In our previous tutorials, we have walked through on how to setup the android environment and also trying out a sample application. Here is the detailed documentation on how to publish already developed application: http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/publishing.html Before we move on for publishing the application, there are few things we need to do: testing. testing: Make sure [...]
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Logging in to your accounts using public computers may be at risk due to virus, key loggers or any other programs which may collect your account credentials and later compromise your account. Today Google came up with the novel idea “allowing users to login using their trusted phones”. Here is the solution: Step 1: open [...]
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Android provides ListView for creating list with single column where as there is GridView which is used to create the grid view. However there cases when you would want to create tabular format data view e.g. list view with multiple columns. In order to display a list of data in a multi-column layout spreadsheet style, [...]
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I’m regular follower of http://www.vogella.de site. What I liked most about the site is its presentation and a way to show users how up to date the articles are. Users like to know how fresh the content is and how frequently they are updated. I would also don’t like to read the technical articles which are pretty [...]
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
After going through the Part 1 and Part 2 of “How To: Building Android Application”, we will go explore more on the android sample and some tips to improve the performance of the emulator. Playing with Android Sample Application In this tutorial, we will setup the Android sample application which will help you play with [...]
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Transactional memory is intended to make programming with threads simpler, in particular synchronizing access to data shared between several threads using transactions. As with databases, a transaction is a unit of work that either completes in its entirety or has no effect at all (i.e., transactions execute atomically). Further, transactions are isolated from each other [...]
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
This is in the continuation of my previous post “How To: Building Android Application with easy steps–Part 1”. In this tutorial, we will go over creating the sample application using the environment we have already setup. Here is the details of the application we will build: Number Counting: providing the buttons to increment/decrement the number [...]
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Monday, December 12, 2011
What is Android? Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language. Below are the steps to prepare the Android environment before really getting into the development: [...]
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
There are lots of question-answer websites where people discuss their problems and try to find the possible solutions using the crowd (well known as crowdsourcing). Some of these sites are quora.com, chacha.com, stackoverflow.com, stackexchange.com and experts-exchange.com. Searching these sites for a specific topic, will bring you a lots of links which may not be relevant to your topic [...]
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Today I came across a site connectify.me. At first I was surprised on how they have programmed the creation of personal hotspot capability which latest Windows OS provide. Here is how it looks when the laptop acts as hotspot wifi… The way Windows supports natively. Sometimes this process could be cumbersome for newbies. hotspot wifi [...]
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