Submitted by dave on Tue, 13/12/2011 - 21:18
If you have been following along with Part 1 and Part 2 of this mini-series you should now have a basic Android application which displays your current location on a map. Not amazing functionality I'll admit but the basis for many location based applications in the Android Market. What will make the application truly useful is the ability to add markers at specific locations, e.g. points of interest, cash machines, checkpoints etc.
Submitted by dave on Mon, 24/10/2011 - 20:45
In my last post I showed you how to create a basic Android application which would display a map and zoom in to a specific location, my home town. While the functionality was not what you could call awe-inspiring it does lay the foundations for most mapping applications and serves as a good starting point. You can download the code from Part 1 but you will need to insert your own Google Maps API key for it to display the maps.
Submitted by dave on Thu, 29/09/2011 - 21:21
I'm currently working on an Android application which displays points of interest on a map and allows the user to see additional details by tapping on the associated marker. This sounds like a straight forward requirement for an Android application and so you would have thought that there would be a wealth of resources on the web to guide a developer on his way - but that's not been my experience.
Submitted by dave on Thu, 25/11/2010 - 12:43
So I wanted to roll my sleeves up and get going with Android and have come up with a suitable 'pet project' to work towards. Now that I've got my development environment sorted out, and with my pet project in mind, I decided to do something with the accelerometer. In the Android Development book that I bought there is a sample application to display the current G being experienced by the device as well as the maximum G experienced.
Submitted by dave on Sat, 29/05/2010 - 12:16
As previously posted I have recently bought myself a nice new Android phone - a HTC Hero to be precise. One of the main reasons for buying it was so that I could look into developing applications for this new platform, thus expanding my skill set.
