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Material Design Tabs | How to Create Android Material Design Tabs

Android Material Design Tabs

Material Design Tabs make it easy to explore and switch between different views.

Tabs enable content organisation at a high level, such as switching between views, data sets, or functional aspects of an app.Present tabs as a single row above their associated content. Tab labels should succinctly describe the content within.

Material Design Tabs Usage

A tab provides…

Make HTTP Requests With React Native

HTTP requests

The Facebook documentation for React Native have a tutorial for getting movie data from a remote API.  However, it hardly explained how to customize the HTTP request.  In fact, I found that a lot of the internet articles has missed clear cut documentation for RESTful requests with React.

This article should clear things up!

Going forward I’m going to assume that you have a React…

Getting Started with React Native Development on Windows

Getting Started with React Native Development on Windows

Getting Started with React Native Development on Windows

You may have noticed the Facebook has detailed instructions for getting started with React Native development on OS X, their instructions for getting started on Windows were a little tricky. Here are the steps I made to get React Native running.

Step 1: Prerequisites & Prepration Work

Firebase Cloud Messaging Tutorial for Android

Hi friends we have covered a some tutorials with GCM but now google has an alternative which is easier than gcm. In this post we will use FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging). So today in this Firebase Cloud Messaging Tutorial I will teach you how to send push notification to android devices using Firebase Cloud Messaging. So lets begin.

Firebase Cloud Messaging Demo :

 Creating an Android Studio…

Custom alert dialog android

This is for my own reference actually but if someone is looking for a solution on how to create a custom alert dialog, then this is the right tutorial for you.

In this tutorial i created a new layout file under res/layout as custom_confirm_dialog.xml .

OkHttp library for HTTP requests with Gson.

Most apps need network connections to external services to access and exchange data. This is typically through REST APIs and an HTTP client in your app. OKHttp is an Android HTTP client library from Square that reduces the steps needed, and means you can spend more time on the important areas of your app.

Why OkHttp?

HTTP/2 support allows all requests to the same host to share a socket.

Connectio…

Wellcome to androidlift ..!

Here today i am going to show you how to create HorizontalListView in Android.

The big challenge on Android every time arises is the need to create a horizontal ListView that works like a regular ListView and scrolls horizontally as well. This is common way for applications like news, images, videos etc.

Just follow the coding procedure..

Demo

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Android Material Design Snackbar Example

Snackbars & toasts

This post explains snackbar with examples of different snackbar styles.

Snackbars provide lightweight feedback about an operation by showing a brief message at the bottom of the screen. Snackbars can contain an action.

Android also provides a toast, primarily used for system messaging. Toasts are similar to snackbars but do not contain actions and cannot be swiped off screen.

Us…

How to make a video tutorial for your Android app

Finding a way to record a video tutorial for Android app waiter.io has been quite a challenge. I tried many combination of approaches/tools and I finally found the perfect solution.

So the solution is actually pretty simple: run the app on Genymotion and record the screen with QuickTime player:

Run your app on the Genymotion emulator. You can download the Genymotion Android emulator for free…

android camera image capturing and uploading to Php server

Camera app in android is quite easy to develop using android camera API. It is just a few lines of code. In the following example, we will simply invoke the existing android camera application in your android phone. Let me explain the code part step by step. Step 1:  A quick way to enable taking pictures in your application without a lot of extra code is to use an Intent to invoke an existing…

facebook login android example

Facebook Login provides a convenient and secure way for people to log in to an app without having to go through a lengthy sign-up process first. Using the latest version of Facebook’s SDK for Android, it takes only a few minutes to add this feature to your application.

In this post, You will learn how to add a Facebook login button to an Android app and handle the events to log a user in using…

Alert Dialog with simple listview, CheckBox, Radio Button

In our previous post we discussed about simple Alert Dialog creation to give alert for application closing.

Now in this post we demonstrate the use of Alert dialog with following

Simple list view to choose single item.

List view with check box for selecting multiple items with button.

List view with Radio Button for selecting single item.

Let’s start …

Output

Android AlertDialogCheckBoxListDemo

M…

Android RecyclerView, CardView Example

What is RecyclerView?

Latest widgets introduced in Android is RecyclerView. So many say its a replacement of existing ListView widget, also termed as ListView 2.0. we browsed though the entire web, in search of a working Android RecyclerViewexample with explanation. But couldn’t find one. After a lot of struggle we finally made one and decided to write a tutorial for it ourself. So here it is, in…

Picasso image downloading and caching library

In this tutorial, we will take a look into how to use Picasso library in android. Picasso is open source and one of the widely used image downloader library in Android. It is created and maintained by Square.

Popular Android image library for android.It simplifies the process of displaying images from all locations like External(URL) , internal(URI), file. In many cases only a few lines of code…