Android has so many features, that it's hard to go over every one of them. We wanted to try out cloud to device messeging (c2dm) for a long time now, and in the past few days I had some time to play with it. Here is a small tutorial on the topic.
With the last Android Google maps update we are blessed with the feature to explicitely download maps for offline usage. Community have been begging for offline google maps for ages. Even if someone has mobile net subscription, coverage is never perfect and its expensive when you are abroad.
Google is a company that supports internet based services, so I am releived they are improving offline usage in multiple services. The web based Google Docs is also planned to operate offline.
So, what we got now exactly? We can download maps 10 miles around a given location. What we can not do yet, is plan routes and navigate offline inside a saved area, and the application will not return any search result when used offline. Basically we can only wiev the map parts and use them manually just like a map printed on paper. So it is not mutch compared to the possibilities, but a great beginning, we are waiting for further improwements.
In this part, I show you an android application, which logging in to Facebook, then get the Facebook ID.
Please go through the first part of the tutorial, before reading this post.
Connecting to Facebook from an Android application is not as easy, as it looks. This guide will help you through some problems that you will propably encounter, with a clear and simple solution.
Here is a little tutorial on checking users flash version. It comes in handy, if you want to use flash content in your app. Flash lite can cause some problems, so this snippet is also about that...
In this tutorial I'll show you a way to remote control your android device via Wifi, Lan, Internet or Usb.
You'll need 2 applications installed on a rooted device, and another client software installed on your pc or another phone. First, go to market, and install and open this application: https://market.android.com/details?id=stericson.busybox&feature=search_result
A few weeks ago ztomi had a tutorial about ADB wireless. You propably already have your favourite way of rooting your phone (superoneclick etc), but what if you don't want or can't use the usb port of your phone?
Lately we have been doing all kinds of demo projects, and tests, where we did not want to use constant data to present our products. Having a demo of your application is only nice, if it has relevant data in it. It could be top class technology, but if it is using the same image 20 times in a list, well that does not look very good.
Getting 20 relevant images on a subject takes up a lot of time, even with search engines and royalty free photo sites.Luckily most search able sites have free apis, here is a little snippet for flickr's services.
Android always had very good social network, and communcation tool integration. All of the preinstalled communication tpye apps, and a lot of 3rd party apps have support for communcation between each other, via the ACTION_SEND intent.
In this part, I show you an android application, which logging in to Facebook, then get the Facebook ID.
