Droid Tutorials

When browsing a game's Options Menu and decided to not modify the current settings,  you simply want to use your phone's Back button as, well, for going back to Main Menu.But sadly, this is not the default behavior of that Back button.

By default, your app will run in Portrait mode.  And you might opt to keep it that way, but would also rotate to Landscape mode if the phone it handled sideways.To keep it in Portrait mode, open your AndroidManifest.xml then add the highlighted...

There's a new tool in town that let's you create Android app in an instant.Primarily designed for non-programmers, the tool can create apps with minimal code or non-coding at all.Google has unvailed App Inventor on its Google Labs. It is currently av...

Recently bumped into an open source game intentionally developed for Android platform, which was started way back August 2009.Replica Island is developed by an Android evangelist and Google employee, Chris Pruett. His blog discusses every little deta...

Same case with Point2D, Java's usual Color class which should be under java.awt package could be found under Android's android.graphics package.They needed to remove some functionality of the class thus came need to replace the usual Color class. Met...

In the currently being held Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Adobe Air Team previewed AIR applications running on Android and promised to bring Flash 10.1 in the first half of the year.With Adobe AIR, developers can deliver rich and "more imme...

Given that AWT is not supported in Android API, the Point2D class, which is useful for writing 2D graphics, is missing either.Point2D is traditionally accessible under java.awt.geom package but not dependent on the AWT framework so why was it not inc...