Android Core

This post descries how to connect Android smartphones to Ubidots so that smartphone reads data sent from Arduino. In the previous post we explored how to connect Arduino to Ubidots so that Arduino board with temperature and humidity sensor sends data to Ubidots. In this post, we will develop an Android app that uses Ubidots services to get the information ...

We wrote quite a bit about the architecture of the new VM we built for iOS and why we built it. Up until recently we always viewed it as a Codename One specific tool. Something that would only be useful for us. We used open source because “that is our way” and didn’t give it much thought after that. It ...

Android design support library introduced some important new widget that help developer to create consistent UI following material design guidelines. One of the new component shipped by Android design support library is TextInputLayout that is used to animate EditText labels. To do the job, TextInputLayout uses an EditText attribute, called hint.To show how to use TextInputLayout and EditText, we will ...

Material design is a set of rule built by google that guide how to develop an Android app. They can be applied not only on the Android app but also on web site design. In the process of development of an app, Android provides some libraries that help developers to implement the main material guide line rules. The most important ...

This post describes how to create an IoT project that uses Arduino to send push messages to Android smart phones using Temboo and Parse.com. As example, we will build an alarm system based on Arduino and Android, this is an interesting example of Internet of things (IoT) and the aim of this project is building an alarm using an infrared ...

Course Overview Android is an operating system based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Android OS has taken over the world of mobile devices and is growing rapidly the last few years. Android’s user interface is based on direct manipulation, using touch inputs that loosely correspond to real-world actions, ...

This article is part of our Academy Course titled Android UI Design – Basics. In this course, you will get a look at the fundamentals of Android UI design. You will understand user input, views and layouts, as well as adapters and fragments. Check it out here!             Table Of Contents 1. Introduction 2. App ...

This article is part of our Academy Course titled Android UI Design – Basics. In this course, you will get a look at the fundamentals of Android UI design. You will understand user input, views and layouts, as well as adapters and fragments. Check it out here!             Table Of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Style ...

This article is part of our Academy Course titled Android UI Design – Basics. In this course, you will get a look at the fundamentals of Android UI design. You will understand user input, views and layouts, as well as adapters and fragments. Check it out here!             Table Of Contents 1. Overview 2. Multimedia ...