In this article, we will create an Android application which can send and process messages in MessageQueue using Handler ( android.os.Handler) objects. This application is developed in Eclipse ( 4.2.0 ) with ADT plugin ( 20.0.3 ) and Android SDK ( R20.0.3 ) . 1. Create a new Android application project namely “HandlerDemo” 2....
Reverse geocoding is the process of transforming a (latitude, longitude) coordinate into a (partial) address. In this article, we will create an Android application which adds a marker on the touched location of the Google Map. It also displays the address of the touched location in a TextView using reverse Geocoding. For reverse Geocoding,...
In this article, we will create an Android application which adds a marker on the touched location of the Google Map. It also displays the latitude and longitude of the touched location in a TextView. This application is developed in Eclipse ( 4.2.0 ) with ADT plugin ( 20.0.3 ) and Android SDK (...
In this article we will see how to download an image from an http url using DownloadManager and display it in an ImageView using a dynamically registered broadcast receiver. This application will work in Android API level 9 ( GingerBread ) and its higher versions. This is because, DownloadManager is introduced in API level...
In the article titled “Updating ProgressBar status from a non-ui thread ( working thread ) using Handler in Android“, we have seen , how to manipulate a UI thread component from a non-UI thread using Handler. In this article, we will see, how to update the progress bar in a UI thread from a...
UI thread is the thread in which the components of an application will be executed by default. But there are some tasks which are usually executed in background ( eg : downloading files ). These background tasks are run with the help of threads in Android. These threads are called non-ui threads. An important...
In this article we will create an Android application which demonstrate how to display a timepicker widget using dialog fragment. Since DialogFragment is introduced beginning with Android 3.0 ( API level 11 ) , we will make use Android support library to work this application in Android 1.6 ( API level 4 ) and...
In this article we will create an Android application which demonstrate how to display a datepicker widget using dialog fragment. Since DialogFragment is introduced beginning with Android 3.0 ( API level 11 ) , we will make use Android support library to work this application in Android 1.6 ( API level 4 ) and...