July 2015 - Androhub

WebView

Android WebView

Android’s WebView allows you to open an own windows for viewing URL or custom html markup page. WebView is a view that display web pages inside your application. You can also specify HTML string and can show it inside your application using WebView. WebView makes turns your application to a web application. In order to

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Content Provider

Android Content Provider

A content provider component supplies data from one application to others on request. Such requests are handled by the methods of the ContentResolver class. A content provider can use different ways to store its data and the data can be stored in a database, in files, or even over a network. Content providers let you

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Read Contact

Android Read Contacts using Content Provider

You can read phone contacts using Content Provider. With the help of this content provider we can communicate with the contacts app and query the URIs  and columns to get contact information and it will return as contact name, all contact numbers, all email addresses, company name, etc. Content providers manage access to a structured set of data. They encapsulate

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Notification Bar

Android Notification Bar

A notification is a message you can display to the user outside of your application’s normal UI. When you tell the system to issue a notification, it first appears as an icon in the notification area. To see the details of the notification, the user opens the notification drawer. Both the notification area and the

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GPS Location

Android GPS Location Manager

If you are developing any location based app, you can make your app more smarter by finding user’s location automatically. For this you need to integrate location modules in your application. You can learn more about location strategies. Example In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to get user location using GPS location manager

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Internet Connection

Android Detect Internet Connection Using Broadcast Receiver

Android lets your application connect to the internet or any other local network and allows you to perform network operations. A device can have various types of network connections. If your app needs internet connection to make HTTP Requests and or you need internet connection in your whole app then it is better to check

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