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Android Common Tasks

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Common Tasks and How to Do Them in Android

Creating an Android Application using the Eclipse plugin
Creating an Android Application without the Eclipse plugin
Adding an External Library (.jar) using Eclipse
Implementing Activity callbacks (Android calls your activity at various key moments in its life cycle. You must know how to handle each of these to draw your screen, initialize class members, and acquire data.)
Opening a new screen
Listening for button clicks
Configuring general window properties
Referring to localhost from the emulated environment
Storing and retrieving state
Storing and retrieving preferences
Storing and retrieving larger or more complex persistent data (files and data)
Playing audio, video, still, or other media files
Listening for and broadcasting global messages and setting alarms
Displaying alerts
Displaying a progress bar
Adding items to the screen menu
Display a web page
Binding to data
Getting a Handle to a Screen Element
Capture images from the phone camera
Handling expensive operations in the UI thread
Selecting, highlighting, or styling portions of text
Utilizing attributes in a Map query
List of files for an Android application
Print messages to a log file

Setting Up Android SDK for Tegra Based Devices

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Nvidias Guide on setting up the Android SDK on Windows for Tegra Based Devices. I want to note that this guide can be used for setting up the Android SDK for other devices. I chose this doc because includes the installation of CYGWIN.

For more information on CYGWIN please visit http://www.cygwin.org...

Viewsonic Gtablet Specific Android Binaries & Drivers

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Viewsonic Gtablet Specific Binaries & Drivers

For everyone who may have been waiting for this I present to you the proper Proprietary Viewsonic Gtablet Binaries & Drivers according to Cyanogen Mods Tutorial of Compiling Gingerbread Rom which also discusses how to pull the Proprietary Drivers and Binaries from a Malata smb_a1002 Device which is a Viewsonic Gtablet specifically.

To all who want to test with these Binaries and Drivers before testing with these please understand that these are the Binaries and Drivers the Viewsonic Gtablet Stock ROM uses. When using these specific Binaries and Drivers understand that these files may already exist and that replacing just one of these can disrupt the way a current ROM may be running. This can be caused for a number of reasons...

Linux Box Solution Overclocked Honeycomb Kernel for Viewsonic Gtablet

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Linux Box Solutions, Inc. would like to Introduce it's Android Honeycomb Kernel for the Viewsonic Gtablet. At LinuxBoxSolution.com we believe that being able to fully customize your Android Device is one of the key features of a Viewsonic Gtablet Owner that is necessary. We understand you may like Illuminate better than Bottle of Smoke or you may like Flashback the newest Honeycomb ROM out the best yet. We believe to offer every solution possible to allow you the Gtablet owner full custimization capabilities of your Android Device.

What we offer here is a new way to keep you in full control of your tablet. Our 1.8 Honeycomb Kernel offers Speed, Reliability, and new added features. This kernel is a spin off of the Pershoot Honeycomb Kernel Source Code & want to thank Pershoot for all his work on the kernel already. You do not have to Flash your device or even update to a different ROM to feel the benefits of the Linux Box Solution Honeycomb Kernel...