Tag Archives: Running

Samsung’s New Galaxy Grand with Dual-SIM, 5-Inch Display

By | December 19, 2012

Samsung has added the Grand, a new midrange smartphone, to its Android-running Galaxy lineup. At a glance, it strongly resembles the Galaxy S III, though Grand features a larger, though lower-resolution display—a 5-inch WVGA TFT LCD compared with the 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED on the Galaxy S III—and will be available in a dual Subscriber… Read More »

How to Check whether is GPS is enabled in your android device?

By | June 1, 2012

This simple code checks whether GPS in enabled in your android device or not. If the GPS is not enabled the user is redirected to the settings page. Turn off the GPS on your device and running it will display this screen. Please test GPS on the device because emulators don’t have GPS. But anyway… Read More »

Open a webpage in Titanium (iPhone or ANDROID).

By | May 4, 2011

Opening a webpage in Titanium is really simple. Look at the following sample. If you are running in iPhone then it will open safari and if it is ANDROID, it will open the default browser with the supplied URL String. Happy coding…….. Please leave your valuable comments.

How to get the SMS sent to your emulator within your application? OR Get notified when an SMS arrives to your phone.

By | June 21, 2012

Actually these are done using services in ANDROID. These are called BroadcastReceivers.Your class has to extend the BroadcastReceiver class to get these broadcast events. But note that these services need to have an interface. So you will not see any UI on the device. But don’t think your application is not running or not installed.… Read More »

How to make Sprite Sheets ?

By | April 2, 2011

Hi, If you are a game developer then you will always need a sequence of images to be animated & the best way to do it is via sprite sheet animations. But how can a sprite sheet be made? Suppose you have a sequence of images of any animations, how will you convert it into… Read More »

How to set wallpaper in ANDROID?

By | September 20, 2012

Following example shows how to set a Bitmap as wallpaper in ANDROID. After running this code your wallpaper on the ANDROID phone will change. Make sure that you have an image named ‘my_wallpaper’ in your drawable folder. And You have to set this permission in the Manifest.