Quick watch on SwipeRefreshLayout (Tutorial)

7:02 PM / Karn Shah / 1 Comments

After getting update in android support v4, I thought lets check it out. And believe me it is very light and very simple to implement. First of all update Android Support Library from SDK manager. The SwipeRefreshLayout works with Vertical swipe gesture. Lets go through tutorial. Please dont go through coding standards because this is not deep dive...

Mastering ProGuard with ProGuard GUI - Part 1 (ProGuard with JAR)

8:39 PM / Karn Shah / 3 Comments

ProGuard is a nice tool that is used to shrink, obfuscate, and optimize Java code. It is part of Android SDK and very useful when applied correctly. ProGuard provides four main features: Shrinking Obfuscation Repackaging Optimization First of all, Download ProGuard from this link : ProGuard. It contains proguardgui.jar in lib folder. Run that jar and ProGuard GUI...

Get images from Raw folder using only name of Images in Andriod

11:03 AM / Karn Shah / 0 Comments

Sometime we need to get images from raw folder using its name. I came across one scenario where unity developer drop images in raw folder of Android system. Developer returned me only names of that images. And i needed to show dialog of that images using frame animation. There are only three steps to get images from raw...

Tips for working with Android 4.3 (An Even Sweeter Jelly Bean)

1:19 PM / Karn Shah / 0 Comments

Welcome to Android 4.3, a sweeter version of Jelly Bean! Android 4.3 includes performance optimizations and great new features for users and developers. I discuss about few things that can be take in care while running your previously published app on Android 4.3.If you have previously published an app for Android, be aware that your app might be...

Clustering on Google Map V2 Part-2

12:03 PM / Karn Shah / 5 Comments

We have gone through Clustering on Google map V2 in Clustering on Google Map V2 Part-1 .To overcome drawback of it , I searched for few days and i found one more library which independent from google play service library. Screenshots : Features : Clustering based on pixel proximity, not grid membership Animated cluster transitions Supports Android v2.2...