Android Tutorial

Android tutorial or android development tutorial covers basic and advanced concepts of android technology. Our android tutorial is developed for beginners and professionals.

Android is a complete set of software for mobile devices such as tablet computers, notebooks, smartphones, electronic book readers, set-top boxes etc.

It contains a linux-based Operating System, middleware and key mobile applications.

It can be thought of as a mobile operating system. But it is not limited to mobile only. It is currently used in various devices such as mobiles, tablets, televisions etc.

Android Development Tutorial

In this fundamental chapter, you will learn about android, its components, how to create first android application, internal of first android application etc.

What is Android
History and Version
Software Stack
Core Building Blocks
Android Emulator
Installing softwares
Setup Eclipse
Hello Android example
Internal Details
Dalvik VM
AndroidManifest.xml
R.java
Hide Title Bar

Activity and Intent

It provides the detail of activity, its life cycle with example, implicit intent, sending information from one activity to another etc.

Activity LifeCycle
Implicit Intent
Explicit Intent
StartActivityForResult

Android UI Widgets

There are given a lot of android ui widgets examples such as toggle button, alert dialog, spinner, progress bar, alert dialog etc.

UI Widgets
Working with Button
Toast
Custom Toast
ToggleButton
CheckBox
AlertDialog
Spinner
AutoCompleteTextView
RatingBar
DatePicker
TimePicker
ProgressBar

Menus in Android

Here, you will learn about the option menu that is primary menu, context menu that works on long press and popup menu.

Option Menu
Context Menu
Popup Menu

Service in Android

It can be used to perform any task in background. It doesn't have any user interface(UI).

Android Service

Data Storage

You can store data in android using preferences, internal storage, external storage and sqlite database. Preferences are used to primitives, internal storage stores data in device internal memory, external storage stores data in device external memory such as SD card and SQLite is used to store data in sqlite database i.e. inbuilt in android Operating System (OS).

Internal Storage
External Storage

SQLite Database

SQLite Tutorial and Example
SQLite Example with GUI by Spinner

XML and JSON Parsing

There are three ways to parse the xml file but android recommends XMLPullParser to parse the XML. Instead of XML, JSON is preferred because it is fast and short.

XML Parsing SAX
XML Parsing DOM
XMLPullParser
JSON Parsing