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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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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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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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Android Database Tutorial

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

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Android TCP Connection Tutorial

In this tutorial we will make a TCP Connection. The server will be written in Java and the client will be written in Android. Actually it will be a very simple messenger client. Note: Now we have an enhanced version of TCP Connection here, but it’s just the code. For more details and explanations you still

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Android ListView with ViewHolder Tutorial

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple ListView with a custom ListAdapter. But first, let’s see why to use ListView. Why shouldn’t we use ScrollView instead, regarding that it’s easier to create? Well your questions are good ones :) . The advantage of the ListView is that it uses an

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Add image to email intent in Android

How to add image to an email intent in Android: // build a email sending intent Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND); emailIntent.setType(“image/png”); // set the email subject emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, “email subject”); // set the email image path for the attachment emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse(“file://” + mEmailImagePath)); // set the body of the email emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, “some text message”);

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How to Add AdMob to Android [Deprecated]

NOTE 1: This tutorial is now deprecated. See this one instead! NOTE 2:  This project is made in Intellij. For those who use Eclipse or other IDE the integration of AdMob library will differ. You can use AdMob lib only on at least Android v3.2 (Api Level 13), so you must compile your project on

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Tutorial

Android LayoutInflater Turorial

In this tutorial I will show you how to use the LayoutInflater in Android.1. Make a new project (I called my project InflaterExample and my main Activity it’s called “MyActivity”) 2. Go to res – layout – main.xml and put an id called “main_layout_id” <LinearLayout xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” android:orientation=”vertical” android:layout_width=”fill_parent” android:layout_height=”fill_parent” android:id=”@+id/main_layout_id”> </LinearLayout> 3. Go to res

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