Android Custom Receiver

Following is the sample code to create a custom Broadcast Reciever (Local receiver ) in android.
Clikc  here to download the sample code

Android UI design patterns

Below are some links whcih gives a brief and good idea for UI design patterns used in android

1.http://www.androidpatterns.com/

2.http://android-developers.blogspot.in/2010/05/twitter-for-android-closer-look-at.html

3.http://www.androiduipatterns.com/

Android Usefull Lirbarys

1.Android Twitter Button

2.Android HTTP library
   http://code.google.com/p/android-query/wiki/AsyncAPI

3.Android Image Loader

4.ActionBarSherlock - ActionBar for older Android versions

5.Pull to Referesh

5.Android Annotation framework

6.Dagger - dependency injection framework for java and Android

7. Ploaris - Google maps improvements based on API v1

8.Sliding Menu implementation (1) or   Sliding Menu implementation (2)

8.Downport of animation framework to Android versionas of 1.6 from jake Wharton

9.Otto- Event Bus for Android

10.AChatEngine - Charting Engine

11.ormLight ORM mapper

12.GreeDAO from Markus junginger , ORM Mapper

13.RoboGiuce for testing on the java virtual machine

14. Android Scripting  - Allows to run scripting languages on Android

15.Google Json Parser for Android

16.android-simple-facebook

Android Transparency in percentage

use a color with alpha value like this #33------ and set it as background of your editText using the xml attribute android:background=" "

1. 0% (transparent) -> #00 in hex
2. 20% -> #33
3. 50% -> #80
4. 75% -> #C0
5. 100% (opaque) -> #FF

255 * 0.2 = 51 ==> in hex 33

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11285961/how-to-make-a-background-transparent-20-in-android

Android animation

This page is still in construction .
just collecting the various souces get to display simlpe and easy animations in android

http://android-er.blogspot.in/2012/02/various-effect-of-interpolator-in.html

Sms Receiver and Parser

Android code to receive and parse a sms

Click here to download the sample code

Android Cron to pull data From server

This sample app polls data from server after 10 secs
Click here to download sample code