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A new release of Google Play services has begun rolling out worldwide and we have lined up a number of features you can use to improve your apps. Here are the highlights of the 4.3 release.

USB2Go is a smartphone-powered development board for Android developers looking to build gadgets

The only Android Camera Development guide you will ever need.

One of the biggest highlights of the Android KitKat release was the new Transitions framework which provides a very convenient API to animate UIs between different states. The Transitions framework...

Let's say you want to exchange some sensitive data between your application and a server. SSL should do the trick, right? Right, but that's only half of the story.

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Microsoft has announced on its Open Technologies blog that a new open source Software Development Kit (SDK) for Android is now available.

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Hi Guys, this time I am back with some Android Game Development. I got this idea after, the popular game Flappy Bird. Hope all may have tried that game...! Ok, so I wanted to develop a game and I d...

Previously in this series we've looked at blurring an image using RenderScript, and a technique for analysing performance to work out where the bottlenecks are in the process. We found that the act...

Recently, at Sixt we have been migrating our development environment from Eclipse to Android Studio. This has mean we have also moved to the new build system, Gradle, and applying TDD and CI to our software development process. This is not the place to discuss the benefits of applying CI to a software development plan, but to talk about a problem arising when testing tasks running on different threads than the UI in Android.

Android manages the lifetime and data of sandboxed applications without “asking” the developer. Therefore some applications that should always be running in the background might suffer from lack of control. Users also often try to manipulate programs, in order to manually close them or wipe their data. While developing applications for this platform, I learned a couple of ways to improve this situation.

mimicry - Mimicking grids in Android lists

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Posted  March 4, 2014 by  Joe Mahon

JDeferred : Java Deferred / Promise library

Any doubt that Microsoft sees Android as an important part of its future should be erased with a just-announced deal with an Indian handset maker to manufacture dual-boot Windows-Android phones, and with Microsoft asking HTC to include Windows Phone as a dual boot option on its Android phones. That's on top of Nokia's new line of low-cost Windows Phone devices. Is this a way to extend Windows Phone's life, or an admission of the platform's failure?

How to implement custom scroll bars in a list-view.

How to send emails using intents in android.