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Developing for Android, Part V

Publishing your apps No code in this tutorial... and this is actually the last in the series. But never fear! I'll be writing more tutorials, I've simply written these 5 to get you familiarised with android. Hopefully, you're feeling quite confident on some of the aspects now, and you could well be on your way to developing the next killer app! With that said, I'm going to explain how you can publish your app. It's a simple process, but you also have to sign your apk before you can publish i...

Developing for Android, Part IV

Databases and Menus Two for the price of one in this tutorial, actually. We're going to learn about SQLite databases and menus. I'm hoping you'll at least be slightly familiar with databases already, though SQLite is really quite simple. You can pick up the basics, of which we'll be using in this tutorial, at the following links: CREATE TABLE INSERT SELECT It may look a little intimidating, but once you get to grips with it, it's actually quite close to English. :) Let's get to it. As u...

Developing for Android, Part III

Dynamic Layouts in Android No XML in this tutorial! We'll be completely designing our application in Java, and creating our layout completely dynamically. The benefits of this are that we can add an undefined amount of widgets at run time. This is a pretty useful skill, but not brilliantly documented. (Everything is ZOMG LAYOUT.XML FTW!!1!) Okay, so let's get started. We won't be touching on events in this tutorial, our app won't actually do anything, per se... it's merely an example of addi...

Developing for Android, Part II

Again, originally written for </dream.in.code> but I like to add this stuff to my blog as well. :) Basic Layouts and Events Now that we got the basics done, it's time to get into developing our first app. It's not the most impressive application, but it's a great starting point. This will most likely seem very familiar if you've learned programming on the console in the past. We're going to prompt for a name, and display a customised message. However, we'll have a user interface rat...

Developing for Android, Part I

I originally wrote this tutorial for </dream.in.code>, but I like to get my tutorials around a bit. Welcome to Android. We hope you enjoy your stay. So, first off, a bit of an introduction. This is the first part of (hopefully) many tutorials related to the android platform. In this tutorial, we're only going to cover the very basics: how to design your application, and how to utilise the XML layouts to design your user interface. Since this series of tutorials is more directed at...

SmartCalc for Android

SmartCalc is my first "proper" app, and I'm quite proud of it. Scan barcode to download: The UI is split across three tabs (similar to brainfuck) but the app itself is totally different. First Tab: Formulas The first tab lists all your formulas, which are conveniently stored in a database on your phone. Here, you can save, modify and delete your formulas. If you select one, you will be flicked to the second tab, to enter the variables required for calculation. You can also long press...

My First Android App: Brainfuck

My first app! ** EDIT: Just realised input doesn't work: It brings up the input dialog, but I forgot to save it anywhere! Guess I was a little too excited to get publishing ;). I'll try to find time to fix it tomorrow! Apologies! ** Download: Okay, so it's not gonna get a very good rating... it's not very attractive, and I really don't think many people are going to understand Brainfuck. That said, it was a fun little app to write... and I must admit, I really didn't give the andro...

Google Android: Games by Square Enix

At the time of writing this article, there are currently three apps on the android market by Square Enix. I've just bought, and tested, each one, just to write about them here, for you. So I hope you appreciate it. :) The three games that I'm going to discuss in this article are: Arkanoid - A clone of the original Space Invaders - If you don't remember this, you're most likely incapable of reading this entry anyway. And a third, which is very different. I'll reserve any information until t...

Android + Wordpress: wpToGo

After searching around a bit on androlib, I found a few apps for content management for wordpress. However, they're all pretty crap: apart from one. wpToGo. It's very minimalist, yet effective. The simple UI will have you ready to start blogging in less than a minute. As well as post editing and publishing, it offers comment moderation, and of course, drafts and image attachments. Win! The only problem I have with it is that I can't add new categories. I still need to log in the web UI for th...