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What is Intent in android?
According to google “an Intent object, is a passive data structure holding an abstract description of an operation to be performed”. intent is a very powerful concept. I have seen following advantages...
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EditText in Android
You are developing game apps, business apps or any app you need EditText widget for taking input from users. Android EditText widget is functionally rich and customizable.I have worked on many...
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Prompt user to enable location providers in Android
Now a days almost every smartphone applications use location based functionalities. But every articles say that disable wifi, 3g, gps etc for battery saving. So for every location based applications...
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Custom Annotation in Android
For definition of java annotation i can’t think a better definition than wikipedia “An annotation, in the Java computer programming language, is a special form of syntactic metadata that can be added...
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What is intent filter in android?
In my previous post, What is Intent in android? I have disused about intents. In that post we have seen that there are two types of intents. 1. Explicit intents: We can call target component by its...
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voice command example using proximity sensor, voice recognizer and TTS in...
In this example we will combine some features of android like proximity sensor, voice recognizer and TTS. Proximity Sensor: is sensor that can recognize presence of nearby object. we will user this...
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Android custom save and discard type ActionBar
Before android 3.0, users used to press hardware menu button, to see what all actions are available for current screen. As of android 3.0, the hardware menu button is not available on android devices...
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Android Date Picker DialogFragment
In this post we will discuss about creating datepicker using DialogFragment. Google recommends that we use DialogFragment instead of simple dialog with Activity.showDialog. DialogFragment will...
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Android SQLite Database
In this post we will discuss how to store data in the android sqlite database. Android is using light weight open source sqlite database as one of the way to store data. Android provides two important...
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Android Content Provider
sqlite database is private to the application. So if you want to access your sqlite database in any other application, you can use content provider. Even there are some benifits of using content...
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