Whenever you first start an Android application, a thread called "main" is automatically created. The main thread, also called the...

Android's drawables are extremely useful to easily build applications. A Drawable is a pluggable drawing container that is usually asso...

Sharing and reusing layouts is very easy with Android thanks to the <include /> tag, sometimes even too easy and you might end up wit...

Some Android applications require to squeeze every bit of performance out of the UI toolkit and there are many ways to do so. In this articl...

In the previous installment of Android Layout Tricks , I showed you how to use the <include /> tag in XML layout to reuse and share ...

Android comes with a wide variety of widgets , small visual construction blocks you can glue together to present the users with complex and ...

The Android UI toolkit offers several layout managers that are rather easy to use and, most of the time, you only need the basic features of...