Programs and news related with Google’s Android Mobile Operating System
In this article, we will develop an Android application that stores user touched locations of Google Maps in a remote MySQL server. Since this application is developed using SupportMapFragment, it can support Android API version 8 and above. In order to send latitude and longitude from the application to the web server, we are...
In this article, we will see how to develop an Android application containing sidebar navigation drawer menu with icons and counter. Here count specifies, how many times the drawer menu item is selected by the user since the application is opened. In order to display ActionBar in legacy Android versions, we are making use...
In this article, we will see how to develop an Android application that sends and receives data from a web server using IntentService. IntentService provides a simple mechanism to execute long lasting operations ( eg : downloading data ) in a background thread. In this application user is able to select a country from...
In this article, we will see how to develop an Android application containing swipable navigation tabs. In order to enable swiping between tabs, we are making use ViewPager in this application. This application is developed in Eclipse ( 4.2.0 ) with Android SDK ( 22.0.5 ) and ADT plugin ( 22.0.5 ) . 1....
In this article we will develop an Android application that demonstrates how to create a searchview widget in action bar using ActionBarCompat library. This application facilitates users to search places using Google Places API. As user types in place name in searchview, places that matches the typed in characters will be listed as suggestions....
In this article, we will see how to use custom fonts in WebView of Android application.The same strategy can be used to display local language contents in WebView. This application renders the text in a WebView using Chancery font. This application is developed in Eclipse 4.2.0 with ADT plugin 22.0.4. 1. Create an Android...
In the article titled “Adding Action items and Overflow menu items to Action Bar in Android“, we have seen how to add action items and split action bar items to action bar in Android. Since action bar is introduced in Android 3.0 ( API Level 11 ) , we can not run that application...
We know that, action bar is implemented in Android 3.0 ( Honeycomb or API Level 11) on wards. But we can implement action bar in pre Honycomb versions upto API Level 7 using ActionBarCompat library available with Android support library revision 18. In this article, we will see how to implement action bar in pre honeycomb...
This week, a new version of Android support library ( Revision 18 ) is released with a new library called appcompat under the package android.support.v7. This new library is available at <path-to-android-sdk>/extras/android/support/v7/appcompat . The new library facilitates users to implement action bar back up to Android 2.1 ( API Level 7 ) . This article,...
In this article, we will develop an Android application that can search Google Places API using SearchView widget and show the results in Google Maps Android API V2. In this application the searchview widget is placed in action bar. We know that, the SearchView widget is available only since Android API level 11. So...