This tutorial explains everything needed to detect faces with the front facing camera on Android. It also wraps this all up into one class, so that you can do face detection in your activity with…
Category: Intermediate
[TUT] Migrating to AdMob in Google Play Services from AdMob SDK jar
Google have announced AdMob will now be available from with the Google Play Services library. The issue being they are stopping delivering ads to the AdMob sdk jar from August 2014. I describe here some…
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[TUT] DayDreams are as easy as counting sheep
DayDreaming is simple, if you have written an application with an Activity i.e everybody! You should be able to implement a simple daydream with little extra effort. We are going to run through creating one…
[TUT] Validate EditText User Input with Shake Feedback
I was recently watching the Google App Clinic and noticed one of the apps Zoum Tasks had this really cool feature where when the user enters an email address into an EditText, if it was…
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[TUT] Using the camera with a custom overlay
This tutorial shows you how to use the devices camera inside your application. It also shows how you can have a custom UI for your camera and overlay images on top of the camera preview.…
[TUT] Get your app OAuth YouTube API access
This tutorial will explain how to allow a user to sign into YouTube, getting your application authorised so you can use the YouTube API. This will allow you to upload / like / post comments…
[TUT] Animate Removing From a Custom Adapter (ListView)
Hi guys, this is a Tutorial Request to show how to control your own animations from a custom adapter. The question was a bit vague so I’ve taken it and will show you how to…
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