Returning Home in Android

Several times, while using android apps, users have to navigate through multiple activities to achieve a final end result. Android handles backtracking through activities through its back button.

However, there are cases where a back button isn’t ideal to the situation. Imagine the user pressing “back” 15 times to get to the main page of your app. Or, in an eCommerce app, the user having access to the “make payment” screen once again after the payment has been successful. Read Full Post »

Working with Large images in android

Android devices have a very small heap size. So, often while rendering large images (either from a drawable resource or from the assets folder) you could run out of memory. I faced such a situation recently, and after struggling with it for some time, i found that the best way to tackle extremely large images is to Read Full Post »

Some Good android tutorials

The google support for each feature in the android platform is pretty exhaustive and their Developer site is a treasure trove of information and tutorials. In addition to these resources, while understanding the platform i came across some great tutorials. Read Full Post »

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