Category: Android Studio

  • Working with Material Design 3 Theming in Android Studio

    The appearance of an Android app is intended to conform to a set of guidelines defined by Material Design. Google developed Material Design to provide a level of design consistency between different apps while also allowing app developers to include their own branding in terms of color, typography, and shape choices (a concept referred to…

  • An Android Studio In-App Purchasing Tutorial

    In the previous chapter, we explored how to integrate in-app purchasing into an Android project and also looked at some code samples that can be used when working on your own projects. This chapter will put this theory into practice by creating an example project demonstrating how to add a consumable in-app product to an…

  • An Android Studio Biometric Tutorial

    Touch sensors are now built into many Android devices to identify the user and provide access to the device and application functionality, such as in-app payment options using fingerprint recognition. Fingerprint recognition is just one of several authentication methods, including passwords, PINs, and, more recently, facial recognition. Although only a few Android devices currently on…

  • An Android Studio App Links Tutorial

    This chapter will provide a practical demonstration of Android app links and the Android Studio App Link Assistant. This chapter will add app linking support to an existing Android app, allowing an activity to be launched via an app link URL. In addition to launching the activity, the content displayed will be specified within the…

  • A Guide to Android App Links

    As technology evolves, the traditional distinction between web and mobile content is beginning to blur. One area where this is particularly true is the growing popularity of progressive web apps, where web apps look and behave much like traditional mobile apps. Another trend involves making the content within mobile apps discoverable through web searches and…

  • An Android Studio Custom Printing Tutorial

    As we have seen in the preceding chapters, the Android Printing framework makes it relatively easy to build printing support into applications as long as the content is in the form of an image or HTML markup. More advanced printing requirements can be met by using the custom document printing feature of the Printing framework.…

  • An Android Studio HTML and Web Printing Example

    As outlined in the previous chapter, entitled “Printing with the Android Printing Framework”, the Android Printing framework can print both web pages and dynamically created HTML content. While there is much similarity between these two approaches to printing, there are also some subtle differences that need to be considered. This chapter will work through the…

  • The Android Printing Framework

    Android Printing Framework is used to print content from within Android applications. While subsequent chapters will explore in more detail the options for adding printing support to your applications, this chapter will focus on the various printing options now available in Android and the steps involved in enabling those options. The chapter will then provide…

  • An Android Studio Google Maps Android Tutorial

    When Google introduced a map service many years ago, it is hard to say whether or not they ever anticipated having a version available for integration into mobile applications. When the first web-based version of what would eventually be called Google Maps was introduced in 2005, the iPhone had yet to ignite the smartphone revolution,…

  • An Android Studio Direct Reply Notification Tutorial

    Direct reply is an Android feature that allows the user to enter text into a notification and send it to the app associated with that notification. This allows the user to reply to a message in the notification without launching an activity within the app. This chapter will build on the knowledge gained in the…