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...

In this tutorial series, we will develop a native Android application where the user interface is implemented using the jQuery Mobile framework. For this...

The UI thread is a bad place for lengthy operations like loading data. You never know how long data will take to load, especially if that data is sourced...

The TutList application that we've been working with has a pretty big flaw right now: the article data is not “live”, but static content. In this...

In this tutorial, we will run through a quick guide on how to achieve object movement, one of the foundations of game development. We won't be doing anything...

Android 3.0, or Honeycomb, came with some fundamental user interface changes, most notably in the form of the Fragment API. When you were reading the last...

The new Fragment API for Android, introduced in Android 3.0, allows for easier dynamic user interfaces. In this tutorial, learn how to convert a two-screen...

Creating Android layouts that look good can be challenging. Once you’ve spent hours tweaking them to suit multiple devices, you often won't want to revisit...

The ListView is one of the most useful view controls available on the Android platform for the display of variable amounts of data. In this Mobiletuts+...

Android devices come in many shapes and sizes. Designing applications to run flawlessly, regardless of the device characteristics, is as much an art as a...