml files in a layout file in Android →

Replace FindViewByID with ViewBinding in Java on Android

In the gradle.build file for the module, add following code and Sync: buildFeatures { viewBinding true } Above automatically generates binding objects for every layout when the plugin is synced. For activity_main.xml, it will generate ActivityMainBinding class. In MainActivity.java, use inflate method on ActivityMainBinding in onCreate method as shown below: ActivityMainBinding bindMain; bindMain = ActivityMainBinding.inflate(getLayoutInflater()); … Continue reading Replace FindViewByID with ViewBinding in Java on Android →

Great resources for coders or developers

All things developers and development articles can be found at https://dev.to. Best site for coders and developers https://www.freecodecamp.org. Here's a great article on one resume that was exceptional https://cloudirregular.substack.com/p/the-greatest-resume-ive-ever-seen?s=r. Learn to code for free with Google's Grasshopper app https://grasshopper.app. Get it from the Google Play Store.

How to assign value to text view directly in Android Kotlin

In Android Studio, when referencing layout (GUI) elements, the normal flow is to use code as below: var tv = findViewById(R.id.tv_name) tv = myString But, in Kotlin, Prior Android version 10, it was easy to assign values to layout elements without using find_view_by_id by simply using: tv_name.text = myString However, this has stopped working and … Continue reading How to assign value to text view directly in Android Kotlin →