There’s nothing more annoying than trying to navigate a poorly designed user interface on a mobile application. How your application behaves in terms of...

Welcome to Part 2 of our series on building augmented reality applications on the Android platform. In Part 1, you learned how to use the camera, draw text...

Cupcake, Donut, Éclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich… Perhaps you’ve heard Android developers talking about these platform code-names...

Augmented reality (AR) is a hot topic in mobile apps today. Smartphones and tablets have the power and the hardware capable of enabling developers to write...

One poor coding practice that really gets our blood boiling is when developers include raw string content inline in code. Sure, there are occasionally good...

The Android SDK ships with powerful Bluetooth APIs capable of managing the local Bluetooth adapter, scanning for nearby Bluetooth devices, transferring data...

The next major version of the Android SDK, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich, is due out within the next couple of months. While we’re waiting for the release,...

A recent update to the Android platform added a new class called StrictMode (android.os.StrictMode). This class can be used to enable and enforce various...

There are numerous types of dialogs available within the Android SDK, such as DatePickerDialogs, ProgressDialogs, and generic dialogs like AlertDialogs. You...

People format date information in a variety of ways and this makes collecting raw date information from users a bit tricky. The best way to guarantee valid...

This tutorial will provide an interactive, multiple-table database creation and management application for Android devices. Database navigation and search...

Android applications are commonly broken down into functional areas where each is tied to an Activity class which dictates the display and behavior of a...