Tutorials & Examples

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For vs. While

While usually interchangeable, we should all be aware of one very important difference between these two cycles.
The For...Next cycle caches the "goal", the Do...Loop does not...
 

Protect your Android application with the Licensing library

The licensing library allows you to use Android market licensing service to verify that the user is allowed to access your application.

Your applications sends a request to the local market...
 
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Localize your app using AndroidResources

Here's a short tutorial showing how you can add support for multiple languages to your B4A application using my AndroidResources library.

Native Android applications have built in support...
 

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FileTransfer - Send and receive files with AsyncStreams

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B4A Book Updated

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I am happy to announce that the B4A tutorial and reference book "Rapid Android App Development...
 
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B4XObject - B4A /B4J / B4i objects serialization

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The RandomAccessFile libraries (B4A, B4J and B4i libs) include two new methods: WriteB4XObject and ReadB4XObject.

These methods are similar to WriteObject and...
 
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Large & Searchable List with SearchView + B4XSerializator

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Modules Attributes

Basic4android v2.50 includes a new method for handling project and modules settings.

These settings are now set in the code itself. The menu items were removed...
 
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[B4X] The Networker's Guide To The Galaxy


The purpose of this tutorial is to cover the various communication options available for B4X developers.

Will start with two important utilities:
 

AsyncStreamsObject - Send and receive objects instead of bytes

AsyncStreamsObject is a small framework built over AsyncStreams.

Instead of sending and receiving bytes, AsyncStreamsObject allows you to send and receive objects. This makes it much...
 

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Designer Scripts & AutoScale Tutorial

Attached you find a pdf tutorial about Designer Scripts & AutoScale.
It includes Erels Designer Scripts Tutorial and a new AutoScale Tutorial.
It's an extract of two chapters from the next...
 

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Wrapping the jFugue Midi Programming jar (B4a & B4j)

Having just posted the jFugue jar file and examples of accessing it, I thought it would be a good opportunity to show how I would go about creating a wrapper in B4x for this.

This is only one way...
 

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Google Push Notification for dummies (GCM)

Widget preview images

Hi All,

Below are my notes on getting a widget preview image to appear in the widget list. The preview image appears in place of the app icon (if used).

1) Create a png with the preview in...
 

For beginners: How to communicate with a server using httputils2 (Part 1: php)

This tutorial is deprecated. You can still use it to understand the basic communication. A newer one can be found here...
 
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Installing Basic4android and Android SDK

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Android Network Tutorial

This is an old tutorial. All new implementations of network solutions should be based on AsyncStreams.

The Network library allows you to communicate over TCP/IP with other computers or...
 

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Android Http Multipart requests

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B4A Book Updated to Version 5.80

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Custom ListView library

Here's a library tutorial to hopefully show the basic steps required to create a custom ListView.

The custom ListView creates each ListView ListItem from a layout XML file - your...
 

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