Android Studio is an official IDE ( Integrated Development Environment ) for Android application development which is announced in Google I/0 2013. Android Studio is developed on the top of JetBrain’s Intellij IDEA a well known IDE for Java application development. This article explains how to setup, configure and create an Android application in...
Parcel is a serialization mechanism provided by Android. In order to write an object to a Parcel, that object should implement the interface “Parcelable“. In this article, we will see how to implement a Parcelable object in an Android application to pass complex data from one activity to another activity. In order to define...
In this article, we will develop an Android application which shows a set of images as slide show where images are slide in from right side and slide out to left side. Left to right image slide show is discussed in the article titled “Image SlideShow using ViewFlipper in Android” This application is developed...
In this article, we will develop an Android application which lists a set of countries with their names, currencies and flags. For listing the countries, we are using the ListFragment class. The screenshot of this application is shown in Figure 6. This application is developed in Eclipse (4.2.1) with ADT plugin (21.1.0) and Android...
In this article, we will develop an Android application which displays TextView content and Activity title in French language. This application is developed in Eclipse (4.2.1) with ADT plugin (21.1.0) and Android SDK (21.1.0) . 1. Create a new Android application project namely “LngLocalAppSpecific” 2. Configure application project 3. Design application launcher icon 4....
In this article, we will develop an Android application which facilitates users to input latitude and longitude in EditText control and on clicking the button “Show in Map”, the input location is marked in Google Map Android API V2. This application is developed in Eclipse 4.2.1 with ADT plugin ( 21.1.0 ) and Android...
A list of Android applications with Intents and Activity is given below : HelloWorld Application in Android Opening an activity on a button click in Android Starting and Retrieving data from activities using startActivityForResult() method in Android Access an activity using implicit intents in Android Access an activity using explicit intents in Android Opening...
In this article, we will create an Android application containing a splash screen. This splash screen will be run in full screen mode. It is resistant to screen rotation while splash screen is up. This splash screen is implemented using a simple Android API called CountDownTimer. This application is developed in Eclipse ( 4.2.0)...
In the article titled “Showing Progress Bar and Preventing the opening of Web Browser on loading URL in WebView of Android“, we have seen how to add a determinate progress bar on a title bar while loading url in a WebView widget. In this article, we will see how to add an indeterminate progress...
In this article we will develop an Android application which facilitates users to load a webpage or image in a WebView widget by entering its url. While loading the url, the application will display a progress bar on the title bar to show the percentage of url downloaded. The requested url will be opened...