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Published On - 7th March 2012

vikashiran NewsTags: android, news, wordy

Scan and charge credit cards with your phone

card.io is the fast and easy way to accept credit card payments from your phone. Hold a credit card in front of the phone camera, and it’s scanned automatically! There’s no typing or swiping, and no extra card readers – just point, scan, and start accepting payments. It’s sim...

Published On - 7th March 2012

vikashiran Android TutorialsTags: android, Android ScrollView, Android Tutorials

Android ScrollView

A ScrollView is a special type of FrameLayout in that it allows users to scroll through a list of views that occupy more space than the physical display. The ScrollView can contain only one child view or ViewGroup, which normally is a LinearLayout. Note: Do not use a ListView together with the Scrol...

Published On - 7th March 2012

vikashiran NewsTags: android, google play

Good bye Android market, Hello Google Play!!!

Boom!goodbye Android Market, hello Google Play. 🙂 Google’s new portal content is now the place for all your Android apps, games, music, books, videos and more. Google Play is now live at play.google.com and replaces the Android Market, effective immediately. All of Google’s services, Google M...

Published On - 21st February 2012

vikashiran Android TutorialsTags: android, Android Tutorials, drawable resource

Drawable Resources

A drawable resource is a general concept for a graphic that can be drawn to the screen and which you can retrieve with APIs such as getDrawable(int) or apply to another XML resource with attributes such as android:drawable and android:icon. There are several different types of drawables. We will be ...

Published On - 16th February 2012

mahavirjain Android TutorialsTags: android, Android Tutorials, camera

Android: Using Camera API

In this tutorial, we will implement one simple camera app with following features: 1) Launch the camera app and it will start the camera with capture and exit button at bottom. 1) On capture, it will capture the picture and show it in ImageView. 2) If you press save, it will save the picture on [&he...

Published On - 10th February 2012

mahavirjain NewsTags: android, google i/o, home automation

Google developing Android powered Home entertainment system

According to The Wall Street Journal, Google is in the process of developing a home entertainment system based on Android and controlled by Android devices. The product appears to be similar to what Apple offers with its Apple TV and AirPlay service, and will allow users to stream music and video th...

Published On - 10th February 2012

vikashiran NewsTags: android, browser, news

Google Chrome Now on Android!!

Well good news for android users. Google announced the Google Chrome for its users and it’s being made available immediately as a beta release for phones and tablets running Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0. Browse fast on your Android smartphone or tablet, and bring your personalized Chrome experience ...

Published On - 10th February 2012

vikashiran Android TutorialsTags: android, Android animations, Android Tutorials, Frame by Frame animation, tweened animation

Android Animations

Android provides two mechanisms that you can use to create simple animations: Tweened animation , in which you tell Android to perform a series of simple transformations (position, size, rotation, and so on) to the content of a View; and Frame-By-Frame animation, which loads a series of Drawable res...

Published On - 28th January 2012

vikashiran Android TutorialsTags: android, Android Fonts, Android Tutorials

Android Fonts

Every Android device comes with a collection of standard fonts: Droid Sans, Droid Sans Mono and Droid Serif. They were designed to be optimal for mobile displays, so these are the three fonts you will be working with most of the time and they can be styled using a handful of XML attributes. You migh...

Published On - 26th January 2012

vikashiran Android TutorialsTags: android, Android Tutorials, Sms messaging

SMS Messaging in Android

In this article, we take a look at how you can programmatically send and receive SMS messages in your Android applications. The good news for Android developers is that you don’t need a real device to test out SMS messaging – the free Android emulator provides the capability to do so. Se...

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