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Creating and Displaying a Custom Dialog in Android
In this post I would like to describe the process of creating and displaying a custom dialog. Though the Android documentation describes pretty well the topic, I faced some problems implementing it,...
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Introducing “Even or Odd”– My First Android Game :)
Hello everyone, I would like to introduce you the freshly cooked “Even or Odd” game, an addictive casual game for Android. The idea of the game is pretty simple: you are given a series of numbers, and...
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How to create popups in Android
In this post I’ll show you how to create a popup window in Android. A popup window can be used to display an arbitrary view, and it can be very convenient in cases when you want to display an...
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Amazing Cracked Screen
Hello everyone, In this weekend I made a simple application just for fun – Amazing Cracked Screen, the main purpose being to trick your friends and make fun of them! Basically, what does the...
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Android – Scheduling an application to start later.
Recently I have been working on a simple application that should have the ability to start itself after a period of time, after the application is closed. Hopefully, it turned out that this is quite...
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Android – [APP] Amazing Drunk Detection Scanner
Ready to go to party? Then don’t forget to put Amazing Drunk Detection Scanner in your pocket! Drunk Detection Scanner is a simple application that helps you make fun with your friends. Make fun of...
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Android Asset Studio – The easiest way to create icons for your android apps!
Android Asset Studio is an online utility that lets you generate all kind of icons you may need for your android applications, starting with launcher icons, action bar and tab icons, notification...
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Integrating Google Analytics SDK (V2) with Android
The Google Analytics SDK for Android makes it easy for developers to collect valuable statics about how the users are using their app. Here are some features that Android Google Analytics SDK offers:...
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Using Custom Fonts in Android
By default Android comes with three standard fonts: Droid Sans (default font), Droid Serif, and Droid Sans Mono. They all can be applied to any view that supports styling, such as TextView, Button, by...
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Taking a screenshot of current Activity in Android
In this post I’ll show how you can take a screenshot of your current Activity and save the resulting image on /sdcard. The idea behind taking a screenshot actually is pretty simple: what we need to do...
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Caching Objects in Android Internal Storage
Android provides several options for persisting application data, such as SQLite Databases, SharedPreferences, internal and external storage. In this post we’ll take a look how we can use the internal...
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Dealing with AsyncTask and Screen Orientation
A common task in Android is to perform some background activity in another thread, meanwhile displaying a ProgressDialog to the user. Example of these tasks include downloading some data from internet,...
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Creating a Simple Rss Application in Android (V2)
This is a refactored version of a previous rss application example which had 1 major issue and gathered some discutions around that tutorial. Starting with Android 3.0 and higher when trying to perform...
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Using Maven in Android to build for different environments (dev, staging,...
If you are working on a relatively complex project, chances are that you may need to build the application against different environments, such as a development, a staging, and a production...
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Using Maven to save the build time in a properties file
Create a folder called build in the root directory of the project, and a file build.properties with the following content: build.time=@buildtime@ Using the maven replacer plugin we can replace the...
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Example using ViewPager with ActionBarSherlock tabs
In this post I’m going to show you an example usage of ViewPager in conjunction with ActionBarSherlock tabs. The final result should look like this: 1. Add the ActionBarSherlock library to your...
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ViewPager with Tabs inside SlidingMenu
This started as a question on StackOverflow on how to have tabs inside the SlidingMenu. Though I would opt for another design decision, for example to put the content of the tabs in separate...
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Google Maps API V2 Android Tutorial
In this tutorial we will walk through the process of integrating Google Maps API V2 into an Android project. (Source code available on GitHub) The necessary steps in order to integrate the Google Maps...
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Android Volley Tutorial
Volley is an android library released by Google that can make your life easier when dealing with network operations. In this blog post I will mention the main features of the library and show a few...
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Introducing Photo Collage Creator
I was playing with bitmap manipulations and so was born the idea to make this app. It was started some time ago, and, even if at times I was thinking it will never see the daylight, finally it was...
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