Making the Android source code available in Eclipse
One of the annoying things in the Android Development Kit is that it does not include the source code for the standard Android classes. This makes it IMHO unnecessary hard to learn the Android...
View ArticleAndroid library projects – Renting some code
Android does not require that all source code used by one application is directly included into this application., Android library projects allow to store source code which is used by several other...
View ArticleAutomatically starting Services in Android after booting
To start Services automatically after the Android system starts you can register a BroadcastReceiver to the Android android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED system event. In the onReceive() method the...
View ArticleMaking the Android SDK source code available in Eclipse
As of Android 4.0 the integration of the Android SDK source code is much easier. You can just download the source code via the Android SDK Manager. The sources are downloaded to the source directory...
View ArticleAndroid – INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE
If you work with the Android Emulator and deploy to it for a while you may receive the following error message in the LogCat View. Installation error: INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE The reason for...
View ArticleHow to enable the Development Settings on your Android 4.2 phone by Lars Vogel
Developer Settings in your Setting application of your Android phone allow to set configurations which simplify the analysis of your application. For example you can enable that the touch area is...
View ArticleAndroid Development Tools (ADT) for Eclipse now building with Maven Tycho
The ADT project is now using Maven Tycho for there build. See Bug report and ADT build instructions for details.
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