Android

• Social Integration In Android App: Twitter (Thursday, February 2nd, 2017) - Fabric is an amalgamation of multiple tools and SDKs that help developers create awesome apps in no time. Using their plugin for Android Studio, we can integrate any or all of their SDKs in our apps, Twitter is included. In this tutorial, we will see how to implement Twitter API integration in our Android app. …
• Social Integration In Android App: Google+ (Thursday, February 2nd, 2017) - Any app on its own, serves its defined purpose by default, but when you integrate with other apps or social networks, then it enriches your app even more. Using social networks like Google+, Twitter or Facebook you can know more about your users and serve them accordingly. These integrations enhance the user experience of your …
• SnackBar (Sunday, January 22nd, 2017) - Android’s Design Support library has a cool widget that enhances visual feel of your apps, called SnackBar. It is not a replacement for Toast widget, but there are some similarities that you might see. Basically, a SnackBar is a view that can show a message to the user in a non-disturbing way. Plus, it can …
• Adding Google Services In Android Project (Friday, January 20th, 2017) - Google Services library has multiple APIs that any developer might need, for example, “play-services-auth” is used to add Google+ features in your app like login, posting on Google+, etc. So, the Google Services library is an important weapon in a developer’s arsenal. To use this library, its repository must be installed in the Android SDK. …
• Animations (Thursday, May 12th, 2016) - Animations in an Android app adds the wow factor to the app. It engages the user with visual treats that enhance the overall experience of your app. Android framework provides multiple ways to animate views, objects and overall screens. Please check the demo: Let’s see one example from the demo, Alpha Animation. Create a resource …
• Android Notifications (Saturday, April 30th, 2016) - Notifications are a great way to remind user of his/her immediate or future attention required by the app. It enables the developers to show useful and sometimes crucial information in concise way to the users. Lets see how we can take advantage of the NotificationCompat API: In your app gradle file, make your target version …
• Mashmallow Permission (Saturday, April 30th, 2016) - Starting with the Android Marshmallow OS, the permissions mechanism has been updated. Now, the apps are directly installed in Android M or later OS devices without asking for permissions. In the app, when a user accesses a feature that requires a nod from the user, the app has to ask for the permission and only …
• Speech To Text (Friday, April 29th, 2016) - Android has a very awesome API that enables speech to be converted to text. It is available by default. All we need is an Internet connection as the API sends your speech to Google servers to convert to text and get the results back to us. There is an Offline mode but for that we …
• Bye, Bye Parse! (Wednesday, March 9th, 2016) - Facebook is pulling the plug on Parse on January 28, 2017 and they’ve given all the Parse users to backup their data before that date. Now, we have to find other alternatives to Parse that give us the same features, scalability, convenience, and most of all, cost-free to develop for Indie developers or freelancers like …
• Android Links (Tuesday, February 9th, 2016) - Android is an OS and a framework based on Linux kernel for the mobile devices, comes from the house of Google! It is the most popular mobile platform in the Indian sub-continent. Here are the some of the important links in the Android eco-system that will help developers learn more about Android & building Android …