Android is Google's open source OS and system for smart phones and tablets. For user questions, see http://android.stackexchange.com
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Benchmarks: How much faster are Adobe Air Android apps than webgl on Android in performance and how much slower it is from Native Apps [closed]
I need to know this before i find commit to one path. The question is exactly what i am looking for. I want to performance in terms of ability to render x number of triangles and at x frame rate per ...
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How can I develop a gps real time tracking App to track a food delivery [closed]
I am thinking of starting a online food ordering web portal similar to www.just-eat.com and I always wished to provide a feature for customers to track their food order by providing some position ...
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Contributing to an open source project [closed]
I am learning how to program,specifically for android. I know basic java, i want to contribute to this project to improve my skills but im not sure where to start https://github.com/ParanoidAndroid ...
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setSoftInputMode versus InputMethodManager
I have seen and used both of the methods to hide the on screen keyboard while coding Android:
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
and:
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how to display android apps status in graphical view [closed]
Requirement:
I want to develop one application for tablet that will check how
many applications are running ,stop,usage and other thing.
It will catch all analytic.
Send back to server ...
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How to create an Android Class with view elements as attributes? [closed]
05-08 11:03:57.030: E/AndroidRuntime(3933): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
05-08 11:03:57.030: E/AndroidRuntime(3933): java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not execute method of the activity
05-08 ...
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How to build android app for a pdf book [closed]
I want to create an android app for a pdf book.
I am beginner in the area of building android apps. Could anyone suggest to me what to learn to build this android app and how to start this and what ...
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building a blackberry and android application [closed]
I want to build a blackberry and an android application. I know they both use Java for building it, from what I've understood.
I heard there's a tool you can use to build the android application, and ...
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Which Google's language is closer to Android in the future, Dart or Go? [closed]
Which language is a better candidate to become Google's language for Android in the future, Dart or Go? Or neither, they will use Java forever?
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Programming for Windows Phone vs Android [closed]
I'm currently doing my honours in computer science. An integral part of the course is our honours project (which is done in a team of 3). Our team is essentially building a mobile application that ...
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What are the Various channels in Android Application Development? [duplicate]
There is always something new to learn, but the problem for me is in which direction should I explore things. Surely there is a lot to learn about Android, but I feel there also are different wings in ...
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Capturing mobile device system (output) audio
I'm trying to figure out a way to capture the system audio of an Android and/or Windows Phone. The idea is to provide a stream based on the music I'm currently playing on my phone.
What I'm not sure ...
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Can I borrow parts of an apache-licensed project for something not open-source?
If I want to make a card game app or android, could I legally borrow parts of the Apache-2.0-licensed Solitaire-for-Android? Would I be able to charge such a project? (I was unable to understand the ...
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BSP development for android
I want to start the development of BSP for Android and I want to know how much time time it will take?
Are there some one who have experience with such development can told to me how much time it ...
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ScrollView Height does not wrap onto parent activity in code [migrated]
I have this little problem regarding layout with scroll view on my android code
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.AlertDialog;
import ...
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How to save webservice SOAP response to xml in android SD card? [migrated]
I have a SOAP webservice from an application aspnet, and do not know how to generate a file on the sdcard of my device for future reading.
What are the steps?
I read the webservice with ksop2?
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Should pick narrow specialization as a developer/new CS grad trying to find direction [closed]
I really would appreciate any answer to my question, as I find myself to be completely lost (and out of work) in terms of dealing with software engineer/programming profession, after having completed ...
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Dilemma over choice of Android and Web development [closed]
This is more of career related question, and i cant find any other more relevant stack exchange to post this question, so kindly do not vote down if you find this impertinent. I have my summer ...
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How to keep my Activity code readable and maintainable?
I have written a rather small App with only one activity. From my understanding an activity has to be seen as kind of a view and controller in one class.
But even for a little app, with 3 dialogs ...
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How does one generate challenging different puzzles like the one in AirLock android game [closed]
here's the link of the app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iatll.airlock
I had studied AI in the final year of b.tech cs programme, and i do remember some algorithm of ...
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Why does Java use so many middlemen? [closed]
For example to read data from a website we do:
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = ...
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How can I go from a beginner to next level as an Android Developer? [closed]
I would like to be a good Mobile App developer. I would like to master the two leading mobile platforms IOS and Android. So I started with Android as my core is Java.
I am good ...
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Android game loop in separate thread
I am about to port a game that was initially written for iOs and I am having some doubts how certain things should be done.
I have been looking many of the examples of the game loops for android, and ...
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Android design advice - services & broadcast receivers
I'm in the process of learning the Android SDK and creating some projects to get a grasp on the system. The current project I'm working with works just fine but I'd like to get some advice about ...
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How can I access my Handler/runnable class from all my other classes in Android?
I am trying to create a class which allows me to do something every 5 seconds and I want to be able to start and stop this from running from any of the other classes. Here is my Timer class:
public ...
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Is it possible to offer an affiliate program for your iOS or Android app?
Independent of the App Store or Google Play, is there a way to track where new downloads or paying customers came from? For example, if an app advertises my app in theirs - is there a way for me to ...
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Efficiently compute distance of location to POIs?
I want to write an android application that holds information where (climbing) rocks are located in a wider area. I want to display all rocks nearby my current location (say below 500m) and may be ...
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.Net application on Android OS
I am Database Administrator, but now I need to know something about android applications.
I need to run an existing .Net application in Android Operating System, while surfing on the internet I came ...
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Can I set the IMEI of a blustacks virtual device?
Using an app "Get My IMEI" I was able to retrieve an invalid IMEI for my bluestack emulator however I can't see how I can change it.
The guys at XDA developers forum are talking about it, but it's an ...
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How to develop a login/register system for Android? [closed]
How would it be possible to develop a login/register system for Android?
I have 0 experience with Android or general network programming but I do have a server running MySQL and anything else I may ...
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Running Android Virtual Machine in Windows 8? [closed]
Is it possible to run Android Virtual Machine in Windows 8. I have been inactive in Android programming for quite a few month - during which time frame I upgraded my computer from Windows 7 to Windows ...
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Tool to administrate software projects [closed]
I'm an Android developer and on larger projects I tend to lose track on what happens where, what Activity is started from which other Activity, my class and variable names, the dependencies between ...
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I want to publish an android app, but I'm afraid of software patents
I wrote an application that helps you to save energy. Actually it is very simple. I check the current location of the phone and I make some changes to the configuration like "sound off, dark display, ...
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Pros and cons of sending data from android to php in string and/or json
I have seen some tutorials and some stackoverflow discussions on how to send data from android to php page. most of the cases i have seen people sending data in string format but returning in json ...
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Android coding standard [closed]
Can anyone give me the coding standards in android?
I have been referred to this resource:
http://source.android.com/source/code-style.html#limit-variable-scope
Can you confirm this the right link?
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Which GUI framework for a GUI newbie but expert C++ developer? [closed]
I have an API that streams short event messages for a human audience. I wish to display this in a beautiful dynamic display to users.
What GUI framework would work best with this data? I'm assuming ...
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Android & iPhone apps design methodologies [closed]
When designing mobile applications for iPhone and Android, I find it difficult to maintain the graphic resources for both platforms (ldpi, mdpi, hdpi, xhdpi, non-retina, retina). To simplify this ...
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Compile GPL-code into a JNI-capable shared library and use it in commercial software [closed]
I am developing an application for Android in JAVA which calls GPLed C-code via JNI.
I have modified & capsulated a GPL-software under a JNI-interface and compile it as a shared library (.so) ...
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“Public APIs are forever: Only one chance to get it right”?
In an OS book I just read that, "Public APIs are forever: Only one chance to get it right". Is it true? Is it applicable only in APIs of Operating Systems or other APIs too? For example, will this be ...
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Java Xml intraction in Android
I'm working on Android application development. There is a question that always comes to my mind that: How XML interacts with Java code?. I mean Button inside XML is a view, but Button inside Java is ...
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Why Android created emulator rather simulator?
From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4544588/difference-between-iphone-simulator-and-android-emulator
The difference between emulators and simulators is that emulators mimic the software and ...
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Is tracking Android OS.Buid/Manufacturer info a privacy issue?
On the Android operating system details about the phone are available via the Android.OS.Build class. These details include things such as the phone manufacturer, model, version, etc. The customer may ...
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Handle invalid text on server or fix on client in Client-Server application
I have developed a protocol for a Client-Server application and developed it in conjunction with another developer. The client application at this moment is written for the mobile phone.
The ...
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What is the best way I can prepare for a career in computer programming, resume-wise? [closed]
I am a programmer graduating from high school. I'm planning to attend college to acquire a B.S. in comp sci. I've been looking at comp sci job offers and whatnot to plan for the future, but it seems ...
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What will be the better way for data retrieval on application that needs to handle limited amount of data?
Just moved this question from Stack Overflow. Since, adding my code snippets itself would make this question really long. Instead, I am pretty interested in knowing a better ways for data retrieval on ...
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Sync as paid feature [closed]
I'm finishing an management app for Android, which was based in a school project I made and as I'm wrapping this up, I'm thinking how I could sell it in Android.
The usage of this application ...
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Any good (free) ebook recommendations on Android Development? [closed]
I'm looking for a decent e-book about Android Development (preferably free) that I can flick through on the train and at work each day... any recommendations?
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Prerequisites for coding android apps? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a sequence to read through the Android developer site for a user new to Android?
I have electronics background I know C, C++. I want to develop apps for ...
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Realtime (almost) bidrectional communication in Java
I will explain the context of the problem first. For a University project I'm going to implement an Android application. The Android application (and others) will be able to send data to a remote ...
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Restrict access to backend
This might be one of those "not answerable" or "just opinions"-questions but I thought I'd give it a shot.
I'm developing an app with health care information with a friend who's a doctor. The basics ...
