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Let's take another look at PreferenceAcitivites, and how we can use other views, than the basic PreferenceActivity views.

I found no really easy to understand example on tabhosts, when you don't want to use a TabActivity, so here is one.

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.

There are situations where you have to use a Canvas. What do you do if you have more text than you can properly display?
The problem is, that if you want multiline text on canvas, with the drawText method, you would have to measure how much space a single line of text would take up, and also compare it to the width of the screen, and draw each line separately.
Read more to check my solution.

In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to process an image and draw it's color histogram.

First you have to create a new Android project with the following parameters.
Project name: ViewfinderEE368
Check the box for Android 2.0.1
Application name: Viewfinder EE368
Package name: com.example.viewfinderee368
Check the box for Create Activity and enter: ViewfinderEE368
Min SDK Version: 6

Here is a little tutorial, if you want to check "Fancy time and date picker" by tamas!

Join to Google Code project from Eclipse

• Eclipse SVN plugin: Help-> Install New Software ...
Add a link to install Subclipse: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x
•...

The other day we needed a fancier than the factory default date and time picker, so I looked around the net, what other options are out there.

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....

As we previously desribed in PreferenceActivity Basics a preferences screen with basic features can be done with minimal work, only using XML. Now we will inplement some functionality beyond the base ones, this will require some coding in addition to the XML definition.

We will display the actual value in each preferences summary field, like this:

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.