10:42 How to use Collaborative Editing in Google Docs
July 19, 2013 Friday at 10:38 am
List of Sensors in an Android Phone
A small utility to display the list of Sensors present in an Android phone. For those who are not interested in the code, the installable apk file is provided as a downloadable link at the end of this article. The Activity class package com.example.listsensors; import java.util.List; import android.os.Bundle; import android.hardware.Sensor; import android.hardware.SensorManager; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Context; import android.view.Menu; import android.widget.TextView; …
July 5, 2013 Friday at 11:29 am
The Complete Pinterest.com
5 Part Video series on using Pinterest.com 1.Intro Video 2.Video 1 – Signup 3.Video 2 – Adding a Pin 4.Video 3 – Boards & Followers 5.Video 4 – Final Tips
July 3, 2013 Wednesday at 11:26 am
How to retrieve content from a WordPress database directly
WordPress is the world’s most popular blogging platform and is used by millions of websites. It has been converted and customized to almost any kind of website imaginable. This article is if you want to retrieve content from a WP database without having to go through WP code or functions. Just straight access to the WP database using SQL. We …
June 26, 2013 Wednesday at 1:04 pm
Roll out your own Tab UI using HTML and JQuery
WHY RECREATE THE WHEEL? There are lot of tab controls out there, both using plain javascript and others using Jquery, so why the need to create our own. There are two reasons for doing this: Sometimes changing an existing control requires more time and effort than you are willing to put in. Its a learning experience and your own code …
June 18, 2013 Tuesday at 8:15 am
Scheduling a Task to run repeatedly in Android
There are times when an app needs to run at specific times without user intervention. Something very similar to cronjobs in Linux and Scheduled Tasks in Windows. Android has a built-in AlarmManager class which makes scheduling tasks very easy. What we will do is to setup an Activity to be run at 00:01:00 every day i.e 1 minute past midnight. …
June 13, 2013 Thursday at 1:15 pm
How to Fetch Data from a Website using AsyncTask
One good built-in check in Android development is the fact if any network operation is done, the compiler flags an error if it is being executed in the main thread. So any code which is trying to access something outside the device, needs to be in a separate thread. AsyncTask is an excellent choice for this, because it is meant …
June 13, 2013 Thursday at 8:42 am
Reading/Writing user preferences file in Android internal memory
Often an app needs to save user preferences or related information. This can be easily saved in the device internal memory as a persistent file. This file can be used to read and write as required. In the sample code, we define a class called UserData which stores and retrieves various data fields. The actual purpose of the fields is …
June 13, 2013 Thursday at 6:16 am
How To Copy Supporting Files During apk Installation
For certain apps which require some supporting files to be part of the installation eg.data files or images, there needs to be a way of transferring the files from the apk installer to the device. The transfer does not happen automatically. We look at the steps to do this, below: STEP 1 Put all supporting files in the assets folder. …
June 13, 2013 Thursday at 5:29 am
