Monthly Archives: October 2013

Android Development Tutorial

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Samsung S Pen SDK TutorialI’m very excited to provide you with my Samsung Mobile SDK Tutorial! Over the next few videos I’ll cover: the Samsung Mobile SDK and I’ll demonstrate the opportunities it provides.

Thanks to the nice people at Samsung and the Samsung Smart App Challenge, who are giving away $1.1 Million in prizes.

I’ll also be offering a give away. Between now and November the 30th, sign up for a free Samsung developer account at http://developer.samsung.com/signup and you will be eligible to win a Samsung GALAXY Note 3 device or one of three Samsung GALAXY Gear smart watches. I will choose a winner at random. After you signup for the Samsung developer account, leave me a comment below stating that you signed up. That is all! Continue reading Android Development 25 →

Android Development Tutorial

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Android Dialog BoxesIn this part of my Android Development tutorial I will cover how to use Android Dialog Boxes. We’ll cover how to design their layouts, how to call for them to open and how to send data from dialog boxes to other fragments and activities using putSerializable and getSerializableExtra.

Because I’ll be working specifically with birth dates we’ll also take a look at the Date, Calendar and GregorianCalendar. All of the code can be found after the video to help you better understand. Continue reading Android Development 24 →

Android Development Tutorial

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Android ViewPagerIn this part of my Android Development Tutorial I will cover how to use the Android ViewPager. The ViewPager allows you to flip through Fragments sort of like you would do with a book.

I’ll also cover how to connect the ViewPager with a FragmentManager so that we’ll be able to properly display and track the Fragments and make sure they are updated. If you missed previous parts of this tutorial you should start with part 18. The code follows the video. Continue reading Android Development 23 →

Android Development Tutorial

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Android Development 22In this tutorial I will connect the ListFragment to the Census App, so that when you click on an item we’ll be able update the Contacts. This tutorial began at part 18, so if you missed that video start there.

All the Contacts are updated and we also cover how to store and pass contact IDs between activities. We also streamline the code by separating duplicate code out into another class and much more. Continue reading Android Development 22 →

Android Development Tutorial

Android Development 21

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Android Development Tutorial 21In this part of my Android Development Tutorial, I cover numerous topics. This tutorial started in part 18 of this series and you should start watching there to understand everything.

I cover the following : FragmentManager, Creating list items for a ListView, ListFragment, Android Adapters, ArrayAdapter, Generating items from an ArrayList for a ListView and more. All of the code follows the video, but it is also available as a complete package here. Continue reading Android Development 21 →