Android development tutorials. Bigger content articles that aim to help one achieve or learn something in a guided/step by step pace.
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 search across text data and can produce results significantly faster. See sqlite.org for information about FTS3 and […]
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, in my case, was to add the footer and just after it to remove it,
[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 Tutorial so I will put in this post only the code.TCP SERVER IN JAVA1. Create a
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 Intel Atom x86 Emulator. Step 1: Enable Intel Virtualization from BIOS Step 2: Install the
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” in Android development. In the first place you need to learn Java, but if you
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 to res – layout – main.xml and put the following code: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <ScrollView
In this tutorial I will show you how to make some custom states which will be used on an ImageButton. Of course, this states could be used for edit text and other too, but in my example I will use ImageButton :) 1. After you create a new project with the main activity called “MyActivity”
In Android you can pull out the database only from emulator (you could pull out the database from a phone/device only if it is rooted). So if you want to pull out the database from emulator you should use ddms (ddms is located in Android sdk folder e.g. my Android folder is installed ProgramFiles so
In this tutorial I will present you how to hide the android soft keyboard and how to show it too. You might need to hide the keyboard, if, for example, you will have to put a limit of characters that can be introduced into the EditText and want to hide the keyboard when the number
For my project I had to add a feature where the user should use two fingers and tap with both of them at the same time in order to show view. this behaviour is not very common on Android but I had to implement it anyway. So after I did some research, and tried multiple
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
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
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” >
In this tutorial I will show how to use a database in Android by creating the tables and columns using the SQLite Database Browser.1. So the first step is to download the SQLite Database Browser2. Make a new project and name the main java class that generates with the project “MyActivity”. 3. Now you have to go
