AndroidManifest.xml is the central configuration file for the android Application. Android Manifest presents essential information about the application to the Android system.There will be only one manifest file per application and it is the required file for any android application placed in its root directory. In my previous articles I have explained about setting up [...]
April 25, 2013
New Features in Spring 3.1
This post will feature some of the major features and enhancements of Spring 3.1. Released in the year 2011, Spring 3.1 introduced many new exciting features as listed and described in this article. This article would provide very good idea on the new features introduced and how it is different from the previous versions. If [...]
April 25, 2013
@Inject and @Named (JSR 330) Annotations Example
Support for JSR-330 annotations was introduced in Spring 3. These annotations are scanned the same way as the Spring annotations, only requirement would be to have the relevant jars in your classpath. You can use the following annotations in Spring 3 applications: @Inject instead of Spring’s @Autowired to inject a bean. @Named instead of Spring’s [...]
April 25, 2013
How to write a simple Android application?
In my previous article I have explained about how to set up the android environment. This article shows you how you can create a simple Android Application using eclipse. This example assumes that you have already set up the android environment and ready for the development. If you have any questions, please post it in [...]
April 24, 2013
Layouts in Android
Android Layout acts as a container of UI elements. It decides how the different UI elements are arranged and rendered to the user. This article explores the various types of layouts available in the Android development with examples. If you have issues on Android programming, please post it in the comments section. Declaring Layouts Layouts [...]
April 23, 2013
Spring Classpath Scanning & Managed Components
In my previous articles I have explained about the some of the popular annotations in Spring @Required, @Autowired and @Qualifier. You could note from these posts that we declared all the beans or components in XML bean configuration file; this helps Spring container detect and register beans or components. In this post I shall discuss [...]
April 23, 2013
How to set up android development environment?
This tutorial describes how you can set up a development environment for building Android applications in Eclipse IDE. In my future articles, I will be writing about the various programming techniques and features available in the Android development. Android is the leading Operating System in the smartphone market. This makes android is the most popular [...]
April 21, 2013
@Resource, @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy Annotations Example
In this post I shall cover the JSR250 annotations. Introduced in Spring 2.5, it added support for JSR-250 based annotations which include @Resource, @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy annotations. In my previous articles I have explained about the some of the popular annotations in Spring @Required, @Autowired and @Qualifier. Also please read about How to write Custom Spring Callback Methods? also read: follow [...]
April 20, 2013
@Qualifier Annotation in Spring
In this post I shall cover another annotation @Qualifier which helps fine-tune annotation-based autowiring. In the previous post we saw how we could use @Autowired annotation on setter methods, fields and constructors. There may be scenarios when we create more than one bean of the same type and want to wire only one of them [...]
April 18, 2013
@Autowired Annotation in Spring
In my previous post I mentioned about the use of @Required annotation for container configuration. In this post I shall cover the @Autowired annotation. Introduced in Spring 2.5, the @Autowired annotation can be applied to On setter methods On Properties On Constructors @Autowired with arguments also read: follow us on @twitter and @facebook Spring Tutorials ( Collection for Spring [...]
April 26, 2013
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