Android Templates And Utilities is a collection of source codes, utilities, templates and snippets for Android development. It helps to build new apps and shows the best way how to implement certain problems on Android platform.
In this repo you can find templates for styling action bar, working with alarm manager, communicating with server API, sending and receiving broadcasts, working with database, creating dialogs, using dual pane layout, fragments, list fragments, GCM, geolocation, loading and caching images, working with intents, map, navigation drawer, showing notifications, preferences, running service, setting SSL connection, working with view pager, webview and much more. All templates were tested and should be compatible with Android 2, 3, 4.
Android Templates And Utilities are organized into 2 groups:
- Src - source code including classes, methods, resources.
- Res - resource code including xml files, images.
How to use these templates? Just copy the template into your project, rename package "com.example" to your own package name, rename classes' or resource's names if you want and customize the code to your needs. Some templates has /src/fragment/ExampleFragment.java class which demonstrates how to use the template in Fragment.
Example of creating a basic skelet with 1 Activity and 1 Fragment:
- Create a new Android project with package name "com.example"
- Add support libraries (com.android.support:support-v4, com.android.support:appcompat-v7)
- Add ic_launcher.png (Android Studio or Eclipse has generator for that)
- Copy & paste Res-Manifest
- Copy & paste Res-Placeholder
- Copy & paste Res-Strings
- Copy & paste Res-Style (exclude _extras directory)
- Copy & paste Src-Application-Class
- Copy & paste Src-Config
- Copy & paste Src-Fragment
- Copy & paste Src-NetworkManager
- Copy & paste Src-Logcat
- Open SimpleActivity.java and comment out onCreateOptionsMenu(...) and onOptionsItemSelected(...) methods
- Build the project and voilà, we have a basic skeleton for our future app
The rest of this README file serves mainly as a README template for other projects.
Fill in text about main features.
Fill in text about installation.
Fill in text about usage.
Fill in text about documentation.
Fill in text about version changes.
Some projects uses external libraries for additional functionality. All library dependencies in the project should be listed below. For example:
- ActionBar-PullToRefresh
- ActionBarSherlock
- ActiveAndroid
- AndEngine
- Android Support Library v4
- Androrm
- AppCompat
- Crittercism
- Facebook Android SDK
- File Picker Activity
- Flurry
- Google Analytics
- Google Cloud Messaging
- GreenDAO
- GSON
- Holo Everywhere
- Ignition
- Jackson
- JazzyViewPager
- ListViewAnimations
- Localytics
- Nine Old Androids
- Number Picker
- Orman
- OrmLite
- PhotoView
- Polaris2
- PreferenceFragment
- Pubnub
- RobotoTextView
- RSS Reader
- ShowcaseView
- Simple XML
- Sliding Menu
- Sticky List Headers
- Styled Dialogs
- Sugar ORM
- Swipe To Dismiss
- Tree View List
- Twitter4J
- UndoBar
- Universal Image Loader
- View Pager Indicator
- ZXing
Some galleries of Android libraries:
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