Saving an image in a SQLite database in your Android application

When you start caching data to a local database from your Android application, sooner or later you’ll need to save…

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How to show a Toast for a specific duration in Android

In the Android SDK, an android.widget.Toast is a small message that pops up at the bottom of the screen to…

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Display a string list in an Android ListView

Showing a list of items is a very common pattern in mobile application. This pattern comes up often when I…

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Storing the state of an activity of your Android application

This is the last post in my series about saving data in your Android application. The previous posts went over…

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Saving to a SQLite database in your Android application

This is the fourth post in my series about saving data in Android applications. Here are the other posts :…

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Saving preferences in your Android application

This is the third post in my series about saving data in Android. The other posts can be found here…

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5 tips to improve performance in Android applications

If your application has many time-intensive operations, here are some tricks to improve the performance and provide a better experience…

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Creating logs in Android applications

For Android applications, logging is handled by the android.util.Log class, which is a basic logging class that stores the logs…

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Saving data to a file in your Android application

This is the second post in my series about storage in Android applications. The other post is available here :…

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