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I usually have a splash activity either to load and prepare variables for execution or just to check for latest updates to the application and its data. I just don’t want the users to be able to click back on their mobiles and go back to that splash activity I looked at a lot of internet posts but this is the simplest I have added the noHistory Attribute to the splash activity in the manifest file 1: <activity ...

Because Android Databases are SQLite Database it’s pretty standard so when you are developing your android application you can go in and explore your device to the database location and copy the database to your PC and start playing with it. Getting the Database In Eclipse as you have an emulator active and connected you will be able to browse all files on the device you can do that by using the Android File Explorer if you can not see it go to window => show View => other and then in the Android Group Select...

I was playing around with my Layout and then I kept getting this error the fix for this is very simple all you have to do is to make sure that the first element in your layout XML contains this element xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” for instance like this   1: <ScrollView xmlns="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 2: android:layout_width="fill_parent" 3: android:layout_height="fill_parent" ...

I was setting up my new laptop to create android applications, I have left mylaptop all night to download all images  I have just installed eclipse and the android plugin for eclipse, but when I tried to create a new project   after a while I remembered that I have to configure the android section in the preferences so Window –> preferences –> on the left select the android group and browse to the Android SDK folder wait till the images are loaded. and fixed

it’s a prerequisite of Android SDK Is JDK so if you are installing the JDK and you know that you have JDK installed, it’s most probably that there’s a missing registry key that was not set   to solve this problem you need to add a registry key to fix this so to do that create a normal text file with this keys   Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00   [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\Java Development Kit] "CurrentVersion"="1.6"   [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\Java Development Kit\1.6] "JavaHome"="C:\Program...