android for beginners

Lets say you have a spinner widget, like the one we created in our 'colours' example , and you wanted to put a button on each row o...

For one of the apps I'm working on I wanted to have a nice pixel pattern tiled behind my widgets. After a little bit of hunting around...

Most of the Android database examples you will find on the web will usually contain only one table to demonstrate the basic database conc...

Yesterday we saw how to populate a Spinner widget from an Array , and today, as promised, I'll show you how to populate a Spinner wi...

Sometimes it can be a nice idea to put default values in an EditText to let your users know what sort of information you're wanting th...

An Adapter object acts as a bridge between an AdapterView and the underlying data for that view. The Adapter provides access to the data ...

The Android Debug Bridge (adb) is a tool lets you manage the state of an emulator instance or Android-powered device. I was trying to ...

As software developers, there are many circumstances in which you'll want to limit the input options available to your users. We've ...

A status bar notification is used to notify the user of a system event, like an sms being received or a new device being detected, without ...

not the border in question.. Hi all, just thought I'd post this simple snippet that I've just found. This allows you to simply...