July 2015 - Page 2 of 3

Android WIFI

Android allows applications to access to view the access the state of the wireless connections at very low level. Application can access almost all the information of a wifi connection. The information that an application can access includes connected network’s link speed, IP address, negotiation state, other networks information. Applications can also scan, add, save,

Android Bluetooth

Jul 23, 2015 By: Dr. Droid Android Basics, Android Bluetooth, Android ListView Comments: 0

Bluetooth is a way to send or receive data between two different devices. Android platform includes support for the Bluetooth framework that allows a device to wirelessly exchange data with other Bluetooth devices. Android provides Bluetooth API to perform these different operations. Scan for other Bluetooth devices Get a list of paired devices Connect to

Android History Bookmark

Jul 22, 2015 By: Dr. Droid Android Basics Comments: 17

In Android you can access your Browser history and Bookmarks. For more details about Android Browser check developers site. In this tutorial we are going to fetch all bookmarks and browser history and show them over ListView. For fetching Browser data we are going to use Browser.BookmarkColumns. This contains all the columns against Bookmark and

Android Custom Toast

Jul 22, 2015 By: Dr. Droid Android Basics Comments: 0

What is Toast? A Toast is a message that pops up on the surface of the window. It only fills the amount of space required for the message and the user’s current activity remains visible and interactive. The notification automatically fades in and out, and does not accept interaction events. Toast is transient notifications that

Android SwipeRefresh Layout

Jul 21, 2015 By: Dr. Droid Android RecyclerView, Android SwipeRefresh Layout, Android ViewPager Comments: 0

You might have noticed that lot of android apps like Twitter, Google+ provides an option to swipe / pull down to refresh it’s content. Whenever user swipes down from top, a loader will be shown and will disappear once the new content is loaded. In this tutorial we are going to learn how to provide

Android RecyclerView

Jul 20, 2015 By: Dr. Droid Android ListView, Android RecyclerView, Android ViewPager Comments: 2

What is RecyclerView? Google’s upcoming operating system named Android L looks very promising. It is highly focused on rich user experience and what they called it as material design. In this example we will take a look at the new UI widget called RecyclerView. RecyclerView is more advanced and flexible and efficient version of ListView. RecyclerView