Use Strings carefully ⚠️

If two Strings are concatenated using “+” operator in a “for” loop, then it creates a new String Object, every time.

This causes wastage of Memory and increases Performance time.

Also, while instantiating a String Object, constructors should be avoided and instantiation should happen directly. For example:

//Slower Instantiation ❌
String bad = new String("string object");

//Faster Instantiation ✅
String good = "string object";

#memory #java #string
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Avoiding Memory Leaks By Simple Tricks ✅

Memory Leaks often cause performance degradation of software. Since, Java manages memory automatically, the developers do not have much control.

But there are still some standard practices which can be used to protect from memory leakages. 🙆🏻‍♂️

1️⃣ - Always release database connections when querying is complete.

2️⃣ - Try to use Finally block as often possible.

3️⃣ - Release instances stored in Static Tables.

#java #memory #performance
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Measuring Time 🕰

Many applications require a very precise time measurement. For this purpose, Java provides static methods in System class. 🔆

1️⃣ - currentTimeMillis(): Returns current time in MilliSeconds since Epoch Time, in Long.
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long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
long estimatedTime = System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime;

2️⃣ - nanoTime(): Returns the current value of the most precise available system timer, in NanoSeconds, in long.

nanoTime() is meant for measuring relative time interval instead of providing absolute timing.

long startTime = System.nanoTime();
long estimatedTime = System.nanoTime() - startTime;

#java #time
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🖼 Rescale Image In Java 🖼

An image can rescaled using AffineTransform. First of all, Image Buffer of input image is created and then scaled image is rendered. ✔️

BufferedImage imgSource = 
   ImageIO.read(new File("myImage.jpg"));

BufferedImage imgDest = 
   new BufferedImage(100, 100,
   BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);

Graphics2D g2d = imgDest.createGraphics();

AffineTransform affinetransformation =
   AffineTransform.getScaleInstance(2, 2);

g2d.drawRenderedImage(imgSource,
    affinetransformation);

ImageIO.write(imgDest, "JPG", 
   new File("outImage.jpg"));

#java #image
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📦 Grab The Stack Trace Of An Exception 📦

Checking your code for errors is one of the most Painstaking – and frustrating – parts of the development process. 🙆🏻‍♂️

It’s also horrendously Time-Consuming, particularly if you’ve a pesky error whose source isn’t immediately clear. 💡

Using this code, you can more easily track down where an Exception is occurring – and bring yourself that much closer to being rid of it. ✅

Code

Exception e = …;
java.io.StringWriter sw = new java.io.StringWriter();
e.printStackTrace(new java.io.PrintWriter(sw));
String trace = sw.getBuffer().toString();

#java #exception #error #trick
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Use String.valueOf() instead of toString() 💎

If obj needs to be converted to string then the result of obj.toString() and String.valueOf(obj) will be same.

But String.valueOf() is Null Safe, means it will never throw NullPointerException. 🎯

Test test = null;

// Below statement will not throw NPE
System.out.println(String.valueOf(test));

// Next statement will throw NPE
System.out.println(test.toString())

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#java #string
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💙⛰ What is Glide Library ⛰💙

Glide is a fast and efficient Open Source Media Management and image loading framework for Android that wraps media decoding, memory and disk caching, and resource pooling into a simple and easy to use interface.

Glide supports fetching, decoding, and displaying video stills, images, and animated GIFs. Glide includes a flexible API that allows developers to plug in to almost any network stack. 🙆🏻‍♂️

By default Glide uses a custom HttpUrlConnection based stack, but also includes utility libraries plug in to Google's Volley project or Square's OkHttp library instead. 💎

For learn more about Glide see
https://github.com/bumptech/glide 📗

#android #java #media
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Google Gson Converter 💥

Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It can also be used to convert a JSON string to an equivalent Java object. 📦

Gson can work with arbitrary Java objects including pre-existing objects that you do not have source-code of. 🔥

There are a few open-source projects that can convert Java objects to JSON. 💎

However, most of them require that you place Java annotations in your classes; something that you can not do if you do not have access to the source-code. 🙆🏻‍♂️

For more about Gson see :
https://github.com/google/gson

#java #android #converter
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Material Design The Development Documentation

This site has a single list of available Material Components and samples of their usage for developer. 💎

The v7 appcompat library is used in website - provide support of material design user interface implementations for older Android platforms. 🙆🏻‍♂️

Note: Design Library - provides various material design components which are not part of Android SDK.

http://www.materialdoc.com/

#java #android #material
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