Develop an Android Library – Part 1

What is a Library?

What does a “library” mean in programming world?
“ A library is a precompiled code and resources that can be used in other projects easily “

In Android, mainly two types of libraries are used: JAR and AAR.

Building anonymous chat room app using Pusher in 30 minutes

Objective: Build chat room app where anyone having the android app can send and receive message anonymously using pusher.

Pre-requisites: Basic knowledge of android and nodejs. 

Android and Server code for download at – https://github.com/AmitKondhalkar/anonymous-chat-app-pusher 

Android product flavours and configuration

Product Flavours have been around for quite some time now. I feel Product flavours are one of the coolest things about android and android studio. I am so smitten by product flavour that I decided to write a post about it :p. What follows will be introduction, application, grouping, filtering and configuration of product flavours in android. If you have already applied these and have any questions, shoot in comments below or mail me directly (details at the end of the post).

Android local networking using NSD

In this post we will see how data can be transferred between two android devices in the same network. What follows is a bit of theory and implementation in android studio. There is a source code link at the bottom of the page for reference.

WiFi direct – android local networking

In my earlier blog post I discussed data sharing between two android devices in same network using NSD. In this post we will see communication between two non-connected android devices (can be connected to same or other network, doesn’t really matter) via WiFi direct. Devices should be in WiFi range. I will start with a bit of theory about WiFi direct and then we will see how it is implementable using android APIs (Sample app source code git link at the end of post).