Android Core

One alternative to using SQLite on Android is to store Java objects in SharedPreferences. Here, we’ll look at two different ways to do that. Why not go for SQLite for all storage needs? The reasons can be varied: besides the impedance mismatch between object orientation and relational databases, SQLite might be overkill (brings more overhead) for some simple use cases, ...

In my previous post How to inject Android compiled .apk package into its Device Emulator from the command line. I have demonstrated how to add your compiled .apk file to android emulator, from command line with adb command, included in ADT platform tools. One of my friends commented: " Are u really using the emulator…..it is very slow. Even on ...

Android Studio IDE is launched at Google I/O 2013. Android Studio is based on  Intellij IDEA which aims to replace Eclipse + Android Developer Tools for Android development. And since Google itself is pushing it, it may catch up with eclipse soon. Android has its pros and cons compared to eclipse. + Android Studio has better support for UI design and ...

In this post, I will describe first how to use Volley to populate dynamically a ListView, and then compare it against AsycnTask. In this post, we will invoke a remote service to get contact information in JSON format, and we populate the items inside a ListView.This simple example is very useful to understand Volley library and how we can integrate ...

In this post, I want to describe how to use a very powerful and easy to use library for Android. This library is called Volley and it can be used to handle networking connection. In previous post, we talked about HttpUrlConnection and Apache HTTP client. They are both valid and useful but using Volley we can simplify our work. Volley ...

This tutorial describes how to use JSON with Android. JSON stands for (Java Script Object Notation). It is a simple and light-weight data interchange format that can be easily read by humans and machines. JSON is a text format that is language independent. It represents data in a text format so that can be easily parsed. Introduction to JSON JSON uses two different of ...

In this post, we want to show how to use SlidingPaneLayout. This is an interesting component that can be used when we want to have a multi-pane horizontal layout. This component is divided in two different parts: left side: The master part. It usually contains a list of values (i.e. Contacts and so on) right side: The detail part. It ...

Introduction Image Filter allows you to add various effects on image. There are mainly two purpose of Image Processing: Image Understanding: It is used to identify content of image, weather image has human faces, objects (bus, train, etc.), measure dimension of objects,etc. OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is one of the main library used for Image Understanding. Image Beautify : ...

What happened when I long press power button ? What is shutdown sequence ? How is it different from desktop linux shutdown sequence? How to change shutdown menu ? Many questions pop-up in mind when we think about Android shutdown sequence. Before you read about shutdown sequence I suggest you to read about boot sequence article. Android is linux based ...