Android development primer: Creating Alert Dialogs in Android
In Android devices, probably the thing that we come across most frequently is Alert Dialog Boxes. If you are not familiar with an Alert Dialog Box, here’s...
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Android development primer: Know the AndroidManifest.xml
Enough programming. Let’s take a break and look into one of the vital components of any Android application, the AndroidManifest.xml file. Every Android a...
Android development primer: Creating Options Menu in Android – Part IV
This is the last post in the Creating Options Menu in Android section. I told you in the first post of this section, that the Options Menu layout can also be c...
Android development primer: Creating Options Menu in Android – Part III
Till now we have seen how to create and customize our Options Menu. In this post I will show you how to actually make use of the Options Menu to do something i....
Android development primer: Creating Options Menu in Android – Part II
In the previous post, I showed you how to create a basic Options Menu in Android activity. Sometimes, a situation may arise that you need to change the menu ite...
Android development primer: Creating Options Menu in Android – Part I
We can have Options Menu in Android activities. Options Menu is the one that appears when the Menu button on the device is pressed. Many applications do nothing...
Android development primer: Multiple Screen Support for Android, using Intents
We saw that on creating an Android Application Project, a skeleton “Hello World” application is created. The “Hello World” module is alw...
Android development primer: Layout elements in Android
I’m sure when you look at the Graphical Layout of any xml file in Android, what catches your attention more than the layout itself is the long list of ele...
Android development primer: Creating your first Android Application
So now that you have a little idea what Android is all about, we will create our very first Android Project. Launch Eclipse IDE. Navigate to File->New->An...
Android development primer: Getting to know Android a little better
Once you have set up the Android SDK and AVD in your system, I would like to take some time and provide you with a little description of the Android Platform so...