Image saving to the filesystem in Android

Sometimes after some operations with image you want to save this image to the filesystem. How? Can I use FileOutputStream for this operation? Sure,you can.

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Starting applications after boot up in Android

There are applications which should starts automatically after the Android phone is booted up. I am going to show how to create such application.

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Image resizing in Android

When you work with images in Android ,you can not only set this image as background image . Android allows a lot of things which you can do with an image object. Here I want to show how easy is to resize an image (Bitmap object) using Matrix class. This practice is very useful.

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Installing non-market application in Android phone

I have received some identical questions by e-mail. People ask me how to install non-market application in Android phone. It is simple,by default Android works only with applications from Android Market,for allowing to install non-market application need to configure Android phone:Settings->Applications->Unknown sources

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Using XML file resources in Android

In Android application you can use /res/xml XML files. These files are different than other Android resources. They are different from raw files,you don’t use a stream to access them because they are compiled into an efficient binary form when deployed,and they are different from other resources and they can be of any . . . →Read More:Using XML file resources in Android

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Opening browser with specific URI in Android

Sometimes you need to open browser with specific URI from your application. For example you want to show application’s page and so on. This operation is very simple. You need to use Activity as usual you use it for walking from one activity to other. In this post I am going to show snippet of . . . →Read More:Opening browser with specific URI in Android

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Using arrays from arrays.xml in Android

There is a possibility to store arrays in application package. You need to create file arrays.xml under /res/values. In this file you can save arrays as much as you want. Also it is easy to get them from this file. I found it very useful and I am going to share this information.

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Using files as raw resources in Android

Why need such type of resources,we can get data from /assets,/res folders and now I am going to show /res/raw folder.

It is simple,raw resources are not compiled by the platform,they available as raw files and these files can refer to any type of files. When you need to include raw . . . →Read More:Using files as raw resources in Android

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Using filesystem in Android

You can use Android’s filesystem the same as you use it in your life. Creating,editing,deleting,reading and etc.

I want to remember that filesystem is based on Linux. Android allows to use full advantages of java.io package when you are working with it without limitations.

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Getting SharedPreferences from other application in Android

As I wrote in previous post,where I described how to use preferences system,SharedPreferences object can be created and opened with Context mode constants. These constants allows to define who has access to what preference. Also it is not a secret that data contains in xml file. As I said constants allows to define . . . →Read More:Getting SharedPreferences from other application in Android

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