How to Share your Mobile Screen in Android Mobile Phone

Have you ever think that you can share your mobile screen
with any other android mobile user , yes this is possible using android.

Simple screen sharing android mobile viewer that help in
Viewing someone’s screen and collaborate in real time, on your time.

How do I make links in a TextView clickable?

When I wanted to show some TextView with click able and make it as a link to open a web pages in separate browser.
Android is highlighting the links in the TextView, but they do not respond to clicks

Debug certificate expired at 5.36PM

Debug certificate expired

Most of the time we are getting error like Debug certificate expired at 5.36PM </br>

lets example –

 
type Error generating final archive: Debug Certificate expired on 6/13/12 5:36 PM XYZProjectName Unknown Android Packaging Problem

How to resolved Debug certificate expired

1. Delete your debug certificate under ~/.android/debug.keystore on Linux and Mac OS X;
2. Delete your debug certificate like %USERPROFILE%/.androidon Windows.

The Eclipse plugin will automatically generate a new certificate when you next try to build a debug package.
You may need to clean and then build to generate the certificate.

Difference between <merge> , <include>and tag in Android

The articles showed you how to use the &ltinclude/&gt tag in XML layouts, to reuse and share your layout code. This article explains the &ltmerge /> tag and how it complements the <include/> tag.

We will see when to use <include> and when <merge>.

Its re-use tricks, sort of xml file, elements to file many times.

Define one place and will used in different places.

Splash Screen in Android

If you wanted splash screen in Android apps, Splash screen will come first for few second then from splash screen main screen will lunch. How to use splash screen, how long you wanted to show splash screen in Android apps

R.layout.splash -> this is .xml layout, it will show how you wanted to show your splash screen.
startActivity(new Intent(SplashScreen.this, MainScreen.class)) – > Mainscreen will be your next screen you wanted to come automatically after splash screen.
CountDownTimer timer = new CountDownTimer(1000, 1000) -> splash screen will visible for 1 sec.

Android and Secruity Concern

The last year has been a phenomenal one for the Android ecosystem. Device activations grew 250% year-on-year, and the total number of app downloads from Android Market topped 11 billion. As the platform continues to grow, we’re focused on bringing you the best new features and innovations – including in security.

SMS Messaging in Android

It would be safe to say that nearly every mobile phone sold in the past decade has SMS messaging capabilities. In fact, SMS messaging is one great killer application for the mobile phone and it has created a steady revenue stream for mobile operators. Understanding how to use SMS messaging in your application can provide you with many ideas to create the next killer application.

In this article, we take a look at how you can programmatically send and receive SMS messages in your Android applications. The good news for Android developers is that you don’t need a real device to test out SMS messaging – the free Android emulator provides the capability to do so.

Upcoming Releases: 1.0.1, 1.1, and beyond for Android

With the start of a new year, we’ll be resuming our more regular team updates to keep you in the loop on what we’re working on here in the jQuery Mobile project. To kick things off, we’d like to share our current thinking on the next few releases so you can start planning ahead.

JQuery planning on releasing our first maintenance release for 1.0 within the next two weeks. This will consist of bug fixes and minor improvements to 1.0 after which we’ll focus on getting 1.1 out the door

Robot Controll through Android Gesture Movement.

Here I will show you how to control Robot through the Gesture Movement, basically here I’m getting the gesture movement, left right, up, down, based on this value (X and Y direction), I’m passing this value to Controller through mobile bluetooth and based on this command Robot will move left, right, fwd, back.

Gesture detection is one of the great features of all touch based mobile devices. Gestures are patterns drawn by the user on the screen. Simple gestures include tap, scroll, swipe, etc. Complex gestures are more complex patterns drawn on the screen. In Android we can detect simple gestures using GestureDetector class and complex gestures using GestureOverlayView class.

User scenario testing for Android – Robotium

Robotium is a test framework created to make it easy to write powerful and robust automatic black-box test cases for Android applications. With the support of Robotium, test case developers can write function, system and acceptance test scenarios, spanning multiple Android activities.
Robotium has full support for Activities, Dialogs, Toasts, Menus and Context Menus.
See below for common Robotium questions and answers.