Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) is a service that helps developers send data from servers to their applications on Android devices. The service provides a simple, lightweight mechanism that servers can use to tell mobile applications to contact…
Google has recently announced the availability of the full SDK for Android 3.0. The updated SDK Tools component is now available for download from here .
The Android 3.0 platform is designed specially to meet the unique…
Boxed Ice‘s David Mytton posts a comprehensive tutorial for Android push notifications. Worth a bookmark for budding Android developers.
As a fledgling Android developer one of the first things you’ll need to do is get your head around Activity Classes. We can’t overstate the importance of this. A sharp, fluid understanding of how each class interacts with each other…
If you’re reading this then you probably already know that Android provides full support for SQLite databases. So any database(s) you create will be accessible by name to any class in an Android application, just not outside the application.…
by Binil Thomas
Whenever a user launches an Android application, a thread called “main” is automatically created. This main thread, also called the UI thread, is crucial since it’s responsible for dispatching events to various widgets, including the drawing events.…
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Anyone with significant time in mobile application development understands the challenges of writing portable applications. There are tons of reasons for this, but probably the biggest hurdles we face are:
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AndroidBook after a month of intensive bug fixing sessions is again available in Android Market. We are sure there are few more bugs that we need to fix, but we did not want our users to keep on waiting. Rest…
Android facebook users, you don’t have to feel left out of the facebook juggernaut anymore – you get the same easy to use, popular facebook that is making waves…