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Half Dozen Hello Worlds Part 1 – Your First Android Project
Hello World is a traditional first program because it shows the very simple task of letting the user know you are there (or letting them know that you know that they are there). It’s simple I/O to...
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Half Dozen Hello Worlds Part 2 – Using Layout XML
This is part 2 of a multipart series that looks at some basic Android I/O using some simple Hello World programs. If you haven’t already read it you should probably start with Part 1. For this part...
View ArticleHalf Dozen Hello Worlds Part 3 – Using Popup Notifications
This is part 3 of a multi-part series that looks at some basic Android I/O using simple Hello World programs. At this point I’ll assume you know how to make a new Android Project in Eclipse as that was...
View ArticleHalf Dozen Hello Worlds Part 4 – Android Text to Speech
This is part 4 of a multi-part series that looks at some basic Android I/O using simple Hello World programs. At this point I’ll assume you know how to make a new Android Project in Eclipse as that was...
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Lots of Lists: Part 1, Simple List Activity
In most mobile applications, you’re going to be presenting your users a list of something. Most of the time, it’s not as simple as an array of strings; your data may be stored away in a local Sqlite...
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Half Dozen Hello Worlds Part 5 – Android and OpenGL
This is the last post of the series “Half Dozen Hello Worlds” where we explored different ways of communicating with Android users. Part 1 used a simple TextView widget to display “Hello World” on the...
View ArticleAndroid Layout Tutorial
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...
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Half Dozen Hello Worlds Part 6 – Opening Activities
Our final article in the Half Dozen Hello Worlds will introduce you to activities. What is an activity? It is a single screen that a user interacts with on their Android device. You’ve actually been...
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Lots of Lists: Part 2, List with custom objects and adapter
Note: This is part two of a tutorial series. Each part can be read independently, but you can find the other tutorials at the bottom of this article In Part 1 of Lots of Lists, we examined how easy it...
View ArticleUsing Android Intents Tutorial
Intents are just what they sound like, a way to declare to the Android Framework what you intend to do. This can be starting a specific activity, or it can be just asking Android to find some program...
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