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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]