The android.graphics.Canvas can be used to draw graphics in android. It provides methods to draw oval, rectangle, picture, text, line etc. The android.graphics.Paint class is used with canvas to draw objects. It holds the information of color and style. In this example, we are going to display 2D graphics in …

The screenOrientation is the attribute of activity element. The orientation of android activity can be portrait, landscape, sensor, unspecified etc. You need to define it in the AndroidManifest.xml file. For example: <activity android:name="com.example.screenorientation.MainActivity" android:label="@string/app_name" android:screenOrientation="landscape" > The common values for screenOrientation attribute are as follows: Value Description unspecified It is …

Camera is mainly used to capture picture and video. We can control the camera by using methods of camera api. Android provides the facility to work on camera by 2 ways: 1) By Camera Intent 2) By Camera API Understanding basic classes of Camera Intent and API There are mainly …

The android.widget.AnalogClock and android.widget.DigitalClock classes provides the functionality to display analog and digital clocks. Android analog and digital clocks are used to show time in android application. Android AnalogClock is the subclass of View class.Android DigitalClock is the subclass of TextView class. Since Android API level 17, it is deprecated. …

You can convert text to image by using this php code. You then download the image file.

In android, you can define your own custom fonts for the strings in your application. You just need to download the required font from the internet, and then place it in assets/fonts folder. After putting fonts in the assets folder under fonts folder, you can access it in your java …

Android comes with an inbuilt feature speech to text through which you can provide speech input to your app. With this you can add some of the cool features to your app like adding voice navigation(Helpful when you are targeting disabled people), filling a form with voice input etc., In …

WebView is a view that display web pages inside your application. You can also specify HTML string and can show it inside your application using WebView. WebView makes turns your application to a web application. In order to add WebView to your application, you have to add <WebView> element to …

Android provides Built-in applications for phone calls, in some occasions we may need to make a phone call through our application. This could easily be done by using implicit Intent with appropriate actions. Also, we can use PhoneStateListener and TelephonyManager classes, in order to monitor the changes in some telephony …

Adding animations to your app interface will give high quality feel to your android applications. Animations can be performed through either XML or android code. In this tutorial i explained how to do animations using XML notations. I will explain how to do the same using android java code in …