Moazzam's Ramblings

Category: Android

  • Sketchbook app for Android

    I have a Samsung Galaxy Note II. As you may already know, it has a big screen and the fact that it comes with a note taking app made by Samsung (I think) makes it very useful to jot down ideas, doodle, etc. I, however, wondered if there was an app that would facilitate doodling…

  • Nexus S and TMobile data connection

    Here’s an interesting tidbit. If you go out of the country and come back. Nexus S won’t automatically connect to TMobile’s 3G or edge network. You have to switch it off and start it again for it to connect to the data network. It will, however, let you make phone calls, and send and receive…

  • Setting up your Android environment

    I have seen quite a few posts on some lists asking about how to set up a programming environment for Android. While it is very straight forward, the documentation is all over the place. So, I decided to write this tutorial :). In this tutorial, we will install Android SDK in eclipse (Galileo), we will…

  • Android HttpRequest class (version 2.1)

    Version of of this class had some bugs so I corrected them and here is the latest version 🙂 Enjoy! package moz.http; import java.net.*; import java.io.*; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Enumeration; import java.util.Hashtable; import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.List; import java.util.Map; import java.util.Set; import java.util.Map.Entry; import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient; import org.apache.commons.*; import android.util.Log; /** * HTTP Request class * *…

  • HTTP Request class for Android (version 2)

    Hi Everyone, After some people pointed out the problems they had with version 2 of this class, I took it all out.  Please go to: http://moazzam-khan.com/?p=490 for version 2.1

  • HTTP Request class for Android

    Here is a class that can be used to make HTTP get and HTTP post requests. I haven’t commented everything but the usage should be pretty clear from the method signatures. Note: This is for Android 1.5. import java.net.*; import java.io.*; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Enumeration; import java.util.Hashtable; import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.List; import java.util.Map; import java.util.Set;…

  • Android 1.5 SDK Released !

    Google has released Android 1.5 SDK. This release is based on the cupcake branch in Android’s repository. Cupcake was a modified version of the SDK written by a group of independent developers and functioned better than the 1.0 SDK. Android 1.5 SDK also has other enchancements like a better profiler. For a list of all…

  • Sending data to other activities in Android

    Let’s say you have a list activity which lists some information and you have another activity which adds/edits information in the list. How do you tell the edit activity which item (in the list of the first activity) needs to be edited?    In the first activity, you will do this : /********************************************* * These…

  • More Android phones on the way

    Yes, you heard it. More Android based phones (at least 2)are on their way some time in 2009. Motorola, Sony, Samsung, etc are also going to come out with Android phones some time by 2010. HTC’s CEO said that they will be releasing at least 3 phones this year. We know one of them is…

  • Android Exeda – A more detailed look

    I had written a post about CompuLab releasing an Android based phone called Exeda. It’s official now and they are making it available in March. They will make the price available along with the phone. It has a 3.5 inch screen which is sun-readable. It also has a touchpad which acts as a mouse. The…