Android OS & Droid

Regular Phones Icons in soft keys

Some people asked me how i placed Icons in the Soft keys like i do so I thought I should explain.

 

Adding Touch Controls

This is a small addon-guide to the previousone. We"ll be adding touch controls to the cube. The code is pretty basic but gives an overall idea on how to handle touch.

 

MapView Basics

MapView is the View used to display Maps in Android. This guide will help you get started with building Map based apps. The code is pretty basic, just opens a MapView and allows to move around.

 

Adding Overlays

Overlays can be added to the MapView to make it responsive to touch and other events. Overlays can be anything from a pin to a button etc. They exist as a seperate layer on top of MapView layer. ItemizedOverlayis the class for this purpose. Overriding this class gives us control for managing the overlay items.

 

Emulating SD card

Use mksdcard for creating a FAT32 image of a SD card. For example,

 

Signing apps for release

Applications need to be signed in order to be installed on phones. Even with the latest SDK, if you try to install an unsigned apk, it throws an error whereas a signed apk installs smoothly,

 

Setting up ADB

2. Goto Settings > Applications > Developmentand check USB Debuggingoption. Now when you connect the phone to computer, Windows will show new device found prompt, point it to the driver you just downloaded.