In android with shapes we can create beautiful layouts. Lets look at an example. Create an xml named “gradient.xml” in your drawable folder and copy this code into it. Now the main layout file main.xml The main java file. Done. You can now run the application.
Here is a simple code to get the current time in android in your own format. The output will look like this.
Hello all….. In today’s tutorial I will show you how to create a custom listview in android. For that we need 3java files. One holding the ListView itself another a Model object that holds the data for the listview and the third one for the Adapter which extends the ArrayAdapter class for holding the model.… Read More »
Here is a sample code to get the version of your application in android. Try changing the version in the AndroidManifest file and check the result in the console. Note : “pack.coderzheaven” should be replaced by your application package name.
This example will test whether a service is running in android if you know it’s package name. Run this sample of code to check this.
This is a simple example showing how will you disable any input on your current application screen in android. This is done by showing a transparent overlay dialog on the screen. This is how it is done. The layout for the above java file- main.xml
Hello all.. This is a simple code snippet to enable WI-FI in android programatically in android. Note : Make sure to add the permissions in the manifest file. These are the permissions. Please leave your valuable comments on this post.
Hello everyone, this is a simple example showing how to remove a view in android that is created using your xml file. This is the xml file that contains a TextView Here is the java code for removing this view After running this program you will not see the TextView that was in your layout… Read More »
Hello all.. In today’s tutorial I will show you how to open the wifisettings in android programatically. This code comes handy when the user have not enabled the wifi and you want the user to enable it for your application to work. Here is the code for that. Here is the layout xml- main.xml
Hello everyone today i will show you how to create a splash screen in android. This is one of the simplest ways to create a splash screen however there are another ways to create the splash screen. Lets look at the code. We need two layouts one for the splash screen and another for the… Read More »
This is one of the most useful things in android. We can use the MD5 algorithm to create a hash of any string we want. Here is the code for doing that. Check the LogCat for output. Please leave your valuable comments on this post.
Hello everyone, Today I will give you a simple tip on how to keep your screen on While your application is running in android. In Real devices the problem is you will loose some of the values in your variable when your device goes to sleep mode. To prevent this what we can do is… Read More »
Hello everyone… Today I will show you how to close all views in android in a single click of a button. Basically if you open a number of activities, each activity is stacked one above the other like a stack if you are not calling finish() on each activity. But there is a way to… Read More »
Here is a simple example on using a countdown timer in android. Here is the Layout XML(main.xml)
This sample helps you to find the size of a file in KiloBytes. Here I am pushing a video file on to the device using this method and trying to find it’s size. Make sure you give the exact file name because file name is case sensitive and push the file only in the sdcard… Read More »
Hello everyone , In today’s tutorial I will show you how to how to use RadioButton group in Android. Lets go directly to the code. Let’s see the layout for the RadioGroup first. The file is named main.xml This will create a layout file with a radioGroup with 5 radioButtons and a button to clear… Read More »
Hello everyone, I have shown two methods to upload files in android. In today’s tutorial I will show another simple method to upload files. With this method you can upload multiple files in one request + you can send your own string parameters with them. Here is another method on working with uploading of images.… Read More »
I have already shown how to use seekBar in android. This simple snippet helps you to get the current progress in the seekbar. It’s same code from this post, only thing is I added the getProgress method. Check the Logcat for the current progress or the TextView in which I am showing. Take the xml… Read More »
Here is a simple example to create an autocomplete textView in android. After creating an array of values for the dropdown we will set it as adapter for the textView. Check out the code. Here is the main.xml file
Hello everyone.. I have shown one way to get the deviceID in android in this post. Here are some other ways by which you can get the unique device ID of an android device. First Method… Second Method Third Method Make sure to add this permission in your AndroidManifest file These codes may depend on… Read More »
This is a simple demo on aligning a text in Android. You can check out for more details at the developers site. This code explains how to write a String or text on a canvas and how to give it a custom font or inbuilt font programatically, change the color of the text or canvas… Read More »
This example shows how to record an audio in android and save it in your path and send it as an email attachment. This example is taken from the developers website. Note : You should run this on the device otherwise it will not work. This example will open up an email client after recording… Read More »
Hello everyone……. Today I am going to show you how to set up a repeating alarm in android. In the previous post I showed you how to set up a simple alarm. An in this post I will show you how to set Up a Repeating Alarm. For this you need an extra class just… Read More »
Today in this tutorial I will show you how to use AlarmService in android. For this you have to first create a project named AlarmDemo and copy this code into it. We use the AlarmManager class for creating an Alarm service. Here we are setting the time to 10 seconds so after 10 seconds a… Read More »
Hi, For calling a function after a definite time interval in Cocos2D, use the following code. this will call the function ‘yourFunction’ after 7 seconds. 🙂