One Minimal Start Page

The data that we keep keeps growing every day. Even bookmarks can be cluttered when there are so many of them even if you organize them into folders.

But even bookmarks can not be pleasing to look at. I came across service that organizes URLs that you categorize is important on one minimal personal startpage.

It loads fast, accessible anywhere and best of all, free of annoying ads. It is simply just that.

Now, make sure you register for an account so the start page can save your important URLs. You should be able to get around the site pretty quick. I mean, I am not much of a techie and I was able to use it quite easily so I am sure that if I found it easy, for sure you will too!

Organizing is pretty simple. Just add to add a URL or delete an existing one if you do not like it anymore. Easy as 1-2-3.

Look, I am not kidding. Visit Yourls so you can check it out and see what I mean.

The look and feel is pretty simple right? Pleasing to look at and not so cluttered. A site that can overdo its theme can discourage users. Go check it out and leave comments here on what you think.

Link To Controller Is Gone After View Is Removed/Destroyed In Sencha Touch

This is a pretty common problem among newbies of Sencha Touch and I am sure that in your controller class, you used the component’s id to get a reference to it.

True, that way works but once the view is removed or hidden and destroyed, the link between the view and controller also is lost.

In my case, I overrode the initialize method of the view. Once I removed it and re-added it to the viewport, the function did not run anymore.

The culprit is due to the fact that I used the view’s id to get a reference to it.

To avoid this problem, it is best to use the xtype path to the component you want to get a reference of.

See this code as an example.
panel[id=myview] toolbar button[id=mybutton]

This means that the controller gets a reference to an Ext.tab.Panel class that contains an Ext.Toolbar with an Ext.Button in it with id mybutton. This is much better than just using id because it is more specific considering that you specified the exact path to the component.

Make Links In TextView Clickable

There will be cases where we may want our text in strings.xml intact without adding HTML tags in order for hyperlinks to be shown as underlined and colored blue. Just like my experience.

I did not want the text in my strings.xml file for this certain variable to have HTML formatted tags within it.

Let us have an example:

<string name="test">This is a hyperlink, so <a href="http://www.google.com">click me</a>.</string>

To make the hyperlink in the TextView to be linkable, simply call this programmatically:

textview.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

That is all. Do not add the attribute android:autoLink=”web” in your layout XML, or else it won’t work.