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Writing a Real Android App from Scratch: Part 3/9 – GPS, LocationManager and Geocoding
Welcome to part 3 of the Writing a Real Android App from Scratch series. For help, feedback, comments, and other discussions for this tutorial, please visit the official forum. In the previous part we added three containers for hosting our contents. The first of the contents is a view that displays current address info, which we will implement in this part. The idea is to fetch the current location (latitude and longitude), wait for the …
Writing a Real Android App from Scratch: Part 2/9 – Tabs and Fragments
Welcome to part 2 of the Writing a Real Android App from Scratch series. For help, feedback, comments, and other discussions for this tutorial, please visit the official forum. In this part, we will be adding necessary code and resources required to add the 3 tabs – CURRENT, LOCATIONS, and MAP. Since we have only 3 tabs, we will stick with Android Design Guidelines for Tabs by using Fixed Tabs. If you have done any …
Writing a Real Android App from Scratch: Part 1/9 – About the App
Welcome to part 1 of the Writing a Real Android App from Scratch series. If you haven’t already, I ask you to read the previous part of this series first. For help, feedback, comments, and other discussions for this tutorial, please visit the official forum. App Introduction: I’ve promised you to guide you all along to writing a complete Android app from scratch. As mentioned in the first post, this app uses, among others, LocationManager, …
To Succeed, Let Yourself Fall, and Fail
I have this obsession of trying to do everything perfect right from the beginning. Ask me to implement something and you will find me first collecting at least 1 book, and few online resources on the subject before even starting a single line of code. The reason behind doing this is simple – I’m afraid of failing and I want to do everything properly right from the beginning. Researching, or reading about a subject matter …
Don’t be evil, Google!
The latest fight between Google, and Microsoft is making me nervous. I use almost all of the Google services. I don’t like what Google is doing with Microsoft, and how it’s turning its face away from its “Don’t Be Evil” and “Be Open” motto. Although I don’t use any iOS devices — except an iPad for reading books, I’ve always liked how Google makes all of its services, and products available for iOS platforms without any …
Quick Android Tips: Changing ActionBarSherlock Title Color and Size
If you are using ActionBarSherlock, and want to quickly change the color, and size of the title, you need to fiddle a bit with a style resource. Here is what you need to do: Create a resource file styles_mytheme.xml under res/values folder and copy the following. (Note: If you already have your theme styles defined earlier, perhaps using the Android Action Bar Style Generator, just match the style elements based on the parent=”xxx”, and add …