Use Google Fonts in ADF Application using custom CSS

We can use google fonts in the ADF application very easily. In this post, I'll describe the steps to implement this using custom CSS.

Go to Google Fonts

Select any font that you want to use and click on the plus (+) icon, I have clicked that that's why the image is showing the minus(-) icon

The next step is to see the font's properties and copy the highlighted link, It'll be used in our CSS

Now create a page in the ADF application and add this CSS using the ADF Resource tag, Here I have added 4 different fonts

1. <af:resource type="css" source="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Charmonman"/>
2. <af:resource type="css" source="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Kirang+Haerang"/>
3. <af:resource type="css" source="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=VT323"/>
4. <af:resource type="css" source="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Philosopher"/>

Added four output text to show different fonts

1. <af:outputText value="Oracle Application Development Framework" id="ot1"
2. inlineStyle="font-family:Charmonman;font-size:35px;color:red;font-weight:bold;"/>
3. <af:spacer width="10" height="10" id="s1"/>
4. <af:outputText value="Oracle Application Development Framework" id="ot2"
5. inlineStyle="font-family:Kirang Haerang;font-size:35px;color:green;font-weight:bold;"/>
6. <af:spacer width="10" height="10" id="s2"/>
7. <af:outputText value="Oracle Application Development Framework" id="ot3"
8. inlineStyle="font-family:VT323; font-size:35px; color:#4289aa; font-weight:bold;"/>
9. <af:spacer width="10" height="10" id="s3"/>
10. <af:outputText value="Oracle Application Development Framework" id="ot4"
11. inlineStyle="font-family:Philosopher; font-size:35px; color:#dc006d; font-weight:bold;"/>

Now run the application and check :)

Sample ADF Application - Download

Cheers  Happy Learning

Change in Comment Section- Google+ comments removed

Hello All

I have changed comment section of this blog to old blogger comments from Google+ comments.
There are lots of problem in Google+ comments as there is nothing like comment moderation, I don't get notification about new comments, even I am not able to view all comments etc

So I decided to move to default blogger comments but in doing so I lost all valuable Google+ comments :(
It means there are no comments on posts that were made using Google+, I know it's a great loss but you know A little effort now is better than any effort later

Looking forward to your comments :)

Read data from Google Spreadsheet without authentication using Java

Google Spreadsheets provides a way to create, edit, save spreadsheets online.
The Google Sheets API (formerly called the Google Spreadsheets API) lets you develop client applications that read and modify worksheets and data in Google Sheets.
Read More about Sheets API

Let's see how to use this API to read data from Spreadsheet, here i am going to use Spreadsheet version 3.0 , if this link doesn't work then check on GitHub , from here you will get  client library for all Google APIs

Facebook, Twitter, Google - Create large share buttons using JavaScript

This post is not like my other posts (ADF & Java), It is about creating custom large share buttons for Facebook, Twitter and Google+
Actually this share functionality of social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc) works on a particular url pattern

Let's take example of Facebook , to share any url on Facebook just pass that url as a parameter in this url
http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=url
See when i open this url on browser (I have passed www.awasthiashish.com in url parameter)
http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=www.awasthiashish.com , it shows standard Facebook share page

Bing language Translation API integration with Java- microsoft-translator-java-api

Google Translation is very popular and widely used for language translation as it is now paid service,
so i  came to know about Microsoft Translator (Bing Translator), it is providing free API up to 2000,000 character/Month to translate.

Key features and point-

• Provides java wrapper around microsoft translator (Bing Translator)
• Developed as alternative of Google Translator
• Follow coding standard, naming, functionality and usage patterns of widely used google translation API

This is very very simple to use -Follow steps

• First Download JAR for API- http://code.google.com/p/microsoft-translator-java-api/  with all dependencies
• Now obtain client secret key and client id in order to access API , see this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh454950.aspx
• After this create a simple java class and just write this code-
• Don't forget to add JAR in your project's class path



package translation;

import com.memetix.mst.language.Language;
import com.memetix.mst.translate.Translate;

public class MicrosoftTranslator {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        
        Translate.setClientId("secret client id");
        Translate.setClientSecret("secret key");


        String translatedText = Translate.execute("hello", Language.ENGLISH, Language.FRENCH);
        System.out.println(translatedText);
    }
}



• Enter your key and id in code, you can change language with available list, and run this code
• To use this in web application , you must handle SSL certificate