Rotational Forces…On Your Android App
Learn how opening the T-Mobile G1's sliding keyboard affects your Android application, in today's episode of Building 'Droids! Read More »
Posts Tagged ‘commonsware’
What’s Your Preference: Part Two
Does your Android application have more preferences than really fit in a simple list? Learn how to add structure, in the form of categories and screens, in today's episode of Building 'Droids! Read More »
iPhone and Android: Apples and Orchards
Android is less about open source or open communities or open markets or open systems, than it is about open opportunity. We need Android to succeed to ensure that open source, open markets, et. al. are a viable, not-too-crazy choice for people in the marketplace. This does not mean that "iPhone must die" or anything of the sort... Read More »
What’s Your Preference: Part One
Android now has a preferences framework, which will build a preferences UI for you based on a description of the desired preferences. Learn the basics in today's episode of Building 'Droids! Read More »
The One: Musings on Android 1.0 SDK and the G1
Both the Android 1.0 SDK and the T-Mobile G1 announcements had some interesting tidbits that didn't attract all the news coverage, but might impact you as an Android developer in the coming weeks and months. Read More »
Op-Ed: We Have Met Android, And It Is Us
Device users don't buy "openness" – they buy benefits that they personally realize. And to that extent, Android will succeed or fail based on our efforts as developers. If openness is Android's strength, it is up to us to make that meaningful to ordinary people. Read More »
Maps, ItemizedOverlay, and You!
Learn how to create interactive maps using the ItemizedOverlay class from the Android 0.9 SDK in today's episode of Building 'Droids! Read More »
Layout Problems Redux: Hierarchy Viewer
In the previous Building 'Droids post, we went through an exercise of figuring out what was going wrong... Read More »
Diagnosing Layout Problems
Yesterday, a post came over the transom on the [android-developers] Google Group, citing a problem in getting a... Read More »
Fancy ListViews Redux: 0.9 SDK and RatingBar
You may remember way back when (e.g., July 2008) when Building 'Droids featured a six-post series on creating... Read More »
0.9 SDK Tips #1: The Hidden Changes
This is the first in a series of blog posts to help those of you with M5 applications... Read More »
Fun with Fonts
Inevitably, you'll get the question "hey, can we change this font?" when doing application development. The answer depends... Read More »
Flipping Your Views
Let's face it: phones are small. Even if you have a phone with excellent screen resolution, the physical... Read More »
Adding Tabs Dynamically
The TabWidget in Android is set up to allow you to easily define tabs at compile time. However,... Read More »
Scripting Your Android Device
One of the issues that arose when Apple released the iPhone SDK earlier this year was the restriction... Read More »
