For AT&T customers eying one of Nokia’s Windows Phone 7 devices as an upgrade, Amazon is offering the stylish new Lumia 900 on the cheap… real cheap. So cheap, in fact, you have to wonder what’s up. Are Nokia’s phones failing on the market even though they’re getting great reviews? Or is Microsoft merely trying… Read More »
The source code dropped for six different model numbers, listed here: Galaxy Tab 2 7″ GT-P3100 GT-P3110 GT-P3113 Galaxy Tab 2 10.1″ GT-P5100 GT-P5110 GT-P5113
Here are my choice of some of the best phones in android market today. 1. Sony ericsson Xperia Neo. We know Sony always makes stylish phones. Here is another stylish phone from Sony Ericsson. Specifications. GENERAL 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100 HSDPA 850 /… Read More »
Hello all.. This post is also about how to sign an android apk to publish it to the android market. I have already shown another method to sign the apk, which is through the command line. How to sign an android APK ? – a simplest way Here is another simple method without using the… Read More »
According to sources, the specs of the Samsung Galaxy S III have been leaked on the Web. These are some of the features from the sources.. A 4.8-inch full HD 1080P resolution with 16:9 aspect ratio. It will be powered by a 1.8GHz quad-core Samsung Exynos processor. Features a front facing 2 MP camera for… Read More »
Actually this is really simple. I have already posted an example for how to download a file in this post. How to Download an image in ANDROID programatically? This is another one little different with a progressbar included. Previously I have shown three other methods to upload files to a server. Check these posts to… Read More »
Hello everyone… I have already shown you how to override default animation between activities. Today I will show a zoom in and out animation between activities. Take a look at this post for another animation between activities. Create files named zoom_enter.xml and zoom_exit.xml in the res/anim folder. zoom_enter.xml file contents. zoom_exit.xml file contents. Now replace… Read More »
This is a sample code to move a body in Box2D . First you have to make a body with variable name “moving_rec” and call the below function in a schedular at regular intervals. -(void) moveBody{ b2Vec2 force = b2Vec2(0,0); force = b2Vec2(0,3); //Giving the x an y to negative will move the body in… Read More »
Hi, For pausing a cocos2D game, then use the following line of code. For resuming a cocos2D game, then use this line of code.
I ran into problem when I had multiple C files in my project. Single C file was OK for me. I was getting undefined reference error while doing this. Then I found out the solution after a lot of search in google. You can check this post before going through this post. This is about… Read More »
Hello all…. This post is also about uploading an image to server from your android device. Previously I have shown three other methods to upload an image to a server. Check these posts to refer this. 1. Uploading audio, video or image files from Android to server 2. How to Upload Multiple files in one… Read More »
More than usually we need to apply the functions of Pause and Resume/Play for our games. In Mac’s cocos2D programming it’s more than simple. Simply use the following code for Pause & Resume where ever you want! /*For Pausing the game*/ [[CCDirector sharedDirector] pause]; [self pauseSchedulerAndActions]; //Call for pausing all schedulers and actions /*For Resuming/Playing… Read More »
Complex JSON String parsing in ANDROID http://www.coderzheaven.com/2011/06/10/complex-json-string-parsing-in-android/ Parsing JSON Object in ANDROID. http://www.coderzheaven.com/2011/06/09/parsing-json-objects-in-android/
If you are writing memory consuming applications there is a bigger chance that your application may be running out of memory after sometime. So there are some methods in android that invokes the garbage collector explicitly. See the following function which invokes the garbage collector to free a lot of memory. A little explanation about… Read More »
This is a simple example showing how to use tabbars in ANDROID. First create a new project and copy this code to it. Now create three another java files by right clicking the src folder and name it FirstTab.java, SecondTab.java, ThirdTab.java. Now copy the following code to FirstTab.java. SecondTab.java Now ThirdTab.java. Main.xml file AndroidManifest.xml You… Read More »
Hi all….. In this post I will show you how to read a text file in ANDOID. Let your file is in the your application sandbox of your ANDOID project, i.e the file’s location is /data/data/your_package_name folder. To view this folder -> open File Explorer and expand each folder. For this example to work first… Read More »
Hello all.. I have shown two other examples for creating a connection between android and php. But still users are finding difficulty in grasping it. These are other posts. Android phpMysql connection. Android phpmySQL connection redone. Here is one more post on this which is even more detailed. OK we will start now. First create… Read More »
Hi all In this tutorial I will show you how to get an image from your phone gallery and show it in an imageview.Here we use intents to open up the image gallery and get the image URI. Demo Watch Video Tutorial Steps : Ask storage permission from the user if the… Read More »
CCWaves is one of the interesting functionalities in Cocos2D iphone. Check out this following snippet to see how it works. Please leave your valuable comments on this post………………….
Hello all.. This simple example will show you how to change the hint text color in android Here is the java code to simply do this. here is a sample project to view the difference. This is the contents of the main java file. The main.xml file Here I am setting a read color to… Read More »
Set background color to magenta. CCColorLayer* colorLayer = [CCColorLayer layerWithColor:ccc4(255, 0, 255, 255)]; [self addChild:colorLayer z:0]; //Changing the color of a sprite…. ((CCSprite*)node).color = ccRED; // This will change the sprite color to RED.
Hello all…… We may need to know that what is your current device orientation. Using the below code you can do this. Note: If you have to explicitly set the orientation of your phone to any of the above you can set this in the appDelegate.m file. You can put an “||” (OR) symbol in… Read More »
Hello all…. I have covered many tutorials on styles on how to implement and use them. Today I will show you how to inherit from other styles or how to extend a style already created by you and use it for applying to other views. Here is one of my previous posts. http://www.coderzheaven.com/2012/02/03/changing-the-style-or-theme-of-default-alertdialog-in-android/ Another one… Read More »
On implementing the onGestureListener you can get the events like Fling LongPress Scroll ShowPress SingleTap Its really simple, otherwise we have to calculate the distance between the touchdown and touchup event to check a fling event is happened or not.
Hello……… Sometimes you may want your body to act against the gravity of the world. One method to do this is described below. First what you have to do is to make a body in the shape of a circle and give it the image of a balloon as the userdata. Then in the tick… Read More »