Today we’d like to take a quick tour of one of the lesser known, but highly useful types of services you might want to use: the IntentService.

One common feature of "reader"-type applications is keeping track of items that have been read, or previously viewed. This tutorial is going to show you, by...

Android uses SQLite technology for its local database. This works quite well. However, occasional quirks exist when compared to a fully featured relational...

The Android compatibility library allowed you to add fragments to the tutorial list (TutList) application for use on devices running Android 1.6 and higher....

Google IO 2011 took place in early May in San Francisco, California. In the midst of many announcements and tons of information, Android development for...

Often times, applications will perform some background operation—maybe while the app is running or maybe triggered on a scheduled alarm. The user won't know...

In Part 3, we continued this series by explaining how to add a brand new contact. We also discussed how to use the Android Java API for accessing and...

Many applications can benefit from Shared Preferences – the Android platform’s answer to the persistent storage of application settings. There are many ways...

In part 2 of the tutorial series, we demonstrated how to create an account for the newly created contacts. We also described how to edit and delete an...

Many applications have a need for regular, background actions to take place. For instance, in the "TutList" application we've been building over a recent...

This tutorial picks up where we left off in part 1 by demonstrating how to create an account for the newly created contacts. We will also describe how to...

The tutorial content of the still-unnamed "TutList" application we've been building together is getting stale. The data has been the same for over a month...