android10

Introduction Since I’ve been toying with Android development in the last few months, I’ve been focusing on the Android SDK side of things instead of fundamentals such as project set up, code cleanliness, and testing. This post starts rectifying  [ ... ]

Introduction Perhaps you’ve heard about augmented reality—it’s a hot topic in mobile right now. Learn about what augmented reality is and how you can leverage this technique in your Android applications in this introductory article. Definin [ ... ]

Introduction The Android SDK comes with a wide variety of tool that are intended to help developers create great Android applications. One of these tools is the hierarchy viewer, which allows you to drill down on your app’s layout and see the diff [ ... ]

Introduction This tutorial describes the usage of Threads, Handlers and AsynTask in your application. It also covers how to handle the application lifecycle together with threads. It also describes Traceview to trace an application for performance p [ ... ]

Introduction An Android layout is a class that handles arranging the way its children appear on the screen.  Anything that is a View (or inherits from View) can be a child of a layout. All of the layouts inherit from ViewGroup (which inherits f [ ... ]

Introduction If you’ve spent any time on an Android device, you may have noticed how you can click on little Contact images to launch a toolbar with lots of different actions, such as call, text or email that person. In this Quick Tip, you learn h [ ... ]