Complete Android Activity and Fragment Lifecycle
Steve Pomeroy, an Android developer, has been diligent in publishing the real Android activity and fragment lifecycle. Unlike the Android-official
Android App: Setting up Google APIs Client Library for Java [Part 2]
- Android App: Preparing to Access Google Drive
- Android App: Setting up Google APIs Client Library for Java
- Android App: Connecting to Google Drive with Google APIs Client Library for Java
If you are using Gradle skip ahead.
As of writing the current version of Google APIs Client Library for Java is 1.17.0-rc,
Android App: Preparing to Access Google Drive [Part 1]
- Android App: Preparing to Access Google Drive
- Android App: Setting up Google APIs Client Library for Java
- Android App: Connecting to Google Drive with Google APIs Client Library for Java
First thing is to read through the Google Drive Android API Getting Started. The following will add some clarity to setting up Google Developers Console using OAuth.
Enable Drive API
Select Create
Displaying Images/Photos on Android
Introduction
Our Android app has a new feature using the camera to take photos. We can split the feature into two tasks, taking a photo and reviewing a photo by pan-and-zoom.
Take a Photo
To take a photo, we found two methods.
Displaying Charts on Android with WebView
We are building an Android app and want to render charts. Charts are diagrammatic representations of numeric data, which include bar and pie charts. We found two methods for rendering charts:
Running Android emulator in Eclipse
As I have been developing Android apps in using the Eclipse + Android development environment on Windows, I noticed the debugger would sometimes not connect to the emulator device. To address this problem,
Android environment setup
I have learned several things when setting up a development environment for Android on Windows. First and foremost, long path names and Windows access control may introduce issues for Java, Eclipse,
Creating HTML 5 mobile applications
On Thursday June 21st I attended the PhoneGap meetup at Adobe’s office, which was the old site of Macromedia. In this PhoneGap meeting Marcos Lara presented his Audiovroom project. He introduced
Android in the Cloud
On Wednesday May 31st I attended the San Francisco Android User Group meeting. These meetings equate to public presentations of corporate products. This meeting’s
Choosing between APIs – Map view
Android offers several map views (controls) to render maps. Maps can be rendered online or directly on the mobile device. This article details the available choices available today.
Map SDKs and APIs: