The following example shows a simple method to make an activity transparent in android. For this first create a fresh project and copy this java code into it. Now the main layout file main.xml OK Now here is the style that has to be applied to make the activity transparent. create a file named style.xml… Read More »
First create an instance of the AudioManager Class using which you can set the phone in Normal, Silent and Vibration Mode. AudioManager audio_mngr = (AudioManager) getBaseContext().getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE); For setting the phone in Silent mode.. audio_mngr .setRingerMode(AudioManager.RINGER_MODE_SILENT); For setting the phone in Normal mode.. audio_mngr .setRingerMode(AudioManager.RINGER_MODE_NORMAL); For setting the phone in Vibrate mode.. audio_mngr .setRingerMode(AudioManager.RINGER_MODE_VIBRATE);
Hello everyone……… You all knew that a spinner or combobox is an inbuilt widget in android. And Like any other widgets spinners are also customizable. Here is a simple example to customize a spinner. First we will look at the java code. The getView method is called for each row in the spinner. So with… Read More »
Hello everyone……… You all knew that a spinner or combobox is an inbuilt widget in android. And Like any other widgets spinners are also customizable. Here is a simple example to customize a spinner. First we will look at the java code. The getView method is called for each row in the spinner. So with… Read More »
Hello everyone……… You all knew that a spinner or combobox is an inbuilt widget in android. And Like any other widgets spinners are also customizable. Here is a simple example to customize a spinner. First we will look at the java code. The getView method is called for each row in the spinner. So with… Read More »
Hello everyone……… You all knew that a spinner or combobox is an inbuilt widget in android. And Like any other widgets spinners are also customizable. Here is a simple example to customize a spinner. First we will look at the java code. The getView method is called for each row in the spinner. So with… Read More »
Hello everyone……… You all knew that a spinner or combobox is an inbuilt widget in android. And Like any other widgets spinners are also customizable. Here is a simple example to customize a spinner. First we will look at the java code. The getView method is called for each row in the spinner. So with… Read More »
This is a simple example to read a webpage content as a string in android. This example can also be used to get the response as a string when you make a call to a webpage. For example a php script. You can have a http script that will call a php script and get… Read More »
This is an example to read Logcat contents programmatically in Android. Normal developers won’t need this, but still it is a good thing to know how to do it. if you like the post then click on the plus button to share it with your friends and leave your valuable comments.
This is a simple example in Android to allow only valid characters to enter in a textBox or EditText. I am using this regex pattern to allow only valid characters. “^[a-z_A-Z0-9 ]*$”; This expression allows only characters from a-z, A-Z and numbers from 0-9 and a ‘ ‘(space) character. Here is the java code Main.xml… Read More »
Instead of using a button on the view we can use the softkeyboard done button to trigger an action. The action can include calling another activity or retrieving the data from the EditText etc. The main.xml contains an Edittext For listening to the keyboard event we need onKeyListener
Hello all.. This is a simple example to check whether your android device supports Bluetooth or not. May be currently all devices may have bluetooth support, but still ………….
Here is a simple API to find the device ID of an android device. There are many ways to get the device ID in android Note : Try this in a real device, then only you will get the device ID. Also put this permission in the AndroidManifest file
Hello everyone.. In one of my tutorials I have shown you how to upload an image in android.. In todays tutorial I will show you how to download an image into your phone programatically. I am just picking up an image url from google to show the download. Previously I have shown three other methods… Read More »
Today we will see how to check whether there is any internet connection available to your phone in android.If any of the internet connection is available then the below function returns true otherwise false. Dont forget to add these two permissions in the manifest file. Press the +1 button to share it across the web… Read More »
Hi all….. Today I will show you how to do a simple and beautiful text animation while switching the text in a textView in android The advantage is that you don’t need a seperate xml file for animation in this program, all is done inside the java code. This is the main java file. Here… Read More »
Hello all.. ScrollBars are our basic needs in a UI if we have to show a content that do not fit fully into our layout. A normal scrollBar doesn’t look so beautiful, but don’t worry ANDROID is so customizable that you can customize your scrollBar also. Here is a simple demo to make a custom… Read More »
Merging layout is an excellent feature in android. Separate xml can be included in a single xml. For this first i create a main.xml file In the bottom you can see that i have included a xml file named footer2button.xml The Merged layout will be like this
Hello everyone.. In today’s tutorial I will show you how to use camera in ANDROID in your program. In this tutorial we will be having a button which will open the camera and after taking the photo it will show it in an imageView. Note: This program will work only in the real device not… Read More »
Here is a simple example to show how to use seek Bar in android. Create a new project and place this code in it. The main.xml file The strings.xml file. Here is another example to show How to get the current progress on your SeekBar in android? Please leave your valuable cmments
Hello…. In today’s tutorial I will show you how to style your text in ANDROID. This is a simple example to show how styling is done using XML in android. This will also show you how to get a string from the resources in java code. First create a new project and name it “StyleTextDemo”… Read More »
Hi, For Pausing all schedulers and actions in Cocos2D, use this line. For resuming the paused schedulers and actions, use this. 🙂
Hi, For opening a Web Link/URL from an iPhone application, follow the two simple steps. Step 1 : Create an NSURL object and initialize it with your URL string ; Step 2 : Use the openURL method by passing your NSURL object Done. 🙂
Hello all.. This is an example demo showing the color picker in ANDROID. This example is from the developer site of ANDROID. You can go to the developer site and download the Demo. However here I am introducing it to you for easiness. This is the output you will get after running this application. Color… Read More »
Hi, The following warning, ‘Multiple Build Commands For Output File’ occurs when you try to delete resource files by ‘delete reference’ other than the correct method of‘move to trash’ while deleting files from ‘Resources’ folder of your project. Therefore the Copy Bundle Resources still holds the references of the same file you have deleted and… Read More »