Posts with the tag: java

• Setting Up For Android Development

  A quick start on how to set up the Android SDK on your computer.

• Android Pie Chart Part 1. Drawing a pie

  The most critical part of creating a custom view is how it will present itself to the screen. In this post we will he creating a pie chart view. For now we will be focusing on drawing it on the screen. Of coarse, later on we are going to be adding functionality to our custom view and state.

• Android Pie Chart Part 2. Adding state feedback to the view

  Providing state feedback in a control is important because it serves as visual feedback that a control has acknowledged your action by drawing itself on touch. It should be no different when creating custom views. In this post we will be focusing on adding state feedback on our Pie chart view

• Android Pie Chart Part 3. Implementing callback methods on custom view

  Adding on to our previous pie chart custom view example, we are now going to be implementing callback methods in this post making our component respond to different events such slice clicks, when drawing is finished etc

• Using custom fonts in Android

  Font can play a big role in the presentation aspect of your Android applications. This post is about importing and using custom fonts within your app.

• Passing an object between activities using an Intent

  In this post we are going to be covering how to pass your custom objects through an intent between Android activities and services. It involves implementing a special interface called Parcelable that packs all your object as a parcel and allows your app to pass those parcels between its components. In this example we will be sharing playlists between activities

• Part 1. jQuery Basics: Getting acquanted with jQuery

  jQuery really is a fantastic framework. You really write less and do more. It also has the largest collection of plugins and add-ons. In this post we are going to be getting started with using jQuery.

• Part 2. jQuery Basics: Animations and Events

  We are going to be exposing some of the great features that jQuery ships with. We will be exploring animations (when to use them) and events on a basic level in this post.

• Part 3. jQuery Basics: Pseudo selectors

  Finding elements using jQuery is fairly easy. But there's special technique that it also introduces. With the powers of jQuery you can now get HTML elements using pseudos which is exactly what we will be doing in this tutorial

• Part 4. jQuery Basics: Selecting HTML elements using CSS classes

  In part 3 we learned how to select HTML elements via pseudos. Now we are going to be manipulating our HTML using CSS classes.

• Creating a treeview Part 1. Designing it

  We will be creating a treeview from scratch using jQuery (just adding a bit of functionality for expanding and collapsing), and a bit of CSS (in this post)

• Creating a treeview Part 2. Reading real directories and implementing lazy loading

  In this post we are going to be carrying from the previous example in when we created and designed our treeview. Now we are going to be implementing some server side code using PHP (A bunch of scripts referenced using AJAX) and generating JSON results.

• Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript

  JavaScript is very powerful client-side/front end scripting language for web browsers. We are going to be using OOP to create our own objects

• How to build a dialog using CSS and jQuery

  Dialogs are good in displaying critical data to the user such as an alert or some mini form that doesn't need a page load. In this post we are going to make a simple dialog using CSS and jQuery

• Asynchronously upload file using PHP and HTML5

  Uploading files via AJAX has never been easy....well....not until now. With the help of HTML5 we can now upload such files in the background and report data such as progress to the client browser