Storing Google Maps Android API V2 marker locations in MySQL
In this article, we will develop an Android application that stores user touched locations of Google Maps in a remote MySQL server. Since this application is developed using SupportMapFragment, it can...
View ArticleAndroid Sidebar Navigation Drawer with Icons
In this article, we will see how to develop an Android application containing sidebar navigation drawer menu with icons and counter. Here count specifies, how many times the drawer menu item is...
View ArticleAndroid Sending and Receiving data from remote server using IntentService
In this article, we will see how to develop an Android application that sends and receives data from a web server using IntentService. IntentService provides a simple mechanism to execute long lasting...
View ArticleSwipable Navigation Tabs using ActionBarCompat library
In this article, we will see how to develop an Android application containing swipable navigation tabs.In order to enable swiping between tabs, we are making use ViewPager in this application.This...
View ArticleAndroid SearchView Widget with ActionBarCompat library
In this article we will develop an Android application that demonstrates how to create a searchview widget in action bar using ActionBarCompat library. This application facilitates users to search...
View ArticleAndroid using custom ttf fonts in WebView
In this article, we will see how to use custom fonts in WebView of Android application.The same strategy can be used to display local language contents in WebView. This application renders the text in...
View ArticleAction bar menus and SplitActionBar using ActionBarCompat library in Android
In the article titled “Adding Action items and Overflow menu items to Action Bar in Android“, we have seen how to add action items and split action bar items to action bar in Android. Since action bar...
View ArticleImplementing Action Bar using ActionBarCompat support library in Android
We know that, action bar is implemented in Android 3.0 ( Honeycomb or API Level 11) on wards. But we can implement action bar in pre Honycomb versions upto API Level 7 using ActionBarCompat library...
View ArticleAndroid – Setting up ActionBarCompat support library in Eclipse
This week, a new version of Android support library ( Revision 18 ) is released with a new library called appcompat under the package android.support.v7. This new library is available at...
View ArticleAndroid SearchView widget with Google Places API using ActionBarSherlock library
In this article, we will develop an Android application that can search Google Places API using SearchView widget and show the results in Google Maps Android API V2. In this application the searchview...
View ArticleSetting up Action Bar Sherlock Library 4.3.1 for Eclipse IDE
Action Bar Sherlock library is used to create action bar and related stuff in pre Honeycomb Android versions. In this article, we will see how to set up Action Bar Sherlock library ( 4.3.1 ) for...
View ArticleAdding Google Places Autocomplete API as custom suggestions in Android Search...
In this article, we will develop an Android application with a search dialog box. The search dialog box allows users to search various places using Google Places API and shows the result as a marker in...
View ArticleAdding custom search suggestions to search dialog from SQLite database in...
In this article, we will develop an Android application containing a search dialog, that can search a set of countries stored in an SQLite database. The search dialog is facilitated with custom search...
View ArticleLocating user input address in Google Maps Android api v2 with Geocoding api
Geocoding is the process of converting a location address into geographic coordinates ( latitude and longitude). This Android application facilitates users to input a location address, then the...
View ArticleAndroid – Drawing circle at the touched point of SurfaceView
SurfaceView is a drawing surface provided by Android. In SurfaceView, drawings are performed in a non-ui thread which protects the application from ANR ( Application Not Responding ) errors. In this...
View ArticleAndroid – Correcting jpeg image orientation in View Canvas with ExifInterface...
We may have noticed that images captured in portrait mode, looks rotated 90 degrees on drawing the image in a view canvas. Also images taken from front camera looks upside down. This issue can be...
View ArticlePick an image from external application and draw in View Canvas
In this article, we will develop an Android application which picks up an image from an external application like Gallery, Dropbox, Google Drive etc and draw it in a view canvas. This application is...
View ArticleDrawing circle at the touched position of View Canvas
In this article, we will develop an Android application that draws a circle at the touched position of a custom view canvas. This application is developed in Eclipse 4.2.0 with ADT Plugin (22.0.1) and...
View ArticleAndroid Menu example series
This article lists various Android Menu application examples. Creating a floating contextual menu in Android Floating contextual menu - Example A popup menu example in Android Popup menu example...
View ArticleShowing nearby places and place details using Google Places API and Google...
In this article, we are going to develop an Android application which shows nearby places of current location in Google Maps Android API V2. On taping the InfoWindow of the marker, the details of the...
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