Diagnosing Layout Problems
Yesterday, a post came over the transom on the [android-developers] Google Group, citing a problem in getting a... Read More »
Posts Tagged ‘writing for android’
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 »
Fancy ListViews, Part Six: Custom Widget
In this, the last and longest of our Fancy ListView posts, we'll cover what it takes to wrap... Read More »
Fancy ListViews, Part Five
In one of our earlier posts in this Fancy ListViews series, Michal asked "could you make also a... Read More »
Fancy ListViews, Part Four
In our last episode, we took a closer look at the ViewHolder/ViewWrapper pattern for making ListViews that much... Read More »
Fancy ListViews, Part Three
In our last episode, we saw how we could save processing time -- and, hence, battery life --... Read More »
Fancy ListViews, Part Two
In our last episode, we saw how to create Android ListViews that contain more than just a simple... Read More »
Fancy ListViews, Part One
The classic Android ListView is a plain list of text -- solid but uninspiring. This is the first... Read More »
Inflation is a Good Thing
Before diving into the topic of creating fancy lists in Android, we need to take a short detour... Read More »
Gettin’ On The (Message) Bus, Part Two
In our last episode, we discussed how the Android Intent systems functions, in effect, like a message bus,... Read More »
