Android – Displaying Dialogs From Background Threads
Having threads to do some heavy lifting and long processing in the background is pretty standard stuff. Very often you would want to notify or prompt the user after the background task has finished by...
View ArticleAndroid Version 2.2.2 Prevents Applications with Copy Protection Turned on...
Today I got the Over the Air update of my Nexus One phone to version 2.2.2. To my surprise I could not see some of my applications that were published in the Android Market. Neither could I see a big...
View ArticleEclipse Project is Flagged with an “Android Packaging Problem” Error
Sometimes while developing in Eclipse you will notice that the Android Project will be flagged with the red “x” but none of your source files or resources will have errors. If you look in the...
View ArticleHow to sign an unsigned Android package (.apk file)
If you develop with Eclipse, you most likely use the built in Export Wizard to export and sign your Android applications. There are some cases though, when this method will not do. For example, if you...
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How to Switch your Google Checkout Account in the Android Market Application
With Google’s last update of the Market application on the Android devices, it became a lot easier to now switch your Google Checkout account associated with all your application purchases. Just fire...
View ArticleHow to get Picasa images using the Image Picker on Android devices running...
Using the Image Picker to get a local image from the Gallery is pretty easy and trivial task. But things get a lot more interesting if the user has a Picasa account and he/she happens to select an...
View ArticleA small bug in the Android In-App Billing demo app causes “Item Not Found”
Important: This is not a bug in the API! It is only a bug in the demo Dungeons application that Google provides. Several months ago (May, 2012) Google released the new version (v2) of the Android...
View ArticleQuick and easy way to remove all single line (//) comments in Eclipse
I had to quickly remove single line comments from an Android project in Eclipse. I could not find any built in feature in Eclipse to do that. So I resorted to a simple regular expression: (//[^\n]*)...
View ArticleImplementing Android GCM in a different package other than the main...
There is something you need to be aware of if you are placing your GCM (Google Cloud Messaging, aka push notifications) service (the one extending from GCMBaseIntentService) in a package other than the...
View ArticleHow to detect a user pan/touch/drag on Android Map v2
If you are impatient, you can skip directly to the solution. The new implementation of the Android Map (v2) is great in many ways and their support for map fragments is awesome, but they fall a bit...
View ArticleIn-app Billing API v3 throws IllegalStateException
If you have followed Google’s instructions when implementing version 3 of the Android’s in-app billing API by exploring their TrivialDrive sample app, you probably have come upon some numerous...
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Install Subversion and Subclipse for Eclipse on Ubuntu
If you do not have Eclipse installed yet, run: sudo apt-get install eclipse Install Subversion sudo apt-get install subversion Install the Subversion plugin for Eclipse Get the Java bindings for...
View ArticleAndroid applications that use the MyLocationOverlay class crash on the new...
Update: August 29, 2010 Tested this myself on a friend’s phone and this bug is definitively not fixed yet despite the recent Motorola updates! The burden is on you (the developer) to fix this if you...
View ArticleHow to connect your Android phone to Ubuntu to do development, testing,...
All the way back in 2010 I wrote a post how to connect your Android device to your Ubuntu computer in order to develop on it. There have been a few changes since then, so here is the updated version of...
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