Tutorials

In this tutorial we'll create a custom View called HorizontalSlider based on ProgressBar. This slider will allow the user to move the slider back and forth on the screen and get notified when this happens.

This example shows you how to properly use a thread to do work while displaying an indeterminate ProgressDialog.

This tutorial creates a MapActivity which has a spinner floating above a MapView. You can select different locations from the spinner and hit the button to view that location. The locations are a handful of the "Most Popular Destinations" from http://www.satellite-sightseer.com/

In this tutorial we will create a GPS Phone Recovery application. The application will allow the user to setup a password that he or she can use to recover a lost or stolen phone. Once the user has setup the password, if they lose their phone they'll be able to send a text message to their phone from another cell phone and if the text message is formatted "SMSLOCATE:[password]" with the correct password then the phone will respond with all of the data about the phone's current location from the GPS. This includes latitude, longitude, altitude, heading, speed, and more.

I part 3 of the MusicDroid tutorial we create a simple controls interface that will be launched by our playlist when you play a song. The controls interface is a translucent Activity that simply has 4 images, one for each direction on the D-Pad. When you hit a direction on the pad it will send a command to the service and play a small animation.

This tutorial utilizes the work done in parts 1 and 2, though you do not have to be familiar with those parts if you just want some examples of animation or transparency.

In part 2 of the MusicDroid media player tutorial series, we will move the MediaPlayer object into a remote service so that you can use the rest of the phone while playing your music. We will setup this service so that it will be simple to add the controls in part 3 for Pause, Stop, Skip forward, Skip back, etc. This service will also provide a marquee notification each time a new song starts, and a notification icon for play/pause status.

In part 1 of this 4 part series, we will setup a very basic music player that will list all songs on the SD card and allow the user to select a song to play. Over the course of this series we will build a fully functional MP3 player with animated controls and IDE3 tag support.

In Hello Android's first tutorial we will walk through creating a simple RSS reader. This tutorial will show you how to parse XML files and use the SQLiteDatabase for storage.