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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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A Journey to the World of Android Wearable

16 Oct 2015 by ridoy

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

Java

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Mobile

Android

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Dev

Android Services and More

13 Mar 2019 by Safak Tarazan

Usage of services, alarm manager and broadcast receivers

Android

Mobile

service

Introducing Calcium for Xamarin.Forms

15 Sep 2014 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)

27 Jul 2016 by raddevus

Air Hockey

10 Aug 2012 by PavolSatala

How to create an air hockey game for one player against the artificial intelligence for three mobile platforms with only one code?

Android Programming By An Example: Creating An Airport Schedule Simulator Application

1 Aug 2018 by Arthur V. Ratz

In this article, we will discuss about the advanced Android application development based on the example of creating a responsive Airport schedule simulator application.

Android emulator don't fit the layout

2 Jan 2013 by WebMaster

Hi Janna Mamer Dela Cruz,Was you emulator dont show your desired layout ?Check again on onCreate() method of your Activitypublic class Your_Activity extends Activity{ @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); ...

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Android

Mobile

Development of a platform for virtual tour of archaeological (web portal + Mobile App)

3 Jan 2013 by WebMaster

Hi aminov,I am not sure I can help you so much as you expect.For your system requirement, I have some ideas to share:+ There are two parts you need to develop: Web portal and Mobile App. And both of them must be interacted together absolutely.+ With web portal module, you can use some...

How to Build iPhone & Android Mobile Apps with Angular 14, Ionic Capacitor 3, SwipeClouds & WebRTC

27 Jan 2021 by Bill SerGio, The Infomercial King

XCODE & Android Studio mobile app projects built using Ionic's Capacitor with an Angular 14 UI. Includes WebRTC for video conferencing, and SwipeClouds for Playing Millions of HD Movies & Videos and A Custom Capacitor Plugin for Scraping User Data for Targeted Delivery of video ads to mobile phones.

Synchronizing Data base with Android application

3 Jan 2013 by WebMaster

I guess you can do by this way: At server-side, you define some web services.At Android application, you define servie that run in background, and invoke to those web servies in a interval you defined before.To invoke web services from Android application, you can use open source lib named...

android game programming pacman

3 Jan 2013 by WebMaster

hi s.oztrk,I think firstly u should research on how to recognize speech in Android.Try google with this keywords "sound recognition android"I've found some good...

Android

Mobile

game

Port a 2D libgdx game to MonoGame

14 Apr 2014 by Giannakakis Kostas

Port your libgdx games to run in Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms

how to display data in text view from database

3 Jan 2013 by WebMaster

Hi mekalareddy,Try this code StringBuilder ret = new StringBuilder();cursor.moveToFirst();int i = 0;while (!cursor.isAfterLast()) { ret.append(cursor.getString(i++)); cursor.moveToNext();}// Make sure to close the cursorcursor.close();

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Mobile

Grinding my Gears - Being the coolest server dude/dudette around

6 Jun 2014 by Pete O'Hanlon

An introduction into how to be the coolest dev in your block, writing wearable code

Display of MS documents on Android

2 Jan 2013 by WebMaster

Hi sistlachetan,I think firstly, u should catch up how Java can interact(read/modify..) with doc/ppt/pdf/xls files.For this point, I recommend reserching on Apache POI[^]"The Apache POI Project's mission is to create and maintain Java APIs for manipulating various file formats based...

YouCar-Intel Edison Multi Modality Live Youtube Streaming Smart Car

5 Aug 2016 by Grasshopper.iics

Live Streaming Multi Modality Controlled Intel Edison Smart RC Car

Wearable Foot Gesture Based Text Entry System for People with Upper Body Disabillity

7 Aug 2016 by Grasshopper.iics, Moumita Das

An assistive technology initiative for patients with upper body disability

Java

Android

IoT

cant get 2 on click listeners toghether

7 Jan 2013 by WebMaster

You can define event for each button.Another way, you can do like this:private OnClickListener mListener = new OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { Button btn = (Button)v; // if btn is startButton1 if (btn.getId() == R.id.startButton1)...

Encryption Wrapper for Android SharedPreferences

27 Mar 2013 by danabr

This article explains why and how you should protect your app's settings from prying eyes

Xamarin TV Scripts

31 Mar 2018 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

An entertainment app written in C# language for the Xamarin Forms and Android, using a SQLite local database

GarageWatcher - A Full-Stack IoT Project, from Hardware to App

2 Jun 2020 by g96b10

Musings, tips, and lessons learned from developing a physical device, serverless back-end, and Android app

Real-time SPC Web Application for iPad/Android tablet using jQuery/AJAX/AJAX enabled WCF Service

18 Dec 2013 by Gokuldas

Real time SPC is a Web Application for iPad and Androind using HTML5 and jQuery AJAX.

Breakout

26 Jul 2012 by PavolSatala

This article shows how to create Breakout game for iOS, Android and Bada with only one code.

UNITY 3D – Game Programming – Part 9

8 May 2015 by Vahe Karamian

The ninth article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.

UNITY 3D – NETWORK GAME PROGRAMMING

26 May 2015 by Vahe Karamian

This article will cover the basics of network programming using Network View in Unity 3D. We will be creating an Authoritative Server based networking environment showcasing the basics functions of network programming using Unity 3D and C#.

How to integrate Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin in Android Apps

12 Sep 2012 by 3PillarLabs

This article help users to integrate Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, MySpace functionality easily in Android apps.

Android

Mobile

Dev

Using MVVM to create Tabbed Interfaces with Calcium for Xamarin Forms

17 Sep 2014 by Daniel Vaughan

Create a Xamarin Forms tabbed page or carousel page by binding to a collection of ViewModels; extending beyond the current capabilities of Xamarin Forms.

Launch Your Android App: Run Device Emulator & Debug Code (part 3 of 3)

11 Feb 2016 by raddevus

Get the Android device emulator running. Add code to generate Android log output and learn how to step into code using the Android Studio debugger.

Java

Android

Mobile

MonoAndroid: Using Fragments in mobile app

21 Nov 2013 by ThatsAlok

Using Fragments in your mobile application.

How to Add an AsyncTask to an Android Activity

16 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

Step-by-step instructions for adding an Async Task to an Android Activity

Launch Your Android App: Generate Your First Project (part 2 of 3)

10 Feb 2016 by raddevus

Experience the generation of your first Android App while learning to use the newest version of Android Studio.

Java

Android

Mobile

Designing a Cross-Platform 3D Application Engine to Support Windows 8

15 Oct 2012 by ashcairo

How to use OpenGL and friends to write an app that targets mobile and desktop platforms.

How to add external library file in Android Studio

17 Jun 2013 by josh-jw

This article will give you a good idea about adding external jar files in Android Studio.

Java

Android

Mobile

MonoAndroid: Using TabHost in your mobile applications

21 Nov 2013 by ThatsAlok

TabHost control in MonoAndroid

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

Android

Mobile

Android App To Browse A Website

18 Apr 2014 by Garvit Arya

It is a personalized web Browser that can open a certain website directly.

Create Your 1st Android Application

30 Jul 2014 by Ahmed Alaa El-Din

Help Beginners to create their 1st Android Application by a step-by-step guide

Java

Android

Mobile

Shadow Mapping with Android OpenGL ES 2

24 Sep 2014 by pogib

Simple and PCF shadow mapping algorithms (Bonus Article - Android Wild Card Category)

App for consuming Android flashlight with a widget

5 Dec 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This article discusses Android programming and aims at teaching you about Android programming for Camera and Widgets.

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.

Take three tablets and call me in the morning - the Chuwi Hi12

28 Feb 2017 by OriginalGriff

The Nexus 7, the Amazon Fire 7 inch, and the Chuwi Hi12. A personal review.

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Android

Android OCR Application Based on Tesseract

29 Jan 2019 by SergVoloshyn

Easy way to make Android OCR application

Audio Chat for Pretty Good Concealing (AC4PGC) - Part I

5 Mar 2021 by Clark Fieseln

Low rate data exchange (e.g., chat) using audio steganography, ensuring privacy, anonymity and cybersecurity

Android

steganography

cryptography

Cross Word Application

6 Jul 2011 by Dalek Dave

As someone who creates crosswords may I give a few pointers.Firstly have a set of blank grids, about a dozen or so.Secondly, have a very good dictionary to hand.Thirdly, have a cerebrum like a spiral staircase.Fourthly, on no account attempt to create a program that will make...

Playing Audio on Android from an HTML5 File

3 Nov 2013 by Kyle A.B.

Learn how to play Audio in an Android app from an HTML5 page in the Apps Assets folder.

Example of Using Google Maps Service and GPS in Android

23 Dec 2014 by joseacl79

Create a Google maps app and add markers on it

Creating a Simple Hello World Android Project

8 Aug 2014 by Sushil Sh.

Sample Code of Hello World App

Java

Android

Mobile

How to Develop an Intelligent Autonomous Drone using an Android* Smartphone

14 Aug 2014 by Android on Intel

For those of you who are interested in developing your own “smart” drone, this article provides easy directions for making an intelligent, autonomous drone using an Android* smartphone, OpenCV*, C++, and Java*.

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Mobile

OpenCV

Article 11 - Beginner's Guide to Android Animation/Graphics

5 Oct 2014 by Grasshopper.iics

The Simplest Graphics and Animation tutorial you ever wanted

Image recognition, translation and speech synthesis - 3in1 Web API

4 Dec 2016 by Jalle

WebAPI, Azure, Android

Debug Ionic Android Application On Mobile Devices or Emulators

16 Sep 2015 by mudasser ajaz

How to debug ionic Android application in development phase

A Domain Specific Language for Android touch events: Part 2: Construction and inner workings

6 Dec 2013 by Serge Desmedt

Conception of a DSL for creating touch gestures in Android.

Suggesting user whenever he uses editText

16 Mar 2013 by Michael Haephrati

Sure. What you need is called AutoComplete text. This is text suggested to the user based on the first few letters typed, which takes into consideration possible suggestions you include, or previous text typed.public class CountriesActivity extends Activity { protected void...

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Reject and Accept an Incoming Call

15 Feb 2014 by Yildirim Kocdag

This article helps you to reject and accept an incoming call for your Android device with functions.

Discovering Three.js with Android and Intel XDK

5 Aug 2014 by Abhishek Nandy

Android app using Intel XDK and three.js Article #3

Android

Mobile

Call web service from Android App

3 Apr 2014 by Volynsky Alex

Let's see here:Access C# .net web service in android[^]Consuming C# web service with android application[^]Good luck Timir

Creating and Invoking an Activity in Droidio (Android Studio)

19 May 2014 by B. Clay Shannon

How to create an Android Activity and its associated Layout file, then invoke (intent) them from another Activity

App Inventor communicating with WCF Service using TinyWebDb interface

2 Sep 2014 by Pavel Sinkevich

Implement TinyWebDb interface on WCF Service to communicate with Android application developed with App Inventor

A beginners Guide to Social Network Integration in Android Apps: Working with Twitter and Facebook

5 Oct 2014 by Grasshopper.iics

A Simple Step By Step Guide to Social Network Integration In Android

What is Android? A technology or an operating system?

23 Sep 2014 by Gihan Liyanage

Android is a mobile operating system (OS) based on the Linux kernel.For More InformationClick this link[^]

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Mobile

Android ADB Commands Using Batch File

10 Oct 2014 by Pavel Durov

This tip will show how to use a batch file for adb commands.

How to Establish a Different Picture of the Android Camera by Image Processing (Gray and Comic)?

19 Jan 2015 by Lai Taiyu

To establish a different picture of the Android camera by image processing (Gray and Comic)

Android* Texture Compression - a comparison study with code sample

20 Jan 2015 by Android on Intel

Android* Texture Compression - a comparison study with code sample

Using the Audio Jack as Data Interface on Android Systems

1 May 2015 by Intel

As one of the interfaces on mobile devices and tablets, the key function of the audio jack is to play music. However, its other usage cannot be ignored—the audio jack can also be used to transmit data.

Android Recycler View with Spinner Item Change Selection and Update UI

25 Sep 2015 by khanzzirfan

This article helps you to understand how to listen to nested controls inside the recycler view and update the view dynamically.

Android Wear Demo App - TodayMenu

19 Jan 2016 by Ranjan.D

It's all about Android Wear Demo App "TodayMenu" implementation

Getting Started With Ionic 4 Cross Platform Android and IOS App

15 Nov 2018 by Zahid Tanveer

Starting with Ionic Framework

Setting Up an Android AI Development Environment

16 Sep 2020 by Joel Ivory Johnson

This is the first in a series of articles on using TensorFlow Lite on Android to bring the power of machine learning and deep neural networks to mobile application

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Android

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neural-network

Lightning Detection with Deep Learning and Tensorflow on Android: Setting Up a TFLite Model

16 Nov 2020 by Ruturaj Raval

In this article we’ll set up the TFLite model in the Android environment and create a working demo application.

Java

XML

Android

artificial-intelligence

text

JSON

AI Hazard Detection on Android with Tensorflow Lite

5 Jan 2021 by Joel Ivory Johnson

This article series will show readers how to create a real-time AI hazard detector using an Android device.

Python

Android

artificial-intelligence

tensorflow

Crash Detection Using the Accelerometer

11 Jan 2021 by Joel Ivory Johnson

In the next entry of the AI Hazard Detection on Android series, we will look at crash detection and notifications.

Python

Android

artificial-intelligence

tensorflow

Using C for Android Development (the Easy Way)

17 Feb 2021 by Gábor Angyal

Binding C structs and functions to Kotlin is easier than you have thought!

Android

Dev

Architect

Azure IoT Central Tester

17 Jan 2022 by Roman Kiss

Design and implementation of small tool, tester for Azure IoT Central

Supporting the Lost Animals Search Service Through a Simple and Useful Mobile App

19 May 2022 by André Marcos (Advisor), GracianoSouza

React Native, Node.js and PostreSQL, a PERN stack to develop an app to support the lost pets searching process

Xamarin and MvvmCross: A Simple Tutorial for Beginners

3 Jan 2018 by NoMoreComputers

Xamarin and MvvmCross: A simple tutorial for beginners

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

13 Mar 2024 by JudyL_MD

Code sample for passing encrypted compressed data between Windows and Android

Java

Android

Windows

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.

Related Android Application

1 Dec 2011 by Manfred Rudolf Bihy

There are several approaches to what you seek:My First Android App[^] A CP article by Hussain Attiya[^]My first android app[^]How to write Google Android application[^]For the more visually inclined: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPxrwa9CXZk[^]I'd bet if you searched some more...

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Mobile

How to access network speed when playing video in Android Platform

25 Dec 2011 by tojine

As MediaPlayer of Android has no API to know the buffering time, I just only access the speed of network via reading the linux proc file(/proc/net/dev) to enable the UI displaying the download speed

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how to use wildcard characters to fetch sim contacts in android java

30 May 2012 by Maciej Los

Based on this article[^] i think you should use DISPLAY_NAME.More at: http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/contacts.html[^]Additional...

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Android

Mobile

Touch handling in Android

18 Oct 2012 by Serge Desmedt

Touch handling in Android.

Java

Android

Mobile

How can I donate for the author?

15 Oct 2012 by OriginalGriff

We do not require donations for material posted here (see the TaC of the CPOL: http://www.codeproject.com/info/cpol10.aspx[^])If you want to make a donation to an author because you seriously appreciate the effort he has put in, then you should discuss that with him, via the messages section...

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Mobile

Siminov Hybrid ORM - Object-relational Mapping (Android + Phonegap)

7 Jul 2013 by Siminov Framework

Siminov makes an application developer's life easy and simple by mapping JavaScript/Java objects to a relational database.

Java

Android

Mobile

Android: Activity Life Cycle

4 Sep 2013 by Satyam A.

Here we see how Android Activity LifeCycle works.

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Android

Mobile

Developing Sensor Applications on Intel® Atom™ Processor-Based Android* Phones and Tablets

1 Dec 2013 by Android on Intel

This guide provides application developers with an introduction to the Android Sensor framework and discusses how to use some of the sensors that are generally available on phones and tablets based on the Intel® Atom™ processor.

How to equally divide the table layout height to table rows in programmatically

2 Jan 2014 by Frugge

Hi,I have the exact same problem. :DIt seems, that the weight parameter in a TableRow is just not considered when adding the row to a TableLayout in code.In a static XML-layout-file it works.Update 1I found the solution here!The key sentence is "A widget must have the...

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.

Creating a Simple Hello World Android Project

3 Aug 2014 by Sivamurugan Perumal

Create a simple Hello world android project with Android Studio run in emulator and depoly on Mobile Device

Android

Mobile

Sample Codes for Video 3D on Android

14 Aug 2014 by Android on Intel

In Android, it is very easy to create an app that can play video clips; it is also easy to create a game app with 3D graphic surface. But it is not straightforward to create an app that can play video on a 3D graphic object. This article describes an app I created with the goal of meeting this chall

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Mobile

Intel for Android* Developers Learning Series #11: OpenGL ES* Support, Performance, and Features for Android* on the Intel® Atom™ Processor

14 Aug 2014 by Android on Intel

The standard API for 3D graphics on Android is OpenGL ES, which is the most widely used 3D graphics API on all mobile devices today.

Exploration with Intel XDK

24 Aug 2014 by Abhishek Nandy

Article 5 for Android Tutorial Contest

HTML

Android

Mobile

Building Maintainable Android Applications

15 Sep 2014 by Cindy Potvin

How to build maintainable Android applications

Android

Mobile

maintainability

(Wildcard entry)Android Text to speech synthesis with Listview arrays with toast

5 Oct 2014 by Prilvesh K

(Wildcard entry)Android Text to speech synthesis with Listview arrays with toast

Java

Android

Mobile

Generator for SQLite Use in Android

13 Nov 2014 by A.Ebrahimi

Tools introduction for Android developers who use SQlite in coding

Android

Mobile

SQLite

Using Hardware Keys on Android for Security Apps

20 Apr 2015 by jit_knit

Using Hardware Keys on Android for Security Apps

Java

Android

Mobile

Creating a mobile app with Famo.us and ManifoldJS

2 Jul 2015 by Dave_Voyles

In short, I wanted to determine if Famo.us does actually have great mobile performance, as well as have an understanding of how straightforward the process was for packaging my web application as mobile app.

Which is better Unity or Xamarin

2 Sep 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

First of all you need to understand the basic different between them so that you can choose which one to use in your case. First of all, Unity3D is a gaming engine and Xamarin is a cross-platform application development framework. Although there purpose is same, but their functionality and...

Beginning Hybrid Mobile App Development with Corona SDK - Display Objects

14 Sep 2015 by Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Display objects and get user input with Corona SDK and Lua

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.

Java

Android

Mobile

WebView JS Bridge - Android

11 Dec 2015 by Swagat Parida

WebView JS Bridge - Android

Android

Mobile