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A Journey to the World of Android Wearable

by ridoy

A brief explanation of application development for Android Wear, helpful for every beginner and intermediate android developer.

Android Services and More

by Safak Tarazan

Usage of services, alarm manager and broadcast receivers

Introducing Calcium for Xamarin.Forms

by Daniel Vaughan

Create best-in-breed cross-platform MVVM apps using Calcium for Xamarin.Forms.

Never Buy A Garage Door Remote Again: Open Your Door With Your Android Phone (via Bluetooth)

by raddevus

Steps for building a device you can add to your existing garage door, which implements an atmega328, bluetooth (hc-05) and relay module which will allow you to open your garage door from any paired Android device.

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Windows / Android (C#/Java) Compatible Data Encryption with Compression

by JudyL_MD

Code sample for passing encrypted compressed data between Windows and Android

Debugging Memory Leaks in Android Applications: Integrating LeakCanary with RxJava

by Ayush Vijaywargi

Enhancing Android app stability by integrating LeakCanary with RxJava for efficient memory leak detection and resolution.

Running Automation Tests At Scale Using Appium

by Suhagkumar Vamja

The article discusses the challenges faced by businesses in releasing mobile applications quickly and the importance of faster time to market (TTM)

Generate Icon Sets for Android and iOS in Native Mobile App Development

by Zijian

Use PowerShell scripts to generate icons of native mobile apps

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5 Tips to Improve Performance in Android Applications

18 Mar 2014 by Cindy Potvin

This post gives 5 tips to improve performance in Android applications

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Displaying Bitmaps Efficiently on Android Apps

24 Aug 2016 by Isaac RF

To create visually engaging apps, displaying images is a must. Learn to display Bitmaps Efficiently on your Android apps, without giving away performance. The post Displaying Bitmaps Efficiently on Android apps appeared first on Isaac RF.

Android Lists: ListActivity and ListView II – Custom Adapter and List Item View

19 Apr 2011 by Austin Rasmussen

Continued from: Android Lists: ListActivity and ListView I.

Touch handling in Android

18 Oct 2012 by Serge Desmedt

Touch handling in Android.

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Android Networking Example and Tutorial (with easy retries)

19 Feb 2015 by Right Handed Monkey

This post explains how to use the WorxForUs Network framework to have an Android app that works robustly even in areas that have poor network connectivity.

Building Maintainable Android Applications

15 Sep 2014 by Cindy Potvin

How to build maintainable Android applications

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Mobile

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How to Create Android Notepad App – Part 2

7 Oct 2015 by Val Okafor

This post is a step by step tutorial on how to add data persistence to the Android Notepad app we create in the last post. You are highly encouraged to read the last posts to get the most out of this tutorial especially if you are new to Android development.

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Adding Google Admob Ads to Android App (Banner and Interstitial ads)

28 Aug 2016 by Andy Point

Adding Google Admob Ads to Android App (Banner and Interstitial ads). Google AdMob is the most popular mobile ads platform used by app developers worldwide. Integrating AdMob to your app allows you to monetize your app and earn on the basis of Impressions and clicks on ads in your app.

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Flex 4.5 for Android: Getting Started with Flash Develop

19 Jul 2011 by Steve Psaltis

Flex 4.5 for Android : Getting started with Flash Develop

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Wrapping Irrlicht For Android

21 Feb 2012 by li9705

Irrlicht is a well-known Open Source 3D engine, which supports multiple platforms

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Mobile

Converting DirectX .X Files for Use in Games

14 Dec 2016 by Simon Jackson

How to convert DirectX .X files for use in games

Mastering Unity 4 Scripting (video series)–A Review

23 Oct 2013 by Simon Jackson

By the end of this book you should be able to make scrolling backgrounds, clever AI for bad guys, and be able to save / load and change levels in the way Unity3D always wanted you to but forgot to mention.

Saving to a SQLite Database in Your Android Application

13 Aug 2014 by Cindy Potvin

This is the fourth post in my series about saving data in Android applications.

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SQLite

Xamarin Frame and Disappearing Outline

23 Apr 2016 by n.podbielski

This is another article in the mini series of Xamarin bugs and workarounds for them.

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.NET

Xamarin

WatBot: An Android ChatBot powered by IBM Watson

30 Nov 2016 by Vidyasagar Machupalli

WatBot: An Android ChatBot powered by IBM Watson

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Mobile

Automatic Scrolling to Edited Text Box in Xamarin Android

7 May 2017 by n.podbielski

Fixing hiding text box controls by software keyboard on Xamarin Android

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Mobile

Xamarin

Flutter With Android Studio Step By Step Installation Guide

28 Mar 2018 by S Ravi Kumar (TechieRathore)

In this article, we will setup Flutter development environment in Android Studio and execute the default code generated by the New Flutter Project template.

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Fix /dev/kvm is Not Found and Device Permission Denied Errors on Linux/Ubuntu 20.04/19.04

28 Apr 2020 by Ahmed Bouchefra

Solutions to problems you'll encounter when creating new virtual devices

Let Android support multiple programming languages

13 Apr 2012 by li9705

Can we write programs in Android with other languages? The answer is yes.

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Dev

XNA to UnityXNA and Beyond

5 Nov 2012 by Simon Jackson

XNA to UnityXNA and beyond

How to Add Banners into Android App and Not Overlap other UI Elements

30 Jun 2015 by Andrey Moskvichev

How to add banners into Android app and not overlap other UI elements

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Mobile

Android Drawing App Tutorial – Pt. 2

4 Nov 2015 by Val Okafor

This blog post is part two of my Android Drawing App tutorials. It is strongly encouraged that you finish part one of this tutorial before proceeding with this one.

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Learn Android Dependency Injection with Dagger 2

20 Apr 2016 by Val Okafor

Learn Android Dependency injection with Dagger 2

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Mobile

Firebase Android Tutorial Part 1 – Getting Started

17 Jul 2016 by Andy Point

Firebase Android Tutorial : Adding Registration and Login Hello Developers, this is our android firebase tutorial. In this tutorial we will create an android firebase app that will use firebase android login functionality. This post will help you get you up and running with integrating Firebase to a

Android Download Manager Tutorial: How to Download Files using Download Manager from Internet

17 Jul 2016 by Andy Point

Android Download Manager Tutorial: How to download files using Download Manager from the Internet

Android - Programmatically Register System Broadcast Receiver at Runtime

9 Oct 2017 by Right Handed Monkey

How to programmatically register system broadcast receiver at runtime in Android

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Android Recycler View Tutorial: Part 2

25 Nov 2017 by hexgear

Android Recycler View Tutorial

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7 Android Libraries Every Developer Should Know About

23 Jan 2018 by Aram Tchekrekjian

Seven Android libraries every developer needs to know

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A Complete Tutorial to Connect Android with ASP.NET Core Web API

21 Jul 2021 by Aram Tchekrekjian

In this tutorial, we will learn how to connect Android with ASP.NET Core Web API.

How To: Get Started with XPG

9 Jan 2012 by XPG Live

A walk through of using all of the features XPG Live has to offer

Accessing Java Classes from Mono for Android via JNI

16 Apr 2012 by Sebastian Krysmanski

This article will show some basic examples of how to call a method of a Java class from Mono for Android.

XNA to MonoGame and Beyond

5 Nov 2012 by Simon Jackson

XNA to MonoGame and beyond

Drawing in Android

29 Nov 2012 by Serge Desmedt

2D Drawing in Android

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Android

Mobile

Generating Localized Resources in Mono for Android Using T4

15 Apr 2013 by Daniel Vaughan

Generating localized resources in Mono for Android using T4.

Parse the Salt Please

21 Jul 2013 by Simon Jackson

After playing a lot with Parse over the last few weeks, I thought I’d share some of my findings.

Google's Depth Map

15 May 2015 by Neta777

In this post I want to examine the image files generated by Lens Blur.

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Mobile

An Efficient Way to Make Button Color Change on Android

5 Jul 2015 by Andrey Moskvichev

This is an efficient way to make button color change on Android

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Mobile

How to Implement Android In App Purchases

13 Jul 2015 by Val Okafor

In app purchase is one of the main monetization options for Android apps. Android in app purchase combines what used to be the “free” version and “paid” version together.

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Top Android App Review Sites

4 Aug 2015 by Val Okafor

Top Android App Review Sites

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Mobile

How to Create Android Notepad App – Part 2

19 Nov 2015 by Val Okafor

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Android

Mobile

Xamarin Frame and Style with Padding

23 Apr 2016 by n.podbielski

Xamarin Frame and Style with Padding

Android Firebase Cloud Messaging Tutorial

29 Aug 2016 by Andy Point

Android Firebase Cloud Messaging Tutorial Hello Developers, We are back with a new android firebase tutorial. This time we will discuss about Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). We will be using Firebase to add cloud messaging in android app. What is Firebase Cloud Messaging? Firebase Cloud Messaging is

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Kill AXML - Programmatic ListViews in Xamarin Android

27 Mar 2017 by Lee P Richardson

Kill AXML - Programmatic ListViews in Xamarin Android

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Mobile

Xamarin

Dynamically Changing Android App Icons, For the Rest of Us (Literally)

1 Jun 2020 by Mohammad Nasirifar

This is the story of the letters in the date of Google Calendar.

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How to Get Started with Android Development – Layout Managers

17 Oct 2022 by Cindy Potvin

At the end of my last article, I left you hanging after describing activities, without telling you how to build a UI, so here we go.

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Android

Debugging Android using Unity (an invasion into insanity)

16 Oct 2019 by Simon Jackson

Hints, tips and advice for working well with Android in Unity

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Unity

Visual-Studio

How to Debug on the Samsung Galaxy I7500 Android Phone

24 Jun 2010 by Adrian Vintu

How to Debug on the Samsung Galaxy I7500 Android Phone

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Mobile

XNA/Android Cross-platform and Strongly-typed Access to Game Contents

17 Oct 2011 by Inaki Ayucar

XNA/Android cross-platform and strongly-typed access to game contents

Mobile

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.NETCF

A Simple opengl Example of Android using cle

25 Nov 2011 by li9705

A simple opengl example of Android using cle

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Mobile

How To: Initialize a Game on Android with XPG

26 Jan 2012 by XPG Live

How to initialize a game on Android with XPG

How To: Use Leaderboards on Android with XPG

1 Feb 2012 by XPG Live

This post discusses how to use Leaderboards on Android with XPG.

Why are Android Releases So Slow?

13 Apr 2012 by Michael Banzon

This is a translation and partial rewrite of a piece I wrote in Danish: Opdatering Android (PDF).

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Why the Long Delay on Android Updates?

13 Apr 2012 by Michael Banzon

This is actually a modified + translated version of this piece I wrote in Danish: Opdatering Android (PDF).

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Writing Android GUI using Python (Introduction)

16 Apr 2012 by li9705

Writing Android GUI using Python (Introduction)

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Writing Android GUI using Python (basic GUI Elements)

19 Apr 2012 by li9705

An example of basic Android GUI elements created and controlled using python, which may be buttons, textviews, checkboxs, radiobuttons

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Android

Writing an Android GUI using Python (Gallery)

24 Apr 2012 by li9705

Writing an Android GUI using Python

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Dev

Writing an Android GUI using Python

3 May 2012 by li9705

The examples in this article will create a menu, scroll view and popup window.

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Android

Writing Android GUI using Python (6:layout)

30 May 2012 by li9705

How to write Android GUI using Python (6:layout)

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Android

Android - Finding your SDK debug certificate MD5 fingerprint using Keytool

28 Jan 2013 by BillOsuch

Finding your SDK debug certificate MD5 fingerprint using Keytool.

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Mobile

Android 4: New Features for Application Development – PacktPub Book Review

11 Feb 2013 by Simon Jackson

This book is a practical and hands-on guide for developing Android applications using new features of Android Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), with a step-by-step approach and clearly explained sample code.

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Drupal with Android integration: Make posts and upload photos. Part II - Android

13 Mar 2013 by Andrey Moskvichev

This is part II of the article series on Drupal and Android integration.

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Mobile

Drupal with Android Integration: Make Posts and Upload Photos - Part I - Drupal

13 Mar 2013 by Andrey Moskvichev

Make posts and upload photos

Twitter Integration in Android and Its New API v1.1

5 Dec 2014 by Saurabh_Sharma

Twitter Integration in Android and Its New API v1.1

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API

Display a String List in an Android ListView

26 Jan 2015 by Cindy Potvin

How to display a string List in an Android ListView

Android

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Open Source Android Libraries Every Programmer Should Know

27 Jun 2015 by Member 11794279

Here are some open source Android libraries every programmer should know.

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AndroidServiceClient with Authentication

3 Jul 2015 by NormDroid

AndroidServiceClient with Authentication

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Mobile

Time to Migrate Android Projects to Android Studio

6 Jul 2015 by Xiao Ling

Time to migrate Android projects to Android Studio

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OpenCV

Out of pocket and Android Calendars

16 Sep 2015 by Kevin Mack

So, I know I've been out of pocket the past two weeks, and that includes all social medias. Honestly I just started a new job, and my wife did as well. So in my family, we do life events in batches. But I didn't want to stay out of pocket

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Dissecting a Flutter App Folder Structure

4 Apr 2018 by S Ravi Kumar (TechieRathore)

In this article, we will dissect the folder structure of default Flutter app and understand how to manage the various resources needed for developing a cross platform app using Flutter.

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Retrofit Tutorial in Android – Part 1: Introduction

26 Nov 2020 by Aram Tchekrekjian

How to use Retrofit to easily build an app that connects to an HTTP-based service with the use of GET method to retrieve data and display it nicely on the screen

Android

application

Simulating Key Presses on Android Devices

5 Apr 2023 by Tough Developer

How to simulate key presses on Android devices

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Create a Live Aquarium Wallpaper in Android

29 Oct 2011 by Rajeesh.C.V

Android development - Aquarium Live wallpaper

So you want to be a Unity3D game developer?

19 Nov 2013 by Simon Jackson

I’ve compiled an extensive list of resources at your disposable on your Unity3D journey, split up in to sections to allow you to target what you need.

Getting Started with MonoGame using Visual Studio

15 Mar 2017 by Simon Jackson

MonoGame (for those of you not yet aware) is a Game Building Framework / API born from the ashes that was the Microsoft XNA Framework that provides a very easy to use API to build games.

Fragments: Creating a Tabbed Android User Interface

9 Jan 2014 by Dev Leader

Creating a tabbed Android User Interface.

Threading in Android

30 Apr 2014 by Serge Desmedt

Threading in Android

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Android

Mobile

How to Create Android Notepad App – Part 1

1 Oct 2015 by Val Okafor

This post is part one of two part blog posts where I will provide a step by step tutorial on how to create an Android Notepad App. These two posts are the completion of my post on Android SQLite and Content Provider. If you have not read those two posts, you may want to do […]

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Developing Android Apps using C#

4 Oct 2013 by Raymund Macaalay

If you love C# and want to create an Android application using that language then you have to thank Xamarin as they created this great Cross Platform development tool which enables developers to develop iOS and Android apps in C# language.

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Mobile

Mobile Website Expansion Offers Businesses Unlimited Potential

18 Feb 2011 by Won Dong

Mobile website expansion offers business unlimited potential

Simple Sync Apps

26 Feb 2013 by Edison Heng

Synchronizing between Android and desktop

Demo of PhoneGap on an Android

2 Apr 2013 by PratapReddyP

Demo of PhoneGap on an Android

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Mobile

Android iText Pdf Example

28 Apr 2015 by Val Okafor

This blog post stems from my recent experience building my soon to be released Invoicing app. I waited until the last minute to integrate PDF hoping that there is a magical boolean I can set to true and voila, my deeply nested view will be converted to PDF.

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Create and Publish Your First Android App – Part 2

2 Jun 2015 by Val Okafor

How to create and publish your first Android app

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Mobile

Google Map Tutorial in Android Studio: How to get current location in Android Google Map

28 Aug 2016 by Andy Point

Google Maps App Tutorial Hello Guys. In this post, we will learn how to make a Google Maps App that detects our current location. Here Google Map V2 will track current location of user and add a marker on it. Pre-requisites:

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Create and Publish Your First Android App – Part 1

31 May 2015 by Val Okafor

Today, I am beginning a four part Android tutorial series where I will provide step by step guide on how to create and publish your first Android app.

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Detecting Software Keyboard Events in Xamarin Android

25 Feb 2017 by n.podbielski

Reusable service for detecting if software keyboard is visible or not on Xamarin Android

Android SQLite for Beginners

20 Nov 2015 by Val Okafor

Android SQLite for beginners

Android SQLite for Beginners

17 Sep 2015 by Val Okafor

In this post, I will cover the fundamentals of Android SQLite from a beginners perspective. In the next post I will provide a similar introduction to Content Provider and in the last part of the series I will show how to use Android SQLite and Content Provider to build a Note taking app.

Adding Facebook Login to Android App

20 Jul 2016 by Andy Point

Integrating Facebook Login to Android Application. Now a days almost every web and mobile app provides an option to Login with Facebook. This is because most of the people have a facebook account and facebook has provide an easy to integrate SDK to add Facebook Login to your mobile app.

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Shared Preferences and Yes/No Alert Dialog in Android

1 Apr 2013 by PratapReddyP

In this post, my intent is to use the internal memory of an android and save / retrieve the data from different views.

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Mobile

Dev

Introducing EasyLayout.Droid For Simpler Xamarin Android Layouts

19 Jan 2017 by Lee P Richardson

If you've ever wanted the same type of functionality for Xamarin Android either for consistency or ease of cross platform code sharing, now you can with EasyLayout.Droid.

Common Problems in Xamarin.Android and their Solutions

20 Feb 2017 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this article, I cover the most widely faced problems in Xamarin installation and setup for Android application development.

Detecting Incoming and Outgoing Phone Calls on Android

13 Mar 2013 by Andrey Moskvichev

In this article, I'll show you how to detect incoming and outgoing phone calls on the Android platform.

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Create Your First Android App – Part 3

13 Jul 2015 by Val Okafor

CodeProject This post is part 3 of a three part Android development tutorial series where I provide a walk-through on how to create and publish your first Android app.

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Xamarin.Forms Tip: Implement Show Hide Password using Effects

25 Sep 2017 by S Ravi Kumar (TechieRathore)

How to implement show hide passeword using effects in Xamarin.Forms

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Android

Xamarin

Learn Android MVP Pattern By Example

9 May 2016 by Val Okafor

In this tutorial, I will share a practical example of Model View Presenter (MVP) pattern in Android development. MVP is a design pattern and when it comes to Android development some of the examples available online are heavy on theories.

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PCL Targets for Mono / MonoGame Projects

6 Apr 2013 by Simon Jackson

PCL targets for Mono / MonoGame projects