While developing a calender related Android app, selection of a date range is one of the most basic things one can think of. But sadly, with Android’s native date picker we cannot select a range… Read More »Android Date Range Picker
One of the most recent developments in the world of Android has been the release of Google Places API for Android. This new API gives us the full access to Google’s database for 100 million… Read More »Using the New Google Places API for Android
To access APIs in Android from Google API console you need to generate an API Key. This same API key can me used for accessing multiple APIs under the same project. To generate an API… Read More »Obtaining SHA1 Fingerprint from Android Keystore
One of the most basic design component in any Android app is a button. Google released a new design pattern lately by the name of Material Design. With material design, Google released new standards for… Read More »Android Material Design Buttons – Best Approach
Even though I am an Android developer, sometimes I feel, a lot of new concepts in Android are released in a jiffy. Take for an example, Android material design. It greatly emphasizes on the usage… Read More »Floating Action Buttons In Android
Now-days almost every Android app uses a REST web API for data transfer. This makes me think what are the best practices to parse data and images from a REST web service. Earlier I used… Read More »Android Volley vs Retrofit | Better Approach?
A lot of people have been asking me about Retrofit. How it can be used in Android. What does it do etc. As per its official documentation, Retrofit is nothing but a networking library for… Read More »Android Retrofit Tutorial
Streaming live video/audio in android is one of the very few interesting parts we have. Whenever we talk of streaming, the possibility of using RTMP(Real Time Messaging Protocol) cannot be ruled out. As RTMP is one… Read More »How To Stream RTMP live in Android
One of the new concepts introduced in Android is Volley. The reason, volley library is preferred over other similar libraries is because it is authored by Google engineers. But one of the major problems with… Read More »Android Volley ImageLoader and NetworkImageView Example
Now in android creating card views has gotten even more simpler. As with material design a new view was introduced through the support v7 library, called CardView. It can be used in many ways to display… Read More »Android CardView Example