Tutorials & Examples

The attached program displays the values of the different sensors:

It creates a PhoneSensors object for each type of sensor.
As you can...

 

This application gets this html page: Flickr: Explore interesting photos from the last 7 days in FlickrLand... , parses it...

 

The ScrollView is a very useful container which allows you to show many other views on a small screen.
The ScrollView holds an inner panel view which actually contains the other views.
The user...

 

An improved version, based on CallSubDelayed is available here.
This example demonstrates how to work with more than one activity and how to pass information between the activities.
In...

 

This example shows how to work with the GPS library.

The GPS object is declared in the Starter service. It is easier to put the GPS in a service and not in an Activity as the...

 

The MediaPlayer is used to play audio files.
MediaPlayer supports formats like: mp3, midi, wave and ogg. The full list is available here: Android Supported Media Formats | Android Developers...

 

StateListDrawable is a drawable objects that holds other drawables. Based on the view's current state a child drawable is selected.
StateListDrawable holds a list of states. States can be...

 

The IDE Intellisense is wonderful for actually writing code but for browsing the available objects to see what is on offer it is a bit tedious so this afternoon I have knocked up this pretty awful...

 

Don't use ListView.
Use xCustomListView - it is more powerful, easier to work with and cross platform.

 

HI,
due i've needed it...here you are:

      Dim url As String
      Dim myHttpRequest As HttpRequest
      url = "https://yourURLhere.html"
      Dim str() As Byte
      Dim form As...

 

In this tutorial we will use the following web service to convert currencies:
http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx/ConversionRate?FromCurrency=USD&ToCurrency=EUR...

 

The Basic4Android IDE contains a mysterious tab entitled "Logcat" in the right hand pane.

This archive contains a help file that will tell you what a Logcat is and also contains a more...

 

New video tutorial:



Lets start simple:
Each B4A program runs in its own process.
A process has one main thread which is also named the UI thread which lives as long as the...

 

Introduction

A program called adb.exe - Android Debug Bridge - is the key component that is used to communicate between programs on your desktop and the emulator or device. adb can be...

 

Please first follow the installation and configuration instructions in these tutorials:
Installing Basic4android and Android SDK
Hello world - Installing Android Emulator

In this...

 

Please follow the installation (and configuration) instructions if you have not done it yet:
http://www.b4x.com/android/downloads.html

In this tutorial we will create a new AVD (Android...

 

These instructions are outdated. Please see the instructions here instead: https://www.b4x.com/b4a.html