UI Features and Design Guidelines for Android 4.4 KitKat | Android Video Tutorial

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Join Nick Butcher, Adam Koch and Roman Nurik as they discuss various elements of Android Design. This week, we'll cover the new UI features and design guidelines for Android 4.4 KitKat.Slides......

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Storage Access Framework in Android 4.4 KitKat | Android 4.4 KitKat Video Tutorial

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Get up to speed on the new storage access framework in Android 4.4 KitKat. This video gets you up and running with your own DocumentProvider by stepping you through the making of......

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Send and Receive SMS and MMS Messages Using Android 4.4 SMS API | Android Video Tutorial

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Android 4.4 KitKat introduces the new SMS APIs as well as the new concept of a default SMS app. This video discusses these new APIs and how your app should use them to send and receive......

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How To Animate Card Flips And Rotations | Android Programming | Video Tutorial

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This video tutorial shows how the basic graphics and animation APIs can be used to rotate and flip views from different perspectives, as well as how to apply darkening shadow effects......

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What's New in Android Developer Tools 2013? | Android | An In-depth Video Tour

An in-depth tour of the Android development tools, with a closer look at everything new - along with tips and tricks for getting the most out of them presented during Google I/O ......

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Activity Overview | Android

Activity is similar to winform in .Net. Every application will have one main Activity which will be shown to the user when launching the application for the first time. An activity......

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Building an Intent | Android

An Intent object binds two activities (components) during runtime. An Intent is an app’s intention to do an action. In other words, an intent is an abstract description of an operation......

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Button Click Event | Android Programming

android:onClick attribute is used to add click event to the <Button> element as below. <Button android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" ......

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Adding a Button | Android Programming

Button is a view object that can be added to the layout. Below is a sample code that represent a button in a layout. <Button android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" ......

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Adding String Resources | Android Programming

String resources are used to manage all UI text in a single location. Localization can be achieved by defining various definition for different languages. Android includes a string......

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Adding a Text Field | Android Programming

<EditText> element is a View object used to create a user-editable text field. Let's look at a sample XML layout code snippet to demonstrate this <EditText android:id="@+id/edit_message" ......

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Creating A Linear Layout | Android Programming

LinearLayout is a type of layout from a view group. It helps to arrange the child views in either a vertical or horizontal orientation. Each child view will appear on screen in the......

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Graphical User Interface | Android Programming

The graphical user interface for an Android application is constructed by a hierarchy of View and ViewGroup objects. View objects View objects are UI widgets such as buttons or......

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Check Mobile Network Availability By Code | Android Programming

Below code snippet checks for the availability of network signal on Android device public static boolean isNetworkAvailable(Context ctx) { ConnectivityManager connMgr = (ConnectivityManager)ctx.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE); ......

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