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AlertDialog

Android Alert Dialog
Apr 24, 2015 By: Dr. DroidAndroid Basics Comments: 0

Some times in your application , if you wanted to ask the user about taking a decision between yes or no in response of any particular action taken by the user, by remaining in the same activity and without changing the screen, you can use Alert Dialog. In order to make an alert dialog ,

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SharedPreferences

Android SharedPreferences
Apr 24, 2015 By: Dr. DroidAndroid Basics Comments: 0

Android provides many ways of storing data of an application. One of this way is called Shared Preferences. Shared Preferences allow you to save and retrieve data in the form of key,value pair. In order to use shared preferences , you have to call a method getSharedPreferences() that returns a SharedPreference instance poiting to the

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GridView

Android GridView
Apr 21, 2015 By: Dr. DroidAndroid Basics Comments: 0

What is GridView? Android GridView shows items in two-dimensional scrolling grid (rows & columns) and the grid items are not necessarily predetermined but they automatically inserted to the layout using a ListAdapter An adapter actually bridges between UI components and the data source that fill data into UI Component. Adapter can be used to supply

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ListView

Android ListView
Apr 16, 2015 By: Dr. DroidAndroid Basics, Android ListView Comments: 0

What is ListView? Android ListView is a view which groups several items and display them in vertical scrollable list. The list items are automatically inserted to the list using an Adapter that pulls content from a source such as an array or database. An adapter actually bridges between UI components and the data source that

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Intents

Android Intents
Apr 15, 2015 By: Dr. DroidAndroid Basics Comments: 0

What are intents? Intents are asynchronous messages which allow application components to request functionality from other Android components. Intents allow you to interact with components from the same applications as well as with components contributed by other applications. For example, an activity can start an external activity for taking a picture. Intents are objects of

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