Android Development Best Practices

The popularity of Android has created a humongous demand for applications. As developers, it’s our responsibility to ensure that users don’t have a bad experience while using our apps. There are a few Android development tips that we can follow to ensure that consumers get the optimum experience from the products. Lets take a look:

Microsoft Bing Image Search API integration in android

Bing Image Search API
The Bing Image Search API provides a similar (but not exact) experience to Bing.com/Images (overview on MSDN). The Image Search API lets partners send a search query to Bing and get back a list of relevant images.

5 best libraries used during Android Application development

In the last year or so, Android development has really come of age. Android Studio with Gradle at its core is a dash of light after Eclipse. Besides that, there are quite a few open source libraries that we use on a daily basis.

Here is a selection of five of our favorite ones and a list of links where you can find others.

Show progress bar while loading image in an image view in Android

Loading Image from an URL in an ImageView (showing progress bar while loading image).

We can create a Custom ImageView for that ,It will make stuff more easy.
we will call this class ImageLoaderView.

Using Permissions in Android (Marshmallow Support)

Using Permissions

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A basic Android application has no permissions associated with it by default, meaning it cannot do anything that would adversely impact the user experience or any data on the device. To make use of protected features of the device, you must include one or more <uses-permission> tags in your app manifest.
For example, an application that needs to monitor incoming SMS messages would specify:

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.android.app.myapp" >
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_SMS" />
    ...</manifest>

Firebase in Android (FCM)

Firebase in Android

Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) is a cross-platform messaging solution that lets you reliably deliver messages at no cost.

Using FCM, you can notify a client app that new email or other data is available to sync. You can send notification messages to drive user re-engagement and retention. For use cases such as instant messaging, a message can transfer a payload of up to 4KB to a client app.

Record audio in background in android

Service class to record audio in background :

below is the service to record audio from background and save them to sdcard on desire location.

public class AudioRecorderService extends Service

Record Video in background without preview in android

Yes, you can record the video in background .........

 First, create a app with an activity and add a service class .


service class need to be registered in your mainfest file,

like this :
   <service android:name=".BackgroundVideoRecorder"/> 

chat head like facebook programatically in android

You can simply use a service class to show a chat head like button on Screen.

Global access to a service can be enforced when it is declared in its manifest's <service> tag. By doing so, other applications will need to declare a corresponding <uses-permission> element in their own manifest to be able to start, stop, or bind to the service.

Expand collapse a layout height with animation

Sometimes according to requirement you need that the view will animate when you change its height or width.

There are multiple ways to set width and height with animation.I have  mention one of them,which is small and easy enough to understand.