mobile development tutorial

Android is a complete set of software for mobile devices

Android tutorial or android development tutorial covers basic and advanced concepts of android technology. Our android tutorial is developed for beginners and professionals.

Android is a complete set of software for mobile devices such as tablet computers, notebooks, smartphones, electronic book readers, set-top boxes etc.

It contains a linux-based Operating System, middleware and key mobile applications.

It can be thought of as a mobile operating system. But it is not limited to mobile only. It is currently used in various devices such as mobiles, tablets, televisions etc

Activity and Intent

It provides the detail of activity, its life cycle with example, implicit intent, sending information from one activity to another etc.

Activity LifeCycle

Implicit Intent

Explicit Intent

StartActivityForResult

Android UI Widgets

There are given a lot of android ui widgets examples such as toggle button, alert dialog, spinner, progress bar, alert dialog etc.

UI Widgets

Working with Button

Toast

Custom Toast

ToggleButton

CheckBox

AlertDialog

Spinner

AutoCompleteTextView

RatingBar

DatePicker

TimePicker

ProgressBar

Menus in Android

Here, you will learn about the option menu that is primary menu, context menu that works on long press and popup menu.

Option Menu

Context Menu

Popup Menu

Service in Android

It can be used to perform any task in background. It doesn't have any user interface(UI).

Android Service

Data Storage

You can store data in android using preferences, internal storage, external storage and sqlite database. Preferences are used to primitives, internal storage stores data in device internal memory, external storage stores data in device external memory such as SD card and SQLite is used to store data in sqlite database i.e. inbuilt in android Operating System (OS).

Internal Storage

External Storage

SQLite Database

SQLite Tutorial and Example

SQLite Example with GUI by Spinner

XML and JSON Parsing

There are three ways to parse the xml file but android recommends XMLPullParser to parse the XML. Instead of XML, JSON is preferred because it is fast and short.

XML Parsing SAX

XML Parsing DOM

XMLPullParser

JSON Parsing

Android Multimedia

Android multimedia api deals in playing and controlling the audio and video.

Playing Audio in android Example

Playing Video in android Example

Android Speech API

Speech API is used to convert text into speech.

Android TextToSpeech Tutorial

TextToSpeech Example with Speed option

Telephony API

It can be used to get details about the device, making phone calls, sending sms, sending emails etc. TelephonyManager

Get Call State

Call State BroadcastReceiver

How to make a Phone Call

How to Send SMS

How to Send Email

Device Connectivity

We can connect and control bluetooth, wifi and camera in android.

Bluetooth Tutorial

List Paired Devices

Android Sensor Tutorial

Android sensor tutorial covers concept and example of motion sensor, position sensor and environmental sensor.

Android Sensor Tutorial

Web Service Tutorial

Android web service tutorial enables you to interact with other programming language such as Java, .Net, PHP and Python.

Android Web Service

Android Animation

Android animation enables you to rotate, slide and flip images and text.

Android Animation Example