Tag: Commonsware

Learn another approach to handling rotation events in your Android application, in part two of our three-part rotation series in today's episode of Building 'Droids!

This post, following yesterday's Part One, continues our interview with Annabel Youens, Community Director of voeveo. AG: One of the pervasive fears in mobile development...

Learn more about voeveo, another marketplace for Android applications (and more!), in an Enabling the Ecosystem interview in today's episode of Building 'Droids!

Wondering what to do while the Android Market's doors are closed? Check out alternative ways to distribute your app, in today's episode of Building 'Droids!

We continue our interview on AndAppStore, an alternative marketplace for Android applications, in today’s episode of Building ‘Droids!

Learn more about AndAppStore, an alternative marketplace for Android applications, in an Enabling the Ecosystem interview in today's episode of Building 'Droids!

Learn how opening the T-Mobile G1's sliding keyboard affects your Android application, in today's episode of Building 'Droids!

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!

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!

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.

Learn how to create interactive maps using the ItemizedOverlay class from the Android 0.9 SDK in today's episode of Building 'Droids!

In the previous Building 'Droids post, we went through an exercise of figuring out what was going wrong with a RelativeLayout used as rows...

Yesterday, a post came over the transom on the Google Group, citing a problem in getting a RelativeLayout to work properly as a...

You may remember way back when (e.g., July 2008) when Building 'Droids featured a six-post series on creating fancy ListView implementations, culminating in a...

Inevitably, you'll get the question "hey, can we change this font?" when doing application development. The answer depends on what fonts come with the...