Lauren Darcey and Shane Conder have coauthored two books on Android development: an in-depth programming book entitled Android Wireless Application Development and Sams Teach Yourself Android Application Development in 24 Hours. When not writing, they spend their time developing mobile software at their company and providing consulting services. They can be reached at via email to androidwirelessdev+mt@gmail.com, via their blog at androidbook.blogspot.com, and by following them on twitter.
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As the Android platform continues to grow and spread to new types of devices, it becomes more important for developers to keep track of where their applications are deployed. While market filters are available for developer configuration, sometimes the default filters don’t go far enough. This tutorial will teach you to exclude specific devices manually!
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You’ve read Mobiletuts+ tutorials. You had an idea. You turned it into an app. You’ve tested it. Your friends love it. Your designer’s stopped tweaking pixels, saying it’s perfect. Your quality assurance team has assured you it won’t blow up any phones. Now what? Time to submit your app!
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Learn how to make a simple “mirror” app in this quick tutorial!
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Industry gurus Shane Conder and Lauren Darcey provide a recap of the Android ecosystem in 2011 and offer predictions for how the platform may evolve in 2012.
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The Kindle Fire is the new touchscreen and e-book reader from Amazon. This device has generated a lot of buzz, and for good reason! It is currently the best selling Android tablet, with millions of units already sold. This tutorial will teach you how to begin making apps with the Android SDK specifically targeted for the Kindle Fire.
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At first glance, you might wonder why the new GridLayout class even exists in Android 4.0 (aka Ice Cream Sandwich). It sounds a lot like TableLayout. In fact, it’s a very useful new layout control. We’ll create a simple numeric keypad using GridLayout to demonstrate a small taste of its power and elegance.
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Just as iOS apps should emulate the look and feel of the iOS platform, professional-grade Android applications should be designed to integrate well with the rest of the Android platform. Today, we diverge slightly from our developer-centric tutorials and provide a basic introduction to designing icons appropriate to the Android platform.
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The latest version of the Android SDK, code-named Ice Cream Sandwich, reached developers this week. For the first time, the SDK provides access to the Calendar application in a legitimate fashion. One of the most common tasks that developers often want to be able to do is create new events in the user’s calendar, so today we’ll show you how.
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Perhaps you’ve seen some of the new user interface features available as part of the Android compatibility package. One such feature, horizontal view paging, allows for easy left and right swipes to load different screens (pages), controlled by a single Activity. This feature has been showcased in several high profile applications like the Android Market application and the Google+ Android client.
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In this quick tutorial you’ll learn how to create basic Android radio selection controls using RadioGroup and RadioButton. You’ll also learn how to react when the user selects a specific radio option, as well as how to populate radio controls in different ways.
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