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A Fragment is a piece of an activity which enable more modular activity design. It will not be wrong if we say, a fragment is a kind of sub-activity. Following are important points…

A content provider component supplies data from one application to others on request. Such requests are handled by the methods of the ContentResolver class. A content provider can use different…

Broadcast Receivers simply respond to broadcast messages from other applications or from the system itself. These messages are sometime called events or intents. For example, applications can also initiate broadcasts to…

A service is a component that runs in the background to perform long-running operations without needing to interact with the user and it works even if application is destroyed. A service can…

An activity represents a single screen with a user interface just like window or frame of Java.Android activity is the subclass of ContextThemeWrapper class. If you have worked with C,…

There are many more items which you use to build a good Android application. Apart from coding for the application, you take care of various other resources like static content that your…

Let us start actual programming with Android Framework. Before you start writing your first example using Android SDK, you have to make sure that you have set-up your Android development…

Application components are the essential building blocks of an Android application. These components are loosely coupled by the application manifest file AndroidManifest.xml that describes each component of the application and how they…

Android operating system is a stack of software components which is roughly divided into five sections and four main layers as shown below in the architecture diagram. Linux kernel At…

You will be glad to know that you can start your Android application development on either of the following operating systems − Microsoft Windows XP or later version.Mac OS X…