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So if you have any requests please just post a comment on this page and I’ll see what I can do!
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hi Mate,
Your doing an amazing job buddy thank you very much for this.
have you got any tutorial on MAPS?
Thanks
thanks, no not at the moment, what particular problem using a map would you like to fix?
Hi,
I’m looking for an solution for my app which has one listview with several youtube videos – they should be linked there
best,
Fabienne
Enjoy http://blog.blundell-apps.com/show-youtube-user-videos-in-a-listview/
Hi,
Could you do a tutorial on how to integrate FFMPEG with Android? Thanks!!
Sorry thats not my forte, a list of supported media is here: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html I can see mpeg but not FFMPEG
Hi
I am new to android. can you post tutorial on clicking the item in list view should play the video.List is nothing but list of different videos.
Thanks in advance
hey already done, check this out: http://blog.blundell-apps.com/click-item-in-a-listview-to-show-youtube-video/
I would like to have a rss feed reader for:http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/racinggamerslovenia/uploads?v=2
on my phone,is it possible with your existing tuts. on diplaying youtube videos?
This is just the same as : http://blog.blundell-apps.com/show-youtube-user-videos-in-a-listview/ only with a different JSOM / XML feed. You’ll learn a lot by running through that tutorial
The tutorial you posted is awesum…It wud b gr8 if you could provide me the tutorial with multiple alarm and notifications…actually i tried a lot to edit your tutorial for the same but i am facing a problem which is as follows:
Whenevr i try to set multiple alarms all the notifications appear at the time of last alarm i set…i tried using unique ids too bt the problem persits…
The solution for my previous comment is possible .the png is from htc sense 4 rom and it tiles certain areas in status bar. I too want to tile like that.it is 9 patched image but some sorts of coding are used.do you look in to that?
I want to repeat specific parts in drawable png image.
if I use 9 patch it stretches and looks ugly and if i use tilemode:repeat ,whole image is repeated.but i wanted repeat at specific areas only.
give me any solution please…
[IMG]http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/2026/28465736.jpg[/IMG]
Hi, I wouldn’t advise this its not possible in an elegant way. I would say either change your UI design so the picture is strectchable in some area as a 9patch otherwise change it so it is tileable!
how to create android application on image below
[img]http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww244/ashari_setiawan/picture.jpg[img]
Hi this appears to be just a ViewPager, it can be found here Android Dev – ViewPager example source code is also presented on that site
hy,,,,i am newbie on android programming,,,
please give me sample application,,,,
Hi Blundell,
I really struggle to write SOLID android code. Do you have any examples of a typical well written solid app with network and animation?
Hi Martin, bit of a tough one but I hope this gives you some insight into a SOLID architecture: http://blog.blundell-apps.com/tut-networking-off-the-ui-thread-solid-architecture/ the thing with Android is you are pretty close/constrained to the framework, dependency injection is very hard unless you create your own architecture to get away from the ‘Activity’. I’m still learning myself. Let me know what you think!
Hi blundell… Could u show tutorial for extending adapter views and adding our own custom animation for view transitions
Hey, I hope this is what you where looking for! http://blog.blundell-apps.com/tut-animate-removing-from-a-custom-adapter-listview/
Hey
I have tried to change the homepage of the android default webrowser by code but i dont get it to work. I have seen other apps been doing it. How can i manage to do this? I have looked at the BrowserSettings.java for the browser and found a method that sets the homepage, but it is not static, so i assume i cant call it from another app. The startapp sdk sets the homepage, maybe you can have a look at it. I have tried but i could not find it.
Hi Helsan, sorry this isn’t documented and so isn’t possible. With the code being undocumented even if I showed you how to do it, it isn’t promised to work on all version of Android and could break with new releases. I realise other apps do it, but as I just said it leads to bad user experiences, don’t let your app join that pile of poor apps.
Hi Blundell,
Could you please do some tutorials for image recognition? I do some research on the web but It shows lack of tut about that.
Thanks
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This isn’t really Android related, just pure Java loads of libraries out there. Maybe next time ask for something more specific
Hello!
im a new developer and im looking for simple code to how do i cosumize a listview with youtube video showing thumbnail, title etc..
+ how to set intent to each row.
thank you!!
Sure check this out: http://blog.blundell-apps.com/show-youtube-user-videos-in-a-listview/ !
could you please do a tutorial to parse a list of a users flickr photosets then onclick of photoset displays the photo in a gridview?
Hi, I looked at this and I’ve found an amazing example here: http://code.google.com/p/flickr-viewer-for-honeycomb/ so don’t think I could top that!
hi im new to android development and im using NetBeans IDE 7.1.1 for android.could you please post a tutorial about basic programming in android.thnks in advance =)
Hi Stephen, if you want the basic 101 I would recommend checking out http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.html I’d also say switch from NetBeans to Eclipse as soon as possible. Most professionals use Eclipse and it’s sometimes asked for on job applications so I’d get used to it as soon as possible
Thanks for the offer!
I have 2 requests:
1. How can I get down to system level, so I can manage folders, delete files, etc.?
2. Is there a good reference on the SDK that does not involve Eclipse? I prefer to code with just a text editor.
Hmm not really sure what you mean.
1) You can use File API you just need the path and permission
2) Here is the Android API but I would 100% recommend eclipse /intellij
Hi,
I am new to Android. I have read your tutorial on displaying the youtube videos into the list by specific user.It was very nice.But this is with “JSON-C”.
Could you please post a tutorial on youtube videos with XML response and explain me how it works?
I have searched on internet, but i am not getting the correct solution.
Thanks in Advance…….
Hey, I did it using XML but I would not recommend it, YouTube sends you way too much XML to parse on a mobile phone. You should use the JSON parser. So here you go Atom XML: http://blog.blundell-apps.com/tut-show-youtube-feed-for-a-users-videos-in-a-listview-xml/
Thank You very much for posting this tutorial.
Hi,
I’ve been reading around android development for the last few months and have created a few basic apps with the help of books and youtube tutorials. Just come across your blog (via anddev.org) and figure what the hell why not make a request too! I’ve seen that Google have finally released official documentation for their Calendar API in 4.0 but I was wondering if you could help get me started with some basic functionality for say Gingerbread where an activity can read/write event data to user’s calendar.
Would really appreciate your help, thanks in advance!
Hi glad you found me! I love to help but unfortently acessing the calendar pre-ICS is unsupported and subject to change. Therefore if I did make you a tutorial it could be out of date in a week. What I would recommend is write the functionality to work for ICS and if the user has a pre-ICS device explain why the feature is disabled. As time goes by less and less people will get the disabled message! Sorry about that. Here’s the ICS calendar resource: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/CalendarContract.html And if you do want to do something for Gingerbread, perhaps start here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2987610/how-to-use-google-calendar-api-in-android
Can you make a test app using the android alarm manager ? Just how to create a simple alarm ?
Sure! Already done: http://blog.blundell-apps.com/notification-for-a-user-chosen-time/
great! can you create a tutorial for moving apps on an sd card?
You want to actually move the app or just notify the user that the app can be moved?
hello ,
ur notification for a particular date but i need it to be remind me for 3 days before the set date so how can i do it. can u plzz help me.
and i also need ur help , i need to connect my app to alarm clock of mobile itself . when i click on alarm icon in my app it should be redirected to alarm in mobile ….
Hi, you will need to use the Java calendar API, Just set the date field and minus 3 it should automatically move the month if it needs to.
thank u
but can u help me i need to connect my app to alarm clock of mobile itself, i.e when i click on alarm icon it should be redirected to alarm in mobile
hi! i am very new to this android things. where can i start and video tutorials to learn abt these? can u help?
Hi if you want video tutorials you might want to try something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnlPtzLOV_o
Hello, I really want to learn how to create an app with a email-register/login activity. So I got the register information/data from the app user’s at my computer or on a webpage. Best Regards. David, Android Developer.
Hi David, this involved a lot of backend programming and depends on that system in how you would implement it on the Android side. Check out something like this Creating a Web Service, then worry about the android client side.
Hey, Are there any way to get access to likes/dislikes and views with the Gdata from youtube and display these for each video ? Keep up the great work with tutorials !
Sure check out this Json tag
Hi.
Am rather frustrated to find a million different twitter integration tutorials around but NONE that integrate a simple JSON # search tweet feed into an AppWidget.
I can set up an appwidget fine but getting the twitter feed integrated is proving especially fiddly.
Also implementing user preferences for different #search feeds too.
Any help greatly appreciated.
TIA.
Serge.
Hi Serge, so sorry for the delay.
Hopefully this is what you are looking for: http://blog.blundell-apps.com/tut-twitter-on-an-app-widget/
Hi,
saw your notification tutorial(http://blog.blundell-apps.com/notification-for-a-user-chosen-time/), it was nice.
I need an tutorial for recurring notification, say for an example need to alert my app for every 15th of the month
Hi glad you enjoyed it.
You would just set the Alarm for the 15th, when this alarm is fired (in your service) set the next alarm for the next month!
blundell i know that basic thing to do set a next alarm for every month
. But what i am asking is the app should update the alarm by it self (see the sample app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.taskos&hl=en)
I am saying the app updates the alarm by itself, each month! That way you only have to manage one alarm at a time. Otherwise all you have to do is set a notification, then change the calendar date to set it again but this just adds unneeded complexity imo
Hey, Can you include a Onclick for the listview from the youtube feed tutorial. So if it will be clicked it will go to the url/youtube ?
Sure hope you enjoy: http://blog.blundell-apps.com/click-item-in-a-listview-to-show-youtube-video/
HI….
any tutorial on how to use the private and protected API’s in android….
by reflection and by recompiling the SDK…???
Sorry I won’t be doing this, in using private API’s your going against best practice, it is not recommended. If the API was to change (i.e. between froyo and ICS) then your app will be broken and this isn’t a very good user experience. Please look for otherways to achieve what your goal is.
Hi…
i want to work on an sms application and the receiver can only be made by accessing the internal and hidden API’s..can u suggest any workaround for that
hi,
i need for help.please you have tutorial for Compassqibla using SensorManager and SensorEventListener(and gps)(application for musulmun to know the place for pryer)qibla i need it for my project please help me
This is not really a tutorial request and more a project. Care to pay me $$$
Hey
Can you make tutorial whic gets images from a specific website and show them in a layout. At the bottom at the screen it will have next and back button to get to the next/last picture. ?
A good example website which uses freshly posted pictures, http://www.artige.no
Hi,
As per the other request, this is again screen scraping and is frowned up. If that website was to change it’s HTML code your app would no longer work and require an update. You are best finding an API that you can read from. Failing that if you really really want to do it. You should scrape the website server sie (i.e. in a web app) then have your app read the data from your own server. That way if the 3rd party website does break it’s html you only have to update your web-app and not the application (that users would then have to download, compared to hitting refresh on a website). See: Html scraping (2nd link in google behind wikipedia)
Do you have a Skype or email at which I can contact you? I’ve got a few questions that I want to get some detailed and private responses on and I believe you can help me.
You already know my email so feel free to contact me at that. Thanks.
Hi Austin,
You can always contact me through my official website, http://www.blundellapps.com
Hi! I’ve been making android apps for like 4-5 days now. So i’m wondering if you know how I can make a web app? I have been looking through many tutorials, but none shows directly how I can make an app that displays the content from a website, and that I can decide what I want and don’t want to display. So I really just want to customize a website into an app and make my own layout. I know how the WebView and WebContent works and all that stuff, but I don’t know how I can do what I described here.
Hi Espen,
This would be called ‘screen-scraping’ a website, it is frowned upon really. If you where using a webview you couldn’t screen scrape but just use the data as is. If you did screen-scrape you would use normal views (linearlayout etc) and display whatever you wanted. See:
A tutorial with code how2 log in to a website (hopefully http and https).
I search a lot on the internet and there’s nothing there that actually works !
Hi Mark, there aren’t many tutorials as this all depends on the backend website login. It is usually through a post request that sends you some type of identity key to use. The tutorial is more to do with server backend programming so I won’t be doing it sorry. You’ll need to look at server solutions for a login box before your app can login!
hi,
i am new to android. currently i am developing an application based on animation of images.could you help me for the choose of animation.which animation should user like? please help.
thanks in advance.
Hi Nalesh,
Could you be a bit more descriptive of what you want? Users like all animations it completely depends on the style of your app and what UX you want
Hello,
Ive been a long time lurker of this blog. I have a question i have an idea for a pretty sweet app but, i don’t know how i would go about executing the idea. So basically what im asking is it possible to add a menu option to the default android UI.
Do help further explain what i mean is like when you are attaching media to a text message on your android phone it gives you options on what you want it to be (image or video). What i need to do is add another option. How would i go about doing that? Ive been searching relentlessly to no avail.
Could you make a tutorial on this?
Thanks,
Shane
Hey Shane,
I checked out the source code for the Android messaging app and sadly you can’t get into that menu, however you can get into all the secondary menus that are selected. So here’s a tutorial on that: http://blog.blundell-apps.com/add-your-app-to-the-android-menu/ hope its what you where looking for!
I’ve got a small and probably simple request. How would I use the YouTube GData feed of a specific user’s uploads to list a user’s uploads (with included video thumbnail) in a ListView?
Feel free to email me if you like.
Sure I’ll do that .. no wait I’ve done that!
Was very interesting, check out the blog: http://blog.blundell-apps.com/show-youtube-user-videos-in-a-listview/ and please tweet your pleasure 
hi,
I’m a newbie in android.Could you please post a tutorial on ITelephony aidl and also explain how to block calls using that.
Thanks in advance.
This is not part of the public Android API and so you would have to use unorthodox methods that are flaky. Sorry but I won’t be doing a tutorial on this, it can lead to broken code, bad practice and is just not recommended. If you want to go down this route, check this blog post out: http://prasanta-paul.blogspot.com/2010/09/call-control-in-android.html
App with preloaded photos with a set as wallpaper button
Thanks for the idea. Enjoy: http://blog.blundell-apps.com/set-phone-wallpaper/
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