Adding Project Libraries to Our Android Project PRO
There are many cases in which we want to use a separated library in the project we develop. This is the case with using the Facebook SDK for Android and this is the case with using the Google Play Services library. The following short video clip shows how to add a reference for a separated […]
MTA Android Hybrid Applications Summer 2013 ACD
This coming summer semester (Summer 2011) I am going to deliver in MTA a course that teaches how to develop hybrid applications for the android platform. The course includes the following main topics: Android Basic Java Applications PHP Server Side Programming HTML5, jQueryMobile & SenchaTouch The PhoneGap Framework Most of the slides and the other […]
Android 4.2 Professional HIT June 2013 INFO
On Monday June 26th I will start to deliver a professional course for learning how to develop applications in Java for the android platform. The course includes 180 academic hours, it takes place in HIT and it splits into three parts. The first part covers the topics in Java required for learning android development and […]
Android Jump Start Lecture INFO
On april 29th 2013 I delivered a free lecture about developing Java applications for Android. The lecture took place in HIT. Google sponsored the refreshments. You can download the slides I was using during the lecture. You can find (within the slides) the links we mention during the lecture. For a smooth start I recommend […]
The Android Search Framework PRO
The android platform provides us with a search framework that helps us implementing search mechanism in our application. We can allow the user to enter the searched term either through a search dialogue shown on top of the screen or through a search view widget. When developing an application that includes a searching mechanism we […]
Tel Hai Java EE and Android Courses Final Projects INFO
Developing Android Broadcast Receiver PRO
In order to develop an android broadcast receiver we should define a class that extends BroadcastReceiver, implement our onReceive method and update the android platform about the new broadcast receiver, either via the manifest xml file or by calling the registerReceiver method. The following code sample includes the definition of a BroadcastReceiver that will get […]
Developing Android Remote Services PRO
The first step is coding the aidl file that includes our definition for the interface that lists the methods we want to enable their invocation from another process. package com.abelski.currencyservice; interface ICurrencyService { double getCurrency(String country); } The aidl compiler will go over that file and auto generate the interface we defined in the aidl […]
Learning Android Java Applications Development PRO
Using HTML5 and other web technologies when developing an application for the android platform simplifies the development process and helps us cooping with the well known android platform fragmentation problem. I chose to write this post in order to point at those cases in which we cannot avoid using Java in our application development for […]
Android 4.1 Professional HIT November 2012 INFO
On November 15th I start delivering a professional course for learning how to develop applications in Java for the android platform. The course includes 180 academic hours, it takes place in HIT and it splits into three parts. The first part covers the topics in Java required for learning android development and it includes extensive […]