My Android Applications

During the summer internship I learned about interesting and innovative work of Android Application Development. I have already posted about getting started with it and some important links in my earlier posts. In this post I m going to discuss some of the applications I built.

Info Displayer:

Info displayer is a simple and light application. No doubt, it was my first app :). The application fetches some important information about your Android Device, such as, the device number, the hardware, the Manufacturer, Product, Model, Time etc. The application used "build" library and its functions to fetch the information.

Webber:

Webber claims to be the world's simplest browser. It just has a text box to write a URL and the view below it, which fetches the web-page. It doesn't allow the default browser to hinder its working. I used an EditText and a WebView to present this app. Other stuff was just a cake walk.

Sleek Feed:

Sleek Feed is an application that displays the feeds of the saved URL. The application parses the XML file, and gets the titles of the latest feeds and displays it onto the screen. The URL is feeded by the user himself through the admin panel. The main feature of the application is the fact that it saves the previous URL feeded in the admin panel.

To view its complete working see the video here on youtube.

One thing I learned while building these apps that "it's not knowledge, but it's innovation, that matters a lot while completing an entire project."

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Some useful links for building Android Apps

Working on Android Application Development I came across some very useful links that every Android App Developer must follow. Here is my "Delicious.com" account, you can look for all the bookmarks I have saved.

In this post I am recommending some of the important Android forums and websites. By this time you must obviously be familiar with the official Android Developer Website where you can find the entire documentation of the project. Do add yourself to the Android Google Group for asking all your queries. For hosting your applications access its Official Marketplace.

Besides these regular sites which everyone accesses, I m here to share some more websites that can help novice get started and go on further with the Android App development.

(Click the titles for opening the pages)..

Getting started:

Here's Lars Vogel with his tutorial for getting started with Android App Development. Besides getting started, it also teaches to build a hello world app, demonstrates how to build menus and work with preferences, a nice content provider example and how to make a file browser. At last it demonstrates how to deploy your app onto a real device.

Marakana Tutorials:

This is one of my best recommendations. Some very nice demo projects are hosted on the site. Studying Motto Twitter project can help understand the concepts in depth. Certain API's have also been explained in the tutorials. The use of bluetooth and camera may become very clear refering to their API tutorials.

Androidians:

Nice tutorials by Nithin Warreir. The blog contains some code snippets that help during development of big projects. One can learn implementation of various tools of Android development easily here. I have even added the admin to my gmail contacts and regularly ask him to review my applications.

Android Forum:

Anddev forum is pretty famous for having a large number of online users everytime. For any query you can easily post a question in this forum. Wait for the help that comes in just a few minutes. One can also use the android tag of Stackoverflow, but mind you, it's lame..!! Too slow responses and you'll end answering your own question later which doesn't contribute to the repo at all.. :P

SlideME Android Market Place (Free for developers):

Besides the Official Marketplace, this is another marketplace that hosts developer's applications. For registering as developer in the official marketplace, one needs to pay $25, here lies the advantage of joining SlideMe, it is free..!!

Register yourself and deploy all your apps. The apps may be free or paid. The paid apps can only be downloaded from Android Phone through SlideMe market app. The website asks for copies of your project's ".apk" file and forms an inventory and on downloads you need to generate an invoice to redeem the money. Here is link for viewing my apps.

Happy developing ;)

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