A - Introduction In Android development, you can keep the UI strings seperately with app code by storing all the strings in external files. You can find the res folder in Android project structure...

A - Introduction As you know,  C# and VB.NET provide a very convenient method called Format(). That method allows us to format a string easily by passing the template string ( the string contains ...

In the previous post ( [Android] Parse JSON in Android ), I showed how to get the JSON string from server and parse it into desired object using Java. This time, in this tutorial, I’ll parse JSON i...

A - Introduction JSON is a light-weight data interchange format. It’s easy for human to read and write, for machines to parse and generate. JSON is the best choice to replace XML when you want to ...

A - Android Action Bar introduction Android Action Bar provides a consistent navigation across your application that can adapt for different screen configurations. As you can see, the above figu...

A - Introduction Android Sliding Menu Nowadays, a lot of Android applications use Sliding Menu to navigate between app’s modules/ screens. The Sliding Menu is hidden in the normal state and can be ...

In my previous post “Android Tab Layout”, I showed you how to use TabHost to display a Tab layout. Unfortunately, TabHost is deprecated by android in favor of fragments. Instead of using TabHost, ...

A - Introduction In Android, an application can push a message to user called Notification outside its normal UI. First, the notification will appear on the Notification Bar User can see all th...

Storing application data is one of the most important part in Android development. And the easiest way to do that is saving data to a file. In this post, I will show you how to save and read data ...

A - Introduction Multi-threading To a game developer, Multi-threading is a must-know term. Multi-threading is used when your application needs to do a lot tasks parallely. By this way, all the tas...