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Jun30

{Playing with NFC API of Android}

NFC, or near field communication, is an emerging technology that will power mobile payment systems and Mobile wallet system. Google, Nokia, Microsoft, Apple and other big players are making concentrated effort in getting the solutions into main stream. But NFC…

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Apr18

{Android UI Design Patterns}

UI design patterns provide solutions to common user interface problems. These patterns outline the recuring design problems faced when trying to create good design for Android applications. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the websites which…

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Feb28

{Entering the next level – Android 3.0 SDK}

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…

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Jan31

{LibGDX – Game Development Library for Android}

You can find numerous interesting open source projects for Android on Google Project Hosting, but the one which really impressed us was LibGDX.
LibGDX is a cross-platform game development library written in Java with some JNI code for performance

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Dec2

{Developing Augmented Reality Applications for Android}

Augmented Reality (AR) is currently a hot category on iPhone and Android devices. One can find numerous interactive AR applications on the App Store and Android Market. Following are some of the interesting AR applications available on the Android Market:

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Nov15

{Announcing AndroidBook Version 2.0}

Sourcebits Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is thrilled to announce the second version of its groundbreaking Facebook application for Android – AndroidBook – out now on the Android Market!

AndroidBook delivers the complete Facebook experience in a vastly superior mobile interface optimized…

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May28

{Loading Images from Remote Server over HTTP on a Separate Thread}

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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Aug28

{AndroidBook Now available in Android Market}

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…

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May28

{ADC 2 is here to rock the world of Android Developers again!}

ADC 2 has been announced at the Google site. When Android was announced on 5 November, 2007, Google also announced a $10 million Android Developer Challenge, split into two separate $5 million events. ADC 1 with a $5 million prize…

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Apr29

{Early experience with the Android 1.5 SDK}

The Android 1.5 SDK r1 has been released by the Google team and it was hardly any wait from the early look SDK that came out 2 weeks ago.
Of course, the feature-set mentioned in the…

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Apr15

{Android 1.5 Early Look SDK released}

Touted to power the next Android device, aka “Android on Steroids”, the Android Developer Blog has announced the early release of the Android 1.5 SDK ,  which is to be released in its complete glory, to its…

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