Android Updates

Android update will always hikes up the expectation of every single Android user, This time it looks tremendous because of the huge expectation on the upcoming latest update from Android family. The latest update is named as Android O This new mobile operating system is set to be released in the month of May 2017, as the 11th annual conference going to take place in that time at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. Design of Android O Android O is particularly designed providing high priority to batter life and to increase the interactive performance of the device. To do this they planned to reduce the number of background applications which runs behind the screen without any knowledge of the user which sucks more amount of battery power. Features you need to know in Android O Notifications Channels Many of the new features regard notifications, and in Android O we will see user-customisable notification channels whereby alerts are grouped by t

When it comes to Android backup, you might think nothing of it until the disaster strikes. Supposing that your Android phone is stolen or broken, and takes all data on it? Or you drop your Android phone in a puddle and have to do factory reset to go back to normal? In these cases, you have to suffer the big data loss unless you have backup for your Android phone. Backing up your Android phone is a pretty important thing. Don't wait until it's too late to start thinking about backing up your phone. Just start now. 1. Helium Helium was released a little over a year ago and has become a fan favorite. Not only can you backup your apps and data to your phone or cloud storage services, but you can also sync data from one device to another. By default, Helium backs up only app data so your file size is smaller, saving you time in the process. Of course, it’s just a swipe and tap away to save the entire application to the internal storage of your phone, if it’s not a

Android App Development is one of the hottest career options available today.Country’s booming mobile phone industry in India will require about 20 million application developers by 2020,according to Internet & Mobile Association of India(IAMAI)President Subho Ray . “Presently there are between 50-70 thousand professional mobile app developers in India.This number is absolutely insufficient.By 2020 we will have over billion phones connected on internet.My estimate is that we will need 20 million app developers at that time, He said that 20 million is a rough estimate and IAMAI is refining the number which will be released soon. The report ‘An Inquiry Into The Impact of India’s App Economy’ estimates direct employment in app industry to range between 1,51,230 and 1,59,010 by 2016 that account for 75,000 jobs in India at present.The study estimated mobile app industry in the country to be around Rs. 1,964 crore in 2016. Accordingly the report estimated the increase

If you have lost your phone don’t worry, it is often possible to get it back. With the free Android Device Manager tool you can locate your phone, seeing its position on a map so you can track it down. Location: The location of your Android device will appear automatically on the map, along with the name of the place, when it was last used, and when it was last located. You can zoom in and out of the map to check out the location. Ring: The location data is an approximation and may not help you figure out if it's hiding somewhere in your home. Instead of having someone call your phone to help you find it, you can choose to ring your device from Android Device Manager. This will cause your device to ring for 5 minutes at the highest volume, even if it's set on silent or vibrate. Lock: Locking your device remotely can be useful if you want to lock your Android device so no one can access your data while you're trying to recover your lost device. To lock your d

A notification is a message you can display to the user outside of your application’s normal UI(short message displayed on the status line).It typically announces the happening of an special event for which a trigger has been set.After opening the  Notification panel  the user may choose to click on a selection and execute an associated activity. The aim of the notifications is to keep the user informed about events or alerts in a more persistent method, as the user can view them at any time Notification Manager Android   allows to put notification into the titlebar of your application. The user able to expand the notification bar and by selecting the notification the user can trigger another activity. Notification can take different forms: 1.A presisent icon that goes in the status bar and is accessible through the launcher 2.Turning on or flashlight LED’s on the device 3.Alerting the user by flashing the backlight,playing a sound. Retrieve the class through getSys

A Service is one of the most basic android components that can perform a long-running task in the background and it does not provide a user interface. This course covers each and every fundamental concept related to a Service in Android. A service is a component that runs in the background to perform long-running operations without needing to interact with the user and it works even if application is destroyed. A service can essentially take two states Started Services Bound Services Click for more detailed explanation of Android services Life cycle

Android provides solid support for the development of UI-based applications. Android provides a variety of widgets that the application programmer can use to create a desired layout and interface. These layout elements can be created via the programming language directly, or through XML layout files. In this article, we are going to show you both methods and highlight their differences. Types of Layouts as they are going to be needed in every Android Application Project we create. Android provides the following standard layouts (viewgroups) that can be used in you Android application.The Standard Layouts are LinearLayout RelativeLayout AbsoluteLayout FrameLayout TableLayout Listview  Grid view Click Here,To explore each one of them in detail