Android Themes: A dialog without a title
Most of the times, I have seen developers not leveraging the power of themes and styles. Themes and styles are a great way to easily create UI that are manageable… Read more »
Category: Android
Sending SMS on Android and tracking it
Lets look at how to send an SMS. It’s pretty simple though. A few lines of code and your SMS is gone. To make it more convenient and meaningful, we… Read more »
Download Videos from Youtube Trick
First things first. Is it legal to download videos from Youtube? As much I have understood from the Terms of Service, it’s not a straight yes or no. Basically, Youtube… Read more »
Bluetooth on Android : Part I
This is a part of a series of posts in which I will put forward a full working app what uses bluetooth on your Android device to discover, connect, pair,… Read more »
Drag and Drop (Honeycomb/ICS)
Drag and drop is already available with Honeycomb and up. In this example, we will see how to implement a simple Drag and Drop Operation. We have a ListView with… Read more »
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 »
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 »