Why do we have to call super in Android sometimes?

Why are we forced to call super.method()? The classes that make up the Android SDK can be incredibly complex. For instance, both activities and fragments must perform a number of operations in order to function properly (i.e. managing life cycle, optimizing memory usage, drawing the layout to the screen, etc.). Requiring the client to make … Read more

Override valueof() and toString() in Java enum

You can try out this code. Since you cannot override valueOf method you have to define a custom method (getEnum in the sample code below) which returns the value that you need and change your client to use this method instead. public enum RandomEnum { StartHere(“Start Here”), StopHere(“Stop Here”); private String value; RandomEnum(String value) { … Read more

How to override built-in PHP function(s)?

I think it could be done like so: //First rename existing function rename_function(‘strlen’, ‘new_strlen’); //Override function with another override_function(‘strlen’, ‘$string’, ‘return override_strlen($string);’); //Create the other function function override_strlen($string){ return new_strlen($string); } found it here Notice that every host must have http://php.net/manual/en/book.apd.php installed on the server. Edit Another way is to use namespaces <?php namespace mysql2pdo; … Read more

Java overloading and overriding

Method overloading means making multiple versions of a function based on the inputs. For example: public Double doSomething(Double x) { … } public Object doSomething(Object y) { … } The choice of which method to call is made at compile time. For example: Double obj1 = new Double(); doSomething(obj1); // calls the Double version Object … Read more