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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. ...

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...

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...

Starting Android Development Part 1: Setting Up a Project in Eclipse

December 30, 2009 3 Comments

So, you’ve got an Android Device. You’ve got the SDK set up. Now what? In the next few posts, I’m going to walk you though creating your very own Android application from scratch. To do that, I’m going to assume the following: You have your Android SDK setup You know a little...

Introduction to Android Application Development Part 1: Planning

June 10, 2010 No Comments

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 ...

Android 2.2 Annoucned at Google I/O: What it Means for You

May 20, 2010 2 Comments

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 ...

Importing Source Code into an Android Project

May 13, 2010 No Comments

Bear with me through a hypothetical for a second. Your friend has sent you a .zip file containing the code to his latest Android Application and he wants you to test and otherwise take a look at it for him. How do you get this application on you Android device? How ...

Creating an App Based On Google Maps, Part 2: Setting up the Map View

May 12, 2010 1 Comment

So you’ve got your API key in hand and you’re ready to develop an app. What’s next? We’ll we’ve got to get a Google Map displayed on the screen. This will serve as the base layer for the UI of our map. On top of that, we can plot points, squares, unicorns, or whatever we ...

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