As Android application developer sometimes when we release a new version of our application, we want to provide information to user about what changes have been made or what features have been added into the new version. The best way is to display a 'What's New' dialog that shows information about … [Read more...]
How to Import Contacts from Blackberry into Android
Nowdays, with the fastest growing of Android and its popularity, many people change their smartphone to Android. One of the most important thing when changing to a new phone is to keep our contacts from older smartphone. The process to backup and restore is easy when the change is from the same … [Read more...]
Coding Tips: How to Use Custom Transition Animation in Android
Android has a set of Animation API that makes you easily create custom animations in your Android application. You can create animations programmatically via Java code or defined them in xml files inside /res/anim folder. Using your custom animation, you can override the default transition animation … [Read more...]
Coding Tips: How to Use Custom Font in Android
If you are new to Android development and wondering how to use custom font, here is a quick tip to use custom font in your Android application. Using custom font in Android is pretty simple, just copy the custom font files and load them from your application. Copy your custom font files into … [Read more...]
How to Send Image to Twitpic from Android
Twitpic is one of the most common used image hosting that allows users to easily post images to Twitter and other social media. Twitpic can be used independently of Twitter, in a way similar to Google Picasa or Flickr. TwitPic usernames and passwords are the same as the ones in Twitter so it doesn't … [Read more...]
How to Create Android Image Picker
In my previous tutorial on how to select and crop image on Android, i've explained how to create image picker/chooser to select an image from sdcard or camera then crop the selected image. The tutorial is quite advanced and on many cases in our application, we only need to select the image without … [Read more...]
How to Use Facebook SDK to Post Status From Android
One of the common features on current mobile application is the ability to share content on social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. Most of the large social media provide API to enable developers to integrate third party application with their service. Facebook as the largest … [Read more...]
How to Setup Gmail 2-Step Verification With Android
Ever wonder how terrible if your Gmail got hacked by someone and stole all your work data, bank account, and other important data? That must be a nightmare and nobody ever wants it to happen. Gmail currently has an advanced sign-in method that enable you to pass two steps of verification whenever … [Read more...]
How to Select and Crop Image on Android
Sometimes when creating an Android app that includes user profile picture or avatar, we need to include a feature that enables users to select and crop image to update their profile picture. On Android we can accomplish that by using intent to open image cropper app. To select an image from files, … [Read more...]
How to Use Foursquare API on Android Application
This is my second post about using Oauth enabled API on Android. This time i'll try to explain how to use Foursquare API V2 within Android application. I built my own Android implementation for Foursquare API based on my previous implementation for Twitter API that can be used to post Twitter … [Read more...]
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