By : Shabda Raaj

If you have a portfolio of apps, you probably want to cross promote them.

We are open sourcing an Android Library Project to make this possible. Get the code. This provides an Activity which you can show with a Grid of your apps.

How to use it

Add this MoreAppsLibrary project(library) as a dependency in the Android Application project you are implementing.
Add the following code in your AndroidManifest.xml:

<activity android:name="com.agiliq.android.moreappslib.MoreAppsActivity"
          android:label="More Apps">
</activity>

Perform an Intent to start the MoreAppsActivity; make sure to putExtra("package", getPackageName());, this ensures that ...

By : ikram - Programmer, Web Hacker, App Developer, Techie & Geek.

Prerequisite: You are already aware of the basics of building a HelloWorld in Android and know how to use the APIs provided in the support library.

The code example is available on github.

Ever wanted a code snippet from an Activity to be available to other activities? Perhaps a Button or a ListView, maybe a Layout or any View/ViewGroup for that matter? Fragments let us do just that.

Necessity is the mother of invention.
Before understanding what Fragments are and how they work, we must first realize their existence in the first place.

The Problem

Suppose we have an ...

By : Thejaswi Puthraya

Apache Cordova is a open source cross-platform framework for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It started off as Phonegap, a project of Nitobi Software before it was acquired by Adobe Systems. The code for the platform was donated to the Apache Software foundation and is currently being incubated as "Apache Cordova".

Phonegap is now a distribution of Apache Cordova (analogous to Ubuntu being a Linux distribution) brought to you by Adobe. Since Apache Cordova is licensed under the permissive Apache Software License, Adobe Phonegap may technically be integrated with proprietary software (though there's no evidence ...

By : Thejaswi Puthraya

Here at Agiliq, we also develop cross-platform HTML5 mobile applications. Using Eclipse to create an android project (one time task) and edit html and javascript files for an android app is an overkill. Wouldn't it be great, if you could use your favourite text editor to edit html and js files and then fall back to the terminal to deploy the android app? We are going to see exactly this in the post.

First, let's install the android SDK starter package(I assume that you have installed JDK and ant). Head over here and install the SDK for ...

By : Bala Subrahmanyam Varanasi - Where there's a will, there's a way.

Android embeds an Open Source Database called SQLite, which supports standard relational database features like SQL syntax, transactions and prepared statements. In addition it requires only little memory at runtime (approx. 250 KB). In this post I would like to show how to work with a simple pragmatic example : Baby Names App.

Before writing the code, let me show you some of the screen-shots of Baby Names App, which requires interaction with the database.

1. When ever you launch the App, it will shows a Menu of items as below.

2. When we click on the highlighted button - "Common Names", it will ...

By : Shabda Raaj

I recently built the same app with the common mobile technologies, Obj-C, Android:Java, Phonegap, and Titanium .

This is a quick comparison of the app frameworks.

Miscellaneous notes

1. Phonegap and Titanium both amazed me. It feels very empowering to code in Html, css and JS, test it in Chrome, debug it with firebug, and deploy to a device without any changes. Titanium UI widgets are native, building it with JS was very cool.
2. Phonegap and Titanium both underwhelmed me. I assumed Phonegap would have widgets which would be 95% of the way to looking like native widgets. It was easy ...

By : Shabda Raaj

This is the third post in our mobile app development series. ( You may want to read Phonegap and Android with Java.)

Like last time we will build an App which allows calculating the tax payable, per the rules here. We will use Titanium Mobile

Installing Titanium

Download and install the fairly small Titanium from their sites. Once you download and start it, it will download and install more components. You can then create a new project from their UI.

Layout the Layout

You can add UI widgets and lay them out using Javascript. You need to use Titanium's API ...

By : Shabda Raaj

This is next in the series of apps I am building using various mobile technologies. It is the same app as build using Java for Android for calculating the Tax payable (in India). You can get the code for Objective-C, Java-Android, and PhoneGap.

First the impressions

Phonegap was the easiest to work with among the Objective-C, Java and PhoneGap, by far. I created the app as easily as

Step 1. Write the app and test it in Browser using the Chrome developer tools. Step 2. Start a project in Xcode. Step 3. Copy the HTML and CSS files to project ...

By : Shabda Raaj

We recently started with Mobile Application development. I am learning Android using the Commonsware book, and highly recommend it. This is a very short guide to getting you running your first Android app.

What will we build

We will build a simple tax calculator for India, per the rules given here for tax calculation. In this app, we need to gets users income and various tax deductible expenses. After that we need to update the UI to show the tax. You can see the final app and code on github here.

Setting up

1. Install Java and Eclipse
2. Install Android SDK ...

By : ashok

Titanium Mobile is Appcelerator's development platform for developing cross-platform native mobile applications. In this article we will be introducing you to installation and developing applications using Titanium.

Installation

Follow the steps mentioned here, to install Titanium and the corresponding sdks for your developement platform

Hello world application

Creating a new application and aplication structure is elaborately described in appcelerator gettting started guide

Creating Forms

Field Label

var win = Titanium.UI.currentWindow; // get refernce to the current window
var label = Titanium.UI.createLabel({
    text: 'Label Name',
    height: 50,
    color: '#000000',
    font:{fontSize:14},
    top: 20, // vertical postion of label on ...