Category Archives: ANDROID

Date and TimePicker in ANDROID.

By | April 12, 2012

The following code simply allows you to select a date and time using the datepicker and timepicker in ANDROID.

Copying an image to another in ANDROID.

By | June 17, 2012

Here is a simple example to copy an image to another image file in ANDROID. In this example a button click will open the gallery and after that it will be copied to another image file. You have to check the File-explorer to find the file. This is the java code for doing it. here… Read More »

Sprite Animations Without Sprite Sheets

By | April 7, 2012

You can simulate any animations if you have a sequence of images which makes the illusion of that animations and rendering those images to the screen. In cocos2D it can be done in two ways, with sprite sheet animation and without sprite sheets. Here we are going to see how it can be done with… Read More »

Sprite Animations Without Sprite Sheets

By | June 28, 2012

You can simulate any animations if you have a sequence of images which makes the illusion of that animations and rendering those images to the screen. In cocos2D it can be done in two ways, with sprite sheet animation and without sprite sheets. Here we are going to see how it can be done with… Read More »

Sprite Animations Without Sprite Sheets

By | April 7, 2012

You can simulate any animations if you have a sequence of images which makes the illusion of that animations and rendering those images to the screen. In cocos2D it can be done in two ways, with sprite sheet animation and without sprite sheets. Here we are going to see how it can be done with… Read More »

How to use CCProgressTimer in Cocos2D to show progress?

By | June 28, 2012

The progress timer takes a sprite and, based on a percentage, displays only a part of it to visualize some kind of progress in your game. You can choose between radial, vertical, and horizontal progress timers. But the timer doesn’t update itself. You have to change the timer’s percentage value frequently to update the progress.

Sprite Animations Without Sprite Sheets

By | April 7, 2012

You can simulate any animations if you have a sequence of images which makes the illusion of that animations and rendering those images to the screen. In cocos2D it can be done in two ways, with sprite sheet animation and without sprite sheets. Here we are going to see how it can be done with… Read More »

Switch Images in ANDROID.

By | May 1, 2012

Hi all …….. Ofter we have trouble with loading continous images in ANDROID from our application directory. The reason is that all resources have a unique resource ID which we need to get to load these resources. The following example shows how to get these unique identifier from the “path” of the resource. For example… Read More »

How to create shortcut for your application in the Desktop in Android?

By | April 7, 2012

Shortcuts are really useful feature in android. This example also explains how to create shortcut for your app in the desktop of your android phone. This is the complete code of an application which creates a shortcut of this app in the homescreen. Note : You need to add permission for this to work. Now… Read More »

Creating Menu in Iphone Cocos2D or Box2D?

By | April 3, 2012

Use CCMenuItemSprite and CCMenu in iPhone to create menu. call this function to set up the menu for your home page in your iPhone game or you can change this code directly to ANDROID and it will work. Make sure you have all the images mentioned in the above example. This menu will appear on… Read More »

Creating Menu in Iphone Cocos2D or Box2D?

By | June 27, 2012

Use CCMenuItemSprite and CCMenu in iPhone to create menu. call this function to set up the menu for your home page in your iPhone game or you can change this code directly to ANDROID and it will work. Make sure you have all the images mentioned in the above example. This menu will appear on… Read More »

Creating Menu in Iphone Cocos2D or Box2D?

By | April 3, 2012

Use CCMenuItemSprite and CCMenu in iPhone to create menu. call this function to set up the menu for your home page in your iPhone game or you can change this code directly to ANDROID and it will work. Make sure you have all the images mentioned in the above example. This menu will appear on… Read More »

Creating Menu in Iphone Cocos2D or Box2D?

By | April 3, 2012

Use CCMenuItemSprite and CCMenu in iPhone to create menu. call this function to set up the menu for your home page in your iPhone game or you can change this code directly to ANDROID and it will work. Make sure you have all the images mentioned in the above example. This menu will appear on… Read More »

Uploading audio, video or image files from Android to server

By | January 9, 2018

Hello everyone, Check out the popular posts from Coderzheaven.com Uploading and Downloading of files – Popular and Useful posts from CoderzHeaven In one of the previous posts I have shown one method to upload an image in android. Here is another method to upload a media file like images,audio or video in android. Here is… Read More »

Passing data between Intents or classes in ANDROID?

By | March 29, 2012

Many of our application reqiures sending data from one intent to another. This is done by putting data into one intent using putExtras() and getting it in the other intent using the getExtras() which matches the string value. However you can pass string, boolean, integer etc between intents. For passing data between intents you need… Read More »

How to invoke a phone call in ANDROID?

By | March 29, 2012

The following code helps you to invoke a phone call in ANDROID without any user interaction. This code uses intent to start the activity. You know that intent can be used to start another acitivty from with in an application. Dialing a number is done using this code… and Calling number using

Custom Indeterminate progressBar for android?

By | May 7, 2013

Hello everyone… Today we will see how to customize an indeterminate progressBar in android. For that we have to create an xml with a progress animation.For this I used these three images Inside the folder res/drawable create an xml named “progress_indeterminate_horizontal.xml” and copy this code into it Now the layout file containing the progressBar.I named… Read More »

How to check whether an application is installed in your ANDROID Phone?

By | March 28, 2012

This sample code comes handy when you have to check that an application is already installed in your ANDROID Phone. Call the below function appInstalledOrNot() with the package name of the app installed on the ANDROID Device as a string parameter. This function returns true if the app is installed otherwise returns false.

Starting with NDK for Android – A Simple example. OR How to run a C code in android?

By | May 7, 2013

Hello Friends…. Today I am going to talk about how to use ndk in android to run c code. Note : These steps are for Mac and Linux Users not for Windows users. Follow these step exactly to set up and run ndk in android. 1. I think that you are having your eclipse and… Read More »

How to save CheckBox values in SQlite Database and Load it later?

By | May 7, 2013

Hello…….. This post is just a simple demonstration to show a way to store a checkbox value in a database and reload it. Here I am storing only a value of a single checkbox and reloading it. But you can make changes in the code to save the id and value of the checkbox in… Read More »