Issue #7

December 9th, 2011

HEADLINES

Link Bild Standing up for Android (shiftyjelly.wordpress.com)

 

 
Link Bild 10 billion Android App downloads (androidcentral.com)

 

 

ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS

Android Cloud to Device Messaging(vogella.de)
This tutorial describes how to push information from a server to the Google device.

Custom XML attributes and views(staticallytyped.wordpress.com)
Here’s a few resources to use and look at that helps you to understand all that was needed to create your own custom view class from the ground up.

GridLayout – Part 1(blog.stylingandroid.com)
In this series of articles you’ll have a look at GridLayout and explore the way it works to get a feel for how to use it effectively.

LIBRARIES AND CODE

Android Wheel List Library(code.google.com)

Coverflow Widget(inter-fuser.com)

SCREENCASTS

Link Bild Android Service Example (wla.tv)

In this Android services example, you will learn how to create an Android service that will pull data from from a twitter-like web app and then store that data locally on the device, making it available to your Android app even when it is offline.

 

APP OF THE WEEK

GanttDroid Lite(market.android.com)
Gantt Chart and Project management for Android.