The application will just display a message on the screen. $ mkdir First $ cd First/ We create a First directory and make it the current working directory. $ android create project –target android-17 –name First \ > –path . –activity MainActivity –package com.shishirkant.first Created directory /home/janbodnar/programming/android/First/src/com/shishirkant/first Added file ./src/com/shishirkant/first/MainActivity.java Created directoryContinue Reading

Developing an Android project, you have to install the Android plug-ins for Eclipse and at least have some knowledge of Java programming. After installing all the plug-ins for an Android file, you can begin to develop an Android application. Android uses packages not only to arrange the code in an application but toContinue Reading

Android Studio As we know Android world is increasing day by day. Billions of Android apps has been published on Google Play store. So it is the need of time that we should learn some basics of Android development. Android Studio is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Android applicationContinue Reading

Generally to build applications for Android we should have Java Development Kit (JDK), Android SDK, and a development environment. The Android SDK is compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems to build android applications based on our requirements. We can set up an Android development environment using the followingContinue Reading

Android architecture is a software stack of components to support mobile device needs. Android software stack contains a Linux Kernel, collection of c/c++ libraries which are exposed through an application framework services, runtime, and application. Following are main components of android architecture those are Applications Android Framework Android Runtime Platform LibrariesContinue Reading

Introduction to Android Android is an operating system which is based on the Linux kernel. Android system is also called as Android Open Source Project (AOSP), lead by Google. Android is used for mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablet computers. The Android application makes life more comfortable and advancedContinue Reading

What Are Regular Expressions in Java? In Java, Regex or Regular Expression is an Application Program Interface that helps in defining a pattern in order to search, manipulate and edit strings. Java regular expressions are widely used in the validation of passwords and emails. These expressions are provided by java.util.regex package and consists of 1 interfaceContinue Reading

Basics of Java Serialization. What is the concept of Java serialization? Answer: Java serialization is the process of turning an object into a stream of bytes or byte array. The byte array represents the class of the object, the version of the object, and the internal state of the object. WhatContinue Reading

What is multithreading in Java? Java multithreading enables the execution of multiple threads simultaneously. It allows a process to run its tasks in parallel mode on a single processor system. Now one question you may ask that what made this concept so famous. To get clarity, let’s see some ofContinue Reading