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Inverted Android Button

Nothing complex. Just a few lines of code to invert your button. A horizontal flip of 180 degrees is pretty simple to achieve. If you want it with a specific… Read more »

Websockets on Android

Have you ever tried to use Websockets on Android? In a recent project that I have been working on, it was required to use WebSockets to build a native Android… Read more »

Android Market on Emulator (2.2)

It’s been some time that I had tried getting the Market up and running on a 2.2 a.k.a Froyo emulator. On a previous post, I had described how to setup… Read more »

Improved Copy/Paste in Gingerbread

It’s really important for the copy/paste feature to work on a mobile even if you don’t have a mouse to select text you want to copy. Apple’s implementation is nice…. Read more »

Getting animations to work

This is a simple project that will explain how to use animations in android through AnimationDrawable. The documentation was a bit outdated. But you might hit a dead-end if you… Read more »

Unzip files in Android

You need an app that can unzip files? Android provides the classes that are required for this. Basically you will need to checkout two classes. There are other related classes… Read more »

Android WebView, Javascript and CSS

Using WebViews on Android is pretty interesting. I have come across some situations where I had to use a WebView to display some HTML content. Displaying HTML content is pretty… Read more »

More security for your Android

Android has been criticized by a few of not having stricter security policies, on which a user could count on if his device is lost or stolen. Since more and… Read more »

SDK Tools – ADT Plugin updated

Here comes a new update to the ADT plugin for eclipse and SDK tools. After you update the SDK tools(r7) from the Android SDK manager or otherwise, you would be… Read more »