Tag Archives: android

Android TextView And HTML Links

Posted on December 30th, 2010 by Ian G. Clifton

Android’s TextView widget is actually quite robust. It supports various fonts, styles, colors, etc., allowing you to have newlines, bold sections, and more (even defined from XML); however, sometimes the text you are dumping into a TextView is HTML. Fortunately, … Continue reading →

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Apple Insider Slant

Posted on December 1st, 2010 by Ian G. Clifton

Occasionally, I try to view websites that are very pro-Apple, partly to learn what’s new in that world (and what excites its inhabitants) and partly to get a good laugh. This screenshot is an example where I couldn’t help but … Continue reading →

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Animating Android Activities

Posted on October 17th, 2010 by Ian G. Clifton

A relatively common task is to have some kind of animation between Activities in Android. The default animation isn’t necessarily always the same across devices, and sometimes it is desirable to customize this. A quick look at the docs will … Continue reading →

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Using Meta-Data In An AndroidManifest

Posted on October 8th, 2010 by Ian G. Clifton

Sometimes you have the need to set up some app-wide configuration information in an Android app or need to create a class that can be used in multiple projects with a generic way of setting configuration values. This is particularly … Continue reading →

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Creating An Android Main Menu Link

Posted on September 26th, 2010 by Ian G. Clifton

It’s becoming a more and more common practice for Android apps to have a “main menu” or home Activity of some sort. The Facebook and Twitter apps both use a series of icons on a dashboard of sorts. Other apps, … Continue reading →

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