In this post we’re going to learn how to use the Android notification system. Android notifications have evolved from the standard one-liner with an app icon to having actions, showing images, and expanding to show more information. Notifications are a critical part of the user experience. Instead of the user having to check your app for updates, … Read moreHow to Use the Android Notification System
In this post, we’re going to learn how we can access the camera and use it to take a picture. Grabbing data from the camera can be a bit tricky, especially when dealing with the Android filesystem so we’ll be covering how to create an image file for the photo and extracting that image back into the ImageView. In this … Read moreHow to Accessing the Camera and Take Pictures on Android
Hello World! In this post, we’re going to learn how we can pass data back and forth between two different activities. We’ll also learn how to reuse layouts and use our app’s manifest with Intents. The Intent object is the fundamental class that we use to pass data around in Android. It acts as a container of information to the system that we … Read moreHow to Pass Data between Activities using Intents
