Simple ViewPager for Android
You would have seen many applications recently, which make use of the new and awesome ViewPager that allows views to be horizontally scrollable. The new Android Market app also implements… Read more »
Author Archives: Kumar Bibek
Automating Builds on Android – Part 2
In the previous post, Automating Builds on Android – Part 1, we saw how to setup our projects to automate the build process. In this post, we will automate the… Read more »
Automating Builds on Android – Part 1
Do you find it hard to get a release build of an Android app? Well, you could say that it’s not at all difficult. It just takes about 1 minute… Read more »
Flip animation in Android
I love animations. Let’s see the video first. If you are excited, go peek at the code. In this example, the main layout contains two ImageView widgets with two different… Read more »
Understanding Intents and Intent-Filters in Android
Intents or Intent messaging is the Android’s way to pass messages/information to various components of Android. An Intent object contains information that the target component can act upon. Through Intents,… Read more »
Custom title for your apps
The default title bar for the apps might not suit the theme of your app. You also might want to add a few more things to the title bar which… Read more »
Simple canvas-based Ball game
This is a small project that does this. “On your phone’s screen, you will have a ball lying at the bottom part, in the middle. Once you touch any part… Read more »
Streaming Radio Stations on Android
Streaming radio stations or audio files hosted on streaming servers on Android is pretty straight-forward. But then, Android has it’s limitations. It won’t stream just any file or radio station…. Read more »
Sensors to Handle on Nexus S
So many sensors to sense!!! Hmm, I don’t yet know if there are appropriate APIs available yet on Gingerbread to access all these sensors. Got to read up now.
Using Custom fonts on Android
I had to do this for a project that I am working on, and I felt that it wasn’t possible to achieve this. Well, there are several examples on the… Read more »