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 ...

In programming of any kind, it is traditional to create a Hello World app for your first project. This simply means you’re printing the words “Hello World” to the screen. It requires a very basic ...

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As technology constantly evolves, businesses and organizations in the digital world are taking their services and products online. This new shift towards digitalization has led to increased demand for ...

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 ...

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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 ...

In late June, Google began the phaseout of Android Application Packages (APKs) in favor of Android Application Bundles (AABs). With these changes and improvements for developers, the Mountain ...

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 ...