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72 en: 'Android offers a very powerful and yet easy-to-use message type called an intent. You can use intents to turn applications into high-level libraries and make code modular and reusable. While it is nice to be able to make use of a loosely coupled API, there is no guarantee that the intent you send will be received by another application. This article describes a technique you can use to find out whether the system contains any application capable of responding to the intent you want to use.'
79 en: 'Creating an Input Method'
82 en: 'Input Method Editors (IMEs) provide the mechanism for entering text into text fields and other Views. Android devices come bundled with at least one IME, but users can install additional IMEs. This article covers the basics of developing an IME for the Android platform.'
102 en: 'When an Android device changes its orientation, the default behavior is to automatically restart the current activity with a new configuration. However, this can become a bottleneck in applications that access a large amount of external data. This article discusses how to gracefully handle this situation without resorting to manually processing configuration changes.'
122 en: 'Touch screens allow users to perform gestures, such as tapping, dragging, flinging, or sliding, to perform various actions. The gestures API enables your application to recognize even complicated gestures with ease. This article explains how to integrate this API into an application.'
132 en: 'This article provides an overview of GLSurfaceView, a class that makes it easy to implement 2D or 3D OpenGL rendering inside of an Android application.'
162 en: 'Learn about using ViewStubs inside an application\'s layout in order to inflate rarely used UI elements, without the performance implications which would otherwise be caused by using the <code><include></code> tag.'
172 en: 'Learn how to use the <code><merge></code> tag in your XML layouts in order to avoid unnecessary levels of hierarchy within an application\'s view tree.'
179 en: 'ListView Backgrounds: An Optimization'
192 en: 'Live Folders allow users to display any source of data on their home screen without launching an application. This article discusses how to export an application\'s data in a format suitable for display inside of a live folder.'
202 en: 'Live wallpapers are richer, animated, interactive backgrounds that users can display in their home screens. Learn how to create a live wallpaper and bundle it in an application that users can install on their devices.'
222 en: 'The Input Method Framework (IMF) allows users to take advantage of on-screen input methods, such as software keyboards. This article provides an overview of Input Method Editors (IMEs) and how applications interact with them.'
242 en: 'Quick Search Box (QSB) is a powerful, system-wide search framework. QSB makes it possible for users to quickly and easily find what they\'re looking for, both on their devices and on the web. This article discusses how to work with the QSB framework to add new search results for an installed application.'
322 en: 'The text-to-speech API lets your application "speak" to users, in any of several languages. This article provides an overview of the TTS API and how you use to add speech capabilities to your application.'
342 en: 'WebViews allow an application to dynamically display HTML and execute JavaScript, without relinquishing control to a separate browser application. This article introduces the WebView classes and provides a sample application that demonstrates its use.'
362 en: 'This article illustrates how an application, in this case the WikiNotes sample app, can use intents to route various types of linked text to the application that handles that type of data. For example, an app can use intents to route a linked telephone number to a dialer app and a web URL to a browser.'
379 en: 'Zipalign: an Easy Optimization'
382 en: 'The Android SDK includes a tool called zipalign that optimizes the way an application is packaged. Running zipalign against your application enables Android to interact with it more efficiently at run time and thus has the potential to make it and the overall system run faster. This article provides a high-level overview of the zipalign tool and its use.'
397 en: 'An example of using the accelerometer to integrate the device\'s acceleration to a position using the Verlet method. This is illustrated with a very simple particle system comprised of a few iron balls freely moving on an inclined wooden table. The inclination of the virtual table is controlled by the device\'s accelerometer.'
417 en: 'An example of how to use the Android Beam feature to send messages between two Android-powered devices (API level 14 or later) that support NFC.'
427 en: 'A variety of small applications that demonstrate an extensive collection of framework topics.'
457 en: 'Illustrates a few different approaches that an application developer can take when integrating with the Android Backup Manager using the BackupAgent API introduced in Android 2.2.'
467 en: 'An application for two-way text messaging over Bluetooth.'
487 en: 'An application that demonstrates how to launch the built-in contact picker from within an activity. This sample also uses reflection to ensure that the correct version of the contacts API is used, depending on which API level the application is running under.'
497 en: 'An application that demonstrates how to query the system contacts provider using the <code>ContactsContract</code> API, as well as insert contacts into a specific account.'
507 en: 'An application that demonstrates how to create a live wallpaper and bundle it in an application that users can install on their devices.'
537 en: 'An image gallery application that demonstrates a variety of new APIs in Android 3.0 (Honeycomb). In addition to providing a tablet-optimized design, it also supports handsets running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and beyond, so is a good example of how to reuse Fragments to support different screen sizes.'
597 en: 'An application for reading NFC Forum Type 2 Tags using the NFC APIs'
607 en: 'An application for saving notes. Similar (but not identical) to the <a href="/resources/tutorials/notepad/index.html">Notepad tutorial</a>.'
637 en: 'An example spell checker service, using the <a href="'+toRoot+'reference/android/service/textservice/SpellCheckerService.html"><code>SpellCheckerService</code></a>.'
647 en: 'An example spell checker client, using the <a href="'+toRoot+'reference/android/view/textservice/TextServicesManager.html"><code>TextServicesManager</code></a> and <a href="'+toRoot+'reference/android/view/textservice/SpellCheckerSession.html"><code>SpellCheckerSession</code></a>.'
657 en: 'Demonstrates how an application can communicate with a cloud-based service and synchronize its data with data stored locally in a content provider. The sample uses two related parts of the Android framework — the account manager and the synchronization manager (through a sync adapter).'
687 en: 'An implementation of the classic game "Snake."'
697 en: 'An example of writing an input method for a software keyboard.'
707 en: 'A simple application that serves as an application under test for the SpinnerTest example.'
737 en: 'An example of an Android library project, a type of project that lets you store and manage shared code and resources in one place, then make them available to your other Android applications.'
747 en: 'Demonstrates how an application can make use of shared code and resources stored in an Android library project.'
797 en: 'An example of creating interactive widgets for display on the Android home screen.'
837 en: 'An example Text To Speech engine written using the Android text to speech engine API in Android 4.0.'
892 en: 'The basics of implementing an application using the OpenGL ES 1.0 APIs.'
902 en: 'The basics of implementing an application using the OpenGL ES 2.0 APIs.'
