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In this post we will cover sending SMS through Android App and also how to read contacts.

In this post we will add code to display context menu to “edit and replace”, and “delete” note. Adding a context menu is easy ( well, most of the things are easy once you know how ). Just call registerForContextMenu(b); in for loop in onResume of MyActivity.java.

As promised we will improve further the NoteTaking app in this tutorial. We will change the look of the app to have EditText instead of TextView to display notes on main screen. Also clicking on note will open the note for editing and save it as a new note.

Hi all, in this post we will make the note taking app made in previous post better .

We will make the app to store multiple notes and shall display them in our main screen.

PS: This is second part of my previously published story, kindly reconsider. Sources of knowledge are also well attributed.

Hi all, in this post we will create a very basic note taking app. It will store only single note and retrieve it back. In later post we will keep extending it until it become a fully working app. So bear with it as the attempt is to learn android programming not anything else.

Open source is about choice, they say. So here is one more choice, use IntelliJ IDE for development of android apps.

In this part of tutorial we will see how to create Android virtual devices, create a project and deploy it.

PS. Relisting as previous entry had no clickable link.

While there are many good IDEs for android development like eclipse, NetBeans, intelliJ; sometimes one may want to use lightweight editor to create android apps and still don't want to get into command line every time.

PS. Relisting as previous entry had no clickable link.

In this part of tutorial we will see how to create Android virtual devices, create a project and deploy it.

While there are many good IDEs for android development like eclipse, NetBeans, intelliJ; sometimes one may want to use lightweight editor to create android apps and still don't want to get into command line every time.

Ubuntu and openSuse both come with openJDK installed however at times one needs Oracle JDK to be present in the system. Here are the steps needed to install it on both OS.