When you are working on an Android application that stores data in a SQLite database.There arise many questions like where does this database file get stored on the filesystem ? How can we access the database? I will give solution to all these problems. I created the SQLite database from my previous post about Using… Read More »
Hello ANDROID Lovers…….. In today’s tutorial I will show you how to deal with SQLite Databases in ANDROID. You know that SQLite are Lightweight databases which is maintained only on the client side. They don’t need a server. The SQLite databases are simply a file wrapped around with some stuff which helps us deal with… Read More »
Hi, Sometimes you may need to find the distance between two CGPoint in cocos2D or box2D using Objective C. See the following code to see how you could do that. 🙂
Hi, In most situations we have to use progress bar dialogs, Alert View Dialogs and Our own custom Dialogues in our applications. In most situations the built in dialogs may be enough but in certain other situations we have to build our own dialogs for better user experience. But still there is problem people don’t… Read More »
By adding a custom shape we can make the layout more attractive. For this we have to create a xml file and specify this in the main layout xml file First make a xml inside the drawable folder. Then in the main file specify this shape like this. The “category” is the name of the… Read More »
Hello all….. I have already covered this in another tutorial (click here for that post), but there I didn’t mention this method of simulating a call or SMS in android emulator. Let’s see how to do this… First start your emulator. Wait until it is Home. Then in Eclipse go to DDMS perspective. Look at… Read More »
Hi, How to take screenshot of your application in ANDROID Using Eclipse? It’s really simple … Go to your DDMS perspective On the left side in devices click the screen capture button.
Hi, Sometimes you may want to detect shake gesture in iPhone using your programs. But how can you detect shake gesture in iPhone? Shake gesture in iPhone can be detected by using the accelerometer. The following lines of code can be used for detecting the shake gesture in iPhone. You can use these lines of… Read More »
Hello everyone…… Of course for the above question there are other ways to do it. This is one simple method Start two emulators and call each other, but the problem is it will be time consuming and memory will be consumed. Another method 1. First start your emulator and make sure it’s running. 2. Then… Read More »
Hi, If you are a game developer and you are using box2D for real world simulations, you would probably need a particular body to be removed from the box2D world! But how can you remove box2D body from world ? See the following sample code which does the same. – (void)ccTouchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {… Read More »
Hi all…… Here is a simple example of expandandable ListView in ANDROID. But I am not going to explain any code, because everything is explained inside the java file. Make sure to read it. The main.xml file. The child_row.xml The group_row.xml The strings.xml (This file contains the string for the color that is used for… Read More »
Hello everyone…….. In this simple example I will show you how to use Text To Speech in ANDROID. This is one of the unique features in ANDROID. Unlike iPhone , ANDROID has a built in TTS Library which supports many languages. But iPhone doesn’t have this feature. They have to depend on third-party software for… Read More »
First create a database named “mydatabase” in MySql. Then create a table “tbl_user” with three fields (id, username and password). The next step is to create a php page which will communicate between the MySql database and the android application. For this create a “Connections.php” page as shown below. It will set up a connection… Read More »
Hi, Sometimes you may need to find/search a particular item in NSArray. How can you find whether a particular item is present in NSArray or not? Look at the code below. Here ‘yourArray is your NSArray and ‘containsObject’ returns either TRUE or FALSE and it get stored in ‘testFlag’. 🙂
Hi, Sometimes you may need to empty an NSMutableArray which is already initialized with some objects. You don’t need to release it and again alloc it for future use! You can simply empty an NSMutableArray using the following line of code. [yourArray removeAllObjects]; Here ‘yourArray’ is your NSMutableArray. 🙂
Hi all…. In this tutorial I will teach you how to make use of Gestures in ANDROID and make your own application. Follow the below steps exactly to get an idea of how to use gestures. 1. Make a gesture Library. 2. Add your own gestures into it. 3. Export it to your applications and… Read More »
This simple example makes your activity full screen by hiding the Title-Bar and gives more space for your application. ;
Hi all, In this tutorial I will show you how to get the information about all the applications installed in your ANDROID phone. What you have to do is create a ANDROID project inside the package pack.GetAllInstalledApplications amd name the java file “GetAllInstalledApplicationsExample.java” and copy the following code into it. Here the “getPackageManager().getInstalledPackages(0);” gets information… Read More »
Hi, If you are a game developer then you will always need a sequence of images to be animated & the best way to do it is via sprite sheet animations. But how can a sprite sheet be made? Suppose you have a sequence of images of any animations, how will you convert it into… Read More »
This is a very tricky part and initially i was also ran in to strange problems . Before uploading to android market you must do the following steps. Create a Certificate Signing your application apk Finally Zip align the signed apk First the application you created should be converted to apk format. For this if… Read More »
This code works for all API Levels. The below code works for API level 5 or Higher…..
This is a normal error when you import some project into eclipse. I will show you how to solve this First try cleaning the project from project->Clean. If this didn’t work, then try these Follow these steps 1. Go to Project » Properties » Java Build Path » Libraries and remove all except the “Android… Read More »
This is a normal error when you import some project into eclipse. I will show you how to solve this First try cleaning the project from project->Clean. If this didn’t work, then try these Follow these steps 1. Go to Project » Properties » Java Build Path » Libraries and remove all except the “Android… Read More »
Hi, Suppose you have a sprite sheet of the desired animation you want. But how will you use that sprite sheet animation in your program using cocos2D? That’s simple. See the following code first. Note : But how to make a sprite sheet? That topic can be found here. Making of sprite sheets from individual… Read More »
Hi, If you want to Pause an instance of NSSound which is being played in Cocoa Mac, use the following line of code. [yourSound pause]; ‘yourSound’ is the NSSound Object. Similarlyl for resuming NSSound in cocoa Mac [yourSound resume];