Storing the state of an activity of your Android application
This is the last post in my series about saving data in your Android application. The previous posts went over the various way to save data in your application: Introduction : How to save data in your...
View ArticleNew article : localizing an Android application
One of my article was published by Tuts+ recently. It’s a beginner’s guide on how to localize the strings, dates and times of an Android application and it’s exclusive to the Tuts+ site. Check it out!...
View ArticleDisplay a string list in an Android ListView
Showing a list of items is a very common pattern in mobile application. This pattern comes up often when I make a tutorial: I often need to interact with data, but I don’t want to spend a lot of time...
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How to show a Toast for a specific duration in Android
In the Android SDK, an android.widget.Toast is a small message that pops up at the bottom of the screen to display an information. The toast will disappears by itself after a specified duration. Here...
View ArticleSaving an image in a SQLite database in your Android application
When you start caching data to a local database from your Android application, sooner or later you’ll need to save images in that database too. For example, if you’re storing reports about observations...
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Published my First Book on Leanpub About Android Storage
I just published my first book on Leanpub last week. The book covers the best type of storage to use for various types of data : Saving files in the internal and external storage. Saving user...
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How to get started with Android development
Learning how to build a mobile application is a good project to improve your programming skills while learning to work in a different environment than the desktop or a web browser. You can get started...
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How to get started with Android development – Basic structure
In a previous article, I wrote about how you can launch your first Android application from the samples provided with Android Studio. Now that you’ve had a chance to poke around a few samples, I’m...
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How to get started with Android development – Layout Managers
At the end of my last article, I left you hanging after describing activities, without telling you how to build a UI, so here we go. In the Android SDK, layouts are separate from the Java code that...
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Fixing the NetworkOnMainThread exception in your Android app with AsyncTask
As soon as you start doing long-running operations such as network calls or anything else that can take more than a few seconds in your Android application, you’ll come across one of the following...
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