Make your application speak
July 21, 2009 by Mads Kalør
Filed under: Android, Programming
Google has developed a text-to-speech library for Android. This project is primarily made for blind people, so they can use an Android powered phone. However, the text-to-speech library can be useful in other applications – imaging a talking translate application. You don’t need to know how to pronounce the words because the application will say [...]
Incoming SMS Messages
June 24, 2009 by Mads Kalør
Filed under: Android, Programming
During the development of version 1.3 of Kaloer Clock, I wanted to show an icon when a new sms message was received. This was not the biggest problem, though. If the sms message was read, the icon should be invisible. Therefore, it was necessary to check the sms messages in the inbox using a URI.
The [...]
Android Preferences
May 14, 2009 by Mads Kalør
Filed under: Android, Programming
Preferences are an important part of an Android application. It is important to let the users have the choice to modify and personalize their application depending on their needs.
Android preferences can be set in two ways. You can create a preferences.xml file in the res/xml directory, or you can set the preferences from code.
The first [...]