Since the early days of the OS, widgets for Android have allowed users to engage with their favourite apps, from the comfort of their homescreen. So how do you create an Android widget? For the ...

There are many different ways that you can use location data in your Android apps. Previously, we’ve seen how you can display the user’s location on a Google Map; reverse geocode coordinates into a ...

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Each screen in an Android application is represented within the code as an activity. When you create Android applications, you can create an activity class for each screen you need. If you need to ...

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In Android Studio for beginners, Part 2, you created your first animated mobile app using Android Studio. Now, Part 3 will take you through the steps to build and run the app in an Android device ...

In each Android app, a heap size is dynamically created to take care of the new objects you create in the Android program. You have the option to create your own heap size using the ...

Multimedia is expected in today's mobile applications, and the fun isn't only for smartphone and tablet users. Mono for Android, based on the Mono project's open source implementation of the Microsoft ...