Droid Bionic: Find Apps at the Android Market
The most common and traditional things to hunt down at the Android Market are more apps for your Droid Bionic. Presently there are over 200,000 apps available at the Market. That’s good news. Better news [more…]
Get Free Apps for Your Droid Bionic
Your Droid Bionic comes with oodles of interesting and diverse apps preinstalled. Beyond them, there’s a whole galaxy of apps available, not to mention books to read and movies to rent. It’s all found [more…]
Buy Apps for Your Droid Bionic
Your Droid Bionic comes with oodles of interesting and diverse apps preinstalled. Beyond them, there’s a whole galaxy of apps available, not to mention books to read and movies to rent. It’s all found [more…]
Droid Bionic: Review and Remove Downloaded Apps
The Market is not only where you buy apps for your Droid Bionic ― it’s also the place you return to for performing app management. That task includes reviewing apps you’ve downloaded, updating apps, organizing [more…]
The Droid Bionic as a Reader
Because Droid Bionic comes with two eBook reader apps preinstalled, you can read eBooks on your phone as well. An eBook is an electronic version of a book. The words, formatting, figures, pictures ― all [more…]
The Droid Bionic Calendar
Date books might be effective, but they pale in comparison to the power of using your Droid Bionic as your calendar and date keeper. Your phone can easily serve as a reminder of obligations due or delights [more…]
Check Your Schedule on the Droid Bionic Calendar
To see all upcoming events, choose Agenda from the View button’s menu (refer to this figure). Rather than list a traditional calendar, the Agenda screen lists only those dates with events and the events [more…]
Droid Bionic Calendar: Create a New Event
The key to making your calendar work is to add events: appointments, things to do, meetings, or full-day events such as birthdays and earthquakes. To create a new event, follow these steps in the Calendar [more…]
Droid Bionic Alarm & Timer App
The Droid Bionic keeps constant and accurate track of the time, which is displayed at the top of the Home screen and also when you first wake up the phone. When you’d rather have the phone wake you up, [more…]
Droid Bionic: Share Apps with Your Friends
Obtaining new apps for your Droid Bionic from the Android Market is easy. When you find an app that you love so much that you just can’t contain your glee, feel free to share that app with your friends [more…]
Update Apps on Your Droid Bionic
One nice thing about using the Android Market to get new software for your Droid Bionic is that the market also notifies you of new versions of the programs you download. Whenever a new version of any [more…]
Control Apps on Your Droid Bionic
The Droid Bionic has a technical place where you can review and manage all apps you’ve installed on your phone. To visit that place, follow these steps: [more…]
Droid Bionic: Organize Apps with App Groups
There are three ways to organize your apps on the Droid Bionic. The first way is not to organize your apps at all. That duty is handled by the App Menu screen, which lists all the apps in your phone. The [more…]
Ten Great Apps for the Droid Bionic
It’s an almost impossible task to narrow the list of more than 200,000 Android apps for the Droid Bionic into the ten most worthy. No one for certain has tried all the apps. Still, here are some favorites [more…]
Unlock Your Android Phone
To unlock your phone, slide a bar or button across the lock screen. Usually, you slide the lock from left to right. Some phones may require you to slide a bar down, as illustrated here: [more…]
The Android Phone Home Screen
Your Android phone may sport a different skin or appearance than the generic Home screen shown here. Note that the items shown may look different on your Android phone's Home screen. [more…]
Android Soft Buttons
Most Android phones feature soft buttons, found below the touchscreen. There can be up to four of them, though they may not all sport the generic icons illustrated here: [more…]
Android Touchscreen Operations
You can perform several basic actions on your Android phone’s touchscreen. It’s just a matter of teaching your fingers to do what you want them to. Here are the basic things you do to control your Android [more…]
Android Phone Tricks to Remember
An Android phone is a handy tool, but it can easily become a time sink. Here is an assortment of handy time-saving tricks to keep in mind to boost your productivity with [more…]
Android Phone Help and Support
Ever new technology can catch a bug or two now and then, and an Android phone is no exception. If you ever happen to find yourself in serious phone trouble, here is a smattering of trusted places to check [more…]
Android Phones For Dummies
To help you better understand your Android phone, consider this handy, electronic cheat sheet. You still have a few years before the evil robots take over, so take a few minutes to glean some useful and [more…]
Helpful Hints for Android App Development
While solving problems with Android is a simple task, you may get to the point in app development where you're not sure what to do. The following list should point you in the right direction when you’re [more…]
Useful Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts for Developing Android Apps
You’ll most likely spend most of your Android development career in the Eclipse IDE. The following table shows a few keyboard shortcuts that can help you save a lot of time. [more…]
Common Android Intent Usage
You’ll use a few basic intents most of the time while developing apps for Android. The following table shows you the code for several basic Android intents. [more…]
Developing Applications for Multiple Screen Sizes in Android
One of the challenges that you will encounter during your time as an Android app developer is developing for multiple screen sizes. There are many things to keep in mind during your adventure into screen [more…]
