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Android Studio Tutorial For Beginner #5: Understanding Activity Life-cycle

Android Studio Tutorial For Beginner #5: Understanding Activity Life-cycle

Creating activity and learning how it works is a very important part while you start to learn android app development, this may also be the first question asked from you while giving an interview for an android app developer position.

An activity represents a single screen with a user interface just like a window or frame of Java. Android activity is the subclass of ContextThemeWrapper class.…

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Experimenting with Different Layouts

Experimenting with Different Layouts

I have explained about different layouts in android and why those are used. But now you have to learn that where you will be using which layout so that the view you want to create is easy to develop in XML.

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbyjIVhmc8E%5B/embedyt%5D

We will take different examples for Linear / Relative / Constraint layouts as these are the most used layouts right…

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Android Studio Tutorial For Beginners #4: Layouts in Android

Android Studio Tutorial For Beginners #4: Layouts in Android

A layout defines the structure for a user interface in your app, such as in an activity ( How Your Activity will look like?).

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbyjIVhmc8E%5B/embedyt%5D

To understand these layouts better they have categorized them in two:

1.ViewGroup:It is a container which defines the layout structure of multiple views that will things be vertical, horizontal,…

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Android Studio Tutorial For Beginner #3: Application Components

Android Studio Tutorial For Beginner #3: Application Components

Application component consists of essential building blocks to develop an android application. These components should be added in the manifest file. Understand manifest.xml and resources here.

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Components

Activity:It contains layout file and Java code to handle both user interaction and functionality on an application.…

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Android Studio Tutorial For Beginner #2: Where To Start?

Android Studio Tutorial For Beginner #2: Where To Start?

Android Studio IDE has many tools and features which you can use in different ways to develop an amazing application. Mostly you need to use these folders and views to start developing applications. You can add files, strings, resources, themes, designs, colors, code, third-party libraries, assets in your application if you know how to use IDE correctly.

If you haven’t installed and set up…

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Android Studio Tutorial For Beginner #1: Introduction & Installation

Android Studio Tutorial For Beginner #1: Introduction & Installation

Android is the most popular OS ever developed for mobile devices. And you know it already! Almost everybody around you is using the android phone rather than iPhone, Microsoft, and others.

If you are still confused that whether or not Learn Android Application development then Click here.

Why is That?

Simple to use! Whatever in this world which confuses men, they run away from it…

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Why & Who Should Learn Android Application Development?

Why & Who Should Learn Android Application Development?

It has been more than 10 years when Android was first released but it is still in progress and market growth for Android users in increasing every day, More and More people are switching to Android as it is simple and easy to use and available in all kind of prices.

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Why Should I learn Android App Development?

1.Most…

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Async Task with Running UI thread In Background |Android Studio

Async Task with Running UI thread In Background |Android Studio

Introduction

Android AsyncTask is an abstract class which perform heavy tasks in the background and keep the UI thread light thus making the application more responsive and App does not crash or get slow!

Android application runs on a single thread(UI thread/ Main Thread) when launched. Due to this single thread model tasks that take longer time to fetch the response can make the…

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Simplest Way to Implement Custom Adaptor with List View|Android Studio

Simplest Way to Implement Custom Adaptor with List View|Android Studio

List View is used view in android studio. To implement a Custom Adapter on list view is really simple task just follow these steps. But First Understand why a custom adapter is required.

To Impose/Inflate a custom view on the list view

To set data in list view in each row which contains multiple elements like ImageView/ TextView/ EditText Etc.

Let’s start:

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Gmail Sign In Via Firebase - Android Studio

Gmail Sign In Via Firebase – Android Studio

Lot Of Tutorials are there to guide you how to create Gmail Sign In for your android application but this way is really easy and 100% working solution.

Why Use Gmail Login? Who Should Use Gmail Login?

Simplest Answer to this question is Easy Login and Almost everybody has Gmail ID. But,

Alot Easy To Impement. One Click Sign In.

You can Access Normal Information of user Via Login Like…

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Ripple Button(Custom Layout) In Android Studio

Ripple Button(Custom Layout) In Android Studio

Amazing UI Attracts Most Of the Users whether developing a website or Mobile Application. Ripple Effect is one of the very flattering way to take a step towards amazing UI. To Create A ripple effect in android studio you have to create a custom layout file in drawable folder.

Use this Drawabe file toAdd Ripple effect to any layout or attribute in android studio.

Preview

Create A New…

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Invoices/Pdf Generator-Android Studio

Android OS is awarded the most used OS for any device, and many many many people are switching their business to online stores and digital marketing via their mobile phone. And for billing one most important thing is invoice.

To generate Invoice in Android application there are many third party libraries available but the most efficient and easy to use is “ITEXT”. In this tutorial, you are…

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Most Useful and Entertaining Youtube channels to study

Most Useful and Entertaining Youtube channels to study

You may be spending a lot of time on you tube to learn or just for passing time. A lot of students take help from you tube because they don’t attend lectures! and rely on youtube for hard questionnaires which is totally fine I did that too…Alot!

so here I have some youtube channels which are really good and full of information you may need to learn.

Career Ride

This is the best youtube…

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Android picasso

Picasso is a really nice library you can use to manage images and specially while loading them. Before using Picasso i have tried to use AsyncTask to load images from a URL, but the performance was very slow and was not functioning the way i wanted my application which was FASTER Loading. 

Now in this tutorial i am going to show you how to load images from URL faster in a grid view where the…

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Who Discovered Human Blood Types

Who Discovered Human Blood Types

In the year 1990 when Dr. Karl Landsteiner at the University of Vienna, when some of the blood transfusions were successful while another were Not and people died! 

Human blood groups are very old genetic indicators which have evolved over several million years. Karl Landsteiner was born on 14th June 1868, in Vienna, Austria; he died on 26thJune 1943 AD, at 75 years old, in the United States. 

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Best Libraries On GitHub for Your Android Application

Best Libraries On GitHub for Your Android Application

Using Free libraries in your application can speed up your development speed and hence saves a lot of time. Also, the benefit you are going to have is LESS CODE and Best UI/ FUNCTIONALITY. I have been using a lot of libraries from GitHub lately for my projects. So thought it would be great to share some Best and useful of them with my readers.

Android PulltoRefresh and Load More 

This Free…

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Set Selection in Spinner Through Another Spinner

Set Selection in Spinner Through Another Spinner

In this tutorial, I am going to tell you about how to set selection on a searchable spinner. You can also use this trick in simple spinner components. You will learn how to select a spinner item from another spinner item.

Eg:- suppose you want to select a country and you automatically want its country code which is already stored in a database or in an array in a Spinner or vice versa.

Please…