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How to set a particular font for a Button or a TextView on Android ?
In standard, Android offers a simple font for all views that display texts to the screen. Effect is great but sometimes you could want customize your application by using your specific font and offers to your users an awesome effect. To achieve that, you need to load the specific font and install it on your View. This article show you…
Use Wi-Fi rather USB to connect to your Android device via ADB
ADB connection via USB port is the most known method used by developers to connect to their Android devices. However, there are some problems by connecting via USB Port : 1/ Impossible to move around with device for testing purpose 2/ It damages cable and with time, you should change the cable 3/ USB Socket of Android device can also…
Monitor your Android device with CPU Hardware and System Info
Android devices became more and more powerful. Now, Smartphones and Tablets are real computer with pocket size. Besides, Android devices make always more operation in background that users ignore. To monitor and know what are the capacities of your device ? What are its data and information ? You can now get CPU Hardware and System Info a simple and…
Enjoy simple and efficient Drawing features on Android with Tiny Paint
Smartphones and tablets have a lot of impressive possibilities. Among these, draw something on the screen and show the result displayed is one great possibility. At some point in time, each one of us has probably already attempted to draw something to take a quick note or to entertain kids. Google Play Store has a lot of applications letting users…
Use Visual Studio Emulator for Android with your Android Studio IDE
At the end of 2014 year, Microsoft has announced a fast and free Hyper-V compatible Android emulator usable to make Android developments in Visual Studio IDE. However, Android Studio and still Eclipse ADT are the primary options used by developers to make Android applications. Since Visual Studio Emulator for Android is very appreciated by developers thanks to its great performances…
Best practices for Android Logging
Android System offers to developers a centralized system to manage all logs. Each developer can write custom log messages in his application that will be visible in the centralized system. Each log message has an associated tag and a priority constant. Thus, you can filter log statements from the centralized logs system easily. API for sending logs in Android is…
Bored by Sudoku puzzles ? Challenge your brain with Kakuro Cross Sums
Sudoku is certainly the most known Japanese puzzle game in the world. Nowadays, this puzzle game is everywhere : on newspapers or on smartphones. This kink of logic game know a great success but sometimes when you have solved a lof of puzzles and grids, you are a little bit bored by Sudoku. When you reach this point of no…
Monitor and analyze Battery Usage Data on Android
Android SDK comes with a large number of amazing tools. However, a lot of developers don’t know some of these. Thus, who knows that Android SDK offers a tool to monitor and analyze battery usage data ? This great tool is low level and can be called from an adb shell command. The dumpsys batterystats command generates some intereseting statistical…
One year after, 2048 Puzzle is always so addictive !
2048 Puzzle game was one of the best casual game of 2014. Coming with a simple but addictive concept, 2048 has been a great buzz during 2014 spring. Whereas we are in 2015 summer, game was replaced at the top of the charts. However, it’s still a simple and great challenge brain game. 2048 Puzzle was a web game made…
List all sensors available on an Android device
Android devices have a lot of sensors inside. Android SDK put on the hands of developers all the necessary APIs to take advantages of them and offer to their users applications that use them. In this tutorial, you’re going to learn how to list all the sensors available on an Android device. In a future tutorial, we will see how…