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Android App Builder provides invaluable advice, tips, and tutorials for mobile app developers who are coding, packaging, and marketing top-notch apps for today's cutting edge smartphones and tablets.
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Create a transparent progress dialog on Android
A game development hobby project inspired this app developer to figure out a way to create a transparent progress dialog that animates an image. He describes how to do it.
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Fact sheet: Google Play Game Services
Learn the basics about Google Play Game Services, a free platform agnostic SaaS offering.
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A comprehensive troubleshooting guide for Android's R cannot be resolved error
Here is a guide to getting your project back up and running the next time Eclipse bombards you with the R cannot be resolved error.
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Unit testing Android apps with Robolectric: advanced use cases
Learn how the Robolectric API is useful for various Android unit tests, such as when you're working with delayed and background tasks.
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Export SQLite data from your Android device
If you need to debug SQLite tables on an Android device, here is how to create an export function that copies the database to the SD card.
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Tinting your next Android UI
App development expert William J. Francis walks you through the steps of applying a color filter to a standard Android button widget.
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Browse SQLite data on the Android emulator
This demo shows how developer William J. Francis often debugs SQLite tables through the Android emulator.
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Make your next Android app a good listener
This tutorial demonstrates how simple it is to use the Android Speech to Text API.
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Teach your next Android app to speak
This tutorial demonstrates how simple it is to use the Android Text to Speech API.
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Cross-platform vs. native development: Corona SDK
William J. Francis lists some pros and cons about using Corona SDK for app developers who might consider using the cross-platform technology for a project.
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Making an app vision a reality: The power of defining a niche
App creators must harness the power of their audience, which begins with defining their niche.
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How to send a text message from within your Android app
Get the word out about your Android app by sending a text message within the application. Here's how to do just with the help of the Android SmsManager class.
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Use Android's scale animation to simulate a 3D flip
App developer William J. Francis presents a tutorial on how to create a flip animation to simulate dealing a card, which is something he's using in his next Android game.
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Continue to test and measure ad performance for your Android app
If you plan to monetize your Android app with advertising, it's wise to continually test and measure which ad networks are performing well for it.
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Add custom transitions to Android alert dialogs
This Android developer demo shows how to replace the associated on and off screen transitions of an alert dialog with your own XML animation set.
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Essential elements to use from the Android Support Library
The Android Support Library makes several of the operating system's important new features available to apps for older versions of Android.
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Android's indeterminate ProgressDialog tutorial
Delve into how to use the Android ProgressDialog class to create a better user experience.
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A quick tutorial on coding Android's accelerometer
The accelerometer is a hardware sensor used to detect a shake motion. William Francis shares the accelerometer code that he uses in his Android apps.
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Use Android's AlarmManager to schedule an event
This app development tutorial is the most basic implementation of the powerful Android AlarmManager class.
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Calling RESTful services from your Android app
Mobile developer William J. Francis demonstrates how easy it is to consume a RESTful service from your Android device.
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Project your Android phone's screen onto a larger display
Learn three ways to get your Android phone display onto a large overhead screen so you can show off your killer app during your next demo or presentation.
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A newbie's guide to Android development
William J. Francis covers Android development basics, such as the necessary tools to get started and a typical project hierarchy.
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The ABCs of Android game development: Prepare the canvas
In the first installment of his five-part app developer series, William J. Francis creates a drawing surface and a framework for controlling and updating the contents of an Android game.
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Get started with Android fragments
After purchasing and using a Sony Tablet S, William J. Francis is sold on the idea of Android fragments. His tutorial shows how to create a functional fragment-based UI.
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App store fees, percentages, and payouts: What developers need to know
Every app store takes a cut of a developer's sales. Find out how much of the earnings usually go to the app store and when you can expect a payment.
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Use Android's scale animation to simulate a 3D flip
App developer William J. Francis presents a tutorial on how to create a flip animation to simulate dealing a card, which is something he's using in his next Android game.
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Show a progress bar in your Android app for a better UX
Users expect mobile apps to be responsive, and when nothing happens, they feel frustrated. Learn how to give users a better experience by adding a progress bar to your Android app.
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Use Android's gesture detector to translate a swipe into an event
When developing an Android app, you can use the intuitive Gesture Detector class horizontally, vertically, and diagonally to translate subtle motions into distinct events.
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Android's SeekBar your way
Learn how to customize the Android UI SeekBar widget by following this tutorial by mobile developer William Francis.
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Create a transparent progress dialog on Android
A game development hobby project inspired this app developer to figure out a way to create a transparent progress dialog that animates an image. He describes how to do it.