Sudoku Game Development in Android

Greetings of the Day!!! When I was learning Android, I thought of developing a game. The easiest was a Sudoku game. And when I was reading an android book I saw a basic example of the game and thought of using it and building on top of it. So I started it and completed it…

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How to change the color of the tabs of the tabhost in android application

In Android, you can change the colour of the tab. By default the colour of the tab host is grey.  I want to change the colour of the unselected tab as #a45d0a i.e  Dark orange [Brown tone] and the selected tabs as #A42C0A i.e Dark red. Here first I initialize the tabs and each tab…

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New Manmatha Naam Samvastara SRSM Panchanga available to download

Greetings of the day!!! First of all, sorry for the delay in updating the Panchanga app with Manmatha naam data. And Thanks to all those who reminded me about this. I got more than 100 emails to update the Panchanga for Manmatha naam samvastara. But the thing was, earlier I use to get the soft…

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Adding custom title bar to the theme in android

I was developing a quiz app for a customer. And the requirement was to have a custom header/title for the application. That’s also horizontally center-aligned to the display.  In Android, you can set your custom title to the theme.  It’s pretty simple. I will take the quiz example itself to demonstrate this. You just create…

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How to add custom fonts to the textview in android application

In Android, you can set your custom fonts to the textviews in your application.  When you want to use the different language fonts, it really helps. I was working on an android application for SRSM Mantralaya i.e. Panchanga application. That time we wanted to add the Kannada language support to the application. This was the…

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How to Create an Android trial application that expires after a fixed time period

When we start to develop any commercial android application, we may need to develop a trail application which runs on user device for a specific time and force the user to buy the application to use it further. We can accomplish this using one of the below three techniques. The first technique can be easily…

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