Android – Dashboard design pattern implementation
Before reading this article, please read the mentioned prerequisites so that you can have better idea for the implementation of solution which we are going to discuss here. What is Dashboard design pattern? In brief, we can say Dashboard is a page containing large and clear symbols of main functionality and optionally an area for […]
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Paresh Mayani
- June 2, 2012
Android Tip – How to define Getter/Setter methods?
Hello All, This is actually a tip to define Getter/Setter methods in easy way. In other terms you can say Object initialization. You know why i thought to share this tip, just because i have seen many people defining Getter/Setter methods by their own and After getting my tip, you will call its Time wasting […]
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Paresh Mayani
- April 27, 2012
Android – Custom toggle button example
Problem: How to customize toggle button with custom images in android? Solution: Step 1: Create 2 images for ON and OFF state of toggle button, place these 2 images inside the Drawable folder. FYI, i have used 9-patch tool to create images for the states. Step 2: Now, create a selector file for your toggle […]
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Paresh Mayani
- April 26, 2012
I am now an Android gold badge holder at StackOverflow
Here I am proud to share that I am now an android gold badge holder at StackOverflow. Why i am feeling proud? Just because right now only 11 members (including me) holding this badgeand they all other 10 members are a great people doing in android platform such as CommonsWare (Mr. Mark Murphy, founder and […]
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Paresh Mayani
- April 2, 2012
Android – How to implement Google Search inside application?
In Android application, if there is functionality of implementing Google search then here is the easy solution to implement it. In this example, we will accept input from the user and will search the same string input in the Google search. For implementing this functionality we use Intent.ACTION_WEB_SEARCH . Solution: GoogleSearchIntentActivity.java main.xml Note: Don’t forget […]
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Paresh Mayani
- March 28, 2012
I am now a DZone MVB (Most Valuable Blogger)
Today, one more feather is added in my crown…..Yeh 🙂 🙂 FYI, this is the 2nd feather, 1st was JavaCodeGeeks 🙂 Let me tell you exactly!! Few days ago, Mr. Mitch Pronschinske ,Senior Content Curator and Editor-in chief at DZone contacted me and saying that “With the quality of writing displayed in your blog, I’d […]
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Paresh Mayani
- March 27, 2012
Windows Phone Emalator with Local keyboard input
While working on Windows phone 7 development, you might have faced a problem that you are not able to input through your local keyboard into the Windows phone 7 emulator keyboard. Have you faced this problem? Solution: Just Press the “Page Up” key on the keyboard or Press the “Pause/Break key“. Both of these keys […]
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Paresh Mayani
- March 21, 2012
