Tutorials & Examples

One of the new features of Android 4 is the more powerful recent apps list. The user can remove tasks or applications from the list with a swipe gesture.

The result of this action is not fully...

 

This tutorial describes the steps I took to design the database for the Pre-Algebra Tester app available on Google Play.

This is Part 1 of a potential series that will describe how I...

 

This example demonstrates how you can create an app that looks and behaves differently depending whether it runs on a phone or a tablet.

The app layout is simple.
The main screen includes three...

 

Your apps will run on OUYA just fine, normally.

It has no sensors. This includes microphone (so no voice recognition), gyroscope, compass, accelerometers, orientation, light. It has nada. It...

 

For new games it is recommended to use libGDX. See these tutorials:
How to make games
[URL='http://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/32592']Introduction to the libGDX library[/URL]

GameView is a view that allows you to draw hardware...

 

Forward Word​

So, while I'm building my first app, suddenly I came over this example from Erel. Great for my app but, as you may know, even though 75% of the worlds...

 

Alright, here is part 3 of the Hangman Tutorial.

In part 2, we added the ability to import our words from an external text file by using File.ReadList to generate a List (which we stored in...

 

Ok, we are back for part 2 of the hangman tutorial. If you haven't seen part 1, here is a link: http://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/hangman-tutorial-part-1.32893/

In part 1 we designed...

 

Very kind of JonPM to provide us with this, there are nearly always helpful people on this live chat who can help you with your problems instantly!

B4A Chat

 

Basic4android v1.2 includes a new type of module which is the static code module.
Adding a static code module is done by choosing Project - Add New Module - Code Module.

Unlike Activities and...

 

A few weeks ago I posted a thread on a build number implementation for your project in this thread...

 

This is only a simple example for newbie to learn Wheel algorithm.
For fully blown of wheels, see ClsWheel v 1.4 by Klaus.
There is no intention to make it an advance Stopwatch & Timer!
Advance...

 

Just thought I would post a few things I have learned about intents. Using them does not seem to be particularly intuitive and information is sparse. Here is a link to a thread someone started for...

 

I saw and example here and there for intents, but I noticed it takes a bit of guesswork to figure out what strings to pass sometimes so i'm starting a list of known intents. If you know any...

 

It is recommend to use the new CameraEx class. It provides more functionality.
The new Camera library allows you to take pictures using the back facing camera.

The following steps are...

 

Edit: This resource is no longer available. Better resources are available here: https://www.b4x.com/etp.html

You can now download a PDF file that contains most of the tutorials. The...

 

It has been discussed in other places on wish lists etc that each time we compile our projects under B4A that it would nice to have a BUILD number increment by 1.

Using the CustomBuildAction...

 

This example no longer works as it is based on an old Twitter API.
An updated example is available here...

 

I went through a (long) learning curve with regard to using SQLite, and creating Webview, Listview and Scrollview lists. There are a lot of great examples on this forum, but I found it difficult...

 

https://code.google.com/p/android-ui-utils/

Moved now to:

http://romannurik.github.io/AndroidAssetStudio/