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Using Sound Recorder activity for capturing audio in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:57:36 +0000

One more solution for capturing audio in Android. You can use existing application which can capture audio for you. I am going to show example which shows how to start Sound Recorder activity:

import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Intent; import android.os.Bundle; import android.provider.MediaStore; import android.view.View; import android.widget.Button; /** * This class shows how to run Sound Recorder . . . → Read More: Using Sound Recorder activity for capturing audio in Android No related posts.

Capturing audio in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:49:24 +0000

In this post I am going to show how to capture audio in Android. Android allows to capture audio in very easy manner. But today I spent 3 hours for creating working example. I don’t know why I spent so much time, maybe because it is first time when I tried to work with multimedia . . . → Read More: Capturing audio in Android No related posts.

Showing running services in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:16:12 +0000

Here I want to share snippet of code which I found when I tried to get all services which are running in Android. It is very simple and useful.

public class Main extends Activity { private static String APP_TAG = "tag"; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); ActivityManager activityManager = (ActivityManager) getSystemService(ACTIVITY_SERVICE); List<ActivityManager.RunningServiceInfo> . . . → Read More: Showing running services in Android No related posts.

Working with SDCard’s filesystem in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:44:19 +0000

It is very easy to work with SDCard in Android. Here we are working with File objects as with standard Java I/O operations. In this article I am going to show how to read, write, create files and how to create a folder in SDCard.

Let’s look from the beginning.

Firstly need to add permission . . . → Read More: Working with SDCard’s filesystem in Android No related posts.

Viewing android.R.drawable images

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:14:21 +0000

How often do you want to see what kind of images are in android.R.drawable package? Personally, I very often look at them. And the big problem is to see them at first time, because you don’t know where they are. This post should resolve this problem. At this point we have 2 ways:

simple – . . . → Read More: Viewing android.R.drawable images No related posts.

Using SDCard image for Android emulator in Ubuntu Linux

Oleg Mazurashu — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:28:34 +0000

It is my first working day in this year and I started it with installing Ubuntu Linux 9.10 on my PC.

Why I need this system? I want to try use it in my development environment. I used Windows XP, not Vista . First of all I found that emulator instance works slowly than in . . . → Read More: Using SDCard image for Android emulator in Ubuntu Linux No related posts.

Checking Android SDK version

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:49:23 +0000

I want to show how you can get Android SDK version from code. It is very simple:

String version = Build.VERSION.RELEASE;

This one returns SDK version (2.0.1, 2.0, 1.6).

int apiLevel = Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;

This one returns API Level (6, 5, 4).

If you’d like to get the latest posts as soon as they’re published, . . . → Read More: Checking Android SDK version No related posts.

Using Sony-Ericsson XPERIA X10 add-on for the Android SDK

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:56:22 +0000

Sony-Ericsson published XPERIA X10 addon for Android SDK and I tried to use it in my work. All details you can find here.Installation is simple. From link which I posted above you can download add-on and Installation guide. But I also want to provide these easy steps:

Download and install Android SDK Download Sony-Ericsson XPERIA . . . → Read More: Using Sony-Ericsson XPERIA X10 add-on for the Android SDK No related posts.

Checking if camera presents in Android device

Oleg Mazurashu — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:35:56 +0000

Today I tried some ideas with camera in Android and found that there is an easy way to check if camera presents in Android device. Here I am going to show example which shows how to check it. Example:

import android.app.Activity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.util.Log; /** * This activity checks if device has camera * . . . → Read More: Checking if camera presents in Android device No related posts.

Image rotating in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:28:42 +0000

There is an easy way for image rotating in Android from code. I am going to show example. Here I will use application’s icon as image and Matrix class. Example:

import android.app.Activity; import android.graphics.Bitmap; import android.graphics.BitmapFactory; import android.graphics.Matrix; import android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams; import android.widget.ImageView; import android.widget.LinearLayout; import android.widget.ImageView.ScaleType; /** * This Activity shows . . . → Read More: Image rotating in Android No related posts.