android10

Introduction This tutorial will teach you to give your applications a voice with the Android SDK text to speech engine! The Android text to speech engine still seems to be a pretty underused resource in Android apps. However, implementing it in you [ ... ]

Introduction The word “multitouch” gets thrown around quite a bit and it’s not always clear what people are referring to. For some it’s about hardware capability, for others it refers to specific gesture support in software. Whatever you dec [ ... ]

Introduction In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Eclipse to create an Android JUnit Test Project, create automated unit tests and run them under a variety of conditions.




Before You Begin The authors are assuming the reader has some bas [ ... ]

Introduction Android applications run in a native Linux process, in the underlying Linux OS. This process houses activities (screens), widgets, and services (non visual long running application parts). When working with Android apps, it is important [ ... ]

Introduction I’ve been working with various object encoding schemes to get information transferred over the network between services and mobile apps running on Android and BlackBerry. On Android, I figured I would try using Java object serializati [ ... ]

Introduction In order to make anything more than very simple games in 2D it’s important to be able to draw animated sprites.

2D Sprite Animation There are several ways to create animated sprites in Android, including using XML based declarations [ ... ]