Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: One of the biggest headaches in promoting your app is being able to work out how many downloads a specific ad campaign generated. AdMob is committed to providing app developers tools to optimize advertising spend and maximize ROI. App Conversion Tracking helps you do just that by measuring your [...]

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: With the rapid smartphone growth, it’s no surprise that consumers are downloading a huge number of apps–10 billion on Android alone, as of last week. Many app developers are recognizing the opportunity to develop on Android, including PrivacyStar, a small privacy services company offering smartphone users the ability to [...]

Developers of Android are no doubt familiar with the Toast class, which displays a little pop-up containing whatever message you want to display to the user. However, the Toast pop-up will automatically dismiss itself after a while, making it useful as a tool to provide timely feedback to the user (such as informing the user [...]

Often you need to store personalized information for each user of your application. For example, your application may require users to logon to a secure server for authentication. In this case, the user needs to supply his credentials, such as a login name and a password. The first time the user uses your application this [...]

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: The Corcoran Group, Manhattan’s largest residential real estate firm, experienced success in mobile advertising when they ran a campaign for their iPhone app in 2009. As Android phones rapidly populated the smartphone market in 2010, Corcoran launched an Android app to take advantage of the new platform. To provide [...]

In the previous article, you saw the various basic views such as the TextView, EditText, Button, and how you can use them in your Android applications. In this article, we shall continue our exploration of another three categories of views – Picker views, List views, and Display views. The views discussed include: TimePicker view DatePicker [...]

In this final installation of the Android Views series of articles, we shall continue our exploration of another category of views – Menu views, and some additional cool views. The views discussed include: Context Menu Options Menu AnalogClock DigitalClock WebView read more mobiForge Recent Content