This tutorial will show you the skeleton of an Android application that uses the Gradle build system and runs JUnit tests on java classes. If your here and reading this, I assume you already know…
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[TUT] Setting up Android Studio & Gradle [windows 7]
This is a simple walk through of setting up the new Android Studio IDE and Gradle. Gradle is the new build system for all Android projects. Prerequisites: you have a JDK installed. JAVA_HOME is set.…
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[TUT] Email Feedback from Users (device information)
I recently updated my McDonalds Calories application and improved the feedback facilities. Whilst I was doing this I realised it would be good to do in all of my apps and therefore wrote this utility…
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Register for YouTube API use
This post walks you through registering for the YouTube API. This is necessary if you want to upload / download videos from YouTube using OAuth. Another way to think of registering is that, it creates…
[TUT] Keep Screen on/awake – 3 possible ways
This tutorial will show you how to stop the screen timing out for an android activity so you can continue to show some information without user interaction and without the screen going off. Dont use…
[TUT] Running an Ant script with Eclipse
In a previous tutorial I explained how to use an Ant script to build and run your projects. However it’s no good knowing how to do that, if you can’t run the Ant script. So…
[TUT] Add Your App to the Android ‘do something’ Menu (using Intent Filters)
This request is to be able to add your application to the context menus of the android system. When the android system or another application wants to do a specific task, it will broadcast an…
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