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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Creating an Options Menu in Mono for Android Applications
All Android devices have the “Menu” button that displays the options menu on the bottom of the screen. Normally, the options menu provides additional functionality, navigation or settings for your application. Creating an options menu in a Mono for Android … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Level - Medium, Tips, Tutorials
Tagged android, mono for android, monodroid, visual studio
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Setting Screen Orientation in Mono for Android Applications
The ScreenOrientation property sets and gets the orientation of any activity’s display on the device screen. If you need to display your application in a specific orientation such as portrait or landscape, this property will help you to do so. … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Configurations, Level - Medium, Tips, Tutorials
Tagged android, android manifest, mono for android, monodroid, visual studio
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Using WebView Class to Build Your Own Simple Twitter App
If you want to deliver a web application as your Android application, you can do it so by using the Android.Webkit.WebView class. This post will explain how to utilize this class to simply display an online content in a Mono … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Level - Medium, Sample Applications, Tutorials
Tagged android, mono for android, monodroid, twitter, visual studio, webview
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Where is AndroidManifest.xml?
Every Android application should have an AndroidManifest.xml file that provides the required information about the application itself. It does several important things such as naming the package for the application, defining the components (activities, services, etc.), declaring the security permissions, … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Configurations, Level - Medium, Tips, Tutorials
Tagged android, android manifest, mono for android, monodroid
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“Hello World” Application
It is very common in the programming world to build a “Hello World” application after the preliminaries such as the installations are out of the way. CREATE NEW PROJECT Fire up your Visual Studio and choose File > New Project … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Level - Beginner, Sample Applications, Tutorials
Tagged android, mono for android, monodroid, visual studio
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Installation for Visual Studio
Mono for Android requires Visual Studio Professional or better, and does not support Visual Studio Express. This is because the express edition does not support plugins. DOWNLOAD First, download the installer via here: INSTALLATION Run the installer to initiate the … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Configurations, Installation, Level - Beginner, Tutorials
Tagged android, mono for android, monodroid, visual studio
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Getting Started – What, How?
Android development is mostly with the Dalvik (custom Java virtual machine written by Google) and the Eclipse IDE. If you are a .NET developer and has been willing to develop an application for Android phones and tablets, Mono for Android … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Level - Beginner, Tutorials
Tagged android, dalvik, mono for android, monodevelop, monodroid, xamarin
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Hello world!
Monodroyd says “Hello world!” to the .NET developers. It is currently work-in-progress. Please stay tuned as more updates are coming soon.
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