Now that we’ve got some planning underway, let’s get to work. The first piece is the homescreen of the app. Let’s take a look at that mock-up we drew earlier: Before we do any work on making that app happen, let’s have a quick crash course in Android layout development. Android layouts can be designed in ...
development, android, planning, tutorial, HGI Many people ask me how to get started in Android application development. As a result, I’ve always wanted to write a tutorial for Android beginners to help them accomplish that. Such an undertaking is easier said than done, but here it goes. For this tutorial, I’m mixing media types. I go over some of the important stuff ...
At Google I/O today, Android 2.2 (FroYo) was announced. News about the software and its features have been leaking for a little while now, so the move came as no surprise. What was useful about this release, is that we now know what features are included in the newest iteration of the Android ...
As promised, here’s part two of my coverage on layouts in Android. Lets pick up where we left off, namely we just created a main.xml file for layout of our temperature conversion application. So you know what we’re trying to achieve here, here’s a screenshot of the final product. I know what you’re thinking. That’s ...
Android Development Corner, ProgrammingNow that I’ve bored you to death with details about how Android programming works, lets actually put something together, shall we? This post will deal mainly with creating layouts in Android and will finish up with a sample layout for our Temperature Conversion project. For what Google has to say about layouts check out their developers ...
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