Ongoing notifications in Android
There is a concept of an Ongoing notifications in Android where you just show a notification for the duration you are performing some background task/process. This special kind of notification… Read more »
Category: Android
India get’s Android 2.1 upgrade for HTC Hero
What a good morning it is! I thought, I HTC hero would never get a firmware upgrade, and I would be stuck with Android 1.5 forever. But, this morning, I… Read more »
Parcelable – How to do that in Android
Passing data between activities is quite easy. You would normally do that using the Bundle packed into an intent. But sometimes you need to pass complex objects from one activity… Read more »
TextView with HTML content with Images
Handling HTML content on a TextView is simple as far as the HTML coming in contains a few tags that are by default supported by Android. Simple formatting like bold,… Read more »
Checking Network Availability
I have seen a few applications which first try to initiate a network connection before checking if any network is available or not. And then, if the request fails, they… Read more »
Simple Drag n Drop on Android
Till now, there is no Drag and Drop like control on the Android. This feature might come in handy in a few situations to improve the usability of your apps…. Read more »
Custom ProgressBar for Android
We will try to make a new progress bar with our own progress animation. It’s pretty simple and can be easily set up to run in few minutes. Here we… Read more »
Custom AutoComplete for Android
The default custom AutoCompleteTextView is quite a nice widget. But if you want to extend it’s functionality, you will need to write your own custom widget. As an example, if… Read more »
Custom Buttons on Android
The default buttons are a kind of ugly when you change the background of an activity. In some scenarios, you will be forced to change the way your Buttons look…. Read more »
Youtube/Market Intent for Search in Android
Here is a trick that would help other applications that need to open search results for videos based on a particular keyword. You need to create an implicit Intent and… Read more »