There are information that it is impossible to use ViewPager within a Fragment in many sources like "The Busy Coders Guide for Android Developers" by Mark Murphy, or posts like this on SO...

I'm wanting to implement what CommonsWare describes on this blog post: http://commonsware.com/blog/2010/08/11/activity-notification-ordered-broadcast.html. The post makes sense, and I was able to b...

According to this CommonsWare example I managed to get my RelativeLayout subclass to be merged with my layout described in a xml layout with merge root. My only concern is that I cannot describe my...

I'd like develop an Alarm Application. The application should work like this: launch it the activity show me the time I can set the alarm I can close the application when the alarm time comes , i...

I'm working with Mark Murphy's excellent Commonsware books - but it's a lot to digest. I built the 'FakePlayer' app (pretends to be an mp3 player). It contains a service. As a learning experience I...

I grabbed the EU4You sample project demonstrated in The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development 4.2 (courtesy of Mark Murphy aka commonsware here on StackOverflow). It may be easier to follow alo...

I have two examples of Intentservice. One is the Download example in the commonsware book. the other is at http://www.vogella.com/articles/AndroidServices/article.html#servicecommunication_handler....

In the earlier Android Programming Tutorial, page 192, we see an implementation of LunchList#onOptionsItemSelected. Within this implementation we see two Intents passed to startActivity: one whose ...

Hello, I am doing tutorials from book "Android programming tutorials", I am having problems understanding Tutorial 5. This is the main Java class: package tiago.tutorial; import android.app.Activ...

I'm having problems with intent URIs on a particular device, so I tried the CommonsWare URLHandler sample as suggested here: Launching my app using the intent URI, and the intent URI hyperlink on i...

I've been working through the Commonsware Android Programming Tutorials and in tutorial 5, extra credit 2, the challenge is to use multiple layouts for displaying rows in a ListView depending on th...

UPDATE maybe changing the Bitmap size in the new Activity may fix the problem String myRef = this.getIntent().getStringExtra("filepath"); File imgFile = new File(myRef); Log.e("BeatEmUp", myRef...

In the https://github.com/commonsguy/cwac-wakeful demo, the OnAlarmReceiver (a BroadcastReceiver) onReceive() method is called in response to an Alarm. The onReceive() method starts the Service. Th...