In our last post we developed a app to retrieve the current location of the device on Android. While retrieving the current location can be useful in a lot of real life scenarios sometimes it is just not enough. Thanks to Google’s FusedLocationProviderApi receiving location change updates in the app is fairly simple. In the following example we will be implementing an app which will be receiving updates on every location change.
In our last post we developed a app to retrieve the current location of the device on Android. While retrieving the current location can be useful in a lot of real life scenarios sometimes it is just not enough. Thanks to Google’s FusedLocationProviderApi receiving location change updates in the app is fairly simple. In the following example we will be implementing an app which will be receiving updates on every location change.
About 85% of the world’s smartphone run on Android. Android SDK is available for free. Many App developers have turned into millionaires overnight. I don’t think you need any other reason to learn Android development. But first you need to set up an environment for developing. Today we will be discussing what are the basic Android Development system requirements.
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Before beginning with the actual app development it is very important for every developer to be aware of the four Android Components. These are building blocks of an Application. Any feature that we see in an app is the result of interaction between these components.A developer needs to declare all the components he is using inside the AndroidManifest.xml, this what informs the system of number and names of components used in this app.
The four components are
Before beginning with the actual app development it is very important for every developer to be aware of the four Android Components. These are building blocks of an Application. Any feature that we see in an app is the result of interaction between these components. A developer needs to declare all the Android components he is using inside the AndroidManifest.xml, this what informs the system of number and names of components used in this app.
The four components are
Well this is most controversial technology question in today’s world and has been actively debated on every forum but still nobody seems to have the answer.So I decided to take this challenge and tried analysing these two legendary operating system
We all are aware of Android and we all know its quite popular. But, factually how big is Android. What are the numbers? Read on to find out
It doesn’t matter whether you are a computer geek or someone who doesnt understand computer. You might have definitely heard the term “Android”.You might have heard of people buying android mobiles, updating their phones to latest Android Version, downloading an Android app.So What the heck is this ANDROID. And for those who don’t really understand Computer Science this might be a million dollar question. Fortunately it has a very simple answer. Android is just an Open Source Linux-based Mobile Operating System.(WOW! This is a heavy term )Don’t worry Let me explain what exactly is an operating system.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a computer geek or someone who doesn’t understand computer, You might have definitely heard the term “Android”. You might have heard of people buying android mobiles, updating their phones to latest Android Version, downloading an Android app. So What the heck is this ANDROID and how it started. And for those who don’t really understand computer science this might be a million dollar question. Fortunately it has a very simple answer. Android is just an Open Source Linux-based Mobile Operating System which started in 2005 (technically 2003). This article will explain every thing about android history. How Android started and went on become the most popular mobile OS. Let us start from the beginning
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