In this post I will show you how to use the touch screen so that you can drag your finger across the screen, and it will switch the screen for you – “iPhone style”!
For this I will be implemented OnTouchListener and overrided the method OnTouch().
To start off, we need to create an Activity with two [...]

In this post I’ll show you how to add animations when trying to switch between screens. Usually when you switch between screens it’s a direct “poof” and the new screen appears in a very un-graceful way. The SDK offers a bunch of easy-to-use animations, and I’ll show you how to use them here.
I tried doing [...]

While developing my Android apps I routinely, regularly, almost every time, without a miss, get some kind of exception. And the error you see on screen is not developer friendly, though it is very end-user friendly:

WTF? Why? What did I do wrong this time, again?

In my great expectations of Google Android coming to Canada on June 2nd, I’ve started experimenting with developing some apps for the Android platform. My first app is called “The Taxman” and will calculate the amount of tax you owe per year in your province/state – well only Canada for now.
I had trouble adjusting to [...]

I’ve been a fan of Google’s mobile operating system Android for quite a while – technically since I heard about it 2 years ago. I’ve been unfortunate to live in Canada, because none of the telco companies here have carried any phones with Android (only HTC phones for now, but Samsung seems to be coming [...]