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Be inspired and motivated on Android with My Quotes Book !
Smartphones and tablets let us to make a lot of common tasks each day. We use them to read news, know weather and forecasts, have fun with games or take photos. But, do you know that you can also use your Android device to be inspired and motivated daily ? Indeed, My Quotes Book, a free application, helps you to…
How to get Battery Information programmatically in Android ?
Android OS lets to developers to get a lot of data about features of a device. Amongst these data, it’s possible to get Battery Information for exemple. An application like CPU Hardware and System Info is able to give you following information about your Battery : Present or No Health Level Plugged Charging Status Technology Temperature Voltage Capacity You can…
Make your REST client easily in Android with Retrofit
Very often, Android applications are connected to backend services and consume REST services to get data. When you think to that kind of apps, you can imagine an application that displays weather to a user and get data from a backend service. Or you can imagine a Todo client that stores todos on server to offer users to check their…
Transform your Android smartphone into a Real Xylophone !
Since its apparition, smartphones are become essential in the life of users. Smartphones and even tablets let users to make a lot of tasks each day. Users are really addict. Amongst the large number of use cases possibles for smartphones and tablets, entertainment and games take a big part. Thus, it's now possible to use his smartphone or his tablet to…
6 tips for developers to save battery usage in Android applications
Smartphones and tablets become more powerful each year but unfortunately, batteries don’t evolve at the same speed. Save battery usage in an Android application is essential for your users. Here, we offer to developers 6 tips to save battery usage when they make Android applications : Avoid using wake locks if your application really doesn’t need them. To be sure, go…
Learn to create a Tetris game in Java with Swing
Released in 1984, Tetris is a Russian tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov. Tetris is based on usage of Tetrominoes. Where as we are in 2016, Tetris stays the most known game of history. In the following article, we're going to create a Tetris game in Java with Swing and Java 2D API. Programming Tip…
Peg Solitaire Brainvita : Rediscover the famous wooden game of our childhood
Did you have some memories when you was a kid ? When smartphones and tablets didn't exist ? One of the greatest game we loved to play was the Peg Solitaire Brainvita. Played on wooden board, Peg Solitaire is a game for one player involving movement of pegs on board with holes. With Peg Solitaire Brainvita, you can rediscover this…
FreeCell Solitaire : Rediscover a well known game of Windows XP era
One of great way to have fun on Windows XP was to play the games offered by Microsoft in standard. Amongst these games, there was FreeCell Solitaire an implementation of the classical card game. FreeCell Solitaire is a solitaire-based card game played with a 52-card standard deck. FreeCell is a fun and classic one player card game. This variant of…
Learn to turn any song into a ringtone on Android
Android smartphones let you to make a million of cool things. Amongst these things, create a ringtone or a notification sound from a song is a big classic. But, how can you achieve that on Android simply and efficiently ? To achieve that, we're going to use a simple and awesome application named MP3 Cutter and Ringtone Maker that can be…
How to create a layout with rounded corner borders in Android ?
In Android, when you define your user interface in XML, you can define a border for layouts. However, these borders are rectangles by default. May be, you could want to create a layout with rounded corner borders. You know how to achieve that in CSS but you don't know how to make that in Android. This tutorial is made for…