Now, let me tell you about profile creation sites in detail. As the name suggests you have to create links through your profile.
Profile Creation site is nothing but creating a profile of your websit.. Read more
Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Miftah Ismail Saturday said that the price of petroleum products likely to reduce by Rs0.80, adding that the final decision will be taken on Sunday
Speaking i.. Read more
Starting or Joining a Chat Session
A Chat Session represents the conduit through which all instant messaging communication with a tar-get user passes, so you can only maintain a single Chat Session p.. Read more
Presence is a lightweight mechanism used in instant messaging to broadcast a user’s availability.
Originally, presence was represented as a simple flag that indicated when a user was logged on and av.. Read more
Using the GTalk Service
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Before you can access the GTalk Service, you need to import the gtalkservice library into your appli-cation with a uses-library tag inside the applicat.. Read more
Largely as a result of security concerns, developer access to the GTalk IM Service has been restricted for Android SDK version 1.0. As a result, the functionality described in this section will not be.. Read more
In this chapter, you’ll learn to use Android’s peer-to-peer (P2P) text and data communication pro-tocols, specifically, instant messaging and SMS (short messaging service). Using these technolo-gies, .. Read more
In this final modification to the Earthquake example, you’ll use Alarms to replace the Timer currently used to schedule Earthquake network refreshes.
Start by creating a new EarthquakeAlarmReceiver c.. Read more
In the following sections, you’ll learn to enhance Notifications to provide additional alerting through hardware, in particular, by making the device ring, flash, and vibrate.
As each enhancement is .. Read more
Notifications are a way for your applications to alert users, without using an Activity. Notifications are handled by the Notification Manger, and currently include the ability to:
❑Create a new stat.. Read more
Moving the Earthquake Service to a Background Thread
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The following example shows how to move the network lookup and XML processing done in the
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Synchronizing Threads for GUI Operations
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Whenever you’re using background threads in a GUI environment, it’s important to synchronize child threads with the m.. Read more
To ensure that your applications remain responsive, it’s good practice to move all slow, time-consuming operations off the main application thread and onto a child thread.
All Android application com.. Read more
Binding Activities to Services
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When an Activity is bound to a Service, it maintains a reference to the Service instance itself, allowing you to make method calls on the.. Read more
An Earthquake Monitoring Service Example
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In this chapter, you’ll modify the Earthquake example you started in Chapter 5 (and continued to enhance in Chapters .. Read more
To start a Service, call **startService**; you can either implicitly specify a Service to start using an action against which the Service is registered, or you can explicitly specify the Service using.. Read more
Unlike Activities, which present a rich graphical interface to users, Services run in the background — updating your Content Providers, firing Intents, and triggering Notifications. They are the perfe.. Read more
Because of the limited screen size of most mobile devices, typically only one application is vis-ible and active on a device at any given time. This offers a perfect environment for applications that .. Read more
Previously in this chapter, you saw how to add the Zoom View to a Map View by pinning it to a specific screen location. You can pin any View-derived object to a Map View (including layouts and other V.. Read more
Introducing MyLocationOverlay
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The MyLocationOverlay class is a special Overlay designed to show your current location and orienta-tion on a MapView.
To use the My Locat.. Read more
