Google unveiled Material design last year, and it has inevitably created a great buzz among the designers' community, including both web and mobile designers across the globe. Today, you can observe many mobile and web applications are steadily deploying this design approach and overhauling their UI designs.Material design undoubtedly offers a refined and best approach to create a modern UI design. It embraces polished design principles that have been comprehensively described by Google in its Material Design Specification. You can easily learn all the key fundamentals through the documentatio...

Having a mobile app for your business is the latest trend. Every business, large or small is aiming for developing a mobile app to attract customers and boost the sales. Products or services offered by the business do not matter in this case.  The main purpose is to keep your users updated and engaged. An app is a perfect tool for generating new customers too.The statistics reveals that numbers of mobile internet users are more than the desktop users. It clearly means that businesses must target mobile users for increasing actual sales. Developing attractive apps is the convenient way of ...

   It is no secret that we use mobile applications everyday but we don't know how to use them optimally. As a result, we face plenty of problems with our mobile phones as well as the installed applications. Here are some best practices you can follow to avoid to any mobile phone and application anomalies. Over the past several years, smartphones have started to dominate the technology scene.  These phones have installed mobile applications installed that can complete a variety of tasks.  It is commonly known that people rely on mobile applications regularly in ord...

This tutorial assumes that you already have an activity and are using an XML layout.Open the layout XML and add the button element.  Assign an ID with the “@+id” operator.  The + tells Android to generate an ID for this element so that you can reference it in your Java files.This is an example. Your layout and text elements will probably be very different. In this example case, the ID of the button is “close”.<Button android:id="@+id/close" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentBottom="tru...

Google released the new Android development code for Android 4.4 :KitKat.The new version will bring astonishing user experience for Android users.The interesting thing about the name is that it has the same name as one brand of Nescafe's chocolate wafer. Nescafe has authorized that Google can use this name as their development code. We may guess that the project team or the director was eating Kitkat or like to eat Kitkat while they were brainstorming the new development code, so they came out this one for the new version.Let's look back the previous development codes of Android.1.0：Andro...

Android now is an extremely popular mobile OS on the planet. This small robot creates a big world. Many developers are also devoting themselves to Android development. For both novices and experts, you all need to keep your skills updated and know what's happening in Android community. So we recommend some websites which you should bookmark.NewsAndroid People : Very interesting and most updatedAndroid Weekly : Newsletters specially for Android developersAndroid and mePHAndroidBlogsAndroid Developer Official Website : To get the latest SDK update and support.Android Developer's Blog : A blog ab...

Google released the latest Android usage stats on Monday. Jelly Bean becomes the most popular Android OS for the first time. It takes 37.9% Android market share(32.3% from 4.1.x and 5.6% from 4.2.x). Ginegerbread is at the second place and it has 34.1% Android market share.This is a good news to many Android developers as they can use many new features provided in the new system if there are more and more users are using the new OS. Also if Google wants to attract news users, they have to encourage all vendors to adopt the new system on their devices. This time Jelly Bean takes the first place...

According to Sina Tech, research firm Kantar Worldpanel's latest report shows that market share of Android phones exceeds 70% in UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain from March to May, thus drives the global market share of Android close to 70% .The report shows that despite the popularity of smart phones in developed countries slows down, but Android continues its growth. During this period, market share of Android in Europe is 70.4% which is nearly 10% higher than the same period last year. Apple's iPhone market share in Europe is 17.8%, while the market share of Windows Phone is 6.8%.Global...