A Few Tips for Beginning Android Development

Here are some tips from my personal experience so far with Android development. The number of tips is actually ten, so I could have called this “Ten Tips for Android Development“, but I figured there were already enough articles with that catchy title. Which reminds me of late comedian George Carlin : I have a problem […]

Bluetooth Data Transfer with Android

To develop an Android application making use of data transfers via Bluetooth (BT), one would logically start at the Android Developer’s Bluetooth page, where all the required steps are described in details: device discovery, pairing, client/server sockets, RFCOMM channels, etc. But before jumping into sockets and threads programming just to perform a basic BT operation, […]

Update: K-coder 2.0 for Android

K-coder does SMS, text & image encryption (128-bit AES symmetric key). This is an update of a previous post which gives more details about the app. NEW Version 2.0 features: Rework on the User Interface Better SMS handling Optional one-way password storage in order to speed up encryption and prevent typing errors when using dynamic passwords […]

Privacy Policy on the Android apps

Since we are asked to provide a privacy policy on our Android apps by Google, here’s mine and it is pretty simple: I do not collect personal or non-personal information on users of any of my applications. I reserve the right, at my sole discretion, to change, modify or otherwise alter this Policy at any […]

Google Cloud Messaging with Payload

Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a free push notification service for Android handsets. After integrating GCM and collapsible messages into our Android applications in the two previous articles, let’s consider a second type of GCM push notifications: non-collapsible messages with payload.  As a reminder, there are two types of messages sent in GCM: Collapsible, “send-to-sync” messages, where […]

Android Cloud Apps with Azure (Link)

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Google Cloud Messaging: Collapsible Messages

In a previous article, we looked at how to set up Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) in Android applications. We learned that GCM is a free service that allows us to push messages from the cloud to a number of mobile recipients running our Android application and registered with our service. The push messages can be […]