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Android and Java sockets – simple messenger

December 30, 2013

android, client, connection, java, messenger, server, socket, sockets, source code, tcp

Hello all, as you requested in the previous TCP server-client tutorials, I made a new tutorial on how to create multiple client connections to a single server. I posted the projects on GitHub here for you so I will post…

Android Studio Graddle, add GooglePlayServices library

August 25, 2013

Catalin Prata

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Nowadays, everything is in a continuous change, so I don’t know if you heard about this, but the android team moved to a new build system named Gradle. Also the Android team moved from supporting Eclipse as IDE to Android…

Android: Send SMS to Emulator

August 10, 2013

Laura Suciu

android, emulator, emulator capabilities, send sms, sms, telnet

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The Android emulator has support for receiving text messages. You can send a SMS to an emulator by using the command line. So the first step is: 1. Be sure you have the Telnet Client feature on To enable the…

Android: ListView with SearchView

August 4, 2013

Laura Suciu

android SearchView, FTS3, ListView, search

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In this tutorial I will present you how to use the SearchView using FTS3. If your data is stored in a SQLite database on the device, performing a full-text search (using FTS3, rather than a LIKE query) can provide a more robust…

Android ExpandableListView Add Footer Dynamically

April 6, 2013

Laura Suciu

android, ExpandableListView, footer, ListView

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Hi, recently I ran into a problem with footer view on an ExpandableListView. I wanted to add a footer view only when I would have needed it. I tried many ways to achieve this, but the only way that worked,…

Android TCP Connection Enhanced

March 31, 2013

Laura Suciu

Android client, client, connection, Java Server, Manifest, server, socket, sockets, tcp

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[postad] I made a new TCP Java server that supports now also multiple connections, please check it out here!We decided to make a separate post for this enhanced TCP Connection. You will still be able to see the old TCP Connection…

Android Get A Faster Emulator

March 30, 2013

Laura Suciu

android emulator, ARM, emulator, faster emulator, Google APIs, HAXM driver

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The native emulator is very slow in Android. But, you can make a faster emulator using Intel Atom x86, but only if your computer has an Intel processor. Now, you have to follow some steps in order to use the…

First Steps In Learning Android

March 30, 2013

Laura Suciu

android, first project, Hello World, learn Android, startup

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If you want to start learning Android, but you don’t know where to start, what you should install or what do you need to know, you need to read this tutorial :D. I will show you the first “baby steps”…

Android Add Views into a ViewGroup Dynamically

February 10, 2013

Laura Suciu

android, inflate, inflate view, LinearLayout, ListView, ScrollView, TextView, ViewGroup

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As Android developer you will surely need someday to add views dynamically, instead of creating a ListView. I will show you in this tutorial how to do this 🙂 1. Create a new project and call your activity “MyActivity” 2. Go…