On april 29th 2013 I delivered a free lecture about developing Java applications for Android. The lecture took place in HIT. Google sponsored the refreshments. You can download the slides I was using during the lecture. You can find (within the slides) the links we mention during the lecture. For a smooth start I recommend [...]
On Monday June 26th I will start to deliver a professional course for learning how to develop applications in Java for the android platform. The course includes 180 academic hours, it takes place in HIT and it splits into three parts. The first part covers the topics in Java required for learning android development and [...]
The android platform provides us with a search framework that helps us implementing search mechanism in our application. We can allow the user to enter the searched term either through a search dialogue shown on top of the screen or through a search view widget. When developing an application that includes a searching mechanism we [...]
In order to develop an android broadcast receiver we should define a class that extends BroadcastReceiver, implement our onReceive method and update the android platform about the new broadcast receiver, either via the manifest xml file or by calling the registerReceiver method. The following code sample includes the definition of a BroadcastReceiver that will get [...]
The first step is coding the aidl file that includes our definition for the interface that lists the methods we want to enable their invocation from another process. package com.abelski.currencyservice; interface ICurrencyService { double getCurrency(String country); } The aidl compiler will go over that file and auto generate the interface we defined in the aidl [...]
Using HTML5 and other web technologies when developing an application for the android platform simplifies the development process and helps us cooping with the well known android platform fragmentation problem. I chose to write this post in order to point at those cases in which we cannot avoid using Java in our application development for [...]
On November 15th I start delivering a professional course for learning how to develop applications in Java for the android platform. The course includes 180 academic hours, it takes place in HIT and it splits into three parts. The first part covers the topics in Java required for learning android development and it includes extensive [...]
On November 8th I have delivered a jump start lecture for Android applications development in Java. The lecture took place in HIT and pizzas were served (sponsored by Google) during the break. You can download the slides I was using during the lecture. I believe they can assist you while doing your first steps.
I want to thank all attendees who came to the lecture I gave on September 11th in Holon Institute of Technology. The video clips that were played before the lecture started can be found organized in a playlist I created on the youtube platform. The slides can be downloaded and the first steps towards learning [...]
