Archive for the Andriod Category
December 23, 2009
Andriod, Tutorial
An intent is an asynchronous message used to activate an Andriod Application Components like Activity, Service and broadcast receiver, content providers are not activated by intents but by receiving a request from ContentResolver.
To activate an Activity an intent object with information of action being requested and URI of the data to be acted upon is passed to Context.startActivity() or Activity.startActivityForResult().
A service can be passed by passing an intent object to Context.startService(). To establish an ongoing connection between the calling component and a target service Context.bindService() is called by passing an intent object.
Similarly and intent object is passed to Context.sendBroadcast(), Context.sendOrderedBroadcast(), or Context.sendStickyBroadcast() to activate a service.
December 20, 2009
Andriod
Andriod applications are written in Java programming language. Each Andriod Application can have 4 basic components.
Activities
You can say Activity is a set of UI components available for users to be used , at some specific instant of time. For example; an Activity in image viewer application can be image and its description and navigation available. Moving from one activity to another is accomplished by having the current activity start the next one. Read More
November 9, 2009
Andriod, Samsung
Samsung has launched its first official Andriod handset in the US market. Samsung Behold II include a 5 megapixel camera, AMOLED screen and Samsung's own Touchwiz UI.
These days the BIG thing in the smart phone's race is the introduction of Andriod Operating System. Behold II will launch with Andriod 1.5 and eventually update to Andriod 2.0, sometime in 2010.
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November 4, 2009
Andriod
After Huawei plus chinese company Huawei would be coming up with multiple andriod based cell phones in Europe , Latin America and Asia Pacific in coming months.
Huawei's phone would be targeted for low-end customers. Further details aren't made public.
November 2, 2009
Andriod, Samsung
Samsung's new i6500 code named as "Saturn" would be running andriod 2.0. Powered by 800 MHz processor i6500 is a good addition in the list of andriod handset which includes Galaxy, Spica, Behold II, and Moment.
