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Tips and Tricks to master Android Emulator with keyboard shortcuts inside
Use the Android Emulator lets developers to test their apps on different devices configurations. Functionalities are large but it’s well known : without mastering, powerful is nothing ! In this article, we’re going to see tips and tricks to master Android Emulator. A table with keyboard shortcuts will be also provided to make your life easier. Tips on using Android…
Android 5.1 SDK is up ! What’s new for developers ?
Android Team has just announced Android , updated version of Android Lollipop platform. Like often, this new version comes with a better stability, bug fixes and obviously better performance. This Lollipop update brings to developers Android SDK with API Level 22. This new SDK version supports new platform and will let to developers to use new features introduced with Android…
Guide to App Store Optimization (ASO) for Android applications on Google Play Store
Over the last few years, mobile has grown has never before. Android is the leading OS for mobile devices and Google Play Store the best way to make available your Android application to a large number of users. However, with more than 1 millions of applications on Google Play Store, it became very hard to make your application visible and…
Discover Top 10 Android Development mistakes
Develop an Android application is a hard work. With large numbers of applications published on Google Play Store, we can have some feedbacks about most common Android Development mistakes. These mistakes are met very often by beginners but not only. Experimented developers can also fall in these traps. This article tries to list the top 10 Android Development mistakes to…
Discover 5 best app advertising networks to monetize Android applications
Make Android applications is fun. It’s even very fun. Make some money with your Android applications is far better. To monetize your Android creations, a lot of possibilities are available to developers. Among all the advertising platforms existing, some are better than other. In this article, I list for you 5 best app advertising networks to monetize Android applications :…
Top 7 Reasons to root your Android device
You probably have heard about iPhone jailbreak. To be simple, Rooting is jailbreaking for Android devices. It lets users to dive deeper into phone’s sub-system and gain greater control by avoiding security barriers. Rooting an Android device is not as hard as you may think and you can find a lot of tutorials on Internet to achieve that. Keep in…
How to check if internet connection is enabled in Android ?
Today, a simple article exposing a snippet code lets you to know if user’s internet connection is enabled in Android. It can be very important to know if user is connected before to send internet requests that are useless. First, you must add following permissions to your Android Manifest : <uses-permission android:name="; /> <uses-permission android:name="; /> I presume that you…
Is Java pass parameters by value or by reference ?
Today, we go back to the basics and we’re going to understand to a simple but sometimes hard to answer for some developers. Are Java parameters passed by value or by reference ? Before to answer, it seems important to define what is the difference between these two kinds of methods to pass arguments in methods. From Wikipedia, we get the…
What is a Java Bean and a Java POJO ?
As a Java developer, you are surely used to read these terms in Java articles or blogs. Often, authors speak you about Java Bean or POJO (Plain Old Java Objects). But, some developers don’t know really what is behind these acronyms. To be clear, this is the definition for both terms. POJO The term of POJO has been used the…
Decompile an APK and get Java source code
Sometimes, it can be useful to decompile an APK for Android and try to get Java source code. In this tutorial, you're going to learn how to achieve that. There are 2 main ways to process this decompilation. First is to use Smali / Baksmali format with these tools : . Smali is an assembler / disassembler for Dex Format…