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Layouts in Android

A layout defines the visual structure for a user interface, such as the UI for an activity or app widget. You can declare a layout in two ways: Declare UI elements in XML. Android provides a straightforward XML vocabulary that corresponds to the View classes and subclasses, such as those for

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Saving/Retreving BLOB object in Spring 3 MVC and Hibernate

Working with BLOB / CLOB data types in database is sometime a trivial task. I found particularly when working with Hibernate 3 to store and retrieve BLOB objects we need certain things to be taken care of. Let us see a tutorial where we will using Spring 3 MVC and Hibernate 3 to store and retrie

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Intellij vs. Eclipse

Choosing the right IDE can make you or break you as a coder. Most developers would be lost without the comfort of their preferred IDE, which takes care of classpath, make files, command line arguments, etc. The problematic dependence on the IDE, while very beneficial, is off topic and a discussion

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Android Development Tutorial (Part 2)

7. Tutorial: Create and run Android Virtual Device To define an Android Virtual Device (ADV) open the "AVD Manager" via Windows → AVD Manager and press "New". Enter the following. We can also select the box "Enabled" for Snaps

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Eclipse IDE Tutorial

1. What is Eclipse? Most people know Eclipse as an integrated development environment (IDE) for Java. Today it is the leading development environment for Java with a marketshare of approx. 65%. Eclipse is created by an Open Source community and is used in several different areas, e.g. as a developm

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Phonegap Android Eclipse Quickstart

This is a tutorial for working with PhoneGap for Android on Eclipse with the latest version of PhoneGap. Requirements It is assumed that you have the Android SDK installed and working. If not, then you need to install it before proceeding. You can find the download and installation instructions

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Android SDK: Unit Testing with the JUnit Testing Framework

Download Source Files In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Eclipse to create an Android JUnit Test Project, create automated unit tests and run them under a variety of conditions. Before You Begin The authors are assuming the reader has some basic knowledge of Android and have all of the tool

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