August 2012

Snippets, Solutions, Tutorial

Android Custom Title Bar (IOS style)

Because the Android default title bar doesn’t look too great, I thought to make a tutorial with a custom title bar that looks like the one from IOS. I do not recommend to use the design from IOS, but maybe someday you will need to make a title bar which looks like the IOS one […]

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Snippets

Set the application icon

To set the application icon in Android you have to open the project’s Manifest.xml file and add the following attribute to the application tag: <application android:icon=”drawable resource”> Before you do that make sure you add the icon image in one of your drawable directories.. If you called your icon: app_icon.png then the application tag should look

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Solutions, Tutorial

Android Broadcast Receiver Example with Parcelable

In this tutorial I will show you how to use Broadcast Receiver and how to use Parcelable too. To do this, we will create an ExpandableList which will have parents and children(they will contain only their names). The children will be an arrayList of strings and because we want to pass this array with an

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Tutorial

Android Expandable List Example

In this tutorial I will show you how to make a simple Expandable List. 1. Create a new project and call your java class(the one that is generated by Eclipse or other IDE) “MyActivity”. 2. Go to res – layout -main.xml and put the following code: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” android:orientation=”vertical” android:layout_width=”fill_parent” android:layout_height=”fill_parent” >

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