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Creating Screen Layouts in Android Using XML

In my last post, I alluded to the fact that you can lay out your visual elements and controls on your Android application screens (your Activity objects)...

1 replies - 10261 views - 04/12/11 by Brian Swartzfager in News

Android Application Concepts: The Activity

Android applications can be constructed from four different types of components: activities, services, broadcast receivers, and content providers. Of the...

1 replies - 10780 views - 04/11/11 by Brian Swartzfager in News

Developing Native Android Applications: Not as Hard As You Might Think

Two months ago, my boss asked me to try and build a native Android application based on the mobile website I had created for the university's annual Maryland...

1 replies - 10608 views - 04/06/11 by Brian Swartzfager in News

Amazon as a competitor to Google and Apple

Amazon seems to become a competitor for both Google and Apple. Recently, it has taken the following two steps: It created its own app store for Android. [1]It...

2 replies - 3622 views - 04/04/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in News

How to sniff web traffic from Marketplace-based Android applications

There are cases when it is necessary to track the outgoing and incoming traffic related to Android applications. However, Android as a platform is not really...

0 replies - 7241 views - 04/03/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Displaying images from SD card in Android

Below you will find a Android example of how to access and display images that are stored on your SD card. I wrote part 2 for this article, where images...

2 replies - 51731 views - 03/31/11 by Mihai Fonoage in News

Application Ecosystem for the BlackBerry PlayBook

According to their press release, RIM has officially announced the ecosystem for applications that will run on the PlayBook tablet. Below is a quote...

0 replies - 3633 views - 03/28/11 by Mihai Fonoage in News

Google Delays Release of Honeycomb Code

Android devs got a punch in the gut this week as  Google has decided to keep Android 3.0 Honeycomb's code under lock and key for the foreseeable future. ...

0 replies - 5440 views - 03/25/11 by Katie Mckinsey in News

Video: Will the Mobile Wars Become a 3-Horse Race?

The last few years have been a dogfight between Apple's iPhone and Google's Android phones, and its been hard for any other mobile platforms to seem relevant...

8 replies - 11307 views - 03/24/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Daily Dose: Introducing Drizzle: A New, Lightweight Version of MySQL

Drizzle is the latest lightweight fork originating from Oracle's MySQL database.  The Drizzle development team has eliminated all of the features they...

2 replies - 23233 views - 03/17/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

RIAs in the Enterprise: A Trainer’s Perspective

The assertion made by enterprises prior to examining a “rebuild” of existing web applications (i.e. HTML 4, XHTML, JavaScript, Applets, Struts, etc) is...

1 replies - 14309 views - 02/28/11 by Kevin Ruse in Articles

DZone Daily Dose: Google's "Arctic Sea" Web-App Amp Up

The Google Chrome 10 beta has been released with the 'Arctic Sea' application, the next stage in Google's Native Client software foundation. Using the new...

0 replies - 24954 views - 02/19/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose: Infamous Java Floating Point Bug Finally Fixed!

Users of Java SE and Java for Business can now code in a  less error-prone environment. Update 24 for Java 6 spells the end of the floating point bug reported...

0 replies - 30477 views - 02/17/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Building a mobile RSS reader with Flash Builder "Burrito" and Packaging for Android

Create an RSS reader for mobile devices with step-by-step instructionsPrerequisite knowledgePrevious experience with Flash Builder, Flex, and ActionScript will...

3 replies - 16712 views - 02/16/11 by Duane Nickull in Articles

Daily Dose: Spring 3.1 Milestone 1 is Loaded

The Spring Framework team has announced the first milestone release of Spring Framework 3.1. New features include enhanced Bean definition profiles, ...

1 replies - 26406 views - 02/13/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose