Android Tutorials
In today’s tech-savvy world, companies are craving actionable feedback from their customers, typically in the form of surveys and other customer feedback mechanisms. This has become a common,... Read More
In the previous article in this series, we learned how to create standard options menus for your Android app using XML or built directly through Java programming. Besides these typical options menus,... Read More
App users love powerful options and features, but if they’re not well organized within your app’s interface, they might as well not even exist. Depending on what you’ve built, these... Read More
An “activity” in Android is a single screen in which the user will interact. If you want to create a form to take input from the user, or if you need to display information or feedback to... Read More
During your Android development career, you may have to write apps that blur, sharpen, convert to grayscale, emboss, or otherwise process images. Even if your latest app isn’t necessarily... Read More
Android apps have a wide variety of features, functionalities, and purposes. These various Android apps require similarly varied support from Android system APIs. Many apps require storing data in... Read More
User interface has become more and more important as mobile applications become more and more advanced. Android as a platform provides a great GUI toolkit for Android developers to use to design... Read More
Lesson 7: Develop Apps with Eclipse Although it’s not too demanding to develop simple Android apps (e.g., Lesson 3’s W2A app) at the command line, you will probably find it tedious to develop... Read More
Lesson 6: Install and Run Your First App Lesson 3 introduced you to an app named W2A and showed you how to build this app. Now that you’ve learned to create and launch an AVD, Lesson 6 shows you... Read More
Lesson 5: Launching the Android Virtual Device An Android Virtual Device (AVD) is a device configuration that is run within the Android emulator. It works with the emulator to provide a virtual... Read More
Lesson 4: Create an Android Virtual Device An Android Virtual Device (AVD) is a device configuration that is run with the Android emulator. It works with the emulator to provide a virtual... Read More
SMS is an integral part of mobile devices and mobile applications. An overwhelming majority of mobile users use the SMS service on their mobiles; some use it dozens of times per day. Android provides... Read More
Lesson 3: Explore and Build Your First App After installing the Android SDK and an Android platform, you are ready to create apps for this platform. Lesson 3 introduces you to a first app and shows... Read More
Lesson 2: Install an Android Platform Google provides various Android platforms that can be installed via the SDK’s SDK Manager tool. Lesson 2 shows you how to use SDK Manager to install the... Read More
