Create share and manage custom maps from Drive

Posted by Stafford Marquardt, Product Manager, Google My Maps Whether you’re planning your next event, mapping out the best route to visit clients, or...

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Episode 36 UX Rules

In this episode, we talk with Rachel Garb from the Android User Experience team. Tune in to hear about interaction design and about how the Android system...

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2015 is The Year of Your Launch

Posted by Amir Shevat, Google Developers Launchpad Program Manager With new events, improved courses and an expanded mentorship network - Startup Launch...

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SDK setup error a folder failed to be renamed or moved

During updating your Android SDK components from eclipse (running in windows) you may receive the following error message:a folder failed to be renamed...

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Learning Material Design

Learning Material DesignKey FeaturesMaster the highly acclaimed Material Design paradigm and give your apps and pages the look that everyone is talking...

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Episode 18 Holidaze

In another exciting departure from ancient ADB tradition, Daniel Sandler takes over the podcast in a [mostly] bloodless coup and interviews Chet and Tor....

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Introducing the Tech Entrepreneur Nanodegree

Posted by Shanea King-Roberson, Program Manager As a developer, writing your app is important. But even more important is getting it into the hands of...

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Limit EditText to accept signed decimal numbers only in xml and java

layout/activity_main.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><LinearLayout android_layout_width="match_parent" android_layout_height="match_parent"...

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Parsing JSON respone

if we have a JSON web service response like this:"persons"[{"person"{"firstName": "John", "lastName": "Smith", "age": 25}}{"person"{"firstName": "Catherine",...

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Table of contents

Table of Contents:Android Fundamentals - Jargon ExplainedPreliminary Step: Eclipse set up / Create Android ProjectAndroid Explicit Intent ExampleAndroid...

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One year in and just getting started

Posted by Amit Singh, President, Google for WorkWhat’s in a name? Last September, when we changed our name from Google Enterprise to Google for Work,...

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Service Oriented Architecture

Hi,I am an Architect in the Software Industry. I know the need for such a role is hotly debated one. But for now, I can do with such a designation.Service...

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Episode 34 Really Nearby

In this episode, we chat with Andrew Bunner and Akshay Kannan from the Nearby team. Nearby is a technology that allows devices that are, er, nearby to...

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Get ready for even more material design

Posted by Monica Bagagem, Developer Marketing Google I/O 2015 starts tomorrow, and, like last year, we’ve got an exciting lineup of design-focused content...

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Gallery like RecyclerView CardView example

A long long time ago, we have android.widget.Gallery to shows items (ex. photos) in a center-locked, horizontally scrolling list. My example "Implement...

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Display WiFi Hotspot clients by cat proc net arp

This example display WiFi Hotspot connected clients (with IP and MAC address) by Linux command "cat /proc/net/arp", using ProcessBuilder.(You can...

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Implementing Search activities

Most Android phones have a search button. this button is used to search contacts,applications or anything on the phone. We can make use of the search...

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Introducing new Chromebooks and features engineered for work

Posted by Saswat Panigrahi and Raghu Yarlagadda, Product Managers, Chromebooks for Work Editors note: To learn more about the new features that make Chromebooks...

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Playstation Suite SDK referencing DLLs and Intellisense

An issue I faced today while testing the Playstation Suite SDK, I created a sample project in the PSS Studio and added a reference to a custom made DLL.I...

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Connecting to a web service over a Secure Sockets Layer SSL protocol

Android default HttpClinet does not support SSL connections, so if you have a secured web service, you need to connect to it via javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.if...

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Episode 35 Data Bound

In this episode, we chat with George Mount and Yigit Boyar from the Android UI Toolkit team. Yigit and George worked on the new Data Binding feature announced...

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A new kind of Classroom for 10 million students and teachers

Posted by Cinthya Mohr, User Experience Lead, Google for Education (Cross-posted on the Google for Education Blog.)In a junior high class in Queens, New...

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Raising Sweet C Cane for Well Dressed Animals

Posted by Stewart Miles, Fun Propulsion Labs* To celebrate the holiday season at Fun Propulsion Labs, were trading our sushi mats and baking pans for...

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Table layout

Organizing widgets in a table is a famous approach in HTML design where you construct a table of a number of rows and cells and distribute the controls...

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Episode 26 Fit

Tor and Chet are joined by Gustavo Moura from the Google Fit team. We talk about the Google Fit app, but also about the GMS Core and REST APIs that enable...

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Selection Controls 3 CheckBox and RadioButton

CheckBox:The check box has two states: Checked and UnChecked. It inherits from TextView so it has all of its properties:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><LinearLayout...

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Episode 31 Graphics Performance

This time, Tor and Chet are joined by Chris Craik from the Android UI Toolkit team. Chris took time out of his busy schedule of writing performance-testing...

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Episode 39 MIDI

Chet, Phil, and Tor. And a lot of totally professional sound bafflesThis time, Tor and Chet get all musical with Phil Burk from the Android Audio team....

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