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A Journey to the World of Android Wearable

by ridoy

A brief explanation of application development for Android Wear, helpful for every beginner and intermediate android developer.

Android Services and More

by Safak Tarazan

Usage of services, alarm manager and broadcast receivers

Introducing Calcium for Xamarin.Forms

by Daniel Vaughan

Create best-in-breed cross-platform MVVM apps using Calcium for Xamarin.Forms.

Never Buy A Garage Door Remote Again: Open Your Door With Your Android Phone (via Bluetooth)

by raddevus

Steps for building a device you can add to your existing garage door, which implements an atmega328, bluetooth (hc-05) and relay module which will allow you to open your garage door from any paired Android device.

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.NET MAUI Automated version numbers for AndroidManifest.xml

by bradyguy

In this article I make an automated method for updating the version number in the AndroidManifest.xml file.

Windows / Android (C#/Java) Compatible Data Encryption with Compression

by JudyL_MD

Code sample for passing encrypted compressed data between Windows and Android

Debugging Memory Leaks in Android Applications: Integrating LeakCanary with RxJava

by Ayush Vijaywargi

Enhancing Android app stability by integrating LeakCanary with RxJava for efficient memory leak detection and resolution.

Running Automation Tests At Scale Using Appium

by Suhagkumar Vamja

The article discusses the challenges faced by businesses in releasing mobile applications quickly and the importance of faster time to market (TTM)

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A Journey to the World of Android Wearable

16 Oct 2015 by ridoy

A brief explanation of application development for Android Wear, helpful for every beginner and intermediate android developer.

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Mobile

Android

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Android Services and More

13 Mar 2019 by Safak Tarazan

Usage of services, alarm manager and broadcast receivers

Android

Mobile

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Introducing Calcium for Xamarin.Forms

15 Sep 2014 by Daniel Vaughan

Create best-in-breed cross-platform MVVM apps using Calcium for Xamarin.Forms.

Never Buy A Garage Door Remote Again: Open Your Door With Your Android Phone (via Bluetooth)

27 Jul 2016 by raddevus

Air Hockey

10 Aug 2012 by PavolSatala

How to create an air hockey game for one player against the artificial intelligence for three mobile platforms with only one code?

Android Programming By An Example: Creating An Airport Schedule Simulator Application

1 Aug 2018 by Arthur V. Ratz

In this article, we will discuss about the advanced Android application development based on the example of creating a responsive Airport schedule simulator application.

How to Build iPhone & Android Mobile Apps with Angular 14, Ionic Capacitor 3, SwipeClouds & WebRTC

27 Jan 2021 by Bill SerGio, The Infomercial King

XCODE & Android Studio mobile app projects built using Ionic's Capacitor with an Angular 14 UI. Includes WebRTC for video conferencing, and SwipeClouds for Playing Millions of HD Movies & Videos and A Custom Capacitor Plugin for Scraping User Data for Targeted Delivery of video ads to mobile phones.

Port a 2D libgdx game to MonoGame

14 Apr 2014 by Giannakakis Kostas

Port your libgdx games to run in Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms

Grinding my Gears - Being the coolest server dude/dudette around

6 Jun 2014 by Pete O'Hanlon

An introduction into how to be the coolest dev in your block, writing wearable code

YouCar-Intel Edison Multi Modality Live Youtube Streaming Smart Car

5 Aug 2016 by Grasshopper.iics

Live Streaming Multi Modality Controlled Intel Edison Smart RC Car

Wearable Foot Gesture Based Text Entry System for People with Upper Body Disabillity

7 Aug 2016 by Grasshopper.iics, Moumita Das

An assistive technology initiative for patients with upper body disability

Java

Android

IoT

Encryption Wrapper for Android SharedPreferences

27 Mar 2013 by danabr

This article explains why and how you should protect your app's settings from prying eyes

Xamarin TV Scripts

31 Mar 2018 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

An entertainment app written in C# language for the Xamarin Forms and Android, using a SQLite local database

GarageWatcher - A Full-Stack IoT Project, from Hardware to App

2 Jun 2020 by g96b10

Musings, tips, and lessons learned from developing a physical device, serverless back-end, and Android app

Real-time SPC Web Application for iPad/Android tablet using jQuery/AJAX/AJAX enabled WCF Service

18 Dec 2013 by Gokuldas

Real time SPC is a Web Application for iPad and Androind using HTML5 and jQuery AJAX.

Breakout

26 Jul 2012 by PavolSatala

This article shows how to create Breakout game for iOS, Android and Bada with only one code.

UNITY 3D – Game Programming – Part 9

8 May 2015 by Vahe Karamian

The ninth article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.

UNITY 3D – NETWORK GAME PROGRAMMING

26 May 2015 by Vahe Karamian

This article will cover the basics of network programming using Network View in Unity 3D. We will be creating an Authoritative Server based networking environment showcasing the basics functions of network programming using Unity 3D and C#.

Using MVVM to create Tabbed Interfaces with Calcium for Xamarin Forms

17 Sep 2014 by Daniel Vaughan

Create a Xamarin Forms tabbed page or carousel page by binding to a collection of ViewModels; extending beyond the current capabilities of Xamarin Forms.

Launch Your Android App: Run Device Emulator & Debug Code (part 3 of 3)

11 Feb 2016 by raddevus

Get the Android device emulator running. Add code to generate Android log output and learn how to step into code using the Android Studio debugger.

Java

Android

Mobile

MonoAndroid: Using Fragments in mobile app

21 Nov 2013 by ThatsAlok

Using Fragments in your mobile application.

Launch Your Android App: Generate Your First Project (part 2 of 3)

10 Feb 2016 by raddevus

Experience the generation of your first Android App while learning to use the newest version of Android Studio.

Java

Android

Mobile

Designing a Cross-Platform 3D Application Engine to Support Windows 8

15 Oct 2012 by ashcairo

How to use OpenGL and friends to write an app that targets mobile and desktop platforms.

MonoAndroid: Using TabHost in your mobile applications

21 Nov 2013 by ThatsAlok

TabHost control in MonoAndroid

Create Your 1st Android Application

30 Jul 2014 by Ahmed Alaa El-Din

Help Beginners to create their 1st Android Application by a step-by-step guide

Java

Android

Mobile

Shadow Mapping with Android OpenGL ES 2

24 Sep 2014 by pogib

Simple and PCF shadow mapping algorithms (Bonus Article - Android Wild Card Category)

App for consuming Android flashlight with a widget

5 Dec 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This article discusses Android programming and aims at teaching you about Android programming for Camera and Widgets.

Take three tablets and call me in the morning - the Chuwi Hi12

28 Feb 2017 by OriginalGriff

The Nexus 7, the Amazon Fire 7 inch, and the Chuwi Hi12. A personal review.

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Android

Android OCR Application Based on Tesseract

29 Jan 2019 by SergVoloshyn

Easy way to make Android OCR application

Audio Chat for Pretty Good Concealing (AC4PGC) - Part I

5 Mar 2021 by Clark Fieseln

Low rate data exchange (e.g., chat) using audio steganography, ensuring privacy, anonymity and cybersecurity

Android

steganography

cryptography

Creating a Simple Hello World Android Project

8 Aug 2014 by Sushil Sh.

Sample Code of Hello World App

Java

Android

Mobile

How to Develop an Intelligent Autonomous Drone using an Android* Smartphone

14 Aug 2014 by Android on Intel

For those of you who are interested in developing your own “smart” drone, this article provides easy directions for making an intelligent, autonomous drone using an Android* smartphone, OpenCV*, C++, and Java*.

Android

Mobile

OpenCV

Article 11 - Beginner's Guide to Android Animation/Graphics

5 Oct 2014 by Grasshopper.iics

The Simplest Graphics and Animation tutorial you ever wanted

Image recognition, translation and speech synthesis - 3in1 Web API

4 Dec 2016 by Jalle

WebAPI, Azure, Android

A Domain Specific Language for Android touch events: Part 2: Construction and inner workings

6 Dec 2013 by Serge Desmedt

Conception of a DSL for creating touch gestures in Android.

Discovering Three.js with Android and Intel XDK

5 Aug 2014 by Abhishek Nandy

Android app using Intel XDK and three.js Article #3

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Mobile

App Inventor communicating with WCF Service using TinyWebDb interface

2 Sep 2014 by Pavel Sinkevich

Implement TinyWebDb interface on WCF Service to communicate with Android application developed with App Inventor

A beginners Guide to Social Network Integration in Android Apps: Working with Twitter and Facebook

5 Oct 2014 by Grasshopper.iics

A Simple Step By Step Guide to Social Network Integration In Android

Android* Texture Compression - a comparison study with code sample

20 Jan 2015 by Android on Intel

Android* Texture Compression - a comparison study with code sample

Using the Audio Jack as Data Interface on Android Systems

1 May 2015 by Intel

As one of the interfaces on mobile devices and tablets, the key function of the audio jack is to play music. However, its other usage cannot be ignored—the audio jack can also be used to transmit data.

Android Recycler View with Spinner Item Change Selection and Update UI

25 Sep 2015 by khanzzirfan

This article helps you to understand how to listen to nested controls inside the recycler view and update the view dynamically.

Android Wear Demo App - TodayMenu

19 Jan 2016 by Ranjan.D

It's all about Android Wear Demo App "TodayMenu" implementation

Setting Up an Android AI Development Environment

16 Sep 2020 by Joel Ivory Johnson

This is the first in a series of articles on using TensorFlow Lite on Android to bring the power of machine learning and deep neural networks to mobile application

Python

Android

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tensorflow

neural-network

Lightning Detection with Deep Learning and Tensorflow on Android: Setting Up a TFLite Model

16 Nov 2020 by Ruturaj Raval

In this article we’ll set up the TFLite model in the Android environment and create a working demo application.

Java

XML

Android

artificial-intelligence

text

JSON

AI Hazard Detection on Android with Tensorflow Lite

5 Jan 2021 by Joel Ivory Johnson

This article series will show readers how to create a real-time AI hazard detector using an Android device.

Python

Android

artificial-intelligence

tensorflow

Crash Detection Using the Accelerometer

11 Jan 2021 by Joel Ivory Johnson

In the next entry of the AI Hazard Detection on Android series, we will look at crash detection and notifications.

Python

Android

artificial-intelligence

tensorflow

Azure IoT Central Tester

17 Jan 2022 by Roman Kiss

Design and implementation of small tool, tester for Azure IoT Central

Supporting the Lost Animals Search Service Through a Simple and Useful Mobile App

19 May 2022 by André Marcos (Advisor), GracianoSouza

React Native, Node.js and PostreSQL, a PERN stack to develop an app to support the lost pets searching process

Xamarin and MvvmCross: A Simple Tutorial for Beginners

3 Jan 2018 by NoMoreComputers

Xamarin and MvvmCross: A simple tutorial for beginners

Siminov Hybrid ORM - Object-relational Mapping (Android + Phonegap)

7 Jul 2013 by Siminov Framework

Siminov makes an application developer's life easy and simple by mapping JavaScript/Java objects to a relational database.

Java

Android

Mobile

Developing Sensor Applications on Intel® Atom™ Processor-Based Android* Phones and Tablets

1 Dec 2013 by Android on Intel

This guide provides application developers with an introduction to the Android Sensor framework and discusses how to use some of the sensors that are generally available on phones and tablets based on the Intel® Atom™ processor.

Creating a Simple Hello World Android Project

3 Aug 2014 by Sivamurugan Perumal

Create a simple Hello world android project with Android Studio run in emulator and depoly on Mobile Device

Android

Mobile

Sample Codes for Video 3D on Android

14 Aug 2014 by Android on Intel

In Android, it is very easy to create an app that can play video clips; it is also easy to create a game app with 3D graphic surface. But it is not straightforward to create an app that can play video on a 3D graphic object. This article describes an app I created with the goal of meeting this chall

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Mobile

Intel for Android* Developers Learning Series #11: OpenGL ES* Support, Performance, and Features for Android* on the Intel® Atom™ Processor

14 Aug 2014 by Android on Intel

The standard API for 3D graphics on Android is OpenGL ES, which is the most widely used 3D graphics API on all mobile devices today.

Exploration with Intel XDK

24 Aug 2014 by Abhishek Nandy

Article 5 for Android Tutorial Contest

HTML

Android

Mobile

(Wildcard entry)Android Text to speech synthesis with Listview arrays with toast

5 Oct 2014 by Prilvesh K

(Wildcard entry)Android Text to speech synthesis with Listview arrays with toast

Java

Android

Mobile

Creating a mobile app with Famo.us and ManifoldJS

2 Jul 2015 by Dave_Voyles

In short, I wanted to determine if Famo.us does actually have great mobile performance, as well as have an understanding of how straightforward the process was for packaging my web application as mobile app.

Beginning Hybrid Mobile App Development with Corona SDK - Display Objects

14 Sep 2015 by Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Display objects and get user input with Corona SDK and Lua

Android Product Flavors and Configuration

14 Apr 2016 by Kaushal Dhruw

This article deals with Android product flavors in depth. Learn how to create multiple apks from the same source code. Create, customize, group, configure and filter product flavors.

Develop Apps on Your Android Device with AIDE

1 Jun 2016 by Android on Intel

This article explains how to get started with expert level app development with AIDE.

Advanced JSON Form Specification - Chapter 8: Advanced Form Features

15 Nov 2016 by Don Fizachi

A JSON form specification

Android Alert Dialog Tutorial : Working with Time Picker, Date Picker and List Dialogs

18 Jul 2016 by Andy Point

Android Alert Dialog Tutorial : Working with Time Picker, Date Picker and List Dialogs In this tutorial we will discuss how to use dialogs and alerts in Android Apps. A Dialog is a small popup shown to the user to get some additional information from the user or ask him to make some decision. Alert

Weather or Not

12 Jun 2020 by David Crow

The World's Best Weather Forecasting App (That's the Not Part!)

Using the Live Camera with AI Hazard Detection on Android

12 Jan 2021 by Joel Ivory Johnson

In the next part of the AI Hazard Detection on Android series, we’ll have the application process live data.

Python

Android

artificial-intelligence

tensorflow

Debugging Memory Leaks in Android Applications: Integrating LeakCanary with RxJava

12 Mar 2024 by Ayush Vijaywargi

Enhancing Android app stability by integrating LeakCanary with RxJava for efficient memory leak detection and resolution.

Box2d vehicles – part 3 – bike

9 Oct 2012 by PavolSatala

How to create an amazing bike game for three platforms with only one code?

Article 2 Setting Up Your Android Development Environment (The Fun Way)

4 Aug 2014 by Febin John James

Article 2 Setting Up Your Android Development Environment (The Fun Way)

More Touch Handling in Android

3 Feb 2015 by Serge Desmedt

More Touch Handling in Android

Java

Android

Mobile

Building Native Android Apps Using Intel(R) C++ Compiler in Android Studio 1.0.1

7 Apr 2015 by Android on Intel

The steps below provide a general description of how to setup, build, and run a new native application in Android Studio 1.0.1.

C++

Android

Mobile

Build Air Quality Index widgets for both Android and Windows using ThinkAlike (Part I)

15 May 2015 by Tiancheng Hu

New samples of using ThinkAlike to accomplish Android/Desktop cross-platform development, including helloworld, Web API access and widget UI.

Embracing the New Android App Development Environment – Android Studio (Beta)

1 Jun 2015 by Android on Intel

This article introduces Android Studio (Beta), the new Android integrated development environment (IDE), which will eventually replace the Eclipse ADT Bundle.

Sample project: Use Famo.us + Angular to create a mobile application

9 Sep 2015 by Dave_Voyles

I discuss the ins-and-outs of Famo.us in depth in this article.

The "not-do"s in your smartwatch application

16 Oct 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This article enlists a few of the things that you must consider while writing the applications for smartwatches.

Android Wear Notification

16 Oct 2015 by Ranjan.D

Let us discuss about Android Wear Notification and learn with example on how to build and show notifications on wearables

Switching Xamarin.Android Resources at Build-Time

12 Nov 2016 by Daniel Vaughan

Using resource switching to support multiple deployment scenarios in Xamarin.Android projects.

Xamarin.Forms Android Using J2V8 to Execute JavaScript without WebView

7 Jun 2017 by Hack~ok

This article illustrate how to execute JavaScript on Android using Xamarin.Forms.

Android

Dev

cross-platform

Image Gallery App in Android

27 Jun 2017 by Azim Zahir

This is a demonstration of an Image Gallery App in Android.

Java

Android

image

Kinect is Dead! Now What?

27 Jan 2019 by Vangos

Kinect is dead! Now what?

Creating an Android AI App With Tensorflow Lite

18 Sep 2020 by Joel Ivory Johnson

In this article we will create an Android application and import our TensorFlow Lite model into it.

HTML

Java

Android

artificial-intelligence

tensorflow

neural-network

Angular in a Cordova

23 Jul 2015 by Siddharth Chandra

How to use Angular in a Cordova Environment and its impact

Generate Icon Sets for Android and iOS in Native Mobile App Development

13 Nov 2023 by Zijian

Use PowerShell scripts to generate icons of native mobile apps

Nim Challenge

26 Jul 2012 by Giannakakis Kostas

Nim game for Android devices

Java

Android

Mobile

Printing from a Xamarin.Android Application Developed with Visual Studio

15 Jul 2014 by Dominic Burford

Printing from a Xamarin.Android application developed with Visual Studio

Mobile

Android

Windows

How to Set Up an NDK Project to Compile for Multiple Target Platforms

14 Aug 2014 by Android on Intel

Golden Hammer Software took a trip earlier this year to New York to attend the Intel Android CodeFest. We updated Big Mountain Snowboarding, Trick Shot Bowling, and Scribble Worm to run natively on Intel Android devices during that weekend. All three of these games use C++ through the NDK.

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Android

Mobile

How to Optimize Your Android Apps (NDK) in Two Minutes on Intel® Architecture

14 Aug 2014 by Android on Intel

During an Intel CodeFest I optimized all my games for Intel Architecture and it was dead simple. I’ll describe my experience with the process and hopefully will get you interested to do the same.

Porting the Android* Bullet Physics Engine to Intel® Architecture

14 Aug 2014 by Android on Intel

This article shows you how to build and port the Android version of the Bullet Physics engine to the Intel® Atom™ SoC-based platform.

Android

Mobile

Mobilizing from the Console: Porting SSX* to a Bay Trail Tablet Running Android*

17 Nov 2014 by Android on Intel

This technical case study reviews the challenges that the developers faced when porting the latest version of SSX to the Intel® platform code named Bay Trail while remaining true to the original spirit of the game.

Android

Mobile

Improve JavaScript performance analysis results with user marks

1 Jun 2015 by David Catuhe

In this tutorial, I will share several tools that provide insight into how your code is performing, and show you how to make the most of user marks in the memory graph to analyze your performance.

Creating JQuery Mobile CRUD Apps using JQM.Show, Genymotion, Android Studio and MS WebMatrix

15 May 2015 by Anele 'Mashy' Mbanga

Create JQuery Mobile Apps with JQM.Show on your PC with these tools.

How to Ensure You Are Using Intel® HAXM for Android Emulator

1 Jun 2015 by Android on Intel

This article will provide the necessary steps to verify that you are in fact using HAXM technology.

Android

Mobile

Build Air Quality Index widgets for both Android and Windows using ThinkAlike (Part II)

30 Aug 2016 by Tiancheng Hu

New samples of using ThinkAlike to accomplish Android/Desktop cross-platform development, including helloworld, Web API access and widget UI.

5 traits of successful developers

1 Sep 2015 by Android on Intel

If you’re just starting out, here are a few tips from iHub developers to ensure your app doesn’t get lost in the crowd.

Android

Mobile

Connecting the Intel® Edison board to your Android Phone with Serial Port Profile (SPP)

15 Sep 2015 by Intel

Connecting the Intel® Edison board to your Android Phone with Serial Port Profile (SPP)

Training Series for Development on Intel-based Android Devices

1 Oct 2015 by Android on Intel

This series of videos presents an overview of Intel tools available for Android developers through Intel® Software.

Android Wearable UI Components

16 Oct 2015 by Ranjan.D

This article is all about having an understanding about Android Wearable UI Components.

Targeting Android Apps on x86- and ARM-Based Devices with Visual Studio 2015

1 Dec 2015 by Android on Intel

Targeting Android Apps on x86- and ARM-Based Devices with Visual Studio 2015

Manage App Permissions on Android Marshmallow 6

7 Jan 2016 by Adnen Hamdouni

Presenting the new Android permission Android 6

Android

Multi-OS Engine Actions Menu

1 Mar 2016 by Android on Intel

This article takes a simple app and demonstrates the use of the above mentioned sub items.

Objective-C

Java

Android

Intel® C++ Compiler for Android integration into Microsoft Visual Studio 2015

1 Mar 2016 by Android on Intel

In order to use the Intel® C++ Compiler for Android within VS2015 IDE, it is required to customize the VS2015 installation. The required steps can be found in the Solution part of this document.

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Android

Visual-Studio

Middleware in Game Development

15 Apr 2016 by Android on Intel

Whether you are looking for an entire game engine to develop your idea into a game, or an efficient easy-to-use video codec to deploy full motion video, this list will guide you to the best middleware to use while developing your game for Intel® architecture.

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