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Rename variables to make the XML ids cleaner

I've been wanting to make the code cleaner, but I do not give it away. I mean...
To name the ids of the views in the XML I use Hungarian notation like this:
<WHAT> <WHERE> <DESCRIPTION> <SIZE>
For example: tvExampleSectionEmptyBig,tvExampleSectionEmptySmall
Previously, using Butter Knife, I did not get too much coding because to do the bindings, I did things like this:
#BindView (R.id.tvExampleSectionEmptyBig) TextView tvEmptyBig;
#BindView (R.id.tvExampleSectionEmptySmall) TextView tvEmptySmall;
The code was much clearer and more reusable since the Hungarian notation used to avoid the confrontation between ids with the same name in different activities, fragments, etc. it was not present in practice more than in XML.
What's going on?
Kotlin has synthetic, which makes your life easier since with putting the id of the view, the binding is done directly, but with such long ids the code is very dirty ... Besides, makes sense that all the views I use in an activity called ExampleSectionActivity, contain within its variable nameExampleSection?
What would I like?
Surely there are better solutions that, but initially, what I feel is to implement a way to rename variables by removing a given String. As I follow a convention in all the names of the ids, it would be something internally in this way:
val tvEmptyBig = tvExampleSectionEmptyBig
val tvEmptySmall = tvExampleSectionEmptySmall
But of course, I would like to do it in an automated way.
On the other hand, I already tried naming the ids without the and to be careful with the imports, but for the moment synthetic fails very occasionally in this respect and I had to rebuild constantly. Especially if I open another instance of Android Studio, which I usually do quite often for consulting other projects I have.
Any idea? :-)

In my opinion, the easies and the most clean thing you can do is this:
private val myTextView: TextView
get() = f_layoyt_text_view
This way you don't have to use ridiculous, at least in 2018, ButterKnife and even more inconvenient findViewById.

For a few weeks, I already take for granted, that with the latest stable updates of Android Studio, there is no problem with repeating names of ids in different activities or fragments. Therefore, it is no longer necessary to put long variable names. Only there is to pay a little bit of attention to the imports, everything works like a charm, more readable and reusable. :-)

Updating visual components in android embarcadero c++builder

I need to update several visual components in my app during a timeconsuming function, instead my app seems to hang during this function call, rather than update the visual components on the screen. When the function exit, I see only the last changes to the components.
Is there a simple way to do the updates, or do I need to create a parallel process and have a 'timer' to read the data simultaniously (using semaphores) and present them in the timer call ?
Any suggestions ?

I asked the same question yesterday here. Like mh taqia said you can use Application->ProcessMessages() but you have to be careful with it. For my application, it worked but look at some posts about the function first.

I tried following:
MainForm->Invalidate();
MyControlRoot->Repaint();
MyControlRoot is a control containing somewhat 50-60 different other controls
But MyControlRoot wouldn't repaint with this method. ..
Despite the warnings from you Remy, I tried Application->ProcessMessages();
...works for now...
By the way... I cannot see any warnings in Docwiki on using ProcessMessages... what could I expect?
RG

I Want to use variable in cucumber feature file

There are scenarios in feature files wherein I've use the text "Foo" and on click its open a new page. this text sometime changes to "Foo1" or "Foo2" or to something else. to avoid line by line change in feature file for "Foo" to "Foo1" or "Foo2" is there any way that I can globally declare variable in top/bottom of the feature file where I can set the required text in variable on fly and I shall start executing my test instantly?
This change exist in many feature files and around 1000 lines in feature file. To get solution for this, I try on setting environment variables but I couldn't reach all the way till end this issue to solve. So can anyone help me on this?
Thanks in advance

What if you do the replacement in your step implementation instead? Then you could have the desired value in a separate file or pass it as arguments. That way you don't need to hard code the values.
Could scenario outlines help you in any way or is the value only changing depending on external changes?

My first thought was scenario outlines like #homaxto said.
Then I thought you might want to affect it by which system you are connected to. You can do this through configuration. I have done this with Fig_Newton.
You can either set an environment varaible or use one in the commandline. Or you can use #hook type tags. With a hook tag, you can have a tag at the top of a feature file that you can use to set a variable that affects how the steps operate (but it needs to be handled inside the step).

Android Realm copyToRealmOrUpdate updates existing fields

When using copyToRealmOrUpdate it also overrides fields with existing values. I would expect it would only update the fields I gave and use the existing values for the other fields.
I saw this issue for createOrUpdateFromJson: https://github.com/realm/realm-java/issues/933
cmelchior says this:
It is impossible to tell the difference between an value not set and
it's default value, so there it should override all properties.
I wanted to create an issue with label enhancement for realm, but instead I ask it here first. Is it really impossible? Because it would be a great improvement to me.
Thanks!

Note there is difference between using Realm.copyToRealmOrupdate(RealmObject) and Realm.createOrUpdateFromJson(Json)
The answer I gave is true for copyToRealmOrUpdate() eg. you cannot tell the difference between the following in Java:
boolean bool1;
boolean bool2 = false;
It is different for JSON where you can tell if a property is missing altogether. However the current implementation doesn't work that way. We are currently in process of merging a Pull Request that actually has the behaviour you are looking for. You can follow the progress here: https://github.com/realm/realm-java/pull/1022

Android typed controls instead of findViewById

Is it somehow possible that instead of:
Button btnNextWord = (Button) this.findViewById(R.id.btnNextWord);
Eclipse automatically generates for me something like:
Button btnNextWord = this.btnNextWord;
or
Button btnNextWord = R.id.getBtnNextWord(this);
??

No, because what you're doing in requesting a reference to a child element that has a certain name and Eclipse isn't actually loading in the layout xml so it can't know what is in it.

I know this is a very late response but it might help someone who read.
You can use the android annotations library for doing something similar to what you want.
As you can see on their page, you can write a field in the code like this:
#ViewById
ListView bookmarkList;
The library will findById an item with id R.id.bookmarkList and cast it to ListView.
Or you can use the annotation like this
#ViewById(R.id.myTextView)
TextView someName;
if you want to give a better name to the field.
DISCLAIMER:
I never used the library so I'm not sure whether you can use just that annotation or you're bound to use their whole set of annotations.