In this tutorial I've given brief explanation about Andriod View Class. View Class are the basic building block for user interface components. A View occupies a 2-dimensional area (say: rectangle) on the screen, which is responsible for framing and handling different type of events. In our previous blog posts, we have learned Android installation steps and made first program called  Hello world (built in XML code). The program was created to show text output in the AVD. Views are used to create input and output fields in the an Android App. It can be input text field, radio field, image field etc. They are...

In our previous blog post we have seen what are the tools and software required to start creating a basic android program. Continuing with it, in this post we will be creating our first android program to see that how it actually works. It will be a simple program in which we will see how to output a sample text, say, Hello World in an android virtual device.     We hope that you have followed our previous blog which was based on tools required for Android basic program, like SDK, JDK and Eclipse (IDE). Also, we have illustrated how to launch Eclipse, set...

Android is an operating system based on Linux, specifically developed for mobile devices such as cell-phones and tablets. It includes all the frameworks and that let you create and deploy your own custom applications. The Operating system uses touch inputs that  correspond to real-world input actions, Ex: swiping, tapping, pinching, and reverse pinching, and a Virtual keyboard, which is also being used in games, digital cameras, regular personal computers and other electronics .   Different versions of android Android has different versions began with the release of the Android beta in November 2007. The first commercial version, Android 1.0, was released in...