Generally we are taking screenshots in android devices by pressing power + volume down button. Now arises a question that is it possible to take screenshot programmatically from android app? Yes, it is possible to capture screenshot within our android app programmatically. In this tutorial, you will learn how to take screenshot programmatically of an
Expandable List View is a view that shows items in a vertically scrolling two-level list. It is different to list view as it allows two levels: groups that can individually be expanded to show its children. Each group can be expanded or collapsed individually to show or hide its children items. Basic usage of expandable list
In software applications, it is mostly required to store users and app data locally. Android SDK provides several API’s for developers to save user and app data, So SQLite is one of the ways of storing data. For many applications, SQLite is the app’s backbone whether it’s used directly or via some third-party wrapper. In
Sometimes you need some data to be available throughout our application so that you can read that data and use it in different scenarios like user sessions, app settings, etc. There are several ways to do that, one of the common way is to store data is global variables but problem is that data get
We have seen many apps on play store which provides the hardware and software information. In Android one can easily fetch the information programmatically using Build class. Build class in android provides the basic information like serial number, android SDK, brand, model no, manufacture, version code and etc. There are many other information you can
Adding Animated Gradient Background in your app is really easy by using xml and java code. Animated moving gradients background between gradients as animation makes your android app really awesome. You might have seen this type of background color animation in Instagram app’s Login Screen. Instagram app keeps on transforming background from one gradient to
Android Application Size really matters when going live to the play store. Users often avoid downloading apps that seem too large, particularly in emerging markets where devices connect to often-spotty 2G and 3G networks or work on pay-by-the-byte plans. I would like to share the few approaches which you can use to reduce apk size
A countdown is a sequence of backward counting to indicate the time remaining before an event is scheduled to occur. To achieve countdown Android comes with a built-in CountDownTimer class for constructing CountDownTimers. Its easy to use, efficient and works.This class is an abstract class whose methods need to be overridden to implement it in
In software applications, it is mostly required to store user’s and app data locally. Android SDK provides several api’s for developers to save user and app data, So SQLite is one of the way of storing data. For many applications, SQLite is the apps backbone whether it’s used directly or via some third-party wrapper. In
With the Arrival of the new version of the Android Support Library AppCompat v23.2 , it comes up with backward compatibility of some features and add some new features also. With the release of Android lollipop (API 21) a new component was included named Vector Drawable. But this component only works on API 21+, with