Android Development Articles
Browse Android development tutorials, Android app guides, device news, architecture notes, Kotlin, Jetpack, performance, security, and monetization articles.
Featured today
Popular Android apps selected from the current catalog.
Creating Your First Android App
Now, we are going to create our first Android app in the Android development tutorial series. I assume that you've already setup a complete Android development environment and has a basic knowledge on Android application components and activity lifecycle. Its a longstanding tradition that when learning a new programmin
Android Project Structure in Eclipse
In this article, we will examine the Android project structure and file organization in detail, by creating a new Android project in Eclipse. Before that, it will be better to read my earlier post on how to setup a complete Android development environment in the Android development tutorial series. When we start a new
Android Activity Lifecycle – Android Key Concepts
This is my third and final post in the Android key concepts series and the most important one, I think. In this article, we will explore the Android activity lifecycle and various event handlers associated with each stage changes. If you don't know what an Activity in Android is, go to Android application components f
Cheap Android Phones in 2012
Cheap Android phones makes it possible for the low budget peoples to hold an amazing OS which was earlier seen only in high end smartphones. Recently Android powered devices are available in the market for price even less than $100. Now, in the beginning of 2012 we are witnessing a steady flow of cheap Android phones h
Call Log In An Android Application
How to use/access Phone Call Log in Android Application? An Android Application can access the call log of the android phone. This is possible because the call log details are exposed by the Android platform as a content provider. Content Providers in Android allow applications to share data across applications (Refer:
Setup Android Development Environment- Complete Tutorial
Here starts our Android Development tutorial. In this article, you will find how to setup a complete Android Development environment. This includes download, installation and configuration of various software components required to form a complete IDE. As I said in the Introduction, I've tried to keep things as simpl
jQuery for Android – jQueryMobile Framework
jQuery Mobile Framework is a light-weight framework to create HTML5-based interface system, which works seamlessly on various types of mobile device platforms. It is created on top of powerful jQuery and jQuery UI which are known to create high quality, light weight rich internet applications. As with jQuery and jQuery
Top Android Advertising Networks
Top 5 Android Advertising Networks - Read and do some research on each of them and choose the one which best suits for your requirement. It was the mobile advertisement networks that made Mobile App monetizing an easier task. Now there's a bunch of companies offering the mobile advertisement service and the field is n
- Your Quick and Easy Way to Go Self Employed
Is it Like Other Work From Home Schemes? If you had spent some time in the internet searching about online money making, part time job or anything like that, I'm sure that you've landed on several pages that promise you to make you rich within next one week or even the very next day. I can assure you that over 95% of t
How to emulate and use SD card for the Android Emulator
How to emulate an SD card for the Emulator Android application development involves saving files (images, songs etc.) to the emulator and accesses them at runtime. These files should be saved to an SD card on the emulator that can be accessed using "/sdcard". To enable the SD card, first you need to create an SD card i
Ice cream sandwich for HTC Desire- Progress Report
The Beta 0.3.6 version is available for Download at XDA-Developers. Almost all essential functions are working but with some random bugs. Status: Not working: Video recording is a bit choppy Full Hardware Acceleration USB Tethering Working: USB mass storage Camera (partially, video is choppy) WiFi S MS GPS Sound Call
Ice cream sandwich for HTC Desire- Progress Report
The Beta 0.3.6 version is available for Download at XDA-Developers. Almost all essential functions are working but with some random bugs. Status: Not working: Video recording is a bit choppy Full Hardware Acceleration USB Tethering Working: USB mass storage Camera (partially, video is choppy) WiFi S MS GPS Sound Call