Android Activities and Tasks series – An introduction to Android’s UI...
With Android, Google implemented its very own UI component model, introducing various new terms and concepts probably unfamiliar to most developers. Although well designed and powerful, it is...
View ArticleAndroid activities – The predominance of the UI Thread
Android application user interfaces are decomposed in 'screens' called activities. The user navigates from screen to screen thanks to buttons, clickable elements, keyboard keys, and gestures... Each...
View ArticleAndroid Activities and Tasks series – Intent flags
The previous post of the Activities and Tasks series gave an introduction to the concepts behind activities and tasks. We have seen that activities correspond to visible screens in the UI, that...
View ArticleStarting Android application development with Apache Maven
Despite of not being in widespread use in the Android world, Apache Maven is a great tool to develop Android applications. Maven has a lot of advantages relevant for Android application development: It...
View ArticleReusing Android components with Rindirect.
Android applications can grow very quickly. As they are composed of components (Activities, Services and Content Providers), it should be easy to extend an existing application to create new...
View ArticleAndroid Activities and Tasks series – Activity Attributes
The previous post of the Android Activities and Tasks series explained the concept of Android's intents. We have seen how to use them to launch activities and how to utilize intent flags to customize...
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