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Android Avatar Creator Lite

30 July 2010, 7:06 am by: jozsi
Category:  Games Status:  Production / Stable Licens...

Native application or web application

26 July 2010, 1:01 am by: gabor
Having an android device, makes sense mainly if you have Internet access all the time. So if we can suppose everyone access the net, it is obvious to think, that a mobile optimized site/web application can be used instead of a native application. As...

Xml remote procedure calls on android

23 July 2010, 4:26 am by: tamas
SDK Version:  M3 0 Using web services on android phones, is pretty simple. For most popular services, there is a usable library available. Here is a l...

Android developers are funny! :)

22 July 2010, 2:54 am by: bence
In the New Android 2.2 Froyo API: Log.wtf() has been added. It stands for "What a terrible failure", what a coincidence... :) By the way, has anyone tried the command ./adb lolcat instead of ./adb logcat? read more

How to make a phone call from your application

20 July 2010, 10:34 pm by: jozsi
SDK Version:  M3 0 To enable your application to initiate a phone call, you must set permissions in the manifest file: <?xml version="1.0"...

Android unit testing

19 July 2010, 4:51 am by: gabor
SDK Version:  M3 0 For unit testing you can use the built in JUnit framework just like in "standard" java applications. A unit test is to test some lo...

How to customize Toasts

16 July 2010, 5:10 am by: bence
SDK Version:  M3 0 Customizing Toasts A toast notification is a message that pops up on the surface of the window. It only fills the amount of space...

Date handling in Android development

15 July 2010, 7:01 am by: tamas
SDK Version:  M3 0 This unusual topic came around quite a few times in the last couple of days, first with our own rss parser, and today with android-...

Android avatar creator game, coming soon

14 July 2010, 1:43 am by: jozsi
Here we go with the first pictures of Android avatar creator. Players will be able to create avatars with unique personalities, fulfill their desires or go mad... read more

WebView with zoom controls, image from SDCARD

9 July 2010, 3:32 am by: bence
SDK Version:  M3 0 The Problem: When I'm trying to load an image (tried both gif and png) from my assets directory, into a webview. In my assets folde...

ACRA - Application Crash Report for Android

8 July 2010, 5:31 am by: tamas
The worst part in having FC-s in your application, is the user response, which is 1 star reviews and disappointed user's comments in the android market. For example: "crash on start" or "bad..uninstall", 1*. These are quite common on the android mark...

SQLite Basics

7 July 2010, 12:34 am by: jozsi
SQLite is an embedded SQL database engine. Unlike most other SQL databases, SQLite does not have a separate server process. SQLite reads and writes directly to ordinary disk files. A complete SQL database with multiple tables, indices, triggers, and...

Magento webshop on android

1 July 2010, 6:40 am by: tamas
Magento is an eCommerce platform, and they are working on releasing their mCommerce platform for Android/iPhone/iPad this august. read more

Calling system settings from an Android app - GPS example

29 June 2010, 2:05 pm by: gabor
SDK Version:  M3 0 This tutorial shows how to redirect the user to a system settings screen asking to modify some settings the application depends...

Useful Java APIs for Android applications

28 June 2010, 1:54 am by: jozsi
1 - Java MSN Messenger Library (JML) If you want to use msn messenger protocol in your application, JML is your best choice. JML is a java MSN Messenger library that supports MSNP8-MSNP12. It is optimized for multiple users and is intended to be very...

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