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Tuesday, 18 May 2010

Table of contents

Table of Contents:
  1. Android Fundamentals - Jargon Explained
  2. Preliminary Step: Eclipse set up / Create Android Project
  3. Android Explicit Intent Example
  4. Android Implicit Intent Example
  5. Invoking Android Pre-packaged Applications
  6. Fetching a result from a called activity
  7. Android Notifications Example
  8. Android Local Service Example
  9. Android Service and Notification Combined Example
  10. Android Remote Service Example
  11. Android Content Provider Example
  12. Android Broadcast Receiver Example
  13. Android SQLite DB Example
  14. Shared Preferences on Android
  15. Google Maps on Android
  16. Location Manager on Android
  17. Simple List View
  18. Custom List View
  19. Android Threads and Handlers
  20. Http Connection Using Threads
  21. Date Time Picker Views
  22. Auto Complete Text View
  23. Spinner View
  24. Gallery View
  25. Image Switcher View
  26. Creating Android UI Programmatically
  27. Android UI - Inflate from XML (Dynamic UI Creation)
  28. ListView of Data from SQLiteDatabase
  29. TabLayout or Tabbed View
  30. Options Menu
  31. Context Menu
  32. New Contacts Content Provider
Titbits
  1. Simulating an incoming call on the Emulator
  2. Obtain Google Maps API Key
  3. Simulate Location Change in Android Emulator
  4. Updating to Android SDK 2.1
  5. Delete / Remove Applications deployed on the Android Emulator
  6. Disable Chinese / Japanese Characters on Emulator Keyboard
  7. Android Eclipse link Error - New Project
All Sample code at One place / Alternate Download site for Code
Posted by Sai at 12:25
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90 comments:

  1. Samantha25 May 2010 at 08:22

    Thanks a lot Sai, these tutorials are amazing!

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  2. Shoikat16 June 2010 at 11:17

    hi,

    thanks a lot for the amazing tutorials.
    i just wanted to know what are the good tools for GUI design available for android
    the xml editor involves writing large chunks of code which is laborious.
    is there any good drag and drop GUI design software??

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    1. Manoj23 May 2012 at 14:05

      Hi,

      You can use droiddraw software
      check this Link.
      http://code.google.com/p/droiddraw/downloads/detail?name=droiddraw-r1b22.zip&can=2&q=

      Delete
    2. Pawan23 September 2012 at 19:04

      This comment has been removed by the author.

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  3. Ashwin Khadgi28 July 2010 at 13:16

    Hi Sai,
    Thanks for sharing all your valuable knowledge.
    I am facing one issues is that I can't download any of the code.
    It simply opens a blank screen. Is this the problem at my side or the code is removed ?
    Please guide me :)

    Thanks

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  4. Sai28 July 2010 at 15:08

    Hi Ashwin,

    I have not removed the code. But probably that site is blocked by your firewall if you aer trying to access it from your corporate network.

    Have you tried from outside your corporate network and are you still facing the problem, let me know... so that I can check it out.

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    1. Pawan23 September 2012 at 19:06

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  5. AndroidProgrammer8 August 2010 at 18:09

    Hi Sai !
    This is Mohan. Your tutorial is very much helpful and easy to understand.
    I have a doubt regarding "remote DataBase Connectivity". Assuming that I am having a database that stores some student details in a remote server. I want to access that Data Base from my Android for a query. Can you Plz give me some code to demonstrate this issue with a good example ? I will be waiting for your reply.
    -Thanks in Advance.

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  6. AndroidProgrammer9 August 2010 at 00:42

    Hi Sai !
    I am working on a Android Project. I want the background of the button to be transparent, so that I can see the layout background . Can u provide any sample code for solving this issue ? I will be waiting for your reply.
    Thanks in Advance !

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  7. masood19 August 2010 at 09:33

    yah i tried from outside also.The source code site is not working

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  8. vani14 September 2010 at 16:24

    hi sai,
    i want to know how to connect to telnet in emulator.i used the code from https://labs.ericsson.com/apis/mobile-java-communication-framework/blog/develop-ims-sip-client-android-part-2
    ,i am not able to connect to telnet ,plz help me asap.

    Thanks ,
    VANI REDDY

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  9. Essdee19 September 2010 at 10:28

    Hi Sai,

    Thanks a lot for the tutorials. It has helped me a lot.

    Have you worked with Tab Layout? If so, can you post a tutorial on the same.

    Thanks again.

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  10. Unknown29 September 2010 at 23:05

    Hi Sai,
    Can you tell me that does android provide any API for to see/delete
    its temp and absolute files.

    And also is it possible to un-delete a deleted file in android.

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  11. adhavan6 October 2010 at 15:37

    Hi Sai,
    i am using new ContactContract API to add a contact,but i couldn't find that contact. It stores as a invisible contact.is there any solution for this problem?

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  12. Shaista 27 October 2010 at 15:36

    Hi Sai,
    Thanks a lot for these wonderful tutorials they are all very helpful. I am trying to find out one thing about scrolling, please kindly suggest an idea. I have a horizontal list of buttons which I am scrolling on the screen but I want to make it look like a circular stack, that is the last one should be followed by the first one.
    Any clue is highly appreciated.
    Thanks.

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  13. UPDATES6 November 2010 at 12:48

    hi sai

    thanks a lot for such a nice tutorials.

    can you please post a sample code for remote database connectivity.

    thanks

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  14. UPDATES6 November 2010 at 13:14

    hi sai

    i am not able to acees net on the android.Can you provide step by step process of how to configure android to access internet.I have bsnl broadband internet connection on my pc.
    thanx

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  15. rakesh18 November 2010 at 16:24

    Hi,
    I need the sample code for Surface view. I mean, I have to access the image with touch screen as top-bottom, left-right, corners to corner, rotate, zoom in/out, scroll vertical/horizontal etc... done in the same Activity.

    Thanks& Regards
    Rakesh
    9000317787

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  16. Ashwin Khadgi24 November 2010 at 12:33

    Hi Sai,
    thanks for the superb blogs. Its really helpful.I have one request. Can you please put some light over the activity attributes ?
    -taskAffinity
    -launchMode
    -allowTaskReparenting
    -clearTaskOnLaunch
    -alwaysRetainTaskState
    -finishOnTaskLaunch

    Thanks & Regards
    Ashwin Khadgi

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  17. Sravan6 December 2010 at 14:15

    Hi Sai,

    I need some help or advice on user authentication for an Android app.

    Description:
    First time the user starts the app, will be asked to enter credentials. But for any subsequent starting/loading of the app on that phone should not ask the user his credentials, instead the credentials need to be stored on phone and my app should be able to pick those and then send those to my server for authentication.

    Simply, the user enters username and password only first time for the app. From there on., my app need to save those uname and pwd and access next time when the user loads the app. (Just like our email/outlook access from iPhone/Android).

    Currently I do not have any idea on any android for this purpose.

    I would be thankful for any help or idea on the API, or any suggestion on the best approach.

    Thanks,
    Sravan

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    1. jomy7 November 2012 at 12:55

      Hi saravan,

      U can use the concept of Shared preference for implementing this........

      Delete
    2. Anonymous1 February 2013 at 15:06

      but can u plz provide source code for how to implement ?

      Delete
  18. Giri Bhushan11 December 2010 at 18:48

    Hi sai,these are great tutorial...
    Can you provide example for webservices in android...plzzz...i want to know how can we do it...plz help.

    Thank you.
    Giri bhushan

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  19. Reva Gadgi27 December 2010 at 11:54

    Hi SAI,
    I refer ur blog more than android developer site. I am working on Camera part so can u please post tutorial on camera.

    Thank you.
    Reva

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  20. Unknown27 January 2011 at 16:45

    Hi Sai,
    Does Android allows to change the voice of a recorded audio. And can we change the default voice of a caller to man or woman or child,if so let me know.

    Thanks.

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  21. Thangadurai2 February 2011 at 19:23

    Hi Sai,

    Thanks, all of your tutorials for helped me..! I am having one doubt, I want to connect remote SQL Server 2008, right now i connect with webservices, is there any other possibile way

    Thanks,
    Durai

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  22. Unknown2 March 2011 at 09:44

    is there anyway when using the android webview that i could hide or cover the url address being show when it's loading ???

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  23. Unknown2 March 2011 at 09:46

    my email cws104@gmail.com
    need to solve this problem badly

    thanks

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  24. Monika3 March 2011 at 02:23

    Can you please show the example of puzzle? How to swap images between frame layout? how to find co-ordinates of images?

    ReplyDelete
  25. Unknown8 March 2011 at 12:20

    HI, Is there any way that we change voice of recorded audio and video in android. As there is a soundpool method in android , there we change voice deep voice and chipmunk.. What if I want change recorded voice to male computer voice and female computer voice. Is there any way to implement pitch , key in Android ? .Can we set voice before recording audio ?

    Thanks in advance, Rahul

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  26. Unknown8 March 2011 at 15:11

    Is there any method to set pitch , key etc

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  27. Ramji16 March 2011 at 00:22

    how to connect android with remote mysql database..
    please help me..

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  28. Ramji16 March 2011 at 00:33

    just i need login verification using remote mysql database.... plz help me.. give mercy..

    ReplyDelete
  29. Ramji19 March 2011 at 14:25

    any body know how to connect mysql.. send coding t0 my id ramji.aqua@gmail.com

    ReplyDelete
  30. Name22 March 2011 at 11:04

    Hello Sai,

    Iam currently working on a video chat App. Just wondering if i could get any sample code on how to start. or can u just give me an idea like where to start... Or any supporting API's... Please reply ASAP.

    Thanks,
    Hareen

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  31. megha24 March 2011 at 11:58

    hi geetha...thanx so much for the tutorials..they actually worked for me...
    i have problem here..i need to develop an application like caller ID spoofing...but as i am new to this technology i don't have any idea how to start with it...i just need a starter...pls guide me

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  32. Anonymous7 April 2011 at 13:48

    Hi... This is Rahul.

    All the tutorials are great with such a great explanation. Please keep up the good work and share us your knowledge on even more complicated parts of android like OAuth, SSL, AIDL or InterProcess Communication. It would be great for Advanced learners and once again.... Keep up the great work.

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  33. aditya prakash13 April 2011 at 17:32

    Hi,
    I want to implement progress bar.How to do it.

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  34. Anonymous26 May 2011 at 16:39

    i want to just pass the values of edittext boxes to the server/database.(to a php function) .I want to just call the function by passing the username and password to that function .can u help me how can i do that

    ReplyDelete
  35. Mayuri Ruparel27 May 2011 at 14:53

    Thanks a ton!!! Really all the examples are awesome!! Thanks again!! God Bless U!

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  36. Balakumaran30 May 2011 at 18:13

    Dear Mam,Thanks a lot ,your examples are very helpful.
    once again thanks lot 4 sharing ur knowledge

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  37. Anonymous6 June 2011 at 19:15

    Hi SaiGeetha,

    i want to know how to create apk by using the ant script.

    ReplyDelete
  38. Anonymous8 June 2011 at 10:42

    Hi

    Can v get the mobile location without using GPS.
    And with using Network location can v get the location of a particular number.

    ReplyDelete
  39. Shanthi15 June 2011 at 12:57

    Hi Sai,

    Am new to android.I hope you wil help me out. I want to know How to move the imageview from one positoin to another imageview position on the gridview. It should happen by drag and drop. placed on one gridview. I tried to write the code with setonTouchListener..but it is applying for gridview. Please share me some example codes for this...

    Thank you.

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  40. Vk Hooda22 June 2011 at 16:13

    Hi Sai,I am beginner in android. Its wonderful blog for beginner.Its give me a great pleasure.Continue your support like it.God Bless You.
    Thanks.

    ReplyDelete
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    1. Anonymous18 January 2013 at 19:27

      Hi Vikram this is Kiran, I am new to Android developing...Could u plz guide me how to learn android step by step( an accurate flow)...more importantly can u mail me important material u have. I appreciate and be grateful for ur help.I need ur support
      My mail id z nanduk1982@gmail.com

      Delete
  41. Victor DS12 July 2011 at 14:21

    Hi Sai,

    Thanks for your tutorials. Its really amazing for the beginner to understand well.

    Can you please write a tutorials something like reminder kind of service which should run even after closing the application?

    Thanks in Advance
    Victor

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  42. aditya prakash16 July 2011 at 16:59

    Hi,
    How to include barcode reader to application..

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  43. Sneha Rao20 July 2011 at 12:44

    Hi Geeta,
    You have provided very useful posts. Concepts are made easy to understand with examples. I ve been refering your articles on android.
    Can you please give us an article on bound service. I cant find any which is as simple as your articles to understand.
    Thanks.

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  44. Tejaswini4 August 2011 at 12:54

    Hi Sai,

    I tried the code for Using Camera API. When I execute the code, on android mobile it shows the object rotated by 90 degrees during preview. e.g a vertical object is shown as horizontal. Would u plz tell me why is this happening?

    Thank you,

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  45. Rajesh Kumar C5 August 2011 at 17:12

    This comment has been removed by the author.

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  46. Rajesh Kumar C5 August 2011 at 17:19

    hi.. i am rajeshkumar, new to android i met the problem,During UI design for all android mobile screen size with diffrent resolution.it did't fit for all size screens.. can you help me?

    Thank You..

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  47. Ali Ashraf24 August 2011 at 16:43

    Hey Sai Geetha... kindly upload some thing related to fragments and android 3.0 and above.

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  48. Ali Ashraf24 August 2011 at 16:45

    crk
    dear you should use either 9path image or instead of setting pixels as px use dp(density independent pixel) in UI ie. in XML

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  49. Malar5 October 2011 at 19:18

    hi sai,
    thanks for this informative blog. its very helpfull to initiate my career with android. now i need to know how to code for editable list view? i have to edit the items in list view. can u give me ur suggestion?

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  50. master17 October 2011 at 17:18

    hi sai,
    ur tutorials r excellent and good for beginners of android

    ReplyDelete
  51. harshit jain18 October 2011 at 19:29

    Hi,

    I'm new to android

    1)could you please tell me how to access https url through android.

    2) My app which was running fine in 1.6 version upto 2.2, But there is a problem in 2.3.3 as it compresses the data while sending to the server.

    Can u please provide any solution to these.

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  52. Satish B27 October 2011 at 15:19

    Hello Geetha,

    Thanks for all your posts. Can you write an article on WebDav Client for Android?? I'm trying to connect to WebDav server form Android using Jackrabbit-WebDav. But, I'm unable to connect to server from Android Environment(I'm able to connect from outside Android environment).

    Thanks,
    Satish

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  53. ayrina28 October 2011 at 14:23

    hello..
    your post are really very helpful..
    i had to develop an app..in which i ahd to select and copy from webview in my local file ..please help me out..

    thanks you

    ReplyDelete
  54. shailendra2 November 2011 at 12:01

    Your examples are very helpful,thanks for sharing ur knowledge.

    ReplyDelete
  55. Shweta29 November 2011 at 07:23

    Hi Sai, I am following your block very oftenly. All the concepts in this blog are explained clearly. Helped me as an android fresher to have a grip over the subject by learning basic concepts. I would like you to explain concepts on Digital Rights Management(DRM). Looking forward for your reply.

    ReplyDelete
  56. Anonymous11 December 2011 at 20:11

    Hi Sai, Many thanks for sharing your knowledge about Android. Your explanations have helped a beginner to start to understand the complexities of the language

    ReplyDelete
  57. avizzzz22 December 2011 at 18:57

    drag and drop a button into list view..
    help!!!
    help!!!
    help!!!!

    ReplyDelete
  58. Anonymous28 December 2011 at 18:22

    hi plz help me...


    How to apply background colour for expandable list view

    ReplyDelete
  59. Anonymous4 January 2012 at 21:35

    Hi saigeetha , dhiraj here , i started my android with the help of your tutorials and stil refering it , unknowingly but its true that u are making other's dream come true and making their future ...
    Thanks a lot

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  60. Sujith18 January 2012 at 13:19

    Hi saigeetha,
    I am sujith.. Am an MCA student. I wish to do android for my project. And hence i am trying to learn an develop some simple applications.. And of-course ur tutorials really helps me to clear my doubts. A special thanks to u...

    Right now i am trying to make an app which i got in a hurdle. I wanted to make an application which displays an image and a button in the screen. I want to place the button just below the image. And wants to draw lines above the image.

    And i have done almost a 20% of that app. But then i got a problem. For that i am including 2 links which i have asked in StackOverFlow. Just check it, and plz correct/guide me..

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8831642/how-to-draw-lines-over-imageview-on-android/8848728#8848728

    (Plz see my own answer. and correct me if i am wrong)
    Then the result when i had done it is in the link,

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8894645/how-to-add-buttons-behind-the-imageview-which-uses-surfaceview

    Thanks in advance,
    Sujith

    ReplyDelete
  61. Anonymous2 February 2012 at 15:41

    Can you provide few tutorials on Fragments in Android which was introduced in the 3.0 Version HONEYCOMB

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  62. Karthick V19 March 2012 at 18:05

    Hello mam ,,,
    Can you post an article based on ContentObserver to read the changes in Content DataBase ... its my humble request ... if posible send source code to my mail id .... E-Mail : karthi.vels@gmail.com

    ReplyDelete
  63. Anonymous10 April 2012 at 01:01

    Sai, Great stuff, very helpful.

    BTW...I think you meant "Tidbits", not "Titbits", above.

    ReplyDelete
  64. RaghuShankar11 April 2012 at 11:29

    Great tutorials mam...can u help me to get strong in Db with simple examples..

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  65. Abhishek23 April 2012 at 14:55

    No posts on Grid view....help me i will be thankful to you.

    ReplyDelete
  66. khurapati_king23 April 2012 at 21:00

    Hi Geetha,
    Could you please provide some articles on cocos2d android, it will be more useful and a new concept to all users as it is going to be popular one.

    ReplyDelete
  67. Montu5 May 2012 at 18:55

    Awesome, your work is so catchable and simple, thank you, kudos!!!

    ReplyDelete
  68. malarprathap15 May 2012 at 16:44

    hi geetha,
    Thanks for giving such a nice tutorial can u explain about streaming to wowza server concept. actually i need to record video through camera and save that files to wowza server. can u explain with small example?

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  69. siva16 May 2012 at 16:49

    Hi madam,
    This is prasad.After reading all the content from your blog .i am pretty comfortable in designing apps in android.Now i want to design 2D and 3D games in android.could you please provide the info. for how to start and design the games in android. Thanks @prasad(rayapudi.prasad@gmail.com)

    ReplyDelete
  70. Anonymous4 September 2012 at 11:44

    Hi Sai, I refer your blogs to clear my doubts. I want sample example or tutorial on android drm framework.
    Thanks in advance

    ReplyDelete
  71. Unknown7 October 2012 at 07:18

    hi sai,
    Thank you for tutorials. really helpful.

    I would like to request you to write a tutorial on using appengine datastore as a database server for an android app to save and retreive data.

    ReplyDelete
  72. henry newton16 October 2012 at 17:08

    These articles have got complete sense without confusing the readers.
    super one click root

    ReplyDelete
  73. Anonymous11 January 2013 at 14:38

    Hai, Sai,

    I i am very fond of your blog and got knowledge by reading your blog concepts.
    Now i am looking for newly integrated concepts like ORMLite , Facebook integration etc.. Could you please, write those articles which are very important......
    Thanks in advance

    ReplyDelete
  74. shashank13 January 2013 at 10:45

    Gud morning Madam ,
    I need an hint for Android Phone sensing the action of human or car ..... when car is going fast it should able to note speed of the car .... It should give all sensing like if any thing is placed near phone then it should recognise that .... Please help me out

    ReplyDelete
  75. Manivannan C5 February 2013 at 12:41

    Hi Madam,

    This is Manivannan. After reading all contents from your blog very helpful of my android development.
    I need help from you, i am creating listview using sqlite database its displays value like vertical list, but i want to display the saved values multi column row listview like "name fathername dateofbirth" etc. so pls send me your mail id, i have to send my program to you. please check that code and tell me what will do the next.


    Regards,
    Manivannan C

    ReplyDelete
  76. poonam patel3 April 2013 at 01:57

    hello sir,
    i made an app using HTTP connection in that i sent data from android app to MySQL database successfully but am unable to fetch data from MySQL database what to do plz tell me,
    and cant we do that without using json? just want to print data fetched from MySQL in android app plz tell me sir asap i need to complete my project sooner ??

    ReplyDelete
  77. Anonymous4 April 2013 at 10:02

    Thank you , it's very helpful for beginners

    ReplyDelete
  78. Anonymous16 April 2013 at 15:40

    I refer ur blog more than android developer site.
    Best Dental Clinic

    ReplyDelete
  79. Unknown8 May 2013 at 12:12

    Hi Sai,
    Good tutorial .Thank you so much....

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  80. Unknown26 June 2013 at 16:45

    nice tutorial :)

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  81. Mohit27 August 2013 at 13:38

    hi
    Nice blog, Can you please put some light on Geofencing in Android since the Google's article is quite complex and lengthy one and there is no other article on that topic as well

    ReplyDelete
  82. arora11913 November 2013 at 12:52

    nice blog

    ReplyDelete
  83. Vijay V14 January 2014 at 23:07

    Hai mam i want to execute a program about displaying all the phone details can u help me plss .. its very urgent ...
    I dont know how to proceed

    ReplyDelete
  84. Anonymous11 June 2014 at 12:54

    Hi mam,
    Nice blog , Can you please put some on POST and GET data using JSON Parsing in android.

    ReplyDelete

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