Articles Tagged ‘activity’

Using the Android Daydream API

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

Daydream is the new interactive screensaver mode that was added in the Android 4.2 / Jelly Beans release. Such “dreams” may be activated when the device is in idle mode or inserted into a dock.

In the following tutorial we’re going to create a simple daydream that starts a simple animation and in addition we’ll be adding a configuration screen to alter the behaviour of this daydream.

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Playing around with the Android Animation Framework

Monday, September 27th, 2010

Animations add some spice to our Android applications and the offered animation framework makes it easy to create custom animations and tweens.

So lets dance around and create some animations ;) ..

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Sensor Fun: Location Based Services and GPS for Android

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

The Android SDK offers a nice API to receive information about available providers for location based services and get the current location and coordinates.

In this short tutorial we’re going to build a small activity that displays a list of available location providers and shows the current position using GPS services.

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First steps on Android: Creating a simple Todo App

Monday, April 26th, 2010

In this tutorial we are going to build a simple todo app that is able to store simple todos in a database. The user is able to add new todos or delete old ones by clicking on a todo. For this tutorial we won’t use maven to keep it simple – if maven integration is desired – take a look at this tutorial. (more…)

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