Introduction We can get to see different payment gateways used within any android application for collecting payments from the application users for providing the specific services such as Paytm, Razorpay, Paypal and many others. In this article we will take a look on How to integrate PayPal in an android application. Implementation We will be creating a simple application in which we will be creating a text view for displaying the heading of our application. After that we will create an edit text which is used to enter the amount for which the user has to make payment and a ... Read More

Many times in an android application we can get to see the data is being displayed in the form of a list such as in task tracker application we can get to see different types of tasks arranged in the form of a list in a specific order. Now inside those applications we can change the priority of tasks by simply changing their priority. We will add the task with highest priority at the top. So we can simply drag and drop that task to the top most position. So in this way Drag and Drop functionality is used for ... Read More

Introduction When we have to connect our android application to other applications or websites we can use URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) to connect. In this article we will take a look on How we can create a URI scheme for our android application. Implementation We will be creating a simple application in which we will be displaying two text views. First text view we will be using to display the heading of our application. We will be using a second text view for displaying the data to be passed through our URL. Step 1 : Creating a new project in ... Read More

Introduction In many android applications we can get to see that document scanner functionality is present in it in which the application takes the photo of the document and crops the image of that document from all sides based on the requirement and displays that document in the form of image. We can also add filters to that image such as black and white and others. In this article we will take a look on How to implement document scanning functionality in Android ? Implementation We will be creating a simple application in which we will be displaying a text ... Read More

Introduction GUI (Graphical User Interface) of any android application lets users interact with the various functionalities of android applications. The GUI is the main part of the application which is visible to the user. GUI of any android applications can be designed in several different ways such as using XML, Dart, Kotlin and many more. In this article we will take a look at How to define a GUI layout of an android application using XMl files. Implementation We will be creating a simple application in which we will be creating a text view for displaying the heading of our ... Read More

Introduction Many android applications nowadays use Google Maps within it to display the map to the users. For example we use many food delivery applications in which we can get to see our order status along with the location of the delivery boy on Google Maps. We can get to see different types of markers on each of the application depending on their use case. In this article we will take a look on How to create a custom shaped bitmap marker with android maps API? Implementation We will be creating a simple application in which we will be displaying ... Read More

Introduction In many android applications we can see that when the application is being closed an animation is added to it which will close the application by displaying a closing animation to it. This will make the application user interface better. In this article we will take a look on How to close an Android application gracefully ? Implementation We will be creating a simple application in which we will be creating a text view in which we will be displaying the heading of our application. After that we will be creating a button which we will be using to ... Read More

Introduction Many times in android applications we have to take help of some other applications from our application. We have to open another application from our application. For example if we want to open a Google map from our application to show the route between two locations. Before opening the Google Maps we have to firstly check whether the Google Maps application is currently installed on the user device. In this article we will take a look at How we can check whether the application is installed or not. Implementation We will be creating a simple application in which we ... Read More

Introduction Async Task is a class in android which is being used to perform some background long running tasks such as loading the images from the internet in background. If the image is huge in size then we can load that image from the internet as a background task using AsyncTask in Android. In this article we will take a look at How to return a boolean from an Async Task in Android. Implementation We will be creating a simple application in which we will be displaying a text view for heading of the application. Then we are creating one ... Read More

Introduction Video Recording is a most common feature which we can currently get to see in many android applications. This feature is mostly seen used in payments applications where the application has to verify the identity of the user for authentication as well as doing their KYC. In this article we will take a look on How to record a video within our android application. We will be building a simple android application in which we will be displaying a button and a video view in which when a user clicks on a button we will record a video and ... Read More