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An Introduction to Android Firmware

Tutorial • Beginner

Android phones and tablets are generally a lot more open than their counterparts running operating systems such as iOS, Tizen, or Windows 10 Mobile. If you...

Ashraff Hathibelagal • 4 Jul 2016
Tools

Android From Scratch: How to Use Resources In an Application

Tutorial • Beginner

Any app that you develop will have to include some sort of local resources and values, such as strings, image assets (even if it's just the app icon) and...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 29 Jun 2016
Tools

How to Work With Geofences on Android

Tutorial • Intermediate

Location aware resources allow your application to interact with the physical world and they are ideal for increasing user engagement. Although many mobile...

Tin Megali • 27 Jun 2016
Android Development

Get Started Creating an Apple TV App With Swift

Tutorial • Beginner

In this lesson from my recent course on creating an Apple TV app with Swift, we will create a tvOS project and explore its project structure. You will be...

Derek Jensen • 16 Jun 2016
Tools

Android From Scratch: Understanding Adapters and Adapter Views

Tutorial • Beginner

Adapter views are so ubiquitous that you'd have a hard time finding a popular Android app that doesn't use them. Every time you see an Android app display...

Ashraff Hathibelagal • 15 Jun 2016
Tools

What's New in Android Studio 2.2?

Tutorial • Beginner

The last few months have been an exciting time for Android Studio. First came version 2.1 with support for Android N. Then Google I/O brought us a preview of...

Jessica Thornsby • 8 Jun 2016
Tools

Android From Scratch: Connecting Activities and Applications

Tutorial • Beginner

Before you start creating complex applications with dozens of activities, and thus screens, you need to understand how to switch from one activity to...

Ashraff Hathibelagal • 1 Jun 2016
Tools

Android From Scratch: Activities and Fragments

Tutorial • Beginner

When a user interacts with an app on an Android device, they are almost always interacting with an Activity. After Google released the Honeycomb version of...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 25 May 2016
Tools

How to Enable Deep Links on Android

Tutorial • Beginner

Android deep links open a specific page within an app and optionally pass data to it. Developers may find deep links particularly useful for actions, such as...

Matthew Kim • 27 Apr 2016
Security

How to Secure an Android App

Tutorial • Beginner

In this article, we're going to take a look at some of the best practices you can follow to build a secure Android app. This means an app that doesn't leak...

Ashraff Hathibelagal • 25 Apr 2016
Android Development

Google Fit for Android: Sessions API

Tutorial • Beginner

Google Fit is a platform that allows developers to build applications that are focused on user fitness data. One of the tools Google has provided is Google...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 20 Apr 2016
Tools

Android From Scratch: Common UI Design Patterns

Tutorial • Beginner

While Android allows you to create almost any custom view or user interface that you could possibly want, there are a few user interface patterns that have...

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz • 18 Apr 2016