Showing nearby places with photos at any location in Google Maps Android API V2
In this article, we will develop an Android application which displays nearby places as a set of markers in Google Maps Android API V2 corresponding to the user touched location in the Google Maps and...
View ArticleAndroid tab based applications series
In this article, we will see a set of Android applications that uses tabs for their navigation. Adding Navigation Tabs containing listview to Action Bar in Android This application exemplifies, how to...
View ArticleCreating Side Menu Navigation Drawer in Android
Navigation drawer is a UI design pattern that provides a set of menu items when user swipes from left edge of the application to the right. In Android, navigation drawer is available via Android...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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