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		<title>Create a scrollable Map with Cells &#8211; Part III</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This part is not a real part 3 but it is an enhanced implementation of Part II by Dave ( drbixler [at] gmail [dot] com ) who wrote this part as a guest author. Thank you Dave! While reading the post, you should already look at the code so first download it: Cell Map Enhanced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Sound Effects in Android: Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Flockton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry about the delay but I have finally managed to find the time to complete the Sound effect Tutorial which I hope you all enjoy.If you have not already check out the first tutorial here before reading this one, as it reuses a lot of the code. In the previous tutorial we had a basic working sound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create a scrollable Map with Cells &#8211; Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This how to will show you how you can create a simple 2D Map with Cells to place stuff on it. Just like the old school SimCity. The first thing you need is an Activity with a SurfaceView and a Thread to trigger the drawing. Who doesn&#8217;t know these fundamentals, please read my series on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Layout technique: Center a TextView with a Button left and right</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While working on an application which should look similar to an iPhone application, I have to create a bar at the top where I have a back and a forward button (each on one side) and a dynamic text centered in the middle between them. To get this done, I searched quite a lot and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu 9.10 with Eclipse and ADT &#8211; Problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.droidnova.com/?p=592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I am a bit over motivated. Thats the reason I upgraded my Ubuntu to 9.10 RC1 yesterday. Nearly everything worked fine and after 90 minutes downloading and installing Ubuntu 9.10 booted the first time. The disillusion followed today: What happened with my Eclipse installation? The LogCat view has no logging type buttons, the Devices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Sound Effects in Android: Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Flockton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s tutorial I am going to show you my method of creating, managing and using sound effects in Android. In this first part I&#8217;ll show you the basic method of encapsulating your sound management code. This method works best when you have a typical application, or simple game all in one thread. After you have read this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to: Create a splash screen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Applications, mostly games, on the market show splash screens. With this screen they prompt a logo for the application and/or the author. I will show you a short way to implement a splash screen which will occur on every startup, will stay for a number of seconds you can define, will close on touching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Game Menus in Android</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Flockton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As requested here is a sample tutorial in how to create a menu system for games in Android. Sorry for the delay but this tutorials take time to code test and write up. Anyway I hope you find it useful. Before I jump into the code I’m going to take a second to explain my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2D Sprite Animation in Android Addendum</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Flockton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you read my last tutorial entry here, then you may have come across a problem with the code. If you load several large bitmaps using the BitmapFactory class to decode the bitmap you application will give you the dreaded force close dialogue box. A quick look in the logcat shows that a bitmap exceeds the virtual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to create an option menu</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we learn how you can create an option menu for your application. Lets start with an empty android project. The package name will be com.droidnova.android.howto.optionmenu and the activity will have the name SimpleOptionMenu. Our activity should now look very familiar to us: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [...]]]></description>
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