Here is a simple example in which we will save or retain the state of the progress using fragments. Note : We have handle a configuration by another way – by ignoring the change i.e using this property in the activity tag android:configChanges=”” By using this android ignores the configuration change and will never try… Read More »
Sometimes you have the need to set up some app-wide configuration information in an Android app or need to create a class that can be used in multiple projects with a generic way of setting configuration values. This is particularly useful for things like API keys that will probably be different across apps but should… Read More »
Hello all we all know what are content providers right? Those who are unaware of content providers please visit this link http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-providers.html In a breif content Providers are Content providers manage access to a structured set of data. They encapsulate the data, and provide mechanisms for defining data security. Content providers are the standard interface… Read More »
Here are Galaxy note 3 specs. General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 3G Network HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 4G Network LTE SIM Micro-SIM Announced 2013, September Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2013, September Body Dimensions 151.2 x 79.2 x 8.3 mm (5.95 x 3.12 x 0.33… Read More »
WI-Fi Direct 1080p video recording for stock Android devices Improved error correction on the keyboard You can directly access the apps from the lock screen Upgraded copy and paste functionality Support for the WebP image format Hardware acceleration of the universal Interface Soft buttons from Android 3.x are now available for use on phones Widgets… Read More »
Hi all if you have been a regular visitor of this website you have seen that I have shown you how to create a simple widget, adding controls to it, adding event handlers in the views etc… Do check this website for more tutorials on widgets. You can find other tutorials by following this LINK.… Read More »
Hi all This example shows you how to load large images in the gridview without any lag or without outofmemory error. This sample application uses the LruCache to hold the images. A cache that holds strong references to a limited number of values. Each time a value is accessed, it is moved to the head… Read More »
Memory Heap Size Android is a full multitasking system so it’s possible to run multiple programs at the same time and obviously each one can’t use all of your device memory. For this reason there is a hard limit on your Android application’s heap size: if your application needs to allocate more memory and you… Read More »
Hello all I am back with fragments again. I know you have seen a lot of posts on fragments and fragment animation. This one will be another useful post for you. This post helps you to show a FlipCard animation using Fragments. Let us see how can we do this. At first I will show… Read More »
The Android system tries to maintain an application process for as long as possible, but eventually needs to remove old processes to reclaim memory for new or more important processes. To determine which processes to keep and which to kill, the system places each process into an “importance hierarchy” based on the components running in… Read More »
To build multilingual Android apps you need to collect the texts into resource files and translate them. Once you provide the translation, Android OS will choose the resources that match user’s locale. If your application is available in several languages, Android will select the language that the device uses. In this tutorial, we’ll cover: Application… Read More »
Service is a base class of service implementation. Service class is run in the application’s main thread which may reduce the application performance. Thus, IntentService, which is a direct subclass of Service is borned to make things easier. The IntentService is used to perform a certain task in the background. Once done, the instance of… Read More »
Service is like an Activity but has no interface. Probably if you want to fetch the weather for example you won’t create a blank activity for it, for this you will use a Service. A Thread is a Thread, probably you already know it from other part. You need to know that you cannot update… Read More »
Hey everyone…….Hope all are well….. This post is about Android Widgets. This is going to be one of the bigger posts in Coderzheaven. This posts helps you to handle multiple instances of a Widget. Many of our problem is to identify different instances of the same widget. But there is a solution to this problem.… Read More »
Hello all…… This post examples how to get an edittext value from a dialog fragment. You can use the same method to get a button click from a dialog or events like that. You can click on the download link to get the source code. At first we will create a layout for the Dialog… Read More »
Navigation Drawer The navigation drawer is a panel that transitions in from the left edge of the screen and displays the app’s main navigation options. Displaying the navigation drawer Creating a Navigation Drawer The user can bring the navigation drawer onto the screen by swiping from the left edge of the screen or by touching… Read More »
Hello all We all have seen toasts right…ok then you have already customized your toasts right. Here I will show you a method to create toasts which will last the time you set and the gravity. You can download the code by clicking on the download links. This is the class that creates the toast… Read More »
Hello all We have seen many examples of how to use fragments in android. You can search coderzheaven for all types of transactions using Fragments. Today in this post we will see how we can apply animations to Fragments when pushing on to a stack. This is fairly a long example. I will try to… Read More »
Hello all I think you all know about the context menu in android. It appears as a popup when you long press something. Fragment also provides some methods for registering with the contextmenu and showing it. Let’s see how we can do it. You can click on the download links to download the source code.… Read More »
This post Demonstrates a fragment that can be configured through both Bundle arguments and layout attributes. You can click on the links to download the source code. Here there are two fragments in the layout, one is directly in the layout and the other is created dynamically with arguments at runtime. Here is how we… Read More »
Hello everyone This posts helps you to hide and show a fragment with animation (without XML files animation). And also it shows how to retain a saved state(for eg: a value in a textview). A little about Fragments A Fragments is an independent component which can be connected to an activity. A Fragment typically defines… Read More »
Analysts are saying that Google play store will be the most popular platform for downloading mobile apps in the next few months. History of Google Play Google Play, formerly known as the Android Market, is a digital application distribution platform for Android and an online electronics store developed and maintained by Google. The service allows… Read More »
This example shows you how to create animation using the default XML tag in a gridview. This application demonstrates how to use the animateLayoutChanges tag in XML to automate transition animations as items are removed from or added to a container. Click on the download link to get the source code. Let’s have a look.… Read More »
Actually this is fairly simple. Android by default provides a SearchView class that has the ability to filter. Just look at the XML layout that I am using in this post. It consists of a SearchView and a ListView. The searchView searches the listview for the matched content. Click on the link below to download… Read More »
Google bought Motorola in 2011 and ever since there has not been a phone from Google and Motorola. Now it is that Google will be unveiling Moto X to take on rival Apple. iPhone overprice tag has not come down since its launch in 2007. This will be a area where Google and Motorola will… Read More »