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App Widgets. App Widgets are miniature application views that can be embedded in other applications (such as the Home screen) and receive periodic updates.

App Widgets

These views are referred to as Widgets in the user interface, and you can publish one with an App Widget provider. An application component that is able to hold other App Widgets is called an App Widget host. The screenshot below shows the Music App Widget. This document describes how to publish an App Widget using an App Widget provider. For a discussion of creating your own AppWidgetHost to host app widgets, see App Widget Host. Widget Design For information about how to design your app widget, read the Widgets design guide. The Basics To create an App Widget, you need the following: AppWidgetProviderInfo object Describes the metadata for an App Widget, such as the App Widget's layout, update frequency, and the AppWidgetProvider class. AppWidgetProvider class implementation View layout.

Com.larvalabs.svgandroid. Svg-android - SVG parsing and rendering for Android. Vector Graphics Support for Android!

svg-android - SVG parsing and rendering for Android

Please note: the latest source code for this project is now on Github: This is a compact and straightforward library for parsing SVG files and rendering them in an Android Canvas. By using vector art, the pain of supporting various screen sizes and densities in Android can be reduced. This was the library used to render the artwork and the interface of Androidify. The project also includes a Live Wallpaper app extracted from Androidify. Simple To Use Just place SVG files in the res/raw folder of your project, then load them as resources in your activity and work with them as android.graphics.Picture objects or as drawables: SVG svg = SVGParser.getSVGFromResource(getResources(), R.raw.filename); Picture picture = svg.getPicture(); Drawable drawable = svg.createPictureDrawable(); See the Tutorial for more information, SampleImages for more examples of what you can do, or the Javadocs for the complete API.

Release Notes. Designing For Android - Smashing Magazine. For designers, Android is the elephant in the room when it comes to app design.

Designing For Android - Smashing Magazine

As much as designers would like to think it’s an iOS1 world in which all anyones cares about are iPhones, iPads and the App Store, nobody can ignore that Android currently has the majority of smartphone market share2 and that it is being used on everything from tablets to e-readers. In short, the Google Android platform is quickly becoming ubiquitous, and brands are starting to notice. But let’s face it. Android’s multiple devices and form factors make it feel like designing for it is an uphill battle. And its cryptic documentation3 is hardly a starting point for designing and producing great apps. Further Reading on SmashingMag: Link If all this feels discouraging (and if it’s the reason you’re not designing apps for Android), you’re not alone.

This article will help designers become familiar with what they need to know to get started with Android and to deliver the right assets to the development team. MOTODEV. APIs Explorer. Android Apps, Tests, Blog, News and Forum. Android Activities - Droidicon. DroidDraw : Graphical User Interface Editor for Android Cell Phone Development and Programming. Download. Main Page - Android Wiki. Android Series: Custom ListView items and adapters.

This is a short tutorial on how to populate your android list view, with data downloaded from the internet or other sources, using ArrayAdapter.

Android Series: Custom ListView items and adapters

ListView items view is declared in a separate XML file and displayed using custom adapter class. First things first, so go ahead and create a new project using Eclipse equipped with ADT plugin. The project described below assumes you have a list of objects created, this can be either downloaded from the internet as XML and parsed to create ArrayList of your custom objects or anything you imagine. I will not go into details on this tutorial how to create such an ArrayList but your imagination is the limit. Parsing XML downloaded from the net will be covered in the next tutorial coming up soon. Click File -> New -> Project and select the ‘Android Project’ wizard: Click next and fill out the next screen with the following values: Once you have filled out all the necessary data you can click finish.

Android Development and Hacking. About *600* different Icon Packs [INDEX on 2nd post] Klick the links below and see a full index of provided Icons.

About *600* different Icon Packs [INDEX on 2nd post]

Search and choose your favorite Icons by Name Index I sorted by date go to Part 1 Index II sorted by date go to Part 2 Index III sorted by date go to Part 3 Index IV sorted by date go to Part 4 link. Android Asset Studio. ApiDemos - API Demos. Welcome to code samples for Android developers.

ApiDemos - API Demos

Here you can browse sample code and learn how to build different components for your applications. Use the categories on the left to browse the available samples. Each sample is a fully functioning Android app. You can browse the resources, source files and see the overall project structure. You can copy and paste the code you need, and if you want to share a link to a specific line you can double-click it to the get the URL.

Import Samples from GitHub. Android Blip - Download Android Applications & Games. Anddev.org. Developers.