Posts Tagged ‘android’
I am unwell and stuck at home so I decided to dive into my Android app (a new one this time!). I wanted to perform some tasks that could be long running (doubtfully but why freeze the UI thread ever). I want to show a ProgressDialog here but it doesn’t work with the static factory [...]
I woke up today morning all charged up to work on my app again (barely slept yesterday). The fist thing I wanted to do was to add a progress dialog to my applications list activity. The activity isn’t time consuming (not much anyway) but you don’t want the UI to be unresponsive, gives a bad [...]
After spending two weekends reading up on the SDK and in general playing with my new Google Nexus S, I finally decided to get my feet wet. Downloading the SDK wasn’t really a breeze because the data size is large and with my crappy internet it took forever. When I finally got to writing code, [...]
I just started developing an app to try my hand at Android SDK. The first problem I ran across was that the HellowWorld android app part of the exercise on the SDK site wouldn’t deploy. I kept getting, “Failed to install HelloAndroid.apk on device ‘emulator-5554! “. And I kept restarting the emulator. This was a [...]