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Starting Android Development Part 3: Layout Tutorial 2

January 6, 2010 2 Comments

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 ...

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Starting Android Development Part 3: Layout Tutorial 1

January 5, 2010 No Comments

Now 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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Starting Android Development Part 2: Project Structure

January 2, 2010 No Comments

In Part One of Starting Android Development, we discussed setting up your project in Eclipse.  Now it’s time to explain exactly what’s going on and how Android development works.  This information will help you keep things in perspective as you program, and it will help you when it comes to debugging time. Let’s take a look ...

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Learn Android Basic Programming Skills via Android Competency Center

August 2, 2009 1 Comment

Here’s a site I’ve enjoyed the use of.  Android Competency Center is a android related blog that focusses on just that; being competent in programming for Android. Tutorials include helpful snippets about: Audio Support in Android Starting Service at Boot SMS Handling via Android API Much More Lately I’ve found myself relying on this site more and more for simple tutorials ...

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Developer Tip #6: Programmatically Reading and Writing From SD Card

July 28, 2009 1 Comment

Here’s a little low-level tutorial that I think will make your lives easier.  What the use in enabling your SD card in a development environment, if you don’t know how to read / write to said drive?  Well have no fear.  Here’s a condensed, simple method for doing just that. private void WriteToFile(String what_to_write) { ...

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