Hi all….. In this post I will show you a simple animation using a textView. It’s really simple. Steps. 1. Create a fresh project and copy this java code into it. 2. Create a folder named “anim” inside the res folder and create a file named “animation.xml” and copy this code into it. 3. copy… Read More »
The FlowLayout class puts components in a row, sized at their preferred size. Creates a new flow layout manager with the indicated alignment and the indicated horizontal and vertical gaps. The hgap and vgap arguments specify the number of pixels to put between components. The output window look like this
Hello all…….. In today’s post I will show you send mail from an android application progrmatically.. Let’s go to the code fast…… This is the code in the mail java file…. Now the layout file (main.xml) The AndroidManifest.xml Note: However if you test this in your emulator, it will not work. Install it in your… 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 »
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 »
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 »
When a new sms message is received by the device, a Broadcast Receiver is registered. For this IntentFilter filter = new IntentFilter(SMS_RECEIVED); registerReceiver(receiver_SMS, filter); should be included . Also sms are sent in PDU’s(Protocol Description Units) format, which act as an encapsulation. Inorder to extract from PDU to byte array messages[i] = SmsMessage.createFromPdu((byte[]) pdus[i]); method… Read More »
Hi all…… This is a simple example to create and delete a directory in ANDROID. Here the directly is created in the SDCARD. So first create an SDCARD and start the emulator with the SDCARD. Let’s look at the program. Use can use this program to create or delete a file in ANDROID also. main.xml… Read More »
Hi all, In today’s tutorial I will show you how to send an image to server using POST method in ANDROID. Uploading an image to server is a basic requirement in many of our application. Sending data to server which is using a PHP Script is already explained in this example . Now in this… Read More »
A series of frames is drawn one after the other at regular intervals. For this create a xml which contains ImageView for showing the animation The main java file is Next the main part, an xml which holds each image and duration in which each image shows. The xml should be placed inside drawable folder… 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 »
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 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 »
In this post, we will have a list whose rows are made up of image, Here we just supply data to the adapter and helping the adapter to create a View objects for each row The output will be For this first create a xml file to hold the listview The next objective is to… Read More »
What is context menu? Where it is used? How it is used? I will cover all these questions… Context Menu A context menu is conceptually similar to the menu displayed when the user performs a “right-click” on a PC. You should use a context menu to provide the user access to actions that pertain to… Read More »
ListView is like a tableView in iPhone or iOS . In this example i will show you how to add a String Array in to the ListView and also make the listView Scrollable. First the xml file . Here the line android:scrollbars=”vertical” will make the scrolling vertically Now the java file The screen will be… Read More »
GridViews are those in which you can arrange elements in a two dimensional grid. It is what you see in the gallery where images are arranged. Here images are arranged in a two dimensional grid. Copy the below code and save it as “MyGridView.java” Now create another file named “Images.java” and copy the below code… Read More »
Creating a JMenubar is simple. JMenuBar menubar = new JMenuBar(); JMenu menu1 = new JMenu(“File”); JMenu menu2= new JMenu(“Help”); file = new JMenuItem(“Exit to menu”); edit = new JMenuItem(“Exit”); JMenuItem about = new JMenuItem(“About us”); f.setJMenuBar(menubar); menu1.add(file); menu1.add(edit); menu2.add(about); menubar.add(menu1); menubar.add(menu2); file.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) { //Action…… } }); edit.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {… Read More »
Progress bars are our basic needs when we want to show something for a long time or some progress takes a long time and we want to show it’s progress. Keeping that in mind ANDROID also has built in progress views. There are basically two types of progress views in ANDROID. ProgressDialog.STYLE_SPINNER and ProgressDialog.STYLE_HORIZONTAL Take… Read More »
Methods and variables can be ‘override’ in subclasses. (Yes, it’s a good feature too!). But what if we don’t want to ‘override’ our Methods and Variables in Java? It’s simple… Declare them using the keyword ‘final’ as modifier. That’s it. eg: So the value of myVariable can never be changed any way. Also for Classes/Methods.… Read More »
This is a simple custom exception in java. That is, we can create an exception by extending the exception class. The “throw new MyExcep” will throw an exception and the error message we specified will be displayed import java.lang.Exception; @SuppressWarnings(“serial”) class MyExcep extends Exception { MyExcep(String Errormsg) { super(Errormsg); // call Exception class error message… Read More »
MediaPlayer class can be used to play Audio in ANDROID. See how to do this.
This example shows how a simple java abstract class works Here “Shape” is the abstract class abstract class Shape { abstract void initial(); // methods only defined….. abstract void display(); } class cube extends Shape { void initial() // Abstract Methods defined…. { System.out.println(“Hello !! “); } void display() { System.out.println(“How are you?”); } }… Read More »
This code helps you to customize the spinner in ANDROID. For that you have to create an XML file inside your layout folder as shown below and name it spinner.xml. You can give all properties that are available for TextView inside this which is going to be then applied for your spinner. Now I will… Read More »