Android App Development- Controls Part Four: Spinner and GridView

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On December 29, 2010

In this tutorial we are going to cover a couple more Android selection controls: the Spinner and the GridView. The Spinner The Spinner control is similar to the ComboBox in C#. It displays a list to select from in a popup window so it may be a better choice over ListView if you have a […]

Android App Development – Controls Part Three: Android Selection Controls

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On December 22, 2010

Android offers selection Controls like List View. Check box. Radio Button. Spinner. GridView. List View: ListView represents a list of items that can be selected. It is similar to the ListBox in C#. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android=”https://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” android:orientation=”vertical” android:layout_width=”fill_parent” android:layout_height=”fill_parent” > <TextView android:layout_width=”fill_parent” android:layout_height=”wrap_content” android:id=”@+id/txt” /> <ListView android:layout_width=”wrap_content” android:layout_height=”wrap_content” android:id=”@+id/List” /> </LinearLayout> To populate the […]

Android App Development-Controls Part Two: Android Button Controls

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On December 15, 2010

In last week’s Android App Development tutorial I covered Android UI and Text Controls. This week I am going to cover Android Button Controls. Android offers three types of button controls: The Basic Button. Image Button. Toggle Button. The basic Button: The standard Android button is a subclass of the TextView class so it inherits […]

Android App Development-Controls Part One: Introduction to UI in Android and Text Controls

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On December 8, 2010

Layouts in Android are constructed from two objects: View and ViewGroup. The View class is the base class for many widgets sub classes such as TextView and Button classes. The ViewGroup is a view that conatains other views. The Viewgroup class is the base class for many layouts in Android. The UI Hierarchy is described in […]

Android App Development – Layouts Part Three: Frame Layout and Scroll View

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On December 1, 2010

In part 3 of my tutorials on layouts for Android app development I am going to cover frame layout and scroll view. Frame Layout: Frame layout is used to display a single view at a time. The view can contain many widgets but only one will appear at a time. for example we have two […]

Android App Development – Layouts Part Two: Table and Absolute Layouts

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On November 24, 2010

Table Layout: Organizing widgets in a table is a famous approach in HTML design where you construct a table of a number of rows and cells and distribute the controls over the cells to achieve a consistent look for your UI. Android provides a similar technique. In android you define the number of rows by […]

Android App Development – Layouts Part One: Linear and Relative Layouts

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On November 18, 2010

The way we construct the user interface in Android is pretty interesting. You can construct the UI widgets programmatically. But Android presents a decent way to construct the UI which is XML-based layouts. The layout of an activity can be constructed by a XML file. These files are considered resources as they reside in res/layout folder. […]

Alchemy Elements: A Full Glossary About An Unusual Philosophy

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On November 12, 2010

Alchemy Elements

By: Deeppowder Software

Version: 1.0

Category: Android

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Price: 1.25

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Introduction to Android App Development

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On November 10, 2010

Welcome to the first Android development articles on Mobile Orchard. We are going to start a series of articles to introduce you to the world of Android development. We are going to start off with the Android platform and the necessary tools to start Android development. Android Software Stack: This picture describes the Android software stack […]

JunoWallet GiftCards: The Easiest Way To Track Available Balances

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On November 9, 2010

JunoWallet GiftCards

By: JunoWallet

Version: 4.5.0

Category: Android

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Price: 0

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