Solutions and tutorials for IT&C development
Android mobile applications have the advantage of being deployed on mobile devices that have touch displays. This enhance the user experience and allows developers to design the user interface so it will be dynamic, easy to use and efficient. Despite this advantage, the display size and usability concepts (one golden rule is to have all […]
Read More →In computer science and especially in programming, things can go wrong easily. Even simple things, that you have done it before, can generate runtime exceptions that crash the application. Most of the time, the reason is the inability to think to all aspects every time you do something. And because this will not happen, the […]
Read More →In this post we will see what are the basics for developing an Android mobile application that has multiple windows or activities. To do that, we need to know how to create and display a new form, window or activity (for the rest of the post we will use the Android vocabulary and call it […]
Read More →Behind any window or form in the Android mobile application there is an Activity instance. In order to develop a mobile application with multiple windows you must create, for each display, a new class that extends Activity class. In this post we will see how to create a new Activity programmatically or using the Manifest […]
Read More →Android mobile applications are relying on user interfaces composed on dialog windows, visual controls, 2D graphics and other multimedia elements for efficiency and usability. The Android platforms allows programmers to use two methods to design user interfaces: procedural or declarative. In this post we develop a simple Android mobile applications that will help to make […]
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The Android tutorial covers all important concepts that will allow a new programmer to learn how to develop mobile applications for the Android platform. The tutorial is written from a programmer perspective and dives after few topics into simple and do-by-example applications which are easy to follow. Despite the apparently simplicity, each topic highlights important […]
Read More →In this article we will see how to use the Eclipse IDE and the ADT (Android Development Toolkit) Plugin for Eclipse to create a very simple Android mobile application, the classic Hello World !. Despite its simplicity, the application just prints a message on the screen, its is very important to understand it, because its […]
Read More →In order to understand the Android application architecture you need some basic knowledge regarding Android applications key concepts. Understanding these elements will allow you to control: application components application lifecycle application resources In this post are described all these key concepts in order to highlight their role, utility and importance. Other posts will describe in more […]
Read More →Android is an open source software toolkit created by Google and Open Handset Alliance. Initially developed for mobile phones, it has become a major application platform for a wide range of mobile devices. The scope of this post is to summarize the steps needed to set the development environment and to start learning and developing […]
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