Author: Lalit Vasan

If you are developing an android application that is based on inflating views at runtime and are dependent on height and width of the screen. You often need to Convert Dp to Px android and convert between real pixel (px) and device independent pixel (dp, dip). Most of the use case of converting dp to pixels come when you are inflating a view from code. […]

When you are creating the UI layouts of your application, you usually define dimensions with units like px, dp, dip and sp. Pixels(px) – corresponds to actual pixels on the screen. This is used if you want to give in terms of absolute pixels for width or height. Density-independent Pixels (dp or dip) – an abstract unit that is based on the physical density of […]

What is Context in Android? Android is an interface to global information about an application environment. This is an abstract class whose implementation is provided by the Android system. It allows access to application-specific resources and classes, as well as up-calls for application-level operations such as launching activities, broadcasting and receiving intents, etc. Different ways of getting context → getContext() → getBaseContext() → getApplicationContext() → this […]

Android devices have both landscape and portrait modes and can flawlessly move between these modes. The Android working framework naturally handles these progressions for your application. You can also detect in which orientation is your android device. The natural orientation of a device is the orientation in which the orientation is 0 on all the three axes. Below method returns the current screen orientation mode […]

Sometimes it is required to get the unique ID of android device while developing the android application. This is necessary in cases when the you wants to track the unique device installations of the application. There are many ways to get android device unique ID so below method is a relevant way to get ANDROID_ID via Secure class. Below method returns a 64-bit number (as […]

If you are developing an android application that perform internet related operations like calling web API, loading web page in Web View, uploading profile pic and etc. So before performing any internet related tasks it is better to first check that your device is connected to internet or not . Android provides ConnectivityManager class to know about the internet connection status. The following method will […]