Create your Treasure Map on Android

Refer to the post " Embed Google Map in WebView ", you can create your own Treasure Map easily, by copy the link URL from http://m...

How to get Traffic come from International Space Station

If you have install Google Analytics, check your Real-Time report of Locations within today, you have 100% traffic from International Space ...

YouTube's ready to select a winner...

Another April Fools Joke?

Google Nose!? Is it a April Fools Joke?

Is it a April Fools Joke? http://www.google.com/nose/ Introducing Google Nose We're excited to announce our newest addition to Search: G...

ADK Example: Control Arduino Due LED from Android device

Example to show how to implement with ADK, to control LED on Arduino Due from Android device. Refer to my another blog for Arduino: How to d...

Draw Polyline from touched location to MyLocation

In this exercise, Google Maps Android API v2 is implemented with MyLocation enabled. When user LongClick on the Map, a marker will be drawn,...

Embed Google Map in WebView

To load your custom Map, open it in PC, copy the Short URL in share option. It will be used later. MainActivity.java, load mapPath with the ...

Retain instance of MapFragment

In the last exercise of " Dual MapFragment ", if the device orientation changed, the display area and zoom level will be kept, but...

Dual MapFragment of Google Maps Android API v2

This exercise demonstrate how to embed two MapFragment in a Activity. Modify layout file to have two fragment of "com.google.android.gm...

Google Maps Engine Lite (Beta) launched

Google is launching Google Maps Engine Lite (Beta) helping you create advanced custom maps to share with collaborators and also publish to ...

Save $350 on Apple 15.4" MacBook Pro quad-core Intel Core i7 2.7GHz

Apple 15.4" MacBook Pro quad-core Intel Core i7 2.7GHz,16GB RAM, 768GB SSD, 1GB GDDR5 NVIDIA,Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion - Ships...

Stop IntentService

I have numbers of post about IntentService before; include Perform background processing with IntentService , Share IntentService among Frag...

Create a PendingIntent for Notification to do nothing

Refer to the last post " error of using NotificationCompat.Builder, IllegalArgumentException: contentIntent required ", if you wan...

error of using NotificationCompat.Builder, IllegalArgumentException: contentIntent required

Refer to the exercise " Example of using NotificationCompat.Builder "; if the statement of new NotificationCompat.Builder...build(...

Generate Notification in IntentService

Last exercise demonstrate how to " Send data from IntentService to Activity, via additional Broadcast ". We can also generate Noti...

Send data from IntentService to Activity, via additional Broadcast

The former post demonstrate " Perform background processing with IntentService ". It's a standard approach for IntentService, ...

Example of using NotificationCompat.Builder

Last exercise demonstrate " Notification.Builder ". If your app supports versions of Android as old as API level 4, you can instea...

Example of using Notification.Builder

android.app.Notification.Builder is a builder class for Notification objects. Provides a convenient way to set the various fields of a Notif...

Share IntentService among Fragments

The post " Perform background processing with IntentService " demonstrate how to use IntentService in Activity. In this exercise, ...